News of the Force: Saturday, August 16, 2014 - Page 2

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Saturday, August 16, 2014 - Page 2

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U.S. Air Force news

    

    Yesterday, CAP Brig. Gen. Larry Myrick became the Civil Air Patrol's new national vice commander.

    Buckley AFB, near Aurora, Colo., hosted an Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) muster this week.

    Gen. John E. Hyten became the 16th commander of the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) in a change of command ceremony yesterday at Peterson AFB, Colo., replacing Gen. William L. Shelton.  

    The 819th RED HORSE Squadron,  at Malmstrom Air Force Base Montana, is not on the Air Force's list of units to be deactivated, officials at Malmstrom say.

    Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Cody emphasized the importance of the active, Guard, reserve and civilian components of the Air Force during his visit to the 507th Air Refueling Wing and the 513th Air Control Group, at Tinker AFB, Okla., on Aug. 2. "We are all one Air Force," he said. "Anything that affects one component affects us all."

    The Air National Guard's Band of the Northeast is the premiere military band from within the Pennsylvania Air National Guard. They'll be performing at the upcoming Ag Expo, in Shippensburg, Pa.

    According to the Vermont Air National Guard, a hydrazine spill occurred at the 158th Fighter Wing, in South Burlington, Vt., yesterday morning. Six people were sent to hospitals.

    Desktop Alert Inc., the industry leader in "less than one minute" network-centric mass warning notification systems (MWNS) to military, government, health care, higher education and industrial organizations, has announced that its Microsoft Windows® .net-based emergency communications platform was recently commended in a real-world incident during an ongoing inspection by a major USAF command's Inspector General. The South Dakota Air National Guard's 114th Fighter Wing's redundant capability allowed notification within one minute of a real world incident, exceeding Air Force requirements by 90 percent. All Desktop Alerting was received within 10-30 seconds across the wing. The flight was chosen by the National Guard Bureau to help develop ground-breaking Emergency Operations Center (MEOC) to meet significant disaster response needs for the Air Force. The EOC command and control was determined to be in line with all required Air Force Incident Management System directives and able to provide excellent support operations for the incident commander and those responders at the scene of an incident, through the use of memorandums of agreement with local and state governments. "Using the Desktop Alert Mass Notification System, the wing was able to alert numerous end-points such as network alerting pop-ups to work stations, e-mail alerts, text messaging and phone calls, alert beacons and other end-points in near instantaneous fashion as reported by the inspector general," said Howard Ryan, the CEO Desktop Alert, Inc. In the Mission-Assurance Command and Control category the wing was found to have a mission assurance command and control rated as is "highly effective." It was determined in the report that the wing utilized state-of-the-art incident response systems and efficient emergency management quick reaction checklists. "We congratulate the South Dakota 114th Air National Guard Fighter Wing for its top-rated USAF alerting platform. Being a party to a top rated notification system in the USAF is a great honor. When lives are at stake, seconds count. There is a very definite difference between good software and bad software. There is no time for bandwidth intensive/sluggish alert delivery. Latency based alerts not only put the mission in peril but risk alert publication with false positives during an emergent event. The road to failure is oftentimes be paved with good intentions, but when it comes to a reliable and fast notification platform, failure is definitely not an option. As a company, we hang our hat on this report," Ryan added.

    The Department of Defense has also activated the Wyoming Air National Guard to help with firefighting. Two Wyoming C-130s are flying missions in California and Washington state. And Gov. Matt Mead activated a Wyoming Army National Guard helicopter and its crew to help firefighters battling wildfires in the state of Washington.

    Kansas Air National Guard Chief Master Sgt. James L. Brown has been hired as the new police chief in Topeka, Kansas.

    And officers and cadets of the Washington Wing of the Civil Air Patrol toured a C-17 Globemaster II on Aug. 13 at Joint base Lewis-McChord, Wash.

The CAP members learned about this aircraft and its capabilities during their summer encampment.

 

Westboro Baptist Church plans protest at Robin Williams' funeral

By Jim Corvey, News of the Force St. Louis

    

Williams aboard USS

Enterprise in 2003

    Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church are planning an ill-advised protest at tragic actor Robin Williams' funeral over his portrayal of a gay man in The Birdcage.

    The star passed away on Monday and while details of his funeral have not been made public, members of the church have already announced plans to picket the memorial. A message posted on the group's official Twitter page reads: "Westboro Baptist Church Hopes To Preach In Lawful Proximity To Robin Williams' Funeral - To Warn The Living: Repent Or Likewise Perish."

    However, organizers at Planting Peace have launched a fundraiser to counter the church's plans. A message from co-founder Aaron Jackson reads: "Robin Williams played many different roles in so many people's lives, and giving back to others was at the top of that list. His appeal crossed generational boundaries. I was personally impacted when I heard of his passing. This is a small gesture to honor his legacy and the difference he made to so many. When the WBC announced they were protesting Robin's funeral, we felt like launching a fundraiser for a charity Robin loved would be the perfect way to honor him and counteract the message of hate and intolerance that the WBC continues to convey."

    The proceeds from the fundraiser will benefit St. Jude Children's Hospital, which Williams supported during his life.

 

U.S. Marine Corps

    

    U.S. Marines and sailors have joined the Ground Combat Integrated Task Force. Nearly 600 Marines will be fully checked in during the fall, and their training will kick off shortly after.

    A U.S. Marine sentenced to 11 years in a military prison for the 2006 killing of an unarmed Iraqi man will instead be retired from the service.

    A U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran who endured a long, public legal battle with the service’s senior leadership was found dead on Wednesday night. Retired Cpl. Robert Richards, 28, died at his home in Jacksonville, N.C., according to Guy Womack, Richards’ attorney and friend. An autopsy is being conducted to determine the cause of death, Womack said, adding that it does not appear to be self-inflicted. A medical examiner will look at the mix of medication Richards was taking, he said. Richards was a scout sniper with multiple deployments to Afghanistan, including one in 2010 during which he sustained severe injuries. Peers and superiors alike praised him for his combat prowess and leadership skills, evidenced by his being hand-selected to serve as the scout sniper platoon team leader for the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, during its 2011 tour. It was during that deployment when Richards and three other Marines made a video of themselves urinating on Taliban corpses. The video surfaced online in January 2012, causing an international uproar. But the Marine Corps’ prosecution of Richards and others connected to the incident would become overshadowed by allegations that the service’s commandant, Gen. Jim Amos, and his legal advisers, manipulated the military justice process to ensure they were punished harshly. A Pentagon investigation did not substantiate those claims.

    A Brasher Falls, N.Y., man who belongs to the Marine Corps Reserve will be running in the New York City Marathon in November, "to provide hope for warriors."

    And U.S. Marines are collaborating with Chilean Marines, in Chile, to support it's military humanitarian missions.

 

Poland has put on its biggest military parade in years

    

    Present at the ceremony was the family of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael H. Ollis, who was killed in Afghanistan in August 2013 while shielding a Polish soldier.

 

U.S. Army Reserve

    

    CW5 Randy L. Schriver, of Waynesboro and formerly of Chambersburg, Pa., was recently promoted to his current rank of master chief warrant officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. CW5 is the highest level of a warrant officer's career, with few attaining that rank in the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Reserve.

    John Berry of Redlands, Calif., was promoted to Chief Warrant Officer 4 in the U.S. Army Reserve during a July 18 ceremony at Fort Meade, Md.

    And Brig. Gen. Frederick R. Miaocco has taken command of the 85th Support Command, during a ceremony at Ft. McCoy, Wis.

 

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DHS news

    

    A Homeland Security employee arrested last week in a sting involving a sordid Craigslist ad has been indicted in the federal court in Sacramento, Calif.

    And a leaked document from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis predicts increased “anti-government violence." The DHS and the FBI expect increasing attacks by extremist domestic anti-government groups.

 

U.S. Coast Guard news

    

    Wyoming may not be on the coast, but there is a Coast Guard presence there. And the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is seeking new members.

    The U.S. Coast Guard and the Maine Marine Patrol are investigating the death of a man discovered in the water alongside his unmanned fishing boat, in Hurricane Sound.

    Singer, actor and songwriter Kris Kristofferson has handed Jesse Kristofferson, his son, a certificate during the graduation ceremony of Basic Training Company Alpha-190, at U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, N.J.

    The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued three men, including a 90-year-old, on Lake Michigan after their boat collided with a break wall near Milwaukee, Wis.

    The Coast Guard Foundation plans to honor members of the Coast Guard serving in Alaska.

    Crew members of USCGC Paul Clark have rescued 164 Haitian migrants from a grossly overloaded sail freighter in Bahamian waters.

    U.S. Naval Sea Cadets and Navy League cadets from Jefferson City have received training from the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, on Lake Ozark, Mo.

    Nearly 3,000 Cuban rafters have been picked up by U.S. authorities so far this year - nearly double the amount from last year.

    A man whose boat sank last Tuesday night was rescued in a life raft by the Coast Guard, seven miles south of Diamond Head, in Hawaii.

    And U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 1-5 11NR, of Oyster Point, in South San Francisco, Calif., is offering free vessel safety checks.

 

AQAP calls on Muslims everywhere to kill as many Americans as possible

    Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has expressed solidarity with the jihadists in Iraq - and has urged Muslims around the world to kill as many Americans as possible.

 

American Red Cross

    

    The American Red Cross has chosen Arlington, in North Texas, for the assistance group's largest U.S. disaster supplies warehouse.

    The American Red Cross continues to have an urgent need for blood donors of all blood types to give before the Labor Day holiday.

    New York State Fair visitors can help the central New York Region of the American Red Cross, and find a convenient parking place.

    Although the Red Cross Youth Club of Northeast Florida has not celebrated its one year anniversary, they have already made an impact by helping with the cleanup of the town of Jacksonville Beach. 

    And the American Red Cross in Danville, Va., is asking for your help. They're not asking you to give blood this time, but rather to help our troops

overseas to receive "care packages" during their project called, "Fill a Humvee."

 

U.S. Army

    

    Gen. Daniel B. Allyn leaves Fort Bragg, N.C., today, and he does so knowing the Army is ready to respond to any number of challenges facing the nation. Gen. Allyn has handed over command of the U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) to Gen. Mark A. Milley. Milley was promoted to four-star general before accepting the command.

 

Texas' Gov. Perry indicted

    

    A grand jury in Austin indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry yesterday for allegedly abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption - making the possible 2016 presidential hopeful his state's first indicted governor in nearly a century.

    A special prosecutor spent months calling witnesses and presenting evidence that Perry broke the law when he promised publicly to nix $7.5 million over two years for the public integrity unit run by the office of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. Lehmberg, a Democrat, was convicted of drunken driving, but refused Perry's calls to resign.

    Though the Republican governor now faces two felony indictments, politics dominates the case. Lehmberg is based in Austin, which is heavily Democratic, in contrast to most of the rest of fiercely conservative Texas. The grand jury was comprised of Austin-area residents.

    The unit Lehmberg oversees investigates statewide allegations of corruption and political wrongdoing. It led the investigation against former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican who in 2010 was convicted of money-laundering and conspiracy to commit money-laundering for taking part in a scheme to influence elections in his home state - convictions later vacated by an appeals court.

    Mary Anne Wiley, Perry's general counsel, predicted Perry ultimately will be cleared of the charges against him - abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant. "The veto in question was made in accordance with the veto authority afforded to every governor under the Texas Constitution," she said. "We will continue to aggressively defend the governor's lawful and constitutional action, and believe we will ultimately prevail."

    Several top aides to Perry appeared before the grand jurors, including his deputy chief of staff, legislative director and general counsel. Perry himself did not testify, though.

    Abuse of official capacity is a first-degree felony with potential punishments of five to 99 years in prison. Coercion of a public servant is a third-degree felony that carries a punishment of two to 10 years.

    In office since 2000 and already the longest-serving governor in Texas' history, Perry isn't seeking re-election in November. When he ran for president in 2012, Perry plummeted from brief front-runner to national punch line, his once promising campaign doomed by a series of embarrassing gaffes, including his infamous "Oops moment" during a debate. As he eyes another White House run, Perry has re-made his cowboy image, donning stylish glasses, studying up on foreign and domestic affairs and promising conservatives nationally that he's far more humble this time around.

    Political observers say the indictment may not immediately hurt his standing with Republican primary voters - but Democrats didn't miss a change to gloat yesterday. "Texans deserve real leadership and this is unbecoming of our governor," Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa said in a statement. He demanded that Perry immediately resign.

    No one disputes that Perry is allowed to veto measures approved by the Legislature. But the left-leaning Texans for Public Justice government watchdog group filed an ethics complaint accusing the governor of coercion because he threatened to use his veto before actually doing so in an attempt to pressure Lehmberg to quit. "We're pleased that the grand jury determined that the governor's bullying crossed the line into illegal behavior," said Craig McDonald, the executive director of Texans for Public Justice. "The complaint had merit, serious laws were potentially broken."

    Michael McCrum, the San Antonio-based special prosecutor said he "took into account the fact that we're talking about a governor of a state - and a governor of the state of Texas, which we all love." "Obviously that carries a lot of importance," McCrum said. "But when it gets down to it, the law is the law." McCrum said he'll meet with Perry's publicly funded defense attorney on Monday to discuss when he will come to the courthouse to be arraigned. McCrum said he doesn't know when Perry will be booked.

    Perry and other high-profile Republicans said Lehmberg should resign after she was arrested and pleaded guilty to drunken driving in April 2013. A video recording made at the jail showed Lehmberg shouting at staffers to call the sheriff, kicking the door of her cell and sticking her tongue out. Her blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit for driving.

    The indictment of Perry is the first of its kind since 1917, when James "Pa" Ferguson was indicted on charges stemming from his veto of state funding to the University of Texas in an effort to unseat faculty and staff members he objected to. Ferguson was eventually impeached, then resigned before being convicted.

 

Today in history

    On Aug. 16, 1777, American forces defeated the British Army at the Battle of Bennington, in Vermont. In 1780, the British Army defeated American forces in the Battle of Camden, in South Carolina. In 1812, during the War of 1812, Detroit, Mich., was captured by Indian and British forces. In 1861, during the U.S. Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln prohibited Union states from trading with the Confederacy; and Union and Confederate forces met in skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirkville, Mo. In 1864, federal forces launched their final attack on the fourth day of fighting at Deep Bottom Run, Va. In 1896, the Klondike Gold rush kicked off with the discovery of gold in the tributary of the river in the Northwest Territories, in Canada. In 1898, the roller coaster was patented by Edwin Prescott. In 1904, New York City began building its Grand Central Station. In 1913, The first university in Japan to accept females was the Tohoku Imperial University of Japan - it's currently called Tohoku University. In 1930, "Fiddlesticks" became the first color and sound cartoon to be produced. In 1934, after having been there for 15 years, U.S. forces ended their occupation of Haiti. In 1944, during World War II, Nazi Germany's Junkers Ju-287 conducted its first flight. In 1948, Arabs blew up the Latrun pumping station, in Jerusalem.  In 1954, Sports Illustrated magazine hit newsstands for the first time. In 1960, Cyprus gained its independence from the United Kingdom. In 1962, Pete Best was fired and replaced by Ringo Starr as the drummer for The Beatles. In 1963, independence was restored in the Dominican Republic. And in 2003, U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow hit and killed a motorcyclist with his car in Trent, S.D.; he was eventually convicted of manslaughter and resigned from the U.S. Congress.

 

The parting shots

    Authorities in southeastern New Mexico say two puppies have died after being burned with acid. Police in the city of Lovington say it's the third time dogs have been doused with acid since last month, and they're trying to catch whoever is responsible. Albuquerque TV station KOB reports that two 3-week-old pit bulls were in their yard on Monday when someone threw acid on them, killing the dogs. The incident follows those of last month, when authorities say a Lovington family came home from vacation on July 4 to find their dog burned by acid. A week later, a pit bull was stolen from its home and burned the same way. Both of those dogs survived. Crime Stoppers is offering a reward in the case, and community members are helping raise money.

    Jeff Mizanskey, 61, is a poster child for one well-known criticism of mandatory-minimum sentencing laws - that non-violent marijuana users and small-time sellers may wind up doing decades of hard time and in fact more time than some sociopathic offenders serve for heinous offenses. Mizanskey is 20 years into a life sentence with no possibility of parole for several
violations of Missouri's "prior and persistent drug offender" law, and as Kansas City TV station KCTV reported in May, his only chance for freedom is a clemency plea now under consideration by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and still opposed by Mizanskey's prosecutor.

    Leaked photographs taken by an undercover health and safety officer at China's Tongcheng Rice Noodle Factory, in Dongguan city, in June, show workers in street clothes casually walking back and forth atop piles of noodles about to be packaged for shipment to stores. Some workers were even seen lounging or sleeping on the mountains of egg-dough strips.

    Walter Purkhart, who has been running a weekend "silent disco" in Salzburg, Austria, for four years, was denied renewal of his business permit in July, supposedly because his parties were too loud. At a silent disco, each dancer wears headphones to hear radio-transmitted music. To those without
headphones, the roomful of swaying, swinging dancers is eerily quiet. Salzburg Mayor Heinz Schaden said it was still too loud" "The noise is keeping the neighbors up."

    The Chinese fondness for napping in odd places is a well-documented phenomenon, "one that's spawned a popular website and even a book," wrote the Wall Street Journal in a July dispatch. In a recent photo essay, a Getty Images photographer captured a series of shots of customers catching 40 winks in various furniture departments of IKEA stores, which officially does "not see it as a problem," according to a spokesman. Maybe "we can sell an extra mattress or two."

    The Moscow Times reported the arrest of "Tomas" in Moscow in March for allegedly stealing a mobile phone, noting that he was referred to adult court even though family members claim he is only 13. Officials decided he must be at least 16, based on medical examination - especially "of his genitals."

    Turkey's Hurriyet Daily News reported in May that a 62-year-old man on an Istanbul TV dating show said he was just "an honest person looking for a new wife" - while also casually mentioning that he had served two prison terms, one for murdering one wife and the other for murdering a girlfriend. "Bad luck always found me," he said. "This time I'll leave it to God."

    Alonzo Liverman, 29, was arrested in June in a Daytona Beach, Fla., police sting on prostitutes' johns. "I'm hungry," was the female officer's come-on. Responded Liverman, "I got a salad." Even though no salad was found on Liverman, police determined the banter constituted a sufficient offer for paid
sex.

    The robber of a Chase bank in Tucson, Ariz., in March is still on the loose even though surveillance video has been widely distributed. An additional detail from the video: The man pulled the holdup while carrying a small dog in a basket.

    In the midst of the city of Detroit, Mich.'s water crackdown - shutting off
the spigots of residents delinquent on their bills - the Council of
Canadians has come to the rescue. First, in July, the Council said it would press the United Nations to label Detroit's program a "human rights" violation - the denial of clean drinking water to the 3,000 homes per week being shut down. Said the Council chair, "I've only seen this oppression in the poorest countries in the world." Second, the Council arranged a convoy of "good Canadian, public, clean water" into Detroit in July to modestly help the estimated 79,000 homes in peril.

    Ms. Ajanaffy Njewadda and her husband recently filed a lawsuit against New York City's transit authority (the MTA) following her tumble down stairs at a subway station which caused a broken ankle, concussion, and lingering trauma that has required psychiatric care. The MTA had placed a large ad for the serial-killer TV series Dexter on a station wall, positioned to be seen just as visitors were about to descend the stairs. Ms. Njewadda said she was momentarily terrified by the poster, and lost her balance.

    A name-withheld man ("D.B.") filed a lawsuit in April against medical clinics and physicians who performed his colonoscopy in Fairfax, Va., in 2013, based on what the patient learned from audio his smartphone recorded while he was
unconscious. Though he originally intended to record only doctors' instructions, he was dismayed to know that they began "mocking" him the second he went under, making disparaging and untrue statements about his health, feigning disgust at his body ("Oh! Oscar Mike Goss!," slang for "OMG" - oh, my God, threatening to "fire a gun up his rectum," "diagnosing" him with syphilis or "tuberculosis in the penis," and threatening to falsely note
hemorrhoids on his record - all done amidst gales of laughter.

    In Turkey, some shepherds have outfitted their sheep-monitoring donkeys with solar panels and battery packs to illuminate nighttime isolated fields in emergencies. Thus, for instance, pregnant animals can be aided during field births and not have to return to the farms.

    In an interview with Vice.com, the Swiss founder of the lactose-intolerance support group Eurolactis touted donkey milk as its preferred substitute for cow milk - since donkeys have only one stomach, as humans have. Cows, goats,
and sheep have multiple stomachs to break down their complex milk, but that milk gives humans digestion problems. On the other hand, as Vice.com pointed out, milk-drinkers, especially, must learn to ignore the A-word nickname for "donkey."

    The most recent murder suspect to whine about his oppressive jail conditions appears to be Alan Landerman, 21, awaiting trial in the grisly 2013 murder of three people. In July, his patience apparently exhausted, he filed court papers in Joliet, Illinois, complaining that the jail's towels are too small, the jail offers no barber or beautician services or shaving cream, and the food is "monotonous and undiversified," among other inadequacies.

    At first, Rev. Fred Armfield's arrest for patronizing a prostitute in Greenwood, S.C., in January 2010, looked uncontroversial, with Armfield allegedly confessing that he had bargained Melinda "Truck Stop" Robinson down from $10 to $5 for oral sex. Several days later, however, Armfield formally disputed the arrest, calling himself a "descendant of the original Moro-Pithecus Disoch, Kenyapithecus and Afro Pithecus," a "living flesh and blood being" who, based on his high character and community standing, should not be prosecuted. Also, he said, any payment to "Truck Stop" with
Federal Reserve notes did not legally constitute a "purchase" since
such notes are not lawful money.

    And in today's celebrity birthdays (Aug. 16): Actress Angela Bassett (Waiting to Exhale, The Rosa Parks Story, Notorious, The Jacksons: An American Dream, Malcolm X) is 56; Adult film actress Audrey Bitoni is 28; Actress Ann Blythe (Chip Off the Old Block, Mildred Pierce) is 86; Comedian Frankie Boyle is 42; Singer/guitarist Cameron Byrd ("Hollywood Ending") is 20; Director James Cameron is 60; Actor Steve Carell (The Office, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Bruce Almighty, Anchorman, Little Miss Sunshine, Crazy Stupid Love, Horton Hears a Who, Despicable Me, Evan Almighty, Date Night) is 52; Singer, songwriter and musician Vanessa Carlton is 34; Pop singer Greyson Michael Chance is 17; Actress Arden Cho (CSI: NY, Pretty Little Liars) is 29; Actress Piper Curda (I Didn't Do It, A.N.T. Farm, Malibu Country, Law & Order: SVU, Body of Proof, Rizzoli & Isles) is 17; Baseball player Yu Darvish is 28; Ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell is 69; Football player Frank Gifford is 84; TV show hostess Kathie Lee Gifford (Good Morning America, The Today Show, Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee) is 61; Actor Actor Cam Gigandet (CSI, The Restless, The O.C., Easy A, Never Back Down, Priest, Red Sky, Twilight) is 32; Voice actor Todd Haberkorn is 32; Musician/voice actress Kate Higgins is 45; Egyptian singer/composer Tamer Hosny is 37; Actor Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People, The Dark Half, Taps The Falcon and the Snowman, Leverage) is 54; Actor Cole Jensen (Crash & Bernstein, The Invention of Lying, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Victorious, Mike & Molly) is 13; Indian civil rights leader Arvind Kejriwal is 46; Indian actor Saif Ali Khan is 44; Irish actress Evanna Lynch (Harry Potter, G.B.F., It Don't Come Easy) is 23; Singer/actress Madonna (Evita) is 56; British ITV journalist Trevor McDonald is 75; Actor Andy Milder (Austin & Ally, Armageddon, Apollo 13, Ugly Betty, Frost/Nixon, Boston Legal, Transformers, Star Trek) is 45; Broadway actress Christin Milioti is 29; Actor Cameron Monaghan (The Music Man, Malcolm in the Middle, NCIS, Monk, Fringe, Shameless) is 21; Actress Julie Newmar (Batman, The Beverly Hillbillies, According to Jim) is 81; Actor Jeff Perry (The West Wing, The Human Stain, Nash Bridges, Lost, Scandal) is 59; Hockey player Carey Price is 27; Actor Shawn Pyfrom (Pay It Forward, The Shaggy Dog, Stanley, Desperate Housewives) is 28; Singer Emily Robison ("The Dixie Chicks")is 42; Actor/voice actor William Salyers (Regular Show, Moral Orel, Bedazzled, Judging Amy) is 50; Actor Kevin Schmidt (The Young and the Restless, Cheaper by the Dozen, The Princess Protection Program, Big Time Rush) is 26; Australian actor Philip Graham Scott is 62; Female country singer Ashton Shepherd is 28; Actor George Stults (7th Heaven, Will & Grace, Night Skies) is 39; The British half-sister of "One Direction" star Louis Tomlinson, Felicite "Fizzy" Tomlinson, is 14; Actor Reginald Veljohnson (Ghostbusters, "Sgt. Al Powell" in Die Hard, Will & Grace, Family Matters) is 62; Actress Lesley Ann Warren (Cinderella, A Deadly State of Mind, Will & Grace, Desperate Housewives, In Plain Sight) is 68; Actress Rumer Willis (The Whole Nine Yards, Striptease, 90210, The House Bunny) is 26; and actor Parker Young (Days of Our Lives, Cupid's Arrow, Nightfall, Surburgatory) is 26.

    (Some of today's "the parting shots" entries were provided by our friends at News of the Weird, http://www.WeirdUniverse.net, WeirdNews@earthlink. net, and PO Box 18737, Tampa FL 33679.) 

 

               

 

 

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