Al Pacino found himself in a frightening situation early in his career when a “crazy” fan attempted to kidnap him, forcing him to nearly leap from a moving vehicle.In his recently released memoir, “Sonny Boy,” the iconic 84-year-old actor recounted this terrifying incident, which unfolded after a night of drinks with Richard Hackman, the brother of actor Gene Hackman.However, the night took a turn when Al Pacino admitted that the drinking escalated, leaving him unable to find his way home.Article continues below advertisementFan Of Al Pacino ‘Kidnaps’ The ActorMEGAAccording to the actor, he “got so drunk that I could not…
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TEHRAN: Iran’s United Nations mission said Saturday (Oct 19) that Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, armed and financed by Tehran, was behind a drone attack on the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “This action was taken by the Lebanese Hezbollah,” the mission said in response to a question about Iran’s role in the attack, according to the official IRNA news agency. Earlier Saturday, Netanyahu accused Hezbollah of trying to kill him after his office said a drone from Lebanon had hit the premier’s family home. The Tehran-backed militant group, which fights Israel in Lebanon’s south, has not yet acknowledged the…
United States Vice President Kamala Harris has deployed some of the music industry’s star power to rally voters in the final weeks before November’s presidential election. On Saturday, two of the Democratic nominee’s events were headlined by prominent musicians. At her first stop, in Detroit, Michigan, the singer and rapper Lizzo warmed up the crowd with a passionate on-stage endorsement. “I already voted early and I voted for Harris,” the musician, a Detroit native, told a cheering crowd. Michigan is one of about seven key swing states in the presidential race, which could tilt either towards the Democrat or her…
Max Strus sprained his right ankle during individual workouts on Thursday, according to the Cavaliers, who announced in a news release that the veteran swingman underwent an X-ray and an MRI to confirm the severity of the sprain.The plan is for Strus to be reevaluated after going through six weeks of treatment and rehabilitation, per the team. That timeline suggests he’ll remain sidelined for all of November in addition to the rest of this month. The Cavaliers will play 20 games during that time. Strus had missed some time this preseason due to a right hip contusion, but appeared to…
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Flash on the pate While research in Ireland suggests that hats can protect scalps from the sun (see Feedback, 13 July), research in Germany suggests that letting rain soak your head might – just maybe – help you survive if and when lightning strikes your pate. The researchers used a wetted artificial head, having chosen not to experiment with a wetted genuine human head. Their report, called “Rain may improve survival from direct lightning strikes to the human head”, aimed to “measure the influence of rain during high-energy direct lightning strikes on a realistic three-compartment human head phantom”. René Machts…
HAVANA — As electricity was being restored in parts of Cuba following an island-wide blackout, a total collapse of the electrical grid occurred once again Saturday, leaving many across the country alarmed.State-run media reported that at 6:15 a.m. local time there was complete disconnection from the national electro energetic system. The Electric Union is working to re-establish power.On Saturday morning, there were few cars in the streets of the capital, Havana. Traffic lights were not working. People were out looking for food since much of what they had in the refrigerator is now spoiled. A limited number of stores were…
Lesley-Ann Knee credits her father for introducing her to the world of patents. He’s an engineer who specializes in application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and holds several patents on technologies he developed while working for Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft. “I would hear stories of his experiences through the patent prosecution processes,” Knee says, which taught her about different kinds of patents, the importance of documentation, and using detailed language. She remembers one litigation battle over a patent that went on for years, which her father’s company lost because someone forgot to delete information in a patent claim. Lesley-Ann Knee Employer: Husch Blackwell…
Federico Faggin is a physicist and inventor of the microprocessor & touch screen. He, too, explains how he attempted to create a neural net back in the 1980s and came to the realization that no matter what the movies portray, there is no such thing as Artificial Intelligence that would be Consciousness. As I have said, I created Socrates in the late 1970s and used my children as test subjects to interact with it and have a conversation. My daughter would bring her friends over and tell them her computer talked to her. I caused a bit of a…
Kamala Harris, Usher Kamala Harris can’t drum up support unless she buses people in or invites a celebrity to headline her events. Harris will campaign with singer Usher in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday with less than three to go until Election Day. But the location is private. So it really isn’t a campaign rally. Kamala Harris will stand on stage like a groupie at Usher’s private concert. A DNC delegate invited to the Usher concert posted video of the set up on Saturday morning. The concert will be held at Lakewood Amphitheater in Atlanta. I’m at Kamala Harris’s rally at…