Did Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken argue the night of Natalie Wood’s death?

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, November 18, 5:08 PM

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Was there a fight on board the Splendour the night Natalie Wood drowned?
Clashing versions of what happened on the yacht shared by Wood, her actor-husband Robert Wagner and their friend, actor Christopher Walken, have contributed to the mystery of how the actress died on a Thanksgiving weekend 30 years ago, and who may have been responsible.

As investigators reopened the case after receiving new information, Dennis Davern, who was a captain of the yacht, appeared on national TV on Friday to restate his contention that a fight broke out between Wagner and Wood.

Was that fight “what ultimately led to her death?” Davern was asked by “Today” show host David Gregory.

“Yes,” Davern replied.

“How so?”

“Like I said, that’s going to be up to the investigators to decide,” Davern responded after a long pause.

Davern said he originally lied to investigators about events on the yacht when he was interviewed after Wood’s death. He accused Wagner of neglecting to do everything he could have done after her disappearance from the Splendour, and with intentionally keeping the investigation into her death low-profile.

Like Davern, Wagner contends a fight broke out.

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In his best-selling 2008 memoir “Pieces of My Heart,” he wrote that an argument over the acting profession led to Wood retreating to her cabin, while the dispute raged on between Wagner and Walken. Later Walken went to bed, according to Wagner, who, after staying up with Davern for a while, went looking for his wife and couldn’t find her on board. He then noticed that the dinghy was gone.

But in a 1982 interview on “Good Morning America,” Walken insisted he did not quarrel with Wagner.

“No, that’s not true,” Walken said when asked if a fight was the reason Wood left the yacht. “They were very good to me, that family, and that’s not true.

“We were having a Thanksgiving weekend, a good time,” he said.

Here's How to Tell the Deals From the Duds at a Dollar Store

Madeleine Scinto
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

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Despite their name, 99-cent stores can offer great deals on items like coloring books, notepads, stocking stuffers, baby clothes, soap, and so on.
"The biggest misconception about dollar stores is that they only have junk that no one needs and everything is low quality," says Andrew Schrage of MoneyCrashers, an investment website.
There's too much competition for them not to offer similar products to general stores.
But watch out: Some products should only be bought at a general store. Read through to see if you can guess what's a deal and a dud at the 99-cent store.

DEAL: Pet Toys
Pet toys can stand to get beaten (and eaten) up since they're so cheap, and the store usually has a great selection.

NO DEAL: Batteries and Other Electronics
Some stores sell "gray goods," or products made for a foreign market. Oftentimes they fail to comply with U.S. regulations and as a result, they can be dangerous.

Batteries can be prone to leakage and fail to last as long as name-brand batteries. This means you'll spend more on replacements.

Also be forewarned that some UL labels on electronics and extension cords may say they're U.S. approved when they aren't.

NO DEAL: Domestic Fire Products
Lighters, tiki torches, barbecue makers, and outdoor candles should never be bought from a dollar store. If you do, you might find your house go up in flames like a Hawaiian-themed barbecue.

DEAL: Cookware
Dollar stores stock lots of basic cooking supplies, including pots, pans, spatulas, ice cream scoopers, cheese graters and oven mitts.

You'll save 50 to 90 percent on items, compared to prices at Target, but sometimes these kits will be really dirty, missing pieces, or just flat-out broken. Check to make sure.

NO DEAL: Groceries
Whatever amount you might save isn't worth the risk of eating counterfeit products or food made for international destinations that haven't been U.S. approved.

The merchandise may be also expired: Food-carrying containers sit outside for long periods of time, and temperature changes spoils the food, Terri Gault, founder of TheGroceryGame.com, tells MainStreet.

In terms of pricing, grocery stores offer better deals, especially with pre-packaged baking goods and generics. The big box stores are even cheaper when they're having a sale or giving out coupons.

DEAL: Cleaning Supplies
Buy these, especially items like mops, rubber gloves, or sponges. They're the same as what you'd get at the grocery store, just cheaper.
You can also go for liquid cleaners, says Schrage, but oftentimes their formula is diluted and leaves residue.

Also think about buying disposable clean-up items like toilet paper and paper towels. Keep in mind, however, that you may want to buy these toiletries in bulk.

DEAL: Greeting Cards
Dollar stores stock up on lots of good, quality cards, which they sell for cheap. A drugstore like Duane Reade will charge $1.40, but the 99-cent store price comes in at about 50 cents.

DEAL: Party Supplies
As with greeting cards, dollar stores always restock party supplies.
Their merchandise tends to be fun and lively, and most importantly, cheap. They carry everything you need, from hats to plastic plates, cups, and utensils.

NO DEAL: Children's Toys
DO NOT buy these at a 99 cents store. 99-cent store toys are made cheaply so you won't want to risk having a piece breaking off in your kid's throat. Same goes for baby products—avoid them.

Items sold in the dollar stores sometimes bypass U.S. approval, which as we pointed out earlier, could mean high levels of lead and other chemicals. Remember those Chinese Mattel dolls?

NO DEAL: Over-the-Counter Medications
Stay away from vitamins, as the amount of nutrients the label claims is probably faulty. Cheap vitamins also don't dissolve quickly enough for your body to absorb them.
Similarly avoid buying aspirin, ibuprofen, and other over-the-counter meds at a 99 cent store. Independently-owned 99-cent stores have been known to counterfeit these products.
"Suppliers digitally alter a label and scan it into a generic bottle or package," Greg Guila, a lawyer specializing in patent law at the firm Duane Morris, tells MainStreet.

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My Husband Has Gay Jungle Fever

Watch Out Sidney Poitier, LOOK WHO'S COMING TO DINNER!  My husband and his gay jungle fever best pal Sean.  No, neither one of them are gay; very much into the boobies (girl boobies) but they show each other their big manly chests and slap each other on the butt!  It must be a guy thing because I don't get it.  I love them both!

Me & Jack We Go Way Back

Me and Jack definitely go way back.  At one time in my life I weighed 372lbs.  It was thanks to Jack.  I don't blame him for all of it, but we had a pretty serious relationship for a while.  Somewhere in the range of 13 years or so.  He never looked this buff when I was eating with him.  Doesn't matter anymore because he doesn't rule my life anymore.  I'm almost as skinny now as he is.  Suck It Jack.

Rudolf Hess’s Remains Removed From Grave

courtesy of http://www.gamingsurvival.com/

By JUDY DEMPSEY

Published: July 21, 2011

BERLIN — The bones of Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s deputy, have been exhumed and disposed of because his grave in the small Bavarian town of Wunsiedel had become a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis, the town’s mayor said in an interview on Thursday.
Karl-Willi Beck, 56, who has been mayor of Wunsiedel since 2002, said the cemetery administrators removed Hess’s remains and his gravestone early Wednesday.
“It was the right thing to do,” Mr. Beck said.  Read the full story here.

US Space Program Spawned Many Things You Use Everyday

Ok, so maybe only your Gam Gam uses the Heart Pump, but NASA is much more than JUST a space program Mr. Obama and I feel certain its life is being cut short.

 (Reuters) - As the United States prepares to end its space shuttle program, technologies developed to nurture the reusable spaceships through three decades of flight will live on in day-to-day use on Earth.

Shuttle Atlantis and its four-member crew are due back at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:57 a.m. EDT on Thursday after a mission to resupply the International Space Station, a $100 billion project of 16 nations, currently orbiting about 250 miles above the planet.

NASA points to the station, finished this year after 12 years of assembly by shuttle crews, as the program's crowning achievement, but it is far from the only one.  Read the entire story here.

And go hug your Gam Gam.

Two Photos, Thirty Years Apart

Thirty years ago, the first space shuttle launched into the stratosphere. Chris Bray and his father Kenneth watched -- and took a picture. Then last Friday, the shuttle Atlantis took its final trip. Again, the Bray men were there. And again, the two snapped a photo to capture the moment.  The side-by-side photos, which are up on Chris Bray's Flickr photostream, immediately went viral on the Web.

The first shot shows 13-year-old Chris with then 39-year-old dad looking through binoculars at the space shuttle Columbia's first launch on April 12, 1981, from the Kennedy Space Center.  The second snap comes three decades later and recreates the same moment at the last shuttle voyage. The young son is now an adult. His father is now gray-haired.  Chris Bray wrote on his Flickr page of the side-by-side images: "The picture we waited 30 years to complete."

The younger Bray told the Washington Post, "We've always loved that first photo. Taking a similar one for the last launch seemed like the perfect opportunity to celebrate the shuttle program and our relationship by putting the time passed in perspective, celebrating the interests we share, and illustrating the father/son bond we've maintained over the years."  The Brays' photo touched a chord of nostalgia in many rocket enthusiasts, and the pic has been viewed on Flickr an astronomical 510,000 times.

Comments on the pictures commend the melding of the personal with the historical. Says one: "Epic. To be able to share in something so wonderful with your dad, both beginning and end. I am jealous -- both that you watched not only the first but also the last mission -- but also that you did it with your father."  Another fan of the photo who used to work on the space program wrote in, "Everyone I used to work [with in the shuttle program] thinks it's so cool, [they] get chills."
Chris Bray responded in an email that he was overwhelmed by the response: "I was surprised.  The picture had a lot of significance for me and my father, but we didn't expect that the photo would touch so many other people." He added,  " The moment has stayed with me since that day, and is one of my fondest memories and childhood experiences."

Courtsey of http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/two-photos-thirty-years-apart-move-192313669.html