The Drunk Man Sings 'Bohemian Rhapsody' In Police Car Look

A man who ended up in the back of a police car after apparently public drunkenness has become a star of the Internet for dizzy interpretation of "Bohemian Rhapsody".

In the back of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police car and equipment captured by the camera, bearded character blades on the conclusion of his glasses while turning in a version of the song word for word from the Queen during 1975. Halfway up, the car stops - and outbreaks of the singer in the "Galileo, Galileo" section. Later, during the guitar solo, an officer tells him to "calm down". "I can not," he says.

In related news less fun, Sonisphere Festival performance of the Queen with Adam Lambert has been canceled, along with the rest of the party in the UK. "It is with heavy heart and much regret is announced the cancellation of Sonisphere at Knebworth 2012", the festival's website said on Thursday.

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Mega Million Jackpot Swells To $ 640 Million

Lines of lottery tickets that inflated the Mega Millions jackpot record has risen to 640 million, thanks largely to players who have opened their wallets despite long odds of success. Officials estimated ticket buyers spent more than $ 1.46 billion for the jackpot when the numbers are drawn on Friday night.

A coffee worker in Arizona reported selling $ 2,600 tickets to a single buyer, while a retired soldier in Wisconsin has doubled its regular weekly ticket costs $ 55. But everyone would have to deposit millions more win to secure what could be the largest single payout of lottery in the world.

"I feel like a madman throwing that kind of money away," said Jesse Carter, who spent $ 55 and donated the last two tickets purchased in a store in Milwaukee on Friday in a charity. "But it's a chance you take in life, with everything you do."

The jackpot, if taken as a sum of $ 462 million lump sum and after federal tax withholding, working at about $ 347 million. With the chances of a jackpot by 176 million it would cost $ 176 million to redeem all the combinations. In this scenario, the strategy would gain $ 171 million less if your state does not want all taxes.

Laura Horsley, who is communications and marketing for a professional association, bought $ 20 million Quick Pick ticket at a downtown Washington, DC, Liquor Store Friday. But Horsley, who said she will not buy a lottery ticket unless the top jackpot of $ 100 million, remained realistic.

"I really do not think I will win, and I do not believe in superstitions or numbers or something like that," she said. "I just figured it was just around the corner. I'd be crazy not to at least give it a shot."

Thousands of players - who have converged on convenience stores in 42 states and Washington, DC, where Mega Millions tickets are sold - okay.

Kelly Cripe, a spokesman for the Texas Lottery Commission, said Tuesday, national sales for Mega Millions drawing totaled over $ 839 million. Officials have projected an additional $ 618.5 million in sales ahead of Friday's drawing, however, a number expected to total turnover of over $ 1.46 billion.

"This is unprecedented," Cripe said Friday via e-mail.

Indiana some players managed to get freebies, as a Hoosier Lottery officials gave away a free ticket to each of the Mega Millions 540 first players to several outlets across the state Friday - a plan announced before the jackpot increased by $ 100 million.

In Indianapolis, college student Chris Stewart said he showed at the lottery headquarters at 6.30am to be first in line.

"I've never seen a jackpot like this before," said Stewart, who bought five extra tickets. "If I won - I mean wow, I do not know what I would do, I would really think I could do with it!"..

The lines were at the door at Rosie Coffee Den in north-western Arizona in the rural community of White Hills, 72 miles southeast of Las Vegas and one of the closest points in Nevada - which offer no Mega Millions - for buyers to get in the game.

Rosie Christine Millim worker said there had been non-stop for four days.

"In one step, I sold $ 2,600 worth, therefore, was a person," she said.

Mike Catalano, chairman of the mathematics department at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, SD, concedes the calculation is clear: more tickets you buy, the better chances you have of winning. Better long-shot chance, of course.

"You are about 50 times more likely to be struck by lightning than winning the lottery, based on 90 people a year are struck by lightning," said Catalano. "Of course, if you buy 50 tickets, you have leveled your chances of winning the jackpot with being struck by lightning."

Based on the average of other U.S., you are about 8000 times more likely to be murdered than winning the lottery, and about 20,000 times more likely to die in a car accident than hitting the lucky numbers, Catalano said.

David Kramer, a lawyer in Lincoln, Nebraska, by buying his Mega Millions ticket was not on "a realistic opportunity to win."

"It's the fact that for three days, time to dream what I would do if I won is great entertainment and, frankly, a statement of great after a normal day," he said.

Eahmer Everett, 80, of St. Paul, Minn., said he has been playing the lottery "from the beginning."

"If I win, the first thing I will do is buy a (Tim) Tebow football shirt, and I will be facing Tebow," said Eahmer, who bought five tickets Thursday. "I am with him in accordance with a higher power. "

Lottery officials are happy to have made Mega Millions jackpot Friday feeds ticket sales, but even they warn against excessive spending.

"When people ask me, I tell them that the chances of a lottery game make a game of destiny," said Chuck Strutt, executive director of the Association Multi-State Lottery Urbandale, Iowa-based company, which oversees the Mega Millions, Powerball and other lotteries. "Just buy a ticket, sit down and see if fate points a finger at you for that day."

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Indian Tribe, Developer In The Tug-Of-War Over The Grand Canyon Skywalk

As the muddy Colorado River flows plunging into the depths below, tourists precautionary step on a glass bridge overlooking the edge of the Grand Canyon for an experience that gives the illusion of walking on air.

Some pose with arms outstretched for photos while others ease on a catwalk in a horseshoe that is the subject of a bitter tug-of-war between a tribe whose ancestors Arizona Indian lands, he was built and a developer who has spent at least $ 30 million to build.

The Hualapai small nation in a bold move that could serve as a test of the limits of the sovereign power of Indian tribes over non-members, exercised its right of eminent domain last month to support site management and expel the non-Indian developer.

The dispute over the Skywalk potentially lucrative - all agree could take up to 3000 visitors per day - opposes the sovereign rights of the tribe on a site which it considers its economic lungs against the contractual right to a developer manage the attraction for 25 years and share the profits.

"We made ​​this decision, and we have done for what is in the best interests of the people," said Candida Hunter, 32, Hualapai Tribal Council member who voted to support the Skywalk that the dispute behind, the abandonment of a contract arbitration process mandated.

We have been in negotiations with them, we tried to work with them. It was our last option really, she said of the seizure. We just need to move forward now.  The dispute at the heart of the crisis appears in the center, including the specification that was supposed to provide infrastructure - electricity, water and sewer - for the project, with both sides accusing the other of acting in bad faith.  

What is not in dispute is that the visitor center overlooking the Skywalk - a beautiful building on the edge of the canyon floor to ceiling windows where a restaurant could have been - is nothing but a shell .Construction of the center ceased several years ago - the sides disagree as to why - and the building is vacant and unfinished, with bales of insulation stacked and collecting dust on the bare concrete floor. 

Visitors who drive to the site, often a day trip from Las Vegas, must cross a long-broken windshield stretch on a dirt road. Others by helicopter or plane at the airport handled the booking.  A legal precedent  Board members say the Hualapai unfinished site is a disgrace to the tribe, which approved the project despite objections about the internal structure on land about 30 miles from a central place in history creating Hualapai.

Traditional tribal belief up behind the man on the Hualapai lands.  I think the canyon is a sacred place. The look is at the Hualapai as a church. Why take trash and throw it in the church. I voted against, said Philip Bravo, a former board member. what tribe are there? A building half finished.

Angry against the developer, the tribe has adopted an ordinance last year to create a legal path to nullify the contract the developer through the sovereign right of eminent domain.

Series compensation for entering tribe $ 11.4 million, an amount they say is the fair value of a project that the developer based in Las Vegas, said $ 100 million worth.

 "They took everything. And then the Tribal Court issued an order that we were intruders, if we were still there. You see, it's like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, would not you?" Said Troy Eid, a lawyer for the Grand Canyon Skywalk Development Corporation, which built the Skywalk.

There is little doubt that the tribes can legally seize property for public good, a bit like a state or the federal government. But by entering a non-tangible assets of a non-Indian as a way to escape a contentious case, the tribe may be entered into untested waters.

"I think the first glance the tribe exercises a power they have. They exercise it wisely is a different issue," said Addie Rolnick, an Indian law expert at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.

But there was no clear precedent on the limits of eminent domain. Rolnick said the Supreme Court limited the power of tribes can exercise against non-members in a series of cases starting in the 1970s, and there were signs suggesting the Court believes tribes had no power over non-members.

"But the court never did that, and it certainly did not address the specific issue of eminent domain power," she added.

The developer filed suit in federal court to stop the seizure, arguing the tribe was abusing his power to make an end run around contract mandates that disputes be resolved by arbitration. A final resolution does not seem imminent.

In the meantime, the tribe says it is hoping to get estimates from other developers how it could cost at the end of the visitor center to the specifications of the tribe.

Ted Quasula, general manager of the Development Corporation Skywalk who said the tribe he was shot in the skywalk management as one of their first acts when they took over operations, the seizure fears could hinder future development.

"I had many other Indian reservations that others tell me," What's wrong? 'It sets up $ 30-40 million, whatever it is, and then they want to kick him out? ... It makes us look kind of ungrateful, "said Quasula, himself a member Hualapai tribe.

TOURISM A pillar

The tribe initially accepted the project to ensure its economic future, and has since seen tourism receipts amounted to $ 40 to $ 50 million per year, more than double what they were in 2006, the year before the bridge opened with much fanfare, Council Member Waylon Honga said.

This increase is a testament to the ability of the tribe in recent years to capitalize on its location in the Grand Canyon, even if it is not the direct sales Skywalk. Because of the dispute, the Skywalk revenue was paid into a trust since 2010.

In the town of Peach Springs Hualapai, where tribal members live in modest one-storey matchbox style houses often surrounded by a chain link fence, that extra money from growing tourism resulted in a boom.

Revenue, which the tribe is concerned about protecting, helped build a health service and a brand new juvenile detention center with 30 beds. The tribe hopes to break ground on a clinic of the child by the end of the year, Hunter said.

The money from tourism also helps to fund tuition payments for 81 young heavy Hualapai enrolled in college full time, and funding for meals on wheels programs and a cultural center where young people can study the language of the tribe.

"Tourism is the Hualapai tribe that fact," said Honga. "We do not casino games, we have no wood or petroleum or coal reserves. Everything we do is tourism. We rafts on the Colorado River. We have a restaurant the hotel and we have visits to the Grand Canyon. "

This does not mean that the tribe did not look into other methods of raising awareness of its revenues. But an attempt to casino games in the 1990s failed - the Hualapai reservation is too remote from major cities too near Las Vegas.

The tribe of 2200 members also excluded uranium mines, and his income dried up traditional business in 1979 when Interstate 40 bypassed 66 historic, cutting the city off of revenues from passing travelers, tribal members say. A gas station in town which was once the road is currently vacant.

While some members continue to have lingering concerns about development unhindered by the throat, others are considering the development of the gateway as a conference venue - complete with a luxury hotel, golf course, and perhaps, as a board member Charlie Vaughn suggests, even a revolving cocktail lounge.

Sourc: Reuters

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Frozen Planet Is What HD TV Is Made For

Frozen Planet, the first Sunday on the Discovery Channel, is the kind of program that television was made for - and, more certainly, the kind that modern television was made for. This series takes us not only, quite literally, cold of the most remote places on the planet, but captures images of such majesty, art, and clarity, it is almost ridiculous. On a large screen, high definition television, watching Frozen Planet, it's like having your own personal IMAX theater.

The new technology not only affects the way we see these images, but how they were photographed. Even since the Earth was made of a few years, advances in video technology allowed film crews, armed with the latest equipment, to capture the action in unprecedented ways. There's even time-lapse photography so accurate and so carefully planned, it pans and zooms while telescopic weeks and months in less than a minute. The result is a glacier advance in slow motion like a bulldozer, crushing and moving everything in its path.

Images are fantastic. A mammoth, the protection of its application to a woman engages in a furious, bloody fight with a male encroach. And if he succeeds, he must fight again - almost every hour for several days, whenever faced with a new, determined rival. At the end, we see a dazed, bloody elephant seal obviously exhausted make his way back to his companion. He can not ask whether it was worth it all - but I'm sure was.

And that's the thing about any kind well done documentary. One thing he should do is make us cherish, and think, the beauty and value and fragility of the natural world. The other thing we should do is to make us sympathize with the natural drama of everyday survival. Television has done this very effectively, since the underwater world of Jacques Cousteau and promotion of nature presented by Walt Disney. And it is true that in many places in Frozen Planet, narration, music, narration and simple, combine to make everything feel like a much higher equivalent technology from one of these programs from Disney.

In the episode entitled "Spring", the narrator Alec Baldwin describes the efforts to build nests of some Antarctic penguins. Males, he explains, build nests of pebbles on plots of dry land, because the eggs freeze in minutes if resting on the snow or ice. And in one scene, the camera follows a male penguin, as he made ​​the long journey to find and return with a stone at a time. The camera also captures a penguin neighbor, who expects the other's back is turned and stole his rock. This happens again and again, and everything about how it's presented makes it look and sound like a comedy silent film - or a Disney classic moment ... Nature

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Win Or Lose Plays India With Pakistan

The match between India and Pakistan is planning to be a showdown, which can fire up after height of the series. As keeping in mind the performance of India, on Friday, India lost the match against Bangladesh. Today, India is expected to play with Pakistan, before the start of game everyone thought that he who will win the toss, so it is fortunate to Pakistan, they earn the draw better play.

The overall performance of Pakistan is growing again, it is under discussion that the setting will effectively lose Pakistan as the previous year. India-Pakistan match is how to perform well for both teams desire to save their country. This is the Asian Cup showdown between India and Pakistan. Misbah-ul Haq said that "India and Pakistan match is the best platform for players to play well."

If India beat Pakistan and Bangladesh, as if beating Sri Lanka, two teams would then decided to go to the next. Here's a great rush in gymkhana, private clubs and restaurants, their owners prepared a game screen for customers to attract fans of India and Pakistan match.

Some owners of private clubs willing to stick a point to increase the visitor's attention. Today is considered a great day because of India and Pakistan moving fire batting and bowling. It is fair to hope that Misbah-ul-Haq will try to play well in this game, the previous matches that make him feel a kind of disorder (2007 and 2011).

Celebrities of the Indian film industry are considered to be there to watch the match live, they may include Jacqueline Fernandez, Rishi Kapoor and Akshay Kumar. Hope for the best of both countries, as they make their way to their point of play.

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