- Anna Paquin
- Ryan Dunn
's Old Friend Recalls Last Hours Spent With Jackass Star
- A Cell Phone Links Bin Laden to Pakistan Intelligence
- Supreme Court
rejects generic drug labeling
suits
- Miracle of the Day - Feeling alone
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Anna Paquin
"True Blood" fans got a taste of the season 4 premiere with the show’s stars out on the red carpet. Anna Paquin told Extra that viewers can expect more excitement from her character Sookie: "People are trying to kill her all the time. On the other hand, she has a lot of attractive male suitors."
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Ryan Dunn
's Old Friend Recalls Last Hours Spent With Jackass
Star
Kalinoski was sitting outside on the patio when he recognized Ryan who had just entered the bar in "good spirits." So he walked up and said hello and two hung out like old times.
"I didn't see anything abnormal," Thaddeus tells E! "I wasn't counting how much he was drinking. I did remember four shots but as far as the beer goes, I don't know exactly how many beers he had."
According to police, the Proving Ground cohost left Barnaby's with a blood-alcohol level of 0.196, more than twice the state's legal limit. Not long after, he drove his Porsche close to 140 miles per hour before losing control of the vehicle, smashing through a guardrail and hitting a line of trees. Preliminary autopsy results indicate that both men died as the result of blunt force trauma and thermal trauma from the ensuing fire.
Subsequently, some media outlets claimed Dunn and crew partied for five hours, but Kalinoski disputes that timeline, recalling it was more like two.
"Reports were saying five hours which is ludicrous. It was maybe two hours," he says. "He was the same person as he came in and as he left he was in good spirits, just really happy to be there with his friends."
Kalinoski also adamantly dismisses speculation that the reality star was on a mission to get drunk.
"Absolutely not," he tells us. "It was a Sunday night. He came in with. . .two other guys, one being Zach...[it was just] guys at the bar drinking, relaxing, having a couple of drinks. That is all it was."
Thaddeus noted that there was no need for anyone to "step in" and tell Ryan "to slow down" as he was behaving just fine.
As for what they talked about, Kalinoski tells E! they discussed the last time they saw each other in Baltimore in 2006, where Kalinoski was managing a hotel.
"I told him how great he was with my staff at the hotel," the Pennsylvania native remembers. "We talked about his new show he was really excited about that, his new house and then we started talking about skate boarding and he mentioned he started talking about Bam [Margera] and how proud he was of him as a skate boarder."
Kalinoski also talked to Zach, as the two shared a mutual friend, and adds that there was nothing out of the ordinary about Hartwell's behavior.
Kalinosky eventually bid them goodbye and left the bar before they did, only to learn about their horrible fate the next morning.
"When I heard it the next day, I didn't believe it. I didn't even think it was real," he tells E! adding that in hindsight, he wished he could "go back and tell [Ryan] to stop, but it was just people out at a bar having drinks."
While not knowing Dunn as well as his close friends and family, Kalinoski says he hopes his recollections might help get across to people that Ryan was really a "good soul" who was "excited for the future."
A private service was held for Dunn on Wednesday with his burial reportedly set to take place in his native Ohio. No word yet on a public memorial.
Ryan Dunn's tragic death in a fiery car crash shocked many of his Jackass costars, fans and friends, but none more so than Thaddeus Kalinoski, who was one of the last people to see him alive.
Kalinoski and the daredevil comedian were old friends who hadn't seen each other in years, but as luck would have it, the two bumped into each other Sunday night at Barnaby's bar, a local watering hole in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and caught up over a few drinks.
In an exclusive interview with E! News, Dunn's acquaintance opens up about Dunn's final hours and his feelings on the high speed wreck that killed him and his passenger, Zachary Hartwell.
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A Cell Phone
Links Bin Laden to Pakistan Intelligence
The most compelling piece of evidence that the Pakistani government was complicit in the harboring of Osama bin Laden came today in a New York Times report about a cell phone recovered from Osama bin Laden's courier. The phone reveals contacts with Harakat-ul-Mujahadeen, a militant group established by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency. Making matters worse for Pakistan, longtime affiliates with the ISI told the Times "they were convinced that the ISI played a part in sheltering Bin Laden." As it stands, Pakistan continues to deny any responsibility for providing a sanctuary to bin Laden in Abbottabad and already, the Harakat-ul-Mujahadeen is refuting the Times report, telling the BBC "Al-Qaeda had their own discipline, their own thinking, their own organisation. We have never ever been in touch with Osama." But as they continue to deny, the trail of connections continues to grow.
High level suspicions of Pakistan's protection of bin Laden have been expressed several times since the raid. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has long been critical of Pakistan's commitment to rooting out terrorism, expressed early suspicions of Pakistan's role in hiding bin Laden. "I don't think she [Clinton] gave them a free chit," Deputy State Department Spokesman Mark Toner told reporters in Washington in May. With mixed messaging, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Associated Press last week that the U.S. was suspicious that Pakistan was helping bin Laden but didn't go as far as to blame them. “We don’t know the specifics of what happened,” Gates said. "There are suspicions and there are questions, but I think there was clearly disappointment on our part.”
Last week, Rep. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence made no qualms about blaming the ISI for aiding bin Laden. “I believe that there are elements of both the military and intelligence service who in some way, both prior and maybe even current, provided some level of assistance to Osama bin Laden,” he said, after recently returning from a visit to Pakistan.
In a sign of how interwoven the Pakistani military is with the radial Islamic militants, on Tuesday, the Pakistani military arrested Brig. Gen. Ali Khan, who was detained following the raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad. "An army spokesman said Brig. Gen. Khan... was believed to be associated with Hizb ut-Tahrir, an outlawed radical Islamic group," reported The Wall Street Journal. "The group, which has roots in the Middle East and has also been active in Britain, clandestinely dropped pamphlets in military cantonments after the bin Laden raid calling on soldiers to rise against the military leadership." Khan wasn't directly tied to the coverup of bin Laden, however.
***
Supreme Court
rejects generic drug labeling suits
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that generic drug companies cannot be sued under state law over allegations that they failed to provide adequate label warnings about potential side effects.
By a 5-4 vote, the justices gave a victory to Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, Mylan Inc's UDL Laboratories and Iceland-based Actavis Inc by overturning U.S. appeals court rulings that allowed such lawsuits.
The companies argued that federal law barred such lawsuits because the drug had been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Federal law requires generic drugs to have the same labels as their brand name equivalents.
Justice Clarence Thomas in the court's majority opinion agreed. He said federal drug regulations applicable to generic drug manufacturers directly conflicted with and thus pre-empted state lawsuits.
The Supreme Court decided a related issue in 2009 when it ruled FDA drug regulations do not protect pharmaceutical companies from being sued under state law over drug labeling, a case involving Pfizer Inc's Wyeth unit and its antinausea drug Phenergan.
But in the generic drug cases, the justices reversed separate U.S. appeals court rulings that the lawsuits against the companies could go forward.
The high court agreed with the arguments of the generic drug makers that they had no choice but to use the same drug labels as the brand manufacturer.
Teva, Actavis and the Generic Pharmaceutical Association hailed the ruling.
COURT 'HIT NAIL ON THE HEAD'
Attorney Jay Lefkowitz, who represented Teva, said, "The Supreme Court hit the nail on the head today by making clear that federal law does not permit states to hold generic drug manufacturers liable for using the very warnings federal law required them to use."
Actavis CEO Doug Boothe called the ruling "an important and necessary step by the Supreme Court to clarify the proper interpretation of regulations governing pharmaceutical labeling."
Bob Billings, the trade group's executive director, said assessing liability would have placed "the generic manufacturer in the impossible position of defending the content of a label that they are required by law to use but prevented by law from changing."
One case involved Julie Demahy, who sued Actavis and said it should have warned her of the risks of developing a neurological movement disorder from metoclopramide, a generic drug for heartburn, nausea and vomiting.
The drug's brand name equivalent is Reglan.
In another case, Gladys Mensing sued the three generic drug makers in federal court in Minnesota
after allegedly developing the same disorder after taking generic versions of Reglan.
When the women first took the drug, the approved labeling said that "therapy longer than 12 weeks has not been evaluated and cannot be recommended."
That warning was changed in 2004 to say simply that therapy should not exceed 12 weeks and in 2009 the FDA ordered that specific warnings about the movement disorder be added to Reglan and metoclopramide.
The Obama administration supported the two women. It said the companies could have sought changes to the drug's label.
Generic drugs account for more than 70 percent of all prescriptions filled in the United States.
Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan dissented.
The Supreme Court cases are Pliva v. Mensing, No. 09-993, Actavis v. Mensing, No. 09-1039 and Actavis v. Demahy, No. 09-1501.
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Miracle of the Day
"True Blood" fans got a taste of the season 4 premiere with the show’s stars out on the red carpet. Anna Paquin told Extra that viewers can expect more excitement from her character Sookie: "People are trying to kill her all the time. On the other hand, she has a lot of attractive male suitors."
***
Ryan Dunn
's Old Friend Recalls Last Hours Spent With Jackass StarKalinoski was sitting outside on the patio when he recognized Ryan who had just entered the bar in "good spirits." So he walked up and said hello and two hung out like old times.
"I didn't see anything abnormal," Thaddeus tells E! "I wasn't counting how much he was drinking. I did remember four shots but as far as the beer goes, I don't know exactly how many beers he had."
According to police, the Proving Ground cohost left Barnaby's with a blood-alcohol level of 0.196, more than twice the state's legal limit. Not long after, he drove his Porsche close to 140 miles per hour before losing control of the vehicle, smashing through a guardrail and hitting a line of trees. Preliminary autopsy results indicate that both men died as the result of blunt force trauma and thermal trauma from the ensuing fire.
Subsequently, some media outlets claimed Dunn and crew partied for five hours, but Kalinoski disputes that timeline, recalling it was more like two.
"Reports were saying five hours which is ludicrous. It was maybe two hours," he says. "He was the same person as he came in and as he left he was in good spirits, just really happy to be there with his friends."
Kalinoski also adamantly dismisses speculation that the reality star was on a mission to get drunk.
"Absolutely not," he tells us. "It was a Sunday night. He came in with. . .two other guys, one being Zach...[it was just] guys at the bar drinking, relaxing, having a couple of drinks. That is all it was."
Thaddeus noted that there was no need for anyone to "step in" and tell Ryan "to slow down" as he was behaving just fine.
As for what they talked about, Kalinoski tells E! they discussed the last time they saw each other in Baltimore in 2006, where Kalinoski was managing a hotel.
"I told him how great he was with my staff at the hotel," the Pennsylvania native remembers. "We talked about his new show he was really excited about that, his new house and then we started talking about skate boarding and he mentioned he started talking about Bam [Margera] and how proud he was of him as a skate boarder."
Kalinoski also talked to Zach, as the two shared a mutual friend, and adds that there was nothing out of the ordinary about Hartwell's behavior.
Kalinosky eventually bid them goodbye and left the bar before they did, only to learn about their horrible fate the next morning.
"When I heard it the next day, I didn't believe it. I didn't even think it was real," he tells E! adding that in hindsight, he wished he could "go back and tell [Ryan] to stop, but it was just people out at a bar having drinks."
While not knowing Dunn as well as his close friends and family, Kalinoski says he hopes his recollections might help get across to people that Ryan was really a "good soul" who was "excited for the future."
A private service was held for Dunn on Wednesday with his burial reportedly set to take place in his native Ohio. No word yet on a public memorial.
Ryan Dunn's tragic death in a fiery car crash shocked many of his Jackass costars, fans and friends, but none more so than Thaddeus Kalinoski, who was one of the last people to see him alive.
Kalinoski and the daredevil comedian were old friends who hadn't seen each other in years, but as luck would have it, the two bumped into each other Sunday night at Barnaby's bar, a local watering hole in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and caught up over a few drinks.
In an exclusive interview with E! News, Dunn's acquaintance opens up about Dunn's final hours and his feelings on the high speed wreck that killed him and his passenger, Zachary Hartwell.
***
A Cell Phone
Links Bin Laden to Pakistan IntelligenceThe most compelling piece of evidence that the Pakistani government was complicit in the harboring of Osama bin Laden came today in a New York Times report about a cell phone recovered from Osama bin Laden's courier. The phone reveals contacts with Harakat-ul-Mujahadeen, a militant group established by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency. Making matters worse for Pakistan, longtime affiliates with the ISI told the Times "they were convinced that the ISI played a part in sheltering Bin Laden." As it stands, Pakistan continues to deny any responsibility for providing a sanctuary to bin Laden in Abbottabad and already, the Harakat-ul-Mujahadeen is refuting the Times report, telling the BBC "Al-Qaeda had their own discipline, their own thinking, their own organisation. We have never ever been in touch with Osama." But as they continue to deny, the trail of connections continues to grow.
High level suspicions of Pakistan's protection of bin Laden have been expressed several times since the raid. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has long been critical of Pakistan's commitment to rooting out terrorism, expressed early suspicions of Pakistan's role in hiding bin Laden. "I don't think she [Clinton] gave them a free chit," Deputy State Department Spokesman Mark Toner told reporters in Washington in May. With mixed messaging, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Associated Press last week that the U.S. was suspicious that Pakistan was helping bin Laden but didn't go as far as to blame them. “We don’t know the specifics of what happened,” Gates said. "There are suspicions and there are questions, but I think there was clearly disappointment on our part.”
Last week, Rep. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence made no qualms about blaming the ISI for aiding bin Laden. “I believe that there are elements of both the military and intelligence service who in some way, both prior and maybe even current, provided some level of assistance to Osama bin Laden,” he said, after recently returning from a visit to Pakistan.
In a sign of how interwoven the Pakistani military is with the radial Islamic militants, on Tuesday, the Pakistani military arrested Brig. Gen. Ali Khan, who was detained following the raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad. "An army spokesman said Brig. Gen. Khan... was believed to be associated with Hizb ut-Tahrir, an outlawed radical Islamic group," reported The Wall Street Journal. "The group, which has roots in the Middle East and has also been active in Britain, clandestinely dropped pamphlets in military cantonments after the bin Laden raid calling on soldiers to rise against the military leadership." Khan wasn't directly tied to the coverup of bin Laden, however.
***
Supreme Court
rejects generic drug labeling suitsThe Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that generic drug companies cannot be sued under state law over allegations that they failed to provide adequate label warnings about potential side effects.
By a 5-4 vote, the justices gave a victory to Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, Mylan Inc's UDL Laboratories and Iceland-based Actavis Inc by overturning U.S. appeals court rulings that allowed such lawsuits.
The companies argued that federal law barred such lawsuits because the drug had been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Federal law requires generic drugs to have the same labels as their brand name equivalents.
Justice Clarence Thomas in the court's majority opinion agreed. He said federal drug regulations applicable to generic drug manufacturers directly conflicted with and thus pre-empted state lawsuits.
The Supreme Court decided a related issue in 2009 when it ruled FDA drug regulations do not protect pharmaceutical companies from being sued under state law over drug labeling, a case involving Pfizer Inc's Wyeth unit and its antinausea drug Phenergan.
But in the generic drug cases, the justices reversed separate U.S. appeals court rulings that the lawsuits against the companies could go forward.
The high court agreed with the arguments of the generic drug makers that they had no choice but to use the same drug labels as the brand manufacturer.
Teva, Actavis and the Generic Pharmaceutical Association hailed the ruling.
COURT 'HIT NAIL ON THE HEAD'
Attorney Jay Lefkowitz, who represented Teva, said, "The Supreme Court hit the nail on the head today by making clear that federal law does not permit states to hold generic drug manufacturers liable for using the very warnings federal law required them to use."
Actavis CEO Doug Boothe called the ruling "an important and necessary step by the Supreme Court to clarify the proper interpretation of regulations governing pharmaceutical labeling."
Bob Billings, the trade group's executive director, said assessing liability would have placed "the generic manufacturer in the impossible position of defending the content of a label that they are required by law to use but prevented by law from changing."
One case involved Julie Demahy, who sued Actavis and said it should have warned her of the risks of developing a neurological movement disorder from metoclopramide, a generic drug for heartburn, nausea and vomiting.
The drug's brand name equivalent is Reglan.
In another case, Gladys Mensing sued the three generic drug makers in federal court in Minnesota
after allegedly developing the same disorder after taking generic versions of Reglan.When the women first took the drug, the approved labeling said that "therapy longer than 12 weeks has not been evaluated and cannot be recommended."
That warning was changed in 2004 to say simply that therapy should not exceed 12 weeks and in 2009 the FDA ordered that specific warnings about the movement disorder be added to Reglan and metoclopramide.
The Obama administration supported the two women. It said the companies could have sought changes to the drug's label.
Generic drugs account for more than 70 percent of all prescriptions filled in the United States.
Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan dissented.
The Supreme Court cases are Pliva v. Mensing, No. 09-993, Actavis v. Mensing, No. 09-1039 and Actavis v. Demahy, No. 09-1501.
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Miracle of the Day
"I have grown up in a cathlic home and went to private school.i was always taught things there were always altered like bible verses in my church.Soon when i got older my friend took me to his church which was a pencostal church.after a couple of times of going i got to speak in tounges and recieve the holy ghosts.my life is so filled with joy and love so my miracle is the thought of being filled with god love and showing it to everyone...charles"
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