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Planning an outdoor wedding? Fabulous! Just be sure to take a tip from Leah McCarthy, who advises having iced towels with lemon slices on hand for guests.

Join hosts The Bad Seed and Nadine Michel on this special Mother's Day edition, as they welcome jazz singer Bobby Caldwell.

Rozonda Chilli Thomas of TLC stops by Nexxlegacy Radio to discuss the upcoming TLC movie, music and much more.

The Halli Casser-Jayne Show unveils three untold stories of World War II, including a look into the crucial role women played in The Manhattan Project.

On this Mother's Day, join NEWDradio for our Love 101 interview with Edna Jones, the mother to award-winning R&B Gospel sensation Canton Jones.

Professional life coach, mentor and author, Ciara Elle' joins T2Q to discuss how you can get control of your life.

Paul Gant's GO4IT is to be joined by Bears LB James Anderson who will discuss his season and more.

Leslie Traill is a health, wellness, and menopause coach, and the founder of 'Sexy Over Sixty.' Learn how to age fabulously and remain sexy even past sixty.

Australian singer/songwriter Mirva shares songs from her new album "One" and discusses the power of creativity, unity, and imperfection.

Sonia, hostess from Variety Topics Talk, welcomes Magician Ivan Amodei. He is the here to discuss magic and his career and the direction it is going.

Don?t miss out as professional wrestling Diva Amber O'Neal joins The Greg DeMarco Show to share her stories from the road and so much more!

Mental Illness Awareness Month- J'Wan Yvette gives advice on helping a mentally ill loved while protecting one's own emotional health in the process.

Join Jeff Keith lead singer of Tesla,talking about why fans have stuck with them for 25 years, touring with Def Leppard and the Station Night Club fire!

Joey "Live From The Bay With Joey" welcomes legendary actress Shelley Morrison, to discuss a new project with Film Maker / Director Walter Dominguez.

Back by popular demand, ArtSees Diner crew brings you Douglas C. Rapier, the man and his music. Tonight we will discuss his upcoming release, Ovoid Diaspora.

Guest, Alice Leon, is a singer-songwriter and mother. She wrote a song titled "Mothers Day".

Navy SEAL Training - Mission 4: Earn Respect. Forge your Self-Confidence by earning the respect you want.

We are kicking off our Spiritual Food for Thought Global Radio Mid-Day PraiZe with Dove & Stellar Award nominee Wess Morgan Pastor/Gospel Recording Artist.

January Jones welcomes author Dick Stiglitz discussing his books, "Taming The Dragons of Change" and "Leadership Conversations."

Lizard Lick Towing is in The Grilliant Ideas Radio House! Join us as we have fun with the Stars Ronnie and Amy Shirley!

This week Richard Petty will join us on The Don Smith Show during our live broadcast from Darlington Raceway.

God's Gumshoe investigates Another Dimension. There is a Cosmic curiosity that hungers for harmony and thirsts for beauty.

Author Sarah Sullivan talks about her new book, "Passing the Music Down".

With two weeks now in the books it's now time to review the new One Life To Live reboot. Join Lee Sanders for a special in-depth look on series.

This Saturday on "Anti-Robot Radio", hosted by the Fabulous MoonShyne Brown, our guest will be the London Pop Rock Trio, Komla.

We have the men of BlindSide Football, Boston's best blogger, Tyler Smith, and Rant Sports' Ryan Heckman of ESPN Fame!

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Man kills passerby with pickaxe in Milan, 4 wounded

ROME (AP) ? An immigrant from Ghana went on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan at dawn Saturday, killing a passerby and wounding four others in an apparently random attack, police said.

Carabinieri paramilitary police in Milan said the 21-year-old attacker was taken into custody shortly after the attacks in a residential area on the northern outskirts of the city.

People working in cafes and other businesses near the attack told Sky TG24 TV that the man wildly swung a pickaxe, running down streets and ferociously striking passersby, mainly on the head. Pools of blood stained the streets.

A 40-year-old man died after being struck on the head with the pickaxe and suffering further blows to the abdomen while he lay on the ground, police said. The victim was described as an unemployed man who was heading to a cafe near his home.

Among those wounded was a man in his 20s who was helping his father deliver newspapers to newsstands; another was a man walking his dog.

At first it appeared five people had been wounded, but police later said the sixth person the attacker swung at darted into a doorway in the nick of time and escaped injury.

Two of the wounded were in critical condition.

Police said the motive was unclear.

"Police blocked him with difficulty. He was in an evident state of marked psychological stress," Col. Biagio Storniolo told reporters. Asked about the motive, Storniolo said the suspect "was not being cooperative. He says only that he is hungry and has no home."

The man, identified as Mada Kabobo, 21, was jailed while he is investigated for murder and two counts of attempted murder for the two persons who were most critically wounded, police said.

First media reports said the man had ignored a 2011 expulsion order because he was not legally in the country, but police later clarified that the expulsion papers had not yet been issued because legal proceedings in southern Italy were pending. Police said they identified the suspect, who had no documents on him, from fingerprints.

Police said he was in the country illegally, and had previously been arrested in the Puglia region for alleged, theft, robbery, property damage and resisting public authorities.

Milan Mayor Giuliano Pisapia said the entire city was shocked that a man would go on such a rampage, "killing one and wounding several, even gravely, just because he ran into them on his path."

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UN rights chief alarmed over Syrian troop buildup

BEIRUT (AP) ? The U.N.'s top human rights official says she is alarmed by reports of a major Syrian troop buildup around a rebel-held town in western Syria and fears more atrocities if the area is overrun.

Last week, regime forces were blamed for killing dozens of civilians in the village of Bayda, also in western Syria. The area is strategically important to President Bashar Assad.

The town of Qusair, close to Lebanon, has been besieged by Syrian troops for several weeks and rebels have lost ground in the area.

Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Friday "expressed alarm" at a troop buildup near Qusair.

She says last week's mass killing should spur the international community to find a quick solution to Syria's 26-month-old conflict.

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Movie Reviews: Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby - Minnetonka Patch

Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from?Moviefone?and?RottenTomatoes.

Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here is Patch's roundup of movies playing at theaters in the Minnetonka area, including?AMC Eden Prairie Mall 18,?Mann St. Louis Park Cinema?6?and?Kerasotes Showplace Icon Theatre at West End.

New this weekend:

The Great Gatsby

One sentence plot: "The Great Gatsby" follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 98

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 40

Reviews:

"Frenzied and overwrought, Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby is a glitz-filled folly." USA Today Full Review

"The result is less a conventional movie adaptation than a splashy, trashy opera, a wayward, lavishly theatrical celebration of the emotional and material extravagance that Fitzgerald surveyed with fascinated ambivalence." New York Times Full Review

"Where this 'Gatsby' fails, it at least does so with imaginative and verve; where it succeeds, it finds poetry." Seattle Times Full Review

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Peeples

One sentence plot: Sparks fly in the Hamptons when "regular guy" Wade Walker (Craig Robinson) crashes the preppy Peeples family reunion to ask for their precious daughter Grace's (Kerry Washington) hand in marriage.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 82

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 43

Reviews:

"In essence, the film is a cross between Meet the Parents and an Adam Sandler idiot-in-a-china-shop comedy." Entertainment Weekly Full Review

"The performers are up to the wacko task. But one of the movie's key problems is that it only pretends to let loose, its calculated absurdity firmly tethered to the life lessons that lie in wait." Hollywood Reporter Full Review

Iron Man 3

One sentence plot: Marvel's "Iron Man 3" pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 99

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 80

Reviews:

"But for all the clanking armies of iron knights on display to dazzle the eager kid in each of us, this summer epic rings hollow. There's no one home inside the suit." Rolling Stone Full Review

"This installment actually flirts with satire, sending its hero-in-a-can on a vengeful mission against a mad, bearded jihadist before yanking the rug out from under the neocon story line. There are some good laughs as well." Chicago Reader Full Review

"The 'Iron Man' films turned Mr. Downey into a huge star, but the role has gradually, maybe inexorably, swallowed him." New York Times Full Review

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The Place Beyond the Pines

One sentence plot: The highly anticipated new drama from director Derek Cianfrance ("Blue Valentine") powerfully explores the consequences of motorcycle rider Luke's (Academy Award nominee Ryan Gosling) fateful decision to commit a crime to support his child.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 81

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 80

Reviews:

"Cianfrance and his sterling cast keep it all together, vanquishing doubt and soap suds. There's a palpable sense of teamwork that brings out the best in all of these players." Toronto Star Full Review

"This is a story about legacy, the sins of the father, the restlessness in our souls. It's powerful, it's bold, it hits you hard." Philadelphia Inquirer Full Review

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Pain & Gain

One sentence plot: Based on the unbelievable true story of a group of personal trainers in 1990s Miami who, in pursuit of the American Dream, get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly wrong.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 96

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 50

Reviews:

"It all leaves you pondering whether you have just seen a monumentally stupid movie or a brilliant movie about the nature and consequences of stupidity." The New York Times Full Review

"A badly constructed, blood-spattered caper that comes unglued early on." USA Today Full Review

"Bay's trademark theatrical flourishes and grandiloquent effects work don't overwhelm the engrossing story or some noteworthy performances. And for Bay, that's saying a lot." Film Racket Full Review

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Oblivion

One sentence plot: On a spectacular future Earth that has evolved beyond recognition, one man's confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 98

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 59

Reviews:

"When you go to a futuristic, dystopian, post-apocalyptic barn dance starring Tom Cruise and his space guns, you expect a little zap with your thoughtful pauses." Chicago Tribune Full Review

"For all the bells and whistles?an electronic score by M83, a screen-busting Imax presentation and Cruise going full throttle?Oblivion feels arid and antiseptic, untouched by human hands." Rolling Stone Full Review

"You start wondering whether director Joseph Kosinski and screenwriters Karl Gajdusek and Michael DeBruyn have any original ideas of their own. And then you realize they don't." Seattle Times Full Review

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42

One sentence plot: "42" tells the story of two men-the great Jackie Robinson and legendary Brooklyn Dodgers GM Branch Rickey-whose brave stand against prejudice forever changed the world by changing the game of baseball.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 97

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 68

Reviews:

"It's a sports film nonsports fans can love; it's a family film that never preaches; it's a biopic that also takes in the world and people around its subject." New York Daily News Full Review

"'42' can feel incomplete (the bland music and the filmmaker's obsession with dates and places are problematic), yet at the same time it offers a very good place to start. Seattle Times Full Review

"There are many less flattering things you could say about a movie than that it's enjoyable in a square, uncomplicated, stirringly old-fashioned way." Entertainment Weekly Full Review

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Jurassic Park 3D

One sentence plot: The film follows two dinosaur experts?Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr. Ellie Sattler Laura Dern)?as they are invited by eccentric millionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) to preview his new amusement park on an island off Costa Rica.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 83

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 91

Reviews:

"The 3-D process adds not just dimension but depth - a technological extension of cinematographer Gregg Toland's deep-focus innovations in The Grapes of Wrath and Citizen Kane. The change in perspective creates greater intensity." Time Magazine Full Review

"Jurassic Park shows us a director in transition, and the film captures his transformation in its own kind of cinematic amber." Vulture Full Review

"I'm a fan of this movie. It is thrilling, and the 3-D treatment is a nice enhancement." Boston Globe Full Review

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The Croods

One sentence plot: The Croods tells the story of the world's first family road trip: When their cave is destroyed, the Crood family must embark on a comedy adventure into strange and spectacular territory in search of a new home.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 95

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 79

Reviews:

"Despite a few too many mother-in-law jokes, "The Croods" nicely makes it clear that even before they had fire, families understood how important it was to cherish and protect each other." Chicago Sun-Times Full Review

"'The Croods' is both brisk and beautiful, and should be sufficiently entertaining for family audiences for whom few such options exist these days." The Associated Press Full Review

"The familiarity of the characters and their dynamics do make the movie feel comfy. You'll probably go into the prehistoric animated comedy thinking you know what it's going to be, and you'll be right." The Pioneer Press Full Review

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Oz the Great and Powerful

One sentence plot: When Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he's hit the jackpot-fame and fortune are his for the taking-that is until he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced?he is the great wizard everyone's been expecting.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 99

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 58

Reviews:

"Oz the Great and Powerful" isn't a masterpiece for the ages, but an agreeable family film that pleasantly reminds us of something greater - of a land that we heard of, once in a lullaby." Seattle Times Full Review

"The 3-D effects are plentiful - hats, lions, and baboons jump off the screen and into your lap - but the characters rarely lodge in the moviegoer's heart." Time Magazine Full Review?

"Though Oz has some of the same narrative issues and effects-heavy bloat as that highly personal fantasy film, every frame is infused with a deep-rooted, impassioned understanding of the cinema's magical power to captivate and inspire." Time Out New York Full Review

Do you plan on seeing any of these movies? Have you seen them already? Leave a review of the films with a comment below.

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Better stent surgery stats needed: heart doctors

By Andrew M. Seaman

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Publicly reported statistics about how patients fare after a common heart procedure often are inaccurate, says a new study that suggests publishing the poor quality numbers may do more harm than good.

The proportion of patients who die within 30 days of a medical procedure is sometimes used to gauge the effectiveness of the treatment, or of the hospital or doctor administering it.

After analyzing thousands of patient records at one U.S. hospital, researchers found that less than half of the deaths following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) - also known as coronary angioplasty - were related to the procedure.

That's far fewer than the number of deaths usually attributed to the surgery, which involves clearing a narrowed artery then inserting a mesh tube called a stent to prop the vessel open.

"I think what this really points out is that (with) the clinical complexity of medicine (it) can be tough to get a policy that's sort of one size fits all," said Dr. Karen Joynt, a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Joynt, who was not involved with the new study but has done similar research, said there are a number of factors that determine whether or not a person dies after PCI - many of them unrelated to the actual procedure.

About 500,000 angioplasties are performed in the U.S. every year. It's often used in emergency situations, for instance to stop heart attacks caused by blocked blood vessels.

New York State first reported the number of people who died after PCI in its hospitals in 1991. Since then, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania started to report that figure as well.

According to the new study's authors, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have also proposed using the number as a quality measure, in the hope of improving patient care.

For the new study, researchers led by the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Mehdi Shishehbor used patients' medical records to see whether deaths following PCI could be blamed on the procedure.

Out of 4,078 PCIs performed between January 2009 and April 2011 at one U.S. hospital, they found 81 deaths within 30 days of the surgery, representing 2 percent of patients who had the procedure.

Forty-seven, or about 60 percent, of those 81 patients died of a heart-related problem, but only 34, or 42 percent, of the deaths resulted from a complication of the procedure itself.

Previous research has attributed up to 60 percent of deaths following PCI to the procedure, but those figures were often based on causes of death listed on death certificates, which are frequently inaccurate, according to Shishehbor and his colleagues.

In the current study, based on close reading of every patient's chart, many of the deaths were among patients who were very sick when they got to the hospital and might have died with or without PCI, the researchers report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Fifty eight percent of the patients who died arrived in cardiac arrest, cardiogenic shock or with the most lethal type of heart attack, the authors point out.

But Joynt said doing PCI on these patients may have given them a better chance of survival, even though they ultimately died.

"That's the kind of overuse (of PCI) that we're probably willing to accept in many cases," she said.

However, Joynt's own research has suggested that hospitals avoid doing PCI in the sickest patients when their states start reporting the number of 30-day deaths.

In 2012, her study found that hospitals in Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania performed fewer PCIs - especially among the sickest patients who could possibly have benefited the most.

"Public reporting is a good thing and needs to be done, but when done incorrectly there are a lot of downstream consequences, such as denying patients treatment," said Dr. Duane Pinto, head of interventional cardiology at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, who wrote an editorial accompanying the new study.

"We have to recognize and adapt to the unintended consequences of public reporting and fix them when we identify them," Pinto said.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/10L9DPz Journal of the American College of Cardiology, online May 7, 2013.

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