lot to learn when it comes to being a responsible adult. It is being reported that Bristol Palin’s ex and father of their three-year-old son Tripp, squandered away more than $1 million on toys - and not for his son. A source tells Us Weekly that Johnston, 22, spent his money on guns, boats, and four-wheelers, and as a result he is now broke and living at home with his mother in Alaska. Johnston’s reported spending habits are being highly criticized as in insider reveals to Us that he has continually failed to pay child support for his son. “Levi hasn’t paid child support in nearly two years,” the insider said. “And he has little contact with Tripp.” The onetime mayoral hopeful, who is also currently expecting a child – a girl – with girlfriend, Sunny Oglesby, 20, has garnered an unflattering reputation as an absent father and the Daily Mail reports that he has amassed a debt of $38,000 in backed child support. However, a former rep for Johnston, Tank Jones, is attempting to dispel allegations of his former clients’ financial trouble by claiming that the severing of his professional relationship with Johnston was a mutual decision and not due to Johnston's finances or lack thereof. “I wanted work on other projects. This was a mutual decision,” Jones told Us. “I would think he would want to do some different things too. I would never leave him at a low point.” Only Johnston and his accountant know the real truth about his finances but one can only hope that he will have everything sorted out before bringing another child into the mix. INFDaily 0 No votes yet Poor Okay Good Great Awesome Your rating: None Share on twitter|Share on deliciousShare on diggShare on redditShare on stumbleuponShare on emailShare on aimShare on pinterest8 More Articles By Jillian Claybrook Did Ted Allen 'out' Food Network star Anne Burrell? 'American Idol' finalist Brooke White is a new mother Prince William: Queen Elizabeth II is just my grandmother Get all the details on the engagement ring Mark Zuckerberg gave to Priscilla Chan Nicole Kidman sent sexy photos to Lee Daniels to get role in 'Paperboy' more Featured Links Godiva Coffee Prize Pack Win an Amazon Kindle Fire and a copy of Shark Dash Father's Day 'Thrill Your Grill' Giveaway Top 10 Beastie Boys Songs: In memory of Adam 'MCA' Yauch (Videos) Everybody seems to be talking about the Gotye song, "Somebody That I Used To Know," but what you might not realize is that the video has inspired literally dozens upon dozens upon dozens of covers. Over the years, Disney films have certainly been popular at the box office, but have also greatly influenced our culture today. Is anybody famous born on your birthday? How are your Trivia Skills? We Recommend Nude picture of Tori Spelling accidentally posted by husband Paris Hilton storms off the set of 'The View' Robin Thicke calls 'Duets' a 'huge opportunity' to reach a broader audience Keane - 'Strangeland' Review 'The Daughter Trap' by Laurel Kennedy From Around the Web Mary Kennedy’s Last Days: Distress From RFK Divorce, New Girlfriend (The Daily Beast) Behind The Row: Meet Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (Vogue) The Oscar Curse: Are Successful Women Unlucky in Love? (You Beauty) [

A Good Day for Elon Musk

 

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, has had his tough days; on Saturday, for example, an attempted launch of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket, the first commercially developed flight to attempt to connect with the International Space Station, never got off the ground; flight computers aborted it during the countdown. But today definitely was a good day for Musk. A really good day. Early this morning, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket carrying the unmanned Dragon capsule blasted off successfully; Dragon is due to rendezvous with the Space Station in a couple of days. A jubilant Musk tweeted “Falcon flew perfectly!! Dragon in orbit, comm locked, and solar arrays active!! Feels like a giant weight just came off my backJ” And good news came out of Tesla Motors today as well, good for the company, as well as for buyers of the company's second model, the Model S sedan. Tesla announced on its corporate blog that manufacturing for the Model S is a few weeks ahead of schedule and delivery to customers will begin June 22. This announcement followed late yesterday's tweet by Musk, “Major Tesla milestone: All crash testing is complete for 5* (max) safety rating. Cars can now be built for sale to the public!!”   The company also announced that the car’s regenerative braking, which feeds energy back to the battery and slows the car down, will be adjustable (some people find the resistance from regenerative braking disturbing, and would be willing to sacrifice range to avoid it). Musk, interviewed yesterday by Spaceflight Now, an online publication, may be treated a bit like a tech pop star, but he still talks like the engineer that he is. Asked how he expected to feel today, he responded, “Either really happy or really sad. It's just one of those things that has a bimodal outcome.” Safe to say that today he’s feeling really happy. Above: Video of today’s Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral. To hear Elon Musk talk about his career and his long term goal of making life multiplanetary, listen to my 2009 interview with Musk.

Fleet Week 2012: Coast Guard's staged rescue thrills Staten Islanders

 

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Hundreds gathered yesterday at The Sullivans Pier to tour six powerful warships docked at the former home port for Fleet Week celebrations. But what really caught their attention was a surprise Search And Rescue (S.A.R.) demonstration by the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard executed the drill in New York Harbor to show the crowd what it does best -- rescuing victims at sea. It commenced at 2 p.m., when a Coast Guardsman, playing victim, jumped about 20 feet from a helicopter, treaded water and raised his right hand to signal for help. Another Coast Guardsman, playing rescuer, jumped into the water to secure his comrade. The two were lifted to safety by a rope. Patrick Murphy, 15, of Westerleigh, said he and his family enjoy the Fleet Week festivities each year. The S.A.R. demonstration, however, was a new experience for him. "My favorite part was probably when the guy just fell out of the chopper! At first I was a little confused, but then I realized it was a drill and that it wasn't so serious." Tourists were not the only ones who enjoyed the Coast Guard demonstration. Sailors dressed in their summer whites, black and tans, and Navy working uniforms watched with the crowd, offering details about the operation. Margo Miscatel of Dongan Hills said she was impressed by the sailors' accessibility and knowledge. Staten Island Advance/Irving Silverstein Caitlyn Hearn of Eltingville and Nicole Clark of Grymes Hill learn about the helm of the USS San Jacinto from sailor Isaiah Riddick. "The staff took their time to explain to us what was going on and how the drill worked. I thought it was fantastic. It really shows what they can do and how skilled they are." But fans of Staten Island Fleet Week -- which continues in Stapleton through Tuesday -- almost missed their opportunity to witness a genuine S.A.R. demonstration, which was scheduled for noon. "We delayed due to the cloud coverage. In these situations, the question is always whether the ceiling is safe enough to conduct any demonstration," said Charlie Rowe, a civilian U.S. Coast Guard public affairs officer who helped organize the event. According to the U.S. Navy Staten Island Command Center stationed at the pier, compromised visibility often forces helicopter pilots to hover close over the water's surface. This poses several dangers, requires consulting radar technology and is done only in an actual emergency situation. But by 2 p.m., the skies cleared and the demonstration began. Earlier in the day, Borough President James P. Molinaro hosted a "captain's call" at Borough Hall for the commanders of the four American ships stationed at The Sullivans Pier, including the USS San Jacinto, USS Mitscher, the USS Donald Cook and the USS Gonzalez. "I am pleased to welcome the commanding officers to Staten Island and I would like to express our gratitude to the fine men and women who defend our country and protect the liberties we enjoy. I hope they have a wonderful time as guests in our great city," Molinaro said in a statement. Visitors to The Sullivans Pier can tour the Navy ships from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through Tuesday or attend the Annual Splash Music Festival today and tomorrow from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Free tours of the Ships, also including KRI Dewaruci of Indonesia and the Cisne Branco of Brazil, are available today, tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free shuttle transportation from the south parking area, between Edgewater Street and Canal Street, to the front gate is available today, tomorrow and Monday from 12 to 5 p.m.

Rolling Thunder rolls in to commemorate Memorial Day

 

WASHINGTON - It's time to get ready to hear the rumble of Rolling Thunder. Hundreds of thousands of motorcycle riders are converging on D.C. this weekend for their 25th Memorial Day ride. Riders have already begun arriving for the weekend of events to remember prisoners of war and those missing in action. "I have a brother I lost in Vietnam in 1968," says Mark Given, a Desert Storm veteran. He joined Rolling Thunder to make sure the sacrifices of people like his brother are not forgotten - especially on Memorial Day. Given was one of about six riders from Rolling Thunder on Friday morning who laid wreaths at historic Congressional Cemetery in Southeast, paying tribute to the fallen as a bugler played taps. Given's 12-year-old son, Martin, came with him from New Jersey this year. The youngster is named after Given's brother, "I carry his name on for who he was and for serving our country," he says. At the grave of an unknown soldier, Carlos Hollifield says laying a wreath is appropriate. "Our mission is to ensure that in the future we have no unknowns." Hollifield says there are still more than 100,000 Americans from all wars still unaccounted for. "We work to make sure that political leaders and citizens never forget our prisoners of war and our missing in action." The riders also placed a wreath at the gravesite of several War of 1812 veterans. Congressional Cemetery was the first national cemetery established in 1807.

Chernobyl Diaries’ is a disaster of a horror film

 

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films. Marion Crane decides to take a shower at the Bates Motel. People on Amity Island continue to swim in sharky water. The kids on Elm Street can’t stop falling asleep. All that appears to be motivating anybody in “Chernobyl Diaries” to do anything is paltry screenwriting. Chris and Amanda and Natalie visit Chris’s brother, Paul, in Kiev. The plan is to go to Moscow, but Paul thinks it would be fun to pile inside a stranger’s van and head to the site of a town abandoned after the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster in 1986. Movie Review CHERNOBYL DIARIES Directed by: Bradley Parker Written by: Shane Van Dyke, Carey Van Dyke, and Oren Peli Starring: Jonathan Sadowski, Jesse McCartney, Olivia Dudley, and Devin Kelley At: Boston Common, Fenway, suburbs Running time: 88 minutes Rated: R (violence, some bloody images, and pervasive language) There are scraps of interest. Four or five people in the audience might see these guys wandering around big, vacant, Soviet-era structures and wish to quench an urge to watch something by Andrei Tarkovsky. But they won’t say anything because that observation would be more interesting than what they are actually watching. There’s also the matter of style. The movie has been shot with a hand-held camera that suggests that someone in the group is a cinematographer. It looks like the found footage in stuff like “Chronicle” and “Project X” but with reverse shots, shifting point-of-view shots, and competent editing. When three characters find the cellphone of two missing characters, the explanatory video one of them made is actual found footage. We’re supposed to understand this is just nominally creepy camerawork. Anyway, it’s all assembled from a kit. Something is still alive — and it’s not the bear that jogs by them in an empty apartment complex or the dogs that might have ripped up Chris’s leg. The movie wants us to find this frightening, but there’s no suspense, no terrifying images. (There’s no diary, either!) No one runs for dear life. They just inch into one small, dark room after the next. There is a pitiful attempt to bring the nuclearness of things in on the action and a worse attempt to end it all. The plot twist has arthritis. The actors playing the four Americans — Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Dudley, and Devin Kelley — have natural enough rapport. They could be improvising. So could the two people playing the hippie couple that joins the tour. But the real stars of the movie are the tired devices and plot points. They’re famous, but they’re as old as Betty White: The Guide Is Dead, The Van Won’t Start, Her Shirt Has a Plunging Neckline, Don’t Go in There. That last one doesn’t happen for us this time. It’s more like: Please. Go in there. We want to go home.

Jenna Jameson arrested for suspected DUI in Calif. - San Jose Mercury News

 

WESTMINSTER, Calif.—Former adult film star Jenna Jameson has been arrested in Southern California for investigation of driving under the influence after she struck a light pole with her vehicle. Police say Jameson had driven her vehicle into a light pole early Friday in Westminster. She suffered minor injuries but refused medical treatment. A police statement says a field sobriety test was conduct and there were signs of intoxication. Jameson was booked and later cited and released. A statement issued by her website says Jameson is home and well but has no immediate comment. Jameson crossed into the mainstream after publishing a popular autobiography in 2004. She has twin sons with mixed martial arts star Tito Ortiz, who two y

 

 

Lolo Jones and Tim Tebow: Match made in heaven?

 

U. S. Olympics track and field star Lolo Jones said she is looking for a special bond, and cleared up her status on Twitter in March. According to the Sporting News, she wrote, "Yes I'm a virgin. #1 reason why I'm single bc guys deuce out when I won't put out. I do so to honor God & future husband." Jones will compete in the women's 100-meter hurdles. She called herself a “professional shoplifter” by the time she was in sixth grade. She said she took frozen dinners for her family, and she lived in the basement of a Salvation Army for a time, according to USA Today. HBO's "Real Sports" with Bryant Gumbel reported that the 29-year-old said she has tried dating services and Twitter to find a prospective boyfriend. She said it’s been difficult maintaining her virginity until marriage. Jones said, according to the Los Angeles Times, "If there are virgins out there, I'm going to let them know, it's the hardest thing I've ever done in my life — harder than training for the Olympics and graduating from college.” "I've had guys tell me, ‘If you have sex, it will help you run faster,'" she added. Jones runs fast enough. She was leading the100-meter hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but tripped on the next-to-last hurdle and finished seventh. Meanwhile, a guy with similar morals to Jones named Tim Tebow has recently heard some chants of “Lo-lo!” from his teammates. Jones gave her thoughts on the matchup with Tebow on Twitter, according to an Associated Press report in the Chicago Sun-Times: “Ask Tebow if he wants a glass of milk. If he says yes, ask him if he prefers chocolate. If he says no, then no more Tebow date suggestions.”