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    Americas Next Top Model Roit Goes Ugly


    Wow so many pretty people looking so so good not !! The video speaks for itself.

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    A hot day can spell bad news for migraine sufferers, increasing their risk of an attack the next day, US research suggests

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    The risk went up by 7.5% for every five degree Celsius increase in
    temperature revealed the study of more than 7,000 patients, published
    in Neurology.

    The same applied to people who suffer from non-migraine headaches too.

    Although you can’t alter the weather, people can watch the forecast and pop a pill to avert attacks, the authors say.

    As well as temperature, people might want to check
    air pressure too, as lower barometer readings over the past couple of
    days were also linked with migraines, although less strongly.

    The study looked at people attending the emergency department of a
    large US hospital for advice about a headache at any point during a
    seven year period.

    Overall, 2,250 were diagnosed with migraine and 4,803 with “tension” or “unspecified” headaches.

    Using meteorological and pollutant monitors, the researchers
    then compared measurements of a number of environmental factors during
    the days leading up to and again some weeks after a patient’s hospital
    visit.

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    North Korea warning ahead of exercise

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    North Korea says it has put its military on full combat alert in advance of a big military exercise by US and South Korean forces.

    The official news agency called the maneuvers a dangerous provocation.

    North Korea has warned that any attempt to shoot down a satellite it says it plans to launch will result in war.

    The South and the US believe Pyongyang could be preparing to test-fire a long-range missile under the guise of a satellite launch.

    On Friday, the North said that the risk of conflict meant it could no longer guarantee the safety of commercial flights through airspace it controls off the east coast.

    A number of airlines have already re-routed their flights as a precaution.
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    North Korea warning ahead of exercise

    nkorea

    North Korea says it has put its military on full combat alert in advance of a big military exercise by US and South Korean forces.

    The official news agency called the maneuvers a dangerous provocation.

    North Korea has warned that any attempt to shoot down a satellite it says it plans to launch will result in war.

    The South and the US believe Pyongyang could be preparing to test-fire a long-range missile under the guise of a satellite launch.

    On Friday, the North said that the risk of conflict meant it could no longer guarantee the safety of commercial flights through airspace it controls off the east coast.

    A number of airlines have already re-routed their flights as a precaution.
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    Pastor Is Shot and Killed at an Illinois Church

    Churchgoers outside the Maryville First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill., after a shooting on Sunday.

    Churchgoers outside the Maryville First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill., after a shooting on Sunday.

    A pastor was shot to death and two congregants were stabbed Sunday at a church in this village near St. Louis, the police said.

    A man strode down the aisle of First Baptist Church shortly after 8 a.m. and briefly spoke with the Rev. Fred Winters, then pulled out a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol and began firing until it jammed, said Larry G. Trent, director of the Illinois State Police.

    Churchgoers wrestled the gunman to the ground as he waved a knife, slashing himself and two other people, Mr. Trent said.

    None of the 150-or-so congregants seemed to recognize the gunman. Investigators do not know details of Mr. Winters’s conversation with him but plan to review an audio recording of the service, Mr. Trent said. The service was not videotaped.

    The police said Mr. Winters deflected the first of the gunman’s four rounds with a Bible, sending a confetti-like spray of paper into the air.

    “We thought it was part of a drama skit,” said a congregant, Linda Cunningham, whose husband is a minister of adult education at the church. “When he shot, what you saw was confetti. We just sat there waiting for what comes next, not realizing that he had wounded the pastor.”
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    Michael Phelps Give’s New Light To Marijuana Use

    weed1Michael Phelps gives Marijuana use new light. Imagine what all the pot smokers are thinking(give me more). Michael Phelps is know as the top Olympic champion of all time. He has accomplished more in the Olympic games representing the United States than any other in the past. Do you think the government has it wrong by outlawing marijuana use and making it illegal? In the sixties and seventies everyone was smoking pot , now 30 some odd years later those same smoker’s are known as today’s baby boomers. Now there older ,wealthier, and well accomplished Americans that still smoke Marijuana. So it seams like we are living a lie. If marijuana has no lasting effect, and it calms people down at the same time increasing there heart rate and allowing blood flow for good circulation why are we so hard on users? Some of the top neurosurgeons in the nation recommend using marijuana because it’s the best natural anti-inflammatory. Well for one thing it brings in a lot of money for the local police departments and local municipality’s. Figure it costs the average user 20 dollars for a gram of the good green stuff sometimes purple. To the law the same 20 dollars of pot may represent an arrest which will cost the user a hefty fine of $1000 dollars or so and if they catch a few people smoking on the same $20 worth of pot it may mean 1000’s of dollars for the local municipality’s in fines.  It seems everyone wants the green for one reason or another.  And who says money isn’t the root of all evil. Micheal Phelps is more than an Olympic champion , he has brought some weight to the fight for legalizing marijuana. For people struggling with an illness , to your perfectly healthy athlete there seems to be a glimmer of hope more now than ever. In fact if you find your kids smoking pot what are you going to say “you don’t want to grow up and turn out like Michael Phelps”?

    Credit:Mike from Astoria

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    Obama Ponders Outreach to Elements of the Taliban

    obama-shake-23President Obama declared in an interview that the United States was not winning the war in Afghanistan and opened the door to a reconciliation process in which the American military would reach out to moderate elements of the Taliban, much as it did with Sunni militias in Iraq.

    Mr. Obama pointed to the success in peeling Iraqi insurgents away from more hard-core elements of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a strategy that many credit as much as the increase of American forces with turning the war around in the last two years. “There may be some comparable opportunities in Afghanistan and in the Pakistani region,” he said, while cautioning that solutions in Afghanistan will be complicated.

    In a 35-minute conversation with The New York Times aboard Air Force One on Friday, Mr. Obama reviewed the challenges to his young administration. The president said he could not assure Americans the economy would begin growing again this year. But he pledged that he would “get all the pillars in place for recovery this year” and urged Americans not to “stuff money in their mattresses.”

    “I don’t think that people should be fearful about our future,” he said. “I don’t think that people should suddenly mistrust all of our financial institutions.”
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    Obama Expected to Reverse Limits on Stem Cells

    imagesWASHINGTON — President Obama is expected to announce on Monday that he is reversing Bush administration limits on federal financing for embryonic stem-cell research, White House officials said on Friday.
    The officials said that advocates of unfettered stem-cell research, as well as lawmakers who support it, have been invited to a White House ceremony scheduled for 11:45 a.m. Eastern time on Monday, where the president is expected to make an announcement.

    As a presidential candidate, Mr. Obama spoke out in favor of the research, so his apparent intention to undo the curbs put in place by former President George W. Bush is not surprising. But it is still momentous, involving a long-controversial intersection of science and personal moral beliefs.
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    HEY ,HEY LETS GO TO THE NEW SHEA!!

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    I just prefer to call it the new Shea. In my eye’s it will never be CITI FIELD because SHEA was built on the love of the game not big corporate sponsors.In fact if big business did not get involved in baseball maybe it would of kept the players honest instead, greed just took over like a bat out of Heck and things just don’t seem the same but one thing remains I will not be calling it CITI FIELD. What happens if CITI goes under the METS will have the CHITI curse. So if your a Met fan and you see another Met fan just ask them are you going to the New Shea. Lets keep the legacy alive not erased by nuances and gimmick’s.

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    Obama Says He Is Open to Altering Health Plan

    obama-shake-21WASHINGTON — President Obama vowed Thursday to end a decades-long stalemate on overhauling the health care system, and he indicated for the first time that he was open to compromise on details of the proposal he put forth in the 2008 campaign.

    Mr. Obama spoke at a White House forum on health care, where he bluntly warned lobbyists and “special interests” not to stand in the way of efforts to rein in costs and guarantee coverage for all Americans. He said he intended to achieve those goals this year.

    “During the campaign,” Mr. Obama said, “I put forward a plan for health care reform. I thought it was an excellent plan. But I don’t presume that it was a perfect plan or that it was the best possible plan.”

    As a candidate, Mr. Obama said he would establish a public insurance program to compete with private insurers and would require employers to contribute to the cost of coverage for their employees or to the cost of the public plan. Insurers oppose the idea of a new public plan.
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    Do you want to see Michael Jackson?

    michael_jackson1So it’s all true: Michael Jackson will perform live again. But after all the buildup, his announcement appearance was rather anticlimactic -– for which the performer himself was mainly to blame.

    Jackson didn’t exactly get things off to a rousing start. He was more than 90 minutes late to his own press conference, which was scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. ET. Not even the promotional film started without a glitch — though, given that it was chock-full of ‘80s and ‘90s clips, it succeeded in reminding viewers of the genuine excitement Jackson could convey.

    And then a skeletal figure sauntered off a silver bus and made his way to the stage.

    All that apparent cosmetic surgery notwithstanding, Jackson seemed healthy. “Thank you all,” he said. “This is it.”

    He’ll be performing 10 concerts, beginning July 8, at London’s 20,000-seat O2 Arena. “This is it” has a double meaning: Besides, presumably, being a must-see ticket, Jackson said that these will be his last shows in London.

    He hasn’t announced any other shows, but you never know. So, if there were more, would you see him? And would you go to see a Michael Jackson performance or a Michael Jackson freak show?

    Credit:– Todd Leopold, CNN.com Entertainment Producer

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    Obama’s big stride on Moscow ‘reboot’

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    WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s push to reset U.S.-Russian relations took a huge stride when he signaled the Kremlin he might forgo an anti-missile system in Eastern Europe if Moscow uses its clout with a troublesome Iran and its nuclear ambitions.

    The back-channel diplomatic gambit was one of the few tools Obama had for unknotting the stalemated relationship — one that suffered under former Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin.

    Details of the Obama proposal, a letter responding to one from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, have not been disclosed, but the U.S. president has clearly enticed the Kremlin into a dialogue that could pay significant benefits to both sides.

    While Medvedev said the two leaders were not negotiating a quid pro quo, improved relations rest on a deal that bundles the proposed missile shield and Iran, where Moscow holds considerable sway.

    Obama concurred there had been no blatant trade offer, but he also said Tuesday that reducing Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons would lessen the need for a missile defense system. Given the three decades of U.S.-Iranian estrangement, Russia would serve as an obvious and powerful entree for putting the U.S. case to Tehran.

    In an Oval Office meeting with Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Obama told reporters it was clear that the U.S. needed to “reset or reboot” its relationship with Russia.
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