Matt Said, Jay Said...$400

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Matt:  Yeah, what do you want?<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6cNAjh1uxi1-TfczM7WWAUzMNDDmuiKL2S8_WUhJOGOz-l-nI65Pbxtu2hrTMCHjpZ2mxx8mfsauwD_EA96MMBlRjopQvYyDUJCtRTyu3fnHH4-aeaiRBZ6WRz16xlC_eKgeWpuzh9AE/s1600/Tamra+4th+of+July+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6cNAjh1uxi1-TfczM7WWAUzMNDDmuiKL2S8_WUhJOGOz-l-nI65Pbxtu2hrTMCHjpZ2mxx8mfsauwD_EA96MMBlRjopQvYyDUJCtRTyu3fnHH4-aeaiRBZ6WRz16xlC_eKgeWpuzh9AE/s400/Tamra+4th+of+July+2.jpg" width="195" /></a>Jay:  Y’know?  You’re always trying to be “edgy” when you answer the phone even though you know it’s me.<br />Matt: I can’t help it.<br />Jay:  Well stop it.  Just answer the phone like a normal person.<br />Matt:  I’m sorry…Should we start over?<br />Jay:  Yes…Hang up and I’ll call back.<br />Matt:  Otay.<br /><br />Matt:  Hello?  You've reached Bi-Sexual Records, Clive Davis speaking…<br />Jay:  See?  That was much better, and didn't it feel good?<br />Matt:  Eh, it felt okay.  I could go either way on that.<br />Jay:  Ha Haaaaaaaaa, aren't you clever?<br />Matt:  Not really.<br />Jay:  You are correct, but that was a rhetorical question.<br />Matt:  I know; I get your freaky mind games, Mister Man.<br />Jay:  I’m a playa.<br /><br />Matt:  Anyhoo…Oh hell Jayman, Angry Mailman is here, and he may have some good tidings for us.<br />Jay:  Well, quit peeing yourself and go check.<br />Matt:  Jayman…It came!!  It came!!<br />Jay:  Oh c’mon dude; I don’t need to know that, especially if it came while talking to me.<br />Matt:  No you dumbass, not my cock, OUR IWS check!!<br /><br />Jay:  Ohhhhhhhhh Helllll Yeahhhhhh….I think I just came.<br />Matt:  Sounded like it…Can you believe this?  We got the check.  We’re going to go Premium on BTR!!<br />Jay:  We’ll have like unlimited time and unlimited file uploads now.  We’re gonna fuck with some people.<br />Matt:  Oh c’mon…This is not a license to thoroughly make fun of people who are jerks…….<br /><br />Matt and Jay:  HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa…The Hell it isn't!!<br /><br />Jay:  We’ll start with Logan Knight.  She made fun of our incredibly sweet and hot IWS gal pal Tamra last night.<br />Matt:  Oh hell yes…That Logan chick is a dead cunt walking.<br />Jay:  You said, “cunt” that may be a bit much.  I mean, she is, but…<br />Matt:  Okay…well…no…yeah, she’s a cunt.<br />Jay:  I agree, but well…should we use that word to describe another human being?<br />Matt:  Logan Knight made fun of sweet Tamra…Logan is NOT a human being.<br />Jay:  Word.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWlySkGrk_HotKBnG8dVqcQYC6fe8muihn5XvYQpdexeqpOQSZa4hF5XY2Kon-a5yKu1qu13qB8wY5TOldHNG4R3vQpmKqwvnxZlCr1aJXuAQShLN9N9uJ3pT2TSzj5R-pG5hWwyEz9LQ/s1600/Tamra+IWS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWlySkGrk_HotKBnG8dVqcQYC6fe8muihn5XvYQpdexeqpOQSZa4hF5XY2Kon-a5yKu1qu13qB8wY5TOldHNG4R3vQpmKqwvnxZlCr1aJXuAQShLN9N9uJ3pT2TSzj5R-pG5hWwyEz9LQ/s400/Tamra+IWS.jpg" width="308" /></a>Matt:  Man…we throw out the cunt word today as we did last Wednesday; should we reflect on what we say?<br />Jay:  You mean as far as what we say on the air and write on the blog?<br />Matt:  Yeah…Do we sometimes cross this nebulous and ever-moving line of what is okay and what is not?<br />Jay:  What the fuck ever? Why the fuck not?  Let’s talk the fuck about being offensive on Saturday.<br /><br />Matt:  I think I’m with you.<br />Jay:  You better be the fuck with me, you cunt.<br />Matt:  Jay….Jay…Jay stop it.<br />Jay:  I’m sorry…I am a method acting international internet radio star, and I was getting into character.<br />Matt:  Quite understandable.<br />Jay:  Sorry.<br /><br />Matt:  I think we are ready, annnnnnnd we can rip McMImports for not sponsoring us.<br />Jay:  Y’know…I was just calming down and you brought those Bulgarian Bastards up.<br />Matt:  Easy…We can talk about them tonight.<br />Jay:  Alright….Alright…I’m alright.<br />Matt:  Bye Jayman.<br />Jay:  What the fuck ever.<br /><br />And catch us tonight on BTR as we discuss does comedy ever cross the line and the new horizons that IWS will be taking.  You can catch it all tonight LIVE at 11 PM ET TONIGHT right <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/03/03/crossing-the-line" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;">HERE!!</span></i></a></div>

Matt Said, Jay Said...$400

Matt:  Yeah, what do you want?Jay:  Y’know?  You’re always trying to be “edgy” when you answer the phone even though you know it’s me.Matt: I can’t help it.Jay:  Well stop it.  Just answer the phone like a normal person.Matt:  I’m sorry…Should we sta…

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Kim Kardashian Loves Expectant Moms Parking Spots!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><br /><div class="lead-img" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><img alt="Kim Kardashian Loves Expectant Moms Parking Spots!" class="alignleft " pxz:uid="1230e31789b-1" src="http://cdn02.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/headlines/2013/03/kim-kardashian-loves-expectant-mom-parking-spots.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 25px 5px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;" /></div><div class="entry" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em;"><div style="font-size: 1.05em;"></div><h1 class="paddingL10" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(158, 135, 113); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 10px !important; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kim Kardashian Has Figured Out the Secret to Not Looking Pregnant</h1><div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;"><a href="http://www.justjared.com/tags/kim-kardashian" style="color: #1a9dfe; text-decoration: none;" title="Kim Kardashian"><strong>Kim Kardashian</strong></a> wears a pink blazer while checking out her new home on Friday (March 1) in Los Angeles.</div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;">Earlier in the day, the 32-year-old reality star kept her bag in front of her<a href="http://www.justjared.com/tags/pregnant-celebrities" style="color: #1a9dfe; text-decoration: none;" title="Pregnant Celebrities"><strong>pregnant</strong></a> belly while out and about with her mom <a href="http://www.justjared.com/tags/kris-jenner" style="color: #1a9dfe; text-decoration: none;" title="Kris Jenner"><strong>Kris Jenner</strong></a>.</div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;">The twosome grabbed breakfast at Jenky’s Cafe before hitting the gym for a workout.</div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;"><strong>Kim</strong> recently posted a <a class="external" href="http://instagram.com/p/WS_JtEuS20/" rel="external" style="color: #1a9dfe; text-decoration: none;">picture</a> of an “Expectant Moms” parking spot and wrote, “Is this real!?! Life just got a little easier! #FrontRowParking.”</div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;">30+ pictures inside of <strong>Kim Kardashian</strong>spending time with her mom…</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="border: 0px none; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You guys, I'm not sure what exactly is going on, but <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-style/news/kim-kardashian-models-favorite-pregnancy-look-says-its-so-awkward-to-dress-her-baby-bump-201313" style="border: 0px none; color: #d05a86; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kim Kardashian</strong>'s latest maternity ensemble</a> makes it look like she's not even<strong style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">pregnant</strong>. And now I'm totally confused.</div><div style="border: 0px none; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No, I'm not suggesting she's pulling a fast one on us and faking her pregnancy or anything crazy like that -- but she's definitely figured out some sort of trick to making<strong style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">maternity clothes</strong> work in her favor.</div><div style="border: 0px none; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just last week, Kim wore that crazy <a href="http://thestir.cafemom.com/pregnancy/151603/kim_kardashians_pregnant_body_doubles" style="border: 0px none; color: #d05a86; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">black and white cookie looking dress</a> that made her look twice the size that she actually is. But then this week, she throws on <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-style/news/kim-kardashian-models-favorite-pregnancy-look-says-its-so-awkward-to-dress-her-baby-bump-201313" style="border: 0px none; color: #d05a86; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">white jeans, a pretty camisole, and a long cardigan</a> -- and now she looks like pre-preggo Kim Kardashian.</div><div style="border: 0px none; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Again, what the heck is going on, here?</div><div style="border: 0px none; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Even Kim admits that she doesn't look pregnant in this outfit, and calls it her "<strong style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">favorite pregnancy look</strong>" to date.</div><div style="border: 0px none; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And it's easy to see why. This is one of the most flattering things she's ever worn, period -- let alone what she's worn thus far during her pregnancy.</div><div style="border: 0px none; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wow. Who knew that by simply changing your clothes, you can go from being the big pregnant chick to the cute pregnant chick in a matter of a few days -- or possibly even a few hours or minutes?!?</div><div style="border: 0px none; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hmm. Now that I think about it, I guess there were a few maternity outfits I felt much more confident and attractive wearing than some of my other clothes when I was pregnant with my son.</div><div style="border: 0px none; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I mean, there was no mistaking the fact that I was pregnant, because I was as big as a house -- but certain clothes definitely made me seem less "out there."</div><div style="border: 0px none; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And if Kim has found a look that works for her, my advice to her is to stick to it, and not deviate too far off the beaten path -- otherwise she may wind up with another black and white cookie disaster.</div><div style="border: 0px none; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(And nobody wants that.)</div></div></div></div>

Kim Kardashian Kim Kardashian Loves Expectant Moms Parking Spots!

Kim Kardashian Has Figured Out the Secret to Not Looking PregnantKim Kardashian wears a pink blazer while checking out her new home on Friday (March 1) in Los Angeles.Earlier in the day, the 32-year-old reality star kept her bag in front of herpregna…

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Domino's Aims to Be the Big Cheese with Global Expansion

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img src="http://www.brandchannel.com/home/image.axd?picture=2013%2f3%2fdominos-560.jpg" /><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.649999618530273px; padding: 0.5em 0px;">Domino's Pizza is living as large as one of its new, fresh-dough pan pizzas these days, <a href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=135383&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1790438&highlight=" style="border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">posting</a>strong domestic and international growth and planning to <a href="http://nrn.com/latest-headlines/dominos-pizza-increase-national-ad-spending" style="border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">garner extra funds</a> from franchisees for marketing this year to support its increasingly robust brand platform.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.649999618530273px; padding: 0.5em 0px;">CEO J. Patrick Doyle has managed to get Domino's into a growth groove by relying on its increasing international presence, rising brand equity, expanding menu, store modernization and experimentation and an industry-leading digitization initiative. Same-store sales in both the U.S. and abroad were up by about 5 percent during the fourth quarter versus a year ago, Domino's<a href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=135383&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1790438&highlight=" style="border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">reported</a> this week, and the period marked the 76th consecutive quarter of international same-store sales growth.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.649999618530273px; padding: 0.5em 0px;">"The joy of pizza is that bread, sauce and cheese works fundamentally everywhere, except maybe China, where dairy wasn't a big part of their diet until lately," Doyle told <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">brandchannel. </strong>"And it's easy to just change toppings market to market."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.649999618530273px; padding: 0.5em 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.649999618530273px; padding: 0.5em 0px;">International operations are the biggest growth engine for Domino's also in part because the pizza industry faces U.S. saturation. The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based chain opened its 10,000th store last year, and the site was Istanbul.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.649999618530273px; padding: 0.5em 0px;">In the U.S., though Domino's already is the leading pizza-delivery brand. Doyle is pursing a number of tactics for attempting to steal share from overall U.S. No. 1 Pizza Hut, No. 3 Papa John's and various regional and independent players.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.649999618530273px; padding: 0.5em 0px;">They have included a complete remake of the brand over the last few years, starting with an<a href="http://www.brandchannel.com/home/post/2010/01/05/Is-The-Dominos-Rebrand-Too-Honest.aspx" style="border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">admission</a> that the pizza didn't taste all that good, unfolding in a series of TV ads starring Doyle himself. Domino's new Handmade Pan Pizza is its first non-frozen entry in the segment, which is a strong area for its competitors. Also, Domino's and franchisees are testing new<a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2020294669_dominoscarryoutxml.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">"pizza-theater" concepts</a> in outlets around the country that feature an open view of the kitchen, big-screen TVs and a wall-to-wall chalkboard for patrons to scrawl their praises—or complaints.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.649999618530273px; padding: 0.5em 0px;">Another important initiative is for Domino's to rely on what the CEO says is an industry-leading online-ordering capability, which is increasingly crucial for Domino's not only to compete with other major brands but to exercise a huge advantage over small outfits.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.649999618530273px; padding: 0.5em 0px;">"It's a better customer experience," Doyle said about online ordering, which now comprises about 40 percent of Domino's orders in the U.S. and about 58 percent in the U.K. "Online is where people are and want to be anyway. They've got the whole menu in front of them. They can take their time in ordering without one of our guys on the other end of the phone line maybe sounding impatient. And the accuracy of the orders is higher."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.649999618530273px; padding: 0.5em 0px;">"It's not just about [customers'] preference for a digital experience: They believe the pizza tastes better when they get it, too!"</div><div><br /></div></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AH5R56jILag?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe></div>

Domino's Domino's Aims to Be the Big Cheese with Global Expansion

Domino's Pizza is living as large as one of its new, fresh-dough pan pizzas these days, postingstrong domestic and international growth and planning to garner extra funds from franchisees for marketing this year to support its increasingly robust bra…

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Justin Bieber gets his birthday on — and shirt off — in London

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="400" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://widget.newsinc.com/single.html?WID=1&VID=24511131&freewheel=69016&sitesection=selatimes&w=600&h=400" width="600"></iframe><br /><br /><div class="small" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Traveling back to London after his Birmingham gig, Justin Bieber kicked off his 19th birthday celebrations shirtless with his rumored girlfriend Ella-Paige</div><span class="toolSet" style="background-color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-right: -50px; margin-top: 6px; width: 345px;"><div class="byline" style="color: #292727; float: left; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;"><span class="byline" style="display: block;">By Nardine Saad</span><div class="date" style="color: #930000; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; margin-top: 3px; padding: 0px;"><span class="dateString" style="display: inline;">March 1, 2013</span><span class="dateTimeSeparator" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; color: white; display: inline; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: -1px; margin-left: 6px;">, </span><span class="timeString" style="display: inline; text-transform: lowercase;">11:13 a.m.</span></div></div><div class="clear" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><div id="story-body-text" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/music/justin-bieber-PECLB000005153.topic" id="PECLB000005153" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Justin Bieber">Justin Bieber</a> is 19 and, for the first round of his birthday celebration, stripped down to show off his trim body.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Because that's exactly what you do when you get a year older, right. Right?</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">"Great show! Now gonna go celebrate 19! Thanks," the birthday boy <a href="https://twitter.com/justinbieber/status/307272933406019585" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">tweeted</a> late Thursday about his "Believe" tour performance in Birmingham, England, before heading out to party.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The "Beauty and the Beat" singer left the show clothed but arrived at his London hotel shirtless, with his tighty whities in full view above his sagging blue leather pants. The Daily Mail<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2286330/Justin-Bieber-parties-6-30am-celebrates-19th-birthday-Ella-Paige-Roberts-Clarke-bevy-beauties.html" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reports</a> that the capital was facing frigid temperatures at the time, but apparently, the Biebs is weather-resistant.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">(Also, we genuinely thought sagging pants were a thing of the '90s, but Bieber is single-pantedly trying to bring back that heinous trend. Keep your pants on, boys! And don't even get us started on that ridiculous yellow, studded trucker hat. Where is this boy's stylist?!)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Manager Scooter Braun <a href="http://www.accesshollywood.com/scooter-braun-explains-justin-biebers-shirtless-night-in-london_article_76403" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">explained</a> the ensemble to "Access Hollywood Live" on Friday. "He was coming right off the stage — the show was done. He was coming off the stage and going to the hotel and he was literally running in because he wanted to get changed and go right out."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Braun had no real excuse for the droopy drawers, however. "I think anyone over 25 can’t pull it off — actually over 20," he said, laughing. "He’s got one more year."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Bieber later emerged from his hotel in a cream cardigan, black T-shirt and low-slung black leather pants as he headed out to a club to celebrate his birthday, Us Weekly <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/justin-bieber-celebrates-his-birthday-shirtless-parties-until-6-am-pictures-201313" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">He arrived at BLC, an after-hours, members-only club, and was joined by British singer Ella-Paige Roberts Clarke and "a harem of other ladies," the Daily Mail said. After partying the night away, Bieber and the ladies hit a Lebanese spot for early morning snacks, then Bieber headed back to his hotel for some shut-eye at 6:30 a.m.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">He'll need it because Round 2 of the festivities involves <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/justin-bieber-19th-birthday-party-1736768" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a circus-themed party</a> in London and a budget of $15,000, the Mirror reported.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">"Spoke to the kid and wished him happy bday. He is gonna go hard tonight and well deserved.<span class="twitter-atreply pretty-link">@justinbieber</span> enjoy your day! Happy 19th Bday!!" Braun <a href="https://twitter.com/scooterbraun/status/307306800984772608" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">tweeted</a>. Last year, Braun gifted Bieber with <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/01/business/la-fi-tn-justin-bieber-fisker-karma-20120301" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a $100,000 Fisker Karma</a> for his 18th birthday.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Bieber <a href="https://twitter.com/justinbieber/status/307526509457985536" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">continued to tweet</a> about his big plans early Friday, which is his actual birthday.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Ah, to be young and filthy rich ...</div></div></div>

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Traveling back to London after his Birmingham gig, Justin Bieber kicked off his 19th birthday celebrations shirtless with his rumored girlfriend Ella-PaigeBy Nardine SaadMarch 1, 2013, 11:13 a.m.Justin Bieber is 19 and, for the first round of his bir…

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Papa John’s Buffalo Chicken Pizza

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div id="mi_story_detail_top" style="background-color: white; color: #272727; float: left; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div id="story_header" style="clear: both; float: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 616px;"><h1 id="story_headline" style="color: #1c5886; font-size: 2.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Papa John’s Buffalo Chicken Pizza Earns the 2013 Nation’s Restaurant News MenuMasters Award for Best Limited-Time Offer</h1></div></div><div id="story_body" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #272727; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div id="story_text_top" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div id="dateline" style="float: left; font-size: 1.3em; padding: 0px;">LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- </div><div style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Adding to its list of recent prestigious industry awards, Papa John’s International (NASDAQ: PZZA) this week was honored by <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nation’s Restaurant News</i> with its 2013 MenuMasters Award in the category of Best Limited-Time Offer for its Buffalo Chicken Pizza.</div><div style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">“We are honored to have this very popular pizza recognized by <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nation’s Restaurant News</i>,” said John Schnatter, Papa John’s Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “Our franchisees, R&D and marketing teams, along with many other departments worked collaboratively to develop, market and launch our Buffalo Chicken Pizza, so this truly is a systemwide achievement. ‘Better Ingredients. Better Pizza.’ is what we strive for every day. It’s both thrilling and humbling when our efforts are recognized by consumers and throughout the industry.”</div><div style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Papa John’s rolled-out its Buffalo Chicken Pizza as an LTO at more than 3,000 restaurants in the U.S. last April. It proved so popular with consumers that the company introduced it again in September to kick off the NFL season. Since then, Papa John’s Buffalo Chicken Pizza has launched in several international markets, including the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.</div><div style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">“When selecting MenuMasters awardees, we don’t only take into consideration culinary ingenuity, but also the likely impact of the candidates on foodservice as a whole,” <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nation’s Restaurant News</i> Senior Food Editor, Bret Thorn said in a press release announcing the award winners. “This year’s winners are a great mix of terrific new proteins, creative flavor combinations and adjustments to menus that are likely to pave the way for further innovation.”</div><div style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">The MenuMasters Award is the third prominent award Papa John’s has earned for its 2012 performance. In March 2012, Papa John’s was named Brand of the Year in the Pizza Chain Category of the 2012 Harris Poll EquiTrend Study, and in June 2012 the brand was named tops in customer satisfaction among limited-service restaurants in the 2012 American Customer Satisfaction Index (<a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theacsi.org%2F&esheet=50582429&lan=en-US&anchor=ACSI&index=1&md5=36629b7bfade67f6b77eda46f998f47e" style="color: #243a76; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">ACSI</a>). It was the 11<sup style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">th</sup>time in the past 13 years Papa John’s had achieved that honor.</div><div style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, Papa John's International, Inc. (NASDAQ: PZZA) is the world's third largest pizza company. For 11 of the past 13 years, consumers have rated Papa John's No. 1 in customer satisfaction among all national pizza chains in the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Papa John's also earned the 2012 Harris Poll EquiTrend® Pizza Brand of the Year. Papa John’s is the Official Pizza Sponsor of the National Football League and Super Bowl XLVII. For more information about the company or to order pizza online, visit Papa John's at <a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.papajohns.com&esheet=50582429&lan=en-US&anchor=www.papajohns.com&index=2&md5=aa3278cb94dc6ed01770e3bb7aa0b1b3" style="color: #243a76; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">www.papajohns.com</a>.</div></div></div></div>

Papa John’s Buffalo Chicken Pizza Papa John’s Buffalo Chicken Pizza

Papa John’s Buffalo Chicken Pizza Earns the 2013 Nation’s Restaurant News MenuMasters Award for Best Limited-Time OfferLOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Adding to its list of recent prestigious industry awards, Papa John’s International (NASDAQ: PZZA) this week was…

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Florida man feared dead after sinkhole swallows him

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Police tape surrounds a home where a sinkhole opened up and swallowed a man in Seffner, Florida, March 1, 2013. REUTERS-Brian Blanco" src="http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20130301&t=2&i=708824162&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=300&r=CBRE9201JHI00" /><br /><span class="focusParagraph" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><br /><div style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">(Reuters) - A Florida man was missing and feared dead on Friday after a large sinkhole suddenly engulfed the bedroom of his suburban Tampa home, police and fire officials said.</div><span id="midArticle_1" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Jeff Bush, 36, was in his room sleeping and the other five members of the household were getting ready for bed on Thursday night when they heard a loud crash and Jeff screaming.</div><span id="midArticle_2" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Jeff's brother, 35-year-old Jeremy Bush, jumped into the hole and furiously kept digging to find his brother.</div><span id="midArticle_3" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"I feel in my heart he didn't make it," Jeremy told Tampa TV station WFTS. "There were six of us in the house; five got out."</div><span id="midArticle_4" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Jeremy himself had to be rescued from the sinkhole by the first responder to the emergency call, Douglas Duvall of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. When Duvall entered Jeff Bush's bedroom, all he saw was a widening chasm but no sign of Jeff.</div><span id="midArticle_5" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"The hole took the entire bedroom," said Duvall. "You could see the bedframe, the dresser, everything was sinking," he said.</div><span id="midArticle_6" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Norman Wicker, 48, the father of Jeremy's fiancée who also lived in the house, ran to get a flashlight and shovel.</div><span id="midArticle_7" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"It sounded like a car ran into the back of the house," Wicker said.</div><span id="midArticle_8" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Authorities had not detected any signs of life after lowering listening devices and cameras into the hole and rescue efforts were suspended after the site was deemed too unsafe for emergency personnel to enter.</div><span id="midArticle_9" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"There is a very large, very fluid mass underneath this house rendering the entire house and the entire lot dangerous and unsafe," Bill Bracken, the head of an engineering company assisting fire and rescue officials, told the news conference late on Friday.</div><span id="midArticle_10" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"We are still trying to determine the extent and nature of what's down there so we can best determine how to approach it and how to extricate," Bracken said.</div><span id="midArticle_11" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Several nearby homes were evacuated in case the 30-foot (9-meter) wide sinkhole got larger but officials said it only appeared to be getting deeper.</div><span id="midArticle_12" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">The Bush brothers worked together as landscapers, according to Leland Wicker, 48, one of the other residents of the house.</div><span id="midArticle_13" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">The risk of sinkholes is common in Florida due to the state's porous geological bedrock, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. As rainwater filters down into the ground, it dissolves the rock causing erosion that can lead to underground caverns, which cause sinkholes when they collapse.</div><span id="midArticle_14" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Florida suffered one of its worst sinkhole accidents in 1994 when a 15-story-deep chasm opened up east of Tampa at a phosphate mine. It created a hole 185 feet deep and as much as 160 feet wide. Locals dubbed it Disney World's newest attraction - 'Journey to the Center of the Earth.'</div><span id="midArticle_15" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">In 1981 in Winter Park near Orlando, a sinkhole was measured as 320 feet wide and 90 feet deep, swallowing a two-story house, part of a Porsche dealership, and an Olympic-size swimming pool. The site is now an artificial lake in the city.</div><span id="midArticle_0" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"Mortgage companies are more and more requiring Florida home buyers to have sinkhole coverage on their homeowners insurance policy," said K.C. Williams, a Tampa sinkhole and property damage claims lawyer who lives 2 miles away from the damaged home.</div><span id="midArticle_1" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">(Additional reporting by David Adams and Tom Brown; Writing by Kevin Gray; Editing by Tom Brown and Lisa Shumaker)</div></div>

sinkhole Florida man feared dead after sinkhole swallows him

(Reuters) - A Florida man was missing and feared dead on Friday after a large sinkhole suddenly engulfed the bedroom of his suburban Tampa home, police and fire officials said.Jeff Bush, 36, was in his room sleeping and the other five members of the …

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'One Day At a Time' star Bonnie Franklin dies at 69

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h2 class="lead-in" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; line-height: 27px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: -2px;">Red-haired actress was best known for her starring role in the 1975-84 sitcom.</h2><div class="article-metadata-wrap" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; height: auto; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 30px 0px 60px; position: relative;"><aside class="single-photo expandable-collapsed" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 20px; position: relative; width: 180px; z-index: 100;"><div class="image-wrap" style="box-shadow: rgb(200, 200, 200) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; padding: 3px; position: relative;"><img alt="franklin" class="expand-img-horiz" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/03/01/bonniefranklin-4_3_r536_c534.jpg?1b79b3da202957124496e3768cfb7b67cdb10c81" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 131px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span class="toggle" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/sprites/asset-sprite.png?1359747063); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; bottom: 0px; height: 21px; position: absolute; right: 0px; width: 21px; z-index: 200;"></span></div><div class="image-credit-wrap" style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: CBS)</span></div></aside><div class="article-metadata" style="position: relative;"><aside class="comp story-highlights " style="clear: left; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px; min-height: 60px; width: 180px;"><h3 class="hlts" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #999999; font-family: 'Futura Today Bold', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px auto; text-transform: uppercase;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</h3><ul class="hlt" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; left: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><li class="hlt-item" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png?1359747063); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Family member say she died due to complications from pancreatic cancer</li><li class="hlt-item" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png?1359747063); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Her Norman Lear sitcom helped change TV's stereotypical image of mothers</li><li class="hlt-item" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png?1359747063); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Her co-stars included Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli</li></ul></aside></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">TV just lost one of its first modern mothers.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Before Bonnie Franklin — who died Friday at the age of 69 of pancreatic cancer — and her hit Norman Lear sitcom <i>One Day at a Time </i>arrived on the scene, most television mothers were either stay-at-home wives or working widows. But Franklin's Ann Romano was something new: a divorced mother of two raising two teenage daughters in a small urban apartment while struggling to relaunch her career and her love life.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">In a TV universe just beginning to take note of the real-world social changes happening beyond its screen, the sunny but sometimes hot-tempered Ann and the short, spunky redhead who played her were a breath of fresh (if sometimes hot) air. For nine CBS seasons, from 1975 to 1984, Franklin guided audiences through some of the hot-button issues of the day — premarital sex, sexual harassment, child abandonment — in a show that mixed comedy and soap in equal measure.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Franklin didn't get to sing much on <i>One Day at a Time</i>; a shame, as she garnered a Tony nomination for <i>Applause</i>, a musical adaptation of <i>All About Eve</i>. But she did get to provide parental guidance to two of TV's most fondly remembered teens, bad girl Julie (Mackenzie Phillips) and good-girl Barbara (Valerie Bertinelli), sometimes with the unrequested help of the building's super (Pat Harrington Jr.).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Though <i>Day</i> is what's she's best known for, it was far from Franklin's debut. She had a recurring role in <i>Gidget</i> while she was still a college student, and guest roles in such '60s series as <i>The Munsters, The Man From U.N.C.L.E.</i> and <i>Please Don't Eat the Daisies</i>. But it was that Tony nomination in New York that really brought her to Hollywood's attention, and her role in <i>Day </i>that made her a TV star and Emmy nominee.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Like many of the topical sitcoms of the '70s, <i>Day</i> has not aged well. What was novel then is now either familiar or forgotten. In truth, in some quarters, it's only still discussed because of the real-world troubles that caused Phillips to be written out of the show twice.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Still, the thought of Franklin shaking her red bob, scrunching her eyes, pursing her lips, or shouting out "Julie!" can still bring a smile to people who grew up with her and Bertinelli — who gave Franklin one of her last roles, in a guest shot in <i>Hot in Cleveland.</i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">She made our TV days better, and for that, she'll always be remembered.</div></div>

Bonnie Franklin 'One Day At a Time' star Bonnie Franklin dies at 69

Red-haired actress was best known for her starring role in the 1975-84 sitcom.(Photo: CBS)STORY HIGHLIGHTSFamily member say she died due to complications from pancreatic cancerHer Norman Lear sitcom helped change TV's stereotypical image of mothersHe…

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Watch the Miami Heat do the 'Harlem Shake'

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ir2TdfSwH8g?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The Miami Heat joined the recent "Harlem Shake" craze, making a team video that they released Thursday that showcases their dance skills and sense of humor.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Their version features Chris "Birdman" Anderson dancing around the locker room while the other players stretch or sit by their lockers. Then the camera cuts to the whole team dancing in costume. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/1966/lebron-james" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;">LeBron James</a> is dressed up like a king, <a href="http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/3419/mario-chalmers" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;">Mario Chalmers</a> is dressed as Super Mario, <a href="http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/1135/chris-andersen" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;">Chris "Birdman" Andersen</a> dons a bird ensemble, <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/basketball/dwyane-wade-PESPT008417.topic" id="PESPT008417" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Dwyane Wade">Dwyane Wade</a> is wearing a bear head, and <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/basketball/ray-allen-PESPT000116.topic" id="PESPT000116" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Ray Allen">Ray Allen</a> has a "Phantom of the Opera"-style mask</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">As of Friday morning, the video had over 2 million views. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">"In life u gotta figure out how to have fun and enjoy it. Hope y'all enjoy," Chalmers wrote on Twitter.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The Heat, which has won 12 games in a row, host Memphis on Friday at 5 p.m. PST.</div></div>

Miami Heat do the 'Harlem Shake' Watch the Miami Heat do the 'Harlem Shake'

The Miami Heat joined the recent "Harlem Shake" craze, making a team video that they released Thursday that showcases their dance skills and sense of humor.Their version features Chris "Birdman" Anderson dancing around the locker room while the other…

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Obama, congressional leaders fail to reach deal on sequester

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h1 property="dc.title" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 2.5em; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;"><img src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/03/01/National-Politics/Videos/Images/517824840.jpg" /></h1><div><div class="module byline" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><h3 property="dc.creator" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: normal; margin: 17px 0px; padding: 0px;">By <span class="author vcard" style="color: #666666;"><span class="fn"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/zachary-a-goldfarb/2011/03/09/AB1OHIQ_page.html" rel="author" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Zachary A. Goldfarb</a></span></span>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-meets-congressional-leaders-on-sequester/2013/03/01/fa25a440-827b-11e2-b99e-6baf4ebe42df_story.html#license-fa25a440-827b-11e2-b99e-6baf4ebe42df" id="license-fa25a440-827b-11e2-b99e-6baf4ebe42df" rel="item-license" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"></a><span class="timestamp updated processed" comparetime="1362189420000" contenttype="article" datetitle="published" epochtime="1362150240000" pagetype="leaf" style="color: #6e6e6e;"></span><span class="timestamp updated processed" comparetime="1362150240000" contenttype="article" datetitle="updated" epochtime="1362189420000" pagetype="leaf" style="color: #6e6e6e;">Updated: Friday, March 1, <span class="time special" style="color: #cc131e;">5:57 PM</span></span></h3></div><div class="relative" id="article" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div id="article_body" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="article_body entry-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><article><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span class="dateline"></span>President Obama acknowledged Friday that deep federal budget cuts are here with no end in sight, an outcome that he warned would harm the economy but said he lacked the power to stop.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">A final attempt to find common ground with congressional leaders at a White House meeting proved fruitless. The president continued to press for higher taxes as part of a deal, and Republicans continued to refuse — clearing the way for $85 billion in cuts this fiscal year and $1.2 trillion over the next decade.</div></article></div><div class="article_body entry-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><article><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><br />The reductions, which Obama formally ordered late Friday, are likely to remain in place for the foreseeable future. There had been speculation that they might be adjusted later this month, when lawmakers must agree on a new deal to fund the government or risk a shutdown. But Obama made clear Friday that he would seek to avoid a shutdown even if that means allowing the across-the-board cuts, known as the sequester, to continue.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The failure to reach a deal to turn off the sequester after years of clashes over spending and taxes will usher in an era of deeper austerity in the United States. To date, the country has resisted the sharp pullback in federal spending that has occurred in much of Europe.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The onset of the sequester also will introduce a new level of uncertainty for Americans who rely on the government for employment or services, with an outsize impact in the Washington region.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">For Obama, the failure to reach a deal is a setback. He has spent years arguing that efforts to tame the nation’s debt should involve a balance of spending cuts and tax revenues. As things stand now, the onset of the sequester means that balance tilts heavily toward cuts.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Polls shows Obama has broad support among Americans for his approach to taxes and spending. Over coming weeks, senior administration officials said, he will highlight people and localities hurt by the sequester, with the intention of creating pressure to force Republicans to concede. But the president said that could take months.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">“It’s happening because of a choice that Republicans in Congress have made,” Obama said in the White House briefing room after the meeting with congressional leaders broke up. “They’ve allowed these cuts to happen because they refuse to budge on closing a single wasteful loophole to help reduce the deficit.”</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The GOP is able to say it defied the president, avoiding his demand for new tax revenue. The standoff comes after deep intraparty divisions nearly tore House Republicans apart late last year in battles about whether to support tax increases.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Republicans can say they have forced greater restraint in government spending — although it is far from the arrangement most GOP leaders wanted. Republican leaders have warned that the sequester could damage national defense and expressed frustration that it does not apply to social programs such as Medicaid and Social Security.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Nonetheless, they say the cuts are preferable to tax increases.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">“Let’s make it clear that the president got his tax hikes on January 1st,” House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said outside the White House, referring to new taxes on the wealthy approved in January. “This discussion about revenue, in my view, is over. It’s about taking on the spending problem here in Washington.<br />”</div></article></div></div></div></div></div>

sequester Obama, congressional leaders fail to reach deal on sequester

By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Updated: Friday, March 1, 5:57 PMPresident Obama acknowledged Friday that deep federal budget cuts are here with no end in sight, an outcome that he warned would harm the economy but said he lacked the power to stop.A final at…

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Chase after stolen car ends in crash in Niles

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="&nbsp;" src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5106c157/turbine/chi-crime-report-image/580/580x314" /><br /><span class="toolSet" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center; width: 335px;"></span><br /><div class="byline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="byline bordered">By Peter Nickeas</span> <span class="titleline">Tribune reporter</span><br /><div class="date" style="color: #757575; font-family: 'Helevetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span class="timeString">2:02 a.m. CST</span><span class="dateTimeSeparator">, </span><span class="dateString">March 1, 2013</span></div></div><div class="clear" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;"></span><br /><div id="story-body-text" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">A car stolen in Burbank and spotted in downtown Chicago twice fled police before crashing into a tree in Niles, according to authorities.<br /><br />The owner of the car contacted OnStar Thursday night and a representative told her the car was in downtown Chicago, authorities said. The woman went downtown and flagged down an officer to report the theft, police said.<br /><br />Near North District officers tried to stop the car but it fled onto the Kennedy Expressway and a supervisor called off the chase, police said. The car was again spotted near Devon and Milwaukee avenues in the Norwood Park East neighborhood a short time later.<br /><br />Jefferson Park District officers tried to stop the car, which fled up Milwaukee and crashed into a tree in neighboring Niles, near the intersection with Newark Avenue.<br /><br />Two men inside, 21 and 23, were taken to hospitals and are in police custody, police said. Police said they appear to be related to the woman, though the relationship is unclear.<br /><br />One of the man is on parole, but details were not available.</div><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">- See more at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/park_ridge_niles/chi-stolen-car-downtown-northwest-side-chicago-crime-niles-burbank-20130228,0,542858.story#sthash.GPuk3zmH.dpuf</span></div>

Chase Chase after stolen car ends in crash in Niles

By Peter Nickeas Tribune reporter2:02 a.m. CST, March 1, 2013A car stolen in Burbank and spotted in downtown Chicago twice fled police before crashing into a tree in Niles, according to authorities.The owner of the car contacted OnStar Thursday night…

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Lacoupe Review

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuQlTfsykw-EFQi6FHxnxzhjtUZD7cIA14yZ1qAQZMHj3UqjNG0iYsreW_s2li3v5dyXKgdNxpc1i5l1LAI4Dn66469GHTMDHXdWrTngS_8NTbofORchb71WqByHj1NDPQ-nq0KMsR4I4/s1600/header_logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuQlTfsykw-EFQi6FHxnxzhjtUZD7cIA14yZ1qAQZMHj3UqjNG0iYsreW_s2li3v5dyXKgdNxpc1i5l1LAI4Dn66469GHTMDHXdWrTngS_8NTbofORchb71WqByHj1NDPQ-nq0KMsR4I4/s1600/header_logo.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One thing I can't get enough of is beauty products especially for my hair!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love using products that are new and all natural.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was sent a sample of </span><a href="http://lacoupe.com/home/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lacoupe</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> shampoo and conditioner for review.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sulfate and paraben free that's packed with keratin proteins to keep your hair hydrated longer due to the oils.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Makes your hair silky, smooth and smells wonderful!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They offer a wide selection of products on their site.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhlC5Y46vAZ9sBQdz4ioBNz9a9hzrSiJIZcyyz-XGZQVSvCmfWcNmokLd9kVFFUGTgDamKDU84dkfEHRq5YVu2vg9kc5kNKrNIbWLWSCJ3OZmHFb8GPhA2WUzGMRvWIhJjekU_-oXQOHw/s1600/lacoupe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhlC5Y46vAZ9sBQdz4ioBNz9a9hzrSiJIZcyyz-XGZQVSvCmfWcNmokLd9kVFFUGTgDamKDU84dkfEHRq5YVu2vg9kc5kNKrNIbWLWSCJ3OZmHFb8GPhA2WUzGMRvWIhJjekU_-oXQOHw/s320/lacoupe.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My thoughts:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep in mind I only received a small sachet of shampoo and conditioner so here it goes.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I liked the smell of it but I do have long hair and it just wasn't enough for my hair.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Made my hair silky and smooth as well!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://lacoupe.com/orgnx/orgnx_brazilian">http://lacoupe.com/orgnx/orgnx_brazilian</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or check them out online and connect with them!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/LaCoupe/186110168124663?ref=ts&fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/pages/LaCoupe/186110168124663?ref=ts&fref=ts</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/LaCoupeHairCare"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">https://twitter.com/LaCoupeHairCare</span></a></div>

Lacoupe Review

One thing I can't get enough of is beauty products especially for my hair!I love using products that are new and all natural.I was sent a sample of Lacoupe shampoo and conditioner for review.Sulfate and paraben free that's packed with keratin protein…

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Garnier Fructis Triple Nutrition Dry Oil

<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://img.bzzagent.com/image/tripleNutritionOil.jpg?Type=activity&Activity=0606756736&Campaign=2222899272&Uid=1264101&token=620ec08d691bba8b21c2c79f1ba538b2" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am a buzzagent and got to test out a new product from Garnier!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All year round my hair and skin can be dry, itchy and dull.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not anymore!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With just a spritz of Garnier Fructis's Triple Nutrition Miracle Dry Oil my hair and skin has never felt more alive!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not only does it transform dry hair to silky smooth hair it smells great too!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's perfect for an everyday application not just when your going out for a hot date with your sweetie.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's stocked at your local Target and Wal-mart as well for just $5.99! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

Garnier Fructis Triple Nutrition Dry Oil

I am a buzzagent and got to test out a new product from Garnier!All year round my hair and skin can be dry, itchy and dull.Not anymore!With just a spritz of Garnier Fructis's Triple Nutrition Miracle Dry Oil my hair and skin has never felt more alive…

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This Is How You Healthcare: American Death In London - Not Safe For Work Corporation

LONDON, UK: It's just after 9.30pm on a Tuesday in the intensive care unit of a hospital in south-west London. A vast spaceship dashboard of drug delivery systems is silent, monitors displaying the word 'Privacy'. I sit by the foot of the bed while the other four crowd around the top. An empty bottle of scotch is propped in the sheets that cover the stricken, thin form of my father, along with a crucifix on a chain and a Dr Seuss book. I gradually become aware that he has died.<br /><br><br /><br>My father's de facto nephew Charlie, a boisterous Irish lad in his mid-twenties, starts up a Hail Mary over the body of an atheist of Jewish extraction as if it might push life back into him. My aunt weeps. My half-sister in a red woolly hat, herself on six different types of medication, is on the phone to her mother, brightly telling her what she had for dinner. (It was stuffed aubergine.)<br /><br><br /><br>Charlie's younger brother Tommy, a sweet skinny boy of 20 who I last saw when he was a six-year-old potential serial killer, dissolves into my arms, sobbing. Positively radiating serenity, I stroke his head and let his grief wash over me. I have a headache from the scotch we've all been sneaking around the bed. I hate scotch. It was Bill's drink. It was Charlie's idea. I look at my father's body. He looks very dead, but then he has looked dead to me this last week, from the first time I saw him crumpled in the sheets, plastic tendrils curling from his head, one green eye stuck half-open.<br /><br><br /><br>I am quite aware as this is happening that it probably represents the single biggest headfuck and heartfuck of my life, and also that if it were happening in the US, the place of my father's birth, it would probably be considerably worse.<br /><br><br /><br>In the UK, we treat any old fucker for free. This is why that is important.<br /><br><br /><br>* * * *<br /><br><br /><br>The place of Bill's death is a foundation hospital, not directed by the government. It's a beautiful building, with open corridors around a vast central atrium filled with natural light and dotted with sculptures and fish tanks. You can't get lost in it, nor can you feel that antiseptic claustrophobia you get in hospitals.<br /><br><br /><br>The tax-funded UK National Health Service is now 65 years old. Foreign nationals get free treatment when they've been here for a year or otherwise have legal residency. A San Francisco native, Bill rocked up and made a home for himself in London in 1976. Since then he's had three (count 'em) artificial hips and been treated for cancer of the larynx, and is now spending his final week in intensive care. When I saw him last year for the first time in ten years, to interview him about the election for NSFWCORP, he mused on how much this country has shelled out to keep him upright: "Oh man, if you were to add up what the NHS has spent on me, it's phenomenal."<br /><br><br /><br>He was a charming, damaged, charismatic, fiercely intelligent, dissolute individual, who lived entirely on his own terms. As a professional gambler, it is unlikely he paid much if any tax in 37 years. He had no will, no funeral plan. He never did fill out the forms necessary to vote in the last election, or the one before that, as I discovered. He just hated forms. I could sympathise. Had he stayed in the US, it is – how you say – dollars to doughnuts he wouldn't have got it together to fill out the forms, and would have had no health insurance. He considered the US system "absolutely unmanageable".<br /><br><br /><br>* * * *<br /><br><br /><br>Bill goes into hospital on Tuesday complaining of dizziness and disorientation. We talk briefly on the phone and he sounds chipper as a chip. Some little heart arrhythmia thing, chest infection, in overnight for observation, no biggie. By Thursday he has plummeted into the subterranean limbo of the gravely ill, having most likely suffered a heart attack. He is being hauled from acute assessment up to the ICU.<br /><br><br /><br>Thursday afternoon I sit by his bed. Talk to him, say the nurses, he can probably hear you. With this type of sedation, the hearing is the last thing to go and the first to come back. I try. Hi, Bill. An inveterate gasbag, I find I've got nothing. I am accustomed to showers of aphorisms and miles of monologue from him. There's nothing to respond to.<br /><br><br /><br>An hour by a bed in the ICU is long. I bring some Vonnegut to read to him – I figure it's the sort of thing he might go for. I don't even open it. I just sit.<br /><br><br /><br>Late in the evening the doctor comes to talk to me. I'm the only one here so far. The friend who brought him in has yet to return, my aunt is on her way from Washington.<br /><br><br /><br>Bill's heart is fucked, hammering away at 150, 160, and it's fucked everything else. The kidneys are fucked. The liver is fucked. This could go on for days or weeks, the doctor says: "But my feeling is that he will pass away tonight."<br /><br><br /><br>So this is how it ends. I had always figured this fighty bastard – whose own father died two months ago almost to the day, aged 96 – was impervious to the usual quotidian sources of bodily doom. He beat cancer, shrugged off booze, swore that "when they come for me, which they will, I'll get 'em with my stick". When he goes, of course he's going down a manhole, under a Mercedes driven by a coked-up supermodel, into the belly of an escaped jaguar.<br /><br><br /><br>I'm prepared for this. I am sad, but ready. The distance from absence to departure doesn't seem so far, and it sucks, but it's OK. I go to bed in the small, snug visitors' room – the existence of which amazes me – in assurance they will wake me when it's time. Next morning he's still there. He will cling on for five more days. The notices will say 'a short illness', but they don't give any sense of how long and hard that can be.<br /><br><br /><br>More ...<br /><br><br /><br><a href="https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/this-is-how-you-healthcare">https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/this-is-how-you-healthcare</a>

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LONDON, UK: It's just after 9.30pm on a Tuesday in the intensive care unit of a hospital in south-west London. A vast spaceship dashboard of drug delivery systems is silent, monitors displaying the word 'Privacy'. I sit by the foot of the bed while t…

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Principal system Design Engineer(E-beam | electron optics OR electro-mechanical | subsystems | Error Budgeting)(#109146)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Job Title:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Principal system Design Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Location: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Milpitas, CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Duration:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Fulltime<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Job Description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Responsibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">This new position will involve the development of next-generation e-beam products. The job requires significant experience in a number of the following: electronics, vacuum and wafer handling, complex electro-mechanical systems, photon optics or (preferably) electron optics, X-ray spectroscopy, inspection technology. Experience with the definition and implementation of complex systems within a systems engineering design process will be expected. It is an individual contributor position with significant technical leadership expectations. The successful individual will be expected to join a small group of highly analytical engineers, lead next generation product definition, development, system integration and characterization. The position will include project management work on new and existing products.  This will require an ability to solve complex technical problems and sound technical decision-making during product development. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Other duties include:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Help create, manage and communicate top-level system error budgets by integrating and performing trade-off analysis of contributions from various sub-systems. Create and test performance models (e.g. throughput, noise, sensitivity, location accuracy). Set and own various system level specifications. Characterize aspects of system and sub-system performance using existing and prototype equipment. Collaborate with external vendors to develop designs. Drive design review activities and development of associated engineering documentation. Manage system integration plans and testing plans to a tight schedule. Troubleshoot issues using data driven techniques. Contribute know-how and manage engineering activities for escalated manufacturing and field issues. In the course of the above duties, interact and work with other groups: marketing; applications, hardware and software engineering; manufacturing and field support.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Preferred Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">The individual should have demonstrated past success in design and implementing systems in one or more of the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">High speed imaging systems for the laboratory or industrial work place.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Vacuum and wafer handling, Complex electro-mechanical systems,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Systems based around one or more of: electron optics, SEM-based spectroscopy techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">The candidate should have demonstrated strong skills debugging complex system problems involving optics, mechanics, electronics, and software. Past experience closely collaborating with outside consultants and vendors to solve development problems is also desired.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">The candidate should have shown an ability to manage complex technical projects through the design lifecycle.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Minimum Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Doctorate (Academic) with at least 7 years of experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">OR <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Master's Level Degree with at least 8 years of experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">OR <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 10 years of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Please send in your resumes to vinod.sanker@kla-tencor.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div></div></div>

Principal system Design Engineer(E-beam | electron optics OR electro-mechanical | subsystems | Error Budgeting)(#109146)

Job Title: Principal system Design EngineerLocation: Milpitas, CADuration: FulltimeJob Description:Responsibilities:This new position will involve the development of next-generation e-beam products. The job requires significant experience in a numbe…

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Manager, system Design Engineer ( Imaging systems | optical OR opto-mechanical | Subsystems |hardware) (#109170)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Job Title:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Manager, System Design Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Location:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Milpitas, CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Duration:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Fulltime<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Job Description: <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Responsibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">The candidate is expected to lead the system development team and will be actively engaged in system-level engineering, test and release of the Surfscan next generation high-speed unpatterned wafer inspection tools. The activities include: <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">1.Model system operation and define subsystem performance specifications<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">2.Develop subsystem architectures and collaborate with mechanical, optical, electrical and software engineers to realize these subsystems.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">3.Specify and test new or improved hardware components and software features. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">4.Lead integration and test of subsystems and validation of system performance.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">5.Identify and resolve problems and recommend improvements relating to system optics, electronics, software, and mechanics.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">6.Develop and improve diagnostic and calibration procedures. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">7.Investigate abnormal system behaviors by performing experiments and analyzing system data.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">8.Support manufacturing and field personnel with troubleshooting help in the form of plans of action or hands-on assistance.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">9.Conducts feasibility studies on engineering proposals and related technical data for new equipment or modification to existing equipment.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Preferred Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">In addition to the basic qualifications (listed below), the candidate should have a knowledge of optics, electronics, software, and/or mechanical systems.  Programming skills/experience are a definitely plus.  Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team and to take on a leadership role when needed is desired.  In addition, the candidate should have a quick grasp of challenging, complex technical information and be able to travel both domestically and internationally.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Minimum Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 7 years of experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">OR <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Master's Level Degree with at least 6 years of experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">OR <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Doctorate (Academic) with at least 5 years of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><b>Kindly send in your resumes to vinod.sanker@kla-tencor.com</b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div>

Manager, system Design Engineer ( Imaging systems | optical OR opto-mechanical | Subsystems |hardware) (#109170)

Job Title: Manager, System Design EngineerLocation: Milpitas, CADuration: FulltimeJob Description: Responsibilities:The candidate is expected to lead the system development team and will be actively engaged in system-level engineering, test and rele…

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Rocky Mountain Popcorn Review

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Q8PpQ3K3kQonLbfhYlU9UIMd5SFigJjee6_gqy_NE0YfwvM9xFS535U695MhcXM3x8FV29Y90AkBrSNR5-jd6O3UEIfAevE-DZXKZwAjjUURPQlRPU4EzB4a6qWOeJxlA9l6aRNRg3E/s1600/rocky+mountain+popcorn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Q8PpQ3K3kQonLbfhYlU9UIMd5SFigJjee6_gqy_NE0YfwvM9xFS535U695MhcXM3x8FV29Y90AkBrSNR5-jd6O3UEIfAevE-DZXKZwAjjUURPQlRPU4EzB4a6qWOeJxlA9l6aRNRg3E/s320/rocky+mountain+popcorn.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If there is one thing I love to eat when watching a good movie it is popcorn!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every time my family and I went to see a movie we would always buy some popcorn, what's not to love with the fluffy texture and the saltiness of the butter drizzled on.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I am more health conscious and aware of just how much bad stuff is in the popcorn offered at showcases.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So when I want a movie theater themed type of popcorn I reach for something more healthier and most importantly all natural.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which brought me to a wonderful company that sent me bags of popcorn to review by the name of <a href="http://rockymountainpopcorn.com/">Rocky Mountain Popcorn</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their popcorn let's you snack responsibly without the guilt of popcorn that's loaded in butter.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not in the buttery flavor kind of mood?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't worry they have sweet and zesty flavors as well!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For my review I was sent these flavors:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">white cheddar</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">butter</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">naked</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">jalapeno</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">southwest cheddar</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">kettle corn</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cinnamon sugar</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and caramel</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love that they have more than one flavor!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So far I have tried three of the flavors.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">White Cheddar:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I loved the little bag, made for the perfect snack.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The cheese taste was just right.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Very light and airy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Naked:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Basically plain popcorn with a hint of sweetness to it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Loved it!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Butter:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whoa, insane butter flavor!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So good, and is the perfect movie time snack!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Southwest Cheddar:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great cheesy flavor but then you get a bit of an overwhelming spicy flavor.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm not a big fan of spicy foods.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You have got to check out their popcorn line below!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://rockymountainpopcorn.com/">http://rockymountainpopcorn.com/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Connect with them on these social networking sites!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be sure to like their face book page!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rocky-Mountain-Popcorn-Company/169279963085862"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rocky-Mountain-Popcorn-Company/169279963085862</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/RockyMtnPopcorn">https://twitter.com/RockyMtnPopcorn</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Disclosure:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I received popcorn for reviewing purposes only. All thoughts are strictly my own.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Rocky Mountain Popcorn Review

If there is one thing I love to eat when watching a good movie it is popcorn!Every time my family and I went to see a movie we would always buy some popcorn, what's not to love with the fluffy texture and the saltiness of the butter drizzled on.Now I…

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Children’s Library Assistant - Wilton Library

<strong>Children’s Library Assistant - </strong><strong></strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">Wilton Library</span></strong> is seeking an energetic, creative individual to assist with collections, perform reference duties, create and assist with programs, and promote materials and programs using social media. Excellent computer skills, including Word, Excel, Publisher and Social Media are required, as well as attention to detail and the ability to work well with other team members in a creative and vibrant environment. Applicants must also demonstrate an interest in reading children’s literature. Artistic and/or creative skills are a plus. Library knowledge and/or experience in working with children ages birth – 12 is required. Bachelor’s degree preferred. Part-time, hourly position. The schedule is Tuesdays 1-8, Wednesdays 9-5, and Fridays 10-5, plus the fourth Saturday of each month. Salary range between $14.00 - $17.00 per hour commensurate with experience. Email resume, cover letter and WLA application (available at <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.wiltonlibrary.org/about/jobs-wla/" href="http://www.wiltonlibrary.org/about/jobs-wla/" target="_blank">www.wiltonlibrary.org/about/jobs-wla/</a>) to Andrea Falkner <a _fcksavedurl="mailto:afalkner@wiltonlibrary.org" href="mailto:afalkner@wiltonlibrary.org">afalkner@wiltonlibrary.org</a>. Wilton Library is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Wilton Library, 137 Old Ridgefield Road, Wilton, CT 06897. 203.762.3950, <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.wiltonlibrary.org" href="http://www.wiltonlibrary.org/" target="_blank">www.wiltonlibrary.org</a>.

Children’s Library Assistant - Wilton Library

Children’s Library Assistant - Wilton Library is seeking an energetic, creative individual to assist with collections, perform reference duties, create and assist with programs, and promote materials and programs using social media. Excellent comp…

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Jerusalem, My Happy Home: Part 4

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After a lecture on the Magnificat and the Benedictus, we headed out by bus to the hill country.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">Somewhere in the hill country Mary and Elizabeth met, Elizabeth praised Mary, and Mary passed the praise on to God with the Magnificat, based on the Song of Hannah, praising God for the great reversal of fortunes in which the downtrodden would be raised up. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">There we visited two churches, not that far from each other. First we visited Ain Kerem, a church near a spring where Elizabeth might have gone to draw water. The church there commemorated the Visitation. Brother Mark, SSJE, led us in a reflection on the two women seeing God acting in each other and suggested the import of that story and the artistic representations of the Visitation convey a message that is profoundly ethical and political. The challenge is to watch for God at work, sometimes invisibly, always mysteriously, in each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">Did Mary and Elizabeth actually meet at this place? Maybe. No one knows. But they met somewhere like this, somewhere nearby. Not far away, we stopped at a Franciscan Church purporting to be the birthplace of John the Baptist. It would seem likely that the place of the Visitation and the place where John was born would both have been the house of Elizabeth and Zechariah. But both churches were in the same area. Each artistically expressed a different part of the story. A slight difference in space actually represented a three-month difference in chronology in the narrative. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">At the first church, we sang the Magnificat. At the second, we recited the Benedictus, both canticles from Luke, both believed to be based on songs of the anawim, the community of poor and powerless people who first welcomed the gospel. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">From there we drove to Beth Shakur, House of the Night Watch. There are three different locations around Beth Shakur purporting to be the field where lowly shepherds were the first to hear of the birth of Christ, the first to hear the evangelion (which can mean a birth announcement). One is Orthodox, one Franciscan, one Anglican. We went to the Anglican Shepherd’s Field. In the field was a cave as old as the time of Christ, much older really, but reinforced with pillars. In such caves the Shepherds would take shelter. In this cave we sang Angels We Have Heard On High. Brother Mark spoke of the meaning of the night in which God’s salvation is proclaimed. What does night mean for us spiritually? What does it mean in the context of a darkened world? In this town a few years ago, a tax resistance protest by Palestinian Christians was met with a forceful Israeli response that culminated in violence. There is a sense in which it is night here. It is into such nights that the gospel breaks, a light shining in the darkness, a light dawning on people who walk in deep darkness. Surge illuminare.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">This afternoon we went to Bethlehem to visit the Church of the Holy Nativity. This church dates from the 6^th Century. It is a holy, ancient house of worship built over a group of caves. Was Jesus born here? Or was he born in a similar cave nearby? Does it matter? If so, not much. People have been coming here to reflect on the Incarnation and worship Christ for centuries. St. Jerome lived in one of these caves. He translated the Bible into Latin here, the exclusive translation used in Western Christianity for a thousand years. He is buried in one of these caves. We visited his tomb and the chapel dedicated to Jerome, his successor Eusebius, and the two women who helped him with his work – deservedly canonized as saints these women since Jerome was a decidedly unpleasant man and a misogynist. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Church of the Nativity is maintained by different brands of Christians. The Greeks and the Armenians are not friends. Again, the complexity and imperfection of the Church as a people of God. We are more visibly people, more mysteriously of God. The entrance was once large but to make it harder for Persian invaders to charge into the church on horses, the entrance was bricked up to make it very small. One now has to do a solemn bow to enter the church. We begin with humility. Frescoes once covered the walls but most of them have faded away. Others remain. Lamps hang from chains. To enter the cave where Jesus may have been born, one stands in a long jumbled line as throngs of people wait their turn to enter through a narrow door and descend narrow steps. As fate would have it, we were jammed in between a group of Russians and a group of Poles. Somehow that seemed fitting. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">Eventually we made it though the door into a narrow stone stairway covered with rich red tapestries. At the point in the cave that represents the birthplace of Jesus we kneel to kiss a 14 point star with a hole in the center, and emptiness, a mystery – the 14 points representing 14 generations from Abraham to David, 14 from David to the Exile, and 14 from the Exile to Jesus. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is an exhausting kind of learning we are doing. It is a sensate rather than conceptual learning. It is visual images, sounds, textures. It is an incarnate engagement with the story of incarnation. It will take some time to assimilate this day. I hope when I have sorted through it, I will find myself better able to see God at work in the lives of others, better able to shine gospel into someone’s night, and better attuned to God’s presence in this material world of ordinary life.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><!--EndFragment-->

Jerusalem, My Happy Home: Part 4

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