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Earl weakens but still powerful as it passes NC (AP)

Admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:46:54 +0000

AP – The last ferry left for the mainland and coastal residents hunkered down at home as Hurricane Earl closed in with 105 mph winds Friday on North Carolina’s dangerously exposed Outer Banks, the first and perhaps most destructive stop on the storm’s projected journey up the Eastern Seaboard.

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Sports Champions Review [PlayStation 3]

Admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:38:26 +0000

This eclectic sports collection is fun with friends and does a good job of showing what the PlayStation Move hardware is capable of.
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Federer beats the heat, Beck; Soderling looms (AP)

Admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:38:22 +0000

AP – Roger Federer is one cool customer.

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Time Warner Cable gets ESPN3.com in new deal

Admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:11:08 +0000

[AP] – Time Warner Cable Inc. customers will finally get access to the sports website ESPN3.com, even if they are not subscribers of the company’s Internet service, according to a long-term deal with The Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday.
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Organic Strawberries Have More Antioxidants And Vitamin C But Less Potassium And Phosphorus

Admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:11:07 +0000

Organic strawberries were found to have more vitamin C and antioxidants than non-organic ones, and they also had a nicer taste, but are 13.4% smaller and have considerably lower levels of dietary minerals potassium and phosphorous, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal PloS One. As consumers, we are usually willing to pay a bit more for organic produce for reasons of nutrition, health, the environment and/or the quality of life of farm animals…

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Botox maker to pay $600M to resolve investigation

Admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:11:06 +0000

Allergan Inc., the maker of wrinkle-smoothing Botox, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a yearslong federal investigation into its marketing of the top-selling, botulin-based drug.
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Oil platform explodes off La. coast; crew rescued (AP)

Admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:46:22 +0000

AP – An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.

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Federer beats Beck to move into Open’s 3rd round (AP)

Admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:38:15 +0000

AP – Five-time champion Roger Federer has breezed into the third round at the U.S. Open, serving 15 aces in beating 104th-ranked Andreas Beck of Germany 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.

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Imagine there’s no toilet, it’s easy if you try…

Admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:45:53 +0000

Blog Guy, the last sign of the approaching Apocalypse you told us about was singer Justin Bieber publishing his memoirs, but I believe there was another one this week that you overlooked.

Those of us sitting out here waiting for the End of the World count on your blog for timely telltale signs.

Okay, okay. Yes, this week someone at an auction paid $14,740 for John Lennon’s toilet.

Taken together with Marilyn Monroe’s chest x-rays going for $45,000 in June, and the attempt in July to sell embalming tools used on Elvis Presley, these all constitute a definite sign.

These are indications our society no longer gets the difference between actual greatness and plain old personal objects.

Was this really Lennon’s toilet?

Yeah, he used it from 1969 to 1971.

He used it two whole years? What, did he get some bad egg salad?

No, I don’t mean he used it constantly, you dullard.

Is there any indication Lennon wrote anything while, you know, using this toilet?

I believe he was sitting on it when he wrote the “Beatles” song, “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window.”

I thought Paul McCartney wrote that.

Shut up and don’t spoil a good funny line. McCartney wrote it while he was using Lennon’s toilet, okay?

Anyways, Blog Guy, the news I was talking about this week was that Bristol Palin is going to be on “Dancing with the Stars.” Isn’t that an Apocalyptic sign?

Indeed it is. And if even one person watches Palin on “Dancing” while also reading Bieber’s memoirs during the commercial breaks, you won’t even have to bother showing up for work the next day. That’s a promise.

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Right: An undated handout image shows a toilet belonging to late Beatle John Lennon. Credit: Reuters/The Beatles Shop/Handout

Left: Bristol Palin, Teen Ambassador to The Candie’s Foundation and daughter of Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, attends a town hall meeting on teen pregnancy prevention in New York, May 6, 2009. REUTERS/Eric Thayer

Right: Canadian singer Justin Bieber performs at Madison Square Garden in New York, August 31, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

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Gulf oil rig explodes off La. coast (AP)

Admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:45:52 +0000

AP – An offshore oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.
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