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While Wall Street celebrates the Dow Jones Industrial Average's highest close since 2007, job growth isn't keeping pace with stock prices.
The county breakdown of December unemployment rates in North Carolina released this week show a continued trend of job losses in the area. Lenoir County's not-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose half a percent to 10.2 and Greene County came in at 9.6 percent. Jones County proved to be an outlier as the only county in the entire state to see its unemployment rate drop — down one-fifth of a percent to 9 percent.
"We've had a lot of people who lost jobs in the month of December and have not gone back to work," said Jamie Wallace, N.C. Division of Workforce Solutions manager for Lenoir and Greene counties. "Claims are still up — we have numerous people taking claims by phone and by Internet. We can't really put our finger on one particular thing. I've noticed too, the numbers have gone up in surrounding counties. Don't know what to attribute to that."
After a long trend in gradual job growth, the last four months of data go the other direction. Lenoir is up 0.5 percent from September, Greene is up 0.6 percent and Jones is up 0.3 percent. For the people who lose jobs, there don't appear to be new positions available.
"In this area, Sanderson Farms has probably been the biggest employer of most of LenoirCountyfolks who are looking for employment. As far as the other manufacturing companies, work has been stable," Wallace said. "There hasn't been a lot of turnover — haven't been a lot of people in looking for jobs (who worked for those companies).
"And, there are a lot of people working at those companies that when they get in, they stay. Generally, those companies don't advertise postings, because they keep employees. There are several other manufacturing and industrial companies in LenoirCounty— I think there's a smorgasbord of them around here. But they're just not advertising any positions right now."
Wes Wolfe can be reached at 252-559-1075 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at WolfeReports.
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Not Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rates
December 2012
Lenoir County: 10.2 percent (up 0.5)
Greene County: 9.6 percent (up 0.3)
Jones County: 9 percent (down 0.2)


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WINSTON-SALEM — You often don't give up 18 offensive rebounds and turn the ball over 18 times and win a college basketball game.
But the Wake Forest men's team was able to accomplish that, defeating Radford 79-67 on Friday night in the Demon Deacons' season opener at Joel Coliseum.
"A hard-fought win, obviously. We expected that," said Wake Forest coach Jeff Bzdelik. "We did some really good things and some things obviously we need to work on. But we also did a lot of good things. To shoot the percentage that we did, six players in double digits, had some really good efforts from some of our younger players. That we will build on and more forward."
Radford put up a fight the entire game. The biggest lead Wake Forest held was the final score. When the Demon Deacons pulled ahead by five or seven, the Highlanders hit shots to pull back within striking distance, helped by strong play on the offensive glass and forcing turnovers. But Radford never could finish it.
"I was proud of our guys' effort for the whole game," Radford coach Mike Jones said." I just thought we needed to play a little bit smarter. I thought we fouled too much. Overall, their effort was good."
The Demon Deacons were led by senior guard C.J. Harris, who had 19 points and three assists. Eight of those points came on free throws in the second half as Wake Forest pulled away for the first time.
With 5:19 remaining, Radford freshman forward Kion Brown hit a jumper to pull the Highlanders within 63-60. Harris then went to work, drawing fouls and notching seven of his points in those few minutes and helping Wake Forest restore a 70-63 lead with 3:22 left.
The Highlanders tacked on four points to bring the deficit back to three with 1:53 left. Then Wake Forest freshman guard Madison Jones hit his only shot of the game, a jumper to put the Demon Deacons up 72-67.
"It was a big shot by Madison," Bzdelik said. "That was one of those as a coach that's a good shot, bad shot, and he knocked it in."
His squad didn't allow any more Radford points.
In the face of strong play in the lane from the Highlanders, Bzdelik said his team played similar to the three exhibitions games (two of those during a Canadian tour). Wake Forest won all three, but only by a combined 20 points.
"Radford's athletic and they're aggressive," Bzdelik said. "They attack the offensive glass. They got up and into us. We've been playing like this in our exhibition games, they've been competitive. The one thing that I really like about this team is their will to win. Hasn't always been pretty, but they've shown a great will to win."
The Highlanders were led by sophomore guard R.J. Price's 16 points, while Brown tacked on 14 points and six rebounds. Sophomore forward Javonte Green had 12 points and tied for a game-high with nine rebounds.
Radford shot 66 times, hitting just 25 of them, and benefitted from Wake Forest's turnovers while notching 12 steals of their own.
"We had some careless (turnovers), myself included, just not being strong with the ball," Harris said. "That's something that can be worked on."
Harris said that despite many things that can be worked on, the 1-0 record the Demon Deacons hold is most important.
"I take it as a win is a win," he said. "I don't care how ugly it is, how pretty it is, it still goes in the W column. No matter what, we can learn from this game. It was a tough, hard-fought win, and there were some positives and negatives. We can work on those negatives in practice."


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Jay-Z has undertaken plenty of musical endeavors in the last calendar year, but you wouldn't know it based on recent headlines. In fact, his nine nominations at the 2014 Grammy Awards – more than any other artist – is barely a footnote when you consider the current reasons tongues are wagging about the rap superstar.
Yes, it's true that Jay-Z appeared on wife Beyonce's self-titled fifth studio album, "Beyonce," with a feature on the song "Drunk in Love." It's also true they performed the song together at the Grammy Awards opening. But the only reason people have been talking about the power couple lately is due to a physical provocation between Jay-Z and Beyonce's sister Solange during an annual fundraising gala for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In early May, Jay-Z was part of a one-sided brawl when Solange attacked him in an elevator at a New York hotel. Leaked surveillance footage that has been played countless times on television and online show him deflecting the blows, but otherwise making no aggressive moves to counter the attack. Still, his reputation appeared in question and was unceremoniously dragged through the mud until a joint statement was issued proclaiming that Jay-Z, Beyonce and Solange had moved past the incident.
Of course Jay-Z and Beyonce couldn't escape the rumor mill for long. By the end of the month, they were reportedly no-shows at the wedding of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. Jay-Z was rumored to be the best man on the big day, but apparently skipped out on the nuptials at Forte di Belvedere in Florence, Italy.
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He grew up as the man of the house, and now Sean Corey Carter – better known by his stage name Jay-Z – is one of the most successful entertainment moguls in the world. A rapper, producer and entrepreneur, this kid from the projects is worth an estimated $500 million (and rising).
Every kid in the Marcy Houses of Brooklyn probably one day dreams of a rags-to-riches story, but Jay-Z turned that dream to reality. After his father abandoned the family, he learned to support himself as an aspiring rapper known in the neighborhood by the nickname "Jazzy." After shortening that moniker to Jay-Z, he also learned the ins and outs of the industry before making the decision to start his own label rather than land in the fold of an established outfit. It was an unconventional decision, but the launch of Roc-a-Fella Records was another step in the right direction for the eventual kingpin of the rap world.
Jay-Z's debut album, "Reasonable Doubt," set the ball rolling on a career that now includes 12 studio albums. The latest, 2013's "Magna Carta…Holy Grail," which some critics have labeled "safe and adventurous," have him in a tug of war with success and regret on the album, not to mention class and race. Still, as NPR put it, "He may be getting too old to be the best rapper alive, but it's a fool's argument…that he's not the greatest rapper of all time."
Away from the mic, Jay-Z has plenty of other things to keep him busy. He co-owns a chain of sports bars known as the 40/40 Club, has a minority stake in the NBA's Brooklyn Nets and the co-creator of the clothing line Rocawear. He also founded the sports agency Roc Nation Sports, and is a certified sports agent. Most talked about, however, is his personal life. He married R&B superstar Beyonce Knowles in 2008. They had a daughter named Blue Ivy Carter in January 2012.
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SWANSBORO — With 13 schools having already offered him a college football scholarship — and more no doubt on the way, Swansboro's speedy star De'Andre Thompkins made a swift and somewhat unexpected decision during halftime of the Penn State spring game.
"At halftime, his dad just turned to me and said, 'He's going to commit,'" Swansboro football coach Tim Laspada said Monday. "I said, 'Okay, great. I didn't know. That's out of the blue, but great.'"
And so after Saturday's spring game at Beaver Stadium, the 17-year-old Thompkins, who will be a senior this fall, told
"Me and the head coach, Bill O'Brien, we come to a mutual understanding," Thompkins said before track practice Monday. "We clicked. We looked at each other and I told him my word is my word.
"It won't change unless something radical happens (like) the head coach getting fired or the whole staff leaving or something crazy happens. But when I went into the room and me and him talked, it was I give you my word that you're the school.
"He trusts me and I trust him."
Thompkins said he had no plans to commit (or not) when he traveled to Penn State this past weekend with Laspada, his father, Shawn, and little brother, Tayshawn, along with assistant football coach Shea Townsend and basketball coach Ed Walsh.
"Just halfway through the spring game it kind of made its own decision," Thompkins said.
And while Swansboro and
The 6-foot Thompkins was a hot recruiting commodity who figured to just get hotter given he has clearly added weight and strength since last August and now weighs in at 170 pounds — at least 30 pounds more than he did as a freshman — while just having turned in his fastest time in the 40-yard dash earlier this month at 4.37 seconds.
As a junior this past season, he rushed for 1,359 yards and 10 touchdowns while averaging 7.7 yards per carry. He also returned a state-best five kickoffs for touchdowns, averaging 50.9 yards per return.
And just for good measure Thompkins, who played quarterback, running back and wide receiver on offense, threw two touchdown passes while also catching one along with playing in the secondary on defense.
He was named to The Associated Press' all-state team and The Daily News' all-area team as a kick returner.
It's no wonder then that Thompkins had offers from 13 schools —
While he picked
First, he said, were academics. Thompkins plans on majoring in kinesiology. Beyond having his major, Thompkins said he looked closely at each school's tutoring program and how it prepared "students for work after football."
Laspada said a key was the proximity of
"If a meeting gets out at , at he's already getting help from a tutor," Laspada said. "Or if he has a paper due, if the meeting gets out at , at he's going to do his paper because there's a computer lab in there.
"Nobody else had that. That kind of sealed the deal."
Second, Thompkins said he looked at how the football program was doing.
"Is it increasing or decreasing? Is the staff staying? Are they bringing in better players?" he said. "Just having good, positive feedback from their football program."
And third?
"The third thing I have to say is how fast I can get on the field and compete and get that experience that most players don't get their freshman year," he said.
Thompkins said he and O'Brien didn't talk about whether he'd be red-shirted as a freshman, saying he expected that discussion to come later before signing day in February. But Thompkins said
But, Thompkins added, that wasn't a deal breaker for other schools, and he understands that might not be where he ultimately winds up playing at the next level.
"Of course … if I don't fit (in at wide receiver) and if it's to the benefit of the team to play defensive back, then I'll play defensive back," he said. "But I still want to showcase and prove to myself that I can play wide receiver (in college)."
Thompkins also said the NCAA sanctions against
"Everybody goes into the next level hoping to win a national championship…, but I think differently," he said. "I go into the next level looking to improve and be the best person I can be, be the best player I can be. If that just so happens to be to the national championship, then no problem.
"But the sanctions had nothing to do with my decision. You can still have the best team in
"Most people go to a big school like
"That's not why I'm going to the next level, to sit and watch. So it doesn't matter if I win a national championship or not as long as I become the best football player that I can be, and hopefully everybody sees that."


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Not one of the top federal technology officials testifying Wednesday before House lawmakers accepted the blame for the failings of the HealthCare.gov portal.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said federal technology failures are like orphans — no one takes responsibility for them.
Issa pressed federal Chief Information Officer Steve VanRoekel, federal Chief Technology Officer Todd Park, Department of Health and Human Services CIO Frank Baitman and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services deputy CIO Henry Chao to acknowledge the oversight failings, and for someone to declare they were in charge of the program.
"Mr. Baitman where were you, since you, and Mr. VanRoekel, are a critical part of this process? Mr. Park was brought in afterwards, where were you in the months and years leading up to this? Why is it that you not aware that on day one, this product would fail to launch in any legitimate, acceptable way?" Issa asked during the four-plus hour hearing.
Baitman responded to Issa's question, "As I indicated in my opening testimony, HHS is a federated agency. The job for running "
Issa then cut him off, "OK, not your job. This is an orphan."
Issa then turned his attention to VanRoekel, asking about his private sector experience with Microsoft.
"Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer and a lot of other people at Microsoft would've had someone's neck hung. Maybe not literally and maybe fired them, but they would want to know and demand to know. Can you tell me today, whose job today was to make sure we didn't have this dreadful failure to launch that didn't call the one person that should've known and didn't do their job? One person, who was that one person?"
VanRoekel said he wasn't close to the actual development, "I'm not in a position to make that call."
Issa interrupted again. "I had you, Mr. Park, Mr. Baitman, Mr. Chao and none of you today can tell me who failed to do their job."
Best practices ignored
He said OMB, HHS and CMS failed to follow industry standard best practices. Issa used a car manufacture analogy to describe how the federal oversight process should work. He said Toyota or Honda relies on every employee to take the responsibility to stop the assembly line if they see a problem with one car.
In this case, Issa said no one spoke up about the site's problems before it was too late.
And so went the contentious hearing with both sides of the aisle taking shots at each other and trying to get the witnesses to explain the IT and procurement breakdowns that led to the HealthCare.gov debacle.
Several committee lawmakers pressed witnesses about why they didn't know or say something sooner.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) asked Park why was he brought in now instead of 184 week ago.
Listen to the exhange between Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and federal Chief Technology Officer Todd Park.
"If you are being asked to fix this after Oct. 1 in a couple of weeks, where were you in the first 184 weeks after the so-called Affordable Care Act passed? Where did they have you hidden?" he said.
Park responded, "So sir, in my role in the White House as U.S. CTO in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, I'm a technology and innovation policy adviser, so I have a broad portfolio of responsibilities."
Gowdy interrupted Park, "But you are obviously good enough to fix what was broken. It's been called a train wreck; that's not fair to train wrecks. It's been called other things. They brought you in to fix it. Why didn't they bring you to start it? Why didn't they bring you in to build it? Why are you doing a reclamation project? Why didn't you build it?"
Park said he's being brought in under Jeff Zients and up until Oct. 1, "that wasn't part of my role."
CIO's responsibility
When Issa didn't get the first panel to accept responsibility, he turned to former federal officials for their take on accountability.
Karen Evans spent six years as the associate administrator for e-government and IT at OMB. She told the committee she would have been hands-on and told her bosses about the problems.
"So in my analysis from the public record and watching the testimony that happened prior, I believe that if I was in that position that I would have elevated things through because that is the President's key priority. That is his number one priority. That is what the CIO is supposed to do," Evans said. "They are supposed to analyze what potential decisions are being made, and what is that impact on the President's priorities to get done from a political perspective, from a communications perspective and from an oversight perspective on what the impact would be and how you would have to do congressional notification if you were changing things. That would have been elevated up so the OMB director would have known what the impact was happening so the director could talk to the President about potential opportunities."
Richard Spires, the former Homeland Security Department CIO, said the committee brought the right people to testify earlier, and from what he could see, HealthCare.gov lacked proper governance and oversight from all parties involved.
Spires' take on the oversight shortcomings is supported by the Government Accountability Office.
David Powner, GAO's director of IT management issues, testified complex federal IT projects can be successful if agencies follow seven acquisition best practices, including accountability, transparency, oversight, expertise and program management.
He said too often when federal IT projects fail, many of these best practices aren't used, which seems to be the case with HealthCare.gov.
"Key IT executives need to be accountable with appropriate business leaders responsible for the project. This needs to start with department CIOs, and for projects with national importance, this includes the President's CIO," Powner said. "At HHS, CIO authorities are an issue GAO reported on just last week. Both OMB and department and agency oversight and governance are important so executives are aware of projects' risk and ensure they are effectively mitigated."
TechStat held?
He added the oversight includes the use of TechStat sessions, which have produced "excellent results, primarily halting, rescoping and redirecting troubled projects." "We've also recommended more TechStats need to occur on troubled and risky projects," Powner said. "We are not aware if HealthCare.gov was subject to a TechStat review."
He said OMB's IT dashboard is supposed to shine the light on major investments to hold agencies accountable, but that didn't seem to work for this project.
For HealthCare.gov, Powner said CMS CIO Tony Trenkle rated it green most recently. He said in March CMS gave it a red rating. Trenkle will retire from government this month.
HealthCare.gov joins the list of many other failed federal IT projects, including the FBI's Virtual Case File, DHS' financial management modernization programs Emerge and TASC, the Defense Department's DIMHRS and the Census Bureau's handheld devices for the Decennial census.
One expert said it's been a few years since the government has had a really big failure, which signifies agencies were improving their program and project management skills.
But when something that is politically charged and complex comes up, old habits die hard.
Powner said there are a number of key questions that should be asked of any IT acquisition to make sure appropriate accountability, transparency and program management are in place. He said these include:
- What role is OMB playing and how involved is the federal CIO?
- Is the agency CIO accountable and activity involved in managing risks?
- Is the IT dashboard data accurate?
- Are OMB and agency governance appropriate, including TechStats and follow ups?
But it seems these best practices weren't followed. VanRoekel and Park repeatedly told the committee they only got involved later on in the process.
Records show both officials attended meetings at the White House, along with CMS' Chao. VanRoekel and Park said they were not there as technology overseers, but in other roles. Chao said he would offer five-minute briefings on the status of certain aspects of the program.
Issa and Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) co-authored the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act, which was passed by the full House as part of the Defense Authorization bill earlier this summer, as a way to address many of these long-standing problems.
Issa said the hearing wasn't held to sell other members or the administration on the need for IT reform, but rather to figure out what happened to $600 million and why there are so many problems.
Portal is making progress
As for the portal, Park wouldn't commit to meeting the Nov. 30 deadline to fix most of the problems. He'd only say there is a team working hard and making progress, but there's still a lot of work that needs to be done.
"Average system response time, which is the time it takes a page to render a request to be fulfilled of a user, was eight seconds on average a few weeks ago. Now, it's under a second," Park said. "Another measure is the system error rate, which is the rate in which you experience errors in the marketplace application, that was over 6 percent a few weeks ago. Now, it's at 1 percent and getting lower than that. So, we are making really good progress, still much work to do, but there is a system and pattern of attack in place around monitoring, production stability work and functional bug fixing."
The biggest unanswered question from the hearing was about the portal's security. There seems to be differing accounts of what's going on with system testing and how big of a risk do users face in giving the portal their personal information facing. Most of the hearing went back and forth over the issue of the authority to operate and the memos from Chao and others.
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"An electric series of startling twists, the revelation of ghoulishly practical motives and a nail-biting finale make this Gerritsen's best to date. (Publishers Weekly)
This is the first book that I have read by this author. I am now half way through the CD's and am astounded at the character build up, the emotional grasp of the characters, and the titilation as you are left with at each chapter. For instance, at the end of one chapter, a character is in a dark garage aware that someone is there with her. Several chapters later in the beginning of the chapter, this same character is now in a concrete tomb,trying to claw her way out and not knowing why she is there. I am already looking for more books by this author. I like her main character --strong, sharp, intelligent, sensitive, and kind. I can't wait to listen to more of her books. I recommend this book to highly.
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This book has a good story line but seems drawn out. The Narrator is terrible. She sounds like a 12 year old reading a book with no feeling for the character. They all sound the same. I will continue to listen to books by this author but hopefully she'll change narrators.
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Dr. Maura Isles is a staple of Tess Gerritsen's writing, and in this tale, a body is found outside Maura's house, murdered. It is Maura. Except when Maura comes home, and the truth comes out: this isn't Maura, it's a twin sister she never knew she had.
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Dark and well paced, this book explores Maura's mostly unknown past up to this point, and has a well written delve into a very disturbed psychology or two. If you're a fan of psychological thrillers, this one definitely delivers, as Gerritsen usually does.
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I found it very difficult to get into this story. The narration was so monotone, I had to struggle to stay awake and follow the story line. I would not purchase a book read by this narrator again.
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This is the 3rd book I've listened to of hers and this one was the best. It kept me on edge and looking over my shoulder.
I enjoyed this novel and had trouble turning it off. It moved quickly and had some good turns. I would have enjoyed more romance as in Gerritson's earlier works, but the mystery was very good.
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9/15/14 Martha Vs. Gwyneth
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JAY Z might have revealed during a gig Friday night that he and BEYONCÉ are having another kid. During the song "Beach is Better", Jay changed the line "I replace it with another one," to "pregnant with another one."
PARIS HILTON just bought a very tiny, white Pomeranian puppy that fits in the palm of your hand. The puppy is only expected to weigh TWO POUNDS at the most when he's fully-grown. It's unclear how much Paris paid, but the business that sells these dogs says it's worth $13,000.
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Lindsay Lohan claims that she 'rolled a body bag' for Whitney Houston's corpse during her community service stint. In a recent interview Lohan called her punishment for violating her probation "f**ed and inappropriate." She carried out 120 hours of community service in 12 hour shifts at the LA County Morgue between October 21st, 2011 and March 29th 2012. A month earlier on February 11th, Whitney Houston was found dead in a bathtub and Lohan claims that the workers there made her roll Houston's body bag. She added: 'I know it sounds really dark and strange, but I thought it would be a lot worse. I kind of regulated a lot of it.'
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SARAH PALIN and her family reportedly got into a huge, drunken brawl at a party last Saturday in Anchorage. It started when Track Palin got into it with a guy he doesn't like. Pretty soon, Sarah was screaming "Do you know who I am?!", Bristol was punching a guy in the face repeatedly, and Todd Palin got a bloody nose. Police were called by nobody was arrested.
You can't really call this anything but CLASSIC OZZY: OZZY and SHARON OSBOURNE were leaving a restaurant the other night, when Sharon got distracted by the paparazzi. While she was answering questions about her "Talk" co-host SARA GILBERT's pregnancy, Ozzy got into THE WRONG CAR.
Mark Wahlberg was supposed to fly from Boston to LA, commercial, yesterday but decided to hire a private plane at the last minute. Wahlberg isn't taking any chances after he was supposed to be on the plane from Boston that crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001. Wahlberg changed his flight plan at the last minute and chose to fly through Toronto instead.
Joan Rivers left behind a $150 million for her daughter Melissa, the grandson she 'worshiped' and her pet dogs. Rivers earned $40 million a year and reportedly raked in over $1 billion in sales of clothing and jewelry through her deal with QVC over the last 24 years. Her apartment on Manhattan's Upper East side will also go to her daughter, Melissa. Joan left instructions for her rescue dogs to be cared for... by Rivers' longtime assistant.
9/11/14 Brangelina's Prenup
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Thursday, September 11, 2014
The "Star" tabloid claims that ANGELINA JOLIE and BRAD PITT have a prenup that contains an INFIDELITY CLAUSE. It states that if Brad leaves for another woman, Angelina gets primary custody of the kids. It also states that in the event of a divorce, they each take the millions they brought into the marriage . . . while anything they earned as a married couple goes into a trust for the kids. Brad is worth an estimated $240 million, and Angelina is worth $185 million.
HILARY DUFF says she and her husband MIKE COMRIE have, quote, "uncoupled, for now." And yes, she used that OBNOXIOUS term. But she added that there's a chance they'll get back together. Even if they don't, though, it sounds like she has NO INTEREST in her childhood boyfriend AARON CARTER . . . who's spent much of this year using the media to angle for a second chance with her. She says, quote, "I keep seeing that, that he keeps doing that. I don't know how I feel [about it]. I mean, that was so long ago, and obviously I'm still married, and I have a baby and we kind of just . . . don't know each other . . . so, yeah."
The "New York Daily News" reports that JOAN RIVERS was killed when one of her own doctors asked to do a biopsy on her vocal cords at the clinic where she was getting an endoscopy. However, the clinic is denying that this happened.
"Rolling Stone" published an essay in which the writer dissects and pretty much rips apart the KARDASHIANS, calling them "amused with themselves" and "repugnant", and saying, quote, "They do not learn, grow, mature, suffer." Among other things.
PARIS HILTON gave money to a homeless man after leaving a restaurant recently . . . and he responded by HITTING ON HER. He said, quote, "[Would] you ever date a homeless guy? I love you, Paris." She didn't say no . . . but she did laugh and call him "honey."
9/10/14 Ray Rice's Wife Speaks Out
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Now that BRITNEY SPEARS is single, she can start thinking about DATING again. If you decide to ask her out, you'll probably want to know what she's looking for. She says, quote, "The perfect first date is going to the beach and having a picnic and going home and watching a really cool movie and then a great first kiss."
JUSTIN BIEBER made a surprise appearance onstage at a charity fashion event last night . . . where he stripped down to his underwear when the crowd started booing him.
RAY RICE'S wife Janay Palmer says she's living a "horrible nightmare." But not because her husband knocked her out cold . . . because of the media reaction, and the NFL suspension. Meanwhile Ray said he's trying to "be strong" for his wife.
The art exhibit that was supposed to feature the leaked nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton has been cancelled after a ton of backlash. The artist has now decided to replace the celeb images with his own nude selfies.
9/9/14 William & Kate Expecting #2
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HOWARD STERN says MELISSA RIVERS called him a day and a half before JOAN RIVERS' funeral and asked him to do the eulogy. And he took the responsibility very seriously . . . quote, "It was a lot of pressure because I wanted to come through for Melissa and come through for Joan."
STEVE HARVEY failed a lot before he finally made it big. He says, quote, "I'm a college dropout, I flunked out of college . . . I've been divorced twice, I've been homeless, I lived in a car for three years . . . I've been bankrupt, I've lost all my money. I've been in tax trouble, you name it, I've been there, I've fallen. But faith is an amazing thing."
JUDGE JUDY admits she's taken some naughty photos in her day, but they no longer exist. On "The Talk" yesterday she said, quote, "I cut up all those pictures that I didn't want to see floating around, because you have to be smart enough to say if you don't want to revisit something."
This will sound all to familiar. Paris Hilton's brother Barron was attacked at a club in Miami this week and he says Lindsay Lohan was behind the attack. Barron says that Lohan ordered the beating, claiming she screamed, "You talk s--- about me to my boyfriend, this is what you get." He claims that as he was being hit, Lohan laughed and encouraged the man beating him. Lohan denied being there for the attack but was spotted in footage of the confrontation. Hilton was taken to a local hospital for his injuries and police are investigating the incident.
If you somehow missed it: Prince William and his wife Kate are expecting their second child together, and Kate is being treated for severe morning sickness. She also suffered from severe morning sickness during her first pregnancy with Prince George, who was born in July 2013. The Queen and members of both families are said to be delighted with the news of a new baby in family. The new baby will be the fourth in line to the throne.


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Four years in, shifts in Obama strategy, outlook
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Four years ago he was the fifth-youngest president to take the oath of office. Now Barack Obama is 51, his hair more gray, his face more lined.
He's the parent of a teenager and a tween. (Insert your own joke about teens and gray hair here.) His blood pressure has ticked up a bit, although it's still excellent. He's quit smoking. He's a pet owner.
And the changes in the president aren't just physical. As he enters Term Two, he is sounding more confident, vowing a harder line on negotiations, relying more on trusted allies, promising less and expressing more cynicism about the grip of partisanship on Washington.
And perhaps most important, he seems more convinced of a need to keep the public with him, coming full circle to his people-driven 2008 campaign.
"You can't change Washington from the inside," he said during his re-election campaign. "You can only change it from the outside."
On the best days of his presidency, Obama has been witness to the power and possibilities of the office he holds. On the worst, he's seen its limitations.
He has celebrated passage of his mammoth health-care overhaul. And mourned the lost children of Newtown.
He has savored the nail-biter news that Osama bin Laden at last had been brought down. And stood vigil over the remains of fallen soldiers returned to Dover, Del.
Between the highs and lows came the daily grind of a daunting job whose demands never end. There is always one more negotiation. One more legislative tussle. One more economic soft spot. One more natural disaster.
By all accounts, Obama's style and his character remain largely unchanged. But every chapter of his presidency _ the gasp-inducing early economic crisis, the battle over health care, the midterm congressional shellacking, the mass shootings in the past year, the endless negotiations over debt and deficit, the re-election brawl _ has helped to mold him and to shape his perspective.
"Four years in, he has a very good sense of the job," says senior adviser Valerie Jarrett. "He has a great sense of what is possible if you do have the American people behind you and willing to push with you to make change."
The president himself, in remarks here and there, has laid out plenty of first-term takeaways that reflect the difficulties he's faced:
_"Everything takes a little longer than you'd like."
_"I underestimated the degree to which, in this town, politics trumps problem solving."
_"The mistake of my first couple of years was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right."
_"No choice you make is without costs."
_"We've got to break the habit of negotiating through crisis over and over again."
To be sure, there's a large dose of self-exoneration in the lessons Obama has taken from the job, as if he had little hand in Washington's obstinacy and all the scheming political operatives are on the other side.
Republicans largely blame wrong-headed presidential policies and unyielding tactics. And some in the president's own party wonder whether his new, tougher rhetoric truly will result in firmer stands.
"He hasn't changed nearly as much as either Democrats or Republicans wish," says Calvin Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University.
The public, for its part, has revised its own assessment of Obama over the past four years.
Polls show the president is still regarded as a good communicator, friendly, well-informed, caring, trustworthy. But there's been a significant slide in the share who see him as a strong leader and as someone who can get things done.
Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center thinks Obama's numbers on that count are due to rebound somewhat, given recent improvement in his approval ratings. His approval numbers are back in the mid-50s after dipping into the 40s at times in 2011 and 2012. But they're still nowhere near the 60s and 70s of his first few months in office.
The president himself came out of his re-election victory convinced he has a stronger hand, and eager to use it before power inevitably ebbs later in his second term. He says he won't negotiate with Republicans on raising the debt limit. He's used his executive powers to act unilaterally to try to reduce gun violence.
That emboldened re-election outlook is coupled with a determination to stay above the day-to-day fighting and to keep the public with him.
In announcing a package of proposals this week to reduce gun violence, the president did what he could on his own, but also acknowledged that the most important provisions require congressional approval, and said it would take a demanding public to make that happen.


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Fitch Ratings warns that persistently low returns on pension assets are a far greater threat to European companies than changes to International Accounting Standards.
Low returns increase the cash companies are forced to put into the schemes to keep them funded, with a direct effect on credit quality. The IAS changes will themselves cause many companies to report higher deficits and weaken their income statements – but not change the underlying economics of the pension schemes.
December 2007-December 2011 data from the UK's Pension Protection Fund shows an average annual increase of pension plan assets of around 3.6% – much of which will have been accounted for by company contributions above payments rather than asset returns. This compares with an assumed return of 6.4% in 2007 for BT Group, which runs the country's largest private-sector defined-benefit pension scheme, for example.
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As President Barack Obama's stimulus money begins to trickle in, African Americans have a responsibility to discover where the money is going and how each of us can benefit from it.
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5/27/14 Bieber Gives to Charity
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Kim Kardashian's brother ROB KARDASHIAN arrived in Paris last week with the rest of his family, but he skipped the rehearsal dinner Friday night, then got on a plane for L.A. before the wedding even started on Saturday. Sources say it's because he's ashamed of his WEIGHT and didn't want to be in any family photos. Apparently, everyone was trying to talk him down off that ledge and he got defensive to the point that he decided to take off. But that may be the OPPOSITE of what happened. Another source says that Rob left because Kim was mad at him for not trying hard enough to lose weight before her wedding.
PATRICK SWAYZE'S widow LISA NIEMI got remarried on Sunday in Palm Beach, Florida. Her new husband is a jeweler named Albert DePrisco. He's 58, Lisa is 57. They met through mutual friends and dated for more than a year before getting engaged this past December. Lisa was married to Patrick for 34 years, before he died of pancreatic cancer in 2009.
JIM CARREY gave the commencement speech at a college in Ohio over the weekend. He told the kids, quote, "What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect so we never ask the universe for it. I'm saying I'm the proof that you can ask the universe for it. And if it doesn't happen for you right away, it's only because the universe is so busy fulfilling my order."
JUSTIN BIEBER donated $545,000 at a charity event Saturday night that was raising money for AIDS research. He also took a picture where it looked like he was grabbing HEIDI KLUM'S boob. But Heidi said, quote, "He was totally not touching me . . . He's very polite and very nice."
5/23/14 Sheen Twitter Attack
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Friday, May 23, 2014
"Maxim" has released their complete Hot 100, and this year, the top spot went to South African model Candice Swanepoel. The rest of the top five is: Scarlett Johansson, Katy Perry, Irina Shayk and Jennifer Lawrence.
KIM KARDASHIAN'S aunt Karen Houghton could be in Paris this weekend watching Kim get hitched to KANYE WEST, but she decided to skip it for two reasons . . . First, there are wildfires in Southern California that are threatening her neighborhood . . . plus she's already seen Kim get married TWICE before.
CHARLIE SHEEN has started a feud with RIHANNA after she refused to meet his fiancée, while they were both at the same restaurant on Wednesday. Charlie called her "the Village Idiot" in a long Twitter rant . . . Rihanna dismissed him as an "old queen" . . . and Charlie kept it going by thanking her for recognizing his "royalty."
A 29-year-old Romanian man tried to break into GEORGE CLOONEY'S villa in Lake Como, Italy. He didn't get in, but he did find a bottle of wine in a "small alcove" in the garden. Unfortunately, one of George's employees saw the man and called police. The guy tried to attack the cops with the bottle, but they took him down and hauled him in.
5/22/14 Elin Nordegren Speaks Out
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Thursday, May 22, 2014
In a new interview with "People" magazine, ELIN NORDEGREN says she was "devastated" when she found out her husband TIGER WOODS was messing around. But she's "moved on" and she's even happy he's with LINDSEY VONN. She says, quote, "Our relationship is centered around our children, and we are doing really good, we really are. He is a great father. "I'm happy for Tiger. In general, in any kind of stepparent relationship, I'm happy that there's somebody else loving my children."
ANGELINA JOLIE may have taken a shot at GWYNETH PALTROW for claiming she has it harder than the average mom. Without mentioning Gwyneth by name, Angelina says, quote, "I'm in a rare position where I don't have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it. I actually feel that women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn't complain."
What finally set Robert Downey Junior on the path to sobriety and a career resurgence? The answer will probably surprise you. In a new interview, Robert says he made the breakthrough in 2003 after he was driving a car filled with "tons of dope" and decided to stop for a hamburger. He says, "I have to thank Burger King. It was such a disgusting burger I ordered. I had that, and this big soda, and I thought something really bad was going to happen." Downey says he then threw all of his drugs into the ocean and decided at that moment to get clean.
5/21/14 Clooney's Best-Man
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
The not-always-reliable British tabloids say that GEORGE CLOONEY has chosen MATT DAMON to be his best man . . . rather than BRAD PITT. A source says, quote, "A lot of people thought Brad was a certainty to be George's best man because they have been such good friends for years. But he is probably even closer to Matt. Brad took the news with good grace . . . but he did say he'd heckle Matt during his speech.''
KIM KARDASHIAN'S last-minute wedding preparations include a $550 STEM CELL FACIAL. Don't worry . . . no unborn babies were harmed. These were VEGAN stem cells from a marine plant. They're supposed to firm and lift the skin. Also, still no official word whether Kim and KANYE WEST are getting married in Paris or Florence, by the way. But a British tabloid says LANA DEL REY has agreed to perform. Kanye wanted her to perform at the proposal, but she turned him down.
Last month, KHLOE and KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN got CONFETTI-BOMBED by some weird dude named Richie the Barber. He's an actual barber, but he also juggles and rides a unicycle. And he has clown makeup TATTOOED on his face. Well, the girls reported the incident to police, who basically laughed it off. But a few days ago they called the cops to follow up, and said they want BATTERY charges pressed against Richie. Sources say that's not likely to happen.
This probably isn't true, but Radar Online says WILL SMITH and JADA PINKETT are being investigated by Child Protective Services over that picture of their daughter WILLOW on a bed with a shirtless, 20-year-old guy.
5/20/14 Kimye Latest
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
RAY J is reportedly giving KIM KARDASHIAN and KANYE WEST $47,000 as a wedding gift. It's Ray's cut of four months' worth of profits from the SEX TAPE he and Kim made. That's right, Ray is still making crazy money off that tape. And Kim makes at least as much. Vivid Entertainment says it has grossed $50 million since it came out seven years ago.
KIM KARDASHIAN is on record saying she and KANYE WEST are NOT filming their wedding for "Keeping Up With the Kardashians". But RadarOnline.com says she's LYING. A source says, quote, "Kim will tell camera shy guests that the filming is their own videographers capturing the day and not for broadcast, which is a white lie." The source adds that it was KRIS JENNER who convinced Kim and Kanye to let the cameras roll. Only SOME of the ceremony will air, and JAY Z and BEYONCÉ will NOT be filmed.
"Maxim" magazine drops its annual Hot 100 list next month, but they revealed some names yesterday. They include Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Beyoncé, Selena Gomez, Shakira, Carrie Underwood, and Paula Patton.
Family harmony has been restored! Jay Z, Beyoncé, Solange and their mom Tina Knowles posed for a picture together. This might be why everyone's happy again: There's an Internet rumor going around that Solange was just chosen to be the opening act on Jay and Beyoncé's joint tour . . . and she'll make $8 million for the gig.


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Imodium Suppression,
The biggest difference between you and other peddlers of woo is that the organized religions actually con people. You haven't even figured out what you are selling but you keep throwing out addled shad and getting mad when it attracts sharks instead of flounder. At least add some saccharin and red dye to the Kool-Aid before you open your stand for business.
That is a typical hateful response from an atheist.
Please point specifically what is "hateful."
Satan has filled this poor soul with hate and darkness and sin.
There's an elf in your belly filling you with those words. They are not your own, and I feel sorry for you.
God will not beam this hardened heart anywhere except to the fiery pits of Hell.
How loving of you. "Hateful" anyone?
Jesus will forgive you if you will repent and accept him as your savior.
But not you, sir!
Please accept him or you are doomed to eternal regret. Lord God, forgive him for he knows not whence he doeth.
Your own wishes only, you poor indoctrinated soul.


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