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Gavin DeGraw Hospitalized After NYC Attack

Written By Anonymous on August 09, 2011 | 12:51 AM

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Gavin DeGraw Hospitalized After NYC Attack

Gavin DeGraw was assaulted early Monday morning in NYC & taken to the emergency room, his rep confirms Us Weekly. The 34 year old's rep tells Us the singer "is currently under observation" at Bellevue Hospital but that "no additional information" is being provided at this time!!!. Watch Video

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Sean Kingston Opens Up About Jet-Ski Accident VIDEO

Written By Anonymous on August 07, 2011 | 10:23 PM

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"I think my work isn't done," he said on "The Today Show."

Sean Kingston talked on The Today Show about his jet ski accident, & recovering from the near-death accident. The singer was filmed in Miami, taking viewers & reporter Natalie Morales to the place where he had the accident.



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Kingston was taken to the hospital in critical condition. After 11 days, it seemed he was getting better, but then he felt a pain in his chest. He'd a torn aorta, & had to have emergency open heart surgery.
Kingston was told that many people who underwent a similar surgery didn't survive. “I'd a lot of pain,” said Kingston. “When we went to go visit my surgeon he told me, ‘You had a guardian angel that day.’ ”
In the video, Kingston also meets with the off-duty coast guard rescuer who helped save him that day.
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“It is a blessing,” he said “I am blessed to overcome the tragic situation.”
Kingston, who is now focused on his recovery, recently told MTV that he hopes to release a single by December. He recently performed on stage for the first time during the Nicki Minaj & Britney Spears Femme Fetale tour stop.

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Virginia tech. Institute and State University

Written By Anonymous on August 05, 2011 | 2:05 AM

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Virginia Tech is the commonly used name for the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, located in Blacksburg, Va., southwest of Roanoke. Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college, it now has more than 25,000 full-time students attending eight colleges & graduate programs on its 2,600-acre campus. On April 16th, 2007, a student, Seung-Hui Cho, opened fire in a dormitory & classroom building on the Virginia Tech campus, killing 32 people before committing suicide.

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Stock market crash

Written By Anonymous on August 04, 2011 | 8:48 PM

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Stock market crash: Think 1938, not 2008

Stock market debacle does not necessarily signal a spectacular crash. The stock market may be reacting to prospects of a garden-variety recession.



    Having lunch with Barry the other day (not salads) we got to talking about why it seems so hard for people to accept that the economic & stock market picture has grown darker over the last few weeks. What's so bad about a correction or a consolidation period? What's the harm in admitting that the Recovery is backsliding?

    Investor reaction to President Roosevelt ending the stimulus & the Federal Reserve tightening was a stock market plunge in 1938. But it didn't foreshadow another great calamity, just a regular recession. Within 13 months the economy had regained its footing & the market never came close to its 1932 lows.
    Joshua M. Brown

    I always just assumed that the talking heads were perma-bullish for the money - most of them don't get paid unless you're fully invested (which is why there's a "let's put some money to work" bias in the asset management game). But Barry explained that it goes beyond that.

    For starters, people have trouble saying one thing & then coming around & admitting that things have changed. There is a disconnect in the way our brains work which leads us to believe, on some level, that having new opinions is somehow a betrayal of our old opinions, even in the presence of fresh evidence. This is doubly true of those who predict & prognosticate in public for a living - they feel the need to be consistent lest they lose the role they've been cast in (perma-bull, doomsayer, wacky next-door neighbor etc).

    In some cases, there is a political angle to it as well. I had clients who said they would never buy a stock as long as Obama was president...I wonder how they're doing these days. There are pundits who're funded by think tanks who pretend to be in the business of analysis but are really engaged in the art of slant & spin - positive or negative depending on who the paymaster is. There's a regular guest in Kudlow's menagerie who both cheerleaded the Bush stock market right off the cliff in 2007 only to predict the next Great Depression at the market's lows early in Obama's term.

    But the main reason why so many people have such trouble reconciling improving or deteriorating economic data & stock market conditions is the Recency Effect. Barry says that because the wounds of 2008 are still so raw, people see the next 2008 in every setback. They forget that if we have a double-dip recession, it can be just a garden-variety recession. It doesn't have to be another apocalyptic, world-stopping calamity.

    Let us say we do fall into a double dip as all that spent stimulus wears off, a regular recession without all the fireworks & institutional failures of the last one is not only possible, it is more likely.

    In other words, think 1938 & not necessarily 2008.

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    Above is a killer annotated chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average during the late 1930's I whipped up for you guys...

    Without having the ancient economist battle of what caused the US economy to recede in 1937-1938 (Keynesians say the cessation of Federal spending, Monetarists say the Fed tightened too soon), we can all agree that FDR did pull back on the two main programs (Works Progress Administration & Public Works Administration) in the spring of 1937 & that the Fed was hawkish.

    The stock market had been steadily recovering from the depths of 1932 (the Dow had hit 56 that year) & from early 1935 through 1937 it staged a furious two-year rally that took the average from 102 to 186, a double (sound familiar?). When the first signs of a slowdown hit, there was a brief sell-off, followed by a sharp recovery in stocks - & then as the data worsened & the Fed sat on it is hands, off the cliff the markets went.

    But it was not the end of the world, just a retracement of half the gains from the 1932 lows (but not all of them) & within 13 months, the economy regained its footing into the 1940's (with a little help from Hitler & Tojo).

    The point is, the 1938 recession wasn't pleasant (unemployment jumped from 14.3% up to 19% that year) & the stock market certainly felt it, but then life went on. Most of the spectacular corporate failures & life-altering, forced migrations had already occurred in the early part of that decade, 1938 was a mere shadow of that.

    It is too early to call a double dip recession as being imminent or inevitable, but it is never too early to mentally prepare for one.

    My advice is to stop thinking 2008 & instead start thinking 1938 or 1953 or 1969 or 1981, you get the drift. Not every slowdown is a crash & we are in a secular bear market after all.

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    Jubilant House Members Greet Gabrielle Giffords

    Written By Anonymous on August 01, 2011 | 10:45 PM

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    Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) entered & left the House on foot to massive applause, limping with the help of her husband, Mark Kelly. On her way out, she was trailed by her friends, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, as well as the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, who was in attendance just for the occasion.
    "I got a tip," Biden said, beaming, when asked by TPM whether he had prior knowledge of the event. "That is why I came up. I wanted to give her a hug."
    Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), the longest serving member of Congress, told TPM it was "wonderful" to see Giffords.

    "Thank God she is coming along," Dingell said. "Well, we have had people shot but I have never seen them come back like that. But obviously every day around here is something new & different."
    For Pelosi, who had just led her caucus through a bitter debate over the debt ceiling that climaxed with the passage of a bipartisan agreement on Monday (Gifford voted "aye"), the moment helped put everything in perspective. Like Biden she also had advance knowledge of the visit, having been informed by her chief of staff John Lawrence, a friend of the Gifford family.
    "She & her husband care very much about our country, this was an important vote for them," she told reporters. "I am so personally thrilled, though, that the vote seems......" She trailed off there.
    Pelosi recounted how "We had our girl talk, yes, our girl hugs & all that" before Giffords departed, her total stay only a few minutes. She offered no news as to when -- or whether -- Giffords would return to work.
    "I am not going to talk about her schedule," she said. "Suffice to say, it was one of the thrilling moments for all of us to see this real heroine return to the House & to do so in such a dramatic time."
    But Pelosi's heads up was an anomaly. Rep. Rob Andrews (D-NJ) said that members weren't given any sort of warning -- indeed one member told TPM that Giffords wasn't going to vote when rumors started flying on Twitter - & Andrews said members "did not know why all the applause went up."
    "The board was at 200 votes, & no one knew," Andrews told TPM. "& I have gotta tell you, as low as that Saturday morning was, this was equally high...After all the sourness & bitnerness, it was a moment of real triumph. It reminded us of what really counts."

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    Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) returned to Congress in dramatic fashion for the first time since she was shot in the head in January, appearing almost unannounced in the midst of voting on one of the most contentious issues of the year.

    The House erupted in a bipartisan standing ovation as she entered. The congresswoman, 41, who has been out of the public eye & hospitalized much of the year, stood unaided to recognize the thunderous applause.

    Wearing cropped brown hair, a turquoise jacket & her distinctive smile, Giffords embraced a stream of colleagues who flocked to her. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schulz (D-Fla.), who is among her closest friends in Congress, was at her side.

    "It was an inspiration, really, to all the members, Democrats & Republicans. We are very excited about seeing her," said Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.).

    House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) dabbed her eyes. Others passed around tissues.

    "Her presence here ... as well as her entire service to Congress, brings honor to this chamber," Pelosi said, adding that there "is not a name that stirs more admiration" throughout the country than Giffords'.

    "She is the perfect example of bipartisanship," said Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas).

    It was the latest milestone in Giffords' recovery. She & 18 others were shot as she greeted constituents in Tucson. Six people died. Jared Lee Loughner, 22, has been charged but ruled incompetent to stand trial.

    Giffords said in a statement that she was compelled to return to vote on the debt ceiling legislation Monday. Debate over raising the nation's $14.3-trillion debt ceiling has been bitter, divisive & partisan.

    "I had to be here for this vote. I could not take the chance that my absence could crash our economy," said Giffords, who voted "aye." The bill passed comfortably.

    The three-term Democrat was discharged in June from the Houston hospital where she had been rehabilitating. She made a brief visit to her district on Father's Day weekend, but has otherwise stayed with her husband, astronaut Mark E. Kelly, outside Houston.

    Kelly & the rest of the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour are scheduled to meet with President Obama at the White House on Tuesday.

    "One's going to space, & one's trying to get back to earth," said Vice President Joe Biden, who said he made a special trip to Congress when he heard Giffords would be there. "Think about it. It is an incredible family."



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    Randy Moss Retire

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    After 13 unforgettable seasons in the NFL, the Freak has finally decided to hang up the cleats & head off into the sunset ( for now ).

    Randy Moss(notes), 34, has announced his decision to retire from the NFL. Although he spent the majority of his career with the Minnesota Vikings (seven seasons), he also spent time with the Oakland Raiders (two seasons), New England Patriots (three seasons) & Tennessee Titans (one season). His retirement isn't shocker, but his crazy antics & uncanny ability to strike pay dirt will definitely be missed.

    Throughout his career, Moss had a knack for burning defenders deep & rewriting the record books in the process. In 2007, as a Patriot, he broke Jerry Rice's single-season receiving touchdowns record with 23 trips to the endzone. Moss has turned in more seasons with 17 or more touchdown receptions than any other player with three (1998, 2003, 2007). He's the only player in NFL history to ever rack up more than 1,200 yards in their first six seasons. He has the highest yards per catch average (15.6) of all players with over 900 catches. He is currently fifth in career receiving yards (14,858) & touchdowns (154), & is also tied for eighth in receptions (954) with Pittsburgh Steelers' receiver Hines Ward(notes). I could keep going, but you get the point.

    Despite all of the accolades that Moss has accumulated over his career, he has hit a few speed bumps along the way. It all started before he even became an NFL player. Moss was the victim of a huge slide down the first round of the 1998 NFL Draft, due in large part to his questionable character coming out of Marshall. Unfortunately for the teams that decided to skip up on him, he used that slide as fuel. That season, he hauled in 69 passes for 1,313 yards & 17 touchdowns for the Vikings, who picked him at No. 21. With those 17 touchdowns, he broke the record for most touchdown receptions by a rookie.

    Since then, he has hit a traffic officer with his car, left the field before the end of a game, pretended to moon some rather angry Green Bay Packers' fans, been fined by the NFL numerous times & was accused of committing battery. He may not have made the greatest decisions on or off the field, but he sure did make plays when given the opportunity.

    Whether it was his freakish ability to catch the ball or the massive afro that he wore for some time, Moss always found a way to keep us wanting more. Moss' ability to inject excitement into games is part of what made me such a diehard Vikings fan. Even though his return was short-lived, it was enjoyably nostalgic to see him don the purple & gold No. 84 this past season.

    It's sad to see him go. However, after a season in which he spent at least four games with three different teams, now may have been a better time than ever to throw in the towel. As a free agent this off-season, his decision to retire was spurred by a lack of tempting suitors. That could change in the near future as the wide receiver free agency pool continues to dry up. Moss has been working hard to stay in shape this off-season & could be a tantalizing target for a team that gets desperate.

    Moss perhaps retiring for now, but do not be surprised if he decides to pull a Favre & rejoin the NFL ranks soon.!!!

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