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- "Hooray!"
- ―John A. Zoidberg's catchphrase
- ―Zoidberg's infamous flee sound
Dr. John A. Zoidberg,"M"D, better simply known as Zoidberg, (born May 5, 2914) (height: 5'8"), is the heptagonist in Futurama. He was born on the Planet Decapod 10 and moved to Earth to practice medicine after giving up comedy once. Despite being a self-proclaimed expert on Humans, he called Fry "young lady" when they first met and has confused Fry and Bender. He speaks, as all Decapodians do, with a heavy Yiddish accent. He is the nephew of famed eccentric movie celebrity Harold Zoid. On a number of occasions, Zoidberg has made mention of Hermes Conrad being his best friend.[1]
Zoidberg is actually the alien discovered in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.[2] He seems to live in various places around the Planet Express building, notably the Dumpster, in which he has been seen numerous times looking for food and shelter. Zoidberg himself confessed to "living in a dumpster" in 3011, presumably the Planet Express building Dumpster.[3] A conversation Zoidberg has with Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth suggests that he is only staying with Planet Express because of a life debt to the Professor. A series of flashbacks reveal that Zoidberg first met and befriended Farnsworth in 2927, during a mission to kill a Tritonian Yeti for Carol Miller. During the mission, Zoidberg was attacked by a Tritonian Yeti but is saved by Hubert, who is scratched by the Tritonian Yeti. Hubert now fears that he has contracted Hyper-Malaria, a painful, fatal, incurable disease which can either strike instantly or remain dormant for years. He asks Zoidberg to perform a mercy killing if he ever exhibits symptoms of the disease. Grateful for the Professor having saved his life and killing the Tritonian Yeti, Zoidberg agrees. As a result, Zoidberg is employed by the Professor for the purpose of carrying out the task. He is technically homeless and very poor, being a very unsuccessful "internal medicine doctor". Although claiming it was lost in a volcano, it is very likely that Zoidberg does not actually have a medical degree but rather has a doctorate in art history.[4] Despite his professional incompetence, he has been drafted into the Democratic Order of Planets army as a MEAT surgeon.[5]
He is extremely poor and has stated several times that he has no home. Even worse, he is even treated like a social pariah by mostly everyone around him. Hermes considers him as practically a slave and does not hesitate in treating him like one. He usually eats from the trash or a dumpster, mistaking the trash for food and is envious of even the smallest amounts of money due to his lack of knowledge in currency and economics. Another factor of his poverty was mainly the fact that Hermes kept cutting Zoidberg's paychecks for no reason. He is excitable about his friends and is very trusting with the Planet Express crew. He appears to be rather fond of all of them, only really disliking Bender. Most of the crew (except possibly Fry, Hubert, as well as Amy) finds John (or at least his species) to be disgusting as he will eat almost anything and his extreme "incompetence" as a doctor has done nothing for his popularity. Although, sometimes the rest of the crew will be nice or care for him, except maybe Hermes.
A composite of numerous sea creatures, Zoidberg's features have been myriad. The most unique feature is his inability to feel physical pain. An example is in the episode "Roswell that Ends Well", Zoidberg is aware that he is getting dissected without anesthesia but he doesn't feel any type of pain as he gets dissected. His known attributes include a removable exoskeleton, a retractable head fin that indicates arousal, aggression, or fear, an ink gland, a "stink gland", a gland that emits foul odors when he's bored, an empathy bladder, a gas bladder, a freshwater stomach, a saltwater stomach, four hearts, a throat that apparently produces psychedelic blue pearls, as well as a "wazoo". This last item is apparently some sort of sex organ, the place where the "male jelly" comes out for the mating of his species. It has been revealed that passing on genetic material is a life-terminating event for these lobster people, so while the good doctor once informed Leo Wong that he 'took the liberty of fertilizing his caviar' for him, it remains ambiguous what actually transpired. Along with a "wazoo", Zoidberg also has gonopores, as revealed in Neutopia when everyone's gender is taken away, when he looks in his pants and promptly yells "My gonopores," and then tells everyone to "look it up."[6]
Zoidberg reverted through several of the early "larval" life cycle stages of his species after being exposed to a youth tar. He seems to have started off as a small immobile creature from which asexually fragmented "brothers" could separate (each with a distinct personality). A later stage was a parasitic lamprey, followed by a large clam inside which his head was visible. The next oldest form resembled a trilobite. Other stages included a sea urchin and a cuttlefish.[7]
Zoidberg is indirectly and unintentionally responsible for a number of disasters and misfortunes which befall Earth's people, including their enslavement by the Decapodians due to their overreaction of Zoidberg eating a flag and sentencing him to death after giving him an unfair trial. Due to his alleged overacting in a TV series finale, the people of Earth are denied the Omicronian recipe for eternal life. He is also partially responsible for the near sale of Planet Express to MomCorp, due to foolishly trading all of his stocks to That Guy for a sandwich, which grew moldy because he kept it in his coat pocket. That near sale was, however, mainly Fry's fault. Zoidberg is also the alien that supposedly crash landed in Roswell.
Unnamed Lobster
Even though Zoidberg is generally disliked by everybody he comes into contact with, he did manage to find a little romance with a regular Lobster at the Hipster Club when Amy Wong took Turanga Leela out to find a man, walking out with the lobster in his arms after the bar closed.[8]
He also had fallen in love with Edna, an old classmate who thought that he was inferior until Fry helped him with teaching. Zoidberg would have won her over until Turanga Leela exposed the fact and Edna fell in love with Fry instead and Zoidberg caught the two in "the act".[9]
Jellyfish Monster
He and the Jellyfish Monster (who also served as his field nurse during the war) were seen sharing a glass of wine on the Titanic.
Unnamed Spouse
He is ultimately revealed to be currently married to an unknown spouse in "Benderama" when Hubert shredded his wedding album to make two small sweaters. It is unknown who Zoidberg's spouse is, but it is safe to assume they're not together anymore.
In the episode "Stench and Stenchibility", Zoidberg falls in love with a flower merchant with no sense of smell called Marianne. After gaining a nose, Marianne enjoys Zoidberg's scent, as she had never learned a good smell from a bad smell. The two are presumed to have an ongoing relationship, as they are last seen together driving off in a garbage truck.
He is portrayed as a dumb, incompetent doctor due to his frequent surgical mishaps and misdiagnoses but he shows he is far from stupid as he shows he has knowledge in alien anatomy (not human, though he is a self-proclaimed "human expert") and has a Ph.D. in Art History. It was even questioned as to why the Professor does not fire him until it is revealed that he is a long time friend and crew member of Hubert's. Thus, the Professor won't fire him even though he has shown to be vastly incompetent at his job and is hated by most of his co-workers.
Out of all the Planet express crew members, Zoidberg is considered to be the most caring and innocent member of the crew. He is a sweet and lovable guy who just wants a friend to hang out with but for some reason, most people dislike him, especially Hermes. Despite this, Zoidberg considers everyone to be his friend. However, out of all his co-workers (besides the Professor), Fry is the only one that treats John decently and refers to Zoidberg as a friend. At Fry's memorial in "Bender's Big Score", when Leela stated they would all miss Fry, John reveals that "He was the only one of you who never struck me!"
He does not even have the guts to stand up to bullies and instead acts in a cowardly fashion towards them. He tries his hardest to prove that he is a trustworthy guy and he is constantly nice towards other people. The ostracism he receives from the Planet Express crew and society causes him to be a very lonely person. He is even unaware that Hermes bullies him constantly and he does not dare to ask Hermes why he hates him so much. Despite this heavy unawareness, Zoidberg like any other employee has a fear of getting fired. However, in the episode "The Six Million Dollar Mon", Zoidberg finally learns of Hermes' dislike of him and lets out his pent-up feelings towards Hermes calling the latter a "big jerk" who was selfish and stupid that didn't deserve a friend like him.
- His catchphrase is "Hooray!"
- He has a girlfriend named Marianne near the end of the series
- He also shouts "WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP!" multiple times in a row often (which is based on a sound that Curly, from The Three Stooges would often make), he is always shown doing this while he is running away in different directions while scared and also wants to escape from someone who is angered. In the episode "The Tip of the Zoidberg" this is shown to sandcrabbing.
- He pronounces "robot" as Row-bit.
- Zoidberg's birthday, May 5, is the day after Amy's.[10] but the Planet Express Crew always forgets his birthday.
- Zoidberg's medical specialty is declaring people medically dead, whether they are or not. He is also very skilled in suturing hands back together, especially with human hands.
- Zoidberg had a brief acting career, having played a minor role in The Magnificent Three.
- His uncle, Harold Zoid, is a legendary movie director and actor and an Oscar winner.
- Even though he is poor, he somehow obtained the money to buy the new EyePhone in "Attack of the Killer App".
- It is revealed in "Bendless Love" that he has a pet Slinky, which is actually his favorite toy.
- Zoidberg is often forced to clean up messes around the Planet Express building by the other employees, even when the mess was made by everyone, though this should be Scruffy Scruffington's job.
- When John received $300 from the mass tax refund, he thought he was rich. This shows that Zoidberg is bad at economics. In "Viva Mars Vegas" he was shown to have collected and saved several pennies in his jar which he thought would be enough for him to do gambling, even though this only amounted to perhaps only a few dollars. Amy has known John to have primitive habits on managing money and this leads to Amy lambasting Zoidberg for being poor, though she apologizes to him for that later on. Part of the reason why Amy lambasted Zoidberg for being poor was because Amy herself was the daughter of a rich couple.
- He is an honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters along with Hubert, Amy, and Hermes.
- In Bender's Big Score, Zoidberg reveals that Fry is the only member of Planet Express to never strike him.
- In the episode "The Silence of the Clamps", it is revealed that the only reason he is a member of Planet Express is to snip and cut, as well as is extremely sensitive about this role. However it was also revealed in "The Tip of the Zoidberg" that he was a member of Planet Express for the sole purpose of performing euthanasia on Professor Farnsworth because Hubert was sick with yetiism, which was mistaken for hypermalaria.
- He apparently has more than one set of vocal cords as he is able to sing harmony with himself.
- He once managed to beat the ever-living daylights out of a Mob Enforcer with his bare claws.
- John and Hubert have been friends since 2927.[11]
- As of the statement above, it is indicated that John is older than 80. Presumably in his 100's as Zoidberg in the photo looks in his 20's
- Zoidberg is a competent physician, but not for humans. He is competent in the anatomy of aliens and even Carol recognizes his skillfulness with aliens.[12]
- In addition to his fake medical degree, he says to have mail-ordered murderology and murderonomy degrees.[13]
- He is the only known being to be deemed "good" by Robot Santa Claus as he was given a pogo stick as a gift. The reason for this could be an error in the Santa Claus or because of his kind and innocent personality.[14]
- It was once revealed that he lives in one of Professor Farnsworth's inventions. However, he officially lives in his dumpster due to his poverty. The closest he ever got to having a real home was when he made one out of a seashell only to have it burned down by Bender despite the fact that it was underwater.
- Despite his poor skills as a comedian, he is shown to be very skilled at ventriloquism.
- Zoidberg is one of two characters who are known primarily by their surname: the other is Fry. Leela doesn't count as it's revealed in A Leela of Her Own that Turanga is Leela's family name.
- He has a gland which generates foul odors when bored, as he demonstrated in Bender's Big Score
- He never actually said the famous meme "Why not Zoidberg" throughout the series, however he did say it in a DVD promo for Volume 7
- He has a Doctorate Degree in Art History, as seen in "the Duh-Vinci Code"
- He is said to smell like a burning zoo
- Zoidberg's e-mail is email@example.com as revealed in Bender's Big Score.
Behind the Scenes
In the development process for the show, David X. Cohen looked to the original Star Trek series for inspiration. Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy often operated on alien species, so they decided to have an alien doctor that served the human crew and as the series unfolded it became clear that John's medical ability was lacking with humans but highly skilled with aliens, which makes him a spoof of Dr. McCoy. Additionally, Zoidberg's character also took on other running jokes: he became poor, lonely, as well as a failed comedian in addition to being a horrible doctor.
The name "Zoidberg" comes from a game for the Apple II, that Cohen developed when he was in high school. Although Zoid was never picked up, it became the basis for Zoidberg's name.
The voice for Dr. Zoidberg was developed by Billy West, influenced by actors Lou Jacobi and George Jessel.[15]
- ↑ "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back"
- ↑ "Roswell that Ends Well"
- ↑ "The Tip of the Zoidberg"
- ↑ "The Duh-Vinci Code"
- ↑ "War is the H-Word"
- ↑ "Where the Buggalo Roam"
- ↑ "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles"
- ↑ "Love's Labours Lost in Space"
- ↑ "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?"
- ↑ "Time Keeps On Slippin'"
- ↑ "The Tip of the Zoidberg"
- ↑ "The Tip of the Zoidberg"
- ↑ "Anthology Of Interest I"
- ↑ "Xmas Story"
- ↑ http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/06/15/billy-west-the-tv-squad-interview
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Enormous jewels that people have to hide in pots? Or worse, bury in the grass, outside? That's not how you manage an economy, Hyrule. In fact, it's the fastest way to ensuring your Kingdom one day winds up at the bottom of the ocean.
A switch to paper currency like proper nations (or even polymer if you're feeling fancy) might be more advisable, then, and artist G33k1nd159153 already has your inspiration with a series of four notes honouring four of Hyrule's greatest heroes.
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The Borax Conspiracy / How the Arthritis Cure has been Stopped
Walter Last
Fungi and Fluoride
Borax, similar to the equally endangered Lugol's iodine solution, can also be used to remove accumulated fluoride and heavy metals from the body (14). Fluoride not only causes bones to deteriorate, but also the pineal gland to calcify and the thyroid to become underactive. Borax reacts with fluoride ions to form boron fluorides which are then excreted in the urine.
In a Chinese study borax was used to treat 31 patients with skeletal fluorosis. The amount was gradually increased from 300 to 1100 mg/day during a three month period, with one week off each month. The treatment was effective with 50 to 80% improvement.
One forum contributor suffered with Fibromyalgia/Rosacea, chronic fatigue and TMJ for over 10 years which she believed were caused by fluoride. She used 1/8 tsp of borax and 1/8 tsp of sea salt in a litre of de-chlorinated water, and drank this for 5 days each week. Within two weeks her face cleared, the redness faded, body temperature normalized, energy level increased, and she steadily lost excess weight. The only side-effect was an initial aggravation of her Rosacea symptoms.
Another post: "7 years ago thyroid cancer, the next year adrenal fatigue, then early menopause, the following year uterine prolapse followed by hysterectomy - the following year fibromyalgia and neuropathy. Early Childhood was fluorinated water along with fluoride tablets. Fall of 2008 I was looking at total disability. I could barely walk and couldn't sleep because of the pain and was throwing up daily from the pain in my back. ... After reading about fluoride I came to understand where all of my problems originated. ... I began the borax detox of 1/8 tsp in a litre of water and within 3 days my symptoms were almost gone."
What and How Much to Use
In some countries (e.g. Australia, NZ, USA) borax can still be found in the laundry and cleaning sections of supermarkets. There is no "food-grade" borax available or necessary. All borax is the same and "natural", and usually mined in California or Turkey, whether it has been packed in China or any other country. The label usually states that it is 99% pure (or 990g/kg borax) which is safe to use, and is the legal standard for agricultural grade borax. Up to 1% mining and refining residues are permitted. Boric acid, if available, may be used at about ⅔ the dose of borax, it is not for public sale in Australia.
Firstly dissolve a lightly rounded teaspoonful (5-6 grams) of borax in 1 litre of good quality water. This is your concentrated solution keep it out of reach of small children.
Standard dose = 1 teaspoon (5 ml) of concentrate. This has 25 to 30 mg of borax and provides about 3 mg of boron. Take 1 dose per day mixed with drink or food. If that feels right then take a second dose with another meal. If there is no specific health problem or for maintenance you may continue indefinitely with 1 or 2 doses daily.
If you do have a problem, such as arthritis, osteoporosis and related conditions, cramps or spasms, stiffness due to advancing years, menopause, and also to improve low sex hormone production, increase intake to 3 or more spaced-out standard doses for several months or longer until you feel that your problem has sufficiently improved. Then drop back to 1 or 2 doses per day.
For treating Candida, other fungi and mycoplasmas, or for removing fluoride from the body - using your bottle of concentrated solution:
Lower dose for low to normal weight - 100 ml (= 1/8 teaspoon of borax powder or 500 mg); drink spaced out during the day.
Higher dose for heavier individuals - 200 ml (= 1/4 teaspoon of borax powder or 1000 mg); drink spaced out during the day.
Even higher doses have been used to cure autoimmune diseases. One woman cured her Systemic Lupus (SLE) by taking 2 grams of borax powder (about ½ tsp) for 4 months. When using high amounts for longer periods it is usually more convenient to take the borax as powder mixed with food rather than making up a concentrated solution.
Always start with a lower dose and increase gradually to the intended maximum. Take the maximum amounts for 4 or 5 days a week as long as required, or reduce the maximum dose for one week each month to a minimum dose, or alternatively periodically alternate between a low dose and your maximum dose in a different rhythm.
For vaginal thrush fill a large size gelatine capsule with borax and insert it at bedtime for one to two weeks. With toe fungus or athlete's foot wet the feet and rub them with borax powder.
You may take borax mixed with food or in drinks. It is rather alkaline and in higher concentrations has a soapy taste. You may disguise this with lemon juice, vinegar or ascorbic acid.
In Europe borax and boric acid have been classified as reproductive poisons, and since December 2010 are no longer available to the public within the EU. Presently borax is still available in Switzerland (15), but shipment to Germany is not permitted. In Germany a small amount (20 - 50 grams) may be ordered through a pharmacy as ant poison, it will be registered. Borax is presently still available from www.ebay.co.uk and can be shipped to other EU countries.
Boron tablets can be bought from health shops or the Internet, commonly with 3 mg of boron. In some European countries, such as The Netherlands, these may still contain borax, but not in others, such as Germany, where boron is not allowed in ionic form as with borax or boric acid. While suitable as a general boron supplement, I do not know if or how well they work against Candida and mycoplasmas. Most scientific studies and individual experiences in regard to arthritis, osteoporosis, or sexual hormones and menopause were with borax or boric acid. It is not yet known if non-ionic boron is as effective as borax. To improve effectiveness I recommend 3 or more spaced-out boron tablets daily for an extended period combined with sufficient magnesium and a suitable antimicrobial program (16).
Possible Side-Effects
While side-effects from pharmaceutical drugs tend to be negative and often dangerous, with natural medicine such as borax therapy these are usually healing reactions with beneficial long-term effects. Most common is the Herxheimer reaction from eliminating Candida. This is the main cause of pain or discomfort in the digestive system when starting with borax supplementation.
In some of the above forum posts rapid improvement was experienced within days. This is always a functional response. High cellular calcium levels cause muscle contraction with cramps or spasms as a common cause of pain. Boron, especially together with magnesium, can rapidly relax these muscles and take away the pain.
However, with long-standing severe calcifications a large amount of calcium cannot be redistributed in a short time. This leads to increased calcium levels in the affected area, especially the hips and shoulders, and can cause problems for a considerable time, such as a tendency to severe cramping and pain, or problems with the blood circulation, or nerve transmission. Nerve-related effects in hands and feet may be numbness, or reduced sensitivity or feeling in the skin. Higher amounts of calcium and fluoride passing through the kidneys may cause temporary kidney pain. Further, kidney pain appears to be mainly due to kidney stones being released. After a few days the stones are usually cleared and the pain stops.
Such healing reactions cannot be avoided when aiming for a higher level of health, but they can be minimized by increasing borax levels only gradually. Whenever you experience an unpleasant effect reduce or temporarily stop borax intake until the problem subsides. Then gradually start increasing again. Helpful additional measures are a greatly increased fluid intake, using more organic acids such as lemon juice or vinegar, and improving lymph flow as with rebounding, walking or inverted positions.


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Can someone please tell me how would you say
We have this parking available
in hakka?
It's very important!!
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Hi, everyone! I am new to this forum:) I am from Singapore and I belong to the Hakka group too. However, as I have not been using this dialect since a long time ago, I have already lost touch with it. Anyway, I see that there is already a thread on Hakka tones and I have gone through it. Seriously, I found plenty useful info and links there. However, I don't seem to be able to find one that has got an audio file which can read to me the different tones of Hakka tones. Can anyone point me to one please?
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There will be no Wikipedia today. The English version of the site has blacked itself out in protest over the SOPA bill in the US House of Representatives and the analogous PIPA bill in the Senate.
Like a lot of legislation, it's impossible to tell at this point what actual impact the current bills would have if they were to become law, which they won't because, even if both passed, there at least needs to be a conference to settle any differences between them. They're too complicated and leave too much discretion to the executive and judicial branches to know how they would be implemented. Opponents are assuming, and there's usually good reason to do so, the worst case scenario. Prosecutors and civil litigants will take what you give them and then some more.
I'm not going to go into detail about the bills. From what I've seen, I'm satisfied that they will provide sufficient leeway to allow abuse of innocent 3rd parties, like open source software developers and small web sites which don't have the resources to research every link they post. For that reason they bother me. The use of the word "censorship" seems histrionic to me, but yeah, it could happen.
But that's not the only thing that bothers me. I make my living from intellectual property and I think it's a reasonable thing for creators and owners of such property to demand compensation for any use of it. This thesis is at the heart of the debate here, because many of the opponents of SOPA and PIPA, at heart, don't believe in copyright or any other intellectual property. It's not hard to find people openly contemptuous of it, from open source pioneer Richard Stallman to the Pirate Bay, a classic example of the sort of piracy-facilitating site that these bills target.
The Pirate Bay is very clear about what they are doing, even if they are being disingenuous about their culpability:
Only torrent files are saved at the server. That means no copyrighted and/or illegal material are stored by us. It is therefore not possible to hold the people behind The Pirate Bay responsible for the material that is being spread using the tracker. Any complaints from copyright and/or lobby organizations will be ridiculed and published at the site.
There are other sites though, which aren't so open about their motives and warez. Where SOPA and PIPA get really tricky is where they target sites that surreptitiously sell pirated content and knock-off products as legitimate, and of sites which "facilitate" such sales. There are two important points I would make about these matters:
The tension between these two points leads inexorably to a balancing effort. Any law which addresses these problems will have to be a combination of enforcement provisions and limitations on those provisions in order to protect 3rd parties.
There has already been a lot of compromise on SOPA and PIPA. The provision which would have required DNS administrators to police their databases is gone, for example. False claims of infringement under the bills can lead to damages against the claimant, including costs and attorneys' fees. There is an obvious effort going on to make the bills acceptable.
It's also worth noting, not necessarily as a defense of them, that these bills have broad bipartisan support. The sponsors are mostly Democrats, including some very liberal ones like Al Franken and John Conyers. In fact, in the Senate PIPA is basically a Democratic initiative with some Republican support. I'm not sure what conclusion to draw from this; it's not uncommon for either party to run roughshod over people's rights, but the opposition to SOPA/PIPA seems to me to be largely leftist in spite of the position of their representatives.
Rejecting the objectives of SOPA and PIPA out of hand is not a reasonable response unless you at least try to come up with some alternative. There is a problem to solve here. If you don't think there is a problem, then you are far out of the mainstream. Therefore my outrage today over "censorship" is tempered by my outrage over piracy. I hope and think that the end result of this process will be a more moderate bill that allows for increased enforcement of property rights.


text: Brian Mann New Rule Cracks Down On Bear Poaching In New York By Brian Mann • Apr 24, 2012 A new rule that took effect this year in New York state is designed to stop the illegal sale of black bear parts for use in Asian medicine and cooking. While the sale of parts is still allowed, hunters will now have to document that they were taken legally. The tiny village of Keene, N.Y., in the Adirondack Mountains is part of a trade network that supplies Asian apothecaries and restaurants from New York City to Seoul, South Korea.


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The Federal Aviation Administration early this fall is expected to receive a long-awaited advisory board report recommending that the government ease the unpopular safety requirement that all airline passengers turn off their personal electronic devices during takeoffs and landings.
As reported in a front-page Wall Street Journal story on Friday, a high level 28-member group of experts in July is preparing to argue that devices such as iPods, DVD players, game devices and tablets are not the threat to airline crew communications they were long thought to be below 10,000 feet. The issue of cellphones, however, remains controversial, and the draft report makes no recommendation on loosening the ban on mobile phones.
"As the consumer electronics industry has exploded," the draft report reads, the FAA's past approach of giving each airline flexibility in gauging the safety of specific devices "has become untenable." Surveys show that as many as a third of all passengers have ignored the prohibition.
The Journal cautions that the report is only a draft and could change.
The FAA in a statement said it "recognizes consumers are intensely interested in the use of personal electronics aboard aircraft. That is why we tasked a government-industry group to examine the safety issues and the feasibility of changing the current restrictions. At the group's request, the FAA has granted a two-month extension to complete the additional work necessary for the safety assessment. We will wait for the group to finish its work before we determine next steps."
Katie Connell, managing director of public relations and communications for the industry group Airlines for America, told Government Executive, "We look forward to the final report and working cooperatively with the FAA to safely expand customer use of electronic devices in flight."
Disgruntlement with the policy has been heard from consumers as well as lawmakers. In April, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta was lectured at a budget hearing by Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who scoffed at the alleged risk posed by passenger electronics and denied that they were a distraction from the flight attendants' safety lectures, according to a report in USAToday., because the crew doesn't insist that passengers put down their copies of "War and Peace."
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said, "It seems like these are rules for rules' sake that sometimes go beyond what is even practical, let alone what is safe." Heurta replied that it is difficult to implement a policy that requires airlines to differentiate among different types of devices. FAA policy is based on concern that some devices may interfere with aircraft navigation equipment.
But the lead agency with final approval for revising the restrictions — which go back to 1966 — is the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC is not commenting on the advisory board report before its final release.
In a December letter to Huerta, then-FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski urged the FAA "to enable greater use of tablets, e-readers, and other portable electronic devices during flight, consistent with public safety, guidance and procedures regarding the use of such devices." The FAA's review, the chairman continued, "comes at a time of tremendous innovation as mobile devices are increasingly interwoven in our daily lives. They empower people to stay informed and connected with friends and family, and they enable both large and small businesses to be more productive and efficient, helping drive economic growth and boost U.S. competitiveness."
FCC rules prohibit the use of cellphones using the 800 MHz frequency "because of potential interference to wireless networks on the ground," says the FCC's website. In March 2007, the FCC terminated a proceeding that it began in late 2004 to consider potentially lifting this ban. "The FCC determined that the technical information provided by interested parties in response to the proposal was insufficient to determine whether in-flight use of wireless devices on aircraft could cause harmful interference to wireless networks on the ground. Therefore, it decided at that time to make no changes in the rules prohibiting in-flight use of such devices."
The FAA in a June 2010 memo to airlines reiterated its procedures on enforcing rules on personal electronic devices, instructing them to monitor use of the devices and enforce restrictions. "If any person refuses to comply with the crewmember's instructions, after having been advised that their actions are contrary to the operator's policies and procedures, or regulatory requirements regarding the use of their PED, the crewmember should follow the operator's procedures and take appropriate actions in response to the noncompliance," including taking eyewitness statements, the directive states.
This May, the FCC voted to explore a broader use of wireless spectrum available on airplanes in response to commercial enterprises seeking to expand services, which eventually could further increase demand among passengers for in-flight privileges.
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Two of these nutty nibbles are only 225 calories.
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- Makes 24 tartlets
- 5 tablespoons butter, softened, plus 1 tablespoon melted butter
- 4 ounces light cream cheese
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup light-brown sugar
- 1/3 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup chopped pecans
- Mix softened butter and cream cheese in a bowl until smooth. Blend in flour, a bit at a time, confectioners' sugar and 1/8 teaspoon salt. Form dough into a disk. Cover in plastic wrap; refrigerate at least 3 hours. Heat oven to 325°F. Divide dough into 24 balls; press into two 12-cup mini muffin tins, pushing dough up over edges. Refrigerate. Mix brown sugar, chocolate, egg, melted butter, vanilla and remaining 1/8 teaspoon salt in a bowl until combined. Divide half the pecans among muffin cups; top with brown sugar mixture; sprinkle remaining pecans on top. Bake 20 minutes or until dough is lightly golden around edges. Let sit 5 minutes. Run tip of knife around cup edges to loosen. Remove when cool enough to handle; transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
Nutritional analysis per serving: 112 calories, 7 g fat (2.8 g saturated), 11.3 g carbs, 0.5 g fiber, 1.7 g protein


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Holidays parties means it's time to break out the cute cocktail dresses, but more importantly, it's when my jaw-dropping stilettos make the most appearances. Unfortunately, the lesson I've had to learn the hard way is that a night in heels and a few glasses of champagne do not make for happy feet during tomorrow's workout.
And I know my abused feet aren't the only ones suffering. Luckily, a perk of my job is that I get to bring these complaints straight to the experts to learn their simple tricks. To soothe your aching feet, making them run-ready by tomorrow just grab a tennis ball!
Dr. Frank Lipman, the wellness guru sought out by Donna Karan, Gwyenth Paltrow and Maggie Gyllenhaal, shared his DIY foot massage that helps release tightness and tension in muscles.
- While standing, place the tennis ball under the right foot. Roll your foot over the ball (from heel to toe), creating a mini-massage.
- If there are any extra tender spots, hold the ball there, and gently press into it. Then switch to the left side. Think of it as a foam roller stretch for your foot!
Note: it's normal to feel a little discomfort over tight, tender areas, but if you have sharp pain, stop immediately.Check out a video demo of the move here.
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Today, Mashable ran an article titled How Social Media Helped 174 Million People Get the Message About Malaria. The gist of it is that massive amounts of money and awareness have been raised by the social media efforts of Ashton Kutcher, CNN and the UN in the battle to stop the spread of malaria.
And how did all this social good happen? Social media. Specifically, a whole heck of a lot of Tweeting. Which just goes to show you that Twitter can be used for spreading a whole lot more than #BieberFever. Here's hoping Kutcher's efforts continue to fuel the growing social good + social media trend. Hey, if the guy could singlehandedly bring back the trucker hat, maybe he can make charity and social action just as hip. They're far more flattering on most people anyway. . .


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Is anyone else but me having trouble seeing today's comic? I just get a page-sized white space. The previous pages seem to be happy enough.
I may have to go back to my mirror site.
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To Do: Romance in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Miami, and New Orleans
New York by Kelly Bare
Obvious choice? Maybe. Wanna make something of it? The truth is, leaving this brash five-borough beast of a town off any list of superlative cities would be unthinkable. It's impossible to deny that the place that spawned Sex and the City and metrosexuals, G-strings and gossip rags, really did write the book—and publish the magazine article, and broadcast the Katie Couric interview, and bring you the reality-TV show—of love, American-style. Best of all, you don't have to get engaged to Donald Trump to enjoy the finest wooing and cooing New York has to offer. In a city full of dreamers, imagination works just as well.
Just witness how New York might seduce an innocent young girl writing at her kitchen table. It's July, and sultry. A rivulet of sweat is trickling down the back of her neck. Trucks and buses brush past her open window; a subway train—which she knows is packed with passengers, body to body—sails by, its deep rumble mixing with Latin music on the corner, mingling with exhaust fumes, and drifting in, uninvited, insistent, unrelenting. Even the Mister Softee man with his truck and his frozen treats and his tinkling, slightly forlorn tune can only transport her for a moment and then she's straight back into the rhythm of a city just below the boiling point. When the sun sinks and the asphalt cools, she knows that New York will play a more genteel lover, offering her and a date the Philharmonic in Central Park, with a bottle of wine during and fireworks after, and maybe fireworks after that.
She could just as easily close her eyes and imagine summer turning to fall, when the Greenmarket at Union Square has 17 varieties of apples trucked down from their leafy homes upstate and laid out in a rainbow between the bright orange pumpkins and dark, dusty beets. Before she knows it, it's wintertime, and her fingers are frozen from waving, trying to hail a taxi, but suddenly there's a handsome stranger in a bright red cashmere scarf who's offering her his cab and smiling, his grip firm as he helps her inside. Behind her, lovers glide arm in arm around the rink at Rockefeller Center, and she really can smell chestnuts roasting over an open flame 'round the corner at 50th and Fifth.
When she almost can't bear the cold for one more second, spring arrives. The elms in Central Park look like they're vibrating, with yellow-green buds on every winding bough. Oh, spring in New York, when hemlines go up, tense shoulders go down, and you can fall head-over-stiletto-heels on nearly every street corner, and buy your love a bauble ("Rolex? Rolex?") to prove it.
The ultimate romantic New York experience in any season may be simply losing oneself in the fray. In a city where passions run high and space is at a premium, the most private moments often are played out in very public forums, creating a kind of instant intimacy between strangers that ratchets up the intensity of everyday life. On the other hand, New Yorkers know when to look the other way, and exist by a code of willful ignorance that serves as a sort of synthetic privacy substitute. How easy—and thrilling—to hide together in plain sight.
MEET between the lions, on the steps of the New York Public Library at 42nd and Fifth; over a dozen gleaming bivalves, clam chowder, and beer at the counter of the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal; or at the Cherry Tavern in the East Village, where a beer and a shot will set you back only $5.
FIGHT on a subway platform. Don't be surprised if bystanders offer loose change for your performance.
HIDE & SULK at the Cloisters—the branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to medieval Europe (in Fort Tryon Park; take the A train to 190th Street.) Contemplate art, religion, and life, all with a view of the
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MAKE UP while strolling through midtown Manhattan's blocks and blocks of bling (Tiffany & Co., Cartier, H. Stern, Harry Winston, the 47th Street Diamond District). If that's too heavily symbolic, try either of New York's breathtaking public gardens. The New York (Bronx) Botanical Garden's yearly orchid show, a stamen-and-pistil showdown, will provide an exotic, slightly steamy backdrop for heartfelt apologies. Later in the spring, check out the riotous cherry blossoms or luscious lily pools at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden—with the conservatory next to it all set up for one of the umpteen weddings held there. Who could stay mad? Seal the reconciliation with dinner at the River Café.
HAVE DARING SEX in the backseat of a cab. Scientists have not yet explained why this is so exciting, but it is. Other options: between stops on the G train or late at night in a horse-drawn carriage in Central Park.
WHO ELSE: Donald Trump and Marla ("Best Sex I Ever Had") Maples; Tony Randall and Jack Klugman; Derek Jeter and the women of the Bronx; F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald; Woody Allen and Diane Keaton; Woody Allen and Mia Farrow; Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn; Holly Golightly and Tiffany's. Anyone running through traffic to meet the love of his/her life at the top of the Empire State Building
ONLY IN NEW YORK CAN YOU... stay up all night and then go out for dinner; ogle the other beautiful people over the $62 fruits de mer and champagne at Blue Ribbon in SoHo or Brooklyn's Park Slope; wash down your duck meatloaf and gravy fries with a milkshake at Chelsea's Diner 24; have a Chinese


text: Celebrity splitsville: Star couples who've called it quitsPhoto by Jag Gundu/Getty Images, Canada.com 09.18.2014Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne arrive on the red carpet at the 2013 MuchMusic Video Awards on June 16, 2013 in Toronto, Canada. Chavril, Canada's music power-couple of Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger, are rumoured to be getting a divorce after only 14 months of marital bliss, according to US Weekly. "It's over," a source told the magazine, according to the Daily Mail. "He has been going around L.A. and telling people that they're divorcing." Well there you have it. An anonymous source told a gossip rag that Chad Kroeger is inexplicably walking around Los Angeles telling people his marriage is ending. What doubt could remain that this is a totally credible story? "Chad is just a complete jerk in the way he talks to her, and the way he talks to people in general," a friend of Avril's apparently told US Weekly. "A lot of her friends don't like him." There you have it: Chad Kroeger is a complete jerk and true love is a lie. For further evidence of an impending split, observers have pointed to Avril's recent public appearances without her wedding ring. She also deleted a tweet from July in which she gushed over the size of said wedding ring, although that could well have been because tweeting about the size of your jewelry is rather a tacky exercise. Let's hope a divorce doesn't put an end to further Chavril duets, though.Photo by Jag Gundu/Getty Images / Canada.comActress Melanie Griffith (L) and actor Antonio Banderas arrive at Sony Pictures Classics 20th Anniversary Party at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2011 in Toronto, Canada. Griffith filed for divorce from Banderas on Friday June 6, 2014 in Los Angeles, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the end of their 18-year marriage.Sonia Recchia / Getty Images... safe to say she's going to need to get that tattoo removed.CRISTINA QUICLER / AFP/Getty ImagesSinger/actress Jennifer Lopez (L) celebrates the launch of her new single, "Goin' In" with her boyfriend Casper Smart at Hyde Bellagio at the Bellagio May 27, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The pair reportedly called it quits in May, according to The Daily Mail and TMZ.com. The couple, who were together for two-and-a-half years, reportedly "had problems for a while."Ethan Miller / Getty ImagesGwyneth Paltrow and husband Chris Martin are splitting up, according to reports.Axel Schmidt / APCalling it quits after 10 years of marriage, the celebrity couple released the following statement on the website Goop.com: "It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate. We have been working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of it separated, to see what might have been possible between us, and we have come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much we will remain separate ... We are, however, and always will be a family, and in many ways we are closer than we have ever been. We are parents first and foremost, to two incredibly wonderful children and we ask for their and our space and privacy to be respected at this difficult time. We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and co-parent, we will be able to continue in the same manner." The couple have two children together Apple, 9, and Moses, 7.Getty Images / Getty ImagesRhonda Adkins, wife of country star Trace Adkins these last 16 years, has kicked him to the curb. She filed the divorce paperwork on March 25 in Tennessee, citing the usual "irreconcilable differences." Adkins, you'll recall, has been in booze rehab recently, after a drunken brawl with a Trace Adkins' impersonator on board a cruise ship. Rhonda wants alimony, primary custody of the kids, and to remain the main beneficiary of his life insurance, TMZ.com reported. Trace is 52. The children, all girls, are Mackenzie, 16, Brianna, 12, and Trinity, 9.Rick Diamond / Getty Images for CMTRobin Thicke and Paula Patton are calling it quits. A representative for the actress confirmed Monday that she and the singer are ending their nine-year marriage. "We will always love each other and be best friends, however, we have mutually decided to separate at this time," the entertainers said in a joint statement. Thicke, 36, and Patton, 38, met when they were teenagers. They had a son, Julian Fuego Thicke, in 2010.Christopher Polk / Getty Images for NARASPeople magazine is reporting that actress Hilary Duff and her husband, former Edmonton Oiler Mike Comrie, have separated. A rep told the magazine that the 26-year-old actress, author, and entertainer and her 33-year-old husband "have mutually decided (upon) an amicable separation." "They remain best friends and will continue to be in each other's lives. They are dedicated to loving and parenting their amazing son, and ask for privacy at this time," the rep concluded.Screengrab / Twitter.com via @HilaryDuffKhloe Kardashian is set to file for divorce from fallen NBA star Lamar Odom, numerous published reports suggest. Sources told TMZ that Kardashian will cite irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split. The gossip website said that the final straw for the buxom reality TV star was a bizarre video posted by Odom where he boasts about cheating on Kardashian. The past year has been a rocky one for the struggling couple. Among their woes were Odom's addiction to crack and other antics that have further bruised the tarnished Kardashian brand. They married in 2009.Angela Weiss / Getty ImagesMarried stage and film actors Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs are splitting up. A publicist for the couple announced the breakup in a statement that said the separation was "jointly decided" and that "primary focus and concern is for their son." The pair met while appearing in Rent off-Broadway and married in 2003 after dating for seven years. They co-starred on Broadway in the show Wild Party in 2000 and on the TV show Private Practice. Their son, Walker, was born in 2009.Frederick M. BrownFILE - This Jan. 11, 2011 file photo shows cast member Ashton Kutcher, left, and Demi Moore at the premiere for "No Strings Attached" in Los Angeles. A Los Angeles judge finalized Moore and Kutcher's divorce on Tuesday Nov. 26, 2013, less than a year after Kutcher's petitioned to end the couple's marriage.Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom have called it quits. In this 2009 file photo, they attend the Mamounia hotel inauguration on November 26, 2009 in Marrakech, Morocco.Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images / Pascal Le Segretain/Getty ImagesThis April 5, 2009 file photo shows Kris Jenner, left, and her husband Bruce Jenner at the 44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas. The celebrity couple have confirmed they separated a year ago, after 22 years together. In an interview with US Weekly magazine hitting newsstands Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, Kris Jenner said "There is no animosity. We are united and committed to our family."DAN STEINBERG / APA wrecking ball has hit Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth's relationship. Representatives for both celebrities confirmed Monday that the couple have called off their engagement. The 23-year-old Hemsworth proposed to 20-year-old Cyrus last year. They met on the set of the 2010 movie "The Last Song."Larry Busacca / Getty Images for EJAFFILE - In a Oct. 20, 2007 file photo, actors Catherine Zeta-Jones,left, and Michael Douglas are interviewed by members of the media as they arrive at "A Fine Romance" third annual benefit at Sony Pictures in Culver City, Calif. On Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, publicist Cece Yorke, a spokeswoman for Catherine Zeta-Jones, says the actress and her husband, Michael Douglas, "are taking some time apart to evaluate and work on their marriage."George Clooney And Stacy Keibler have split after two years together, People magazine reports. The 52-year-old Oscar winner and the 33-year-old former wrestler called it quits over her desire to have children, a friend told the magazine. "Stacy called it quits. She wants to have children and a family someday. She knows where George stands on that," the source said. "They talked and they quietly stopped being a couple several weeks ago." However, the friend said the golden duo remain on good terms despite spending increasing amounts of time apart over the last few months, "They haven't seen each other in a while and they've both been working so much, so in recent months, they've started growing apart," a second source said. The couple had been together two years.John Shearer / Getty Images for Hollywood FilmProminent art collector Charles Saatchi said Sunday he is divorcing his celebrity chef wife Nigella Lawson because she did not publicly defend his reputation after images emerged of him grasping her throat in a posh London restaurant. Tabloid newspapers last month published photos of the incident, which Saatchi described as a "playful tiff" during an intense debate about the couple's children. The 70-year-old Saatchi was given a police "caution" after admitting assault.' / 'Deadmau5's whirlwind romance with Kat Von D appears to have reached its end. The electronic music producer from Niagara Falls, Ont. — whose real name is Joel Zimmerman — and the American tattoo artist and reality TV star have each presented their side of the breakup on social media. Just before Christmas, the multiple Grammy-nominated, mouse-eared dance star proposed to Von D via Twitter, and announced shortly afterward that she had accepted. But on Wednesday, Von D took to the social-media website to announce that the pair were no longer a couple.David BeckerBilly Ray Cyrus' marriage is achy breaky broken. The country singer's wife has filed for divorce after 19 years of marriage, published reports say. Court records show Tish Finley Cyrus filed Thursday in Los Angeles, citing irreconcilable differences. She's seeking custody of their 13-year-old son and spousal support. It's the couple's second divorce attempt. Billy Ray Cyrus filed for divorce in 2010 but later withdrew his petition.Actress Jane Lynch (R) and her wife Lara Embry are reportedly divorcing after three years of marriage. Lynch married Dr. Lara Embry in 2010 in Massachusetts. She told People magazine in a statement Monday that splitting up was "a difficult decision for us as we care very deeply about one another." Lynch asked for privacy for the family, which includes Embry's daughter. The 52-year-old actress met Embry, a 44-year-old clinical psychologist, in 2009 and they wed on Memorial Day in 2010.Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images / The Windsor StarFILE - This June 28, 2011 file photo originally released by InStyle, David Arquette, left, and Courteney Cox attend the Beau Joie Champagne Art Of Elysium Dinner hosted by Rachel Bilson and held at Arquette's home in Beverly Hills, Calif. A Los Angeles judge finalized Cox and Arquette's divorce on Tuesday May 28, 2013. The pair were married in 1999 and announced they were separating in 2010.Robert Pattinson and Kristin Stewart called it quits in 2013.Handout / GettyJustin Bieber, left, with Selena Gomez have been on-again-off-again. As of March 2014, the romance was off -- despite a few racy Instgram photos shared to the singer's account early in the month.Instagram / InstagramCourt papers filed April 26, show Aldean has filed for divorce from his wife Jessica Ussery.Single again? Us Weekly says Katy Perry and John Mayer are done with each other; People says the same, apparently with different sources. Us tempers the heartbreak: "She's leaving the window open," a source says. "They have both been so focused on work." She's 28. He's 35.FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP/Getty ImagesAfter a two-year engagement, Hollywood couple Jay Baruchel and Allison Pill have called it quits, and if Twitter is any indication, it wasn't a mutual decision. "I won't be on Twitter for awhile gang. Getting dumped rules," Baruchel tweeted.Screengrab / Google imagesIn this Sept. 23, 2012 file photo, actress Ashley Judd, right, and her husband, Dario Franchitti, arrives at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Nokia Theatre, in Los Angeles. Judd's spokeswoman confirmed a Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, report from People that the 44-year-old actress and 39-year-old Scottish race car driver are ending their marriage.Matt Sayles / Invision/APIn this May 14, 2012 file photo, actress Liberty Ross with director Rupert Sanders pose for the media at the World Premiere of the film, "Snow White and the Huntsman," at a cinema in central London. Ross filed for divorce on Friday, Jan. 28, 2013 in Los Angeles, roughly five months after it was revealed that Sanders had engaged in a brief affair with actress Kristen Stewart.Britney Spears and fiance/former manager Jason Trawick have reportedly called it quits, according to TMZ. The split is said to have been amicable.File / Google ImageSexiest Man Alive Bradley Cooper and actress Zoe Saldana played a couple in The Words, but in real life, they are a couple no longer.Jonathan WenkBethenny Frankel And Jason Hoppy are separating after two years of marriage.TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP/Getty ImagesNew York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow and girlfriend of two months Camilla Belle have reportedly broken up, according to Us Weekly.. / Getty ImagesHeidi Klum & Seal: Just a couple of weeks into 2012, the supermodel mom of four and the R&B star announced they were divorcing after what felt like forever (but was really only seven years). If that wasn't heartbreaking enough, things got ugly when Heidi's hunky bodyguard, Martin Kristen, was factored into the equation. Klum and Kristen are still an item.Andy Kropa / Getty ImagesActress Mayim Bialik attends The Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences' performers peer group cocktail reception held at the Sheraton Hotel on August 20, 2012 in Universal City, California. The Big Bang Theory star recently took to Twitter to announce her plans to divorce her husband of nine years, Mike Stone.Jason Merritt / Getty ImagesA representative for Joe and Tina Simpson reportedly released the following statement to PerezHilton.com regarding their decision to go their separate ways: "It is an amicable split and there is no third party involved. Any other related allegations are completely false. The family appreciates your respect for their privacy at this time."Screengrab / GIUS Actor Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes - Court records filed in a New York City court indicate the couple's divorce case was closed Monday, Aug. 20. Holmes and Cruise said in July they had reached an agreement less than two weeks into their headline-dominating divorce case. Their lawyers and representatives wouldn't disclose details. The couple were married in Italy in 2006. They have a 6-year-old daughter, Suri.JOHN D MCHUGH / Getty ImagesWill Arnett & Amy Poehler: They say a shared sense of humour with your partner is the key to a long-lasting marriage. Well they were wrong, at least for Up All Night star (and Toronto native) Arnett and Parks and Recreation's Poehler, who called it quits in September after nine years and two sons.Jason Merritt / Getty ImagesJohnny Depp & Vanessa Paradis: After what seemed like a blissful 14 years of being happily unmarried, the actor and his stunning French singer/model partner, who have two kids together, confirmed they were parting ways in June. First reaction: Aww, that's too bad. Followup reaction: Johnny Depp is back on the market!MARTIN BUREAU / Getty ImagesRhea Perlman & Danny DeVito: After 30 years? Really? It was hard to believe the funny former Taxi co-stars had called it off in October after three decades and three kids. Though DeVito has since told media he and Perlman are "working on" their marriage. We guess there's hope yet.Handout / Getty ImagesShareAdjustCommentPrint Comments We encourage all readers to share their views on our articles and blog posts. We are committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion, so we ask you to avoid personal attacks, and please keep your comments relevant and respectful. If you encounter a comment that is abusive, click the "X" in the upper right corner of the comment box to report spam or abuse. We are using Facebook commenting. Visit our FAQ page for more information. xShareCelebrity splitsville: Star couples who've called it quits Email Twitter Facebook Pinterest Google Linkedin


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From today's New York Times: The National Archives made available on Wednesday more than 11 hours of tape recordings that show President Richard M. Nixon maneuvering in 1972 to remake the Republican Party in his image, crush South Vietnamese opposition to his efforts to end the Vietnam War and dole out patronage to ethnic groups based on how much they supported his re-election....
The most dramatic and revelatory tape recordings involving abuses of government power were disclosed in 1996 and included Nixon's conversations as recorded by a hidden taping system as the Watergate scandal enveloped and eventually forced him from office.
The newly released recordings provide a fresh glimpse of the political Nixon, especially in the heady moments of his 1972 landslide re-election victory over his Democratic opponent, Senator George McGovern, as the Watergate clouds were just beginning to form.
The documents span a wider period and include a memorandum that may intrigue students of Nixon's character. In the document, written in December 1970 to H. R. Haldeman, a top aide, Nixon expresses both anger and pain that his aides have not been able to establish an image of him as a warm and caring person. He makes several suggestions about how this could be accomplished, warning frequently in the single-spaced 11-page document that it must appear that the examples of his warmth were discovered by others and not promoted by White House aides. For the rest, and links to tapes, click here.


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OK..I don't know about any of you…But I feel super accomplished today!!!Do you want to know what I did? Guess? How about I give you some hints….it took about a week to complete, and involved a few towels, water, a wrench, a bowl, some more water, some roto-rooter super gloop, putty, more water, a paper bag, *Did I mention the wrench already? yeah?…OK. I used it a lot* two plastic trash bags, a bucket, a hanger, rice and a few assorted odds-n-ends!! If you guessed that I…. (more…)
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
The Second Foreclosure Tsunami Is Coming, And Is About To Kill Any Hopes Of A "Housing Bottom"
In what appears to be surprising news for some, Reuters has an article titled "Americans brace for next foreclosure wave" whose key premise is that "a painful part two of the [housing] slump looks set to unfold: Many more U.S. homeowners face the prospect of losing their homes this year as banks pick up the pace of foreclosures." Thank the robosettlement, where in exchange for a few wrist slaps, contract law was thoroughly trampled by America's attorneys general, but far more importantly to the country's crony capitalist system, the foreclosure pipeline was once again unclogged, and whether one does or does not have a legal title on a given house, the banks are now fully in their right to foreclose on it. What this means also is that America's record shadow housing inventory, which is far greater than any fabricated number the NAR reports on a monthly basis, is about to get unleashed on buyers, shifting the supply curve much further to the right, as up to 9 million new properties slowly but surely appear on the market. And while many will no longer be able to live mortgage free, forcing them to go out and rent (and no longer be able to afford incremental iGizmos), it also means that the prevalent price of homes is about to take another major tumble, making buffoons out of all those who, once again, called for a housing bottom in early 2012. Here's the simply math: there will be no housing bottom until the 9 million excess homes clear. Period. Until then it is a buyer's market, even if said buyer is unable to obtain bank financing, as ultimately it will be the seller who is forced to monetize (or vacate if underwater) their home in a world of ever diminishing cashflows. The fear of the supply onslaught will only make the dumpage that much faster.
As a reminder, this is what America's recover shadow inventory looked like recently:
For those curious how much more foreclosed properties are about to hit the market, we have the answer. Courtesy of RealtyTrac we know how many homes were foreclosed upon in the period until November 2010, when robosigning became a prevalent, if short-lived issue, or roughly 330,000 a month. In the aftermath, this average has dropped to 227,000 a month: a roughly 100,000 difference in less foreclosures each month! Which means that in the deferred amount of foreclosures, over and above the already endogenous deterioration in home prices and declining household income, means that there is at least 1.6 million in homes that are just waiting for a green light to be foreclosed upon, sending shadow inventory in the double digit millions, and unleashing a selling wave unlike any seen before. Behold the deffered foreclosures in all their glory:
Translation: Just like John Paulson lost billions on his massively wrong way bets that housing would soar (ironically, after getting the move lower correct), so Goldman's recent bet that properties will rebound is about to cost the firm dearly.
Because at the end of the day, it is all about supply and demand, or, said otherwise, money.
Reuters explains further:
"We are right back where we were two years ago. I would put money on 2012 being a bigger year for foreclosures than 2010," said Mark Seifert, executive director of Empowering & Strengthening Ohio's People (ESOP), a counseling group with 10 offices in Ohio.
"Last year was an anomaly, and not in a good way," he said.
In 2011, the "robo-signing" scandal, in which foreclosure documents were signed without properly reviewing individual cases, prompted banks to hold back on new foreclosures pending a settlement.
Five major banks eventually struck that settlement with 49 U.S. states in February. Signs are growing the pace of foreclosures is picking up again, something housing experts predict will again weigh on home prices before any sustained recovery can occur.
Mortgage servicing provider Lender Processing Services reported in early March that U.S. foreclosure starts jumped 28 percent in January.
Well, no. LPS which is going through legal troubles of its own, unfortunately, is very much, less than credible. For the only real source on foreclosure data, we go to RealtyTrac, where we find that February foreclosures hit 206,900, the second lowest in many years, and higher only than December 2011's period low 205,000 (see chart above). But while there is no need to fabricate data, foreclosures will eventually come, as banks, first slowly, then very, very fast, start sending out foreclosure notices. What happens next will be entire neighborhoods with "Foreclosure" signs in front of the houses, doing miracles to prevailing home prices.
A January report by the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project in New York found that in the first half of 2011 the number of 90-day pre-foreclosure notices in New York City outnumbered court foreclosure actions by a ratio of 14 to one, indicating that while proceedings were initiated against many homeowners, they were left incomplete.
"Now the banks have a settlement, foreclosure numbers for 2012 are going to be high," said NEDAP co-director Josh Zinner.
A recent survey by the California Reinvestment Coalition, an umbrella group of nearly 300 non-profit groups in the state, of member agencies found 75 percent of respondents expected increased demand for their foreclosure prevention services in 2012 but more than a third had to scale back services because of funding cuts.
"Funding is a major concern given what our members expect for this year," said associate director Kevin Stein.
Needless to say, the return of reality, i.e., when one actually has to pay for living somewhere, instead of living 5 years without making a mortgage payment like the Ritters, means a return of ever louder calls for socialist debt principal reduction. What is odd is that nobody seems to care: certainly not the millions of other hard working Americans who would end up footing the bill.
All this has non-profits intensifying calls for the Federal Housing Finance Agency to drop its opposition to allowing the government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac it regulates to reduce principal for underwater homeowners.
Principal reduction involves reducing the amount borrowers owe in order to make a loan modification affordable for struggling homeowners. Republicans and the FHFA oppose principal reduction because of the risk of "moral hazard"- that homeowners who do not need help will seek to abuse largesse and have their mortgages reduced too.
"Until banks engage in meaningful principal reduction as a matter of course," ESOP's Seifert said after a recent protest at a Chase branch in Cleveland, "this crisis will not end."
Well then it won't. Because since every bank asset is another bank's liability, unless the government pulls a GSE, and funds the wholesale mortgage reduction (call it the "final solution" of ubiquitous and unquestioned socialism), banks will not do this. And while this next bank bailout is only years (at most) away, in the meantime we will see banks do just what they always do: foreclose once again, and release the pent up vacant homes into the market. Which for anyone who has taken Econ 101 means prices are about to take yet another dive lower, and the entire housing recovery plan can be scrapped. As to what it means for the Fed's plans for future easing, well... we believe our readers are smart enough to figure this out on their own.
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