"Toddler" is 20 Years Old, and Forever Young, Due to Baffling Medical Condition

Brooke Greenberg may be 20 years old, but she charcoal always trapped central the physique and apperception of a toddler, due to a abstruseness medical action that has baffled medical experts for years.
"From age one to four, Brooke changed. She got a little bit bigger," explained her father, Howard, during the family's actualization on Thursday's "Katie" with Katie Couric. "But age four, four to five, she stopped."
Since then, Brooke's acme and weight of 16 pounds and 20 inches accept remained a constant. She wears diapers, is pushed in a stroller, gets fed through a agriculture tube due to a too-small esophagus, and communicates like an baby would, estimates her mother Melanie.
"Like 6 months," she explained on the show. "If she's happy, she'll cackle and laugh."
Doctors accept told Melanie and Howard, who reside in Maryland, that there is no added accepted case like Brooke's in the world. And at atomic one medical able believes that Brooke's action could authority the key to the bubbler of youth.
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"Here's a woman 20 years old who has actually chock-full aging," explained Dr. Eric Schadt, administrator of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multi-Scale Biology at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York, who aswell appeared on the broadcast. He said he took an absorption in Brooke's case afterwards years of her accepting no analysis from added doctors, and that her case could "blow a accomplished acreage of science advanced open."
This is absolutely why the Goldberg ancestors has fabricated the accommodation to go accessible with their story, Howard told Yahoo! Shine. "The acumen we are accomplishing it isn't to put my ancestors on television," he said. "Finding out that her DNA architecture is absolutely altered than anyone else's brought to our absorption that we could help. So eventually, at the end of the rainbow, there will be something that comes out of all this. I accept anybody is actuality for a reason."
Howard and Melanie accommodate affliction to Brooke day in and day out, and accept watched their adolescent daughter, 17-year-old Carly, concealment her earlier sister by developing commonly over the years. They accept they accept generally acquainted abandoned in their struggle.
"It hasn't been easy," Melanie told Couric. "We don't accept anybody absolutely to about-face to, to acquaint us what to expect." Doctors accept no way to even actuate how continued Brooke may live.
Still, her parents say they yield alleviation in the actuality that she's actuality now, and accept she does not charge to be convalescent of anything.
"If somebody agape on the aperture appropriate now and said, 'It's a affirmed pill. Accord this to Brooke and she'll be fixed,' able-bodied aboriginal I would say to him, 'She's not broken.' And B, I would say, 'Thank you, but no acknowledge you," Howard said in a video filmed for the "Katie" show.
To analysis Brooke's condition, scientists are account every individual letter of the adolescent woman's DNA. "That would fill, like, 3,000 of the Harry Potter books that my kids like. That's how big her genome is," Dr. Schadt explained, abacus that, so far, scientists accept put her genes in bake-apple flies to see if it helps them reside longer. He added that the Greenberg's yield alleviation in the actuality Brooke has aswell helped with analysis into altitude including Alzheimer's, affection ache and cancer.
"That," he said, "is a appealing amazing allowance to be able to accord to humanity."

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Justin Bieber sued by ex-bodyguard for assault, wages

 
Has Justin Bieber angry violent?
A above babysitter for The Biebs sued the pop superstar Thursday gluttonous added than $420,000 in overtime and added accomplishment and claims he was again addled by the accompanist during an October confrontation.
Moshe Benabou's accusation claims Bieber berated him and again punched him in the chest afterwards a altercation about how to handle a affiliate of the Grammy-nominated singer's entourage. Afterwards he absolved away, Bieber accursed him, Benabou's accusation claims.
Benabou claims he was afield told that he wasn't advantaged to accept overtime admitting alive 14 to 18 hour canicule amid March 2011 and October 2012.
An email bulletin beatific to Bieber's arranger was not anon returned.
Benabou is gluttonous bearding amercement on the advance and array claims and $421,261 in contributed overtime, vacation and added allowance benefits.
"For about two years Mr. Benabou adherent himself absolutely to ensuring Mr. Bieber's claimed safety," Benabou's attorney, Ilan Heimanson, wrote in a statement. "Mr. Benabou deserved, as does any employee, to be advised with respect, address and in accordance with the law. Unfortunately, he was not. "
It hasn't been the best anniversary for Bieber. Over the weekend, TMZ appear photos in which he appeared to be smoker marijuana, sending the media and his admirers into a frenzy.
The "Baby" accompanist has yet to acknowledge to the photos, but he tweeted that he is still "growing and learning," adding: "I never wish to let any of you down".
Following the photo incident, antic website 4Chan got the byword #CutForBieber trending on Twitter if users acquaint photos that appeared to appearance "fans" acid themselves because Bieber had allegedly smoked marijuana.
The accompanist aswell has yet to animadversion on the prank.
Bieber's anthology "Believe" ranked No. 6 in 2012 sales with added than 1.3 actor units sold.
In October Los Angeles prosecutors beneath to book accuse adjoin Bieber afterwards award bereft affirmation that he punched and kicked a columnist alfresco a cine amphitheater abreast his home in Calabasas, Calif., a ages earlier.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Images of a dead bin Laden still dangerous: U.S. lawyer

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twenty months afterwards U.S. appropriate armament asleep Osama bin Laden, the United States told a cloister on Thursday it is not accessible to absolution images taken afterwards the al Qaeda leader's afterlife because they still ability advance to violence.
A federal appeals cloister heard arguments in a accusation over whether the government accept to absolution the images beneath the Freedom of Advice Act, a 1966 law that guarantees accessible admission to some government records.
President Barack Obama's administering credibility to an barring in the law that covers abstracts classified in the absorption of civic defense.
"They'll be acclimated to aggravate tensions. They'll be acclimated to affect castigating attacks," Justice Department advocate Robert Loeb told the U.S. Cloister of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Riots or added forms of abandon could abuse American soldiers as able-bodied as civilians in Afghanistan, Loeb said.
The government has 52 photographs or videos - the average has not been appear - from the May 2011 arrest in which U.S. appropriate armament asleep bin Laden afterwards added than a decade of searching. The images appearance a asleep bin Laden at his admixture in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the busline of his physique to a U.S. address and his burying at sea, the government has said.
Some of the photographs were taken so the CIA could conduct facial acceptance assay to affirm the body's identity, according to cloister papers.
Two of the court's three judges, Merrick Garland and Judith Rogers, asked questions advertence they were absorbed to adjourn to the acumen of admiral in affidavit cloister affidavits advising adjoin release.
"They're cogent us that could aftereffect in afterlife - not just the absolution of abstruse information, but death," Garland said. "Is that not something we should adjourn to?"
Michael Bekesha, a advocate for Judicial Watch, a government babysitter accumulation suing for the images, said the government bootless to appearance the crisis of absolution the less-graphic burying images.
Judicial Watch aswell claims that CIA admiral ability not accept followed procedures if they classified the images as secret.
A accommodation from the appeals cloister is acceptable in the next few months. A lower cloister adjudicator sided with the government in April.
The case is Judicial Watch Inc v. Department of Defense, U.S. Cloister of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, No. 12-5137.

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Couple Celebrates 80th Wedding Anniversary, Shares Secrets to Lasting Marriage

On Nov. 25, 1932, FDR had just defeated Herbert Hoover, the circadian bi-weekly amount two cents, and Ann Shawah said "I do" to John Betar in Harrison, N.Y.
Fast advanced through 13 presidents and 80 years to 2012: the Betars are still appropriately married. After 5 children, 14 grandchildren and 16 abundant children, the brace from Fairfield, Conn., will bless their 80th alliance ceremony Sunday.
"We are so blessed. We are fortunate," John Betar, 101, said.
"We are actual fortunate. It can be again and repeated," Ann, 97, echoed. "It is actual adulation and understanding. We acquire had that. We accede it a blessing."
Humble Beginnings
John Betar met Ann Shawah growing up in the aforementioned Syrian association in Bridgeport, Conn. Betar immigrated to America as a adolescent adolescent in 1921 with his brother, he explained, abutting his ancestor who put down roots for them in Bridgeport. After accessory grammar school, Betar began alive as a bake-apple bagman and met Ann Shawah, the babe of Syrian immigrants, in the neighborhood.
"I fell for her appropriate away," he said. "I acclimated to acquire a Ford Roaster and I acclimated to aces her and her accompany and drive them to top school. Gradually she admired me and we got together."
It was hardly added complicated than that. Ann was abiding to be affiliated to addition man, 20 years her senior, whom her parents anticipation would be the best provider for their daughter. The 17-year-old was beneath than admiring with the adjustment and taken with Betar, again 21. Breaking with attitude and traveling adjoin her family's wishes, the two eloped.
"At 17, you admiration if you're authoritative the appropriate choice," she said. "I had developed up with him and we had acceptable times calm and we knew ceremony added actual well. And it's angry out to be 80 years. ….God seems to acquire been with us. And we've been actual advantageous and wonderful."
The two congenital a activity together, a home, a ancestors and lived out their own adaptation of the American dream. Betar connected peddling bake-apple and in 1938, opened up his own grocery store, Betar's Market, in the south end of Bridgeport.
"We formed harder and never got annoyed of authoritative money," he said. "This is the acreage of opportunity."
Ann backward at home and aloft their children. "She was a abundant mother," Betar said. "She aloft 5 accouchement and she was a admirable caretaker."
Five accouchement spawned 14 grandchildren and 16 abundant children. The brace said the after ancestors "bring new life" and ablaze into their lives.
"Last year at [John's] 100th altogether affair ... there was accumulation of little 2 year olds and 5 year olds and a accumulation that's just axis 19 and 20," Ann recalled. "We had it at the bank and we had fireworks. It was actual special. The adolescent accouchement went out on the bank and wrote 'Happy Altogether Jiddo,' [Grandpa in Arabic], in the sand, all forth the beach. ... How can you not feel God's appropriate with you and absolution you?"
Along with blissful moments and acceptable memories like this one came bad times for the Betars.
"The hardest affair in our activity was accident two of our children. That's the sad part. It's one of the affliction affair a ancestor can face is accident a child, no amount how old they are or how adolescent they are," Ann said.
But admitting the aggravating moments that can analysis or breach a marriage, the two acquire backward together.
"There are so abounding things in a lifetime that can accomplish you very, actual blessed and very, actual sad, but if you can do it calm again it's happiness," Ann said.
That's easier said than done for abounding couples today in the U.S. area the annulment amount hovers about 40 to 50 percent. What's their secret?
"They acquire this admirable adeptness to acquire activity as it comes," their babe Renee Betar said. "They acquire a way of aggravating to attending about at the things that they do acquire -- the ancestors and the blessings. They came from a bearing area there is such account for ceremony added and caring."
The Betars accede themselves "fortunate." Hesitant to allotment out admonition to newlyweds, they ceremony offered simple, allegorical mantras to a abiding marriage.
"Get along. Compromise. Reside aural your agency and be content," Betar said, afore adding, "And let your wife be the boss."
"We don't acquire bosses," she said. Her advice: don't authority a grudge.
"You apperceive what your commitments are and you try to reside by them and accept one another. If you don't authority a grudge, you can face anything," Ann said.
The brace still lives apart on the bank in Fairfield and has kept active, accusation the boundaries of aging. In their after years, Ann apparent a hidden aptitude as an artisan and took up painting in oils and watercolors. The two chef soup together, consistently from scratch. (The retired bake-apple peddler-turned-grocer continues to accomplish outings to boutique for the best aftermath and can't advice but allocate recommendations to adolescent barter at the store, his babe reports, saying: "Oh no, don't buy that amazon if you wish to eat it tonight.") They absorb their canicule account and proudly befitting up with what's traveling on in the world.
Celebrating 80 Years of Marriage
On Sunday, the brace will mark their 80th alliance ceremony with a quiet anniversary amidst by ancestors and accompany at the St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church in Bridgeport, area they are aboriginal founding members.
Ann said one of her daughters ordered a block for the break and the chef alleged back, hardly confused, to affirm that it should apprehend -- "Happy 80th Anniversary" instead of "Happy 80th Birthday."
After eighty years, Betar is still candied on his helpmate and she is still candied on him.
"He is a admirable man. He is a actual giving man to his children, to his family, to humans that charge it. He is a actual generous, giving man," she said. "Can you accusation me for active with him for 80 years?"
To the after ancestors of accouchement and grandchildren, the Betars serve as role models for how to reside and adulation in life.
"I'm consistently destroyed abroad by their absurd optimism, abysmal faculty of benevolence and modesty," said granddaughter Heather Mitchell of Fairfield, Conn. "They are accurate beacons -- adorning humans who afford such joy after even alive it."

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Ryan Gosling gets ugly for ‘Only God Forgives’

We'd abhorrence to see the added guy.

 

One of Hollywood's a lot of handsome arch men isn't abashed to get his face burst in "Fight Club"-style for the beauteous affiche of his accessible thriller, "Only God Forgives."
The blur is one of the a lot of advancing of the abounding projects that the in-demand brilliant has in the works, as it reunites Gosling with Nicolas Winding Refn, the administrator that guided him to band hero cachet with endure year's beautiful neo-noir sleeper hit, "Drive." Really, that blur had audiences cerebration they were transported aback to the '80s and abnormality about a television appearance produced by Michael Mann ... but, you know, way cooler.
"Drive" absolutely advantaged in the bit of the ol' ultraviolence, but if the affiche is any indication, "Only God Forgives" will yield all of the batterings, shootings and battle to even added active (and gruesome) levels. The Bangkok-set abstruseness follows an English bent arbiter (Gosling) who runs a Thai battle club as a foreground for his family's biologic smuggling operation. He is eventually affected by his adamant Lady MacBeth-like mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) to clue down and annihilate the alone amenable for his brother's contempo death, who ends up getting a retired badge administrator who calls himself The Angel of Vengeance.

Fans of the electronica-heavy "Drive" soundtrack will be blessed to apperceive that the activity reunites Refn with artisan Cliff Martinez. Actually, in an account with Empire Magazine (reported by MTV Movies), Refn describes "Only God Forgives" as getting in the aforementioned attitude as "Drive" beyond the board, adage it's "based on absolute emotions, but set in a acute reality. It's a bogie tale."
Perhaps what's a lot of agitative of all is that Gosling describes Refn's cine for "Only God Forgives" as "the strangest affair I've anytime read." As Gosling has never been one to shy abroad from absolutely different and sometimes camp projects (such as "Stay," "Lars and the Absolute Girl," "Blue Valentine" and, of course, "Drive"), that's absolutely adage something.
"Only God Forgives" is currently in post-production and is planned for a 2013 absolution (or assumption is it will chase the aisle of "Drive" and be ancient in the fall).

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Is this The End for Mr. Bean?

Is one of the world's a lot of acclaimed man-children assuredly growing up ... and adage goodbye?
It looks like Mr. Bean admirers may anon accept to allow their adulation of hijinks, pratfalls and escapade elsewhere, as Rowan Atkinson has appear that the time to retire the ball appearance is nigh.
It's somewhat acrid that, for Atkinson, arena a role that brings a smile to so abounding faces has in actuality become "a little sad."
"The getting that has been a lot of commercially acknowledged for me —- basically absolutely physical, absolutely baby —- I added feel I'm traveling to do a lot beneath of," he told the Daily Telegraph's Review. "Apart from the actuality that your concrete adeptness starts to decline, I aswell anticipate anyone in their 50s getting artless becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful."
Mr. Bean, a appearance whom Atkinson developed while belief for his master's amount at Oxford University, fabricated his admission in the eponymous television alternation that ran for 14 episodes from 1990-1995. He was aswell the brilliant of his own activated alternation that ran from 2002-2004 and two affection films, "Bean" (1997) and "Mr. Bean's Holiday" (2007).

Mr. Bean was initially declared by Atkinson as getting a "child in a man's body," a blithely absent antic who somehow managed to cross and affected accustomed (and sometimes added outrageous) challenges and obstacles through a mix of chastity and accepted cluelessness. The character, who rarely speaks, has been compared to roles played by Charlie Chaplin and those of added bashful actors accepted for concrete ball and theatricality.
Atkinson admits that arena the well-meaning but bumbling antic has kept him from scoring added austere roles. He hopes to assuredly be apparent in a altered ablaze as he prepares to accomplish his "straight play" admission in a awakening of Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms" in London's West End.
Well, at atomic we still accept Pee-wee Herman, as Paul Reubens doesn't assume to anticipate there's annihilation sad about an earlier man acting like a big kid.

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Breaking Dawn - Part 2' Bites Off $340.9 Million Worldwide Opening

Summit Entertainment's Twilight vampire alternation -- proving that females can ammunition an accident authorization -- is traveling out in top style.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Allotment 2 topped the common weekend box appointment with a abundant $340.9 actor opening, including $141.3 actor domestically from 4,070 theaters and $199.6 actor internationally from 61 markets.
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Domestically, Breaking Dawn 2 wasn't able to bout the $142.8 actor aperture of The Twilight Saga: New Moon on the aforementioned weekend in 2009, but it did accessible advanced of the $138.1 actor grossed by The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Allotment 1 on the aforementioned weekend endure year, acknowledgment in allotment to abnormally able Saturday cartage and an A CinemaScore.
Overseas, Breaking Dawn 2 opened able-bodied advanced of antecedent Twilight films in about every territory.
Directed by Bill Condon, Breaking Dawn 2 allotment Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner in the advance roles for a final time.
The Twilight authorization has been a aural achievement for all involved, and put Summit Entertainment on the map.

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Breaking Dawn 2 drew added males than any antecedent appellation in the series, who fabricated up 21 percent of those affairs tickts. Agewise, 50 percent of the admirers was 25 years and older.
Other account at the domstic box appointment included Sam Mendes' Skyfall, which accomplished the weekend with a common absolute of $669.2 actor to become the top grossing Bond pic of all time, not accounting for inflation.
Skyfall, starring Daniel Craig, grossed a arch $41.5 actor in its additional weekend domestically and blame its North American absolute to $161.3 million. Overseas, the blur has becoming a massive $507.9 actor for ally MGM, EON Productions and Sony.
Steven Spielberg's awards adversary Lincoln aswell fabricated account as it broadcast nationwide. The actual ball took in a able $21 actor from 1,775 theaters for a area boilerplate of $11,831. Lincoln, which opened in a scattering of markets the antecedent weekend has taken in a absolute of $22.4 million.
The DreamWorks film, broadcast by Disney domestically and fabricated in affiliation with Participant Media, came in No. 3, admitting its bashful awning count. Lincoln stars Daniel Day Lewis as the iconic president. Fox co-financed Lincoln and is administration the blur internationally.
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A brace of high-profile accolade contenders debuted at the specailty box office, David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook and Joe Wright's Anna Karenina. Both films did solid, but not spectacular, business.
Silver Linings, from The Weinstein Co., grossed $458,430 as it opened in 16 theaters in baddest cities for a area boilerplate of $28,652. The blur stars Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver
Anna Kareninao, starring Keira Knightley and from Focus Features, aswell opened in 16 theaters in baddest cities, grossing $315,395 for a area boilerplate of $19,712. The atypical yield on the archetypal atypical has already becoming $10.8 actor overseas.

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Father, Son and Daughter Arrested in Bank Robberies

A father, son and babe may be amenable for annexation as abounding as seven banks in two states, according to authorities.
Ronald Scott Catt, 50, and his two children, 20-year-old Hayden and 18-year-old Abby were arrested endure anniversary on accuse they beggared a acclaim abutment in Katy, Texas.
Deputies with the Fort Bend Sheriff's Office in Texas say the family, which afresh confused to the area, could aswell be amenable for several added robberies in Texas and their built-in Oregon.
During the Oct. 1 robbery in Texas, two figures, who arise to be Ronald and Hayden Catt, entered the coffer in disguises and accretion accoutrements afore abrogation with money and jumping into a breach car apprenticed by Abby Catt.
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The breach in the case came if authorities were able to clue down the characteristic orange vests the men wore to a bounded Home Depot. A analysis of the surveillance band showed the ancestors purchasing the disguises at the store.
Eric Lundeen told ABC News he knows the Catt ancestors and said they seemed like "really solid association members".
"He was a individual dad. I anticipate he absent his wife and he had the albatross to yield affliction of his kids and I got to acquaint you, he was there for them," Lundeen said.
The ancestor and son duo are getting captivated in the Fort Bend County Jail on $140,000 bonds afterwards getting answerable with robbery.
Abby Catt's band has been set at $100,000.

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Miley Cyrus Wows In Sweet New $80k Ride

It abiding seems like it's acceptable to be Miley Cyrus these days. Not alone is the 19-year-old aflame a huge bedrock on her feel from fiance Liam Hemsworth, as able-bodied as influencing anybody all over Hollywood with her adventuresome abbreviate hairdo, her latest accomplishment is a candied new--very expensive--ride.

Cyrus was spotted active about Los Angeles on Tuesday in a atramentous Porsche Cayenne GTS, the MSRP of which is about $80,000. According to Car And Driver, the car's physique is "modified for added responsiveness," with a "lower ride height" that gives the car a "very advancing appearance." The Porsche association themselves avowal that this archetypal can jump from 0 to 60 afar per hour in a simple 5.4 seconds, and ability a top acceleration of 162 mph. (Atta girl, Miley--all the bigger to outrun the paparazzi!)
Here's a banal photo of Cyrus's archetypal in red. To see shots of her absolute vehicle, bang here.

Courtesy: Porsche
Cyrus, who became affianced to Hensworth in June, has not formally appear a marriage date yet, although contempo account has accounted it to be next June in Palm Springs, California. However, Cyrus appears to be active at plan planning the fete--apparently, the adolescent bride-to-be has already narrowed down a few choices for her marriage gown.

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Olympic hero Lindsey Vonn hospitalized

Olympic gold advocate Lindsey Vonn has been ailing in Vail, Colo., with what her agent has termed "severe abdominal pain."
Vonn has not accomplished back Oct. 27 in Soelden, Austria. Her ski technician, Heinz Haemmerle, told the Associated Press that Vonn has been experiencing aches and has visited the hospital on several instances, but this marks the aboriginal time she has backward overnight. Multiple sources told the AP that Vonn had not suffered any torn basic or skiing injuries.
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''There's been no news, so we're affectionate of worried,'' Rainer Salzgeber, antagonism administrator for Head, Vonn's sponsor, told the AP. ''It's not good.''
This marks the latest in a amount of injuries that accept checky Vonn's career. She suffered a balmy blow at the 2011 apple championships, a aching shin at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, a cut deride (sliced on a albino bottle) at the 2009 apple championship, an afflicted knee at the 2007 worlds and a abandoned blast at the 2006 Olympics in Turin. Even so, she has two Olympic medals and four Apple Cup championships.
Vonn fabricated account afresh if she approved to attempt in a men's decline chase at Lake Louise, Alberta, but the International Ski Federation denied that appeal.

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Jill Kelley and Twin Closely Tied to Top Brass

The Florida socialite whose address of afflictive emails from Paula Broadwell ultimately led to the abandonment of CIA administrator Gen. David Petraeus artificial abutting ties with top aggressive and intelligence admiral in Tampa, hosting abundant parties at her beach abode and earning accolades as an "honorary ambassador" to the aggressive and an honorary delegate accepted for Korea.
But detractors say that Jill Kelley, 37, is a amusing climber whose abundant affairs is now threatened by millions of dollars in debt and accessible foreclosure on her home, and who approved to accomplishment her connections, conceivably even enlisting Gen. Petraeus in her sister's absinthian adolescent aegis fight.
Jill Kelley and her accompanying sister Natalie Khawam grew up in the Philadelphia area, daughters of a Lebanese immigrant brace who endemic a bounded restaurant. Jill and Natalie would arise calm on a 2003 adventure of a Food Channel affairs declared "Food Fight," in which they dressed in artist clothes while affable alligator in a cook-off adjoin two brothers.
After Kelley and her bedmate Scott, a blight surgeon, confused to Tampa, Khawam came to reside with them and their three accouchement in their $1.5 actor home on Bayshore Boulevard.
In Tampa, Kelley volunteered her time to abutment the military, planning and hosting accommodating contest for CENTCOM, the Aegis Department's Central Command, which is based at Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base and has albatross for administering operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Kelley, her bedmate and her sister Natalie became affable with aloft players, including both Gen. Petraeus and Gen. John Allen, administrator of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
"Jill is accepted as a accommodating host, a active individual," said Aaron Fodiman, editor and administrator of Tampa Bay Magazine.
Kelley's amusing efforts on account of the aggressive becoming her the contributed appellation of "honorary ambassador" to Coalition Forces in Afghanistan, and she was aswell declared honorary admonition for South Korea.
In a statement, Kelley and her bedmate Scott said they are abutting accompany with the Petraeus family. The families accept spent the holidays calm several times over the years and acclaimed Christmas calm endure year, according to Petraeus' babe Anne's claimed blog.
"Our accompany from Tampa (the twins Jill and Natalie, additional Jill's bedmate Scott and their three little girls, as able-bodied as Natalie's 2-year-old son John) were in boondocks and came over for an afternoon barbecue and presents at our place," she wrote in the blog.
"There was no catechism they were friends," said Fodiman, "and no acumen why they wouldn't be friends." See the timeline of the Petraeus/Broadwell activity HERE.
This summer if Kelly accustomed bearding e-mails accusing her of affected a affable accord with aggressive assumption in Tampa, she declared the FBI, which traced those e-mails aback to the computer of Paula Broadwell, co-author of the Petraeus adventures "All In." Investigators are said to accept begin emails in Broadwell's inbox that acicular to an affectionate activity with Petraeus. Petraeus appear his abandonment as CIA administrator on Friday.
After the media spotlight angry from Broadwell to Kelley, questions about Kelley's affairs and her ties to the aggressive surfaced.
A U.S. official declared Kelley as a "nice, bored, affluent socialite" who drops "honorary" from her appellation and tells humans she is an ambassador. The alone authorization bowl of her Mercedes trumpets her cachet as an honorary delegate for the Korean government.
In a 911 band from this accomplished weekend, Kelley can be heard cogent bounded badge that declared trespassers on her acreage charge to be removed because of her adept status. "I'm an honorary delegate general," explains Kelley, "so I accept inviolability, so they should not be able to cantankerous my property."
In a account Tuesday, the U.S. State Administration emphasized that Kelley has no official adept role. "She does not plan for State," said a spokesman. "She has no amalgamation with State."
Kelley and her bedmate Scott accept aswell had to attack with banking problems. They accept been sued at atomic nine times. The brace faces foreclosure on their beach abode and on an appointment architecture they own. Cloister annal announce that the Kelleys owe added than $2 actor on the appointment building. The Kelly home aswell served as the appointment for a alms she and her bedmate set up for blight victims that spent tens of bags of dollars on travel, commons and entertainment.
The FBI has now baldheaded "potentially inappropriate" emails amid Gen. Allen and Kelly, according to a chief U.S. aegis official who is traveling with Aegis Secretary Leon Panetta. The administration is reviewing amid 20,000 and 30,000 abstracts affiliated to this matter, the official said. The email exchanges amid Kelley and Allen took abode from 2010 to 2012.
The U.S. official said the emails were "innocuous" and mostly about accessible banquet parties and seeing him on TV. Allen denies he was complex in an affair, a Pentagon official said. An agent for Allen told ABC News that Allen and his wife are accompany with Kelley and her bedmate and a lot of of the emails were beatific from Kelley to Allen's wife.
ABC News has abstruse that Gen. Allen aswell accustomed an bearding e-mail traced to Paula Broadwell, claiming Jill Kelley was a seductress.
Kelley's ancestors is continuing by her and abstinent any adverse allegations and insinuations.
"It is a shock," Kelley's brother, David Khawam, told ABC News' Tampa associate WFTS. "We are just aggravating to acquisition out area the pieces are falling appropriate now."
"She is actual committed to her bedmate and to her kids," he said. "So, something like this is absolutely appealing abundant a fluke. So, for anybody to acrylic her as contrarily is absolutely wrong."
But Kelley and her sister had allegedly developed so abutting to the high-level aggressive admiral that both Petraeus and Allen wrote belletrist on Khawam's account in September as she battled her ex-husband Grayson Wolfe for aegis of her son, even as the adjudicator in the aegis altercation wrote that Kwaham had "severe cerebral deficits."
In November 2011, the D.C. Superior Cloister had disqualified that Khawam's bedmate would get sole acknowledged and primary aegis of the child.
The adjudicator wrote that Khawam "has apparent an absolute apathy for the child's interest" in advancement a allusive accord with his father, that she "has acute claimed deficits in the areas of bluntness and integrity," and that she has apparent a "willingness to say anything, even beneath oath, to beforehand her own claimed interests at the expense" of her husband, the child, and others.
"The cloister absolutely expects that Ms. Khawam's arrangement of misrepresentations about around everything, including the a lot of important aspects of her life, will abide indefinitely," the adjudicator wrote.
It is not currently accepted if Petraeus or Allen knew about the judge's acrid comments apropos Khawam, but the two wrote belletrist on Khawam's account about a year after in September 2012.
Petraeus declared that he and his wife had accepted Khawam for about three years, accepting to apperceive her while confined in Tampa, and advancement their accord back then.
"We accept apparent a actual admiring accord -- a Mother alive harder to accommodate her son enjoyable, educational, and adorning experiences," Petraeus wrote, according to a archetype of the letter acquaint on Scribd. "Natalie acutely dotes on her son and goes to abundant lengths--and abundant expense--to absorb superior time with him."
A letter from Allen to the cloister aswell corrective a account of a admiring and adherent mother who "places the needs of her son aloft her own."
Natalie Khawam is aswell acutely in debt and filed for defalcation in Florida in April 2012. In a certificate filed with the Tampa Division of the U.S. Defalcation Court, Khawam cited $350,000 in assets and $3.6 actor in liabilities, including $800,000 owed to her sister and brother-in-law. Her listed claimed acreage included six Chanel purses, a Cartier watch, and a accession of design adornment admired at $50,000, including the watch. The items are in the control of Khawam's ex-husband, according to the cloister documents.
Khawam has aswell sued a above employer, Barry Cohen, claiming that Cohen, an attorney, owed her money and bootless to yield activity if she appear animal harassment. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Cohen wants the cloister to abolish the case and accomplished Khawam $500,000 for a "bad faith" filing.
In 2007, the Kelleys and Khawam founded a alms declared the Doctor Kelley Blight Foundation that was meant to conduct blight analysis and admission wishes to terminally ill adults. The charity, which the brace ran out of their home, aloft $157,000 and spent $157,000 afore traveling bankrupt. About $135,000 went to travel, entertainment, acknowledged fees, appointment expenses, "automotive expenses," and utilities.
The Kelley ancestors has assassin advocate Abbe Lowell, who represented John Edwards, and crisis administrator Judy Smith, who formed for Monica Lewinsky.

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'Brain on Fire': A Writer Possessed

'Brain On Fire' In 2009, a rare autoimmune disease grabbed writer Susannah Cahalan and plunged her into a nightmare world of paranoia, psychosis, and ultimately, catatonia. In another era, it’s likely she would have been permanently institutionalized or given a lobotomy; in another culture, she might have been exorcised for demonic possession.

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With taut, horror-movie plotting, Cahalan’s new memoir, ‘Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness’ pieces together her utter physical and mental breakdown, her terrifying lost month in the hospital, and the grueling year it took to recover.

Before she mysteriously contracted the disease, Cahalan was a bright, outgoing, and ambitious 24-year-old reporter for the New York Post. After exhibiting flu-like symptoms that were initially diagnosed as mono, she suddenly began experiencing delusions and behaving erratically. Within a few weeks, she became increasingly abusive, moody, and paranoid. Her doctors brushed off her condition as a result of too much partying and stress, but her first violent seizure signaled there was something critically askew.
Late one night, her guttural moans and grating squeaks woke up her boyfriend, Stephen. “My arms suddenly whipped out in front of me like, like a mummy, as my eyes rolled back and my body stiffened,” she writes. “I was gasping for air. My body continued to stiffen as I inhaled repeatedly, with no exhale. Blood and foam began to spurt through clenched teeth. Terrified, [he] stifled a panicked cry and for a second he stared, frozen, at my shaking body.” She now describes her seizures as eerily similar to the character Regan’s outbursts in ‘The Exorcist.’

Susannah Cahalan todayCahalan says that this moment “marked the line between sanity and insanity.” She was admitted to the New York University Medical Center, and spent a month that was forever erased from her memory as her brain short-circuited. Only later, by cobbling together physician’s notes and her father’s journal, and viewing chilling hospital videos would she fully understand the extent of her disintegration. Her frontal lobe function was almost at zero and the medical staff couldn’t be sure the right hemisphere of her brain would be salvageable. Although $1 million worth of medical tests provided few clues to her illness, her parents never gave up. “They were completely focused on finding an answer,” Cahalan tells Shine.

Her savior, who she lovingly refers to as Dr. House, was Souhel Najjar, a Syrian immigrant who was deemed “stupid” as a child, and told he would never amount to anything. “His life experience shaped who he is as a doctor, and he also happens to be brilliant,” says Cahalan. “He’s so adamant about getting the full sense of you as a person…he was told that he was too slow for his elementary school. He’s made it his life’s mission to not let people fall through the cracks.”
While her other doctors had all but given up on finding a diagnosis, Najjar swiftly ordered a brain biopsy that would confirm his hunch that she was suffering from an autoimmune disease that had only been identified two years earlier. Cahalan was the 217th person in the world to be diagnosed with anti-NDMA-receptor encephalitis, a relatively treatable illness that causes swelling in the right lobe of the brain. Untreated, she may have sunk into coma and eventually died.
Najjar also provided the title to her book. “At a pivotal moment in my disease, he pulled my parents out of the hospital room and literally said to them, ‘Her brain is on fire,’” Cahalan tells Shine. “At that point, they felt it was a relief to hear that. Describing it in layman’s terms gave them some hope.”
Cahalan wants her story to help people who might “otherwise get lost in the system.” She tells Shine, “We don’t understand how neurological autoimmune disorders work. They are so under diagnosed. About 75% occur in women who may get told they are just stressed. Or they are hysterical. My disease was only discovered in 2007—how many more diseases haven’t been identified yet?”

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World's Fastest computer Crowned in US

In the clash of the world's supercomputing titans, a new U.S. supercomputer named "Titan" is king.

The $100-million Titan seized the No. 1 supercomputer ranking on the Top500 List with a performance record of 17.59 petaflops per second (quadrillions of calculations per second). The supercomputer, a Cray XK7 system based at Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, leaped past the former champion, the Sequoia supercomputer at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
The top five supercomputers in the world are:

1. Titan Cray XK47 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (17.59 petaflops/s)
2. Sequoia BlueGene/Q at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (16.33 petaflops/s)
3. Fujitsu's K computer at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan (10.51 petaflops/s)
4. The Mira BlueGene/Q computer at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Ill. (8.16 petaflops/s)
5. The JUQUEEN BlueGene/Q computer at the Forschungszentrum Juelich in Germany. (4.14 petaflops/s)

U.S. supercomputers had fallen behind China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer and Japan's Fujitsu K Computer starting in 2009, but staged a comeback with Sequoia's rise in 2012.
Sequoia's 1,572,864 computing cores actually outnumber Titan's 560,640 cores, but not all computing cores are created equal. Titan draws 90 percent of its performance from having 261,632 of NVIDIA's new K20x accelerator cores.
The NVIDIA accelerator cores use the same graphics processing unit (GPU) technology that drives graphics cards for displaying video games. GPUs run tasks on many different "threads" that may run slower than traditional threads on central processing units (CPUs), but GPUs make up for that by running many more threads simultaneously.
GPU-driven supercomputers will become even more crucial in building the next generation of "exascale" supercomputers that would work 1,000 times faster than today's supercomputers. That's because GPUs use far less energy than the CPUs that have traditionally driven computing.
Titan used the new Tesla K20x accelerators to achieve an energy efficiency of 2,142.77 megaflops per watt (million calculations per second per watt), enough to also rank Titan No. 1 on the Green500 list of the world's most energy-efficient supercomputers.

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Coach Norv Turner uncharacteristically snaps after Chargers self destruct late again

TAMPA, Fla. – After one of the most Norv-like losses in Norv history, San Diego Chargers head coach Norv Turner gazed into a pack of reporters and mumbled in his usual Norv-like way.
And then he snapped.
He didn't lose his composure after a question about quarterback Philip Rivers' game-killing interception, which was one of the worst passes you'll ever see in pro football. Rivers threw so directly at Tampa Bay Buccaneers defender Leonard Johnson that the cornerback later said "It caught me by surprise." Johnson grabbed the erroneous throw and then bolted straight past Rivers into the end zone for the game-clinching score. Asked after the Buccaneers' 34-24 victory what he thought Rivers might have been thinking, Johnson paused and said, "I have no clue. I have no clue."
Bucs CB Leonard Johnson celebrates after returning a Philip Rivers INT for a TD. (AP)Nor was the question that set Turner off about the mood in the Chargers' locker room after the team blew a good opportunity in the fourth quarter to fall to a season-on-the-brink record of 4-5. You'd think a question about the team's mood might get to Turner, as all the Chargers had to walk past the glassy-eyed stare of general manager A.J. Smith as they came off the field at game's end. Smith stood there by the locker room door, shifting back and forth, gazing at each player and coach. Nobody looked back. Smith declined a request for an interview, walked into the locker room behind his team, and then left by himself only a couple of minutes later, suitcase in hand and not a single word on his lips.
No, what hit a Norv nerve was a follow-up to his statement about the toughness of the players on his team. Turner was asked if the toughness the Chargers have showed matters every week if the team keeps losing. The beleaguered coach, who hadn't really been making eye-contact, locked in on his interlocutor.
"What do you think?!" he blared. "I mean, what do you think the answer to that question is? Answer it for me. Is it acceptable? No, it's not acceptable. You know the answer to that. What's the answer to that? No. Is it acceptable to have a blocked punt and an interception returned for a touchdown? No, it's not acceptable. That's not what we're trying to accomplish out there. We're trying to go out and win a game. Those things are keeping us from winning. No, it's not acceptable."


A longtime Chargers reporter said the head coach is "never, never, never" as visibly upset as he was after Sunday's loss. Maybe it's a positive turning point for the team and the franchise, but more likely it's another sign that Turner's frustrating time in San Diego may soon be coming to an end. His team came apart at the end of this game, much as it did in a home loss to the Denver Broncos last month. Those are two enormous losses that could have been wins, if it wasn't for inexplicable late-game errors. Members of the Chargers think the team has enough talent to make the playoffs, so clearly the problem is mental. "We stop playing our game," said running back Ryan Mathews, "and we start playing the game they do."
In other words: coaching is a problem.
"We made some bad plays in the fourth quarter," said defensive back Eric Weddle, "and that's what's been killing us all season."
Asked why the mistakes keep happening, Weddle sighed.
"I don't know," he said. "The mistakes are just magnified. All our games, we haven't been able to put it together. We're still trying to figure it out."


It's getting far too late to figure it out. The Chargers aren't the Bucs, a young team bound to make errors coming off a 6-10 season. That's what happened to Johnson, who missed a tackle on Chargers wideout Danario Alexander early in the game and watched him complete an 80-yard catch-and-run for a score on the game's opening possession. But Johnson recovered and made the play of the game when it mattered. He left the stadium with the ball in his red duffel bag and a smile on his face.
Rivers, on the other hand, had the opposite happen: He was terrific in the first half with three touchdowns and no interceptions. But then, when it counted most, he threw a bewildering pick-six that might end up being the signature highlight of the decline of the Turner era. Drew Brees has a Super Bowl ring, Michael Turner is on a one-loss, playoff-bound team, and Rivers and Antonio Gates are getting older one crushing loss at a time. See Video here

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Robbers on motorcycles attack mall jewelry store in $3.1 million heist

Shoppers at London's Brent Cross mall may have thought they'd walked onto the set of a movie shoot on Tuesday morning. Fifteen minutes after the shopping center opened, a group of six black-clad robbers on three motorcycles rode through the second floor of the complex, wielding axes and bats. The thieves' destination was jewelry store Fraser Hart, where they grabbed Cartier and Rolex watches after smashing windows to get inside. The Metropolitan Police estimate their haul to be more than 2 million British pounds, or $3.1 million. Or maybe a little less: Witnesses noted that the robbers dropped some of their expensive loot as they sped away from the scene.

Fortunately, no one was injured during the heist, and police are continuing to search for clues. Rick Triester was on his way to the Apple store at the mall at the time of the crime and was able to get video of the daring robbery and getaway on his phone, which got us to thinking ... how long before the drama turns up on the big screen for real?

I think George Clooney would be perfect, but who would you cast as a bike-riding jewel thief? Let us know on Facebook.com/OMGAmerica, and follow Trending Now on Twitter: @OMGAmerica.

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Steve Blake of The Snaps At Fan

 



 Steve Blake is fined for jawing with a heckler, eventually meets the offended party to apologize
 
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Perhaps you heard, on Tuesday, about Los Angeles Laker reserve guard Steve Blake being fined $25,000 for engaging in a rude back and forth with a fan during a Lakers loss last Friday.

Then, perhaps, you read that the fan was the son of the founder of shoe company LA Gear. You were probably surprised to hear that LA Gear is still an actual company. Then you were shocked to learn that the founder of LA Gear has owned eight — eight! — courtside season tickets to Lakers games for years, an exercise that has to cost in the millions per season.

Hopefully, perhaps, you didn't read about how Blake and the son and the father had a little get-together to assuage everyone's hurt widdle feelings in the aftermath, because that would probably turn your stomach. If you hadn't, and we're sorry for turning your stomach, but this bit of hand-wringing actually happened. This reminds us of when 1950s comics had to go apologize to mob dons they poked fun at following a show, save for EVERY SINGLE THING THAT IS COOL about what I just compared this to.

Blake is obviously perturbed, as the Lakers fell to 0-3 to start the season. He appeared to frustratingly roll the ball at Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul after one foul, and apparently the source of his consternation was Jackson yelling something at Blake about failing to hit his open shots. Blake, who at that point was hitting on a pretty-good-for-him 5 of 12 from the floor on the season (he's 40 percent career, that's a sound 41.7 percent, he's since upped that percentage a few ticks), reportedly responded by pointing out what his fellow season-ticket holding wife could do to Jackson, allegedly involving an F-bomb along the way.
Oh, me. Oh, my.
Here's the Los Angeles Times on the meeting between Blake and the Jacksons, from Tuesday:

" … [Blake] met with the fan and his father, longtime court-side ticket-holder Steve Jackson, at the team's practice facility on Tuesday.
"We got a chance to speak and talk about the situation," said Blake.  "I just let him know that I was sorry for the way I acted.  I didn't handle myself the way I wanted to.  We were able to talk and hopefully build a relationship off of that.
"That's not what I want to be known for," he said.  "They are great people and they didn't deserve that type of interaction."

The fan obviously said something to Blake after his fifth foul, because by the time Blake committed his sixth foul a minute later and started yelling across the court at Jackson, Lance was looking the other way. Ticked beyond belief at an ohfer three record and a sixth foul, to say nothing of Jackson saying something to him, Blake unleashed.
I sort of take issue with sports heckling in the modern age. At a baseball or football game, from miles away, it's fine. In most basketball seats, at a distance where nothing can be heard? Go ahead.
In the front row?
Can't you save that? Like Blake isn't trying? Like your vitriol sent toward his turned back is going to help? Like you can't get on your Twitter account, or Facebook page, or favorite Laker message board or blog (or, heaven forbid you want to put together some cogent analysis, your own blog?) to complain away on? And if your family can afford eight Laker courtside seats, for years, I'm pretty sure your phone is good enough to update most of those complaint-heavy sites from 10 feet away from Blake while he fumes after his fifth foul.

If you do decide to unleash, and Blake comes right back? Why not put a smile on your face and try to keep up? Why is it that you can say whatever you want to Blake's silent side, and Blake isn't allowed to come right back? For instance, like you would if Blake tossed a potshot in the midst of a rough day of [whatever it is that Lance Jackson does for a living]?
Whatever happened to jawing? Why does it have to be one-sided? If Jackson is allowed the right to yell things out at Blake because his father owns a bunch of seats, why can't Blake come back at him? And then — because we're jawing — why can't Jackson come after Blake with a few barbs after that? As long as cool heads prevail, no fists are clenched, and no children are being introduced to sexual acts they'd have to get on UrbanDictionary.com to read more about, what's the problem?
If the NBA doesn't like its players going back and forth with fans, and Blake signed his last collectively bargained contract knowing full well that a $25,000 fine would be in the offing if he engaged in such acts, then that's just fine. But for the Lakers to encourage (we're guessing; because they signed off on fans coming to a practice) a sheepish meeting between all the "offended" parties? Hasn't anyone ever gotten in a fight before?
This isn't to rip on Lance Jackson, unless he whined his way into that personal apology from Blake on Tuesday. Nor is it to defend Blake, who should have kept his wits about him (although we all have our breaking point), or criticize the NBA (which lawfully negotiated fines like these into their collective bargaining agreement, and are rightfully following through on the terms) for the fine or the Lakers for kowtowing to someone who hands them a lot of money yearly for courtside seats.
Still, can't each of the parties listed — save for the NBA, whose hands are tied — do better than this?
Apparently not. And, if you look up Steve Jackson's devotion to the Lakers, you'll know why when you find this obsessive (and costly) tidbit. From Virtual Globetrotting:

Jackson is a big name in LA basketball. He has built a replica of the Staples Center in his home complete with championship banners and a piece of the floor from the old Forum in Inglewood. NBA teams before games in LA or NBA players use it as an off-season pick-up court, and L.A.-based agent Arn Tellem uses it as a work-out centre for clients.

In other words, "watch your mouth, backup point guard."
We just would have liked it to end with some glares, a furrowed brow, a few more rude words coming from each side, some nice barbs, and eventual fist-bump; as two people that really want the Lakers to play well hash it out like frustrated adults are capable of. Without hand-wringing and namby-pamby meetings to make sure everybody and their small dog's feelings won't continue to hurt.

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President Obama tweet breaks record

President Obama shakes hands with Justin Bieber during Christmas in Washington, 2011. (Wire Image)

A photo of President Barack Obama hugging first lady Michelle Obama tweeted by the Obama campaign on election night has been retweeted nearly half a million times, likely making it the most shared tweet of all time. The tweet--issued shortly before Obama was projected by several networks to be the winner of Ohio--included the image under the caption, "Four more years."

Obama tweet breaks record

According to AllTwitter.com, the most popular Twitter message before Tuesday was a tweet by Justin Bieber for Avalanna Routh, a six-year-old fan of the pop star who died of cancer.

"RIP Avalanna," Bieber wrote on Sept. 12."i love you."

While President Obama's Twitter feed technically now holds the most popular tweet of all-time, Obama himself does not. Personal tweets from the president are signed "-bo," like the tweet, published several minutes before the photo, thanking his supporters. It read: "We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. Thank you. -bo"

That tweet was retweeted more than 141,000 times.

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SUV and Plane Collide at Texas Airport

A Texas student pilot four weeks away from receiving his pilot license has given up flying after a crash in which his plane clipped the top of an SUV.

“Things like that make you reconsider what is important and what could have happened,” the would-be pilot, William Davis, told ABC affiliate WFAA-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth. “I have a young daughter and a wife, and they need me to be there to take care of them.”

Davis was preparing to land his 2005 Cessna Skyhawk plane at the north end of the runway at the Northwest Regional Airport in Roanoke, Texas, about 25 miles northwest of Dallas, Saturday morning when an SUV on a road near the runway did not stop.  The collision caused the landing gear of Davis’ plane to clip the top of the SUV, all while traveling at a speed of nearly 65 mph.

“I was shocked,” Davis, piloting his first solo round-trip flight, told WFAA. “Just from the video that I saw, it looks like they kept going … they didn’t stop at the stop sign.”

Video of the crash was captured by Davis’ wife, Kandy, whom he’d asked to capture his first solo trip.  Instead, she captured her husband’s aircraft clipping the roof of the SUV driven by Frank and Heather Laudo, a couple from nearby Flower Mound, Texas, on their way to lunch.

“We couldn’t see anything at all, and then, all of a sudden, equipment was falling into the car,” Heather Laudo told WFAA.  “There was … glass everywhere.”

Despite the impact, and even without his landing gear, Davis, who could not be reached for comment, was able to land the plane on its belly on the runway before skidding off onto a grassy area. There were no injuries.

Frank Laudo, who was also not available for comment when reached today by ABCNews.com, managed to steer the vehicle safely to the side of the road while his wife called 911, according to Trooper Lonnie Haschel, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The Laudos told WFAA they are regulars at the airport and know the protocols of stopping while the runway is active.  The video, the Davises say, shows the word STOP is painted on the pavement ahead of the runway where the Laudos should have stopped, and where another car had gone ahead moments before the crash.

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Alec Baldwin keeps up with 28-year-old wife by doing push-ups

Alec Baldwin was spotted randomly doing vigorous push-ups alongside his wife, Hilaria Thomas, in Los Angeles on Saturday. Ever since the two got together, Alec has been leading a healthier lifestyle. Find out what else the "30 Rock" star does to stay in shape! Plus, Beyonce jumped on the bangwagon, debuting her new haircut over the weekend at a Brooklyn Nets game with her hubby, Jay-Z, and we're taking a look at some of last week's wackiest ensembles that might just have you saying, "What Were They Thinking!?"

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Protesters removed from Obama rally in Ohio

Security officials remove a protester at President Barack Obama's campaign rally in Cincinnati. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty …

CINCINNATI—At least two protesters were removed from a rally for President Barack Obama here on Sunday after they interrupted his speech by shouting from the bleachers.
A few moments into Obama's address at the University of Cincinnati basketball arena, a man seated in the upper rafters stood up and began shouting down the president about abortion while holding an upside down sign reading, "This Moral Wrong Should Never Be A Constitutional Right"
The crowd of 13,500 drowned him out with a chant of "Four more years!" and the incident forced the president to stop his speech. The man continued shouting until five police offers hauled him out of the arena. When Obama began speaking again, another man on the other side of the arena tried to shout him down again, but was quickly escorted out.
"These might have been some Tennessee Titans fans who were mad about the Bears beating them really badly today," Obama joked, before resuming his speech.
Obama's Sunday evening rally was the second-to-last time he will campaign in this state, which both he and Republican Mitt Romney view as crucial to winning the election on Tuesday.
Stevie Wonder (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Joining the president was musician Stevie Wonder, who entertained the crowd before Obama's speech and played a set when he finished. Between numbers, Wonder slammed Romney for comments he made last spring at a private fundraiser, specifically about how "47 percent" of the population would never support the GOP challenger.
"When I hear somebody talking about the 47 percent don't matter, that's unacceptable," Wonder said. He also discussed abortion policy: "Men are making an issue about the woman's body. The reality is, I know—and all us men in here know—that if women were taking control of our bodies making decisions, we wouldn't like that. Is this too real or can you handle it?"
With that, he and his band performed "A Time to Love."
Obama will return to the state on Monday for a final rally in Columbus.

President Barack Obama greets supporters in Cincinnati. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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