HBT: Reds player saves man's life with Heimlich

The headline says it all, but here?s Frazier talking about what went down in a Pittsburgh restaurant the other night:

?We?re just eating there, talking,? Frazier said. ?I looked in the corner of my eye. I said, ?Ludwick, I think that guy?s choking.? Next thing I know there?s two ladies one on each side, trying to pop it out. (Ludwick) said, ?Get over there.? I was the closest one.

?I ran over there and said, ?let me try it.? I tried it twice. It popped out. It was monster piece. The guy was very thankful. The lady he was with was crying. It was surreal. I never done it before in my life.?

The guy apparently picked up Frazier and Ryan Ludwick?s tab, not realizing they were ballplayers. Between that and his .579 slugging percentage. it?s been a pretty solid year for Frazier so far.

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Effective Home Improvement Tips For Everyone ...

Reuse as much as possible during your home improvement to save money and help the environment. If you can paint your cabinets to give them a new look, why not? Replace the knobs or handles on them as well to modernize their look. Consider painting tile instead of replacing it to freshen a room.

Do you have home improvement projects that are beyond your skill level or that require more time than you have available? Your best solution might be to try a reputable handyman service. Ask them for references to see if they provide the standard of work that you need. They are usually a more cost-effective solution than hiring a contractor for the job.

A great way to increase the value of your house as well as it?s functionality is to add another bathroom. Try to place it in an area that already has access to plumbing, like next to a kitchen or in the basement. A bathroom that only includes a toilet and sink will still be a welcome addition.

You should make sure that a home with any additions is properly zoned and has all of the licenses that the area requires. There are some people who will build additions without permission first. If an addition is not registered, your insurance company could refuse to give you full insurance.

Re-finish your hardwood floors to increase the value of your home. Re-finishing floors is a big job, but it is not a very difficult one. Instructional classes can often be found at your local hardware store, as can the equipment you will need to rent. The project can save you thousands of dollars, over the cost of a new floor.

To give old cabinets a face lift, consider a bold, funky effect such as crackling or even decoupage. This is a great way to change the look of your kitchen without the expense of replacing cabinets, especially those that are still in good physical condition. Just make sure to coat your handiwork with a topcoat that does not yellow over time.

Whenever you are doing an electrical home improvement job, overestimate the number of sockets each room needs. No matter how generous your plans are, an extra duplex outlet in most rooms will prove itself a wise investment over and over. When it comes to your home?s resale value, ?there are too many plugs in here? is a phrase home buyers never say.

Remodel your kitchen if it has ugly or outdated appliances and cabinetry. Kitchens are a significant portion of the value of a home. By remodeling your kitchen, you can greatly increase the value of your home. Install stainless steel appliances, replace cabinet doors and put in a tile or glass backsplash.

Pile your home improvement lumber behind your couch! Don?t have a place to store your long pieces of lumber while you?re working on a project? Just pile it neatly behind your couch and no one will ever know it?s there. You?ll keep it dry, safe, and ready for the next time you are inspired!

Whether you are improving your own personal residence or an investment property that you will use for resale or renting, the tips we have discussed in this article will set you well on your way to higher property values as well as hassle free and financially responsible remodeling projects.

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Dell announces Inspiron One 23 and One 20 all-in-ones (video)

In addition to the XPS One 27, Dell just unveiled a pair of Inspiron all-in-ones that will launch in the US in the coming weeks. First up, there's the One 23, the larger version of the two with more robust internals, and then there's the One 20, which has a 20-inch display and a more budget-friendly price.

Starting at $749, the Inspiron One 23 is available with either second- or third-generation Intel CPUs, ranging from a 3.3GHz Core i3-2120 processor at the entry level to a Core i7-3770s in top-of-the-line models. It comes standard with 500GB of storage, though that can be upped to 2TB. You can also add an AMD Radeon HD 7650A graphics card with 1GB of video memory, if the standard Intel HD 4000 graphics aren't going to cut it. The port selection is similar to what you'll find on the new XPS One 27: four USB 3.0, two USB 2.0 with power charge, audio out, VGA, mic and headphone jacks and a card reader (HDMI-in is optional). Other features include Waves MaxxAudio 3 and an optional Blu-ray drive.

While the XPS One 27 and One 23 both offer Ivy Bridge processors, the more competitively priced Inspiron One 20 has only Sandy Bridge options: a 2.2GHz dual-core G620T processor on up to a 2.6GHz Core i3-2120T CPU. Starting at $549, it leaves out discrete graphics, with Intel's HD 2000 solution being the only option. Its 20-inch screen has a pixel count of 1600 x 900, and optical media fans can add a Blu-ray reader. Storage-wise, you're looking at 500GB up to a 1TB 7,200RPM drive. Ports include five USB 2.0 connections, mic and headphone jacks and an 8-in-1 media card reader. Check out the galleries past the break for a closer look.

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Civilization's fall blamed on climate change

The mysterious fall of the largest of the world's earliest urban civilizations nearly 4,000 years ago in what is now India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh now appears to have a key culprit ? ancient climate change, researchers say.

Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia may be the best known of the first great urban cultures, but the largest was the Indus or Harappan civilization. This culture once extended over more than 386,000 square miles (1 million square kilometers) across the plains of the Indus River from the Arabian Sea to the Ganges, and at its peak may have accounted for 10 percent of the world population. The civilization developed about 5,200 years ago, and slowly disintegrated between 3,900 and 3,000 years ago ? populations largely abandoned cities, migrating toward the east.

"Antiquity knew about Egypt and Mesopotamia, but the Indus civilization, which was bigger than these two, was completely forgotten until the 1920s," said researcher Liviu Giosan, a geologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. "There are still many things we don't know about them." [Photos: Life and Death of Ancient Urbanites]

Nearly a century ago, researchers began discovering numerous remains of Harappan settlements along the Indus River and its tributaries, as well as in a vast desert region at the border of India and Pakistan. Evidence was uncovered for sophisticated cities, sea links with Mesopotamia, internal trade routes, arts and crafts, and as-yet undeciphered writing.

"They had cities ordered into grids, with exquisite plumbing, which was not encountered again until the Romans," Giosan told LiveScience. "They seem to have been a more democratic society than Mesopotamia and Egypt ? no large structures were built for important personalities like kings or pharaohs."

Like their contemporaries in Egypt and Mesopotamia, the Harappans, who were named after one of their largest cities, lived next to rivers.

"Until now, speculations abounded about the links between this mysterious ancient culture and its life-giving mighty rivers," Giosan said.

Now Giosan and his colleagues have reconstructed the landscape of the plain and rivers where this long-forgotten civilization developed. Their findings now shed light on the enigmatic fate of this culture.

"Our research provides one of the clearest examples of climate change leading to the collapse of an entire civilization," Giosan said. [How Weather Changed History]

The researchers first analyzed satellite data of the landscape influenced by the Indus and neighboring rivers. From 2003 to 2008, the researchers then collected samples of sediment from the coast of the Arabian Sea into the fertile irrigated valleys of Punjab and the northern Thar Desert to determine the origins and ages of those sediments and develop a timeline of landscape changes.

"It was challenging working in the desert ? temperatures were over 110 degrees Fahrenheit all day long (43 degrees C)," Giosan recalled.

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After collecting data on geological history, "we could re-examine what we know about settlements, what crops people were planting and when, and how both agriculture and settlement patterns changed," said researcher Dorian Fuller, an archaeologist with University College London. "This brought new insights into the process of eastward population shift, the change towards many more small farming communities, and the decline of cities during late Harappan times."

Some had suggested that the Harappan heartland received its waters from a large glacier-fed Himalayan river, thought by some to be the Sarasvati, a sacred river of Hindu mythology. However, the researchers found that only rivers fed by monsoon rains flowed through the region.

Previous studies suggest the Ghaggar, an intermittent river that flows only during strong monsoons, may best approximate the location of the Sarasvati. Archaeological evidence suggested the river, which dissipates into the desert along the dried course of Hakra Valley, was home to intensive settlement during Harappan times.

"We think we settled a long controversy about the mythic Sarasvati River," Giosan said.

Initially, the monsoon-drenched rivers the researchers identified were prone to devastating floods. Over time, monsoons weakened, enabling agriculture and civilization to flourish along flood-fed riverbanks for nearly 2,000 years.

"The insolation ? the solar energy received by the Earth from the sun ? varies in cycles, which can impact monsoons," Giosan said. "In the last 10,000 years, the Northern Hemisphere had the highest insolation from 7,000 to 5,000 years ago, and since then insolation there decreased. All climate on Earth is driven by the sun, and so the monsoons were affected by the lower insolation, decreasing in force. This meant less rain got into continental regions affected by monsoons over time." [50 Amazing Facts About Earth]

Eventually, these monsoon-based rivers held too little water and dried up, making them unfavorable for civilization.

"The Harappans were an enterprising people taking advantage of a window of opportunity ? a kind of 'Goldilocks civilization,'" Giosan said.

Eventually, over the course of centuries, Harappans apparently fled along an escape route to the east toward the Ganges basin, where monsoon rains remained reliable.

"We can envision that this eastern shift involved a change to more localized forms of economy ? smaller communities supported by local rain-fed farming and dwindling streams," Fuller said. "This may have produced smaller surpluses, and would not have supported large cities, but would have been reliable."

This change would have spelled disaster for the cities of the Indus, which were built on the large surpluses seen during the earlier, wetter era. The dispersal of the population to the east would have meant there was no longer a concentrated workforce to support urbanism.

"Cities collapsed, but smaller agricultural communities were sustainable and flourished," Fuller said. "Many of the urban arts, such as writing, faded away, but agriculture continued and actually diversified."

These findings could help guide future archaeological explorations of the Indus civilization. Researchers can now better guess which settlements might have been more significant, based on their relationships with rivers, Giosan said.

It remains uncertain how monsoons will react to modern climate change. "If we take the devastating floods that caused the largest humanitarian disaster in Pakistan's history as a sign of increased monsoon activity, than this doesn't bode well for the region," Giosan said. "The region has the largest irrigation scheme in the world, and all those dams and channels would become obsolete in the face of the large floods an increased monsoon would bring."

The scientists detailed their findings online Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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tange associates: YIBD block C1-20 - yongsan international ...

'YIBD block C1-20' by tange associates, seoul, korea
all images courtesy of tange associates

international architecture firm tange associates have sent us images of their development tower in the yongsan international business district (YIBD),
seoul, korea. 'YIBD block C1-20' is a mixed-use building situated at the very center of the sector, mediating between the 'retail valley'
and the surrounding office buildings. set as an urban anchor for the area, it will demarcate a path from the han river to yongsan station
through its adjacent public spaces.

the structure has a gross area of 58 400 m2, stands 165 meters in height, with 25 floors that combine spaces for learning, creating and communicating.
the building hosts a diverse program with educational institutions, a synergy floor for events and exhibitions, a three-storey fitness center,
various regional headquarters for international companies, rooms for private clinics and a roof top restaurant with open terraces.

exterior facade

the architecture represents a metaphorical expression of the dynamic energy created by the retail valley and the building's own distinct objective.
the multi-faceted frame of the facade embraces the structure's aluminum-glass skin that moves in an upward-spiraling motion.?
during the evening, the exterior turns into a giant media wall displaying digital artwork creating a sense of identity to the entire district.

situated within the 'retail valley'

digital artwork on display during the evening

lobby

fitness area

customer relationship office

learning center

event floor

cantilevered event floor

media wall

rooftop terrace

floor plan / level 0

floor plan / level 3

floor plan / level 7

floor plan / level 8

floor plan / level 13

floor plan / level 25

section

model

concept development

project info:

project name: YIBD block C1-20
location: seoul, korea
site area: 9,734m2
gross floor area: 58,400m2
building scale: 25 stories above ground, 1 story below ground, (5 stories of external use below ground)
building height: 165 m
architect: tange associates
design: paul tange, yasuhiro ishino, michael thanner
design team: kazuya ishida, tomo osaki, akira inamoto, antonio bellonio, kentaro shiratani, nobutaka mori
client: dreamhub ltd., seoul? /? yongsan development co. ltd, seoul
materials by: tange associates

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The world in 1988, when Suu Kyi last left Myanmar

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Russia chides ally Syria over massacre of 108

BEIRUT (AP) ? A weekend massacre of more than 100 people emerged as a potential turning point in the Syrian crisis Monday, galvanizing even staunch ally Russia to take an unusually hard line against President Bashar Assad's regime.

Analysts say Russia may be warning Syrian President Bashar Assad that he needs to change course or lose Moscow's support, which has been a key layer of protection for the regime in Damascus over the course of the uprising, which began in March 2011.

Russia has grown increasingly critical of the Syrian regime in recent months, but Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's latest comments were unusually strong. Although he said opposition forces have terrorists among them, he put the blame for 15 months of carnage primarily on Assad's government.

"The government bears the main responsibility for what is going on," Lavrov said in Moscow following a meeting with British Foreign Secretary William Hague. "Any government in any country bears responsibility for the security of its citizens."

Alexei Malashenko, a Middle East expert with the Carnegie Moscow Center, said Lavrov's comments suggest Russia may be backing away from its long-standing support for Damascus.

"Bashar Assad is driving himself and Russia into a corner," Malashenko said. "Bashar has definitely gotten the sense that he may lose Russia's sympathy and he may step back a bit."

It is not clear whether Assad's forces were exclusively to blame for the slaughter of 108 people Friday in Houla, a collection of poor farming villages in Homs province. The U.N. said 49 children and 34 women were among the dead; some had bullet holes through their heads.

The U.N. Security Council blamed Syrian forces for artillery and tank shelling of residential areas, but it did not clearly state who was responsible for the close-range shooting deaths and "severe physical abuse" of civilians.

Activists from the area say the army pounded the villages with artillery and clashed with local rebels. They said pro-regime gunmen later stormed the area, doing the bulk of the killing by gunning down men in the streets and stabbing women and children in their homes.

The Syrian government rejected that narrative entirely, saying soldiers were attacked in their bases and fought back in self-defense, but did not leave their bases.

Russia blamed both the regime and the rebels for the Houla massacre.

"Both sides have obviously had a hand in the deaths of innocent people, including several dozen women and children," Lavrov said. "This area is controlled by the rebels, but it is also surrounded by the government troops."

He said Russia has no interest in propping up Assad's regime, but wants Syria to guide its own transition under a plan brokered by special envoy Kofi Annan.

"We don't support the Syrian government, we support Kofi Annan's plan," Lavrov said.

Moscow's pro-Syria stance has been motivated in part by its strategic and defense ties, including weapons sales, with Damascus. Russia also rejects what it sees as a world order dominated by the U.S.

But as the country spirals toward chaos, Russia could scale back that support.

Losing Russian support could be disastrous for Assad because his crackdown has left him almost completely isolated internationally. Russia and China have stood by him so far, using their veto power in the past to block U.N. resolutions against him.

Hilal Khashan, a political science professor at the American University of Beirut, said the Houla massacre appears to be ushering in a change in Russia's position.

"There is a shift and the momentum against the regime is gathering," Khashan said. "The momentum is building and the Russians are not blocking the rising momentum."

The Syrian conflict is among the most explosive of the Arab Spring, in part because of Syria's allegiances to powerful forces including Lebanon's Hezbollah and Shiite powerhouse Iran.

Activists say as many as 12,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in March 2011. The U.N. put the toll as of March, a year into the uprising, at 9,000 but the count is out of date as many hundreds more have died since.

It is virtually impossible to independently verify the death toll in Syria.

Annan's peace plan, which calls for a cease-fire and dialogue, has been faltering for weeks, but many analysts see it as a way to unify the international community behind a single proposal.

Western leaders have pinned their hopes on Annan's diplomatic pressure, with the U.S. and others unwilling to get deeply involved in another Arab nation in turmoil.

Annan arrived in Damascus Monday for talks with Assad and other officials and called on "every individual with a gun" in Syria to lay down arms, saying he was horrified by the Houla massacre.

"This message of peace is not only for the government, but for everyone with a gun."

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Holland spoke on the phone and expressed their desire to work with Russia to resolve the crisis in Syria. A spokeswoman for Downing Street said Cameron and Hollande agreed to act together to "bring an end to the bloody suppression of the Syrian people."

Syria has brushed off nearly all international pressure since the uprising against Assad's regime erupted. Activists reported fresh violence Monday, saying troops shelled several neighborhoods in Hama, killing at least 24 people.

Assad denies that he is fighting a popular uprising, saying terrorists and armed gangs are driving the unrest. His supporters point to a string of suicide attacks to support their claims that foreign terrorists ? not reform-seekers ? are behind the violence.

There are widespread fears that al-Qaida and other extremists may be joining the fray in Syria and exploiting the chaos there, but the opposition and the rebel force in Syria say they have nothing to do with any terrorist attacks.

Syria's uprising began with mostly peaceful calls for change in one of the most repressive regimes in the Middle East. But as the government cracked down on opponents with increasingly deadly force, many protesters began taking up arms.

The conflict has grown dangerously militarized. Rebel fighters say they are targeting soldiers and military installations to chip away at the regime's power and protect civilians. Now the international community has nearly run out of options for halting the slide toward civil war.

___

Berry reported from Moscow. AP writers Bassem Mroue in Beirut and Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed to this report.

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3 (Almost) Effortless Ways to Recruit New Church Members with Social Media

This is a guest blog post by Drew Key.

With almost everyone and their pet rock on Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites, places of worship have a huge pool of potential new members that they are largely ignoring. It is easy to understand why most churches don?t effectively market themselves on social media.

One reason is that some churches object to the idea of ?marketing? themselves, even though the story of Christ is the most successful viral marketing campaign since time began; Jesus literally split time (B.C./A.D.) after all.

But the main issue churches face by putting themselves out there on social media is time. Someone has to take the time to actually do it. And with budgets already extremely tight, the social media duties usually fall on an unpaid volunteer who normally has other commitments with the church, family, and/or the larger community. But you don?t have to hire a full-time social media specialist to have an impact. Here are some ways you can almost effortlessly market your church.

1. Have your congregation promote the church for you.

A preacher, pastor, or priest has his or her most captive audience on Sunday mornings. One way to get this captive audience to reach out on social media for you is to work a Facebook or Twitter status update into your sermon. At the church I attend, the pastor recently gave a sermon and used social buzzwords which he related to a biblical principle. Your church could do something very similar and actually have all the members of your congregation get out their smartphones and post a biblical status update.

2. Create a Facebook page for your church and get members of the congregation to ?Like? it.

There are four key things here. First, you have to create your church?s Facebook page. This is actually really easy to do, just go to this URL to get started:?http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php. It?s very easy to do with these step by step instructions.

Second, you have to let your congregation know about the page, so they will ?like it You can have it announced during Sunday services and ask your church volunteers to inform all of their Facebook friends.

Finally, you have to put a ?Like Box? on your website so that visitors will be shown the faces of people they know that currently ?Like? your church. The way the ?Like Box? works is that when someone visits your church?s website, they?ll be shown the names and faces of people they know. When they see some of their friends that like your church, they?ll know someone they can talk to about your church if they are considering making a visit.

3. Use Facebook to invite people to events.

Facebook has become the ultimate ?meeting? place for like-minded people and friends alike. Facebook enables you to invite all of your friends to an event and set an event time, place, and other event details. The user has the option to select if they are attending, if they might attend, or if they are not attending. This allows the creator of the event to track, communicate, update, and inform invitees on the published event.

In Conclusion

Social media doesn?t have to be hard or cumbersome to take advantage of. Besides your time, it doesn?t cost anything to use in order to reach current or potential members. Even if you don?t want to implement all of these suggestions, take one or two and run with it. I think you?ll notice more people buzzing about your church. The more buzz you get, the more potential members you are reaching.

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Understanding Bird Mites

Even if bird mites normally infest the birds, we must not underestimate the danger it can bring to people. If left untreated, it can cause allergic reactions to grave respiratory problem. The allergy can be simple or grave depending on the reaction of the infested person.

What are Bird Mites?

These are not usually seen by the naked eyes. But it can grow up to 2mm in length. It has four legs but it has no antennae. Normally it is transparent in nature. It adapts the color of the blood though when it starts feeding. It is parasitic thus the more blood sucked, the higher the risk of multiplication.

Bird mites usually live in birds and in their nests. Expect it to infest your house too if the nests are near the windows or blocks or if the birds can freely enter your home. They are active during spring and early summer. Once they have collected ample amount of blood from the birds, they can last up to 3 weeks before they search for another host. They can create a very huge population through rapid multiplication. Their life cycle is between 7-10 days.

Signs of Bird Mites Infestation in Humans

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Crystal Bell: 'Girls' Recap: That One Time In Bushwick

Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 1, Episode 7 of HBO's "Girls," entitled, "Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident."

Excuse me if what I'm about to say sounds vaguely familiar, but oh, shit, fuck, are we supposed to like Adam now?

You see there are two sides to every story, and it looks like up until this week's episode, we'd only been getting the "Adam is a total douchebag" story from Hannah's perspective. However, Lena Dunham managed to find a way for us to sympathize (ever so slightly) with the shirtless potential sociopath. He's just misunderstood! Why, you ask? Because Hannah never took the time to understand him. So what better time than a warehouse party in Bushwick?

"That's Adam. I've never seen him outside his house. I've never seen him with his shirt on."

For the first time in the series, we finally get a glimpse of Adam outside of his natural habitat, and guess what? He likes to read books, he has friends, and he even owns a few shirts! I know this is a lot to take in, but the truth is, Adam doesn't look nearly as douchey with clothing on the upper-half of his body.

Not to mention that he has friends, really good friends, who like to be in his company because he's fun(.) Despite calling Adam her boyfriend and wanting him to commit to a relationship he never mentally signed on for, Hannah doesn't really know anything about Adam. For example, he's a recovering alcoholic. "It's been a part of my life since I was 17," he tells Hannah.

Hannah's inability to talk about anything but her own problem stems from her personality. She's selfish -- completely and terribly selfish -- but that's OK because everyone has "that one friend who only talks about herself."

Every time she went to Adam's, she only wanted to talk about what terrible thing was happening in her life: "Oh, I was fired from my unpaid internship," "Oh. my life is so hard and I don't have any money" and "Oh, I just came over for sex."

Adam had a good point: "I'm not going to fucking talk your ear off about shit you don't ask about." (Are you taking notes Hannah?)

Naturally, she was surprised to see that Adam actually had a life outside of her and her issues. I'm not saying that Adam is perfect. No, not at all. He's still a major sex-addicted douchebag, but at least now we know that there's more to Adam than shirtless bicycle kicks and shameless masturbation.

When Hannah was in Michigan, she started to soften toward Adam, and after one wild Bushwick rager, it looks like these two are finally BF/GF. I'm not quite sure if they're Facebook official, but Hannah seems like the type of person who would immediately change her status so that all of her former Oberlin friends would know for a fact that she wasn't a lesbian. And I'm pretty sure Adam doesn't even have a Facebook.

Hannah and Adam may finally be official, but Marnie is more miserable than ever. You see, poor, sweet Charlie has moved on, and his new girlfriend is the complete antithesis of Marnie.

Upset that her ex-boyfriend (who she totally broke up with, by the way) moved on so quickly, she finds comfort in Elijah, Hannah's ex-boyfriend who is now totally gay. Marnie then proceeds to dump all of her problems on Elijah, who looks as miserable as Mr. Horvath after throwing out his back and falling naked out of his shower.

Marnie says things like, "Hannah always does this; She's so selfish; She's always been this way," and then she makes fun of Hannah's appearance because you know, that's just what BFFs do. Luckily, Elijah speaks the word of God and calls Marnie out for being the pot calling the kettle black. Marnie is just as selfish as Hannah. She attacked Elijah and dragged him away from a party so that she could tell him about her horrible life and her horrible ex-boyfriend and her horrible best friend.

I'm not saying that Hannah and Marnie aren't good friends, but nothing in this series has convinced me that these two are best friends. OK, they did dance to Robyn, but I'm pretty sure that when Robyn comes on, you can dance with anyone, even a total stranger, and it will look like you're BFFs.

I just want Hannah and Marnie to have a real conversation about anything. The "totem of chat" conversation was a good start, but we've never actually seem them talk on a deeper level. I do have to give Marnie credit: She did come to Hannah's rescue when she was stuck with Adam in the wasteland that is Bushwick.

However, now that Hannah and Adam are officially GF/BF (against Marnie's advice), Hannah and Marnie's relationship is only going to get more strained. There's nothing worse than having a best friend in the honeymoon stage when you just broke up with your boyfriend.

Sweat pants and cupcakes are definitely in Marnie's future.

Meanwhile, Jessa -- who showed up at this Bushwick warehouse party looking like David Bowie in "Labyrinth" -- gets a mysterious text message from someone asking what she was doing. Jessa, being Jessa and not a rational human being, texts the stranger back, telling this person to meet her at the party in Bushwick.

Turns out that this stranger was actually her boss -- her married boss Jeff.

He must really be going through a mid-life crisis because what person brings a bottle of wine to a Brooklyn warehouse party? Molly, sure, but wine? These crazy kids don't want wine! They only drink Pabst Blue Ribbon anyway.

Things have always been slightly awkward between Jessa and Jeff, so I wasn't surprised when he tried to kiss Jessa in the hospital after getting the crap beat out of him by two annoying hipsters. He wanted to get it on, but thankfully, Jessa said no.

Here's why I love Jessa: She's genuinely sexy, funny and rather precocious. It's easy to write her off, but unlike Marnie and Hannah, she's actually starting to show some growth. In "Hard Being Easy", she had sex with her ex-boyfriend (the one with terrible sideburns) simply to prove that she could. She said that she was "unsmoteable."

However, now she's starting to realize that her carefree ways have consequences -- like destroying a marriage and breaking up a family. Think of Bella and Beatrix, Jessa! Of course, Jeff gets mad and calls her a tease (after crying on her shoulder). Maybe she is a tease -- an "unsmoteable" tease -- but she did the right thing.

While everyone else is dealing with relationship issues, Shoshanna is running around Bushwick high on crack. Yes, crack. Poor innocent Shoshanna thought she was taking a hit of weed, but she actually took a hit from a crack pipe.

"I smoked some pot in line for the bathroom, which is so dirty, do NOT go in there unless it's an EMERGE."

Zosia Mamet is a genius. Shoshanna could have easily been a one-dimensional caricature, but Mamet delivers a hysterical, genuine performance. Unlike every other character, at least Shoshanna is likable. How could you not love her for saying things like, "Oh my god! Don't tell my mom!" Honestly, I wouldn't want my mom to know I smoked crack either. It's not very becoming of a young lady.

While Shoshanna runs and screams through the streets of Bushwick, it's Ray's responsibility to chase after her because Jessa was too preoccupied with Jeff. (It was an EMERGE!) Hey, at least Ray got a groin massage out of it! Surprisingly, that was the only slightly sexual thing to happen at this Bushwick party, making this the first episode of "Girls" without awkward, disheartening, sad, and/or geriatric sex!

Oh Bushwick, you're full of so many adventures.

"Girls" airs Sundays at 10:30 p.m. ET on HBO.

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Obama, Romney try to play it safe in 2012 gamble

WASHINGTON (AP) ? In the risky business of running for president, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are largely playing it safe.

For all the small daily dramas of the 2012 campaign, there's a risk-averse dynamic playing out: Neither candidate has been making bold new policy proposals or displaying a free-wheeling personal style. So far, at least.

Part of that is just who they are: Obama always has been known for his cool demeanor, and Romney has discipline built into his corporate pedigree.

Neither of them has the swagger of former President George W. Bush, the renegade streak of 2008 GOP nominee John McCain or the rapscallion's grin of former President Bill Clinton.

But Obama and Romney are men who know how to gamble: Obama decided to run for president after just two years in the Senate, launched an ambitious health care overhaul effort while the economy was still on shaky ground, and gave the "go" order on the Osama bin Laden raid. Romney entered politics after a career in private equity, where risk is part of the job description.

Despite their backgrounds, their caution as candidates extends well beyond personal style.

The president debated for weeks how and when to announce that he supports gay marriage, and only went public after remarks by Vice President Joe Biden nudged him along. When Obama finally did make his announcement, his words were carefully measured to tamp down any backlash. He spoke of dinnertime conversations with his daughters about treating people equally, and of abiding by the Golden Rule.

Romney, too, treated the issue gingerly, even as he disagreed with the president. He restated his opposition to legalizing such marriages, but called it a "very tender and sensitive topic" and said he supported extending certain rights to gay couples.

Political psychologist Stan Renshon, a professor at City University of New York, said Romney has clearly decided that the benefits of sticking to a script outweigh any downsides.

"His No. 1 priority at this point is to establish himself as a bona fide alternative," Renshon says, "and the less risky he sounds, the more conventional, the more boring, the better off he is."

And Renshon said Obama's even demeanor helps him fend off accusations that he's too radical. The president's re-election argument is a recitation of promises kept and a plea for more time to deliver on those yet to be fulfilled.

For now, Obama doesn't see the need to strike out in new directions. His announcement on gay rights, for all the commotion it generated, was largely seen as confirming what people already believed about him. And getting the word out early will make it feel like ancient history by Election Day.

Both candidates also have been wary in their interactions with the press ? to the point that Romney's aides recently tried to physically bar reporters from approaching the candidate to question him as he shook hands with people standing along a rope line.

The GOP candidate later tried to smooth over the flap by paying an impromptu visit to reporters in the back of his campaign plan. But he took note of what a rarity that was by observing that his press aide was "about to pass out." And, no, he didn't still didn't take questions.

Obama, for his part, is happy to use the press when it suits his purposes ? he hastily scheduled a TV interview to reveal his shift on gay marriage ? and to pummel reporters when that fits his campaign narrative.

In a talk to graduates at Barnard College earlier this month, Obama lamented that "faith in our institutions has never been lower, particularly when good news doesn't get the same kind of ratings as bad news anymore. Every day you receive a steady stream of sensationalism and scandal and stories with a message that suggest change isn't possible."

The candidates' wives also have been playing it safe for the most part.

Michelle Obama has largely steered clear of all the contentious talk about issues important to women ? contraception, abortion, the Violence Against Women Act and more. Her standard speech at campaign fundraisers ticks off a list of accomplishments by her husband. Her public appearances largely focus on her two signature issues of fighting childhood obesity and supporting military families, both widely popular and non-political.

Ann Romney, for her part, generally sticks to a script while campaigning for her husband, sharing warm and humorous stories about Romney family life and the challenges of raising five boys.

David Ropeik, a Harvard professor and author of several books on risk, said it's no surprise that the candidates are being cautious "in a no-holds-barred, 24-7, scream-a-thon world, where any hint of what the other side might see as an error is guaranteed to explode."

But Ropeik said both men need to know that being too careful can do them more harm than good.

"Candidates take a huge risk by being so buttoned up that they fail to express human sincerity," Ropeik said. "It's risky not to be sincere ? even though sincerity is risky."

As the campaign progresses, the candidates may well adopt more risky strategies to further their own ambitions, especially if the race remains close.

Obama, for example, raised eyebrows this week with a tough new ad that goes after Romney's record at the Bain Capital private equity firm. The ad quotes a former steelworker who compared the firm to a "vampire" that sucked the lifeblood out of companies.

The populist pitch may help fire up Obama's base of support but risks making it more difficult for him to attract voters in the political center.

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Lisa Brown, 42, Reunited With The Bike She Lost In 1970

When 11-year-old Lisa Brown rode her bike -- her first bike -- across a bridge over the Herring River in Massachusetts in 1970, she lost her footing, tumbling with the bike into the muddy water below.

Brown, now 42, was fine, but she thought the bike was gone forever. Forty years later, that childhood bike has reappeared. The rust-covered, banana-seated bike was recently spotted tucked in the woods near the river, the Cape Cod Times reports.

"When I finally walked up to the bike ... I was like, 'Wow! That's my bike! I know that's my bike!'" Brown told the news source. "It was like finding a long lost friend."

The Associated Press reports that it was Brown's wife, Deirdre Olinger, who had first spotted the "long lost friend" during a walk. Recognizing it from Brown's stories, Olinger knew it was the same.

"I passed the bike, I caught it out of the corner of my eye, and then I thought ... 'Wait a minute what kind of bike was that?'" Olinger told the Cape Cod Times. "I saw that it was a banana seat and just about the right size for an 11-year-old girl."

The couple plans on either taking the bike home to be used as art, or letting it stay in its home -- the woods.

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Horror film "Chernobyl Diaries" draws some protests

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Horror film "Chernobyl Diaries" with its ghostly tale of terror near the infamous, abandoned nuclear plant hits theaters on Friday after drawing protests from some who view it as sensationalizing a disaster that had tragic human consequences.

But the film's maker, Oren Peli, best known as the creator of the "Paranormal Activity" horror franchise, defends his movie by calling it a horror film meant to entertain and never offend. And he does have some support from outside groups.

Still, as with many other films that use real events or people on which to base fictional horror stories -- "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," to name just one -- "Chernobyl Diaries" has sparked concern among some individuals and groups that have posted petitions and called for boycotts.

Yago Alayza, a Florida-based graphic designer, created one of two existing petitions on Change.org and started another on Facebook after viewing advertisements for the film.

"Seeing teenagers taking a vacation at Chernobyl, as if they were going to Disney World, shocked me deeply," he told Reuters. "Anyone visiting Chernobyl should have the same respect as if they were visiting Auschwitz or the Khmer Rouge Museum in Cambodia."

Alayza, who has not yet seen the film, also takes issue with the poster and its slogan: "Experience the Fallout."

"Honestly, who wants to experience a fallout? Do the filmmakers really know what that means? They are making a real horror situation into a joke! This is pure indifference to the reality of the tragedy."

"Chernobyl Diaries" takes place in the Ukrainian ghost town of Prypiat, a city that once housed workers of the Chernobyl power plant. It was abandoned in 1986 after one of the nearby reactors exploded, creating the worst nuclear plant accident in history alongside 2011's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Ukraine, Russia and Belarus are still dealing with the radiation exposure which has been linked to death, chronic health issues and birth deformities among thousands of people.

The film, however, tells the fictional tale of a group of vacationers who ignore warnings and go into Prypiat only find themselves trapped and, of course, not alone. As their numbers dwindle, the group must find a way to escape while fighting off their mysterious attackers who may or may not be human

Robert Schuettpelz, the executive director of the Wisconsin-based survivor's aid group Friends of Chernobyl Centers, U.S. said his organization is against the whole premise of the film.

"It is insensitive to the thousands of people who either lost their lives, were uprooted from their homes, or who were severely impacted medically, emotionally or economically," he told Reuters. "This is especially true given the fact that thousands of people continue to this day to recover and overcome the devastation they experienced."

"NEVER OUR INTENTION TO OFFEND"

Peli defends the movie from arguments like Schuettpelz's by saying it's just a film and he doesn't feel it is offensive.

"It's obviously a fictionalized movie," he said. "We're not trying to say this is a serious documentary or anything like that."

Peli said when he first heard of the abandoned town of Prypiat, he was struck by the fact that people didn't even have a chance to pick up their stuff and left full apartments with personal photos and other memorabilia laying around.

"I found it very sad and fascinating and eerie and creepy," he said. "I thought it would be a great setting for a scary horror film. It was never our intention to offend anyone."

Peli does have support from New York-based victims aid group Chabad's Children of Chernobyl, for whom he screened the film.

"I don't look at the film as a negative and say 'Oh my God, there are mutants running around, how could you make fun of them?' said Esti Herman, the organization's executive director.

"In real life, these people are sick and they've been thrust aside. A lot of them are institutionalized because their parents can't deal with their deformities," Herman said. "Our organization is going to use the film as a springboard to create awareness, to raise money to save the children."

Herman hopes the movie will raise curiosity about the disaster and spur people to look at it again.

For his part, Peli says that sparking awareness is "fine with me, but I'm not going to pretend that was my main goal - my main goal was to create a movie that people will find entertaining and scary and will enjoy it."

In fact, Hollywood for years has been using real events as the basis for horror flicks and, in many cases, pleasing fans.

Ryan Turek, managing editor of horror movie website Shock Till You Drop, cited films like "The Amityville Horror" or "The Hills Have Eyes," which was about a family living near a nuclear testing site, as examples. "Chernobyl Diaries," he said, has familiar movie plot twists and a structure that people will distinguish as fictional.

"Cinema is feeding off unfortunate events all the time," he said.

Still, Alayza and others at least would like to see proceeds of the film donated to the victims of Chernobyl, and without being able to stop the film, they seem to know the best they can hope for is that "Chernobyl Diaries" can be used as a learning tool about the threat of nuclear disasters.

On that last point, the protesters and filmmaker agree.

"If people are honestly concerned about nuclear power and the effects," said Peli. "They can embrace the fact that now it could be a topic of discussion and used for a positive sense."

(Reporting By Zorianna Kit; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

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Bill Clinton, Porn Stars Mingle in Monaco

Bill Clinton was spotted mingling with his core constituency last night.

He also posted for a picture with a couple of porn stars. Obviously.

Across the pond for a "Night in Monaco" celebrity-filled gala at the Casino in Monte Carlo, which was also attended by actual stars like Diane Kruger, Joshua Jackson and Rose McGowan, our 42nd president met these ladies of adult film:

The porn goddesses flanking Bubba are Tasha Reign, 23, and Brooklyn Lee, 22. The latter won the 2012 AVN Award for Best New Starlet! Awesome!

Fortunately, despite the unusual pic, it was all for a charitable cause.

The ex-POTUS was in Europe raising money for the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and his extremely well-endowed William J. Clinton Foundation.

Hopefully that's all he raised Wednesday. One can never truly know.

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