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Thursday, January 5, 2012

10 ridiculous 'Bachelor' moments

ABC's "The Bachelor" resumed Monday with a new prize, Ben Flajnik, and 25 potential future wives vying ? and, in some cases, hysterically sobbing ? for his attention.

If you tuned into "The Bachelorette" last season, you'll remember Flajnik as the sensitive Sonoma Valley winemaker whose proposal was rejected by Ashley Hebert in the finale. (She picked East Coast construction manager J.P. Rosenbaum instead. They're still together.)

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Months after that televised rejection, Flajnik professed a newfound desire to fall in love again ? and on camera, naturally.

"I'm a better, more complete person because of it," Flajnik told host Chris Harrison of his Hebert-inflicted heartbreak. "I'm still missing 'that person.' ... I know what I'm looking for, and I'm ready to start again. I'm ready to find that person. I'm ready to find love."

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But as viewers of this Mike Fleiss-produced dating franchise knows, singling out that special soulmate is often secondary to the drama which ensues during the course of a season ? and fuels an off-camera cottage industry of tabloid gossip. Sure, we want Flajnik to meet The One; but it's equally, if not more, fun to watch what happens when desperado women stop being polite and start getting real.

On that note, behold Monday's 10 most ridiculous moments, courtesy of some of the most equally ridiculous contestants (warning: spoiler alerts ahead):

1. New York City-based relationship blogger Jenna Burke, 27, appeared to have some sort of nervous breakdown while meeting Flajnik and her competitors. She acted hostile toward 33-year-old dental consultant Monica for appearing not to take the game seriously enough, sniping: "You feel nothing? Nothing?... If I didn't have the slightest attraction to him, I would be gone. I would be onto something else. What keeps you here?" When Monica laughed in her face, she went "Black Swan" and locked herself in a room ahead of the rose ceremony, wailing: "People here are awful. They're mean people. .. I gave everything!" In the end, she won a rose, against Flajnik's better judgment. Because this show is not rigged at all.

2. Brittney, a 26-year-old medical sales rep for Colorado, proved to be the smartest contestant in the history of the franchise. Why? She played the Grandma Card. When Sheryl, 72, stepped out of the limo on crutches to introduce her granddaughter, telling Flajnik, "I watched your show all last season, and I fell madly in love with you," Flajnik appeared visibly touched by her effort. (He later walked the elderly woman back to the car, transforming another ridiculous moment into a heart-tugging one. Shrewd move, Brittney.)

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3. This quote from Courtney, a 28-year-old model from California: "I feel like I don't need to worry about these other girls here. It's kind of annoying. I'm better than them. I think I'll just be patient and let them shoot themselves in the foot."

4. This quote from blogger Jenna, whose website ("The Overanalyst") crashed during the premiere due to apparent public interest, in response to rival Monica's assertion that they let bygones be bygones and get along: "Maybe we can share a tampon some time?"

5. Monica ignoring Flajnik to flirt with Charlotte-based cocktail waitress, Blakely, 34, and whisper sweet, possibly staged nothings in her ear. "You're in my life forever. I know this. ... You know I need your number right?" she said, mid-cuddle on a couch.

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6. Emily, a 27-year-old Ph.D student studying transmission of disease, showed her dorky colors right off the bat ? and Flajnik seemed to like it. During their first encounter, she squirted Flajnik with hand sanitizer and spritzed breath spray in his mouth. Then she kissed him. Later Emily ? we'll call her Purell Girl ? performed a personalized rap, with such lyrics as "heartbreak is a disease and nobody is immune."

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7. Dianna, 30, a giggly non-profit director from San Gabriel, Calif., sought to get Flajnik's attention by blindfolding him and force-feeding him candy. (She made him guess what kind it was.)

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8. There was a contestant named Amber Bacon, a 23-year-old labor and delivery nurse from Vancouver. Choice quote: "My friends call me the baconinator. Do you like bacon?"

9. The cleavage-baring green dress and skunky highlights sported by Shawn, 28, an otherwise pleasant-seeming Cincinnati financial officer. After meeting Flajnik, she playfully whacked him on the bicep. "I love a slug on the arm," he said, dryly. Despite his tepid response, whatever Shawn did worked: she scored a rose.

10. Everything that was teased this upcoming season: from a constestant's seeming second thoughts about accepting Flajnik's marriage proposal (not again!) to footage of him skinny-dipping with Courtney, the model. Also, it appears she will be the show's new villain. "She's like a black widow. She just sucks the life out of everything," sniped one woman amid footage of Courtney.

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At the end of Monday's episode, Flajnik eliminated eight women; 17 remain in hopes of snagging that final rose, and the reality-TV man of their dreams. Besides Jenna, Shawn, Brittney, Courtney, Emily, Blakely and Monica, here are the rest of the rest: Jamie, 25, a registered nurse from Dryden, N.Y., Rachel, 27, a fashion sales rep from Massachusetts; Kacie B., 24, a Tennessee administrative assistant; Casey S., 26, a Kansas trading clerk; Erika, 23, a law student from Chicago; Nicki, 26, a Texas dental hygienist; Jennifer, 28, an Oklahoma accountant; Elyse, 24, a Chicago-based personal trainer; Samantha, 26, a Pittsburgh-based advertising account manager; and Newton, Mass., native Jaclyn, 27, another advertising account manager.

What did you think was the most ridiculous moment of the season premiere? Tell us on the Facebook page for our TV blog, The Clicker!

Source: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45856594/ns/today-entertainment/

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Jeff Fisher interviews for Dolphins coaching job

DAVIE, Fla. (AP) ? Jeff Fisher has completed an interview for the Miami Dolphins' head coaching job.

Fisher departed the team's complex at mid-afternoon Tuesday the same way he arrived ? via owner Stephen Ross' helicopter. The Dolphins then confirmed the visit.

He's believed to be the Dolphins' top choice, and Ross is willing to pay big money, but competition from other NFL teams may be fierce.

The Buccaneers and Rams fired their coaches on Monday, increasing to five the number of top vacancies. The Rams' vice president and chief operating officer, Kevin Demoff, happens to be the son of Fisher's agent, Marvin Demoff.

Fisher coached the Titans franchise for 17 years and led Tennessee to the 2000 Super Bowl.

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National Debt, Simply

Paul Krugman:

?Deficit-worriers portray a future in which we?re impoverished by the need to pay back money we?ve been borrowing. They see America as being like a family that took out too large a mortgage, and will have a hard time making the monthly payments.
This is, however, a really bad analogy in at least two ways.?

Krugman's column from today's New York Times is the simplest five-minute explanation of the US debt I've seen. His Nobel Prize was in economics, but his skill is in explaining the complex in everyday terms.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BazingaJournal/~3/AjQHtUrpIb0/national-debt-simply.html

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Monday, January 2, 2012

Moon countdown: Hours until 1st NASA probe arrives (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? NASA is counting down the seconds until its twin spacecraft bound for the moon make back-to-back arrivals over the New Year's weekend.

The washing machine-size probes have been cruising independently toward their destination since launching in September aboard the same rocket on a mission to measure lunar gravity.

Approaching the moon from the south pole, the Grail spacecraft ? short for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory ? won't land on the surface, but will survey from orbit.

On New Year's Eve, Grail-A was poised to fire its engine for more than a half hour to slow itself and get captured into orbit. Grail-B will follow suit on New Year's Day.

Deep space antennas in the California desert and Madrid will track the tricky maneuvers and feed real-time updates to ground controllers.

"The anxiety level is heightened," project manager David Lehman of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory said earlier this week.

Grail is the 110th mission to target the moon since the dawn of the Space Age including the six Apollo moon landings that put 12 astronauts on the surface. Despite the attention the moon has received, scientists don't know everything about Earth's nearest neighbor.

Why the moon is ever so slightly lopsided with the far side more mountainous than the side that always faces Earth remains a mystery. A theory put forth earlier this year suggested that Earth once had two moons that collided early in the solar system's history, producing the hummocky region.

Grail is expected to help researchers better understand why the moon is asymmetrical and how it formed by mapping the uneven lunar gravity field that will indicate what's below the surface.

"It seems that the answer is not on the surface," said chief scientist Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "We think that the answer is locked in the interior."

Previous lunar missions have attempted to study the moon's gravity ? which is about one-sixth Earth's pull ? with mixed results. Grail is the first mission devoted to this goal.

Once in orbit, the near-identical spacecraft will spend the next two months refining their positions until they are just 34 miles above the surface and flying in formation. Data collection will begin in March.

The $496 million mission will be closely watched by schoolchildren. An effort by Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, will allow middle school students to use cameras aboard the probes to zoom in and pick out their favorite lunar spots to photograph.

Despite the latest focus on the moon, NASA won't be sending astronauts back anytime soon. The Obama administration last year nixed a lunar return in favor of landing humans on an asteroid and eventually Mars.

A jaunt to the moon ? about 250,000 miles away from Earth ? is usually speedy. It took the Apollo astronauts three days to zip there aboard the powerful Saturn V rocket. Since NASA wanted to economize by launching on a small rocket, it took Grail a leisurely 3 1/2 months to make the trip covering 2 1/2 million miles.

NASA's last moonshot occurred in 2009 with the launch of a pair of spacecraft ? one that circled the moon and another that deliberately crashed into the surface and uncovered frozen water in one of the permanently shadowed lunar craters.

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Online:

Mission: http://grail.nasa.gov

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Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111231/ap_on_sc/us_sci_nasa_moonshot

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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Video: Buying Blind

How to identify technical patterns in the currency market that could make you money off earnings, with CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Money In Motion traders.

China Shifts Foreign-Investment Focus

BY AARON BACK IN BEIJING AND ANDREW GALBRAITH IN SHANGHAI

China has reshuffled a list of key sectors where it wants to attract foreign investment, downgrading traditional industries like autos and putting more emphasis in emerging fields such as new energy sources.

The changes reflect a broader shift in the country's economic strategy, as leaders seek to transition away from a dependence on heavy manufacturing and toward higher-tech and more environmentally friendly industries.

The National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic planning agency, publishes a "foreign investment catalogue" every few years that divides investment into broad categories: encouraged, allowed, and restricted. On Thursday it unveiled its latest catalog, which ...

BY AARON BACK IN BEIJING AND ANDREW GALBRAITH IN SHANGHAI

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