Celebrities November 2011 Deaths

Celebrities November 2011 Deaths- November Celebrities 2011 Deaths in October we said farewell to many noteworthy individuals including a boxing legend, a "Wizard of Oz" actor and a TV legend. Read on to learn more about them and the others who passed away this month. Joe frazier, Karl Slover, Andy Roon...

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Donna Summer Birthday

Donna Summer birthday December 31, 1948, known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the US Billboard chart. She also charted four number-one singles in the US within a thirteen-month peri...

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John Walsh Birthday

John Walsh birthday December 26, 1945 is an American television personality, criminal investigator, human and victim rights advocate and formerly the host, as well as creator, of America's Most Wanted. Walsh is known for his anti-crime activism, which he became involved with following the murder of his son, Adam, in 1981; in 2008, the now dead serial killer Ottis Toole was named as the killer of Walsh's son. Walsh is part owner of the Museum of Crime & Punishment in Washington, D.C. america's most wanted, adam walsh child protection and safety ...

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Meredith Vieira Birthday

Meredith Vieira birthday December 30, 1953 is an American journalist, television personality, and game show host. She is best known for her roles as the original moderator of the ABC talk program The View and co-host of the long-running NBC News morning news program, Today. She currently contributes to Dateline NBC and Rock Center with Brian Williams, and hosts the syndicated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, having replaced Regis Philbin in 2002. She also presented Intimate Portrait, a series on Lifetime. Who wants to be a milliona...

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Taylor Swift Birthday

+Taylor Swift birthday December 13, 1989 is an American country pop singer-songwriter, musician and actress. In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw", then her self-titled debut album, which was subsequently certified multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. In November 2008, Swift released her second album, Fearless, and the recording earned Swift four Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year, at the 52nd Grammy Awards. Fearless and Taylor Swift finished 2008 at number-three and number-six respectively, with sales of 2.1 and 1.5 million. Fearless topped the Billboard 200 for 11 non-consecutive weeks. Swift was named Artist of the Year by Billboard Magazine in 2009. Swift released her third album Speak...

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Boxing Writers Association of America Boxer of The Decade

Boxing writers association of america boxer of the decade- The "Sugar Ray Robinson Award" (previously known as the Edward J. Neil Trophy) is given to the Boxing Writers Association of America's Fighter of the Year. The BWAA first presented the trophy in 1938. The original purpose of the trophy was to recognize "an individual who did the most for boxing in the previous year." Over time, the award went strictly to the best fighter of each year as decided by the BWAA. The members of the BWAA vote to decide the best boxer each year regardless of weight class or nationality.The award was previously named for Edward J. Neil, an Associated Press sportswriter and war correspondent who was killed in 1938 while reporting on the Spanish Civil War. The 2009 award was renamed after boxing great Sugar Ray...

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Manny Pacquiao Birthday

Manny Pacquiao birthday December 17, 1978 is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the 2000s by the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA). He is also a three-time The Ring and BWAA "Fighter of the Year", winning the award in 2006, 2008, and 2009.Currently, Pacquiao is the WBO welterweight champion (Super Champion). He is also rated as the best pound for pound boxer in the world by some sporting news and boxing websites, including The Ring, BoxRec.com and Sporting Life.Aside from boxing, Pacquiao has participated in acting, music...

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Mary Tyler Moore Birthday

Mary Tyler Moore birthday December 29, 1936 is an American actress, primarily known for her roles in television sitcoms. Moore is best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–77), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis, and for her earlier role as Laura Petrie (Dick Van Dyke's wife) on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–66). She also appeared in a number of films, most notably 1980's Ordinary People, in which she played a role that was the polar opposite of the television characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.Moore has also been active in charity work and various political causes, particularly around the issues...

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Priscilla Queen Of The Desert Broadway

Priscilla queen of the desert broadway- Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a musical with a book by Australian film director-writer Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott, using well-known pop songs as its score. Adapted from Elliott's 1994 film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the musical tells the story of two drag queens and a transexual, who contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. As they head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla, the three friends come to the forefront of a comedy of errors, encountering a number of strange characters, as well as incidents of homophobia, while widening comfort zones and finding new horizons but also those that are lost.Reads more....

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Bette Midler Birthday

+Bette Midler birthday December 1, 1945 is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys. During her more than forty-year career, Midler has been nominated for two Academy Awards, and won four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a special Tony Award. She has sold over 30 million albums worldwi...

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Stephenie Meyer Birthday

Stephenie Meyer birthday December 24, 1973 is an American author known for her vampire romance series Twilight. The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies globally, with translations into 37 different languages. Meyer is also the author of the adult science-fiction novel The Host.Meyer was the biggest selling author of both 2008 and 2009 in America, having sold over 29 million books in 2008 alone, with Twilight being the best-selling book of the year. She sold an additional 26.5 million books in 2009, making her the first author to achieve this feat in that year. Meyer was ranked #49 on Time magazine's list of the "100 Most Influential People in 2008", and was also included in the Forbes Celebrity...

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Susan Lucci Birthday

Susan Lucci birthday December 23, 1946 is an American actress and entrepreneur, best known for portraying Erica Kane on the daytime drama All My Children. The character is considered an icon, and Lucci has been called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide, with New York Times and Los Angeles Times citing her as the highest-paid actor in daytime television. In 1996, TV Guide ranked her number 37 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list.As early as 1991, her salary had been reported as over $1 million a year. In 2005, she received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to television. She also has her own line of hair care products, perfumes, lingerie and skin care, called The Susan Lucci Collection.Read more...

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Little Richard Birthday

Little Richard birthday December 5, 1932, known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and contributed significantly to the development of soul mus...

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John Kerry Birthday

+John Kerry birthday December 11, 1943 is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W. Bush.The son of an Army Air Corps serviceman, Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado. He attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and went on to graduate from Yale University class of 1966, where he majored in political science. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1966 and, during 1968-1969, served a four-month tour of duty in South Vietnam as officer-in-charge (OIC) of a Swift Boat. For that service he was awarded several...

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Lebron James Birthday

+Lebron James birthday December 30, 1984 is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "King James", he was a three-time "Mr. Basketball" of Ohio in high school, and was highly promoted in the national media as a future NBA superstar while a sophomore at St. Vincent – St. Mary High School.He was selected with the number one pick in the 2003 NBA Draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers. Listed as a small forward, James has set numerous youngest player records since joining the league. He was named the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2003–04, was named the NBA Most Valuable Player in 2008–09 and 2009–10, and has been both an All-NBA selection and an All-Star every season since 2005....

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Vanessa Hudgens Birthday

Vanessa Hudgens birthday December 14, 1988 is an American actress and singer, who is best known for her portrayal of the character Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical series. She also earned critical acclaim for her role in the 2009 film Bandslam.As an actress, Hudgens has appeared in several television programs including Quintuplets, Still Standing, The Brothers García, Drake & Josh, and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. She made her screen debut in the 2003 drama Thirteen as Noel. She got her first starring role in the 2004 science-fiction-adventure Thunderbirds as Tintin.Hudgens' debut album V was released on September 26, 2006. The album entered the Billboard 200 at number twenty four, and was later certified Gold. Hudgens...

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Robin Gibb Birthday

+Robin Gibb Birthday December 22, 1949 is a British singer and songwriter. He is best known as a member of the Bee Gees, co-founded with his twin brother Maurice (1949–2003), and elder brother Barry.Born in the Isle of Man to English parents, the trio started their musical career in Australia, and found major success when they returned to England. With record sales estimated in excess of 100 million, the Bee Gees became one of the most successful pop groups of all ti...

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Bobby Flay Birthday

Bobby Flay birthday December 10, 1964 is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur and reality television personality. He is the owner and executive chef of 12 restaurants: Mesa Grill in Las Vegas, New York City, and the Bahamas (Atlantis Paradise Island, Nassau); Bar Americain in New York City and Uncasville, Connecticut; Bobby Flay Steak in Atlantic City, New Jersey; and Bobby's Burger Palace in Lake Grove, New York, Paramus, New Jersey, Eatontown, New Jersey, Uncasville, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C.Flay has hosted seven Food Network television programs and appeared regularly on an eighth. He has appeared as a guest on other Food Network shows and hosted a number of specials on the network. Flay is featured...

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Kirk Douglas Birthday

Kirk Douglas birthday December 9, 1916 is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past (1947), Champion (1949), Ace in the Hole (1951), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Lust for Life (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Spartacus (1960), and Lonely Are the Brave (1962).He is No.17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time. In 1996, he received the Academy Honorary Award "for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community."Read more....

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Mary Higgins Clark Birthday

Mary Higgins Clark birthday December 24, 1927, known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 42 books has been a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of her novels remain in print as of 2007, with her debut suspense novel, Where Are The Children, in its seventy-fifth printing. She is a minority owner of the New Jersey Nets.Higgins Clark began writing at an early age. After several years working as a secretary and copy editor, Higgins Clark spent a year as a stewardess for Pan-American Airlines before leaving her job to marry and start a family. She supplemented the family's income by writing short stories. After her husband died in 1964, Higgins Clark worked...

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Steven Bochco Birthday

Steven Bochco birthday December 16, 1943 is a US television producer and writer. He has developed a number of popular television hits including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue, as well as some notable flops such as Cop Ro...

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Larry Bird Birthday

+Larry bird birthday December 7, 1956 is a former American NBA basketball player and coach. Drafted into the NBA sixth overall by the Boston Celtics in 1978, Bird started at small forward and power forward for thirteen seasons, spearheading one of the NBA's most formidable frontcourts that included center Robert Parish and forward Kevin McHale. Due to chronic back problems, he retired as a player in 1992. Bird was voted to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1996 and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998. He served as head coach of the Indiana Pacers from 1997 to 2000. In 2003, he assumed the role of president of basketball operations for the Pacers, which he currently hol...

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Tyson beckford Birthday

+Tyson beckford birthday December 19, 1970 is an American male model and actor, best known as a Ralph Lauren model. He was also the host of both seasons of the Bravo program Make Me a Supermodel. Make me a supermodel, i'm a celebrity get me out of h...

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Bob Barker Birthday

Bob Barker 35 years, Bob Barker birthday December 12, 1923 is a former American television game show host. He is best known for hosting CBS's The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007, making it the longest-running daytime game show in North American television history, and for hosting Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1975.Born in Washington to modest circumstances, Barker enlisted in the United States Navy on the outbreak of World War II. After working at radio stations, Barker began his game show career in 1956, hosting Truth or Consequences. From there, he hosted various game shows as well as the Miss Universe pageants. Eventually, he hosted The Price Is Right, beginning in 1972. When his wife Dorothy Jo died, Barker became an advocate for...

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Tyra Banks Birthday

Tyra banks birthday December 4, 1973 is an American model, media personality, actress, occasional singer, author and businesswoman. She first became famous as a model, but television appearances were her commercial breakthrough. Banks is the creator and host of the UPN/The CW reality television show America's Next Top Model, co-creator of True Beauty, and host of her own talk show, The Tyra Banks Sh...

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Scuba Diving Instructor Child Porn

Man child porn flight, grant smith fellow passenger, grant smith first class, scuba diving instructor child porn- Police say a man who was viewing child pornography on a domestic airline flight from Salt Lake City to Boston has been arrested.Massachusetts State Police say 47-year-old Grant Smith was sitting in first class Saturday afternoon when a fellow passenger saw the pornographic images on Smith's laptop and alerted the flight crew.When the Delta flight landed at Boston Logan International Airport just after 4 p.m., troopers interviewed Smith and subsequently arrested him.Read more....

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5.6 Oklahoma Earthquake November 5

5.6 Oklahoma earthquake november 5- 2011 Oklahoma earthquake was a 5.6 magnitude intraplate earthquake which occurred on November 5, 2011, at 10:53 pm CDT (03:53 UTC, November 6, 2011) in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), it was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Oklahoma. The previous record was a 5.5 magnitude earthquake that struck near the town of El Reno in 1952. The quake's epicenter was approximately 44 miles (71 km) east-northeast of Oklahoma City, near the town of Sparks and was felt in the neighboring states of Texas, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri and even as far away as Tennessee and Wisconsin. The quake followed several minor quakes earlier in the day, including a 4.7 magnitude foreshock. The quake had a maximum perceived intensity...

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Deadliest Earthquake History

Deadliest earthquake history: List of earthquake history lists, and of top earthquakes by magnitude and fataliti...

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November 2011 Celebrity Quotes

November 2011 Celebrity Quotes- Popular quotes celebrity and celebrity Video. Online information on celebrity quotes famous November 2011. The nation was shocked by a college football scandal, penn state scandal and uplifted by a congresswoman's survival story, Gabrielle giffords. The Republican presidential, Republican presidential debate kept coming, while President Barack Obama's health care law reached a major milestone, affordable care act + supreme court. As always, Hollywood saw its share of gossip from an Oscars shakeup, billy crystal oscars to a teen pop star's paternity suit, justin bieber paternity suit.Justin BieberJustin Bieber born March 1, 1994, Justin Bieber has been nominated and awarded numerous accolades, winning Artist of...

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Firefighters Free Trapped Kitten

Firefighters Free Trapped KittenFirefighters rescue trapped kitten – A trapped kitten was rescued by firefighters. A team of firefighters, police officers and animal rescue workers in El Cajon, Calif., are being credited with saving a trapped kitten in a pipe on Thanksgivi...

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November 2011 Product Recalls

November 2011 product recalls- Products recalled November 2011 by the U.S. recalled Toys, Car, Consumer, Vehicle, Meat, Pharmaceutical, Food list of the recalls product. About contaminated pine nuts recall, unapproved dietary supplements, virility max recall, and fragile vases, ashland glass vase recall, in November.November 2011 food recallsRice-A-Roni recalled family-size boxes of its rice pilaf, rice-a-roni rice pilaf milk recall + California and Arizona, due to an undeclared allergen, rice-a-roni rice pilaf milk recall.More RecallsGentes Foods Gordita Black Bean Tortillas, Gordita Black Bean Tortillas recall + Safeway and Pak N Save stores in California, due to possible contamination, Gordita Black Bean Tortillas recall + Clostridium...

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Hottest Holiday Gifts : Thanksgiving Day

Hottest Holiday Gifts : Thanksgiving Day- Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It has officially been an annual tradition since 1863, when during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November. As a federal and popular holiday in the U.S.The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, often shortened to Macy's Day Parade, is an annual parade presented by Macy's. The tradition started in 1924, tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States along with America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit, and four years younger than the 6abc IKEA Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia. The three-hour event...

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Biggest Toy Recalls 2011 Toy Recalls

Biggest Toy Recalls 2011 Toy Recalls- List of 2011 Toy recalls of the biggest recalls and toxins in toys were the biggest problems. Although most toys are perfectly fine, some prove dangerous once they reach the hands of children. See some of the biggest toy recalls of 2011.Woodstock Percussion Gripper ShakersCategory: ToysCountry: ChinaUnits Affected: About 9,400 in the U.S. and 700 in CanadaRecall Date: June 2nd, 2011gripper shakers Recalled by Woodstock Percussion Due to Laceration and Choking HazardBattat magnetic sketchboardsCategory: ToysCountry: ChinaUnits Affected: About 95,000 in the United States and 4,300 in CanadaRecall Date:November 2nd, 2011Battat Magnetic Sketchboards Magnetic Pen Tip Poses Choking HazardsBattat musical wooden...

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Low-Fat Topping Options For Sweet Potato Casserole

Low-Fat Topping Options For Sweet Potato Casserole - A sweet potato casserole with pecan and coconut topping. Sweet potato casserole recipe. Sweet Potato-Banana Casserole.Mike is in charge of making sweet potatoes every Thanksgiving. He made these on Thursday & they were amazing. For those of you who like your sweet potatoes to resemble a vegetable, this recipe is not for you..3 large sweet potatoes1 cup sugar2 eggs1 stick butter, softened1 t vanilla extract.Boil potatoes until tender. Remove skins when cooled. Put into a large bowl and whip until fluffy. Add remaining ingredients. Pour into a greased casserole dish & top with Streusel topping. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes..Remove the casserole from the oven. Immediately spread the marshmallows over the top. Let this sit for about 10...

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Richard Mendoza Murder Jealousy

Richard Mendoza murder jealousy- Sometime in November 2002, Richard "Ricky" Mendoza looked into a classroom window at his Missouri City high school and caught an upsetting sight: his girlfriend of two years kissing his baseball teammate, Christopher Allen Daigle.A few days later, Daigle, 17, went missing.Authorities now believe that moment in the classroom may have foreshadowed what happened to the teen, whose disappearance remained a mystery for several years.On Aug. 12, Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested Mendoza, now 26. He was charged with murder in Daigle's death and remains in jail.Police allege he shot Daigle in the back of the head with a 12-gauge shotgun in a Fort Bend County field just a few days after the incident in the classroom, according to court records that...

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Top Sequels Of All Time : Top 10 all time

The most unnecessary sequel of all time. All time box office most successful sequelsName of sequels Movies All TimeStar Trek II Spiderman IIEvil Dead 2Drunken Master 2The Dark KnightAliensThe Road WarriorThe Empire Strikes BackTerminator 2The Godfather...

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25 Billion Lawsuit Over AIG Bailout

25 billion lawsuit over AIG bailout- The former head of the American International Group sued the U.S. government for $25 billion on Monday, claiming officials should have bailed out AIG instead of taking it over.Maurice "Hank" Greenberg and his Starr International Company accused officials of discriminating against AIG."The government is not empowered to trample shareholder and property rights even in the midst of a financial emergency," Starr alleges in the lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C. Starr also sued the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in federal district court in Manhattan.Read the full story >&...

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Mlb Baseball Players On Contract

+Mlb Baseball Players On Contract- Baseball's labor negotiators have reached a "handshake agreement" on all major issues, and the sport's new five-year collective bargaining agreement is likely to be announced Tuesday, sources told ESPN.com Friday.The sources were hesitant to use words such as "done" or "over" to describe the negotiations, because the two sides are still in the process of putting the agreement into writing. However, one source went so far as to say there are "no issues that remain to be negotiated."Read more: http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7251557/major-league-baseball-players-owners-reach-handshake-deal-labor-contract-sources-say...

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Healthy Alternatives To Thanksgiving Dinner

Healthy Alternatives To Thanksgiving Dinner/ Alternatives to Thanksgiving Dinner Healthy menu ideas and recipes for vegetarian, gluten free and a more nutritious Thanksgiving Day meal. Healthy Alternatives for Thanksgiving Dinner. Thanksgiving dinner comes our ability to consume inhuman amounts of food at a single meal, Thanksgiving dinner consumption + 5,000 calories. While gluttony is certainly in season, you can make the meal a little healthier with a few tweaks to the menu.TurkeyThe star attraction of the day is actually one of the healthier items on your plate nutrients in turkey + SuperFood, so don’t be shy about taking an extra helping. If you stick with white meat without the skin, a serving only has about 150 calories and less than a gram of fat. As for all the T-Day talk about, tryptophan...

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ThanksGiving Dinner Consumption + 5,000 Calories

ThanksGiving Dinner Consumption + 5,000 Calories- The average person eats almost 5,000 calories on Thanksgiving. Translation: The average person eats over 2 days worth of calories on Thanksgiving.Fact: 3500 unburned calories equals 1 pound of fat. The average woman naturally burns 1700 calories and the average man burns 2,000 calories everyday without exercising.Translation: The average woman eats 3300/man eats 3000 extra calories on Thanksgiving. That's almost a 1 pound weight gain in 1 day.Here's the good news: you don't have to gain even that 1 pound! I'm not about to suggest that you starve yourself of holiday joy (of eating). Just make smart choices on what and when to gorge, and try these 7 ways to not gain a pound this holiday season:1. Stop the "It's a Special Occasion" Excuse.It's...

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Looters Texas Lakes

Looters Texas Lakes- Johnny C. Parks died two days before his first birthday more than a century ago. His grave slipped from sight along with the rest of the tiny town of Bluffton when Lake Buchanan was filled 55 years later.Now, the cracked marble tombstone engraved with the date Oct. 15, 1882, which is normally covered by 20 to 30 feet of water, has been eerily exposed as a yearlong drought shrinks one of Texas' largest lakes.Across the state, receding lakes have revealed a prehistoric skull, ancient tools, fossils and a small cemetery that appears to contain the graves of freed slaves. Some of the discoveries have attracted interest from local historians, and looters also have scavenged for pieces of history. More than two dozen looters have been arrested at one site."In an odd...

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