kirksville mo

Violent storms tore through four Midwestern states, killing three people in northern Missouri, damaging dozens of homes and leaving thousands without power.
Kirksville apparently took the hardest hit Wednesday night. Police Detective Sgt. Ron Celian said the storm damaged 30 to 40 homes and flipped cars and shattered windows at a car dealership. One home was destroyed.
"It just tore everything up," said Don Williams, who rode out the storm in his basement with his wife and four children. "It was just a blur. Insulation and trees blowing everywhere. I could see stuff just flying through my house."
Sullivan County Emergency Management director Rick Gardner said a woman was killed Wednesday night when what appeared to be a tornado struck a mobile home east of Milan in Sullivan County.

Two other people died in a neighborhood near the car dealership, said Adair County coroner Brian Noe. Authorities did not release the victims' names pending notification of family members.

Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Brent Bernhardt said the Adair County sheriff flew over the area to inspect the damage and said in some places the tornado was only 500 feet wide.
"It was not wide," Bernhardt said. "It would be on the ground and then come back up and be on the ground again."

afpc

In the latest news, U.S. Air Force Personnel Center (AFPC) is moving its on premise RightNow solution to a new highly secure, Department of Defense (DoD) SaaS solution. Released in April, RightNow's new defense-ready SaaS offering meets intense levels of compliance and security to help AFPC reap the benefits of RightNow's On Demand CRM, such as rapid time to deploy, more frequent access to ongoing solution innovation, increased reliability and lower cost of ownership, as it shares in a press release. In the new platform, more than 100 AFPC agents would be able to provide accurate, up-to-date information across multiple touchpoints to military and civilian employees of the U.S. Air Force. In addition, would be AFPC website with a self-learning knowledge foundation, ability to monitor constituent feedback, disseminate consistent information, and easily update content to ensure relevancy.

There will also be, as claimed, reduced inbound email by guiding constituents to submit questions via the web, where it is converted into an incident that AFPC can track and respond to. RightNow adds that it has pioneered the SaaS delivery model for government agencies and has successfully served the U.S. government for more than ten years.

Over 155 public sector clients, including nearly every U.S cabinet level agency, Army, Marines, Air Force, members of the Intelligence Community and DoD, is what it cites in its roster.

plum island

An odd creature has apparently washed up on New York's coast, sparking claims that it may be another so-called "Montauk Monster."

A similar carcass sparked an online and media frenzy last July after appearing at a popular surfing spot near Montauk, N.Y.

Nicky Papers, who runs a Web site dedicated to the mystery, says he was contacted by a couple on May 5 who "think they’ve found what appears to be the Montauk Monster" on the North Fork of Long Island.

Papers wrote that he traveled to Southold, N.Y., to view the remains.
"The beast smelled like a mix of low-tide and rotten garbage," Papers wrote. "It really smelled horrific. I couldn’t help but take numerous pictures of it and video clips."
He said the carcass was being kept in a "cooler full of ice."

cell for cash

Cell for Cash (CellForCash.com) is a company of RMS Communications in Ocala, Florida. It provide services of consumers and business to sell their cellular phones for cash. That is, Sell your old phones for cash. CellForCash.com program manager is Andrew Hinkle and CEO is James Mosieur.

This site is very helpful to sell your old phone best price without shipping rate.James Mosieur states his website lists over 200 cell phones his company is willing to buy. Users select a manufacturer and model and complete a registration. The company provides a box and a prepaid shipping label for mailing. Boxes are usually received, within 3 to 7 business days.

who won america s next top model cycle 12

It's final panel time and the girls are wearing bikinis for their final judging. Weird. Still, both girls look gorgeous.
It's critique time:
Allison, to my surprise you came through. The judges were all shocked and amazed by how great Allison did on the runway. Tyra says she expected her to be a buck-eyed mess, but was the exact opposite. Thanks? I think.
The judges liked Teyona's walk, but said that it was robotic at times. We totally agree with the judges on that. Teyona' s walk was fierce, but no fun.

It's time for the judges to critique the girls entire portfolio. First up is the light yourself challenge, which Teyona won, but the judges have decided they like Allison's better now. Next up is the face paint photo shoot, the judges think that Teyona's photo was beautiful, while Allison's was startling and weird. Next is the Ciara photo shoot and the judges are really chatting up Allison's photos. We knew they loved Teyonas, but it turns out they love Allison's too. Lastly it's Tyra's photo: Tyra says she enjoyed shooting Allison more. Regarding Teyona's photo, Nigel says it's not her best. While Tyra says she thinks Teyona's photo is stunning, but she could have done better. Miss J poo-poos it all and says Teyona is all sorts of fabulous.

Wow, this is really a close one. It's obvious the judges have loved Teyona all Cycle, but it seems like Allison is making a very strong argument why she should be America's Next Top Model. What do you think, will ANTM shock us all and name Allison the winner? Someone who could actually be a *gasp* top model

lemniscate

What is Lemniscate? First let's take a look at the definition of Lemniscate.. Lemniscate is any of several figure-eight. The infinity symbol is an exact example of Lemniscate.

On one hand there is also a novel called "Lemniscate" written by Gaynor McGrath which I believe is the one people are actually looking for.

little rascals

If you’ve never ever watched these cute Little Rascals then you might have missed out all the fun. I’ve watched them several times through TV home videos that are aired on local channels. I had always admired all the cute little kids who turned out to be very good little actors and actresses who are chosen not get too shy and unintelligible in front of the camera.I’ve first seen this movie in the TV several years ago, several years before my kid was born.

My kid was also able to watch this movie through one of the cable channels. My little kid was so amused: she laughed out loud at the funny antics that these little actors and actresses do in the movie. My kid couldn’t understand yet what these kids in the movie are talking about, but we sure enjoyed watching those reruns together.The Little Rascals Where are They Now
In case you are wondering where these kids are up to know, I got hold of the YouTube video that shows what these little rascals now look like. Some of them became hot hunks, and one grew up to be a sexy voluptuous vixen.I still wished that these cute Little Rascals would still stay the same, but kids will always grow up!

everything that rises must converge

The $1.7 trillion federal deficit is now coming in at $1.8 trillion.
The additional amount is five times the savings of $17 billion proudly announced by the Obama earlier this week.

Uncle Sugar is now borrowing 46 cents of every dollar spent.
That's $6000 in deficit per American citizen. Just this year, of course.
WaPo quotes the blog of White House Budget Director Peter Orszag: "The deficits ... are driven in large part by the economic crisis inherited by this administration."
OK, that makes us feel better.

tasmanian tiger

AFTERSHOCKS will inevitably be felt in Tasmania from the implosion of the National Basketball League.
This is the feeling of Tasmanian Institute of Sport basketball coach Justin Schueller, who fears the State's impressive production line of elite male players may run dry without a complete pathway.
Basketball Australia announced yesterday that it plans to go ahead with a seven-team NBL this year. This followed the withdrawal of both Melbourne clubs, which left the competition without its reigning champions or any teams in the major markets of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
But BA chief executive Larry Sengstock conceded it may yet be forced to scrap the season if there was not sufficient support from clubs.

While welcoming the job opportunities provided by the interim league, Schueller warned a depleted or non-existent national competition would impact on a State that has produced NBL players Matthew Knight, Sam Harris, Nic Campbell and two-time champion Adam Gibson.
"It would have been devastating if this league had not gone ahead because the players, fans and sponsors would all have gone elsewhere," he said.

"(But) it's going to be tough to keep kids in the sport, particularly where an athlete is good at another sport.

"Because basketball is so professional now, if the professional opportunity is not there another door will open elsewhere so it is a major concern.

katie perry

Last week, we had six performances from 4 contestants, and this week we again had six, this time from the Top 3. For the first time this season, the performers all had multiple solos, something I wasn’t sure was going to happen. And, for the first time in a long while, the talk after the performance show was not the gifted Adam Lambert, but instead the gutsy Kris Allen, the one Simon had discounted in several interviews in the last few days as unworthy, and his cover of a Kanye West tune. Kris was the high-point of the night for many.

A Night At the Museum’ gets the opening pimp spot, and it was funny, yet a little drawn out. Crusty is out, and announces over 88 million votes came in. 1 million separating the top two tonight. The judges are introduced, and we hear that Jordin Sparks and Katie Petty are in the house tonight

jordan sparks

The internet was sent into a mini frenzy Monday when American Idol season 6 winner Jordin Sparks‘ new single Battlefield leaked online. With word coming in that she would officially debut the song on tonight’s intense American Idol results show, fans could barely wait to see the performance.

Joined on stage by the song’s co-writer OneRepublic singer/songerwriter Ryan Tedder, Jordin Sparks returned to the Idol stage and gave a completely rocking performance–looking every bit like a mini Beyonce! Jordy will debut the single to radio tomorrow on the Elvis Duran morning show.

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who won the biggest loser 2009

An amazing weight loss of 54.47% has given Helen Phillips that extra edge to beat out all the other contestants and grab the title of biggest loser with a booty of $250,000 to take home. The season premiered on January 6, 2009, with eleven overweight couples. This was highest percentage of weight loss in Biggest Loser history, 54.47%. She also became the third consecutive winner to originate from the Pink Team. Mike came in a close second, and Tara was third.

Jerry won the $100,000 at-home prize with a total percentage of weight loss of 47.97% .
The Biggest Loser is an American reality television show that began broadcasting on the NBC network on October 19, 2004. The seventh season began on January 6, 2009. As of May 2009, NBC is casting for an ninth season.

biggest loser season 7

The 3-hour season finale of the Biggest Loser revealed 48-year old Helen lost the largest percent of weight (55%) and won the challenge. You only had to tune in during the last 10 minutes to find this out.
See a slideshow of Helen's transformation here
She beat out Tara and Mike for the $250,000 grand prize. They all looked amazingly slim. Mike lost 207, Tara lost 155 and Helen lost 140 pounds.

The rest of the show was a lengthy weigh-in of the other 19 contestants who were eliminated over the past 18 weeks of the season. Sixty-four year old Jerry, who left after 2 weeks on the ranch, won the at-home prize of $100,00. He lost nearly 50% of his weight.

Season 7 was a landmark season. It had the heaviest, oldest, youngest and sickest contestants. Tara never fell below the yellow line and also won a record number of challenges.
Season 8 starts in September. Casting for season 9 is now open. Family member teams of 2 who each have over 100 pounds to lose are needed.

frontier communications

U.S. stocks were down Wednesday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 140 points to 8326, the S&P 500 declined 16 points to 892 and the Nasdaq Composite slid 31 points to 1684. Among the companies whose shares are actively trading in the session are GT Solar International Inc. (SOLR), BMC Software Inc. (BMC) and Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT).

GT Solar's ($5.73, -$1.49, -20.64%) fiscal fourth-quarter profit plunged 59% as the solar-equipment maker's margins slumped. On top of the disappointing results, the company issued on a weak fiscal-year view.
BMC Software ($33.00, -$2.05, -5.85%) posted a 14% decline in fiscal fourth-quarter earnings as higher charges masked increased sales at the maker of business software. Income beat expectations but revenue fall short of analysts' estimates.

Applied Materials ($11.02, -$0.46, -4.01%) swung to a fiscal second-quarter loss as sales plunged a less-than-feared 53% in a tough environment for the chip sector. The latest quarterly loss marks the second in a row for the semiconductor-equipment maker after a string of profits running back to 2003.
Medicines Co. (MDCO, $6.55, -$4.59, -41.20%) said it is discontinuing its Phase 3 Champion clinical trial of cangrelor in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. The company said an independent interim analysis review committee reported the trial wouldn't demonstrate persuasive evidence of clinical efficacy. Cangrelor is an antiplatelet agent Medicines Co. was developing for intravenous use during coronary procedures.

Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc.'s (DPS, $22.48, +$1.22, +5.74%) first-quarter earnings rose 39% on a gain related to changes in distribution agreements as the company saw increased margins and sales improvement in carbonated soft drinks. Profit was well above analysts' expectations, prompting the beverage giant to increase its full-year earnings forecast. It still expects revenue to decline 2% to 4%.

american idol may 12

American Idol on May 12 of 2009 is down to its Top 3 and for its 300th episode each of the guys had to sing two songs: a choice of their own and one chosen by one of the judges. Hands down, the guys picked better songs for tonight's American Idol than the judges. Between the guys, the competition is going to be close and the results may be narrow.

Danny Gokey started out tonight's American Idol with a song chosen by Paula – “Dance Little Sister” by Terrence Trent D’Arby. I’m not a big fan of the song to begin with, but I really didn’t like what Danny did to it. The graveliness of his voice is really starting to grate on my nerves. Personally, I thought it was a poor song choice and Danny did nothing to improve on it.

On the other hand, One Republic’s “Apologize” was the perfect song for Kris Allen’s voice and personality. He did a beautiful rendition of the song. And as Randy said, I think the song showed us what kind of future Kris has in the music business. And that’s the kind of music, I would buy

the fray heartless

Let me go on the record right now and say Kris shut it down!
Talk about going out on a limb!!!

He selected Kanye West/The Fray’s “Heartless,” and it was acoustic and not to be believed! This guy is amazing when it comes to the full-on artistry. Adam gets all the love for bringing something fresh and different to this year’s competition, but he needs to share some of that shine with Kris Allen.

Even Simon had to give him his props because Kris smacked it up, flipped it and rubbed it down. OOOOO noooo!

Gokey better watch his back, because Kris seriously came full force. Way to go dark horse!!!

adam lambert one

Adam Lambert One Video - When the time came to Adam Lambert to perform on the Top 3 night, he was given a song picked out by judge Simon Cowell. The song luckily for him was very popular, but it has a bad side to it, because it is also an anthem and a difficult song to sing.

The start was really good, but then again I find that Adam Lambert likes to scream. It lacked the type of screaming Bono does in this song. This song is one of those songs when you actually want to sing with pure emotion, not with acting and screaming. Actually his style reminds me of the 80s.

terrence trent darby

The show begins and not only is Adam Lambert in the spotlight, but Danny and Kris are as well. Will Katherine hate it quite as much if they all get to do it?

As the opening credits roll, I must tell you that I got a new laptop. It's teeny tiny and I love it.

OK. On to the show. The chick from Lie to Me is in the audience. You'd think they'd have someone from Fringe there to focus on since the finale is tonight. What do I know? I only work in promotion.

Ryan tells us we are down to the three amigos and then intros the judges, who are, unfortunately, not able to be called the three amigos due to that extra baggage seated between Randy and Paula. Boo.

The top three hit the stage and Kris Allen looks awkward and out of place between the other two heavy weights. He seriously looks as if he believes he doesn't belong there. I believe he is right. Allison was robbed!

First up, we head to Danny Gokey's hometown of Milwaukee and learn that Danny is singing Paula's song choice, “Dance Little Sister” by Terrence Trent Darby.

He looks like he's constipated - I mean, concentrating. This is a terrible song choice for him. This is so not good. AND, this is the first time that I will admit Danny MAYBE should have gone home last week. Allison was robbed!

Randy says, “Let the games begin.” He then refers to this as the way to jump it off tonight and calls the performance “dope.”

Dead weight likes that Paula picked this song b/c it keeps Danny in his “money spot.” She did not like the gyrating dancing though and she isn't sure she will remember the performance tomorrow. What's HER name again?

Paula is a choreographer and she thinks he did really good...fantastic even.

Simon thinks the dancing was a bit desperate but his biggest problem was the toy sax solo in the middle. He apparently liked it – though he didn't say so in so many words. He does, however, think it was the wrong song choice.

Next, we head to Arkansas to learn that Kris' first song was chosen by Randy(they list Kara's name as well, but let's be honest, she just parrots whatever Randy says). He is singing “Apologize” by One Republic.

Kris is on piano tonight and his face is in full force Mayer mode. He is sliding to the notes and it's killing my ears. His tone is inconsistent. This is karaoke for me...very amateur. I am so not loving tonight so far. Alison was robbed!

Randy rambles and doesn't give much of a critique.

The bane of my existence says it was a really confident performance but she thinks Kris didn't hit it out of the park. She says he should take more chances by doing something like playing accoustic guitar. 'Cause nothing says “guts” like something you've done before. God, I hate her.

Princess P heard a loud bum note but she is so proud of Kris. She says all three of them are worthy of the top two spots. Based on that non-critique, I'd say Paula is fibbing.

Simon calls what Kara said a “cop out.” He tells her that she can't choose a song for someone and then blame them for doing the song. Note to Simon: Randy chose the song. He says it was a competent version of the original but not quite as good.

Argument between Simon and Kara/Randy ensues b/c Simon says they should have worked out the arrangement for Kris. Randy claims he didn't know they were allowed. C'mon guys, we all know the show is steered by the judges and producers. Don't act like the contestants make the decisions themselves

netflix

I talked the other day about taking profits off the table for your market winners for the year. One of those stocks that I had recommended in my 4 stocks to buy in 2009 is Netflix (NFLX).

Once up at $50 not to long ago, the online video rental company has taken a bit of a dive. At this same time, the market as a whole was moving higher, so many traders were obviously taking their money out of Netflix and moving it elsewhere. The question is how much further can Netflix go? Is the move up done?

Regardless of the decline downwards, Netflix has still posted solid numbers and news. If there is any hopes for a bounce back, the charts will show us

Both RSI and full stochastic are at the low level of the range, which 1) tells us that the stock could become oversold and 2) chances of heading higher is more probable.

How much higher we can go is another question. As you can see in the chart, Netflix broke through the support (blue line) of the previous trend on more than normal volume. So that line could now play a pretty strong resistance.

bilious

What does "Bilious" mean? What's the meaning or definition of Bilious? I thought it's one of those crazy phishing websites aimed at facebook users. Or I did think of it as something like some weird name for a newborn baby..hheheh.. whatever! But people are searching for it and I don't know why.Anyway, Bilious means:

a: of or relating to bile b: marked by or suffering from liver dysfunction and especially excessive secretion of bile c: appearing as if affected by a bilious disorder."