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		<title>JEWELRY REVEALS YOUR PERSONALITY</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your favorite piece of jewelry is a bracelet, you probably love life and have a great deal of determination, so says a psychiatrist.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weeklyworldnews.com&blog=5758908&post=13819&subd=weeklyworldnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>If your favorite piece of jewelry is a bracelet, you probably love life and have a great deal of determination, so says a psychiatrist.<span id="more-13819"></span></p>
<p>Dr. Emery Wilson adds, &#8220;Earrings, bracelets and rings are all vital ways of self-expression, so the jewelry you wear reveals your personality.</p>
<p>&#8220;But to really find out what personality type you are, you should examine your most frequently worn iems. Your favorite piece of jewelry is a dead giveaway.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dr. Wilson named some other pieces of jewelry and explained what they mean about the person who wears them:</p>
<p><strong>Bracelet</strong> &#8211; You are a vivacious, sparkling, dynamic individual who goes after what you want.</p>
<p><strong>Earrings</strong> &#8211; If your favorite jewelry is a pair of earrings, you&#8217;re probably a proud, secretly bold person who doesn&#8217;t want to get lost in the crowd.</p>
<p><strong>Religious symbols</strong> &#8211; If you wear a cross or a Star of David more than other items of jewelry, you&#8217;re likely idealistic, sincere, extremely loyal and very dependable.</p>
<p><strong>Rings</strong> &#8211; Choosing a ring over other jewelry shows that you&#8217;re probably a level-headed, down-to-earth person. But deeper than that, the type of ring you choose also reveals something about your personality.</p>
<p>A <strong>wedding band</strong> shows you care about your family and traditional values.</p>
<p>A <strong>dazzling diamond ring</strong> usually reveals a person who wants the world to know that she is someone to be reckoned with.</p>
<p>Dr. Betty Schwartz, a psychiatrist, agreed that your favorite piece of jewelry reveals a lot about you. Here&#8217;s what the following pieces of jewelry reveal about people:</p>
<p><strong>Ethnic symbols</strong> &#8211; If your favorite piece of jewelry is a pin or pendant that tells the world about your ancestry, you&#8217;re probably a thoughtful, orderly person. You likely are a trustworthy friend.</p>
<p><strong>Assorted jewelry</strong> &#8211; If you have a favorite piece of jewelry for every outfit, you&#8217;re likely to be sensitive, artistic and sometimes shy. You are an orderly and well-groomed person who is not given to emotional outbursts.</p>
<p><strong>No jewelry</strong> &#8211; If you prefer not to wear jewelry, you&#8217;re probably a self-confident, down-to-earth person. You may be blunt at times but people appreciate it.</p>
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		<title>FANS FIGHT OVER HOCKEY STICK</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANAHEIM, CA - Fans went berserk last night when a player tossed his hockey stick into the crowd!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weeklyworldnews.com&blog=5758908&post=13845&subd=weeklyworldnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>ANAHEIM, CA &#8211; Fans went berserk last night when a player tossed his hockey stick into the crowd!<span id="more-13845"></span></p>
<p>The Anaheim Ducks played the Tampa Bay Lightning last night. As Ducks&#8217; Scott Niedermayer skated out onto the ice, he decided to toss his stick into the audience as a souvenir.</p>
<p>He had no idea how competitive the Ducks fans would be&#8230;</p>
<p>Take a look at the chaos that ensued:</p>
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		<title>GIULIANI RUNNING FOR SENATE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Cunningham III</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, NY - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is preparing to run for Senate in 2010, and President in 2012. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weeklyworldnews.com&blog=5758908&post=13840&subd=weeklyworldnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>NEW YORK, NY &#8211; Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is preparing to run for Senate in 2010, and President in 2012.<span id="more-13840"></span></p>
<p>Giuliani announced yesterday that he plans on running for New York Senator in 2010.  He also said that if this was successful he would then run for the White House two years later &#8220;to get America back on track!&#8221;  He made these announcements standing on top of a box on a street corner in lower Manhattan.</p>
<p>Former Mayor and Republican Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani stood on a box draped in a flag for hours yesterday.  Onlookers were highly confused at the sight as they passed by going about their business.  Many started leaving spare change in a cup by his feet.</p>
<p>Giuliani continued to shout Republican talking points at anyone who would listen for seven straight hours.  After that, he just started shouting &#8220;9/11!  9/11!&#8221; over and over again.  At more than one point he was almost collected by police as a homeless person to be shipped to New Jersey, a policy he put into practice.</p>
<p>In the evening, once he had been washed off and redressed by assistants, he made an official press conference.  He insisted on still draping himself in the American flag, despite strong opinions by his staff.  Entering the stage he could be seen tugging on one end of it while his personal assistant tried to take it from him, saying &#8220;Mine.  MINE!&#8221; until eventually she let go.  Giuliani took to the stage and tried not to chew on the corner of his flag while laying out his plans to eventually become the most powerful man in the world.</p>
<p>Key to funding these two massive political races was his plan to copyright the phrase &#8220;9/11.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We will show America that we have not forgotten.  That we will never forget.  And by the grace of God we will continue to let one tragedy define us for the rest of our lives!&#8221;  The crowd went into an awkward silence and Mr. Giuliani left the stage.  He was last seen campaigning in the early hours of the morning at the bus station.</p>
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		<title>TERRY WATANABE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dallas Commagreens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS, NV - A multimillionaire gambler is suing a casino over plying him with alcohol and drugs to keep him playing!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weeklyworldnews.com&blog=5758908&post=13829&subd=weeklyworldnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>LAS VEGAS, NV &#8211; A multimillionaire gambler is suing a casino over plying him with alcohol and drugs to keep him playing!<span id="more-13829"></span></p>
<p>Terry Watanabe is the former owner of the Oriental Trading Company, an import/export business he sold in 2000. Since then he has touted himself as a professional philanthropist.</p>
<p>However, Watanabe&#8217;s penchant for gambling got the best of him, as he says he lost more than $100 million at Harrah&#8217;s, a Las Vegas casino!</p>
<p>But Watanabe is claiming the company coerced him into compulsive gambling. By 2006, Harrah offered to move him into their Caesars Palace, as well as 15 percent cash back on monthly table losses of $500,000 or greater, and $12,500 transportation reimbursement and a $3 million line of credit! He also claims that the casino promised to wait 60 days before cashing any markers he lost.</p>
<p>By the end of 2007, as his losses became unmanageable, Harrah&#8217;s not only increased his credit limit, but provided him with an unending supply of alcohol and pain killers.</p>
<p>Watanabe says he began gambling for multiple days in a row, “with little interruption of sleep…Harrah’s executives and employees knew or should have known…that Watanabe was rapidly running out of money.” He was often so inebriated and sleep deprived “that at times he became unconscious at his private gaming tables or slot machines.”</p>
<p>Watanabe is filing his lawsuit because Harrah&#8217;s is trying to claim $14.75 million he wrote in bad checks. It is unclear how much Watanabe is suing for, with charges including fraud, breach of contract, conspiracy and negligence, but considering Watanabe claims he bet more than $825 million in 2007 alone, it is likely to be significant.</p>
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		<title>ED ANGER SAYS: &#8220;TAKE THAT, OBAMA!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I’m madder than Al Sharpton with a busted bullhorn! I’ve heard about that affirmative action stuff but this is crazy!<span id="more-13834"></span></p>
<p>It’s bad enough they gave the Teleprompter Kid one of those Peace Prizes for not doing anything. But now the South Koreans gave him a black belt in karate – even though he’s never had a lesson!</p>
<p>Jesse Jackson just said if you voted against socialist medicine, you couldn’t call yourself a black man, but I guess even if you don’t know karate, you can still call yourself a black belt!</p>
<p>The less Obama does, the more prizes he gets! He’s like one of the retarded kids at the Special Olympics or something. Hey, he did say his bowling was better than theirs, right? That’s something to brag about.</p>
<p>I’m surprised nobody complained about him getting a “black” belt cuz that’s prejudiced or something. Then again, it’s still early in the day. All the angry rappers are still sleeping off their champagne hangovers.</p>
<p>I can’t wait til Chuck Norris hears about this one! He’ll be pig fighting mad!  He had to kick a lot of cement blocks and Chinese guys’ heads to get where he is today, and O-Bow-Ma comes along and gets a black belt for nothing.</p>
<p>Does this mean the Communist-in-Chief is gonna go after Osama and give him a karate chop? Ha! Don’t bet on it!</p>
<p>Bruce Lee must be turning over in his grave or tomb or whatever those slant-eyed people have instead.</p>
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		<title>TILLMON WEBB</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>COLUMBIA, SC &#8211; A severely obese man stayed in his recline for almost eight months before passing away.<span id="more-13823"></span></p>
<p>911 received a call from Tillmon Webb&#8217;s mother, stating he was suffering from pain. Paramedics arrived to find the 800-pound 33-year-old stuck in his power recliner.</p>
<p>Firefighters were forced to cut him out of the chair, as well as cut a hole in the wall to take him out through, before transporting him to the hospital where he died of a heart attack.</p>
<p>His wife, Ada, explained that he had hurt his knee in March, although they pleaded with doctors to keep him for help with his weight, the couple could not afford it and he was sent home.</p>
<p>Once he sat down in the chair, he was never able to get up again. Paramedics believe he never left the chair in the eight months leading up to his death, and Ada verified this, saying she cleaned the chair daily.</p>
<p>His wife also claimed Webb didn&#8217;t ask officials for help, because he was ashamed of his state and did not have health insurance. The former preacher posted sermons online daily but was resigned to his fate. He apparently wanted help with his weight, but Webb and Ada had no way of getting him to anyone.</p>
<p>&#8220;He just kind of said, &#8216;it&#8217;s in God&#8217;s hands&#8217; at that point,&#8221; said Ada. He spent the rest of his days waiting to meet the Lord.</p>
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		<title>MISS GAY BRAZIL WIG SNATCH</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Haddad</dc:creator>
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<p>BRAZIL &#8211; The contestants got catty at this year&#8217;s Miss Brasil Gay when one contestant went after the winner&#8217;s wig!<span id="more-13813"></span></p>
<p>A somewhat misnamed competition, Miss Brasil Gay is a contest featuring Brazilian drag queens, each representing a different state of Brazil. Citizens flock from across the country to attend.</p>
<p>While it has been relatively drama free in the past, this year&#8217;s competition has drawn international attention, after a losing contestant vented her frustration on the winner!</p>
<p>Take a look:</p>
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		<title>MICHAEL JACKSON ULTRASOUND</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maleeka Spriggs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON - A set of British parents believe they have seen Michael Jackson in their baby's ultrasound!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weeklyworldnews.com&blog=5758908&post=13805&subd=weeklyworldnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>LONDON &#8211; A set of British parents believe they have seen Michael Jackson in their baby&#8217;s ultrasound!<span id="more-13805"></span></p>
<p>Dawn Kelley and William Hickman are expecting a child next March. Kelley went for her 20-week ultrasound scan, to discover that her doctor couldn&#8217;t see the fetus&#8217; stomach.</p>
<p>She was then sent a few weeks later to another medical center for a more powerful scan. It was there that they received the very detailed image.</p>
<p>Kelley said they were going through the pictures later on, and Michael Jackson&#8217;s face jumped out at her!</p>
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<p>The father said, “I showed my daughter Ami, who’s six, and she saw it straight away, so I thought, &#8216;Well if she can see it too it’s not just me seeing things’.”</p>
<p>They have shown the rest of their children, Chris, 16, Amanda, 15, Jason, 13, Alisha, 10, Ami-Lee, six, and Kye, four, who all agreed it was his face.</p>
<p>Kelley said, “I’ve had plenty of scans before and none of the photos have ever looked like this one. It’s a bit spooky really.&#8221;</p>
<p>They know the child will be a girl, so no Michael Jackson Jr. here.</p>
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		<title>WORD OF THE YEAR 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>NEW YORK, NY &#8211; The New Oxford American Dictionary has picked their word of the year: &#8216;unfriend&#8217;!<span id="more-13800"></span></p>
<p>The New Oxford American Dictionary is the North American English version of the New Oxford Dicionary of English, based in the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>Every year, the company tracks how the English language changes and chooses a new word that seems to reflect the mood and interests of the population that year.</p>
<p>For 2009, they picked &#8216;unfriend&#8217;, which originated as an action on online social networks like Facebook and Myspace. It is the act of removing someone from your network that you had previously added.</p>
<p>“It has both currency and potential longevity,” said Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford’s US dictionary program. “In the online social networking context, its meaning is understood, so its adoption as a modern verb form makes this an interesting choice for Word of the Year.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Dictionary considered other words in a number of fields, such as technology (sexting), economy (funemployed), politics (birther) and the environment (ecotown).</p>
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		<title>NORTH POLE ALASKA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>ANCHORAGE, AK &#8211; The popular program of answering Santa&#8217;s letters from the &#8220;North Pole&#8221; is being discontinued!<span id="more-13794"></span></p>
<p>The program was started in 1954, in the Alaskan town of North Pole. The Postal Service had noticed letters arriving in the town addressed to Santa, and decided to organize a group of volunteers to respond to the thousands of children who wrote.</p>
<p>The 2,100 person town of North Pole prides itself on its Christmas connection, with stores like Santa Claus House, light poles that look like candy canes and streets called Kris Kringle Drive and Santa Claus Lane.</p>
<p>But the mood has changed, now that the USPS has declared it would no longer be running the letter answering service. This is mostly due to an incident last year, when a registered sex offender was recognized volunteering for Operation Santa! He was stopped before he could answer any letters, but the repurcussions have been felt nationally.</p>
<p>While the Operation Santa program will still exist, letters addressed to &#8220;Santa Claus, North Pole&#8221; will no longer reach the Alaskan town. And considering the residents only just found it, a dark mood has settled over the community.</p>
<p>Said Mayor Doug Isaacson, &#8220;It&#8217;s Grinchlike that the Postal Service never informed all the little elves before the fact. They&#8217;ve been working on this for how long?&#8221;</p>
<p>Unless a change is made in the next couple weeks, it is likely the cancellation will be permanent.</p>
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