Doctors tell New York Mets great Gary Carter that brain tumors are likely malignant - NYDaily News

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Please pray for Gary [The Kid] Carter .. and his family.
He's a wonderful man. The Kid always included me in his life.
Many wonderful memories with Gary. Today's news is so sad I can't even cry.

We need a Miracle from Heaven for The Kid. This one would be better than the Miracle Mets comeback in the 1986 World Series - It could happen. I agree with  Mike Lupica - The Kid is one tough out. - Meck
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Stricken Mets great Gary Carter has received ominous news from doctors at Duke University, who say that they are "90% certain" that tumors on his brain are malignant, according to a Carter family website.
Carter, 57, was first diagnosed with four small brain tumors May 21 after experiencing headaches and forgetfulness in recent weeks.

"It was very hard for all of us to hear, as we have been hoping and praying that the tumors would be benign," one of Carter's daughters wrote on the website. "Lots of tears have been shed in the hospital room today, and we are all a bit scared of the unknown."

Carter won't know the official diagnosis until early or the middle of next week.

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Dinner theater serves up comedy murder mysteries - News Herald

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Congrats to Sandy for opening her dinner theater tonite in PC Beach.
I have no doubt it will be a great success. She's worked very hard getting it ready.
She has 2 very talented assistants .. Mayor Mike and Schmitty working with her
this weekend for The Grand Opening at Sherlock's Mystery Dinner Theater. - Meck

Tickets/Info  DinnerAtSherlocks.com  or call 850-867-7725
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PANAMA CITY BEACH — It’s no mystery why Sandy Schmitz wanted to open her own dinner theater.
“We travel a lot because of (husband Mike Schmitz’s) work, and everywhere we go I ask to go to a murder mystery dinner theater,” she said. “Every time we’re in a theater, I keep saying I want to own one of these at the beach.”

Friday the curtain opens on Sherlock’s Mystery Dinner Theater, owned and operated by Schmitz, the wife of Dothan, Ala., Mayor Mike Schmitz. She grew up in Panama City and graduated from Rutherford High School, and she often commutes to the beaches.
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They bought the old Mako’s restaurant building beside Capt. Anderson’s off Grand Lagoon and renovated it to seat up to 300 banquet-style in front of a stage. The company is licensed as a banquet facility and will do receptions, dances and other activities — but the focus is on comedy murder mysteries.

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Sherlock's Mystery Dinner Theater:

• What: Murder mystery and banquet meal
• Where: 5550 N. Lagoon Drive, Panama City Beach
• When: Opening Friday, May 27; shows at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays
• Details: DinnerAtSherlocks.com  or call 850-867-7725 

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Lupica: Einhorn, ace of funds, bets on the Mets [$200 Million] - NYDaily News

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"I'm very comfortable with the financial arrangements that are here," Einhorn said. "I'm not really interested in owning a TV station. My excitement has to do with the baseball team."

He sounded like what he is, exactly: A Mets fan with a ton of dough who wants to get in the game this way, doesn't come in hot, looking to sign free agents and make trades. For now, anyway. When George Steinbrenner bought the Yankees, remember, he told everybody we were barely going to notice he was in town.

For now David Einhorn - who actually does do God's work, contributing mightily to the Michael J. Fox Foundation - sees a chance to get in on a New York baseball team, that kind of chance not coming along very often, and grabs it.

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Are Braves affected by transition from Cox to Gonzalez? - Jeff Schultz / AJC.com

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Are Braves affected by transition from Cox to Gonzalez? - Jeff Schultz / AJC.com
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Ex-Facebooker Dave Morin: You can't be friends with everyone - CNN

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(CNN) -- It's proven by research, Dave Morin says. You can't really, truly be friends with more than 50 people at once; and your brain can't manage a social network that's larger than 150 people, according to Robin Dunbar at Oxford.

Now think about the thousands of online relationships people tend to manage across sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. ("Who is that person writing on my wall?") The average Facebook user has 130 friends.

This digi-friend overload is why Morin, a former Facebook employee, created an app-based social network called Path, which limits its users to 50 friends or fewer. The goal is to promote intimate and memorable sharing, he said.
"Path is really focused on close friends and family, and developing deeper and more intimate relationships between the 50 closest people in your life," Morin said in an interview at a recent tech conference in Austin, Texas.

Path's setup is familiar. It is basically a photo-sharing app. Look at your Path news feed on your phone and you'll see photos from locations where family and friends have been recently, and short blips of text about what they were doing.

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Center Stage job fair set for Friday -- Dothan Eagle

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As many as 200 jobs could be up for grabs Friday at Center Stage Alabama, the recently named project located at what has been known as Country Crossing on Highway 231 South.

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Marriage loses ground -- USATODAY.com

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Marriage is losing ground to a grinding economic slowdown that has prompted more couples to live together without tying the knot.

The share of couples who are not married has risen in many places but is highest in areas that offer many people grim prospects for a better financial future: old industrial cities and the Mississippi Delta.

Unmarried couples made up 12% of U.S. couples in 2010, a 25% increase in 10 years, according to Census data out today.

Two-thirds of the cities with the largest shares of unmarried couples were in the Northeast and Midwest, up from about half a decade earlier.

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Wow, Dirk; now do it to Evil Empire in NBA Finals - Jennifer Floyd Engel / Star-Telegram

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And now Dirk, we just need you to do what Boston and Chicago and MVP Derrick Rose have mostly failed at accomplishing. Destroy the Evil Empire, the basketball devil, The Architects of The Decision, the Miami Heat.
"Beat the Heat" echoed at The AAC in the giddy aftermath of the win.

Yes, bring on Miami. And then beat Miami.
I realize The Mavericks just barely and practically moments ago accomplished basketball magic and The Heat has not officially disposed of Chicago. They will, karma and fate dictate it so.
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It is not only OK to sports-hate Miami. Everybody else does, well, except for LeBron's mom and his agent and ESPN and Heat players who are contractually obligated to pretend like they like this dude. It is your duty as a fan of all that is good and holy in sports to hate them. Laker, Celtic, Spur fan let us all unite in the very admirable goal of hoping Bron-Bron never is rewarded for his hubris and megalomania and general jerkery with a ring.

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Ex-Facebooker Dave Morin: You can't be friends with everyone - CNN

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(CNN) -- It's proven by research, Dave Morin says. You can't really, truly be friends with more than 50 people at once; and your brain can't manage a social network that's larger than 150 people, according to Robin Dunbar at Oxford.

Now think about the thousands of online relationships people tend to manage across sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. ("Who is that person writing on my wall?") The average Facebook user has 130 friends.

This digi-friend overload is why Morin, a former Facebook employee, created an app-based social network called Path, which limits its users to 50 friends or fewer. The goal is to promote intimate and memorable sharing, he said.
"Path is really focused on close friends and family, and developing deeper and more intimate relationships between the 50 closest people in your life," Morin said in an interview at a recent tech conference in Austin, Texas.

Path's setup is familiar. It is basically a photo-sharing app. Look at your Path news feed on your phone and you'll see photos from locations where family and friends have been recently, and short blips of text about what they were doing.

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Strauss-Kahn's pals bid to pay off woman's kin - NYPost

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Friends of alleged hotel sex fiend Dominique Strauss-Kahn secretly contacted the accusing maid's impoverished family, offering them money to make the case go away since they can't reach her in protective custody, The Post has learned.

The woman, who says she was sexually assaulted by the disgraced former head of the International Monetary Fund, has an extended family in the former French colony of Guinea in West Africa, well out of reach of the Manhattan DA's Office.
"They already talked with her family," a French businesswoman with close ties to Strauss-Kahn and his family told The Post. "For sure, it's going to end up on a quiet note."

Prosecutors in Manhattan have done their best to keep the cleaning woman out of the reach of Strauss-Kahn's supporters, but the source was already predicting success for the Parisian pol's pals.

"He'll get out of it and will fly back to France. He won't spend time in jail. The woman will get a lot of money," said the source, adding that a seven-figure sum has been bandied about.

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Woods' agent out at IMG as contract renewal fails - AJC.com

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Woods' agent out at IMG as contract renewal fails - AJC.com
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Carville: Obama is looking like a 2008 Republican - CNN

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(CNN) -- As I sat watching the hysterical and apocalyptic reaction to President Barack Obama's speech addressing the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, in which he endorsed a position that was previously advocated by George W. Bush, Tom DeLay, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, opposition leader Tzipi Livni and even Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, it got me thinking about the other vicious attacks on the president's previous policies.

Let's start with the president's decision to continue George W. Bush's TARP -- the successful program that averted a financial collapse and bailed out the automotive industry.

I've always wondered why Bush didn't try to lay some claim to the successful outcome of that situation instead of expecting to be credited with the downfall of Osama bin Laden, which he actually had very little to do with.

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Two years later, Jordan Schafer returns to the major leagues - Mark Bradley

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Two years later, Jordan Schafer returns to the major leagues - Mark Bradley / AJC.com
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Here's George W. Bush Almost Getting Hit By A Foul Ball - Yardbarker.com

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Chicago White Sox at Texas Rangers game yesterday.
Here's George W. Bush Almost Getting Hit By A Foul Ball - Yardbarker.com
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The Meck Report / Blog - May 24, 2011 - 4:22p

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