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By Paula Burkes | Stillwater insurance agent Lisa Smith used to work with a man who constantly complained — about everything. He'd start in every morning with how his commute stunk, Smith said, then gripe that his feet or back hurt, and moan before and after every phone call he received. Jason Meador, left, and Tom Pace, of PaceButler Corp., display wristbands used for a companywide ethics campaign. In the background is a chart, showing which of the firm's 75 employees have gone at least five consecutive days in July without complaining, gossiping or lying, qualifying them for a $500 monthly drawing. Photo by Steve Gooch, The Oklahoman...

QUESTION: This past July 4, I watched Nathan's hot dog eating contest on TV where the winner (for the sixth time), Joey Chestnut, ate an incredible 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes! How can someone eat that much? He's not even that big a guy. Can't someone's stomach explode from doing that? Does he need to vomit afterward? -- V.P., Blue Bell, Pa. ANSWER: The stomach is a muscular sac and, like the...

Related topics The X FactorLouis WalshGary BarlowTulisa ContostavlosNicole ScherzingerSimon Cowell Advertisement "The X Factor" U.K. judges have now been assigned their mentor categories in 2012. Warning: This article contains spoiler information. Do not read any further if you don't want to know which judges are getting which mentor category in 2012. According to The Sun, "The X Factor" U.K. mentor categories for 2012 have been assigned as follows: Girls (female solo singers ages 16 to 27) - Tulisa Contostavlos Boys (male solo singers ages 16 to 27) - Nicole Scherzinger Overs (solo singers ages 28 and over) - Gary Barlow Groups - Louis Walsh As previously reported, for the year 2012, the...

London: Victories to boxer vijender Singh, shuttler P Kashyap and paddler Soumyajit Ghosh lifted the gloom over the Indian camp on the first day of the London Olympics 2012 even as archery, shooting, weightlifting and tennis disappointed. Kashyap won his first Group match of the men's singles badminton when he beat Tan Yuhan of Belgium in straight games 21-14, 21-12. Ghosh defeated Gustavo Tsuboi 11-9, 14-12, 7-11, 12-10, 5-11, 12-10 in the men's singles first round table tennis match. Vijender beat Danabek Suzhanov of Kazakhstan 14-10 in the men's 75 kg Middleweight category. The 26-year-old Indian pugilist had an upperhand over his opponent throughout the match....

DENVER - Right-hander Alfredo Simon found himself in an unusual spot Friday – right in the middle of a tight game. Simon, heretofore the mop-up guy, has pitched his way into a bigger role. He's 2-1 with a 1.41 ERA, third best among National League relievers with more than 30 innings. "He elevated his game and his position since he got here," Reds manager Dusty Baker said. Friday's outing was perfect for Simon. • • • "We've got quite a few guys who can do that,...

Denny Hamlin figures this weekend is when NASCAR’s real championship contenders begin to separate themselves from the pack. He thinks he’s part of that group — and he’s off to a pretty good start. On Saturday, Hamlin won the pole position for the Brickyard 400, turning a lap of 182.763 mph in qualifying. And with a good run in the race today, Hamlin figures he can rev up his push for a title. “This is the turning...

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Lawyer M. Ravi personally delivered letters of complaint against the Law Society of Singapore. The first is against Law Society president Wong...

Actress Sigourney Weaver plays a character remarkably similar to Hillary Clinton in the show Political Animals. Photograph: Larry Busacca/Getty Images It is often said that there are no second acts in American politics. But it seems the former first lady and current secretary of state Hillary Clinton and her many supporters are getting to reimagine key parts of her political life through a hit television show. Political Animals is a retelling of the Clinton story so thinly disguised that it is basically translucent. Its main character is called Elaine Barrish, like Clinton the first lady of a charming and successful, yet philandering, president. Just like Clinton, Barrish is now secretary of...

By John Niyo The Detroit News Comments London â€" Natalie Coughlin tied a record sitting in the stands. But her U.S. teammates â€" including Canton's Allison Schmitt â€" couldn't make it a golden farewell for the U.S. star. The Americans settled for the bronze medal in the women's 400-meter freestyle relay, as Australia captured gold with an Olympic-record time of 3:33.15, and Dutch swimmer Ranomi Kromowidjojo passed Schmitt on the anchor leg to give Netherlands the silver. The U.S. got off to a blistering start with Missy Franklin swimming leadoff under world-record pace (53.52), and the Americans were still ahead after Jessica Hardy (53.53) went next. But the Australians rallied behind...

Email Print Order Reprint Share This Text tool name tool goes here By Marti Maguire - Correspondent By Marti Maguire Tags: | | | RALEIGH -- Charmaine Fuller Cooper has spent the last two years immersed in the stories of people who were robbed of their ability to bear children by the state of North Carolina. Some call her office after having long wondered about an unexplained scar, while others, perhaps sterilized in the delivery room after giving birth, pieced together their past after seeing news reports about the state’s eugenics program. As director of the N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation, Fuller Cooper helps callers find out if they were indeed targeted by the...

Updated: July 28, 2012 6:18PM CAIRO — An alliance of pro-democracy advocates criticized Egypt's new Islamist president on Saturday for unilaterally choosing a prime minister with no track record, while leading without transparency and alienating political groups with liberal leanings. The National Front alliance — an umbrella group of democracy advocates, secularists and moderate Islamists behind the uprising that drove longtime authoritarian ruler Hosni Mubarak from power last year — said Mohammed Morsi has reneged on campaign promises to form a national unity government. On Tuesday, Morsi surprised the country by choosing an unknown technocrat and former water minister, Hesham Kandil, as...

Unusual circumstances allowed The Eagle to obtain the job performance evaluations of the two Sedgwick County district attorney candidates, Marc Bennett and Kevin O’Connor. Not only are they running for an elected office, they both have worked in the DA’s office. That combination led District Attorney Nola Foulston to grant The Eagle’s request under the Kansas Open...

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The Associated Press= LONDON (AP) — Around the 2012 Olympics and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of the games to you: --- LUCKY SEVEN HOPES Jorgen Persson hopes the seventh time is lucky. The Swede is one of three players to have appeared in every Olympic table tennis tournament, beginning with the first one in 1988. But he's yet to win a medal. He advanced to the second round on Saturday, defeating Segun Toriola of Nigeria 4-1. That's a perfect start for a guy who's lost twice in the Olympic semifinals in 2000 and 2008 — and then lost both bronze medal games. "When you have these two opportunities to reach finals and lose — tough...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A few hundred protesters, some toting placards reading "Migration is a Human Right," marched in Phoenix on Saturday to protest Arizona's two-year-old crackdown on illegal immigration. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer listens to a question from a media member about the Supreme Court's decision on SB1070 in Phoenix, Arizona, June 25, 2012. REUTERS/Darryl Webb State law SB-1070, signed by Republican Governor Jan Brewer in April 2010, seeks to drive illegal immigrants out of Arizona. A federal judge blocked...

20:45, Jul 28 2012 Ryan Lochte deposed Michael Phelps as the Olympic 400 metres individual medley champion as he secured a dominant victory at the Aquatics Centre. The race was meant to be the first instalment of a showdown between him and Phelps but ultimately Lochte was never...

New Delhi: The third London 2012 Google doodle is dedicated to diving. The London 2012 Diving Google doodle shows a female diver in position for the plunge on the diving board over a pool that has the Google logo painted on the bottom. The diving events at London 2012 Olympics are scheduled from July 29 to August 11 and there are four men's and four women's...

MIAMI — Yasmani Grandal's three-run triple Friday night in Miami was the first by a catcher in the major leagues this season and only the third in the history of the Padres. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Fred Kendall did it first in 1974 and Benito Santiago did it in 1989. Major league catchers have hit only four, bases-loaded triples over the past five seasons. Grandal is 8-for-20...

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The London 2012 Olympic Games have been officially opened with a spectacular ceremony celebrating British history, social, cultural and industrial achievements. Film director Danny Boyle. who masterminded the ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in east London, deployed a huge cast including many ordinary Britons as well dramatic special effects. How was the event viewed around the world? Asia-Pacific China's mainstream party-run and state-run media were fairly measured and gracious in their comments on an opening ceremony that, in the minds of many Chinese, was going to be a bit of an anti-climax after director Zhang Yimou's lavish ceremony in 2008. Reporter Yi Ling Chang Ailing, of...

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Former Hearts midfielder Ian Black has signed a three-year contract with Rangers, who have secured Andy Little on a similar deal. Black was a free agent after his Tynecastle contract ended this summer. Little was contracted to Rangers before the club was relaunched by a new company but he too was out of contract. The registration of both players cannot be completed until Friday but they...

Colombo: The Sri Lanka Navy has arrested 47 people who were trying to illegally leave for Australia by boat, taking the number of such arrests in the last two weeks to over 600. The Navy spokesman said...

Mumbai: Boman Irani, who will be seen romancing choreographer-turned-actor Farah Khan in 'Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi', says he was little uncomfortable getting close to his co-star. Though the chemistry between Boman and Farah looks amazing in the trailer,...

“Joy was a beautiful person. She was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.” These were the words of Joy Boonzaaier’s distraught nephew, Hannes Steyn. Boonzaaier was found murdered in her townhouse in Wierda Park on Thursday. Boonzaaier, 63, and Natacha Burger, 33, a resident in the same complex, were both brutally murdered on Thursday afternoon. Burger was found in Boonzaaier’s living room, clutching a note in her hand, while Boonzaaier was in...

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The Central Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Kwamena Duncan, has stated that the success of the 2012 elections is a shared responsibility between the Electoral Commission (EC) and the main stakeholders, especially the political parties. He said there was ample indication that the EC had put in place sufficient and effective measures, as well as information technology (IT) systems that would secure a clean voters register that could not be bloated or allow for multiple registration. Mr Duncan, who led an NPP team from the Central Region to a programme organised by the...

Tweet Islamabad, July 28 (ANI): Pakistani terror outfit Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) has sent out messages on social networks like Twitter and Facebook asking Muslims to give donations during Ramazan, despite an international ban. JuD, via its official Twitter account, appealed for donations for itself and also for Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation, an organisation of the terror group formed in the aftermath of the UNSC sanctions. The group's message on...