Gabrielle Giffords

The debt deal passed through the U.S. House of Representatives not long after 7 Pm ET, and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was there to cast her vote. Giffords was shot in the head in January in an apparent assassination attempt.

The cable news channels were covering the vote live, and caught the reaction from the floor as Giffords made her unexpected appearance, drawing a standing ovation from everyone in the room.

Randy Moss Officially Retired

Randy Moss Officially Retired

After 13 seasons in the NFL, wide receiver Randy Moss officially retired from the game on Monday.


Joel Segal, Moss’ agent, said the 34-year-old wide receiver decided to turn down offers from various teams before making his decision.

"Randy has weighed his options and considered the offers and has decided to retire," Segal said, according to ESPN.

Moss is tied with WR Terrell Owens for the second most career touchdowns in the league with 153. His 14,858 yards place him at fifth in the league and he is tied for eighth in receptions with 954.

With such impressive career statistics, some have speculated about reasons why Moss declared his retirement. According to USA Today, one reason could be the New York Jets signing Plaxico Burress on Sunday, which was rumored to be Moss’ next desired destination.

Segal confirmed that Moss was not able to join a team that he wished to play for.

T-Mobile

T-Mobile USA offers one of the most spirited prepaid phone plans  (no contract plans) for those planning on switching to harass-free prepaid plans with the lowest-priced plan starting at $10 per month.  You can start by buying T-Mobile prepaid cards,   purchasing minutes and starting talking and sending text messages straight away. If you come to an end of balance you can simply come back and buy more minutes. It is a suitable way to stay connected with no monthly payments and no additional fees. With T-Mobile no contract plans you simply pay for prepaid credits online or on the other hand you can buy a minute card at  T-Mobile retail stores.

When signing up with for T-Mobile prepaid plans you will get a starter kit which contains a phone, basic accessories and starter minutes and the phones. T-Mobile prepaid plans also offers the so-called Gold Bonus, bonus minutes that you can acquire if you buy minutes in bulk. You will get an 15% extra minutes on the rest of your purchase if you buy the $100 card for 1000 minutes that can be used over a period of one year.

T-Mobile No Contract Plans: Two Options To Choose From

at present there are two T-mobile prepaid phone plans  you can choose from. The first option is the Pay as You Go plan and the second one is monthly4G plan. The Pay as You Go plan is aimed at heavy voice and text users and occasional web surfers while the second T-Mobile no contract plan, monthly 4G plan, as the name proposes, is for smartphone and  heavy web users,

Actor Will Smith died

Actor Will Smith died while shooting a movie in New Zealand early this morning in a motorcar accident.

The report said that Will Smith was driving his porsche car earlier today when he all of a sudden lost control and stricken the side wall of the road.


The report further says "Paramedics came on the scene within minutes but were unable to revive Mr. Smith."

Going two for two on the fake celebrity death circuit this weekend comes a new name with an old story: Will Smith dead in a car accident.
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Vitamin D is Essencial to prevent from cancer

Since overweight and corpulent women are at risk for chronic diseases and incline to have less-than-optimal levels of vitamin D, Dr. Caitlin Mason, Ph.D., research fellow at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center required knowing if fleshy menopausal women could increase their vitamin D blood levels with weight loss. It turns out those who lost more than 15 percent of their body weight experienced notable increases in the fat-soluble vitamin D.

"Since vitamin D is generally lower in persons with obesity, it is possible that low vitamin D could account, in part, for the link between obesity and diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes," said Mason, the paper's leading author, published online in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. "Determining whether weight loss helps change vitamin D status is important for understanding potential avenues for disease prevention."

The year-long study - one of the largest ever conducted to evaluate the outcome of weight loss on vitamin D - involved 439 overweight-to-obese, sedentary, postmenopausal Seattle-area women, ages 50 to 75, who were indiscriminately assigned to one of four groups: exercise only, diet only, exercise plus diet and no intervention.

According to the National Institutes of Health, vitamin D plays many crucial roles in the body. It increases calcium absorption and is requisite for bone growth and bone healing. Along with calcium, vitamin D helps protect older adults from osteoporosis and youngsters from rickets.

The Vitamin D also acts upon cell growth, neuromuscular and immune function, and lessen the inflammation. Many gene-encoding proteins that regularize cell proliferation, differentiation, and programmed cell death necessary to prevent cancer are modulated in part by the vitamin.
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Miami Herald, Sean Kingston Dead

(CNN) -- Singer Sean Kingston was injured in a Jet Ski accident near Miami and taken to a trauma center Sunday evening, a Florida official said.

Jorge Pino, spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said the watercraft seemingly collapsed when it went under a small bridge about 6 p.m., officials were still investigating the cause.

Lauren Ceradini, vice president of publicity at Epic Records, said early Monday morning that "Sean is stabilized" and rebuted online claims that Kingston had died. Ceradini did not detailed on Kingston's condition.

Hip-hop singer Trav, who features Kingston in his latest song, said he see Kingston at the hospital.

"He is good in stable condition," Trav told CNN in an e-mail.

Kingston's publicist at Epic Records, Joseph Carozza, gave a statement Sunday night confirming Kingston "was in an accident."

"No further details are available at the moment. He and his family thank everyone for the well wishes," the Carozza said.

Earlier in the day, Kingston posted the following message on his Twitter account, which has more than 1.5 million followers:

"South beach... #nicee... bout to get fresh and cause that movie!!..."

The Miami-born artist's real name is Kisean Anderson. He changed his name to Kingston to reflect his Jamaican inheritance.

Kingston shot to fame in 2007 when his launching song "Beautiful Girls" became a No. 1 hit in the United States
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Blackbeard Largest Anchor Found

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. - Archaeologists Friday successfully brocaded an anchor from the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship that pirate Blackbeard and his crew advisedly grounded off the North Carolina coast in 1718.

The about 2500 to 3000-pound anchor is the largest artifact yet recovered from the wreck of the ill-famed pirate's flagship.

The anchor, one of four carried alongside the ship, was atop a pile of detritus, which appears to be the ends of the middle part of the ship, including its cargo hold, said Mark Wilde-Ramsing, a deputy state archaeologist and director of the Queen Anne's Revenge project.

Next week, Wilde-Ramsing said, researchers hope to make a small test hole into the side of the pile where the anchor was removed to get a sense of what else might be out of sight there. They're especially keen to find organic material such as seeds and spores that could help detail the pirates' stops in alien ports.

Queen Anne's Revenge was in the beginning the French slave ship La Concorde that Blackbeard and his band captured in the fall of 1717 in the Caribbean and renamed. It led a four-ship pirate fleet that hunted for prey in the Caribbean over the winter, and then moved up the U.S. coast in the spring of 1718.

After stoping Charleston and holding hostages until frightened residents handed over a chest of medicine as redeem, the pirates ran their flagship aground near the inlet leading to Beaufort in what some think was an intentional act by Blackbeard to reduce the size of the fleet.

Blackbeard, an Englishman whose real name was thought to be Edward Teach, was killed by Royal Navy sailors in a battle near Ocracoke.