Duck Dynasty’s Uncle Si Robertson Is a Semifinalist in Yahoo TV’s Greatest Reality TV Personalities

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Duck Dynasty’s Si Robertson, fondly called “Uncle Si” by viewers, makes it to the semifinals in Yahoo TV’s Greatest Reality TV Personalities. He was picked as the winner for the category Best Comic Relief, and now he is pitted against winners from seven other categories for the championship.

Yahoo TV initiated the Greatest Reality TV Personalities to celebrate the stars of various reality shows that people have come to love over the years. It is also meant to celebrate the 15th anniversary of “Survivor,” which many consider to have propelled reality TV shows into the mainstream.

The winners of the “competiton” will be determined by poll voting. As of Tuesday, Uncle Si falls into third place with 18 percent votes. Gordon Ramsay leads the poll with 48 percent votes followed by Spencer Pratt with 26 percent votes. Kim Kardashian lands at fourth place with 8 percent votes.

According to Yahoo TV, Uncle Si makes the cut because of his witty remarks that viewers enjoy. He is known to have so much wisdom, and the way he tackles ideas and pours out his unpredicatably comedic quotes has given birth to a new term – “Si-cology.”

Among the characters in “Duck Dynasty,” Uncle Si is arguably the most hilarious. His funny comments are adored by viewers who delight in the show’s clean humor, which is a breath of fresh air in reality TV. (Read more from “‘Duck Dynasty’s Uncle Si Robertson Is a Semifinalist in Yahoo TV’s Greatest Reality TV Personalities” HERE)

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Driver Finds out She Has Massive Tumor After This Happens

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A high-flying businesswoman discovered she had a life-threatening brain tumour after she blacked out and caused a huge motorway pile-up.

Sue Ayton, 48, who is managing director of a global research company, veered across two lines on the M25 and smashed into two other cars after she had a fit at the wheel of her car.

After being rescued from her wrecked Range Rover and rushed to hospital it was discovered the mum-of-three had a huge brain tumour that covered almost a quarter of the width of her brain.

If it wasn’t for the car crash the tumour – which doctors said could have been growing for 20 years – might have been undetected and eventually killed her.

Incredibly five days after undergoing brain surgery to remove the tumour Sue was back running her business from the neurology ward of Southmead hospital. (Read more from “Driver Finds out She Has Massive Tumor After This Happens” HERE)

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Judge’s Law Clerk Resigns After Saying Trooper’s Death Was ‘Not Sad,’ but the Dead Deer He Hit Was

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The callous New Jersey law clerk who said last week’s death of a state trooper was “not that sad” and instead mourned the deer he hit has resigned from her job.

Leslie Anderson, who worked for the Middlesex County Superior Court, came under fire last week for posting multiple Facebook comments blaming New Jersey State trooper Anthony Raspa for his own demise.

The 24-year-old trooper died on-duty last Saturday after his patrol car hit a deer and careened off Interstate 195, veering into trees.

“Not that sad, and certainly not ‘tragic.’ Troopers were probably traveling at a dangerously high speed as per usual,” Anderson wrote . . .

Anderson resigned Wednesday after initially being suspended with pay for two weeks pending an internal probe, a New Jersey Judiciary spokeswoman said. She was hired in August 2014. (Read more from “NJ Law Clerk Resigns After Saying Trooper’s Death Was ‘Not Sad,’ the Dead Deer Was” HERE)

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Transgender? That’s so Yesterday: Now, Meet the Transabled

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Ideas have consequences. We used to understand this.

Examples of the truth of this are everywhere. Once we accepted the premise that the pre-born child in the womb is of no value, then we saw wide-spread slaughter, regardless of whether those legislating this premise intended abortion to be “safe, legal, and rare.”

Once we accepted the premise that sex is not intended to be both unitive and procreative in its purpose, then, as one writer dryly put it, society accepted that “any orifice will do” . . .

The National Post ran a feature on “transabled” people yesterday, beginning their story with a shocking account of a man who intentionally cut his right arm off. “One-Hand Jason,” as he calls himself, is apparently not the only one. From the Post:

“We define transability as the desire or the need for a person identified as able-bodied by other people to transform his or her body to obtain a physical impairment,” says Alexandre Baril, a Quebec born academic who will present on “transability” at this week’s Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Ottawa…

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North Carolina Youths in Stable Condition After Losing Limbs in Shark Attack

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By Fox News. Two North Carolina kids were reported in stable condition late Sunday after losing limbs in separate shark attacks approximately two hours apart.

Oak Island Mayor Betty Wallace told the Wilmington Star-News that a 12-year-old girl lost part of her left arm and might lose her left leg, while a 16-year-old boy lost his left arm. Brain Watts, Brunswick County’s emergency management director, told the paper Sunday that both victims were out of surgery. Wallace said the girl was not from the area, but was visiting family. There was no immediate information about the 16-year-old boy.

Brunswick County Dispatchers said that they received the call at 4:12 p.m. and several agencies responded to the scene including Oak Island Police and the Air Link Helicopter. The second incident was reported at 5:30 Sunday.

The Oak Island town manager sent an ATV to get everyone out of the water, the mayor said, adding that the Brunswick County Sheriff’s office was going to send a helicopter up and down the coast to patrol. (Read more from “North Carolina Youths in Stable Condition After Losing Limbs in Shark Attack” HERE)

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Animals Roam Streets of Tbilisi After Flooding Kills 12, Frees Zoo Animals

By Kimberly Hutcherson and Don Melvin. Wild animals roamed the streets of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, on Sunday, after raging floodwaters damaged the city’s zoo and set many of the animals free.

Twelve people died in the flooding, according to Civil Georgia, a news website run by the nongovernmental organization UN Association of Georgia.

Several others were missing, and wolves, bears, big cats and even a hippopotamus were wandering the streets of the city, according to Civil.ge, a news agency funded by the EU and the UN.

Of the zoo’s 600 residents, including fish and birds, about half were missing on Sunday, theTbilisi Zoo said.

Some animals have been recaptured, Civil.ge reported. Others have been killed. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Billionaire Bunkers: Forbes Looks Inside the World’s Largest Planned Doomsday Escape

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Photo Credit: Forbes For the very first time, a modern day Noah’s Ark has opened its doors for an exclusive inside look offering up plans for the ultimate Billionaire bunker and doomsday escape.

Vivos founder and CEO Robert Vicino announced Vivos Europa One which will be an invitation only, five star, underground survival complex, similar to an underground cruise ship for the elite. Each family will be provided a private 2,500 square foot of floor area, capable of two story improvements for a total of 5,000 square feet of private living quarters. With fit and finish comparable to a mega-yacht, each member family will hire their own architect and contractor to build out their living quarters to the custom standard they desire.

The expansive shelter is located in Germany and is one of the most fortified and massive underground survival shelters on Earth. Originally built by the Soviets during the Cold War, this shelter was a fortress for military equipment and munitions. After the DDR was merged with Germany, the German government inherited this relic and intended to use it for the same purpose of weapons storage. However, due to a law prohibiting the storage of ammunition near a major highway, the German Government soon realized they could not continue with their plans and decided to auction this 76 acre complex. A wealthy investor purchased the entire property, along with all of its improvements, both above and below ground. Vicino says “We are proud to bring this epic project forward in these increasingly dangerous times.”

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The hardened facility is capable of withstanding a substantial close range nuclear blast, a direct airplane crash, biological and chemical agents, shock waves, earthquakes, tsunami, electro-magnetic pulses, and virtually any armed attack.

The complex includes over 21,108 square meters (227,904 square feet) of secured, blast proof living areas; and, an additional 4,079 square meters (43,906 square feet) of above-ground office and warehouse buildings, including a train servicing depot. The typical chamber area is 5 meters wide (16.40 feet), by 6 meters tall (19.68 feet) and 85 meters (278.87 feet) long. Collectively there are over 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) of continuous tunnel chambers (equivalent to 71 Boeing 747’s fuselages stretched end to end). All shelter areas are located behind 3 separate nuclear blast and radiation proof vehicle entrances, and a number of other passages for access by people only. Each of the three main tunnel entrances includes an outer security door system, followed by a 40 ton hydraulic truck access door with hardened steel rods which expand into the surrounding encasement, and a second set of massive steel doors providing an airtight seal shut, protecting against chemical, biological and gas intrusion. The underground main traffic corridors are large enough to allow mechanical transportation of heavy equipment to almost any point within the complex. (Read more from “Billionaire Bunkers: A Look Inside the World’s Largest Planned Doomsday Escape” HERE)

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Facebook Will Now Take Your Silent Lurking Into Account for News Feed Rankings

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By now, most people know that their comments, likes, clicks, and shares on Facebook affect what they ultimately see on the social network. But Facebook revealed today that it has tweaked its news feed algorithm to also take into account the time people spend on posts, even if they don’t take any actions. That’s right, Facebook knows when you’re lurking . . .

But the modification isn’t as simple as counting the number of seconds people spend on posts. Those with slower internet connections, for instance, are likely to spend more time on stories due to the loading time. So Facebook will look at how much time a post spends on a user’s screen relative to other posts presented in the user’s news feed. Based on that, it will surface similar stories higher up in the feed. (A spokesperson for the company tells [this reporter] that Facebook is able to tell if a user is actively looking at the social network on a computer, or if the site is open in a tab or window in the background.) (Read more from “Facebook Will Now Take Your Silent Lurking Into Account for News Feed Rankings” HERE)

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Woman Arrested for Assaulting Her Boyfriend… With a Hamburger

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During an argument over infidelity, a Florida woman threw a hamburger at her boyfriend, striking him in the eye and landing her in jail.

According to cops, Rykihia Moore and Mario Thornton were bickering Saturday evening over Moore reportedly “being unfaithful.”

In the midst of the verbal beef inside a Clearwater home, the 27-year-old Moore “took a hamburger” and threw it at Thornton, her beau of 12 months. The burger, a criminal complaint alleges, struck Thornton in the eye. (Read more from “Woman Arrested for Assaulting Her Boyfriend… With a Hamburger” HERE)

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Secretive In-N-Out Billionaire Owner Committed to Christian Faith; Values Extend to Entire Burger Chain

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Photo Credit: Gospel Herald California-based burger chain In-N-Out is best known for its tasty burgers, fries and shakes, all of which have gathered a cult following among fans. The billionaire owner of the burger dynasty, 33-year-old Lynsi Snyder, also happens to be a practicing, Bible-believing Christian.

According to Ryan Bradley of Grub Street, Snyder maintains a low profile and rarely does interviews, citing her family’s safety and privacy; she has previously been targeted for kidnapping. He tried to get in touch with Snyder through Phyllis Cudworth, the marketing coordinator at In-N-Out . . .

Bradley noted that the sense of privacy surrounding the owner extended across the In-N-Out chain. He asked a woman who worked at the Baldwin Park location on what Snyder was like.

“The Snyders are people of humility and faith, she tells me, then requests that I don’t ask any more questions because she could get in trouble,” Bradley wrote.

Bradley observed that In-N-Out’s packaging contained Bible verses. His milkshake cup made a reference to Proverbs 3:5, which says “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” (Read more from “Secretive In-N-Out Billionaire Owner Committed to Christian Faith; Values Extend to Entire Burger Chain” HERE)

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Millions of Noisy, Rare Cicadas Emerge in Kansas After 17 Years [+video]

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Millions of cicadas have emerged from the ground in central Kansas, capping off a 17-year lifespan spent, in large part, burrowed in the dirt.

The tiny, red-eyed insects spend the better part of two decades below ground – feeding on tree roots for nutrition and undergoing five phases of development – before returning to the surface, where they make their presence known, loudly, much to the chagrin of nearby humans . . .

The people to whom he was referring are neighbors of these noisy critters. In neighborhoods across central and eastern Kansas, residents have endured weeks of the incessant noise. Fortunately for them, the end is near: Cicadas spend only a few weeks above ground before perishing.

As the cicadas emerge, the male population sings a loud, high-pitched song to attract female mates. As a new generation of cicadas are laid in the twigs of trees, the adults decompose, emitting a foul odor to accompany the mating call. A lethal combination, quite literally.

Between their extraordinarily long lifespan and the crescendo with which that life comes to an end, cicadas are of immense interest to scientists, though little is definitively known about them. “From a scientific standpoint, they’re truly fascinating,” Griffin, who directs the John C. Pair Horticultural Center in Wichita, said. (Read more from “Millions of Noisy, Rare Cicadas Emerge in Kansas After 17 Years” HERE)

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