Gov. Chris Christie reveals he underwent weight-loss surgery
TODAY.com: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has revealed that he secretly underwent lap-band stomach surgery just over two months ago to lose weight for the sake of his family.
Christie, 50, told Matt Lauer in a phone conversation that he had the surgery on Feb. 16, just before the President’s Day holiday weekend. He said he resumed his very tough work schedule that Tuesday, and has not had any complications.
Photo: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during an appearance on NBC News’ Meet The Press
That he went back to work so quickly after getting that kind of surgery is surprising.
EDIT: As pointed out to us, lap-band surgery is minimally invasive, which is why he was back to work so quickly.
The frantic, harrowing audio from the 911 call made by Amanda Berry, one of the three women rescued Monday after a decade in captivity. (via Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Today in forms of irony that simply shouldn’t exist: This ugly, depressing story.
Senate passes bill allowing states to tax online sales
(Photo: Lenny Ignelzi / AP)
The Senate sided with traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing a bill that would widely subject online shopping — for many a largely tax-free frontier — to state sales taxes.
It was fun while it lasted, you guys.
Not a sure thing the House will pass this bill, however.
They don’t find people who go missing, you know. I’m at a loss for words.Cleveland resident Kayla Rogers • Expressing utter surprise that a childhood friend of hers, Gina DeJesus, was found—alive—along with two other women who went missing during the period between 2002 and 2004. DeJesus, the youngest of the three women, went missing when she was just 14. Amanda Berry was only 17 when she went missing after her shift at Burger King, and Michelle Knight, then 22, was last seen at a cousin’s home. The three women, now 23, 27 and 32, respectively, were found in the home of 52-year-old Ariel Castro, who was arrested in the wake of the discovery. Police found the women after Berry called police Monday afternoon. Too soon to know all the details, but this has some serious shades of the Jaycee Dugard story.
Matt Groening’s mom recently passed, though she fortunately lived a full life. But check out the obit. Any names you recognize here? Hint: Marge is short for Margaret. (ht @pourmecoffee)
EDIT: Here’s a story on the obit from The Oregonian.
In fact, the companies ended up creating a proprietary seasoner in the process, not least because for workers on the manufacturing line, the plumes of Doritos seasoning would create an almost Nacho Cheese gas chamber. ‘We realized pretty quickly that we had to seal that all in, because in the facilities, we couldn’t have all that stuff in the air,’ Creed says. ‘It would’ve been too much seasoning and flavor for our workers. We had to enclose it so the seasoning wouldn’t escape. It would’ve been overpowering.’
Deep Inside Taco Bell’s Doritos Locos Taco
Best way to die ever
(via petervidani)
Nacho plume
Justin Bieber got attacked in Dubai, and he managed to get away unharmed, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that a grand piano got knocked over by security guards in the scuffle. o_O (via Gawker)
Super-scary stuff: In San Mateo, Calif. last night, a limousine fire on a bridge turned extremely deadly, as the vehicle set on fire, trapping five of the ten people inside—nine female passengers, all in their 30s, and a male driver. The driver, who was forced to stop the car on the San Mateo Bridge, escaped without injury, and the four passengers who escaped were injured, suffering from smoke inhalation and burns. (photo by Jane Tyska/Oakland Tribune-Bay Area News Group)
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A detailed and unsettling description of how the U.S. facility keeps hunger-striking prisoners from starving to death.
Read this.
(Source: humanrightswatch)
Boston Marathon bombing survivor takes part in Bruins’ pre-game
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The Boston Bruins decided to make Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman Game 2′s honorary fan banner captain on Saturday.
Bauman is the survivor who reportedly gave investigators the tip that led to the suspects. And he’s awesome.
Typically on a big story with a lot of risk behind it, we tend to wait until there are as many as three different news organizations reporting it. In this case there were three reporting it, but we saw others saying that there were no arrests or that they had no knowledge of arrests. So there was enough conflict from other news organizations for us to wait just one more beat. At that point we made a very difficult and agonizing decision just to sit and watch. And for Breaking News that was a very difficult thing to do, and I have to give a big shout-out to our editors who made that decision under the pressure to go.Breaking News’ general manager Cory Bergman • Discussing how his team handled the mistaken reporting regarding the Boston bombing suspects — reporting that ensnared CNN and the Associated Press, among others. Describing the platform’s approach, he says, “With us it’s interesting — there’s pressure to be second.” The NBC-owned platform, which is on every major social network, recently launched native advertising in its mobile app.
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