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    The commuter’s car blocked in by the gravel (SWNS) 
    A fed-up homeowner got sweet revenge on a commuter who parked on her drive by blocking his car with a one tonne bag of gravel.
    Infuriated Julie Geue parked the bag behind the unwelcome car after the commuter had left his vehicle on her drive in Crowborough, East Sussex, before heading to a nearby train station.
    Geue’s driveway was due to be gravelled when the man parked in her drive, meaning works could not carried out.
    So the 48-year-old took her retribution by using the gravel meant for her four-car driveway for an entirely different reason.
    It was two days before the hapless commuter moved his car.
    Geue said the driver, who returned to his car after work claimed he was meant to be parking at a friend’s house, but got confused.

    But Julie said: “The offender in this case claims to have made a genuine error and got confused about which house he should be parking in front of.

    "Unfortunately, after over ten years of putting up with lazy, obnoxious and rude, often threatening, people doing the this I no longer care if it’s a genuine mistake or not.”

    She even posted a note, attached to a trowel in the gravel, which said: “Happy digging, at least it’s not
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White House African Dance Classes
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Capitol Hill got some culture when Michelle Obama brought African dance classes to the White House.
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In celebration of Black History Month, FLOTUS organized a handful of dance classes yesterday led by legends like Debbie Allen, Fatima Robinson and Alvin Ailey instructors, reports Vibe.
“Looking out at these beautiful, talented young women, I know that we have the power to keep reaching higher and defying the odds and achieving those firsts, and seconds, and thirds, and hundreds and thousands until a Black principal dancer is no longer cause for a headline,” Obama told the group of 51 local Black girls who attended the classes. “And our children are limited only by the size of their dreams and their willingness to work for them.”
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On Tuesday morning, two regional commuter trains in southern Germany collided head-on between the Bavarian towns of Rosenheim and Holzkirchen, killing at least two people and injuring about 100, police spokesman Stefan Sonntag told The Associated Press. "This is the biggest accident we have had in years in this region, and we have many emergency doctors, ambulances, and helicopters on the scene," he added.
One of the engines and some cars are reportedly off the track, and Sonntag said the confusion is so great at the scene that further fatalities are certainly possible.




Donald Trump is widely expected to win the Republican primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday, despite the probable majority of Republicans who want to vote against him. Oddly, a lot of those anti-Trump votes could actually help pad Trump's delegate lead, Domenico Montanaro explains at NPR News. That's because with any candidate who doesn't earn at least 10 percent of the vote, their would-be delegates go to the primary winner. There are eight Republican candidates in the race (not counting Jim Gilmore), and four of them are vying furiously for the "establishment" vote. Not all those "establishment lane" candidates will reach the 10 percent threshold.
To illustrate his point, Montanaro takes a recent average of polls and awards New Hampshire's 20 delegates accordingly. Based on proportional allocation, Trump would earn six delegates (31 percent), Marco Rubio would win three (16 percent), and John Kasich and Ted Cruz would each take two (12 percent). The four remaining candidates would collectively earn 22 percent of the vote, or about four delegates, but because none of them met the 10 percent threshold, those four delegates would go to Trump, raising his delegate count to 10.
The icing on the cake for the anti-Trump establishment, Monatanaro writes, is that those 10 delegates "are bound to vote for Trump at the Republican National Convention in July, because of changes to the Republican National Committee's rules." You can read more about the establishment-voter dilemma at NPR News



Fox News star Bill O'Reilly was on Stephen Colbert's Late Show on Monday night, and Colbert asked him about Tuesday's primary election in New Hampshire. Prompted by Colbert, O'Reilly said that he didn't think Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) killed his presidential campaign with his repetitive debate performance Saturday night. "Anyone can have a bad debate performance," O'Reilly said. "You just don't know." Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders will win the Republican and Democratic primaries, he predicted, though things get murky on the GOP side after that.
Colbert asked about the secret to Trump's success, and O'Reilly had some thoughts on the subject. "Trump hit history at the right time, because people are angry," he said "Trump and Sanders are really the same guy, they just change their facial expressions." "I've never seen them in the same room at the same time," Colbert offered. O'Reilly elaborated: "Trump and Sanders are the same guy, because both are tapping into anger, the anger of the voters, who feels they're getting hosed." He said the right doesn't like the open border and ISIS, and then did a terrible Bernie Sanders impression. "I'm sorry, did you just have a stroke right now?" Colbert asked.
O'Reilly tried the same joke after Colbert's superior Sanders impression, then he returned to his theme: "At this time in history, people want an avenger, they don't want a politician. They want somebody who's going to come in and blow the whole system up." That's good and bad, O'Reilly said, because, on the plus side, it gets people involved in politics. "What's bad is that both Trump and Sanders say stuff that's impossible, that could never happen."
After a commercial break, Colbert and O'Reilly politely sparred about Ronald Reagan before returning to Trump and Sanders. "Straight talk is what we need," O'Reilly said. "Which is why Sanders and Trump are doing so well — you don't have to like them, but you know where they stand." O'Reilly said that he, too, is a straight-talker, a problem-solver not an ideologue. "You're not a problem-solver, you're a cable news superhero." Colbert said. "I'll take that as a compliment," O'Reilly laughed. "Sure, why not?" Colbert said, then tipped his hat at his Colbert Report character: "How about you're a great model to do an impression of for 10 years.
As Germans kicked off their annual Carnival celebration Monday with huge parades, Donald Trump was right there with them — well, his head was, at least. The city of Düsseldorf's parade featured a massive papier mâché bust of the Republican presidential candidate atop a float.
The float depicts Trump crying over his recent defeat in the Iowa caucuses while simultaneously yelling at the Statue of Liberty, who is sticking her tongue out at him. Trump's campaign slogan is reimagined and painted on his infamous hair: "Make fascism great again."
Trump wasn't the only one lampooned atop a float. Caricatures of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and even the company Amazon also rode through the streets Monday.


There is trouble in Hillaryland: According to anonymous sources who spoke with Politico, Hillary Clinton is frustrated with her campaign staff — and vice versa. With the too-close-for-comfort win over Bernie Sanders in Iowa and a New Hampshire victory for the Vermont senator on the horizon, Clinton is reportedly looking to reassess the staff at her Brooklyn headquarters sooner rather than later.
One source who is close with both Hillary and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, said, "The Clintons are not happy, and have been letting all of us know that. The idea is that we need a more forward-looking message, for the primary — but also for the general election too… There's no sense of panic, but there is an urgency to fix these problems right now."
There is dissatisfaction among Clinton's staffers, too:
Over the summer while her campaign was bogged down in the email controversy, Clinton was deeply frustrated with her own staff, and vice versa. The candidate blamed her team for not getting her out of the mess quickly, and her team blamed Clinton for being stubbornly unwilling to take the advice of campaign chairman John Podesta and others to apologize, turn over her server, and move on. The entire experience made her a deeply vulnerable frontrunner out of the gate, and underscored a lack of trust between Clinton and her operatives, many of whom were former Obama staffers that she didn't consider part of her inner circle of trust.
Her advisers were also frustrated by having to play roles they hadn't been hired for and were ill-suited for. From the beginning, [the campaign's top pollster and strategist Joel] Benenson was frustrated that he was forced to split his time between defending his boss on emails and defining a path for her candidacy. Clinton, meanwhile, longed for a chief strategist in the Mark Penn mold who could take on a more expansive role than playing

Ben Stiller stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to share an “unaired” Super Bowl commercial he shot for Female Viagra. Ben first addressed the problem some women are facing today saying, “The thing is, even though zero women suffer from erectile disfunction, over 98 percent of women over 30 suffer from another condition called, ‘Not being turned on by their husband anymore.’”
And while the imaginary drug might seem like a cure-all for some, Stiller did issue some warnings, “Ask your doctor if you’re mentally prepared to see your husband without his shirt on. Side effects include dizziness, nausea, having sex with your husband, your husband saying 'sorry was that okay?’, and if your husband is over 70, nightmares.
Without any prior announcement, Louis C.K. posted the first episode of a new show, Horace and Pete, on his website on Saturday. The dramatic comedy, clocking in at a little over an hour, is set in an old bar, Horace and Pete’s. C.K. plays Horace; Steve Buscemi is Pete. The dingy bar is packed with stars playing low-down, screwed-up, and screwed-over people, including Jessica Lange, Alan Alda, SNL’s Aidy Bryant, Edie Falco, and Steven Wright. The show takes place almost entirely on the set of the bar, a 100-year-old, dingy establishment overseen by Horace and Pete along with Alan Alda as Uncle Pete, an exceedingly grumpy old guy given to racist, sexist, generally offensive sentiments. There is an extent to which this show is reminiscent of the Norman Lear era of sitcoms, most obviously All in the Family (and more site-specific, its spin-off, Archie Bunker’s Place—set, you’ll recall, in a bar). The show also has real roots in Duffy’s Tavern, a popular 1940s radio show that shifted to TV in the 1950s. There’s a lot of engrossing conversation here. (There is no laugh-track or studio audience.) The show was taped recently enough that there are comments about Donald Trump’s opting out of the Iowa debate. There is an intense family squabble over the provenance of the bar instigated by Falco’s Sylvia, Horace’s sister. There’s a lot of speechifying, some of it is moving and fascinating, some of it sounding like penny-ante Eugene O’Neill. It’s also completely fascinating, and full of really wonderful performances.
Bypassing FX, the network that airs Louie, C.K. is releasing “episode one” (who knows how many more will follow?) on his own website, in the same manner in which he’s sold some of his stand-up shows. Horace and Pete costs $5
Verbal punches were thrown, and the New Hampshire audience booed as though they were at a bare-knuckle brawl during ABC’s Saturday-night Republican debate. Marco Rubio was on the receiving end of some of the most punishing blows. The debate began like a bad Saturday Night Live sketch, with Ben Carson jamming up the entryway to the stage by refusing to take his place at the podium. Donald Trump added to the logjam, reducing Jeb Bush to squirming his way around Trump and Carson. Why did this happen? Apparently Carson didn’t hear his name called, and ABC’s bumbling at getting the men out of the cattle chute was certainly a funny way to start things off, lending the proceedings a clownish tone.That tone changed abruptly once everyone was finally coaxed into their spots, however. After Rubio dodged a question about his experience in the Senate by bringing up President Obama and batting him around, Chris Christie chastised Rubio, calling Rubio’s spiel a “memorized 30-second speech where you talk about how great America is [and it] doesn’t help one person.” How did Rubio respond? By repeating the same 30-second speech, nearly word-for-word. Remarkably, Rubio did the exact same thing a few minutes later. The effect was to leave a viewer thinking Rubio is either obsessed with his Obama rhetoric, or that he was at a loss as to how to improvise clear answers. For a man who, going into this debate, was seen as an up-and-coming challenger to frontrunners Trump and Cruz, the debate represented some fizzled steam. Trump was booed by the audience when he tried to stop a Bush criticism of him. “Let me talk — quiet,” commanded Trump, putting a finger to his lips as one might shush a noisy child. The crowd did not like that condescending move. Trump, ever-unpredictable, responded with something I haven’t seen before: He attacked the studio audience, suggesting that the hall was full of “donors” who were unhappy that he, Trump, doesn’t take donations. So the audience booed that. It was a crazy-fox strategy: risk alienating the relatively few people in the auditorium in order to regale the millions watching at home. Not sure how that plays to New Hampshire citizens voting on Tuesday.The tumult of the debate was due solely to the candidates themselves; the debate’s primary moderators, David Muir and Martha Raddatz, were mostly tedious questioners, too often quoting one candidate’s accusation against another, and asking for a response. Why couldn’t Muir and Raddatz come up with their own accusations? And while there were current issues that could have been raised for discussion at some length — the Flint, Mich., water crisis, for example — the moderators reached for a different kind of water issue: the use of waterboarding. All this did was provide Trump an occasion to puff up and deliver a bellicose, “I’d bring back waterboarding, and I’d being back a helluva lot worse than waterboarding!” This was moderating in a manner that enlightened no one.By any measure, you’d have to say that John Kasich, Christie, and Bush helped themselves the most this night, launching pointed rejoinders at frontrunners Trump, Cruz, and Rubio, garnering more spontaneous applause than those three governors have attracted in any debate to date. By the end, as the candidates milled around the stage hugging their relatives and signing autographs, Rubio looked a bit dazed, as though he’d been sucker-punched. Thus the debate began in confusion and ended in bafflement.


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Mom always said to wear clean underwear for a good reason, right? That way, no one lands in the hospital while wearing a mortified expression in addition to howling in unbearable pain. Never mind that anyone in the hospital has greater concerns than underwear pride, but the warning gets nonetheless repeated across generations. Moms, so embarrassing. Salma Hayek’s Snake Phobia And Other Facts About ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ 
Salma Hayek learned the meaning of the word “embarrassing” when she endured an on-set injury. Hayek never revealed the movie she’s filming, but she’s still sort of working on a film called Sausage Party. Nahh, that movie is actually an animated children’s film starring Seth Rogen and James Franco. Those two would delight in such a movie title, but Hayek must be up to something else.
Whatever the case, Hayek suffered what she described as “a minor head injury.” She rushed to the emergency room without changing shirts, but her noggin was a-okay. So, she felt well enough to pose with some doctors who looked thrilled in this Instagram picture. Boy, I wonder if their expressions have anything to do with Hayek’s wardrobe shirt?

A Stanford professor says eliminating 2 phrases from your vocabulary can make you more successful

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(Francisco Osorio/Flickr) Your language shapes the way you approach your goals.
The way you speak not only affects how others perceive you; it also has the potential to shape your behavior.
Swapping one word for another could make all the difference in how you approach your goals.
That's according to Bernard Roth, a professor of engineering at Stanford and the academic director of Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the d.school).
In his new book, "The Achievement Habit," Roth suggests several linguistic tweaks that can make you more successful. Here are two of the easiest:
You might be tempted to say, "I want to go to the movies, but I have work to do."
Instead, Roth suggests saying, "I want to go to the movies, and I have work to do."
He writes: "When you use the word but, you create a conflict (and sometimes a reason) for yourself that does not really exist." In other words, it's possible to go to the movies as well as do your work — you just need to find a solution.
Meanwhile, when you use the word and, "your brain gets to consider how it can deal with both parts of the sentence," Roth writes. Maybe you'll see a shorter movie; maybe you'll delegate some of your work.

2. Swap "have to" for "want to."

Roth recommends a simple exercise: The next few times you say "I have to" in your mind, change have to want.
"This exercise is very effective in getting people to realize that what they do in their lives — even the things they find unpleasant — are in fact what they have chosen," he says.
For example, one of Roth's students felt he had to take the math courses required for his graduate program, even though he hated them. At some point after completing the exercise, he realized that he really did want to take the classes because the benefit of completing the requirement outweighed the discomfort of sitting through classes he didn't enjoy.
Both of these tweaks are based on a key component of a problem-solving strategy called "design thinking." When you employ this strategy, you try to challenge your automatic thinking and see things as they really are.
And when you experiment with different language, you may realize that a problem isn't as unsolvable as it seems, and that you have more control over your life than you previously believed.

Raw: Dog Rescued From Rubble After Taiwan Quake

Raw: Dog Rescued From Rubble After Taiwan Quake
TAINAN, Taiwan (AP) — Rescuers were searching late Saturday for more than 100 people still missing after a powerful, shallow earthquake struck southern Taiwan before dawn, causing a high-rise residential building to collapse and killing at least 14 people.
Nearly 340 people were rescued from the rubble in Tainan, the city hit worst by the quake. About 2,000 firefighters and soldiers scrambled with ladders, cranes and other equipment to the ruins of the 17-floor residential building, which folded like an accordion onto its side after the quake struck.
The spectacular fall of the building immediately raised questions about its construction, and Taiwan's interior minister said there would be an investigation.
Local authorities said Saturday night that more than 100 people remained missing and that rescuers were racing to find them. Taiwan's official Central News Agency reported that 172 people were missing.
Rescuer Jian Zhengshun said the rescue work was difficult because part of the high-rise building was believed to be buried underground, with the quake loosening the earth. He said rescuers had to clear rubble for passages to reach people who were trapped.
Hundreds of people were injured in the quake, but most of them had been released from hospitals by Saturday night.
The quake came two days before the start of Lunar New Year celebrations that mark the most important family holiday in the Chinese calendar. The collapsed building had 256 registered residents, but far more people could have been inside when it fell because the population might have swelled ahead of the holiday, when families typically host guests.
Local media said the building included a care center for newborns and mothers, and a newborn was among those confirmed dead in the disaster.
Most people were asleep when the magnitude-6.4 earthquake hit at about 4 a.m., 22 miles (35 kilometers) southeast of Yujing. It struck only 6 miles (10 kilometers) underground, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Shallow earthquakes generally cause more damage than deeper ones.
Tainan resident Lin Bao-gui, a secondhand car salesman whose cars were smashed when the building collapsed across the street from him, said his house first started "shaking horizontally, then up and down, then a big shake right to left."
"I stayed in my bed but jumped up when I heard a big bang, which was the sound of the building falling," he said.
Authorities in Tainan said that of the 14 people killed in the quake, 11 were found at the ruins of the fallen building.
Rescuers found the bodies of a 10-day-old infant, three other children and six adults at the collapsed building, Taiwan's emergency management information center said. One other death was reported at the site, but details were not immediately available.
Authorities said two people were killed by falling objects elsewhere in Tainan. No details were available on the 14th death, reported Saturday night.
Rescuers pulled out at least 247 survivors from the collapsed building, the emergency management information center said. Throughout Tainan, 334 people were rescued, the city government said.
The information center said 477 people were injured, with 380 of them discharged from hospitals by Saturday evening.
The Taiwanese news website ET Today reported that a mother and daughter were among the survivors from the building, and that the girl drank her urine while waiting to be rescued, which happened sooner than expected.
Rescuers went apartment to apartment, drawing red circles near windows of apartments they already had searched.
"I went to the top floors of the middle part of the building, where we found five people, one of whom was in bed and already dead," said Liu Wen-bin, a rescuer from Taichung. "Some people were found in the shower, some in the bedroom."
Elsewhere in Tainan, dozens of other people were rescued or safely evacuated from damaged structures or buildings declared unsafe following the quake, including a market and a seven-floor building, authorities said. A bank building also careened, but no one was injured or trapped.
All told, nine buildings collapsed and five careened in Tainan, the emergency management information center said.
As dawn broke, Taiwanese TV showed survivors being brought gingerly from the high-rise, including an elderly woman in a neck brace and others wrapped in blankets. The trappings of daily life — a partially crushed air conditioner, pieces of a metal balcony, windows — lay twisted in rubble.
People with their arms around firefighters were being helped from the building, and cranes were being used to search darkened parts of the structure for survivors.
Men in camouflage, apparently military personnel, marched into one area of collapse carrying large shovels.
The emergency management information center said 1,236 rescuers from outside Tainan were deployed, including 840 from the army, along with six helicopters and 23 rescue dogs.
Tainan's municipal government said it mobilized nearly 600 professional and volunteer firefighters.
The quake was felt as a lengthy, rolling shake in the capital, Taipei, on the other side of the island. But Taipei was quiet, with no sense of emergency or obvious damage just before dawn.
Residents in mainland China also reported that the tremor was felt there. The Beijing government offered to help as needed.
Because of the collapse of the residential high-rise, questions surfaced about whether the 1989 structure had shoddy construction. Tainan's government said the building was not listed as a dangerous structure before the quake, and Taiwan's interior minister, Chen Wei-zen, said an investigation would examine whether the developer had cut corners during construction.
Earthquakes frequently rattle Taiwan, but most are minor and cause little or no damage. However, a magnitude-7.6 quake in central Taiwan in 1999 killed more than 2,300 people.

Katie May (Instagram)Playboy model Katie May passed away on Thursday, February 4, after suffering a serious stroke on Monday, February 1, according to TMZ. She was 34. According to the site, May, known as the “Queen of Snapchat,” was taken off life support on Thursday and died surrounded by her family and friends.May’s family set up a GoFundMe page on Thursday to raise funds to support her 7-year-old daughter, Mia.Celebrity Health Scares“Anyone who was lucky enough to know Katie May was truly blessed by her incredible heart, mind and soul,” the donation page reads. “She was an inspiration and a guiding light to so many people in this world. Please help us by donating money to support her daughter and best friend Mia. We want to raise as much money for Mia’s living trust as possible to ensure she will always be taken care of. Mia was Katie’s whole life, so please help Katie, Mia and us by donating money to Mia.”PHOTOS: Celebrity Deaths in 2016: Stars We’ve LostThe blonde beauty’s family previously told TMZ that May had been complaining of neck pain prior to her stroke on Monday.“@Ms_katiemay you look amazing my lady. How’s your neck feeling?” one of her followers wrote to May on Sunday, January 31. “Thanks love!” the model replied. “It still hurts, going back to chiropractor tomorrow xoxoxo.”May’s last Instagram post was on Monday, February 1, and featured a photo of her leaning against a sandy cliff while wearing a bikini. “Hope everyone is having a great Monday!” she captioned the snap. “It’s very windy here today in LA #bikini #california #beach #lagunabeach.”PHOTOS: Stars Gone Too SoonCan’t get enough of Us? Sign up now for the Us Weekly newsletter packed with the latest celeb news, hot pics and more!
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