<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine</title><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/</link><description>&quot;Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face.&quot; —MIKE TYSON</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 8 May 2013 13:11:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 22:06:13 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Sir Alex Ferguson retires as Manchester United manager after 27 years</title>
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Sir Alex Ferguson will retire as Manchester United manager at the end of the season in the 27th year of a tenure that has made him the most successful in British football.
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/08/18123936-sir-alex-ferguson-retires-as-manchester-united-manager-after-27-years</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/08/18123936-sir-alex-ferguson-retires-as-manchester-united-manager-after-27-years</guid><category>sports</category><category>soccer</category><category>premier-league</category><category>ferguson</category><category>manchester-united</category><category>manchester</category><category>sir-alex-ferguson</category><category>association-football</category><pubDate>Wed, 8 May 2013 13:20:45 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie57D40578-E952-D8A9-C320-FD9D2D2EDB1E.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="84" width="140" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie57D40578-E952-D8A9-C320-FD9D2D2EDB1E.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Newsvine Community Nation members: please read</title>
<description><![CDATA[Hello, Newsvine Community Members. I hope you're having a good morning/afternoon/evening, time zone depending.
I've just de-published a large number of seeds from the nation. Please review the bylaws posted on the community profile page for the content appropriate to publish here&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/01/18005287-newsvine-community-nation-members-please-read</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/01/18005287-newsvine-community-nation-members-please-read</guid><category>community</category><category>newsvine</category><category>guidelines</category><category>nation</category><category>not-news</category><pubDate>Wed, 1 May 2013 23:19:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama's foreign gifts: $7,750 golf bag, $40,000 photo, iPod shuffle</title>
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The State Department&rsquo;s office of the chief of protocol on Friday&nbsp;released the list of presents&nbsp;American government officials received from foreign government officials.
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/26/17931676-obamas-foreign-gifts-7750-golf-bag-40000-photo-ipod-shuffle</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/26/17931676-obamas-foreign-gifts-7750-golf-bag-40000-photo-ipod-shuffle</guid><category>president</category><category>state-department</category><category>obama</category><category>gifts</category><category>first-lady</category><category>michelle-obama</category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:38:50 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffieDD1C439E-D00C-35EC-7F5F-133A28A3CF38.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffieDD1C439E-D00C-35EC-7F5F-133A28A3CF38.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Jack Warner claims FIFA £4m 'grant' given as quid pro quo for Blatter's election</title>
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He said in a statement: "Blatter was Havelange's candidate to succeed him for the Fifa presidency. Blatter had been at this time the most hated Fifa official by both the European and African confederations and without my Concacaf support at the Fifa elections, Blatter would nev&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/26/17930818-jack-warner-claims-fifa-4m-grant-given-as-quid-pro-quo-for-blatters-election</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/26/17930818-jack-warner-claims-fifa-4m-grant-given-as-quid-pro-quo-for-blatters-election</guid><category>sports</category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:01:18 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffieFD9005DF-9BF8-D471-6862-C788D10EA56A.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="240" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffieFD9005DF-9BF8-D471-6862-C788D10EA56A.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>And you thought vuvuzelas were bad</title>
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Demonstrating that Brazil&rsquo;s World Cup organizers haven&rsquo;t learned anything from 2010, a new noise-making toy for fans has been introduced to take over stadiums in 2014.
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/25/17918404-and-you-thought-vuvuzelas-were-bad</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/25/17918404-and-you-thought-vuvuzelas-were-bad</guid><category>sports</category><category>brazil</category><category>soccer</category><category>world-cup</category><category>vuvuzela</category><category>association-football</category><category>caxirola</category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:37:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>SoccerAmerica - MLS ranks seventh in survey of top leagues</title>
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Mexico's Liga MX was sixth ahead of MLS, which finished in front of France's Ligue 1, the Netherlands' Eredivisie and Argentina's Primera Division in the top 10.
The survey took into account attendance, finances, goals, competitiveness, caliber of players and coaches, stadiums&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/25/17915730-socceramerica-mls-ranks-seventh-in-survey-of-top-leagues</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/25/17915730-socceramerica-mls-ranks-seventh-in-survey-of-top-leagues</guid><category>sports</category><category>soccer</category><category>premier-league</category><category>mls</category><category>rankings</category><category>bundesliga</category><category>association-football</category><category>liga-mx</category><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:30:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie25BB4489-45E0-BB0D-F99D-5DDFEC479084.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="1" width="1" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie25BB4489-45E0-BB0D-F99D-5DDFEC479084.jpg&amp;width=120" width="1" height="1" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>How to Survive a Major Media Event</title>
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Breaking news is the worst, most toxic form of news, and should be avoided like the plague. Farhad Manjoo at Slate makes the argument succinctly. When a big media event is breaking, he suggests you turn off your TV, walk away from Twitter and the Internet in general, and read a&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/22/17863250-how-to-survive-a-major-media-event</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/22/17863250-how-to-survive-a-major-media-event</guid><category>media</category><category>health</category><category>news</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>farhad-manjoo</category><category>rolf-dobelli</category><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:12:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Premier League would be better off without stultifying Stoke</title>
<description><![CDATA[Presumably, the oft-quoted Blizzard phrase 'goals are overrated' really hints that there's more going on the game than just the score, but you get the sense that Pulis has decided to take it especially literally. No goals, all the time. No other team has seemed like footbal&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/21/17851263-the-premier-league-would-be-better-off-without-stultifying-stoke</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/21/17851263-the-premier-league-would-be-better-off-without-stultifying-stoke</guid><category>sports</category><category>soccer</category><category>premier-league</category><category>stoke</category><category>stoke-city</category><category>association-football</category><category>tony-pulis</category><pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:29:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie32B09ED4-9BC1-4D64-583C-1258C7D96353.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie32B09ED4-9BC1-4D64-583C-1258C7D96353.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Goldbugs in Westeros: House Tyrell is richer than House Lannister.</title>
<description><![CDATA[As you watch members of House Lannister and House Tyrell scheme for control over King's Landing here's something to keep in mind. The Westeroi conventional wisdom that that the Lannisters are the richest house in the Seven Kingdoms is dead wrong. House Tyrell is number one in&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/20/17838914-goldbugs-in-westeros-house-tyrell-is-richer-than-house-lannister</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/20/17838914-goldbugs-in-westeros-house-tyrell-is-richer-than-house-lannister</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>economics</category><category>george-r-r-martin</category><category>game-of-thrones</category><category>westeroi</category><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:56:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie3BF55DB3-927A-DF62-7447-3EB93F0FF932.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="226" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie3BF55DB3-927A-DF62-7447-3EB93F0FF932.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Clint Dempsey, United States beat Costa Rica amid heavy snow - ESPN FC</title>
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But the game resumed and will be remembered in American soccer for the elements as much as the 1967 Ice Bowl is in the NFL. As the snow increased, it made the field resemble a cake topped with piles of sugar, and players' hair turned white as snow stuck along their scalps.
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/23/17422948-clint-dempsey-united-states-beat-costa-rica-amid-heavy-snow-espn-fc</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/23/17422948-clint-dempsey-united-states-beat-costa-rica-amid-heavy-snow-espn-fc</guid><category>sports</category><category>soccer</category><category>world-cup</category><category>costa-rica</category><category>usa</category><category>qualifier</category><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 04:42:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie0F190CBF-6E5C-96C1-4D3B-4E9341E6FDCD.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="1" width="1" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie0F190CBF-6E5C-96C1-4D3B-4E9341E6FDCD.jpg&amp;width=120" width="1" height="1" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Bob Woodward and Gene Sperling: What Woodward's John Belushi book can tell us about the sequester scandal.</title>
<description><![CDATA[A little more than a week ago, during an interview with Politico, Bob Woodward came forward to claim he'd been threatened in an email by a "senior White House official" for daring to reveal certain details about the negotiations over the budget sequester. The White House re&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/12/17285245-bob-woodward-and-gene-sperling-what-woodwards-john-belushi-book-can-tell-us-about-the-sequester-scandal</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/12/17285245-bob-woodward-and-gene-sperling-what-woodwards-john-belushi-book-can-tell-us-about-the-sequester-scandal</guid><category>white-house</category><category>politics</category><category>journalism</category><category>reporting</category><category>bob-woodward</category><category>john-belushi</category><category>gene-sperling</category><pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:32:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Arsenal poised to be subjected to £1.5bn takeover bid from Middle East consortium within the next few weeks</title>
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Arsenal poised to be subjected to &pound;1.5bn takeover bid from Middle East consortium within the next few weeks
 The world&rsquo;s biggest ever bid for a football club, dwarfing the &pound;800 million paid by the Glazers for Manchester United, will be backed by funds from Qa&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/02/17162776-arsenal-poised-to-be-subjected-to-15bn-takeover-bid-from-middle-east-consortium-within-the-next-few-weeks</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/02/17162776-arsenal-poised-to-be-subjected-to-15bn-takeover-bid-from-middle-east-consortium-within-the-next-few-weeks</guid><category>sports</category><category>soccer</category><category>premier-league</category><category>arsenal</category><pubDate>Sun, 3 Mar 2013 01:41:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Is there a new MLS logo in the works? | ProSoccerTalk</title>
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This evening from the Twitter world we get a hint that Major League Soccer&rsquo;s long-standing logo may be changing.
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/24/17078245-is-there-a-new-mls-logo-in-the-works-prosoccertalk</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/24/17078245-is-there-a-new-mls-logo-in-the-works-prosoccertalk</guid><category>sports</category><category>soccer</category><category>mls</category><category>adidas</category><category>logo</category><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:02:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Sir Alex Ferguson and José Mourinho: the best of frenemies</title>
<description><![CDATA[Either way, the true nature of the relationship between these most studied of chums is something far more riveting than a mere friendship. Some might trot out that Godfather quote about keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. More accurately, perhaps, it is that form &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/14/16966392-sir-alex-ferguson-and-jos-mourinho-the-best-of-frenemies</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/14/16966392-sir-alex-ferguson-and-jos-mourinho-the-best-of-frenemies</guid><category>sports</category><category>soccer</category><category>real-madrid</category><category>manchester-united</category><category>sir-alex-ferguson</category><category>association-football</category><category>jose-morinho</category><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:18:24 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Sagna and Szczesny star as Gunners scrap three points - ESPN FC</title>
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With few defensive options on the bench, midfielder Aaron Ramsey was pressed into service at right back and acquitted himself very well. In the middle Per Mertesacker stood tall and strong, Nacho Monreal had a solid game at left back, but the stand-out player was Sagna. He made&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/09/16912037-sagna-and-szczesny-star-as-gunners-scrap-three-points-espn-fc</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/09/16912037-sagna-and-szczesny-star-as-gunners-scrap-three-points-espn-fc</guid><category>sports</category><category>soccer</category><category>premier-league</category><category>arsenal</category><category>sunderland</category><pubDate>Sat, 9 Feb 2013 18:31:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie9ACB452C-22F2-6A98-982F-27FCCBB8B4CA.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="1" width="1" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie9ACB452C-22F2-6A98-982F-27FCCBB8B4CA.jpg&amp;width=120" width="1" height="1" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>UPDATED: NASA knew Columbia crew could die but chose not to tell them</title>
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A NASA flight director has revealed that personnel on the ground knew in 2003 that the Space Shuttle Columbia would not survive re-entry, but chose not to inform the vessel&rsquo;s crew. According to an ABC News report from Thursday, when faced with the choice of letting the as&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/01/16807859-updated-nasa-knew-columbia-crew-could-die-but-chose-not-to-tell-them</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/01/16807859-updated-nasa-knew-columbia-crew-could-die-but-chose-not-to-tell-them</guid><category>space</category><category>columbia</category><category>space-shuttle</category><category>disaster</category><category>nasa</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Fri, 1 Feb 2013 16:37:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffieFEA49801-2A1B-50E2-CE59-972D5B94A49D.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffieFEA49801-2A1B-50E2-CE59-972D5B94A49D.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Theater of Pain - Esquire</title>
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He is playing now with a torn labrum, a shoulder injury that caused the Ravens to incur a fine earlier this season when they failed to report it. "It hurts a good bit," he says. But he's playing, because he's better hurt than his replacement is healthy, and he's helping his tea&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/19/16603536-theater-of-pain-esquire</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/19/16603536-theater-of-pain-esquire</guid><category>nfl</category><category>football</category><category>sports</category><category>injury</category><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:50:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Dan Le Batard: Jason Taylor's pain shows NFL's world of hurt - Dan Le Batard - MiamiHerald.com</title>
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The trainer rushed to Taylor&rsquo;s house. Taylor thought he was overreacting. The trainer told him they were immediately going to the hospital. A test kit came out. Taylor&rsquo;s blood pressure was so high that the doctors thought the test kit was faulty. Another test. Same &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/15/16533845-dan-le-batard-jason-taylors-pain-shows-nfls-world-of-hurt-dan-le-batard-miamiheraldcom</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/15/16533845-dan-le-batard-jason-taylors-pain-shows-nfls-world-of-hurt-dan-le-batard-miamiheraldcom</guid><category>football</category><category>sports</category><category>injury</category><category>jason-taylor</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:38:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie5BAAB1AB-A60B-E3DA-6244-466CCD14B7EE.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="260" width="316" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie5BAAB1AB-A60B-E3DA-6244-466CCD14B7EE.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="99" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Aaron Swartz's &quot;Crime&quot; and the Business of Breaking the Law</title>
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That explanation &mdash; of an over-zealous prosecutor &mdash; certainly seems reasonable at face value. But something kept gnawing at me about that word: "proportionality." What does it say about us &mdash; about what we value &mdash; if this is exactly the proportionality of &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/14/16512931-aaron-swartzs-crime-and-the-business-of-breaking-the-law</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/14/16512931-aaron-swartzs-crime-and-the-business-of-breaking-the-law</guid><category>business</category><category>justice</category><category>crime</category><category>hsbc</category><category>aaron-swartz</category><category>criminal-justice</category><category>jstor</category><category>larry-lessig</category><category>synthes</category><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:47:25 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffieB7B6A23C-F74F-4B49-0D2E-213022CD829D.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="80" width="80" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffieB7B6A23C-F74F-4B49-0D2E-213022CD829D.jpg&amp;width=120" width="80" height="80" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title> The beautiful game embodies everything that's bad about Britain</title>
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Britain is a rent-seeker's paradise, as many more football clubs other  than Birmingham City can testify. We have created a looters' charter,  with football as a playpen, within which the super-rich can do what they  want. A recent flash point is the price visiting fans are cha&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/13/16494295-the-beautiful-game-embodies-everything-thats-bad-about-britain</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/13/16494295-the-beautiful-game-embodies-everything-thats-bad-about-britain</guid><category>sports</category><category>soccer</category><category>premier-league</category><category>birmingham-city</category><category>football-association</category><category>carson-yeung</category><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:18:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie55C09338-34A2-769B-0014-C13454A60E7A.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="132" width="220" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie55C09338-34A2-769B-0014-C13454A60E7A.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>CABINET // The Behavioral Sink</title>
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But Calhoun&rsquo;s work was different. Vogt, Ehrlich, and the others were neo-Malthusians, arguing that population growth would cause our demise by exhausting our natural resources, leading to starvation and conflict. But there was no scarcity of food and water in Calhoun&rsqu&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/11/16471537-cabinet-the-behavioral-sink</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/11/16471537-cabinet-the-behavioral-sink</guid><category>science</category><category>sociology</category><category>overpopulation</category><category>john-calhoun</category><category>behavioral-sink</category><category>universe-25</category><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:07:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The End of Economists' Imperialism - Justin Fox - Harvard Business Review</title>
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So, as the nation's (and a lot of the world's) economists gather this weekend in San Diego for their annual hoedown, it's worth asking: Are there any signs that the imperialist era of economics might finally be coming to an end?
Lazear acknowledged one such indicator in his ar&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/04/16353080-the-end-of-economists-imperialism-justin-fox-harvard-business-review</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/04/16353080-the-end-of-economists-imperialism-justin-fox-harvard-business-review</guid><category>economics</category><category>science</category><category>humanities</category><category>psychology</category><category>sociology</category><category>social-science</category><pubDate>Fri, 4 Jan 2013 19:38:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie1CAD0113-F0B9-D8EF-1937-42D745AD48B4.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="80" width="80" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie1CAD0113-F0B9-D8EF-1937-42D745AD48B4.jpg&amp;width=120" width="80" height="80" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>America's Real Criminal Element: Lead | Mother Jones</title>
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So we're back to square one. More prisons might help control crime, more cops might help, and better policing might help. But the evidence is thin for any of these as the main cause. What are we missing?
Experts often suggest that crime resembles an epidemic. But what kind? Ka&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/03/16325248-americas-real-criminal-element-lead-mother-jones</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/03/16325248-americas-real-criminal-element-lead-mother-jones</guid><category>economics</category><category>science</category><category>crime</category><category>lead</category><category>public-health</category><category>criminology</category><category>tetraethyl-lead</category><pubDate>Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:48:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie271A5468-9C2C-4303-D704-42AA2B5BBD4B.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="302" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie271A5468-9C2C-4303-D704-42AA2B5BBD4B.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="91" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Good Riddance to Rottenest Congress in History - Bloomberg</title>
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What&rsquo;s the record of the 112th Congress? Well, it almost shut down the government and almost breached the debt ceiling. It almost went over the fiscal cliff (which it had designed in the first place). It cut a trillion dollars of discretionary spending in the Budget Contr&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/03/16324867-good-riddance-to-rottenest-congress-in-history-bloomberg</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/03/16324867-good-riddance-to-rottenest-congress-in-history-bloomberg</guid><category>congress</category><category>senate</category><category>house-of-representatives</category><pubDate>Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:21:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted to hospital with blood clot following concussion</title>
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month.
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[spiffie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spiffie]]></source><link>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/30/16255635-secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-admitted-to-hospital-with-blood-clot-following-concussion</link><guid>http://spiffie.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/30/16255635-secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-admitted-to-hospital-with-blood-clot-following-concussion</guid><category>concussion</category><category>us-news</category><category>administration</category><category>hillary-clinton</category><category>sos</category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 01:16:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie3F38182D-1286-7325-EB63-C1947E7246CA.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="60" width="90" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=spiffie3F38182D-1286-7325-EB63-C1947E7246CA.jpg&amp;width=120" width="90" height="60" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>