Husband and wife for just weeks, Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries were already sounding like an old married couple. 

"How am I going to have my career and live in Minnesota?" Kardashian gripes to Humphries in a scene from a preview clip of her E! show Kourtney and Kim Take New York. 

"Baby," Humphries snaps back, "by the time you have kids and they're in school, no one will care about you." 

Under any other circumstances, their spat over the uncertainty of where Humphries's NBA career would land them could be written off as the usual heightened-for-TV reality-show drama.

But not long after the episode was shot, Kardashian, 31, filed for divorce from the 26-year-old pro basketball player. Now, the verbal exchange provides just one clue of what went wrong. 

Many Split Factors

The pressures of filming the show, being scrutinized by the media, managing conflicting work schedules and rushing into their relationship all appear to have contributed to the demise of the duo's 72-day marriage. 

Following the couple's honeymoon – which was cut short so Kim could begin filming the latest season of Kourtney and Kim Take New York – the two were already stepping out solo, with Kardashian attending the MTV Video Music Awards alone. 

A self-proclaimed "workaholic," Kardashian traveled constantly during her marriage, which explains why her family didn't really get a chance to connect with Humphries or observe him and Kim as a couple. 

"I've only been around him a couple of times," her sister Khloé recently told PEOPLE. "I'm a very tough crowd. [My relationship with Kris] is a work in progress. It's not something either one of us is going to fake. I just need to know him more." 

Difficult Living Conditions

When the former couple lived in New York, holed up under the camera's glare with sister Kourtney, her boyfriend Scott Disick and their son Mason, Kim and her new husband appeared to be "going in two separate directions," said Kardashian's mom Kris Jenner. 

"She's working, he's working – he's trying to stay in shape for basketball," Jenner said. "I think they'll figure it out as soon as they get back to Los Angeles." 

Kim, too, addressed that being out of their comfort zone put a strain on her marriage. 

"We have to find our home base," she told PEOPLE. "He lives in Miami and Minnesota. I'm in L.A., so we had to find where that home base is going to be. We're waiting for the lockout to end to see where he's going to play." 

Living conditions aside, Humphries and Kardashian almost immediately faced tabloid reports of trouble – reports answered with less-than-emphatic denials.

Solo to a Party

As recently as Saturday night, at a Halloween party in New York in which Kardashian appeared solo, she kept things vague, saying, "No matter what we do, there's going to be rumors. It used to really upset me, and now I don't even think about it." 

Two days later, she ended her second marriage – Kardashian split from music producer Damon Thomas in 2003 after being married for three years – a union entered after a whirlwind engagement with a ceremony filmed for national audience. 

"She rushed into it too fast," a source close to Kim told PEOPLE shortly after news broke of the split. "She's holding it together. It's insanely troubling and heartbreaking, but it's a decision she knew had to be made." 

She is "leaning on her family for support," the soruce says, because "they're the ones she can always trust." 

Humphries, however, doesn't appear ready to sign divorce papers. He says he's devastated by the split and is "willing to do whatever it takes" to save the marriage. 

Source : People Magazine

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    A Jeep drives around a downed tree while another sits in a ditch on Union Valley Road, West Milford, New Jersey, 

Thousands of people were without power Monday morning in Atlantic Canada after a fierce weekend snow and rain storm with lashed New Brunswick and Nova Scotia before heading to Newfoundland and Labrador, where it was doing more of the same. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the snowstorm bedevilled transportation and killed at least eight people.

Nova Scotia’s power utility said there were more than 10,000 homes and businesses without power Monday morning in various parts of the province — down from 40,000 customers at one point during the pre-Halloween blast of winter-like weather, accompanied by high winds. “The vast majority we should hope to have back on by 11 a.m.,” Nova Scotia Power spokesman David Rodenhiser said Monday. He said it would likely take a little longer to get to some of the smaller outages around the province.

In New Brunswick, the peak of the storm left about 3,400 homes without power. Roads were slippery and though there were seven fender-benders overnight, the RCMP said no was seriously injured. Environment Canada has also issued a weather warning for Newfoundland and Labrador. The national weather service said in a warning on its website that the central part of the island could see up to 25 centimetres of snow, roughly the same amount that fell on New Brunswick on Sunday, before the system tapers off later in the morning.

The storm is expected to bring wind gusts of up to 110 kilometres an hour or more to parts of the south and east costs of the island, Environment Canada said.

U.S. storm knocks out power, wreaks havoc on roads

In the U.S., the record-breaking snow was heaviest in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, where 80 cm fell according to the National Weather Service. Northwest of New York City, in West Milford, New Jersey, 48 centimetres of snow fell.

Howling winds and heavy, wet snow snapped enormous trees like twigs, downing power lines from West Virginia to Maine. By Sunday evening, there were about 2.8 million households without electricity across the Mid-Atlantic and New England, according to Weather.com.

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy said the state experienced the largest number of power outages in its history. Most cities in the state opened centers where chilled residents could stay warm.

Maine, Massachusetts and New Jersey all said they did not expect service to return to normal for several days, while in Connecticut it could be more than a week. Public school closures were announced for Monday in Connecticut and New Jersey.

Transit nightmares were reported on planes and trains throughout the storm-struck region.

JetBlue Airways was investigating reports 126 passengers were stuck for more than seven hours Saturday on the tarmac at Bradley International Airport near Hartford, Connecticut, without food, water or working lavatories. They were aboard Flight 504 from Florida, diverted to Bradley from Newark due to the storm.

Icy roads throughout the Northeast proved deadly, and six people were killed in car accidents.

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A view of a pumpkin patch covered in snow in Portsmouth, New Hampshire October 30, 2011

Two other deaths were blamed on the storm. In Temple, Pennsylvania, an 84-year-old man was killed as he napped in his recliner when a snow-laden tree fell through his home, said a Muhlenberg Township Police Department dispatcher.

In Springfield, Massachusetts, a 20-year-old man was electrocuted when he stepped out of his vehicle and touched an electrified guard rail, a Springfield police spokesman said.

Weather emergencies because of the storm were declared in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

Source : National POST

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Folklore Says Devil Had Hand in Halloween Icon's Birth

Jack-o'-Lanterns, those carved up, hollowed out pumpkins, often with candles inside of them, have been the face of Halloween for centuries. But when it comes to the history of the venerable o'-Lantern, most people don't know, well, jack. Jack-o'-Lanterns first surfaced in Ireland, where Halloween originated.

The tradition came out of an Irish myth about a man called "Stingy Jack.'' The tale says that Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him, and when Jack decided he didn't want to pay for his libation, he coaxed the Devil to turn himself into a coin. Jack claimed he would use the coin to pay for the drinks. That turned out to be a falsehood, the story goes. Once the Devil became a coin, Jack elected to keep the money and put it in his pocket next to a cross, precluding the Devil from reverting to his original self.

Jack eventually freed the Devil, with the agreement that Devil would leave Jack alone for a year and that if he died, the Devil wouldn't claim his soul. However, legend has it that the Devil once again fell for Jack's chicanery the following year. Jack conned the Devil into climbing a tree for a piece of fruit, after which Jack carved a sign of the cross on the tree's back. That meant the Devil couldn't come down until the Devil promised Jack to not bother him for 10 years.

It never got that far. Jack died a short time later. The story goes that such an unseemly figure would never been allowed in heaven. But hell didn't want Jack, either. The Devil, peeved by Jack's serial trickery, wouldn't allow Jack in that hot spot. Interestingly, the Devil was keeping his word that he wouldn't claim Jack's soul. Instead, Jack was sent off into the darkness with burning coal to provide light. Jack put the lump of coal into a hollowed turnip (said to be his favorite vegetable) and went off on his merry way, apparently never to be heard from again. Jack may have been gone, but he was hardly forgotten.

The Irish started referring to wayward Jack as Jack of the Lantern, which was eventually shortened to Jack-o'-Lantern, which means night watchman or man with a lantern. The term was reportedly coined in 1837. From here, the Irish tradition of carving faces into turnips and other vegetables and placing in windows or by doors on Halloween began. The idea was to scare away evil Stingy Jack and other folks of his ilk. This also became a yearly practice in Scotland as well.

In each case, pumpkins weren't commonly used. Instead turnips were the veggie of choice, along with rutabagas, potatoes and beets. Pumpkins didn't become typical until the Jack-o'-Lantern tradition was brought to the United States by immigrants. Today, making Jack-o'-Lanterns for Halloween has become an extremely popular enterprise, for children and adults alike.

There are Web sites dedicated to giving tips on which tools to use to carve pumpkins and how to light them, along with sundry other Halloween sites. Jack-o'-Lantern buffs would probably love to know that on October 21, 2006, a world record for most "Jacks" carved and lit in one place was set. On Boston Common, a whopping 30,128 lanterns were amassed, shattering a mark previously set in Keene, New Hampshire that had stood for years. The world's largest Jack-o'-Lantern ever created was the handiwork of Scott Cully of Northern Cambria, northeast of Pittsburgh.

On October 31, 2005, Cully fashioned a Jack-o'-Lantern from a pumpkin checking in at 1,469 pounds, roughly the size of an NFL offensive line. Some people are fortunate enough to use their artistic talent to make a living at pumpkin carving. Probably the most eminent person in this craft is New Yorker Ray Villafane. He has done collectables for Warner Bros./ DC Comics, McFarlane Toys and others. In 2007, Villafane was invited to appear in the Food Network show "Outrageous Pumpkins" as one of four professional sculptors.

Not surprisingly, Villafane carved up the others to win the competition, going on to repeat the feat in subsequent shows. He has also been featured on numerous other media outlets. Villafane's work is known worldwide and has appeared at the President's Quarters in the White House, Bermuda's Sousa Gardens as well as many other spots around the globe.

When it comes to pumpkins, Villafane isn't limited to the Halloween theme. He's done carvings of Vikings, Indians, football players, even "Chucky." And if Jack ever resurfaces, Villafane would probably thank him for making all this possible by buying him a drink

Source : Sandiego News

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Steve Jobs, who passed away a few days ago is known as one of the geniuses who built the figure of a company from scratch into a company billions of dollars and inspire many. I first read his official biography was made ​​by Romain Moisescot in PDF 41 pages.

It is interesting to read the life story of Steve Jobs, starting from the beginning of its life,Apple's success in building, his failure in the form of product failure Lisa until he was kickedfrom the company he founded, until finally succeeded in recovery, returned to Apple andreap much success until the end of life.

Unofficial biography in PDF form a longer (74 pages) you can also read and download from the link below. For the record, this biography is copyrighted by Romain Moisescot, I loadthe link above considerations it is very useful.


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