<?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/" ><channel><title>Newsvine - newsguru's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://newsguru.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - newsguru's Column - Articles and Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2009</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:24:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:19:20 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Nene And Kim To Be Cut From 'The Real Housewives'?</title><description><![CDATA[According to the New York Daily News and People, NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak are very close to getting pink-slipped from "The Real Housewives of Atlanta."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[newsguru]]></dc:creator><link>http://newsguru.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/22/3663434-nene-and-kim-to-be-cut-from-the-real-housewives</link><guid>http://newsguru.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/22/3663434-nene-and-kim-to-be-cut-from-the-real-housewives</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>tv</category><category>divorce</category><category>show</category><category>reality-tv</category><category>atlanta</category><category>drama</category><category>tv-show</category><category>kim</category><category>producers</category><category>usher</category><category>black-women</category><category>bravo</category><category>season-3</category><category>nene</category><category>season-three</category><category>tameka-foster</category><category>real-housewives</category><category>feuding</category><category>kim-zolciak</category><category>real-housewives-of-atlanta</category><category>mrs-usher-raymond</category><category>nene-leakes</category><category>payment-demands</category><category>the-real-housewives-of-atlanta</category><category>tomeka-foster-raymond</category><pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:24:33 +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>Man Accused of Molesting Teen SInce she was 9</title><description><![CDATA[PERRIS -- A Riverside County man is under arrest, accused of having sex with a 16-year-old girl since the girl was 9, according to authorities.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Par4TheCourse]]></dc:creator><link>http://par4thecourse.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/22/3663235-man-accused-of-molesting-teen-since-she-was-9</link><guid>http://par4thecourse.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/22/3663235-man-accused-of-molesting-teen-since-she-was-9</guid><category>us-news</category><category>child</category><category>sexual-abuse</category><pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:36:23 +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></item><item><title>Privatizing Women: Military Prostitution and the Iraq Occupation</title><description><![CDATA[U.S. military deployments in the Gulf War, the Afghan War, and the Iraq War have reinvigorated prostitution and the trafficking of women in the Middle East.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Loretta Kemsley]]></dc:creator><link>http://An-uncommon-scold.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/21/3660935-privatizing-women-military-prostitution-and-the-iraq-occupation</link><guid>http://An-uncommon-scold.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/21/3660935-privatizing-women-military-prostitution-and-the-iraq-occupation</guid><category>us-news</category><category>iraq</category><category>prostitution</category><category>miliatary</category><pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:50:23 +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></item><item><title>Shortage of health care workers a growing concern  </title><description><![CDATA["Virtually every hospital or large medical group in the United States would be happy to add a family physician or general internist," said Merritt Hawkins' president Mark Smith. "There simply are not enough primary care doctors to go around."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[april-1023405]]></dc:creator><link>http://quispisyummy.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/21/3659316-shortage-of-health-care-workers-a-growing-concern-</link><guid>http://quispisyummy.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/21/3659316-shortage-of-health-care-workers-a-growing-concern-</guid><category>us-news</category><category>college</category><category>health-care-reform</category><category>health-insurance</category><category>medicare</category><category>doctors</category><category>deficit</category><category>shortage</category><category>nurses</category><category>physicians</category><category>community-college</category><category>barack-hussein-obama</category><category>rationing</category><category>certified-nurse</category><category>licensed-vocation-nurse</category><pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:28:53 +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>Pregnant soldiers could face court-martial</title><description><![CDATA[A U.S. Army general in northern Iraq has added pregnancy to the list of reasons a soldier under his command could be court-martialed.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Loretta Kemsley]]></dc:creator><link>http://An-uncommon-scold.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/21/3659021-pregnant-soldiers-could-face-court-martial</link><guid>http://An-uncommon-scold.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/21/3659021-pregnant-soldiers-could-face-court-martial</guid><category>us-news</category><category>iraq</category><category>women</category><category>men</category><category>army</category><category>pregnant</category><category>court-maritial</category><category>general-anthony-cucolo</category><pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:15:47 +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>Scientific Study Proves Darker the Liquor, Bigger the Hangover</title><description><![CDATA[As holiday revelers lift their glasses at office parties and New Year's bashes, they may want to keep one rule of thumb in mind: the darker the liquor, the bigger the hangover.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[newsguru]]></dc:creator><link>http://newsguru.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/21/3659002-scientific-study-proves-darker-the-liquor-bigger-the-hangover</link><guid>http://newsguru.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/21/3659002-scientific-study-proves-darker-the-liquor-bigger-the-hangover</guid><category>health</category><category>tips</category><category>water</category><category>study</category><category>alcohol</category><category>body</category><category>beer</category><category>wine</category><category>holidays</category><category>drunk</category><category>drinking</category><category>dui</category><category>tricks</category><category>toxic</category><category>head</category><category>miller</category><category>drinks</category><category>vodka</category><category>soda</category><category>liquor</category><category>booze</category><category>headache</category><category>whiskey</category><category>taste</category><category>hangover</category><category>budweiser</category><category>aspirin</category><category>odor</category><category>aged</category><category>alcoholic</category><category>rum</category><category>proven</category><category>binge</category><category>bourbon</category><category>troopers</category><category>scientific-study</category><category>barrels</category><category>wild-turkey</category><category>ros</category><category>absolut-vodka</category><category>darker</category><category>impurities</category><category>ros-wine</category><category>cell-function</category><category>clear-liquors</category><category>congeners</category><category>dark-liquor</category><category>hard-liquor</category><category>light-liquor</category><category>rose-intoxikon</category><category>which-liquor</category><category>white-liquor</category><pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:10:48 +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>Cop Who Stalked, Abused Stripper Acquitted of Wrongdoing</title><description><![CDATA[No one disputes that an on-duty Irvine police officer got an erection and ejaculated on a motorist during an early-morning traffic stop in Laguna Beach. The female driver reported it, DNA testing confirmed it and officer David Alex Park finally admitted it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[iarnuocon]]></dc:creator><link>http://iarnuocon.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/19/3652107-cop-who-stalked-abused-stripper-acquitted-of-wrongdoing</link><guid>http://iarnuocon.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/19/3652107-cop-who-stalked-abused-stripper-acquitted-of-wrongdoing</guid><category>us-news</category><category>crime</category><category>police</category><category>law-enforcement</category><category>criminal-justice</category><category>park</category><category>cop</category><category>legal-system</category><category>police-professionalism</category><category>david-alex-park</category><category>david-park</category><pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:52:41 +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>Credit Card With A 79.9% Interest Rate!</title><description><![CDATA[It's no mistake. This credit card's interest rate is 79.9 percent.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[newsguru]]></dc:creator><link>http://newsguru.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/18/3649200-credit-card-with-a-799-interest-rate</link><guid>http://newsguru.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/18/3649200-credit-card-with-a-799-interest-rate</guid><category>business</category><category>economy</category><category>banks</category><category>market</category><category>credit-cards</category><category>laws</category><category>interest-rates</category><category>regulation</category><category>visa</category><category>interest-rate</category><category>mastercard</category><category>firm</category><category>apr</category><category>new-laws</category><category>synovate</category><category>credit-card-company</category><category>first-premier</category><category>79-9</category><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:40:59 +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>Kucinich: 'Class War Is Over, Working People Lost'</title><description><![CDATA["Don't tell me about class warfare," he continued. "Come to my neighborhoods in Cleveland.  I will show you class warfare.  I'll show you hollowed out areas. I'll show you businesses that went down because they don't have access to capital.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[garyray-501488]]></dc:creator><link>http://rayjs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/18/3649000-kucinich-class-war-is-over-working-people-lost</link><guid>http://rayjs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/18/3649000-kucinich-class-war-is-over-working-people-lost</guid><category>politics</category><category>news</category><category>democrats</category><category>republican</category><category>democrat</category><category>recession</category><category>labor</category><category>crisis</category><category>meltdown</category><category>class</category><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:12:04 +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>Police: Man Found With Hands In Meat</title><description><![CDATA[According to the arrest record, store security said William Cope Jr. urinated in an aisle and then went to the meat counter and opened several boxes of licorice candy, a bag of cornbread stuffing and several packages of steaks.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[hsquared-1401940]]></dc:creator><link>http://hsquared.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/17/3647797-police-man-found-with-hands-in-meat</link><guid>http://hsquared.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/17/3647797-police-man-found-with-hands-in-meat</guid><category>odd-news</category><category>crime</category><category>weird</category><category>meat</category><category>steak</category><category>kroger</category><category>drunks</category><category>texture</category><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:21:12 +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>Fla. man exonerated after 35 years behind bars</title><description><![CDATA[James Bain made his first-ever cell phone call Thursday, dialing his elderly mother to tell her he had been freed after 35 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Stacy, Associated Press Writer]]></dc:creator><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/17/3645857-fla-man-exonerated-after-35-years-behind-bars</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/17/3645857-fla-man-exonerated-after-35-years-behind-bars</guid><category>us-news</category><category>us</category><category>rape</category><category>dna</category><category>old</category><category>james-bain</category><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:04:54 +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><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/tn/5777110e-990a-49f4-bd59-01c7137a4297.jpg" width="75" height="111" /></item><item><title>Four-year old suspended from school for long hair, then isolated upon return</title><description><![CDATA[Last month, Tater Tot's parents received a letter from Floyd Elementary School's principal, threatening to suspend him if his hair wasn't cut. 

Tater Tot was suspended when his parents ignored the threat. When he returned after his suspension, his hair was longer than before. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Aimee Franc]]></dc:creator><link>http://trueautism.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/17/3645802-four-year-old-suspended-from-school-for-long-hair-then-isolated-upon-return</link><guid>http://trueautism.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/17/3645802-four-year-old-suspended-from-school-for-long-hair-then-isolated-upon-return</guid><category>politics</category><category>suspension</category><category>long-hair</category><category>four-year-old</category><category>school-dress-code</category><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:55:52 +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></item><item><title>Black Colleges Slam Miss. Governor's Plan To Merge HBCUs</title><description><![CDATA[Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is being both applauded and scorned over his plan to downscale and merge five publicly-funded universities to addess a $700 million budget shortfall.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[PowerIsKnowledge]]></dc:creator><link>http://powerisknowledge.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/16/3643011-black-colleges-slam-miss-governors-plan-to-merge-hbcus</link><guid>http://powerisknowledge.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/16/3643011-black-colleges-slam-miss-governors-plan-to-merge-hbcus</guid><category>education</category><category>president</category><category>money</category><category>higher-education</category><category>mississippi</category><category>merger</category><category>jackson-state</category><category>alcorn-state</category><category>mississippi-valley-state</category><category>haley-barbour</category><category>hbcu</category><category>draconian</category><category>michael-martin</category><category>black-institutions</category><category>dan-turner</category><category>george-e-ross</category><category>ronald-masson-jr</category><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:26:18 +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></item><item><title>Bengals players go to La. for Chris Henry funeral</title><description><![CDATA[The Cincinnati Bengals are traveling to Louisiana to say final farewells to late teammate Chris Henry.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/16/3642827-bengals-players-go-to-la-for-chris-henry-funeral?category=sports</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/16/3642827-bengals-players-go-to-la-for-chris-henry-funeral?category=sports</guid><category>us-news</category><category>sports</category><category>nfl</category><category>san-diego</category><category>bengals</category><category>cincinnati-bengals</category><category>henry</category><category>chris-henry</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:35:44 +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><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/tn/dfbd324f-f8e8-4109-b15c-030e8aaae6cc.jpg" width="75" height="106" /></item><item><title>Shocking Pictures: Islamic militants stone man to death for adultery in Somalia as villagers are forced to watch  </title><description><![CDATA["This barbaric scene belongs in the Dark Ages, but pictures emerged today of a group of Islamic militants who forced villagers to watch as they stoned a man to death for adultery.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[krishna-167929]]></dc:creator><link>http://krishna109.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/16/3642399-shocking-pictures-islamic-militants-stone-man-to-death-for-adultery-in-somalia-as-villagers-are-forced-to-watch-</link><guid>http://krishna109.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/16/3642399-shocking-pictures-islamic-militants-stone-man-to-death-for-adultery-in-somalia-as-villagers-are-forced-to-watch-</guid><category>religion</category><category>sex</category><category>islam</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>somalia</category><category>islamic-extremism</category><category>adultery</category><category>stoning</category><category>al-shabaab</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:42:38 +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></item><item><title>After 59-Year Marriage, Couple Die Moments Apart </title><description><![CDATA[(Dec. 16) -- For 59 years, James and Lolie Brackin epitomized love and marriage, their children told the Daily News of Northwest Florida. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Angel_C]]></dc:creator><link>http://onlynow99.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/16/3642283-after-59-year-marriage-couple-die-moments-apart-</link><guid>http://onlynow99.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/16/3642283-after-59-year-marriage-couple-die-moments-apart-</guid><category>odd-news</category><category>relationships</category><category>couples</category><category>long-marriages</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:17:10 +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>Scientists Crack 'Entire Genetic Code' Of Cancer</title><description><![CDATA[...Scientists have unlocked the entire genetic code of two of the most common cancers - 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X-rays revealed the needles, including one in his lung.

His mother said she did not know how the needles, some 2in (5cm) long, got inside him. Police are investigating.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[newsguru]]></dc:creator><link>http://newsguru.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/16/3641472-50-needles-found-in-brazilian-boy-updated</link><guid>http://newsguru.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/16/3641472-50-needles-found-in-brazilian-boy-updated</guid><category>odd-news</category><category>crime</category><category>police</category><category>children</category><category>brazil</category><category>kids</category><category>child</category><category>parents</category><category>mother</category><category>child-abuse</category><category>doctors</category><category>south-america</category><category>boy</category><category>toddler</category><category>mom</category><category>lung</category><category>organs</category><category>needles</category><category>swallowed</category><category>bahia</category><category>ingesting</category><category>barreiras</category><category>50-needles</category><category>dr-soltoski</category><category>fifty-needles</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:58:15 +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>Tiger named AP athlete of the decade</title><description><![CDATA[Tiger Woods has been voted Athlete of the Decade in an Associated Press survey of U.S. sports editors, his 10 years of incomparable golf outweighing nearly three weeks of a salacious sex scandal.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[NBCSports]]></dc:creator><link>http://nbcsports.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/16/3640874-tiger-named-ap-athlete-of-the-decade?category=sports</link><guid>http://nbcsports.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/16/3640874-tiger-named-ap-athlete-of-the-decade?category=sports</guid><category>sports</category><category>golf</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:27:00 +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>Time Magazine Names Bernanke 'Person of the Year'</title><description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2009.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[newsguru]]></dc:creator><link>http://newsguru.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/16/3640856-time-magazine-names-bernanke-person-of-the-year</link><guid>http://newsguru.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/16/3640856-time-magazine-names-bernanke-person-of-the-year</guid><category>us-news</category><category>economy</category><category>jobs</category><category>federal-reserve</category><category>banks</category><category>financial</category><category>fed</category><category>regulation</category><category>ben-bernanke</category><category>chairman</category><category>time-magazine</category><category>the-fed</category><category>yahoo-finance</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:21:17 +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></channel></rss>