Kanye West to Kim Kardashian in 2009: Leave Reggie Bush!


Forget "Theraflu," the April track in which Kanye West confessed his love for Kim Kardashian.

According to TMZ sources, the rapper actually made it clear in 2009 that he had feelings for the reality star, expressing them in the single "Knock You Down." Listen to it here:


Kanye West - "Knock You Down"

Specifically, Kanye is supposedly directing the following lyrics to Kardashian:

"You was always the cheerleader of my dreams/To seem to only date the head of football teams/And I was the class clown that always kept you laughing/We were never meant to be, baby we just happened."

Because Kim was with Reggie Bush at the time, the song adds: You should leave your boyfriend now.

In a recent stop by The View, Kim said she sees her relationship with West as "permanent," meaning a future marriage may actually last 100 days!

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Petsec Energy announces operations update following Hurricane Isaac

Thursday, September 06, 2012

Petsec Energy today provided the following operations update following Hurricane Isaac which passed through the region last week. Evacuating personnel and shutting-in production is a standard procedure conducted by the oil and gas industry for safety and environmental reasons when a major storm is in the Gulf of Mexico. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement estimates that approximately 85% of the platforms in the Gulf of Mexico were evacuated; and 95% of oil production and 73% of gas production in the Gulf of Mexico had been shut-in due to the storm.

Main Pass 19/18 and Chandeleur Area 31/32

The Petsec operated platforms at Main Pass 19 and Chandeleur Area 31/32 and located in approximately 50 feet of water, suffered only minor damage. Field operators returned to the facilities on 1st and 2nd September 2012 and commenced bringing the wells back online. On 4th September 2012, however, the Pipeline Transmission Company discovered a leak in their sales gas transmission line that services the facilities and both platforms had to be shut-in.

Repairs to the transmission line have commenced and are expected to be completed in approximately five (5) days.

Main Pass 270

The non-operated Main Pass 270 platform located in 225 feet of water did not suffer any significant damage, however a downstream third party owned platform that processes the gas and oil production for sales was damaged. The full extent of the damage is not known at present but production is expected to be shut-in for at least seven (7) days.

Marathon Field

The non-operated Marathon Field located in eight feet of water in Atchafalaya Bay was returned to production on 1st September 2012 and was back to full production on 3rd September 2012.

Petsec Production

The Company began shutting in production and evacuating personnel on 26th August 2012 and all production was shut-in by 29th August2012. Petsec's net production prior to the storm was approximately 6.6 million cubic feet of gas equivalent per day ('MMcfepd') and its current daily production will be approximately 3.3 MMcfepd until the downstream problems at both Main Pass and Chandeleur Area are rectified and production is restored to the prior rates.

The Company will provide a further update once production has been restored to all its producing fields.

This article is for information and discussion purposes only and does not form a recommendation to invest or otherwise. The value of an investment may fall. The investments referred to in this article may not be suitable for all investors, and if in doubt, an investor should seek advice from a qualified investment adviser. More

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Minimally invasive surgery works well for abdominal aortic aneurysms

ScienceDaily (Sep. 6, 2012) ? A minimally invasive procedure known as endovascular repair used for abdominal aortic aneurysms has a low rate of complications, even in high-risk patients such as those with kidney, heart or lung problems, a Mayo Clinic study shows. Researchers found that even when aneurysms ruptured, endovascular repair had lower mortality rates than open-abdominal surgery, the other treatment option.

The findings are being presented at the Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society Annual Meeting, Sept. 6-8, in Milwaukee, Wis.

An abdominal aortic aneurysm is a weakened and bulging area in the lower part of the aorta, the major blood vessel that supplies blood to the body. A ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm can cause life-threatening bleeding. In endovascular surgery, physicians attach a synthetic graft to the end of a thin tube, or catheter, inserted through a groin artery and threaded up into the aorta. The graft is placed at the site of the aneurysm and fastened in place, reinforcing the aorta to prevent rupture. Recovery time typically includes a day in the hospital and one or two weeks of rest at home, compared with five to seven days in the hospital and four to six weeks at home after open-abdominal surgery.

"During the last decade or so we have performed over 1,000 endovascular repairs of abdominal aortic aneurysms that included patients with no symptoms at all and patients who presented with a life-threatening rupture. We found that endovascular repair results in a low mortality and a low rate of complications, and that was very rewarding," says lead authorPeter Gloviczki, M.D., a Mayo Clinic vascular and endovascular surgeon.

Using a Mayo Clinic aortic registry, researchers analyzed data from 1,008 consecutive patients receiving endovascular repair between 1997 and 2011.

Abdominal aortic aneurysms are more common in men than in women, and that was reflected in the cases studied: 133 were women and 875 were men. They ranged in age from 49 to 99, with a mean age of 76. Thirty-day mortality after repair of non-ruptured aneurysms was 0.2 percent in good-risk and 2.2 percent in high-risk patients. The five-year survival rate was 72 percent for good-risk patients and 51 percent for those at high risk; three-fourths of those in either group were free from early and late complications, which can include post-procedure bleeding, blood clots or problems with the repair.

Age and high surgical risk were associated with complications and early and all-cause death. Women were likelier than men to have complications, but weren't at higher risk of death.

Abdominal aortic aneurysms often develop without symptoms. Men with a family history of aneurysms should be screened at age 55 with abdominal ultrasounds. Smokers, people with high cholesterol or high blood pressure, and women with a family history of aneurysms should be screened at 65, says Dr. Gloviczki, the Joe M. and Ruth Roberts Professor of Surgery at Mayo Clinic and president of the Society for Vascular Surgery.

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Jobs growth is beyond government's control

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Current and former military personnel stand in line while checking in at the Opportunity Job Fair at the old Naval Training Center in San Diego, California. The economy created far fewer jobs than expected in August, adding to evidence that the recovery remains in low gear.

By John W. Schoen, NBC News

No matter who ends up occupying?the White House in January, many of the forces that have kept unemployment high and jobs growth slow will be beyond his control.

With employment growth stuck at a slower pace than in any recovery in the past half-century, the presidential campaign now turns on which candidate -- President Barack Obama or former Gov. Mitt Romney --?has the better plan to boost employment. The latest jobs data will do little to change the debate.

The economy added just 96,000 new jobs in August, well below the roughly 130,000 economists had been expecting.?Gains in the prior two months were revised down by a combined 41,000. Manufacturers cut 15,000 jobs last month, while another 7,000 government jobs were lost. Temporary employment fell by almost 5,000 workers.

Other recent reports had painted a somewhat brighter picture. Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, and a private survey by payroll processor ADP found that companies created some 200,000 new jobs in August. Another private report showed that service sector companies, such as hotels, retailers, and financial services firms, expanded at a faster rate last month.

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For many voters, the health of the job market is summed up in the unemployment rate tracked by a separate government survey. That number, which dropped to 8.1 percent?in August from 8.3 percent in July, could help bolster?Obama's?claim of slow, steady progress in getting Americans back to work.

But a closer look at the data undercuts that argument. The jobless rate fell last month largely because so many people gave up looking for work, went back to school, retired or otherwise left the workforce. Their departure shrank the labor?participation?rate to its lowest level in more than 30 years.

?Under those circumstances, it is hard to characterize the drop in the unemployment rate as any sort of good news,? said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics.

With the pace of job growth stalled, the Obama campaign this week tried to shift voters? attention to the future. In his speech Thursday night, the president argued that the economy is still suffering the lingering damage from a once-in-a-lifetime financial crisis created by Wall Street excess. While he acknowledged only halting progress in repairing economy and appealed for patience, he stressed his administration?s commitment to help households still suffering from the impact of?the Great Recession.

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Republicans, including Romney,?argue that government spending on the kind of programs Obama highlighted are precisely what is holding back economic growth. They also argue that the White House has stunted the recovery with too much regulation and taxation.

Romney was quick to seize on Friday?s job data to try to dampen Obama?s Thursday night appeal.

"If last night was the party, this morning is the hangover," Romney said in a statement after the jobs report was issued.

Related: Jobs being added, but good ones are hard to find

The government will issue two more rounds of monthly jobs data before voters go to the polls in November. While the monthly payroll growth has become a proxy for the health of the job market, the data are notoriously fluid?and subject to revisions that could swing the payrolls number up or down by as much as 100,000 in either direction.?The two upcoming reports are unlikely to reshape the campaign.

The Labor Department?s latest numbers, though a bit weaker than expected, confirm what economists have known for some time. The current recovery, far weaker than past economic cycles, is not creating paychecks fast enough to return millions of workers sidelined by the 2007-09 recession back to work. High unemployment, in turn, has sapped consumer spending, which accounts for roughly 70 percent of the U.S. economy.

While both sides disagree on the causes, there?s no disputing that this is the worst economic recovery in 50 years. This far into the previous five recoveries, the economy was expanding at an average pace of 4.4 percent, twice the current average.

Though new hiring has been crawling along at a snail?s pace, companies are still managing to squeeze more work out of their existing staffs. Corporate profits are rising in part because that weak job market has all but halted wage growth since the recession ended three years ago. Average hourly earnings, along with the number of hours worked, were flat in August, according to Friday?s data.

Many employers say their reluctance to hire stems from uncertainty over policies that will be implemented by the next occupants of the Capitol and the White House. The most immediate concern is a disastrous combination of automatic year-end tax increases and spending cuts known as the ?fiscal cliff.? Unless defused, the fiscal hit will almost certainly plunge the economy back into a nasty recession.

But no matter who wins the election, it?s far from clear that either party will be able to resolve the budget impasse.

?The lame-duck Congress will punt the "fiscal cliff" problem down the road, postponing the tax hikes and spending cuts for a few months,? said IHS Global Insight chief U.S. economist Nigel Gault. ?That means that extreme uncertainty over fiscal policy is likely to remain a fact of life ? and a deterrent to risk-taking ? well into 2013.?

That uncertainty ? and reluctance to hire ? will be stoked by a series of other forces holding back the four-year-old recovery:

  • While subpar economic growth feels like a recession to many Americans, Europeans are coping with the real thing. The economic contraction that began in troubled economies of Greece and Spain is now spreading to Germany, the flywheel of Europe?s economy, the largest in the world. China, along with the developing economies that feed its massive manufacturing machine, is in an economic slowdown that Beijing has so far been unable to reverse.
  • The budget impasse in the U.S. is due largely to huge, and rising, cost of providing health care and retirement income to an aging population. The dearth of private retirement savings will bring a slowdown in consumer spending as baby boomers continue to tighten their belts. Those trends are irreversible.
  • With wage growth stagnant, growth in spending remains weak for consumers in every age group. The boom in borrowing during the 2000s helped offset sluggish wage growth. The resulting housing bust destroyed trillions of dollars in household wealth. Though the housing market is beginning to recover, it will take at least a decade for prices to recover to the 2006 peak.
  • As private employers have slowed the pace of new hires, state and local governments are still shedding workers. The Obama administration?s massive federal stimulus program ? now criticized by Republicans for failing to produce the number of jobs originally projected ? helped blunt those layoffs. As those funds have dried up, local governments have been hit with lower sales and property tax receipts, cuts in state aid and, in some cases, mandated tax caps.

Even the Federal Reserve ? the economic fire brigade of last resort ? seems to have run out of tools to fight the fire. Friday's weak jobs report give the central bank more reason for another big money drop known as quantitative easing or QE. But after two rounds of more than $1 trillion in pump-priming, and short-term interest rates already at zero, most economists see diminishing returns from another effort to stimulate growth by pumping more money into the system.?

CNBC's Rick Santelli talks with James Bianco, Bianco Research president about "structural" problems inhibiting jobs creation in America.

Source: http://economywatch.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/07/13728411-weak-job-growth-beyond-governments-control?lite

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Vice President of Communications and Government Relations ...

? Minimum seven years experience in a senior management role
? Demonstrated skill and comfort in proactively building relationships with top tier journalists and in successfully positioning subject matter with the media to achieve high-impact placements
? Extensive writing and editing experience with a variety of print and online communications media
? Demonstrated experience and leadership in managing a comprehensive strategic communications, media relations, and marketing program to advance an organization?s mission and goals
? Creativity and innovation in utilizing new media technologies
? Hands-on ability to implement online communications strategies
? A minimum of five years experience in planning, writing, editing and production of newsletters, press releases, annual reports, marketing literature and other print publications
? Thorough understanding of legislative processes
? Proven track record of successful advocacy and winning legislative battles
? Current relationships with elected officials, agency heads, and policy makers
? Innovative thinker with a track record for translating strategic thinking into action plans and output
? Experience in building, mentoring, and coaching staff
? Excellent judgment and creative problem solving skills, including negotiation and conflict resolution skills
? Superior management skills; ability to influence and engage direct and indirect reports and peers
? Stature, gravitas, and confidence to gain the credibility and respect of high-performing board of directors
? Self reliant, good problem solver, results oriented
? Ability to make decisions in a changing environment and anticipate future needs
? Excellent and persuasive communicator
? Energetic, flexible, collaborative and proactive; a team leader who can positively and productively impact both strategic and tactical finance, and administration initiatives
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Michael Owen signs for Stoke

Former England striker Michael Owen has joined Stoke City on a free transfer, subject to Premier League Board approval, the club announced Tuesday.

Owen, who made his name at Liverpool before joining Real Madrid, has signed a one-year deal following his release from Stoke's Premier League rivals Manchester United at the end of last season.

He has enjoyed an impressive career, scoring 221 goals in 473 appearances.

But the 32-year-old's career has been blighted by a series of injury problems and he has started just one Premier League match in the last two seasons.

And it is that fitness record which has led to reports, still to be confirmed by Stoke, that he has signed on a pay-as-you play deal.

Owen becomes City's seventh signing of the summer, following the arrivals of Jamie Ness, Geoff Cameron, Michael Kightly, Maurice Edu, Charlie Adam and Steven N'Zonzi.

For England, Owen scored 40 goals in 89 appearances, including a hat-trick against Germany in a 5-1 victory just over a decade ago.

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Stocks waver amid global growth worries

Jeff Kauffman, Sterne Agee analyst, discusses the outlook on transports, and explains why he maintains a "buy" on the stock, with a $120 price target.

By NBC News wire services

Updated at 1145 a.m. ET: Stocks were wavering Wednesday, lately edging higher amid concerns over global economic growth after data suggested weakness in the euro zone's private sector, and economic bellwether FedEx cut its profit forecast.

The disappointing data and forecast from No. 2 package delivery company FedEx follow Tuesday's economic reports that show manufacturing in the United States shrank at its sharpest clip in more than three years last month. Market participants say these reports will boost chances of global central banks taking further action to aid the weak economy.

Media reports on Wednesday said that the European Central Bank would, with broad support from its council members, unveil an unlimited, sterilized program of bond purchases.

"With the ECB tomorrow laying out its bond-buying plan with implementation dependent on a country request for help and the Fed likely embarking on more action next week, the stock market is approaching the moment when the central bank news is out and market participants must determine if it's something that hasn't been discounted yet," said Peter Boockvar, equity strategist at Miller Tabak & Co in New York.

"As I believe what will come over the next week will be no different than expectations, stocks are at growing risk of a sell on the news as attention shifts back to economic and earnings fundamentals and away from central bank money printing that can't reverse the economic realities, they can only temporarily cover them up."

FedEx Corp cut its profit outlook for the current quarter, saying weakness in the global economy was hurting demand for overnight international shipments more than anticipated. The announcement was made after the closing bell on Tuesday.

The euro zone is likely to have slipped back into recession in the current quarter, according to a survey published on Wednesday that showed a seventh month of contraction for the bloc's private sector as new orders dwindled. The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), published by Markit, showed the economic rot that began in smaller periphery members of the 17-nation bloc is now taking hold even in Germany, the region's largest and strongest economy.

China's services sector also grew at its slowest pace in a year in August, even though firms are hiring more workers at higher wages, the HSBC private sector survey showed on Wednesday, following gloomy manufacturing polls earlier in the week.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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Music's Wild Ride: From Sound Waves to Digital Files and Back Again [Giz Explains]

Digital audio is everywhere in the modern world—telephones, television, sonar, and Spotify. For all the ways it has revolutionized the way we hear, converting the waves to ones and zeros is a surprisingly straightforward process. Here's the science of sound. More »


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