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Maybe MORE Purdy now? Country singer Carrie Underwood is bringing in 2018 by sharing more details about more injuries that she suffered after a fall that broke her wrist. In a blog post to fans on New Year's Day Underwood says she sustained a facial injury that required 40-50 stitches and that she's "not quite looking the same." She says that she is grateful the injuries weren't much worse and for the people who have helped her since the November accident. She also cautioned fans that she might not look the same when she's ready to be seen on camera again. "I'm hoping that, by then, the differences are minimal, but, again, I just don't know how it's all going to end up." Underwood also says she'll be in the studio next week.

His neatly-groomed facial hair?

Just pasted the pics over the links.

A quick-thinking coach averted what could have been a terrible bus accident for the University of Dubuque women's basketball team. The Division III team from Iowa was driving back from a tournament in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday morning. About 90 minutes into the trip, assistant coach Justin Smith was jolted from his seat when the bus hit a guard rail on Interstate 24 in Kentucky. The driver had passed out, with the bus going 70 mph. Smith leapt into action, hitting the brakes and stopping the bus. Apart from the driver, everyone on the bus was OK. "We're still a little in shock," Smith told The Associated Press by phone Monday. "I'm just thankful everyone's OK. ... I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. The actual initial accident and me jumping out and grabbing the wheel felt like three seconds." After stopping the bus, Smith and the other coaches got the bus out of harm's way. It was still on the highway and could have been hit from behind. "We didn't feel safe where it was at and we had the girls move up to the front of the bus," he said. "I sprinted about 100 yards behind the bus to get traffic away from the bus and make sure there were no other accidents." Smith is a first-year assistant and no stranger to bus trips. "I've been a high school coach and had a lot of late nights on yellow school buses," he said. "For some reason, always had in the back of my mind, what if the bus driver fell asleep. It's fight or flight mechanism and 99 percent of the people would have done the exact same thing." Emergency personnel arrived. The driver was conscious and taken to Lourdes Hospital in Paducah, Kentucky. "We were amazed by those guard rails and that's what we were running over," head coach Mark Noll said. "We ran over a bunch of them. The bus had its fair share of damage, not the point you'd think it would have. But if those things weren't there we would have been going into oncoming traffic and we would be having a very different conversation right now." This is an unnerving time for Noll. Later Sunday night, he received a phone call and was told about one of his former players when he was an assistant at Wisconsin-Stout. Amanda Geissler died in a plane crash in Costa Rica . (A family of 5 from the Westchester (NY) suburb of Scarsdale was wiped out in that crash, as was a Florida family of 4. One of the 2 pilots was a cousin of a former President of Costa Rica.) http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/news/world/families-florida-ny-die-costa-rica-plane-crash-article-1.3730348 Smith said the team was supposed to leave later Sunday morning, but the driver had told him and Noll that he wasn't feeling well the last few days. So the team moved the departure time up an hour to 7:45 a.m. "You never know what would have happened had we left a little bit later," Smith said. The team has 22 players, including 19 freshmen and sophomores. Most of them were at the back of the bus. The coaches said the players didn't really know what happened, thinking the bus might have hit a deer or something else. "The girls didn't recognize the severity of it right away," Smith said. "When you're 18, 19, 20 years old you feel invincible and that's a good thing they can bounce back from. We had a good practice (Monday) and had a good film session." The University of Dubuque plays rival Loras College on Wednesday. "It does put things in perspective big time," Noll said. "We're playing a game and trying to achieve great things as a team and the adversity of what we went through yesterday makes us come that much closer together."

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Or as my mom called him, Guy Lumbago Lumbago, essentially, comes from Latin and physicians use it to denote "pain stemming from the low back." We kind of lump that together and we say that "lumbago" is "low back pain." To be more precise, it should be broken down into axial back pain - in other words pain that remains in the spine and doesn't radiate down the legs - or radicular pain - which most people refer to as "sciatica" - but "lumbago" is a general term denoting low back pain.

He'd probably make A LOT more offering them to fetishists. As long as he didn't clean them first. :cool:

That's gonna be one SAD-LOOKING tattoo in a few decades.

A group of booze-loving New Zealanders built their own island — just so they could legally get drunk in public on New Year’s Eve, reports said. The crafty bunch constructed a sand island in coastal waters at low tide in the Tairua estuary on the northeastern edge of the Pacific country in response to a ban on public drinking in effect over the New Year period in the Coromandel Peninsula, the BBC reported. They installed a picnic table and icebox for drinks, claiming to be in “international waters” and thus exempt from any local booze bans, the outlet said. The group could’ve faced a $180 fine or an arrest for public drinking, but they were able to party into the night without any trouble, watching the fireworks from their small island, which was still intact Monday morning. Luckily, cops appreciated the ingenious idea and didn’t bother the group during their party. “That’s creative thinking — if I had known [about it], I probably would have joined them,” local police commander Inspector John Kelly said of the sand island. There are probably no laws against cannibalism in international waters, so Bearofdistinction could've had whoever he wanted for dinner.

He was trying to be a practical proctologist.

A Florida cop held on for dear life as a suspect he stopped suddenly gunned his engine, dragging the officer alongside his vehicle at high-speed. The scary ride was captured on Officer Jon Cusack’s body camera. The incident began when Cusack, a 20-year veteran of the Pembroke Pines police force, responded to a local resident’s call about two people passed out inside a car, ABC-affiliate KABC reported. The officer put on gloves to protect himself from what he thought were drugs inside the car. But as he tried to enter the vehicle, the driver woke up, and suddenly accelerated, with the officer hanging off the driver’s side door. He eventually lost his grip and tumbled along the pavement. He’s recovering with numerous injuries but hopes to return to work soon, KABC reported. The suspect, Thomas Cabrera, 38, led cops on a 20-mile high-speed chase before he was stopped and taken into custody. He later admitted to using heroin and cocaine that day, KABC reported. Cabrera faces charges of attempted murder of an officer, fleeing and eluding and driving with a suspended license.

A judge in Massachusetts shot down a New Jersey man’s lawsuit claiming a Bay State university was to blame for his violent rampage because they did not enforce underage drinking laws, according to reports. Essex Superior Court Judge Salim Rodriguez Tabit tossed the lawsuit last week filed by Dillon Destefano, who cited Massachusetts’ social host liability law in his lawsuit against Endicott College and its president, the Boston Herald reports. “The court is aware of no case, and the parties have cited none, where a Massachusetts court has entertained a claim of negligent supervision where a plaintiff argues that the defendant has a duty to protect him from himself,” Tabit wrote. “Unlike every other meritorious negligent supervision claim where a plaintiff seeks to recover damages caused by someone’s conduct, here, Destefano seeks to recover damages he himself caused.” Destefano, of River Vale, pleaded guilty in 2014 to assault, battery and witness intimidation charges, admitting to randomly punching students after getting drunk at a dorm party earlier that year. One student suffered a broken and dislocated jaw, while a second victim had a shattered orbital bone and sinus cavity. Destefano was sentenced to four years behind bars, but was paroled last year. He then filed a lawsuit in February seeking losses for damages to his reputation and for pain and suffering. Prior to the random attacks, Destefano claimed he had an “exemplary record” at the college — in Beverly, Mass., near Boston — and was known as a “quiet, peaceful, sociable and caring individual.” But campus police failed to intervene after he and other students drank an “inordinate amount of alcohol,” according to the lawsuit. Attorneys for the college, meanwhile, said Destefano didn’t prove any instance where Endicott officials served him booze. “To call the violent felon’s claims in this case wholly untenable states the proposition too mildly,” wrote Robert Smith, an attorney representing Endicott. “Indeed, his claims are patently absurd.” Smith said a troubling precedent could have been set if Destefano’s lawsuit was allowed to proceed. “This would have opened the floodgates to litigation,” Smith told the Boston Herald. “This would mean that a college would be responsible every time an underage student had too much to drink and hurt themselves or hurt someone else.” Attorneys for Destefano, who no longer attends Endicott College, did not return messages seeking comment, the Boston Herald reports.

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I'm surprised the plastic tongs (which were probably made in China) don't say MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN on them.

The New Year's Eve spread at Mar-a-Lago:

Sex - It's what makes a VW a VW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVIWcDIuxZ0 Yes, I know I already posted this ad... I just really liked it!

Why not have Gloria's little boy host with his boyfriend? At least he could keep Anderson warm. Actually, Anderson hosting with Gloria would probably be a hoot. http://cdn02.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/headlines/2016/12/anderson-cooper-shares-cute-moment-with-benjamin-maisani-in-myanmar.jpg http://cdn03.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/headlines/2016/12/anderson-cooper-partner-benjamin-maisani-go-shirtless-to-wash-elephants.jpg http://cdn01.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/headlines/2017/07/bradley-cooper-irina-shayk-vacation.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sEjWqPBOQiU/VS7M21fg17I/AAAAAAACLQA/NNRtWvc-XN4/s1600/anderson-cooper-boyfriend-benjamin-maisani-wear-matching-sneakers-01.jpg http://images.gawker.com/18k4bcxxbvre1jpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/12/20/20/3B8BACA200000578-4052588-Part_of_his_social_Maisani_has_been_popping_up_on_Cooper_s_Insta-m-43_1482266217553.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/11/article-2172057-13E56670000005DC-567_634x543.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/07/06/22/3601366800000578-3677435-Home_Anderson_Cooper_s_Brazilian_vacation_home_is_featured_in_th-m-1_1467839444263.jpg http://images.gawker.com/18k37yufmwug9jpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg That is, when he's not cheating on Anderson... http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/12/article-2187348-14841DB2000005DC-120_634x447.jpg

My doctor just called me-- ON NEW YEAR'S DAY-- to give me some test results (some things I have to address, but nothing earth-shattering). I asked him why he's working today and he said "I know, I'm an idiot." Definitely NOT who I expected to be calling me today.

Listening to The Black Eyed Peas gives me chronic gas.

Stephen Tobolowsky I was watching an SVU marathon this morning, and they showed one of the most enjoyable episodes in the series' history. Tobolowsky played a registered sex offender who was framed for new charges. When his wife (who hadn't known about his past) found out, he drove his car under a truck and it exploded. I know they used a stuntman, but imagining Tobolowsky in that burning car is SO satisfying, no matter how many times I've seen that episode. This followed the saddest episode the show ever had... Peter Strauss & Joan Cusack played the parents of a girl who'd gone missing years earlier, at the age of 10. Cusack was suspected of killing her; allowing her to trot out all of her most annoying mannerisms in portraying the woman's frustrations. It turned out the girl had been abducted by a man who'd made her be his wife. It was heart-breaking when Elliot & Olivia found her and returned her to a weeping (what else?) Cusack. After what she'd been through, to have to go back and live with HER... how much is any little girl supposed to endure & survive? SO sad...

Whatever happens, please let there not be 20 million stories the next day about what happened with Pariah Carey, one of the most annoying celebrities of the past 5,000 (or more) years.

This should cover him for a while. A broke California man is resting a little easier after he found out that his old family-heirloom blanket was actually a Navajo weaving from the 1800s worth $1.5 million. Loren Krytzer was barely scraping by on disability checks after he lost his leg in a 2007 car crash and living in a shack in Leona Valley when he found out the blanket that had sat in his closet for seven years was worth a bundle. He was watching PBS’s “Antiques Roadshow” when he saw a throw just like the one his grandmother left him and learned it could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. So six months later, he put it up for auction. The bidding started at $150,000 but eventually netted him 10 times that — $1.5 million. Oh Wow! It “gave me a new lease on life,” Krytzer told CNBC. “It truly did.” Now he’s taken his wife and three daughters on a vacation to Mexico, invested a share of the windfall in stocks and bonds, bought himself a 2012 Dodge Challenger SRT8 souped up by the custom mechanic made famous on MTV’s “Pimp My Ride,” and scored two houses — including one worth a quarter-million dollars. But the blanket money is also presenting some new snags: namely, a king-sized tax bill — and some johnny-come-lately relatives. “It’s not like it was 40 or 50 years ago,” he said of his tax burden. “If I’d have gotten $1 million 50 years ago, I’d be rich right now. I would literally be rich. We’re getting taxed to death here. I can’t afford it. I’m from California, I grew up here, but without working, it’s just hard to survive.” Krytzer lost his disability as a result of the windfall, and now he’s on the hook for $10,000 to insure the homes and pay Uncle Sam his due on the property. And then there’s his long-lost relations. “I had people calling me and bugging me and stuff,” Krytzer said. “People you haven’t seen in years — family members that don’t talk to you. You get some money, and they’re like, ‘Where’s mine?’” Still, Krytzer says his life has definitely taken a turn for the better. He and his family are mulling a move to Idaho, where things are more affordable and they can stretch out their newfound safety net.