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Russian authorities informed the Norwegian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday that officials in Moscow were immediately halting, canceling or postponing all planned military cooperation with NATO’s members.

Russia’s relation to NATO would then be re-evaluated, reported Aftenposten.

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The warning from Russia signals a further deterioration in relations between Russia and western nations. It comes a day after NATO members meeting at a summit in Brussels criticized Russia’s military aggression in Georgian territory and voted to suspend cooperation with NATO’s Russian council.

“There’s no doubt that our relationship to Russian has now chilled,” Espen Barth Eide, state secretary in the Defense Ministry, told Aftenposten.

Barth Eide was working Wednesday afternoon to determine the actual effects of the Russians’ announcement to halt cooperation.

Around 10 joint military exercises were planned involving Russian and NATO members through the end of this year. They will probably all be cancelled.

Source: Aftenposten,no

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Earlier Wednesday, media outlets, citing “sources familiar with the situation,” erroneously reported that Tubbs Jones had died. Her doctor said a short time later that she was in “critical condition” at a hospital in East Cleveland, Ohio.

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EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio – Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress and a strong critic of the Iraq war, died Wednesday, a Cleveland Clinic official said.

What is up with all of these messed up animals lately? Two headed turtles, two headed cats, four eared cats! I can’t even keep up with all of these anomolies. Well a four eared cat was just recently found and adopted. Here is the story.

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When Valerie and Ted Rock came across a kitten with four-ears, they couldn’t believe their eyes.
But the endearing feline was so adorable they decided he was destined to be a part of their family.

The couple were in a Chicago bar two years ago when they noticed a little grey bundle of fur being passed around to the amazement of fellow drinkers – and their parental instincts kicked in.

A good listener: Two-year-old house cat Yoda was born with four ears
The couple immediately fell for the freaky feline and asked the owner if they could adopt him. He agreed and the couple named the cat Yoda, after the pointy-eared Jedi knight in Star Wars.

Valerie, 65, said: ‘We were at a pub on the south side of Chicago with a group of friends when we noticed a small cage sitting on the bar and people passing around a kitten.

‘He had been part of a large litter and the owners were looking to find a home for him.

‘Ted and I had just lost a cat that was our pet for over 20 years, and we were sure we were done with cats.
‘When he was passed around he reached for Ted, crawled up into the crook of his neck and fell asleep – Ted was a goner.

‘It was a done deal when the kitten made himself at home on Ted’s shoulder.

‘We decided to name him Yoda. I understand the Star Wars character was based on George Lucas’ cat.’

After adopting the eight-week-old kitten into their Illinois home, Valerie decided to have Yoda checked out with the local vet.

Owner: Valerie Rock found Yoda being passed around a Chicago bar and took him home with her
But the vet was mystified by his unique appearance.

‘The vet had never seen anything like it before,’ explains Valerie. ‘He immediately went to the internet and found the four-eared cat in Germany.
‘We have spoken with other vets in our acquaintance, and they likewise had never encountered anything like this.
‘We began to realise that we had something very special.

‘As a result, he has been an indoor cat and has a chip installed in case he gets lost. Yoda is so different that we were concerned that he might be catnapped.’

Yoda’s extra ‘flaps’ are separate to the base of his skull, with one placed slightly behind the other.

Yet despite his unusual looks, Valerie is sure Yoda’s behaviour – and hearing – are quite normal.

‘Yoda’s hearing is normal as far as we know,’ says Valerie. ‘People do a double take when they see him or his picture. It is great fun showing him off.

Yoda: The wise Star Wars character the cat was named after
‘We have actually had people ask if we had his ears cut to look this way.
‘But he is a perfectly normal affectionate, curious cat and is a joy to have around.

‘He is not afraid of anything and is very sociable unlike some of the other cats I have owned.

‘But he does have an interesting obsession with bread – I can’t leave bread on the counter for a moment.

‘And when he purrs, it is not audible. The only way I know that he is purring is to put my finger on his throat to feel the vibration.

‘He also is not very vocal. He meows, but only softly, and not very often which is a good thing.’

Source: Dailymail.co.uk

TMZ has learned LeRoi Moore, the sax player in the Dave Matthews Band, has died. He was 46.

Moore was seriously injured in an ATV accident June 30 outside Charlottesville. He had a punctured lung and broken ribs. Moore went back into the hospital last month due to complications.

A Swedish psychology graduate student at Örebro University in Sweden has reportedly linked the patterns of a someone’s iris to specific personality traits.

Mats Larsson found that ‘a low frequency of crypts was significantly associated with tender-mindedness, warmth, trust, and positive emotions, whereas more distinct and extended furrows were associated with impulsiveness.’

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It furthers earlier, and rather tenuously linked, studies which have linked people with darker eye colours to being more likely to show signs of ‘extroversion, neuroticism, and sociability’

Stuff like this always amazes me, I mean, it’s like a personality fingerprint, in your eye!

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The two headed turtle was first shown in Brooklyn, NY a few weeks ago. Apparently the two headed turtle was stolen! If you happen to come across a stolen two headed turtle you could be in for a reward.

Barack Obama seized the opportunity Monday to criticize comments made by his opponent John McCain over the weekend in which the presumptive GOP nominee defined wealthy Americans as those who make an income of $5 million or more.

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“He [McCain] was in a panel the other day with Rick Warren, some of you may have seen it — and Rick Warren asked him — how do you define rich? He said — maybe he was joking — he said, ‘$5 million,’” Obama told a small group of women at a campaign event in Albuquerque, N.M.

“I guess if you’re making 3 million (dollars) a year, you’re middle class,” Obama said.

“That’s reflected in his policies,” he continued, adding that McCain would give a $500,000 tax break to people making more than $2.5 million.

“This is a fundamental difference in this election,” he said.

McCain predicted his remarks would be taken out of context when he responded to a question Saturday from prominent evangelical pastor Rick Warren during a televised forum on religious issues at Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif.

When Warren asked McCain how he defined “rich,” McCain replied by saying, “I think if you’re just talking about income, how about 5 million (dollars)?”

McCain quickly elaborated on his answer by adding, “I’m sure that comment will be distorted, but the point is … that we want to keep people’s taxes low and increase revenues.”

On Monday, McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds responded to Obama’s criticism, saying McCain had been prescient in his warning.

“As was immediately predicted by John McCain after he made the remark, Barack Obama is already distorting his comment about the definition of ‘rich’ in America. Remember when Barack Obama said he was ‘tired of distortion, name-calling and sound bite solutions to complicated problems?’ Neither do we,” Bounds said.

A McCain aide later told FOX News that the GOP frontrunner was “asked about defining who is rich in the context of raising taxes.”

McCain “firmly believes in not raising any American’s taxes. It’s not the job of government to define who is rich,” the aide said.

The remarks on income served to underscore the candidates’ differences on economic policy, which has become a central issue among voters’ angered over a stumbling economy.

Obama responded to the same question during the candidates’ joint appearance at the church Saturday by defining the wealthy as anyone making over $250,000 a year.

“I would argue that if you are making more than $250,000, then you are in the top 3, 4 percent of this country,” he said.

426 kW (580 hp) and 650 Nm (479.42 lb-ft) of torque – with its twin-turbo V10 and quattro permanent all-wheel drive, the Audi RS 6 is a car without equal. Following on the heels of the RS 6 Avant, Audi now presents the sedan. It drives like a supercar thanks to its superior performance and thrilling dynamics, yet offers all of the everyday utility of a large business sedan.

According to reports, two professional Bigfoot hunters have managed to actually find the body of the creature.

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Bigfoot is a legendary creature, with many myths surrounding him, but no proof.

Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer believe to have changed all of that, as they have found a dead Bigfood in the woods.

They found Bigfoot in north Georgia, two weeks ago.

They have since taken the body of Bigfoot, and put him in the freezer.

A press conference is set to be held in California, where they will present DNA as well as photo proof of the cretaure.

They have been endorsed by the real Bigfoot Hunter, Tom Biscardi.

Condoms are probably some of the most used products on the planet, and they come in ahuge number of varieties, colors, flavors and extra-features. However, it would seem thatthe German researchers from Vinico have come up with what might be called the ultimatecondom when it comes to portability and wearability, namely the Spray Condom.

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Yes, as the name very clearly suggests, this thing is nothing less than a liquid condom thatapplies on the male organ much in the same way as a deodorant. What we’re actuallydealing with here is an aerosol that contains liquid Latex (actually, a mixture of India rubberand water, capable of decomposing quite rapidly after removal), which becomes flexibleafter a few seconds of exposure to the surrounding environment, being at the same timequite safe.
The advantages of this product are quite clear, since they make the “daunting” task ofapplying the condom as easy as spraying, but that’s not the half of it. Thus, the condomexperts from Vinico are informing us that this solution offers an increased level of safetycompared to the classical variants, since the danger of tearing is virtually non-existent, theSpray Condom taking exactly the shape and size of the wearer’s penis. Moreover, theapplication time is greatly reduced, and the experts also assure us that the quality of theuser’s sex life will not be impaired at all, but exactly on the contrary.
The only problem with these aerosol latex condoms is the fact that they’re still being tested(so absolutely no word on either availability or prices), and thus we’re not quite sure of theirlevel of safety. The only thing that really puzzles me here is the answer to a simplequestion, which the manufacturers unfortunately haven’t addressed: how the hell do youtake them off?
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