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I'll try to remember to snap a pic of my clock on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53am. Or pm.

If it's 58.9 degrees, we'll know the universe is just messing with us.

 
Taiwan TransAsia plane crashes into river
4 February 2015 Last updated at 10:50 ET http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31125052

A plane carrying mostly Chinese tourists has crashed into a river in Taiwan, killing at least 25 people. Dramatic video footage emerged showing the TransAsia Airways plane clipping a bridge as it came down shortly after take-off from a Taipei airport. The plane, carrying 58 people, has broken up and the fuselage is lying half-submerged in the Keelung River. Rescue efforts are ongoing. At least 15 people have been pulled out alive, with 18 still missing.
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Wow, pretty shocking video. Right after take-off.

 
Two Irish fans of American Football fans showed what an ounce of pluck can achieve when they snuck into the Super Bowl and sat in seats worth $25,000 each.

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The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, were a scam from the very start. Sochi is a resort city with mild weather that had nothing close to the infrastructure necessary to host the Olympics, yet the initial budget was only $12 billion dollars. In comparison, the budget for the 2010 Winter Olympics—held in the much more developed Vancouver, Canada, whose metro area is seven times bigger than Sochi—was $8 billion. The real final cost of everything in Sochi, as documented in this exhaustive Businessweek piece? $51 billion.


But Vladimir Putin had a plan, you see! Instead of the Russian government shouldering the $39 billion in cost overruns. they were going to get rich Russian oligarchs to do so. While it seemed like a harebrained scheme, there was at least the "hope" that Putin's government was so corrupt that it could essentially run a protection racket, and demand the oligarchs pay to be able to continue doing whatever shady things got them rich in the first place.

Today, almost exactly a year after the opening ceremonies, AP dropped a big story on the Games's finances. You'll be shocked to learn that, with oil prices dropping and Russia facing a financial crisis, the plan has fallen apart and the Russian people will end up biggest losers, ultimately paying for the entire thing with their tax money.
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Patrick Reed's wife reportedly had Reed's parents kicked out of US Open
By Kyle Porter | Golf Writer February 6, 2015 10:48 am ET

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PGA wives. Don't mess with them.
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