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On Thanksgiving Morning our family packed up a 26 ft Penske Moving Truck and moved cross country from Chicago to Los Angeles.  On the last leg of our trip we stopped in Las Vegas the night of Saturday November 25th, 2006.

We booked a suite at the Venetian Hotel and were instructed to park in their oversized secured parking lot. We pulled our moving truck, which was attached with a 1999 Jeep Cherokee into a guarded gate at the Venetian.

When we returned the following afternoon we found our Truck and Jeep STOLEN from the lot at the Venetian! Words can not even express the loss and sense of violation we are going through.

Our whole lives; everything we have ever worked for is completely gone.

The Venetian has taken no responsibility and has been less than sensitive to the family.  There is no insurance policy the family can take from, and they must rebuild alone step by step.

The family is without jobs, and without having clothes to wear and is also unable to even interview for a job until items such as clothes, shoes, and socks can be replaced.

Debbie and Craig have been married for almost 30 years and lost their entire lives, childrens lives and everything they owned.

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MONTREAL — Montreal Canadiens general manager Bob Gainey has passed his duties on to assistant general manager Pierre Gauthier while he awaits word on his daughter Laura, who was swept overboard a ship in the Atlantic Ocean during a storm on Friday night.

Mr. Gainey lost his wife Cathy to a five-year battle with brain cancer in 1995, when she was 39.

And he turns 53 this Wednesday

Watch the short clip here.

Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.

• In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
• 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
• 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dialate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
• 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
• >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
• >60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
• >60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.

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