10 of Malala Yousafzai's attackers jailed for life

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Asia Europe 10 of Malala Yousafzai's attackers jailed for life

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New beautiful pics of baby rescued from Nepal's earthquake rubble

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Asia New beautiful pics of baby rescued from Nepal's earthquake rubble

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Chris Brown and Rihanna party together last night

<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"> <br /></h3> <div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"> <div class="post-header-line-1"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2907876773622668458" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; position: relative; width: 616px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdFFhCaNubIwgU8WhTuECjAi1G56j0SXvLOg5PIBVzjfc3PSEDx_WCtGNtZF-dk7v9DvA7NOYgraJk_JRFCALucnKrPpoLBpVZcaWiEXpaSdeg_hhglKQ2TRr1fZQDeBE24vplo1poAYQ/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-04-30+at+7.09.01+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #990000; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdFFhCaNubIwgU8WhTuECjAi1G56j0SXvLOg5PIBVzjfc3PSEDx_WCtGNtZF-dk7v9DvA7NOYgraJk_JRFCALucnKrPpoLBpVZcaWiEXpaSdeg_hhglKQ2TRr1fZQDeBE24vplo1poAYQ/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-04-30+at+7.09.01+AM.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></div> Well, not that they partied together but they were at the same party at the same time last night. They were both spotted at rapper Travis Scott's birthday party last night handling the same snake while party goers Tweeted confirmation.<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0AwK85oy6ygfDbbz45GHTrPaWSWZjBN3pKJPm4Ui_zBGj26Yo1Xii4ZTM_6uWuBmv48sdNCqiHTV2VwVrQytGgmkj5o04pvwB5KA9Ks2cP-F9hyphenhyphenAa491YBaqaBQRvFpPVrf0_AlhNrAA/s1600/photo+1-81.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="color: #990000; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0AwK85oy6ygfDbbz45GHTrPaWSWZjBN3pKJPm4Ui_zBGj26Yo1Xii4ZTM_6uWuBmv48sdNCqiHTV2VwVrQytGgmkj5o04pvwB5KA9Ks2cP-F9hyphenhyphenAa491YBaqaBQRvFpPVrf0_AlhNrAA/s1600/photo+1-81.PNG" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW6Y5CDMQDdDFs-mnqwCg8wn-kE1J2-SSLz1eTOm60z8dF9XleycJEfRdPRIhyphenhyphenkGqLZrRNmUmMqUoIAYl-CxgvjkKcvi82vgPFJs40sbX21t0KqAHto_-j3yg3EbX-hgd3CE4yKBqTozA/s1600/photo+2-81.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="color: #990000; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW6Y5CDMQDdDFs-mnqwCg8wn-kE1J2-SSLz1eTOm60z8dF9XleycJEfRdPRIhyphenhyphenkGqLZrRNmUmMqUoIAYl-CxgvjkKcvi82vgPFJs40sbX21t0KqAHto_-j3yg3EbX-hgd3CE4yKBqTozA/s1600/photo+2-81.PNG" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div> </div>

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Belgian footballer dies after collapsing during a match

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GameStop will buy and then sell your old Nintendo — and it might be a terrible idea

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And even when you do find them, will they function?</span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Blowing into that copy of "Duck Hunt" you found at the garage sale down the block isn't going to clean out 30 years of dust, no matter how hard you try.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> The world's largest game retailer, GameStop, is trying to solve this issue. Starting on April 25, GameStop locations in the New York City and Birmingham regions (around 250 stores) started accepting classic games and game consoles for trade-in: the original Nintendo Entertainment System, the Super Nintendo, Sega's Genesis and Dreamcast, as well as the first PlayStation and Nintendo 64.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> More importantly, about two months from now, GameStop's website is set to roll out a section dedicated to the sale of the aforementioned classic game consoles and compatible games. Translation: GameStop.com will start selling fixed up, classic game consoles and games in about two months. </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Those consoles and games come with the usual 30-day guarantee GameStop gives all its used merchandise; the company's able to do that because every single classic game console or game traded in has to go through GameStop's refurbishment center.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "For hardware, we'll put it through a full triage: identify any issues, any cleaning that has to happen, any parts replacement that has to be done. On cartridges, we're gonna be cleaning, testing, and also taking a look at the batteries in there," GameStop senior director of pre-owned merchandising Jon Haes told Business Insider.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><span class="image on-image"></span></span></div> <div class="yom-figure " style="background-color: white; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 650px;"> <figure class="cover get-lbdata-from-dom go-to-slideshow-lightbox" data-orig-index="1" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="cover-anchor" data-rapid_p="9" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="cover-ee030d9414d19a1d65903fc4b67a25df" name="cover-ee030d9414d19a1d65903fc4b67a25df" style="color: #324fe1; position: absolute; top: -100px;"></a><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 487px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 650px;"> <span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 15.6000003814697px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 585px; zoom: 1;"></span><div class="cta-text large" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 35px; opacity: 0; position: relative; text-align: center; top: 243.5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;"> View gallery</div> <span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-radius: 7px; cursor: pointer; height: 54px; left: 325px; line-height: 0; margin-left: -38px; margin-top: -27px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; top: 243.5px; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 76px; z-index: 1;">.</span></div> <img alt="Sega Dreamcast" border="0" class="editorial" data-preembed="image" height="488" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/H50_RfJufOYbgsYyKrheeg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTY1MA--/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/en_us/Finance/US_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE/GameStop_will_buy_and_then-df4997793ecb6dc82ce0b1405175e169" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1 !important; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important; width: auto !important;" width="650" /></figure></div> <span class="source" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">(Quagmire/Flickr) </span><span class="caption" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">Do you remember 1999? </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;"></span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> That means you're not just buying classic consoles, but classic consoles that are running at 100%, and guaranteed to work – a major step up from the wilderness of eBay. </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> The company's hoping to expand its trade-in program to the national level, but is intentionally holding back to test the system. What if it costs too much money to refurbish old hardware? What if consoles fail soon after people bring them home? Are replacement parts even available for the Nintendo Entertainment System – a console that originally launched nearly 30 years ago? </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "We're holding ourselves back a little bit so we can learn some of these things, answer some of the questions that you just asked," Haes said. "We've got a lot to learn about what the condition of this product is gonna be like."</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430447522_2011" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> GameStop doesn't have a solution for making old game consoles compatibile with new televisions either. While the original NES connects via the same plug that brings cable TV to your living room, consoles like the Sega Dreamcast are dependent on yellow/red/white inputs ("RCA" cables). Some modern TVs simply don't have an RCA input, meaning you'll need to buy a converter of some type.<span class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><span class="image on-image"></span></span></div> <div class="yom-figure " id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430447522_2007" style="background-color: white; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 650px;"> <figure class="cover get-lbdata-from-dom go-to-slideshow-lightbox" data-orig-index="2" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430447522_2006" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="cover-anchor" data-rapid_p="10" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="cover-defc34f6e129cd35d439da6a17dc57c0" name="cover-defc34f6e129cd35d439da6a17dc57c0" style="color: #324fe1; position: absolute; top: -100px;"></a><div class="cta-overlay" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430447522_2005" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 446px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 650px;"> <span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 15.6000003814697px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 585px; zoom: 1;"></span><div class="cta-text large" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430447522_2009" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 35px; opacity: 0; position: relative; text-align: center; top: 223px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;"> View gallery</div> <span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-radius: 7px; cursor: pointer; height: 54px; left: 325px; line-height: 0; margin-left: -38px; margin-top: -27px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; top: 223px; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 76px; z-index: 1;">.</span></div> <img alt="Hyperkin Retron 5" border="0" class="editorial" data-preembed="image" height="447" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/cdY2NvoXHF7FSFx_4wgFPg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTY1MA--/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/en_us/Finance/US_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE/GameStop_will_buy_and_then-2b7c0b58902944965cfe504adea0f512" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1 !important; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important; width: auto !important;" width="650" /></figure></div> <span class="source" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">(Hyperkin) </span><span class="caption" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">Five classic game consoles in one </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;"></span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430447522_2001" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> And if all of that sounds like a bit too much work for you, we understand – there are always modern takes of old game consoles like <a data-rapid_p="11" href="http://www.amazon.com/Hyperkin-RetroN-Gaming-Not-Machine-Specific/dp/B00DZIX3CQ" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430447522_2003" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Hyperkin's Retron 5</a>.</div>

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Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson went on a big rant about having to pay his executives too much

<img alt="Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson went on a big rant about having to pay his executives too much" height="479" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/GWSqOrQGZ1zZLdG69NJe.g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/en_us/Finance/US_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE/Casino_billionaire_Sheldon_Adelson_went-fb5f22a312c55bcd56f73f0161c2ce57" width="640" /><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">Sheldon Adelson is one of the 20 wealthiest people in the world, </span><a data-rapid_p="9" href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/sheldon-adelson/?list=billionaires" style="background-color: white; color: #324fe1; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">according to Forbes</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">.</span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> But the casino magnate thinks his employees get paid too much.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> According to <a data-rapid_p="10" href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/29/sheldon-adelson-las-vegas-courtroom" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Guardian</a>, "while testifying on Wednesday in a civil suit rooted in allegations that his casino operation in Macao made improper payments to a Chinese official and had ties to Triad organized crime, Adelson unexpectedly enlightened the court on his feelings about the bonus culture."</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> The casino magnate thinks even his own executives working abroad are paid too much:</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding-left: 30px;"> The billionaire complained that his expatriate executives, deployed to postings such as Macao or Singapore, were sending their children to school on the company shilling at $30,000 a year in fees for each child. Then some of them were getting Adelson's Las Vegas Sands company to pay $50,000 a year for college education. Adelson called that "offensive."</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430435035_2006" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding-left: 30px;"> On top of that there's the housing allowance — $25,000 a month in Singapore, he stressed — and a car.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430435035_2004" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding-left: 30px;"> "Not a Toyota like they would drive here," he thundered.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430435035_2002" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding-left: 30px;"> The judge listened in what looked like bemused silence as Adelson shifted to the high cost of flying executives' families around the world.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430435035_2000" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding-left: 30px;"> "Sending whole families home four times a year is not acceptable," he said. "When it comes to flying, it has to be first-class when the whole family could fly coach."</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430435035_1996" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Adelson also had an interesting answer to a question from the opposing counsel about a signature irregularity on a form, according to The Guardian: "You want to send me to jail? I just bought a big home. I don't want to move to smaller quarters."</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430435035_1998" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Billionaires: You can't send them to jail because there isn't enough square footage.</div>

US Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson went on a big rant about having to pay his executives too much

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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430269945_1897" style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/WEVxjc3t6Iwr03EsIz6NJg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTY3NDtpbD1wbGFuZTtweW9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz05NjA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-DV-DV2014768-1-1-1.jpg" /></div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430269945_1897" style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Leicester (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Chelsea took another step towards winning the English Premier League title as second half goals from <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-Player" data-rapid_p="11" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/players/didier-drogba" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">Didier Drogba</a>, <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="12" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/players/john-terry" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">John Terry</a> and <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-Player" data-rapid_p="13" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/players/ramires" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">Ramires</a> helped them overturn a half-time deficit to win 3-1 at in-form Leicester City.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;"><br />Leicester, who had won their previous four games, struck just before the break through</span><span style="font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;"> </span><a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="14" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/players/marc-albrighton" style="color: #1b70e0; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; text-decoration: none;">Marc Albrighton</a><span style="font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">and looked value for their lead until Chelsea raised their game in the second half.</span>Jose Mourinho's side can now secure the crown if they beat Crystal Palace on Sunday after overcoming a scare against a side who looked far from relegation contenders on this evidence.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho admitted he had been far from happy with the first-half display, though, he had to restrain himself from revealing what he said to the players at the break.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "If I repeat on television what I said it will be 'peep peep peep'. Too many peeps!" said the Portuguese.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Mourinho, who has regained some of his lustre since returning after a largely underwhelming spell with <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_team" data-rapid_p="15" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/teams/real-madrid/" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">Real Madrid</a>, said Palace would not be a walkover on Sunday.</div> <div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; color: #5f5f5f; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"> <a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-pos="1" data-rapid_p="16" data-uuid="be6be37b-bfe6-3fb1-9ee0-9fb7be3862da" data-ylk="t1:a3;t2:ct-mod;t3:embd;sec:ct-mod;slk:expand;elm:img;elmt:ct;itc:1;g:73d570c5-d657-3a55-acbb-9c2735f5dce4;aid:be6be37b-bfe6-3fb1-9ee0-9fb7be3862da;ct:4;cpos:1;" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/chelseas-ivorian-striker-didier-drogba-c-leicester-citys-photo-210414286--sow.html" style="color: #1b70e0; 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padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;"> Chelsea's Ivorian striker Didier Drogba (C) and Leicester City's English defender Wes Morgan …</div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "Stamford Bridge is ready to celebrate but if I can ask something from them it is to not celebrate," said Mourinho.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "We all want to win on Sunday but it will be a difficult game."</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> His Leicester counterpart Nigel Pearson graciously said Chelsea would be worthy title winners and insisted his side would still avoid an immediate return to the second tier.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "There is a feeling we are capable and have given ourselves a better chance of avoiding relegation," siad Pearson.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "Tonight is a setback because when you go ahead you expect to push on but we came up against a side able to take advantage of their quality in second half."</div> <div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; color: #5f5f5f; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"> <a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-pos="2" data-rapid_p="17" data-uuid="6662f051-1c2d-3a68-ab86-470c076b1139" data-ylk="t1:a3;t2:ct-mod;t3:embd;sec:ct-mod;slk:expand;elm:img;elmt:ct;itc:1;g:73d570c5-d657-3a55-acbb-9c2735f5dce4;aid:6662f051-1c2d-3a68-ab86-470c076b1139;ct:4;cpos:2;" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/chelseas-brazilian-midfielder-ramires-l-celebrates-teammate-cesar-photo-213530321--sow.html" style="color: #1b70e0; 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background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div> <img alt="Chelsea&#39;s Brazilian midfielder Ramires (L) celebrates&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="191" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8LNQLrVtrEHyVeRu81_ETg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTE5MTtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-DV-DV2014804-1-1-1.jpg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div> </a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;"> Chelsea's Brazilian midfielder Ramires (L) celebrates with teammate <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-Player" data-rapid_p="18" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/players/c%C3%A9sar-azpilicueta" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">Cesar Azpilicueta</a> (C) after  …</div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Leicester started well and Jamie Vardy headed straight at Petr Cech from Albrighton's cross before the former's snapshot from 25 yards just missed the target.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Chelsea should have taken the lead though when<a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-Player" data-rapid_p="19" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/players/willian" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">Willian</a> ran down the left and pulled the ball back for Drogba but his tame effort from 12 yards hit Marcin Wasilewski.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Leicester were dealt a blow when midfielder Andy King, on his 300th appearance for the club, was forced off with an early knock and replaced by Matty James.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> The hosts shortly afterwards suffered another injury with Robert Huth coming off after an innocuous challenge at a corner with Ritchie De Laet coming on to necessitate a switch to a flat back four.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Those disruptions destroyed Leicester's early rhythm and Chelsea came closer to the opener with Drogba firing wide on the turn.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430269945_1885" style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Leicester might have taken the lead shortly afterwards as Albrighton’s shot was deflected onto the post right footed by Paul Konchesky prompting a mass goalmouth scramble involving Cambiasso and Albrighton.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430269945_1883" style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> But they took the lead in stoppage time as James fed Vardy down the left and Cesar Azpilicueta slipped on the wet surface for Albrighton to slot in his first goal for Leicester and first since 2012.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430269945_1881" style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Chelsea though regrouped at half-time and were level within three minutes of the restart.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430269945_1879" style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Branislav Ivanovic cut in down the right and crossed for Drogba to finish in cool fashion and it prompted an emotional celebration at his first goal of 2015.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Drogba could have had a second as he twice went close, the first time blazing over and then firing over from a good position.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430269945_1877" style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> James' deflected shot raised the tempo for Leicester but it was Chelsea who came into the game late as the hosts tired.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430269945_1873" style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Ramires' deflected shot forced a 79th-minute Cesc Fabregas corner. <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-Player" data-rapid_p="20" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/players/gary-cahill" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430269945_1875" style="color: #1b70e0; text-decoration: none;">Gary Cahill</a>'s back header was superbly saved by Kasper Schmeichel but Terry reacted quickest to scramble home his seventh goal of the season.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430430269945_1865" style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> The game was over as a contest four minutes later as Fabregas pull back was driven how with power by Ramires while visiting fans were ironically singing "boring, boring Chelsea", mocking taunts from Arsenal supporters during the goalless draw on Sunday.</div>

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<img alt="The guy who raised $35 million for his failed startup and took millions off the table just sold his prized Ferrari" height="479" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/OhHZilaWUcpNvQFlrVFr7g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/en_us/Finance/US_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE/The_guy_who_raised_35-af1bf2b3245c2ed6362074612ee9b5fc" width="640" /><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">David Byttow is one of the founders of Secret, the anonymous social networking app for sharing gossip that raised $35 million and just </span><a data-rapid_p="9" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/secret-app-shutting-down-2015-4" style="background-color: white; color: #324fe1; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">announced it was shutting down for good</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">.</span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429587246_2021" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429587246_2020">In its heyday, Secret was the buzz of Silicon Valley, and after raising a final, $25 million round of funding in July, Byttow was allowed to pocket $3 million by exchanging some of his stock in the company, which he then used to purchase a Ferrari — a car he has since had to sell.<a data-rapid_p="10" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/technology/a-founder-of-secret-the-anonymous-social-app-shuts-it-down-as-use-declines.html?_r=0" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><br /></a></span></div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429587246_2015" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429587246_2018">"Mr. Byttow’s once-prized red Ferrari is also gone," <a data-rapid_p="11" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/technology/a-founder-of-secret-the-anonymous-social-app-shuts-it-down-as-use-declines.html" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429587246_2017" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a new report from The New York Times said</a>, citing "a person with knowledge of the matter."</span></div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429587246_2010" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429587246_2013">While Byttow has promised to return Secret's remaining money to investors, it's been unclear if either he or Secret co-founder Chrys Bader, who also took $3 million off the table, would return that money as well.</span></div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429587246_2005" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429587246_2008">Byttow has been a longtime fan of Ferraris, posting pictures of the car on Pinterest and mentioning that he was happy with his purchase, saying the car had "served me well."</span></div>

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Ronaldo will get another chance to score at Sevilla

<div class="cover-wrap " id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429573734_1112" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px 10px; text-align: center; width: 670px;"> <div class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429573734_1111"> <div class="img-wrap" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429573734_1110" style="position: relative;"> <figure class=" cover get-lbdata-from-dom go-to-slideshow-lightbox " data-id="ccd62b2a-43fb-31b9-aa08-18a7422b1831" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429573734_1109" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429573734_1108" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; height: 366px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 650px;"> <div class="cta-text large " style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 35px; opacity: 0; position: relative; top: 183px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;"> ry</div> </div> </figure><ul class="thumbstrip-overlay clearfix " style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.16s linear; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); border-radius: 0px 3px 0px 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 10px; position: absolute; transition: background-color 0.16s linear; zoom: 1;"> <li class="go-to-slideshow-lightbox get-lbdata-from-dom image" data-uuid="1954be37-8888-336b-8402-657bbf84e09e" style="border: 1px solid rgb(58, 58, 58); cursor: pointer; float: left; list-style: none; margin-right: 10px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 100px;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; height: 56.25px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 100px;"> <span class="icon-white-slideshow-tiny icon-slideshow " style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-radius: 2px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 14px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 20px; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">RID (AP) — A seemingly frustrated Cristiano Ronaldo will get another chance to score some goals on Saturday at Sevill</span></span></div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="body yom-art-content clearfix" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429573734_1122" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Article" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px 10px; zoom: 1;"> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <img height="426" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/N_cPMVijcRbBSHFwobszow--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTY0MDtpbD1wbGFuZTtweW9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz05NjA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/6bbf546a2b471513750f6a70670068ae.jpg" width="640" /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">Instead of celebrating, the Portugal forward vented his frustration by kicking the ball into the net.</span>Ronaldo failed to net any of the team's three goals in Wednesday's victory over Almeria, and he let his emotions show after Alvaro Arbeloa appeared to slide in front of him to tap in the final goal.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429573734_1131" style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> The Ballon d'Or winner may have been upset because he was concerned that Lionel Messi, who is just one goal behind, could catch him as the league's top scorer.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "If Ronaldo doesn't score again until the end of the season, I'd be content," Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said. "I've never had a player who scored 50 goals in one season."</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Madrid trails Barcelona by two points in the league. Barcelona travels to last-place Cordoba, a team that has won only three of its 34 league outings this season — and only one of those at home.</div> <div class="body-related" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"> <a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-pos="1" data-rapid_p="12" data-uuid="1e83d590-8169-3fde-81bb-15eb9df8af9d" data-ylk="t1:a3;t2:ct-mod;t3:embd;sec:ct-mod;slk:expand;elm:img;elmt:ct;itc:1;g:412e25c1-80e8-3d39-8053-a5fe4b256ef4;aid:1e83d590-8169-3fde-81bb-15eb9df8af9d;ct:4;cpos:1;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/real-madrids-cristiano-ronaldo-duels-ball-mauro-javier-photo-203240637.html" style="color: #324fe1; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Real Madrid&#39;s Cristiano Ronaldo, right, duels for&nbsp;&hellip;"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"> <div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 201px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 300px;"> <span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 15.6000003814697px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 270px; zoom: 1;"></span><span class="cta-text xsmall " style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; bottom: 5px; color: white; font-size: 15.6000003814697px; margin-left: 42px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall " style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div> <img alt="Real Madrid&#39;s Cristiano Ronaldo, right, duels for&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="201" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/uM01IkcGuK21bqeHsgLeHw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIwMTtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/7331481c2b0e1413750f6a7067004498.jpg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div> </a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;"> Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, right, duels for the ball with Mauro Javier Dos Santos, from Ar …</div> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "We can't be certain that Barcelona will drop points," Ancelotti said. "We are convinced we can win our four games."</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Here are some things to know about this weekend's matches:</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> ___</div> <div class="body-related" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"> <a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-pos="3" data-rapid_p="13" data-uuid="1954be37-8888-336b-8402-657bbf84e09e" data-ylk="t1:a3;t2:ct-mod;t3:embd;sec:ct-mod;slk:expand;elm:img;elmt:ct;itc:1;g:412e25c1-80e8-3d39-8053-a5fe4b256ef4;aid:1954be37-8888-336b-8402-657bbf84e09e;ct:4;cpos:3;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/barcelonas-lionel-messi-argentina-left-fights-ball-against-photo-200228849.html" style="color: #324fe1; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Barcelona&#39;s Lionel Messi, from Argentina, left,&nbsp;&hellip;"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"> <div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 206px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 300px;"> <span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 15.6000003814697px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 270px; zoom: 1;"></span><span class="cta-text xsmall " style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; bottom: 5px; color: white; font-size: 15.6000003814697px; margin-left: 42px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall " style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div> <img alt="Barcelona&#39;s Lionel Messi, from Argentina, left,&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="206" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/KhoB49t1a_gp4V_U5UaYIw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIwNjtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/ec13871801bffc13740f6a706700500d.jpg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div> </a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;"> Barcelona's Lionel Messi, from Argentina, left, fights for the ball against Getafe's A. Arro …</div> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> IMPREGNABLE VENUE</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> No team in the league has been able to beat Sevilla at Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium this season, with Barcelona only managing a hard-fought 2-2 draw on April 11.</div> <div class="body-related" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"> <a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-pos="2" data-rapid_p="14" data-uuid="b5bd75ce-14ed-3275-8d81-16c3d160ca02" data-ylk="t1:a3;t2:ct-mod;t3:embd;sec:ct-mod;slk:expand;elm:img;elmt:ct;itc:1;g:412e25c1-80e8-3d39-8053-a5fe4b256ef4;aid:b5bd75ce-14ed-3275-8d81-16c3d160ca02;ct:4;cpos:2;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/barcelonas-luis-suarez-uruguay-celebrates-lionel-messi-argentina-photo-202045335.html" style="color: #324fe1; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Barcelona&#39;s Luis Suarez, from Uruguay, celebrates&nbsp;&hellip;"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"> <div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 219px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 300px;"> <span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 15.6000003814697px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 270px; zoom: 1;"></span><span class="cta-text xsmall " style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; bottom: 5px; color: white; font-size: 15.6000003814697px; margin-left: 42px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">View gallery</span><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall " style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div> <img alt="Barcelona&#39;s Luis Suarez, from Uruguay, celebrates&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="219" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/9fnaTxnAp51L7JhRQeN5sQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIxOTtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/aaf098ab01d0fc13740f6a7067004948.jpg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div> </a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;"> Barcelona's Luis Suarez, from Uruguay, celebrates with Lionel Messi, from Argentina, and others  …</div> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Sevilla coach Unai Emery could play former Arsenal forward Jose Antonio Reyes, who on Wednesday attained the milestone of 300 games played in the league.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> In the 16 league matches Reyes has played this season with Sevilla, the team has won 12 and drawn four.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Sevilla is unbeaten in 10 matches and Reyes excelled in Wednesday's 3-1 win at Eibar.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Also, Madrid hasn't won at Sevilla in the last two seasons, losing 2-1 last time and 1-0 the previous season.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> ___</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> TORRES AND ATLETICO</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Atletico Madrid hosts eighth-place Athletic Bilbao on Saturday and coach Diego Simeone could deploy Fernando Torres again.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Torres came off the bench in the second half of Atletico's match at Villarreal to ensure the defending champions retained third place with a 1-0 win.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "By adding points, he got us closer to our objective," Simeone said. "Fernando defined with class and great style."</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> ___</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> MESSI MILESTONE</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Cordoba could offer Messi the perfect opportunity to celebrate 10 years of scoring.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429573734_1157" style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> On May 1, 2005, the forward scored his side's second goal against Albacete and his first of 402 so far with Barcelona.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429573734_1154" style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Barcelona's three-pronged attack — with Neymar and Luis Suarez alongside Messi — has scored 102 goals this season, beating the Argentina forward's previous partnerships with Samuel Eto'o and Thierry Henry, as well as beside David Villa and Pedro Rodriguez.</div> </div>

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The fighters who've lost to Floyd Mayweather explain why he's so impossible to beat

<div class="yom-figure " id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429968669_1972" style="background-color: white; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 650px;"> <figure class="cover get-lbdata-from-dom go-to-slideshow-lightbox" data-orig-index="0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429968669_1971" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429968669_1970" style="height: 487px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 650px;"> <div class="cta-text large" style="color: white; margin-top: 35px; opacity: 0; position: relative; text-align: center; top: 243.5px;"> View photo</div> <span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow" style="background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-radius: 7px; cursor: pointer; height: 54px; left: 325px; line-height: 0; margin-left: -38px; margin-top: -27px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; top: 243.5px; width: 76px; z-index: 1;">.</span></div> <span style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border-color: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-style: initial; height: auto; width: auto !important;"><img alt="floyd mayweather boxing" border="0" class="editorial" data-preembed="image" height="488" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/gIUxQ9wIpIw4VUJU6FetJw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTY1MA--/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/en_us/Finance/US_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE/The_fighters_whove_lost_to-da74d572f7aab05822a3a23f02f4fe42" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1 !important; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important; width: auto !important;" width="650" /></span></figure></div> <span class="source" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">(REUTERS/Steve Marcus) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">Floyd Mayweather Jr. is widely regarded as the best fighter of his generation and one of the best defensive fighters of all time.</span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> He enters his May 2 fight with Manny Pacquiao with an undefeated record of 47-0. There's a case to be made that <a data-rapid_p="9" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-manny-pacquiao-can-beat-floyd-mayweather-2015-4" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Pacquiao can pull an upset</a>, but most expect Floyd to win this fight <a data-rapid_p="10" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mayweather-pacquiao-prediction-paulie-malignaggi-2015-4" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the same way</a> he has won fights for years — making his opponent miss early, timing his counters to perfection, and eventually winning on points.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> There's a radical juxtaposition between Mayweather's persona out of the ring (obnoxious, offensive, appalling) and his style within it (calm, intelligent, pragmatic). Over the years the fighters who've lost to Mayweather have spoken about his boxing brilliance in glowing terms, and explained what makes him so hard to beat.</div> <h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin: 0.55em 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <strong><span style="font-size: small;">Ricky Hatton (lost by knockout, December 8, 2007) </span></strong></h3> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "I was fighting a genius, a boxing artist. I was getting more and more frustrated. Lose your cool against Floyd Mayweather and what you do is you get knocked out." — <a data-rapid_p="11" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFF8NCWwddc" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">to Showtime</a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div class="gifvid-container image-container image" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Your browser does not support the video tag. <span class="source"><a data-rapid_p="12" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFF8NCWwddc" sl-processed="1" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">YouTube</a></span><span class="caption"></span></div> <br /> <h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin: 0.55em 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <strong><span style="font-size: small;">Oscar De La Hoya (lost by split decision, May 5, 2007):</span></strong></h3> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "Now we have to give credit to Mayweather because what Mayweather can do is what Mayweather Sr. calls 'walking your opponent down.' So what he does is he gets in the pocket and covers himself and he'll walk you down. And he'll let you throw punches and Pacquiao is probably going to keep throwing punches in bunches and he might tire himself out while Mayweather is just blocking everything. And then Mayweather can just come, throw his combinations of two or three punches, win the round, put the rounds in the bag, and win the fight." — <a data-rapid_p="13" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUgLOf-atyg" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">to HBO</a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div class="gifvid-container image-container image" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Your browser does not support the video tag. <span class="source">HBO</span><span class="caption"></span></div> <h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin: 0.55em 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <strong><span style="font-size: small;">Canelo Alvarez (lost by majority decision, September 14, 2013)</span></strong></h3> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "He doesn't expose anything. He's a fighter that if with three punches he wins the round from you, he's fine with that. He doesn't expose anything and give a beautiful fight. He doesn't care in what way he wins as long as he wins." — <a data-rapid_p="14" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlNekiPVamQ" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">to FightHype</a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "He's very fast and accurate and moreso when he's just trying to make points. I didn't really feel his punches were that strong. But he's making points and he's very fast." — <a data-rapid_p="15" href="http://www.sbnation.com/2013/9/15/4732478/mayweather-vs-canelo-post-fight-press-conference-highlights" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">at his post-fight press conference</a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div class="gifvid-container image-container image" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Your browser does not support the video tag. <span class="source">Showtime</span><span class="caption"></span></div> <h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin: 0.55em 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <strong><span style="font-size: small;">Shane Mosley (lost by unanimous decision, May 1, 2011)</span></strong></h3> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "I felt that I had the advantage on Floyd. I was very certain that I could hit him with good shots and I thought that could be the difference. I caught him when he thought that he was out of the way. I kind of slid it, a veteran move, and caught him right on the button and rocked him. He was surprised and I was like, 'Wow, this is my chance. I'm going to get him. I'm going to knock him out.' But I just couldn't. He made the adjustment. He was able to capitalize. After that the fight was over. Mayweather did what he was supposed to do as a champion to win." — <a data-rapid_p="16" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFF8NCWwddc" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">to Showtime</a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div class="gifvid-container image-container image" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Your browser does not support the video tag. <span class="source"><a data-rapid_p="17" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFF8NCWwddc" sl-processed="1" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Showtime</a></span><span class="caption"></span></div> <br /> <h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin: 0.55em 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <strong><span style="font-size: small;">Juan Manuel Marquez (lost by unanimous decision, September 19, 2009)</span></strong></h3> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "Mayweather has had great defense, long arms, and he's very smart." — <a data-rapid_p="18" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFF8NCWwddc" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">to Showtime</a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "Mayweather’s reaction time is amazing. He sees what you are about to throw and is out of there before you can punch." — <a data-rapid_p="19" href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-beat-floyd-mayweather-jr-1429809871" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">to WSJ</a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div class="gifvid-container image-container image" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Your browser does not support the video tag. <span class="source"><a data-rapid_p="20" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFF8NCWwddc" sl-processed="1" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Showtime</a></span><span class="caption"></span></div> <h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin: 0.55em 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <strong><span style="font-size: small;">Zab Judah (lost by unanimous decision, April 8, 2006)</span></strong></h3> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429968669_1986" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "His defense is still impregnable, his hand speed is still super fast, his conditioning is always marvelous. What can you say? The guy, he’s probably one of the hardest working fighters in boxing." — <a data-rapid_p="21" href="http://sports.inquirer.net/179472/zab-judah-says-mayweather-not-bothered-by-southpaws-like-pacquiao" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">to Mark Giongco</a></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div class="gifvid-container image-container image" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429968669_1984" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Your browser does not support the video tag. <span class="source">HBO</span><span class="caption"></span></div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429968669_1982" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Paulie Malignaggi, <a data-rapid_p="22" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mayweather-pacquiao-prediction-paulie-malignaggi-2015-4" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">who thinks Mayweather is going to beat Pacquiao</a>, gave this great description of Mayweather's defensive skill in 2013 before the Canelo fight (<a data-rapid_p="23" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/boxing--floyd-mayweather-jr--s-defensive-wizardry-the-key-to-his-long-term-success-125838862.html" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">via Yahoo's Kevin Iole</a>):</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429968669_1980" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "He makes you miss a lot in his fights, but he doesn't make you miss the same way. If he made you miss the same way all the time, guys would start timing it and start hitting him. He'll make you miss the right hand in different ways. He'll make you miss the left hook in different ways. … He varies the ways he's able to defend and that is what makes him so difficult."</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429968669_1978" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> While there's an argument to be made that Pacquiao is a tricky matchup for Mayweather, there's a reason Mayweather is undefeated, and a reason he's a significant favorite to remain that way on May 2.</div>

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State Dept says extra Benghazi info does not change facts

<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429924902_1111" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/iQ2.uB9oaVDjkanLpw7pBw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTM0MztpbD1wbGFuZTtweW9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz00NTA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2015-04-30T190120Z_1_LYNXMPEB3T10P_RTROPTP_2_USA-ELECTION.JPG" /></div> <div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5384635925293px; line-height: 17.3076953887939px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"> <div class="yom-remote"> <div class="" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"> </div> </div> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429924902_1134" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department said Thursday that the new trove of documents it has provided Congress from its own investigation into the deadly 2012 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya do not change the "essential facts" known about the attack.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> The facts set out by the State Department's "Accountability Review Board" (ARB) report, released in December 2012, did not find former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- now a Democratic presidential candidate -- responsible for security lapses in Benghazi.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> But the report concluded that the U.S. mission in Benghazi was unprepared for the attack, and outlined widespread failings within the State Department while Clinton was in charge.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Four Americans including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens were killed when militants stormed U.S. facilities in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on the night of Sept. 11, 2012.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> U.S. Representative Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican who heads the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said earlier Thursday that the State Department had given his panel some 4,000 pages from its 2012 ARB probe into Benghazi. He said it was the first time State had handed Congress papers from an ARB, special panels that State sets up to investigate attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> A State Department letter to Gowdy reviewed by Reuters last week made clear the department was unhappy about relinquishing the ARB files, saying it worried "the prospect of congressional scrutiny could have a chilling effect" on future ARBs.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "I’m not going to characterize the contents of the documents that were provided, except to say that they don’t change the essential facts that have been known since the accountability review board report came out,” State's spokeswoman Marie Harf said on Thursday.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> A Democratic aide to the Benghazi committee went further, saying the ARB papers "identified no evidence to support claims that Secretary Clinton ordered a stand-down, personally denied security requests, oversaw a covert weapons program, or any of the other wild claims Republicans have been making for months."</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429924902_1122" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Republicans say the State Department under Clinton failed to protect diplomatic personnel in Benghazi. Democrats say the panel's efforts are politically motivated to undercut Clinton's 2016 presidential candidacy.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429924902_1120" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> The State Department has already turned over thousands of pages of other documents to Gowdy's panel. The House committee is also investigating Clinton's use of a private email server, and plans to have her testify.</div>

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Wal-Mart laid off 2,200 workers, then told them to avoid chocolate and alcohol

<div class="yom-figure " id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429541872_2063" style="background-color: white; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 650px;"> <figure class="cover get-lbdata-from-dom go-to-slideshow-lightbox" data-orig-index="0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429541872_2062" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429541872_2061" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 487px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 650px;"> <div class="cta-text large" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 35px; opacity: 0; position: relative; text-align: center; top: 243.5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;"> View gallery</div> <span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-radius: 7px; cursor: pointer; height: 54px; left: 325px; line-height: 0; margin-left: -38px; margin-top: -27px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; top: 243.5px; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 76px; z-index: 1;">.</span></div> <img alt="Wal-Mart employee" border="0" class="editorial" data-preembed="image" height="487" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/JSlSA0QkgE21DqnGOdDZKQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTY1MA--/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/en_us/Finance/US_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE/WalMart_laid_off_2200_workers-1472df134f98a73332478969a7f7290b" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1 !important; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important; width: auto !important;" width="650" /></figure></div> <span class="source" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">(J.D. Pooley / Getty Images) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">Wal-Mart abruptly </span><a data-rapid_p="9" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/wal-mart-suddenly-closes-stores-2015-4" style="background-color: white; color: #324fe1; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">closed five stores </a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">earlier this month and laid off more than 2,200 employees in the process.</span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> The company said it closed the stores because of severe plumbing problems that, in addition to other potential upgrades, could take as long as six months to fix.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Critics have questioned the closures, with some contending that at least one store was closed <a data-rapid_p="10" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-wal-mart-employees-say-the-retailer-mysteriously-closed-5-stores-2015-4" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">in retaliation against worker protests for higher pay</a>. Wal-Mart denies those claims.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Wal-Mart notified workers of the closures a couple of hours ahead of time and gave them a packet of information addressing the situation, according to OUR Walmart, a labor group representing the laid-off workers.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> In the handout, the company offers workers "stress management tips" to cope with their loss of employment such as avoiding caffeine, chocolate, nicotine, and alcohol.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "Care for yourself by eating well, exercising, and resting when needed," Wal-Mart advises, according to photos of the handout provided to Business Insider by OUR Walmart. (<a data-rapid_p="11" href="http://gawker.com/walmarts-advice-to-2-200-laid-off-workers-dont-eat-cho-1700693991" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Gawker</a> first reported on the handout).</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> The handout also encourages workers to seek help from a professional counselor and assures that "difficulty sleeping, nightmares, flashbacks, and feelings of being 'hyper-alert' are common and will diminish in time."</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><span class="image"></span></span></div> <div class="yom-figure " id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429541872_2067" style="background-color: white; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 650px;"> <figure class="cover get-lbdata-from-dom go-to-slideshow-lightbox" data-orig-index="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429541872_2066" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="cover-anchor" data-rapid_p="12" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="cover-c9fc2a56adab335dd2ff722409b11fac" name="cover-c9fc2a56adab335dd2ff722409b11fac" style="color: #324fe1; position: absolute; top: -100px;"></a><div class="cta-overlay" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429541872_2065" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 1148px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 650px;"> <span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 15.6000003814697px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 585px; zoom: 1;"></span><div class="cta-text large" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 35px; opacity: 0; position: relative; text-align: center; top: 574px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;"> View gallery</div> <span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-radius: 7px; cursor: pointer; height: 54px; left: 325px; line-height: 0; margin-left: -38px; margin-top: -27px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; top: 574px; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 76px; z-index: 1;">.</span></div> <img alt="Walmart document" border="0" class="editorial" data-preembed="image" height="1149" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ff1nbXmvw5fJ0Ld3TrWN4w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTY1MA--/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/en_us/Finance/US_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE/WalMart_laid_off_2200_workers-bd0198cc169338f3acf7d37908d5cf4d" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1 !important; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important; width: auto !important;" width="650" /></figure></div> <span class="source" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">(OUR Walmart) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">The company sheds more light on the plumbing issues in a question-and-answer section of the handout.</span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "Did these plumbing issues create a healthy or safety concern for customers and associates?" the handout reads. "No. These incidents impact the availability of water and create drainage issues for critical areas of the store, such as the deli sections, which impact our ability to serve customers."</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> The company says it plans to reopen the stores and that employees are welcome to apply for positions at other stores. In the meantime, it will provide workers with résumé-building services, interview coaching, and two months of severance pay.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "The store has a strong customer base and is part of the reason we have made the decision to invest in improving the store," the handout says. "We plan to reopen once the improvements are completed."</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> We reached out to Wal-Mart for comment on the handout and will update when we hear back.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> In a statement to <a data-rapid_p="13" href="http://consumerist.com/2015/04/28/walmart-reiterates-5-simultaneous-store-closures-were-due-to-non-urgent-plumbing-problem/" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Consumerist</a>, a Wal-Mart spokesman said:</div> <blockquote class="blockquote" style="background-color: white; border-left-color: rgb(116, 116, 116); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; color: #747474; font-family: Georgia, 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; font-style: italic; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 13.33333px; padding: 0px 13.33333px;"> Whenever we have a situation that impacts our associates our goal is to provide them information that will help answer their questions, as well as provide guidance to resources and other information that would help through any transition. The 'coping with transition' document is a standard resource we provide associates to help them manage the difficulties of discussing any type of work transition with others. It's unfortunate that our critics are attempting to minimize this process by conveniently excluding all the other valuable information our associates received and need during this time.</blockquote> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><span class="image"></span></span></div> <div class="yom-figure " id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429541872_2072" style="background-color: white; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 650px;"> <figure class="cover get-lbdata-from-dom go-to-slideshow-lightbox" data-orig-index="2" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429541872_2071" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="cover-anchor" data-rapid_p="14" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="cover-316ab2594f5ab0fb6ebcbb836d0ec882" name="cover-316ab2594f5ab0fb6ebcbb836d0ec882" style="color: #324fe1; position: absolute; top: -100px;"></a><div class="cta-overlay" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429541872_2070" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 1148px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 650px;"> <span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 15.6000003814697px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 585px; zoom: 1;"></span><div class="cta-text large" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 35px; opacity: 0; position: relative; text-align: center; top: 574px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;"> View gallery</div> <span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.16s linear; background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-radius: 7px; cursor: pointer; height: 54px; left: 325px; line-height: 0; margin-left: -38px; margin-top: -27px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; top: 574px; transition: opacity 0.16s linear; width: 76px; z-index: 1;">.</span></div> <img alt="Walmart documents" border="0" class="editorial" data-preembed="image" height="1149" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/WoCix0T0InIWJmynAbpYEA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTY1MA--/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/en_us/Finance/US_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE/WalMart_laid_off_2200_workers-2179644d9bd25c8cd0e893083048e189" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1 !important; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important; width: auto !important;" width="650" /></figure></div> <span class="source" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430429541872_2074" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0000009536743px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px;">(OUR Walmart) </span>

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