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Is this mysterious creature a fabled chupacabra, or just a follicly challenged raccoon? The bald, grey-skinned creature was shot and killed in Lebanon Junction, Kentucky, after it emerged from woodland into the garden of a home.

But the animal, which has large ears, whiskers and a long tail, has sparked intense debate on the internet, with some claiming it is one of the mythical chupacabras. Stories of the blood-sucking creature began circulating in Puerto Rico 15 years ago and since then tales of the havoc it causes have swept from Chile through Mexico and into southern U.S. states.

The most awesome time-lapse video of a blizzard you will see all day.

If a group of Cornell scientists have their way, a printer could be the new blender.

To use their 3D home printer, all you have to do is load food “inks” in the top, upload a recipe, and enjoy. For now, the “inks” must be liquid enough to be pushed through a syringe. If it takes off, you would need very little actual skill to become a master home chef. So far, the lab has had small successes, making cookies with embedded letters and even making sushi.

THE earth continues to get warmer, yet it’s feeling a lot colder outside. Over the past few weeks, subzero temperatures in Poland claimed 66 lives; snow arrived in Seattle well before the winter solstice, and fell heavily enough in Minneapolis to make the roof of the Metrodome collapse; and last week blizzards closed Europe’s busiest airports in London and Frankfurt for days, stranding holiday travelers. The snow and record cold have invaded the Eastern United States, with more bad weather predicted.

Last Saturday was Christmas Day, the day set aside by Christian faithful to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem over 2,000 years ago. Christianity remains the largest religion in the world, with over 2 billion adherents across the globe.

A few famous New Year Resolution Quotes and Sayings….

“New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.” – Mark Twain

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.” – P.J. O’Rourke

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” – Oscar Wilde

“I’m a little bit older, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.” – Robert Paul

“New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.” – Jay Leno

“People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.” – Author Unknown

“The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.” – W.H. Auden

“But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.” – Andre Gide

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