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Here’s a success story that sounds like the start of a joke: Two guys walk into a bar in New York City and meet two stunning Brazilian women. In between small talk and cocktails, the beauties reveal a secret, an elixir from their homeland. In Brazil, coconut water is more popular than orange juice. The next thing you know, Ira Liran and Michael Kirban are on a plane to Brazil. Today, they’re the owners of Vita Coco, one of the world’s biggest coconut juice companies.

I Never realized how fat Kevin Smith Was.

An angry tirade posted on his Twitter page about the way he was treated by Southwest Airlines last weekend has fueled a wave of protests from some angry passengers while other travelers have stood by the airline’s decision.

“If you look like me, you may be ejected from Southwest Air,” wrote Smith, posting a photograph of himself on the plane, puffing out his cheeks.

Smith, director of the new Bruce Willis movie “Cop Out” as well as “Clerks” and “Chasing Amy,” said a Southwest Airlines pilot ejected him off a flight from Oakland to Burbank, California because the pilot believed Smith didn’t fit properly into just one seat and was a “safety risk.”

“I’m way fat… But I’m not THERE just yet,” he wrote.

Smith said he had actually booked and paid for two seats on a later flight but moved to an earlier flight as a standby passenger that only had one seat available.

His posting prompted a barrage of angry responses from other disgruntled customers, adding to an ongoing debate over the treatment of overweight customers by airlines and whether they should have to pay for two seats.

Air France found itself at the center of this heated debate last month after it was misreported that the airline was planning an extra charge for passengers unable to fit into a single seat. Air France has, since 2005, offered overweight passengers the option to buy a second seat at a 25 percent discount.

Southwest Airlines says its policy requires travelers to be able to fit safely and comfortably in one seat and be able to lower their armrests or buy a second seat.

United Airlines also has this policy and both airlines have a policy that overweight passengers can claim a refund on the second seat if the plane is not full. These policies were introduced after complaints from neighboring passengers.

But after a barrage of angry comments from Smith and other passengers, Southwest Airlines apologized to Smith by phone, on its own Twitter account and in a statement on its website.

The airline said it was unusual for it to be so public in handling such matters but decided this case was different because so many people were involved.

“We would like to echo our Tweets and again offer our heartfelt apologies to you,” said the airline.

The airline said it put Smith on a later flight and gave him a $100 voucher for his inconvenience.

But not all of the comments supported Smith. Other people sided with the airline.

“Being heavy is not something to be proud about. I wish more companies would not tolerate the lifestyle of fatness!” read one comment on Smith’s Twitter account.

Crisis management consultant David Margulies from the Marguiles Communications Group questioned whether the airline was being too polite by apologizing to Smith when its policy was both fair and reasonable.

He said too many companies backed down from reasonable policies because they are scared of negative publicity, in this case especially after Smith’s online anger.

“Southwest has taken a very reasonable and fair approach to dealing with the issue of overweight customers and should be applauded for their actions,” Margulies said in a statement.

“This is the time that customers and employees should take to the Internet in defense of the company.”

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Anyone Passing away is sad but years of smoking don’t help.  Let’s not forget the stress.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Phil Harris, the fishing boat captain whose adventures off the Alaska coast were captured on the television show “Deadliest Catch”, has died, the Discovery Channel said Tuesday night. He was 53.

Harris suffered what his family described as a massive stroke on Jan. 29 while the fishing vessel he captained, Cornelia Marie, was in port at St. Paul Island, Alaska. The fisherman was flown to Anchorage for surgery.

The reality show, which has filmed five seasons, has been one of the Discovery Channel’s most popular and depicts the crab fishing industry in the dangerous waters off Alaska.

“It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our dad – Captain Phil Harris. Dad has always been a fighter and continued to be until the end,” sons Josh and Jake Harris said in a statement released by the network. “For us and the crew, he was someone who never backed down.”

In a statement, Discovery Channel senior vice president Elizabeth Hillman says, “Phil was a devoted father and loyal friend to all who knew him.”

“We will miss his straightforward honesty, wicked sense of humor and enormous heart,” she said.

In an e-mail to The Associated Press, she said no additional information was immediately available Tuesday night.

Harris had seemed to be improving, and in a posting last Saturday on the ship’s Web site, he was described as “talking to friends and family today; showing his greatest progress” since the stroke.

His sons wrote in a Feb. 3 posting that “No one ever said Captain Phil Harris wasn’t tough. Today, dad showed some good signs of improvement, squeezing our hands and even summoning his trademark Captain’s bluntness … We are encouraged but still very cautious.”

According to the ship’s Web site, Harris started working on fishing boats at age 7 and started work 10 years later on a crab boat. When Harris turned 21, he ran a fishing vessel out of Seattle, making him one of the youngest to captain a vessel in the Bering Sea.

When Harris suffered the stroke, the family said a friend, Derek Ray, had flown to St. Paul to take over the role of relief skipper for the rest of the opilio crab season.

Harris’ fishing vessel was based in Seattle.

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On Jan. 31 around 12:20 a.m., a motorist reported a Chevrolet S-10 swerving near Helen Back, the report said. The officer located the truck near Walmart.

When the officer asked the driver why he was weaving, he said, “I’m just trying to get home,” the report reads. The man admitted he and been drinking: “a six pack probably.”

When the officer asked the man to step out of his car to perform a sobriety test, he handed the officer his keys and said, “Here, I’m done anyway,” according to the report.

The man refused to take a breathalyzer test, the report said. While he was being driven to the Okaloosa County Jail, he asked the officer several times what his favorite alcoholic beverage was and asked him to turn on his blue lights.

The man was arrested and charged with DUI.

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Secret #1: Enthusiasm

Quick! When was the last time you initiated sex? You’re asking, “Who cares who makes the first move?” He cares. Initiating is a clear way of proving your lust.

Secret #2: Variety

The problem with being human is that we are creatures of habit. Once we find something we like, we return to it again and again until — poof! We hate it. It’s hard to stop doing what once worked, but stop we must, or all those moves — kiss, kiss, rub, rub, suck, suck — will suddenly make you cringe with their familiarity. “My husband focuses on three things: right boob, left boob and crotch,” one woman complains. “I try to let him know that it doesn’t work because it’s always the same.”

Secret #3: Adventure

You need to do something very, very bad and very, very bold occasionally.

Secret #4: Generosity

I’m talking about a specific kind of generosity: giving and receiving oral sex. For all our sexual sophistication, this act still has the power to make us squirmy. People either want more of it or don’t want it at all or want to receive but not give it or — you get the picture.