News for today's 2018: 01/05/14

CNN reporting that Liz Cheney is dropping her bid for a Senate Seat in Wyoming.

9:43 PM Tukiyooo 0

Someone finally clued her into the fact that she doesn't have a snowballs chance in Hell of winning it I assume.<br />Dick Cheney was a five time Congressman from Wyoming before he appointed himself Vice President under Stupie McFuckwit.<br /><br />Even with his help she is tanking.<br /><br />It doesn't break my heart because she is just as bellicose as her old man and because of him and his NeoCon buddies,we are still fucking around in Iraq and Afghanistan.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/05/politics/liz-cheney-senate-race"><b> First on CNN: Liz Cheney to abandon Senate bid</b></a><br /><br /><br /><blockquote>By John King and Peter Hamby, CNN</blockquote><br />snip<br /><br /><blockquote>".....Her critics labeled her a carpetbagger, noting that she moved to Wyoming only in 2012 after relocating from Virginia. The issue flared in August after the Wyoming media reported that Cheney improperly received a fishing license despite not living in the state for at least a year, as the law requires.<br /><br />Grabbing even more attention was her very public dispute with her sister, Mary, over the issue of same-sex marriage. Mary Cheney, who is a lesbian, took to Facebook in November to object to Liz's opposition to same-sex marriage, claiming that her sister has previously supported her relationship while saying something very different on the campaign trail.<br /><br />The dispute prompted their parents to weigh in, saying they were "pained" to see the sisters battle over a private matter in full view of the news media.<br /><br />Beyond the campaign missteps, Cheney's election effort, vigorously supported by her father and his allies, often felt out-of-tune with the small-government conservative sentiment that has fueled other Republican primary challengers.<br /><br />Cheney, like her father, is an unapologetic neoconservative who favors muscular use of American military power overseas, a policy that does not sit well with many grassroots conservatives, particularly in the libertarian-leaning West."</blockquote><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFo-Z7tSnSc_BVB9MaC_KcT5iJIdbiJj5A-aryZgRd-gInB11BUOVQgieCHkiVPICvBy5Fntgjuyql5PtX32WqyEzC1siOkCEKrRM9yD3-3RJUfHPGBDwdeipVMPEFY_TukjGjekL49AUo/s1600/Liz-Cheney-Power-of-the-Dark-Side.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFo-Z7tSnSc_BVB9MaC_KcT5iJIdbiJj5A-aryZgRd-gInB11BUOVQgieCHkiVPICvBy5Fntgjuyql5PtX32WqyEzC1siOkCEKrRM9yD3-3RJUfHPGBDwdeipVMPEFY_TukjGjekL49AUo/s640/Liz-Cheney-Power-of-the-Dark-Side.jpeg" /></a></div><br />

CNN reporting that Liz Cheney is dropping her bid for a Senate Seat in Wyoming.

Someone finally clued her into the fact that she doesn't have a snowballs chance in Hell of winning it I assume. Dick Cheney was a five ...

Just For You Poor Bastards Freezing Your Asses Off Back East

7:08 PM Tukiyooo 0

Just For You Poor Bastards Freezing Your Asses Off Back East

We had it a couple weeks ago but it wasn't near as bad as what you guys have going on. That wind chill is a real killer. Everybody snugg...

So It's True!

3:41 PM Tukiyooo 0

So It's True!

More entertainment FEAR PORN from SGTbull07

1:23 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>More PLAY ACTING and STAGE ACTING</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieHM2bkn8gCGGfsrM7-jMAaDeJ6ud1zX4uJTB5FbZTOXhh9MV8TMyxAZVyZNEFsG7VDgLnKnNAqwJVuTO-agAU7X57wouMJaSGG1hJXC47XV5XDroS6fPgZSgdEgP5uJhT5HCCq8-9TLM/s1600/G4T01.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieHM2bkn8gCGGfsrM7-jMAaDeJ6ud1zX4uJTB5FbZTOXhh9MV8TMyxAZVyZNEFsG7VDgLnKnNAqwJVuTO-agAU7X57wouMJaSGG1hJXC47XV5XDroS6fPgZSgdEgP5uJhT5HCCq8-9TLM/s200/G4T01.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-747GKiiNBNEqTIknuKZttkzeXBe2i8EU57GmKYy51avi4vMiFT90o6Vll2arp_XR8mZp4pyGbAowsf3c9suZE0mJ9nABvwlMQGwSnY7XTS2HkZw2OOcqdSlB0wd7jo0GMzQSBcFNLMM/s1600/SeanTurnbullPIC.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-747GKiiNBNEqTIknuKZttkzeXBe2i8EU57GmKYy51avi4vMiFT90o6Vll2arp_XR8mZp4pyGbAowsf3c9suZE0mJ9nABvwlMQGwSnY7XTS2HkZw2OOcqdSlB0wd7jo0GMzQSBcFNLMM/s200/SeanTurnbullPIC.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Are these people trying to ignite a REVOLUTION?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Ever since G4T came out of the closet in his purple thongs and exposed the entire TRUTHER and PATRIOT MOVEMENT to be loaded with STAGE ACTING and PLAY ACTING we now have to put everyone up to the G4T TRUTHER TEST.  I see Sean Turnbull is in league with the old G4T so therefore he's another suspect:</b><br /><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/12/g4t-and-sgtbull07-revelations.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/12/g4t-and-sgtbull07-revelations.html</a> </b><br /><br /><b>Here's another spooky movie about the coming tyranny from SGTbull07: </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/PbA8Xtd2Y-M?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>...developing...</b></div>

More entertainment FEAR PORN from SGTbull07

More PLAY ACTING and STAGE ACTING Are these people trying to ignite a REVOLUTION? Ever since G4T came out of the closet in his purple thongs...

Is it too late to buy GOLD now Lindsey?

12:28 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE DEADLINE TO BUY GOLD is OVER</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZJixercOpji-TI6YdnGejvXYKc3DLUe6E4krMqi2kZ94uQDHgRhffY5ZHT6IKKzLhKBk31kBXdhGJ4EdhRXbfZSAZuFu67WhCYEri3qXNQRu5Y5cq3lXpdQ6gDwg9-IWtcqHfBnRsZoE/s1600/GOLDmapleleafrolls.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZJixercOpji-TI6YdnGejvXYKc3DLUe6E4krMqi2kZ94uQDHgRhffY5ZHT6IKKzLhKBk31kBXdhGJ4EdhRXbfZSAZuFu67WhCYEri3qXNQRu5Y5cq3lXpdQ6gDwg9-IWtcqHfBnRsZoE/s200/GOLDmapleleafrolls.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>JANUARY 1, 2014</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicPYIdom-3ldpPlPck04CYS1-KRWe2H6R7YSu_mkvdsrBcWL3tfSPF15BsrT6vRcwV1zE2ZYAguzKUkhOZQqm5cAVhLg7pNzXmrl32kN9o9HTBDBIRCmEFn_kghFLGrKCJU5_BAwHaMMA/s1600/LindseyWilliamsPICreloader.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicPYIdom-3ldpPlPck04CYS1-KRWe2H6R7YSu_mkvdsrBcWL3tfSPF15BsrT6vRcwV1zE2ZYAguzKUkhOZQqm5cAVhLg7pNzXmrl32kN9o9HTBDBIRCmEFn_kghFLGrKCJU5_BAwHaMMA/s320/LindseyWilliamsPICreloader.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>REMEMBER what Lindsey Williams said...?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Now what should we do?  Lindsey please tell us:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/10/lindsey-williams-list-of-must-dos-by.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/10/lindsey-williams-list-of-must-dos-by.html</a> </b><br /><br /><b>Lindsey Williams looks like he has some explaining to do.  He will go away now to his own place.</b><br /><br /><b>G4T was right about all these TRUTHERS and PATRIOTS.  We'll include these PREACHERS too.  They are all liars... </b><br /><br /><b>CHECK OUT THE LATEST Lindsey Williams UPDATE:</b><br /><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/12/lindsey-williams-update-global-currency.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/12/lindsey-williams-update-global-currency.html</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>...developing... </b></div>

Is it too late to buy GOLD now Lindsey?

THE DEADLINE TO BUY GOLD is OVER JANUARY 1, 2014 REMEMBER what Lindsey Williams said...? Now what should we do? Lindsey please tell us: htt...

New York State Considers Relaxing Marijuana Laws

12:23 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Big Money Knows Marijuana </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">CANNA-BU$INE$$ !</span></b></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPTyxtttO_Sp6KCjGwbkbsbOEU1UkVriihzx93EO9dFxqz8zMmxph0ofFRZ2UKSgw_HWGYNMpdwCd5Omydf4Y-YsyVlltkSbfpTu_Q7PCvGfIUghp_E30QU8wLBX96cFQdbLyuDfstfXA/s1600/marijuana-pictures-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPTyxtttO_Sp6KCjGwbkbsbOEU1UkVriihzx93EO9dFxqz8zMmxph0ofFRZ2UKSgw_HWGYNMpdwCd5Omydf4Y-YsyVlltkSbfpTu_Q7PCvGfIUghp_E30QU8wLBX96cFQdbLyuDfstfXA/s320/marijuana-pictures-4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>This Industry is just getting started...</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Follow the money...</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Some say it could surpass TRILLIONS... </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>New York Governor Andrew Cuomo supports medical marijuana:</b><br /><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/nyregion/new-york-state-is-set-to-loosen-marijuana-laws.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=0" style="color: red;">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/nyregion/new-york-state-is-set-to-loosen-marijuana-laws.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=0</a> </b><br /><br /><b>INVESTORS show large interest in marijuana stocks: </b><br /><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/medical-marijuana-stocks-begin-rising.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/medical-marijuana-stocks-begin-rising.html</a> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Marijuana the NEW COMMODITY: </b><br /><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/americas-new-commodity-marijuana.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/americas-new-commodity-marijuana.html</a> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Even the pigs love it (pun intended).  And we know they do:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a color:red="" href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/happy-hogs-and-hemp.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/happy-hogs-and-hemp.html</a> </b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It's all right to smoke marijuana</b></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="223" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/EOU9VHQR6NQ?feature=player_detailpage" width="308"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="223" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-FyldrOZekA?feature=player_detailpage" width="308"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/rY0WxgSXdEE?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><b>...developing...</b></div>

New York State Considers Relaxing Marijuana Laws

The Big Money Knows Marijuana CANNA-BU$INE$$ ! This Industry is just getting started... Follow the money... Some say it could surpass TRILL...

The N. Korea Execution Conspiracy Theory

12:01 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Did Kim Jong-un feed his uncle to the dogs?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqqajssyfXljZAXByMnh8w9ktnZ6ULQmqD2yVTT-cv8WfOMfwBG-E14mrN2-vdmNfmqzgIZekNWwYzZtTroZD4Zt7MNXK0ultwgxML9arciA0ZRLWAd-5E9ZSKOvcrxEa62n9eFB3qWTI/s1600/KimJong-unandUNCLEpic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqqajssyfXljZAXByMnh8w9ktnZ6ULQmqD2yVTT-cv8WfOMfwBG-E14mrN2-vdmNfmqzgIZekNWwYzZtTroZD4Zt7MNXK0ultwgxML9arciA0ZRLWAd-5E9ZSKOvcrxEa62n9eFB3qWTI/s320/KimJong-unandUNCLEpic.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">The court of public opinion is in session</span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>This is another story that needs the G4T TRUTHER TEST.  But this involves the MAINSTREAM MEDIA.  Just another example of no news in the truth and no truth in the news.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>So we have a load of liars who just like to ignite all manner of controversy even trying to start global and economic conflict:</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/LRRjco1Oqrk?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>...developing... </b></div>

The N. Korea Execution Conspiracy Theory

Did Kim Jong-un feed his uncle to the dogs? The court of public opinion is in session This is another story that needs the G4T TRUTHER TEST....

The "Recovery"

11:19 AM Tukiyooo 0

The following chart shows goods-producing employment divided by service-providing employment.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV2R2e6J_Egp2G2DNZaWmH00Ivkz5GqBxHFzX3Oq77tu_SRgv7lmlDeI_tfbWPuZVzRNPtzCHUHPpeRDkOQ4aompB7_kUWfmMrH2f2oFNAlbgKByEyhP6roF07P09CMTaF3qb7e5MlqiI/s1600/Goods+vs.+Services.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV2R2e6J_Egp2G2DNZaWmH00Ivkz5GqBxHFzX3Oq77tu_SRgv7lmlDeI_tfbWPuZVzRNPtzCHUHPpeRDkOQ4aompB7_kUWfmMrH2f2oFNAlbgKByEyhP6roF07P09CMTaF3qb7e5MlqiI/s320/Goods+vs.+Services.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />Poof.<br /><br />Let's look at the bigger picture and see where we are.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhdgQTcaLG19VM8wLGxEuxH18c1CzKN5ROubfQb7OEnc_IJAwXk8dTbXayly7cL_QxjJC3vIQgYk2J_3TAmSCUsD_7AuPHCWdNwShdt0_MxtM4SMwJJWnIGZR8rpggGLRFBTbYd6FJpiI/s1600/Goods+vs.+Services+-+Long-Term.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhdgQTcaLG19VM8wLGxEuxH18c1CzKN5ROubfQb7OEnc_IJAwXk8dTbXayly7cL_QxjJC3vIQgYk2J_3TAmSCUsD_7AuPHCWdNwShdt0_MxtM4SMwJJWnIGZR8rpggGLRFBTbYd6FJpiI/s320/Goods+vs.+Services+-+Long-Term.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />If transitioning from a goods-producing economy to a service-providing economy is such a good thing, then why does the bulk of the transitioning happen during recessions?<br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=qCX">St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart #1</a><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=qCY">St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart #2</a>

The "Recovery"

The following chart shows goods-producing employment divided by service-providing employment. Click to enlarge. Poof. Let's look at the ...

We Are Pretty Close To It Now

11:12 AM Tukiyooo 0

<br /><br /><blockquote>A "Liberal Paradise" would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and only Law Enforcement has guns.<br /> <br />And believe it or not, such a place does indeed exist . . . it's called prison.</blockquote><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpH2URrmUlGbtmcfI3zIAYsYghJoiYn7B6_ngbHDlY4n70XkUiox_4yaUy_zlzTz0tXuMKODqSozru9-ZPUDCZef9VUhc7vMS3deO8T0Rb6lGPGc9oG7Op6cJGuOjE2OZaO0n9IB6nqoWz/s1600/dogfood22n-1-web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpH2URrmUlGbtmcfI3zIAYsYghJoiYn7B6_ngbHDlY4n70XkUiox_4yaUy_zlzTz0tXuMKODqSozru9-ZPUDCZef9VUhc7vMS3deO8T0Rb6lGPGc9oG7Op6cJGuOjE2OZaO0n9IB6nqoWz/s640/dogfood22n-1-web.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />My Thanks to Geneva.

We Are Pretty Close To It Now

A "Liberal Paradise" would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education, fr...

Planning de la semaine du 07 au 11 janvier 2014

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<br /><br /><h2><strong><span style="color: #005c9b; line-height: 113%;">Permanences</span></strong><br /></h2><ul><li>Le <strong>Conseil Général du Loiret</strong> sera présent dans les locaux de la Maison de l'Emploi du bassin d'Orléans<br />- le lundi 07 janvier de 9h à 12h30,<br />- le mardi 08 janvier de 9h à 12h30 et de 13h30 à 17h,<br />- le mercredi 09 janvier de 13h30 à 17h,<br />- le jeudi 10 janvier de 13h30 à 17h,<br />- le vendredi 11 janvier de 13h30 à 17h.</li><br /><li><strong><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2007/11/boutique-de-gestion.html">Boutique de Gestion</a></strong> (sur rendez-vous)<br />- lundi 07 janvier de 13h30 à 17h<br />- vendredi 11 janvier de 09h à 12h30 </li></ul><h2><strong><span style="color: #005c9b; line-height: 113%;">Ateliers</span></strong></h2><ul><li><b>CV</b> - mardi 08 janvier de 09h à 12h30</li><br /><li><b>Lettre de Motivation</b> - mardi 08 janvier de 13h30 à 17h</li><br /><li><strong>Préparation à l'entretien</strong> - jeudi 10 janvier de 13h30 à 17h</li><br /><li><strong>Pôle-emploi.fr</strong> - vendredi 11 janvier de 10h à 11h30</li><br /><li><strong><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2009/07/atelier-situtilises-tu-trouves.html">Sit'Utilises tu trouves</a></strong> - vendredi 11 janvier de 14h à 16h</li></ul><h2><strong><span style="color: #005c9b; line-height: 113%;">Information collective</span></strong></h2><ul><li><b>Boutique de Gestion</b> - jeudi 10 janvier à 14h</li></ul>

Planning de la semaine du 07 au 11 janvier 2014

Permanences Le Conseil Général du Loiret sera présent dans les locaux de la Maison de l'Emploi du bassin d'Orléans - le lundi 07 ja...

Whitney in 7h09

6:30 AM Tukiyooo 0

<i>An article I wrote on <a href="http://whitney.org/About/NewBuilding">Renzo Piano's Whitney Museum of American Art</a> (under construction in New York City's Meatpacking District and set to open in 2015) is published in the latest <a href="http://www.7h09.fr/home">7h09</a>, a publication out of France that focuses on a different city with each issue. The first issue presented <a href="http://www.7h09.fr/barcelone-1">Barcelona</a>, and the second one crosses the Atlantic to <a href="http://www.7h09.fr/new-york-2">New York City</a>. The issue is entirely in French, but my original English article is presented below, accompanied by my own photos (not in the print edition, which has better illustrations). Many thanks to editor Delphine Minotti for having me contribute and for allowing me to post the English text. </i><br /><br />“Third time's the charm” is how the saying goes. But for the Whitney Museum of American Art it is four. On three unsuccessful attempts the Whitney tried to expand its home at Madison and East 75th Street in New York City’s tony Upper East Side, eventually abandoning those plans for a move to the popular Meatpacking District.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/9180796728/" title="Whitney Hard Hat Tour by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Whitney Hard Hat Tour" height="800" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2814/9180796728_3d8cd3180c_c.jpg" width="600" /></a><br />[The New Whitney under construction in June 2013 | All photographs by John Hill]<br /><br />In three decades the Whitney unveiled three additions to its granite-clad building designed by Marcel Breuer in 1966. First came Michael Graves’s postmodern behemoth in 1989, which was lambasted by critics like Michael Sorkin, who tried to stop its realization by promoting the landmarking of adjacent brownstones that the scheme would have demolished. Next came the 2001 scheme by Rem Koolhaas, which maintained the subsequently landmarked brownstones with a concrete volume that aggressively rose from them and leaned over the Breuer building. Renzo Piano came closest to success on the Upper East Side with his 2004 design, unveiled when his addition to the Morgan Library and Museum was under construction two miles south of the Whitney. Yet even Piano’s relatively conservative scheme proved difficult in gaining city approval and overcoming community opposition. So two years later the Whitney announced it would realize a new building designed by Piano at the base of the then future High Line park at Gansevoort Street near the Hudson River.<br /><br />When the Whitney’s new building opens in 2015, it will be the institution’s fourth location—apparently four is the magic number for the museum in more ways than one. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a sculptor, founded the museum in 1930 to display her growing art collection that focused on “artists whose work had been disregarded by the traditional academies,” per the institution’s history. A year later the Whitney, the first museum dedicated to 20th-century American art, opened in four adjacent townhouses in Greenwich Village near her studio. In 1954 the Whitney moved into a new building on West 54th Street overlooking the Museum of Modern Art’s sculpture garden. It quickly outgrew that Midtown space, announcing in 1963 it would be moving to 75th and Madison, a move that took place three years later when the Breuer building was completed.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/7074408401/" title="Whitney Studio by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Whitney Studio" height="800" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5075/7074408401_36ce62305e_c.jpg" width="553" /></a><br />[The Whitney's 1966's Breuer building]<br /><br />While focused on an impressive, ever-growing collection of American art, the Whitney is synonymous with the Whitney Biennial, which started in 1973 but extends to 1932 in the form of annual exhibitions that, for awhile at least, alternated between painting and sculpture. The Whitney Biennial is inherently aimed at the new, given that the curators choose art produced in the two-year window after the previous show. It continues to serve as an influential marker for contemporary art trends. The last Biennial in the Breuer building will take place in 2014, under the direction of three curators from outside the Whitney who will each be given one floor of the museum.<br /><br />While the Biennial defines many people’s attitudes toward the Whitney, the museum is also strongly linked with the Brutalist masterpiece designed by Marcel Breuer with Hamilton Smith. From the entry bridge traversing the sunken court under the “inverted ziggurat,” as it’s been described, to the spacious galleries capped by open grids of precast concrete and the angular windows that are abstract art in themselves, Breuer’s Whitney building is a memorable experience shaped by concrete, stone, and wood.<br /><br />A sign of the impending move can be found in the stacked shipping containers fitted into the sunken court north of the bridge. These reused industrial structures, designed by LOT-EK and housing the Whitney’s educational programs, are an uneasy fit with the granite mass above it, but their presence makes it clear the institution has outgrown its 1966 home.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/6928325900/" title="Whitney Studio by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Whitney Studio" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7255/6928325900_a1fdc11617_c.jpg" width="526" /></a><br />[LOT-EK's containers tucked into the subterranean space in front of the 1966 Whitney]<br /><br />Before construction began on the Whitney’s new building in 2011, on a site previously slated for the Dia Art Foundation (they backed out in 2006), the museum was still considering it a satellite to the Breuer building. But in May of that year the Whitney announced that the Metropolitan Museum of Art would take over their longtime home in 2015 (operating it, not buying it, for an 8-year period); ironically, the Met had turned down Gertrude Whitney's endowment of more than 500 works in 1929, leading her to create the eponymous institution. This decision raises a number of questions, namely: how will Renzo Piano’s design define the Whitney’s identity?<br /><br />While following the trajectory of ever-increasing size and scale across the Whitney’s 8-decade history (the collection grew from 500 at its inception to 2,000 in 1966, currently standing at over 19,000 works), the new building has more in common with Renzo Piano’s previous museums than its predecessor at 75th and Madison. When the Italian architect was chosen to add to the Breuer building, his firm was responsible for a large number of high-profile 21st-century museums in the United States: the already mentioned Morgan, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, the Kimbell Art Museum expansion in nearby Fort Worth, the High Museum of Art expansion in Atlanta, the Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) expansion, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Needless to say, Piano has been the go-to architect for museums decades after he designed the Centre Georges Pompidou with Richard Rogers in the 1970s.<br /><br />Piano’s 21st-century museums—in the United States and elsewhere—are defined by simple, white-box galleries situated under custom skylight roofs that only allow indirect daylight to enter; he had first explored this approach in the De Menil Collection in Houston, completed in 1986. Simple yet carefully bespoke exteriors of metal, glass, and sometimes stone wrap the skylit galleries, making Piano’s museum’s increasingly recognizable as his own, even as they respond to the particularities of each location and collection.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/9180806550/" title="Whitney Hard Hat Tour by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Whitney Hard Hat Tour" height="480" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5503/9180806550_d23b30b077_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />[Top-floor gallery in the new building during a hard-hat tour in June 2013]<br /><br />The exact location of the Whitney’s new building is on Gansevoort Street, spanning from the southern tip of the High Line park on the east to the West Side Highway and the Hudson River beyond on the west; the High Line’s headquarters building, also designed by Piano and expected to be complete in 2013, sits just to the north. At nine stories, the new Whitney is three stories higher than the Breuer building. This verticality means that only the top floor is skylit—a gallery for large-scale art and a cafe.<br /><br />More importantly, the nine-story building is a considerable mass next to the High Line, something that Piano addresses by terracing the building away from the elevated park—the antithesis of Breuer’s inverted ziggurat where floors get larger as one ascends the building. The new Whitney’s galleries get smaller as they rise above the huge fifth-floor space for temporary exhibitions, what is billed as the largest column-free gallery space in New York City. In addition to letting more sunlight hit the park, a benefit of this stepping is the creation of terraces that the Whitney will use to display sculptures overlooking the High Line.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/9180797526/" title="Whitney Hard Hat Tour by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Whitney Hard Hat Tour" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7428/9180797526_c0367060f1_c.jpg" width="600" /></a><br />[Sidewalk-level view of new building] <br /><br />Unlike the Breuer building’s granite facade, most of the new building is covered in metal panels with selective window openings. This includes four floors of galleries (doubling the exhibition area of the 1966 design), a couple floors containing offices and a 170-seat theater, and a volume on the north side of the building that stacks a study center, conservation lab, research library, and classrooms. Below the metal-panel bulk of the building is the glassy ground floor that rises in height toward the High Line. This is an inviting gesture at Gansevoort Street that acknowledges the park even as its tries to lure people away from it, into the lobby, restaurant, and museum store behind the glass walls.<br /><br />Architecturally, the building’s form is an assemblage of the museum’s inner workings—the tiered galleries, the stacked north volume, the office floors, and the transparent ground floor. It is an uneasy combination of parts that does not congeal into a cohesive form like Breuer’s granite mass. Yet, just as criticism has been directed at Piano’s design before its realization (in May 2011, New York magazine called it “a missed opportunity of majestic proportions”), Breuer’s design was derided by critics and the public when it opened, only to become a beloved modern gem in New York City. Perhaps time and attendance figures may give the Whitney’s new building a similar future. Architectural viewpoints aside, the new Whitney is sited to open up the museum’s extensive collection of 20th- and 21st-century American art to a wider and younger audience.

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An article I wrote on Renzo Piano's Whitney Museum of American Art (under construction in New York City's Meatpacking District and ...

Analysis: U.S. Treasuries seen weakening in 2014 but rout unlikely (BLOG)

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBMlBm6s2RVUgAqys1-ENC0-8oG5LkhIO5Z3wZyDOSSKt6Rdsr5Uy_Dd0pz_cKT5pMNVli0JxMXryOuBEXXkLGzLf_ajzPeNFnpC40FJlBVE45J3FMePRYC_Z6_qVcpZlWEniIjgd_NnA/s1600/2014-01-03T214102Z_1_CBREA021O8Q00_RTROPTP_3_USA_original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBMlBm6s2RVUgAqys1-ENC0-8oG5LkhIO5Z3wZyDOSSKt6Rdsr5Uy_Dd0pz_cKT5pMNVli0JxMXryOuBEXXkLGzLf_ajzPeNFnpC40FJlBVE45J3FMePRYC_Z6_qVcpZlWEniIjgd_NnA/s320/2014-01-03T214102Z_1_CBREA021O8Q00_RTROPTP_3_USA_original.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388813403001_3147" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">By Richard Leong</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388813403001_3151" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Portfolio managers at large U.S. bond funds are, however, a bit optimistic. They say the most violent adjustment in the bond market has already happened, even though bond yields should rise a little more in 2014 as the Federal Reserve reduces its massive stimulus program.NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors who bet heavily on Treasuries took a beating in 2013, and as the Fed winds down its bond buying, they face the risk of a second straight losing year, something that has not happened in four decades.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388813403001_3155" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Some analysts have long foreseen a protracted rise in yields after nearly 30 years of steadily falling rates. But the consensus among managers is that benchmark 10-year Treasury yields should peak around 3.5 percent this year, up from 3 percent now and remain otherwise in a tight range. A 50-basis point rise would pale against the 125 basis-point rise in yields in 2013.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"We don't expect another aggressive bond sell-off. I think even with the Fed tapering, policy accommodation will remain pretty high in 2014," said Jennifer Vail, head of fixed-income research at U.S. Bank Wealth Management in Portland, Oregon.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Another surge in yields would mean more misery for bond investors, including Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund, the Pimco Total Return Fund (PTTRX.O). That fund suffered its first annual loss since 1999, a negative return of nearly 2 percent.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">But if the rise in yields is moderate and orderly, Gross and other investors who are bullish on Treasuries would have plenty of time to adjust their portfolios to reduce losses and take on bets in other bond sectors.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Fund flows into Treasuries in 2013 were slower than any other year since 2000. Pension funds, insurance companies, college endowments and foreign investors could find greater appeal in Treasuries as yields edge higher in coming months, but retail investors might still shy away from bond funds, particularly given the buoyant outlook for equities.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Any zig-zag in rates will have retail investors very nervous," said Quincy Krosby, market strategist at Prudential Financial in Newark, New Jersey, which oversees $1 trillion in assets.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The yield on 10-year Treasury notes was 2.99 percent on Friday, roughly a two-and-a-half-year high and nearly double what it was a year ago. Increases in yields accelerated in May, after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested before a congressional panel that the Fed might consider shrinking its quantitative easing before year-end.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Recent data has supported the view of a somewhat slow-growing U.S. economy, which will likely keep the Fed tapering gradually and cautious about raising interest rates.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"What the market is adjusting to is a little faster growth and less Fed buying. It could be another year of negative returns," said Gemma Wright-Casparius, portfolio manager at Vanguard, the top U.S. mutual fund company.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The 10-year yield has stabilized above 3 percent as investors await the payrolls report for December to determine if the economy is strong enough for Fed to quicken its stimulus reduction and possibly raise rates before late 2015.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">On Friday, Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker said if the economy strengthens more than expected this year, he could see the Fed increasing rates in later 2014.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">With blue chip stocks powering into record territory, investors have been moving away from bond funds since June. Still, bond funds were able to report $29 billion in inflows in 2013, although they were the weakest since 2000, according to Lipper, a unit of Thomson Reuters.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In fresh quarterly forecasts released last month, the Fed's outlook on growth of gross domestic product was in a range of 2.8 percent to 3.2 percent in 2014, a tad stronger than what Wall Street expects.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"There's a fair amount of economic optimism priced into these yields," said Bill Irving, a Merrimack, New Hampshire portfolio manager for Fidelity Investments, the No. 2 U.S. mutual fund company. "I don't see the 10-year yield going much higher from here. We have to see more surprisingly strong data."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The threat to this view of a moderate yield rise would come if growth, perhaps driven by the U.S. energy production boom and the impact of higher home and stock prices on consumer spending, were to rise to 3.5 percent to 4.0 percent. That would in turn put pressure on the Fed to pull back on its bond buying more quickly and lead to concerns that the Fed would raise short-term interest rates sooner than the late 2015 currently expected. All that could force bond yields significantly higher than 3.5 percent.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Since the Fed began purchasing Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities, its balance sheet has ballooned by more than $1 trillion to near $4 trillion since late 2012.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">On December 18, Fed policymakers said the U.S. central bank will purchase $75 billion in bonds in January, $10 billion less than the monthly pace at which it had been buying.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">BOND BEARS COMETH?</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A lousy year for Treasuries is rare. Even including a dismal 2013, the Treasuries market has posted annual losses only four times since 1973, according to Barclays, and has never experienced back-to-back losing years.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In 2013, Treasuries suffered a 2.75 percent loss, while the broader U.S. bond market declined 2.02 percent, the biggest annual drop since 1994, according to indexes that Barclays compiles.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388813403001_3157" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The biggest yearly rise in benchmark Treasuries yields in four years disrupted the housing market this past summer, but it has proven to be only a hiccup for the economy.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">U.S. growth had recorded its best three months in nearly two years this autumn, while Wall Street booked its biggest annual gain in more than 15 years.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388813403001_3159" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">(Reporting by Richard Leong)</div></div>

Analysis: U.S. Treasuries seen weakening in 2014 but rout unlikely (BLOG)

By Richard Leong Portfolio managers at large U.S. bond funds are, however, a bit optimistic. They say the most violent adjustment in the bon...

Mob Wives: Is Karen Gravano Back???

5:30 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXvC1bbPAS0utsTib_Ld9U94FlichSpiw9RJJSlUwoM5UPDqozC8I3e-33_qJMWMHI2LpCrlqgKLWKk2SeXj6KFIIy2YrcRhbnB73TU3jm9EeYuBehZgvwZWk0DenIOA07pkw4hXSFjf4/s1600/karen's+back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXvC1bbPAS0utsTib_Ld9U94FlichSpiw9RJJSlUwoM5UPDqozC8I3e-33_qJMWMHI2LpCrlqgKLWKk2SeXj6KFIIy2YrcRhbnB73TU3jm9EeYuBehZgvwZWk0DenIOA07pkw4hXSFjf4/s400/karen's+back.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Back in New York for starters!</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Pure Speculation! </span>But is it possible that Karen left the warmth of her family and the Arizona weather to come back to New York, during it's coldest temperatures just for dinner? Well leave it to Twitter to get my hopes up! I literally poured cereal into my coffee cup this morning because of a tweet I saw on my timeline from Jennifer Graziano. First Renee tweets:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLKe6dYvAMrLxzid510t-OtLDmSt6I6HoBj4cg19JssnZcoOnGiQrmqVQR3ojClOrWLlrBoXVdUFYNyvJKeWxdcxOHJ0B9HJdaUBv2RF4kLwP9E0MHcY5BbGiYJlQOtMy04RAsDEtrLFk/s1600/Karens+Back+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLKe6dYvAMrLxzid510t-OtLDmSt6I6HoBj4cg19JssnZcoOnGiQrmqVQR3ojClOrWLlrBoXVdUFYNyvJKeWxdcxOHJ0B9HJdaUBv2RF4kLwP9E0MHcY5BbGiYJlQOtMy04RAsDEtrLFk/s1600/Karens+Back+2.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Who wouldn't want to be a fly on the wall for this meeting?</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When many fans heard that Karen was in New York, it created a buzz. The buzz got even louder when Renee Graziano tweeted she, and her sister Jenn, were having dinner with Karen. Renee said some of us would love to be "flies on the wall." I asked if I could pay a waiter to take notes for me on the conversation and then Jenn retweeted me and replied!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9rieN2ZSvN7J9I_d97JsNat80B0UpaeY-T0IgnaSVdgkVkMEj4ejW4rb7QhJMDS6RU-pteW3Ec1HIDGkRWNsKPX1BiCiXn8J6hNzXYqG1ZmRvex7JbOjc5qAvmLr70K6E0CCjjQhBICQ/s1600/Karens+Back+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9rieN2ZSvN7J9I_d97JsNat80B0UpaeY-T0IgnaSVdgkVkMEj4ejW4rb7QhJMDS6RU-pteW3Ec1HIDGkRWNsKPX1BiCiXn8J6hNzXYqG1ZmRvex7JbOjc5qAvmLr70K6E0CCjjQhBICQ/s1600/Karens+Back+1.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>What they discussed <span style="color: red;">BEFORE </span>dinner would be way more interesting to me?</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Am I reading too much into this? The only thing I have been interested in, since the first episode of season four, is bringing Karen back! Jenn knows that because she follows my tweets and I think she glances at my blogs every now and then too. It's no secret that I think Karen belongs on the show, she was the reason for much of it's success and she is as REAL as it gets. Of course I am just a blogger, and I can make something out of nothing every now and then...so is this something or nothing? You decide! I already made up my mind! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I hope Karen comes back soon and sends those SOUTH Philly wives packing! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now I will remove the cereal from my coffee and get back to having breakfast!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">PS Here is a picture of a "fly on the wall" my good friend, @Dondig, last night with Jenn and Karen for drinks!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMIL1jYfMllQW4wfTM3fBsMqvOtSQMV6WLUwXThhEnpqmVpx3B2DeWVrxkr-PLPzW_LSQYedr-CpTIFBaGuPSm33TsTqkpfBlJkOkm3e4__T6aECrd03yG2j70bLIZBkowW8RlkpB1FjI/s1600/don+last+night.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMIL1jYfMllQW4wfTM3fBsMqvOtSQMV6WLUwXThhEnpqmVpx3B2DeWVrxkr-PLPzW_LSQYedr-CpTIFBaGuPSm33TsTqkpfBlJkOkm3e4__T6aECrd03yG2j70bLIZBkowW8RlkpB1FjI/s320/don+last+night.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Welcome Home, Karen!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>

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Wall St. closes flat after Fed comments (BLOG)

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitZ3LptbM0W4ttWlkT1ggmxLYnQWYTnECeYqn03scRfCrWDwgrwdnKen3GY-AIQWkY9Xj16q0RWpyD7GIE17KA2ccA3HPSCkcS6BBWr5Y9I1fAcwFZmskm4BSU7lr7IANQTK94zPtsX4E/s1600/2014-01-03T133653Z_2_CBREA020ZM800_RTROPTP_3_USA_original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitZ3LptbM0W4ttWlkT1ggmxLYnQWYTnECeYqn03scRfCrWDwgrwdnKen3GY-AIQWkY9Xj16q0RWpyD7GIE17KA2ccA3HPSCkcS6BBWr5Y9I1fAcwFZmskm4BSU7lr7IANQTK94zPtsX4E/s320/2014-01-03T133653Z_2_CBREA020ZM800_RTROPTP_3_USA_original.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388813403001_1515" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">By Ryan Vlastelica</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388813403001_1519" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Wall Street opened higher but subsequently pared gains after Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser said the Fed faced "immense" challenges now that it had reduced bond-buying, and that it needed to be cognizant of a potential rapid rise in future inflation.NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended a volatile session mostly flat on Friday as investors digested comments from Federal Reserve officials that raised questions about how quickly the central bank will end its stimulus program.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388813403001_1523" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Volatility was exacerbated by light trading volume, with about 4.61 billion shares traded on all U.S. platforms, according to BATS exchange data, well below average, with many market participants out in the wake of the New Year's holiday, as well as a snowstorm in the northeast.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Plosser suggested that it might not be an easy or smooth process for the Fed to unwind its balance sheet, which could have been be an indication the Fed could act sooner on ending bond buying than is currently expected," said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Following Plosser's comments, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the central bank was no less committed to accommodative monetary policies despite the recent announcement that it would slow its stimulus program. He also said the U.S. economic recovery "clearly remains incomplete.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Equities briefly turned positive following the comments before returning to breakeven territory.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">General Motors (<a data-rapid_p="8" href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=gm" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;">GM</a>) fell 3.4 percent to $39.57, one of the S&P 500's biggest decliners, after the automaker reported lower December sales, below analysts' expectations of a slight gain. Ford Motor Co (NYS:F) rose 0.5 percent to $15.51 after its sales.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Dow Jones industrial average (<a data-rapid_p="9" href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5Edji" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;">^DJI</a>) was up 28.64 points, or 0.17 percent, at 16,469.99. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (<a data-rapid_p="10" href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5Egspc" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;">^GSPC</a>) was down 0.62 points, or 0.03 percent, at 1,831.36. The Nasdaq Composite Index (<a data-rapid_p="11" href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5Eixic" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;">^IXIC</a>) was down 11.16 points, or 0.27 percent, at 4,131.91.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The S&P's slight decline marked the first time since 2005 that the benchmark index started a year with two straight negative sessions. For the week, the Dow fell less than 0.1 percent while both the S&P and Nasdaq lost 0.6 percent.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Valuations are full, but not egregiously rich right now," said Luschini, who oversees about $60 billion in assets. "In order for markets to really outperform now, we need to see better growth develop and for earnings to brighten considerably."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Crude oil fell 1.3 percent, bringing its 2014 year-to-date losses to 4.3 percent, a fact that boosted airline stocks on Friday. Delta Air Lines (<a data-rapid_p="12" href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=dal" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;">DAL</a>) rose 5.5 percent to $29.23 as the S&P's biggest gainer while Southwest Airlines (<a data-rapid_p="13" href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=luv" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;">LUV</a>) rose 2.9 percent to $19.42.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">FireEye Inc (FEYE.O) surged 39 percent to $57.02 after the cybersecurity company acquired Mandiant Corp, the computer forensics specialist best known for unveiling a secretive Chinese military unit believed to be behind a series of hacking attacks on U.S. companies.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Twitter (TWTR.N) gained 2.2 percent to $69. Shares in the social media company burst out of the gate in 2014 with a gain of more than 8 percent.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">About 62 percent of stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange closed higher on the day, while 59 percent of Nasdaq-listed shares ended in positive territory.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388813403001_1525" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">(Editing by Nick Zieminski)</div></div>

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Michigan Teenager, Alysa Erwin Beat Terminal Brain Cancer With Cannabis Oil

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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'ubuntu';"> </span></span><img alt="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/marijuana_ridealong_rect.jpg" class="decoded" src="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/marijuana_ridealong_rect.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'ubuntu';"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo Credit: Chicago Now</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'ubuntu';">'My  name is Alysa Erwin. I am a pretty normal American teenage girl. I live  in Petosky, Michigan. I love my family. I passed my drivers education  class. I love music. I love my friends....and I beat terminal brain  cancer. Yes. You read that right. I beat terminal brain cancer. I am  here to share my story with the world.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'ubuntu';">My  family was beyond supportive of me when I was going through this  ordeal. I understand what other people are going through when they find  out they have cancer. I was terrified when I found out. There were times  that I thought there was no hope. Let me assure you there is hope even  when you think there is not. I am living proof that what I am about to  share with you is 100% true and I have the medical records from the  University of Michigan Medical Center to prove everything I am claiming  on this page.'</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'ubuntu';">Read <a href="http://www.marijuana.com/threads/michigan-teenager-alysa-erwin-beat-terminal-brain-cancer-with-cannabis-oil.308405/">more... </a></span></span></div>

Michigan Teenager, Alysa Erwin Beat Terminal Brain Cancer With Cannabis Oil

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Dr. Mary Newport on Coconut Oil for Alzheimer's Treatment

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Dr. Mary Newport on Coconut Oil for Alzheimer's Treatment

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Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Successfully Treated with Chinese Herbs

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<br /><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Successfully Treated with Chinese Herbs" height="426" src="http://cdn.greenmedinfo.com/sites/default/files/ckeditor/Sayer%20Ji/images/Chinese_herbs.jpg" width="640" /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">'Researchers from the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine have determined in a multi-center, randomized, double-blind clinical study that a Chinese herbal formulation significantly treats nonalcoholic fatty liver cirrhosis.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The researchers studied 224 patients with liver disease from six hospitals – each affiliated with a university. The study was conducted for 24 weeks. The patients were given either a placebo or a five gram sachet of the herbal formula called Jiang Zhi Granule for the six month test period.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The doctors then examined the patients with a test called the Liver-spleen volume analysis. This is performed using computed tomography.'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/nonalcoholic-fatty-liver-disease-successfully-treated-chinese-herbs">more... </a></span>

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Successfully Treated with Chinese Herbs

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Your Personal Health Code: How to Start Your Year Without Resolutions

1:57 AM Anonymous 0

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="New Year" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18011" height="400" src="http://renegadehealth.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/New-Year.jpg" width="371" /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">'Rather than make resolutions you may not keep, why not create your own health code for 2014?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Are New Year’s resolutions necessary?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">We make them all too easily, and break them just as readily. Why not try something bigger and more meaningful this year? Why not make your health a priority?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">It’s not easy to achieve optimal wellness. It helps to have an overall plan, which you can call your personal health code.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Your Personal Health Code</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Your personal health code is the strategy by which you conduct your life, including the daily details of how you live. This may involve your dietary choices, exercise habits, sleep routines, and nutritional philosophy.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Are you a vegetarian, vegan, cooked or raw foodie, or omnivore? Do you follow a traditional Chinese or other ethnic diet? Are you committed to the yogi lifestyle, including the Ayurveda philosophy, or someone who includes yoga postures into an overall fitness plan? Do you shop for clothing made from sustainable fabrics sewn in fair trade factories? Do you avoid GMO foods? You get the point, I’m sure.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Here are some suggestions on how to formulate your personal health code.' </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2014/01/03/your-personal-health-code-how-to-start-your-year-without-resolutions">more... </a></span>

Your Personal Health Code: How to Start Your Year Without Resolutions

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Whilst Waiting For Your Coffee

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Whilst Waiting For Your Coffee

I'll be sleeping in. In the mean time;