Olga Shelest and her new lips

<script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* bleu 280 */ google_ad_slot = "8164661108"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br /><br />TV presenter and young mother <b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/11/olga-shelest-had-baby-girl.html" target="_blank">Olga Shelest</a></b> notes January 23 my birthday birthday girl has already boast a major gift that received from the civil wife Alexei Tishkina. "This man gave his lips on DR" - wrote in Shelest "Instagrame" folded with a face hilarious. Not immediately guess that it is not about injections to increase this part of the face, which so successfully parodied Olga, and on jewelry. <br /> <br /><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* biner3 */ google_ad_slot = "7346003106"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> <br /> <br /> Ears were presenter - one of the <b>fashion accessory</b> of the season, earrings brand Delfina Delettrez, made in the form of the lips and adorned with pearls and precious stones. The cost of such a model is a half thousand euros. The idea of ​​earrings, but like other designer creations, very ironic and original. In the ornaments of this brand have already appeared in public <b>Miley Cyrus</b> and <b>Beyonce</b>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin3MiD6xHlhjTDwy0GTYHP4cwyf9gM79fkV9kixRccSL-f94w8GuMQffFDTNJPtTePof19W1udBrWG7t_d8MZWq_y5ITnoxL2Ki5hnobmwuDjeiJBvCwYOOHN65SKNjekN1mWktXct/s1600/Olga+Shelest+and+her+new+lips.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="fashion accessory Olga Shelest" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin3MiD6xHlhjTDwy0GTYHP4cwyf9gM79fkV9kixRccSL-f94w8GuMQffFDTNJPtTePof19W1udBrWG7t_d8MZWq_y5ITnoxL2Ki5hnobmwuDjeiJBvCwYOOHN65SKNjekN1mWktXct/s1600/Olga+Shelest+and+her+new+lips.jpeg" title="Olga Shelest new lips" /></a></div><br /><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- boton --><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:90px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8441125172513237" data-ad-slot="4392536701"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script>

Olga Shelest and her new lips

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Konchalovsky daughter can not get out of coma

<script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* bleu 280 */ google_ad_slot = "8164661108"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br /><br />In the web a lot of facts and rumors about the <b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/10/konchalovsky-daughter-unconscious-for.html">tragedy in the family of Andrei Konchalovsky</a></b>. Three months ago, the daughter of Konchalovsky Maria got seriously injured in a car accident and is still in a coma. Doctors explain that the comatose patient is unresponsive and does not respond, but after coming out of the coma, he remembers what he said. <br /> <br /><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* biner3 */ google_ad_slot = "7346003106"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br /><br /> Unfortunately, forecasts doctors hardly a comforting. Neurosurgeons explained that after a hundred days "deep sleep", ie, coma, brain gradually begins to fail, and these processes are irreversible. "If consciousness within three months can not be restored - it's bad. The longer a person is in a coma, the less likely that all of it will come, "- said the resuscitator.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrtF1SNkvRprS_P4Gds60tkw2plFFnjPqzI3DosUEqgqnzDMiAStb0LoAIAtot_d87xTdanrrvTTivUpYgHLqv1_QgqRqM37P7VrKchC5U9BxWMu20h3aie26CRqireLPRAbGfMgOPDBk/s1600/Konchalovsky.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrtF1SNkvRprS_P4Gds60tkw2plFFnjPqzI3DosUEqgqnzDMiAStb0LoAIAtot_d87xTdanrrvTTivUpYgHLqv1_QgqRqM37P7VrKchC5U9BxWMu20h3aie26CRqireLPRAbGfMgOPDBk/s1600/Konchalovsky.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* boton */ google_ad_slot = "4392536701"; google_ad_width = 200; google_ad_height = 90; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>

Konchalovsky daughter can not get out of coma

In the web a lot of facts and rumors about the tragedy in the family of Andrei Konchalovsky . Three months ago, the daughter of Konchalovsk...

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Lindsay Lohan called Oprah Winfrey (second mother)

<br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lindsay Lohan made on a radio show where told about life in a medical center and its relationship with Oprah Winfrey. 27-year-old actress is now the same in Park City at the Independent Film Festival "Sundance". There she advertises her new movie, erotic thriller "Canyons".</span><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* biner3 */ google_ad_slot = "7346003106"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; //--></script><script src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga-EDVUiFwJ6WCuwH4YHu3-v2hPjihsrdzv_MRZYZ17WK0gBtFvUgi_QjehOzpyfYnrWpg-V_RSktZ1JHqwaYjmwEVBMwN565VxR1h_C1h1WInctyyTZtUkaK26pZU6lI8gywVW-Hx/s1600/Lindsay+Lohan+called+Oprah+Winfrey+second+mother.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lindsay Lohan gave an interview to Radio Show" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga-EDVUiFwJ6WCuwH4YHu3-v2hPjihsrdzv_MRZYZ17WK0gBtFvUgi_QjehOzpyfYnrWpg-V_RSktZ1JHqwaYjmwEVBMwN565VxR1h_C1h1WInctyyTZtUkaK26pZU6lI8gywVW-Hx/s1600/Lindsay+Lohan+called+Oprah+Winfrey+second+mother.jpg" title="Lindsay Lohan gave an interview to Radio Show" /></a></div><br />Leading radio show received answers to questions about how the filming, and the more personal questions. About his life after the treatment center and the creation of a reality show with a "second mother" Oprah Winfrey Lindsay said: <br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">During this period of my life things started to improve only for me, so I decided to Oprah, it would be good, if people knew me at all on the other side. I wanted to prove that I am also a human being and I also have difficulties in life, as in all.</blockquote><br /><br />It turns out that Oprah was for Lohan something of a mentor and supported her all the time: <br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">It is very good to me. So when I have a mom and Oprah - everything will be okay.</blockquote><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnXpCjoZ2ymXLqwtIzumhIYxzN8wm3aWABKRLMyUDmg9uXhatFOhTsk4jHFcwgRSfw0UtrV6WPzJjQHUV2gHrfyTyLc0oreQF9cVe0EKjCOmoB7B7IP-CKChDpGEah7yp2VsQeQ2Wr/s1600/Lindsay+Lohan-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lindsay Lohan" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnXpCjoZ2ymXLqwtIzumhIYxzN8wm3aWABKRLMyUDmg9uXhatFOhTsk4jHFcwgRSfw0UtrV6WPzJjQHUV2gHrfyTyLc0oreQF9cVe0EKjCOmoB7B7IP-CKChDpGEah7yp2VsQeQ2Wr/s1600/Lindsay+Lohan-1.jpg" title="Lindsay Lohan" /></a></div><br />Lindsay Lohan also admitted that she is extremely healthy lifestyle, and stopped to chat with a bad influence on her people. As for his personal life, the actress has denied that she was dating a male model Christian Williams.<br /><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* boton */ google_ad_slot = "4392536701"; google_ad_width = 200; google_ad_height = 90; //--></script><script src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Lindsay Lohan called Oprah Winfrey (second mother)

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What stylish preppers should wear in a SHTF SCENARIO

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A lesson in PREPPER ATTIRE for SURVIVAL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>511 TACTICAL SHTF COLLECTION</b></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/zt-hVuVWwJ8?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">...developing...</div>

What stylish preppers should wear in a SHTF SCENARIO

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Who's messing with your pineal gland?

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Revelations of this present evil world revealed</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This is a difficult post for some but for those with a renewed mind in Christ Jesus you won't have any trouble with it if you have proper wisdom and understanding of these matters.  So without going into detail I'll leave it there.  There's several things going on here but I'm going to expose them collectively without too much explanation.  I will leave that up to you to figure it out.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Remember the admonitions to be sober and circumspect and taking on the whole armour of God?  Even so, come Lord Jesus:<br /><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/america-is-going-over-edge.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/america-is-going-over-edge.html</a><br /><br /><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/12/g4t-reveals-truth-movement-is-now-lie.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/12/g4t-reveals-truth-movement-is-now-lie.html</a><br /><br /><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/g4t-is-victim-of-cyberbullying.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/g4t-is-victim-of-cyberbullying.html</a> </div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Du9rftGg_Bc?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>And may God bless America? </b></span></div><br />(G4T; alex jones; mind control; WINDOWS XP; pineal gland; the beast; the mark of the beast; The LORD God; Lord Jesus Christ; word of God; The News UNIT; truthers; patriots; alternative news; China; BRICS nations; World Economic Forum; Libertarians; Ron Paul; Rand Paul; Infowars; Prison Planet; alternative media; mainstream media; end times; mental health; mental health industry; present evil world; gospel of Christ; strong delusion; Obama government; President Barack Hussein Obama; NSA; Edward Snowden; Eric Holder; CIA; FBI; oath of office; U.S. Constitution; Bill Of Rights; chaos; mind assault; war; cyber warfare; Tea Party Patriots; Muslim; muslims; Sharia law; Koran; Allah; Muhammad; Islam; religion; Christian; Christ; God; The FED; The Federal Reserve Bank; Congress; Washington D.C.; The White House; news; media; the silver community; silver; gold; U.S. DOLLAR; economy; middle class; soul; spirit; body; BP Earthwatch; YOU TUBE; GOOGLE; GOOGLE+)<br /><br />What was that above?  I'm just messing with the bots. :-)   <br /><br />...developing...</div>

Who's messing with your pineal gland?

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Sore Throats and Satire Do Not Mix

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Cheeeeeeeeers and a Happy Thursday to you all, and you damn well better be happy. because for the next few days I shall be living vicariously through you!!<br /><br />I have a sore throat.  A sore throat from Hell, and I mean it is literally a sore throat from Hell, because I hear that the Devil has Menorah-like hemorrhoids that burn for days upon end, and well…<br /><br />I evidently have Satan’s, blood red ass cherries firmly lodged in my throat as they turn my uvula into what looks like a tiny, yet swollen red incandescent light bulb, and leaves my trachea feeling like the 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol laced Kanawha River in West By God Virginia<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSvSAIfc7yekKEbvS9tXuA0CtcLDL-iXZIqMYQ7mwfr-gMIhK3EnTdrNKtpaff1Q8IPXrr1xc1My90Ebd5Bn31782z8f5dBbiADIzT7oenAioqIdxWTdxmoRe1oV0pdfNYIymxsAw0LzBV/s1600/Justin+Bieber+Arrested+DUI.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSvSAIfc7yekKEbvS9tXuA0CtcLDL-iXZIqMYQ7mwfr-gMIhK3EnTdrNKtpaff1Q8IPXrr1xc1My90Ebd5Bn31782z8f5dBbiADIzT7oenAioqIdxWTdxmoRe1oV0pdfNYIymxsAw0LzBV/s1600/Justin+Bieber+Arrested+DUI.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Yep, that’s the state of my throat, and as many of us know, sore throats are among the most annoying non-life threatening afflictions with which we deal, because…<br /><br />Sore throats while they last, are constant.  Sore throats are omnipresent.  An active sore throats mock us, because unlike having the flu when one just lies down and sleeps it away, the sore throat allows one to remain active.<br /><br />I may be a bit tired, but I am still awake enough and able enough to go to work, and yet?  My throat is fucking killing me!!<br /><br />And you know what I have discovered during this inflamed throat episode?<br /><br />I never realized how often I swallow during the day, when not eating nor drinking.  Holy Cow, the average person evidently does a swallow reflex out of habit 10,000 times a day.  And?<br /><br />And with each swallow, laugh, and/or cough, I cry…just a little…both inside and out.<br /><br />And let me tell you.  It has affected my skills as a world-class satirist.  Oh Yeah.<br /><br />See, because of the annoying and constant pain, I cannot focus on the humor at hand that our good God has given us the last couple of days, and let me tell ya…<br /><br />There’s a Noah’s Ark full of funny out there that transpired just in the past 48 hours.<br /><br />Justin Bieber for instance…He tried to pull a Richard Marx and act like a total 5’7” badass by driving drunk in a rented Lamborghini and got arrested for DUI and resisting arrest.  Resisting arrest?<br /><br />How many resisting arrest jokes are there to be made involving Justin Bieber?  Thousands!!  And I cannot concentrate enough due to my sore throat in order to put them to pen.<br /><br />How does a 5’7” Pixie-Stix of a Canadian resist a burly Miami police officer?  By threatening to sing to him? See?  While probably true, it’s not very funny.  Thanks, Mr. Sore Throat.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqRbnvawhmita7wqBtmODg_8HisSkyS-6TmbqpC996iLxS_Sk4h6IHWx347xmv3pHvjG-0T9nf-FtbfK_scwqVpRfLams6D2DYZaz6NOfAIC0bNuWVUZdgHwsN5hzAuRoOiBUIqYnxMzc/s1600/Mike+Huckabee+Birth+Control+Women+Libidos+Uncle+Sugar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqRbnvawhmita7wqBtmODg_8HisSkyS-6TmbqpC996iLxS_Sk4h6IHWx347xmv3pHvjG-0T9nf-FtbfK_scwqVpRfLams6D2DYZaz6NOfAIC0bNuWVUZdgHwsN5hzAuRoOiBUIqYnxMzc/s1600/Mike+Huckabee+Birth+Control+Women+Libidos+Uncle+Sugar.jpg" width="400" /></a>And then late yesterday, former Gov. Mike Huckabee told the audience at the RNC Winter Meeting that women have been led to believe (by Democrats) that they need an Uncle Sugar and free birth control pills because woman cannot control their own libido.<br /><br />The fact of the matter is that The Huckster doesn’t want women to have any birth control because GAWD wants them barefoot and pregnant, because well, that’s God’s plan.  Just ask the incestuous daughters of Lot and their alcoholic father!!<br /><br />See?  This Huckabee crap is primetime joke-ready funny, and what do I have? Not a damn thing, because I am distracted by Satan’s Hemorrhoids inside my throat.<br /><br />You would think that if Satan put his ass berries in my throat he would give me something funny to say about God’s Chosen One, Mike Huckabee, but no…Satan wants to merely torture me like the next guy.<br /><br />However, I can get this out before I gargle once again with salt water and Wild Irish Rose…<br /><br />Governor Huckabee, if your daughter Sarah was dating Justin Bieber, wouldn’t you want her on the strongest form of birth control that your Tea Party, Christian Coalition, and Super Pac money could buy?<br /><br /><i>Cheers!!</i><br /><br />Matt-Man<br /><br /><a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">@mattman_iws</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mattmaniws" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">My Facebook Page</span></a></div>

Sore Throats and Satire Do Not Mix

Cheeeeeeeeers and a Happy Thursday to you all, and you damn well better be happy. because for the next few days I shall be living vicariousl...

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America is going over the edge?

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Alternative Media Madness and Mental Health</b></span></div><br />The sad thing is Alex Jones is an actor.  He's actually putting out a measure of truth mixed with a measure of fables and carefully constructed theater which results in a load of media manure that generates a large mind assault to create growing culture of role playing and related chaos distribution and development.<br /><br />This is getting more and more strange because one of his many pals is this G4T.  And there are others right here on YOU TUBE doing the same thing.  It's a large cartel that is doing their best to brainwash people into believing their messages of madness while they make merchandise of you.<br /><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/g4t-is-victim-of-cyberbullying.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/g4t-is-victim-of-cyberbullying.html</a><br /><br />How do I know this?  The liar G4T revealed the truth about this alternative media and conspiratorial genre referred to as truthers and patriots.  It's utterly amazing what this has turned into!<br /><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/12/g4t-reveals-truth-movement-is-now-lie.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/12/g4t-reveals-truth-movement-is-now-lie.html</a><br /><br />Now what do you do with this?  For those of us who observe these type of people attempt to rape our sound mind we simply expose them.  And indeed it is quite a task because oddly enough many and probably most of these subjects are employed by our nation's largest employer and they are actually doing their job.<br /><br />You have to be careful here in dealing with this because in fact many of these people are extremely evil while they appear to be somewhat polished and professional in their appearance.  They are experts at promulgating this message of madness and seem very genuine at times even masquerading with personal feelings as if they can't take it anymore or are somewhat mentally challenged and so forth all the while while while convincing you nto thinking that they are good and decent people who actually care about you while later on you find out their real motives and then it's too late.  Don't be fooled: <br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/R9P-xvoMZHY?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The former TRUTHER G4T explains THE TRUTHER MOVEMENT:</b></span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/srcRk8CmgkE?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe>

America is going over the edge?

Alternative Media Madness and Mental Health The sad thing is Alex Jones is an actor.  He's actually putting out a measure of truth mixed...

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The Danger Zone (Musical Tribute)

The following chart shows the year over year change in household net worth divided by annualized wages and salaries.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcNexhsmAt9MRbxdGH14lU2BQMTguJ3-Q1O9e23SvPiQpgW3a58-ZqqEfszFWWK3NdZp9-LlwWBFcO3Pqs3j0sdXIm0We1v53wQjuQNhuP6KFB_nquNFDyImjmPYCOJMTIMlrCnx2LlkA/s1600/The+Danger+Zone.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcNexhsmAt9MRbxdGH14lU2BQMTguJ3-Q1O9e23SvPiQpgW3a58-ZqqEfszFWWK3NdZp9-LlwWBFcO3Pqs3j0sdXIm0We1v53wQjuQNhuP6KFB_nquNFDyImjmPYCOJMTIMlrCnx2LlkA/s320/The+Danger+Zone.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />The danger zone represents periods where the change in net worth over a given year actually exceeds all wages and salaries for the year. Here is a comprehensive list of the periods when that has happened.<br /><br />1. The late 1990s (dotcom prices only go up bubble).<br />2. The mid 2000s (housing prices only go up bubble).<br />3. The early 2010s (nothing bad ever happens in ZIRP bubble).<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/siwpn14IE7E" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><i style="color: red;">You don't have time to think up there. If you think, you're dead.</i> - <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092099/quotes?item=qt0447364">Maverick, Top Gun (1986)</a><br /><br />As always, this is not investment advice. That said, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092099/quotes?item=qt0447349">"Holy @#$%, it's Viper!"</a><br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=rij">St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart</a>

The Danger Zone (Musical Tribute)

The following chart shows the year over year change in household net worth divided by annualized wages and salaries. Click to enlarge. The d...

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Giving the Gift of Hearing (BLOG)

<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/AVvXsEgAGzrNtjorW1h-d5CDJdXgwWHJEjof1EcHMWbEtk5_-xKfnRyoHcPM1ft54xvaus8PU2ZlRetKi3c474xlgtTix4ySOyy6sX7kVCojjHoihXkJNr5ixgglE6yZCiBXX5jlDTIgRui_oWI/s1600/DSC09040ccCambodia-Day1-Nov-24-Siem-Reap-Sun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAGzrNtjorW1h-d5CDJdXgwWHJEjof1EcHMWbEtk5_-xKfnRyoHcPM1ft54xvaus8PU2ZlRetKi3c474xlgtTix4ySOyy6sX7kVCojjHoihXkJNr5ixgglE6yZCiBXX5jlDTIgRui_oWI/s1600/DSC09040ccCambodia-Day1-Nov-24-Siem-Reap-Sun.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_24929" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In the shadow of Angkor Wat, Cambodia and some of the oldest temples on earth — the sounds of a modern-day gift.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_24941" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Hundreds have come here, the very young and the very old — all of them deaf, or nearly so — looking for a miracle.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_24951" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">On a makeshift stage, a team of Americans led by Bill and Tani Austin have come here to prove that most aren't deaf at all, and they say 95 percent of the world’s so-called deaf are merely hearing impaired, but have no way to do anything about it.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_24961" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Let’s see if we can get her to respond," Tani Austin says, as she fits a 12-year-old girl with powerful hearing aids.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_24971" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The girl's mother believes she is completely deaf. As her mother wipes away tears, the young girl can hear, and tries to speak for the first time in her entire life.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_24981" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Hearing is very emotional," Tani says, "It’s the road to the heart."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">From the Buddhist monks of India to the Bronx, to New Orleans and the tribes of New Guinea, the Austins’ Starkey Hearing Foundation fitted 165,000 free hearing aids last year alone. After getting rich many times over running a hearing aid company, Bill’s mission now is to spend it by giving back. His goal: helping a million people hear by the year 2020.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"For me, a day here is better than any day on any beach anywhere in the world," Bill Austin says. "It’s better than any fine meal in Paris. I would stay here and not eat at all and work for these kids and go home tired and say I had a good day."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Soon there are others. Six-year-old Dennis slowly emerges from his cocoon of silence. Like a light switch finally turned on, in one day, more than 400 faces light up.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">“You know what you’re seeing is hope. Mothers are the same all over the world," Tani says. "They want education for their children. They want safety in their homes. They’re hoping to have a better life for their child."</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_24992" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">They all go home with a year’s worth of batteries and local contacts for help too, all of it no strings attached.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">“It’s the best job ever," Tani says, as she starts to cry, "because it never gets old."</div></div>

Giving the Gift of Hearing (BLOG)

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Coldest Town in U.S. Lives for ‘Icebox Days’ (BLOG, PICS)

<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/AVvXsEgQ9SWyoPBwIQJkUcg-DXN2MNf5nqlRpwdstCeCkoBYLW0WaaR3mf8ShDwKQiF8qPpYJwcsQ3Q18JGtEVmzfA9RffYGfe5t-Af3zYaPspAMyzZZVU0WbWduN1DRNmkVjuNoToyJVGGAkUo/s1600/140122_yo_ntlfix_cold_wg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ9SWyoPBwIQJkUcg-DXN2MNf5nqlRpwdstCeCkoBYLW0WaaR3mf8ShDwKQiF8qPpYJwcsQ3Q18JGtEVmzfA9RffYGfe5t-Af3zYaPspAMyzZZVU0WbWduN1DRNmkVjuNoToyJVGGAkUo/s1600/140122_yo_ntlfix_cold_wg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_22024" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Here in the coldest city in the continental U.S., it's an average day. The wind chill? Negative 38!</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_22038" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">But Terry Anderson is not intimidated. In fact, she’s getting ready to do something most of us would never dare to do in these temps … run the annual Icebox Race! In what some call “the real winter games,” it’s the ultimate test of cold weather endurance, under brutal conditions.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_22048" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">“I saw some very frosty eyelashes on the way in, but it appears to be a-okay,” said Anderson. “I have my gloves, my hat and my double socks. That's what you really, really need.”</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_22058" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">ABC News “Nightline” traveled to International Falls, M.N., where frigid is a way of life. The secret to surviving those brutal temperatures? No cowering indoors. These hearty souls do the opposite; they embrace it.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_22068" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Right now it's 9 below zero. But it's not just a race. This Canadian border town -- dubbed “the icebox of the nation” -- celebrates the cold with this annual event. For the young and the young at heart, the bold and the brave.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhItKRXIILtjapQkHhWjVu-neiTnWxHs5JlbY82KkejrzhPieEpaStiWNVfM02UX4-4yCB3sGExDhzUO0ixLDbvzBYf1jxggvYupzdLhoJWNKX4cVf94aG3swvmbFwieG1FsTVu26fkPms/s1600/hqdefault.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhItKRXIILtjapQkHhWjVu-neiTnWxHs5JlbY82KkejrzhPieEpaStiWNVfM02UX4-4yCB3sGExDhzUO0ixLDbvzBYf1jxggvYupzdLhoJWNKX4cVf94aG3swvmbFwieG1FsTVu26fkPms/s1600/hqdefault.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">There's something for everyone in this town of 6,000. All free of charge. And it's a lifestyle lesson for the rest of us shivering through one of the coldest winters on record.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">It all starts with an early -morning wake-up call. Anderson, a first-grade teacher and mother of four, is our local guide.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">“Mornings in the winter are dark,” she said. “Nobody ever wants to get up cause they swear you are waking them up in the middle of the night. And they are cold.”</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_22072" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">To ward off cabin fever, the living room also doubles as the family's gym. Outside -- with temperatures as low as negative 50 -- getting ready to venture out involves a great deal of strategy, involving snow pants, jackets, boots, mittens and hats.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The cold weather gear for the children doesn't come cheap: “The snow boots are on sale about $50 a piece so that's $200, and then snowsuits you run about another $50 so you just have to figure that in with back-to-school expenses.”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The family moved here from Texas 13 years ago. Houses in International Falls are not as big because of the challenge of heating them. Anderson said it took quite a while to find a house that fit their bed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKOe_lYsJ60OUogKpcZTn2FhK63h5lL22_Fwwer0MiXnzpLWg3erM24EfCDjkBXrsUIoqp8_gq8y_rahG1poJ0Os6G9gPkQJ_iKiLNi6ab455-7SgkhVtWmjyQ2AjrXR4OKFTq2lcqswY/s1600/140122_ntl_full_wb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKOe_lYsJ60OUogKpcZTn2FhK63h5lL22_Fwwer0MiXnzpLWg3erM24EfCDjkBXrsUIoqp8_gq8y_rahG1poJ0Os6G9gPkQJ_iKiLNi6ab455-7SgkhVtWmjyQ2AjrXR4OKFTq2lcqswY/s1600/140122_ntl_full_wb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">It's the town made famous by an iconic car commercial from the ‘70s. It's still home to a who's who list of carmakers -- from Tesla to Range Rover -- testing new models in cold weather conditions.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">To keep her car battery from dying in the cold, Anderson’s husband plugs it into a power outlet.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">“It's always the personal goal to get out there before the car shuts off,” said Anderson.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">People here plan their week around the five-day forecast.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">“Especially as a runner, you plan your entire week out by the weather,” said Anderson. “When is it gonna be a long run day, when is it going to be your inside day, all depending on the weather and the wind.”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">It's not just her. Everyone's been preparing this week for the Icebox Race. Competitors gather from all over Minnesota and beyond. With fresh snow, the running conditions are less than ideal. But the whole town has turned out to cheer on the runners. Anderson crosses the finish line, placing first among the local women.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">“Woo hoo! So my lips were numb, my speech a little slurred. But I did it!” she said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">But she made a rookie mistake: “My phone froze and so it was dead because it was in my pocket and got too cold. So no music for the last mile.”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Misjudging the cold can lead to frostbite which learned the hard way back in November. She said it’s important not to let your feet get wet. They have to stay dry. Several months later and she's still feeling the pain.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_22096" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">And now, the event we've all been waiting for: frozen turkey bowling. Next up: the toilet seat toss. And of course, “smooshing.” Downtown outside the Viking Bar, it's Team Canada vs. Team U.S.A. In the end, Team U.S.A. takes home the gold.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_22081" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">But win or lose, these winter warriors show us instead of cursing the cold, you have to revel in it.</div></div>

Coldest Town in U.S. Lives for ‘Icebox Days’ (BLOG, PICS)

Here in the coldest city in the continental U.S., it's an average day. The wind chill? Negative 38! But Terry Anderson is not intimidate...

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Breaking the Fast Food Habit (BLOG)

<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/AVvXsEhXS7UXCw_hYs2SWXGEOgJP-DkuNkPBdUuvm3sm7W_eHv7p3JIdeOx5ORl-s57E_xHuCCi70Pwi25fOWopB7Ma-8MXsrkPlEr6BO51ll7yNJDJe7kdl8FX0atpoLtqf3JYYP_CZGPsdSMw/s1600/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXS7UXCw_hYs2SWXGEOgJP-DkuNkPBdUuvm3sm7W_eHv7p3JIdeOx5ORl-s57E_xHuCCi70Pwi25fOWopB7Ma-8MXsrkPlEr6BO51ll7yNJDJe7kdl8FX0atpoLtqf3JYYP_CZGPsdSMw/s1600/download.jpg" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_19204" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">ABC News Health and Wellness editor Dave Zinczenko and Executive Chef Bradley Herron are going to show you how to make a dinner for a family of four for only $12.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_19216" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">They’re in Miami, to show one family the secret to beating the take-out habit and make cheaper and healthier meals at home.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_19226" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">It all starts in the grocery store where Herron shares his tips to get the highest-quality food at the lowest price.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_19236" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">When you’re in the grocery store, choose items sold in their entirety, like whole chickens and vegetables. They will be less expensive than items that have been pre-cut if you’re willing to take a few extra minutes chopping.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_19246" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Also, look for ingredients that are in season. Not because it’s cool or trendy but because when fruits and vegetables are abundant, the stores want to sell them quickly, so not only will they be the highest quality, they will be less expensive.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_19256" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">On this trip, Herron, chef at Miami’s Michael’s Genuine Food and Drink, made a braised fish dish with a salad of raw shaved vegetables in only 20 minutes.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_19267" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">This is part of ABC World News’ week-long “Real Money” series to save families money.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_19267" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Video on: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/beyond-the-headline-abc-news/breaking-fast-food-habit-195309011.html</div></div>

Breaking the Fast Food Habit (BLOG)

ABC News Health and Wellness editor Dave Zinczenko and Executive Chef Bradley Herron are going to show you how to make a dinner for a family...

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Twin toilets photo at Sochi Olympics goes viral (BLOG)

<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/AVvXsEj74WZypsU2Sa8qRIryCgJCXPI6M9ylRd1JecX8BkUJoV5C04UAI58nGGEwIGy6WHu_GjLwHRHufsF9I9ooags3yeeGiPVayDUBeyAx5xnbm-g-Cj5oI9rmOVivl_qrLT6r8QshFHMV9Ko/s1600/354590e41ca1a803490f6a7067007a3c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj74WZypsU2Sa8qRIryCgJCXPI6M9ylRd1JecX8BkUJoV5C04UAI58nGGEwIGy6WHu_GjLwHRHufsF9I9ooags3yeeGiPVayDUBeyAx5xnbm-g-Cj5oI9rmOVivl_qrLT6r8QshFHMV9Ko/s1600/354590e41ca1a803490f6a7067007a3c.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_14609" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">SOCHI, Russia (AP) — At least one Olympic bathroom seems to be flush with toilets.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_14515" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">His tweeted picture instantly became a national joke.When BBC reporter Steve Rosenberg went to use the bathroom at the cross-country skiing and biathlon center for next month's Winter Olympics in Sochi, he found two toilets but only one stall.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_14625" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Although toilets like that are not common in Russia, social media users posted photos of other side-by-side toilets, including ones in a courthouse and a cafe.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_14635" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The editor of the state R-Sport news agency said such communal toilets are standard at Russian soccer stadiums.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Why are the BBC folks scaring us?" Vasily Konov wrote in this personal Twitter account. "This is what the gents look like at football stadiums in Russia."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">He posted a photo showing two urinals and three toilets in a large room.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Russians jested that the toilets in Sochi were designed for a "tandem," the name used to describe the duo of President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. One popular blogger altered Rosenberg's photo to put in a framed portrait of the two leaders above the toilets.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_14683" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In a nod to the tight security measures imposed in Sochi for the Winter Olympics, another joke has it that the second toilet was for a Russian security officer.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_14673" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Sochi organizing committee refused to comment on the picture. The games run from Feb. 7-23.</div></div>

Twin toilets photo at Sochi Olympics goes viral (BLOG)

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — At least one Olympic bathroom seems to be flush with toilets. His tweeted picture instantly became a national joke.When...

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Maybe we do need One World Government

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Is the U.S.A. becoming a GLOBAL THUG?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The recent NSA spying campaign continues not only on we the people as we are deemed potential terrorists daily but also on what used to be Allies of the United States of America.  President Barack Hussein Obama is doing very well to promote our foreign relations.  Take Germany for instance:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.balaamsassspeaks.blogspot.com/2014/01/obama-told-germans-white-house-will-go.html" style="color: red;">http://www.balaamsassspeaks.blogspot.com/2014/01/obama-told-germans-white-house-will-go.html</a> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><a href="http://www.thelocal.de/20140120/the-usa-knows-that-for-us-spying-is-a-crime-germany-nsa-obama-snowden" style="color: red;">http://www.thelocal.de/20140120/the-usa-knows-that-for-us-spying-is-a-crime-germany-nsa-obama-snowden</a><br /><br />Perhaps a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT is in order soon as many nations are already ganging up against the U.S.A. making a secure internet along with financial measures to reconstruct the world reserve currency.  If we had a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT you might see these American leaders and bankers eventually put to death for their lawlessness in international relations.<br /><br />The New World Order may not be such a bad idea since Americans are too lazy to take on the "lawmakers" who are both running and ruining our nation.  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">...developing...</div>

Maybe we do need One World Government

Is the U.S.A. becoming a GLOBAL THUG? The recent NSA spying campaign continues not only on we the people as we are deemed potential terroris...

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Attorney General Eric Holder wants Eric Snowden to come home

<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Come home sir you can trust the U.S.A.</b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyYY4hdMmTK-vwzS17xJvzXlafcfslgDaVFuZ7F8FqIuP3ca2TvnyLxfeMXN3Lknjp6aT9lIXx2BK2elcO3aZzQ5aqV53Pt-zs_T9EdGxheN04NM1YGYm8j-wM4gW1xKC2zi48SNkwNzw/s1600/SnowdenHolderPIC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyYY4hdMmTK-vwzS17xJvzXlafcfslgDaVFuZ7F8FqIuP3ca2TvnyLxfeMXN3Lknjp6aT9lIXx2BK2elcO3aZzQ5aqV53Pt-zs_T9EdGxheN04NM1YGYm8j-wM4gW1xKC2zi48SNkwNzw/s1600/SnowdenHolderPIC.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Are we the people really safe in the U.S.A.?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><i>Dear Mr. Snowden:</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>You can trust U.S. because you have your rights according the U.S. Constitution and Bill Of Rights.  We in the Obama Administration took an OATH OF OFFFICE to uphold those rights and preserve, protect, and defend them from all enemies both foreign and domestic.  Why would we seek to kill you?  We honor the unalienable rights of we the people.  Come home now and trust us.  </i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>Sincerely,</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>Attorney General Eric Holder</i></b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">We're from the government; you can trust us</span> </b></div><br /><b>If Snowden comes home the only right he'll be given is THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT.  After they give you THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT then you are REQUIRED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS or you would be charged with OBSTRUCTING.  Sound familiar?  Does anyone really know your rights?<i> </i></b><br /><br />\<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/A2QjuBPDodk?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe>

Attorney General Eric Holder wants Eric Snowden to come home

Come home sir you can trust the U.S.A. Are we the people really safe in the U.S.A.? Dear Mr. Snowden: You can trust U.S. because you have yo...

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GOLD rises and disconnects from SILVER intraday

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>An unusual TECHNICAL ANALYSIS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">GOLD prices today rallied after an overnight low of $1,231.57 hitting a high of the day at $1265.48 and holding steadily higher while SILVER which overnight hit a low of $19.65 broke out above $20.00 to $20.31 but is now back below $20.00 and weakening.  </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What does this mean for GOLD?  Some say the metal may be on its way for a move above $1,300 based on a STRENGTHENING EURO DOLLAR and also a STRONGER JAPANESE YEN as analysts are gauging signs of economic recovery from Europe to Asia while the U.S.A. remains in question due to runaway debt and concerns rising against the U.S. DOLLAR's world reserve currency status.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">NOTICE THE CHARTS below as GOLD holds strong.  This will be monitored very closely as additional concerns are rising on PHYSICAL GOLD being in short supply in U.S. RESERVES:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>NOTICE the STRONG EURO here today.  CHARTS BELOW are CURRENT and so are subject to change when REFRESHED:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="318" src="http://www.finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=6E&cot=099741&p=m5" width="640" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>JAPANESE YEN also RISING intraday:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="318" src="http://www.finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=6J&cot=097741&p=m5" width="640" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>GOLD rises and holds stronger relative to SILVER:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="318" src="http://www.finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=GC&cot=088691&p=m5" width="640" />  </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="318" src="http://www.finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=SI&cot=084691&p=m5" width="640" /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" height="10" src="http://www.finviz.com/gfx/nic2x2.gif" width="10" /> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The US DOLLAR is dropping on concerns of countries moving away from it as a world reserve currency:</b></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="318" src="http://www.finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=DX&cot=098662&p=m5" width="640" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VKPZSG7yaJE?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><b>...developing...</b></div>

GOLD rises and disconnects from SILVER intraday

An unusual TECHNICAL ANALYSIS GOLD prices today rallied after an overnight low of $1,231.57 hitting a high of the day at $1265.48 and holdin...

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Electrical Burn Causes Man's Star-Shaped Cataract (BLOG)

<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/AVvXsEgk9dy8fIQ4zYjItmQ4Yjy_iUYEUgFjDf2KrFuSf9UkxfxKG3GdmEBkRMeR2akCb-M8OIWcxemcW_ZojX4wOcy9zCHow3NCQuJf4XoyUsVs9uzaT7BKBeQjp3M9OnTuGX4uTGdb7bREExk/s1600/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk9dy8fIQ4zYjItmQ4Yjy_iUYEUgFjDf2KrFuSf9UkxfxKG3GdmEBkRMeR2akCb-M8OIWcxemcW_ZojX4wOcy9zCHow3NCQuJf4XoyUsVs9uzaT7BKBeQjp3M9OnTuGX4uTGdb7bREExk/s1600/download.jpg" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8701" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A 42-year old electrician in California developed star-shaped cataracts in his eyes after a serious work-related accident caused electricity to run through his body, according to a new report of the case.</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: 12px; line-height: 17.307693481445313px; 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_9_1_1_1390443181227_8031" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The man's left shoulder came into contact with 14,000 volts of electricity, and an electric current passed through his entire body, including the optic nerve — the nerve that connects the back of the eye to the brain.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8719" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"The optic nerve is similar to any wire that conducts electricity," said Dr. Bobby Korn, an associate professor of clinical ophthalmology at the University of California, San Diego, who treated the patient. "In this case, the extreme current and voltage that passed through this important natural wire caused damage to the optic nerve itself," Korn said. [<a data-rapid_p="8" href="http://www.livescience.com/36881-amazing-medical-images-xrays.html" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8893" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">7 Amazing Images in Medicine</a>]</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8877" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Four weeks after the accident, Korn evaluated the patient, who was experiencing <a data-rapid_p="9" href="http://www.livescience.com/25526-vision-impairment-diabetes.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">vision problems</a>. An examination showed the man had "striking <a data-rapid_p="10" href="http://www.livescience.com/34708-cataract-symptoms-diagnosis-treatments.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">cataracts</a> in both of his eyes," that were star-shaped, Korn said. A cataract is a clouding of the lens in the eye.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The reason cataracts sometimes take on a star shape is not fully understood, Korn said. In animal studies, damage to the eye's lens from electricity first appears as small bubbles called vacuoles on the outside of the lens. These bubbles then coalesce to form a star-shaped cataract, Korn said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8909" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Four months after the accident, the man had surgery to remove the cataracts and implant a new lens, and his vision improved slightly after the operation, Korn said. But the damage to his optic nerve still limited the man's sight, Korn said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8867" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Korn  explained that the eye is like a camera: if the lens is damaged, it can be replaced with a new one, but if the "film" — in this case, the optic nerve and retina — is damaged, "then you'll never get a good picture," Korn said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8955" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Now, 10 years later, the man still has poor vision in both of his eyes, Korn said. But he is able to commute on public transportation and take classes at a community college using assistance, Korn said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8945" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The man's case is reported in the Jan. 23 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8918" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><em>Follow Rachael Rettner</em> <a data-rapid_p="11" href="https://twitter.com/RachaelRettner" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8935" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><em id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_8934">@RachaelRettner</em></a>. <em>Follow LiveScience </em><a data-rapid_p="12" href="https://twitter.com/LiveScience" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="https://twitter/livescience"><em>@livescience</em></a><em>,</em> <em><a data-rapid_p="13" href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/livescience" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.facebook.com/#!/livescience">Facebook</a> & </em><a data-rapid_p="14" href="https://plus.google.com/101164570444913213957/posts" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" title="https://plus.google.com/101164570444913213957/posts"><em>Google+</em></a><em>. 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Electrical Burn Causes Man's Star-Shaped Cataract (BLOG)

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Justin Bieber Wearing a Red Jumpsuit in Jail? (BLOG, VIDEO)

<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/AVvXsEj4ST0phzlB7uqtXzQgD14nBcMEPGRW_taPimOteaJOiak1M-r89wVGmmJdKeEDSHENCXli13p3a_WqvwcMAhYeEJHAY2VCEtG06tt2lyEigRkaWgXvvAy3UfMbfj93UDrYpS47MChgUlA/s1600/7e330df9-427e-4751-9b16-124eee23bd78_1024_Justin-Bieber_MugShot_012314.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/AVvXsEj4ST0phzlB7uqtXzQgD14nBcMEPGRW_taPimOteaJOiak1M-r89wVGmmJdKeEDSHENCXli13p3a_WqvwcMAhYeEJHAY2VCEtG06tt2lyEigRkaWgXvvAy3UfMbfj93UDrYpS47MChgUlA/s1600/7e330df9-427e-4751-9b16-124eee23bd78_1024_Justin-Bieber_MugShot_012314.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">By now we've seen dozens of celebrity mug shots. Seriously … when you hear the name </span><a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-person" data-rapid_p="11" href="http://celebrity.yahoo.com/celebs/lindsay-lohan/36" style="background-color: white; color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; text-decoration: none;">Lindsay Lohan</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">, doesn't one of the handful of images of her in an orange jumpsuit pop into your head?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">So why, then, was Justin Bieber was decked out in red at his court appearance on Thursday afternoon at Miami-Dade Circuit Court?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">Different jails have different colors to classify inmates, but in Bieber's case, it's pretty simple.</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Janelle Hall, community affairs unit manager at Miami-Dade County jail, confirms to Yahoo that Justin's red jumpsuit signifies that he is a "high-profile inmate."<br /><br />Sometimes that can mean the inmate will be held in isolation. Given Bieber's status and notoriety, it's likely that was the case for the "Bad Day" singer.<br /><br />There has been no shortage of public shaming today for Justin. Not only did the <a data-rapid_p="12" href="https://twitter.com/MiamiBeachPD" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Miami Beach PD</a> tweet out up-to-date information on the social media site (even blasting out the pop star's mug shot for the world to see), but there was a live video stream of his bond hearing.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><span class="yui-media yui-editorial-embed"></span></div><div class="yom-figure yom-fig-center" id="ymh-player-swf" style="background-color: white; clear: none; float: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; left: 0px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;"><iframe class="embed-module" data-embed-type="embedIframes" data-yom-embed-source="{media_id_1:c460ae78-d08c-3776-9ec6-1452bc3d647b}" frameborder="0" height="360" id="yom-video-c460ae78-d08c-3776-9ec6-1452bc3d647b" src="http://celebrity.yahoo.com/video/extra-justin-bieber-bond-court-182200954.html?format=embed&player_autoplay=false" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640"></iframe></div><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">Bieber, 19, </span><a data-rapid_p="13" href="http://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/justin-bieber-busted-for-dui--drag-racing-in-lamborghini-125550058.html" style="background-color: white; color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">was pulled over</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"> in a rented Lamborghini early Thursday morning for drag racing. When police performed a field sobriety test, Justin failed and was arrested for DUI. He was also charged with resisting arrest without violence and driving with an expired driver's license.</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Justin was released from jail around 11:30 a.m. PST. If Bieber was fazed by the whole ordeal, it didn't show. The singer climbed up on an awaiting SUV and waved to a crowd of fans gathered outside.<span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1390516143325"></span></div><div class="yom-fig-frame" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390516878344_1466" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin: auto; text-align: center; width: 730.078125px;"><span id="schemaorg"><div class="yom-figure yom-fig-middle" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390516878344_1465" style="clear: none; float: none; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 630px;"><img alt="" class="editorial " id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390516878344_1464" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.7leUfVF1zGEa..Te8xnwQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTtzbT0xO3c9NjMw/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/omg/2014-01-23/089e1ed2-0e56-46c3-b96e-a3672fdd0072_2048_JustinBieber_JailRelease2_012314.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important;" title="Justin Bieber is released from jail, climbs car to greet fans (Splash News)" width="630" /><div class="legend" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390516878344_1494" style="background-image: none; color: grey; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; text-align: left;">Justin Bieber is released from jail, climbs car to greet fans (Splash News)</div></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390516878344_1488" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">So far, no sign of model Chantel Jeffries, who was <a data-rapid_p="14" href="http://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/bieber-mystery-woman-who-was-with-justin-when-he-was-arrested-182559864.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">believed to be the passenger</a> in Justin's car when he was arrested.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390516878344_1482" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">We're sure Selena Gomez isn't missing riding shotgun with the Biebs.</div></div>

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Water vapor plumes raise question about life on dwarf planet Ceres (BLOG)

<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/AVvXsEgTBfV2c-2JYjJ2GrcgeqrTu23pghHtch8n0UjVfSZSC3LxmE9Vns0rQpLVQ8Xx_Z05yBeI2kHwoNVO9qzH9Slixnfuu6ciMgADYrvBuWZdgttLGRG3ptHH0nhI9ny3ezP4HU2iFgzCTDI/s1600/2014-01-23T005709Z_1_CBREA0M02NG00_RTROPTP_2_SPACE-CERES.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTBfV2c-2JYjJ2GrcgeqrTu23pghHtch8n0UjVfSZSC3LxmE9Vns0rQpLVQ8Xx_Z05yBeI2kHwoNVO9qzH9Slixnfuu6ciMgADYrvBuWZdgttLGRG3ptHH0nhI9ny3ezP4HU2iFgzCTDI/s1600/2014-01-23T005709Z_1_CBREA0M02NG00_RTROPTP_2_SPACE-CERES.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_5543" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">By Will Dunham</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: 12px; line-height: 17.307693481445313px; 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_9_1_1_1390443181227_5548" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The dwarf planet Ceres, one of the most intriguing objects in the solar system, is gushing water vapor from its unusual ice-covered surface, scientists said on Wednesday in a finding that raises the question of whether it might be hospitable to life.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_5556" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Using the European Space Agency's Herschel infrared space telescope, researchers spotted plumes of water vapor periodically spewing from Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt residing between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_5566" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The discovery comes just over a year before the scheduled arrival of NASA's Dawn spacecraft for a closer look at Ceres, a round body measuring about 590 miles in diameter - less than a third of the size of the moon.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"This is the first time water vapor has been unequivocally detected on Ceres or any other object in the asteroid belt and provides proof that Ceres has an icy surface and an atmosphere," Michael Küppers of the European Space Agency in Spain, who led the research published in the journal Nature, said in a statement.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The question is what is causing these plumes of water vapor from two locations on Ceres. One idea, according to scientists, is that the sun sometimes warms parts of the icy surface enough that water vapor emerges.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; 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-rapid_p="8" data-uuid="f53ab642-9b31-3219-8dca-ede91f4d4ffb" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/dwarf-planet-ceres-seen-main-asteroid-belt-between-photo-010050986.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Dwarf planet Ceres is seen in the main asteroid belt,&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: 217px; 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: 16px; 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: 16px; 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 no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-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="Dwarf planet Ceres is seen in the main asteroid belt,&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="217" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/CfxtMZWCbYJVBPv_0KuOMw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIxNztxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-01-23T010050Z_1_CBREA0M02TF00_RTROPTP_2_SPACE-CERES.JPG" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; 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;">Dwarf planet Ceres is seen in the main asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, as ill …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Another possibility, they say, is that there is liquid water under the frozen surface of Ceres and that vapor is shooting out of geysers or icy volcanoes. Dramatic geysers have been spotted on Enceladus, one of the innermost moons of the giant ringed planet Saturn.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Scientists think Ceres holds rock in its interior and is wrapped in a mantle of ice that, if melted, would amount to more fresh water than is contained on Earth.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Ceres was discovered in 1801, more than a century before the discovery in 1930 of the more famous - and more distant - dwarf planet Pluto. It is one of the few places in the solar system aside from Earth where water has been located.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A big question about the discovery of the water vapor on Ceres is what it means regarding the possibility of life.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"One of the things that's intriguing here is the possibility of there being liquid water as opposed to ice," Marc Rayman of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dawn's chief engineer and mission director, said in a telephone interview.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Certainly all life that we know depends on water. And so this is part of the larger question of where can life exist."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">He said it is too early to declare that Ceres a good candidate for possible microbial life.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"I think that's a stretch," Rayman said. "Rather, I would say this indicates Ceres might be a good place to look to understand more about the places life could form - and perhaps places that life has formed.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"There's a lot more than just water that's required for life. And whether Ceres has those other ingredients - which include, for example, a source of energy and all of the nutrients that life requires, the rest of the chemistry - it's too early to say."</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_5585" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Rayman said scientists plan to use instruments aboard Dawn to map the surface of Ceres, measure its surface elevations, catalogue its minerals and study its interior structure. Dawn is due to arrive at Ceres in March or April 2015.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_5570" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">(Editing by Eric Walsh)</div></div>

Water vapor plumes raise question about life on dwarf planet Ceres (BLOG)

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I Can Beleib It

Heh. The little bastard is reaping a buttload of Karma these days.<br /><br />Good.<br /><br />Not only am <i>I </i>sick of hearing of this spoiled little asshole, I'm sure there are plenty of other people that feel the same way.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/showbiz/justin-bieber-arrest/"><b>Justin Bieber arrested on drunken driving, resisting arrest charges</b></a></blockquote><blockquote>(CNN) -- Justin Bieber was charged with drunken driving, resisting arrest and driving without a valid license after police saw the pop star street racing early Thursday morning, Miami Beach police said.<br /><br />"What the f*** did I do? Why did you stop me?" Bieber asked the police officer who pulled him over just after 4 a.m., according to the arrest report.<br /><br />Bieber, 19, was released from a Miami jail an hour after he made a brief appearance through a video link before a Miami judge, who set a "standard" $2,500 bond Thursday afternoon.<br /><br />He strutted out of the jail dressed in black, with a baggy hoodie covering his head. His pants appeared to be baggy leather. Bieber briefly sat on top of a black Cadillac Escalade, where he waved to screaming fans, before he was chauffeured away.<br /><br />At the bail hearing, the singer, dressed in an orange jail uniform, stood silently with his lips sometimes pursed as attorney Roy Black represented him in the hearing earlier.<br /><br />Black told Judge Joseph Farina that he had been retained by Bieber's manager. He said his partner had been denied access to Bieber in jail before the hearing.<br /><br />Bieber was booked into a Miami jail after failing a sobriety test, Miami Beach Police Chief Raymond Martinez told reporters Thursday.<br /><br /><br />Bieber "made some statements that he had consumed some alcohol, and that he had been smoking marijuana and consumed some prescription medication," Martinez said.<br /><br />A Miami Beach officer saw Bieber driving a yellow Lamborghini in a race against a red Ferrari in a residential area of Miami Beach, Martinez said. The cars were speeding at about 55 to 60 mph in a 30 mph zone, he said.</blockquote><br />He's damn lucky they didn't kick his privileged little ass for this next bit;<br /><br /><blockquote>The officer pulled Bieber's car over, but the singer was "was not cooperating with the officer's instructions," Martinez said.<br /><br />"At first, he was a little belligerent, using some choice words questioning why he was being stopped and why the officer was even questioning him," he said.<br /><br />He allegedly ignored a police officer's request to keep his hands on the car while he did "a cursory patdown for weapons," the report said.<br /><br /><b>"I ain't got no f***ing weapons," the arresting officer quoted Bieber as saying. "Why do you have to search me? What the f*** is this about?"</b><br /><br />The arrest report describes Bieber as having a "flushed face, bloodshot eyes, and the odor of alcohol on his breath."<br /><br />Bieber failed a field sobriety test, Miami Beach Police Sgt. Bobby Hernandez told CNN.</blockquote><br />My bold.<br /><br />Anyone else would be sucking air through the gap where his front teeth used to be.<br /><br />This oughtta keep the mouthy little shit occupied for a while.<br /><br />Maybe he can call Lindsey Lohan for some advice.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnoOSvvwehHkDBmLwM52xY9FFYDI5hwfVt2nV24YhQeEXKAAakKfuqDO7ynbMwkDt212DfBDzPOwTBWOUNy8X6gQDn_P9nrSHVMiaYkoEwW24_KzX1CNJjRRxnx78TktXL0sAllccJQCPT/s1600/beiber.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnoOSvvwehHkDBmLwM52xY9FFYDI5hwfVt2nV24YhQeEXKAAakKfuqDO7ynbMwkDt212DfBDzPOwTBWOUNy8X6gQDn_P9nrSHVMiaYkoEwW24_KzX1CNJjRRxnx78TktXL0sAllccJQCPT/s640/beiber.jpg" /></a></div>

I Can Beleib It

Heh. The little bastard is reaping a buttload of Karma these days. Good. Not only am I sick of hearing of this spoiled little asshole, I'...

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Court appeals at least temporarily delay execution (BLOG)

<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/AVvXsEjz9mx57bAZEH1qYOvsr7OwqUIVC5ssHBk9_W974aj5vIbeq0J65ybxauj0vOPEBjd7FHiARmft905n1hhCTrt-RffK3DGSstN_n1r1uoUgQjcnFOhF3CvM7wPFccIsdKpFuRytZ2jw5yc/s1600/158cf2dc1c59a703490f6a706700e5b9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz9mx57bAZEH1qYOvsr7OwqUIVC5ssHBk9_W974aj5vIbeq0J65ybxauj0vOPEBjd7FHiARmft905n1hhCTrt-RffK3DGSstN_n1r1uoUgQjcnFOhF3CvM7wPFccIsdKpFuRytZ2jw5yc/s1600/158cf2dc1c59a703490f6a706700e5b9.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_2617" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The execution of a Mexican national was at least temporarily put on hold Wednesday as the U.S. Supreme Court considered appeals to keep 46-year-old Edgar Tamayo from the Texas death chamber.</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: 12px; line-height: 17.307693481445313px; 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_9_1_1_1390443181227_2631" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Tamayo's execution had been scheduled for 6 p.m. CST Wednesday for the slaying 20 years ago of a Texas police officer, Guy Gaddis, 24. The state still could execute Tamayo before midnight if the Supreme Court rules in its favor.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_2641" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Texas officials have opposed appeals to stop the scheduled lethal injection, despite pleas and diplomatic pressure from the Mexican government and the U.S. State Department.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_2651" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Tamayo's attorneys and the Mexican government contend Tamayo's case was tainted because he wasn't advised under an international agreement that he could get legal help from his home nation after his arrest. Legal assistance guaranteed under that treaty could have uncovered evidence to contest the capital murder charge or provide evidence to keep Tamayo off death row, Mexican officials have said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Records show the consulate became involved or aware of the case just as his trial was to begin.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Secretary of State John Kerry previously asked Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to delay Tamayo's punishment, saying it "could impact the way American citizens are treated in other countries." The State Department repeated that stance Wednesday.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; 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-rapid_p="8" data-uuid="6d5d65c7-3712-3975-926f-d0971e64489a" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/jan-19-2014-photo-woman-holds-sign-showing-photo-060756044.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="In this Jan. 19, 2014 photo, a woman holds up a sign&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: 16px; 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: 16px; 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 no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-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="In this Jan. 19, 2014 photo, a woman holds up a sign&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="206" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/NnwWDcp7W3WYONP0ewzkkA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIwNjtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/36b0c5caf8d19102490f6a7067005d50.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; 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;">In this Jan. 19, 2014 photo, a woman holds up a sign showing a photo of Texas death-row inmate Edgar …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">But Abbott's office and the Harris County district attorney opposed postponing what would be the first execution this year in the nation's most active capital punishment state, where 16 people were put to death in 2013.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The high court was considering at least two appeals. One focused on the consular issue. The other was related to whether Tamayo was mentally impaired and ineligible for the death penalty. The execution warrant remains in effect until midnight.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Tamayo's lawyers went to the Supreme Court after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said an appeal this week renewing an earlier contention that Tamayo was mentally impaired and ineligible for execution was filed too late.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday rejected Tamayo's request for clemency.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"It doesn't matter where you're from," Perry spokeswoman Lucy Nashed said. "If you commit a despicable crime like this in Texas, you are subject to our state laws, including a fair trial by jury and the ultimate penalty."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Gaddis, who had been on the force for two years, was driving Tamayo and another man from a robbery scene when evidence showed the officer was shot three times in the head and neck with a pistol Tamayo had concealed in his pants. The car crashed, and Tamayo fled on foot but was captured a few blocks away, still in handcuffs, carrying the robbery victim's watch and wearing the victim's necklace.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">At least two other inmates in circumstances similar to Tamayo's were executed in Texas in recent years.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Mexican government said in a statement this week it "strongly opposed" the execution and said failure to review Tamayo's case and reconsider his sentence would be "a clear violation by the United States of its international obligations."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Tamayo was in the U.S. illegally and had a criminal record in California, where he had served time for robbery and was paroled, according to prison records.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Not one person is claiming the suspect didn't kill Guy Gaddis," Ray Hunt, president of the Houston Police Officers' Union, said. "He had the same rights as you and I would have.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"This has been looked at, heard, examined and it's time for the verdict of the jury to be carried out."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Tamayo was among more than four dozen Mexican nationals awaiting execution in the U.S. when the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, ruled in 2004 they hadn't been advised properly of their consular rights. The Supreme Court subsequently said hearings urged by the international court in those inmates' cases could be mandated only if Congress implemented legislation to do so.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443181227_2680" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Unfortunately, this legislation has not been adopted," the Mexican foreign ministry acknowledged.</div></div>

Court appeals at least temporarily delay execution (BLOG)

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The execution of a Mexican national was at least temporarily put on hold Wednesday as the U.S. Supreme Court consid...

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It's Amazing Such A Thing Can Happen In This Day And Age

With all the technology available, satellites that can read newspaper headlines from space,there could possibly be something as large as an ocean liner that no one can find.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/ghost-ship-crewed-cannibal-rats-3052924#.UuFtZLSIbIU"><br /><b>GHOST ship crewed only by CANNIBAL rats feared to be heading for Britain</b></a></blockquote><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkF1CuMoQz6n-lA4t6VehyU_3cwltWNASktrd8DCEIYm6j-BdPyXANfzZkL-iUiHg0IfX90sKfSuu5rlAhnNsg5vJ4WFi94zawIKYW6MTwk05Z737SBhy-Yh9g2bCyJrKiYYwPWpSriFJq/s1600/ship.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkF1CuMoQz6n-lA4t6VehyU_3cwltWNASktrd8DCEIYm6j-BdPyXANfzZkL-iUiHg0IfX90sKfSuu5rlAhnNsg5vJ4WFi94zawIKYW6MTwk05Z737SBhy-Yh9g2bCyJrKiYYwPWpSriFJq/s640/ship.jpg" /></a></div><br /><blockquote>A ghost ship crewed only by CANNIBAL rats is feared to be heading for Britain.<br /><br />The hulk of cruise ship Lyubov Orlova has been adrift in the North Atlantic for the past year after being cut loose off the coast of Canada.<br /><br />But now coastguards are reportedly worried the recent storms may have driven her thousands of miles towards our own coastline.<br /><br />The 300ft vessel, built 40 years ago in the Soviet Union, has nothing aboard but packs of disease-ridden rodents who are forced to prey on one another to survive.<br /><br />Her current position is unknown despite several high-level searches.<br /><br />Last year satellites picked up an unidentified blip off Scotland large enough to be the ship — but search planes found nothing.<br /><br />As well as the authorities, salvage hunters — after the 4,250-ton vessel's £600,000 value as scrap — are scouring the seas for any trace of her.<br /></blockquote><br /><br />

It's Amazing Such A Thing Can Happen In This Day And Age

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Seattle's Sherman surprised by public reaction (BLOG)

<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/AVvXsEhfIRq2q3S0YeCr8dbq_JotgPEj2vvryz1AzX_In5Al96NbVs1SRNsynmUNGigYZx1fCdLj7W9XjiQL_oROnb-sNmxUCxlI0mwCVGEOegvkv3eOcYJqb0RloXZiWArrkofDFnMP951p5Bg/s1600/201401221516549716333.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfIRq2q3S0YeCr8dbq_JotgPEj2vvryz1AzX_In5Al96NbVs1SRNsynmUNGigYZx1fCdLj7W9XjiQL_oROnb-sNmxUCxlI0mwCVGEOegvkv3eOcYJqb0RloXZiWArrkofDFnMP951p5Bg/s1600/201401221516549716333.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443035258_2444" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">RENTON, Wash. (AP) -- <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="8" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/24941" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Richard Sherman</a> wondered if he came to the NFL 20 years too late.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443035258_2428" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''I studied the old school game more than I studied the new school game, and I play it that way. It rubs a lot of people the wrong way,'' Sherman said Wednesday. ''Giving a true speech after a game, a true passionate speech is old school football. Playing press corner and sitting up there every play is old school football. I guess maybe I just haven't adjusted to the times.''The <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_team" data-rapid_p="9" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/sea" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443035258_2435" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Seattle Seahawks</a>' All-Pro cornerback wondered if his swagger might have fit better a few decades earlier when that confidence and an unfiltered tongue was perhaps more accepted.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443035258_2460" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman spoke at length for the first time since Sunday's NFC championship game win over San Francisco where his postgame comments to Fox reporter Erin Andrews became the talking point. It was a loud, emotional moment that happened just a few minutes after the Seahawks earned the second Super Bowl berth in franchise history.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman was at the center of the decisive play, deflecting a pass intended for <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="10" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9274" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Michael Crabtree</a> in the end zone and watching teammate Malcolm Smith run over to intercept it to clinch the victory. Sherman's ensuing remarks were directed mostly at Crabtree but his intense, shouting delivery is what took people aback.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman said the reaction that followed over the next two days left him a little stunned as well.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; 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-rapid_p="11" data-uuid="1ca5da06-b5a9-3fb9-8263-e8b6098d3350" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/seattle-39-sherman-surprised-public-photo-002049383--nfl.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Seattle&#39;s Sherman surprised by public reaction"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 188px; 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: 16px; 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: 16px; 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 no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-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="Seattle&#39;s Sherman surprised by public reaction" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="188" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/A_Gp9r.OXIw_.Vd3_lxyew--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTE4ODtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/Sports/ap/201401221638598816460" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; 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;">Seattle Seahawks' Richard Sherman, left, listens as Dave Pearson, team vice president of communi …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''I was surprised by it. Because we're talking about football here and a lot of people took it a little bit further than football.'' Sherman said. ''I guess some people showed how far we have really come in this day and age and it was kind of profound what happened and people's opinions of that nature, because I was on a football field showing passion. Maybe it was misdirected, maybe things may have been immature, maybe things could have been worded better but this is on a football field. I didn't commit any crimes, I wasn't doing anything illegal. I was showing passion after a football game.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman apologized for taking away the spotlight from the performances by some of his teammates. Marshawn Lynch's 109 yards rushing and 40-yard touchdown, Jermaine Kearse's 35-yard touchdown catch on fourth-down and Bobby Wagner's 15 tackles all became secondary to Sherman's words.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">What seemed to bother Sherman the most in the fallout was hearing the word ''thug'' attached to his name.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''The only reason it bothers me is it seems like it's an accepted way of calling someone the N-word nowadays. It's like everybody else said the N-word and they said thug and they're like, 'that's fine,''' Sherman said. ''That's where it kind of takes me aback. It's kind of disappointing because they know. What is the definition of a thug, really?''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman then referenced seeing highlights of the Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames playing on Saturday when a fight broke out two seconds into the game.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; 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-rapid_p="12" data-uuid="761208db-2bbc-39ca-8276-e4910e5007e5" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/seattle-39-sherman-surprised-public-photo-002049199--nfl.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Seattle&#39;s Sherman surprised by public reaction"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 138px; 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: 16px; 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: 16px; 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 no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-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="Seattle&#39;s Sherman surprised by public reaction" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="138" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Y0W7jDziPkFIk6oZVQNPXw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTEzODtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/Sports/ap/201401221636598176458" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; 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;">Seattle Seahawks' Richard Sherman speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, in R …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''They didn't even play hockey. They just threw their sticks aside and started fighting,'' he said. ''I saw that and said, 'Oh, man, I'm the thug? What's going on here. Geez.' I'm really disappointed in being called a thug.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">While there's been criticism for his rant, he's also received support. Perhaps most surprising was a tweet from baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron. Not a huge user of social media - Aaron had sent seven tweets before Tuesday - his message to Sherman read, ''hang in there & keep playing as well as you did Sunday. Excellent job - you have my support.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman was peppered with questions for more than 20 minutes Wednesday. Teammate <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="13" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/25785" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Russell Wilson</a> was also asked about the fallout. He said it hasn't been a distraction as the Seahawks begin preparing for Denver.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman also didn't like hearing that some have labeled the team villainous.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''Anytime you label Russell Wilson a villain it has to be a joke,'' he said.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; 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-rapid_p="14" data-uuid="e6a5116e-149b-37b2-a7f1-62008ef0ef27" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/seattle-39-sherman-surprised-public-photo-002049861--nfl.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Seattle&#39;s Sherman surprised by public reaction"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 191px; 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: 16px; 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: 16px; 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 no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-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="Seattle&#39;s Sherman surprised by public reaction" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="191" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UXulPg2pW0JVf7MTcgYJ7g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTE5MTtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/Sports/ap/201401221632595326450" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; 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;">Seattle Seahawks' Richard Sherman laughs as he speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 2 …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman said he has not reached out to Crabtree. Sherman attempted to shake Crabtree's hand following the interception only to get shoved in the face. Even after his on-field interview, Sherman continued to deride Crabtree in his postgame media session, calling the receiver ''mediocre'' and later saying their problems dated to an incident during an offseason event in Arizona.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443035258_2496" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sherman said he doesn't regret the choke sign he directed at San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick, a gesture that drew a 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390443035258_2490" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''No man, it's Reggie Miller,'' Sherman said. ''It's Reggie Miller. It's rivalries, right?''</div></div>

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