Ukraine opposition struggles after Russia deal (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/AVvXsEgHJFyEj98nGgaWqDLda1iwcn8dD6i5WnlBIDyU4odBzbld9kFBEbDgpFLdYXjKH3bJWbkDHCU2sp_Gh0M8MX1foKPmUE_jHPpangmH1x-zKQx-ykDcsaQloK3cuUu0xiYFWaQf43vkUZo/s1600/060e63796bcf47b7b45f1ab563c9d4e9747ed8bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHJFyEj98nGgaWqDLda1iwcn8dD6i5WnlBIDyU4odBzbld9kFBEbDgpFLdYXjKH3bJWbkDHCU2sp_Gh0M8MX1foKPmUE_jHPpangmH1x-zKQx-ykDcsaQloK3cuUu0xiYFWaQf43vkUZo/s320/060e63796bcf47b7b45f1ab563c9d4e9747ed8bb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_7754" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Kiev (AFP) - Ukraine's opposition is in disarray after failing to offer a clear agenda to their supporters in response to the signing by President Viktor Yanukovych of a bailout deal with Russia, analysts say.</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: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"><section class="yom-mod " data-ylk="mid:mediacontentrelatedstory;mpos:1;elm:hdln;elmt:ct;cat:Related Stories;rspns:nav;t1:a3;itc:0;sec:lst-ct;" id="mediacontentrelatedstory" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></section></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_7744" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">While the protests against the authorities' decision to scrap an integration pact with the EU under Kremlin pressure have continued in the streets of Kiev, opposition leaders appear unable to harness this support in an effective way.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_7764" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Last week Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to buy $15 billion (11 billion euros) of Ukraine's debt in eurobonds and slash its gas bill by a third to preserve Kremlin influence in its neighbour.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_7769" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Tens of thousands rallied Sunday for the latest major weekend protest against Yanukovych but the turnout was the lowest since the mass protests started on November 24.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_7775" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"It is clear that Yanukovych has retained his standing and received an additional resource in the form of the deal with Russia," said Volodymyr Fesenko, director of the Penta political research centre.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_7780" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The protesters have occupied Independence Square -- known in Kiev as the Maidan -- since late November and erected barricades to prevent security forces from entering the area.</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: 24px; 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="200dce50-8f8d-3cd1-8dfb-9d33cd4c7b56" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ukrainian-flags-left-protesters-remain-attached-statues-monument-photo-190821357.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; 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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="Ukrainian flags left by protesters remain attached&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="202" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/NPodO_7OoBuoFx5hoDfYGQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIwMjtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/f3c8cfe86911e36c8a0a5ba513ff182dd0906195.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" id="geom_inter_79_1387828709671_80" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Ukrainian flags left by protesters remain attached to statues at a monument honoring the founders of …</div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_7785" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Several police attempts to shift the protest camp ended in failure and provoked outrage inside and outside Ukraine over the use of force against peaceful protesters.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_7790" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">While it seemed in early December that Yanukovych might not be able to withstand the protests, the Moscow agreement could be a turning point as the authorities seek to gain the upper hand.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_7796" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">'There is no leader'</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_7802" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The three main opposition leaders -- world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, Arseniy Yatsenyuk who heads the faction of jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and nationalist Oleg Tyagnybok -- have appeared at a loss over how to respond.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The three were taken aback by the lack of concessions offered in public by Yanukovych to the Kremlin for the help, which would have provided them with a major weapon to mobilise supporters.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; 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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: 16px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">A protester holds his daughter, at the camp of the Ukrainian opposition on Independence Square in Ki …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"There is no leader, no personification of the Maidan," said Ukrainian political analyst Vadym Karasev, adding the trio are also riven by internal divisions.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Their demands to punish policemen who beat up students during an early bid to disperse the protests on November 30 and the resignation of the current government are still unanswered.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Only Klitschko wants early presidential elections, but there is no support from others," said Karasev, saying the three opposition leaders had presidential ambitions with no desire to yield to the other.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Having missed the chance to shake Yanukovych from his perch, each of the opposition leaders may have already begun his campaign for the next presidential polls to be held in March 2015.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Experts believe that the opposition should have been more convincing in its closed-door negotiations with Ukraine's oligarchs, who control a lot of pro-government members of parliament.</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: 24px; 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="10" data-uuid="5ad72d5e-0d93-303f-ab92-1ad548fab1c9" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/protesters-cook-camp-ukrainian-opposition-independence-square-kiev-photo-190821980.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; 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color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Protesters cook at the camp of the Ukrainian opposition on Independence Square in Kiev on December 2 …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Despite the annoyance of pickets outside their apartments and offices both in Ukraine and abroad, the Moscow deals show that the country's super rich are still behind Yanukovych for now.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"The backstage struggle failed. It was necessary to seek allies in parliament, among the oligarchs, but it was not done," Karasev said. An expected flood of defections from MPs in Yanukovych's Regions Party never happened.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Where is Yulia?</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Another big problem is the lack among opposition trio of an obvious leader such as the jailed ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a feisty icon of the 2004 Orange Revolution, whose detention supporters say is aimed at eliminating her from politics.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"There is no charismatic leader, no counterweight to Yanukovych," said Karasev.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The leader of the anti-Communist protest movement in the 1980s and former Polish president Lech Walesa told Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita that he did not "see a major social movement that would overthrow the government."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Experts say the opposition should prepare for long-term actions. But Tymoshenko has urged them not to waste the Maidan's protest energy by waiting for the 2015 polls to change the president.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_7819" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">She was echoed by former emergencies minister in her cabinet, Viktor Baloga, who called on the opposition "to prevent a loss of tempo" and to prepare an action plan for the near future.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_7812" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"If this goes on, 2015 will not come. It's about saving the country where we live," he wrote on his Facebook page.</div></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPp0GY4lA1hiw4BRQ5tmRxG2c5itIXraeqAvQRWFVXnkgW3JDefTrqiNCYT6dPi1CNstDddSIcbpYqbdYxWjPAL4Yg3ID6BJirn6VjJLAcP0nWGRxHeZa0rLU0DuEai61thSsfQolRT7k/s1600/dbfbd78b1711b02b460f6a706700fce1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPp0GY4lA1hiw4BRQ5tmRxG2c5itIXraeqAvQRWFVXnkgW3JDefTrqiNCYT6dPi1CNstDddSIcbpYqbdYxWjPAL4Yg3ID6BJirn6VjJLAcP0nWGRxHeZa0rLU0DuEai61thSsfQolRT7k/s320/dbfbd78b1711b02b460f6a706700fce1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_5586" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">SEATTLE (AP) — The last time Arizona walked into CenturyLink Field, they were handed the worst beating in franchise history, a 58-0 rout by Seattle that still resonated more than a year later.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_5592" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"We're a different team, different mindset and today was definitely a team win," Arizona defensive end Calais Campbell said. "We've been playing for each other maybe the last eight, nine, 10 weeks. We definitely knew we had the chance to come here and get a victory."That's last trip made the Cardinals' 17-10 win over the Seahawks on Sunday even more meaningful. They erased the memories of the past, while taking down what was widely considered the best team in the NFL at a place no visiting team had won in nearly two calendar years.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_5623" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Carson Palmer overcame four interceptions to find Michael Floyd for a 31-yard touchdown with 2:13 left, and Arizona (10-5) won for the seventh time in eight games and snapped the Seahawks' 14-game home win streak.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Cardinals were nasty on defense, frustrating Russell Wilson into the first home loss of his pro career and giving Palmer a chance to come through late. Palmer did and now Week 17 has meaning for Arizona.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"We're not the same football team we were earlier in the year, that's evident," Arizona coach Bruce Arians said. "The belief in this locker room is strong. I can't wait until next week. I know you have to watch what you wish for."</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: 24px; 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="13" data-uuid="f89818d2-a6ad-3012-b692-6d2b8cb5320e" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/arizona-cardinals-wide-receiver-michael-floyd-15-makes-photo-030549561--spt.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Michael Floyd (15)&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: 205px; 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="Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Michael Floyd (15)&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="205" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/QCQQg0CeQvZ01JgJGiEzlw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIwNTtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/73c833cd170fb02b460f6a706700b43d.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: 16px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Michael Floyd (15) makes a catch for a touchdown around the defense  …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Seattle (12-3) saw its chance of wrapping up the NFC West title and home-field advantage through the playoffs delayed by at least a week. They were unable to get started offensively, failed to capitalize on scoring chances and go to Week 17 still playing for something rather than resting up for the postseason.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"It's a good thing that it happened here because now we know that we're not invincible at home," Seattle wide receiver Doug Baldwin said. "This is going to help us, not only with the next game next week, but through the playoffs if we get home field advantage."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Here are five things learned from the Cardinals' stunning victory over Seattle:</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">NASTY STREAK: Arizona already had the best run defense in the league entering Sunday. What showed up was a pass defense that made Wilson indecisive in the pocket and struggle to find open receivers. He was sacked four times and forced from the pocket many other times. He completed only 11 passes and none of his receivers had more than three receptions. The 108 yards receiving was the lowest total of Wilson's career and his 49.6 passer rating was his worst of the season.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"We have one of the best defenses in the league, and to be one of the best defenses in the league, you've got to go on the road and beat a team like this," Arizona's Darnell Docket said. "We had our minds set to win this battle. This was a team win."</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: 24px; 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="6a6e8839-7928-3505-9f9b-f48d8fc2a6b2" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/arizona-cardinals-wide-receiver-michael-floyd-15-celebrates-photo-030549616--spt.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Michael Floyd (15)&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: 183px; 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="Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Michael Floyd (15)&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="183" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/jYv_mQw9ltJotWTiaLgCHw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTE4MztxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/8de1869f170eb02b460f6a7067009b23.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: 16px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Michael Floyd (15) celebrates after he made a catch for a touchdown  …</div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_5627" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">GOAL-LINE STAND: Lost in the two late touchdowns of the fourth quarter was a key goal-line stop by Arizona late in the second quarter. Malcolm Smith had just intercepted Palmer and returned it to the Cardinals' 3.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_5634" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Seattle tried Marshawn Lynch on first and second downs but he was stopped short both times. On third down, Wilson was rushed and threw incomplete. Following a penalty, Steven Hauschka pulled his 24-yard field goal attempt off the left upright. It was his first true miss of the season, his only other missed attempt was blocked.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_5640" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">SUPER SHERMAN: Even though it came in a losing effort, Richard Sherman continues to make his case to be in the conversation for defensive player of the year. Sherman had two interceptions to reach eight picks for the second consecutive season.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">His first interception he ran the route better than Larry Fitzgerald and was in perfect position to grab Palmer's pass. The second was more luck as he happened to be in position to react on Palmer's pass that floated after he was hit.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">LUCKY BOUNCES: Seattle got two fortunate bounces on two of the four interceptions Palmer threw. But the bigger breaks came to Arizona on two possible turnovers. Running back Rashard Mendenhall was ruled down before fumbling in the fourth quarter on a drive that led to a field goal. Then on Seattle's final drive, Karlos Dansby intercepted a deflected pass off Baldwin that appeared to hit the ground.</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: 24px; 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="15" data-uuid="8b65ed26-ff11-3403-90bb-9d19157f93bc" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/arizona-cardinals-kicker-jay-feely-4-greeted-holder-photo-002554515--spt.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Arizona Cardinals kicker Jay Feely (4) is greeted by&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: 204px; 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="Arizona Cardinals kicker Jay Feely (4) is greeted by&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="204" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/VNl_loJicOvPGYV0m7YYmw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIwNDtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/c767bc6cfd33af2a460f6a7067006203.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: 16px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Arizona Cardinals kicker Jay Feely (4) is greeted by holder Dave Zastudil (9) after Feely kicked a f …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Both plays were reviewed and referee Scott Green said there was not indisputable evidence to overturn either call.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">HOME SWEET HOME? The Seahawks were believed to be impenetrable at home. They had won 14 straight by an average margin of more than 18 points. The home dominance was why so many were already penciling Seattle in for a trip to the Super Bowl if it got home-field advantage in the postseason.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_5685" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">That still may happen, but some of the sheen has been taken off Seattle's home aura.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_5679" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">___</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_5673" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org</div></div>

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Rising Interest Rates: A Long-Term Saver's Perspective

The following chart shows the natural log of the 10-year treasury yield. When using natural logs, exponential growth is seen as a straight line.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiELEfq2JmWlanjwxyJQUMItB1n64J81w9XlZZhW2vFxBlC5KvWngRCSXYMvsSd-eh57o-iQQuauCzEHB0kRNBGFL8vRa-Ex7IQVeoxPcDT36CPjHnRjBdlV-RdzYVNgWDHP8OJwFhvbn4/s1600/10-Year+Treasury+-+Log.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiELEfq2JmWlanjwxyJQUMItB1n64J81w9XlZZhW2vFxBlC5KvWngRCSXYMvsSd-eh57o-iQQuauCzEHB0kRNBGFL8vRa-Ex7IQVeoxPcDT36CPjHnRjBdlV-RdzYVNgWDHP8OJwFhvbn4/s320/10-Year+Treasury+-+Log.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />We've actually clawed our way back to the middle of the long-term declining trend channel. Hurray.<br /><br />The 10-year yield is destined to climb up well outside of that miserable channel soon thanks to our financially innovative, modern, improved, strong, robust, and resilient economy. There are just four things we need to see first.<br /><br />1. <a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=qjT">The End of ZIRP</a><br />2. <a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=qjU">Skyrocketing 5-Year CD Rates</a><br />3. <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snowball%27s_chance_in_hell">Hot Snowballs</a><br />4. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_pig">Avian Pigs</a><br /><br />I could be wrong of course. Perhaps we'll get pork hot dogs at 50% off and flying snowballs instead. What a Christmas that would be!<br /><br /><b>December 23, 2013</b><br /><a href="http://www.northjersey.com/news/237052551_Procrastinators_may_be_rewarded.html">Procrastinators may be rewarded</a><br /><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><i>Abercrombie & Fitch: Fifty percent off the entire store.</i></div><br />Don't forget to load up on Abercrombie & Fitch stock too! <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=ANF&t=5y&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=">50% off!</a> It's all a part of their long-term plan to be financially innovative, modern, improved, strong, robust, and resilient! <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2008/05/our-pillars-of-retail-strength.html">Pillar of retail strength!</a><br /><br /><b>December 23, 2013</b><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-steven-friedman/dark-side-of-after-christ_b_4490468.html">Dark Side of After-Christmas Sales Starting BEFORE Christmas</a><br /><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><i>As some consumers jubilantly hop from store-to-store reaping the benefits of these price-slashing events, <span style="color: red;">I suspect that there may be a hangover waiting</span>.</i></div><br />You think? This is not investment advice.<br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=qjS">St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart</a>

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American jailed over video mocking Dubai teens (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/AVvXsEidMvV-6fU188Pf0jVL2gtFElmU3oeuYYlL_y5jTiFuXtHMxkY6zt4QV_l7ylmCk_ZwFhYVPtNXc3KKYQBMtW4RqwiYord77BVTi3v4bBAYS4ToaetwZMWrMIoLPBfJ61-9__YAe1YlqFM/s1600/71e170cc3b8f8b365e0920025253acfe172d9c4c.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/AVvXsEidMvV-6fU188Pf0jVL2gtFElmU3oeuYYlL_y5jTiFuXtHMxkY6zt4QV_l7ylmCk_ZwFhYVPtNXc3KKYQBMtW4RqwiYord77BVTi3v4bBAYS4ToaetwZMWrMIoLPBfJ61-9__YAe1YlqFM/s320/71e170cc3b8f8b365e0920025253acfe172d9c4c.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_3707" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Abu Dhabi (AFP) - A UAE court jailed on Monday an American and four other men for one year after they made a YouTube video that mocked Dubai teenagers, The National daily reported.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_3697" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">He was also fined 10,000 dirhams ($2,725).Shezanne Cassim, a 29-year-old from Minnesota, has been held since April after being charged with endangering the security of the United Arab Emirates under a cybercrimes law.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_3739" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Two Indian defendants were handed a similar punishment, while two Emirati brothers, already behind bars, were jailed for eight months and each fined 5,000 dirhams ($1,362), The National reported.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_3745" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A Canadian woman, a British woman and an American man who were never detained were also sentenced to one year in jail, in addition to being fined, the newspaper added.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Their link to the spoof video was unclear.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_3751" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The 19-minute video, called the "Satwa Comedy School," gently parodies Dubai teenagers from the city's Satwa district who styled themselves as tough "gangstas" wearing hip-hop clothes and listening to rap music, but who in reality were known for very mild behaviour.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_3757" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In the mock documentary, Cassim and his friends learn the latest techniques of "Satwa G's combat" which include the correct way to throw a shoe at a newspaper, and how in extreme cases to use a mobile phone to call for back-up.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_3763" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Cassim has lived in the United Arab Emirates since 2006. He worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_3769" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">He is now being held in a maximum security prison outside Abu Dhabi.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_3789" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The US State Department, which has already voiced concerns about the cybercrimes law under which Cassim was charged, has been actively raising his case with the Emirati authorities.</div></div>

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Rifle designer Mikhail Kalashnikov dead at 94 (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/AVvXsEgtvUHW7q0uUHlpzCtrmQAnt8ysfjl7Diuz50LmUpxBkDqBbcebjGUcZGWyIcivfMaRCMOBZNs2pYpkPmLuXb5ewiuH_ZXH8MyC5iOJ1IAFyfpu4qU_auRbKZFEIrCZS_ce555nnyAicxo/s1600/6f2aa3bf1a8bc02b460f6a70670010bf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtvUHW7q0uUHlpzCtrmQAnt8ysfjl7Diuz50LmUpxBkDqBbcebjGUcZGWyIcivfMaRCMOBZNs2pYpkPmLuXb5ewiuH_ZXH8MyC5iOJ1IAFyfpu4qU_auRbKZFEIrCZS_ce555nnyAicxo/s320/6f2aa3bf1a8bc02b460f6a70670010bf.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_1523" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Kalashnikov started out wanting to make farm equipment, but the harvest he reaped was one of blood as the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, the world's most popular firearm.</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: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"><section class="yom-mod " data-ylk="mid:mediacontentrelatedstory;mpos:1;elm:hdln;elmt:ct;cat:Related Stories;rspns:nav;t1:a3;itc:0;sec:lst-ct;" id="mediacontentrelatedstory" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></section></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_1514" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">It was the carnage of World War, when Nazi Germany overran much of the Soviet Union, which altered his course and made his name as well-known for bloodshed as Smith, Wesson and Colt. The distinctive shape of the gun, often called "a Kalashnikov," appeared on revolutionary flags and adorns memorabilia.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Kalashnikov died Monday at age 94 in a hospital in Izhevsk, the capital of the Udmurtia republic where he lived, said Viktor Chulkov, a spokesman for the republic's president. He did not give a cause of death. Kalashnikov had been hospitalized for the past month with unspecified health problems.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Kaslashnikov often said he felt personally untroubled by his contribution to bloodshed.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence," he told The Associated Press in 2007.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The AK-47 — "Avtomat Kalashnikov" and the year it went into production — is the world's most popular firearm, favored by guerrillas, terrorists and the soldiers of many armies. An estimated 100 million guns are spread worldwide.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Though it isn't especially accurate, its ruggedness and simplicity are exemplary: it performs in sandy or wet conditions which jam more sophisticated weapons such as the U.S. M-16.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"During the Vietnam war, American soldiers would throw away their M-16s to grab AK-47s and bullets for it from dead Vietnamese soldiers," Kalashnikov said in July 2007 at a ceremony marking the rifle's 60th anniversary.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The weapon's suitability for jungle and desert fighting made it nearly ideal for the Third World insurgents backed by the Soviet Union, and Moscow not only distributed the AK-47 widely but also licensed its production in some 30 other countries.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The gun's status among revolutionaries and national-liberation struggles is enshrined on the flag of Mozambique.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Kalashnikov, born into a peasant family in Siberia, began his working life as a railroad clerk. After he joined the Red Army in 1938, he began to show mechanical flair by inventing several modifications for Soviet tanks.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The moment that firmly set his course was in the 1941 battle of Bryansk against Nazi forces, when a shell hit his tank. Recovering from wounds in the hospital, Kalashnikov brooded about the superior automatic rifles he'd seen the Nazis deploy; his rough ideas and revisions bore fruit five years later.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Blame the Nazi Germans for making me become a gun designer," said Kalashnikov. "I always wanted to construct agricultural machinery."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In 2007, President Vladimir Putin praised him, saying "The Kalashnikov rifle is a symbol of the creative genius of our people."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Over his career, he was decorated with numerous honors, including the Hero of Socialist Labor and Order of Lenin and Stalin Prize. But because his invention was never patented, he didn't get rich off royalties.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"At that time in our country patenting inventions wasn't an issue. We worked for Socialist society, for the good of the people, which I never regret," he once said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Kalashnikov continued working into his late 80s as chief designer of the Izmash company that first built the AK-47. He also traveled the world helping Russia negotiate new arms deals, and he wrote books on his life, about arms and about youth education.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"After the collapse of the great and mighty Soviet Union so much crap has been imposed on us, especially on the younger generation," he said. "I wrote six books to help them find their way in life."</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387828343548_1545" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">He said he was proud of his bronze bust installed in his native village of Kurya in the Siberian region of Altai. He said newlyweds bring flowers to the bust. "They whisper 'Uncle Misha, wish us happiness and healthy kids,'" he said. "What other gun designer can boast of that?"</div></div>

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Incorporate These Tips To Meet Your Excess Fat Damage Targets

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Daniel Will</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Slimming down needs a although, however if you keep by using it, you will realize the final results you want. The article below has information you can use to obtain your dieting and exercise objectives.<br /> <br /> Progressively cutting your caloric intake every day is a great method to drop excess weight. A broad conception is usually to lessen your daily calorie intake by about 500 calories.<br /> <br /> You could possibly actually wish to steer clear of exercising if you are attempting to lose weight. This advice can be applied generally to people who dislike exercising out of simple obligation. As a replacement, you could do some thing enjoyable like use the canine for the go walking, play soccer along with your kids, drive your bike or hike with the woods. This is a fun and rewarding way to get your exercise.<br /> <br /> Celebrate the small points when you get to a reduced milestone, enjoy that second. Purchase something you may have been wanting, or take action just for on your own. This can help to increase your amount of determination although exercising.<br /> <br /> If you plan out meals and treats, make sure you are lowering your total caloric intake on a daily basis. If you eat far more calorie consumption than which you're burning, you should have a difficult time to shed pounds. Even healthy calories need to be included in your total every day calories matter. Have a foods record. It is an priceless body weight-decrease device that can help you take in significantly less.<br /> <br /> Including whole grains for the diet plan which you stick to will help you reduce weight. You are able to investigation what comprises healthier wholegrain choices on your own or by contacting a dietitian. Stay away from food products that claim to be enhanced, enriched or packaged. A lot of companies advertise whenever they use whole grain products inside their items, and when you are aware things to look for shopping for goods that contain cereals is simple.<br /> <br /> Consider the steps should you be attempting to lose weight. This may seem to be insignificant even so, the simple take action of utilizing the stairs can definitely push weight reduction in the direction of your desired goals.<br /> <br /> Purchase cozy and encouraging shoes for exercising. When you put on footwear that do not in shape appropriately, you may injured oneself and sustain a significant injuries. You don't ought to commit a lot of cash on a couple of exercise footwear, but do make certain that they can fit well and give some support.<br /> <br /> Ensuring you stay energetic is a great way to boost your fat loss. Avoid sitting down during the day. This assists keep the metabolic level up so you are constantly eliminating energy and slimming down.<br /> <br /> If you realise on your own really craving a specific bad foods, give in with it. Should you abide by your daily diet, it will not damage to possess a tasty treat or some other deal with now and then. Doing so does not always mean you decreased off the diet regime wagon. This may simply be a pleasure to present your self for sticking to your daily diet and remaining on target with your objectives. Usually do not look to be rewarded all of the time. Ultimately, your brand new method of having should certainly last a lifetime, so anything is improper if you have to maintain constantly fulfilling on your own.<br /> <br /> Once you success a position the place you have dropped a considerable variety of in . or weight, give away each of the clothes which can be now too big. This will likely build up your self confidence, and help you think about your ability to succeed. This can motivate you to adhere to your diet programs and lose much more excess weight going forward.<br /> <br /> Don't forget to feature exercise in almost any weight loss plan. Losing weight necessitates that you burn more calories than you take in. Doing exercises will help slim down quicker because it burns up a lot more calorie consumption. Strength training can develop far more muscles and assist your metabolism, while running and bike riding can burn off of unhealthy calories.<br /> <br /> Don't allow yourself become baffled by all of the fat loss details out there. It's easy to enable that to occur. Be sure to sustain simplicity in the early days so that you will do things smartly. Try your toughest to keep to the details provided in the following paragraphs to find the best chance at accomplishment.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Similar information can be attained on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQNPNt3cGY">kako shujati</a>.</div><br /> </div><br />

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Easy Solutions To Become Successful At Shedding Weight!

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Daniel Will</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>It is entirely possible that any person to lose weight so long as a plan is at place. If you need some weight loss tips to help you along the way, you've can come to the correct position. Although slimming down can be very challenging, it is vital that you never ever stop trying.<br /> <br /> If you love potatoes and are attempting to lose weight, you can utilize cauliflower to make a scrumptious mashed potato replace. Cauliflower florets plus a little onion needs to be prepared in drinking water until sore, then mash up and mixture after some flavoured broth, time of year lightly and you also are carried out. This delightful aspect dish has a small part of the carbohydrates seen in mashed potatoes, but all the diet based in the cole group of fresh vegetables (that also includes cabbage, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts).<br /> <br /> By not ingesting red meat, you may find weight-loss to get much easier. Steak damages your heart and circulatory techniques because of the high cholesterol and saturated fat items. Substitute steak with slimmer alternatives. Tuna, turkey, salmon and chicken are decrease in extra fat and calories.<br /> <br /> A great idea in losing weight is usually to keep yourself active so you simply will not have considerable time thinking of foods. Once we stay about, we believe about things like meals and that creates a wanting that we could cave into. Keeping occupied inhibits these complaints from taking place.<br /> <br /> Don't be embarrassed to keep meals in the dinner table. Most moms and dads make young children try to eat almost everything while they are consuming, and also this can cause bodyweight troubles throughout their adulthood. There may be nothing wrong with taking leftovers back home. Tend not to truly feel pressured to enjoy almost everything on the dish when you are presently complete. Pinpoint the food you are eating and give up when you begin to feel happy.<br /> <br /> To assist in your fight against the bulge, have an exercise good friend. This assists you think of workout like a enjoyable sociable time as opposed to a laborious task. Buddies are an excellent supply of inspiration if you want it you may give the other person assistance. Doing exercises having a close friend can be so much fun that you simply look forward to working out. Before very long, you will certainly be losing all those unwanted weight while having fun.<br /> <br /> When your child is battling with excess weight, make sure that he or she beds down sufficient throughout the night. Youngsters grow whenever they sleeping, which implies they burn fat at night. A young child needs close to 8 hours of relaxation each night. To be certain your kids realise why sleeping is essential, you can illustrate to them how sleep impacts their progress.<br /> <br /> Dietary fads are often best prevented. Weight loss plans that limit the types of meals that you simply take in may possibly set your wellbeing in peril. Fad diet plans appear quickly, stick around to get a short while and often nourish swiftly. These diet plans may go apart instead of allow you to be healthier.<br /> <br /> Attempt preparing a huge set of meals every weekend, then dividing it into healthier servings and cold each. Maintaining the fridge stocked with wholesome foods that you could make quickly is a terrific way to avoid the pitfall of take out. Large food preparation also saves you lots of money due to the fact you end up acquiring all things in bulk then using it all up. Using this method, it is possible to guarantee that these ingredients tend not to ruin prior to you have a possiblity to utilize them.<br /> <br /> Be sure you take in a lot of sensible food while you are dieting. Do not be fooled into by way of a package which says low fat but has no nutrients. You might slim down this way, but your wellness will be affected long term.<br /> <br /> When you're trying to lose weight, tell people that you're accomplishing this. Maybe writing a blog about this can help you out. This may aid in your objectives due to the fact by not looking to enable your audience down, you are more likely to follow-through along with your programs.<br /> <br /> To sum up, more and more people every day make an effort to shed unwanted weight. You can find people who achieve actual success and develop excellent bodies. Other folks simple forget to get to their goals and end up rear in which they started off from at the beginning. Keep to the ideas from this article to successfully slim down.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Read more about <a href="http://www.facebook.com/PopolnaPostava/info">kako hitro shujati</a>.</div><br /> </div><br />

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<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Angela Briggs</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Skinny wraps are advertised and sold as the latest aid to reducing body weight, tone muscles and tighten the skin. They use different ingredients and methods of application. Some doctors also recommend exercise and diets during the treatment period. This is an important topic that most people taking unhealthy foods should consider looking at and ask themselves how do skinny wraps work?<br /> <br /> The body cells accumulate toxic substances from the consumption of alcohol, medication, caffeine and artificial sweeteners. This diminishes the ability of the cells to break down fatty substances with longer molecular chains. These fats are stored in cells leading to obesity and weight gain. This even worse when the people taking such food components do not do much exercise to help the body to burn at least some of the toxic fats stored.<br /> <br /> They are made from a variety of organic substances ranging from clay, organic and plant oils, chocolate, butter, herbs, sea weeds and honey. The method of application also differs for different products. Some may prescribe application of paste to the area to be treated and then fasten the wrap over. Others have the paste in band itself.<br /> <br /> The substances in the materials, when worn around the targeted area, induce sweating. The toxins are extracted out of cells along with the sweat. This helps the cells to better break down the complex fatty acid molecules to generate energy that can be used by the body to do function.<br /> <br /> The detoxification and extraction of bodily fluids, from wearing them result in sweating and dehydration. This requires the wearer to drink sufficient water, throughout the period of treatment. Using this method also increases the rate of metabolism in body cells, and can lead to an increase in rate of heart beat.<br /> <br /> Other users think that they only serve to extract the excess water in the cells. This leads to excessive sweating during the course of the treatment, requiring a very high intake of water. It can also lead to the acceleration of pulse rate. The water extracted they claim, is soon replenished on having a regular diet. In as much as this is just a method that is believed to work, it is worth trying it out because it may just be successful.<br /> <br /> As they have been in use for only a short period of time. How they operate has not been explained in any definite terms. It is assumed that the ingredients used in treatment do the function of cleansing the toxins. They are however making inroads in health care segment.<br /> <br /> Asking <A href="http://www.bbskinnywraps.com">how do skinny wraps work?</A> This is an important question that anyone with an aim of living healthy long life must ask themselves because it is greatly necessary. Most people are not conscious of what they take until they fall ill. It is important to always take care before sicknesses strike as it is much cheaper to prevent sicknesses than treat them.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>how do skinny wraps work? We've got the answer right here at <a href="http://www.bbskinnywraps.com">www.bbskinnywraps.com</a>. To tighten and tone your body in less than one hour, just visit our official website on http://www.bbskinnywraps.com.</div><br /> </div><br />

How Do Skinny Wraps Work?

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Eagles fire warning shot (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/AVvXsEjBF6YmhcfXDvLJFxW6HoMAfk8w4q96rPAy9sdest9-BsJQp1Tw-eQypHGDuqQeqHsyFiMLH6TGBTGuBWH7xICGi4dxvrZNzyV2BViKTq6qop0vnK1hoIyme9bmGGj5KqWNjJnJ3__S1Lo/s1600/espnapi_dm_131222_nfl_eagles_v_bears_wmain.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/AVvXsEjBF6YmhcfXDvLJFxW6HoMAfk8w4q96rPAy9sdest9-BsJQp1Tw-eQypHGDuqQeqHsyFiMLH6TGBTGuBWH7xICGi4dxvrZNzyV2BViKTq6qop0vnK1hoIyme9bmGGj5KqWNjJnJ3__S1Lo/s320/espnapi_dm_131222_nfl_eagles_v_bears_wmain.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">PHILADELPHIA – That should get Dallas' attention.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The Eagles didn't have to play like that. They didn't have to hang half a hundred on Chicago. They didn't have to rack up 514 yards of offense or gain 9.0 yards per pass play or hold the Bears to 5-of-14 on third downs.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Chicago was playing for everything. Philadelphia was playing for nothing. With a win, the Bears would take the NFC North. With a win, the Eagles would gain nothing but momentum. And yet Philadelphia trounced the Bears 54-11 by scoring every way imaginable: on the ground, in the air, a long field goal, a safety and an interception return for a touchdown. It was a thorough whipping.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">And certainly Dallas noticed.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The NFC East championship game will be Sunday night at Jerry World, and Philadelphia will go in with as much momentum as a team on a one-game winning streak could have. All season, the Eagles had been trying to score 50 points. It was a goal. And against a Bears team that is awful against the run, they succeeded in dominating fashion.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/14877/nick-foles" style="color: #2e538f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Nick Foles</a> was dialed in. He completed 21 of 25 passes for 230 yards, two touchdowns and a 131.7 passer rating. Three of Foles' incomplete passes came when he was trying to throw the ball away. He was poised. He was careful with the football. He froze defensive backs with pump fakes. He thrived in play action.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Foles had as good of an all-around game as he has had since becoming the Eagles' full-time starter. Seven Eagles caught passes, including tight ends <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/10605/brent-celek" style="color: #2e538f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Brent Celek</a> and Zach Ertz and running back <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/12514/lesean-mccoy" style="color: #2e538f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">LeSean McCoy</a>.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">And the Eagles' running game thrived. McCoy rushed for 133 yards and two touchdowns. McCoy's backup,  <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/15092/bryce-brown" style="color: #2e538f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Bryce Brown</a>, rushed for 115 yards and a touchdown on nine carries. Brown's backup, <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/14889/chris-polk" style="color: #2e538f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Chris Polk</a>, rushed for a touchdown.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The Eagles completely dominated on offense. They won the battle in the trenches on both sides of the ball. The defense harassed <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/9597/jay-cutler" style="color: #2e538f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Jay Cutler</a> all day, eventually chasing him out of the game in the fourth quarter. Punter <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/5749/donnie-jones" style="color: #2e538f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Donnie Jones</a> didn't get much work, but when he did, he pinned the Bears deep in their own territory.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">For a team that had lost 48-30 at Minnesota the week before, this meant something.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Few would have blamed Chip Kelly if he had approached the Bears game as an exhibition. He could have rested his starters. He could have protected his stars from the possibility of injury. He could have played for next week. It would have been disingenuous – because Kelly has programmed his players to view each game as a one-week season and to not look ahead – but certainly understandable.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">"Very simply, we're from Philadelphia, and we fight," Kelly said. "That's it. If there's a game on, we're playing. End of the story."</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">It was a corny bit of collegiate rah-rah, but the point was well taken. Fighting against Chicago accomplished a number of things, intended or not. First, it got the Eagles on the winning track. They had a chance to extend their lead over Dallas last week against the Vikings and stumbled big time. This eradicated that.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Second, it gave the Cowboys something to think about. The Bears had no answer for Philadelphia's offense. The Eagles scored touchdowns on their first three drives and led 21-0 in the first quarter before breaking a sweat. They changed the complexion of the game at the jump and forced Chicago to have to, as Cutler mentioned several times, "pass, pass, pass."</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Seven of Philadelphia's 11 possessions ended with a score. Six of them were touchdowns. Jones punted twice.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">And Philadelphia showed that it is not the team that lost to Dallas 17-3 in Week 7. That was a lifetime ago, before Foles emerged as the Eagles' unquestioned starting quarterback. Foles was awful that game. He looked jittery and confused by the Cowboys' defense. He rushed throws. He threw a ton of incompletions. He took sacks. By halftime, Dallas knocked Foles out with a concussion.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Since sitting out the next week against the <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/nyg/new-york-giants" style="color: #2e538f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">New York Giants</a>, Foles has been on fire, leading the Eagles to six wins in seven games to set up this win-or-go-home scenario in Week 17.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">When the Cowboys played the Bears two weeks ago, they gave up 45 points and 490 total yards, including 149 on the ground. In the eight games since holding the Eagles to three points, Dallas has given up an average of 31.6 points per game.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The Eagles should be able to move the football. They should be able to score points. They should be able to do what they did to Chicago. It is there to be had.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Consider this: Sunday will be the eighth win-or-go-home game for the Cowboys with <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/5209/tony-romo" style="color: #2e538f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Tony Romo</a>as the quarterback. They have won only once – a playoff win at home against the Eagles in 2009 in what became <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/1753/donovan-mcnabb" style="color: #2e538f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Donovan McNabb</a>'s last game for Philadelphia. In those games, Romo has eight touchdown passes and seven interceptions. As big as he came up this Sunday against Washington, Romo has not been clutch in win-or-go-home situations.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">He will get another chance next Sunday. The Eagles are coming. Against the Bears, they made that clear.</div></div>

Eagles fire warning shot (BLOG)

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Easily Lose The Extra Weight You've Been Carrying Around

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Dallas LBs Lee, Sims, CB Claiborne, KR Harris out (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/AVvXsEikc6gPlpHaHieVOsZDC8Tywhq24PLTRlPEdRdbpzZGwLBfM-Y3RPG4rT9mdOIiV4dNyBxcGXexIgL1SbWxmLK9T5pNPi00oRTwi85D_C7WZYCLe-Fo9oSN_tLNwPTbV21p-aozsBORsVI/s1600/468936a33226f41df4a92bb77d7cccfd.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/AVvXsEikc6gPlpHaHieVOsZDC8Tywhq24PLTRlPEdRdbpzZGwLBfM-Y3RPG4rT9mdOIiV4dNyBxcGXexIgL1SbWxmLK9T5pNPi00oRTwi85D_C7WZYCLe-Fo9oSN_tLNwPTbV21p-aozsBORsVI/s1600/468936a33226f41df4a92bb77d7cccfd.jpg" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387738162338_4677" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">LANDOVER, Md. (AP) -- The <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_team" data-rapid_p="8" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/dal" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Dallas Cowboys</a> are missing linebackers <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="9" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/24030" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Sean Lee</a> and <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="10" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/7758" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Ernie Sims</a>, along with cornerback<a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="11" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/25716" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387738162338_4689" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Morris Claiborne</a> and kick returner <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="12" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/24963" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Dwayne Harris</a> against the<a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_team" data-rapid_p="13" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/was" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Washington Redskins</a>.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387738162338_4683" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sunday's game is the second in a row Lee is missing with a sprained neck, and Sims picked up groin and hip injuries last week.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387738162338_4707" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Harris, who totaled 222 yards returning against Washington in Week 6, and Claiborne both have hamstring problems.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387738162338_4713" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Dallas receiver <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="14" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/search?p=Terrance+Williams" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387738162338_4712" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Terrance Williams</a> is active after being listed as questionable with a hamstring injury, and cornerback<a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="15" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8906" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Brandon Carr</a> also is active despite missing two days of practice because of illness.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387738162338_4722" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Redskins fullback Darrel Young is active despite a nagging hamstring injury.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387738162338_4728" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">---</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387738162338_4734" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Online: http://pro32.ap.org/poll</div></div>

Dallas LBs Lee, Sims, CB Claiborne, KR Harris out (BLOG)

LANDOVER, Md. (AP) -- The  Dallas Cowboys  are missing linebackers  Sean Lee  and  Ernie Sims , along with cornerback Morris Claiborne  and ...

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Mob Wives: Sneak Peek "Vegas" - Part 1 Ep 404

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_zrloA1xGPJXYsOyACxl7JrwVFkOnJEA0OsV1odlxvIi1LUNYOG_7Yx9xobXYc0x0Gkf1vQ7GvMgEkvfb4At0RFckpEouc08XFYRaN4frwdRWpncqTmwSkpeUTur774ojFf4kapTCWpU/s1600/Drita+vegas.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_zrloA1xGPJXYsOyACxl7JrwVFkOnJEA0OsV1odlxvIi1LUNYOG_7Yx9xobXYc0x0Gkf1vQ7GvMgEkvfb4At0RFckpEouc08XFYRaN4frwdRWpncqTmwSkpeUTur774ojFf4kapTCWpU/s400/Drita+vegas.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Drita is betting hundreds at Blackjack!</b></div><br />So, this is the "girls' trip" to Vegas! You know the one? It's the one that Alicia took after lying to the judge that she had to help her son, Anthony, set up his dorm room in West Virginia, but then took a detour to the other side of the country. By the way, is that the embezzled pension money she is gambling with? What about the embezzlement VICTIMS and their families??? Can they get some of that money? Or Maybe Alicia is using money from the designer knock offs she has been selling to unsuspecting customers in her Addiction stores? Can they get a refund? Maybe she found herself a sugar daddy? Who knows?<br /><br />Meanwhile Renee is up in bed, "sleeping it off," according to Drita, who is losing hundreds of dollars of her own money and will soon have to tell her husband, Lee. I wonder how many pavers that cash would have paid for? Have a look for yourself!<br /><br />Video and Picture credit: VH1<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="288" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:uma:video:vh1.com:989527/cp~vid%3D989527%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Avh1.com%3A989527" width="512"></iframe> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 4px; text-align: center; width: 500px;"><a href="http://www.google.ca/" style="color: #439cd8;" target="_blank"></a></div>

Mob Wives: Sneak Peek "Vegas" - Part 1 Ep 404

Drita is betting hundreds at Blackjack! So, this is the "girls' trip" to Vegas! You know the one? It's the one that Alicia...

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4 Arrested on Murder Charges in Deadly NJ Mall Carjacking (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/AVvXsEgH-JcSMj_yecIwKPmNZY51znOpzcah6xGEqlCmX70AnlCncKqF4Mpiqlb9WkZluuGZAcK_Pg6b0X8UxcO6FZ5AYk_-cwvrfjPVAlqiC0jrqb6zGi9z3ugT4PGRoeTrydmt_Od0JvTx5pM/s1600/HT_karif_ford_hanif_thompson_kevin_roberts_henry_basim_background_jt_131221_16x9_992.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/AVvXsEgH-JcSMj_yecIwKPmNZY51znOpzcah6xGEqlCmX70AnlCncKqF4Mpiqlb9WkZluuGZAcK_Pg6b0X8UxcO6FZ5AYk_-cwvrfjPVAlqiC0jrqb6zGi9z3ugT4PGRoeTrydmt_Od0JvTx5pM/s320/HT_karif_ford_hanif_thompson_kevin_roberts_henry_basim_background_jt_131221_16x9_992.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Nearly a week after a shopper was gunned down in a deadly carjacking at a New Jersey shopping mall garage, police arrested four men on charges of murder.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Dustin Friedland, 30, an attorney from Hoboken, was shot in the head on Dec. 15 in front of his wife after the couple loaded their car with holiday gifts at The Mall at Short Hills, about 12 miles west of Newark.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Three of the men arrested are from Newark and were identified as Karif Ford, 31, Besim Henry, 32, Kevin Roberts, 33. The fourth suspect, Hanif Thompson, 29, is from Irvington, N.J.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Friedland's widow, Jamie Schare Friedland, released a statement after the arrest: "We are very grateful to the Essex County Police and all of the local authorities for pursuing this so vigorously."</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"></div><div class="e_image e_left" id="e_image_21298189" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;"><div class="e_img_e_left" style="height: 225px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 300px; z-index: 0;"><img alt="PHOTO: Dustin Friedland, pictured with his wife Jamie Schare Friedland, was shot dead by carjackers at a New Jersey mall." border="0" height="225" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/HT_dustin_friedland_jamie_schare_friedland_jt_131221_4x3t_384.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /><span class="image_icon" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span><div class="embed_credit" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.298039); background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; bottom: 0px; color: #f0f0f0; font-family: proxima-nova, arial; font-size: 9px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 3px; position: absolute; right: 0px; z-index: 1;">Facebook</div></div><div class="embed_caption_e_left" style="background-color: #ededee; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 11px; position: relative; width: 278px;">Dustin Friedland, pictured with his wife Jamie Schare Friedland, was shot dead by carjackers at a New Jersey mall.</div></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">All four men are being held at the Essex County Correctional Facility on $2 million bail each. The men face charges of murder, felony murder, carjacking, conspiracy, possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose.</span><br /><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">"It was old fashion police work combined with technology," acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray said about the arrest.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Police said in a news conference on Saturday morning that Friedland's Range Rover seemed to be the motivation for the carjacking though the investigation is still active.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The stolen vehicle was found last week in an alley in Newark, about 10 miles from the mall.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Murray said all four arrived at the mall in a Suburban vehicle. After the carjacking, two left the scene in the Suburban and two left in the Range Rover. Murray added that it was unclear who fired the shots and wouldn't comment on their relationship.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Murray said it was unclear when the four would appear in court because of the upcoming Christmas holiday but added it would likely be early next week.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">A law enforcement official said that the men arrested could face the death penalty, though capital punishment in New Jersey is prohibited. Prosecutors will determine whether or not to charge the men in the federal system, where the death penalty is a possible form of punishment.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ABC News' Colleen Curry, Josh Margolin and Jason Volack contributed to this report.</em></div></div>

4 Arrested on Murder Charges in Deadly NJ Mall Carjacking (BLOG)

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The New York hotel where Beyonce writhed on the bed (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/AVvXsEioo1k3TmjYnBDENOsbXUwpKgcNJA5h7TC1HeIoJu6NUD1dE2dHkRMo62mYjsw6zueRjPFykH-I-FML6F9IMCXA3Cx7ToRsFX40LBUIwJwFzcumYwfXBaovv9HGOiVSdrIAUeDihOh7lfI/s1600/beyoncerocket.2c3d9162632.original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioo1k3TmjYnBDENOsbXUwpKgcNJA5h7TC1HeIoJu6NUD1dE2dHkRMo62mYjsw6zueRjPFykH-I-FML6F9IMCXA3Cx7ToRsFX40LBUIwJwFzcumYwfXBaovv9HGOiVSdrIAUeDihOh7lfI/s320/beyoncerocket.2c3d9162632.original.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387737905649_1513" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The New York hotel where Beyonce shot the video “Rocket” is set to profit from the exposure, after it helped play a role in an album that shattered records just a few days after its release.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Beyonce's eponymously-named fifth album sold one million copies just six days after being released without promotion, breaking iTunes records.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In her black and white video “Rocket,” Queen Bey is captured alternately writhing on Italian bedsheets, gazing out of the floor-to-ceiling windows towards the Manhattan skyline, and hovering Exorcist-like over the bed in the <a data-rapid_p="8" href="http://standardhotels.com/high-line/rooms/hudson-studio" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Hudson Studio at The Standard High Line</a>.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387737905649_1532" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Shot in the 400-square foot (37-square meter) apartment,  the seductive video shows the studio’s signature feature, a freestanding bathtub.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387737905649_1525" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Located in the heart of the trendy Meatpacking district, the 18-storey tower offers sweeping views of the Hudson River.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1387737905649_1525" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><br /></div></div>

The New York hotel where Beyonce writhed on the bed (BLOG)

The New York hotel where Beyonce shot the video “Rocket” is set to profit from the exposure, after it helped play a role in an album that sh...

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