Yahoo honeymoon hits reality for Internet sweetheart Mayer (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/AVvXsEgvzmw7a6ypgK5ke8v7X7GYV1gM37gltEYizcBN61OEiKnL5aCrRaDbHXnxdR69by0bRrZK0q6qxnKiL-1WKpWLMMaymQFHTrqUBnCdSQC_6g2xfQ5PTHY_Uw41kwvA9DfNOFC6PoEPZdY/s1600/2395649cbfe903ebf5a7c9b1171416fed20fbcc7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvzmw7a6ypgK5ke8v7X7GYV1gM37gltEYizcBN61OEiKnL5aCrRaDbHXnxdR69by0bRrZK0q6qxnKiL-1WKpWLMMaymQFHTrqUBnCdSQC_6g2xfQ5PTHY_Uw41kwvA9DfNOFC6PoEPZdY/s1600/2395649cbfe903ebf5a7c9b1171416fed20fbcc7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390158108061_6313" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">San Francisco (AFP) - The axing this week of Yahoo's second-in-command sent a signal that reality is setting in for Silicon Valley sweetheart Marissa Mayer, who leads the struggling Internet pioneer.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390158108061_6342" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The cultured, stylish and smart veteran engineer promised to bring some of the Internet giant's money-making magic with her in the move from the Googleplex in Mountain View to the Yahoo campus in Sunnyvale.Hearts soared when Mayer was wooed away from rival Google in July of 2012 to become the seventh chief of Yahoo in five years.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390158108061_6360" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">While Mayer had become a high-ranking Google executive, the Yahoo post was her first time as chief executive.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390158108061_6369" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Yahoo's floundering share price climbed with hopes Mayer would succeed where others failed in re-inventing the once flourishing Internet search firm left to wither in Google's shadow.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">One of her first big moves was to hand-pick a lieutenant to serve as chief operating officer, who makes sure the Yahoo team effectively hits goals set by Mayer.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">But Mayer jettisoned her second-in-command this week, notifying US regulators in a filing. Chief operating officer Henrique de Castro walked away with a $20 million dollar stock award and other compensation after just 15 months on the job.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="8" data-uuid="4c13f9eb-df43-3cf8-a741-8453a5a7ec97" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/yahoo-global-anchor-katie-couric-l-stage-yahoo-photo-023244962.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Yahoo Global Anchor Katie Couric (L) on stage with&nbsp;&hellip;"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; 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width: 300px;">Yahoo Global Anchor Katie Couric (L) on stage with Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaks during Mayer's …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"To admit you are wrong is not easy for anyone to do, and something with the magnitude and cost of this mistake had to be a serious soul-searching event for Marissa," said Creative Strategies analyst Tim Bajarin.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"But her fiduciary responsibility is to only have people in the company who are moving the company forward, and if de Castro was not in step she did not have a choice."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Mayer and de Castro worked together at Google, and she hired him away from the rival with the aim of having him boost Yahoo's sinking ad revenue.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Yahoo ad revenue continued to sag, and de Castro's dismissal has financial analysts wondering whether the company will disappoint in a quarterly earnings report due out January 28.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"There is a saying that you can't recruit anyone out of Google for money; and if you do get someone out of Google, it is someone who they wanted to leave," said analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group in Silicon Valley.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"This could indicate there is truth in that saying."</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="9" data-uuid="1289bbe7-e1c7-3db8-a8b0-6775d7e38d49" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/yahoo-tech-columnist-david-pogue-speaks-during-yahoo-photo-032555474.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Yahoo Tech vice president David Pogue speaks during&nbsp;&hellip;"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; 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color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Yahoo Tech vice president David Pogue speaks during Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's keynote address at …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Yahoo shares were down slightly on Friday, with after-market trades slipping to $39.86.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In a sign of further upheaval, reports at freshly launched Re/Code technology news website and elsewhere on Friday indicated Yahoo's editor-in-chief had quit.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Mayer theatrically unveiled Yahoo digital magazines earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as the company dove deeper into being an Internet Age media company.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Her CES keynote production included appearances by newly-hired Yahoo Global Anchor Katie Couric and Yahoo Tech vice president David Pogue, a former New York Times reporter. But editor-in-chief Jai Singh did not appear.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Announcements included the launches of a Yahoo News digest app for smartphones, and digital magazines.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Mayer has been on a buying streak since she took over Yahoo, with the biggest acquisition the $1.1 billion takeover of blogging platform Tumblr.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Mayer has benefitted from a financial cushion afforded Yahoo thanks to an early investment in thriving Chinese e-commerce operation Alibaba.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"The Alibaba revenue is like living off a trust fund," analyst Enderle said. "Right now, from a financial perspective, she is riding on Alibaba. But she is not breaking anything."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Despite many investments, Yahoo last year lost its number two position in the US digital ad market to social networking titan Facebook, according to industry-tracker eMarketer.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Yahoo's share of global digital ad revenue slid about a half percent to 2.87 percent last year, while Facebook and Google saw their shares rise, eMarketer reported.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Both Bajarin and Enderle said that, considering this is Mayer's first time running a technology firm, early mistakes in judgment were par for the course.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390158108061_6379" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"We don't see trouble in paradise," Bajarin said. "I'm not sure you can read into this trouble as much as you can that Marissa is making sure everybody is in step."</div></div>

Yahoo honeymoon hits reality for Internet sweetheart Mayer (BLOG)

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China decries U.S. spending bill (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/AVvXsEgnxWMHXBJnTmxByhDlvxmpAaTjRZaCxlGj32UdUOGW9Tkqc5W4CKWBzsbx-6pix_DmZ32cRM-rEmoknNVyXLE2me03tKsuV0TtG9YWOSZ8CqyRYtzrE5YwBF9dRp1MFyINtENgA2UocbE/s1600/2014-01-19T131917Z_2_CBREA0I057T00_RTROPTP_2_USA-FISCAL.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnxWMHXBJnTmxByhDlvxmpAaTjRZaCxlGj32UdUOGW9Tkqc5W4CKWBzsbx-6pix_DmZ32cRM-rEmoknNVyXLE2me03tKsuV0TtG9YWOSZ8CqyRYtzrE5YwBF9dRp1MFyINtENgA2UocbE/s1600/2014-01-19T131917Z_2_CBREA0I057T00_RTROPTP_2_USA-FISCAL.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390158108061_2263" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's Commerce Ministry has condemned a $1.1-trillion spending bill passed by the U.S. Congress last week over clauses that limit technological purchases from the Asian giant, saying they clash with the principles of fair trade.</div><div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.307695388793945px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390158108061_2674" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The bill, signed by President Barack Obama on Friday, included a cyber-espionage review process for federal purchases of technology from China, a measure incorporated last year amid growing U.S. concern over Chinese cyber attacks.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390158108061_2684" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In a weekend statement, China's Commerce Ministry said the move "went against the principles of fair trade" as it sought to curb purchases of Chinese technology and export of satellites and parts to China.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390158108061_2694" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"China is resolutely opposed," the ministry said in comments attributed to an unnamed official in its U.S. trade division.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The bill sent a wrong message, did not aid exchanges and cooperation in the high-tech field and would have a negative effect on Chinese companies, besides harming the interests of U.S. firms, it added.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"We have noted that U.S. business groups have already made noises opposing the bill. The U.S. side should correct its mistaken ways, and create good conditions for the healthy development of Sino-U.S. trade and business cooperation."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Last year's funding legislation bars U.S. space agency NASA and the Justice and Commerce Departments from buying information technology systems without the approval of federal law enforcement officials.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">That formal assessment must include "any risk associated with such system being produced, manufactured or assembled by one or more entities that are owned, directed or subsidized" by China, it says.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">U.S. Representative Frank Wolf, the Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science subcommittee, said he directed the language to be included last year because of concerns about potential cyber threats from Chinese firms such as Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Wolf cited a 2012 congressional intelligence report that found such firms were closely connected to China's army, which coordinates cyber espionage against the United States.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"A slightly modified version of this language was continued again this year by bipartisan agreement with the Senate, and I believe it should be maintained and expanded to all civilian federal agencies in the year ahead," Wolf said in a statement on Friday.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">U.S. curbs on foreign access to satellite technology since 1999 have effectively banned the export, re-export or transfer of this equipment or know-how to China.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The restriction followed a 1996 Chinese rocket launch accident that claimed a U.S.-manufactured satellite. In the course of the investigation, the company was accused of inadvertently transferring restricted technology to China.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">But there were no new curbs on satellite exports in the latest spending bill, Kevin Wolf, a U.S. Commerce Department official, told Reuters in Washington.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Since the late 1990s, there has been, under U.S. law, an absolute prohibition on the export and re-export to China of all satellites and related items," said Wolf, who is no relation to the congressman. "This was reconfirmed in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"The Chinese have complained about it a lot over the decades - that's not new," he said on Saturday.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">China and the United States have clashed repeatedly over trade issues.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390158108061_2698" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">(Reporting by Ben Blanchard and Norihiko Shirouzu; Additional reporting by Doina Chiacu, Richard Cowan, David Lawder and Patricia Zengerle in WASHINGTON; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)</div></div>

China decries U.S. spending bill (BLOG)

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Wall Street 2014 Rally Begins

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Society in the roaring 2010's </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>GLOOM and DOOMERS won't like this</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The U.S. ECONOMY is set for RECORD GROWTH</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We will look back at these days about a decade from now and realize that we are the society of the roaring 2010's:<br /><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-seen-on-track-for-best-growth-since-2005-2014-01-19" style="color: red;">http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-seen-on-track-for-best-growth-since-2005-2014-01-19</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Stock Market Train is leaving the station</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdddZOzYQFfc45Dafo3-Wm6luwJvpQ6iAYgyJGnkgzWsn44eAmh78wIZSgPIHEix2V7HExUr9MlnFU7dlQ1NdLyYIrv2VriwXD7SIiSB44naIzBzZMZQ_602D5eDiyMOCBkCBkgf16o0A/s1600/TrainLAPorteStation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdddZOzYQFfc45Dafo3-Wm6luwJvpQ6iAYgyJGnkgzWsn44eAmh78wIZSgPIHEix2V7HExUr9MlnFU7dlQ1NdLyYIrv2VriwXD7SIiSB44naIzBzZMZQ_602D5eDiyMOCBkCBkgf16o0A/s1600/TrainLAPorteStation.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You better get on the Wall Street for the ride of your life as the GREATEST WEALTH TRANSFER IN HISTORY CONTINUES.  Most analysts right now are in the camp that expects the DJIA to see 20,000 and higher this year.<br /><br />The News UNIT is looking forward to Janet Yellen's FOMC announcement coming near the end of January.  Until then I'm 100% bullish on stocks and count the patriots and truthers as being full of misinformation.<br /><br />Place you bets on your favorite stock below and watch the SPY keep climbing to record highs:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><!-- Start FreeStockCharts.com Chart Widget --> <br /><div align="center" width="100%"><iframe frameborder="0" height="390" scrolling="no" src="http://widgets.freestockcharts.com/WidgetServer/InteractiveChartWidget.aspx?guid=c4350095-4567-49a6-ab69-b565f09e744c&w=500&h=390" style="border: none;" width="500"></iframe></div><!-- End FreeStockCharts.com Chart Widget --> </div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><b> </b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>...developing...</b></div>

Wall Street 2014 Rally Begins

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South Sudan peace talks may be too late to stop war (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/AVvXsEiK2_rkhXw9hdwRaE4nlSGP6XkQCtB2XFUAj5OOWhob2jIehyphenhyphenCOjYMiA8CS3Mcx11deqthvz3oH2rvXGQBNaJWuLCEUkz2myf9q9yiojw7r1v83Vhwti7zJ9eRFSx6rzuGbzA5eCWM6z6w/s1600/ebe55d6d0073c25377a2a188d0de20e852e9eeec.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/AVvXsEiK2_rkhXw9hdwRaE4nlSGP6XkQCtB2XFUAj5OOWhob2jIehyphenhyphenCOjYMiA8CS3Mcx11deqthvz3oH2rvXGQBNaJWuLCEUkz2myf9q9yiojw7r1v83Vhwti7zJ9eRFSx6rzuGbzA5eCWM6z6w/s1600/ebe55d6d0073c25377a2a188d0de20e852e9eeec.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390157958071_2586" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Nairobi (AFP) - As East African mediators attempt to push South Sudan's government and rebels into signing a truce, analysts and diplomats fear it may already be too late to halt the war.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390157958071_2609" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The longer it continues, the more "those who have remained on the sidelines are increasingly pulled into the conflict," US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield warned in a statement this week.Regional nations are trying to broker a ceasefire but have already been drawn into the brutal five-week-old conflict, with Ugandan troops battling alongside government forces loyal to President Salva Kiir.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Each day that the conflict continues, the risk of all-out civil war grows as ethnic tensions rise," she added.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Many say it already is a civil war, pitting a conventional army against a loose alliance of mutinied army units and ethnic militia. Each side has been deploying heavy weapons, fighting has been fierce and protracted, and key towns have been changing hands each week.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">South Sudanese government forces backed by Ugandan troops on Saturday recaptured the strategic town of Bor, defeating an army of thousands of rebels, officials said.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="8" data-uuid="e3691bd6-2caf-325e-a50d-cee458df0bed" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/south-sudan-government-soldiers-pictured-january-18-2014-photo-140049949.html" style="color: #324fe1; 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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="South Sudan government soldiers are pictured on January&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="203" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/GqiKnehT.h0jFWv1NrJuVQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIwMztxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/1f9aeae54593337f55afe4d40bc0c7475818cbb5.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">South Sudan government soldiers are pictured on January 18, 2014 in Bor, a strategic town recaptured …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A day earlier the United Nations' top human rights envoy Ivan Simonovic, who has gathered reports of mass killings, sexual violence and widespread destruction, said South Sudan was now in a state of "internal armed conflict" and that the laws of war were applicable.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Talks in neighbouring Ethiopia are being mediated by the East African regional bloc IGAD, even though Uganda is a key member and the rebels have expressed concern about its neutrality.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Rebel chief Riek Machar has accused Ugandan fighter jets of targeting him, and is also deeply critical of suggestions that Sudan, another IGAD member, could deploy troops to help Juba protect oil fields from the rebels.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Kenya, which sent in troops to evacuate citizens, also warned in a confidential briefing document this week of the "internationalisation" of the conflict.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Rebels from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, nervous of a pact between their old allies in Juba and their enemy in Khartoum, are also reportedly operating in oil-rich border zones.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="9" data-uuid="6d7663d5-8355-3543-ba40-acf83081a2c7" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/south-sudan-government-soldiers-pictured-bor-strategic-town-photo-140049196.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; 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color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">South Sudan government soldiers are pictured in Bor, a strategic town recaptured from rebel forces l …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The crisis on the ground, therefore, seems to be moving faster than the peace talks and out of the control of the politicians who sparked it.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"We are heartbroken to see what was purely a political problem... quickly slide into an ethnic one on a rapid and frightening scale," read a statement from the South Sudan Council of Churches, an influential coalition of religious leaders.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Violence is rooted in decades-old grievances between former rebels turned political leaders, combined with unhealed wounds left over from the two-decades long civil war that preceded South Sudan's independence from Khartoum in 2011.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Cycle of revenge</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Many appear deeply pessimistic that even if a political deal is struck, the conflict pitting members of Kiir's Dinka people -- the country's largest group -- against Machar's Nuer has reached a point of no return.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp portrait onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="10" data-uuid="5fab250a-1f49-35b3-b4b7-e03627db96a3" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/young-south-sudanese-refugee-looks-waits-sudanese-border-photo-140049216.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; 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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="A young South Sudanese refugee looks on as he waits&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="450" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/o9TLLP2tYARw347BFJhylQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTQ1MDtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/1e9182e6a1815c3c6ec5f8b73ed24bf216ff9a32.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">A young South Sudanese refugee looks on as he waits at a Sudanese border checkpoint in Joda on Janua …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Handshakes, smiles and a mere political settlement between the two parties will not set South Sudan on a path towards truth, sustainable peace, democracy and the rule of law," wrote David Deng from the South Sudan Law Society, a civil society organisation, and human rights lawyer Elizabeth Deng.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"The two parties should be compelled to submit themselves and their supporters to an independent investigation into the crimes committed," they wrote in a joint commentary on the crisis.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">And Princeton Lyman, a former US special envoy to the country, said in a report for the United States Institute of Peace think tank that the talks "cannot simply return the country to the previous status quo."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"For lasting peace, the negotiating parties and mediators will need to reach beyond national political elites and those bearing arms and invite active involvement of the international community," he wrote.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">On the ground, the pattern appears to be sliding towards that of the 1983-2005 southern civil war when Sudan was a united nation, when the government controlled towns but multiple rebel forces claimed swathes of countryside.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="11" data-uuid="ad7e8139-4211-372d-bbe7-3f7bd7933645" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/south-sudanese-refugees-wait-sudanese-border-checkpoint-joda-photo-140049169.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; 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visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">South Sudanese refugees wait at a Sudanese border checkpoint in Joda on January 16, 2014 (AFP Photo/ …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"There is no military solution," said the group Citizens for Peace and Justice, a coalition of academics and civil society leaders, calling the conflict "a crisis engulfing the whole country".</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Jok Madut Jok, a former senior government official and academic now running the Sudd Institute, has warned that "what started as a political confrontation between power contenders... has now evolved into a military revenge and counter-revenge" along ethnic lines.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Jok warned of civil war "should the IGAD-led initiative for a dialogue fail to produce a quick deal".</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Kiir could be "threatened with regional isolation if he shows any intransigence, but little can be done to pressure Mr. Machar," Jok added, saying the rebel leader has "very little to lose".</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">As the number of those displaced by fighting touches half a million, those affected say their dreams of building a new nation are shattered.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390157958071_2627" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"We thought we were dreaming of peace but now we are back in war, it's a circle," said teacher Simon Thon, 31, who fled across the White Nile river from fighting in the rebel-held town of Bor with his heavily pregnant wife, who has since given birth to a boy under a tree.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390157958071_2642" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"When you hear your neighbour calling you, you go. What you do not expect is for that neighbour to then start shooting to kill you... that is what happened to us."</div></div>

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Not A Seahawks Fan But I Hate The Niners

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAtlzaB-r4_ltMkiV28pH4jakTC7dT2-lCOLvWtu7NSeNJ7TnI87kc7_QEx8BP-jv1V4LoaZdfVhYOJTMfkkdgfuIPGZDeMyQvd5CBkbWRwAzGmvLybKWdLUxEtvBLiagOtr0X1AsqqIf9/s1600/football.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAtlzaB-r4_ltMkiV28pH4jakTC7dT2-lCOLvWtu7NSeNJ7TnI87kc7_QEx8BP-jv1V4LoaZdfVhYOJTMfkkdgfuIPGZDeMyQvd5CBkbWRwAzGmvLybKWdLUxEtvBLiagOtr0X1AsqqIf9/s640/football.jpg" /></a></div><br />Unfortunately, I was born in Oakland California wayyyyy the fuck back in 1960, the same year that the Raiders came into the NFL.<br /><br />Being a true blood Raiders fan, the past ten or so years has made me the recipient of too many disparaging comments to count.<br /><br />Fuck 'em all.<br /><br />I will be a Raiders fan until either there are no Oakland Raiders or I kick the bucket.<br /><br />Yes, I know they were in LA for a while.<br /><br />That was .... embarassing.<br /><br /><br />My wife and her brat kid are both huge Seattle fans and sit here day after day rattling stats and records off.<br /><br />The kid is also quite the little asshole and rubs the Raiders in my face daily.<br /><br />So while part of me would like to see Seattle suck major donkey dick today, I still have to stay true to my Bay Area roots and say<br /><br />FUCK THE NINERS!<br /><br />The internet has been off for two hours now, it is up for a minute and I am going to post this and go to work.

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Ivanovic ends Serena Williams' long winning streak (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/AVvXsEj1-94kL9mTj4X_qaygKrNs4AGbIhmFkK3ZBffWyXSFxbhjI14lFfuYPT4UNwEBuSCPvWXabQnOkATbqns0kOJ1LhlLUB32qvROyrM0t6qv1Vqy6b2D7GKfprGeEGmdFxmrWygGBqD7BVI/s1600/201401182319839758292.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-94kL9mTj4X_qaygKrNs4AGbIhmFkK3ZBffWyXSFxbhjI14lFfuYPT4UNwEBuSCPvWXabQnOkATbqns0kOJ1LhlLUB32qvROyrM0t6qv1Vqy6b2D7GKfprGeEGmdFxmrWygGBqD7BVI/s1600/201401182319839758292.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390157533823_4305" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Moments before she started pounding the first of her many winners past <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="8" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/players/134" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Serena Williams</a> at the Australian Open, <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="9" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/players/998" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Ana Ivanovic</a> listened intently to the announcer on Rod Laver Arena outlining the extraordinary accomplishments of the woman soon to be across the net from her.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390157533823_4343" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">It was her 70th match at the Australian Open, a record in the Open Era. And then, of course, there's the 17 major singles championships.Williams, a five-time champion at Melbourne Park, won 78 of her 82 matches in 2013, and was coming into the fourth round on the second-longest winning streak of her career - 25 matches.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390157533823_4363" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''When we were starting the match and they were talking about all her Grand Slam titles, it was quite impressive,'' Ivanovic said, recalling the pre-match introductions. ''But I didn't think much about the occasion and who I was playing, because it can get overwhelming.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">True to her word, Ivanovic, who had never won a set against Williams in four previous meetings, took on the biggest serve in women's tennis without fear. And she hit pinpoint forehands - 20 of 33 winners were on that side - to all areas of the court. Williams, who later revealed she was carrying a back injury, didn't even bother trying to chase some of them down.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Just under two hours later, it was game, set and match: 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 and an upset victory to put Ivanovic into the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the first time since her run to the final in 2008.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp portrait onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="10" data-uuid="4d1d178b-f24a-33a8-9162-d00c2b18cfaa" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/ivanovic-ends-serena-williams-39-photo-142729332--ten.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Ivanovic ends Serena Williams&#39; long winning st&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: 391px; 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="Ivanovic ends Serena Williams&#39; long winning st&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="391" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/mkfa8lXiWSh0wlyTPeMIAQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTM5MTtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/Sports/ap/201401190310114468636" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Ana Ivanovic of Serbia celebrates her win over Serena Williams of the U.S. in their fourth round mat …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''It's not easy playing such a champion ... but she is also just a human,'' said Ivanovic. ''I just went out there swinging.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Williams never got into the swing of things, at least not to way Ivanovic expected. She noticed from the outset that Williams' serve seemed to lack its usual zip. Williams also made some very uncharacteristic errors on her backhand, a telltale sign of back pain.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''It wasn't the best,'' Williams admitted later, sounding surprised when asked about the back injury. Her coach had let it slip after the players walked off the court that Williams had been experiencing back pain for days.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''Again, I don't want to blame anything. I feel like Ana deserves all the credit,'' Williams added. ''I feel she played unbelievable today. I think she went for her shots. It's not like I gave her the match.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Ivanovic will next play 19-year-old Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, who had a 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-0 win over local hope Casey Dellacqua.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="11" data-uuid="d6b947a4-c54e-32e6-b0e7-8699c4b4d6d2" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/ivanovic-ends-williams-39-streak-photo-083220148--ten.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Ivanovic ends Serena Williams&#39; long winning st&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: 223px; 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="Ivanovic ends Serena Williams&#39; long winning st&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="223" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/nkFluDScpUdmx4BKf2g1Tg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIyMztxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/Sports/ap/201401190208076938548" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Serbia's <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="12" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/players/1068" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Novak Djokovic</a> impersonates his coach and former Grand Slam champion Boris Becker's …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The other quarterfinal in Ivanovic's half will feature two-time finalist Li Na, who beat No. 22 Ekaterina Makarova 6-2, 6-0, and No. 28 Flavia Pennetta, who defeated No. 9 Angelique Kerber 6-1, 4-6, 7-5.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The men's draw progressed more according to rankings when three-time defending champion Novak Djokovic and No. 3 David Ferrer advanced to the quarterfinals, along with No. 7 Tomas Berdych and No. 8 Stanislas Wawrinka.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Djokovic continued his bid for a fourth straight Australian title with a 6-3, 6-0, 6-2 win over Fabio Fognini. Ferrer beat Florian Mayer 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-2, 6-1 and will next play Berdych, the 2010 Wimbledon finalist.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Djokovic will play Wawrinka, who finished off the Sunday night program at Rod Laver with a 6-3, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5) win over Tommy Robredo.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''I've been elevating my game as the tournament is going on,'' said Djokovic, who later entertained the crowd with an impersonation of his new coach, Boris Becker. ''The general feeling on the court, all the shots, using the court position really well, being aggressive, playing my style of the game.''</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="13" data-uuid="3b5ed0e9-cf15-3eef-a8c3-034b43de65e5" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/ivanovic-ends-williams-39-streak-photo-064819849--ten.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Ivanovic ends Serena Williams&#39; long winning st&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: 207px; 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="Ivanovic ends Serena Williams&#39; long winning st&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="207" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/jHg7DhFN1RmWtSpO.iNwZw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIwNztxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/Sports/ap/201401182318839308280" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Serena Williams of the U.S. speaks during a press conference after her fourth round loss to Ana Ivan …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">On Monday, Djokovic's major threats to the title - top-seeded<a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="14" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/players/599" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Rafael Nadal</a>, Wimbledon champion Andy Murray and 17-time Grand Slam singles winner <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="15" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/players/42" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Roger Federer</a> - will play their fourth-round matches. Two-time defending champion Victoria Azarenka and No. 3 <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="16" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/players/403" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Maria Sharapova</a> are in action on the women's side.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Ivanovic will have the day off - she's planning a celebratory dinner with some of her Serbian relatives who live in Melbourne.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Asked if having Williams out of any Grand Slam makes a difference, Ivanovic said it ''definitely'' did, then explained why in effusive terms.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">''I think she's done so much for the sport, and she's still doing it,'' Ivanovic said. ''She's such a great athlete and a great person to have on tour. We want her, because it pushes us.''</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390157533823_4457" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">With the challenge met on Sunday, Ivanovic, at the urging of several fans, attempted to throw a souvenir towel into the stands. The breeze blew it back at her.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390157533823_4442" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">She was plainly off the mark, perhaps for the only time all day.</div></div>

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Beyonce performed at the 50th anniversary of Michelle Obama

<script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* bleu 280 */ google_ad_slot = "8164661108"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaSZJKJDABMjLHfJgOOJsAnDJXMF-t4fXSpYDwueB7EB3CT8sm4qG9_ZbjVYMOqXtZXjSvmvYuZ2h2zToTmlBreaM1lcemjsWVYqj-CAJcSxxGkucURIxQ8SUHuozC5ZdPbE_WVoYw/s1600/Beyonce+performed+at+the+50th+anniversary+of+Michelle+Obama.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Beyonce performed at the 50th anniversary of Michelle Obama" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaSZJKJDABMjLHfJgOOJsAnDJXMF-t4fXSpYDwueB7EB3CT8sm4qG9_ZbjVYMOqXtZXjSvmvYuZ2h2zToTmlBreaM1lcemjsWVYqj-CAJcSxxGkucURIxQ8SUHuozC5ZdPbE_WVoYw/s1600/Beyonce+performed+at+the+50th+anniversary+of+Michelle+Obama.jpg" title="Beyonce performed at the 50th anniversary of Michelle Obama" /></a></div><br />January 18 <b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/search/label/Beyonce" target="_blank">Beyonce</a></b> performed at the party in the White House in honor of the 50th anniversary of Michelle Obama. <b>U.S. President</b> <b>Barack Obama</b> also invited Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Michael Kors, Stevie Wonder, John Legend and other stars. <br /> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* biner3 */ google_ad_slot = "7346003106"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br /><br /> Although the details are not known yet, 32-year-old singer posted a Tumblr photo with his dog presidential couple named Bo. Also, Beyonce showed golden dress chosen for the evening, as well as details of make-up. The very first lady allegedly was wearing a red and black outfit. <br /> <br /> In leaked invitation where guests promised snacks, drinks, dancing and dessert. Photographing banned. Also invited were advised to wear comfortable shoes, as the entire floor has been altered under floor dancing. <br /> <br /> Many guests moved by the words of Barack on their 21-year marriage. So, musician Herbie Hancock said: <br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> It was really beautiful and touching. The President said something - and his voice trembled as if he wept. It was perfect - my husband talking about his wife. </blockquote><br /> Guests went to two o'clock in the morning. <br /> <br /> Earlier in an interview with People Barack Obama refused to disclose the details of the party: <br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> Even the Office for National Security does not know. </blockquote><br /> According to sources Chicago Tribune, the singer sang Single Ladies and Irreplaceable. <br /> <br /> Recall Beyonce long friends with Obama's family: in 2009 she performed at his first inauguration, and in 2013 - the second. Daughters Sasha and Malia are admirers of her work.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjrIoGOjr88eNp4N-veICtDzAXKEXLatCxdkH2FciTtUoT0gWGc1WOK35x_N8FAxfo3QP6w1_gwqTXcwFj-KZ-1c2OjtZONJx5ximP8vZpXLcvHk3K_Db6n9Kb-wVC_vVmZ6hWTSzL/s1600/Beyonce+birthday+Michelle+Obama.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Beyonce birthday Michelle Obama " border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjrIoGOjr88eNp4N-veICtDzAXKEXLatCxdkH2FciTtUoT0gWGc1WOK35x_N8FAxfo3QP6w1_gwqTXcwFj-KZ-1c2OjtZONJx5ximP8vZpXLcvHk3K_Db6n9Kb-wVC_vVmZ6hWTSzL/s1600/Beyonce+birthday+Michelle+Obama.jpg" title="Beyonce birthday Michelle Obama " /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Beyonce birthday Michelle Obama </i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- boton --><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:90px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8441125172513237" data-ad-slot="4392536701"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script>

Beyonce performed at the 50th anniversary of Michelle Obama

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Heidi Klum kept her children to soccer

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9RVWbBJjz4YSR94_nVs8uRfmTTbmFvsBijTCVcrJQ7ITKnFMphvEmOI3NAW6OuetbQmrbLvryyEU9baFWQ7g68NjF7wEw-kNnTer0WKvKWVLO2gNWj0sAzGgO8izuymKFZU0JjeKN/s1600/Heidi+Klum+kept+her+children+to+soccer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Heidi Klum kept her children to soccer" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9RVWbBJjz4YSR94_nVs8uRfmTTbmFvsBijTCVcrJQ7ITKnFMphvEmOI3NAW6OuetbQmrbLvryyEU9baFWQ7g68NjF7wEw-kNnTer0WKvKWVLO2gNWj0sAzGgO8izuymKFZU0JjeKN/s1600/Heidi+Klum+kept+her+children+to+soccer.jpg" title="Heidi Klum" /></a></div><br />Yesterday in Los Angeles, <b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/11/heidi-klum-pregnant-with-her-fifth-child.html" target="_blank">Heidi Klum</a></b> took four children - Henry, Johan, Leni and Lou at the football match. German model boyfriend bodyguard Martin Kristen did not support the company. <br /><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* biner3 */ google_ad_slot = "7346003106"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> <br /><br /> 40-year-old Klum once again demonstrated excellent taste: loose cropped jeans with holes, spacious white top with print as a necklace, and a black jacket looked great on large mom. <br /> <br /> note black suede ankle boots, narrow belt, handbag and Versace sunglasses Ray Ban. Hair models were stacked hair to hair. In addition, we like haircut ladder and playful fringe. <br /> <br /> Heidi constantly smiled and kissed the small Lu. Girl long time sitting at my mom's lap and drank mineral water.<br /><br /><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- bleu 280 --><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8441125172513237" data-ad-slot="8164661108"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzv6RB68Z6UyLe834GctJ8mPR_fm3fzltleqiDxp7RqbCahRm6l35FqYxVNSGIK1zYMal7sfFMM3OPaD8IFUasReyGZvmLMSaFB-WmkB5SNLwg8GfKo6OR7Zn7aL6YThGMLJ4cLSp_/s1600/Heidi+Klum+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Heidi Klum 2014" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzv6RB68Z6UyLe834GctJ8mPR_fm3fzltleqiDxp7RqbCahRm6l35FqYxVNSGIK1zYMal7sfFMM3OPaD8IFUasReyGZvmLMSaFB-WmkB5SNLwg8GfKo6OR7Zn7aL6YThGMLJ4cLSp_/s1600/Heidi+Klum+1.jpg" title="Heidi Klum" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Lindsay Lohan wants to move to London

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaBLzkXl9-8pKmEl4uf1wmDLdhRLPV5LQMQazZsZppBOleQOKGk-wybXhDakF5_PQ4o_QQRny5psZI9Uh98Fjmi5N-0glByYNczVrhwxxQIQSorI0Qqj9yBAvXqpxxyHCZroASQfS-/s1600/Lindsay+Lohan+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lindsay Lohan in London" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaBLzkXl9-8pKmEl4uf1wmDLdhRLPV5LQMQazZsZppBOleQOKGk-wybXhDakF5_PQ4o_QQRny5psZI9Uh98Fjmi5N-0glByYNczVrhwxxQIQSorI0Qqj9yBAvXqpxxyHCZroASQfS-/s1600/Lindsay+Lohan+5.jpg" title="Lindsay Lohan in London" /></a></div><br /><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/search/label/Lindsay%20Lohan" target="_blank">Lindsay Lohan</a></b> wants to move to London she fell in love with the local nightlife. In addition, she likes freedom - LiLo can afford to go wherever he wants, which is impossible in Los Angeles. <br /><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* biner3 */ google_ad_slot = "7346003106"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> <br /><br /> Source Sunday Mirror newspaper reported: <br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> Lindsay loves the nightlife of London. She hangs out almost every night. She feels that he can move much more freely than in Los Angeles. She would have wanted to live in Notting Hill. </blockquote><br /> Yesterday Lindsay had dinner at the Soho restaurant La Bodega Negra, which is stylized as a sex shop. <br /> <br /> Interestingly, according to rumors, clubs and bars in the UK capital girl dress for each appearance. According to the portal TMZ, one output girl is from 5 to 15 thousand dollars. <br /> <br /> Recall recently passed the information that 27-year-old Lohan meets with a student from Liverpool Christian Arno Williams.<br /> <br /><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* boton */ google_ad_slot = "4392536701"; google_ad_width = 200; google_ad_height = 90; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3LlEFins_3GcUuvC06CLnIOoFYQ97rfGYGRWCmaFVngw7Auh-tJOt6vUt3VVUL5Jugn1H_6G6dLLfD8NrCatRqDY-LfW2TI89RReZVG-_FCD6HNb3fjV0XkcuuS0efdVXrxbTSs_r/s1600/Lindsay+Lohan+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lindsay Lohan" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3LlEFins_3GcUuvC06CLnIOoFYQ97rfGYGRWCmaFVngw7Auh-tJOt6vUt3VVUL5Jugn1H_6G6dLLfD8NrCatRqDY-LfW2TI89RReZVG-_FCD6HNb3fjV0XkcuuS0efdVXrxbTSs_r/s1600/Lindsay+Lohan+1.jpg" title="Lindsay Lohan" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJXxiHMgYmIJmyxGD6jlyKwCfBJUvBeUDCtlTlpwQsCxdkH9iKt3goertRr1T1jLnASNPU7dzFTdrxILlJ2VrYyBG4vR9cCH76Gh45QUYovccHfIm56D0U-9CRPeApph9zXH8we8nd/s1600/Lindsay+Lohan+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lindsay Lohan" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJXxiHMgYmIJmyxGD6jlyKwCfBJUvBeUDCtlTlpwQsCxdkH9iKt3goertRr1T1jLnASNPU7dzFTdrxILlJ2VrYyBG4vR9cCH76Gh45QUYovccHfIm56D0U-9CRPeApph9zXH8we8nd/s1600/Lindsay+Lohan+2.jpg" title="Lindsay Lohan" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5vVcXMH0TFw7dVNwG1duYPv1FN-3ksD0uHfYroKZkyVwv7yxmdo31b23WLKwjIqVkMNlpHzDV35hiOKkc9RkRZvfnxotoghEtuuu9DCfnEjwZ5znnNmukmyFtL3rAKb0FdRst8W5R/s1600/Lindsay+Lohan+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lindsay Lohan" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5vVcXMH0TFw7dVNwG1duYPv1FN-3ksD0uHfYroKZkyVwv7yxmdo31b23WLKwjIqVkMNlpHzDV35hiOKkc9RkRZvfnxotoghEtuuu9DCfnEjwZ5znnNmukmyFtL3rAKb0FdRst8W5R/s1600/Lindsay+Lohan+3.jpg" title="Lindsay Lohan" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw71DcEMcD4iBsrqyZwj-qBBRxJ8c0Sv3OtRtjxgij17nS7Bg_1stWSzEzinoRLt5ftUK3KKxiujFjeSbAH4OBQNdELAVsx7j3YD5EJyiP3_GHRfbpodqGsqLziGiT3mhZPcghS2Lm/s1600/Lindsay+Lohan+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lindsay Lohan" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw71DcEMcD4iBsrqyZwj-qBBRxJ8c0Sv3OtRtjxgij17nS7Bg_1stWSzEzinoRLt5ftUK3KKxiujFjeSbAH4OBQNdELAVsx7j3YD5EJyiP3_GHRfbpodqGsqLziGiT3mhZPcghS2Lm/s1600/Lindsay+Lohan+4.jpg" title="Lindsay Lohan" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />

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Jennifer Lawrence Complains of "Armpit Vagina" at SAGs 2014, Talks Taylor Swift Photo Bomb (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/AVvXsEhn8yL_e-ReHLywB3IViliCzQjtm_PO8IaypDHwFLtWSbQ4GZPDCP7x7EJes9A5mpUwq9Yv81eCcixAC-XAReLXgFueXu6-ZQrq8cExM9eVlLiPkKv5qKehU97x7_qAtIxRLc1MNjSukGs/s1600/1390095568_jennifer-lawrence-large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn8yL_e-ReHLywB3IViliCzQjtm_PO8IaypDHwFLtWSbQ4GZPDCP7x7EJes9A5mpUwq9Yv81eCcixAC-XAReLXgFueXu6-ZQrq8cExM9eVlLiPkKv5qKehU97x7_qAtIxRLc1MNjSukGs/s1600/1390095568_jennifer-lawrence-large.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">She's just being J-Law. </span><a data-rapid_p="8" href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/jennifer-lawrence" style="background-color: white; color: #324fe1; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong>Jennifer Lawrence</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"> was her usual blend of gorgeous, wacky and lovably inappropriate on the red carpet outside L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium for the SAG Awards 2014 Saturday. Wearing a much-different look than her talked-about Golden Globes look last Sunday, the actress, 23, nevertheless wore another design by Dior -- this one a strapless sequined number. But the Kentucky native claimed to Giuliani Rancic that the form-fitting number was slightly too small for her figure. As she hiked up the top of the gown, the</span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"> American Hustle </em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">star complained of "armpit fat -- it's awful" (Giuliana quickly protested that Lawrence had no such "fat" to speak of.)</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">"Great," Lawrence said. "Now you can maybe look at my armpit vagina. All these cameras, it's horrible!"</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">After uttering that "armpit vagina" phrase a couple more times, Lawrence went on to explain last Sunday's most talked-about carpet moment at the Globes: Lawrence's </span><a data-rapid_p="11" href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/taylor-swift" style="background-color: white; color: #324fe1; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong>Taylor Swift</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"> </span><a data-rapid_p="12" href="http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/jennifer-lawrence-photobombs-taylor-swift-2014-golden-globes-picture-2014121" style="background-color: white; color: #324fe1; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">photo bomb</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">! "U didn't' think there was a wide camera," she told Rancic. "I was joking with you guys. i didn't think you guys got it on live camera!"</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;"><br /></span><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390157342754_1673" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Once Rancic grabbed the camera man apparently responsible for capturing Lawrence's hilarious angry sneaky expression ascending the stair behind Swift, she yelled, "I do blame you!"</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390157342754_1686" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com</div></div>

Jennifer Lawrence Complains of "Armpit Vagina" at SAGs 2014, Talks Taylor Swift Photo Bomb (BLOG)

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Bitcoin ATM Installations Surge in Canada

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="single-title"><h1></h1><div class="single-info"><span class="single-author"><a href="http://www.coindesk.com/author/joon/" rel="author" title="Posts by Joon Ian Wong">Joon Ian Wong</a> (<a class="authortwitter" href="http://www.twitter.com/joonian" target="_newwindow">@joonian)</a> | </span> <span class="single-date">Published on January 19, 2014 at 15:06 GMT | </span> <span class="single-category"><b><i><a href="http://www.coindesk.com/companies/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Companies">Companies</a>, <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/news/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in News">News</a></i></b></span></div></div><div class="single-content" data-twttr-id="twttr-sandbox-0"><div class="picture featured"><img alt="maple-leaf" class=" wp-post-image" height="185" src="http://media.coindesk.com/2014/01/maple-leaf-300x185.jpg" width="300" /></div><span class="wpsr_floatbts_anchor" data-offset="31"></span>Three cities in Canada are set to have bitcoin ATMs installed in the coming weeks, making the country the top ATM location in the world. New ATMs will be installed in the Canadian capital city Ottawa as well as Montreal and financial hub Toronto.<br />The ATM operators are announcing their plans to install machines across the country even as Canada’s central bank issued a statement yesterday declaring <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-not-legal-tender-canada-government-official/">bitcoin is not recognised as legal tender</a> there.<br />Fadi Azouz, who operates the Montreal machine, said his ATM would be installed by 24th January at the <a href="http://bitcoinembassy.ca/about" target="_blank">Bitcoin Embassy</a> in Montreal. It will take live rates from either BitStamp or the Canadian exchange Virtex and will charge a 5% for transactions. The ‘embassy’ is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting bitcoin. Azouz said the central bank’s announcement would have no impact on his plans:<br /><blockquote>“The [statement] does not affect us at all. As long as the millions of people using bitcoin around the world continue to believe in it and trust it to be an honest method of payment, it shall continue to [be] just that.”</blockquote>Azouz added that his company, Vx5 Technologies, will be installing and operating bitcoin ATMs in eight countries this year. They include Lebanon, the Philippines, Hungary and Venezuela, among others.<br />Azouz will not be operating a <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/tag/lamassu/">Lamassu</a> or <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/tag/robocoin/">Robocoin</a> machine, which are the two most well known manufacturers of bitcoin ATMs at present. Instead, he has opted for a machine built by an Ottawa company called Bitaccess. The firm calls its machines ‘<a href="http://www.bitaccess.co/how-it-works/" target="_blank">BTMs</a>‘.<br />Bitaccess makes a machine that converts fiat currency to bitcoin and another model that does two-way conversions. Current players Lamassu and Robocoin offer machines that convert fiat to bitcoin or two-conversions respectively.<br /><br /><figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_2472"><a href="http://media.coindesk.com/2013/05/lamassu-bitcoin-atm.png"><img alt="A Lamassu bitcoin ATM" class="size-full wp-image-2472" height="286" src="http://media.coindesk.com/2013/05/lamassu-bitcoin-atm.png" width="400" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="figcaption_attachment_2472">A Lamassu bitcoin ATM</figcaption></figure>The Ottawa ATM maker has also included a wallet-generation feature on its machines. This means the ATM can create a wallet for a user who does not have an existing way of storing bitcoins. According to Bitaccess, a high-entropy, one-time, paper wallet is generated, which is then scanned manually by the user. The company says it doesn’t store any information about the printed wallets.<br />Ottawa will also get a Bitaccess machine, according to a <a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Bitcoin+coming+Ottawa/9386930/story.html" target="_blank">report</a> from the <i>Ottawa Citizen</i>. The machine will be operated by a company called BIT-Capital, which also claims to run several cryptocurrency investment funds. The Ottawa ATM was installed in the <a href="http://clocktower.ca/" target="_blank">Clocktower Brew Pub</a> yesterday, according to the <i>Citizen</i>‘s report. The micro-brewery boasts four home-brewed beers and an “upscale pub menu”.<br /><br />Tom Drummond, a bitcoin user in Ottawa, said he welcomed the arrival of an ATM in the city. He said his current method of buying bitcoin on Canadian exchange Virtex takes between two hours and three days, depending on how he transfers his money to the exchange.<br />Virtex <a href="https://www.cavirtex.com/faq#trading_and_fees">charges</a> a 1.5% fee for a 120-day trading volume of less than 400 BTC and 0.5% for a trading volume greater than 2,000 BTC. It also allows customers to deposit or withdraw cash using a prepaid debit card that costs CA$10 for the card and CA$2 for each cash withdrawal from an ATM. The process can be complicated and daunting for a new user, which is one reason Drummond welcomes bitcoin ATMs in Canada.<br />“I feel ATMs will be good exposure to the public for BTC,” Drummond said.<br />In Toronto, Canada’s commercial capital, an ATM has been installed at <a href="http://bitcoindecentral.ca/" target="_blank">Bitcoin Decentral</a>, a co-working space dedicated to bitcoin businesses in the city’s downtown. The space is 5,500 sq ft spread over four floors. The ATM is run by the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada, according to a <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/01/13/bitcoin_atm_comes_to_toronto.html" target="_blank">report</a> from the <i>Toronto Star</i>. It’s unclear what type of machine has been installed, but it appears that it is not a Lamassu, as the <i>Star</i> reports that it can perform two-way conversions between bitcoin and fiat currency.<br /><br /><figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_33505"><a href="http://media.coindesk.com/2014/01/Robocoins-ATMs.jpg"><img alt="Robocoin-ATMs" class=" wp-image-33505 " height="274" src="http://media.coindesk.com/2014/01/Robocoins-ATMs.jpg" width="400" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="figcaption_attachment_33505">Robocoin bitcoin ATMs</figcaption></figure>Vancouver was the world’s first city to have a bitcoin ATM permanently installed last October. That Robocoin unit made waves after it reportedly <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/robocoin-bitcoin-atm-cad1m-29-days/">accepted more than CA$1m in deposits</a> in its first 29 days of operation. Its operator, Bitcoiniacs, <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/robocoin-bitcoin-atms-to-be-installed-in-canada/">said in December</a> that it would install Robocoin machines in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Calgary in December, but the Bitcoiniacs <a href="http://www.bitcoiniacs.com/locations/" target="_blank">website</a> only lists the Vancouver machine.<br />Manufacturers of bitcoin ATMs, Lamassu and Robocoin, have been <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/tag/atms/">engaged in a race</a> to sell their machines around the world. Lamassu announced it had sold its <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/lamassu-announces-100th-bitcoin-atm/">100th unit</a>. New players have been entering the scene, ranging from the open-source <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/skyhooks-open-source-bitcoin-atm/">Skyhook ATM</a> to Canada’s homegrown Bitaccess BTM.<br /><div class="single-tags"><a href="http://www.coindesk.com/tag/atms/">ATMs</a><a href="http://www.coindesk.com/tag/bitaccess/">Bitaccess</a><a href="http://www.coindesk.com/tag/canada/">Canada</a><a href="http://www.coindesk.com/tag/lamassu/">Lamassu</a><a href="http://www.coindesk.com/tag/robocoin/">Robocoin</a></div></div></div>

Bitcoin ATM Installations Surge in Canada

Joon Ian Wong ( @joonian) | Published on January 19, 2014 at 15:06 GMT | Companies , News Three cities in Canada are set to have bitcoi...

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