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Installation Not Included

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Installation Not Included

Hmm.<br /><br />My 10/22 has two splits in the stock right at the top where it mates up to the receiver. One on each side.<br />I took the scope off also because I have the wrong attaching hardware.<br /><br />This has possibilities.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiF0W2uReJcfrJFLYq0N2Alo-g8AkJ-AlQ_Q-8JQeW77srEalqnr30nEcFhrilOy50Kc8QrrdFMz1gu9HatZKwvnl0sSSDGhhdlTtdpFW4smGol22TgUIvh3ADlbbMGVu5U5_E7m57AN1_/s1600/muzzelite-Ruger_10-22-Inside.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiF0W2uReJcfrJFLYq0N2Alo-g8AkJ-AlQ_Q-8JQeW77srEalqnr30nEcFhrilOy50Kc8QrrdFMz1gu9HatZKwvnl0sSSDGhhdlTtdpFW4smGol22TgUIvh3ADlbbMGVu5U5_E7m57AN1_/s640/muzzelite-Ruger_10-22-Inside.jpg" /></a></div><br />Decisions, decisions.<br /><br />Whatever I decide to replace the current stock with is most definitely not going to be made out of wood.<br /><br />Uh Oh.<br /><br />The very first thing I read about this set up wasn't very encouraging though.<br />From the <a href="http://www.mountsplus.com/AR-15_Accessories/AR-15_Scope_Rings/MZ-1022.html">Muzzelite website</a>;<br /><br /><blockquote>MUZZELITE BULLPUP RIFLE STOCK<br />for the Ruger 10/22<br /><br />Disclaimer:<br />Muzzelite stocks have been a safe and effective alternative stock for many years.  While there have been no reports of injury, it has come to our attention that in some cases, dimensional differences in receivers may allow some rifles to move within a Muzzelite stock.  In that event, <i>an unintended discharge is theoretically possible</i>.  If you have any question about your rifle in its Muzzelite stock, please call 1-800-428-9394.  If you have concerns, we can help you arrange to ship your rifle for examination.  Shipping costs would initially be borne by you.  If your rifle and receiver combination permits any movement of the rifle within the stock, we will upgrade your stock with two alternative parts, re-install the rifle, test it for function, and return it.  If your rifle requires upgraded parts, the upgrade will be done without charge and your shipping costs refunded to you.<br /></blockquote><br />My emphasis.<br /><br />Yeah, that's kind of weak bullshit.<br />"It might be fucked up but you won't know unless you pay to have it shipped to us first" kinda thing doesn't fly with me.<br /><br />Especially when we are talking about the possibility of an "unintended discharge" because the parts don't fit right!<br /><br />So, now that I have had time to think about it, that attitude alone just cost them a sale.<br /><br />Sorry guys, having to roll the dice when I shell out hard earned money for something that I may need to protect myself and my family with doesn't cut it.<br /><br />That's just my opinion anyway.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgECGCt7LwxrCQMhmBKwZFNEr6-yqnQghyphenhyphendCckLH1C59IQW-1W6x2U1Tfwi-UpiZW_Q21uRGIUfAXBp9LpIFI-F-YIrUboaLeIQA31rwbX158q-u931ka2Eu8s290TkKrMyT6VLbRq3bzgr/s1600/pop-ink-csa-images-hand-rolling-dice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgECGCt7LwxrCQMhmBKwZFNEr6-yqnQghyphenhyphendCckLH1C59IQW-1W6x2U1Tfwi-UpiZW_Q21uRGIUfAXBp9LpIFI-F-YIrUboaLeIQA31rwbX158q-u931ka2Eu8s290TkKrMyT6VLbRq3bzgr/s640/pop-ink-csa-images-hand-rolling-dice.jpg" /></a></div>

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Hmm. My 10/22 has two splits in the stock right at the top where it mates up to the receiver. One on each side. I took the scope off also be...

Al-Qaida sweep in Iraq cities revives battleground (BLOG)

6:00 PM Anonymous 0

<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/AVvXsEiGcHPc4mzTJE_t0UNJmQRIBwg2Xa3tItjnMMyNGp34FZjnTitzXWMyXC023p2v4FBgg9jrQit-AFf4FT5RrxWpmsuzIdc750bQqkbYSkdPM4DgyW6cP4gXcrBzyoBi6t03fi_KYuCZfoY/s1600/a998c44c6f55de00470f6a7067009604.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGcHPc4mzTJE_t0UNJmQRIBwg2Xa3tItjnMMyNGp34FZjnTitzXWMyXC023p2v4FBgg9jrQit-AFf4FT5RrxWpmsuzIdc750bQqkbYSkdPM4DgyW6cP4gXcrBzyoBi6t03fi_KYuCZfoY/s320/a998c44c6f55de00470f6a7067009604.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">BAGHDAD (AP) — Two Iraqi cities that were strongholds of Sunni insurgents during the U.S. war in the country are battlegrounds once more after al-Qaida militants largely took them over, fending off government forces that have been besieging them for days.</span><br /><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388812966117_2628" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><br />On Friday, al-Qaida gunmen sought to win over the population in Fallujah, one of the cities they swept into on Wednesday. A militant commander appeared among worshippers holding Friday prayers in the main city street, proclaiming that his fighters were there to defend Sunnis from the government, one resident said.The overrunning of the cities this week by al-Qaida's Iraqi branch in the Sunni heartland of western Anbar provinces is a blow to the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Malik. His government has been struggling to contain discontent among the Sunni minority over Shiite political domination that has flared into increased violence for the past year.</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 are your brothers from the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant," militants circulating through the city in a stolen police car proclaimed through a loudspeaker, using the name of the al-Qaida branch. "We are here to protect you from the government. We call on you to cooperate with us."</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;">Government troops, backed by Sunni tribesmen who oppose al-Qaida, have encircled Fallujah for several days, and have entered parts of the provincial capital Ramadi, also overrun by militants. On Friday, troops bombarded militant positions outside Fallujah with artillery, a military official said, speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to release information.</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;">Anbar province, a vast desert area on the borders with Syria and Jordan with an almost entirely Sunni population was the heartland of the Sunni insurgency that rose up against American troops and the Iraqi government after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. The insurgency was fueled by anger over the dislodgment of their community from power during Saddam's rule and the rise of Shiites. It was then that al-Qaida established its branch in the country.</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="e75a3d16-a5a0-33db-9ac9-471a3a01b134" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/sunni-muslim-worshippers-crowd-street-attend-open-air-photo-153511305.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Sunni Muslim worshippers crowd a street as they attend&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: 200px; 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="Sunni Muslim worshippers crowd a street as they attend&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="200" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UTZz0hoedGY9VDikKN0pMg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIwMDtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/b255cb526f49de00470f6a7067007ffe.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;">Sunni Muslim worshippers crowd a street as they attend open air Friday prayers in Fallujah, 40 miles …</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;">Fallujah became notorious among Americans when insurgents in 2004 killed four American security contractors and hung their burned bodies from a bridge. It, the provincial capital Ramadi and other cities were repeatedly battlegrounds for the following years, as sectarian bloodshed mounted, with Shiite militias killing Sunni.</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;">Finally, major Sunni tribes turned against al-Qaida, forming militias that fought alongside American troops — bringing an easing of the bloodshed in 2008, before the American withdrawal at the end of 2011.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">But 2013 has been the deadliest year since, with a resurgence of violence after al-Maliki's government in April violently broke up a protest by Sunnis against discrimination by Shiite authorities.</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;">Sunni anger further flared after authorities this past week arrested a senior Sunni politician and dismantled a months-old sit-in in Ramadi over the past week.</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;">As a concession, al-Maliki on Wednesday pulled the military out of Anbar cities to give security duties to local police, a top demand of Sunnis who see the army as a tool of al-Maliki's rule. But al-Qaida militants promptly erupted in Fallujah, Ramadi and several nearby towns, overrunning police station, driving out security forces and freeing prisoners.</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="9" data-uuid="68cfa707-c51d-3c3b-bf28-c36ae0dd0b04" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/file-file-photo-taken-tuesday-oct-15-2013-photo-130939698.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013,&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: 212px; 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="FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013,&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="212" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/OP_Y1InlouHligFl9xOXuQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIxMjtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/189e69504af2c500470f6a7067008de2.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;">FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013, worshipers look at blood stains at the site  …</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;">Since then, militants have dug in in the cities, setting up checkpoints in streets and waving black al-Qaida banners. Al-Maliki called in military reinforcements and sought the support of Sunni tribal fighters, who oppose al-Qaida though they still mistrust 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;">Government official Dhari al-Rishawi told The Associated Press that clashes were still underway on Friday, saying the militants remain in control of Fallujah and some parts of Ramadi. On Thursday, government warplanes fired Hellfire missiles — recently supplied by the United States — at some militant positions.</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;">So far, casualties from the fighting since Wednesday are not known. On Friday, two policemen were killed and six other wounded when their patrol was attacked by gunmen in speeding cars outside Fallujah, a police officer and a medical officials said on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release the information.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388812966117_2662" 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_1388812966117_2656" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Associated Press writer Sinan Salaheddin contributed to this report.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

Al-Qaida sweep in Iraq cities revives battleground (BLOG)

BAGHDAD (AP) — Two Iraqi cities that were strongholds of Sunni insurgents during the U.S. war in the country are battlegrounds once more a...

Clippers' Paul out 3-5 weeks with shoulder injury (BLOG)

5:00 PM Anonymous 0

<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/AVvXsEjbuH-A4GrbHicMZY53UmvVkJlzMXcfoKfi2Cz9XFt56wlyIpUwC3h26miaXMCnmzL2lXuVqOoGPwNJPl1-GCmzpK3FbqMkydPM2yefiYgkePRF3bYr-hgg7ijbKwnBgRqLEIq53-avtbU/s1600/201401032023734089975.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/AVvXsEjbuH-A4GrbHicMZY53UmvVkJlzMXcfoKfi2Cz9XFt56wlyIpUwC3h26miaXMCnmzL2lXuVqOoGPwNJPl1-GCmzpK3FbqMkydPM2yefiYgkePRF3bYr-hgg7ijbKwnBgRqLEIq53-avtbU/s320/201401032023734089975.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388812814062_3137" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">DALLAS (AP) -- Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul will miss three to five weeks after separating his right shoulder in a game against Dallas.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388812814062_3187" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Clippers coach Doc Rivers said the injury to the shoulder on the star's shooting arm Friday night was a separation. Earlier, the team had said it was a sprain.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388812814062_3196" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Paul was tripped by Mavericks guard <a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="11" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3966" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Monta Ellis</a> while dribbling around a screen. He rolled over and stayed on the floor holding his shoulder while trainers attended to him.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388812814062_3206" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">After staying down for about a minute, Paul went to the locker room with 6:43 remaining in third quarter.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388812814062_3266" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Paul scored 19 points in the first half and made his first five shots, all from 3-point range.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388812814062_3276" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Clippers play at San Antonio on Saturday night.</div></div>

Clippers' Paul out 3-5 weeks with shoulder injury (BLOG)

DALLAS (AP) -- Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul will miss three to five weeks after separating his right shoulder in a game against Dal...

Guns are cutting back on crime

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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>HURRY BUY MORE GUNS!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Many Americans are shifting toward less gun control are more constitutional awareness.  Many Americans have been unnecessarily insulted by various Sandy Hook activists and others who want to make lawful Americans feel guilty for nothing at all. </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Some say it's a good time to buy guns now since the prices have dropped back and even ammunition is no longer in short supply.   But don't delay.</b><br /><br /><b>Even Detroit's Chief Of Police James Craig says good Americans with guns deter crime:  </b></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/OO3eA-L8Qv8?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>...developing...</b></div>

Guns are cutting back on crime

HURRY BUY MORE GUNS! Many Americans are shifting toward less gun control are more constitutional awareness. Many Americans have been unnece...

Man Loses 392 Pounds After Seeing His Obese Reflection on TV Screen (BLOG)

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqG_aJCzMEx9B2EvWKF8yuxY4AHLytp_zjU_sWaHmrxmjOxEOcrQFdC7gkOuFMcalG41kv6Qz_clr5VEEAa6W9k8k_fdJVAyqqZHpTvD9HiJobereQvMztrwuV048XmdyS7-uyV44UNKM/s1600/HT_michael_holcomb_lpl_140103_16x9_608.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/AVvXsEjqG_aJCzMEx9B2EvWKF8yuxY4AHLytp_zjU_sWaHmrxmjOxEOcrQFdC7gkOuFMcalG41kv6Qz_clr5VEEAa6W9k8k_fdJVAyqqZHpTvD9HiJobereQvMztrwuV048XmdyS7-uyV44UNKM/s320/HT_michael_holcomb_lpl_140103_16x9_608.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_25036" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sharee Samuels had always been of average weight as a child, but at 13 she was on her own after school. She gorged on chips, pretzels and cookies.</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;">"When I started weighing myself at 13, I never saw below 200," she said. "I had unlimited access to anything I wanted. I no longer had parental control over my food."</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_25046" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">She used to hide food so her parents wouldn't find out how much she was eating, and in her senior year of high school, her weight peaked at 256 pounds.</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;">Michael Holcomb can probably relate. When he was 13 years old he tipped the scale at nearly 500 pounds, and when he graduated he gained another 100 pounds.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_25056" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"I didn't do much, and what I did do was eat. So I played video games, I would watch TV and I ate, and I was good at it," he said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_25066" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">But Samuels and Holcomb are no longer obese.</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;">Samuels and Holcomb are both featured in <a data-rapid_p="8" href="http://www.people.com/people/" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">People magazine's special issue</a> that focuses on people who'd lost about half their body weight. They both appeared on <a data-rapid_p="9" href="http://gma.yahoo.com/taylor-swift-meets-child-hit-suv-outside-her-101817770--abc-news-music.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">"Good Morning America"</a> to share their weight-loss strategies.</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;">For Samuels, a graduate student and Zumba teacher from Federal Way, Wash., one on of her lowest points was having to shop with her mother because, at 17, she couldn't wear what her friends were wearing.</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;"><strong>"I had to shop at women's plus-size stores," she said.</strong></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 her second attempt at weight loss, she had a breakthrough.</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 was sitting in the car with my mom crying. I felt like I had let my parents down. I had all these resources, two supportive parents and I was just sabotaging myself," she said. "That was the moment I said 'I'm done.'"</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_25077" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">She worked with her husband, Andre, to lose weight. She also adopted a vegan diet, and always has healthy snacks available.</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;">Samuels, now 24, lost 121 pounds, and now weighs 135. Her weight loss was so dramatic that she had loose skin removed. Her husband went from 310 to 217 pounds.</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;">For Holcomb, 26, the change began five years ago when he was involved in a minor car accident. It got him thinking about his own mortality.</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 next day I [lay] down on my couch and the cable went out, the screen turned black and I was lying there without my shirt and I saw my stomach hanging over the side of the couch, and I broke down and I cried and I promised myself I would change. And from that day onward, I have changed for the better," he 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;">When he decided to change his life, he weighed 607 pounds. He now weighs 230, which means he lost 392 pounds.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_25095" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Just how did he do it? He gave up fatty sandwiches for healthy salads, and started walking. The Escondido, Calif., man now works as a personal trainer.</div></div>

Man Loses 392 Pounds After Seeing His Obese Reflection on TV Screen (BLOG)

Sharee Samuels had always been of average weight as a child, but at 13 she was on her own after school. She gorged on chips, pretzels and co...

DreamWorks Animation to Release Its Own Tablet: The DreamTab

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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/AVvXsEjG0bvqzPTQmmVCwbrwNv-BvNL34oyODI1qnpDGLkVlf0TehDpjjmZTFlPRhcV9ngKo3GLs9SJUNGnT9YrZ5wvhyphenhyphen7SSxnlKfvus9Bvh0utgEnJ7iz125HHH7k835w51s-OAgh0W-Ata7JQ/s1600/DreamWorks_Animation_to_Release_Its-69b81b21071d0ddfcba762fed44d4cb0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG0bvqzPTQmmVCwbrwNv-BvNL34oyODI1qnpDGLkVlf0TehDpjjmZTFlPRhcV9ngKo3GLs9SJUNGnT9YrZ5wvhyphenhyphen7SSxnlKfvus9Bvh0utgEnJ7iz125HHH7k835w51s-OAgh0W-Ata7JQ/s320/DreamWorks_Animation_to_Release_Its-69b81b21071d0ddfcba762fed44d4cb0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_20930" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">DreamWorks Animation has partnered with Fuhu, Inc. to create the DreamTab, a new tablet designed just for kids that will feature educational activities and games based on DreamWorks Animation films, the companies said Friday.</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_1388811998962_19843" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The tablet, which will be unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week, will go on sale in the United States in Spring 2014 and be released internationally later this year.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_20940" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Fuhu, a California-based company with offices in the United States and across Eastern Asia, is one of the fastest growing private companies in America. It designed the nabi tablet, the technological foundation for the DreamTab.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_20949" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">For DreamWorks Animation, this marks the continued extension of its brand into new arenas for the digital-savvy kid. The film studio has expanded into television, acquired a prominent YouTube network and is opening up amusement parks and other consumer experiences across the globe based on its film properties.</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 company’s artists for movies like “Shrek,” “Kung Fu Panda” and “How to Train Your Dragon” will give one-one-one video lessons on the DreamTab, teaching kids how to draw their favorite characters using the same stylus tool the artists used for the movies. The tablet will also come equipped with games related to DreamWorks Animation movies. The first, School of Dragons, will feature the animation studio’s “How to Train Your Dragon” franchise.”</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;">“Fuhu grabbed our attention when they came on the market because they single-handedly made a quantum leap forward in revolutionizing the kids tech space; as their company grew, we saw an incredible opportunity to join with them to take the overall tablet experience to a whole new level,” Jim Mainard, DreamWorks Animation’s Head of Digital Strategy, said in a statement. “The DreamTab posed a compelling challenge not only to our filmmakers and artists to create content for this new medium, but also for our engineers and innovators who worked hand-in-hand with the Fuhu team to develop the consumer- facing side of this groundbreaking technology.”</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 tablet’s native entertainment properties include nabi Play, which will feature kid’s programming from DreamWorks Animation as well as Nick, Disney and Cartoon Network, and a curated App Zone and Treasure Box that sell apps, music and movies.</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 two companies have gone out of their way to assuage parents’ fears about a kids-specific tablet as the DreamTab comes equipped with parental controls and emails/texting services that comply with child privacy rules.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_20982" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">The tablet will sell at 8 inches and 12 inches.</span></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_20972" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The post <a data-rapid_p="10" href="http://www.thewrap.com/dreamworks-animation-sell-tablet/" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_20971" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">DreamWorks Animation to Release Its Own Tablet: The DreamTab</a> appeared first on <a data-rapid_p="11" href="http://www.thewrap.com/" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_21006" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">TheWrap</a>.</div></div>

DreamWorks Animation to Release Its Own Tablet: The DreamTab

DreamWorks Animation has partnered with Fuhu, Inc. to create the DreamTab, a new tablet designed just for kids that will feature educational...

Contrarian Interest Rate Theory

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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJA1QJvZMJx0bz9RkxGf0iaDzJO_hYo9_E2SVaMHo84SSWp1krW7vW-zgg6jQpx2ni8JCcYsjjkJ9PmD1yKbXbp_MbSR_ORm01-OQsV_PYoQC1KjdMvmDpALN21WCBr_IO3b4oCJD9qsg/s1600/Contrarian+Interest+Rate+Theory.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJA1QJvZMJx0bz9RkxGf0iaDzJO_hYo9_E2SVaMHo84SSWp1krW7vW-zgg6jQpx2ni8JCcYsjjkJ9PmD1yKbXbp_MbSR_ORm01-OQsV_PYoQC1KjdMvmDpALN21WCBr_IO3b4oCJD9qsg/s320/Contrarian+Interest+Rate+Theory.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge</span>.<br /><br />The line in blue shows the 5-year CD rate at commercial banks (left scale).<br /><br />The line in black shows wages and salaries divided by deposits at commercial banks (right scale).<br /><br />Here's the theory.<br /><br />A lender's ability to lend is generally determined by the amount of their deposits (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_reserve_banking">fractional reserve banking</a> notwithstanding).<br /><br />A lender's desire to lend is generally determined by the stable income streams of the borrowers (<a href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/ninja-loan.asp">NINJA loans</a> notwithstanding).<br /><br />When wages (a bank's desire to lend) grow slower than deposits (a bank's ability to lend), then all things being equal (which they rarely are), the interest paid on deposits should fall (clearly seen in the chart). It's simply supply vs. demand. Not enough wages. Too many deposits.<br /><br />Unlike nearly every financial expert on CNBC, I am not a believer that we're in a rising interest rate environment over the long-term. Wage growth is not keeping up with deposit growth. There are no signs of that trend changing any time soon (as seen in the declining black line in the chart). Why would I expect higher CD rates when there is a <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/04/409-million-missing-jobs-musical-tribute.html">growing wage famine (nonfarm payroll employment)</a> relative to a <a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=qCe">growing deposit glut (CPI adjusted deposits)</a>? As seen in the following chart, note that this is a new development that began in February of 2000 (the peak in wages divided by deposits). In hindsight, Y2Katasrophe for the win!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzG_6OoW_zSSH-AUHTs9vosqexE2s99n3o_gLE1EZL32IqQj1PORACSGpiUxBA7U_OMYjYYpLhvbIb-y5EbKBKfgTbYyiFqn7yEyAgE9-IielTUsCEMkIp_PzdNk-v0ZjWhkiixNC3gU/s1600/Contrarian+Interest+Rate+Theory+-+Long-Term.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzG_6OoW_zSSH-AUHTs9vosqexE2s99n3o_gLE1EZL32IqQj1PORACSGpiUxBA7U_OMYjYYpLhvbIb-y5EbKBKfgTbYyiFqn7yEyAgE9-IielTUsCEMkIp_PzdNk-v0ZjWhkiixNC3gU/s320/Contrarian+Interest+Rate+Theory+-+Long-Term.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge</span>.<br /><br />Inflation (or the lack of it) isn't really going to alter the dynamics much in my opinion. Banks aren't going to pay higher CD rates just because food costs more. I would be the last to argue that they're nonprofit food banks (<a href="http://business.time.com/2013/12/18/heres-jamie-dimons-opulent-maddeningly-tone-deaf-christmas-card/">Jamie Dimon</a> sarcastically notwithstanding).<br /><br />This is not investment advice. If it was, I would have written this post in Japanese as a tribute to Japan's popping housing bubble in the early 1990s and 20+ years of its ongoing <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bonds/japan/">low interest rate</a> aftermath.<br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=qC0">St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart #1</a><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=qC8">St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart #2</a>

Contrarian Interest Rate Theory

Click to enlarge . The line in blue shows the 5-year CD rate at commercial banks (left scale). The line in black shows wages and salaries di...

Marijuana plants found at home of rogue U.S. banker: police (BLOG)

2:00 PM Anonymous 0

<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/AVvXsEg-bQIgTVXuicqtbOkXTyCxk9t35xtR7KoducM4s0h30GsEGsCag0re85-fiwK4zBnw8G0R7_XRKR3G_Vy_9Pv2QuSocZmRvaLONUMu3-jShrsqZ3GpAXP8riZsmkuHMXezur1W1wlTgr8/s1600/2014-01-03T204907Z_1_CBREA021LTX00_RTROPTP_2_USA-BANKER-FRAUD.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/AVvXsEg-bQIgTVXuicqtbOkXTyCxk9t35xtR7KoducM4s0h30GsEGsCag0re85-fiwK4zBnw8G0R7_XRKR3G_Vy_9Pv2QuSocZmRvaLONUMu3-jShrsqZ3GpAXP8riZsmkuHMXezur1W1wlTgr8/s320/2014-01-03T204907Z_1_CBREA021LTX00_RTROPTP_2_USA-BANKER-FRAUD.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_16264" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">By David Beasley</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_16179" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Marion County Sheriff's Department discovered the plants on Wednesday at a mobile home rented by Aubrey Lee Price, 47, in Ocala, Florida, less than 80 miles northwest of Orlando, department spokesman James Pogue told Reuters.ATLANTA (Reuters) - More than 200 marijuana plants were found at the rented Florida home of a former Georgia bank director captured this week after vanishing for 18 months under suspicion of embezzling $21 million, authorities said on Friday.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_16277" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A day earlier, Price, a former director of Montgomery Bank & Trust, a small bank in Ailey, Georgia, was arrested near Brunswick, Georgia, when authorities noticed his pickup truck windows appeared to be tinted too darkly to comply with state law.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_16296" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Price had disappeared more than a year earlier, just before he was indicted in Georgia in July 2012 on one count of bank fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine. He left behind a written confession and a note for family and friends saying he planned to kill himself, authorities 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;">His wife believed he was dead, her attorney John Holt said on Thursday.</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;">Price had recently been living at the Florida property and the landlord called police after spotting several marijuana plants growing in the garage, according to a police report. A deputy saw several bright lights and "tall green plants" believed to be marijuana in the garage, the report 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;">After obtaining a search warrant, investigators discovered a total of 225 marijuana plants in the garage and mobile home, the police report said. No charges have yet been filed against Price in connection with the marijuana, Pogue 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;">Price, who was charged with giving false identification at the time of his arrest this week, was ordered held in police custody until a detention hearing set for Monday in Savannah, court records showed.</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;">Price previously controlled an investment group that put $10 million into Montgomery Bank & Trust, according to the federal indictment.</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 being named a bank director, he "fraudulently obtained over $21 million of MB&T funds, which he then misappropriated, embezzled and lost in speculative trading and other investing," the indictment 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;">In an effort to hide the fraud, Price provided bank officials with fabricated account statements, the indictment said. Regulators later shut down the bank's two branches. Price was indicted in New York last year on securities and wire fraud charges connected to the scheme.</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;">Before his arrest on Tuesday, Price was last seen boarding a ferry in Key West, Florida, in June 2012. Investigators at the time speculated that he either committed suicide or fled to Venezuela.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_16301" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Last year, his wife asked a Florida judge to declare her husband deceased for estate planning purposes and will now seek to have the declaration set aside, Holt said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_16316" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Andrew Hay)</div></div>

Marijuana plants found at home of rogue U.S. banker: police (BLOG)

By David Beasley The Marion County Sheriff's Department discovered the plants on Wednesday at a mobile home rented by Aubrey Lee Price, ...

Mob Wives: Alicia DiMichele Garofalo Sentencing Monday!

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<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Embedded image permalink" height="320" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bc-qGznIgAEfBJ4.jpg" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>What happens in Vegas didn't stay in Vegas</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Thanks to Alicia's social media accounts</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>The day Alicia has been dreading for months is literally around the corner. <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mob-wives-star-faces-96g-fine-sentencing-article-1.1565917">The New York Daily News</a> is reporting that this Monday, January 6th, 2014, Alicia will be sentenced for her part in the embezzlement of pension contributions made by truck drivers in a company she owned with her husband, Edward. The Feds are looking to collect $20,000 in restitution and another $96,000 in fines for her part in the crime she has already plead guilty to. Where will she get that kind of money?<br /><br />Apparently, Alicia’s “Addiction” Boutique is doing so well in Cherry Hill New Jersey, that she has been able to open a second boutique. On top of that, Alicia is reportedly earning $96,000 for her role on season 4 of Mob Wives, and that’s why authorities feel she should not be allowed to keep any of her salary from the show.<br /><br />It’s being reported that Alicia could get up to six months in prison by Judge Sandra Townes, who is likely not to be too impressed with Alicia. A few months ago Alicia was up before the judge asking for her travel restrictions to be lifted so she could help her son settle into his dorm in West Virginia. The judge agreed to allow her to make this trip for her son, but shortly after pictures of Alicia in Las Vegas were on Twitter and Instagram, posted by Alicia herself. Not too smart on Alicia’s part to lie to and make a fool of the judge in charge of her future.<br /><br />We will keep a close eye on these developments and meanwhile I hope Alicia’s trip to Vegas was worth the risk of irritating her judge.<br /><div><br /></div><div>Picture Credit: Alicia's twitter account</div>

Mob Wives: Alicia DiMichele Garofalo Sentencing Monday!

What happens in Vegas didn't stay in Vegas Thanks to Alicia's social media accounts The day Alicia has been dreading for months is l...

America's new commodity: MARIJUANA

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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Major Marijuana Industry</span> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDTOfpPN_HCarqXo7W4ZMjZlG-tvGbhYaLmGXwloP4sN-S3v_ytnoPKDkghrczGk8K8iEekruZzFggnU2izJcvcxYSzFvGNoPoB94GIUPvzG7lNwZ7rfqgmBiDTFkqYfU1YgQOtnBrnf4/s1600/CannabisPIC.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDTOfpPN_HCarqXo7W4ZMjZlG-tvGbhYaLmGXwloP4sN-S3v_ytnoPKDkghrczGk8K8iEekruZzFggnU2izJcvcxYSzFvGNoPoB94GIUPvzG7lNwZ7rfqgmBiDTFkqYfU1YgQOtnBrnf4/s1600/CannabisPIC.jpeg" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Denver the MILE HIGH CITY</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>Colorado will be one of the richest states</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 answer to America's economic issues and jobs</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Marijuana could be the investment crop of the future </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The news and various discussions on marijuana prohibition and alcohol prohibition is just hitting the headlines across America and the world.  There's no stopping this industry now as it proves to be the answer to America's problems.  If other states don't follow suit they deserve to be broke.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Moreover marijuana is being proven to be health beneficial and a wise alternative to smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol:</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/EuVTLO8t8II?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9V_CZhkBFKs?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>More STUDIES and LINKS on these marijuana developments:</b><br /><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/happy-hogs-and-hemp.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/happy-hogs-and-hemp.html</a> </b><br /><b><br /></b><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/medical-marijuana-stocks-begin-rising.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/medical-marijuana-stocks-begin-rising.html</a></b><br /><b><br /></b><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-marijuana-industry-in-america-grows.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-marijuana-industry-in-america-grows.html</a></b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>There are still restrictions...</b></span></div><br /><b>The government wants to keep we the people under control.  There's too much to lose in the prison industrial complex...</b><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/nymqeufG2cY?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe> <br /><b>...developing...</b></div>

America's new commodity: MARIJUANA

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Happy Hogs and Hemp

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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Marijuana Meat Heads</span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">Pot Bellies or Pork Bellies? </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>You might see some vegetarians get some pork back into their diets now with the new news on happy hogs being fed with marijuana, amongst other things...</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Smoking Hot Pork and Stocks</span> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Marijuana is smoking hot in the news:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-marijuana-industry-in-america-grows.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-marijuana-industry-in-america-grows.html</a> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/medical-marijuana-stocks-begin-rising.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/medical-marijuana-stocks-begin-rising.html</a> </b></div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/iwLKpy0Wd6U?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><b>Learn more about HEMP:</b><br /><b><a href="http://www.hemp.com/" style="color: red;">http://www.hemp.com/</a></b><br /><b><br /></b><b>...developing...</b>

Happy Hogs and Hemp

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Bank President Who Faked Death Charged With Fraud (BLOG)

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhYgp2CgmwoflsKq7kqdocLoGTJxLQJaXUMfWnJI3EosTfQ1Au7K7NHOgYgRKs2LH5cA9_LA3Mv3oDmzCAipuw0XhB2ftMd0FDQnayoVNtUvDO-8Uyqphshj2yPWEki8D5CcacNS-vbQ4/s1600/140103_ntl_fakingdeath_wg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhYgp2CgmwoflsKq7kqdocLoGTJxLQJaXUMfWnJI3EosTfQ1Au7K7NHOgYgRKs2LH5cA9_LA3Mv3oDmzCAipuw0XhB2ftMd0FDQnayoVNtUvDO-8Uyqphshj2yPWEki8D5CcacNS-vbQ4/s320/140103_ntl_fakingdeath_wg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_10014" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">We've all had the fantasy - if only briefly - escape your current life and start over. Well, one Georgia banker went for it. Prosecutors say Aubrey Lee Price, a self-described evangelical businessman faked his own death and left a trail of victims - stealing millions in the process. Not the first person to try this, but now, the jig is up.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_10026" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Price, who shuffled out of court with shackles and shaggy hair is a far cry from the slick businessman who was riding high a few years ago until he faked his own suicide and vanished.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_10035" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Why did Price orchestrate such an elaborate hoax? Federal investigators say he had 40 million reasons.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_10044" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"He's a thief and he's a liar," said Wendy Cross. Cross was one of 115 investors who lost a combined $40 million dollars to Price.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_10053" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Justin Zegalia, a former business associate says he had no idea Price was losing money in the market and stealing from a bank he took over after infusing it with investor funds. In 2012 the Montgomery Bank & Trust was closed and the money was gone.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_10063" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Not just my money, but my dreams, and my future and my freedom - gone," said Cross who lost $300,000 dollars.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_10073" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">One month after writing a bizarre suicide note, Price was seen on a surveillance tape at an airport in Key West, Florida.<br />A judge declared Price dead, but the FBI didn't buy it - and they issued a $20,000 dollar reward.</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;">"He was planning this exit for a very long time," Cross said, "and he's a very smart, smart individual- it's too bad it was used for such evil."</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 18 months of successfully dodging authorities, he was busted in a routine traffic stop on I-95 in Georgia. The reason? The tinted windows on his vehicle were too dark.</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;">"You become comfortable and you become a little secure in your new identity, and you fail to perceive these types of dangers," said Nick Casale, a former NYPD detective."This officer was smart enough to run him, and then determined he was wanted - and apprehended him."</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_10077" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">As for Wendy Cross who lost all the money she had been saving since age 22 - she says this is a great way to start the new year.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_10092" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">If Price is convicted, he could serve 30 years behind bars.</div></div>

Bank President Who Faked Death Charged With Fraud (BLOG)

We've all had the fantasy - if only briefly - escape your current life and start over. Well, one Georgia banker went for it. Prosecutors...

Those Aren't Bells Ringing, They Are Balls Clanging Together.

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<a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/01/03/259432775/bill-overstreet-famed-wwii-fighter-pilot-dies-at-92">Big, Brass Ones</a>.<br /><br /><b><br />                      Bill Overstreet, Famed WWII Fighter Pilot, Dies At 92</b><br /><br /><blockquote>World War II fighter pilot William Overstreet Jr. passed away Sunday. He was 92. Overstreet gained fame for flying beneath the Eiffel Tower's arches during the war in pursuit of a German aircraft.</blockquote><br />snip<br /><blockquote>CLEMMONS: This was a half-hour dogfight which would end up going through the streets of Paris and conclude itself through a pursuit through the Eiffel Tower where Bill shot down the German pilot.<br /><br />CORNISH: Yes, you heard that right, from the stratosphere, down through the arches of the Eiffel Tower. Here's how Overstreet himself described the chase in an interview posted online.<br /><br />WILLIAM OVERSTREET: He figured I'd try to get around and he'd have time to get away. He was wrong. I was right behind him, right under the Eiffel Tower with him. And when he pulled up, I did get him. But that's a huge space. That's not close at all. It's plenty of room to go under the Eiffel Tower. But it makes a good story.</blockquote>snip<br /><br /> A half hour dog fight over the streets of Paris from thirty thousand feet all the way down to the deck <i>under </i>the Eiffel Tower.<br /><br />Apparently he was also a master of the understatement.<br /><br />God Speed sir.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/01/03/259432775/bill-overstreet-famed-wwii-fighter-pilot-dies-at-92">Read the whole thing here</a>.

Those Aren't Bells Ringing, They Are Balls Clanging Together.

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Obama directs new gun background check measures (BLOG)

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-tGZuGhvzH-gJVSM248GJA5M4Ir3OFBIChqaZ9-A_VBuVeWMrVH5aJG-dL2hEQW2fop7suRnlFAvL-2bQtobI_g3i9eJ0uAazua1KWvlju-GHPessLL2bu6Gk3HTR5SxY1X9HEcci-mQ/s1600/2014-01-03T232026Z_3_CBREA021EJJ00_RTROPTP_2_USA-OBAMA-NEWSCONFERENCE.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/AVvXsEj-tGZuGhvzH-gJVSM248GJA5M4Ir3OFBIChqaZ9-A_VBuVeWMrVH5aJG-dL2hEQW2fop7suRnlFAvL-2bQtobI_g3i9eJ0uAazua1KWvlju-GHPessLL2bu6Gk3HTR5SxY1X9HEcci-mQ/s320/2014-01-03T232026Z_3_CBREA021EJJ00_RTROPTP_2_USA-OBAMA-NEWSCONFERENCE.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_4919" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton</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_1388811998962_6711" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">HONOLULU/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday proposed two new gun control regulations aimed at clarifying restrictions on gun ownership for the mentally ill and strengthening a database used for background checks before firearm purchases.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_6725" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The measures are the latest step in a year-long push by President Barack Obama to tighten U.S. gun laws in the wake of a school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children were killed.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_6734" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Obama tried last year to bring in sweeping new gun control measures in the aftermath of that shooting, but most of his proposals were defeated in Congress. He has pledged to continue working on the issue despite that setback.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_6744" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Obama had directed his officials to take steps that do not require approval from Congress, such as Friday's two proposals.</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 first action, proposed by the Department of Justice, would clarify who is prohibited from possessing firearms because of mental illness and would outline for states what information can be shared with the federal database.</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 department will seek public comment over the next 90 days about whether the ban should encompass people under the age of 18 who were either adjudicated by a court to be suffering from a serious mental illness, or who were involuntarily treated for a mental illness.</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 second measure, led by the Department of Health and Human Services, would remove barriers that could prevent states from passing on information to the database.</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 administration's two new executive actions will help ensure that better and more reliable information makes its way into the background check system," the White House 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: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The proposals have raised concerns from mental health advocates, who fear that people with mental illnesses will not seek care because of concern that their conditions will be entered into federal 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;">The database, called the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, is used by gun dealers to check whether a potential buyer is prohibited from owning a gun.</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;">States are encouraged to report to the database the names of people who are not allowed to buy guns because they have been involuntarily committed to a mental hospital, or have been found to have serious mental illnesses by courts.</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;">Many states do not participate. So the administration studied changing a health privacy rule - part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) - to remove a potential barrier.</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;">HHS said the new regulation would not require routine mental health visits to be logged -- and would apply only to agencies that are not directly involved in treatment.</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;">"Seeking help for mental health problems or getting treatment does not make someone legally prohibited from having a firearm, and nothing in this proposed rule changes that," HHS said in a statement.</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;">"Furthermore, nothing in this proposed rule would require reporting on general mental health visits or other routine mental health care, or exempt providers solely performing these treatment services from existing privacy rules," said the department, which will take comments on the regulation for 60 days before finalizing it.</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 idea of expanding the database comes at a time when the government's collection of citizens' phone and internet data remains in the headlines. Obama is studying recommendations on how to rein in the U.S. National Security Agency in the wake of disclosures about the government surveillance programs from former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_6748" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Mental health advocates worry that somehow, whether intentionally by a hacker or unintentionally through bureaucratic bungling, mental health data could be made public.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_6763" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">(Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Andrew Hay)</div></div>

Obama directs new gun background check measures (BLOG)

By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton HONOLULU/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday proposed two new gun control regulation...

Rand Paul plans CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT against NSA

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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Why does the media call elected representatives "LAWMAKERS?"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9drHpq01Z5zLq9tSwrP3LreYiUW0lgorzaoL8R4kKOEYGgR22rz-Jt-Dp39wiulhvXVrox13U95ufw0A-ZVuSm9ISJMfl9ARKR-7zkpuSvz7nbPHSFSJzeqyVitsNpY4ijLwcYD4pSpQ/s1600/court_gavel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9drHpq01Z5zLq9tSwrP3LreYiUW0lgorzaoL8R4kKOEYGgR22rz-Jt-Dp39wiulhvXVrox13U95ufw0A-ZVuSm9ISJMfl9ARKR-7zkpuSvz7nbPHSFSJzeqyVitsNpY4ijLwcYD4pSpQ/s200/court_gavel.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB1ppG897e_XmqmYRE10nkg8r3igPxHj906ajU2oDnUpQTB5Y7Ux-7AHQ8uCN0mzuxh04OPigxZjx82LXdmSVVEgjHUJlVwJMZeXopCrp0vZVGebtsLHbeZqT-LXC91l8J1mfsx56uugc/s1600/Bill+Of+Rights_XOUT.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB1ppG897e_XmqmYRE10nkg8r3igPxHj906ajU2oDnUpQTB5Y7Ux-7AHQ8uCN0mzuxh04OPigxZjx82LXdmSVVEgjHUJlVwJMZeXopCrp0vZVGebtsLHbeZqT-LXC91l8J1mfsx56uugc/s320/Bill+Of+Rights_XOUT.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">ANSWER:  Many of them are LAWYERS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>We used to have a constitutional representative form of government here in America.  We used to have the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.  Now we have the bandits and OATH OF OFFICE VIOLATORS called LAWMAKERS which in fact are LAWYERS...</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>What exactly is Rand Paul doing here?  Creating a new list of revolutionaries who will be targeted by the POLICE STATE?</b></div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ONl2VWkN-jU?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><b><br /></b><b>...developing...</b>

Rand Paul plans CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT against NSA

Why does the media call elected representatives "LAWMAKERS?" ANSWER: Many of them are LAWYERS We used to have a constitutional re...

Hi everybody! Happy New Year!

11:11 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div style="text-align: center;"><b>    <span style="font-size: large;">2014 The Year of the American Dream</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>How many years now do we the people have to keep hearing about all these broken promises?  Why can't we just get back to the United States Constitution and Bill Of Rights?</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>ANSWER:  Because we have enemies of America both foreign and domestic that violate their OATH OF OFFICE and will continue to do so as America continues to be transformed into it's new world order.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>"...Republicans should make it their new year's resolution to do the right thing and restore this vital economic security for their constituents right now.  After all our focus as a country this year shouldn't be shrinking our economy but growing it.  Not narrowing opportunity but expanding it.  Not fewer jobs but doing everything we can to help our business create more of the good jobs that a growing middle class requires.  That's my new year's resolution, to do everything I can every single day to help make 2014 a year in which more of our citizens can earn more of their piece of the American Dream..."</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>--President Barack Hussein Obama</i> </b><br /><br /><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/12/marc-faber-explains-dying-american-dream.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/12/marc-faber-explains-dying-american-dream.html</a> </b><br /><br /><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/12/basic-economics-and-federal-reserve.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/12/basic-economics-and-federal-reserve.html</a> </b><br /><br /><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/12/capitalism-inflation-and-market.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/12/capitalism-inflation-and-market.html</a> </b><br /><br /><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/only-invest-small-amount-in-gold-and.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/only-invest-small-amount-in-gold-and.html</a> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gT9SB_aY5nA?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tGk5ioEXlIM?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><b>...developing...</b></div>

Hi everybody! Happy New Year!

2014 The Year of the American Dream How many years now do we the people have to keep hearing about all these broken promises? Why can&#...

Watch Your Flank

11:09 AM Tukiyooo 0

Watch Your Flank

There is a reason for it. The Pincer maneuver has been around a long time and is still in use to this day.

US spy court: NSA to keep collecting phone records (BLOG)

11:00 AM Anonymous 0

<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/AVvXsEgZCj6zO7kK-o6WkovIxj4gViPIn3jIDd8fp4mfWsFBrdXO8I7WJbJ7ozbI72RIGGrUA8YhkFl6EoOMDhOd5RtGbbEz7XBYsZ6qQ4NnKznw_RtGFMYG1CXOS2RcLZCKCyylMnJFqOram-U/s1600/65548e9eeae00028450f6a70670078ea+(1).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/AVvXsEgZCj6zO7kK-o6WkovIxj4gViPIn3jIDd8fp4mfWsFBrdXO8I7WJbJ7ozbI72RIGGrUA8YhkFl6EoOMDhOd5RtGbbEz7XBYsZ6qQ4NnKznw_RtGFMYG1CXOS2RcLZCKCyylMnJFqOram-U/s320/65548e9eeae00028450f6a70670078ea+(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_2808" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">WASHINGTON (AP) — A secretive U.S. spy court has ruled again that the National Security Agency can keep collecting every American's telephone records every day, in the midst of dueling decisions in two other federal courts about whether the surveillance program is constitutional.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_2823" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The latest approval was the first since two conflicting court decisions about whether the program is lawful and since a presidential advisory panel recommended that the NSA no longer be allowed to collect and store the phone records and search them without obtaining separate court approval for each search.The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Friday renewed the NSA phone collection program, said Shawn Turner, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Such periodic requests are somewhat formulaic but required since the program started in 2006.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_2842" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In a statement, Turner said that 15 judges on the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on 36 occasions over the past seven years have approved the NSA's collection of U.S. phone records as lawful.</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;">Also Friday, government lawyers turned to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to block one federal judge's decision that threatens the NSA phone records program.</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 opposing lawyer who spearheaded the effort that led to the ruling said he hopes to take the issue directly to the Supreme Court.</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 Justice Department filed a one-page notice of appeal asking the appeals court to overturn U.S. District Judge Richard Leon's ruling last month that the program was likely unconstitutional. The government's move had been expected.</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;">Larry Klayman, who filed the class-action suit against President Barack Obama and top administration national security officials, said he intends to petition the federal appeals court next week to send the case directly to the Supreme Court. Klayman said the move was justified because the NSA case was a matter of great public importance.</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 are exigent circumstances here," Klayman said. "We can't allow this situation to continue. The NSA's continuing to spy on everybody."</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;">Turner said U.S. intelligence agencies would be willing to modify the phone records surveillance program to provide additional privacy and civil liberties protections as long as it was still operationally beneficial. He said the Obama administration was carefully evaluating the advisory panel's recent recommendations.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_2851" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Judges sitting on the secretive spy court have repeatedly approved the program for 90-day periods. They also have repeatedly upheld the constitutionality of the program — a judicial bulwark that held strong until Leon's surprise decision last month.</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;">Leon said the NSA's program was "almost Orwellian," a reference to writer George Orwell's futuristic novel "1984," and that there was little evidence the operation had prevented terrorist attacks. He ruled against the government but agreed to postpone shutting down the program until the government could appeal.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_2860" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In a separate case involving the same NSA phone records program, a district judge in New York last month upheld the government's data collection as lawful. The American Civil Liberties Union, which lost that case, said this week it will appeal to a federal appeals court in New York.</div></div>

US spy court: NSA to keep collecting phone records (BLOG)

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Swine flu kills Santa Clara County woman, 41 (BLOG)

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIIVNr6dXt1K2Y6B1WJJFqDBQo9n6sVf2Ol_JkC9BIUGe0K76p-8FqWo6MBJHGnrZo8zCfzR4zzlxYKzocjWvAUuI97Oe7chyCq6JLXk7yoO2aGPjGyO3pUNPx_LRmGlA8IKH0P9PL75c/s1600/swine_flu.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/AVvXsEhIIVNr6dXt1K2Y6B1WJJFqDBQo9n6sVf2Ol_JkC9BIUGe0K76p-8FqWo6MBJHGnrZo8zCfzR4zzlxYKzocjWvAUuI97Oe7chyCq6JLXk7yoO2aGPjGyO3pUNPx_LRmGlA8IKH0P9PL75c/s320/swine_flu.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="bodytext" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">A 41-year-old Santa Clara County woman has died of swine flu, an ominous development that prompted health officials Friday to strongly advise people of all ages to get vaccinated.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">Last year, no one in the county younger than 65 died of any flu strain.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">Unlike many other flu viruses, swine flu can result in lethal pneumonia even in healthy people. Pregnant women and people who are morbidly obese are particularly vulnerable, said Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County's health officer. In 2009, about 203,000 people died worldwide in the swine flu pandemic.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">"It can really be a bad actor,'' Cody said. "Everyone is susceptible.''</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">Since flu season began in October, six other cases of severe swine flu and one case of Flu B in people younger than 65 also have been reported in Santa Clara County, the state's sixth largest. No data was immediately available for the rest of the Bay Area.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">In Orange County, a 28-year-old San Juan Capistrano woman who had an underlying medical condition died last week of H1N1.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">Only flu cases that occur in people younger than 65 and that are severe enough to require hospitalization in an ICU or result in death are closely tracked by public health departments.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">The Santa Clara County woman was not identified nor was the city where she lived. But the viruses are widespread, Cody said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">"We're getting flu reported from every corner of the county,'' she said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">It is not too late to get a flu shot. This year's vaccination protects against H1N1. The shot is no guarantee of avoiding the flu, but it reduces the chances of infection.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">"Use the tool we have available,'' Cody said, "and get a shot.''</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">Residents also should cover their noses and mouths with tissues when they sneeze or cough, wash their hands often with plain soap and water or alcohol-based hand cleaners, avoid contact with those who are sick and stay home if they are sick themselves.</div><div class="taglinejb" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">Contact Tracey Kaplan at 408-278-3482. Follow her on Twitter at tkaplanreport.</div></div>

Swine flu kills Santa Clara County woman, 41 (BLOG)

A 41-year-old Santa Clara County woman has died of swine flu, an ominous development that prompted health officials Friday to strongly advis...