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Most People are Dangerously Vitamin D Deficient in Winter -

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<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span><img alt="winter scene" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-14709" height="302" src="http://alignlife.com/files/2013/12/winter-scene-300x227.jpg" width="400" /></div><br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">'‘During the shorter days of winter and early spring, your body may be missing the invaluable Vitamin D needed for optimum health and disease prevention, according to Creighton University researcher Joan Lappe, Ph.D.<br /><br />  During the summer, the body can convert solar energy into ample amounts of vitamin D with just 10-15 minutes of daily exposure to sun. That is not possible during the winter and early spring months when the angle of the sun sinks lower into the southern hemisphere.<br /><br />  Dr. Lappe, who is a professor of medicine and holder of the Criss/Beirne Endowed Chair in the Creighton School of Nursing, goes on to say that if you live at latitudes above the 37th parallel, you may be getting little or no Vitamin D at all during winter months.’'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://alignlife.com/articles/womenshealth/most-people-are-dangerously-vitamin-d-deficient-in-winter">more... </a></span></div>

Most People are Dangerously Vitamin D Deficient in Winter -

'‘During the shorter days of winter and early spring, your body may be missing the invaluable Vitamin D needed for optimum health and...

Is It Time To Acknowledge Roundup Herbicide As A Contraceptive?

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Is It Time To Acknowledge Roundup Herbicide As A Contraceptive? " height="363" src="http://cdn.greenmedinfo.com/sites/default/files/ckeditor/greenmedinfo/images/herbacide-contraceptive.png" style="height: 551px; width: 407px;" width="400" /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">'How much longer will we deny the growing body of research linking Roundup to infertility before calling this chemical a contraceptive?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Following closely on the heels of the EPA's decision to allow Roundup herbicide residues in your food at concentrations a million times higher than shown carcinogenic, a concerning new study published in the journal Free Radical Medicine & Biology implicates the herbicide, and its main ingredient glyphosate, in male infertility, at concentration ranges well within the EPA's "safe level" for food.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Performed by Brazilian researchers, the study found acute Roundup exposure at low doses (36ppm, 0.036g/L) for 30 minutes induced cell death in Sertoli cells in prepubertal rat testis.  Sertoli cells are known as "mother" or "nurse" cells within the testicles, as they are responsible for maintaining the health of sperm cells, and are required for normal male sexual development.'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/it-time-acknowledge-roundup-herbicide-contraceptive">more... </a></span>

Is It Time To Acknowledge Roundup Herbicide As A Contraceptive?

'How much longer will we deny the growing body of research linking Roundup to infertility before calling this chemical a contraceptive? ...

Borscht the Purple Polish Soup: Can’t Beat Beets for Healthy Comfort Food

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Borscht the Purple Polish Soup: Can’t Beat Beets for Healthy Comfort Food

Photo Credit:www.simplygorgeousfood.com 'I love Borscht. It helps that I grew up with my little Polish Grandma Rudonich making us all t...

Obamacare: Health Secretary to Dictate How Doctors Practice Medicine

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" src="http://www.davidicke.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/010214who.jpg" title="010214who" /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">‘Despite President Obama’s claim that “you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor,” a little known provision of Obamacare gives the health secretary broad authority to dictate how doctors practice medicine and treat their patients.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Starting in 2015, Obamacare will grant the Secretary of Health and Human Services, an unelected bureaucrat with no medical experience, power to decide what treatments are available to patients and if the doctor can perform procedures.’</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.infowars.com/obamacare-health-secretary-to-dictate-how-doctors-practice-medicine/">more... </a></span>

Obamacare: Health Secretary to Dictate How Doctors Practice Medicine

‘Despite President Obama’s claim that “you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor,” a little known provision of...

No more GMOs in Cheerios. Will a lot more foods go GMO-free now? (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/AVvXsEh2rMvJ0pFq44FLNmioSoPa2JOEI3kMz-AvPYBwzD7tFdwlMhjp_oT33X7Mb-E1ArUnyqtYekUfi_Yz0ReV-uPRU5dhYcZ6pjAMofaeO7uilW8C95ePExFg0dxoecXbwJDGXYVHpfACKlk/s1600/original-cheerios-goes-gmo-free.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/AVvXsEh2rMvJ0pFq44FLNmioSoPa2JOEI3kMz-AvPYBwzD7tFdwlMhjp_oT33X7Mb-E1ArUnyqtYekUfi_Yz0ReV-uPRU5dhYcZ6pjAMofaeO7uilW8C95ePExFg0dxoecXbwJDGXYVHpfACKlk/s320/original-cheerios-goes-gmo-free.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 7px 0px;">Critics of genetically modified foods have reason today to feel a lot more cheery about the popular breakfast cereal Cheerios.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 7px 0px;">General Mills Inc., the maker of the toasted oat cereal, said Cheerios will be free of genetically modified organisms, making it the first major food brand in the United States to abide by the demands of consumers and advocacy groups opposed to the use of GMOs in food products.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 7px 0px;">The Minneapolis-based company said the move away from GMOs will only affect the "Original" brand of Cheerios, the boxes of which will now include a new label: "Not Made With Genetically Modified Ingredients."</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 7px 0px;">The company's other Cheerios varieties, such as Apple Cinnamon Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios, will not be included in the shift from GMOs, said General Mills, which explains it had worked for more than a year on eliminating GMO content from Original Cheerios.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 7px 0px;">Last year, the advocacy group Green America launched GMO-Inside, a campaign asking General Mills to go GMO-free, which garnered huge positive response from consumers.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 7px 0px;">The group said in a statement posted on its Website that "thousands of concerned consumers have flooded Cheerios' Facebook page," responding to a call to protest General Mills' contribution of more than $1.1 million to battle a voter initiative in California that required labeling of GM ingredients.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 7px 0px;">"Removing GMOs from original Cheerios is an important victory in getting GMOs out of our food supply and an important first step for General Mills," Todd Larsen, Corporate Responsibility Director at Green America, said in a statement.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 7px 0px;">The company emphasized the Original Cheerios would taste the same as always, but fell short of revealing when exactly the cereal will show up in stores.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 7px 0px;">General Mills remarked in a statement that it could bring about changes to the basic Cheerios because "the main ingredient in original Cheerios is whole grain oats -- and there are no GMO oats.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 7px 0px;">"We use just a small amount of corn starch in cooking, and just one gram of sugar per serving for taste. So we were able to change how we source and handle ingredients to ensure that the corn starch for original Cheerios comes only from non-GMO corn, and our sugar is only non-GMO pure cane sugar."</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 7px 0px;">The company notes, however, that the product may still have some traces of genetically modified ingredients, a result of contamination from other sources during manufacturing or shipping.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 7px 0px;">General Mills said it has taken steps to change the sourcing of the original Cheerios and has made fresh investments to separate the production of GMO-free Cheerios from other varieties<span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">as much as possible</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 7px 0px;">The company said it couldn't stop using GMOs in other product lines because use of GM seeds is widespread in the U.S.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 7px 0px;"> "We made investments in new systems at our production facilities to separate the ingredients we use to make original Cheerios from our other products. For example, we store only non-GMO corn starch where we store our corn starch and only cane sugar where we store our sugar," continued the company in its statement.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 7px 0px;">"For our other cereals, the widespread use of GM seed in crops such as corn, soy, or beet sugar would make reliably moving to non-GM ingredients difficult, if not impossible," the statement said.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 7px 0px;">Latin Post.</div></div>

No more GMOs in Cheerios. Will a lot more foods go GMO-free now? (BLOG)

Critics of genetically modified foods have reason today to feel a lot more cheery about the popular breakfast cereal Cheerios. General Mills...

De Blasio’s Next Task Is Turning Passion Into Policy (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/AVvXsEjWjwV186tQ4qVn2tYPx6Eb4C8TxL9br1uRXMJx-QZ4Nlp1pZSmRUhzVVooam7jVLwL1u1AswVv5oK3KJyElsmIkOUyahbYWA8XI92TuhGS_sB2X5U7_vluiKGrCRzGYgd14mF9Aw42aWQ/s1600/05PROGRESSIVE1-articleLarge.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/AVvXsEjWjwV186tQ4qVn2tYPx6Eb4C8TxL9br1uRXMJx-QZ4Nlp1pZSmRUhzVVooam7jVLwL1u1AswVv5oK3KJyElsmIkOUyahbYWA8XI92TuhGS_sB2X5U7_vluiKGrCRzGYgd14mF9Aw42aWQ/s320/05PROGRESSIVE1-articleLarge.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-top: 1.5em;"><nyt_text></nyt_text><br /><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em;">A week after his election, the mayor-elect, a tall crane of a man, edged into a low-ceilinged conference room in Downtown Brooklyn to celebrate the city’s progressive movement and its progressive victory, which happened to be his own.</div></div><div class="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-top: 1.5em;"><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span class="carded" style="color: #004276; cursor: pointer; position: relative; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="card_name"><a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/bill_de_blasio/index.html?inline=nyt-per" style="color: #666699;" title=""><br />Bill de Blasio</a></span></span> smiled at the activists, who washed him in waves of applause. “The best thing we can do is keep winning progressive victories,” he said. “Superficial democracy isn’t good enough.”</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The progressives who have taken possession of Gracie Mansion and the New York City Council are fond of chatting of historic moments. After a dozen years of a billionaire’s version of quasi-liberal government, they are not shy about doubling down on their ambition. They want to take a city focused intently on the top and train its eyes on the remaining 97 or 98 percent.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">They played a sometimes bare-knuckle game to get here. The greatest torrent of so-called independent spending in the last election came from the teachers’ union and a group ostensibly opposed to carriage horses but closely aligned with the de Blasio campaign</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em;"><br /></span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em;">When a primal tug-of-war arose to control the City Council, Mr. de Blasio</span><span style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em;"> </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/19/nyregion/de-blasio-pressing-city-council-members-to-install-a-liberal-ally-as-speaker.html" style="color: #666699; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em;" title="Times coverage.">cut a deal</a><span style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em;">with the Brooklyn Democratic boss to hand the speakership to a progressive. Asked by reporters what he had traded away, the mayor-elect offered the laugh of a non-answer.</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Ideological discipline is central. It will be a rare Republican, Mr. de Blasio has suggested, who takes a senior position. “They have to share our values,” he said. “That might be a high bar.”</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">But for all their self-assurance and claims made about historical turning points, the progressives have yet to define themselves. How will they distinguish themselves from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, whose policies on housing, the streetscape, transportation, public health and taxis edged noticeably to the left?</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">A forest of question marks rises around the new mayor. He was a political operative, a public advocate with little power and a Council member who stood in the liberal mainstream. Now he carries a standard for urban progressives. What is the nature of his vision?</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">There is more at stake than his success or failure. New York City has taken its place in a row of global jewels: Paris, London, Los Angeles and Berlin. Turbocharged attention to wealth and privilege has become central to how these cities define their economic advantage.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">In this city, inequality has reached appalling levels, and a growing body of research finds that the chasm could poison economic growth. New York has added jobs at a fast clip, but most offer low wages and come without the benefits that are markers of civilized societies. Affordable housing is a wellspring turned dry.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The de Blasio family embodies middle-class anxiety about the direction of New York. They lived in a modest Park Slope rowhouse with three bedrooms and a single bathroom. It is worth north of $1 million. But the children’s generation could have difficulty finding a reasonably priced apartment anywhere near the city’s core.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Can progressives raise taxes, hold down rents and build dikes against the waves of riches without spooking the wealthy? Can they preserve benefits and wages that allow pensioners and municipal workers alike to scrape by without emptying the treasury?</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“Politicians see a tremendous market out there now for progressive rhetoric,” said Elvin Wyly, a geographer at the University of British Columbia and a chronicler of the gentrification of America’s cities. “But retail presentation of these politics is not the same as dealing with the fundamental production of inequality.”</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">A transition committee for Mr. de Blasio recently considered candidates to run a meat-and-potatoes city agency, the sort to which most New Yorkers give little thought unless its services fail.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Which qualifications, the chairman asked, do we desire? “A progressive,” a committee member offered. A progressive, another chirped. Nods and assents. A progressive, definitely.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Put to the side esoteric questions of whether there can be progressive garbage collection or firefighting. Defining the word “progressive” can prove elusive.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">New York progressives share a traditional-left concern with class, labor unions and higher wage standards. Mr. de Blasio nods to this when he speaks in support of organizing fast-food and carwash workers.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">But progressives, particularly Mr. de Blasio, do not share the old New Left’s penetrating critique of American society. Many distinguish between their interests and those of municipal labor. And the new mayor is careful to note that he so far proposes just a single tax increase — to support universal prekindergarten.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">He was also careful to share postelection laughs with real estate barons.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Lonnie Soury, a former Dinkins administration official sympathetic to the de Blasio agenda, noted that President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed prekindergarten a half-century ago. “It’s a measure of how far our politics have drifted to the right that this now establishes Bill’s left-wing bona fides,” Mr. Soury said.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Progressives are assertive about racial, ethnic and gender diversity. Quite a few members of the liberal gentry labored in the Bloomberg administration, but few were Latino or black, and fewer still were working-class. Mr. de Blasio insists that his administration will look and sound like the city.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">It is no accident that he has picked three Hispanic women, all respected government hands, for high-ranking slots: Lilliam Barrios-Paoli as deputy mayor for health and human services, Gladys Carrión as child welfare commissioner and Carmen Fariña as schools chancellor. And he has picked a black former prosecutor, Zachary W. Carter, as corporation counsel.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“We liberals often define ourselves as an intellectual class,” said Denise Scott, executive vice president of programs at <a href="http://www.lisc.org/section/aboutus/leadership" style="color: #666699;">the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a national community development group</a>. “But sometimes we tend to be out of touch with issues that affect the majority of New Yorkers. We talk about it, but are not always in tune with it.”</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Peter Beinart, a liberal essayist for the news website The Daily Beast, rustled the tea leaves after Mr. de Blasio’s victory in the Democratic primary and divined a glorious future.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“The deeper you look, the stronger the evidence that de Blasio’s victory is an omen of what may become the defining story of America’s next political era: the challenge, to both parties, from the left,” <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/12/the-rise-of-the-new-new-left.html" style="color: #666699;" title="Link to the essay">Mr. Beinart wrote</a>.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The difference, he said, is the influence of the millennial generation (born between the early 1980s and about 2000), whose left-wing populism gave rise to Occupy Wall Street. It is, Mr. Beinart wrote, remaking the <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/d/democratic_party/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #666699;" title="More articles about Democratic Party">Democratic Party</a>.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Amid the huzzahs, keep a desultory fact in mind: Fewer than 25 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the mayoral election, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/news/election-2013/2013/11/06/new-york-turnout-appears-headed-for-record-low/" style="color: #666699;" title="Times coverage">a record poor turnout</a>. An <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/projects/elections/2013/general/nyc-mayor/exit-polls.html" style="color: #666699;" title="Times graphic.">exit poll</a> by Edison Research found that nearly two-thirds of the voters were 45 or older.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">If you overlay the map of 2013 on that of 2009, you see that many tens of thousands of New Yorkers who supported Mayor Bloomberg voted for Mr. de Blasio. That so many forded this ideological brook suggests more continuity than progressives might imagine.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Last, it’s instructive to compare the 1989 election of David N. Dinkins, the city’s first black mayor and the inheritor of a liberal populist movement, with that of Mr. de Blasio, who as a young man worked for Mayor Dinkins.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The Democratic primary in 1989 between Mr. Dinkins and Mayor Edward I. Koch drew nearly one million voters. The general election, in which Mr. Dinkins beat Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican, drew 1.8 million voters.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">New York City’s population has grown by one million people since those elections. Yet 700,000 fewer New Yorkers voted in the general election of 2013.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Mr. de Blasio will lay claim to a mandate for change. But his election offers a more modest lesson in popular and generational mobilization than his oratory suggests.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Progressives did not create our torpid democracy. But it’s their inheritance.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Again and again, elected officials speak, almost giddily, of their progressive moment. “Today we commit to a new progressive direction in New York, “ Mr. de Blasio said at his inauguration. “And that same progressive impulse has written our city’s history. It’s in our DNA.” But moments can prove evanescent. It has been two decades since New York’s progressives held the wheel of power. Should they fumble, the wilderness beckons.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The new mayor’s greatest challenge is to handle his putative allies in the municipal labor movement. The former mayor left behind expired contracts like a pile of dirty laundry. If Mr. de Blasio miscalculates, settling those contracts could empty his coffers.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">And with that we circle back to the most intriguing question: Who is this new self-styled progressive mayor?</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">He proved to be a masterful tactician, enlisting his family in choreographed commercials. He played political boss, and he has raised expectations. Now, alone on the stage, he must define himself and that progressive movement.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“<span class="carded" style="color: #004276; cursor: pointer; position: relative; text-decoration: underline; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="card_name">Bill de Blasio</span></span> probably doesn’t know precisely who Bill de Blasio is just yet,” a long-serving liberal said. “He’s going to find out, and my guess is that he’s got a window of months, not years.”</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">.</div></div></div>

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Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber: former met again!

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<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz1Jdq5RKYxEgvBGWzqSb37etj0lIB_tqW8emkICKrVJJkUZWCEpNK-rG16YLUjScRr0T98R3W47JDeODoJ6pt4sfI13odRCjwE-0n-rAiBIkeBEh8cHzwRDG9GbHTGBneQz7ibhTQ/s1600/Selena+Gomez+and+Justin+Bieber+former+met+again!.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz1Jdq5RKYxEgvBGWzqSb37etj0lIB_tqW8emkICKrVJJkUZWCEpNK-rG16YLUjScRr0T98R3W47JDeODoJ6pt4sfI13odRCjwE-0n-rAiBIkeBEh8cHzwRDG9GbHTGBneQz7ibhTQ/s1600/Selena+Gomez+and+Justin+Bieber+former+met+again!.jpg" /></a></div><br /><h3>Not everything is perhaps not entirely completed between the starlet and  Canadian singer, since they both met again yesterday ...</h3><br /><script type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br />Last December, tired of always being linked to her ex-boyfriend <b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/search/label/Justin%20Bieber">Justin Bieber</a></b>, <b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/search/label/Selena%20Gomez">Selena Gomez</a></b> was the crisp clear to her fans that she had moved  on and she did not want to be told about him .. .<br /><br /> "It's been over a  year now ... Please know that my thoughts are only mine. Believe me, I  did not need a man to define my decisions or that I post on Instagram.  This is silly ... We went to something else so now you should do the  same. (I send you) a lot of love and respect. Always "she had then wrote  on his Instagram account.<br /><br /> These words ring true today especially  since it would seem in fact that the starlet "made in Disney" has not  really made a cross on the Canadian star!<br /><br /> Filmography And because  Selena and Justin were spotted together just yesterday (Thursday, 2  January) when they were a ride Segways on the streets of Calabasas,  California, where the singer resides.<br /><br /> interpreter as  Hold Tight 19 years old and the singer of the hit Come & Get It 21  years old parted there a while now and had not been seen together for  months .<br /><br /> It is even rumored that the recent overwork Selena was due to her break she had not digested ... <br /> one who had a break in his career- she finally decided to give a chance to his first love?<br /><br /> What is certain is that both were indeed reviewed in the company of another friend (see photos HERE). To be continued.<br /><br /><center><script type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></center><br /><br />

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Celebrity Street Style: Heidi Klum in Los Angeles

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<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSjeTpM3LqkTR4vtWzGctWAHWyzy34xqP4g65wGlJFjrvjjvS_juiyRDkzFQUmxWJYikYZRXvsWzQCVaSrdN6b3t6O-cN9tZT0mlZowveQ9In-4XizoHT8HlAXuJ_fjBL6bGS5z6i8/s1600/Celebrity+Street+Style.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSjeTpM3LqkTR4vtWzGctWAHWyzy34xqP4g65wGlJFjrvjjvS_juiyRDkzFQUmxWJYikYZRXvsWzQCVaSrdN6b3t6O-cN9tZT0mlZowveQ9In-4XizoHT8HlAXuJ_fjBL6bGS5z6i8/s1600/Celebrity+Street+Style.jpg" /></a></div><br />Heidi Klum arrived at Los Angeles International Airport from Las Vegas.  40-year-old model picked an outfit in black tones, adding a few bright  accents. <br />  <script type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br /> Klum was dressed in tight black jeans, slim-lined  jacket in tone and black hat beanie. Great additions steel pumps red,  bright red lipstick and a black top with skull, embroidered with  multicolored beads. Silver nail polish looked elegant and combined with  the way in the style casual. <br /> <br /> New Year's Eve Star "Project  Runway" has posted photos to Instagram, where she admires the scenery of  Las Vegas. The mother of four added signature: <br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> Paris? No ... Vegas!!! </blockquote><br /> Celebrate in "Sin City", Heidi returned to Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> The way, now Klum and her boyfriend Martin Kristen want to buy a  spacious house for herself and four children - 9-year-old Leni,  8-year-old Henry, 7-year-old Johan and 4-year-old Lou. Couple together  since last year. According to rumors, they are looking at the mansion  Katy Perry: 7 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms in the Hollywood Hills allure  model. <br /> <br /> <center><script type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></center><br /><br /> Perry, in turn, bought a house in 2011 with  then-husband Russell Brand: they wanted to do repair it, but diverged in  December of the same year. The mansion was built in 1912, it has a pool  with a waterfall, a garden and two guest houses. Katie recently dropped  the price to $ 6.5 million.<br /><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/AVvXsEgCeuR4MeVLSBXqz3aujwP1JWUqJlbPYmD_Z7Di7etL-2LsfO438tI6nVpgvilsYvCPU4kpfz2igOquPKBszT0Oqo82dzITwOqyxSVc6e0tdCBYlfhNm0lQAPEMETAixKPZ-rzSjxlg/s1600/Celebrity+Street+Style+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCeuR4MeVLSBXqz3aujwP1JWUqJlbPYmD_Z7Di7etL-2LsfO438tI6nVpgvilsYvCPU4kpfz2igOquPKBszT0Oqo82dzITwOqyxSVc6e0tdCBYlfhNm0lQAPEMETAixKPZ-rzSjxlg/s1600/Celebrity+Street+Style+1.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Heidi Klum </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV3jdAseHL4u0PJDP1Gop0wbHV0Nc4nON6yQHfDnWiVx6tP_eujiVgTPb-gQii3c2cF1fnDZNrA0VlR3Ds-4e8T_V_KAynbuey4MRW6yLyKa6j_Da1SeVhXqJnfrmo_8fzOcNi95ah/s1600/Celebrity+Street+Style+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV3jdAseHL4u0PJDP1Gop0wbHV0Nc4nON6yQHfDnWiVx6tP_eujiVgTPb-gQii3c2cF1fnDZNrA0VlR3Ds-4e8T_V_KAynbuey4MRW6yLyKa6j_Da1SeVhXqJnfrmo_8fzOcNi95ah/s1600/Celebrity+Street+Style+2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8RBSKVtu2utSUqjEfghkzmuXnJu6Uz9G65Mei2FVgcUIAQg5ObMelzDRGAFEruFghrODNGeskavM_zvZe6QMbi2sycY-YmvVwr2bYo-fnQ95ulN1tGPvrHIyRXwVRliylWobuBG4e/s1600/Celebrity+Street+Style+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8RBSKVtu2utSUqjEfghkzmuXnJu6Uz9G65Mei2FVgcUIAQg5ObMelzDRGAFEruFghrODNGeskavM_zvZe6QMbi2sycY-YmvVwr2bYo-fnQ95ulN1tGPvrHIyRXwVRliylWobuBG4e/s1600/Celebrity+Street+Style+3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS4o4Y-0-DU3DcDfA9Pe539B0IyrfmxlaUxKVkvv4J1G3nPbzR50OMFTVB7SfiyOc7tYRNzxt4QxNygJ-LaP9CK3-E1r67OHhjY7JOlVnPz3V1nREYSwYF9VI0av8TO0ASeSESUVi9/s1600/Celebrity+Street+Style+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS4o4Y-0-DU3DcDfA9Pe539B0IyrfmxlaUxKVkvv4J1G3nPbzR50OMFTVB7SfiyOc7tYRNzxt4QxNygJ-LaP9CK3-E1r67OHhjY7JOlVnPz3V1nREYSwYF9VI0av8TO0ASeSESUVi9/s1600/Celebrity+Street+Style+4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><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/AVvXsEjREU5KG1sWV4-HJNLDRZ6TVN6kqIJiIjsi48Pot_GtFQjED3omLZy2CCSxKuyHJmtaW-fTU7gcLnFhFzJff1h7USb9ICqs-52cLB89edc_teI3VeCy9uw-HePxr2FYc_hT4JcEbxuV/s1600/Celebrity+Street+Style+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjREU5KG1sWV4-HJNLDRZ6TVN6kqIJiIjsi48Pot_GtFQjED3omLZy2CCSxKuyHJmtaW-fTU7gcLnFhFzJff1h7USb9ICqs-52cLB89edc_teI3VeCy9uw-HePxr2FYc_hT4JcEbxuV/s1600/Celebrity+Street+Style+5.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Heidi Klum in Las Vegas</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />

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Women Deserve a Real Man!

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Hola y'all! I was going to do a post today about how men should treat women, but I decided that the internet could articulate it so much better than me. 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Gerald Celente gives his 2014 Trends Forecast

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Syrian Electronic Army says hacked into Skype's social media accounts (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/AVvXsEjF22j2jCx8By5P-oZ4C2-4OgM6pgoXbPYIQWsAP-j4HlReEeUxclh2IGhh4S5V5VbnPCyuJ8_n3KCdVu9sBJHVyrRDsjsadCxd6hYHx7H6-GHnxvtTN4auMaQZRD7bkTercCwrcuP5uJo/s1600/syrian-electronic-army-lo-008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF22j2jCx8By5P-oZ4C2-4OgM6pgoXbPYIQWsAP-j4HlReEeUxclh2IGhh4S5V5VbnPCyuJ8_n3KCdVu9sBJHVyrRDsjsadCxd6hYHx7H6-GHnxvtTN4auMaQZRD7bkTercCwrcuP5uJo/s320/syrian-electronic-army-lo-008.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388634783513_1375" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Syrian Electronic Army, an amorphous hacker collective that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, claimed credit on Wednesday for hacking into the social media accounts of Internet calling service Skype.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388634783513_1365" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The group also posted the contact information of Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp's retiring chief executive, on its Twitter account along with the message, "You can thank Microsoft for monitoring your accounts/emails using this details. #SEA"</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388634783513_1410" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">That message was an apparent reference to revelations last year by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that Skype, which is owned by Microsoft, was part of the NSA's program to monitor communications through some of the biggest U.S. Internet companies.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A message posted on Skype's official Twitter feed on Wednesday, apparently by the hacking group, read: "Don't use Microsoft emails (hotmail, outlook), They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments. More details soon. #SEA"</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;">Similar messages were posted on Skype's official Facebook pages and on a blog on its website before being taken down in late afternoon. The SEA later tweeted out copies of the message "for those who missed 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;">Representatives for Microsoft could not be reached for comment.</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 NSA's practices essentially made Microsoft and other technology companies partners in government surveillance efforts against private citizens in the United States and elsewhere.</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;">Last month Microsoft joined seven other top technology companies in pressing President Barack Obama to rein in the U.S. government's electronic spying in a meeting at the White House.</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;">Media companies, including the New York Times and the BBC, have repeatedly been targeted by the Syrian Electronic Army and other hacker activist groups that deface websites and take over Twitter accounts.</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;">Obama and his national security team are trying to decide what recommendations to adopt from an outside panel's review of the NSA's activities.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A U.S. District judge in December ruled that the U.S. government's gathering of Americans' phone records is likely unlawful and raised what he called "serious doubts" about the value of the so-called metadata counter-terrorism 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;">A second federal judge ruled later in the month that the program was constitutional, raising the likelihood that the issue will be settled by the U.S. 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;">This week, a monitoring group said the death toll in Syria's civil war, which began in March 2011 as peaceful protests against four decades of rule by Assad's family, had risen to at least 130,000.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388634783513_1430" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Ian Simpson and Sandra Maler)</div></div>

Syrian Electronic Army says hacked into Skype's social media accounts (BLOG)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Syrian Electronic Army, an amorphous hacker collective that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, claimed c...

JIm Comiskey explains that the market establishes value

7:02 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The market decides the value</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmtSCBZKjHwF9oJxIrQcFe0d1WxizP-mJfiwvCMukiaQZvQ1aSLRehq5i80LowCR32a7Td75xqPDWZJpWFJsc57-rknxbBZIrxb0o0n3bM9x-7JNSiBhdil_f7O1pgLsxt6kYinqwYJDA/s1600/HeatMiserDOLLPIC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmtSCBZKjHwF9oJxIrQcFe0d1WxizP-mJfiwvCMukiaQZvQ1aSLRehq5i80LowCR32a7Td75xqPDWZJpWFJsc57-rknxbBZIrxb0o0n3bM9x-7JNSiBhdil_f7O1pgLsxt6kYinqwYJDA/s200/HeatMiserDOLLPIC.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Nothing is priceless</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>And of course don't forget the Heat Miser contest.  And NEVER INVEST MORE THAN 10 to 20% of your money in precious metals...</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/Ah9FPfEycEo?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe></div>

JIm Comiskey explains that the market establishes value

The market decides the value Nothing is priceless And of course don't forget the Heat Miser contest. And NEVER INVEST MORE THAN 10 to 2...

Today's archidose #724

7:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

Here are some photos of <a href="http://www.dethier.be/en/projets/belvedere-2011-bundesgartenschau">Belvedere for the 2011 Bundesgartenschau</a> in Koblenz, Germany, by <a href="http://www.dethier.be/">Dethier Architecture</a>, photographed by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlee2010/">Ken Lee 2010</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlee2010/11564986675/" title="Belvedere for Koblenz, Germany by Ken Lee 2010, on Flickr"><img alt="Belvedere for Koblenz, Germany" height="640" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5475/11564986675_34349efe2e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlee2010/11565015514/" title="Belvedere for Koblenz, Germany by Ken Lee 2010, on Flickr"><img alt="Belvedere for Koblenz, Germany" height="640" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2805/11565015514_99a7ffe164_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlee2010/11564985725/" title="Belvedere for Koblenz, Germany by Ken Lee 2010, on Flickr"><img alt="Belvedere for Koblenz, Germany" height="640" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5525/11564985725_57a344484c_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlee2010/11565014294/" title="Belvedere for Koblenz, Germany by Ken Lee 2010, on Flickr"><img alt="Belvedere for Koblenz, Germany" height="480" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3693/11565014294_c42c146cf1_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlee2010/11565106686/" title="Belvedere for Koblenz, Germany by Ken Lee 2010, on Flickr"><img alt="Belvedere for Koblenz, Germany" height="480" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7334/11565106686_2c6edf79f1_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just:<br /><blockquote>:: Join and add photos to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/archi-dose/">archidose pool</a>, and/or<br />:: Tag your photos <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/archidose/">archidose</a></span></blockquote>

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Here are some photos of Belvedere for the 2011 Bundesgartenschau in Koblenz, Germany, by Dethier Architecture , photographed by Ken Lee 201...

Final bow: Actor Joseph Ruskin is dead at 89 (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/AVvXsEj3XhSS0zT_6vdRv4tGnxLs0KBrOY8sYx1fu3mbCQ6cFIsHbuxY2Se14ua4w6w13b4lKMHisNkAyooe2mH_4TuEMUzo4fYYouq6MWlAwLV4yi2FtFg3WmAMm0KP0BPonHBKjCVLhyZGMNY/s1600/131231150218-ruskin---restricted-story-top.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/AVvXsEj3XhSS0zT_6vdRv4tGnxLs0KBrOY8sYx1fu3mbCQ6cFIsHbuxY2Se14ua4w6w13b4lKMHisNkAyooe2mH_4TuEMUzo4fYYouq6MWlAwLV4yi2FtFg3WmAMm0KP0BPonHBKjCVLhyZGMNY/s320/131231150218-ruskin---restricted-story-top.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Los Angeles (CNN)</strong> -- Joseph Ruskin, who acted in 25 films and 124 television shows, died of natural causes in a Santa Monica, California, hospital Saturday, SAG-AFTRA announced Tuesday. Ruskin was 89.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ruskin's big screen credits included roles in "The Magnificent Seven," "Prizzi's Honor," "Indecent Proposal" and "Smokin' Aces." His TV credits included "Twilight Zone," "Star Trek," "Mission Impossible" and "Alias." </div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">He began and ended his acting career on the stage. His first professional performances were at the Pittsburgh Playhouse and the Rochester Arena Stage after he left the U.S. Navy following World War II. His last theater performance came this year as a member of the Antaeus Theatre Company of Los Angeles.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">He appeared in the 2012 Antaeus production of "You Can't Take It With You." He took his final bow on stage in 2013 in the company's "The Crucible" production.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph5" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Joe was the epitome of the actor who takes care of all the other actors while keeping one foot firmly planted on the stage or the set," SAG-AFTRA President Ken Howard said.  "He gave so much for so long it's hard to believe he's gone."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph6" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ruskin "devoted so much of his time in the 1980s" to the merger of the two actors' unions -- SAG and AFTRA, -- which became a reality in 2012, Howard said.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">He served on the Screen Actors Guild board from 1976 through 1999, including eight years as 1st national vice president, the SAG-AFTRA release said. He was the first Western Regional Vice President of Actors Equity Association and served a decade on AFTRA's national board.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ruskin, whose real name was Joseph Schlafman, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, but attended high school in Cleveland, Ohio. He joined the Navy in 1942.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">He studied drama at Carnegie Tech -- now Carnegie-Mellon University -- after the war, which led to his professional acting career.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div></div>

Final bow: Actor Joseph Ruskin is dead at 89 (BLOG)

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Joseph Ruskin, who acted in 25 films and 124 television shows, died of natural causes in a Santa Monica, California, h...

INFOWARS conducts STAGED PHONE CALL

6:29 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>STAGE ACTING and PLAY ACTING again</b></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="223" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/IZwTItJOSw0?feature=player_detailpage" width="308"></iframe><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The truthers never quit their shenanigans </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>As the story goes here the U.S. GOVERNMENT is stockpiling 14 MILLION DOSES of POTASSIUM IODINE.  There's supposedly some Fukushima concerns going on with this.  I suspect this phone call wasn't real and who was Anthony Gucciardi talking to on THE SECOND CALLBACK?  Very poorly constructed guys.</b><br /><b><br /></b><b>Had to give this one the G4T TRUTHER TEST also.  It's all because of G4T now that I don't believe anything that comes from ALTERNATIVE MEDIA anymore:</b><br /><b><span id="goog_1579643648"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1579643649"></span><br /></b><br /><b><span id="goog_1579643648">WATCH THE PERFORMANCE BELOW starring Anthony Gucciardi:</span></b><br /><b><span id="goog_1579643648"> </span></b><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/3mIQDbDHCXo?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><b>...developing...</b></div>

INFOWARS conducts STAGED PHONE CALL

STAGE ACTING and PLAY ACTING again The truthers never quit their shenanigans As the story goes here the U.S. GOVERNMENT is stockpiling 14 M...

U.S. GOVERNMENT coming for the guns again

6:06 PM Tukiyooo 0

U.S. GOVERNMENT coming for the guns again

More good news... ...developing...