Jayman is Getting Married!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal">Holaaaaaaaaaa y’all! That’s right, in shocking out-of-nowhere news, the Jayman is getting married! I just finally decided that dammit, I’m 45 years old and it’s time to settle down and get married. Enough of this footloose and fancy-free lifestyle of mine! It’s time to start acting like a grown up! There’s only one problem with my plan right now…<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I don’t know whom I will be marrying. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">That’s definitely a problem, right? Well, not to worry cause I think I’ve found just what I’m looking for. My friends, I have joined the “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1383488825209198/" target="_blank">Finda Life Partner to get Married</a>” group on Facebook! Oh hell yes! It even says “only for serious people” so I see no reason that I won’t be able to find a suitable bride, take her on a whirlwind romance and then get married within around six to nine months. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I think the key to this is to come up with a killer introduction of myself to the group. First impressions matter ya know? So, here are a few ideas I’m working on. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- “Hola y’all! International internet radio star here and I’m looking a co-host for life. Living in the spotlight is a lot lonelier than it seems and it’s time to find someone to enjoy life with. Plus, by marrying me you will automatically get to be featured on IWS Radio! You’ll record and edit audios for the show and write for the website two or three times a week! Other responsibilities will include posting to the Facebook fan page and Tumblr. Plus, there will be all the other wifey duties of cooking, cleaning and making sure that I’m happy, healthy, relaxed and focused. What do you say ladies? <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- You: A scared, hot legal (barely) age girl living in abject poverty in some third world shithole that is about to explode in civil war. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Me: Your only real option.  Let’s do this! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXiZHwMwajMlme1iLv-MFI4nf7cywd5XbAvBlx8EvWpZUD1aMMc6Hrl-9NQr_Xcoes9nkXhopnbMhcGvuCRqeQemFkVugjDfO1avLJet_D8jJy_i1-f4klwlJTKXGHsBqjE8kUVWcJmjGM/s1600/Yulia+Tymoshenko+Ukraine+Hot+Sexy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXiZHwMwajMlme1iLv-MFI4nf7cywd5XbAvBlx8EvWpZUD1aMMc6Hrl-9NQr_Xcoes9nkXhopnbMhcGvuCRqeQemFkVugjDfO1avLJet_D8jJy_i1-f4klwlJTKXGHsBqjE8kUVWcJmjGM/s1600/Yulia+Tymoshenko+Ukraine+Hot+Sexy.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Howdy girls! My name is Jay. I’m 45, but have the emotional maturity of a 15 year old. I’m considerably overweight and broke as hell. But, I’m full of love and am the World’s Greatest Cuddler. You could do worse, right? <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Sad, lonely and reserved middle aged male seeks shy, quiet girl for disappointing evenings out and possibly a long boring marriage. Email me for details. No fatties. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- So, are all you chicks here just a bunch of mail order brides, or what? <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhASFDcudNh6SQuX6INkrnLjq_xchq34h_WQsqpkfL5_Pdl81OGCQCdpesPXi63bJLH7nxZHwAA1feKo4Q1kV7gP04SckrLA6_7pJznT4jzrIHdnkyksjsJ3N2zmOYRNlABaLztOsLGgTXY/s1600/hot+asian+mail+order+bride.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhASFDcudNh6SQuX6INkrnLjq_xchq34h_WQsqpkfL5_Pdl81OGCQCdpesPXi63bJLH7nxZHwAA1feKo4Q1kV7gP04SckrLA6_7pJznT4jzrIHdnkyksjsJ3N2zmOYRNlABaLztOsLGgTXY/s1600/hot+asian+mail+order+bride.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Semi-successful speculative comedian here to make you laugh and giggle through life! If you don’t take life too seriously, I’m your guy. Let’s not worry about money and looks and all that superficial crap, let’s get deep and talk about what’s on the inside then Let’s. Get. Bizzay! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Me: Old, fat and broke.  … You: Young, wild and free.  …. Opposites attract, right? <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Hey y’all! Just want to introduce myself to all the lovely ladies here. I’m a pretty average guy who is full of laughs and love. Let’s get to know each other and who knows, maybe it will lead to marriage or something. I mean, I prefer to just shack up for a while, but I’m open to other ideas. I’m even willing to travel so you don’t have to leave your family if you’re hot enough.  <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Okay enough of the bullshit. I’m lonely and you’re desperate. Let’s work something out. I’ll help out with the housework and do some of the cooking. You promise not to nag at me and put out every once in a while. We’ll work out all the other details as we go along. Sound good? Seriously y'all come on! If this doesn't work I'll have to join Asexuals Anonymous group! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Man, it’s just so hard to decide which of those to use cause they’re all GOLD! I see no reason why I won’t be filling out foreign bride visa applications for some lucky lady damn soon! Or even better, I might be the one doing the moving! I’ll keep you guys updated, so start thinking about what you’re going to get us for our wedding gift! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/jayman68" target="_blank">My Facebook </a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS </a><o:p></o:p></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>

Jayman is Getting Married!

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YOU TUBE Channel Criminals Making CHANNEL HAVOC

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>YOU TUBE CHANNEL HIJACKING</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This is crazy but honestly GOOGLE+ just made the whole YOU TUBE platform completely chaotic and user unfriendly.  Looks like it's easy for troublemakers to create FALSE IDENTITIES and mess with the bots.  This is unreal:<br /><br />Watch RESIST THE TYRANNY below explain what happened to him on YOU TUBE.  Thanks GOOGLE+ for your wonderful creation: </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tXz45qBQUhY?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br />...developing...</div>

YOU TUBE Channel Criminals Making CHANNEL HAVOC

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One Student Dead in Purdue University Shooting (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrXaKbBLav9FIHA1DJ4cf0JhM8AoD62hEdVAIh2ZKJTe5nyL1O-ZJ1aZ1I56iNBIMa30uqrWrdFZrKDugQUe7xgaMPU8j23lsWEEynvdYKRP1YTKdH8xRpPFDdLGZ23WCNC9EtGwA-L0U/s1600/1390334539000-LAF-Purdue-Shooting-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrXaKbBLav9FIHA1DJ4cf0JhM8AoD62hEdVAIh2ZKJTe5nyL1O-ZJ1aZ1I56iNBIMa30uqrWrdFZrKDugQUe7xgaMPU8j23lsWEEynvdYKRP1YTKdH8xRpPFDdLGZ23WCNC9EtGwA-L0U/s1600/1390334539000-LAF-Purdue-Shooting-01.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">One student was killed in a shooting today on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and another student is in custody as the suspected shooter, authorities said.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Police said the victim was a male senior and also a teaching assistant.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Purdue University Police Chief John Cox said Cody Cousins, 23, of Warsaw, Ind., is being held in the Tippecanoe County Jail on a preliminary charge of murder.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Cousins is accused of shooting 21-year-old Andrew Boldt of West Bend, Wis., in the basement of the electrical engineering building around noon.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The suspect was apprehended moments after the shooting as he ran outside and was caught by West Lafayette, Ind., police, Cox said at a news conference.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Police are still investigating the motive behind the shooting, Cox said, but it appears Cousins targeted Boldt. No one else was injured.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Twenty to 25 campus police officers responded to the electrical engineering building within two minutes, Cox said. He noted the campus police and city police trained together for active shooter situations.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The shooting triggered a "shelter in place" text message alert for the rest of campus, students told ABC news. Classes were in session when the shooting occurred, Cox said.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Police said there was no ongoing threat to the university. The campus was reopened around 1:30 p.m., though the electrical engineering building remained closed.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">"I'm off campus but near the [electrical engineering] building. You can hear the emergency sirens and there have been 30 to 40 cop cars surrounding the EE building over the last 30 minutes," Daniel Hatfield said.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Hatfield said that police searched other buildings in addition to the engineering building. He said students and teachers took the lockdown "very seriously."</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Kevin Brown said he was in lockdown at the business school, nearly three-quarters of a mile away from the electrical engineering building.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Associated Press contributed to this report.</em></div></div>

One Student Dead in Purdue University Shooting (BLOG)

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A Half-Million-Dollar "Oops!"

Before heading home from work I read that one of the massive pieces of glass at the Fifth Avenue Apple store <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2014/01/21/450k-panel-of-glass-at-apples-iconic-5th-avenue-cube-store-shattered-by-snowblower/">broke from the impact of a snowblower</a>. I couldn't resist hopping off the subway 20 minutes later to take a closer look.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/12095498594/" title="Apple Cube by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Apple Cube" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7427/12095498594_2c0abe9a2e_c.jpg" width="562" /></a><br />[All photos by John Hill] <br /><br />The story linked above guesses that the cost to replace the glass will be $450,000, based on the bill for renovating the cube in 2011, when it changed from 18 panes per side to 3. Considering that each pane is made up of (I think) 5 layers of ~10'x32' tempered glass laminated to each other, this cost does not seem surprising.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/12095113415/" title="Apple Cube by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Apple Cube" height="360" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5542/12095113415_94f6de02de_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />Based on the uniform pattern of the break, it's obvious the tempered glass and plastic layer did their job...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/12095487624/" title="Apple Cube by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Apple Cube" height="1024" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5515/12095487624_488acdd6d0_b.jpg" width="645" /></a><br /><br />...so much so that the store is still open regardless of the 300 square feet of broken glass overhead:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/12095123465/" title="Apple Cube by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Apple Cube" height="1024" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3752/12095123465_26cee2df06_b.jpg" width="576" /></a>

A Half-Million-Dollar "Oops!"

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Polar Vortex, Part II? Nah, It's Just Winter (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH6D1UOXURMfe9k7fgctdgQwWTqjZ-LuLQi2Ihxn4mPEM7f3XraiBYwq9_0-FJcHVEwNAyILkDEsMV75PSYnUVEvhhTjaGTm4GCNYH4woBzrTm1g3gBJYnKJbmnBPp3mDG2Xpu5-Zj9IM/s1600/ab40f9f5-0e9a-476f-ad52-9a2edd130a6d_RTX17OOA+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH6D1UOXURMfe9k7fgctdgQwWTqjZ-LuLQi2Ihxn4mPEM7f3XraiBYwq9_0-FJcHVEwNAyILkDEsMV75PSYnUVEvhhTjaGTm4GCNYH4woBzrTm1g3gBJYnKJbmnBPp3mDG2Xpu5-Zj9IM/s1600/ab40f9f5-0e9a-476f-ad52-9a2edd130a6d_RTX17OOA+(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_24138" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Face it — "polar vortex" is fun to say. It sounds like something that could have killed a red-shirted crewmember on the original "Star Trek" television series. Maybe that's why a weather feature that has been known by this name for decades is getting 15 minutes of fame this month.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"It's always there and always will be there," said Bob Oravec, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in College Park, Md. "There's always a polar vortex."For better or worse, <a data-mce-href="http://www.livescience.com/42339-polar-vortex-us-temperatures.html" data-rapid_p="8" href="http://www.livescience.com/42339-polar-vortex-us-temperatures.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">polar vortex</a> now seems to be shorthand for any bitterly cold winter air blasting into the United States from the Arctic. But this atmospheric weather pattern is really just winter as usual.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_24157" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The polar vortex is a <a data-mce-href="http://www.livescience.com/topics/weather/" data-rapid_p="9" href="http://www.livescience.com/topics/weather/" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">winter weather</a> pattern that circles the Arctic, spinning west to east, trapping cold air in the high latitudes. Researchers named the polar vortex in the 1950s (there is a similar vortex over Antarctica, just FYI).</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_24166" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Think of it as stirring a bowl of liquid — the cold air is caught in the "well" in the middle. The vortex never actually leaves the Arctic. But if the spinning weakens, cold air can escape the trap and zoom south, as it did the week of Jan. 5. Currently, the polar vortex low is centered over Greenland. [<a data-mce-href="http://www.livescience.com/42723-polar-vortex-chilling-effects-spied-by-heat-seeking-satellite-cam-time-lapse-animation.html" data-rapid_p="10" href="http://www.livescience.com/42723-polar-vortex-chilling-effects-spied-by-heat-seeking-satellite-cam-time-lapse-animation.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Video: Watch the Polar Vortex Sweep Across the U.S.</a>]</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><br /></div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp portrait onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="11" data-uuid="2357fb97-a92a-3bd2-b5fd-2d57cd7b1663" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/polar-vortex-part-ii-nah-39-just-winter-photo-185710864.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Polar Vortex, Part II? 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Nah, It&#39;s Just Winter" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="343" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2Ua.i3nffpbnRrVFCmuKKQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTM0MztxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/LiveScience.com/winter-storm.jpg1390329970" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">Today's winter storm (Jan. 21) as seen from space.</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Weather experts track the polar vortex to help forecast coming cold air masses — it is one of the many puzzle pieces that help predict winter storms.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The same polar vortex pattern that struck in early January is happening again this week; only the cold air blanketing the East Coast isn't quite so frigid. But the cold wave will last as long as a week, Oravec said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"You need a favorable pattern for cold, and the patterns are very similar, it's just the magnitude that's different," Oravec told LiveScience. "It's still pretty impressive cold air, but this one is going to be a little more prolonged."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A shot of cold air will come in across the Plains today (Jan. 21), followed by another Arctic surge on the weekend, Oravec said. Another series of cold air blasts is expected early next week, extending the <a data-mce-href="http://www.livescience.com/42388-polar-vortex-freeze-to-death.html" data-rapid_p="12" href="http://www.livescience.com/42388-polar-vortex-freeze-to-death.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">freeze</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"The temperatures are not quite as cold [as in early January, but the pattern is more persistent in this event," Oravec said.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="13" data-uuid="0a0a3c28-9d6c-34b6-af6b-8fc0867b7ef4" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/polar-vortex-part-ii-nah-39-just-winter-photo-185710694.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="Polar Vortex, Part II? 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Nah, It&#39;s Just Winter" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="300" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8rSfv3nOEx8ufafzKwvs7w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTMwMDtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/LiveScience.com/polar-vortex.jpg1390330218" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">The polar vortex low was centered over Greenland on Jan. 20, 2014.</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">While Americans living east of the Rockies will shiver this week, the weather will be dry and warm in the West and Alaska. That's because atmospheric flow patterns that are freezing the central and eastern United States and Canada are also contributing to the drought and warm temperatures in the West, Oravec said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_24203" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"The exact placement of Arctic air over parts of North America is often determined by the same flow patterns that are keeping the West Coast warm and dry," Oravec said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_24218" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">For example, when the polar vortex weakens, the <a data-mce-href="http://www.livescience.com/27825-jet-stream.html" data-rapid_p="14" href="http://www.livescience.com/27825-jet-stream.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">jet stream</a>may shift south of its usual position and develop kinks and troughs that steer cold air over the East Coast, while keeping the West Coast warm.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_24228" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><em>Email </em><em><a data-mce-href="mailto:boskin@techmedianetwork.com" data-rapid_p="15" href="mailto:boskin@techmedianetwork.com" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Becky Oskin</a> </em><em id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_24237">or follow her </em><a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/beckyoskin" data-rapid_p="16" href="https://twitter.com/beckyoskin" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><em>@beckyoskin</em></a><em>. 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Original article on </em><em><a data-mce-href="http://www.livescience.com/42729-polar-vortex-and-winter-weather.html" data-rapid_p="20" href="http://www.livescience.com/42729-polar-vortex-and-winter-weather.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">LiveScience</a></em><em>.</em></div></div>

Polar Vortex, Part II? Nah, It's Just Winter (BLOG)

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Spacecraft Rosetta roused from slumber on comet-chasing quest (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRH_pBctT88u3TRnl0B456juoAKUaxiN46BNkyPfhMp_j4gNnjC0dbyf980070XSWhwfcxHX2njI2-WhW_uhychRv7n03l9VsqiiYa9RTgpBE1MQoEmLQOe921vQ-fq7iXYcN4bEJQL-g/s1600/2014-01-20T193006Z_1853133545_GM1EA1L09JE01_RTRMADP_3_SPACE-COMET-ROSETTA.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRH_pBctT88u3TRnl0B456juoAKUaxiN46BNkyPfhMp_j4gNnjC0dbyf980070XSWhwfcxHX2njI2-WhW_uhychRv7n03l9VsqiiYa9RTgpBE1MQoEmLQOe921vQ-fq7iXYcN4bEJQL-g/s1600/2014-01-20T193006Z_1853133545_GM1EA1L09JE01_RTRMADP_3_SPACE-COMET-ROSETTA.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_20713" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">By Maria Sheahan</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_20733" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Rosetta, which was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2004, is due to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and land a probe on it this year in an unprecedented maneuver.FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Comet-chasing spacecraft Rosetta woke from nearly three years of hibernation on Monday to complete a decade-long deep space mission that scientists hope will help unlock some of the secrets of the solar system.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_20752" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Scientists hope data the probe gathers will allow them to peek into a kind of astronomical time capsule that has preserved for millions of years clues as to what the world looked like when our solar system was born.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Since comets are so primitive, they can give scientists a chance to understand how the solar system formed, where it came from," Rosetta spacecraft operations manager Andrea Accomazzo told Reuters ahead of the wake-up call.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">On its way to the comet, a roughly 3 by 5 km-large rock discovered in 1969, Rosetta has been circling the sun on a widening spiral course, swinging past Earth and Mars to pick up speed and adjust its trajectory.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; 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background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">FILE - This undated image provided by the European Space Agency ESA shows an artist's impression …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The mission will perform several historical firsts, including the first time a spacecraft orbits a comet rather than just whizzing by it to snap some fly-by pictures, and the first time a probe has landed on a comet's nucleus.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Rosetta is also the first mission to venture beyond the main asteroid belt relying solely on solar cells for power generation, which is also why it had to be put into a deep sleep for 957 days.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"It has been so far away from the sun that the solar rays were not able to generate enough energy to safely operate the spacecraft," said Accomazzo, who has been working on the Rosetta mission since 1997.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Accomazzo is based at the ESA's satellite operations in the German town of Darmstadt, south of Frankfurt.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Having neared the sun again as it tracks the comet on its elliptical orbit around the sun, Rosetta was gently awakened by its internal alarm clock at 1000 GMT on Monday. It then warmed up its systems and transmitted a sign of life - a radio signal - to its creators on Earth.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Once it is fully up and running, it will start to approach the comet. By August, it should catch up with it and land its probe on it in November.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Until the end of 2015, the probe will gather data on the comet's surface and examine how it changes as its nears the sun.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_20764" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">(Additional reporting by Annika Breidthardt; Editing by Gareth Jones and Pravin Char)</div></div>

Spacecraft Rosetta roused from slumber on comet-chasing quest (BLOG)

By Maria Sheahan Rosetta, which was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2004, is due to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Geras...

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South African Platinum Miner's STRIKE UPDATE

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What effect will this have on PRECIOUS METALS?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It appears right now that this miner's strike has been averted for now however we have to wait until Thursday's announcements to see if the agreements have been reached.  Have you read what these guys make for a salary?  Go read the article and it's unreal how the majority of these companies dish out such slave labor.   </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's obvious now that there is an INCREASINGLY LARGE SHORT INTEREST in the PRECIOUS METALS MARKET.  Even Rick Rule told listeners that GOLD and SILVER are in a BEAR MARKET.<br /><br />I think what is happening here is a move by the world banking cartel to take over these companies.  They are going to drive the metals prices so low that they will be forced to shut down.  But ultimately they will not shut down.  They will be owned and run by the New World Government.  </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">He who owns the gold rules might be true but it won't be those who have a roll of Eagles or Maples.  It will be those who have caves and vaults full of tons of these products.  The rich men are more interested in the power they have with money.  They care not for anything else as to them money is power.  And it is--for now.  Even so, come Lord Jesus.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304302704579332052405712352" style="color: red;">http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304302704579332052405712352</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Dp3P0q8vNaE?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br />...developing...</div>

South African Platinum Miner's STRIKE UPDATE

What effect will this have on PRECIOUS METALS? It appears right now that this miner's strike has been averted for now however we have to...

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Analysis - Syngenta risks fresh China corn dispute with unapproved trait (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi3tE4p9qBl8zS1-5N5q3q4TyeYFw8fnz-KvNtUm6GVoAZPD3f-y8Kk4xvF_w9LPVVoU5gnwGblN-pt5GDEQXBF9jiYNo_o0bcL3HSWUwvlsTu4-k4Md1oyO13OCm3sQPsr2imc5NOl94/s1600/2014-01-21T132642Z_1_CBREA0K11CL00_RTROPTP_2_SWITZERLAND.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi3tE4p9qBl8zS1-5N5q3q4TyeYFw8fnz-KvNtUm6GVoAZPD3f-y8Kk4xvF_w9LPVVoU5gnwGblN-pt5GDEQXBF9jiYNo_o0bcL3HSWUwvlsTu4-k4Md1oyO13OCm3sQPsr2imc5NOl94/s1600/2014-01-21T132642Z_1_CBREA0K11CL00_RTROPTP_2_SWITZERLAND.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_17478" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">By Tom Polansek</div><div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.307695388793945px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_17081" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">CHICAGO (Reuters) - Syngenta AG is pressing ahead with U.S. sales of a new corn trait that is not approved in China, fueling concerns of another jarring GMO trade quarrel with the world's fastest-growing food importer.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_17490" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">While the U.S. grain industry lobbies the Chinese government to stop rejecting cargoes of corn containing another unauthorized genetically modified Syngenta strain, farmers in the Midwest are weighing whether to take a chance on the Swiss-based company's new product, engineered to combat pests called rootworms.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_17500" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Syngenta, the world's largest crop chemicals company, said its Agrisure Duracade trait will be available for planting for the first time this year in "limited quantities" after U.S. authorities cleared it for sale and cultivation last year.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_17509" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">For farmers it may be a risk worth taking: Infestations of rootworms have developed into a major challenge in top-producing states such as Iowa and Illinois, because farmers have increasingly been planting corn on the same fields year after year to take advantage of high prices. The traditional practice of rotating corn with soybeans had helped better control pests.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">But the planting of Duracade threatens new disruptions - and millions of dollars in losses - for global grain traders if the strain gets mixed into the mainstream supply chain and prompts another round of rejections from China, as some analysts fear.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The commercialization of Duracade could "further contaminate, slow down, gum up" shipments of U.S. corn to China, Rich Feltes, vice president of research for commodity brokerage R.J. O'Brien, said in a recent interview.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The issue has already split the farm sector, as a national growers' group urged the U.S. Agriculture Department to approve the strain while grain lobbyists warned in 2012 that the trait could hurt U.S. trade because it was not accepted by all major importers.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Some U.S. seed companies have declined to license the new Duracade trait from Syngenta to insert into seeds, out of concern that growers could be stuck if grain elevators and exporters refuse to buy corn that contains it.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The United States is expected to export 1.45 billion bushels of corn in the marketing year that ends August 31, accounting for 10 percent of the last harvest.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">VIPTERA STANDOFF</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In November, Chinese authorities began rejecting some U.S. corn cargoes that contained Syngenta's Agrisure Viptera variety, known as MIR 162, which has been awaiting Beijing's acceptance for more than two years.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Why some imports have been allowed while others have been stopped is not clear, and analysts and traders have offered various explanations, including possible trade tensions or a desire to support domestic corn prices.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Whatever the cause, a total of 600,000 ton of U.S. corn and corn products have been denied entry, weakening U.S. prices and providing the latest example of GMO use disrupting agricultural trade.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Syngenta is not considering any steps to pull back Duracade from the market because it believes growers need access to new technologies, spokesman Paul Minehart said. The number of acres planted with seed containing the trait will be determined by seed production volumes and shipping time lines, he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In line with industry standards, Minehart said, Syngenta commercializes corn traits once it has approval from countries with "functioning regulatory systems."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"The regulatory systems in China and the EU are not considered functioning according to industry policy, meaning their decision-making processes are not predictable, are not completed in a timely manner and can be subject to political influence," he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">While the European Union approved Viptera for import in 2012, it has not yet approved Duracade for import.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Syngenta applied for Chinese import approval of Duracade after U.S. authorities cleared the trait in February 2013. In theory, China's agriculture ministry has 270 days to make a decision. However, industry sources say it can take as long as two years after a strain is approved by the United States.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Syngenta won import approval for the Duracade trait from Mexico and South Korea in September and from Japan in August. It also has import approval from Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"United States and China do not have synchronous approval process. If China does not change the current approval procedure, it remains an issue in future U.S. exports to China," said Li Qiang, senior analyst with Shanghai-based JC Intelligence Co Ltd, a private agriculture-consulting firm.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Until recent years, China's slower system for approving new GMO products was less of an issue, since it imported almost no U.S. corn. But shipments have surged in recent years, accounting for almost 14 percent of U.S. corn exports in 2011/12.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The increase has made it increasingly perilous for the trading industry to have China excluded from the list of countries whose approval is required to launch a new trait, some say. China mainly buys U.S. corn to feed livestock.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"China may not have a functioning approval system, but they represent the largest growth potential in U.S. corn exports," Feltes said. "Let's get real."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"TICKING TIME BOMB"</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">John Latham, president of Iowa-based Latham Hi-Tech Seeds, has licensed the Duracade trait from Syngenta for this spring. But without approval from China, he says, U.S. corn growers have been wary of booking those seeds and that some elevators may refuse to accept corn with the trait.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Peterson Farms Seed in North Dakota decided against licensing the Duracade trait from Syngenta because of concerns about China, agronomy manager Adam Spelhaug said. The firm sells corn with the Viptera trait, he said, while making sure that customers who buy those seeds can sell to markets that accept the trait.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Unless it has Chinese approval, we're probably not going to bring something else into our bag right now," he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Rootworms are a "ticking time bomb" in U.S. farmers' fields that are estimated to cost more than $1 billion annually in yield losses and treatment costs, Syngenta said in an online ad for the trait. Duracade "delivers unmatched corn rootworm control" that is distinct from another rootworm-fighting trait previously released by Syngenta, the company said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Rival Monsanto Co, the world's largest seed company, introduced corn rootworm protected products in 2003. However, a group of academic corn experts in 2012 warned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of growing rootworm resistance to GMO corn.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">With Duracade coming to market, "the probability of overall of resistance goes down because there's another tool that can be used" to fight rootworm, said Rodney Weinzierl, director of the Illinois Corn Growers Association.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The National Corn Growers Association in 2012 told the USDA that it supported Duracade because of rootworm threats. A spokesman did not respond to requests for an updated comment.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">PREVIOUS WARNINGS</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Even if corn containing Duracade is planted on a small number of acres, it could accidentally be shipped to China, exporters said. Varieties are often mixed with each other because they are grown in fields near each other and harvested, transported and stored together.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In 2011, Bunge North America, a unit of agricultural trading house Bunge Ltd, refused to accept Viptera because it had not been approved by major export destinations. Archer Daniels Midland Co and Cargill Inc that year declined to accept at elevators grain that was not approved for commercial use in the EU, which included Viptera, without prior written notice.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Syngenta sued Bunge in 2011 for refusing to accept Viptera corn. Bunge largely prevailed in the case.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Representatives of Bunge, Cargill and ADM declined to comment or did not respond to requests for comment on Duracade. Two top U.S. grain groups - the National Grain and Feed Association and North American Export Grain Association -- had discouraged the USDA from clearing Duracade.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The lack of import approvals for new traits creates "a risk of significant economic losses to U.S. grain and oilseed producers and markets," the groups said in a 2012 letter. Chinese quarantine officials can reject shipments that contain any amount of an unauthorized strain, they said. The groups declined to provide updated comments on the matter.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Corn importers in China typically stipulate in their contracts that the seller bears all costs related to possible GMO risks, industry sources say.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_17536" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The USDA in 2012 responded to concerns about missing import approvals by saying that grain elevators could refuse to buy corn containing Duracade. Commercialization of the trait could even enhance trading "through more efficient production of corn supplies worldwide," the USDA said at the time.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_17526" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">(Additional reporting by Carey Gillam in Kansas City and Niu Shuping in Beijing; Editing by Jonathan Leff and Steve Orlofsky)</div></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrZijb0Yaw5JH_rT97WzkpDHXIpa04W_Up3jc0w0UYWKQKy_8zPqd4DbnwAWpkpjS78_f4cvr87eelhFIaT1ErIfNGPETGhbsiiI-aQkzPLaRtmoxeYnbIGgXRPnEjTtSbXnQxLvi5nv4/s1600/077d247bc4ee60f13eaa1a18b486351f.cf.png" 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/AVvXsEjrZijb0Yaw5JH_rT97WzkpDHXIpa04W_Up3jc0w0UYWKQKy_8zPqd4DbnwAWpkpjS78_f4cvr87eelhFIaT1ErIfNGPETGhbsiiI-aQkzPLaRtmoxeYnbIGgXRPnEjTtSbXnQxLvi5nv4/s1600/077d247bc4ee60f13eaa1a18b486351f.cf.png" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_10427" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Have you ever wondered how much money you could save on your household bills if you just took the time to shop around?</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_10478" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Well you can now check out the latest deals available for cell phones, cable, Internet and electricity online, thanks to a new website, BillCutterz.com, a service that analyzes your bills, then negotiates them down for you.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_10487" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"We know what to ask, how to ask, what the promotions or otherwise are, or the flavor of the month, because all these companies change regularly," says Barry Gross, president of BillCutterz.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_10497" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The team regularly saves customers up to 30 percent on their bills without changing the provider or the plan -- and now the folks at BillCutterz are sharing some of their trade secrets with you:</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_10507" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">--- If you have time, do a bit of homework. Look at what the competition is advertising.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_10516" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">--- Next, call during non-peak times. Let them know you're looking to save some money on your bill.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_10525" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">--- Be as friendly as possible, and use the rep’s name.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">--- If you feel like you're getting frustrated, try back another time.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_10627" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">And finally, if you just don't have the time, try a service like BillCutterz, that does the work for you.</div></div>

Real Money: How to Save Money on Household Bills (BLOG)

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The Universal Look

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We All Need a Little More Hapiness

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Only The Ones

This sick fucking bastard is still on the force!<br /><br /><br />Read the rest, this is just the tip of the iceberg with this guy!<br /><br /><br />This is an embeddable article.<br /><br /><div class="rpuEmbedCode"><div class="rpuArticle rpuRepost-c974ea2abd938ff77758b939624f7b29-top" style="margin:0;padding:0;"><script src="https://1.rp-api.com/rjs/repost-article.js?3" type="text/javascript" data-cfasync="false"></script><a href="http://s.tt/1WxyF" class="rpuThumb" rel="norewrite"><img src="//img.1.rp-api.com/thumb/9914388" style="float:left;margin-right:10px;" /></a><a href="http://s.tt/1WxyF" class="rpuTitle" rel="norewrite"><strong>Prosecutors won’t charge Ohio trooper who masturbated with boy to teach him about sex</strong></a> (via <a href="http://s.tt/1WxyF" class="rpuHost" rel="norewrite">Raw Story </a>)<p class="rpuSnip">Prosecutors declined to charge an Ohio State Patrol trooper with a history of domestic violence who admitted to a sexual encounter with a boy. State trooper Ricky Vitte Jr. told his wife that he had watched a pornographic video and masturbated with…<br /></p></div></div><!-- put the "tease", "jump" or "more" break here --><hr id="system-readmore" style="display: none;" /><a name='more'></a><!--break--><hr class="at-page-break" style="display: none;"/><div class="rpuEmbedCode"><div class="rpuArticle rpuRepostMain rpuRepost-c974ea2abd938ff77758b939624f7b29-bottom" style="display:none;"> </div><div style="display: none;"><!-- How to customize this embed: http://www.repost.us/article-preview/hash/7b432557a1f7756f237db6cd13c8c4be --></div></div>.

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Obama's pot comments could help legalization efforts in states (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiibdeq1S4F15GYIIYqcMQL0xg8yzNhdg1BtTOjd8XYlYpTkKQjtt1EsbLl6yFv-j6TRcbaTv_GhPuMH_aqQ_v8uvIdsiRdtk4yOPczIZGq-50HW5V3WYYoZUp3Y77WYF3csrMWAORdFfc/s1600/1b797b0268b03102490f6a706700c7cc.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/AVvXsEiibdeq1S4F15GYIIYqcMQL0xg8yzNhdg1BtTOjd8XYlYpTkKQjtt1EsbLl6yFv-j6TRcbaTv_GhPuMH_aqQ_v8uvIdsiRdtk4yOPczIZGq-50HW5V3WYYoZUp3Y77WYF3csrMWAORdFfc/s1600/1b797b0268b03102490f6a706700c7cc.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_2936" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">President Barack Obama's <a data-mce-href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-marijuana-football-184222270.html" data-rapid_p="9" href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-marijuana-football-184222270.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">comments on marijuana</a>, published in the New Yorker magazine over the weekend, could help legalization efforts in several states, including Oregon, <a data-mce-href="http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20140120/UPDATE/301200002/%20" data-rapid_p="10" href="http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20140120/UPDATE/301200002/%20" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Statesman Journal reports</a>.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_2956" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The president's comments "will certainly have an impact on voters in the state of Oregon,” Rep. Vicki Berger told the Statesman.“As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life," Obama told the magazine. "I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol.”</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_2975" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">According to the newspaper, Democratic lawmakers plan to introduce a legislative referral next month that would ask voters whether they want recreational marijuana legalized. Similar efforts are under way in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The president's views "will influence people throughout the country,” Donald Moorse, a Portland, Ore., medical marijuana dispensary owner, told the paper. “I think that’s why he made the comments.”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The president acknowledged marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer."</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; 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background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">U.S. President Barack Obama (C) smiles as he and his daughter Sasha (2nd R) fill burritos as they vo …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Asked about the legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington, Obama said, “it’s important for it to go forward because it’s important for society not to have a situation in which a large portion of people have at one time or another broken the law and only a select few get punished.”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In Colorado, where a law legalizing recreational marijuana went into effect on Jan. 1, Obama's pro-pot comments were front-page news, even appearing above the Denver Broncos' win over the New England Patriots on Monday's cover of the Denver Post.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Last week, the New Hampshire House of Representatives became the first state legislature to vote in favor of a bill to legalize the sale and possession of recreational marijuana, which, if signed into law, could entice Vermont to do the same.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><a data-mce-href="http://watchdog.org/124288/new-england-pot-domino-effect/" data-rapid_p="12" href="http://watchdog.org/124288/new-england-pot-domino-effect/" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">According to VermontWatchdog.org</a>, a bill to legalize the sale and possession of pot will be on this session's agenda in Montpelier.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The support was welcomed by pot advocates.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390361308186_2991" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">“The first step to improving our nation’s marijuana policy is admitting that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol," Mason Tvert, director of the Marijuana Policy Project, said in a statement. "Now that he has recognized that laws jailing adults for using marijuana are inappropriate, it is time to amend for those errors and adopt a more fact-based marijuana policy.</div></div>

Obama's pot comments could help legalization efforts in states (BLOG)

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Signs Your PMS Is Out Of Control

Dayum! <a href="http://m.news4jax.com/news/police-wife-shoots-husband-in-lake-city-park/-/16626108/24037036/-/2q8fd0/-/index.html">She is still on the loose too</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUliEk6JHidO3IAs92urcoN5noZmWw11qxtIAdufNgeW415ElZmH9RVZikr4l3ecsLrN0cxjhaFIrwHdn_iqkRuFM5QZsU_XTk-dCmoDdZRoaNw1l_mmS8QGeoGPkeaU7krzA-fyfTRnlh/s1600/Ruby-Sheppard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUliEk6JHidO3IAs92urcoN5noZmWw11qxtIAdufNgeW415ElZmH9RVZikr4l3ecsLrN0cxjhaFIrwHdn_iqkRuFM5QZsU_XTk-dCmoDdZRoaNw1l_mmS8QGeoGPkeaU7krzA-fyfTRnlh/s400/Ruby-Sheppard.jpg" /></a></div><br /><blockquote>Lake City police say 43-year-old Anthony Sheppard was at the park with family and friends as part of the Martin Luther King Day festivities. At about 6 p.m., his wife, Ruby Sheppard, drove into the west parking lot of the park off of N.E. Denver street in a 2004 Cadillac. Upon seeing her husband, witnesses reported she attempted to run him over with the vehicle, subsequently pinning him between two vehicles.<br /><br />Police say Ruby Sheppard got out of her vehicle and began an argument as he was getting out from between the two vehicles. After a brief argument, she ran back to her vehicle and retrieved a semi-automatic handgun from the glove compartment. The victim and witnesses reported to investigating officers that Ruby Sheppard began hit her husband with the handle of the gun.<br /><br />According to authorities, during the struggle, when their 21-year-old son, Anthony Sheppard Jr., attempted to separate them, his mother pointed the gun at him. Police say her husband pushed him out of the way as she pulled the trigger and the Anthony Sheppard Sr. was shot one time in the upper left thigh.<br /><br />He was taken to Shands at Lake Shore Hospital by his family with non-life-threatening injuries.<br /><br />Police say Ruby Sheppard drove away. As of midday Tuesday, she was still at large. Officers say she is wanted on charges attempted murder and aggravated assault and should be considered armed and dangerous.</blockquote>

Signs Your PMS Is Out Of Control

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Russian police kill Islamist militant leader before Olympics (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWFeh1CeR8R3ZKKa8D2dZdqzkQvzbMMEYPhdII42hFPmwpfRhuwea81NSSL2DY0ERsiotHgAvmg3sD95SNJ55uMjPR6OUxBHlKTM9qanliqjytEn1PTz3Wn5Qh8AIauBCz9zZAtH-_KYI/s1600/download+(6).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWFeh1CeR8R3ZKKa8D2dZdqzkQvzbMMEYPhdII42hFPmwpfRhuwea81NSSL2DY0ERsiotHgAvmg3sD95SNJ55uMjPR6OUxBHlKTM9qanliqjytEn1PTz3Wn5Qh8AIauBCz9zZAtH-_KYI/s1600/download+(6).jpg" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_10624" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">MOSCOW (Reuters) - Police have killed a senior Islamist militant in Russia's North Caucasus ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, where security forces searched on Tuesday for a woman they fear is planning an attack during the games.</div><div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.307695388793945px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_10675" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Eldar Magatov, a suspect in attacks on Russian targets and alleged leader of an insurgent group in the Babyurt district of Dagestan, died in a shootout, the National Anti-Terror Committee said on Tuesday.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_10684" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">President Vladimir Putin has staked his political reputation on organizing a successful Olympics and tightened security nationwide after insurgents who hope to create an Islamist state in the North Caucasus threatened to attack the games, which start on February 7.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_10693" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Putin had a phone call on Tuesday with U.S. President Barack Obama in which they discussed how best to have a "safe and secure" Winter Olympics, the White House said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_10702" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In Sochi, which plans to host hundreds of thousands of visitors during the games, security forces were searching for Ruzanna Ibragimovaya, 23, who may have arrived to the Olympic host city on January 11-12, a letter seen by Reuters said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"(She) may be used as a terrorist-suicide bomber by (insurgency) leaders to organize terrorist acts during preparations for and during the 2014 Winter Olympics," read the letter, asking police to look immediately into the matter.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; 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font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Photographs of Ibragimovaya show a woman in a hijab, wearing a long dress.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Dagestan has become the focal point of the insurgency, which is rooted in two separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A White House statement about the Putin-Obama call said the two leaders talked about how best to advance shared U.S.-Russian interests, "including a safe and secure Sochi Olympics, for which the United States has offered its full assistance.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The U.S. military is making two ships in the Black Sea available should American support be required during the Olympics. Washington is also offering American technology used to thwart roadside bombs in places like Afghanistan to boost security during the Olympics, a spokesman for U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In a video published on Monday, two men said by an Islamist militant group to have carried out twin suicide bombings in the southern city of Volgograd last month warned Putin to expect more attacks if the games go ahead in Sochi.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_10706" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The attacks in Volgograd killed at least 34 people and raised security fears before the Olympics.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_10721" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">(Reporting by Thomas Grove; Additional reporting by Steve Holland, Jeff Mason and Phil Stewart in Washington; Editing by Timothy Heritage, Alister Doyle and Peter Cooney)</div></div>

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Here are some photos of the <a href="http://www.archdaily.com/436273/brick-house-ventura-virzi-arquitectos/">Brick House</a> (2011) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Ventura Virzi Arquitectos, photographed by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fedeku/">Federico Kulekdjian</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fedeku/12017791153/" title="Casa de Ladrillos by Federico Kulekdjian, on Flickr"><img alt="Casa de Ladrillos" height="640" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3711/12017791153_15927d0f33_z.jpg" width="550" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fedeku/12017781603/" title="Casa de Ladrillos by Federico Kulekdjian, on Flickr"><img alt="Casa de Ladrillos" height="427" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5484/12017781603_f19a65055b_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fedeku/12017497035/" title="Casa de Ladrillos by Federico Kulekdjian, on Flickr"><img alt="Casa de Ladrillos" height="427" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5509/12017497035_f98e759a8e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fedeku/12017838034/" title="Casa de Ladrillos by Federico Kulekdjian, on Flickr"><img alt="Casa de Ladrillos" height="427" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7306/12017838034_735d2b953a_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fedeku/12017486015/" title="Casa de Ladrillos by Federico Kulekdjian, on Flickr"><img alt="Casa de Ladrillos" height="800" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3772/12017486015_7cfbe53a71_c.jpg" width="528" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fedeku/12017476555/" title="Casa de Ladrillos by Federico Kulekdjian, on Flickr"><img alt="Casa de Ladrillos" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7343/12017476555_0c50898c65_c.jpg" width="534" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fedeku/12017481045/" title="Casa de Ladrillos by Federico Kulekdjian, on Flickr"><img alt="Casa de Ladrillos" height="800" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3805/12017481045_d7e0a0ebea_c.jpg" width="534" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fedeku/12018300466/" title="Casa de Ladrillos by Federico Kulekdjian, on Flickr"><img alt="Casa de Ladrillos" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7310/12018300466_9bfbe663c4_c.jpg" width="534" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fedeku/12017862554/" title="Casa de Ladrillos by Federico Kulekdjian, on Flickr"><img alt="Casa de Ladrillos" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7405/12017862554_11d7a98760_c.jpg" width="600" /></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 the Brick House (2011) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Ventura Virzi Arquitectos, photographed by Federico Kulekdjia...

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