Major Education Groups Pressure Arne Duncan To Crack Down On Sallie Mae (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/AVvXsEhwGcGw1k11HNYUBjO-cLbjUS6K51wr6BH6ewWtnalzsA9ZEZCCqOQeY24Xp5Zif7LeXr9AgTJljWlaPNRHdmcUTNtbwu7XaPOcrbEQxBIaQ0wLHy9iWxqQKhHxbkeID3GFvam0QQ_xHZk/s1600/n-ARNE-DUNCAN-large570.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwGcGw1k11HNYUBjO-cLbjUS6K51wr6BH6ewWtnalzsA9ZEZCCqOQeY24Xp5Zif7LeXr9AgTJljWlaPNRHdmcUTNtbwu7XaPOcrbEQxBIaQ0wLHy9iWxqQKhHxbkeID3GFvam0QQ_xHZk/s320/n-ARNE-DUNCAN-large570.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Student borrowers can't expect the basic consumer protections provided to millions of Americans who take out loans because the Department of Education fails to enforce the law, a prominent group of colleges, students and teachers has alleged.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">In a stinging Dec. 20 letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan obtained by The Huffington Post, the group, led by the workers' rights organization Jobs With Justice, accused the federal department of effectively allowing loan servicers to violate the rights of student borrowers.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">"For many borrowers, economic hardship is just one of the hurdles standing in the way of paying back their federal student loans,” the group of students, educators and colleges said. “Borrowers also have to contend with inept, subpar and potentially illegal conduct on behalf of the loan servicing and debt collection contractors that are selected and supervised by the department.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">The Education Department pays private-sector companies hundreds of millions of dollars each year to collect payments on student loans and work with borrowers when they fall behind on their debts. But it has made "little-to-no effort" to address longstanding complaints by borrowers and consumer advocates or to hold companies accountable when they mistreat borrowers and violate their federal contracts, the group said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">“We believe that these detrimental and misleading practices will not only continue to harm borrowers, but that continued inaction by your department will damage its credibility in overseeing these contracts,” reads the letter, signed by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association, and the United States Student Association, among others. “It is simply unacceptable that the Department of Education continues to allow loan servicers to routinely break the rules of these servicing and debt collection contracts and go completely unpunished by your office.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">The group called on Duncan to prohibit Sallie Mae, the nation’s largest handler of student debt, from servicing federal student loans until the company complies with government rules. The group also recommended the Education Department immediately launch a probe of Sallie Mae’s servicing and debt collection practices and then publish the results.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Sallie Mae recorded $84 million in revenue last year from its Education Department contracts, according to <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1032033/000119312513076990/d440039d10k.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">securities filings</a>. The company was servicing 5.7 million federal loans under its Education Department contract as of Sept. 30, a 39 percent increase from the previous year.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">The letter follows news reports and congressional correspondence detailing the Education Department’s <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/06/elizabeth-warren-education-department_n_4398107.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">lackluster oversight</a> of its corporate partners, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/education-sallie-mae_n_4428048.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">most notably Sallie Mae</a>; <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/03/sallie-mae-student-debt_n_3839243.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">poor loan servicing</a>; <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/30/student-loans-default_n_4019806.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">rising defaults</a> in its loan portfolio; <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/11/income-based-repayment_n_3903208.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">disappointing debt-relief measures</a>; and the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/29/education-department-sallie-mae_n_4351509.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">department’s intentions to renew</a> Sallie Mae’s contract<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/28/sallie-mae-investigations_n_4172169.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">despite pending investigations</a> by at least three federal agencies over allegations that the company has violated borrowers’ rights.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">"The department strives to ensure that college remains affordable and student loan debt remains manageable for the millions of Americans pursuing a college education," said Education Department press secretary Dorie Nolt. "The department continuously works with and monitors all of its student loan servicers to provide outstanding service to borrowers, serve as good stewards of taxpayer dollars, and ensure the integrity of its financial aid programs."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">But Barmak Nassirian, director of federal relations and policy analysis for the AASCU, said his group has become "increasingly alarmed about the quality of loan servicing offered by the department's contractors." The letter notes that borrowers disputing their account balances, interest accrual or fees constitute the fastest-growing complaints. Those complaints more than doubled from 2009 to 2012, according to Education Department data.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">“It seems to us there are certain basic rights that Americans take for granted when it comes to consumer credit transactions -- we are entitled to have our balances correctly tracked -- and it goes without saying that if you have a dispute, question or there is an issue with your account, you are entitled to a basic resolution process,” Nassirian said. "But sadly, none of these fundamental assumptions seem to be operational when it comes to loan servicing by the Education Department’s contractors."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Sallie Mae representatives did not respond to a request for comment. Rohit Chopra, the assistant director and student loan ombudsman for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who was copied on the group’s letter, declined to comment on its contents. But Chopra said his agency had recently finalized a rule enabling it to supervise student loan servicers, bringing oversight to the market.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">The criticisms levied against Duncan’s department by the group, which includes the country's two largest teachers’ unions and a trade association acting on behalf of more than 400 state schools, represent an escalation of an ongoing campaign by consumer advocates to significantly improve the treatment of student loan borrowers and crack down on companies that have allegedly violated borrowers’ basic consumer rights for years. Their letter comes amid mounting complaints from borrowers and increasing concerns from federal regulators that poor servicing of federal student loans risks driving up defaults and sapping economic growth.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Already, lawmakers have warned the Education Department to expect heightened scrutiny of its loan servicing operations. Congress is gearing up to reauthorize the nearly 50-year-old Higher Education Act, the federal law governing how tens of billions of taxpayer dollars are allocated towards higher education each year, and lawmakers have said they want to make changes to how federal student loans are serviced, and to the Education Department’s oversight of its corporate partners.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">A <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/education-sallie-mae_n_4428048.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">Dec. 9 letter from James Runcie</a>, the chief operating officer of the Education Department’s Office of Federal Student Aid, to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) set off the latest round of outrage.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">In that letter, Runcie said the department had declined to levy any fines on student loan giant Sallie Mae, despite confidential determinations over the past 10 years that allege the company had harmed borrowers and incorrectly billed the department, among other servicing failures.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Nassirian said the AASCU was moved to join the coalition demanding Education Department action in part after reading Runcie’s letter, which he said showed how deficient the department’s oversight has been.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">The NEA, which represents some 3 million educators, also hopes to get more active in the coming months on student loan servicing issues because it “wants to see the rules enforced,” said Mark Smith, senior policy analyst for higher education for the union.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">"Our members are concerned about their children and the students they teach," Smith said. "This is a consequence of the debt level getting so large in terms of aggregate and individual burdens on students. Student debt has gotten so big it’s playing havoc with other sectors of the economy."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Nearly 40 million Americans collectively owe more than $1 trillion in student debt that is ultimately guaranteed by taxpayers. Outstanding federal student debt has more than doubled since 2007, according to the <a href="http://studentaid.ed.gov/about/data-center/student/portfolio" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">Education Department</a>. Borrowers who graduated with bachelor’s degrees in 2012 on average had $29,400 in student debt, according to <a href="http://www.ticas.org/pub_view.php?idx=923" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">The Institute for College Access & Success</a>. More than seven in 10 graduates from the Class of 2012 had student loan debt.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Chris Hicks, an organizer at Jobs With Justice’s Debt-Free Future Campaign, said his group hopes to increase pressure on the Education Department to spur servicing reforms that would avoid needless student loan defaults.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">"The Department of Education can either do the right thing by borrowers, or they can maintain the status quo," Hicks said. "We'd like to see Secretary Duncan be a champion for higher education."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/30/student-loans-default_n_4019806.html" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">One in 10</a> recent borrowers defaulted on their federal student loans within the first two years, the highest default rate since 1995, according to the Education Department. About 100,000 borrowers with loans from the government’s Direct Loan program entered default during the three-month period ending in September, about the same number as enrolled in the Education Department’s three income-linked repayment plans, <a href="http://studentaid.ed.gov/about/data-center/student/portfolio" style="border: 0px; color: #0088c3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">department data show</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Last December, Cooper Howes, an economist at Barclays, the U.K. bank, estimated in a note to clients that more than half of borrowers with federal student loans in 2012 qualified for lower payments under Income-Based Repayment, a plan that caps monthly payments relative to borrowers’ incomes.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Nassirian, of the AASCU, said he anticipates colleges and universities will begin ratcheting up pressure as well, as schools begin to feel the effects of how student loans are serviced by companies such as Sallie Mae.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">"Frankly, for too long, institutions have been focused too much on the front end -- getting loans out -- and have not been sufficiently engaged with what happens to former students when they leave," Nassirian said. "But we have just reached a point where student loans are too ubiquitous in the lives of our students for us to be indifferent and let these kinds of sloppy practices go on."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Duncan and his top aides need to prioritize student loan servicing, Nassirian added.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">“So many young people start out life with the equivalent of mortgages wrapped around their necks like anchors,” he said. “It is getting serious enough that we need some really high-level attention paid to it.”</div></div>

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<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb5aUV1eyVQQ-CITJ5tt-CcI5Z3HtcMLEL2GMy8LarOCy9NjLEbeUqtluTMlPD3mamZ3aoHFsiYoBDr7q6-cqN6Hl3n99Bv97O35M-CfbLlnoQI_oa5-f27vlf3wTfTLW1gDVjsIl5_fg/s1600/Stella+McCartney+celebrating+Christmas+in+the+company+of+Dame+Edna.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb5aUV1eyVQQ-CITJ5tt-CcI5Z3HtcMLEL2GMy8LarOCy9NjLEbeUqtluTMlPD3mamZ3aoHFsiYoBDr7q6-cqN6Hl3n99Bv97O35M-CfbLlnoQI_oa5-f27vlf3wTfTLW1gDVjsIl5_fg/s1600/Stella+McCartney+celebrating+Christmas+in+the+company+of+Dame+Edna.jpg" /></a></div><br /><b>Stella McCartney</b> is a Christmas spent in the company not less flamboyant women than herself - <b>Dame Edna</b>. Tv-known character of British comedian Barry Humphries visited her boutique in London. <br /> <br /> Identity Dame Edna - purple hair, fancy glasses "cat" form and extravagant outfits based on the classic suit. The main surprise for the guests was that Stella is completely copied her image. As they say, imitation - the best recognition. <br /> <br /> After surprise and joy of the first meeting held for Dame Stella small tour of the boutique. Guest tried on dresses from the latest collection of designer and end of the meeting wished her all the best in the coming year.<br /><br /><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* biner3 */ google_ad_slot = "7346003106"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizt0ETpqXk6AFaV8bpT08VDijmX4UP1L3BU_WOl9GFG25Tb-vxhFv6NhZDEcWyDXHn5UCIa64n7uRbqPGM9oKl_mUYIkf1yJbXlkrMATw0uhUEhXMIIwdONhLlkK9W8W9mRYMBMaPIPZg/s1600/Dame+Edna+and+Stella+McCartney-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizt0ETpqXk6AFaV8bpT08VDijmX4UP1L3BU_WOl9GFG25Tb-vxhFv6NhZDEcWyDXHn5UCIa64n7uRbqPGM9oKl_mUYIkf1yJbXlkrMATw0uhUEhXMIIwdONhLlkK9W8W9mRYMBMaPIPZg/s1600/Dame+Edna+and+Stella+McCartney-4.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbj6i0hKuJMEFcGcDXNXEigQVDsfHSDO7kbtwuNe_iylpkOj_gtHk5yFGeLi4zrCNL_WC4dWbcJFtIMWmhyOJ0K0MM-caa0Zq0kywJQ1BRuoAln4qCxz60dKbbkifc2Q14sYHhDLXb3D0/s1600/Dame+Edna+and+Stella+McCartney.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbj6i0hKuJMEFcGcDXNXEigQVDsfHSDO7kbtwuNe_iylpkOj_gtHk5yFGeLi4zrCNL_WC4dWbcJFtIMWmhyOJ0K0MM-caa0Zq0kywJQ1BRuoAln4qCxz60dKbbkifc2Q14sYHhDLXb3D0/s1600/Dame+Edna+and+Stella+McCartney.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLN4l-416F2Y5VXNtolKF6Ud7pZ6bSu11SzwGWQegpvp7EJyqccEoZXozQAefTrj4J7ssiO6tTkWfCoQ7z4gW5TSPZkW-5GWrHAsfupaShc3TvvfoThPRj_bPMlHmo1nfAcomdL23cuvY/s1600/Dame+Edna+and+Stella+McCartney-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLN4l-416F2Y5VXNtolKF6Ud7pZ6bSu11SzwGWQegpvp7EJyqccEoZXozQAefTrj4J7ssiO6tTkWfCoQ7z4gW5TSPZkW-5GWrHAsfupaShc3TvvfoThPRj_bPMlHmo1nfAcomdL23cuvY/s1600/Dame+Edna+and+Stella+McCartney-1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe width="460" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/wYSQauGi_t8?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><br /><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- boton --><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:90px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8441125172513237" data-ad-slot="4392536701"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br />

Stella McCartney celebrating Christmas in the company of Dame Edna

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Anastasia Volochkova corporate arranged in the bath

<br />Anastasia Volochkova has repeatedly admitted that she is a big fan of warm up. Ballerina so believe in the healing effects of baths and saunas that even corporate his team decided to arrange it in this place.<br /><br /><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* biner3 */ google_ad_slot = "7346003106"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj52qvx2dKKhOTNB1Ub5l-Ihc0r0sAakXNCWkqvoK-AdCSvVliZFsac4TwkhdAKLNb3GfWeOMKh6gpprrHtQ7b7PS7POgzkxo4jaI63ov8aeL59455ttaNTIzuO99C8JvPgPl3sF1v3_zs/s1600/Anastasia+Volochkova+1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj52qvx2dKKhOTNB1Ub5l-Ihc0r0sAakXNCWkqvoK-AdCSvVliZFsac4TwkhdAKLNb3GfWeOMKh6gpprrHtQ7b7PS7POgzkxo4jaI63ov8aeL59455ttaNTIzuO99C8JvPgPl3sF1v3_zs/s1600/Anastasia+Volochkova+1.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>«In my opinion, corporate team in the bath and a healthy pastime - much better than binge drinking and feasts" - stressed Anastasia Volochkova. So while the rest of the labor collectives choose dresses and costumes, Anastasia staff under the strict guidance of her wearing swimming suits and went to the bath together in the south of Moscow. <br /> <br /> Itself Anastasia Volochkova, wearing a flirty red hat, began to share positive experiences. "Contrast ice and hot fonts - this is the best muscle recovery," - said Anastasia. Judging by the happy smiles steamed workers, they were satisfied with the decision of his boss. <br /> <br /> However Anastasia Volochkova would not be a, if not pleased with his fans another seductive image. Left only one red cap, Anastasia plunged into the pool, slyly covering neckline brooms<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/AVvXsEjHIbxEcT9wSe4NCpVXZswDxg-VFi974vRVuFuYGqvAg02DEBruD4p159L4LHK5w_kvzvyC3Isx0V3iF1zzD-c6qP5C7BBsPH9ZdHL2JLfub_92RQ36TJXZoD6LePwyxeo5HAr7yCu5MqE/s1600/Anastasia+Volochkova+corporate+arranged+in+the+bath.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHIbxEcT9wSe4NCpVXZswDxg-VFi974vRVuFuYGqvAg02DEBruD4p159L4LHK5w_kvzvyC3Isx0V3iF1zzD-c6qP5C7BBsPH9ZdHL2JLfub_92RQ36TJXZoD6LePwyxeo5HAr7yCu5MqE/s1600/Anastasia+Volochkova+corporate+arranged+in+the+bath.jpeg" width="302" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anastasia Volochkova sent all the bath</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuZiU7-hDENhigLKqM-FKLyWoHzlFMa9y3vSOvIlgqf2kseNq7IuAzKeH_BB384v6YT28FmDLHuCowQicnDPOzTUvu9CslOcdC33TcLXb7PJkXwtIkEqqsboPRc1tRuVzS9NU2rq-1EOM/s1600/Anastasia+Volochkova.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuZiU7-hDENhigLKqM-FKLyWoHzlFMa9y3vSOvIlgqf2kseNq7IuAzKeH_BB384v6YT28FmDLHuCowQicnDPOzTUvu9CslOcdC33TcLXb7PJkXwtIkEqqsboPRc1tRuVzS9NU2rq-1EOM/s1600/Anastasia+Volochkova.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><center><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* video */ google_ad_slot = "9278264705"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></center><br />

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Mob Wives: Alicia DiMichele Garofalo & a Husband?

<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/AVvXsEjfwTBK5ZCy4WajYddHSNNVCRiL4kuejK5CgH_JaJy4e3j0XXFE6eDLOi-E-8aZ9jKvcDI0Dgx9P7KOxrzGwvxG3akw-NAz04g4U6Jn9WGTtmBRtYm7zZUv9rRHvWH9udWLliAwqtv-uAQ/s1600/ASC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfwTBK5ZCy4WajYddHSNNVCRiL4kuejK5CgH_JaJy4e3j0XXFE6eDLOi-E-8aZ9jKvcDI0Dgx9P7KOxrzGwvxG3akw-NAz04g4U6Jn9WGTtmBRtYm7zZUv9rRHvWH9udWLliAwqtv-uAQ/s640/ASC.jpg" width="392" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who’s hunky Santa?</td></tr></tbody></table>Who is sitting on Santa’s lap?<br /><br />1st guess: <i>Mrs. Santa</i>?<br /><br />2nd guess: <i>Evil Elf</i>?<br /><br />3rd guess: <i>Distraught Mob Wife</i>?<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/AVvXsEjPQVe831SE1Boh1YBa6R6axaQnGyu7Dh0iMGjmyEIPHEW3TBVDDAlewVJbTrQjSzPEKKKKTUp8ITyIv21H9-Ca0PYeUScYjYF64-yQORsyH4YbenxrOV8VbZqTRl8k-H1hll-4R2i2Tk8/s1600/ADC.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPQVe831SE1Boh1YBa6R6axaQnGyu7Dh0iMGjmyEIPHEW3TBVDDAlewVJbTrQjSzPEKKKKTUp8ITyIv21H9-Ca0PYeUScYjYF64-yQORsyH4YbenxrOV8VbZqTRl8k-H1hll-4R2i2Tk8/s400/ADC.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crying over Eddie’s betrayal…..</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Well it depends on who Santa is….<i>I’m guessing distraught mob wife</i>.<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/AVvXsEjiEcYfuDrrMTI1jvXzRJDIDMJhyphenhyphenCd_7lNeqClxgdiYE_7gWWwdbPPOM_VDntagHDy3a0XsZZD8vA3ROsukHtRgk90a04GuPLe2VpTPhOt5J5Tl-Tg-QTnzQpBLC36XbgdffWhWLphezLc/s1600/ADCM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiEcYfuDrrMTI1jvXzRJDIDMJhyphenhyphenCd_7lNeqClxgdiYE_7gWWwdbPPOM_VDntagHDy3a0XsZZD8vA3ROsukHtRgk90a04GuPLe2VpTPhOt5J5Tl-Tg-QTnzQpBLC36XbgdffWhWLphezLc/s400/ADCM.png" width="370" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">……still crying over Eddie’s betrayal.  Alicia DiMichele doesn’t ugly cry, go girl!</td></tr></tbody></table><br />I mean this is The<strike> Distraught</strike> Mob Wives Blogspot.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl3bTo0aL56kmBIwZpEok8uoIa53LBrE4mvrvTh71zH88XMis82uKE-cbjmpK50Phl3X1W5w2A2z7GPBynGWV0yRkURZXyynxmyy7t4774rUWXs2mKsNGH1YdBCELLTq5GSL9WeCZZnxM/s1600/Cheat+Tweets+KG+12:13:13.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl3bTo0aL56kmBIwZpEok8uoIa53LBrE4mvrvTh71zH88XMis82uKE-cbjmpK50Phl3X1W5w2A2z7GPBynGWV0yRkURZXyynxmyy7t4774rUWXs2mKsNGH1YdBCELLTq5GSL9WeCZZnxM/s400/Cheat+Tweets+KG+12:13:13.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />Karen Gravano (through tweets) has made mention of the wife of Eddie “Tall Guy” Garofalo fooling around with someone else’s husband.  Say it ain’t so!  Our sources for months now have been claiming Eddie’s oh so faithful wife Alicia DiMichele Garofalo is bumping and grinding<strike> with a restaurant owner Mr. LaScala</strike> in back of Santa’s sled.  Is Alicia DiMichele naughty or nice?<br /><br />We have no way of confirming the alleged affair between R. LaScala and Alicia DiMichele Garofalo.    You know with the Mob Wives there is always a lot of rumors.  Chiara, Carmela, Jane and I are not CSI detectives.  Plus I doubt Santa would let us swab his sled for some DNA samples.   <br /><br />The elves tell us what happens in Philly <strike>(Cherry Hill)</strike> stays on the curbs next to bistro sets.  I don’t know why the elves would think I am remotely concerned with who’s going down Alicia DiMichele’s chimney. <br /><br />Elves chime in, <b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">"M.M. you were all up in Carla’s Facciolo’s coochie!"</span></i></b><br /><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: large;">No Evil Elves that was Handy Man and Mikey Scars allegedly once upon a time.  Carla’s coochie is all cleaned up now. She’s tending to her soap empire.</span></i></b><br /><br />Elves storm off screaming, <b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">“M.M. tend to your beard you are full of it!”</span></i></b><br /><br />Those elves are pure evil.  Moving along, we were hoping to get a glimpse of Alicia DiMichele’s <strike>alleged mistle toe lover</strike> platonic family friend R. LaScala.  We thank the VH1 elite editing team for giving us our Christmas wish of seeing these two in the same room during episode 403 six minutes in.  Hey they <i><b>really could</b></i> just have a wholesome relationship.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCntdSvc4u3mZecyHNjqz_we48bnWvGrc2GVFcAXnvQqxKS1IIBVK0u7PyoGynxptwG4BmHcQRvNHFA5HPUAr0y7725irBpG7tWuWgtVgBTYaO_jrlIAO8IvLGE91UZTB2y-rUeQUABEM/s1600/Mr.+LaScala.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCntdSvc4u3mZecyHNjqz_we48bnWvGrc2GVFcAXnvQqxKS1IIBVK0u7PyoGynxptwG4BmHcQRvNHFA5HPUAr0y7725irBpG7tWuWgtVgBTYaO_jrlIAO8IvLGE91UZTB2y-rUeQUABEM/s400/Mr.+LaScala.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />R. LaScala could just be tired of restaurant food and looking forward to a home cooked meal. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9oG50rZzVNpDXBbhKulNpjN2oEaTDjFi46d4tUMC68tJg1tNWaDKaj4q_em2-ogdNRsRtgR-3ZpYHUIzb0maiFNbxQ_HqcRIa6Xl79l-Buw8XaNLfEyMh5I4jI2faD8xxoFPLh24Ora8/s1600/ADMC.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9oG50rZzVNpDXBbhKulNpjN2oEaTDjFi46d4tUMC68tJg1tNWaDKaj4q_em2-ogdNRsRtgR-3ZpYHUIzb0maiFNbxQ_HqcRIa6Xl79l-Buw8XaNLfEyMh5I4jI2faD8xxoFPLh24Ora8/s400/ADMC.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />As always you decide what & who to believe, remember we are just <b><span style="color: red;">m</span></b>iserable <b><span style="color: red;">o</span></b>ften <b><span style="color: red;">b</span></b>!tchy wives who blog.  Don’t miss season 4 of Mob Wives on VH1 at 10 PM Thursday nights.  How did you all enjoy episode 3?  What was your favorite or least favorite part?<br /><br /><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Merry Christmas!</span></i></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDRFIq5NAoBeuGKKeB7x4wM8R_fCtacL8iyjzvDSKEYFQWEc68lUvVASJ0huJeMFD8JtOyOiUkd5kbcdJX_-iDd67RTMO9liqgR3lzOBGM7XoaNpFnvrmqXFx6mY2q_EZU223KYA8ioJE/s1600/AXT.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="93" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDRFIq5NAoBeuGKKeB7x4wM8R_fCtacL8iyjzvDSKEYFQWEc68lUvVASJ0huJeMFD8JtOyOiUkd5kbcdJX_-iDd67RTMO9liqgR3lzOBGM7XoaNpFnvrmqXFx6mY2q_EZU223KYA8ioJE/s400/AXT.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />  <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/sWEfszb9h8Q?list=PLykzf464sU9-uj2DvWN3k3S6k_EPDw9pN" width="560"></iframe>

Mob Wives: Alicia DiMichele Garofalo & a Husband?

Who’s hunky Santa? Who is sitting on Santa’s lap? 1st guess: Mrs. Santa ? 2nd guess: Evil Elf ? 3rd guess: Distraught Mob Wife ? Crying over...

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Sherlock returns: Benedict Cumberbatch in the new mini-episode

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKF4wNH-UMXKahUD0-ly123bMPXGNDdZ5ZMxsq_rE-mC0jOhdi3egab7iO3VR-9zPSE04kLEg63om9Ncfl1UnhSR04uWEEin896OxbpfR1cy20CKIwXr5yHzkcsQxJdqiwAguRCR9Bfkk/s1600/Sherlock+returns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKF4wNH-UMXKahUD0-ly123bMPXGNDdZ5ZMxsq_rE-mC0jOhdi3egab7iO3VR-9zPSE04kLEg63om9Ncfl1UnhSR04uWEEin896OxbpfR1cy20CKIwXr5yHzkcsQxJdqiwAguRCR9Bfkk/s1600/Sherlock+returns.jpg" /></a></div><br />The creators of the series "Sherlock" did a real gift for Christmas all the many fans of his brainchild. <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/search/label/Benedict%20Cumberbatch" target="_blank">Benedict Cumberbatch</a> and Martin Freeman appear on the screen in the seven-minute mini-episode, called "Many Happy Returns".<br /><br /><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* biner viideo */ google_ad_slot = "5942785502"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; //--></script><script src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><br />Recall that in the new season, which kicks off on January 1, it turns out that Sherlock Holmes is alive despite the fact that the last series of the previous one, the second in a row, the season ended with the fall of the hero Cumberbatch roof. <br /><br />New video brings investigator Dr. Watson, played by Freeman, a box with things Sherlock. It is a disc with the video of the famous detective to his friend. <br /><br />Series producer Steven Moffat says: <br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">'s been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof. It's time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the sidewalk. </blockquote><br />Truth about the fall of that same promise to reveal the authors of the series already in the first episode of the third season, which will be released under the name "Empty hearse".<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJrWyI3OjDqmxqlIkHxIEMl0oLizuPqkCNbABX1DEn0nY2hvNTnMWDpLNrma-0ZQpVTa_G7KV9B4teRxUeixU6554CJ_uLxbMJ2cssrUMgRnf2ef41SMCxxuxsh7wBFiffq1iqCVx1bbw/s1600/Sherlock+returns4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJrWyI3OjDqmxqlIkHxIEMl0oLizuPqkCNbABX1DEn0nY2hvNTnMWDpLNrma-0ZQpVTa_G7KV9B4teRxUeixU6554CJ_uLxbMJ2cssrUMgRnf2ef41SMCxxuxsh7wBFiffq1iqCVx1bbw/s1600/Sherlock+returns4.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZTOEcOu1qjdzdj1RED1GF1YT7rvyhskeqGgTcGaQoifhn2Ls__s77E8_jok1AXGM70B9JpKev1D-9WXoNR7SpQTjqOXTnkP46TYdhodbZbp00KFJmOBz49TCFdrXBaqOM2A9ka-pUwB4/s1600/Sherlock+returns6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZTOEcOu1qjdzdj1RED1GF1YT7rvyhskeqGgTcGaQoifhn2Ls__s77E8_jok1AXGM70B9JpKev1D-9WXoNR7SpQTjqOXTnkP46TYdhodbZbp00KFJmOBz49TCFdrXBaqOM2A9ka-pUwB4/s1600/Sherlock+returns6.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj8oVX6vQCSMQNclFRL548GJGwnJeTZvS3K84mcJrz36pDoTIE1qwMmEG-YYj6JPjC_6lbDwCq6acxjKtd84-lgf8Tet67Krfy284eR9r7f0JOK3DME9EpROxjSGWH1OZn3GK1r2psdOM/s1600/Sherlock+returns7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj8oVX6vQCSMQNclFRL548GJGwnJeTZvS3K84mcJrz36pDoTIE1qwMmEG-YYj6JPjC_6lbDwCq6acxjKtd84-lgf8Tet67Krfy284eR9r7f0JOK3DME9EpROxjSGWH1OZn3GK1r2psdOM/s1600/Sherlock+returns7.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6w91pkOzA85pZ_h7fTRut5on_bBWq0S7RA7KhIMwlry-PIIQShq0RBpKlV5muOgAdI1byw2wcFxi359qmad-FWtwy5EvJbN_3QFCeNShhYrk_oC7aTqAI_8W2bQbia0brGXOzBI_hlAs/s1600/Sherlock+returns2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6w91pkOzA85pZ_h7fTRut5on_bBWq0S7RA7KhIMwlry-PIIQShq0RBpKlV5muOgAdI1byw2wcFxi359qmad-FWtwy5EvJbN_3QFCeNShhYrk_oC7aTqAI_8W2bQbia0brGXOzBI_hlAs/s1600/Sherlock+returns2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljtNwAL6vQtKTtxQgUjDhTNjQwxth8Zl5Cjh9VFufxofmxIbawGeClHfCHAGSQCTt-YdGDLf2BVU_SWNrWuQJess4HZ-Rt3YK3To8t5M6ZgJlMIcZ0X-v5s4IPazHdBKAKFpVb0zUR04/s1600/Sherlock+returns3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljtNwAL6vQtKTtxQgUjDhTNjQwxth8Zl5Cjh9VFufxofmxIbawGeClHfCHAGSQCTt-YdGDLf2BVU_SWNrWuQJess4HZ-Rt3YK3To8t5M6ZgJlMIcZ0X-v5s4IPazHdBKAKFpVb0zUR04/s1600/Sherlock+returns3.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/JwntNANJCOE?feature=player_embedded" width="460"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- boton --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8441125172513237" data-ad-slot="4392536701" style="display: inline-block; height: 90px; width: 200px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br />

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10-Year-Old Girl Gets Early Christmas Gift From Obama (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/AVvXsEiuWJ2gsytfYWEW5i4jl9tDQuPbk7oP5IQFVtkQXqEcoWy68APx8IcWkAG0QxB0qQQ4ku_p483j2EfMKaJ1ctkF7iXJNO0xnv1SvtsyPuIypgIDwdNFyIJAq08EXvy91P7HXlTLktf1c2k/s1600/ap_obama_hawaii_autograph1_wy_131224_16x9_608.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuWJ2gsytfYWEW5i4jl9tDQuPbk7oP5IQFVtkQXqEcoWy68APx8IcWkAG0QxB0qQQ4ku_p483j2EfMKaJ1ctkF7iXJNO0xnv1SvtsyPuIypgIDwdNFyIJAq08EXvy91P7HXlTLktf1c2k/s320/ap_obama_hawaii_autograph1_wy_131224_16x9_608.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On the fourth full day of the first family’s winter vacation in Hawaii, President Obama gave a 10-year-old girl an early Christmas present.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">During a morning workout at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, near the president’s vacation rental on the island of Oahu, Obama encountered Kyrstin Lavelle, who apparently asked the president for an autograph.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Obama obliged, writing in the little girl’s journal, “To Kyrstin – Dream big dreams!” Underneath the message, the president signed his name.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kyrstin described Obama as “really nice,” according to a pool report by the Wall Street Journal’s Colleen McCain Nelson. Kyrstin said she gave Obama flowers and that the president joked that he would give them to the first lady and say that he picked them himself, according to the report.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At the gym, president Obama was reportedly working out with free weights and shooting baskets.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the sixth year in a row the first family has spent the holidays in Hawaii, Obama’s home state and the place where he spent many of his childhood years.</div><div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="ap obama hawaii autograph2 wy 131224 16x9 608 10 Year Old Girl Gets Early Christmas Gift From Obama" height="342" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/Politics/ap_obama_hawaii_autograph2_wy_131224_16x9_608.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Kyrstin Lavelle, 10, holds her book for photographers to see with President Barack Obama's autograph and comment that reads "To Kyrstin Dream Big Deams" on Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe, Hawaii, Dec. 24, 2013. " width="608" /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: proxima-nova, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 468px;">                                      (Picture Credit: Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)</div></div></div>

10-Year-Old Girl Gets Early Christmas Gift From Obama (BLOG)

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Dozens Test Positive For Tuberculosis After Exposure at Hospital Neonatal Unit (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/AVvXsEgW_GPGwzpweqD1U-eIYPcbMNPCFSDnF6iBYHjChSVup05eM7R9yvs5GnjPjw0a55XE9n0Ca1b7W1DgcETEJRREhGwDtbC2jdWprUKbhIJpfJznLmNy1U1NadyAO1L8oHagfxkbUlbX9Pc/s1600/GETTY_122413_Hospital.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW_GPGwzpweqD1U-eIYPcbMNPCFSDnF6iBYHjChSVup05eM7R9yvs5GnjPjw0a55XE9n0Ca1b7W1DgcETEJRREhGwDtbC2jdWprUKbhIJpfJznLmNy1U1NadyAO1L8oHagfxkbUlbX9Pc/s320/GETTY_122413_Hospital.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;">Fifty-nine people have tested positive for <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/lifestyle/health/tuberculosis.htm" style="color: #2e538f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">tuberculosis </a>after being exposed at a Nevada hospital neonatal intensive care unit, according to a report issued by the Southern Nevada Health District.</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;">Dr. Christopher Ohl, an infectious disease expert at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, said an outbreak this large tied to a hospital is "extremely unusual."</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;">"Unfortunately, this situation is a hospital epidemiologist's worst nightmare as neonates are highly susceptible to contracting TB and their infections can progress quite rapidly," he 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;">A mother and her newborn twins died of tuberculosis at Summerlin Hospital over the summer, prompting an investigation by the Southern Nevada Health District.</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;">Hospital staff didn't realize the infected woman had tuberculosis until after she and one of the twins died and they performed an autopsy, according to KTNV, ABC's Las Vegas affiliate. The other twin was in the NICU being treated without being under quarantine.</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 second twin also tested positive for tuberculosis and died in August, health department spokeswoman Stephanie Bethel told ABCNews.com.</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;">Letters went out to hundreds of patients in August, but after hospital employees tested positive for the disease, officials started calling families to get tested immediately this fall. They feared about 140 infants had been exposed between May and August.</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;">Although many of these infants have not undergone all the tests necessary to rule out active or latent tuberculosis, most of them tested negative for the disease. Some test results were inconclusive, and seven infants are currently on preventive treatment, however.</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;">Of the 977 people exposed, two had active tuberculosis infections, 59 had latent infections --meaning they had the bacterium but weren't sick – and 181 had incomplete evaluations, according to the report.</div></div>

Dozens Test Positive For Tuberculosis After Exposure at Hospital Neonatal Unit (BLOG)

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Refreshed App to Show NYC Times Square Countdown (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/AVvXsEiAxavLkxrLXmg4O-H_5bEHn8hwzAVIqSwX0ROXbOcL4vTX2gbMXR6R5JMh3Jwdi2I-qqHVwKbsd88HpHnrYRrDX6zubsFs-FLSMOGg4BoaxoHkpSMxvin9cGMXcRvHFvABXLO1k3Lljys/s1600/7040-times-square.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAxavLkxrLXmg4O-H_5bEHn8hwzAVIqSwX0ROXbOcL4vTX2gbMXR6R5JMh3Jwdi2I-qqHVwKbsd88HpHnrYRrDX6zubsFs-FLSMOGg4BoaxoHkpSMxvin9cGMXcRvHFvABXLO1k3Lljys/s320/7040-times-square.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;">The breathless drama of the Times Square New Year's Eve countdown has gone miniature with an app showing the live drop of the celebration's famed ball.</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 new version of the app, available on both Apple's iOS and Google's Android operating system, is simpler to use and more interactive than predecessors that emerged first at the close of 2010, said Jeffrey Straus, executive producer of Times Square New Year's Eve.</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 would like to eventually see the whole world counting down together," he said Tuesday, his wish discounting time zones. "We can do that through mobile devices."</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;">Straus said about 469,000 people in 184 countries signed up for the app over the past four years, but he expects a significant bump in signups with the retooled app and its greater emphasis on interaction, including tweets between users and someone acting as the voice of the ball.</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 ball is a man of few words," he joked, though he quickly added: "It really is a conversation that goes on."</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 free app shows the broadcast of the celebration and lets users customize to time zones.</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 greater emphasis on electronics is a natural progression for the Times Square ball, Straus said. Fireworks at Times Square New Year's Eve celebrations beginning around 1904 dropped burning embers on revelers, leading the gathering's organizers to embrace electricity in 1907 in the form of a lighted ball, he 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;">Now, the nearly 6-ton ball has grown in diameter to 12 feet and contains more than 32,000 light bulbs. Its 70-foot drop lasts a minute, famously counted out loud.</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;">Straus said more people will be counting thanks to the app, wherever they are.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">"It gets back to the heart of what Times Square New Year's eve is: truly a global celebration."</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">———</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Online:</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;">Times Square ball countdown app: http://bit.ly/19nG81O</div></div>

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Obamacare Deadline Is A Moving Target At This Point (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/AVvXsEhJUyAwDGpRwWzHwLuGyYcMlZpjCC14VtpkFhHk3DPTHhHl3fO8ARbhsu5nl3QnuRzEqY8nHiutjbBrfyfUEnZDh-bhiGvSp7sRrV4uYmf7dwZ4E5eArI-o2fvMXa_lGvtbJRpX9G1WHbE/s1600/n-OBAMA-large570.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJUyAwDGpRwWzHwLuGyYcMlZpjCC14VtpkFhHk3DPTHhHl3fO8ARbhsu5nl3QnuRzEqY8nHiutjbBrfyfUEnZDh-bhiGvSp7sRrV4uYmf7dwZ4E5eArI-o2fvMXa_lGvtbJRpX9G1WHbE/s320/n-OBAMA-large570.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">WASHINGTON, Dec 24 (Reuters) - The main website for enrollment under President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law has drawn nearly 2 million visits, officials said Tuesday, in a last-minute rush to meet an ever-flexible deadline for people to obtain insurance coverage starting Jan. 1.</span><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Citing high traffic to the HealthCare.gov website and at call centers before Monday's sign-up deadline, the government allowed people an extra day to complete their enrollment in time to be covered by New Year's Day. In a blog post on the website on Tuesday, the administration suggested additional flexibility, without specifying a new deadline.</span><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">It was the administration's latest move of the goalposts as it tries to recover from technical failures and political missteps that dogged the enrollment drive for weeks after it opened on Oct. 1. Trying to make up for lost time, the administration has announced a series of last-minute changes and delays to get as many people as possible covered under the Affordable Care Act, Obama's major domestic policy initiative.</span><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Before Monday's rush, more than 1 million people had signed up for private coverage through HealthCare.gov - which serves 36 states - and 14 state-run marketplaces, according to state and federal estimates.</span><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The figure, though likely to climb by Christmas, is still short of previous estimates that 7 million people could enroll by the end of March, the last date to obtain health insurance coverage in 2014. About one-third or more will need to be young, healthy adults whose payments into the system would help offset the costs of covering older, sicker people.</span><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">"Sometimes despite your best efforts, you might have run into delays caused by heavy traffic to HealthCare.gov, maintenance periods, or other issues with our systems that prevented you from finishing the process on time," Tuesday's blog post on HealthCare.gov said. "If this happened to you, don't worry - we still may be able to help you get covered as soon as January 1."</span><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">MINIMIZING THE CONFUSION</span><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The problematic rollout of the health law known as Obamacare, which was passed in 2010 and survived legal challenges, helped send Obama's popularity ratings to record lows and stepped up Republican efforts to gut the law and use it against Democrats in 2014 congressional elections.</span><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The more recent changes, which the administration has said are intended to show flexibility, have introduced a new element of confusion for consumers as well as the health insurance companies who have been pressed by the government to allow new members to pay, and even sign up, past Jan. 1 for retroactive coverage. 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This week's deadline, which had already been moved to Dec. 23 from Dec. 15, applied to coverage starting on Jan. 1.</span><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Last week, the administration said people whose plans were canceled because they did not meet new standards of coverage under the law would qualify for a "hardship" exemption that allows some people to avoid a penalty for not signing up for health insurance.</span><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Several state-run exchanges have also moved their enrollment deadlines. New York and California, two of the largest, added a one-day grace period similar to the federal insurance marketplace. Massachusetts said on Tuesday it would allow sign-ups until Dec. 31 given heavy volume and technical problems that have hampered its exchange. Rhode Island, Oregon and Maryland had already extended their deadlines beyond Christmas. (Additional reporting by Michele Gershberg in New York; Writing by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Grant McCool)</span></div>

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First-Class Stamps to Cost 49 Cents as of Jan. 26 (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/AVvXsEhzlvdspOohKyUeEdm3ENBngafTmZ67TeSx8bWLD62kRIu02KTiH0_i9ZFqPxiarqEJO9e7sN0S0fIzqJi9zgpTPa3m3idmRWtUSzB0telyi0sq6Q2s32mYHht5yGoQmp-C8nBle1IotxM/s1600/9371353_448x252.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/AVvXsEhzlvdspOohKyUeEdm3ENBngafTmZ67TeSx8bWLD62kRIu02KTiH0_i9ZFqPxiarqEJO9e7sN0S0fIzqJi9zgpTPa3m3idmRWtUSzB0telyi0sq6Q2s32mYHht5yGoQmp-C8nBle1IotxM/s320/9371353_448x252.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;">Regulators on Tuesday approved a temporary price hike of 3 cents for a first-class stamp, bringing the charge to 49 cents a letter in an effort to help the Postal Service recover from severe mail decreases brought on after the 2008 economic downturn.</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;">Many consumers won't feel the price increase immediately. Forever stamps, good for first-class postage whatever the rate, can be purchased at the lower price until the new rate is effective Jan. 26.</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 higher rate will last no more than two years, allowing the Postal Service to recoup $2.8 billion in losses. By a 2-1 vote, the independent Postal Regulatory Commission rejected a request to make the price hike permanent.</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 higher cost "will last just long enough to recover the loss," Commission Chairman Ruth Y. Goldway 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;">Bulk mail, periodicals and package service rates rise 6 percent, which is likely to draw significant consternation from the mail industry.</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;">Its groups have opposed any price increase beyond the current 1.7 percent rate of inflation. They say charities using mass mailings and bookstores competing with online retailer Amazon will be among those who suffer. Greeting card companies also have criticized the plans.</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 Postal Service is an independent agency that does not depend on tax money for its operations but is subject to congressional control. Under federal law, it can't raise prices more than the rate of inflation without approval from the commission.</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 service says it lost $5 billion in the last fiscal year and has been trying to get Congress to pass legislation to help with its financial woes, including an end to Saturday mail delivery and reduced payments on retiree health benefits.</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 figures through Sept. 30 were actually an improvement for the agency from a $15.9 billion loss in 2012.</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 post office has struggled for years with declining mail volume as a result of growing Internet use and a 2006 congressional requirement that it make annual $5.6 billion payments to cover expected health care costs for future retirees. It has defaulted on three of those payments.</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 regulators Tuesday stopped short of making the price increases permanent, saying the Postal Service had conflated losses it suffered as a result of Internet competition with business lost because of the Great Recession. They ordered the agency to develop a plan to phase out the higher rates once the lost revenue is recouped.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">It's unclear if that would take rates for first-class postage back to 46 cents in 2016 or to a level somewhere in between that takes into account future inflation.</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 new price of a postcard stamp, raised by a penny to 34 cents in November, also is effective next month.</div></div>

First-Class Stamps to Cost 49 Cents as of Jan. 26 (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/AVvXsEh3nJ3DjMZFxLKWfi8LsxiGLm4IcDGzS_FuplhsvRoVEvozAjjCOQGsfv3Txcb6FJZl8uH4SSs1kExm4F2tcIJSp5n7cre4HDoqslVtv37EoqBJWz_xxbWfNYCmGH29xPnYvZxYkR2H93w/s1600/3090392251_b0c3016b94_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3nJ3DjMZFxLKWfi8LsxiGLm4IcDGzS_FuplhsvRoVEvozAjjCOQGsfv3Txcb6FJZl8uH4SSs1kExm4F2tcIJSp5n7cre4HDoqslVtv37EoqBJWz_xxbWfNYCmGH29xPnYvZxYkR2H93w/s320/3090392251_b0c3016b94_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Federal authorities have arrested a Virginia businessman for allegedly trying to ship dozens of weapons and high-tech devices to Lebanon, where terrorist groups such as Hezbollah operate and a civil war in neighboring Syria has sparked further violence.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sam Rafic Ghanem, owner of an international shipping company with offices in the Washington suburbs, was arrested Saturday after an FBI sting.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The intended recipient of the weapons is not clear, but at one point Ghanem claimed he was recently asked to obtain two guns for an unnamed member of the Lebanese government, according to court documents filed in the case.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Over the past few months, Ghanem and a former employee of his company, Washington Movers International, devised a scheme to send weapons to Lebanon by hiding them inside automobile parts shipped by the company, court documents allege.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The former employee, though, was working as an undercover source for the FBI.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Saturday, the source picked up Ghanem from his Springfield, Va., home and drove to Washington Movers International’s offices in Maryland, where Ghanem helped stuff 10 handguns, 10 semi-automatic rifles and 18 “optic devices” into doors and other parts of salvaged vehicles, an FBI agent alleged in charging documents.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The car parts were then loaded into a shipping container, but the weapons hidden inside were fake, according to the charging documents. Ghanem was subsequently arrested.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After he was handcuffed, Ghanem allegedly admitted to FBI agents that his intended shipment violated U.S. law, which prohibits the export of such weapons to Lebanon and other designated countries. International law also bans such shipments.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">During a secretly recorded meeting at Ghanem’s home in October, Ghanem noted to his former employee that he recently “had been asked to obtain two ‘pieces’ [guns] for a Lebanese official,” but he didn’t follow through “because he would have had to put the weapons in his name, and that was too dangerous,” according to the charging documents.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An FBI spokesman declined to comment. Efforts to reach someone at the Lebanese Embassy in Washington on Tuesday were unsuccessful.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Saturday’s arrest was apparently not the first time the FBI visited Ghanem. FBI agents questioned him two years ago after two guns were found hidden in a car shipped by his company, court documents have him telling the FBI source.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington Movers International has offices in District Heights, Md.; Doha, Qatar; and Beirut. Ghanem, 43, started the company “from scratch,” according a profile of Ghanem posted online.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We are now recognized as one of the leading logistics firms in the United States,” the company’s website says, promising, “From the simplest household move to the largest of international business relocations, you will appreciate our extraordinary professionalism, expertise, our friendly and helpful service.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As of two years ago, Ghanem was a follower of Druze – a relatively small, ancient religion practiced mostly in Lebanon, Syria and Israel – and he was an active member in the faith’s community. He served on the board of the Washington-area chapter of the American Druze Community. He is married with three children, according to the online profile.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ghanem has been charged with one count of “attempted export of defense articles” in violation of the Arms Export Control Act. If convicted, he faces five years in prison and a fine of $50,000.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He made his initial appearance Monday before a federal judge in Greenbelt, Md. Public records available Tuesday did not indicate whether Ghanem had entered a plea.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A detention hearing is scheduled for Thursday.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A representative at the federal public defender’s office, which is representing Ghanem, declined to comment on the case.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> ABCNews</div></div>

Virginia Man Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Ship Weapons to Lebanon (BLOG)

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