Contrarian Interest Rate Theory

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

Contrarian Interest Rate Theory

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Marijuana plants found at home of rogue U.S. banker: police (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/AVvXsEg-bQIgTVXuicqtbOkXTyCxk9t35xtR7KoducM4s0h30GsEGsCag0re85-fiwK4zBnw8G0R7_XRKR3G_Vy_9Pv2QuSocZmRvaLONUMu3-jShrsqZ3GpAXP8riZsmkuHMXezur1W1wlTgr8/s1600/2014-01-03T204907Z_1_CBREA021LTX00_RTROPTP_2_USA-BANKER-FRAUD.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-bQIgTVXuicqtbOkXTyCxk9t35xtR7KoducM4s0h30GsEGsCag0re85-fiwK4zBnw8G0R7_XRKR3G_Vy_9Pv2QuSocZmRvaLONUMu3-jShrsqZ3GpAXP8riZsmkuHMXezur1W1wlTgr8/s320/2014-01-03T204907Z_1_CBREA021LTX00_RTROPTP_2_USA-BANKER-FRAUD.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_16264" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">By David Beasley</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_16179" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Marion County Sheriff's Department discovered the plants on Wednesday at a mobile home rented by Aubrey Lee Price, 47, in Ocala, Florida, less than 80 miles northwest of Orlando, department spokesman James Pogue told Reuters.ATLANTA (Reuters) - More than 200 marijuana plants were found at the rented Florida home of a former Georgia bank director captured this week after vanishing for 18 months under suspicion of embezzling $21 million, authorities said on Friday.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_16277" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A day earlier, Price, a former director of Montgomery Bank & Trust, a small bank in Ailey, Georgia, was arrested near Brunswick, Georgia, when authorities noticed his pickup truck windows appeared to be tinted too darkly to comply with state law.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_16296" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Price had disappeared more than a year earlier, just before he was indicted in Georgia in July 2012 on one count of bank fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine. He left behind a written confession and a note for family and friends saying he planned to kill himself, authorities said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">His wife believed he was dead, her attorney John Holt said on Thursday.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Price had recently been living at the Florida property and the landlord called police after spotting several marijuana plants growing in the garage, according to a police report. A deputy saw several bright lights and "tall green plants" believed to be marijuana in the garage, the report said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">After obtaining a search warrant, investigators discovered a total of 225 marijuana plants in the garage and mobile home, the police report said. No charges have yet been filed against Price in connection with the marijuana, Pogue said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Price, who was charged with giving false identification at the time of his arrest this week, was ordered held in police custody until a detention hearing set for Monday in Savannah, court records showed.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Price previously controlled an investment group that put $10 million into Montgomery Bank & Trust, according to the federal indictment.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">After being named a bank director, he "fraudulently obtained over $21 million of MB&T funds, which he then misappropriated, embezzled and lost in speculative trading and other investing," the indictment said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In an effort to hide the fraud, Price provided bank officials with fabricated account statements, the indictment said. Regulators later shut down the bank's two branches. Price was indicted in New York last year on securities and wire fraud charges connected to the scheme.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Before his arrest on Tuesday, Price was last seen boarding a ferry in Key West, Florida, in June 2012. Investigators at the time speculated that he either committed suicide or fled to Venezuela.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_16301" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Last year, his wife asked a Florida judge to declare her husband deceased for estate planning purposes and will now seek to have the declaration set aside, Holt said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_16316" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Andrew Hay)</div></div>

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Mob Wives: Alicia DiMichele Garofalo Sentencing Monday!

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

Mob Wives: Alicia DiMichele Garofalo Sentencing Monday!

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America's new commodity: MARIJUANA

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

America's new commodity: MARIJUANA

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Happy Hogs and Hemp

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

Happy Hogs and Hemp

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Bank President Who Faked Death Charged With Fraud (BLOG)

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

Bank President Who Faked Death Charged With Fraud (BLOG)

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

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

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

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Obama directs new gun background check measures (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-tGZuGhvzH-gJVSM248GJA5M4Ir3OFBIChqaZ9-A_VBuVeWMrVH5aJG-dL2hEQW2fop7suRnlFAvL-2bQtobI_g3i9eJ0uAazua1KWvlju-GHPessLL2bu6Gk3HTR5SxY1X9HEcci-mQ/s1600/2014-01-03T232026Z_3_CBREA021EJJ00_RTROPTP_2_USA-OBAMA-NEWSCONFERENCE.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-tGZuGhvzH-gJVSM248GJA5M4Ir3OFBIChqaZ9-A_VBuVeWMrVH5aJG-dL2hEQW2fop7suRnlFAvL-2bQtobI_g3i9eJ0uAazua1KWvlju-GHPessLL2bu6Gk3HTR5SxY1X9HEcci-mQ/s320/2014-01-03T232026Z_3_CBREA021EJJ00_RTROPTP_2_USA-OBAMA-NEWSCONFERENCE.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_4919" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton</div><div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"><section class="yom-mod " data-ylk="mid:mediacontentrelatedstory;mpos:1;elm:hdln;elmt:ct;cat:Related Stories;rspns:nav;t1:a3;itc:0;sec:lst-ct;" id="mediacontentrelatedstory" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></section></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_6711" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">HONOLULU/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday proposed two new gun control regulations aimed at clarifying restrictions on gun ownership for the mentally ill and strengthening a database used for background checks before firearm purchases.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_6725" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The measures are the latest step in a year-long push by President Barack Obama to tighten U.S. gun laws in the wake of a school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children were killed.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_6734" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Obama tried last year to bring in sweeping new gun control measures in the aftermath of that shooting, but most of his proposals were defeated in Congress. He has pledged to continue working on the issue despite that setback.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_6744" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Obama had directed his officials to take steps that do not require approval from Congress, such as Friday's two proposals.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The first action, proposed by the Department of Justice, would clarify who is prohibited from possessing firearms because of mental illness and would outline for states what information can be shared with the federal database.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The department will seek public comment over the next 90 days about whether the ban should encompass people under the age of 18 who were either adjudicated by a court to be suffering from a serious mental illness, or who were involuntarily treated for a mental illness.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The second measure, led by the Department of Health and Human Services, would remove barriers that could prevent states from passing on information to the database.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"The administration's two new executive actions will help ensure that better and more reliable information makes its way into the background check system," the White House said in a statement on Friday.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The proposals have raised concerns from mental health advocates, who fear that people with mental illnesses will not seek care because of concern that their conditions will be entered into federal records.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The database, called the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, is used by gun dealers to check whether a potential buyer is prohibited from owning a gun.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">States are encouraged to report to the database the names of people who are not allowed to buy guns because they have been involuntarily committed to a mental hospital, or have been found to have serious mental illnesses by courts.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Many states do not participate. So the administration studied changing a health privacy rule - part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) - to remove a potential barrier.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">HHS said the new regulation would not require routine mental health visits to be logged -- and would apply only to agencies that are not directly involved in treatment.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Seeking help for mental health problems or getting treatment does not make someone legally prohibited from having a firearm, and nothing in this proposed rule changes that," HHS said in a statement.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Furthermore, nothing in this proposed rule would require reporting on general mental health visits or other routine mental health care, or exempt providers solely performing these treatment services from existing privacy rules," said the department, which will take comments on the regulation for 60 days before finalizing it.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The idea of expanding the database comes at a time when the government's collection of citizens' phone and internet data remains in the headlines. Obama is studying recommendations on how to rein in the U.S. National Security Agency in the wake of disclosures about the government surveillance programs from former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_6748" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Mental health advocates worry that somehow, whether intentionally by a hacker or unintentionally through bureaucratic bungling, mental health data could be made public.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_6763" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">(Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Andrew Hay)</div></div>

Obama directs new gun background check measures (BLOG)

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Rand Paul plans CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT against NSA

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

Rand Paul plans CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT against NSA

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

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Hi everybody! Happy New Year!

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

Hi everybody! Happy New Year!

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Watch Your Flank

There is a reason for it.<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincer_movement">The Pincer maneuver</a> has been around a long time and is still in use to this day.<br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/mDExwMU0J7I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Watch Your Flank

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

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US spy court: NSA to keep collecting phone records (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/AVvXsEgZCj6zO7kK-o6WkovIxj4gViPIn3jIDd8fp4mfWsFBrdXO8I7WJbJ7ozbI72RIGGrUA8YhkFl6EoOMDhOd5RtGbbEz7XBYsZ6qQ4NnKznw_RtGFMYG1CXOS2RcLZCKCyylMnJFqOram-U/s1600/65548e9eeae00028450f6a70670078ea+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZCj6zO7kK-o6WkovIxj4gViPIn3jIDd8fp4mfWsFBrdXO8I7WJbJ7ozbI72RIGGrUA8YhkFl6EoOMDhOd5RtGbbEz7XBYsZ6qQ4NnKznw_RtGFMYG1CXOS2RcLZCKCyylMnJFqOram-U/s320/65548e9eeae00028450f6a70670078ea+(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_2808" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">WASHINGTON (AP) — A secretive U.S. spy court has ruled again that the National Security Agency can keep collecting every American's telephone records every day, in the midst of dueling decisions in two other federal courts about whether the surveillance program is constitutional.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_2823" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The latest approval was the first since two conflicting court decisions about whether the program is lawful and since a presidential advisory panel recommended that the NSA no longer be allowed to collect and store the phone records and search them without obtaining separate court approval for each search.The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Friday renewed the NSA phone collection program, said Shawn Turner, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Such periodic requests are somewhat formulaic but required since the program started in 2006.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_2842" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In a statement, Turner said that 15 judges on the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on 36 occasions over the past seven years have approved the NSA's collection of U.S. phone records as lawful.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Also Friday, government lawyers turned to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to block one federal judge's decision that threatens the NSA phone records program.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The opposing lawyer who spearheaded the effort that led to the ruling said he hopes to take the issue directly to the Supreme Court.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The Justice Department filed a one-page notice of appeal asking the appeals court to overturn U.S. District Judge Richard Leon's ruling last month that the program was likely unconstitutional. The government's move had been expected.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Larry Klayman, who filed the class-action suit against President Barack Obama and top administration national security officials, said he intends to petition the federal appeals court next week to send the case directly to the Supreme Court. Klayman said the move was justified because the NSA case was a matter of great public importance.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"There are exigent circumstances here," Klayman said. "We can't allow this situation to continue. The NSA's continuing to spy on everybody."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Turner said U.S. intelligence agencies would be willing to modify the phone records surveillance program to provide additional privacy and civil liberties protections as long as it was still operationally beneficial. He said the Obama administration was carefully evaluating the advisory panel's recent recommendations.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_2851" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Judges sitting on the secretive spy court have repeatedly approved the program for 90-day periods. They also have repeatedly upheld the constitutionality of the program — a judicial bulwark that held strong until Leon's surprise decision last month.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Leon said the NSA's program was "almost Orwellian," a reference to writer George Orwell's futuristic novel "1984," and that there was little evidence the operation had prevented terrorist attacks. He ruled against the government but agreed to postpone shutting down the program until the government could appeal.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388811998962_2860" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In a separate case involving the same NSA phone records program, a district judge in New York last month upheld the government's data collection as lawful. The American Civil Liberties Union, which lost that case, said this week it will appeal to a federal appeals court in New York.</div></div>

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — A secretive U.S. spy court has ruled again that the National Security Agency can keep collecting every American's tele...

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Swine flu kills Santa Clara County woman, 41 (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/AVvXsEhIIVNr6dXt1K2Y6B1WJJFqDBQo9n6sVf2Ol_JkC9BIUGe0K76p-8FqWo6MBJHGnrZo8zCfzR4zzlxYKzocjWvAUuI97Oe7chyCq6JLXk7yoO2aGPjGyO3pUNPx_LRmGlA8IKH0P9PL75c/s1600/swine_flu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIIVNr6dXt1K2Y6B1WJJFqDBQo9n6sVf2Ol_JkC9BIUGe0K76p-8FqWo6MBJHGnrZo8zCfzR4zzlxYKzocjWvAUuI97Oe7chyCq6JLXk7yoO2aGPjGyO3pUNPx_LRmGlA8IKH0P9PL75c/s320/swine_flu.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="bodytext" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">A 41-year-old Santa Clara County woman has died of swine flu, an ominous development that prompted health officials Friday to strongly advise people of all ages to get vaccinated.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">Last year, no one in the county younger than 65 died of any flu strain.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">Unlike many other flu viruses, swine flu can result in lethal pneumonia even in healthy people. Pregnant women and people who are morbidly obese are particularly vulnerable, said Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County's health officer. In 2009, about 203,000 people died worldwide in the swine flu pandemic.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">"It can really be a bad actor,'' Cody said. "Everyone is susceptible.''</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">Since flu season began in October, six other cases of severe swine flu and one case of Flu B in people younger than 65 also have been reported in Santa Clara County, the state's sixth largest. No data was immediately available for the rest of the Bay Area.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">In Orange County, a 28-year-old San Juan Capistrano woman who had an underlying medical condition died last week of H1N1.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">Only flu cases that occur in people younger than 65 and that are severe enough to require hospitalization in an ICU or result in death are closely tracked by public health departments.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">The Santa Clara County woman was not identified nor was the city where she lived. But the viruses are widespread, Cody said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">"We're getting flu reported from every corner of the county,'' she said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">It is not too late to get a flu shot. This year's vaccination protects against H1N1. The shot is no guarantee of avoiding the flu, but it reduces the chances of infection.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">"Use the tool we have available,'' Cody said, "and get a shot.''</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">Residents also should cover their noses and mouths with tissues when they sneeze or cough, wash their hands often with plain soap and water or alcohol-based hand cleaners, avoid contact with those who are sick and stay home if they are sick themselves.</div><div class="taglinejb" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">Contact Tracey Kaplan at 408-278-3482. Follow her on Twitter at tkaplanreport.</div></div>

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

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

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13 killed in clashes as Morsi's supporters rally in Egypt (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/AVvXsEiVPD0EOvMn0QdXTqUG4u35IFUFe11LIYjThLPZV7j2Uf0FV1i5DoYo5-vL558jK4nda1FA0xUXuQpv38bb96j0osJmeXfvRCm63AhqiEd1UgSlhI4XWCSbr-2CbTTLX0mfpcZ2XiSLHrA/s1600/download+(5).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/AVvXsEiVPD0EOvMn0QdXTqUG4u35IFUFe11LIYjThLPZV7j2Uf0FV1i5DoYo5-vL558jK4nda1FA0xUXuQpv38bb96j0osJmeXfvRCm63AhqiEd1UgSlhI4XWCSbr-2CbTTLX0mfpcZ2XiSLHrA/s1600/download+(5).jpg" /></a></div><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_HTStoryPageControl_Para1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px;">At least 13 people were killed in clashes across Egypt during nationwide protests, demanding the reinstatement of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi. The deaths of Muslim Brotherhood activists were reported in capital Cairo, Alexandria, the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, Fayoum and</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px;"></span><br /><div class="story_lft_wid" style="background-color: white; float: left; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin: 10px 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 200px;"><div id="google_ads_div_ht_story_top_lhs_200x200_ad_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div id="google_ads_div_ht_story_top_lhs_200x200_ad_container" style="display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><ins style="border: 0px; display: inline-table; height: 200px; position: relative; width: 200px;"><ins style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 200px; position: relative; width: 200px;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="200" id="google_ads_iframe_ht_story_top_lhs_200x200" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="google_ads_iframe_ht_story_top_lhs_200x200" scrolling="no" style="border-width: 0px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;" width="200"></iframe></ins></ins></div></div></div><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_HTStoryPageControl_Para2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px;">Minya, Egyptian health ministry said yesterday.</span><br /><div style="padding: 0px;"></div><div style="padding: 0px;">Since Morsi's ouster last year, his supporters have staged near-daily protests, particularly after Friday prayers, calling for his reinstatement.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">But their numbers have dwindled amid a violent government crackdown.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">More than 1,000 people, mostly Islamists, died in street clashes following his overthrow, and thousands have been imprisoned.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">Friday's protests came as a pro-Morsi National Coalition in Support of Legitimacy, which is spearheading the protest movement, called for demonstrations ahead of the resumption of his trial on Wednesday.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">He will also stand trial on January 28 over a jailbreak during the 2011 popular uprising that toppled long-time ruler Hosni Mubarak. And a date for him to be tried on espionage charges has yet to be fixed.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">Egypt's military-installed government declared Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood a "terrorist organisation" last month after accusing it of a suicide car bombing at a police headquarters that killed 15 people.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">Interior ministry officials have warned that anyone taking part in pro-Brotherhood protests will be punished with five years in jail, while protest leaders might face the death penalty.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">The ministry said on Friday it had arrested 120 Brotherhood members nationwide, and said they were armed with explosives, Molotov cocktails, firearms and knives.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">Morsi's supporters have called for the protests ahead of the upcoming constitutional referendum. Muslim Brotherhood and other pro-Morsi groups reject the new constitution, which was amended after his ouster.</div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px;"></span><br /></div>

13 killed in clashes as Morsi's supporters rally in Egypt (BLOG)

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Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers, rock 'n' roll icon, dies at 74 (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/AVvXsEitPvNI4uwQfaKQQ8np9bMoIH5DE-QtZ_p6Q9IpVgVVW_hQ5akpxwSE60-kJ33IaVNpqZh9Q4i4UaSJHHYn46E6ED9MturDjIDzvm3Q5Eq0JsCRZ_P-8cDdxOiCAy72cptIHxIyZwTLQSM/s1600/124479461.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitPvNI4uwQfaKQQ8np9bMoIH5DE-QtZ_p6Q9IpVgVVW_hQ5akpxwSE60-kJ33IaVNpqZh9Q4i4UaSJHHYn46E6ED9MturDjIDzvm3Q5Eq0JsCRZ_P-8cDdxOiCAy72cptIHxIyZwTLQSM/s320/124479461.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Phil Everly, who with his brother Don set a standard for rock 'n' roll harmony that has not yet been matched, died Friday in Burbank after a long battle against chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 74.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">His wife Patti told the Los Angeles Times he contracted the disease from a lifetime of smoking.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Everly Brothers were the only group among the first inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.</div><div class="story-img" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><img alt="Phil Everly and wife Patti attend the ‘We're All For The Hall’ benefit concert for the Country Music Hall of Fame at the Sommet Center on Oct. 13, 2009, in Nashville, Tenn." src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1566044.1388809856!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/91868453.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;" title="Phil Everly and wife Patti attend the ‘We're All For The Hall’ benefit concert for the Country Music Hall of Fame at the Sommet Center on Oct. 13, 2009, in Nashville, Tenn." /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">RICK DIAMOND/GETTY IMAGES</h4><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Phil Everly and wife Patti attend the ‘We're All For The Hall’ benefit concert for the Country Music Hall of Fame at the Sommet Center on Oct. 13, 2009, in Nashville, Tenn.</h4></div><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>

Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers, rock 'n' roll icon, dies at 74 (BLOG)

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Mob Wives: Between Breakfast and Pool Bonus Video

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_lY2vr5QjgCz6fB-VurLXSJhftXstCU-1UN58iYt_u_uzK-41pLZPLsTegS7GnmVL4-DQX6b4ZyfReUfeVkCC0ccFtOHM0FAkIzSo3O6oEVS98EwzsDRszeLI1X4Nay7VRqTFJHNivlA/s1600/alicia+girls+just+want+to+have+fun.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_lY2vr5QjgCz6fB-VurLXSJhftXstCU-1UN58iYt_u_uzK-41pLZPLsTegS7GnmVL4-DQX6b4ZyfReUfeVkCC0ccFtOHM0FAkIzSo3O6oEVS98EwzsDRszeLI1X4Nay7VRqTFJHNivlA/s320/alicia+girls+just+want+to+have+fun.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Girls just want to have fun, that's all I'm sayin!</span></b></div><br /><br />Guess what? VH1 provided a bonus scene from episode 405 that shows us what happened between the fight at breakfast and the get together at the pool. Drita, Ang and Alicia were rehashing Renee and Natalie’s fight and I found it very interesting.<br /><br />The whole breakfast didn’t work out like they planned…what a surprise! This situation with all the fighting has gotten Drita riled up and made her want to jump in and throw someone down too, even though she had no issues with anyone. This is what we call an “anger management relapse.”<br /><br />Big Ang is pretty sure this is the end of the line for Natalie as the face of Mob Candy. Ang knows Renee pretty well and says this isn’t something she is going to just get over. “Renee doesn’t get over anything.” Maybe Ang doesn’t know Renee as well as she thinks, because later we see Renee calling Natalie, at the pool, trying to arrange a one on one sit down.<br /><br />Drita runs down the list of all the “shots” Natalie took at Renee, like a machine gun, but then ends with “Renee should get over it because Natalie didn’t put her hands on her first.” I don’t know about anyone else, but when someone insults me to the degree Natalie insulted Renee, there is no getting over it. Ang thinks that Natalie was able to get out what she had to say…maybe Renee didn’t?<br /><br />Drita, “the peacemaker,” thinks it’s best if they both relax and take their time. She adds that Renee needs to know that her “playing boss, gangster style” isn’t working for anyone. Drita thinks, over time, maybe they will be able to work it out, but not now.<br /><br />And finally Alicia chimes in with her two cents. When Drita says “I don’t come to Vegas everyday…” Alicia jumps in loud and clear! “That’s what I’m trying to say! I’m here for a good time, this isn’t the kind of vacation I’m used to. I just want to forget everything that’s going on back home (embezzlement, knock-off lawsuit, sentencing, etc) and enjoy myself. So can we at least go about our day and let them work it out? Let’s do something, let’s go to the pool.” I think this irks me most of all. Why? First of all, Alicia was the one who insisted on inviting Natalie along with them on the trip. She already knew Renee went ballistic on girl’s night out over the disrespect Natalie showed her. Why would she want to risk her “good time” by inviting her along before Renee and Natalie had a chance to work things out? It was a recipe for disaster from the start, and she knew it. Second of all, Alicia wasn’t even supposed to be there herself. There were travel restrictions placed on her by the judge. The judge did give her permission to go to West Virginia to her son’s dorm, to help him set up, period. The judge had no idea she was going to Vegas for a “good time.” It would seem she lied to the judge about her real travel intentions. So, she is the last person who has a right to complain about the situation in Vegas because either she brought it on herself OR she was given a “script” that said she was going to invite Natalie.<br /><div><br /></div><div>Have a look yourself and see what you think!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="background-color: black; width: 520px;"><div style="padding: 4px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="288" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:uma:video:vh1.com:991314/cp~channelId%3D3%26id%3D1719792%26vid%3D991314%26instance%3Dvh1%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Avh1.com%3A991314" width="512"></iframe></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 4px; padding: 4px; text-align: left;">Get More: <a href="http://www.vh1.com/shows/mob_wives/season_4/series.jhtml" style="color: #439cd8;" target="_blank">Mob Wives (Season 4)</a></div></div></div>

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'Wolf of Wall Street' sets a profane record (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/AVvXsEiSteclDGudhmeE_mrszTSmEMR4Sf0RuQwDeGr1EYArpx-Z38drThDzeRosMDcJ8YFkl2oL4ewXwFeC8O84O0gtz1JCJIVXU0NJtxDgmTpiydTZDFO99NER8ylKGs-UkySKKcZad-AjT4A/s1600/1387904430000-XXX-TWOWS-06309R-60686622.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/AVvXsEiSteclDGudhmeE_mrszTSmEMR4Sf0RuQwDeGr1EYArpx-Z38drThDzeRosMDcJ8YFkl2oL4ewXwFeC8O84O0gtz1JCJIVXU0NJtxDgmTpiydTZDFO99NER8ylKGs-UkySKKcZad-AjT4A/s320/1387904430000-XXX-TWOWS-06309R-60686622.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Here's another accolade for Martin Scorsese's <i><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/12/22/the-wolf-of-wall-street-review/2941331/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/12/22/the-wolf-of-wall-street-review/2941331/">The Wolf of Wall Street</a></i>– it appears to have set a record for the most uses of the f-word in a U.S. feature film.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><i>Variety </i><a href="http://variety.com/2014/film/news/wolf-of-wall-street-breaks-f-word-record-1201022655/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://variety.com/2014/film/news/wolf-of-wall-street-breaks-f-word-record-1201022655/">reports</a> that the profane word appears a staggering 506 times in the space of 180 minutes, besting a record set by Spike Lee's 1999 film<i><khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Summer of Sam" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(104, 217, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Summer of Sam</khlink></i> (435 f-bombs in 142 minutes).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">If you've been to the movies in the past 40 years, you know that Scorsese is no stranger to colorful language. Three other films directed by him -- 1995's <i>Casino</i>(422), 1990's <i><khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Goodfellas" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(104, 217, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Goodfellas</khlink></i> (300) and 2006's <i>The Departed</i> (237) -- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_that_most_frequently_use_the_word_%22fuck%22" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_that_most_frequently_use_the_word_%22fuck%22">appear on a Wikipedia list</a> of movies with the most uses of the curse word.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><i>Wolf of Wall Street</i> might not be the most f-bomb-laden non-documentary movie ever, though. <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Film School Rejects" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(104, 217, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Film School Rejects</khlink> <a href="http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/7-misguided-claims-leveled-against-the-wolf-of-wall-street.php" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/7-misguided-claims-leveled-against-the-wolf-of-wall-street.php">says that a Canadian horror movie</a>, <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1087853/?ref_=nv_sr_1" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1087853/?ref_=nv_sr_1">Gutterballs</a></i>, uses the profanity 625 times.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">However, the all-time cinematic f-bomb champ is a 2005 documentary that uses the word 857 times in just 93 minutes. (The title of the film? The f-word.)</div></div>

'Wolf of Wall Street' sets a profane record (BLOG)

Here's another accolade for Martin Scorsese's  The Wolf of Wall Street – it appears to have set a record for the most uses of the f-...

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Planning des permanences - Semaine du 07 au 11 janvier 2008

<BR><br /><strong>Armée de terre</strong> - lundi 07 janvier de 9h à 12h30<br /><br /><strong>Conseil Général du Loiret</strong> - Lundi 07 janvier de 9h à 12h30 et Mardi 08 janvier de 13h30 à 17h<br /><br /><strong>Boutique de gestion</strong> - Vendredi 11 janvier de 9h à 12h30<br /><BR>

Planning des permanences - Semaine du 07 au 11 janvier 2008

Armée de terre - lundi 07 janvier de 9h à 12h30 Conseil Général du Loiret - Lundi 07 janvier de 9h à 12h30 et Mardi 08 janvier de 13h30 à ...

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The week in health: 5 things you need to know (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/AVvXsEjKKdIUnldQae7Sv42mbAufs9kgcpoKDxgZIUuXQnCZCwhvXeeiysdG9fhsWNWzxWtT5HuUyE8XiiVhtU3nW9tvBQ-XQtJe58XY2Oa-x5ykA8eotp-eKgsJchF1M-Ns0DoCEml_YuPVF38/s1600/1388758604000-AP-Health-Overhaul-Nutrition-Rules-001.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/AVvXsEjKKdIUnldQae7Sv42mbAufs9kgcpoKDxgZIUuXQnCZCwhvXeeiysdG9fhsWNWzxWtT5HuUyE8XiiVhtU3nW9tvBQ-XQtJe58XY2Oa-x5ykA8eotp-eKgsJchF1M-Ns0DoCEml_YuPVF38/s320/1388758604000-AP-Health-Overhaul-Nutrition-Rules-001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Happy New Year. Here's the health news you may have missed while guzzling champagne or finding your way to the gym:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The Affordable Care Act is in full force.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Jan. 1 was the start date for <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/01/health-changes-to-look-for-in-2014/4263765/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/01/health-changes-to-look-for-in-2014/4263765/">many provisions</a> at the heart of the law. So insurance companies can no longer turn away people with preexisting conditions, charge older people a lot more than younger people or charge women more than men.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Vending machines are about to get preachy – or educational, depending on your point of view.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">One lesser-known provision of the health care law is a rule that will require calorie counts on 5 million vending machines nationwide, the <i><a href="http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20140102/NEWS10/301029975/1005/NEWS10" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20140102/NEWS10/301029975/1005/NEWS10">Associated Press</a></i> reports. The Food and Drug Administration says the information will help consumers make healthier choices, but vending machine companies are not happy about the costs.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Vitamin E might help some people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">But doctors and families will want to read the fine print in this <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/31/alzheimers-vitamin-e/4223415/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/31/alzheimers-vitamin-e/4223415/">new study</a>: the possible effect was modest and the doses of vitamin E used were large – which is a concern because other studies suggest such high doses might be harmful. And nothing about this study suggests anyone should take vitamin E to try to prevent dementia.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">There's a screening test for lung cancer and many current and former smokers should get it.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">That's the recommendation from the influential U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The group is endorsing CT scans for high-risk people ages 55 to 80, <i><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/health/panel-recommends-screening-millions-risk-lung-cancer-2D11820935" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.nbcnews.com/health/panel-recommends-screening-millions-risk-lung-cancer-2D11820935">NBC News</a></i>reports.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Gym rats hate New Years newbies.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Don't let this discourage you, but if you are trying out the treadmills and weights at your local gym for the first time this week, the old pros may be grumbling about you – on Twitter. <i><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/gym-goers-vent-twitter-years-crowd-takes/story?id=21391432" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/gym-goers-vent-twitter-years-crowd-takes/story?id=21391432">ABC News </a></i>collected a few examples, including gym-goers complaining about people who hog the machines, fail to wipe down the equipment and consume candy bars and Sprite while working out. One guy tweeted: "GONNA GO TO THE GYM AND GRUNT REAL LOUD WHEN I DEADLIFT SO THE RESOLUTION KIDS DONT COME BACK TOMORROW." We hear you, grunting guy, but we're coming back anyway... right?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">USA Today</div></div>

The week in health: 5 things you need to know (BLOG)

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No news in the truth and no truth in the news George Hemminger A.K.A. "G4T" has revealed the lies of the TRUTHER COMMUNITY.  It...

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