'Perplexed' India says U.S. probably still most important ally (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/AVvXsEhPANO8gDxG6G5hgixTCsE3XifINKZve-POQr6-HuzDQ2GOG6LbYqGweqUkkhuQufy29nH9mfqcosuzShaQRqwhjMqlrUkh1Xz1Ma3UgVpS5x6Rpv93AS9oj77SOPThh1lH5Ny678lUDrc/s1600/2014-01-21T234559Z_1_CBREA0K1U0X00_RTROPTP_2_INDIA-USA-DIPLOMAT.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPANO8gDxG6G5hgixTCsE3XifINKZve-POQr6-HuzDQ2GOG6LbYqGweqUkkhuQufy29nH9mfqcosuzShaQRqwhjMqlrUkh1Xz1Ma3UgVpS5x6Rpv93AS9oj77SOPThh1lH5Ny678lUDrc/s1600/2014-01-21T234559Z_1_CBREA0K1U0X00_RTROPTP_2_INDIA-USA-DIPLOMAT.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_7505" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">By David Brunnstrom</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_6825" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"I won't underplay this incident, I won't overplay this incident. I think we need to see it in perspective," S. Jaishankar said in an interview. "I think we are in the midst of working this one out."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The case of the Indian consul arrested and strip-searched in New York last month was handled "appallingly" and needs to be resolved, but the United States remains probably India's most important ally, the Indian ambassador to Washington said on Tuesday.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_7530" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Jaishankar said India was "perplexed" by the decisions of U.S. authorities to arrest and strip-search 39-year-old Devyani Khobragade, India's deputy consul in New York, after she was accused of visa fraud and underpaying her maid.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_7539" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"There was a fair measure of anger about both the substance of the problem and the way it was handled," he said. "It was not just done publicly; frankly it was done appallingly."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">But Jaishankar, who arrived in Washington in December after serving as Indian ambassador to China, played down the impact on the practical side of the relationship - emphasizing that the two sides were still talking despite the postponement of two high-level U.S. visits this month, including one by U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Frankly, it's probably the most important relationship," he said. "We are not holding up business, or Pentagon dealings, or congressional dealings ... or science programs and saying, 'They don't get done until things get sorted out.'"</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Jaishankar said, however, there was a need to resolve both the Khobragade case and the broader issue of the lesser level of diplomatic immunity accorded to Indian and other foreign consular staff in the United States compared with what Washington expects for its consular staff serving overseas.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">'LARGER ISSUE'</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Asked if India supported a demand from Khobragade's lawyer for the charges against her to be dropped, he said, "That is an issue in respect of this diplomat, but I think there is a larger issue of immunities and privileges."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"I think we need to sit down and work this one out."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Khobragade left the United States this month after a complex deal in which her diplomatic status was switched to the United Nations, affording her a greater degree of immunity from prosecution. But U.S. authorities have so far refused to drop the charges against her.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Until the issue was resolved, Jaishankar said, the level of immunity enjoyed by U.S. consular officials in India would be reduced to exactly the level granted in the United States.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Since our consular officials have no immunity against felonies, U.S. consular officials do not have immunity against serious crimes in India," he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">India sharply curbed privileges offered to U.S. diplomats in retaliation for Khobragade's treatment and asked Washington to withdraw a diplomat from New Delhi.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">It also ordered the U.S. Embassy to close a club for expatriate Americans in New Delhi, and a government source said it was also preparing steps against the American Embassy School, which it suspected may be employing some staff in violation of visa rules.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Jaishankar noted that many Asian nations valued the U.S. presence in their region and that India was keeping a "watchful" eye on the debate over the U.S. budget, which has seen U.S. military leaders warning about the possible impact on Washington's ability to respond to global crises.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"I think as uncertainties mount, as volatility grows, I think people do value a strong American presence," Jaishankar said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">He noted efforts last year by then-U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to deepen bilateral defense ties, including proposed co-development of the next version of the Javelin anti-tank missile now built by Raytheon Co and Lockheed Martin Corp.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_7568" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Jaishankar called co-development of defense technologies with India "uncharted territory" and added it was a matter he had discussed in his initial interactions with the Pentagon since taking up his post. Still, he said such proposals would take time to develop.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_7558" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">(Additional reporting by Phil Stewart; Writing by David Brunnstrom; Editing by Peter Cooney)</div></div>

'Perplexed' India says U.S. probably still most important ally (BLOG)

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U.S. man pleads guilty to sending ricin to Obama, two others (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/AVvXsEjuS1ZAG1sjTmAjXtCuS58P9RwYc3le9HZNXiX4tmXpHntxX-6aL2t1Bdq6rT8XsLkKor99uGLHD4i7jbfOal9dCWbG_9PJYPzWgr0hVH5ADdk7oIFN7YNMWJC0HSvN9a2ziZbSYssVrCY/s1600/2014-01-18T021953Z_5_CBREA0G100M00_RTROPTP_2_USA-SECURITY-RICIN-ARREST.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuS1ZAG1sjTmAjXtCuS58P9RwYc3le9HZNXiX4tmXpHntxX-6aL2t1Bdq6rT8XsLkKor99uGLHD4i7jbfOal9dCWbG_9PJYPzWgr0hVH5ADdk7oIFN7YNMWJC0HSvN9a2ziZbSYssVrCY/s1600/2014-01-18T021953Z_5_CBREA0G100M00_RTROPTP_2_USA-SECURITY-RICIN-ARREST.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_3440" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">By Emily le Coz</div><div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.307695388793945px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_3443" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) - A Mississippi man accused of sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and two other public officials, and then pinning them on an Elvis impersonator, pleaded guilty in U.S. court and agreed to a 25-year jail sentence, the Justice Department announced on Friday.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_3527" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">James Everett Dutschke, 41, has been jailed since his arrest last April, when authorities accused him of sending ricin-tainted letters to Obama, U.S. Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi and a local Lee County judge, Sadie Holland.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Ricin is a highly toxic protein found in castor oil plants that can kill an adult human in tiny doses.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Dutschke, a former martial arts instructor and one-time political candidate, originally had denied the charges but on Friday changed his plea in U.S. District Court in Oxford, Mississippi, according to a Justice Department press release.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"It's closure, and any time you can get that it's a good thing," said Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson, whose department had assisted the FBI and other agencies in identifying and arresting Dutschke last April.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The guilty plea "has eased our community and eased our victims and the other people he could have come in contact with," said Johnson, who described Dutschke as a manipulator who thinks he can "outsmart any person of authority or any system."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Dutschke's attorney, Ken Coghlan, said the plea agreement involved resolution of outstanding state charges of child molestation.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"He (Dutschke) was facing a lot of uncertainty and at least now he knows where he stands," said Coghlan, noting that his client faced a maximum penalty of life in prison.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Under the agreement, Coghlan said Dutschke would plead guilty to the molestation charges next week and would serve his sentences concurrently in federal prison.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Dutschke pleaded guilty to four charges of developing and possessing the biological agent ricin and subsequently mailing ricin-laced, threatening letters, including one that threatened bodily harm to the president of the United States.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Only Holland received one of the letters. The U.S. Postal Service intercepted those that were sent to Obama and Wicker.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The plea agreement was announced by John Carlin, acting assistant attorney general for national security; Felicia Adams, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi; and Daniel McMullen, special agent in charge of the FBI's Jackson field office.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_3538" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Dutschke will be sentenced in about 60 days, the Justice Department said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Dutschke previously had pleaded not guilty to five counts of a grand jury indictment and denied sending the letters. He also pleaded not guilty on December 3 to a new charge that he tried to continue the scheme from jail.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_3548" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">An initial indictment in June said Dutschke tried to frame Paul Kevin Curtis, an Elvis impersonator, by lifting phrases from Curtis's Facebook account to make it look as though he was responsible for the letters.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360917566_3564" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">(Additional reporting by David Adams and Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Colleen Jenkins, Sophie Hares, Leslie Adler and Ken Wills)</div></div>

U.S. man pleads guilty to sending ricin to Obama, two others (BLOG)

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AP source: Players wanted A-Rod out of union (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/AVvXsEj8TkTaYDFw7BEWLibhSRSsQjC3n7sqbt6eFmcFvoCf0Fxcovtanx2v3LLVI3qAgxVIpWugf_8rBXjWccwQRj1owTSd9EsOAYkwFJlbX1Dq1xe1OqJram9UJgBeCKZQmNKt0s6l9afGbV8/s1600/201401211620588074338.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8TkTaYDFw7BEWLibhSRSsQjC3n7sqbt6eFmcFvoCf0Fxcovtanx2v3LLVI3qAgxVIpWugf_8rBXjWccwQRj1owTSd9EsOAYkwFJlbX1Dq1xe1OqJram9UJgBeCKZQmNKt0s6l9afGbV8/s1600/201401211620588074338.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360782969_1179" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">NEW YORK (AP) -- Several angry major league players wanted<a class="yom-entity-link yom-entity-sports_player" data-rapid_p="8" href="http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/5275" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360782969_1178" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;">Alex Rodriguez</a> kicked out of their union after he sued it last week, but staff lawyers told them expulsion was not allowed.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360782969_1219" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The players spoke Jan. 13 during a Major League Baseball Players Association conference call after Rodriguez sued the union and Major League Baseball to overturn an arbitrator's decision suspending him for the 2014 season and postseason.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360782969_1228" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Details were first reported Tuesday by Yahoo Sports and later confirmed to The Associated Press by a person familiar with the call. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no statements were authorized.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360782969_1237" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The union and Rodriguez spokesman Ron Berkowitz declined comment.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360782969_1247" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">All players in the major leagues are members of the union and pay $65 daily in dues, or $11,895 if a player is in the big leagues for a full season. Baseball's labor contract specifies the union is ''the sole and exclusive bargaining agent for all major league players.''</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The union will incur costs of defending the lawsuit by the New York Yankees third baseman, who claimed in the suit it ''breached its duty of fair representation to Mr. Rodriguez.'' The union retained Michael Rubin and Barbara J. Chisholm of the San Francisco firm Altshuler Berzon to defend it, according to a court filing Tuesday.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Rodriguez was suspended for 211 games by baseball Commissioner Bud Selig on Aug. 5, and the union filed a grievance contending the discipline was without ''just cause.'' The penalty was reduced to 162 games plus the 2014 postseason by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz, who concluded Rodriguez violated baseball's drug agreement each year from 2010-12 and twice obstructed MLB's investigation in violation of the sport's labor contract.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Rodriguez agreed to a $275 million, 10-year contract with the Yankees after the 2007 season. Horowitz's decision cost Rodriguez $22.13 million of his $25 million salary this year; the three-time AL MVP is owed $61 million by the Yankees from 2015-17.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360782969_1288" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">NOTES: MLB and the union have agreed to follow their previous methodology for luxury tax payrolls in dealing with Rodriguez's suspension. He will count as $3,155,738 this year for the Yankees, which is 21-183rds of the $27.5 million average annual value he would have been listed at. Horowitz ruled Rodriguez loses 162 days' pay over the 183-day season.</div></div>

AP source: Players wanted A-Rod out of union (BLOG)

NEW YORK (AP) -- Several angry major league players wanted Alex Rodriguez  kicked out of their union after he sued it last week, but staff l...

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New App Records Your Friends’ Reactions to Your Photo Messages (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/AVvXsEi7n90zp7-ks1Sf3FjoZUi31KXYNhNnxuMrvyj136XtGuKDgmmmFs5j0_GL-wxAyEz4XLj_Pa0tIBcRgYP3wG27xp8HVja8Q-BZ5AC7DGY7YyaejsNAVSbBu0gwdxGKIIuZoodf398HRt0/s1600/757e05827b53a4ce8ec2dc94e83e444dd4a6a01d.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/AVvXsEi7n90zp7-ks1Sf3FjoZUi31KXYNhNnxuMrvyj136XtGuKDgmmmFs5j0_GL-wxAyEz4XLj_Pa0tIBcRgYP3wG27xp8HVja8Q-BZ5AC7DGY7YyaejsNAVSbBu0gwdxGKIIuZoodf398HRt0/s1600/757e05827b53a4ce8ec2dc94e83e444dd4a6a01d.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">One of the great things about the Internet is experiencing things together in real time. You want to see what people are saying about Miley Cyrus’ tongue, Olivia Pope’s white Armani suits and Richard Sherman’s post-game interviews as they appear on your TV screen. Twitter is a great, sprawling public forum for that, but not so much for personal interactions between friends.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">This is where <a data-rapid_p="48" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;g:62893677-1cd0-3392-a1c4-120693f44d01;ct:1;t1:a5;t4:18;itc:0;" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dumbstruck/id713590482?mt=8" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Dumbstruck</a> could come in handy. It’s a messaging app that records your friends’ immediate reactions to private photo messages. As soon as your friend opens your message, their smartphone’s camera records a short video of them and their subsequent reaction and then sends the reaction to you.  </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">The recorded reactions are automatically deleted after a day, but you can also choose to save them to your camera or to share them via Facebook or Twitter.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">Interested? Here’s how Dumbstruck works:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">1. <a data-rapid_p="49" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;g:62893677-1cd0-3392-a1c4-120693f44d01;ct:1;t1:a5;t4:18;itc:0;" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dumbstruck/id713590482?mt=8" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Download the Dumbstruck app on iOS</a> and open it up.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">2. Tap on the camera button on the bottom right of the screen.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;"><img alt="image" height="750" src="http://l3.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w423/96f008779bb26acdddebf4dfd4d736884c5b858d" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="423" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">3. The camera app will open up. Snap a photo of whatever you’d like to send. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">4. Below the photo, you’ll have the option to add text or draw on the photo (as show below). </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;"><img alt="image" height="750" src="http://l1.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w423/90cf3b01948b0c657cf16a9ca5b67dd908fe569d" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="423" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">5. Spice up that photo. Or don’t and be boring. That’s on you.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;"><img alt="image" height="750" src="http://l1.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w423/fa62a29422468bf78121ca1609bcda208492f535" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="423" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">6. Choose the lucky recipient for your masterpiece. And click <strong>Send</strong> in the upper-right corner of the screen.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;"><img alt="image" height="750" src="http://l3.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w423/9664b8a3a9fa57cbb5b44057bfc4bffdf5ec2976" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="423" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">7. Wait patiently for the person to see and react to your message. When your recipient opens your image and records her reaction, the sent item will be marked as “Reacted” in your inbox.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;"><img alt="image" height="750" src="http://l3.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w423/a55ec8053fc93043de94f1ef06fac6ba84cb9f36" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="423" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">8. Tap on the message. You’ll be brought to the screen where you can play your friend’s reaction. Maybe it’s one of joy, confusion — or disgust over your incessant obsession with new apps. You’ll only know when you press the <strong>Play</strong> button at the center of the screen.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;"><img alt="image" height="750" src="http://l.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w423/ce9aac516ea7a37c847b81691dc30fef7650decb" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="423" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">9. Watch the reaction. Oh, she’s smiling! Phew. That was fun. Sort of.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;"><img alt="image" height="750" src="http://l1.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w423/c9cc1e83869f9d4a437b7181c2ac012232ee7c59" style="border: 0px; margin-right: 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="423" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">That’s about it! Now go weird the world out. It’s free, after all.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0.55em; margin-top: 0.55em;">You can <a data-rapid_p="50" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;g:62893677-1cd0-3392-a1c4-120693f44d01;ct:1;t1:a5;t4:18;itc:0;" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dumbstruck/id713590482?mt=8" style="color: #324fe1; outline: 0px;" target="_blank">download Dumbstruck right here</a>. </div></div>

New App Records Your Friends’ Reactions to Your Photo Messages (BLOG)

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stitches and satchels

Sorry for the radio silence everybody. Yesterday, as I tried to make a lovely snow day breakfast, I had a run in with a pesky knife and ended up with stitches in my hand.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhkspvNeKEFqr4XTJ-jy_rV6s0XfJgcCv1P52oVIuVbQRCe_FEOvgEKsiN1ZFJHV10ROKkuSfIbteFvd_E51qUpItO-H1uWcbmZV_eTxX3f_e-Ie4YNb4jaPtevRYbCUJv46r6_0xUCCei/s1600/stitches.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhkspvNeKEFqr4XTJ-jy_rV6s0XfJgcCv1P52oVIuVbQRCe_FEOvgEKsiN1ZFJHV10ROKkuSfIbteFvd_E51qUpItO-H1uWcbmZV_eTxX3f_e-Ie4YNb4jaPtevRYbCUJv46r6_0xUCCei/s1600/stitches.jpg" width="396" /></a></div><br />The buggers are right where my thumb muscle moves to make my hand...useful. And let me tell you in case you have forgotten this from Jr. High science, our opposable thumbs are one of the greatest gifts evolution gave us. Life without it is slow and frustrating. So typing is not my friend these days. Bare with me and know I'll be back in fighting shape soon.<br /><br />But I can't drop a lame bomb like that and leave you empty handed (pun intended). So head over to <a href="http://resembl.com/article?_id=52deb3fc6b37305d2fc082f4" target="_blank">Resembl</a> where I'm sharing my favorite black and white handbags for the new year. Empty handed, hand bags, I just can't help myself.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL3VJaEo25EjxcwwZvRSkjlddDc-2k9srusA34_rsWWX3_NSkNlxymoEjGzeH5PD0g5e_MblQ7TuiBvlh_DYfEwjg5AErwxfwILD1Q54cGA0aq5VsX-kikX3b3FRpkB0J3YiR0hMKEessX/s1600/art12-home.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL3VJaEo25EjxcwwZvRSkjlddDc-2k9srusA34_rsWWX3_NSkNlxymoEjGzeH5PD0g5e_MblQ7TuiBvlh_DYfEwjg5AErwxfwILD1Q54cGA0aq5VsX-kikX3b3FRpkB0J3YiR0hMKEessX/s1600/art12-home.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />I really love a good handbag and I've got some great choices to drool over. Check it out<a href="http://resembl.com/article?_id=52deb3fc6b37305d2fc082f4" target="_blank"> here</a>.<br /><br />Do you have an obsession with bags like I do? Ever had stitches? Ever heard a doctor say "We've got a bleeder!"? Sadly, I have. (Extra points if you can name the movie that line is also from.)

stitches and satchels

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GOLD could fall to $471 an ounce

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>GOLD FAIR VALUE = $800 and even lower</b></span></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/AVvXsEj7CYAJp20EUMtAfxTrYu9jGJZUJT_vpn43-xn5d4eUcmIWvE_SIe-Id2AWc9j86r1xKpxc2oVVJmFU5Or0F6Jn7NZhnFUpFznvOswnrdiP7zWxW_fcSjA0mTmDPVqiDb_x6GoYnjkwT8g/s1600/GoldBARSpic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7CYAJp20EUMtAfxTrYu9jGJZUJT_vpn43-xn5d4eUcmIWvE_SIe-Id2AWc9j86r1xKpxc2oVVJmFU5Or0F6Jn7NZhnFUpFznvOswnrdiP7zWxW_fcSjA0mTmDPVqiDb_x6GoYnjkwT8g/s1600/GoldBARSpic.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What happened to the ASSET PROTECTION INSURANCE?</b></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The GOLD BEAR MARKET CONTINUES</b></span> </div><br />Expect more ECONOMIC RECOVERY and RISING INTEREST RATES along with a STRENGTHENING U.S. DOLLAR as THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE and SHTF SCENARIO has been postponed...<br /><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-incredible-gold-interest-rate-correlation-2014-01-22?dist=lcountdown" style="color: red;">http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-incredible-gold-interest-rate-correlation-2014-01-22?dist=lcountdown</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/wYtA8v9UA9g?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VpMUUVOOndU?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br />...developing...</div>

GOLD could fall to $471 an ounce

GOLD FAIR VALUE = $800 and even lower What happened to the ASSET PROTECTION INSURANCE? The GOLD BEAR MARKET CONTINUES Expect more ECONOMIC ...

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Husband: 5 murder-suicide deaths 'unimaginable' (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/AVvXsEjDDmUu8A3ao10uN_GvFOXGIMKqfrmSJnYZ1kDtFfK3VuTg2utQnzwFMCw34lAsHNWpd-DjpDuMVd38Lvhgm7ys897EEEZE2wLZoBK1Pm7F6GNx5zigkPkefE1jCqstIcN3FbRzwTgpcZc/s1600/5fb0561d69113302490f6a70670018d9.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/AVvXsEjDDmUu8A3ao10uN_GvFOXGIMKqfrmSJnYZ1kDtFfK3VuTg2utQnzwFMCw34lAsHNWpd-DjpDuMVd38Lvhgm7ys897EEEZE2wLZoBK1Pm7F6GNx5zigkPkefE1jCqstIcN3FbRzwTgpcZc/s1600/5fb0561d69113302490f6a70670018d9.jpg" width="267" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_12040" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — The father of a woman who died along with her two children and mother in a Spanish Fork murder-suicide called the killings "unimaginable" and said he's angry "like you wouldn't believe" at his son-in-law.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_12055" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The five bodies were discovered at the family home late Thursday.Authorities said Lindon police officer Joshua Boren, 34, shot the four people last week before committing suicide. Boren was the husband of one victim and the father of the two children.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_12066" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Jeff King said he's been passing sleepless nights by planning a funeral for his 32-year-old daughter, Kelly Boren, his 7-year-old grandson, Jaden, his 5-year-old granddaughter, Haley, and his 55-year-old ex-wife, Marie King.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_12076" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"You look for understanding, and there is none," King told KSL (http://bit.ly/1eQ0dLQ ) on Monday. "You can't describe how you're feeling. . They were my whole world."</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_12086" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">King said Joshua Boren had moved out of the house and into an apartment in September, but the couple's separation seemed amicable, and they had gone on date nights and vacationed in Disneyland together. He said Boren was an old-fashioned, polite man who showed no signs that he would carry out a shooting.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"I feel so betrayed, angry, hurt, and then talking to Josh's family, his sisters and his brother and, I mean, they're every bit as much or worse," King said. "It's so much hurt and pain you can't understand."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The two were great parents, King said, and Kelly Boren was anxious to work out the issues in the marriage so Joshua Boren would always be part of the children's lives.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"That's where you can't comprehend it as a dad. There's nothing you wouldn't do to protect your kids, and I always thought he felt that way too," King said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_12106" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">___</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_12096" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Information from: KSL-TV, http://www.ksl.com/</div></div>

Husband: 5 murder-suicide deaths 'unimaginable' (BLOG)

SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — The father of a woman who died along with her two children and mother in a Spanish Fork murder-suicide called the ...

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Mob Wives: Jenn Graziano Cookbook Interview!

<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Embedded image permalink" height="400" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeMA1uACcAAzNDb.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Chiara dubbed me the "<b>Mob Chef</b>," so it's only natural that I am very interested in "How To Use A Meat Cleaver," by the Graziano Girls! I can't wait for the book to come out so I can try all the recipes. I will even blog a couple of them and let you know my expert opinion. In the meantime, I tracked down Jenn Graziano so she could answer a few questions about their book while we wait for the February 4th launch date! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thank you Jenn, for graciously taking time out of your busy schedule to answer what we need to know!</div><br />Jenn, please describe your cookbook, "How To Use A Meat Clever," and what readers should expect.<br /><br /><b>Obviously, by the name,  you can tell it is a tongue in cheek approach to our lives and what is in our kitchens!  However, the recipes are as authentic as they come. They are recipes passed down from our grandmother to us, as well as some from friends and family along the way.  We pay homage to all of the cooks in our lives who we have come across and what they have taught us. But mostly these are family recipes straight from Italy.  Something you would eat if your grandmother was cooking it herself!</b><br /><br />How is this cookbook different from all the ones already out there? <br /><br /><b>In addition to recipes, we share with the reader unique, funny, and heart felt family stories centered around food - like how Renee once ran out of bread and used potato chips in her meatballs instead or how to sneak meatballs into prison.  The stories give you an inside look into how we grew up, how we eat, and how we are a family.</b><br /><br />What was the earliest age each of you started cooking? <br /><br /><b>My grandmother and I used to make the chicken cutlets together starting when I was about 4 or 5 years old.  I always enjoyed breading them and getting my finger tips full of bread crumb.  Lana started very early as well, and did the most cooking as she was the oldest and some times responsible for cooking for me and Renee.  Renee cooked a lot with my dad starting when she was about 7 or 8.</b><br /><br />Where or from whom do your recipes come from? <br /><br /><b>Mostly from our maternal grandmother, dad, mom, cousin Jimmy, and for me - even Big Ang!!</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbguk05IaDpVPEh1EOXigS9T_tKvCpniLDZD2jb065H89_5uVpMBaXgWsSrcq9GX9ZC0IcgHx820cM359etyGAXW5Z37akD4nDWDYr8WEeUjj6wJYcrjgIx_8vRZvozsTy7N83gZ8DG8A/s1600/lana+and+renee+whack+a+filet.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbguk05IaDpVPEh1EOXigS9T_tKvCpniLDZD2jb065H89_5uVpMBaXgWsSrcq9GX9ZC0IcgHx820cM359etyGAXW5Z37akD4nDWDYr8WEeUjj6wJYcrjgIx_8vRZvozsTy7N83gZ8DG8A/s1600/lana+and+renee+whack+a+filet.JPG" width="311" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Lana and Renee whack a filet!</b></div><br /><br />Who would you say has the best culinary skills?<br /><b><br /></b><b>Lana by far has the best culinary skills of the three of us.  She has owned and operated several restaurants - some where she even cooked herself.  Her last restaurant - Mangiare - had lines around the corner every day for years.  Renee is the most eclectic in the kitchen.....I did mention the potato chips right?? She is a great cook as well however.  I have never proclaimed to be the best cook, but the dishes I do make are amazing.....and just like grandma, mom, dad, and Lana have taught me....and are still teaching me.....we want this book to teach everyone how to make real, authentic, home style Italian food.</b><br /><br />Do each of you have a favorite recipe or type of food you prefer cooking? <br /><br /><b>Lana likes to cook everything.... and everything she makes is delicious.  My favorite type of dishes to cook are the seafood dishes - linguine and clam sauce, shrimp oregonata - but, as Chiara knows, I make some mean chicken cutlets.  Renee and I are in a battle over who makes them the best, but she also loves to make a Sunday Sauce and meatballs.</b><br /><br />Who makes the best desserts? <br /><br /><b>Lana and I are really the only ones that like to bake, but I must say my niece Sonni is the absolute best.  So much so that we told her if and when we ever do a dessert book she must be included. </b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBrtvJckKNsLpSnaUK1sVqIuZ-iR3h9Z3pE8NphgQD0y57vA9YWvLEKyhD2h-u82DwY7x06j67aUslEPegOR2StpGfxX7DJuAtv10SPo_oTKhjziiSWDFfsncato1_ctEqmkbO1-N9SYU/s1600/G+girls+cookbook.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBrtvJckKNsLpSnaUK1sVqIuZ-iR3h9Z3pE8NphgQD0y57vA9YWvLEKyhD2h-u82DwY7x06j67aUslEPegOR2StpGfxX7DJuAtv10SPo_oTKhjziiSWDFfsncato1_ctEqmkbO1-N9SYU/s1600/G+girls+cookbook.JPG" width="263" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>What's Cookin'?</b></div><br /><br />What did you enjoy most about the making of this book? <br /><br /><b>It really brought us back together as sisters again.  Renee and I have been so busy with Mob Wives we hadn't spent much time with Lana.  The book gave us an opportunity to make up for lost time and laugh with one another.  Also, the making of the videos for the promotion of the book was fun.  They are really meant as funny vignettes and not literal cooking demonstrations.  Our favorite is the sausage and peppas with Renee's hilarious rendition of a guido!!</b><br /><b><br /></b><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Embedded image permalink" height="400" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BejqkNBIUAAtI2G.jpg" width="298" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Famous Graziano sausage and peppas</b></div><br />Can you tell us any of the <b><span style="font-size: large;">book signing dates</span></b> and locations where they will be held.<br /><br />STATEN ISLAND, NY<br />Tuesday, February  4<br />6:30 PM arrival<br />7:00 PM to 9:00 PM ET<br />author event. bookstore.<br />BARNES & NOBLE<br />Staten Island<br />2245 Richmond Avenue<br />Staten Island, NY  10314<br /> _______________________________________________________<br /><br />BROOKLYN, NY<br />Wednesday, February  5<br />6:30 PM arrival<br />7:00 PM to 9:00 PM ET<br />author event. bookstore.<br />BOULEVARD BOOKS & CAFE<br />7518 13th Avenue<br />Brooklyn, NY  11228<br />_______________________________________________________________________<br /><br />NORTHVALE, NJ<br />Thursday, February  6<br />6:30 PM arrival<br />7:00 PM to 9:00 PM ET<br />author event. bookstore.<br />BOOKS & GREETINGS<br />271G Livingston St<br />Northvale, NJ  07647<br /><br /><b>AND in other locations:</b><br /><br />Feb 19<br />Miami Beach location of Books & Books at 6:30pm<br /><br />March 5<br />Book Soup<br />Los Angeles, CA<br />7:00pm<br /><br />Thanks for the interview, Jenn, and the inside scoop on "How To Use A Meat Cleaver"! I cannot wait to get my hands on the book and try out your traditional Italian recipes! <a href="http://t.co/gTkLdElUVb">And PRE ORDER the book today</a>!<br /><br /><b>Written by: Carmela Corleone, Mob Chef</b>

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New Twists to Calif. Double-Murder Mystery (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/AVvXsEgUvrNXI_M0Qg_94X215qkZ711Rfp0acj0fgRSyMm1bx5I7b5VbHeF1L7wiq4Vm-8LvMZYS4lQZ3ylhBcIokbZpImVDEsrR8CJutagjRXD7xcNjocS3oMY5A2IjFB535ikQDfvMqRiwrEM/s1600/ABC_gianni_belvedere_jef_140120_16x9_992.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/AVvXsEgUvrNXI_M0Qg_94X215qkZ711Rfp0acj0fgRSyMm1bx5I7b5VbHeF1L7wiq4Vm-8LvMZYS4lQZ3ylhBcIokbZpImVDEsrR8CJutagjRXD7xcNjocS3oMY5A2IjFB535ikQDfvMqRiwrEM/s1600/ABC_gianni_belvedere_jef_140120_16x9_992.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_10158" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A chilling discovery – and recently-released emergency dispatch audio – offer new twists into a double-murder mystery that has baffled San Diego police.</div><div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.307695388793945px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"><div class="yom-remote"><div class="" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_10192" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Gianni Belvedere, 24, his fiancée Ilona Flint, 22, and his little brother Salvatore, 22, visited a San Diego shopping mall on Dec. 23. Early Christmas Eve morning, Ilona and Salvatore were found shot in their car outside the mall. Both would die from their wounds.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_10201" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Before she died, Flint managed to call 911. Newly-released emergency dispatch audio identifies a potential suspect at the scene, someone who “possibly left in a 2008/2011 dark gray Honda Civic four-door.”</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Gianni Belvedere – who has not been named a suspect in the case – hasn’t been seen since.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">This past weekend, nearly a month after the shootings, Belvedere’s green Camry was found about 100 miles away with a man’s body inside the trunk. Police have yet to identify the body.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The smell caused a passer-by to call police. 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An autopsy will be performed this week to identify the body found in Belvedere’s car.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Investigators say they still have no suspects and no motive in the case, but they don't believe it was a robbery.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">“As of this juncture, we still do not know a motive of why this occurred,” San Diego Police Lt. Mike Hastings said Dec. 26.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The family of Belvedere’s fiancé released a statement to ABC News overnight, expressing concern for the missing 24-year-old.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_10237" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">“We consider Gianni Belvedere to be our son as much as the Belvederes consider Ilona to be their daughter,” the statement reads. “The Belvedere and Flint-Jones families thank the media for respecting our privacy during this difficult time.”</div></div>

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Anna Netrebko: in a swimsuit in the snow

<script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* bleu 280 */ google_ad_slot = "8164661108"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br /><br />Stars are able to surprise! At this time the distinguished opera diva <b>Anna Netrebko</b>. In one of the social networking singer posted a photo on which she is photographed at the balcony in New York. News seemingly ordinary, if not wear <b>Anna Netrebko</b>, or rather its absence. After all, the picture we see Netrebko in a bathing suit and barefoot in a pile of snow.<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 /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL-YGBTfWM6hiBg7ILWxsrs0f3p07_aG4QzbsyHmyIPsK_T92QAGas5dnZcfEfUCrjt_ijyqNHXhwSf-u8WkgIgrHI1lAQnKwjzQylYQoRNhCFp6kshqnNhjtkvt5-KEQZxK-yHP0c/s1600/diva+Anna+Netrebko+in+a+swimsuit+in+the+snow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL-YGBTfWM6hiBg7ILWxsrs0f3p07_aG4QzbsyHmyIPsK_T92QAGas5dnZcfEfUCrjt_ijyqNHXhwSf-u8WkgIgrHI1lAQnKwjzQylYQoRNhCFp6kshqnNhjtkvt5-KEQZxK-yHP0c/s1600/diva+Anna+Netrebko+in+a+swimsuit+in+the+snow.jpg" /></a></div><br /><b>Anna Netrebko</b> seems to be totally embarrassed that in New York, where she lived for the past several years, the average daily temperature - minus 15. This Russian soul shows us that the U.S. is not afraid of her cold. <br /> <br /> Sharing with fans image data, Netrebko, apparently, wanted to let everyone know what is healthy and worry about it not worth it. After all, as you know, before Anna had to give performances in the opera "The Elixir of Love" in the Metropolitan Opera. <br /> <br /> Very soon, on February 6, at the opera diva admirers will be able to see it in a new production of Met Opera " Prince Igor. " <b>Anna Netrebko</b> Russian partner will bass baritone Ildar Abdrazakov. <br /> <br /> Recall that now <b>Anna Netrebko</b> is in search of a new life partner. In November last year, she announced her separation from the father of the child Uruguayan baritone Erwin Schrott. The couple's relationship lasted only six years.<br /><br /><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* boton */ google_ad_slot = "4392536701"; google_ad_width = 200; google_ad_height = 90; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>

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Obama fails to persuade Americans on NSA reform: poll (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/AVvXsEjYFGeR1qNpfDoapj1ezwpW64fvLjC-Gtv13H3fghYx_FVs_5XC0OH5evnjt2szxoZ-MAhn9vtiWXAX4uiWwKxZpnmrzlsWuMskM09d7dgKGLco5QUIo3b2XfCBJ6RSDVsjnPdVQZYr3ck/s1600/001343b33a3883d267fc127e6513e6a79ebf903f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYFGeR1qNpfDoapj1ezwpW64fvLjC-Gtv13H3fghYx_FVs_5XC0OH5evnjt2szxoZ-MAhn9vtiWXAX4uiWwKxZpnmrzlsWuMskM09d7dgKGLco5QUIo3b2XfCBJ6RSDVsjnPdVQZYr3ck/s1600/001343b33a3883d267fc127e6513e6a79ebf903f.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_5447" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Washington (AFP) - Reforms to US surveillance announced by President Barack Obama have failed to reassure most Americans, with three-quarters saying their privacy will not be better protected under the changes, according to a new poll.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_5471" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The poll of 1,504 adults, carried out between Wednesday and Sunday, showed the speech was not widely followed by Americans and that skepticism of the NSA's electronic spying is growing.By a margin of 73-21 percent, Americans who followed Obama's speech last week on the National Security Agency say his proposals will not make much difference when it comes to safeguarding privacy rights, said the Pew Research Center/USA Today poll published on Tuesday.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The survey said half of those surveyed heard "nothing at all" about Obama's proposed measures and another 41 percent said they heard "only a little bit."</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_5490" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">And fully seven in 10 poll respondents said they should not have to give up privacy to stay safe from potential terror attacks, the poll said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A majority of 53 percent now disapprove of the NSA's collection of telephone and Internet data. In July, 50 percent approved and 44 percent disagreed with the surveillance program.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The shift in public opinion follows the explosive leak last June of NSA documents by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has sparked a global uproar over the US government's far-reaching surveillance.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Nearly half of Americans, 48 percent, said there are insufficient limits on what telephone and internet data the government can collect, while 41 percent said there are adequate parameters on the government’s spying.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The survey revealed a division over whether Snowden's unprecedented disclosures of classified information have damaged the country, with 45 percent saying the leaks have served the public interest and 43 percent saying the leaks have harmed it.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Snowden faces espionage charges from US authorities over his leaks and has obtained temporary asylum in Russia, where he has said he has been vindicated by the public reaction to the disclosures.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">However, 56 percent of Americans say the government should prosecute Snowden while 32 percent did not favor pursuing criminal charges.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In his speech last Friday, Obama said a third party -- not the government -- should hold vast stores of phone metadata, and that the NSA would need a court order to search the data except in genuine emergencies.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The US president also promised Washington would no longer eavesdrop on the leaders of friendly foreign governments and that a panel of independent lawyers should be allowed to argue in the interest of privacy rights before the secret court that oversees the NSA surveillance.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The poll found 79 percent of Americans were not worried that Obama's proposed reforms would undercut the government’s ability to fight terror groups.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_5539" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The margin of error for the full survey was plus or minus three percentage points.</div></div>

Obama fails to persuade Americans on NSA reform: poll (BLOG)

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Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse abide umilyat admirers with their hugs and kisses

<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- bleu 280 --><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8441125172513237" data-ad-slot="8164661108"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUh1XX6-SlvjzrtvKyMyL190sOE76F0X3tHJHqO0sBl-c8TTvTCJEWd4s5xj2jpQU8SWg70eiH9JzROOs70e0wse7kQYo9KB9v2BP1aovKIRrttpPLI-LMZoe-B3ifHp_Pk4HtWCpf/s1600/Bradley+Cooper+and+Suki+Waterhouse+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUh1XX6-SlvjzrtvKyMyL190sOE76F0X3tHJHqO0sBl-c8TTvTCJEWd4s5xj2jpQU8SWg70eiH9JzROOs70e0wse7kQYo9KB9v2BP1aovKIRrttpPLI-LMZoe-B3ifHp_Pk4HtWCpf/s1600/Bradley+Cooper+and+Suki+Waterhouse+1.jpg" title="Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>Bradley Cooper</b> and <b>Suki Waterhouse</b> continue umilyat audience with their hugs and kisses: lovers, who just recently for the first time "officially" have been published in recent days have visited the festival Sundance, and then attended a concert of Justin Timberlake in Inglewood, California. <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 /><br /> After the show, photographers captured the 22-year-old model and 39-year-old actor, when they left a concert venue in the company of friends Suki Waterhouse. Left the entire company car Cooper. <br /> <br /> Recall that lovers have been together for about a year. They met at a party one of the glossy magazines last winter, and since they are constantly seen together. In the summer the pair watched battles tennis at Wimbledon, and in October, Bradley and his girlfriend performed a joint vacation in Hawaii.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6miw0bTew8cTBlwJBJ9t98IYRqQoOllipjTmwjQyCX5GncC82EZ0cyd2Si7jZi2ERcKo-R03XZntr-p6LFPcWXrlD2x-fngxZPsirdaz8mykz6kgh7pT-LCQCKpyiyzpjWEipNgiz/s1600/Bradley+Cooper+and+Suki+Waterhouse+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse" border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6miw0bTew8cTBlwJBJ9t98IYRqQoOllipjTmwjQyCX5GncC82EZ0cyd2Si7jZi2ERcKo-R03XZntr-p6LFPcWXrlD2x-fngxZPsirdaz8mykz6kgh7pT-LCQCKpyiyzpjWEipNgiz/s1600/Bradley+Cooper+and+Suki+Waterhouse+2.jpg" title="Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOGCw7StqVH28cvzGMWkxxG-oT12bsXUB4y6ACrDT1qfynVZJXYa3DrOVJgBDSwq4u-Je5-x2CJ2SvxZZo3Kt-KhvIW8jdif4inAErn5aFd5zanBLm7NcYJLCx_caIe7Amv9Qn3K4Q/s1600/Bradley+Cooper+and+Suki+Waterhouse+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse abide umilyat admirers with their hugs and kisses

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Calvin Harris is bent to bake his affair with Rita Ora.

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEign40fFCJAZDq7lbUUI2yd_knAUYsCs5mavFUZfS0bxOhbl0dpQnLemrSvpUC13JfCJ_yslLlCgiwq4YeyUsQ0onfDK4DyB1z6A_m1xJjf4fwWswFD48o_h8luaqhvwhlVnGYoEpeK/s1600/Calvin+Harris+wants+to+return+to+Rita+Oru.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEign40fFCJAZDq7lbUUI2yd_knAUYsCs5mavFUZfS0bxOhbl0dpQnLemrSvpUC13JfCJ_yslLlCgiwq4YeyUsQ0onfDK4DyB1z6A_m1xJjf4fwWswFD48o_h8luaqhvwhlVnGYoEpeK/s1600/Calvin+Harris+wants+to+return+to+Rita+Oru.jpg" /></a></div><br /><h4><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/rita-ora-and-calvin-harris-parted.html" target="_blank">Parting Rita Ora and DJ Calvin Harris</a> could be aloof a acting abeyance in the relationship. Source of arch ambiance appear that the Scottish DJ flew to Vancouver, area she is now filming of "50 shades of gray", which employs Rita. Recall that the accompanist plays the protagonist's sister. Harris ambition - to renew its accord with Aura. </h4><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 /><br />It seems that his efforts were not in vain. One of my friends told Rita: <br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> Calvin came to Canada to be with Rita. She was very impressed, in fact knows how he is busy. They had a great time walking around the city. Calvin told Rita that she means a lot to him and he can not understand what is wrong in their relationship. </blockquote><br />According to the same source, 23-year-old singer has not yet said yes to the proposal boyfriend start all over again: <br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> Rita else thinks. She knows that he's a good guy, but she has to work hard to equally focus on career and personal life. They often leave because of work, and it is difficult to maintain long-distance relationships. But Calvin would do everything possible he will not surrender without a fight. </blockquote><br /> The fact that Harris and Ora parted after spending nine months together, it was revealed last week. According to insiders, the separated lovers not only tight tour schedule, but also the fact that Calvin would "meet a girl that is not associated with show business".<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC17ae5_nw2FVposGQF6gJaflqWdLvmhcWX0I8zVxsH8cG_hyphenhyphen2zWUZ6aAt-hwmdyR3LQqlIBpVYyugzqlJTohgqrALliNRztGY0YDu__o2QV0bwRVbgBxsBCA5pzjbt6TbvZy6m7k/s1600/Calvin+Harris+and+Rita+Ora+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Calvin Harris and Rita Ora" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC17ae5_nw2FVposGQF6gJaflqWdLvmhcWX0I8zVxsH8cG_hyphenhyphen2zWUZ6aAt-hwmdyR3LQqlIBpVYyugzqlJTohgqrALliNRztGY0YDu__o2QV0bwRVbgBxsBCA5pzjbt6TbvZy6m7k/s1600/Calvin+Harris+and+Rita+Ora+1.jpg" title="Calvin Harris and Rita Ora" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx3p_dZKQ1x2xtQ4ICtWOqwN4-_MxOHYiTHYYY5HqssEgcqxwSf6ogP-E44pmlr7avMaMLGKq9W5Uo_wsW5NGY3vw3TgbkcqSVak8qVNfw73CY-lMAdP6lVFLtb1Q3MPyeopLBd3CO/s1600/Calvin+Harris+and+Rita+Ora.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Calvin Harris and Rita Ora" border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx3p_dZKQ1x2xtQ4ICtWOqwN4-_MxOHYiTHYYY5HqssEgcqxwSf6ogP-E44pmlr7avMaMLGKq9W5Uo_wsW5NGY3vw3TgbkcqSVak8qVNfw73CY-lMAdP6lVFLtb1Q3MPyeopLBd3CO/s1600/Calvin+Harris+and+Rita+Ora.jpg" title="Calvin Harris and Rita Ora" width="400" /></a></div><br /><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* boton */ google_ad_slot = "4392536701"; google_ad_width = 200; google_ad_height = 90; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>

Calvin Harris is bent to bake his affair with Rita Ora.

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Another snowstorm hits the urban Northeast (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/AVvXsEj3qoqNHdDYnm4aC-1N4weg_BRA2suOY6U_62FQ-gW_FNi6w_iZExm3SgNQBhrutzP12XZpThcdkyB9-LvLZ4eJFkkPDKuD5K557bgrSjaGBuCJSEIczYeN3p4L7KRAWd9AwtnLq3SuQWE/s1600/ab40f9f5-0e9a-476f-ad52-9a2edd130a6d_RTX17OOA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3qoqNHdDYnm4aC-1N4weg_BRA2suOY6U_62FQ-gW_FNi6w_iZExm3SgNQBhrutzP12XZpThcdkyB9-LvLZ4eJFkkPDKuD5K557bgrSjaGBuCJSEIczYeN3p4L7KRAWd9AwtnLq3SuQWE/s1600/ab40f9f5-0e9a-476f-ad52-9a2edd130a6d_RTX17OOA.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_1978" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A swirling snowstorm clobbered parts of the mid-Atlantic and the urban Northeast on Tuesday, grounding thousands of flights, closing government offices in the nation's capital and making a mess of the evening commute.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_2006" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said 10 inches of snow had fallen just outside Philadelphia in Drexel Hill by Tuesday evening and there was about 6 inches in Philadelphia. The National Weather Service said parts of New York City also had about 6 inches.The storm stretched 1,000 miles between Kentucky and Massachusetts but hit especially hard along the heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor between Philadelphia and Boston, creating perilous rides home for millions of motorists.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_2025" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The snow came down harder and faster than many people expected. Forecasters said some places could get 1 to 2 inches an hour, with wind gusts up to 50 mph. A blizzard warning was posted for parts of Massachusetts, including Cape Cod.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Highways in the New York City metropolitan area were jammed, and blowing snow tripled or even quadrupled drive times.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"I just want to get to the Bronx," motorist Peter Neuwens lamented. "It's a big place. Why can't I get there?"</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In Jersey City, N.J., Stanley Gaines, wearing just a thin jacket and huddling beneath an overhang as snow stung his face, said he had been stuck for more than an hour waiting for a ride home from his appointment at a Veterans Affairs clinic.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"I'm waiting on anything I can get: a taxi, a shuttle, a bus," Gaines said, squinting to read the destination on an approaching bus in near white-out conditions. "I didn't really pay attention to the weather this morning because there was no snow on the ground, and now — this!"</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In White Plains, N.Y., Anthony Schirrone pulled over his car to scrape snow from the windshield.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"I just did this five minutes ago," he said. "But it's coming down too fast."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Forecasters said the storm could bring up to 14 inches of snow to Philadelphia and southern New England and up to a foot in New York City, to be followed by bitter cold as arctic air from Canada streams in. Washington was expecting 4 to 8 inches.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-video go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="8" data-uuid="738dcc6e-f470-3b39-b718-55fd87eb9713" href="http://news.yahoo.com/video/yorkers-dealing-second-major-snowstorm-191758986.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="New Yorkers Dealing With Second Major Snowstorm"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"><div class="cta-overlay" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.24s linear; font-size: 13px; height: 225px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: background-color 0.24s linear; width: 300px;"><span class="clearfix title cta-text medium" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; color: white; font-size: 16px; left: 5px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; top: 5px; transition: opacity 0.24s linear; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 270px; zoom: 1;">New Yorkers Dealing With Second Major Snowstorm</span><span class="cta-text xsmall" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.24s linear; bottom: 5px; color: white; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 42px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.24s linear;">Play video</span><span class="icon-play icon-white-play-xsmall" style="background-color: #324fe1; background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; line-height: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: -1000em; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span></div><img alt="New Yorkers Dealing With Second Major Snowstorm" class="body-related-thumb" data-src-2x="" height="225" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/uOctCZRWRvU5O2io.fAGPg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIyNTtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.associatedpressfree.com/e1591443a8195f4d47d8d4f98be49cc8" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">As of Tuesday evening, there was mostly light snow across Connecticut, Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts from the Boston area southward. Snowfall totals in the region ranged from about 5 inches to 6.5 inches.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In Maryland, 8 inches had accumulated in Westminster and at least 7 inches had fallen in Frederick. The storm was blamed for at least one death in Maryland after a car fishtailed into the path of a tractor-trailer on a snow-covered road about 50 miles northwest of Baltimore.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><span class="yui-tweet yui-editorial-embed"></span></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px;">The storm was a conventional one that developed off the coast and moved its way up the Eastern Seaboard, pulling in cold air from the arctic. Unlike the epic freeze of two weeks ago, it wasn't caused by a kink in the polar vortex, the winds that circulate around the North Pole.</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation said it had already blown through more than half of its $189 million winter weather budget.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"Lots of nuisance storms this season have meant that PennDOT crews have been plowing and treating roads more frequently this winter," spokeswoman Erin Waters-Trasatt said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">This second fierce blast of winter weather is sapping fuel supplies in many regions in the U.S. and sending prices for propane and natural gas to record highs.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Customers who heat with natural gas or electricity probably won't see dramatically higher prices, in part because utilities typically buy their fuel under longer-term contracts at set prices. But propane customers who find themselves suddenly needing to fill their tanks could be paying $100 to $200 more per fill-up than they did a month ago.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">About 3,000 flights for Tuesday were canceled, with airports from Washington to Boston affected. More than 1,000 flights for Wednesday were called off as well. Amtrak planned to cut back train service.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The rush to get home early by many workers was evident in Philadelphia, where many commuter trains were packed.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The storm put a damper on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's inauguration, forcing the cancellation of an evening party on Ellis Island. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick postponed his annual State of the State address, and the Philadelphia Flyers postponed their Tuesday night game.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Schools in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky stayed closed for an extra day after the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday or sent students home early. Some parents kept their kids home all day, unwilling to put them on slippery roads for a few hours of school.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Federal workers in the Washington area also were given the day off.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Standing in Philadelphia's LOVE Park with snow swirling around her, visitor Jenn Byrne, of Portland, Ore., said the nasty weather put a crimp in her plans to do a "giant walking tour" of the city. But she vowed to soldier on, taking cabs instead of trudging. She wasn't wearing snow boots.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_2082" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"I'll keep going. Just the means of transportation will change a bit," Byrne said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_2091" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Others shrugged off the snow as well.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_2101" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In Herndon, Va., where voters were casting ballots in a special election that was likely to determine control of the state Senate, Earlene Coleman said she felt obligated to make her selection: "It only made sense to come out and do my duty."</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_2111" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Construction worker Tony Cockrell, stopping for coffee at a Hagerstown, Md., gas station, said he planned to continue driving to work sites in western Maryland and northern Virginia to supervise the installation of insulation in building projects.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"If you don't work, you don't get paid," he said, adding that deep cold is good for business. "We're trying to get stuff insulated so it doesn't freeze up."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">___</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1390360114945_2054" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Rubinkam reported from northeastern Pennsylvania. Associated Press writers Jim Fitzgerald in New York's Westchester County, Samantha Henry in Jersey City, N.J., Matt Moore in Philadelphia, David Dishneau in Hagerstown, Md., Matthew Barakat in Herndon, Va., and Jessica Gresko in Washington contributed to this report.</div></div>

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Prince Harry went to the South Pole

<script async="" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- style-4y_sidebar4_AdSense1_250x250_as --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8441125172513237" data-ad-slot="2423706304" style="display: inline-block; height: 250px; width: 250px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script>              <script async="" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- style-4y_sidebar4_AdSense1_250x250_as --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8441125172513237" data-ad-slot="2423706304" style="display: inline-block; height: 250px; width: 250px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGWI8E0SfPyFdTWpkt3AkCRSHZDTeLZa_li2kUITm3ID8Ylc0KmZd8x9Cz8K8s6lBExm925ammThk6k4Q2G2PK4H1CH4xgoE81GhLyJeF3X3HIVhwb0xcjVcDKJvASBJckBycmc19w/s1600/Prince+Harry+went+to+the+South+Pole.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Prince Harry went to the South Pole" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGWI8E0SfPyFdTWpkt3AkCRSHZDTeLZa_li2kUITm3ID8Ylc0KmZd8x9Cz8K8s6lBExm925ammThk6k4Q2G2PK4H1CH4xgoE81GhLyJeF3X3HIVhwb0xcjVcDKJvASBJckBycmc19w/s1600/Prince+Harry+went+to+the+South+Pole.jpg" title="Prince Harry went to the South Pole" /></a></div><br /><h3>In early December last year, <b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/07/prince-harry-it-gets-serious-with.html" target="_blank">Prince Harry</a></b> went to the two-week trip to the South Pole. Yesterday in London held a press conference devoted to the event: during a conversation with members of the expedition revealed many interesting details. </h3><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 src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript"></script><br />For example, according to the actor Dominic West, who also took part in the march, Harry was very gregarious and easily found a common language with all participants is humanitarian expedition: <br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">great that Harry was one of us - he was part of the team. </blockquote><br />Prince turned humorist he joked a lot and even the construction marching toilets approached with humor: <br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">turned, he specializes in the construction of toilets. Harry created incredibly intricate designs - one of them, for example, was with battlements and flagpole, there was even a toilet paper holder. And here you sit in a closet and think - a real royal throne! </blockquote><br />Prince spent no less than 40 minutes to complete his creation, which subsequently appreciated by all participants of the action. <br /><br />During difficult journey Harry not just fooling around and amuse the people around him. When it comes to serious situations, the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II showed himself like a real man. <br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">When I had problems with the skis, he was among the first who volunteered to help me. Then I thought - he's a great guy! </blockquote><br /><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/11/prince-harry-arrives-in-antarctica.html" target="_blank"> Recall that Prince Harry took part in an expedition to the South Pole</a> to raise money for a military charity fund Walking With The Wounded, which provides assistance to wounded soldiers wishing to make a career in the new sphere of activity for themselves.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM1Y98gQ69j7ga9XsHc43ps0wDIX9cFDzOiepOMiBLPYNmm47WAvPQuWK-5VlqIWiXr_iZQ5LvwgdEEMqhVY3ZVBbPhbTsO_A8Uoy2B75xQxWQqENq38vj_KCocibT3AFAFpN9WzbV/s1600/Prince+Harry+went+to+the+South+Pole+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Prince Harry 2014" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM1Y98gQ69j7ga9XsHc43ps0wDIX9cFDzOiepOMiBLPYNmm47WAvPQuWK-5VlqIWiXr_iZQ5LvwgdEEMqhVY3ZVBbPhbTsO_A8Uoy2B75xQxWQqENq38vj_KCocibT3AFAFpN9WzbV/s1600/Prince+Harry+went+to+the+South+Pole+1.jpg" title="Prince Harry " /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Prince Harry went to the South Pole

              In early December last year, Prince Harry went to the two-week trip to the South Pole. Yesterday in London held a press c...

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Connect The Dots.

Let's see if you have figured this out yet or are <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/some-people-must-actively-work-at-it-to.html">one of those complete idiots that I wrote about the other day</a>, shall we?<br /><br />Stop and take a minute and remember all the financial horror stories you have heard about in the last five years.<br /><br />Greece, Spain, Ireland, the entire European Union, the record number of forclosures,the record number of people on food stamps,the record number of people who can't find a job, The TARP bailouts, The rigging of the LIBOR rate,the refusal by the Obama administration to prosecute Wall Street criminals, Too Big To Fail, all of it.<br /><br />Remember that shit?<br /><br />Now get a load of this new statistic;<br /><br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/21/85-richest-people_n_4641021.html"><b>There Are 85 People Who Are As Wealthy As Half The WORLD, Oxfam Reports </b></a></blockquote><br /><blockquote>Worldwide economic inequality is looking rather bleak these days, according to a new report by relief organization Oxfam.<br /><br />Oxfam's "Working For The Few" report looked at Credit Suisse's "Global Wealth Report 2013" and Forbes' list of the world's billionaires from 2013 to conclude that <b>1 percent of the global population controls half of the world's wealth.</b><br /><br />The report also found that the world's 85 richest people own the same amount as the bottom half of the entire global population.</blockquote><br />My emphasis.<br /><br /><br />This didn't happen by accident.<br /><br />Do you fucking get it yet?!<br /><br />

Connect The Dots.

Let's see if you have figured this out yet or are one of those complete idiots that I wrote about the other day , shall we? Stop and tak...

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Vitamin C cured pneumonia in three hours

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><img alt="http://cdn.nexternal.com/greenpharm/images/Lypo-Spheric-C-Box-and-Packs.jpg" class="decoded" height="279" src="http://cdn.nexternal.com/greenpharm/images/Lypo-Spheric-C-Box-and-Packs.jpg" width="400" /></div>Photo Credit:store.thegreenpharmacy.com<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">'Thousands have been saved from death and devastating viral diseases, such as double pneumonia, polio, and others with mega-dose injected ascorbic acid or IV solutions of sodium ascorbate. Now LET (liposomal encapsulation technology) allows six grams of orally ingested vitamin C to have the clinical results of 25 to 50 grams of mega-dose IV C.<br /><br />Liposomal C lipid encapsulated ascorbic acid molecules penetrate cells much better than the aqueous vitamin C from IVs and injections. And liposomal vitamin C is much less expensive and more accessible than IV treatments.' </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/043596_vitamin_C_natural_cures_pneumonia.html">more... </a></span><br /><div style="background-color: none; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br /></div>

Vitamin C cured pneumonia in three hours

  Photo Credit:store.thegreenpharmacy.com 'Thousands have been saved from death and devastating viral diseases, such as double pneumoni...

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