Russia Accuses The West Of Wanting A Ukraine "Sphere Of Influence"

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcTB1RlrWIiklNTH-KttX_gBJBOlzMS_cMPOdWuJDzy1XAPEAZTlJI0UKxwRBphWcVogfIJObD9P8ghbsEjGbH7lCVRPV59fGCtvZCANTf7rpFf0flOQ4e2ixUXQkqXIz85tQ-wFdwVqRT/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcTB1RlrWIiklNTH-KttX_gBJBOlzMS_cMPOdWuJDzy1XAPEAZTlJI0UKxwRBphWcVogfIJObD9P8ghbsEjGbH7lCVRPV59fGCtvZCANTf7rpFf0flOQ4e2ixUXQkqXIz85tQ-wFdwVqRT/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow's relations with the European Union have reached a "moment of truth" over Ukraine’s political crisis.<a href="http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-germany-lavrov-ukraine-syria-iran-afghanistan-economy/25263481.html"> Radio Free Europe</a></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Russia Accuses EU Of Seeking Ukraine "Sphere Of Influence" -- Reuters</b></span></div><br />* Russia, Germany both warn against interference in Ukraine<br />* German foreign minister meets Putin and Lavrov in Moscow<br />* Merkel to see Ukraine opposition leaders in Berlin next week (Adds Putin meeting German minister, details)<br /><br />MOSCOW, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Russia accused the European Union on Friday of seeking to create a "sphere of influence" on its borders by pressing Ukraine to choose closer ties with the Western bloc at the expense of relations with Moscow.<br /><br />Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sharpened Russian allegations of Western interference in its neighbour's turbulent affairs at a joint news conference after talks with his visiting German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/14/ukraine-russia-eu-idUSL5N0LJ1HH20140214">Read more </a></b>....<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>More News On Russia Accusing The West Of Wanting A Ukraine "Sphere Of Influence"</b></span></div><br /><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140214/russia-lambasts-eu-wanting-sphere-influence-ukraine">Russia lambasts EU for wanting 'sphere of influence' in Ukraine</a> -- Global Post/AFP<br /><a href="http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-germany-lavrov-ukraine-syria-iran-afghanistan-economy/25263481.html">Russia's Lavrov Again Warns West Over Meddling In Ukraine</a> -- Radio Free Europe<br /><a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/euruope/2014-02/13/c_133112818.htm">EU approach to Ukraine confrontational: Russian FM </a>-- Xinhuanet<br /><a href="http://www.dw.de/us-russia-maneuver-to-influence-ukraines-political-future/a-17424834">US, Russia maneuver to influence Ukraine's political future</a> -- Deutsche Welle<br /><a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/02/12/us-usa-russia-ukraine-insight-idINBREA1B0AR20140212">Insight: In Ukraine standoff, echoes of U.S.-Russia Cold War tensions </a>-- Warren Strobel and Matt Spetalnick, Reuters<br /><a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303704304579379042931042008?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303704304579379042931042008.html">Last Chance for Europe in Ukraine </a>-- Stephen Blank, Wall Street Journal<br /><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/2014/0213/Russia-tells-West-it-s-time-for-common-ground-on-Ukraine-or-else">Russia tells West it's time for common ground on Ukraine – or else</a> -- Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor

Russia Accuses The West Of Wanting A Ukraine "Sphere Of Influence"

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow's relations with the European Union have reached a "moment of truth" over U...

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Thoughts on Long-Term Capacity Utilization

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisLyDyK4X-P_nL8PVJVswFwyoJNgKeUA9l0XKxDRrXN9-_RNf_mZJtUQpQx_5FjSWZ3AdCG2n1tmGXM6ICKogd7-2VRAoed2-qp1Q5hlalyDCfC0xB88_1rADnt0u2Uttk-FaDnBK5MlQ/s1600/Long-Term+Capacity+Utilization.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisLyDyK4X-P_nL8PVJVswFwyoJNgKeUA9l0XKxDRrXN9-_RNf_mZJtUQpQx_5FjSWZ3AdCG2n1tmGXM6ICKogd7-2VRAoed2-qp1Q5hlalyDCfC0xB88_1rADnt0u2Uttk-FaDnBK5MlQ/s320/Long-Term+Capacity+Utilization.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />A picture's worth a thousand words.<br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=s6V">St. Louis Fed: Capacity Utilization: Total Industry</a>

Thoughts on Long-Term Capacity Utilization

Click to enlarge. A picture's worth a thousand words. Source Data: St. Louis Fed: Capacity Utilization: Total Industry

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry: President Obama Wants New Options On Syria

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhln5QiJ4JRbtUhRycntbr4EkP6uYyfjwAwsWiYC_YelPoYjjSrSKrKWHrng37pSYmZWC3Jo5mBEGH-EZE5CRCpEbGGhU0pTgfVaWw7ZM-_dHMe-Ji_UD2ZMy4K8QeFRwb_Sxx7Er1c3j4A/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhln5QiJ4JRbtUhRycntbr4EkP6uYyfjwAwsWiYC_YelPoYjjSrSKrKWHrng37pSYmZWC3Jo5mBEGH-EZE5CRCpEbGGhU0pTgfVaWw7ZM-_dHMe-Ji_UD2ZMy4K8QeFRwb_Sxx7Er1c3j4A/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures as he speaks to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (not seen) during their meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing February 14, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Diego Azubel/Pool</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Kerry Says Obama Wants New Options for Syria Strife -- New York Times</b></span></div><br />BEIJING — Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that President Obama had asked aides to develop new policy options to deal with the deteriorating situation in Syria.<br /><br />Mr. Kerry said that none of the policy options had yet been presented to the White House for a decision.<br /><br />“He has asked all of us to think about various options that may or may not exist,” Mr. Kerry said at a news conference during a visit here to meet with China’s leaders about North Korea and other regional issues.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/world/middleeast/kerry-says-obama-wants-new-options-for-syria-strife.html">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>Update #1:</b> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/14/us-syria-crisis-usa-idUSBREA1D0NC20140214">Kerry says Obama seeks Syria options, none presented yet</a> -- Reuters<br /><b>Update #2:</b> <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/obama-revisits-military-option-on-syria/5368803">Obama Revisits Military Option on Syria</a> -- Global Research<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> I am not holding my breath that a U.S. military option will be on the table when it comes to Syria.  There is no political or public will for such a U.S. intervention .... and President Obama knows that .... and so does Syria, Russia, Iran, etc..

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry: President Obama Wants New Options On Syria

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures as he speaks to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (not seen) during their meeting at the Ministry...

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Civil War In Syria -- News Updates February 14, 2014

<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/QyxLFz946eg" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Thousands Flee Syrian Town As 'Major Assault' Looms -- Reuters</b></span></div><br />(Reuters) - Thousands of people have fled a rebel-held town in Syria after it was bombed and shelled in an operation that has prompted fears of a major assault by ground troops, the United Nations said on Friday.<br /><br />The fighting came as peace talks in Geneva neared the end of a second round with the government and opposition sides as far from agreement as ever, both sticking to their known positions.<br /><br />Military action in the town of Yabroud, in western Syria near the border with Lebanon, would fit with the government's aim of securing a corridor linking Damascus with President Bashar al-Assad's heartland on the Mediterranean coast.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/14/us-syria-crisis-idUSBREA1D11920140214">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>More News On Syria's Civil War</b></span></div><br /><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/02/fighting-rages-syria-despite-peace-talks-201421215161928169.html">Fighting rages in Syria despite peace talks</a> -- Al Jazeera<br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/14/us-syria-crisis-yabroud-un-idUSBREA1D0LC20140214">U.N. fears major Syrian government assault on town of Yabroud</a> -- Reuters<br /><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140214/un-raises-alarm-over-looming-syrian-assault-rebel-town">UN raises alarm over looming Syrian assault on rebel town</a> -- Global Post/AFP<br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/14/us-syria-crisis-executions-idUSBREA1D17Z20140214">Al Qaeda splinter group executes 21 in Syria: report</a> -- Reuters<br /><a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/2014/02/14/Car-bomb-attack-outside-Syria-mosque-kills-dozens-.html">Car bomb attack outside Syria mosque kills dozens </a>-- Al Arabiya/AFP<br /><a href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/car-bomb-attack-outside-syria-mosque-kills-dozens-monitor_911519.html">Car bomb attack outside Syria mosque kills dozens: Monitor </a>-- Zee News<br /><a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-aleppo-20140214,0,7348194.story#axzz2t41LE47C">In Syria, bombardment of Aleppo brings 'a feeling of paralysis'</a> -- L.A. Times<br /><a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/25575013-418/syria-strikes-kill-400-so-far-this-month-in-aleppo.html">Syria strikes kill 400 so far this month in Aleppo</a> -- AP<br /><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/un-halts-syria-evacuations-from-homs-over-assad-regimes-detention-of-men/">U.N. halts Syria evacuations from Homs over Assad regime’s detention of men</a> -- CBS/AP<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/world/middleeast/syria.html">U.N. Security Council Urged to Act on Humanitarian Aid to Syria</a> -- New York Times<br /><a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/un-demands-access-to-syrias-needy/1851145.html">UN Demands Access to Syria's Needy </a>-- Voice of America<br /><a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2014/02/14/UN-official-says-getting-aid-to-Homs-really-isnt-a-workable-model/UPI-96011392361155/">U.N. official says getting aid to Homs really isn't a workable model </a>-- UPI<br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/13/us-syria-crisis-un-idUSBREA1C24520140213">Russia in talks on Syria aid draft, U.N. aid chief urges action</a> -- Reuters<br /><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140213/un-praises-homs-effort-warns-250000-still-trapped">UN praises Homs effort, warns 250,000 still trapped</a> -- Global Post/AFP<br /><a href="http://en.ria.ru/world/20140214/187539904/Syria-Opposition-Urges-Russia-Not-to-Block-UN-Aid-Resolution.html">Syria Opposition Urges Russia Not to Block UN Aid Resolution</a> -- RIA Novosti<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/homs-evacuees-describe-living-on-leaves/2014/02/13/b2e0082c-94f0-11e3-9e13-770265cf4962_story.html">Syrians evacuated from areas in Homs say they had to eat worms, cats to survive</a> -- Washington Post<br /><a href="http://www.trust.org/item/20140214155351-4eufd/">Appalling hardship revealed in Old City of Homs</a> -- Reuters

Civil War In Syria -- News Updates February 14, 2014

Thousands Flee Syrian Town As 'Major Assault' Looms -- Reuters (Reuters) - Thousands of people have fled a rebel-held town in Syria ...

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JUDGE: VA. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN UNCONSTITUTIONAL (BLOG)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC4e6zLFZY_1w5u4MQJkPMISXCE3rMgeuFc2xswFaLqBi2hpI9WAjmEU949XQT6iF1qlgb34UUo-jm5TceEBxVqiDy1tQk_l8X1SQRTUwNwC6xyTiOXO1K6Nid-c4aebynhdSA2uFqu7U/s1600/Judge+Wright-Allen.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/AVvXsEgC4e6zLFZY_1w5u4MQJkPMISXCE3rMgeuFc2xswFaLqBi2hpI9WAjmEU949XQT6iF1qlgb34UUo-jm5TceEBxVqiDy1tQk_l8X1SQRTUwNwC6xyTiOXO1K6Nid-c4aebynhdSA2uFqu7U/s1600/Judge+Wright-Allen.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><div class="ap-story-p" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- A federal judge has ruled that Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.</div><div class="ap-story-p" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></div><div class="ap-story-p" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">U.S. District Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen's decision Thursday makes Virginia the second state in the South to issue a ruling recognizing the legality of gay marriages.</div><div class="ap-story-p" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></div><div class="ap-story-p" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">A judge in Kentucky ruled Wednesday that the state must recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.</div><div class="ap-story-p" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> It did not rule on the constitutionality of same-sex marriages inside the state, however. </div><div class="ap-story-p" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The Virginia judge's ruling also follows similar decisions in Utah and Oklahoma federal courts.</div><div class="ap-story-p" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></div><div class="ap-story-p" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Wright stayed her decision until an appeals court rules, meaning that gay couples will not be able to marry in the state immediately.</div>

JUDGE: VA. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN UNCONSTITUTIONAL (BLOG)

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- A federal judge has ruled that Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Arenda ...

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Long-Term Industrial Production Growth

The following chart shows the annualized industrial production growth over the previous 30 years.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuMGP0K_eT2OE-Uy49rzhuRHtQzgkjjZPzKF5opDPeg7XmfReThpyYaCXJxRfAPiYFWCU1dFIyZsSif2Gh0ZVD-nvQdS1YIVp2JEqlDuEVZJnecJIwl5ypscPSadhXyI3YWx94riK_Rks/s1600/Industrial+Production+Growth+-+Long-Term.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuMGP0K_eT2OE-Uy49rzhuRHtQzgkjjZPzKF5opDPeg7XmfReThpyYaCXJxRfAPiYFWCU1dFIyZsSif2Gh0ZVD-nvQdS1YIVp2JEqlDuEVZJnecJIwl5ypscPSadhXyI3YWx94riK_Rks/s320/Industrial+Production+Growth+-+Long-Term.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />As seen in the red trend line, the growth rate is exponentially decaying over the long-term.<br /><br />The next chart shows where we are relative to the exponential decay trend line.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-i6886EdqrOR_D3Z9og5hJ7n0YW9U2hDjUrWTmjDqbFDVLl2RswuoMPLQK7s5Vpl329s01P-cZ0O50mgAekkdMonRR-cTgz6VEWuqdCCLCwYrY5tuv0voVl3LVcJP6M1h2UR9YFbprYc/s1600/Relative+to+Long-Term+Trend.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-i6886EdqrOR_D3Z9og5hJ7n0YW9U2hDjUrWTmjDqbFDVLl2RswuoMPLQK7s5Vpl329s01P-cZ0O50mgAekkdMonRR-cTgz6VEWuqdCCLCwYrY5tuv0voVl3LVcJP6M1h2UR9YFbprYc/s320/Relative+to+Long-Term+Trend.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />We're well above trend and it is not the first time.<br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=s6K">St. Louis Fed: Industrial Production Index</a>

Long-Term Industrial Production Growth

The following chart shows the annualized industrial production growth over the previous 30 years. Click to enlarge. As seen in the red trend...

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Syria 'Peace Talks' End In Failure

<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/fBJrKxgpYqU" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Syria Peace Talks In Geneva End In Failure -- CBS News</b></span></div><br />GENEVA -- The opposing sides in Syria’s vicious civil war ended another round of peace talks Friday in Geneva with no indication as to when the delegates from President Bashar Assad’s government and the U.S.-backed opposition would sit down again together, nor any tangible progress in the dialogue aimed at ending three years of bloodshed.<br /><br />The second round of U.N.-sponsored negotiations yielded little more than acrimony. Violence has escalated on the ground and delegates have not agreed on an agenda for the talks.<br /><br />The opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) maintains that the only way forward is lay out a plan for a transitional government to guide Syria towards peace -- a transition government in which it insists Assad must play no part.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/syria-peace-talks-in-geneva-end-in-failure/">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>More News On The Syrian Peace Talks Ending In Failure</b></span></div><br /><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/02/syria-rivals-declare-impasse-peace-talks-20142141545568121.html">Syria rivals declare impasse in peace talks</a> -- Al Jazeera<br /><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-russia-unblock-syria-stalemate-22501677">Syrian Delegates Declare Impasse in Peace Talks </a>-- ABC News/AP<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/14/world/meast/syria-peace-talks/">Syrian peace talks going nowhere</a> -- CNN<br /><a href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/no-progress-in-peace-talks-syrian-foes_911517.html">'No progress' in peace talks: Syrian foes </a>-- Zee News<br /><a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/syria-peace-talks-set-to-end-with-no-progress/1851389.html">Syria Peace Talks Set to End with No Progress </a>-- Voice of America<br /><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/02/14/russian-foreign-minister-syria-peace-talks-going-in-circles-us-seeks-only/">Russian foreign minister: Syria peace talks going in circles, US seeks only 'regime change'</a> -- FOX News/AP<br /><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-syria-crisis-talks-usa-20140214,0,88600.story">U.S. says Russia must stop Syrian stonewalling at peace talks </a>-- Reuters<br /><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/14/latest-syria-talksfizzleoutamidrussiausstandoff.html">Syria talks fizzle amid Russia-US standoff </a>-- Al Jazeera

Syria 'Peace Talks' End In Failure

Syria Peace Talks In Geneva End In Failure -- CBS News GENEVA -- The opposing sides in Syria’s vicious civil war ended another round of peac...

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Wheelwright Prize Deadline Is Tomorrow

The deadline for registration for the <a href="http://www.wheelwrightprize.org/">2014 Wheelwright Prize</a> is tomorrow, February 15. The prize from the Harvard GSD is "a $100,000 traveling fellowship open to talented early-career architects worldwide proposing exceptional itineraries for research and discovery." <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2013/05/wheres-wheelright.html">Last year's winner</a> – the first prize that looked outside of the GSD – was Brooklyn-based architect Gia Wolff.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wheelwrightprize.org/"><img border="0" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXTFXvXR3kntshHaKejAVXnbUfk-I7tMkzSZckL1vpHniq7Y5qe1lLTqcfgR1qIDSjuHWrQGrUYOi5M790VQXai70SbIorsK7eMnoSxjW1U26EJ7JWjhiORdMoGVI8gM-c6Q59bimsAlbY/s1600/wp-logo.png" width="640" /></a><br /><br />Some general information from the <a href="http://www.wheelwrightprize.org/">Wheelright Prize website</a>:<br /><blockquote>The Wheelwright Prize is a $100,000 travel-based research grant that is awarded annually to early-career architects who have demonstrated exceptional design talent, produced work of scholarly and professional merit, and who show promise for continued creative work.<br /><br />Throughout its history, Harvard GSD has had a strong global outlook, attracting deans, faculty, and students from all over the world. Moreover, a mainstay of the GSD curriculum is its traveling studio, which emphasizes the acceptance of ideas and practices with a diversity of origins. The Wheelwright Prize extends the school’s ethos, encouraging a broad-minded approach to architecture that seeks inspiration from unexpected quarters.<br /><br />The Wheelwright Prize is intended to spur innovative research during the early stage of an architect's professional career. Now open to applicants from all over the world—no affiliation to Harvard GSD required—the prize aims to foster new forms of research informed by cross-cultural engagement. "The idea is not just about travel—the act of going and seeing the world—but it is about binding the idea of geography to themes and issues that hold great potential relevance to contemporary practice," says Harvard GSD Dean Mohsen Mostafavi.<br /><br />The winner will be selected via an open call for proposals and a rigorous review process. The winner of the Wheelwright Prize will receive:<br /><ul><li>$100,000 cash prize to support travel and research-related costs</li><li>invitation to lecture at Harvard GSD</li><li>possibility to publish research in a Harvard GSD publication</li></ul><br />The Wheelwright Prize organizing committee includes Harvard GSD Dean Mohsen Mostafavi, Professors K. Michael Hays and Jorge Silvetti, and Assistant Dean Benjamin Prosky.</blockquote>

Wheelwright Prize Deadline Is Tomorrow

The deadline for registration for the 2014 Wheelwright Prize is tomorrow, February 15. The prize from the Harvard GSD is "a $100,000 t...

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Mob Wives: Recap “Renee’s Had Enough,” Ep 411

<div style="text-align: center;"><img height="300" src="http://vh1.mtvnimages.com/sitewide/promoimages/shows/m/mob_wives_4/promo/411c/140x105.jpg?quality=0.85" width="400" /></div><br />It’s not just Renee who has had enough, I think we all have…about lots of things…things we do not want to hear about any more! Here goes, and excuse me if I'm not all fired up this week...<br /><br />Drita’s house. Renee arrives for THE sit down. Drita cooks the dinner and appoints herself “mediator.” Alicia, Natalie and Ang are already sitting and waiting at the table. Natalie is annoyed the second she sees Renee’s face, and Alicia has an attitude about Renee. Nobody is talking. Renee tells Alicia to eat something, but Alicia is a basket-case over her sentencing. And, I feel like we are all serving a sentence every time we have to hear her whine…you did the crime, now do the time (if there is any)! Alicia speaks for both herself and Natalie. Alicia accuses Renee of spreading rumors about her that are going to jeopardize her case. Renee says she would never do such a thing. There’s nothing like going on a reality show to keep your life private, right Alicia? They rehash the sentencing (again, oy vey) and Alicia suddenly attributes their issues to a “miscommunication.” Alicia says she doesn’t know who leaked the information about her, but she NOW realizes it’s no one at the table. Gee, just like that? Renee says this all started with her friend, Carla, coming up. Drita, the voice of reason and newly self-appointed mediator, says Carla is Renee’s friend for life and Renee’s loyalty lies with her. On the other hand, Renee has known Eddie, as a friend, for 30 years, so her loyalty lies with him. Natalie chimes in. She defended Alicia because she is her friend, and Renee says she understands her sticking up for Alicia. Alicia wants Renee to come to her directly when she hears anyone say something. Alicia is trying to keep her friendship with Renee and move past these issues since Renee has been Eddie’s friend for 30 years. Now all the air is cleared and they all got to eat! They even got to dessert. Drita is proud of herself. What? Just like that all the issues are resolved in a kumbaya moment? Is this for real? Of course not. Something doesn’t have the ring of truth to it. What the hell changed to get everyone so warm and fuzzy and agreeable, especially between Renee and Natalie? Way too much happened to just kiss and makeup. Next!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTfwB8hHyg1mXcFvMrVc7qeneiAJWl1_3ej7JgjVL6QN5NOkdzxUBlYIIm7xyohXYXRSbLkymXxe6SquoyUiK9EAjg0_FBCmpZ6hm9ToDUb4Hl1Uwpkjy-RXO2xe6DTTrKa1criz57nEU/s1600/Drita+Penny.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTfwB8hHyg1mXcFvMrVc7qeneiAJWl1_3ej7JgjVL6QN5NOkdzxUBlYIIm7xyohXYXRSbLkymXxe6SquoyUiK9EAjg0_FBCmpZ6hm9ToDUb4Hl1Uwpkjy-RXO2xe6DTTrKa1criz57nEU/s1600/Drita+Penny.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Can't we all just get along? I want PEACE!</span></b></div><br /><br />Drita is at her second store location, the grand opening is soon. She is pissed because the work isn’t moving as fast as it should. Drita lost her money in Vegas and she needs to make more money. She hates the red color paint they show her, they got the wrong color. Drita is building an empire for her daughters to pay for college. Drita loves her Lady Boss sign! She still has a lot to do before the Grand Opening. Well at least the opening of the store is real, but I’m not that interested in it.<br /><br />Natalie and London are wandering around looking at apartments. Looks like they are in Brooklyn, but who really cares? The building has no elevators and they keep climbing stairs up to the nosebleed floor. How the high up is this apartment already? Natalie immediately notices there is no closet space in the apartment. Where in the world will she put all that skimpy lingerie? The bedroom for her son is too small, there is no washer or dryer, and no freakin’ elevator. The Real Estate agent says for all those things she would have to pay $2,000 a month more. London doesn’t want to pay that much. Either he is cheap or has a low income. She says she has a mortgage free house in SOUTH Philly and she doesn’t really want to move into a small ass apartment. She says they need a three bedroom apartment. He doesn’t get it, two bedrooms are enough. She says what if they have a baby. He says he isn’t ready for a baby. He doesn’t want a more expensive apartment. He wants to party. She says they have a nine year old, they can’t party. She leaves. She wants a husband and a family and doesn’t want to be the one making all the sacrifices. Now this was a waste of time filler scene that no one cared about. However, for the first time I do agree with Natalie, she needs to stay in her mortgage free house in SOUTH Philly.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgriflW0dKePkA2M7EwPthWNLJS5TwDgUqu1eburdwHnDZRrHZSSjpS3ZsykUMxDcccZhK5L0va7nWFPxztyIOuOdGmgh61sNk3sBGx9NIhdbDbC651OHmQXI2_iUak0zqyKGXVW0vD8L8/s1600/Alicia+Penny.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgriflW0dKePkA2M7EwPthWNLJS5TwDgUqu1eburdwHnDZRrHZSSjpS3ZsykUMxDcccZhK5L0va7nWFPxztyIOuOdGmgh61sNk3sBGx9NIhdbDbC651OHmQXI2_iUak0zqyKGXVW0vD8L8/s1600/Alicia+Penny.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The naive Goddess has spoken, but who is listening?</b></span></div><br />At the Goddess’ house, Alicia says she is relieved she patched things up with Renee (what a load off her mind, right?) and can focus on her sentencing. The bank is closing all her bank accounts…all nine of them. Gee, I wonder why? Maybe they think there could be some embezzled pension money chilling in there? Or maybe they are afraid she will hide the money so she doesn’t have to pay restitution? Anyway, she keeps claiming it’s her money, but who is going to believe her?  And, she is still freaking crying over Eddie’s betrayal, but she keeps saying she isn’t with him any more, hasn’t been with him for a long time. I even heard she served him with divorce papers. The kids don’t know her sentencing is only a week away. She has to break it to them. She is scared and she would rather not think about it. She wants to be strong for her boys. If she ends up in jail it will be devastating because her boys won’t have their father or mother. Boo hoo, more crying. All she ever wanted was her family and now everything has fallen apart because she was naïve (insert extreme eye roll <@@> here). Now she has to struggle and she didn’t sign up for this, boo hoo, boo hoo. I think I have exhausted all I can say about Alicia and her situation. This poor horse has been beaten to death.<br /><br />Lady Boss Grand Opening. Drita is excited because it has all come together. Alicia arrives at the store with a gift basket and she loves it. She says it’s very chic. Renee loves it. Ang loves it. It’s all fancy and her kind of style, says Ang. Drita went from giving black eyes to blue eyes, says Renee. Renee asks Alicia about court. Alicia says she is just waiting. London and Natalie show up. They both look like they are dressed from “The 70’s Show.” I’ll have to ask Fashionista to look into this retro look. London says Natalie will not respect the budget he has in his mind, so they will live in separate states. Yes! Natalie wants  more of a commitment and Alicia speaks to London about it. She doesn’t want London to hurt her. Drita is glad there is no tension or awkwardness between the girls today. They toast to the store. Another filler scene. You know what? I am getting the impression that Drita made the best deal this season. Not only did she make a pile of money from being on the show, she got a load of free advertisement for her new store.<br /><br />Renee’s house. Alicia calls, she just got home from Christmas shopping with the boys. Renee tells her she is pissed with Natalie over her disrespectful tweets. Renee says she hasn’t said or done anything to her since they met at Drita’s. Renee tells her she tweeted she doesn’t condone women who sleep with married men and Natalie tweets that Renee wasn’t Eddie‘s friend and called her a lying dirty ho. Forgive me if I got this wrong, but I didn’t find the actual tweets. Renee feels she was attacked by Natalie on Twitter. Alicia wants Renee to tell all this to Natalie, not her. Renee thought they were past all the BS and now Natalie disrespects her on Twitter. Renee’s had enough! I have had enough too!<br /><br />Oh Lord, Ang and Neil are at the fertility clinic. Neil’s sperm + an egg donor + a surrogate = baby. The whole thing sounds and looks like a big joke. Neil actually already looks pregnant with that beer belly he is carrying around. Ang is making a comedy out of the whole thing. If they are going to attempt to use this as a storyline, at least make it a little believable. It’s totally bogus and I don’t find it funny.<br /><br />Alicia’s house. She is with the boys, writing letters to Eddie. The phone rings and it’s Eddie, surprise surprise…yawn. The boys pass the phone around very fast and then Alicia gets on. We never hear Eddie’s voice, like we did with Lee. Alicia says Eddie got the best case scenario for his sentencing. She seems to be arguing with “Eddie,” but we can’t hear his end of the conversation, so who really knows? I. for one, think she was talking to the producer and role playing. One of the boys asks her what did dad do. She says he made some mistakes and had to go away. She tells them she got involved in his mistakes and might have to go away too. She asks them to write her letters if she goes away. She is preparing her children for the possibility they might have nether parent for a while. No offense to the children, or maybe they edited it to look that way, but they didn’t have much of a reaction to the news. No one, except maybe Alicia, seems broken up about the possibility of her going to jail…makes me think she has a plea deal that doesn’t involve doing time and she has been pulling the wool over our eyes all season long. Hmmmm.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggID3Jl8DiAKRFa9NwVaEss1UgVAFElKEi2LaedQLiAW1kQM-R7_45DG3hPjUuNPUtpMKCai3pI5XafK872pA5x0XXmOSERaa353GmapP71U2tmIs0PblvqTKhp1Z8tPucQDtA70209ec/s1600/alicia's+underwear.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggID3Jl8DiAKRFa9NwVaEss1UgVAFElKEi2LaedQLiAW1kQM-R7_45DG3hPjUuNPUtpMKCai3pI5XafK872pA5x0XXmOSERaa353GmapP71U2tmIs0PblvqTKhp1Z8tPucQDtA70209ec/s1600/alicia's+underwear.JPG" width="318" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ok, what's up with this attire? A fashion statement?</b></span></div><br />Renee rents out a beautiful suite in New York City for a pajama “Ho Ho Ho” party. Everyone loves it. Renee is in a great mood…as long as one person doesn’t come…Natalie. Alicia tells the girls that Renee is upset with Natalie over something she tweeted which may have been below the belt. They go ask Renee what happened. Renee explains what happened on Twitter. Natalie says “You were never his friend you lying dirty Ho.” Drita is pissed because they have already made peace. Ang says the peace was too good to be true and is disappointed in Natalie for breaking the truce. Renee says Natalie is out of control, out of line, and needs to go back to Philadelphia. I think @dondig should do me a favor and drive her there right now. Alicia goes upstairs to see what the problem is with Renee. Alicia agrees Natalie was out of line, but she can’t control her. Renee feels people are looking at her sideways because of  what Natalie said. Drita just wants PEACE, she is tired of them all bickering like animals. Renee’s had enough! I have to laugh. Drita, the fighter, wants peace. Ang and Drita are suddenly sticking up for Renee. Even Alicia is siding with Renee before even talking to Natalie! Is anyone as confused as I am right now? What did Drita put in her brownies at dinner?<br /><br />So Mob Wives is ending their season with a fight about tweets? That’s all they could come up with? If so, please pass me some of Drita’s brownies for me and my entourage…thanks.<br /><br /><br />

Mob Wives: Recap “Renee’s Had Enough,” Ep 411

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Les Maisons de l'Emploi agissent pour l'emploi dans les territoires

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Libya Military Coup Fears Escalate With General's Announcement

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbj1W0rjPBYbocJsHGLCKxsheQmlPsRUMycF5IraKQqjfE0cUqJLeTA-QVoUHDePzaADI8gfRHNJQNM-zwkEjc3fA_JGPhYAntwQaLsWmMLUE91-cLIiHKQwSBI3YHgjX0dBDV5kN4nr7/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbj1W0rjPBYbocJsHGLCKxsheQmlPsRUMycF5IraKQqjfE0cUqJLeTA-QVoUHDePzaADI8gfRHNJQNM-zwkEjc3fA_JGPhYAntwQaLsWmMLUE91-cLIiHKQwSBI3YHgjX0dBDV5kN4nr7/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Libya General Khalifa Haftar. <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/libya-military-coup-fears-general-khalifa-haftar-calls-suspension-parliament-1436410">@faisalalshrafi</a></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Libya Military Coup Fears: General Khalifa Haftar Calls for Suspension of Parliament -- IBTimes</b></span></div><br />A Libyan general has called for the suspension of the interim parliament and the formation of a presidential committee amid rumours that a coup d'état was under way in the troubled country.<br /><br />Major General Khalifa Haftar reportedly took control of Libya's main institutions and announced the radical move with a televised statement.<br /><br />"The national command of the Libyan army is declaring a movement for the new road map," Haftar said adding that the armed forces were calling for the country to be "rescued" from its upheaval.<br /><br />"We will hold meeting with different parties and groups regarding implementing this roadmap," he said.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/libya-military-coup-fears-general-khalifa-haftar-calls-suspension-parliament-1436410">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>More News On Libya Military Coup Fears</b></span></div><br /><a href="http://www.euronews.com/2014/02/14/libya-possibility-of-coup-as-army-general-calls-for-suspension-of-government/">Libya: possibility of coup as army general calls for suspension of government</a> -- Euronews<br /><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/world/middle-east/2014/02/14/libya-army-head-calls-for-government-disbanding/Vvk7KKWwMbW6ftjpD97nzO/story.html">A general's video sparks coup confusion in Libya </a>-- Boston.com/AP<br /><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/02/libyan-general-wants-parliament-suspended-2014214111452905729.html">Libya denies coup bid after general's comment</a> -- Al Jazeera<br /><a href="http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=387782">Libyan commander claims control of military sites, army denies</a> -- Turkish Press<br /><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/libya-major-general-khalifa-haftar-declares-govt-suspended-in-apparent-coup-bid/">Libya Major General Khalifa Haftar claims gov't suspended in apparent coup bid; PM insists Tripoli "under control"</a> -- CBS/Reuters<br /><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/177470#.Uv5MgoW0ykM">Senior Libyan Army Officer Calls for Suspension of Parliament </a>-- Arutz Sheva<br /><a href="http://www.albawaba.com/news/libya-under-control-554546">Libya's PM: situation is 'under control'</a> -- Al Bawaba<br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/14/libya-crisis-idUSL5N0LJ1CS20140214">Libyan PM says government safe after army statement</a> -- Reuters

Libya Military Coup Fears Escalate With General's Announcement

Libya General Khalifa Haftar. @faisalalshrafi Libya Military Coup Fears: General Khalifa Haftar Calls for Suspension of Parliament -- IBTime...

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'Dance Moms' Star Sues Abby Miller Is a 300 lb. Beast Who Tried to Bite Me (BLOG)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAfoF4AIrt5sX3uJmO4PuncjB73tQv_YRbV6VA7uU0tXDgbXeGWndVCrN87oDHXM4ojDCuKEtyktW5zT4Q09e3WZ-KrrkmFpxFwBi6GkcPYJyuWu2TRqpohsxXx490dMY6YBquFutiGYs/s1600/abby-kelly-tmz-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAfoF4AIrt5sX3uJmO4PuncjB73tQv_YRbV6VA7uU0tXDgbXeGWndVCrN87oDHXM4ojDCuKEtyktW5zT4Q09e3WZ-KrrkmFpxFwBi6GkcPYJyuWu2TRqpohsxXx490dMY6YBquFutiGYs/s1600/abby-kelly-tmz-3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600;">Abby Lee Miller</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> is a huge and vicious bully who attacked one of her </span><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600;">"Dance Moms"</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> co-stars like a rabid dog ... this according to a new lawsuit filed by the alleged victim who's looking for at least $5 million.</span><br style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600;">Kelly Hyland</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> just filed a lawsuit against Abby over the knock-down drag-out catfight TMZ first reported last month ... where the two women came to blows during a rehearsal in NYC.</span><br style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In the suit ... Hyland, a regular on the show, claims she got fed up with Abby yelling at her 2 daughters -- but when she attempted to leave ... Abby jumped in front of her and started yelling and lunging toward her.</span><br style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hyland goes on to describe a Cujo-like attack ... claiming, in the docs, Abby was "gnashing her teeth loudly attempting to bite [me]."</span><br style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Then she added this gem ...  "Miller is a very large woman" who she believes "weighs around 300 pounds or so." </span><br style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In the docs, Kelly says she slapped Abby and pulled her head away, but only in self-defense. The brawl aired -- pretty much how Kelly describes it -- this week on </span><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600;">Lifetime</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="394" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e9c2K9H9tAo" style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" width="700"></iframe><br style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Kelly also claims producers intentionally drove her away from the fight and put her on a plane -- knowing police would issue a warrant for her arrest ... and thereby create a juicy story line.</span><br style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hyland is suing Abby and the "Dance Moms" producers for assault, defamation, and breach of contract -- she claims she hasn't been getting paid regularly since the fight. She also wants $5 mil in punitive damages.</span><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /><br />-TMZ</span>

'Dance Moms' Star Sues Abby Miller Is a 300 lb. Beast Who Tried to Bite Me (BLOG)

Abby Lee Miller  is a huge and vicious bully who attacked one of her  "Dance Moms"  co-stars like a rabid dog ... this according t...

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Terror Attack Reported In China's Restive Xinjiang Province

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-X6OdyJxN6k8NiliGCftGqOksKnh3TeZfK8t4grnL_mEmkWzBkOiHZu4uRA0ExCv9zSU_r5ByzmDpx4LLC3ujIoQQh3-CdFwPRdOqBYdIVzoN1dh9wu3wxjR7vhpSOB6RsTGxptU9Lyq2/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-X6OdyJxN6k8NiliGCftGqOksKnh3TeZfK8t4grnL_mEmkWzBkOiHZu4uRA0ExCv9zSU_r5ByzmDpx4LLC3ujIoQQh3-CdFwPRdOqBYdIVzoN1dh9wu3wxjR7vhpSOB6RsTGxptU9Lyq2/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A photo shows damaged police vehicles after a terrorist attack on Friday February 14, 2014 in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Eight terrorists were killed by police and three others by their own suicide devices in the attack in Wushi county of Aksu Prefecture, according to police sources. [<a href="http://english.cri.cn/11354/2014/02/14/191s813004.htm">Photo: ts.cn</a>]</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>15 Dead In "Terrorist Attack" In China's Xinjiang -- Channel News Agency</b></span></div><br /><i>A total of 15 people died in an "attack" in China's Xinjiang region on Friday, with eight "terrorists" shot dead by police and three blowing themselves up, having killed four people, authorities said</i>.<br /><br />BEIJING: A total of 15 people died in an "attack" in China's Xinjiang region on Friday, with eight "terrorists" shot dead by police and three blowing themselves up, having killed four people, authorities said.<br /><br />The incident in Aksu prefecture is the latest violence in the restive region home to mostly Muslim ethnic Uighurs.<br /><br />"Eight terrorists were killed by police and three by their own suicide bomb during a terrorist attack Friday afternoon," the Xinhua official news agency said, citing police.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/15-dead-in-terrorist/998148.html">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>More News On Today's Terror Attack In China</b></span></div><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5giX5gyizMo9_dqR8ysx5NilCsnSw?docId=3d5f7f86-3bb6-468e-b280-8c1e4cbc6db2">15 dead in 'terrorist attack' in China's Xinjiang</a> -- AFP<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/xinhua-police-kill-terrorists-in-attack-in-west/2014/02/14/f0a19d80-956b-11e3-ae45-458927ccedb6_story.html">Chinese police kill ‘terrorists’ in attack in west </a>-- Washington Post/AP<br /><a href="http://english.cri.cn/11354/2014/02/14/191s813004.htm">11 Terrorists Dead in Xinjiang Attack </a>-- CRI English<br /><a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-02/14/c_133116298.htm">Several terrorists killed in Xinjiang attack</a> -- Xinhua<br /><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/14/china-kills-elevenaterroristsainxinjiang1.html">China kills 11 '€˜terrorists'€™ in Xinjiang</a> -- Al Jazeera<br /><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/11-terrorists-killed-in-new-Xinjiang-unrest-China-says/articleshow/30405866.cms">11 'terrorists' killed in new Xinjiang unrest, China says</a> -- Times of India/Reuters<br /><a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/11-terrorists-dead-in-shootout-with-chinese-police-report/1851254.html">11 'Terrorists' Dead in Shootout with Chinese Police: Report</a> -- Voice of America<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/14/world/asia/china-xinjiang-violence/">China: 11 'terrorists' killed in restive Xinjiang region </a>-- CNN

Terror Attack Reported In China's Restive Xinjiang Province

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10 Horrifying Things Doctors Don’t Tell You (BLOG)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEzR5rq5Ir0B07Xn3udpNylRM0EDAtgqzDalQMmF_TppUJ685ODeJQqvgoAtzk7Ba81xx02-S6P1OHQm0RmUsaGPj_xT34Qg2t6KZ7uRQr71jGkymAteq-6JSB19DQxXZLfRVYJtMOzis/s1600/dd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEzR5rq5Ir0B07Xn3udpNylRM0EDAtgqzDalQMmF_TppUJ685ODeJQqvgoAtzk7Ba81xx02-S6P1OHQm0RmUsaGPj_xT34Qg2t6KZ7uRQr71jGkymAteq-6JSB19DQxXZLfRVYJtMOzis/s1600/dd.jpg" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">As a modern culture, we tend to put our faith wholeheartedly in doctors. They’re the experts, and more often than not we take their advice without question. But what we don’t take into account is that many of these doctors either don’t have a clue or actively withhold information that could be putting your life in jeopardy. And if you think that sounds sensationalist, take a look at these facts—facts that doctors know about but which they conveniently forget to mention as you sign the bill.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 219); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: #343434; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.1; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><span style="background-color: #d24d33; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: TitilliumMedium, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 52px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 70px; line-height: 70px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 70px;">10</span>Cancer Isn’t Always Cancer</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><img alt="03" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-63370" height="393" src="http://i2.wp.com/listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/039.jpg?resize=632%2C415" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" width="598" /><br />The worst possible outcome of a trip to the doctor is a diagnosis of the Big C. We’re so terrified of it that even the word is taboo in some places, and the medical community lives by one maxim: early diagnosis. The earlier you find the cancer, the more easily you can treat it. But such enthusiasm can easily lead to false positives, and treating something that isn’t there can be dangerous.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">We’re not just making that up. Mammograms are famous for misdiagnosing breast cancer, since every little anomaly in the breast can look like a tumor. The most common misdiagnosis is with DCIS, or Ductal Carcinoma In Situ. Despite the “carcinoma” in there, <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/11/28/166064484/more-women-choose-double-mastectomy-but-study-says-many-dont-need-it" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">DCIS isn’t really cancerous</a> ; only rarely does it turn into cancer, and practically <a href="http://www.imaginis.com/breast-health-news/new-study-reveals-near-100-survival-rate-in-dcis-patients-regardless-of-treatment-dateline-december" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">everyone with DCIS survives</a>, no matter what kind of treatment they get.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">But when doctors quote cancer statistics, they usually lump in DCIS, which now accounts for about <a href="http://www2.mdanderson.org/depts/oncolog/articles/10/1-jan/1-10-compass.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">30 percent of breast cancer “cases”</a> in the US. And when faced with that option, most people choose to undergo “<a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/report-suggests-sweeping-changes-to-cancer-detection-and-treatment/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">needless and sometimes disfiguring and harmful treatments</a>” to get rid of something that, statistically, will do less harm than the treatments themselves.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 219); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: #343434; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.1; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><span style="background-color: #d24d33; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: TitilliumMedium, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 52px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 70px; line-height: 70px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 70px;">9</span>Some Vaccines Fail</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><img alt="02" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-63369" height="393" src="http://i1.wp.com/listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/0213.jpg?resize=632%2C415" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" width="598" /><br />In 2012, the US saw the worst outbreak of whooping cough since 1955. And that’s strange, considering that we’ve been vaccinating against it for over 50 years. Whooping cough is caused by two types of bacteria, <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bordatella pertussis</span> and <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bortatella parapertussis</span>, but the vaccine—the DTaP—is only designed to fight the first one, <en>B. Pertussis. Which doesn’t seem too bad. Getting rid of half the problem is better than doing nothing, right?</en></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><a href="http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/02/26/rspb.2010.0010.full" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">Not quite</a>. In all these years of exclusively pounding away at one of the causes, the second type of bacteria has been flourishing, to the point that receiving the vaccine causes <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">B. parapertussis</span> lung infections to grow 40 times as large as they would normally. And recently, the vaccine has also been less effective on the things it’s actually supposed to treat. In 2011, the CDC nearly <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6001a4.htm?s_cid=mm6001a4_w" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">doubled their recommendations</a> for the vaccine, saying you need three initial shots of DTaP followed by three additional shots if you expect it to work.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">That’s because vaccines can actually strengthen viruses. They can’t rewire the human genome (and you can dismiss links to autism as alarmist nonsense) but vaccines can stimulate mutations in the viruses they fight. China found that out in the worst possible way when their Hepatitis B vaccines caused the virus to begin <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131007112117.htm" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">mutating twice as fast</a> as it normally would. We’ve been seeing the same thing happen with the <a href="http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/ScienceResearch/ucm290700.htm" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">flu virus</a>—vaccines basically just fuel the virus’s instinct to survive.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 219); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: #343434; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.1; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><span style="background-color: #d24d33; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: TitilliumMedium, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 52px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 70px; line-height: 70px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 70px;">8</span>Prescription Drugs Can Cause Diabetes</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><img alt="01" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-63368" height="393" src="http://i1.wp.com/listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/017.jpg?resize=632%2C415" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" width="598" /><br />Type 2 diabetes is caused when your body either doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t effectively use all the insulin it makes. The result is a buildup of glucose, or sugar, in the bloodstream, which starts damaging nerves and blood vessels over time. About <a href="http://www.webmd.com/diabetes/guide/type-2-diabetes" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">2.3 million Americans</a> have type 2 diabetes, and the numbers rise every year.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">It turns out that some of the most commonly prescribed drugs, like antidepressants, might be causing it. In 2011, there were 46.7 million prescriptions given out to treat depression in the UK alone. When researchers at the University of Southampton looked at the numbers, they found that people who took two of the most common types of antidepressants, SSRIs and tricyclic antidepressants, were <a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/266553.php" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">twice as likely</a> to develop diabetes. And sure, those findings were released in 2013, but we’ve known about the link <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080325122804.htm" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">since 2008</a> and yet millions more are prescribed on a monthly basis.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">And it gets worse—some of the most common drugs used to treat ADHD in children can <a href="http://children.webmd.com/news/20130821/antipsychotic-drugs-may-triple-kids-diabetes-risk-study-suggests" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">triple the risk</a> of type 2 diabetes. More often than not, that’s a lifelong condition, and kids don’t even get the choice to refuse.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 219); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: #343434; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.1; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><span style="background-color: #d24d33; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: TitilliumMedium, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 52px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 70px; line-height: 70px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 70px;">7</span>Some Medications Increase Cancer Risk</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><img alt="04" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-63371" height="393" src="http://i1.wp.com/listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/049.jpg?resize=632%2C415" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" width="598" /><br />Now that we’ve assuaged some of your worries about cancer, let’s go ahead and kick everything back up again.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">Blood pressure medications can almost <a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/264446.php" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">triple your risk of aggressive breast cancer</a>. In the US alone, about 58.6 million people take medication for high blood pressure, so you’d think the cancer link would be more well-known.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">The study that discovered this relationship looked at 1,763 women with breast cancer. Those who used a particular type of blood pressure medicine—calcium channel blockers—were 2.5 times more likely to develop cancer. The risk is greater in elderly women over the age of 55, and it likely happens because calcium channel blockers prevent cells from dying. If cells can’t complete their normal life cycle, they go rogue and become cancerous.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">But even that wouldn’t be a problem if the medication weren’t so grossly over-prescribed. In a review of one hospital, 150 out of 161 doctors prescribed calcium channel blockers to their patients. But how many of those doctors told their patients about the risks? <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21243854" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">Only eight</a>. That’s a potentially deadly lapse in duty.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 219); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: #343434; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.1; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><span style="background-color: #d24d33; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: TitilliumMedium, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 52px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 70px; line-height: 70px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 70px;">6</span>Aspirin Can Cause Internal Bleeding</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><img alt="05" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-63372" height="393" src="http://i1.wp.com/listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/058.jpg?resize=632%2C415" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" width="598" /><br />One of the more common pieces of advice from doctors is that you should take a low dose of <a href="http://www.cigna.com/healthwellness/hw/medical-topics/low-dose-aspirin-therapy-te7903spec" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">aspirin every day</a>. The idea is that it serves as a maintenance treatment to prevent blood clots, which can cause heart attacks and strokes. But what they don’t tell you is the small fact that doing so can trigger massive internal bleeding.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">Researchers found that, out of 10,000 people, a daily dose of aspirin prevented 46 people from dying over the course of 10 years. But they also found that 49 people out of the same 10,000 experienced major internal bleeding, and another 117 started bleeding in their gastrointestinal tract. So there may be some benefits, but there may be an even higher chance that<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10532202/A-daily-aspirin-might-do-more-harm-than-good.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">something will go horribly wrong</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">On top of that, aspirin doesn’t actually work for everyone. Some people have aspirin-resistant platelets, which negates any positive effect you might get from the aspirin. But since we have <a href="http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/507660_5" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">no way to test for that</a>, doctors never know if they’re recommending a dud treatment or not.</div><div class="adman" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; left: 147px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><div style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"></div><div id="div-gpt-ad-1358325249632-5" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 280px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div id="div-gpt-ad-1358325249632-5_ad_container" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ins style="background-color: #ffff99; border: 0px; color: black; display: inline-table; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 280px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom; width: 336px;"><ins style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 280px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 336px;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="280" id="google_ads_iframe_/9649879/LV_PERM_Article_middle_0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="google_ads_iframe_/9649879/LV_PERM_Article_middle_0" scrolling="no" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; left: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="336"></iframe></ins></ins></div></div></div><h2 style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 219); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: #343434; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.1; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><span style="background-color: #d24d33; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: TitilliumMedium, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 52px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 70px; line-height: 70px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 70px;">5</span>Heartburn Drugs Have Deadly Side Effects</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><img alt="06" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-63373" height="393" src="http://i0.wp.com/listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/069.jpg?resize=632%2C415" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" width="598" /><br />One of the main problems with medications is that, while they usually do a decent job of treating what they’re supposed to treat, they often cause horrible side effects. And even though it’s the doctor’s job to tell people about those side effects, sometimes that just doesn’t happen. For example, proton pump inhibitors, a type of heartburn drug marketed under the brand names Nexium and Prilosec, have been linked to <a href="http://www.yourlawyer.com/topics/overview/proton_pump_inhibitors" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">bone decay</a>, <a href="http://www.aboutbirthdefects.org/nexium-lawsuit/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">birth defects</a>, and an inability to absorb vitamin B12, which can lead to <a href="http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/817655" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">permanent neurological damage</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">Despite that, Nexium was the single <a href="http://www.drugs.com/stats/top100/2012/sales" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">most prescribed drug in 2012</a>, and in many cases it doesn’t even work. It’s usually prescribed to treat Barrett’s esophagus, which is when excess stomach acid burns the lining of the esophagus, but the pills <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2036.2006.02825.x/abstract;jsessionid=CD8EA042728791194BEC585E7A70BAAD.f03t03" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">don’t do a thing</a> for the condition. Pediatricians have even started prescribing these <a href="http://www.livescience.com/16636-acid-reflux-drugs-overused-babies.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">meds to infants</a>, even though it’s been proven that doing so can actually cause <a href="http://www.cfp.ca/content/59/2/153.full" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">permanent intestinal disorders</a>.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 219); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: #343434; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.1; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><span style="background-color: #d24d33; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: TitilliumMedium, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 52px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 70px; line-height: 70px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 70px;">4</span>“Safe” X-Rays Still Cause Cancer</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><img alt="07" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-63374" height="393" src="http://i0.wp.com/listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/0710.jpg?resize=632%2C415" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" width="598" /><br />It’s a well-known fact that gamma radiation and X-rays carry the risk of kickstarting cancer. Now, we’re constantly exposed to radiation just by being alive, so there’s a general guideline for “safe exposure” to X-rays, which the medical profession sticks to when they look for broken bones or give you a mammogram. Radiation is measured in units called sieverts, and every year you’re exposed to about 2.4 millisieverts, just from general background radiation; by contrast, a mammogram only gives you about <a href="http://www.hps.org/documents/meddiagimaging.pdf" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">0.7 millisieverts</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">The difference, though, is that medical X-rays pop that radiation into you in the space of minutes, whereas it takes a whole year to absorb your typical background radiation. And it’s a huge difference, even with low-radiation “safe” X-rays. In the UK, diagnostic X-rays cause about <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15070562" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">700 cases of cancer each year</a>. And it could be even worse than that—some researchers claim that the <a href="http://www.nirs.org/mononline/drjohn.htm" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">majority</span> of cancer cases</a> were either caused or aggravated by medical X-rays.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">And to top it all off, women who get X-rays when pregnant have been found more likely to give birth to <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110210202054.htm" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">children with cancer</a>. And a CT scan is the go-to diagnostic tool for young children, which, you guessed it, is just <a href="http://www.fda.gov/radiation-emittingproducts/radiationemittingproductsandprocedures/medicalimaging/medicalx-rays/ucm115318.htm" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">another type of X-ray</a>.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 219); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: #343434; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.1; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><span style="background-color: #d24d33; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: TitilliumMedium, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 52px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 70px; line-height: 70px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 70px;">3</span>Doctors Get Paid When You Buy Certain Drugs</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><img alt="08" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-63375" height="393" src="http://i2.wp.com/listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/0810.jpg?resize=632%2C415" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" width="598" /><br />Conspiracy theorists aren’t shy about proclaiming the evils of Big Pharma. But conspiracy theory is one thing, and documented proof is a whole different beast. When the Harvard Law School took a closer look, they realized that they didn’t have to dig very deep at all to discover that doctors are <a href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2013/10/25_edmond-j-safra-center-for-ethics-fellows-jlme.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">paid handsomely</a> to prescribe certain drugs, even when those drugs turn out to be harmful.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">One of the most publicized recent cases was Dr. Joseph L. Biederman, who began diagnosing <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/jan/15/drug-companies-doctorsa-story-of-corruption/?pagination=false" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">two-year-old toddlers with bipolar disorder</a> and prescribing strong antipsychotics that were never approved by the FDA for children under 10. The manufacturer of the antipsychotics paid him $1.6 million. Then there’s Dr. Alan F. Schatzberg, who began prescribing an abortion drug to treat depression—he owned <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/12/washington/12psych.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">$4.8 million of stock</a> in the company that produced the drug.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">And then you have Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff, who received <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulthacker/2011/09/13/how-an-ethically-challenged-researcher-found-a-home-at-the-university-of-miami/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">$500,000</a> to advertise as safe a drug that can cause <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19687003" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">seizures and paralysis</a> The fact is, doctors are allowed to prescribe any drug for any illness, no matter what the drug was originally intended to treat. We’re not making a blanket statement saying all doctors take money to prescribe questionable treatments—but how do you know which ones do?</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 219); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: #343434; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.1; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><span style="background-color: #d24d33; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: TitilliumMedium, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 52px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 70px; line-height: 70px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 70px;">2</span>Pandemic Scares Are Over-Hyped</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><img alt="09" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-63376" height="393" src="http://i2.wp.com/listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/0911.jpg?resize=632%2C415" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" width="598" /><br />Who can forget the swine flu pandemic in 2009 and 2010? When the World Health Organization called for a <a href="http://www.recombinomics.com/News/04261101/H1N1_Alert_2011.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">state of global emergency</a>, the world went haywire. Lines for the vaccine stretched for blocks, and doctors everywhere told people to seek immediate treatment.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">Over the course of about 10 months, pharmaceutical companies raked in £6.5 billion (about $10.5 billion in 2010) from vaccine sales. Doctors tied to the vaccine’s manufacturers were <a href="http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2013/swine_flu_experts_pharma_links.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">8.4 times</a> more likely to recommend the vaccine to their patients. And not only recommend—they were more likely to publicly hype the dangers of the flu in the media, which immeasurably contributed to the state of panic.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">And strangely, doctors who were being paid by pharmaceutical companies were also more likely to <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">volunteer</span> information to the press. That doesn’t seem like much of a difference, but it’s these quoted experts that we tend to believe in a news article. In the end, about 17,000 people died from swine flu, as opposed to the 46,000 that die <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/us_flu-related_deaths.htm" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">every year from the normal flu</a>. Surely the low numbers were due to the mass vaccinations—rather than, say, the fact that the disease was just a common mutation artificially inflated to terror-inducing proportions.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 219); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: #343434; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.1; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><span style="background-color: #d24d33; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: TitilliumMedium, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 52px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 70px; line-height: 70px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 70px;">1</span>Registered Sex Offenders And Violent Criminals</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><img alt="10" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-63377" height="393" src="http://i0.wp.com/listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/108.jpg?resize=632%2C415" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" width="598" /><br />Your doctor doesn’t have to disclose his criminal history, and usually that wouldn’t be considered a problem. Between the strict admission policies of most medical schools and the vague notion that hospitals probably screen their employees, who would even think to ask? Well, maybe you should.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">In November 2013, the UK’s General Medical Council, or GMC, released a database with the criminal histories of physicians in the United Kingdom. It turned out that almost <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10470951/Hundreds-of-convicted-doctors-still-practising.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">800 practicing doctors held criminal records</a>, including 31 who were arrested for assault and 330 arrested for drunk driving. The rest of them? Crimes range from theft to drug trafficking, and they’re under <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9564161/Sex-offender-doctors-cant-be-banned-in-case-it-breaches-human-rights.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">zero legal obligation</a> to let their patients know about it.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">And it’s not exactly rare. There’s the <a href="http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/06/03/rapist-sex-offender-gets-ok-to-practice-as-florida-md/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">rapist surgeon</a> working in Miami, and the New York doctor who was caught trying to meet a <a href="http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Sex-offender-ex-Greenwich-doctor-can-resume-1383997.php" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">young boy for sex</a>, and a Scottish physician who had reams of <a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/doctor-caught-with-child-porn-can-keep-his-job-1-3264396" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;" target="_blank">child pornography stored on his computer</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;">Who’s really taking care of you?</div><div class="author-bio" style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 219); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: #6d6d6d; float: left; font-family: TitilliumRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 35px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 598.203125px;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-122 photo" src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/6f791df9628d1b9c671f4b6be81ccafa?s=122&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D122&r=R" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 122px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 20.84375px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline; width: 122px;" /><span class="author" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="author" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://listverse.com/authors/?id=7" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in; color: #d24d33; display: inline; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 10px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; transition: all 0.25s ease-in;">ANDREW HANDLEY</a></span></span><div style="border: 0px; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">Andrew is a freelance writer and the owner of the sexy, sexy HandleyNation Content Service. When he's not writing he's usually hiking or rock climbing, or just enjoying the fresh North Carolina air.</div></div>

10 Horrifying Things Doctors Don’t Tell You (BLOG)

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Pent-Up Layoff Surprise Demand

The following chart shows nonfarm payrolls divided by initial claims. I'm using quarterly averages to smooth things out a bit (1967:Q1 to 2013:Q4). In my opinion, the higher the ratio, the higher the potential for layoff surprises.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimxfwclyvyEwRrkGQ2_T0v86F-JjvmMic9SxmK_nRUVn0R85E7FTCb_0CFRxC58CaX4-WTcyovvBE9Q24Nx9ppNq4tyEf7a3QQJOyhr65TM5QWe5vpUCW2T50jPge4Rm7wSHl5oEWJ00o/s1600/Pent-Up+Layoff+Surprise+Demand.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimxfwclyvyEwRrkGQ2_T0v86F-JjvmMic9SxmK_nRUVn0R85E7FTCb_0CFRxC58CaX4-WTcyovvBE9Q24Nx9ppNq4tyEf7a3QQJOyhr65TM5QWe5vpUCW2T50jPge4Rm7wSHl5oEWJ00o/s320/Pent-Up+Layoff+Surprise+Demand.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />The 3rd order polynomial trend channel in red uses the red data points.<br /><br />The 3rd order polynomial trend in blue uses all the data points.<br /><br />I would be among the last to argue that a 3rd order polynomial can accurately predict the future. It can't, especially over the long-term. That said, damn. It's an ugly chart. We all better hope there is absolutely no truth buried within it. Unfortunately, as a permabear since 2004, I do believe there is some truth buried within it (or I would not have made the chart). How much truth remains to be seen.<br /><br />In any event, I would once again point out that <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/this-is-not-1982.html">this is not 1982</a>. We are not at the very bottom of the long-term channel with favorable long-term tailwinds. Instead, we are at the top of the channel with <a href="http://www.despair.com/change-winds.html">winds of a potentially different nature</a>. Sigh.<br /><br />Is it really any wonder that we're still trapped in ZIRP?<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/EAgEyDAEBfg" width="420"></iframe><br /><br />This is not investment advice.<br /><br /><b>See Also:</b><br /><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2007/09/trend-line-disclaimer-time.html">Trend Line Disclaimer</a><br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=s6j">St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart</a>

Pent-Up Layoff Surprise Demand

The following chart shows nonfarm payrolls divided by initial claims. I'm using quarterly averages to smooth things out a bit (1967:Q1 t...

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