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• HUFFPOST HILL - America Struggles To Explain Latest Biden Gaffe To Children
• Culture Beast: How ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Killed Sex
• Sin trabajo y con niño discapacitado, esta mujer podría ser ganadora de la lotería
• Sound Transit News Release
• Figaro.fr - Alerte Info
• Le Figaro vient d’être publié sur tous vos écrans
• Christine and the Queens artiste féminine de l'année
• The Real Reason Your Co-Workers Are So Mean
• Un mort sur l'A1
• A Fresh Spin on Dystopian Stories
• Sound Transit Report: Bi-monthly Snapshot of Procurement Solicitations Update
• Here's more proof that dogs can read our facial expressions
• 83-year-old supermodel STUNS on magazine cover
• Guess Who Taylor Swift Is Rubbing Shoulders With Now
• Snoqualmie Pass - 2/13/2015 11:40:00 AM
• How ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Killed Sex
• A1 coupée dans les deux sens
• These are the best SNL political skits of all time
• Snoqualmie Pass - 2/13/2015 10:14:56 AM
• Sound Transit Photo of the Week Update
• L'édition Buzz : ce qu'il ne fallait pas manquer aujourd'hui
• Cinquante nuances de Grey: ça va pas du tout!
• Saint-Valentin: 30 idées de cadeaux pour elle à moins de 50 euros
• Horoscope de la Saint-Valentin, 10 DIY de déguisements pour enfant, Bobbi Kristina "va mieux"...
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HUFFPOST HILL - America Struggles To Explain Latest Biden Gaffe To Children Posted: 13 Feb 2015 02:04 PM PST By Eliot Nelson and Arthur Delaney The political world was shocked to learn that a governor whose existence had just come to its attention moments prior was resigning. Ruth Bader Ginsburg admitted she was a little drunk at the State of the Union, though not because she had to drink every time the president said "economy" or John Boehner frowned. And House Republicans still can’t agree on what bill will be designated "H.R.1" though we think they should take their cue from online comment boards and have it only say "first!" This is HuffPost Hill for Friday, February 13th, 2015: OREGON GOVERNOR TO STEP DOWN AMIDST CORRUPTION SCANDAL - And not a "took someone else's place in the CSA waitlist" kind of Oregon scandal. An actual one. Mollie Reilly: "Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) is resigning from office Friday amid allegations of corruption, the governor announced in a statement...According to The Oregonian, his resignation is effective Wednesday. Last week, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced that the governor and his fiancee, Cylvia Hayes, were under investigation over whether Hayes had used her relationship with Kitzhaber to benefit her consulting business. 'Recent allegations relating to Gov. Kitzhaber and Ms. Hayes are very serious -- and troubling,' Rosenblum said. 'My office is considering all of our legal options to ensure that we are best serving the state.' Kitzhaber, who was elected to a fourth term as governor in November, reportedly waffled over whether to step down. According to the Oregonian, Kitzhaber had decided to resign on Tuesday, but changed his mind and announced Wednesday that he would remain in office. However, as KOIN reported Friday, the governor ultimately decided to step down after the state's top Democrats said they could no longer support him." [HuffPost] HOUSE VOTES TO RAISE DEFICIT - Mike McAuliff: "The House voted 272 to 142 to make permanent a number of temporary provisions that are aimed at helping businesses earning up to $2 million. The main cut, which would add $77 billion to deficits over 10 years, allows businesses to immediately write off new equipment purchases up to $500,000. Temporary versions of the measure have been passed about a dozen times before, generally as economic stimulus measures. Since it's popular and it's been passed so many times before, Republicans argued, the policy should be made permanent...More than 30 Democrats crossed the aisle to support the measure. Indeed, Democrats like the general idea of extending the tax break. But they also want to pursue the elusive bipartisan goal of reforming tax laws more broadly. Democrats say that the tax cuts Republicans are pushing would, if made permanent, would add more than $800 billion in total to the deficit. And that's revenue that won't be available for comprehensive tax reform. Rep. Sander Levin (Mich.), the top Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, accused Ryan and the GOP of trying to "rig" the game." [HuffPost] WHITHER H.R. 1? - Symbolic sadness. Billy House: The U.S. House of Representatives is six weeks into its new session without saying which legislative priority will become H.R. 1. The symbolic prized designation in past sessions has gone to proposals including the No Child Left Behind Act, the Sept. 11 Commission proposals and the Family and Medical Leave Act. This year, Republicans who control the House left the number vacant as of Friday, as Congress begins a week-long Presidents’ Day break." [Bloomberg] Haircuts: Arthur Delaney, Tim Murphy. DAILY DELANEY DOWNER - "Gov. Scott Walker's administration believes the eventual benefit to Wisconsin's workforce will offset any initial costs that come from the plan to drug test public aid recipients...Mike Huebsch, secretary of the state Department of Administration, told reporters Tuesday he believes the opportunities created by such a plan will exceed the initial cost of implementing it." Opportunities are magical. [The Capital Times' Jessie Opoien] Does somebody keep forwarding you this newsletter? Get your own copy. It's free! Sign up here. Send tips/stories/photos/events/fundraisers/job movement/juicy miscellanea to huffposthill@huffingtonpost.com. Follow us on Twitter - @HuffPostHill HOUSE GIVING VRA ANOTHER TRY - Jen Bendery: "House lawmakers are giving another push to legislation that went nowhere in the last Congress: a bill to restore the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. The bill, introduced Wednesday by Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and John Conyers (D-Mich.), responds to the Supreme Court ruling that struck down Section 4 of the law in 2013. In a 5-4 vote, the court declared it was time to update the section, which required certain states and localities with a history of minority voter suppression to clear changes to their voting laws with the Justice Department. The justices left it up to Congress to come up with a new formula for designating which regions of the country require special scrutiny. The Sensenbrenner-Conyers bill, known as the Voting Rights Amendment Act, updates that formula by making it apply to all states and jurisdictions with voting violations in the past 15 years, and by creating "uniform transparency requirements" to keep communities informed about voting changes." [HuffPost] ALABAMA GIVES UP - Amanda Terkel: "At least 43 of Alabama's 67 counties are now issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, following a federal judge's order Thursday reiterating that marriage equality is legal in the state. Same-sex marriage officially became legal in Alabama Monday, a result of U.S. District Judge Callie Granade's ruling on the matter in January. But many counties in this conservative state initially refused to comply. They were following orders from Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore (R), who told the county probate judges that the federal decision did not apply to them. On Thursday, Granade attempted to provide some clarity. In an order directed at Probate Judge Don Davis of Mobile County, Granade said there were no more excuses for denying same-sex couples marriage licenses. Shortly thereafter, the county began complying. Other counties have started to follow suit. On Thursday, before Granade's order, there were just 23 counties in Alabama marrying same-sex couples, according to the Human Rights Campaign. That number had nearly doubled as of Friday midday, according to data from the Human Rights Campaign, Freedom to Marry and calls made to probate judges' offices by The Huffington Post." [HuffPost] BUBBA BE BARRED? - Ryan Grim: "Headed into the 2016 presidential campaign, the Hillary Clinton camp has been confident it will be able to raise the kind of money that can scare off any Democratic challenger and compete with the GOP in the general election. Part of that confidence comes from knowing that two of the planet’s best fundraisers -- former President Bill Clinton and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe -- are core members of the team. But it may not be that simple. Lawyers involved with Hillary Clinton's as-yet-undeclared election effort are studying whether campaign finance laws significantly restrict the activities of both men, according to sources close to the discussions. For the former president, the question comes down to coordination: While a super PAC can legally raise unlimited amounts of money from high-dollar donors, it cannot coordinate with the candidate or the campaign. As a spouse of the candidate, it’s unclear how involved Bill Clinton can be in the super PAC’s activities." [HuffPost] No amount of liquor and no amount of therapy can undo these mental images: "Two months after a discrimination lawsuit accused Rep. Blake Farenthold of creating a hostile, sexually charged work environment, the Texas Republican claims his former communications director was fired for not showing up to work and lying about the circumstances of her absence. In a detailed, 14-page response filed by attorneys from the Office of House Employment Counsel, Farenthold, 53, denied that he was attracted to 27-year-old staffer Lauren Greene or that he had the “sexual fantasies” and “wet dreams” Greene alleged in her complaint." [Roll Call] MORE LIKE GIN-BURG! HEH… HEH… HEH… - ::SOBS:: Times: "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg admitted Thursday night to not being “100 percent sober” when she dozed off at last month’s State of the Union address. She said she had vowed to stick to sparkling water at the Supreme Court justices’ dinner before the speech, but couldn’t resist the 'very fine California wine' that Justice Anthony M. Kennedy had brought. 'And so I got a call when I came home from one of my granddaughters,' Justice Ginsburg told the crowd at a discussion with Justice Antonin Scalia held by the Smithsonian Associates. 'She said, ‘Bubby, you were sleeping at the State of the Union!’" [NYT] BECAUSE YOU'VE READ THIS FAR - Here are some kittens and a robot. Until now Joe Biden thought of Grindr as a biker gang he rode around with in the 70s: "Vice President Joe Biden may have given a shout-out to an 'old butt buddy' during a speech in Iowa on Thursday. During a stop at Drake University to talk about the Obama administration's economic policies, Biden scanned the room looking for an old friend. 'Neal Smith, an old butt buddy, are you here Neal?' Biden said. 'Neal, I miss you, man. I miss you.' CNN noted Biden was referring to 94-year-old former Rep. Neal Smith (D-Iowa). Some news outlets, including CNN, have suggested Biden made the remark because of a stuttering problem, and actually said: "Neal Smith, an old bu-buddy, are you here Neal?" [HuffPost's Amber Ferguson] COMFORT FOOD - Dudes reading texts they sent their girlfriends. - Childhood fantasy # 4,201,883 realized: a pen that writes in chocolate. - Incredibly high-def timelapse of Rio. TWITTERAMA @paigelav: So far today I've had avocado toast, made a spa appointment, did yoga, got an email from a KKK Imperial Wizard. Pretty good day I guess. @nycsouthpaw: DUCKS IN DISARRAY @SimonMaloy: ORE-GONE: KITZ QUITS AS BLITZ HITS Got something to add? Send tips/quotes/stories/photos/events/fundraisers/job movement/juicy miscellanea to Eliot Nelson (eliot@huffingtonpost.com) or Arthur Delaney (arthur@huffingtonpost.com). Follow us on Twitter @HuffPostHill (twitter.com/HuffPostHill). Sign up here: http://huff.to/an2k2e You received this email from The Huffington Post. If you'd like to update your account settings please go here. If you'd like to unsubscribe from The Huffington Post please click here. 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Culture Beast: How ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Killed Sex Posted: 13 Feb 2015 01:55 PM PST February 13 Having trouble viewing this? View it online. 1 NOT NOW DARLING How 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Killed Sex You've heard about the steamy passion. You've seen the whips. Now prepare for the underwhelming buzzkill of a film devoid of any kind of passion. By Lizzie Crocker Read it at The Daily Beast 2 MAKING HISTORY? The First Hollywood Movie to Kill Obama Kingsman: The Secret Service features a big movie first in the vein of The Interview and comes courtesy of President Obama's biggest critic: Rupert Murdoch. [Warning: Spoilers] By Jen Yamato Read it at The Daily Beast 4 YOU DON'T OWN THE MEDIA ANYMORE The Benefit of the Doubt The ingrained bias that makes us see evildoers from a familiar culture as exceptions but evildoers from an alien culture as representative runs too deep to dispel easily. By Arthur Chu Read it at The Daily Beast If you didn't know who Tyreese was before Sunday night's The Walking Dead episode, you sure as hell do now. [Warning: spoilers.]” READ IT NOW › 5 One Cow's Opinion David Duchovny's Weird New Cow Novel The X-Files and Californication star talks about his new novel with a cow as its protagonist, the dos and don'ts of criticism, and the possibility of an X-Files reunion. By William O'Connor Read it at The Daily Beast 3 THE RETURN OF TUCO 'Better Call Saul's' Resident Psycho The veteran character actor opens up about the return of his Breaking Bad villain on the spin-off series and overcoming the horrors he witnessed as a youngster. By Marlow Stern Read it at The Daily Beast Whitney and Bobbi Through the Years Russian Fairy Tales Go Punk Why Do Magazines Lighten Black Faces? Grammy Red Carpet Winners and Losers In response to 'Switched at Birth' Tackles Campus Rape: Why isn't the woman also held responsible for her actions?? If both were drunk, why is only the man held responsible?? — singlemom In response to The Spice Girls Return With 4 New Songs: Why do so many female musicians or singers dress like hookers working a convention hall in Vegas? — Kathleen_Schwab ABOUT US | CONTACT US | PRIVACY POLICY Copyright 2015 The Daily Beast Company LLC 555 W. 18th Street , New York NY 10011 SUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE LIKE US ON FACEBOOK FOLLOW US ON TWITTER FORWARD TO A FRIEND You are subscribed as: ahmedi.taleb.sassi.publication@blogger.com. Source : http://tsahmedi.blogspot.com

Sin trabajo y con niño discapacitado, esta mujer podría ser ganadora de la lotería Posted: 13 Feb 2015 01:53 PM PST Sin trabajo y con niño discapacitado, esta mujer podría ser ganadora de la lotería VOCES Sin trabajo y con niño discapacitado, ella podría ser ganadora de la lotería Lourdes Stephen: 'Le doy gracias a Dios por mi esposo' Dulces recetas para enamorar en San Valentín 7 románticas bebidas para celebrar el Día San Valentín Seguir leyendo Imputan a Cristina Fernández por el caso Nisman Seguir leyendo Perrita huye de casa para visitar a su dueña hospitalizada Seguir leyendo Amor sobre ruedas: Las 5 parejas famosas con más autos de lujo Seguir leyendo 5 cifras alarmantes de la crisis con los cupones de alimentos Seguir leyendo La primera modelo con Síndrome de Down en la Semana de la Moda en NY Seguir leyendo Victor Rasuk, el actor latino de 'Fifty Shades Of Grey', defiende la película Seguir leyendo ¿Esto te lo ha mandado un amigo? Suscríbete aquí para recibir alertas de The Huffington Post aquí. Reenviar  •  Darse de baja

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Sound Transit News Release

Posted: 13 Feb 2015 01:38 PM PST

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Posted: 13 Feb 2015 01:24 PM PST

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Christine & the Queens, artiste féminine de l'année aux Victoires de la musique

Christine & the Queens a été sacrée artiste féminine de l'année, sa deuxième récompense de la soirée lors des 30e Victoires de la musique.
La chanteuse de 26 ans, favorite de cette édition 2015 des Victoires avec cinq nominations au total, a été préférée à deux duos: Brigitte et The Do. Elle succède au palmarès à Vanessa Paradis, sacrée l'an dernier.

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Le Figaro vient d’être publié sur tous vos écrans

Posted: 13 Feb 2015 01:12 PM PST

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Christine and the Queens artiste féminine de l'année

Posted: 13 Feb 2015 01:11 PM PST

Si vous ne parvenez pas à lire cet email, visualisez la version en ligne. Victoires de la Musique : Christine and the Queens élue artiste féminine de l'année Plus d'informations sur leParisien.fr Si vous ne souhaitez plus recevoir d'emails de la part du Parisien.fr, vous pouvez vous désabonner.

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The Real Reason Your Co-Workers Are So Mean

Posted: 13 Feb 2015 01:02 PM PST

No End in Sight The Number of U.S. Oil Rigs Continues to Tumble Drillers idled 98 rigs, dropping the number of active wells to 1,358 and marking the 10th consecutive weekly decline.   Today's Top Stories Obama's Visit to Silicon Valley Is a Big Win for Apple Pay U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Silicon Valley bearing gifts for Tim Cook: A seal of approval for Apple Pay. This Quiet Activist Investor Has Averaged 19 Percent Returns for More Than a Decade Edward Bramson is a stranger to two things: defeat and publicity. Argentina's President Fernandez Charged in Probe of Alleged Cover-Up Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was charged by a prosecutor with trying to cover up the alleged involvement of Iranian officials in the country's worst terrorist attack. Now a judge must decide whether to pursue the case. Why Are We Still Making Buildings Without a 13th Floor? Because we're chicken - check these numbers. Your Co-Workers Are Mean to You for a Reason Work makes us all more calculating, cynical, and less likely to reciprocate good deeds.   No Real Losers Here Best in Show vs. Man's Best Friend More than 2,700 exquisitely groomed purebreds will compete at the Westminster Dog Show beginning Feb. 16. The winner of the Best in Show title will get a lot of love from dog enthusiasts - but not necessarily from pet owners.         You received this message because you are subscribed to the Bloomberg Business Daily newsletter.       Unsubscribe | BloombergBusiness.com | Contact Us Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington, New York, NY, 10022

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Un mort sur l'A1

Posted: 13 Feb 2015 12:49 PM PST

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A Fresh Spin on Dystopian Stories

Posted: 13 Feb 2015 12:45 PM PST

The Huffington Post Culture Shift is a bi-weekly newsletter curated by the HuffPost Arts & Books editors. From literature to visual arts, poetry to performance, get your culture fix here. This week we're talking about the future of dystopias, the mystery of Vivian Maier, retired aspects of our alphabet, and 21st century harem photos. While you're here, follow our writers and editors on Twitter: @kann_brooks, @badgirlpripri, @maddiecrum, @claireefallon & @mallika_rao. This New Book Puts A Fresh Spin On Dystopian Stories "Gallivanting across America by bus, the lonely Joy plays a road trip game to pass the time. When she enters a new state, she tries to recall everything she associates with the place. The details she digs up typically aren't factual -- no census information is related. Instead, she thinks about personal stories and small, cherished details. This practice makes sense for Joy, who astutely observes, 'What is a memory but the telling of a story?'" (Read more here) Vivian Maier, The Mysterious Nanny Behind A Trove Of Brilliant Street Photography, Is Going To The Oscars "The story of Vivian Maier is probably one of the art world's most compelling mysteries. A nanny by profession, she was an alarmingly talented and vastly prolific photographer whose keen eye for the mundane produced some of the 20th century's most intriguing works of street photography. At times she was a Mary Poppins, trekking across a city like Chicago with a gaggle of children passing like ducklings behind her. At other times, she was Weegee, tuned into the pulse of urban centers, her lens drawn to crowds of celebrity, crime and everything squished in between." (Read more here) Is True Love Unconditional? "Is love unconditional? If you love a person romantically because of the way she walks or the way she talks, it may seem that romantic love is always conditional. After all, your beloved might lose the attributes that made you love her in the first place. Romantic love then would seem very different from other forms of love. You don't stop loving your kid when the dimples in his cheeks fade away and he starts to smell like teen spirit. A common belief, though, is that your beloved will stand by your side in sickness and in health." (Read more here) Where Caribbean Carnivals And Contemporary Performance Art Meet "Carnival has the ability to reach out to the social sphere and the public space... It can be rowdy, it can be spiritual -- by deed of it being both a popular festivity and one which is steeped in religious and spiritual tradition, one which is neither pagan nor strictly religious. It is also a very powerful mode of artistic expression and element of cultural identity." (Read more here) The Veiled Feminism Of Moroccan-Born Photographer Lalla Essaydi "The work of photographer Lalla Essaydi sits somewhere inside the gaps Said felt so keenly. Part of a new wave of Moroccan artists enjoying success under the liberalized reign of King Mohammed VI (who holds some of Essaydi's pieces in his private collection), she lives in New York City and works from her family home in Morocco, a large and elaborate house dating back to the 16th century. The portraits she shoots inside -- always of women -- recall 19th century French depictions of Arab concubines, popularly known as odalisques." (Read more here) These Letters Don't Exist In Our Alphabet Anymore -- Here's Why "Why did the Anglo-Saxons adopt the Roman alphabet and why did we lose the pure runic letters co-existing with it? The most obvious reason for adopting it was religion. Christianity spread across Europe written down in Latin. Given that almost all literate peoples were themselves Christians, we can guess that it became more convenient to write with the same letter-system as the one they were reading -- especially as most of what they wrote was in itself religious. Even so, as we've seen, they clung to a few runes. Maybe they were their security blankets to a much-loved heathen past." (Read more here) Follow HuffPost Arts and Books on Facebook and Twitter Unsubscribe | Forward | Manage your notification preferences 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003

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