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Psychology affects our daily lives in more ways than we think. In fact, most of our life choices depend on our mindset.
Your food choices are no exception. We've talked about how hunger affects food choices before, and that actually has something to do with psychology.
Today we look at how much you can change your food choicesby taking advantage of your psychology.
Plate Size and Food Portion
Many studies have proven over and over again that with smaller plates, people tend to get smaller portions. Researchers have proven this and many people have also tested this and succeeded.
Experiments were conducted with some people eating in plates of different sizes, and smaller plates always lead to people eating less.
This is an illusion that shows that even though people know about it, they still tend to think that the plate they eat on is of normal size and thus, they tend to assume that they're eating the normal amount of food they usually eat.
Plate Color and Food Choices
We all know the feeling of being unable to eat healthy foods, even though we know for sure that we desperately need them.
That's why researchers found that there's an effective way of how to control what you eat. Studies say that if you want to eat greens, then your plate should be colored that way.
The same goes for eating meat, poultry, and more. This was also proven by many people that tried doing it. That means you can finally control your mindset of food choices by simply changing the color of your plates.
If you think you can't change how you think of food, then you're wrong. There are many ways to change your mindset with foods and these are just a few of them. That's why your weight loss program shouldn't just be about physical activity and food choices. You should also consider your mindset.


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Celosia seeds, also called Qing Xiang Zi in Pinyin, is a popular medication in traditional Chinese medicine that is mainly for the treatment of painful and swollen eyes, high blood pressure, nose bleeds, and other complaints that are believed to be caused by flaring-up of liver fire. Celosia argentea is also known as "Taiwan's lavender". Compared to lavender, this plant seems rougher in appearance. However, it is not second to lavender in terms of availability – the whole celosia plant is used medicinally and its tender shoot is also a tasty edible wild vegetable. As a common Chinese herb, it comes from the Divine Farmer's Materia Medica. And in Tang Ben Cao (Tang Materia Medica), it is named "Kunlun grass" and allegedly ever used as a fan by Nu Wa, a goddess in Chinese mythology.
What are celosia seeds?
Medicinally it mainly refers to the dried ripe seeds from Celosia argentea L., one of ornamental and edible plants in the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae. Other names of celosia argentea include the silver cock's comb and plumed cockscomb and celosia argentea seed is also known as Semen Celosiae in Latin. For ornamental purpose, people gather or buy celosia seeds for growing celosia from seed. In China it is produced in central and southern provinces. The plant is reaped or the ear is collected in autumn when the fruits are ripe. And then, it needs to dry them in the sun, gather celosia seeds, and remove the impurities. Medicinally it is used raw.
Celosia argentea is an annual herb, up to 1 meter in height. Erect stem is green or reddish purple and with longitudinal stripes. Alternate leaves are lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 5 to 9cm long, and 1 to 3cm wide. Many and dense celosia flowers form cylindrical tower or spikes at the end of stems and branches. Spica is acrogenous or axillary; bracts, bracteoles and tepals are membranous and reddish or white later; bracts are 3; tepals are 5; stamens are 5 and the lower filaments grow like a cup; ovary is superior and stigma is 2-lobed. Utricle is oval. Seeds are flat, round, black, and shiny. Flowering time is from May to July and fruit time is from August to September.
Celosia argentea seeds contain about 15% fatty oil, 30.8% starch, about 14μg/g niacin, and a wealth of potassium nitrate. And the fatty oil contained in seeds is called celosia oil.
Celosia seeds health benefits
Clinical research confirms that this herb can be of great help in many diseases, especially on treating eye disorders and lowering high blood pressure.
(1). 5 cases of hypertension, an average of 160 to 230/100 to 135mmHg (21.28 to 30.59/13.3 to 17.955kPa), were ever treated with the decoction of 30 grams celosia seed, which was finished in 3 times daily. One week after the administration, blood pressure dropped to 125 to 145/78 to 90mmHg (16.625 to 19.285/10.374 to 11.97kPa).
(2). 156 cases of pinkeye were ever treated with the celosia seed-based formulas, 1 dose each day. And the results were fairly satisfactory.
Modern pharmacological actions of celosia argentea seed
1. It can lower blood pressure;
2. Oils contained have mydriatic effect;
3. Its decoction has a strong inhibitory effect on Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In the case of wound infection treated with 10% decoction, Pseudomonas aeruginosa stops growing. And the decoction has no significant stimulation to the wound;
4. Its dry powder can shorten rabbit plasma recalcification time;
5. Its decoction, 1ml equivalent to 1g crude drug, shows no significant effect on the normal rabbits' pupils. After continuous medication for 6 days, there is a slight drop in intraocular pressure, which has significant difference compared to the control group. However, it fails to prevent the rising intraocular pressure after the water load.
Sample celosia seed recipes on herbal remedies
In line with the Chinese Materia Medica, it is bitter in flavor and cold in nature. It covers liver meridian. Primary functions are eliminating wind-heat, clearing liver-fire, and improving vision by removing nebula. Common celosia seeds uses and indications include red painful swollen eyes, slight corneal opacity, blurred vision, high blood pressure, nose bleeding, wind-heat skin itch, sores, and ringworm. Recommended dosage is from 3 to 15 grams in decoction.
1. Qing Xiang Wan from Zheng Zhi Zhun Sheng (The Level-line of Patterns and Treatment). It is combined with Jue Ming Zi (Cassia Seed), Chong Wei Zi (Fructus Leonuri), Ling Yang Jiao (Antelope Horns), etc. to treat red painful swollen eye, nebula, blurred vision, and other eye problems that is caused by flaming up of the liver-fire.
2. Qing Xiang Wan from Yi Zhong Jin Jian (Golden Mirror of the Medical Tradition). It is formulated with Sheng Di Huang (Rehmannia), Xuan Shen (Scrophularia), Che Qian Zi (Plantain Seeds) to cure blurred vision due to the combination of liver deficiency and blood heat.
3. Lu Feng Huan Jing Wan from Golden Mirror of the Medical Tradition. It is joined with Tu Si Zi (Cuscuta), Rou Cong Rong (Fleshy Stem of Broomrape), Shan Yao (Chinese Yam), etc. to heal blurred vision and dry eyes.
4. Qing Xiang Tang from Zhong Yi Lin Chuang Ying Yong (TCM clinical application). It is coupled with Yuan Ming Fen (refined mirabilite), Suan Zao Ren (Semen Ziziphi Spinosae), Mi Meng Hua (Butterfly Bush), Cassia Seed, Fu Ling (Poria), and Bai Bian Dou (Hyacinth Bean) to treat chronic uveitis.
5. Ba Zi Wan from Yi Bu Quan Lu – Mu Men (A Comprehensive Record of Books on Medicine – Eye Chapter). It is equipped with Plantain Seeds, Wu Wei Zi (Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis), Gou Qi Zi (Goji Berry), Di Fu Zi (Kochia Scoparia), etc. to cure new or chronic corneal opacity and cataract.
Celosia seeds side effects and contraindications
Are celosia seeds edible? Well, it depends. Celosia seed is able to clear liver fire, which makes it an ideal herb for syndromes of hyperactivity of liver-yang, for example hypertension. And due to the fact that it possesses a powerful effect on getting rid of heat as well as the role of dilating the pupils, it shouldn't be used in eye disorders accompanied with liver-kidney deficiency and glaucoma.
(1). Zhong Yi Za Zhi (Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine) 1962;8:19;
(2). Chong Qing Yi Yao (Chongching Medicine and Herbology) 1990;19(2):30.

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In this moment, my more literal-minded friends would point out that there are lots of things to fear besides fear, for example snakes and rabid dogs.
At which I would concede the point.
However, I would also argue that in terms of the bigger picture, Roosevelt was correct, even slightly prophetic.
Yes, if I walked down the street tomorrow I could be bitten by a rabid dog and that fear would be justified. But such an event would not have an impact on anyone outside my immediate circle. However things that people can do to other people plain and simply out of fear can have an impact that is community-wide, country-wide, or even world-wide.
We are talking here about discrimination, xenophobia, racism, repression, genocide and war.
At the moment it sometimes seems as though the entire world is being consumed by fear.
I am afraid of it.
Overload paralysis
What on earth is this strange sample I received?
Well, it's a long story. (more…)
Rethinking what's really important
Well, well, where have I been? Actually, I haven't been anywhere. I've been hiding from anything that resembles work or social media. This was quite unplanned as I had so many ambitious ideas for December. Then I was forced to retreat and evaluate my approach to my life when I realised how unenthusiastic I was feeling about my own plans.
Now I'm back with possibly the least original post title I've ever written, but hey. I had my whole life to think about. There was no time left to think about creative titles.


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Karen Brown uses her seven keys to success in every aspect of her life. She is an unconscious mind expert on leadership and professional performance. As you hear about her activities, she is a highly motivated, goal oriented high achiever. She is a true superwoman
Karen is an ultra performance athlete competing in some of the toughest endurance competitions as well as a successful corporate executive. Her current activities include certified executive coach, keynote speaker, and best selling author. As you can see, Karen does everything with the same ferocity and excellence. Success leaves lots of clues and Karen has lived it, no matter what part of her life she wants to master.
Discover more about Karen Brown's keys to success
She has written a book on Unlimiting Your Beliefs, 7 Keys to Greater Success in Your Personal and Professional Life, which outlines the seven scientifically proven keys to higher success as told through the story of competing in the Ironman competition, with the mental work and prep leading up to it.
You might be wondering how this relates to energy healing but it has everything to do with moving energy. A limit is an illusion and it creates a seemingly impossible barrier. Energy healing can help unblock those beliefs. If you as a healer or coach are limited, you cannot help others transform as profoundly.
I love that Karen is one of those people that has shattered her own limitations of what was possible for her. Her "Seven Keys To Success" are as follows:
Dream your dream, un-limit your beliefs, "no" discipline, do whatever it takes, your schedule is equal to your goal, hire a coach, celebrate and dream again.
Listen to how Karen describes these things in details to make them more tangible and doable for you and why you need to do each of these steps for success.
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Putting Out Fires
For one typical elementary school principal, dealing with paperwork, student discipline, and routine duties consumes most of the day.
Fredi Buffmire, the principal at Mendoza Elementary School here, faces an epidemic of "pantsing." A growing number of her students, it seems, are unable to resist the temptation to sneak up behind their classmates and pull down their trousers. Most of the offenders, and victims, are boys.
For each incident, she fills out a carbon-copy form. She keys it into a computer log. Because it involves what could be seen as sexual misconduct, she notifies a police officer assigned to the building. She also metes out punishment: typically the loss of playtime.
"How would you feel if a grown-up walked up and jerked your pants down?" she lectures one of the many pint-sized perpetrators who pass through her office.
So goes a normal morning for a school leader. While the best thinking on educational leadership says principals should devote the bulk of their energies to improving instruction, Buffmire, 56, has her hands full with student discipline and paperwork.
"Tackling an Impossible Job"
Her situation here in the 70,000-student Mesa, Ariz., school district is hardly unusual. When a federal survey in 2000 asked principals which activities they engaged in daily, more than 80 percent cited issues related to security and facilities. By contrast, 53 percent said "facilitate student learning," and 40 percent said "build a professional community."
True, Buffmire has left her mark on teaching and learning at Mendoza Elementary. A native of Alaska who projects a pioneer's sense of assuredness, she's launched programs to give extra attention to her most struggling students. In her five years here, she's hired half the school's 50 teachers. Staff members praise her for creating an atmosphere of trust in which they can try new methods.
But as is evident in a typical workday, instructional leadership for Buffmire often must take a back seat to getting boxes for a teacher who's transferring or helping parents arrange a fund- raiser. As the lone administrator in charge of 824 pupils in grades pre-K-6 and a staff of 125, she spends much of her time putting out fires and navigating red tape.
"There are times when you feel like a pingpong ball," Buffmire says.
Paper Trails
Nestled in a warren of new housing developments outside Phoenix, Mendoza Elementary School sprawls across three permanent buildings and nine portable units, all in desert hues. Its courtyards are home to cactuses, cages of tropical birds, and pens of baby goats and turtles.
The campus is quiet when Buffmire arrives at 6:30 a.m., two hours before the start of class. With the lights off in her office, she works through a multicolored pile of forms. Some are for correcting time sheets. Others ensure that employees get paid at the correct rate. She signs several student award certificates, each bearing the school's mascot: a dog with black and white spots.
"I feel like I'm paid a lot of money to push a lot of paper," says Buffmire, whose 12-month contract earns her roughly $80,000.
Along with such documents, she keeps plenty of her own records. Throughout the day, she logs all of her phone calls on a steno pad. A separate file contains notes from her contacts with parents. After 23 years as a principal in Arizona and Alaska, she's learned the importance of leaving a paper trail.
The "pantsing" problem is a case in point. In another era, such misbehavior might have merited little more than a call home. But recently, two administrators at a Mesa high school faced criminal charges for failing to alert police about what investigators said was sexual abuse by one student against another. Now, principals here aren't taking any chances when physical contact takes place.
"I tell teachers: 'When they touch, you send them to me,'" Buffmire says.
In three hours this morning, she handles half a dozen disciplinary actions, reflecting a range of severity. There's the student who kicked his friend for throwing a football into a tree, popping it. There's the boy who grabbed a younger child by the throat so hard that it left red marks.
Buffmire's most difficult case of the day involves a boy whose acting-up in class got progressively worse. The problem is that he stopped taking medicine to treat a behavioral disorder, the principal says. It doesn't help that his parents are feuding.
"It's not that you didn't have kid-parent problems before, but the magnitude of the problem is greater," says Buffmire, who meets with the school's nurse, its police officer, and the child's teacher before calling his mother. "There's more to teach; there's more to know. But when you run into a problem, it's worse than it was 20 years ago."
Making the Rounds
Amid the morning rush of disciplinary cases, Buffmire manages to focus on student learning for a few minutes when she meets with a retired principal who stops by. He's been helping her compile a set of user-friendly data books on student achievement for her teachers. They'll show the test scores of each class, compared with scores for similar local schools and the district as a whole.
At 11:40 a.m., Buffmire heads to the cafeteria with a small plastic tub that holds keys, a walkie-talkie, a clipboard of class schedules, and her lunch. As part of her daily ritual, she spends about an hour helping with the midday meal, handing out milk and wiping down tables while eating from a plastic bag full of chopped vegetables.
"It gives me an opportunity to be around the kids," she says. "And I see most of the teachers."
Interacting with students and staff members takes such conscious efforts. Along with lunch duty today, Buffmire holds three 10-minute assemblies to issue reminders about the school's code of conduct. She visits a rehearsal for "Rats," a student musical based on the Pied Piper story. As she moves across the campus in short, quick strides, students often run up to give her hugs.
Other days, she spends more time with teachers. Every other Thursday, she hand-delivers paychecks to all the educators in the building, partly as an excuse to observe them. In mid to late fall, she visits classrooms daily to conduct personnel evaluations, spending the most time with her novice teachers. Ideally, she'd like to do so throughout the year.
"If I had more time to spend in individual classes—kind of teasing out what individuals do—I could use the teachers more effectively to help each other," she says.
Back in her office, she makes several phone calls. A few are to teachers she hopes to recruit for two programs that she's trying to start at Mendoza: one offering a Montessori curriculum, and another for students with severe emotional problems. Knowing she faces stiff competition for such specialists, she worries that some haven't called back.
Another set of calls relates to plans by her school's parents' group to hold an auction to raise money. The group wants to use student council money to rent entertainment from a local company that leases inflatable equipment for children's parties. But to make that happen requires a series of approvals.
"It's never simple," says the principal.
At 3 p.m., a half-hour after student dismissal, 11 teachers squeeze into Buffmire's office. These are her "team leaders," and they include educators chosen by their peers at each grade level. The principal meets with the group at least monthly. On this day, they focus mostly on housekeeping issues, including the process for teachers to sign up for nonclassroom duties, like supervising the lunchroom.
Throughout the year, however, Buffmire relies on the group to help plan ways to improve academics. It was with input from staff members, for instance, that she created intervention classes at Mendoza—smaller classes for lagging students who need extra attention. The principal is a strong believer in delegating, which lets her accomplish more than she otherwise could.
"What Fredi does is she kind of has sounding boards of different people," says 1st grade teacher Ruth Umlauf. "It's hard for her to have time for us all, but what she does do is have an open-door policy."
Buffmire wishes she had more chances to nurture the skills of her staff members. Her teachers' schedules allow one full day of training at the start of each year, she says. She can also usually get their classrooms covered twice during the year so they can work together for a couple of hours in school. Beyond that, professional development is largely a game of catch as catch can. "I believe I've got a vision of where I want to go," the principal says. "You watch for a window to open that will help you get there."
She uses the last minutes of the day to go through e-mail. At 5 p.m., she heads home to her husband, Bruce, who teaches 5th grade at another school in Mesa. On her way out of the office, she passes a small handwritten note held by a clip next to her office door.
It reads: "Put your troubles here when you leave."
Vol. 24, Issue 3, Page S8-S10Published in Print: September 15, 2004, as Putting Out Fires
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Amy Mollett, Avery Hancock and Paul Rainford take a look at the week in political blogging.
Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th January
Sunder Katwala at Left Foot Forward looks at changing attitudes to 'fair cuts'.
Political Betting asks whether the Oldham and Saddleworth by-election could reverse Ed Miliband's ratings slump.
Liberal Conspiracy investigates violent rhetoric in US political culture, after the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords.
As this year will see the first free schools open ,Tribune covers a survey of 1,021 parents by YouGov for the National Union of Teachers (NUT) in which 73 per cent were either against or not sure about Michael Gove's free schools strategy.
Monday 10th January
Thetorydiary considers three opinion surveys from the weekend which all point to a rejection of a Lib-Con coalition at the next election, while Left Foot Forward notes that the government will be 'judged by their actions' on the issues of bankers' bonuses and bonus taxes.
Liberal Conspiracy believes that a reduction in employment rights will not lead to a boost in employment.
Dave Hill shines a light on the economics of selling London to the world.
Tuesday 11th January
The Adam Smith Institute Blog supports including and expanding Labour's 6 Month Offer programme in the Coalition's plans to reduce unemployment.
Guido Fawkes says 'No! No! No!' to the new Europe Bill which opens up questions about how much control the parliament gives to the EU and how much it gives the UK's judiciary. Nick Robinson finds the discussion on limiting 'wiggle room' has actually frightened Eurosceptics
The Lib Dems have been dealt a blow by the Tories' refusal to curb bank bonuses; Staggers reminds us of Osborne's tough words on the issue while in opposition.
Harry's place finds that support for AV is falling but is unsurprised that voters are not signing on to Nick Clegg's 'pet project,' given Labour's edge in the Oldham and Saddleworth by-elections.
Next Left ponders whether the Commons can expel 'errant MPs' like Eric Illsley even if he does not resign.
Wednesday 12th January
Mack Pack digs deeper into the troubled relationship between the Freedom of Information Act and the royal family.
In an interview with Staggers Julian Assange declares China, rather than the US, the 'technological enemy" of WikiLeaks
The first PMQs of the new year was a draw, according to Ian Martin. Bankers' bonuses were the main issue of contention.
Liberal Bureaucracy updates on the Treasury's PAYE fiasco and what happened next, and the key facts from the IFS' report on the impact of Iain Duncan Smith's Universal Tax Credit are available on Westminster blog.
Thursday 13th January
Left Foot Forward reports that three quarters of English pupils face a funding cut as Liberal Conspiracy argues that Cameron's job creation claims are questionable.
As concerns continue to mount over Alan Johnson's suitability for the shadow chancellor role, Ed Miliband distances himself from Ed Balls' economic strategy.
The TUC wonders why the DWP is not worried about disincentivising second earners from work.
The Liberal Democrat Voice blogs on the PCC's probe into The Telegraph's undercover sting on Liberal Democrat MPs, and The Coffee House comments on the death of the Liberal Democrats.
Next Left analyses the battle to win the electoral support of middle Britain – or 'alarm clock Britain' as Nick Clegg would have it.
Friday 14th January
Keynesian Liberal unpicks the Oldham and Saddleworth by-election result for the Liberal Democrats, as Next Left attempts to give further perspective and The Coffee House offers its own reflections.
Michael White looks at what the by-election result means for the respective party leaders and Liberal Conspiracy investigates Ed Miliband's battle with the media over the narrative of his leadership.
Thetorydiary calls for an end to chummy 'rose garden' politics in the coalition as Baroness Warsi takes on the Tory right.
Dave Hill blogs on the politics of tube strikes and Robert Peston takes a look at the government's Plan B in dealing with industrial action.
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Oh look mummy, Rose street is a bit like the name Rosie. I pointed out that Rosie is the diminutive of Rose and that sometimes in families or informally you use a diminutive of your name, whereas in more formal situations you use the full form. As an example I explained that although we call Charlotte Lots or Lotsie at home, she would most likely be referred to as Charlotte by teachers or in her future place of work. I continued saying that if Lots was one day to apply for an important job like prime minister, she'd likely call herself Charlotte. I also mentioned that sometimes people use a more formal name when they get older too. Anna thought a moment then asked:Can we call Rosie Rose once she grows up? Of course, I replied, if you want. and then Anna added And we'll call her Rose too if she becomes prime minister! At first I laughed at the ludicrous idea of being governed by our pet hamster but looking at our current duo down south, I know who's getting my vote. ;-)


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Aizawl, Sep 27 : Villagers of North Chawnpui in northern Mizoram have fled their homes every night as they fear that the dam of Serlui B could collapse anytime.
As we can no longer get a sound sleep in our homes, which could be inundated by waters anytime, we sleep in two large halls at a place called Tlangveng which lies at higher altitude, about two kilometers from our village, said Lalngheta, a resident of North Chawnpui said.
According to Lalngheta, there are 77 families in the village, who packed up before the sunset and left the village for each night since the last few weeks. We venture out of our village during the daytime to do our daily works. Those family members who remain at home prepare dinner which we have usually before sunset. Then we leave the village for the night. That is our daily routine since the last few weeks, Mr Lalngheta said.
The halls where they sleep have been constructed with fund from the MGNREGS. This fear has been caused by the water leakage at the surge shaft gate which also prevented the much-awaited 12 MW Serlui B hydel project from being commissioned.
The villagers fear that the possibility of inundation is high as their village is situated only two kilometers away from the dam and the route of Serlui B river passes through the village. Officials may not share our fear because they don t see the ground reality. Let them come here and spend the night with their wives and children and only would they understand the situation, the villager said.
We are well aware of the water leakage in the dam, and that even engineers from the company have not been able to fix it, he said. According to officials, water is leaking from the surge shaft gate when sealed at the rate higher than permissible amount.
According to the agreement, the leakage of water from the sealed surge shaft gate should not be higher than 1.2 liters per second. In that case, the Serlui B hydel project cannot be commissioned even though the project has been completed, power and electricity engineer-in-chief C L Thangliana has said. The official informed that the contractors have been trying to fix the defect.
The surge shaft gate had a test run during last year s monsoon when the reservoir was filled to the brim.
The works at the biggest state-owned hydel project were divided into five major phases--earthen dam, diversion tunnel, powerhouse, spillway tunnel and hydro-mechanical works. The first four phases were completed on May 30, 2009 and completion certificates have been submitted.
Even though the hydro-mechanicals works have also been completed, completion certificate is yet to be submitted as it has not been formally on test-run, the officials said.
Facts About Serlui-B Dam
Operator: Mizoram Power & Electricity Dept
Configuration: 3 X 4 MW Kaplan
Operation: 2008
T/G supplier: BHEL
EPC: Patel Engineering, Aarti Infra-Projects, Mecon
Quick facts: This is the largest hydro plant in Mizoram. The site is near Bilkhawthlir Village in Kolasib dstrict. The DPR was approved in Feb 1999 and a turnkey contract was awarded to BHEL and Mecon in Dec 2003. Serlui-B has a 293m long, 51m high earthfill dam a 415m headrace tunnel, a 135m pressure tunnel, and a semi-underground powerhouse. The project cost Rs 191cr.
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If you can't make yourself clear through simple language, you blame the media. Mr. Trump praises his own way with words yet they continually fail him.
Donzy blew up a storm last week by saying that if abortions are banned "there has to be some sort of punishment" for the woman. Thunder and lightning came from all sides, so he was forced to walk back the comment ("It could be that I misspoke"). A recantation from the man who never apologizes. You can expect a few more.
Friday, talking to "Face the Nation" about abortion rights, he said, "The laws are set. And I think we have to leave it that way." The antiabortionists went crazy: "he has just disqualified himself to be the GOP nominee," said one.
"What I said was perfect," he claimed, and then the campaign stepped in to clean up his doo-doo.
Mr. Trump gave an accurate account of the law as it is today and made clear it must stay that way now—until he is president. Then he will change the law through his judicial appointments and allow the states to protect the unborn. There is nothing new or different here.
One concludes: 1) he doesn't get the implications of what he is saying; 2) he is incredibly sloppy with language; 3) he changes his positions on the fly. If he is caught out, it's the fault of the media for taking him out of context or being unfair. This is the response of a petulant child.
Trump has flip-flopped on abortion many times over the years—and on a number of other issues—but now even his supporters are catching on. Recent polls show him at 63 percent negative (70 percent among women), even with "groups that are supposed to form his base." Watch what happens in Wisconsin on Tuesday.
Maybe the unraveling is beginning. Maybe.


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Jimmy Fallon Takes Over 'The Tonight Show' in February 2014
Posted on Friday, August 9th, 2013 by Russ Fischer
Briefly: We don't cover much late-night TV, but The Tonight Show is an institution and a changing of the guard at the show is a big deal. Negotiations have been taking place for quite some time to end Jay Leno's run as host of the show, with Jimmy Fallon taking his place.
Now we know that Leno's last night as host will be February 6 2014 — that's the night before NBC begins coverage of the Winter Olympics. Fallon's debut as Tonight Show host will broadcast after that Olympic coverage ends. Since the last day of the Olympics is February 23, we'll likely see Fallon as host by the end of that month. And so end's Leno's tenure as perhaps the friendliest, safest voice in late-night TV. He's also one of the most popular, as Variety notes, holding the top ratings position in his time slot for the second quarter in 2013. That makes the changeover — the second time Leno has lost the chair, after a weird and short-lived swap with Conan O'Brien in 2009 — a bit unusual.


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If you love your music on the go and Pandora for Android is how you roll, we have some good news. Pandora has updated it's app for the Google OS with several enhancements that should make your music experience more satisfying.
There's a redesigned UI and navigation now just looks better, more in line with Android design. A tweaked song history allows users to review, rate and bookmark their previously played tracks for future reference if you are into that sort of thing. While a particular artist is playing, album art can now be minimized to display bio information, song lyrics and Pandora's similar artist / track recommendations.
It sounds pretty sweet to us. We like to listen to our music and have a streamlined experience. You can get the update right now.
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I wanted to give a special highlight to one of our colored belt fighters. We love them all and are very proud of them but I think all would agree that special recognition needs to go out to Marisa. Marisa (age 14) traveled to Fort Lauderdale without her parents who stayed behind to run the family business. Lucky for her, she had her Primal family so she had no shortage brothers, sisters, aunts, and uncles. The entire team screamed and lost their minds while Marisa was fighting.
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David Letterman thanked his fans for giving him "everything" in his final 'Late Show'.
The 68-year-old presenter hosted his last episode of the daily chat show on Wednesday evening (20.05.15) and praised his audience, who have kept him on air since he started the show in 1982.
Speaking to his fans, he said: "Have you thought about a complete psychological work-up? The people who watch this show, there's nothing I can do to ever repay you. Thank you for everything. You've given me everything."
During the 80-minute broadcast, viewers were treated to celebrity guests, video montages and famous sketches, as well as a performance of 'Everlong' by the host's favourite band Foo Fighters.
The rockers previously performed the track on the show back in 2000 when David returned to the show after undergoing quintuple-bypass heart surgery, describing them at the time as "my favourite band playing my favourite song."
Meanwhile, celebrity fans took to the internet to send their well-wishes to the much-loved TV personality, with Kim Kardashian West saying the veteran broadcaster would be "greatly missed".
She wrote on Twitter: "Thank you for so many laughs! You will be greatly missed @Letterman (sic)."
Lena Dunham also praised David by saying he made her feel "like a trillion bucks" when she was interviewed on the programme.
Sharing a photo of the pair on Instagram, she wrote: "Dear Dave- you really know how to make a gal feel like a trillion bucks. Thank you for it all. Love- Lena (sic)."
Joking about the praise he received during the final show, David - whose slot will be taken up by comedian Stephen Colbert - urged fans to tone down the commendations because he hasn't died yet.
He quipped: "Do me a favour. Save a little for my funeral."
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The Pioneer Quilters Guild proudly hosts a premier Quilt Show each year that features a fantastic display of gorgeous quilts of various techniques, sizes, and designs made by our talented members, as well as a designated area that offers quilts for sale to the public. We have a wonderful and unique boutique that sells quality handmade crafts of all sorts. Shop early as we are very well known in the community! Our exciting raffle baskets generate a lot of interest. There are door prizes given throughout the day, vendor shops to offer all that is new to quilting and more, and a catered café by Ambrosia Fine Foods offering an array of delicious fare for everyone.
Our 2020 Show Has been Canceled
- Date: November 14-15, 2020
- Location: Roseville Sports Center, 1545 Pleasant Grove Blvd, Roseville
- Times: Saturday, 10-5, Sunday 10-4
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Archive: June 2014
The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.
2 June 2014 (front page)
- US defense secretary menaces China at Singapore forum
- The drive to privatize US veterans' health care
- Pentagon pressures South Korea to join anti-missile system
- Turkey: Massive police operation against protesters
- Suspect in Brussels shooting linked to Western-backed Syrian opposition
- Emergency manager threatens Detroit retirees at policy conference
- NSA collects facial images of hundreds of millions of people
European elections
Support for Portugal government nosedives
- Sixteen-year-olds recruited to British Army
Six months after Typhoon Haiyan
Woman and six children killed in fire in tent city in Philippines
- Thousands more layoffs imminent for New York school bus workers
- FBI arrests acquaintance of Boston Marathon bombing suspect
- New US coal dust standards leave thousands of miners at risk for black lung
- This week in history: June 2-8
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Film portrait of an American radical iconoclast
3 June 2014 (front page)
- Obama heads to Europe for week of meetings directed against Russia
- Washington boasts of military buildup against China
- Thai junta puts off elections for at least 15 months
- German firm Siemens to eliminate a further 11,600 jobs
- US Supreme Court rejects appeal by New York Times reporter James Risen
- US auto union meets to install new president
- New York's Working Families Party once again backs Democrat Cuomo
- Migrant workers face brutal conditions at NYU's Abu Dhabi campus
- UK referred to International Criminal Court for war crimes in Iraq
- Indonesian presidential election campaign gets underway
- SEP meetings in Australia discuss budget attacks and drive to war
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Students and workers consider SEP's analysis
4 June 2014 (front page)
- Obama escalates NATO confrontation with Russia
- Police violence and the American gulag
- Spanish King Juan Carlos abdicates amid growing unpopularity of the monarchy
- US media campaign targets released Afghan war POW Bowe Bergdahl
- Obama administration global warming regulation incorporates shift already underway
- New Orleans Recovery School District set to convert entirely to charter schools
- US economy contracts as tens of thousands are laid off
- UK Chilcot Inquiry: cover-up continues over war against Iraq
- Austria: Far-right FPÖ gains support in European elections
- Fascist propaganda on the front page of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- Striking Holcim workers in Sri Lanka occupy cement plants
- Sri Lankan president seeks improved relations with India
- Australian "exceptionalism", the budget and the demands of finance capital
- Twenty-five years since the Tiananmen Square massacre
- So Bright is the View: A serious film from Romania
- Bankruptcy court approves new appraisal of Detroit Institute of Arts collection
- UK SEP National Secretary interviewed on BBC Daily Politics
5 June 2014 (front page)
- International Labor Organization details impact of global austerity
- The US media and the release of POW Bowe Bergdahl
- Obama backs state terror against eastern Ukraine
- Fighting between militias intensifies in Libya
- US auto union installs long-time wage-cutter as new president
- Michigan Senate passes Detroit "Grand Bargain" package
- Wisconsin youths charged as adults in attempted murder case
- No replacement jobs for most workers laid off from Bochum plant in Germany
- German foreign intelligence service plans real-time surveillance of social networks
- Medical co-payments and the assault on public health in Australia
- The Medical Research Future Fund: A hand-out to corporate Australia
- NZ opposition parties wage xenophobic campaign against Asian immigrants
- Global electronics giant NXP sacks union officials in the Philippines
6 June 2014 (front page)
- G7 unity shows cracks on Russia sanctions
- One year of Edward Snowden's revelations
- European Central Bank cuts interest rate below zero
- Internal GM report shields top executives for cover-up of deadly car defects
- Workers at Detroit retiree meetings voice anger over pension cuts
- Bipartisan deal on US veterans' health care includes step toward privatization
- Michigan steel worker crushed to death on the job
- California governor Jerry Brown calls for raising teachers' pension contributions
- Teachers and transit workers ratify New York City contract deals
- Australia: Three-fold rise in long-term youth unemployment since 2008
- Widespread disaffection in South Korean regional elections
Four weeks after announcing austerity budget
Leadership tensions erupt in Australian government
- Ontario NDP and unions in spat over what rightwing road to follow
7 June 2014 (front page)
- Wealth report shows deepening social polarization in US
- D-Day anniversary: Commemorating the Second World War and preparing the Third
- Tepid employment report masks depth of US jobs crisis
- Thai opposition forms overseas anti-coup organisation
- Collapse of Kosovo government leads to early elections
- Labour embraces UK Independence Party's right-wing nationalism
- British care home scandal deepens
- Washington DC veterans and residents speak out against privatization of VA health care
- Detroit's Catherine Ferguson Academy to close by end of June
- Australian industrial watchdog goes after West Australian construction workers' homes
- Infant still in critical condition after Georgia police raid
- New Zealand historian discusses government's book glorifying World War I
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
9 June 2014 (front page)
- Newly installed President Poroshenko pledges to militarise Ukraine and crush rebellion in the east
- The UAW vs. the auto workers
- Right-wing campaign intensifies against family of American POW Bergdahl
- Immigrant children held at Arizona detention center in deplorable conditions
- Vodafone privacy report reveals state access to its networks
- US prepares to fine major French bank
- Death toll of migrants seeking to enter Europe via Mediterranean mounts
- Closure of UK colliery exposes role of miners' union
- The Value of Water Coalition: Corporate greed masquerading as activism
- Massive cuts to education, pensions and social services expected in Pennsylvania state budget
Nationalism and fascism in Ukraine: A historical overview
Part one
- This week in history: June 9-15
- A crude celebration of Australian militarism
10 June 2014 (front page)
- Brazilian workers clash with police on eve of World Cup
- ILO report: A world blighted by poverty and inequality
- Appeals court backs executive branch whitewash of Wall Street
- Seattle's $15-an-hour minimum wage of little benefit to workers
- Head of US Chamber of Commerce visits Cuba
- Austerity forces British children into record levels of poverty
- New research documents heightened social inequality in Britain
- Australian minimum wage ruling grants a pittance
- Australian mining companies push for suppression of port workers' dispute
- Federal judge blocks rule lowering drug prices for poor hospitals
- Freedom of speech and the debate over Australia's Racial Discrimination Act
Nationalism and fascism in Ukraine: A historical overview
Part two
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
11 June 2014 (front page)
- Al Qaeda offshoot ISIS captures Mosul from Iraqi government forces
- The Australian budget and the fight for social equality
- US air strike kills five special operations troops in Afghanistan
- Australian Senate committee discusses threat of US-China war
- Pakistan's largest airport attacked by Taliban group
- VA audit shows nearly 60,000 US veterans face delays receiving health care
- Relatives of GM crash victims hold Detroit protest
- Obama signs executive order on student loans
- Warehousing of Central American children in Arizona continues
- Italy after the European elections
- Budget cuts threaten scientific and cultural projects at London's Kew Gardens
The diary of Lena Mukhina: An important document on the Leningrad blockade
Lenas Tagebuch, translated by Lena Gorelik and Gero Fedtke, Munich, 2013
Fifty years since the LSSP's Great Betrayal in Sri Lanka
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
12 June 2014 (front page)
- California court ruling signals nationwide attack on teacher tenure, seniority rights
- The fall of Mosul and the crimes of imperialism
- Illinois Democrats gut Chicago city worker pensions
- US House Republican leader defeated in primary election
- UK schools witchhunted by government to foster anti-Muslim sentiment
- British NHS patients left without medications by private contractor
- Ten years since the neo-Nazi attack in Cologne, Germany
- Detroit officials agree at DIA press conference: Workers must pay for bankruptcy
- More Detroit schools threatened with closure
- Unrest grows as Mexico's economy goes into slump
- Australia: Queensland government backflips on pensioner concessions
- Fight budget austerity! A socialist perspective for Australian workers
- Satchmo at the Waldorf in New York: The life and times of jazz great Louis Armstrong
- New Zealand: Socialist Aotearoa endorses Mana-Internet Party alliance
13 June 2014 (front page)
- Iraq crisis threatens to ignite regional war
- The California teacher tenure ruling and the war against public education
- Global private financial wealth surges by 14.6 percent in 2013
- On opening day of the World Cup, protests continue in Brazil
- Federal judge allows US government to destroy evidence in suit against NSA
- Washington drives escalating tensions in South China Sea
- Australia: Thousands protest against budget
- One quarter of people in San Diego cannot make ends meet
- Survey finds huge disillusionment with capitalism in Serbia
- Thai junta holds talks with Chinese military, investors
12 June 2014 (front page)
13 June 2014 (front page)
- Millions in US fall into Medicaid gap
- New round of job cuts in New Zealand
- Million Dollar Arm and Words and Pictures: Two Australian directors in Hollywood, for better or worse
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
14 June 2014 (front page)
After the European elections
EU torn by conflict over European Commission president
- The debacle in Iraq
- Ukraine regime claims control of key port city
- Obama administration says child immigrants are "priorities for removal" from US
- Internal report details GM ignition cover-up
- Australian PM intensifies commitment to US war preparations
- Australia, Japan forge closer military ties
- China seeks to woo India's new right-wing government
- Greece faces more austerity, while EU professes its reliance on the unions
- Luxury apartment complex in London uses spikes to deter homeless
- Ontario: Liberals regain majority with union support
- Colombian left backs Santos in election's second round
- One quarter of people in San Diego cannot make ends meet
- Ruby Dee, American actress and activist, dead at 91
- Beyoncé, the new album
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
16 June 2014 (front page)
- Civil war escalates in Iraq amid reports of sectarian massacres
- Obama responds to Iraq debacle with military escalation
- US-backed rightists attack Russian embassy in Kiev
- Instability set to continue after Afghan presidential election
- Obama administration halts Philadelphia railway strike
- French rail workers, artists protest social cuts
- Militarization of police in America
- Pennsylvania: Mother of seven dies while jailed for unpaid fines
- Bank of England governor warns of threat to capitalism
- Germany: Ford works council agrees to flexible working and job cuts
- Sri Lankan students' union promotes illusions in protest campaign
- This week in history: June 16-22
- Classic jazz from Detroit's Royal Garden Trio
- Australian treasurer defends austerity budget as "fair"
17 June 2014 (front page)
- Washington seeks alliance with Tehran as civil war in Iraq intensifies
- The US media and the debacle in Iraq
- IMF cuts projection for US economic growth
- The German president's call to arms
- Hungarian government intensifies attack on press freedom
- House fire in Newark, New Jersey kills six family members
- Workers killed on the job at online retailer Amazon
- Pentagon begins Bergdahl investigation
- Detroit retirees denounce plan to raid city workers' savings accounts
- Australian general blames 2003 invasion for Iraq civil war
- Murder trial of Sewol captain begins in South Korea
- Australia authorities violently suppress refugee hunger strike
- Sri Lanka: Sinhala-Buddhist mobs unleash violence against Muslims
- September 11 Museum: An exercise in historical falsification
18 June 2014 (front page)
- Obama orders nearly 300 US troops to Iraq
- Facing a debacle in Iraq, the US turns for help to Iran
- Iraq's civil war provokes UK political crisis
- German media clamours for a new Iraq war
- CIA planned rendition of Edward Snowden
- Ukrainian military kills Russian journalists in assault on rebel-held town
State killing machine resumes in US
Executions in Georgia, Missouri and Florida
- Mentally ill in the US: Ten times more in prisons than in hospitals
- Detroit city worker union pushes bankruptcy restructuring plan
- Ford announces 250 forced redundancies in Australia
- Australia Post slashes 900 jobs in preparation for privatisation
- 200,000 Cambodians flee Thailand amid military crackdown
- Socialist Party government ignores mass protest to attack French culture workers' jobless benefits
- French president backs generals' revolt against cuts to military budget
- Timothy Geithner's Stress Test: Confessions of a Wall Street bag-man
- 1928-2014: Maya Angelou, writer, performer and participant in the civil rights movement
- Jürgen Habermas—Germany's state philosopher turns 85
19 June 2014 (front page)
- General cites official request from Iraqi government for US air strikes against Sunni insurgents
Two years of asylum in Ecuadorian embassy
Defend Julian Assange!
- Saudi Arabia warns of civil war in Iraq with "unpredictable consequences"
- The crisis in Iraq and the response of the Turkish ruling class
- More questions than answers after US commandos seize Benghazi attack suspect
- Workers speak out against privatization of French railways
- US appeals court rules defendant has no right to secret surveillance documents
- Charter school companies in US face corruption charges
- Retired Detroit bus mechanics denounce cuts to pensions and transportation services
- Sri Lankan government tries to whitewash anti-Muslim attacks
- Bulgaria suspends construction of South Stream pipeline
- Australia: NSW budget to sell off $20 billion in public assets
- Irish Labour Party members hold ballot for new leader
- New York's Metropolitan Opera cancels broadcasts of The Death of Klinghoffer
A great Soviet film about World War II
No more war! The anti-war message of The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
- A further comment on The Cranes Are Flying
A damning exposure of the assault on public education in the US
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
20 June 2014 (front page)
- Obama exploits Iraq crisis as pretext for war against Syria
- Economy slumps, Wall Street booms
- German foreign minister Steinmeier agitates for war
- Ukraine regime launches military blitz after floating ceasefire plan
- Roma boy attacked by lynch mob in northern Paris
- Greek public building cleaners defy police repression, demand reinstatement
- US Congressional committee gives GM a pass on deadly ignition defect
- A new wave of US school shootings and other violent acts
- Low-income UK residents pay higher tax rates than the wealthy
- UK: Hillsborough disaster inquest reveals safety violations by stadium operator
- Growing social inequality in Australia
- IG-Metall holds bogus "youth protest" at GM-Opel in Rüsselsheim, Germany
- Australian High Court sanctions indefinite offshore refugee detention
- Netflix's Orange is the New Black: Humanity inside a US women's prison
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Dilapidated, overcrowded public schools in the Philippines
21 June 2014 (front page)
- Washington escalates intervention in region-wide Middle East war
- The Metropolitan Opera's censorship of The Death of Klinghoffer
- German militarism and the US debacle in Iraq
- Iraq crisis exacerbates divisions within Iranian elite
- Obama administration steps up attacks on undocumented immigrants
Impact of war and persecution
More than 50 million displaced persons worldwide
- Study ranks US health care system last among 11 nations
- Former Goldman trader involved in fraudulent activities says $8 million bonus too low
- German interior minister warns of threat of lethal attacks by Islamists
- Pakistan military and US drones pound North Waziristan
- Poll spotlights British economic insecurity
- South Korean president carries out cabinet reshuffle
- South Australian Labor's budget imposes "cruel" federal cuts
- Vote "no" in the Scottish referendum—Fight for a socialist Britain
At the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto
Making sense of human suffering: Francis Bacon and Henry Moore — Terror and Beauty
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
23 June 2014 (front page)
- Kerry affirms US support for Egyptian junta
- Democracy and the debacle in Iraq
- US moves inciting sectarian warfare throughout the Middle East
- Detroit workers oppose return of US forces to Iraq
- Government military offensive in eastern Ukraine continues
- Sri Lankan Muslims protest Buddhist extremist attacks
- US workers speak on gas prices related to renewed conflict in Iraq
- Mass graves of undocumented migrants found in Texas
- Every Internet user in the UK can be spied on without a warrant
- GM-Opel: Union "social wage contract" splits German auto workers
- Fifty years since the murder of the Mississippi civil rights workers
- Australia: Sunday penalty rates slashed for hospitality workers
- Oppose the attacks on Muslims in Sri Lanka
- This week in history: June 23-29
- Entre Nos (Between US) and Red Father: Aspects of US life and history
24 June 2014 (front page)
- Memo on drone killings of US citizens makes case for presidential dictatorship
- Washington's persecution of immigrant children
- In Baghdad, Kerry threatens US military action
- Egypt jails Al Jazeera journalists after show trial
- Journalist Glenn Greenwald speaks in California
- British Columbia teachers' strike enters second week
- US Supreme Court backs hedge fund against Argentina
- Supreme Court limits federal regulation of greenhouse gases
- Growing social inequality in Germany
- UK's People's Assembly stages anti-austerity protest
- China's premier signs major trade deals with Greece
- China-Vietnam talks fail to end tensions over oil rig
- New Zealand forestry inquiry into workers' deaths
- Prolific composer and master jazz pianist Horace Silver dies at 85
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
25 June 2014 (front page)
- Kurdish region rebuffs US appeals for unity with Iraqi government
- The Obama drone murder memo
- Israel stoking conflict in Iraq, Iran, Syria and the Occupied Territories
- Bugging affair unleashes government crisis in Poland
- New reports confirm economic stagnation in Europe
- Multi-millionaire Hillary Clinton denies she is part of the "truly well-off"
- Albuquerque, New Mexico rally to protest police brutality
- New revelations of neglect and coverup at US veterans health care facilities
- Energy Department report calls New Mexico radiation leak "preventable"
- Australian shift on East Jerusalem provokes diplomatic furore
- Australian government plans new citizenship and surveillance powers
- Jobs losses at Kellogg's UK part of global profit drive
- ISIS offensive in Iraq exposes French pseudo-left's support for Syria war
- "Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe" at the Guggenheim Museum in New York
26 June 2014 (front page)
- US economic output tumbled by 2.9 percent in the first quarter
- The fiasco of Kerry's Middle East tour
- EU summit in Ypres: The end of the European Union in its current form
- Recent report confirms: US depleted uranium weapons targeted civilian areas in Iraq war
- Child labour: A global scourge
- Australian government's phony defence of journalist jailed in Egypt
- German Social Democrats, Greens, Left Party support German war policy
- Sri Lankan Muslims describe brutal communal violence
- Recall delayed because General Motors refused to call power steering failure a safety issue
- US primary elections show low level of popular interest
- US Supreme Court rejects unlimited warrantless cell phone searches
SEP & IYSSE public meetings
The imperialist debacle in Iraq and the struggle against war
- Sister of man fatally shot by Albuquerque Police: "They treated him like a terrorist"
- New studies reveal further details of Higgs particle
- Hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan to release "secret" album to highest-paying bidder
27 June 2014 (front page)
- Region-wide war threatens as Iraqi state disintegrates
- Detroit water shutoffs violate human rights
- US, NATO deliver fresh ultimatums to Russia over Ukraine
- ACLU report exposes US federal government's role in creating "paramilitary police"
- The return of the state secret police in Germany
- Chicago Public Schools lays off 1,150 workers
- Inequality doubles in the US between 2003-2013
- Pennsylvania school district contract to cut 15 percent of teachers
- News of the World hacking trial ends: Scandal still poses threat to Britain's ruling elite
- South African platinum miners return to work
- Australian government faces parliamentary logjam over austerity budget
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The latest proposals from the convention on the future of Europe would also commit member states to "unreservedly" backing an EU common foreign policy, if approved unanimously at an intergovernmental conference.
The draft, unveiled in Brussels today, says the EU shall in future have "legal personality" and incorporates a legally binding charter of fundamental rights, including labour and social policies.
All reference to a federal Europe was dropped, however, after heated talks last week between the prime minister and former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who has been drawing up the new blueprint.
The idea of renaming the EU the "United States of Europe" has also been banished from the text.
The draft constitution is part of an effort to streamline the EU in readiness for the accession of 10 new member states in May 2004 and marks the end of more than a year's work by a 105-strong convention of national government ministers, MEPs, MPs and the European commission.
Peter Hain, the Welsh secretary and UK representative on the convention welcomed the new document.
"This is good progress for Britain. We are burying once and for all the fantasies of a Brussels superstate," he said.
"Europe will remain a union of sovereign nation states with governments such as Britain's in charge. By deleting the word 'federal' it is a clear signal that the rest of Europe shares Britain's views.
He continued: "We have important battles still to fight including on cross-border social security measures, ensuring the proposed new foreign secretary remains firmly under the control of governments and not the commission and getting a rigid fire break preventing the charter of rights from changing our domestic law.
"There is still months of negotiation to go after the convention ends in June and we are determined to protect our red-lines before the treaty is agreed a year from now."
In contrast, the Conservatives immediately condemned the latest version of the document.
Timothy Kirkhope, a Conservative MEP and representative on the convention said: "The British government is pulling the wool over the eyes of the British people.
"Mr Blair may have convinced Giscard that the UK should retain control over its taxation and defence policy but these concessions have been won at the expense of other key areas.
"If the charter of fundamental rights does become a legally-binding text, the NHS would be forced to employ doctors and nurses who may not speak English, trade unions would find it easier to take strike action and Britain would be forbidden from extraditing mass murderers such as Osama bin Laden to the United States and other countries where they may face the death penalty.
Mr Kirkhope added: "Tony Blair has also betrayed the British people in the area of justice and home affairs. Qualified majority voting is set to become the norm in this area, a move which will result in the loss of the British right of veto. The UK will have to subscribe to a European asylum and immigration policy and the creation of a European public prosecutor."
But the Liberal Democrat spokesman, Dr Vince Cable, welcomed the draft, saying: "It is entirely right that, with 10 new countries about to join the EU, we should have a proper written agreement of how Europe will operate.
"The Tories want a referendum because they think the British people will vote to leave Europe entirely. This is simply not the case. What the British people do want, is to control their own destiny, via parliament and the ballot box at every general election.
"The Liberal Democrats want a full debate on the draft convention when parliament returns next week. It is for our parliament - elected by the people of this country - to decide whether the new convention requires a referendum of the people.
He added: "The Liberal Democrats would support a referendum if the Convention proposes significant constitutional change.
"Unlike the Conservatives we have every confidence of winning a referendum on Europe because the British people are level-headed and pragmatic and recognise the benefits of being at the heart of Europe."
The future Europe, as envisaged by the 105-strong convention, would have a new president elected by EU leaders to serve as the EU's figurehead for at least two-and-a-half years. He or she would be a serving or former prime minister of one of the member states.
In addition, EU leaders would also elect a foreign minister to conduct the union's common foreign policy and carry out any foreign policy mandates agreed by the member states. Defence and security policy initiatives undertaken by the EU would also come under his or her remit.
On foreign policy the document declares: "Member states shall actively and unreservedly support the union's common foreign and security policy in a spirit of loyalty and mutual solidarity. They shall refrain from action contrary to the union's interests or likely to undermine its effectiveness."
This does not answer British and other concerns about any repeat of the situation of the Iraqi crisis, where there was no hope of any common EU line, or any chance of a spirit of "loyalty and mutual solidarity".
If similar circumstances arose again, say EU insiders, the EU "foreign minister" would simply have to sit on the sidelines with no "common" policy to coordinate.
The commission, meanwhile, would get a president elected by the European parliament rather than by EU leaders, a move to satisfy those wanting to see the commission's autonomy reinforced as a counterweight to national influence in the EU .
On running the economy, the draft text has been diluted to state: "The union shall coordinate the economic policies of the member states, in particular by establishing broad guidelines for these policies."
The section of the proposed constitutional treaty on the economy does now include a reference to coordinating employment policies - offering more scope for argument over whether new inroads are being made into national sovereignty.
The aim is no longer stated that the EU should function in some areas "on a federal basis", although when the draft's "preamble" is published later this week, it will still commit the member states to an "ever-closer union".
Today's "revised draft of the first part" of the constitutional treaty will be reviewed once more by the full convention later this week, then given its first assessment by EU leaders at a summit in Greece next month, according to Mr Giscard's spokesman.
The spokesman said other parts of the draft text would be delivered later this week, but there was still some discussion in the convention: "This is a text that is still open to improvement. It can be improved. It is not the final version".
Mr Blair has emphasised that new treaty requires the unanimous agreement of all EU leaders, and that anything not in Britain's interest will be vetoed.
But the Eurosceptic campaign is expected to intensify in the next few months as today's convention's proposals are thrashed out in an intergovernmental conference. A sustained campaign is already underway by the Conservative party and the rightwing press for the government put the issue to a national referendum.
Mr Giscard yesterday tried to win over sceptics in the UK, insisting he was not "destroying Britain".
However he also said he would be "very pleased" to see a referendum in the UK on his ideas.


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Untouchable Blood
Original title: Sangre intocable
Author: Maribel Medina
A ruthless murderer is spreading terror among the cast known as the 'untouchables' in Varanasi. What is the connection between the big pharmaceutical corporations and a young girl from the chaotic city of the Ganges?
Shortly after uncovering a scandal involving the international doping mafia network, Thomas Connors, a handsome Interpol agent based in Lyon, sees himself tangled in a new and very strange case. The body of an old childhood friend of his appears on the streets of Lyon, where the victim had intended to hand Thomas an important message saved on a pen-drive.
With the help of forensic doctor Laura Therraux, who finally fulfilled her dream of becoming pregnant, Thomas will follow the lead left by his murdered friend all the way to the fascinating city of Varanasi.
Meanwhile, in India, a young girl named Tanika is forced to flee after the mysterious death of her parents – found killed with their tongues cut off – a death that hides the key to some sinister practices carried out by someone hiding behind the shadow of 'the eliminator'… Thomas and Laura, together with Varanasi police agents Dulal and Umed, as well as long-time friend and DEA agent George, will put their lives at high risk to unveil who is responsible for the murders in Lyon and Varanasi, and how they are connected.
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March 2007
Drew Nellins
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
The hardest part of writing a review for André Aciman's powerful first novel, Call Me by Your Name is trying not to turn it into a love letter to the author. What could easily have been stuffed into a category as narrow as "gay lit" or, worse yet, classified as a summer romance, is instead a graceful reflection on the impact love has on man and the effect of time on love.
The story, told as a recollection, centers on a seventeen year old boy named Elio and a young scholar named Oliver, who spent a single summer with Elio's family in the Italian Riviera more than twenty years ago. After an uneasy courtship built on moments of closeness punctuated by days of ignoring one another, Elio and Oliver finally consummate a secret romance that has been building from the day Oliver arrived and which marks both men for life.
I know a summer romance -- even a gay one -- doesn't sound like particularly new territory, but Aciman's careful writing and sharp insights fill his reader with an understanding of why, if there really are only a few possible plots, we keep reading books long after we've seen them all.
In a smart opening, a grown-up Elio speculates on the precise moment his boyhood romance began. "Maybe it started soon after his arrival during one of those grinding lunches…" "Or perhaps it started at the beach." "But it might have started way later than I think without my noticing anything at all."
By page ten, I was gratefully reminded of how, when carried off properly, literature written in the first-person can be incredibly successful at drawing in its readers. Aciman manages to pull it off without employing any of the standard tricks; the book is neither chatty, pain-spoken, nor dialogue-heavy. To the contrary, there's a near-Classical feel to the writing. And I mean that as a compliment.
What's most surprising in Call Me by Your Name is Aciman's ability to make detailed writing about emotion interesting. I found myself thinking of Deliverance as I read. I never did figure out what in James Dickey's writing made me want to read more about the movement of a paddle through a river, or the movement of the river itself, yet I did. I likewise searched for Aciman's trick. Why wasn't I skimming over those page-long, expository passages about love? I don't know. But I wasn't.
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Even the sex scenes -- which can seem jarringly graphic after descriptions of idyllic bicycle rides along the Rivera and afternoons spent by the pool -- are handled tastefully. (The possible exception is a scene on page 171, which I read twice, then called a friend and read to her to be certain I hadn't misunderstood. I hadn't.)
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Or, Failed to log on to Microsoft Windows. Ensure that your logon credentials are correctly entered.
Symantec Backup Exec 2012 Schedule Job Error:
The job failed with the following error: Failed to log on to Microsoft Windows. Ensure that your logon credentials are correctly entered and that they meet the following minimum requirements to log on to a Windows computer: - The credentials used are a member of the Backup Operators group. - For Windows Vista/2008 and later, the credentials have the Log on as a batch job privilege. Additional privileges may be required to access resources on the Windows computer.
1. Login to Client Server (For which backup is failing).
2. Right Click on Computer > Manage > Configuration > Local User and Group > Group
3. Right Click on Group > Properties > Add > Here add your logon account of backup server which is being used for taking backups (if you will edit credential setting of any backup job, you can see the logon account information which is being used for backups) > Ok.
4. Restart Backup Exec Remote Agent services on client server.
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Cortes Out of Recall Election
November's recall election is back down to two candidates…after Olivia Cortes withdrew from the race today. In a statement, Cortes says, in part, quote…due to the constant intimidation and harassment of me, my family, friends, and neighbors I have decided to drop out of the race for state senator in LD 18.
Critics had alleged Cortes was a sham candidate, in the race to siphon votes from charter school executive Jerry Lewis…in an effort to help state senate president Russell Pearce keep his seat. A judge ruled last week that Pearce supporters did help get her on the ballot…but refused to remove her from it. The judge, though, also agreed to hear more evidence in the case…the hearing that had been scheduled for tomorrow has now been vacated. Anthony Tsontakis is Cortes' attorney.
(It was a personal decision on her part, the other side offered to vacate the hearing tomorrow if she would voluntarily withdraw from the race…I let her know that they had made us that offer and she decided to take it of her own volition.)
An attorney for the plaintiff in the case confirmed that that offer was made. Ballots in the November 8th election have already been printed, and early voting starts next week. Cortes' name will remain on the ballot…but there will be signs at polling places alerting voters that she is no longer a candidate.