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Breast Cancer: Early Stage Better Treated With Shorter, Higher-Dose Radiation

2015-08-09T00:09:00.002+01:00

Breast Cancer: Early Stage Better Treated With Shorter, Higher-Dose Radiation

HIGHER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THOSE RECEIVING FASTER RADIATION TREATMENTS

There are two well-known radiation treatments available for those suffering from breast cancer. Conventionally fractionated whole breast irradiation, or CF-WBI, is more common treatment, giving smaller radiation doses over a more prolonged time period. Hypofractionated whole breast irradiation, also known as HF-WBI, is less often used. HF-WBI offered breast cancer patients a higher dose over a shorter period of time, essentially giving the patient the same amount of radiation but in a way that initially sounds riskier. However, a new study published in JAMA Oncology suggests that, for early stage breast cancer, higher doses of radiation in shorter periods of time are actually a better and more efficient treatment option.

BETTER RESULTS FROM THOSE WHO UNDERWENT HF-WBI

To get their conclusive results, researchers from the University of Texas studied 287 women that were diagnosed with early breast cancer. These women were then split into two groups – one group received lower radiation in longer periods of time, while the other received higher doses in a shorter time period. The results were quite conclusive: The breast cancer patients who underwent HF-WBI saw 31% less acute toxic effects from the radiation than those who were being treated with CF-WBI. Similarly, breast cancer patients undergoing higher doses of radiation saw 30% fewer dermatitis instances, as well as 19% less breast pain, 8% less fatigue than the CF-WBI patients, and 6% less difficulty with regards to caring for their families. The last statistic is particularly notable; women suffering from breast cancer still have families and jobs to tend to, and anything that can alleviate their ability to do those is of great importance for treating breast cancer.
A similar study out of Michigan was also published in JAMA Oncology, and its findings were reproduced by those in Texas. To add onto the positive effects of HF-WBI, the breast cancer patients undergoing CF-WBI had a 20% higher rate of self-reported pain, as well as 14% more swelling.

WHAT THIS STUDY MEANS FOR BREAST CANCER PATIENTS

Main researchers of this study made sure to say that this doesn’t mean a simple suggestion of using HF-WBI more often. It means that they believe conclusively, from these findings, that HF-WBI should be the standard used for those suffering from early stage breast cancer, particularly those over 40. Combine this study with previous ones that suggest there’s very little difference in tumor control and survival rates between HF-WBI and CF-WBI, and it’s hard to argue.

Body Image Study: 30% Of Men Overuse Workout Supplements, May Have Eating Disorders

2015-08-09T00:07:00.003+01:00

Body Image Study: 30% Of Men Overuse Workout Supplements, May Have Eating Disorders

A new study suggests that nearly 30 percent of men are consuming more than enough workout supplements and might already be suffering from eating disorders.

Richard Achiro, study leader at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, Los Angeles, worked with his colleagues for an online survey that was participated by 195 men with ages 19 to 65 who had used workout supplements for the past 30 days. The researchers aimed to get information about men's supplement use, self-esteem, body image, eating habits and gender role conflicts.

The commonly-used workout supplements of the participants included whey protein, creatine and L-carnitine. The respondents said that they work out at least twice a week to stay fit or improve their appearance.
The analysis showed that more than 40 percent of the respondents had increased their workout supplement consumption over time, and 22 percent had replaced some of their meals with these products. Disturbingly, 29 percent admitted that they are concerned with their excessive use of the workout supplements, some so much so that eight percent of them were advised by their doctors to stop and three percent had suffered from kidney problems.
"These products have become an almost ubiquitous fixture in the pantries of young men across the country and can seemingly be purchased anywhere and everywhere - from grocery stores to college book stores," Achiro said in a news release. "The marketing efforts, which are tailored to addressing underlying insecurities associated with masculinity, position these products perfectly as a 'solution' by which to fill a void felt by so many men in our culture."
The researchers also found that men with low self-esteem and experiencing gender role conflict are most likely to overuse workout supplements.
Overusing workout supplements is not a new problem and may have overlooked in the past because these men look healthy on the outside. The researchers found that the excessive use of workout supplements also lead to symptoms of eating disorders, such as being concerned of what they eat or restricting their eating.

New York to clean cooling towers in outbreak area by Sunday: mayor

2015-08-09T00:06:00.001+01:00

New York to clean cooling towers in outbreak area by Sunday: mayor

New York officials expect by Sunday to complete a city-ordered cleaning of cooling towers in the South Bronx that were tied to an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that has killed 10 people, Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters on Saturday.
The outbreak appears to have peaked with no new cases diagnosed over the last four days, but the inspection and cleaning of cooling towers will continue as the city battles the Legionella bacteria, which thrive in warm water, de Blasio said.
Some 108 people were sickened in the outbreak, with 18 still hospitalized, de Blasio said.
"This is literally unchartered territory ... We have never seen an outbreak of Legionnaires' like this in the history of New York City," he told reporters. "We also know that this is an emerging reality not just here in this city but around our state and nation."
New York had not previously attempted to list all of the estimated 2,500 cooling towers within its five boroughs. The towers, common on the rooftops of modern buildings, are used for heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
The city turned to a range of technologies from police helicopters to satellite maps available on the Internet to search them out.
Cooling towers in five buildings were identified as the likely origination points for the outbreak, and another 161 buildings in the outbreak area were identified as potentially having cooling towers.
The city is working to have all of the remaining buildings in the area inspected and disinfected within the next 24 hours, de Blasio said.
Citywide, building owners have been ordered to disinfect their cooling towers within 14 days if they have not already done so within the last month. The state is also providing building managers and landlords with free Legionella testing through October.
Officials have stressed that drinking and bathing water are safe to use throughout the city, and using home air conditioning units are also safe.

Fed's job forecasts defy historical trend

2015-08-09T00:02:00.006+01:00

Fed's job forecasts defy historical trend

Unemployment has often fallen past the so-called natural level.

WASHINGTON – Most Federal Reserve policymakers expect the U.S. jobless rate will stop plunging and stabilize right around its long-term normal level, a risky forecast given that this apparently hasn’t happened in at least a half century.

As the economy healed after recessions, across decades of economic records, the rate dipped well below what analysts consider normal, the so-called natural rate of unemployment.

After the 2001 recession, unemployment spiked to 6.3 percent in 2003 and then turned downward. By mid 2005 it was around its long-run normal rate, estimated at the time to be 5 percent or a little higher. It kept dropping and by December 2006 had hit 4.4 percent.

Fed policymakers are betting history will unfold differently this time. If they get their call wrong and unemployment keeps falling sharply in coming months, they could face pressure to hike interest rates more aggressively than they would like, delivering a potential shock to the economy and financial markets.

“They’re taking some big risks,” said Jesse Edgerton, a former Fed economist now at JPMorgan, one of several big banks that see the jobless rate dropping more than the Fed expects.

The potential for a misstep hinges on the natural unemployment rate, which is an estimate of the Goldilocks level at which the labor market is neither overheating nor underperforming.

The long-run normal rate cannot be measured directly and economists can only estimate its level, which they presume shifts over time.

Across six decades of economic expansions, the jobless rate regularly drove past leading historical estimates of the natural rate calculated by the Congressional Budget Office.

It’s unclear why most Fed policymakers expect this time it will flatten abruptly and hover close to the natural rate, a path evident in details of their forecasts made in June.

Hey, candidates: Social Security is broken

2015-08-09T00:02:00.000+01:00

Hey, candidates: Social Security is broken

Social Security is the best and worst of public policies. Its goals are noble – give people retirement income and protection against disability, excessive longevity, premature death, and even divorce.
But Social Security's execution is horrendous. The system is possibly the most complicated and the least user-friendly public institution ever devised by man. It's also incredibly unfair, both within and across generations. (Trust me. I just co-authored a book to help people navigate the system.)
That's the bad news. But here's the really bad news: Social Security is flat broke. The just-released 2015 Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds report has a secret little table that apparently the political appointees, euphemistically called "trustees," haven't bothered to view. It's tucked deep inside the report in appendix table VI.F1. It says the system is $25.8 trillion in the red.
That's almost a year and a half of U.S. GDP. Detroit went bankrupt in large part because its pensions were some 20% underfunded. Social Security has that beat. It's 32% underfunded. We need to raise the system's 12.3% payroll tax by almost one third – by 4 cents on every dollar we earn – to pay, through time, all the system's promised benefits. And if we don't hike the system's tax by one third starting today and keep it there forever, we'll need to raise the tax by even more down the road.
Unfortunately, we don't have some other source of net revenue to cover Social Security's shortfall. The overall U.S. fiscal enterprise is, in fact, in worse shape than Social Security. It's not 32%, but 58% underfunded. And its red ink is 12 times GDP — $210 trillion at last count. This is our nation's fiscal gap — the present value difference between everything the government plans to make in expenditures and hopes to collect in taxes.

The hard truth, which not one of today's presidential candidates will admit is this ... our country is bankrupt. It's not bankrupt in 50 years or 30 years or 20 years or 10 years. It's bankrupt today. And the longer we wait to change policy, the more we let ourselves off the hook and the more we put our kids on it. This is the terrible zero-sum arithmetic of generational policy.
Sure, there are red and blue economic hucksters who think we can cut taxes or raise spending and bingo – the economy will grow enough not just to pay for these freebies, but also produce more revenue. You can also find "economists" who think we can just print money to pay our bills. But a who's who of economists realize that fiscal gap accounting is the only way to find our way.
How did we get into such terrible fiscal shape? Simple. Our politicians, Republicans and Democrats alike, have spent the last six decades running a massive Ponzi scheme.
I call it "Take As You Go." Uncle Sam takes money from young workers, calls it taxes, and gives it to old people to spend. "But don't worry," Uncle Sam says. "When you're old, I'll pay you back in spades. I'll just hit up your kids. Oh, and if you don't mind, let's keep this to ourselves. I'm not putting these I.O.U.s to you on the books. It would make our official debt explode and we wouldn't want that."
All Ponzi schemes involve fraudulent accounting. Uncle Sam's deficit accounting is the mother of such fraud. And all Ponzi schemes end badly. America's will be no exception.

So on Aug. 14, when Social Security celebrates its 80th birthday, don't look for me at the party. I'll celebrate when Social Security gets fixed right – by adopting the Purple Social Security Plan.
This plan, which I urge all the candidates to endorse, is simple. We freeze the current system and pay off, through time, all benefits owed.
All workers then contribute 8% of their pay to a personal security account. Contributions are shared between spouses. The government makes extra contributions for the poor.
All assets are invested in one way only — in a global market-weighted index of stocks and bonds, with the investment done by a single computer. Wall Street plays no role and earns not a penny.
At retirement age, all accumulated assets are bumped up if they don't exceed what was contributed so investments in the personal security account are protected against loss. Finally, when a cohort reaches retirement age, the account gradually sells off its share of the global portfolio and uses the funds to provide retiring workers inflation-protected pensions.
Adopting the Purple Social Security Plan as well as the other Purple Plans would eliminate our fiscal gap and provide our children with an economic future far different and far better than what they now face.
Commentary by Laurence Kotlikoff, an economist at Boston University and co-author of Get What's Yours – the Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security Benefits. Follow him on Twitter @kotlikoff.
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Tax-Free Weekend underway

2015-08-09T00:00:00.001+01:00

Tax-Free Weekend underway

Shoppers can start taking advantage of the Tax-Free holiday Friday--stocking up on school supplies and saving money at the same time!

Iowa’s Annual Sales Tax Holiday returns for a 15th year today and Saturday, offering shoppers a deal on select clothing and footwear.

Barry Donovan, general manager of the Westdale Mall JCPenney, said the tax-free holiday will be the biggest weekend for the store since the end of the Christmas season.

“Everybody has to work Friday and Saturday, and we are clearing out our stock room and getting it on the floor,” Donovan said.

Donovan said he expects a 30 percent increase in revenue, and expects customers to be shopping for jeans and tennis shoes. He also said college students usually purchase Hawkeye merchandise and athletic apparel for upcoming football games.

The Iowa Department of Revenue expects the tax holiday to cost the state about $3.6 million in revenue this year, according to department spokeswoman Victoria Daniels.

Last year, she said the sales tax holiday cost state and local governments about $3.4 million in revenue.

There are a number of restrictions on what is and is not covered under the sales tax holiday, Daniels said.

The sales tax holiday does not apply to jewelry, sports equipment or clothing or footwear “designed primarily for athletic activity or protective use and not usually considered appropriate for everyday wear,” according to the Iowa Department of Revenue.

The tax break also does not apply to items being sold for $100 or more.

The sales tax break is only a holiday in name, Daniels said. It’s actually a law the Legislature passed in 2000 that requires all businesses to participate.

“It is something that’s fairly common amongst states,” Daniels said.

The legislation is meant to give Iowa families a little bit of a break when it comes to back-to-school expenses, said State Rep. Ken Rizer, R-Marion.

With four children of his own, Rizer said he has taken advantage of the sales tax holiday in the past and plans to do so this year as well.

While JCPenney expects a major bump, small business owner Mia Suntken said she doesn’t notice an increase at her store during the sales tax holiday.

Suntken, who owns Copper Alligator, a vintage clothing and accessory store in Cedar Rapids, said most of her customers are unaware the sales tax holiday exists when they shop at her store.

“When they don’t have to pay (sales tax) they are like, ‘Oh, that’s nice,’” Suntken said.

She said larger retail stores have an easier time drawing large numbers on the weekend due to large advertising budgets, while smaller stores have to rely on word-of-mouth and social media.

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Gay marriage is required gradually to the United States with the tacit approval of the supreme court

2014-10-07T19:31:00.001+01:00

Gay marriage is required gradually to the United States with the tacit approval of the supreme court

Jennifer Hasler and Karina Tittjung were married at the Court of Oklahoma City, 6 October 2014.

Diana Ullius and Rhonda Buckner lost little time. Just hours after the U.S. supreme court decision not to take recourse against the approval of gay marriage in five States, they received in Arlington the recognition by the authorities of Virginia of their union obtained previously in the Canada.

Monday morning October 6, for the resumption of their annual session, Supreme judges have taken short those who expected that they seize this issue, which falls within the jurisdiction of the States, to issue a judgment of general scope. They decided instead not to go back on the decisions of three federal appellate removing the ban on marriage for persons of the same sex.

This validation legalizes de facto marriage in five new States: in addition to Virginia, it's Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah (the first to know...)

Where is gay marriage permitted in the United States?

2014-10-07T19:29:00.004+01:00

Where is gay marriage permitted in the United States?

More than half of Americans now live in States allowing same-sex marriage. Monday, October 6, the supreme Court of the United States High Court refused to comment on calls from five States, where laws prohibiting marriages between persons of the same sex had been declared invalid by federal appellate courts.

Gay couples can now marry in Utah, Indiana and Oklahoma (three very conservative States), as well as in Virginia and Wisconsin. Six other States should logically also be concerned by the decision of the supreme court, because they depend on the same courts as the other five (Colorado, Kansas, West Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Wyoming).

Read the report (edition subscribers): gay marriage is required gradually to the United States with the tacit approval of the supreme court

In total, 30 States should therefore in fact authorize same-sex marriage. Nothing prevents however the judges of the supreme court to take in the future of this issue, particularly if the Federal Court of appeal in Cincinnati (Ohio) declared valid the prohibition of gay marriage in the States under its jurisdiction.

Legislative tug-of-war between Airbnb and San Francisco

2014-10-07T19:28:00.000+01:00

Legislative tug-of-war between Airbnb and San Francisco

Airbnb is questioned for his role assumed in the shortage of long term accommodation deals.

Tension rises a notch between Airbnb, seasonal rental platform between individuals, and its hometown, San Francisco (California), a few hours of a hearing during which should be presented, Tuesday 7 October, a proposal for a framework for such activities. The board of supervisors (legislative body of the city of San Francisco) will focus on a text presented by local actors, which will list several points to regulate the activity of the site in the Bay Area (Sant Francisco region) and put an end to a conflict that pits the start-up to the local authorities.

The text proposes:

legalization - framed - seasonal rental between individuals, thus recognizing the legality of Airbnb not just platforms offering s services...

Swimmer Michael Phelps suspended six months

2014-10-07T19:24:00.001+01:00

Swimmer Michael Phelps suspended six months

The American swimmer Michael Phelps, at the presentation of a new line of the American brand Speedo swimsuits, in New York, in September 2011.

Michael Phelps will be deprived of international competition for six months. The American swimmer was suspended by the U.S. swimming Federation, Monday, October 6, after being arrested by the police of Maryland, in the United States, for speeding and drunk driving.

Champion, sporting the most entitled and the Medal of the history of the Olympic Games, was detained while travelling aboard a Land Rover to 135 km/h on a stretch of motorway limited to 72 km/h.

PRIVATE GLOBAL 2015

"Michael has publicly acknowledged the consequence of his actions, his responsibility in the light especially of its status in the world of sport, and the steps needed to improve", said president of the Federation, Chuck Wielgus.

In agreement with it, 29 years old swimmer agreed not to represent the United States at the world of Kazan in Russia, from 2 to 9 August 2015, who were asked to sign his comeback in a major competition since his farewell to the London Olympics in 2012.

Ebola: Obama wants to "put pressure on the heads of State" so that they act

2014-10-07T19:22:00.002+01:00

Ebola: Obama wants to "put pressure on the heads of State" so that they act

The United States raised a tone, Monday, October 6, about the international response to the epidemic of Ebola. Barack Obama, who attended a meeting on HIV in Washington, asserted that the attitude of his counterparts was 'poor '.

"Some countries are not mounted in power as soon as necessary", he said, adding that "some major countries [were] not enough", without mentioning names. "I will put pressure on the heads of State and Government around the world so they do everything they can to join us", said Barack Obama.

However, the Washington Post observed, Saturday, at the beginning of October a tiny part of the 3,000 soldiers promised by the White House, September 16, to combat the virus in West Africa had been deployed. Monday, Washington said that some 350 soldiers and 130 members of its medical staff had been sent and that he did not exclude to deploy up to 4,000 troops on the spot.

"EXTREMELY LOW" RISK IN THE UNITED STATES

The US president also spoke on the risk of spread of the epidemic in the United States, where a contagious man was hospitalized only a few days after his first symptoms of fever, in Dallas, Texas. "Given the measures put in place, the quality of our health care system and the nature of the Ebola virus, which is not easily transmitted the risks of an outbreak of Ebola in the United States are extremely low," the US president assured.

It has however not excluded new protocols for controlling the passengers from the countries most affected by the epidemic which has already killed more than 3,500. "We do not have a significant error", he stressed, calling for strict respect of procedures and stressing that Washington thought to ways to strengthen the screening of passengers at airports both initially in West Africa and the arrival in the United States.

'A ban on some travel is not considered currently', however said Josh Earnest, spokesman for the American Presidency, while this solution is totally forbidden by non-governmental organizations on the spot.

The Kurds of Europe mobilise to their 'brothers' of Syria

2014-10-07T19:18:00.001+01:00

The Kurds of Europe mobilise to their 'brothers' of Syria

Supporters of the Kurdistan Workers Party staged a sit-in in the European Parliament in Brussels, October 7.

The jihadist Noose Tightens on the Kurdish town of Kobane (Ayn Al-Arab in Arabic), in Syria, where the fighters of the Islamic State (ARS) are gaining ground. Concerned about the threat that weighs on their brothers, hundreds of Kurds from the diaspora have expressed Tuesday 7 October across Europe.

Several dozen of them have managed to get in the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. Bearing Kurdish flags with an image of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (or PKK - party workers of Kurdistan, based in Turkey), staged a sit-in in the lobby of the building, joined by several MEPs expressed their support.

More than a thousand people marched Tuesday in Marseille, the fourth event in the city in less than ten days. A rally was also held in Paris, where nearly 200 people demonstrated outside the Elysee against "inaction of the international community" about the situation to Kobane. Responding to the call of the Federation of Kurdish associations of France, the demonstrators, with them also flags of the PKK, called for weapons for the Kurdish fighters engaged against the EIS, before leaving in quiet, late afternoon. Mobilization was also held in Nice in the day.

APPLICATION FOR AID "HUMANITARIAN AND MILITARY."

The day before, dozens of Kurds were found at the Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, condemning "the departures of European candidates for Jihad from french airports. Yekbun Eksen, Member of the Federation of Kurdish associations of France, called for the implementation "of humanitarian and military aid to the resistance fighters of the city of Kobane".

The French authorities fear their side of the departures of Kurds to the Syria. Police questioned including the worrying disappearance, late September, a Kurdish teenager in the Paris suburbs who reportedly planned to fight the jihadist group Islamic State.

Monday, about 60 protesters had invested the Dutch Parliament in the Hague for a ' peaceful ' against the 'threat of genocide' in Kobane, according to the organizers. Facing the risk of overflow, riot police and helicopters had flew over the neighborhood in the evening.

A death at a pro-Kurdish demonstration in Turkey

A man was killed Tuesday in Mus in southeastern Turkey during a demonstration by Kurds who denounced the Government of Ankara's refusal to intervene militarily to prevent the fall of Kobane, reported the Turkish media. According the daily Hurriyet, the young man of 25 years was reached by a shot of unknown origin. The NTV news channel provides, in turn, was hit in head by a tear gas canister fired by police.

Violent incidents erupted Tuesday in many cities of Turkey. Police intervened with tear gas and guns in water to disperse the protesters in several districts of Istanbul, in the capital, Ankara, Diyarbakir, the Kurdish "capital" of the southeast of the Turkey, or in the seaside resort of Antalya (South).

Despite the green light formal of the Parliament in a military operation in Syria and Iraq against the EIS, Turkish Islamic-conservative power so far refused to intervene, angering Kurdish populations.

First case of Ebola in Europe

2014-10-06T21:22:00.003+01:00

First case of Ebola in Europe

A Spanish woman has been infected in Madrid, ensures the Spanish Ministry of health. This is a caregiver of the hospital Carlos III.

A caregiver of a Spanish hospital where died two patients of Ebola virus is suffering from the same virus.

A caregiver of the Carlos III de Madrid Hospital where two sick of the Ebola virus have died is suffering from the disease, health authorities from Madrid said Monday. "We did two tests and both were positive," said a spokesman of the Ministry of health of the region of Madrid.

Manuel García Viejo and Miguel Pajares

This caregiver works in the Carlos III hospital, where died of the virus in August and September two missionaries repatriated from Africa. But it is not yet known if she has treated these missionaries. The priest Manuel García Viejo, age 69, had repatriated to Sierra Leone on September 22. Treated in isolation at the hospital Carlos III, he died three days later. To avoid contamination, doctors had abandoned the autopsy and the remains had been cremated.

The same procedure had been followed after the death on 12 August in the same hospital of a first reached missionary of the virus, Miguel Pajares, 75 years. Liberia in a plane evacuated Medical Spanish army, it was the first European returnee with the virus. The Ebola virus had 3.338 dead in West Africa in September 28, according to figures from the World Health Organization.

Ukraine: Westerners to the rescue of the ceasefire

2014-10-06T21:20:00.002+01:00

Ukraine: Westerners to the rescue of the ceasefire

Diplomat and drones were dispatched in Ukraine to save the theoretical "truce" agreement between Kiev a month ago and pro-Russian rebels.

Westerners are trying to fly to the rescue of the ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine, Washington dispatching in Kiev one of its most senior diplomats, while Paris and Berlin offer to deploy drones to monitor the front line. While at least 80 soldiers and Ukrainian civilians perished in fighting in a month "truce" theoretical, with heavy weapons fire sounded again Monday near the airport of Donetsk, the main abscess of fixation of the war against the pro-Russian rebels. Three plumes of smoke rose from the airport area, an enclave heavily controlled by the Ukrainian army in the main town at the hands of the rebels.

The Ukrainian army, Andrii Lysenko spokesman said in the middle of day that a soldier of Kiev had been killed and 13 others wounded over the past 24 hours. A new attempt to seize the airport was repelled during the night, he said. The Organization for security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE), to observe the ceasefire, announced that two first drones, the Camcopter S-100 from the Austrian manufacturer Schiebel, arrived Monday in Ukraine. These unmanned aircraft should help the Organization to more easily spot the perpetrators of violations of the truce.

Doubling of the number of observers

The OSCE expects total four drones that can fly over the Ukrainian as well as combat zones border, while Kiev as Westerners accuse Russia to rescue the separatists by sending troops and weapons on the ground. In addition to the drones of the OSCE, the french Minister of Defense Jean-Yves Le Drian announced Sunday that the France and the Germany would send unmanned aircraft on-site. "The Germans and the French are talking about with the OSCE to ensure that the ceasefire is well respected," said Jean-Yves Le Drian. "We are going to put drones to protect everything, we help the maintenance of the cease-fire in the coming days."

A spokesman for the OSCE, Michael Bociurkiw, admitted not knowing if devices of Paris and Berlin would fly as part of the mission of the OSCE or separately. "The discussions (on this issue) occur at a very high level", he said. The OSCE deployed since March in Ukraine, has 80 observers in the East of the country, a figure it hopes to double quickly. In a telephone interview, Vladimir Poutine and his Swiss counterpart Didier Burkhalter, president-in-office of the OSCE, stressed "the need to increase the potential" of the mission of the OSCE, according to a statement from the Kremlin.

Sanctions are plunging ruble

According to the German daily Bild on Saturday Berlin plans to send 200 soldiers in Ukraine to ensure the security of the OSCE mission and continued discussions in this direction with Paris. "It is at the moment than exploratory talks", said the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The dispatch of German soldiers abroad would require the green light from the Bundestag. Washington dispatched its side Monday in Kiev the main head of European Affairs at the State Department, Victoria Nuland, made famous at the beginning of the year when some of his unkind remarks in respect of the European Union had been made public.

Three weeks from the elections, Victoria Nuland, considered to be a pet peeve in Moscow, must speak with the leaders of Kiev "by the help of the United States to the efforts of reform in Ukraine, the conflict in the East of the Ukraine with the support of the United States to territorial integrity" of the country, according to the State Department. Victoria Nuland is then expected Wednesday in Germany, then in Finland. The economic sanctions imposed by the West against the Russia continue to produce their effects, the ruble having plunged Monday to a new floor of 40 rubles for a dollar. The Russian currency has lost about 20 percent of its value against the greenback since the beginning of the year.

Mexico: two suspected gang members admit killing 17 students

2014-10-06T21:17:00.004+01:00

Mexico: two suspected gang members admit killing 17 students

28 bodies were found in mass graves. The link with 43 students missing on 29 September remains well mysterious.

Doubt on the fate of the 43 Mexican students missing on 29 September at Iguala is dramatically reduced Sunday evening: two alleged members of a criminal gang, allied with local police, have confessed to having killed 17 of them, announced a regional prosecutor. Inaky Blanco, Attorney of the State of Guerrero, also announced at a press conference that 28 bodies had been recovered so far in mass graves near the city of Iguala. But it will take at least two weeks to establish with certainty that there are among these bodies some of the missing students, he said. "All this is a lie. (...) Young people are alive, we, as parents, we are aware, we feel,"said Maria Castrejon, aunt of one who disappeared.

The 43 young missing since 10 days are students of school Atzoyinapa normal, near Chilpancingo, the capital of the State of Guerrero, known to be a hotbed of protest. These students came on 26 September with dozens of others from the same institution in Iguala, 100 kilometres around their school, according to their account, raise funds and show. They were then seized by three local public transport buses to return home. Municipal police and armed men unidentified had fired on these buses, killing three people, and other shootings in the evening had caused three other deaths. Then it remained without news of 43 students. Witnesses provided have seen dozens of students being taken shortly after in police cars to an unknown destination.

"El Chucky"

The Prosecutor Blanco announced that two suspected criminals from the Guerreros Unidos Group - on the 30 people arrested in this case - "reported having directly participated in the murder of students". The killers have sent down a bus students, "took 17 of them to transfer them to the heights of a hill of Pueblo Viejo (municipality of Iguala) where they have clandestine graves and where they say have slaughtered", said the Prosecutor.

Two prisoners have ensured that the order to go to the scene where the students were had been given by the Director of public safety of Iguala. Order capture and murder would be given by one of the leaders of the Guerreros Unidos, nicknamed 'El Chucky'. The Director of public safety as the Mayor of Iguala, José Luis Albarca, fled after the shootings. They are currently wanted by justice.

"Avoid violence"

In those graves discovered Saturday, authorities exhumed so far "28 bodies in total, some complete, others broken with signs of calcination", also told the Attorney. "In the pits located in Pueblo Viejo, have implemented a layer of branches and trunks on which were placed the bodies of the victims, that they have sprayed a flammable substance, diesel, gasoline or oil", he detailed.

Argentine specialists, led by anthropologist and forensic Mercedes Loreti, will participate in the work of identification of corpses. Representatives of normal school students agreed to participate. In day Sunday, a lawyer for the families, Vidulfo Rosales, had indicated that 35 relatives of the victims had already provided DNA samples. But this work is likely to last: "experts in the field consider that the process to determine the identity of the remains will oscillate between 15 days and two months," said the Prosecutor.

While families waited for news in anguish, hundreds of members of the student teachers have blocked the highway leading from Chilpancingo in Acapulco, expressing their anger to the authorities. Guerrero Governor Angel Aguirre has launched a call for calm and to "avoid violence". If it is confirmed that the bodies found are those of missing students, it would be one of the worst massacres in Mexico since the beginning of the war launched in 2006 against drug traffickers, which was more than 80,000 dead.

Holland: The France is "in a position" to treat cases of Ebola

2014-10-06T21:14:00.000+01:00

Holland: The France is "in a position" to treat cases of Ebola

The president assured that his country was in a position to treat people infected with this virus, if cases occurred in France.

While the first case reported on European territory was announced Monday evening, François Holland was assured earlier in the day that his country was "in a position to treat" of people affected by the Ebola virus, "If cases occur in France". Viral haemorrhagic fever plaguing West Africa killed 3,439 on 7 478 cases recorded in the region, according to the last balance sheet of the world Organization of health (who) arrested on 1 October.

The president recalled that "borders doctors nurse has been treated in France" and "could be dealt with". Repatriated on 19 September from Liberia, where she was conducting a mission, the young woman, first case of Ebola in the french territory, has been treated in a military hospital in the Paris suburbs. The french Ministry of Health officially announced Saturday his recovery, after that it had benefited from "experimental treatments".

Holland drew again to "accelerate and amplify the research so a vaccine can be found" against the scourge. The Ebola fever epidemic is "a major threat, not just for the African countries concerned but for the whole world", he stressed, affirming the need to "provide our solidarity with the countries concerned".

Outside the continent, the first case of Ebola was diagnosed on September 30 in the United States, where health authorities deploy significant daily communication efforts to allay the concerns of the public with respect to the risk of contamination.

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2014-10-01T22:53:00.002+01:00

Funny Guy Killing The English Lol!

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Obama promises to ensure ‘justice is done’ in Michael Brown shooting

2014-08-15T12:25:00.005+01:00

Obama promises to ensure ‘justice is done’ in Michael Brown shooting

Michael Brown shooting

Vowing to see that “justice is done” for slain teenager Michael Brown, President Obama appealed for calm Thursday from police and demonstrators clashing in Ferguson, Missouri.

“Let’s remember that we’re all part of one American family,” Obama said in a measured, even businesslike, tone from the Martha’s Vineyard resort island where he has been spending a family vacation.

“Now is the time for healing. Now is the time for peace and calm on the streets of Ferguson. Now is the time for an open and transparent process to see that justice is done,” he added. “Put simply, we all need to hold ourselves to a high standard, particularly those of us in positions of authority.”

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Famous last words Search

2014-06-11T14:33:00.001+01:00

Famous last words Search

Famous people's final words should be, well, famous. But since most people don't know which words will be their last, those final utterances can be revealing, touching or just plain odd. We've rounded up the reported last words of some memorable people, including Steve Jobs, Bob Marley, Princess Diana and George Washington.

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The One Thing You Didn’t Notice From Nelly & Kelly Rowland’s "Dilemma" Music Video

2014-06-11T14:31:00.002+01:00

The One Thing You Didn’t Notice From Nelly & Kelly Rowland’s "Dilemma" Music Video

If you remember the 2002 video for Nelly and Kelly’s “Dilemma,” you might recall…

Our Kelly looking fly as hell in her short red hair and off-the-shoulder blouse…

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Waffle House waitress finally gets $1,000 Mother's Day tip

2014-06-11T14:28:00.002+01:00

Waffle House waitress finally gets $1,000 Mother's Day tip

Shaina Brown, a 26-year-old Waffle House waitress and a single mom, had to hold back from screaming with joy when a Good Samaritan left her a $1,000 tip on Mother’s Day.
Then, in the weeks that followed, she had to hold back from screaming in frustration when Waffle House wouldn’t let her keep the money because of the restaurant chain's policy about large tips.

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David Brat Reveals What He’d Like to Say to Eric Cantor Following Stunning Upset: ‘To Eric Cantor, throughout the entire race…’

2014-06-11T14:26:00.002+01:00

David Brat Reveals What He’d Like to Say to Eric Cantor Following Stunning Upset: ‘To Eric Cantor, throughout the entire race…’

David Brat, who defeated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a stunning upset Tuesday, reacted to winning the Virginia GOP primary in a Fox News interview, saying that he thinks Cantor is a “fine person” and slamming the press for the coverage he had thus far received.
“What would you want to say to Eric Cantor tonight?” host Sean Hannity asked.

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