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► SCIENCE DAILY 22 MAy 2013 Migraine and Depression Together May Be Linked With Brain Size — Older people with a history of migraines and depression may have smaller brain tissue volumes than people with only one or neither of the conditions, according to a new study in the May 22, 2013, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
► WIRE 23 May 2013 : This 23-Ton, 5.3-Million-Brick X-Wing Is the Biggest Lego Model Ever || ► PHOTOGRAPHY - MIKE STIMPSON
► HUFFINGTON POST 22 May 2013: Internet Service Providers Are Now The Most Hated Companies In U.S.
Using additive manufacturing to 3D print a bionic ear, which contains interwoven biological cells, structural components, and nanoelectronic materials, in the McAlpine Research Group at Princeton University. Published on May 2, 2013 by McAlpineResearch
► NY ARTS BEAT 22 May 2013 : Beatles' Biographer Donates Song Manuscripts to British Library ::
► MASHABLE 22 May 2013 : John McCain Hates All Those iPhone App Updates Too
► TODAY in HISTORY - 24/05/30 Amy Johnson arrived safely at Darwin in Australia
► LA TIMES 21 May 2013 : Vimeo, Flickr reportedly to be built into Apple's upcoming iOS 7
► Mugabe signs new Zimbabwe constitution into law. President Robert Mugabe signed Zimbabwe's new constitution into law on Wednesday, clearing the path to crucial elections later this year.
► Man killed by FBI links Tsarnaev to triple murder: media. A friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev implicates himself and the Boston bombing suspect in an unsolved triple homicide before FBI agents kill him in a violent altercation, local media report.
► Chechnya. The Russian republic of Chechnya is situated in the North Caucasus region. In the last 20 years Moscow has fought two wars against separatist rebels in the small mountainous area, during which thousands of people died. A militant insurgency continues to this day, having spread to neighbouring regions and turning from nationalist to increasingly Islamist rhetoric. VIDEOGRAPHIC
► CANNES 2013
■ Cannes red carpet:'Only God Forgives'. Star Ryan Gosling on Wednesday stayed away from the Cannes premiere of the ultra-violent "Only God Forgives", a blood-spattered revenge tale set in Bangkok. The film, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and also starring Kristin Scott Thomas, has divided critics.
■ Cannes interviews: 'Nebraska'. US director Alexander Payne is in competition at Cannes this year with 'Nebraska', a black-and-white road movie through the American midwest.
■ Lesbian sex scenes shock Cannes crowds. Abdellatif Kechiche's controversial film "Blue is the Warmest Colour" has premiered at Cannes, featuring non-simulated sex scenes that were described by critics as "show-stopping" and "the most explosively graphic lesbian sex in recent memory".
► Syria refugee influx taxes Lebanese economy and nerves. As the conflict in neighbouring Syria stretches into a third year, a wave of refugees has flooded Lebanon, stretching its economy and testing its resources as well the nerves of its citizens.
► Muslim imams pray at Auschwitz for Holocaust dead. Muslim leaders from across the globe knelt in prayer for those killed in the Holocaust, at Auschwitz's notorious Wall of Death on Wednesday, in an emotional visit to the Nazi German death camp in southern Poland.
► Bomb kills 12 in southwest Pakistan, killing at least 12 people, police say.
► Art Basel highlights Hong Kong's new arts hub status .The first Art Basel fair hosted by Hong Kong boasts a prestigious array of international art, highlighting the city's new role as a global arts hub amid an explosion of personal wealth in mainland China. || ► Art Basel highlights Hong Kong's new status as arts hub. The first Art Basel fair hosted by Hong Kong boasts a prestigious array of international art, highlighting the city's new role as a global arts hub amid an explosion of personal wealth in mainland China.
► Kerry back in Israel for peace push. US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday admitted there was scepticism and cynicism about his efforts to broker new talks between Israelis and Palestinians, as he made his fourth visit to Israel.
► Syria opposition opens key talks in Istanbul. Syria's main opposition group opens key talks in Istanbul to debate whether to negotiate with the regime on ending the bloody two-year civil war, as proposed by the US and Russia.
► Rich archaeological finds in London financial district. London's Square Mile is famed for its slick glass buildings and well-heeled workers, but below the flashy surface a world of Roman archaeological remains is being unearthed.
► Millepied presents new dance show at Paris opera. Benjamin Millepied, designated dance director of the Paris opera, presents his new ballet, in the presence of his partner, actress Natalie Portman.
► China, Pakistan plan 'economic corridor': Li. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang links growth in his country's restive west with that in sluggish Pakistan, saying the two sides want to create an "economic corridor" to boost development.
► Tough times for Hollywood's visual effects industry. Sizzling special effects are the selling point of some of Hollywood's biggest films, including "Iron Man 3," which this week broke $1 billion at the box office. But those profits still don't translate into success for the computer-graphic and effects firms behind the visuals, and who are struggling against rising global competition.
► Obama talks drone strikes in terror policy speech. President Barack Obama announced Thursday he signed new policy guidance outlining when the United States can use drone strikes to kill terror suspects abroad.
► After tornado, a hunt for man's best friend. Oklahoma's tornado didn't just affect humans. An unknown number of pets were lost or made homeless in the disaster. Volunteers are helping to reunite them with their owners.
► Raw Video: Washington State Bridge Collapse. The Interstate 5 Bridge over the Skagit River in Northwestern Washington State collapsed on Thursday evening, dumping vehicles and people into the river. State troopers are not certain if there were any injuries or deaths. (May 24)
► Cockroaches quickly lose sweet tooth to survive
► GRIND TV : Stunning great white shark attack image is a mystery no longer. Viral photo is part of a jaw-dropping sequence captured off South Africa
► FINANCE : The 15 Most Frustrating Companies in America
► PHOTOS : UNUSUAL HOMES
► Eight candidates approved to stand in Iran election
► Aerial footage shows black bear roaming Los Angeles suburb
► HEALTH
■ Some statins 'raise diabetes risk'
■ Cancer cell enzymes shown to act as 'good cops'
■ Intelligence linked to ability to ignore distractions
► Bridge collapses in Washington state, cars fall into river
► 'No chance of surviving': Russia to evacuate drifting polar research station
► Shocking Woolwich attack: LIVE UPDATES
► 'An eye for an eye': British soldier beheaded, killed in barbaric machete attack (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
► Obama announces restrictions on drone strikes, pledges to close Gitmo
► Man, woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder in Woolwich attack
► Amnesty report blasts US for Gitmo, drone strikes, 'absence of accountability'
► "They don't want to integrate": Fifth night of youth rioting rocks Stockholm
► OP-ED : Israel is fighting a regional war in Syria
► OP-ED : 'We built Frankenstein monsters, spawned millions of radicalized Muslims' – MP George Galloway
► Obama, Putin exchange letters amid troubled US-Russia relations
is it true, dear? you love the fire?
it makes you melt
formless to ashes
this is not a romance of "I want"
certainly
when the fire devour you
I am now the ash.
(Writing for The Papers. Ink test.)
I can't believe it! How can it be A Professor burns the books? How does he become A Professor? Was he reading the books? How he read the book so that he became the Books Burner Professor? I can't understand, how he taught his students? What if his students ask him? What if his students have a different opinion? Will he silence them as well?
Professor who burns the books is like a kindergarten kid. He burns what he does not like. Are we going to be like he is in the end? I can't believe it. I can't understand. There is a Book Burner Professor. How can he be a professor?
(Lacalifusa052413)
Category: Letters. A Love Letter.
Criteria:Private (Public)
My sweet greetings to you, dear. How are you? May you always be in good health there. Nice to meet you at that time. Unfortunately at that time you looked busy, so we did not get to talk long. This time I only share my anxiety that had been buried, especially regarding your gait and I hope in this short letter my anxiety has been more or less represented.
I've been long enough in reading your writings, both of marginal notes and other books. One thing that is striking, among others, there is your attitude towards the "Politics". Your political views. I read in the writings of that, how much you really care about the "Politics", which is interpreted within the framework of the struggle against oppression or the status quo regime. It seems from your writings in the last era, which I think reflects the alternative voice against the dominant political hegemony at the time.
But, you have a conception of its own in your struggle. I see the fight you want to do there is not a systematic struggle, which presupposes the existence of a shared ideology. You, clearly, criticize the practice of communism and its ideology. You also express disagreement with the activists of the left who are still ambitious to make a revolution in this country. In short, the emancipation movement refers to any "ideology" or "big narratives".
Then you wrote After Revolution No More. A title once, as I hear, to upset some activists who are still adamant in saying that There is Still a Revolution. In your essays you often proclaime the impossibility of revolution or any of the utopia in politics. You support that argument with your quotations which are rich with the philosophers and postmodernist thinkers.
As long as it is resistance against an oppressive ideology, or hegemonic big narratives, your stance is certainly empathetic and for this, I also agree and support. This kind of thinking, I see has affected too many people and your readers, who are mostly the young people. But, for such a position, I wonder. If you reject any grand narrative in politics, then what do you want to offer?
I have asked so to you. And, I just understand why lately then you often refer to the post-Marxist philosopher such as Žižek and Badiou, Rancière also, to look for my answer.
Apparently, reference to the philosophers wants to underline "emptiness" of what has been offered before, and there you give an answer about the need to reiterate about "Politics as a Struggle". Then you also often cite Laclau about "Politics As an Empty Marker". I feel this is an exciting phase of your thoughts, of resistance to big narratives, a celebration of difference and "abnormality" until the reaffirmation of "politics", although "Political" is understood there as a divided emancipation, which is impossible to be a totality.
Here, you seem to share alliances and intellectual concerns with the new leftist philosophers such as Žižek or Badiou, who said that "politics" is located in the "Events", and so forth. I then catch there is little aspiration Marxist or left (or leftist) in your arguments on the meaning of "Struggle". Again and again I - and probably a lot of people, at least those seen in response to your book - try to understand the reasoning of it.
But I am surprised when then I know and read that you openly support and "legitimize" him on many occasions lately. I do not want to get involved in the debate over whether he's neolib or not. What is clear is, your support portrays that they are much better than others. Moreover, he remains a "well-established regime", and now he looks getting the upper hand with the power of his dominant imagery.
Your support seems problematic, asymmetric, and inconsistent, given the political discourses that you propose on "Politics as a Struggle", which thick with the "New Left" shades, and radical politically. Meanwhile, they are very friendly to the global market and moderate / eclectic politically. Or perhaps it's a form of translation of the struggle as you mean or what? If it is true for the "struggle", for what and why?
Thus, this is my "Love Letter" to you, dahling. Hopefully this letter is just my misunderstanding in reading your gait. I believe you can take criticism with open heart, because I am also learning to think critically of your writings.
I hope we can create the kind of healthy intellectual dialogue and critical.
***
( To my fiance, my idol writer)
it makes you melt
formless to ashes
this is not a romance of "I want"
certainly
when the fire devour you
I am now the ash.
(Writing for The Papers. Ink test.)I can't believe it! How can it be A Professor burns the books? How does he become A Professor? Was he reading the books? How he read the book so that he became the Books Burner Professor? I can't understand, how he taught his students? What if his students ask him? What if his students have a different opinion? Will he silence them as well?
Professor who burns the books is like a kindergarten kid. He burns what he does not like. Are we going to be like he is in the end? I can't believe it. I can't understand. There is a Book Burner Professor. How can he be a professor?
(Lacalifusa052413)Category: Letters. A Love Letter.
Criteria:
My sweet greetings to you, dear. How are you? May you always be in good health there. Nice to meet you at that time. Unfortunately at that time you looked busy, so we did not get to talk long. This time I only share my anxiety that had been buried, especially regarding your gait and I hope in this short letter my anxiety has been more or less represented.
I've been long enough in reading your writings, both of marginal notes and other books. One thing that is striking, among others, there is your attitude towards the "Politics". Your political views. I read in the writings of that, how much you really care about the "Politics", which is interpreted within the framework of the struggle against oppression or the status quo regime. It seems from your writings in the last era, which I think reflects the alternative voice against the dominant political hegemony at the time.
But, you have a conception of its own in your struggle. I see the fight you want to do there is not a systematic struggle, which presupposes the existence of a shared ideology. You, clearly, criticize the practice of communism and its ideology. You also express disagreement with the activists of the left who are still ambitious to make a revolution in this country. In short, the emancipation movement refers to any "ideology" or "big narratives".
Then you wrote After Revolution No More. A title once, as I hear, to upset some activists who are still adamant in saying that There is Still a Revolution. In your essays you often proclaime the impossibility of revolution or any of the utopia in politics. You support that argument with your quotations which are rich with the philosophers and postmodernist thinkers.
As long as it is resistance against an oppressive ideology, or hegemonic big narratives, your stance is certainly empathetic and for this, I also agree and support. This kind of thinking, I see has affected too many people and your readers, who are mostly the young people. But, for such a position, I wonder. If you reject any grand narrative in politics, then what do you want to offer?
I have asked so to you. And, I just understand why lately then you often refer to the post-Marxist philosopher such as Žižek and Badiou, Rancière also, to look for my answer.
Apparently, reference to the philosophers wants to underline "emptiness" of what has been offered before, and there you give an answer about the need to reiterate about "Politics as a Struggle". Then you also often cite Laclau about "Politics As an Empty Marker". I feel this is an exciting phase of your thoughts, of resistance to big narratives, a celebration of difference and "abnormality" until the reaffirmation of "politics", although "Political" is understood there as a divided emancipation, which is impossible to be a totality.
Here, you seem to share alliances and intellectual concerns with the new leftist philosophers such as Žižek or Badiou, who said that "politics" is located in the "Events", and so forth. I then catch there is little aspiration Marxist or left (or leftist) in your arguments on the meaning of "Struggle". Again and again I - and probably a lot of people, at least those seen in response to your book - try to understand the reasoning of it.
But I am surprised when then I know and read that you openly support and "legitimize" him on many occasions lately. I do not want to get involved in the debate over whether he's neolib or not. What is clear is, your support portrays that they are much better than others. Moreover, he remains a "well-established regime", and now he looks getting the upper hand with the power of his dominant imagery.
Your support seems problematic, asymmetric, and inconsistent, given the political discourses that you propose on "Politics as a Struggle", which thick with the "New Left" shades, and radical politically. Meanwhile, they are very friendly to the global market and moderate / eclectic politically. Or perhaps it's a form of translation of the struggle as you mean or what? If it is true for the "struggle", for what and why?
Thus, this is my "Love Letter" to you, dahling. Hopefully this letter is just my misunderstanding in reading your gait. I believe you can take criticism with open heart, because I am also learning to think critically of your writings.
I hope we can create the kind of healthy intellectual dialogue and critical.
***
( To my fiance, my idol writer)► VIDEOS
■ UK soldier beheaded outside army barracks in Woolwich, London. A man believed to be soldier has been beheaded in an attack on a street outside Woolwich barracks in South East London. Prime Minster David Cameron has cut short a trip to Paris over what is being treated as a terrorist attack || ■ 'Lone-wolf attack to become main form of radicalism'. One of the suspects in the murder of a UK soldier in East London has been identified as a 28-year-old Islam convert with Nigerian heritage, report UK press. Both suspects in the grisly attack were known to British security services. Annie Machon, a former MI5 agent tells RT about the similarities between the attacks in Boston and London.
■ Savage Rage: 'London terror attack mirrors Syria atrocities'. The brutal killing has shaken the UK sparking fears of terrorism returning to the capital. RT's Polly Boiko looks at what could lie behind the attack and its broader implications for the country. RT contributor Afshin Rattansi echoes the view shared by Polly Boiko, linking the London attack to atrocities committed by rebel forces in Syria. And Brian Becker from the anti-war ANSWER coalition believes such violence could have been predicted, ever since the UK first embraced America's military actions abroad.
■ 'Drone strikes a terror-generating machine' - Noam Chomsky (RT Exclusive). Abby Martin talks to philosopher, linguist, professor, political critic and author of over 100 books Dr. Noam Chomsky about the Boston bombings, US terror inflicted abroad, drones, Obama's rebranding of Bush administration policies, the National Defense Authorization Act, Holder v. Humanitarian Law, conventional wisdom, the evolution of media propaganda and education as a form of elite indoctrination.
■ Sweden burning: Stockholm riots & violence enter 4th day. Smashed windows and cars on fire - one of Europe's most peaceful capitals, Stockholm, is witnessing its worst outbreak of violence in years. Hundreds of youths, mostly immigrants, have ripped through the city's suburbs in four nights of unrest. The violence has shocked the country, famous for its attractive immigration policies and generous welfare system. Sweden has for years been accepting immigrants who fail to integrate, and are only there to get money for nothing - that's the view of Swedish journalist Ingrid Carlqvist.
■ 'There is no justification to Gitmo': Barack Obama's speech on counter-terrorism. President Barack Obama has given a speech - justifying and outlining changes to the national defence policies of the United States. The address is seen as an opening up of America's security policies. Obama has discussed the legality of drone strikes and the future of the Guantanamo prison.
► Citrus disease threatens Florida's orange groves. The multi-billion dollar citrus industry in the US is under serious threat from a disease. Citrus greening, for which there is no known cure, is spreading across the US and wiping out orange groves in huge numbers. Millions of dollars are being poured into research but It's leaving scientists baffled and farmers worried that their entire industry could be crippled by the disease. Al Jazeera's Andy Gallacher visited one of the largest producers of the fruit.
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