Obama To Host State Dinner For France

Speaking after meeting with Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta in Rome, French President Francois Hollande said the euro zone needed to complete its banking union and set up a joint borrowing mechanism to finance investment. “A third objective is to have euro zone governance, which means a chairman of the Eurogroup who can be named for a fixed period and work full-time,” Hollande told a news conference. The proposal follows a similar agreement between France and Germany in May on creating a full-time president of the 17-nation currency area’s ministers. According to a document released to journalists at the meeting, Hollande and Letta also urged an EU summit in December to agree on a resolution mechanism for failing banks. It also called for the possibility of direct recapitalization of banks by the so-called European Stability Mechanism, the permanent crisis resolution mechanism for the countries of the euro area. Germany, loath to share liability for rescuing other countries’ banks, has been resisting this move, which it says would require a change in its national legislation.
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In France no one cares about the fact that you are Turkish. I considered it would be an advantage especially for companies doing business there. I sent so many resumes to companies for jobs in relation to Turkey and no one would answer me, she tells me in a voice which still registers amazement at the fact so many years later. I came to Turkey and for those same companies I was like a diamond. From manufactures to call centers companies in Turkey are falling over themselves to hire European born and educated staff who are multilingual. The same traits that hold you back in France or Germany lift you up in Turkey.
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France says Central African Republic on verge of genocide

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Blatter blames France, Germany for Qatar choice

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Sent! A link has been sent to your friend’s email address. Join the Nation’s Conversation To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs This story is part of Barack Obama David Jackson, USA TODAY 11:45 a.m. EST November 22, 2013 French President Francois Hollande with President Obama. (Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP) Tags SHARE 11 CONNECT 38 TWEET COMMENTEMAILMORE President Obama’s next state dinner will honor his counterpart in France, Francois Hollande. The dinner will be Feb. 11, the White House announced Friday.
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The euro areas recovery almost came to a halt in the third quarter as the French economy unexpectedly shrank and German growth slowed. President Francois Hollande is failing to revive corporate investment in the face of one of the worlds heaviest tax burdens. In France, I think the acceptance of the go to website necessity to http://gomezyvqc.wordpressy.pl/?p=37 do something is at least increasing, Commerzbank AG Chief Executive Officer Martin Blessing told the same panel. Several hundred bankers, regulators, corporate executives and politicians gathered in Frankfurt for the final day of Euro Finance Week, the biggest financial conference in the German banking capital. The event, hosted by Deutsche Bank AG co-CEO Juergen Fitschen, was also attended by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, Herbert Stepic, the former CEO of Raiffeisen Bank International AG, and Constantin von Oesterreich, CEO of HSH Nordbank AG.
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Christians make up half the population and Muslims 15 percent, the CIA World Factbook says. “The country is on the verge of genocide,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told French television station France 2. “France, CAR’s neighbours and the international community are worried. The United Nations will give permission to African forces, the African Union and France to intervene.” While U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he may be prepared to deploy U.N.
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Blatter said financial interests prompted Europe’s two largest economies to lobby for a Qatar tournament and that construction companies were ultimately responsible for the treatment of their workers. FIFA has faced a series of controversies since it awarded the Kim Kardashian World Cup to Qatar in 2010, with the latest fuelled by reports of rife exploitation of migrant workers in the country’s construction sector. Speaking at a Rome press conference, Blatter said the vote to award the tournament to Qatar was influenced by “political pressure from European countries…because there were so many economic interests.” “Two of these countries pressured the voting men in FIFA: France and Germany…I think the heads of state of these two countries should also express what they think of this situation,” Blatter said. The European Parliament urged FIFA to pressure Qatar to address labor conditions in stadiums and infrastructure under construction for the event on Thursday. “It’s easy to say all the responsibilities lie on FIFA. No, no, we are part of this responsibility,” Blatter said.
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Leonardo Dicaprio: Could Anyone Else Have Been Jay Gatsby?

Its not that Harris doesnt consider DiCaprio a star (I presume); its just that the Titanic star continues to abide by a different set of rules. Not only does he not own his own blockbuster franchise, the lifeblood that feeds todays modern Hollywood, but he also has a more formal old-school approach to selling his films that now seems contrarian. Hes never pretended to engage in a long-running feud with Jimmy Kimmel, read Internet memes about himself for journalists, or danced with a Spanish-language weather girl . Hes never even taken the celebrity rite of passage that is hosting Saturday Night Live . As a result, even though he pops up at Los Angeles Lakers games and the tabloids obsess over whom hes Celebrities Take Part In Golf Invitational dating, DiCaprios risk of overexposure is about even with the odds of him getting cast as Quasimodo. The lack of a franchise is a more perplexing if refreshing matter. He has been an elite box-office star for more than 15 years, and theres no doubt that DiCaprio has been the very first phone call for several of the tent-poles that went on to become billion-dollar properties, from his early conversations with George Lucas to play Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels to reports that he was one of the actors who passed on The Matrix. When recently asked by MTV about that anomaly on his resume , DiCaprio coolly replied, Its never really a conscious effort [to avoid franchises] and its not something Id be closed off to do. Its always a matter of how good the material is, and to tell you the truth it always comes down to how well-written the project is and whether it moves me and whether subconsciously I gravitate towards that character or have a connection webblog with it.
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Fight Begins Over Privatizing Mexico’s Oil Monopoly

Though there are other venues for contemporary art in the Mexican capital, the Jumex, with its high-profile location and deep-pocketed patron, is likely to do more than any other to bring a shock of the new to a city largely defined by its vast troves of pre-Columbian, colonial and 20th century masterworks. CHEAT SHEET: Fall arts preview 2013 “We’re looking ahead,” Jumex collection coordinator Humberto Moro said last week as he gave a sneak peek of an inaugural exhibition dedicated to the work of the late American conceptual artist James Lee Byars. “Otherwise, we’d be building another Diego Rivera museum. Which would be great, but” Moro’s half-finished thought speaks volumes about the mission of the Jumex. In quintessential Mexican style, the museum takes pains to honor the past: As part of it opening activities it is releasing a book exploring the work of Fernando Gamboa, 20th century Mexico’s most important art curator and museum director.
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View gallery A demonstrator wears a helmet with a sticker that reads “Pemex is not for sale” during a protest against the privatisation of the state oil monopoly Pemex in Mexico City July 1, 2013. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo MADRID (Reuters) – Mexican state-owned oil major Pemex is seeking to join forces with billionaire Carlos Slim to buy a 10 percent stake in Spanish oil group Repsol (MCE:REP), to add to the 9.3 percent it already holds, ABC newspaper reported on Tuesday citing unnamed sources. Pemex, which has threatened to sell out of the Spanish company in the past because of differences with Chairman Antonio Brufau, will present the plan in its next board meeting, the paper said. Such a transaction would make Pemex the biggest stakeholder in Repsol. As part of the deal, Slim would buy Repsol shares in the market. At Monday’s closing price, a 10 percent stake in Repsol would have a market value of more than 2.4 billion euros ($3.3 billion).
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Minivan shooting video: Why New Mexico police fired on family

And he brings his photographers eye and techniques to his film making. Often he keeps his camera perfectly still and lets it roll for a long time to create what are essentially still lives in moving pictures often of bodies or blood-spattered cars. That stillness allows you time to gaze at the detail of the gore on the inside of the windshield, taking it in and perhaps thinking about the person whose life has just been blasted away. Stills allow for that contemplation. Films about violence often do not. For all the horror, these are remarkably beautiful images, and that makes Narco Cultura stand out from a lot of documentaries filmed in conflict zones. Most conflict films are exhausting and upsetting enough; jittery, hand-held camerawork and quick edits can leave the audience feeling even more drained.
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“At the moment, we more or review less have an agreement with (Mexico),” Ecclestone said at the U.S. Grand Prix. “They have to provide the circuit. It’s causing a bit of a problem. It needs to Chiriqui be rebuilt, their circuit.” Mexico hasn’t hosted a grand prix since 1992. Officials knew the existing track at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez at Mexico City needed major upgrades, but gave the race a tentative time slot for next November.
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Thousands gathered on Mexico City’s main plaza Sunday to hear Cardenas call for a nonbinding referendum on any changes in the oil business. He said they have collected more than 1 million signatures so far of the 1.6 million needed. “We should be consulted before they adopt a measure that is so regressive and damaging to the http://vicohentesf.fotopages.com/?entry=9637760 interests of Mexico and Mexican,” Cardenas told Chiriqui the crowd. But the rallies so far have not been as large as they were in 2006, the last time Congress tried to open up the oil industry. So far the opponents don’t appear to have the votes in congress to block the reform. The problem, oil analyst George Baker said, is that Mexicans still think of oil as physical property, patrimony, while oil companies see it as something to post on a ledger. No one exploring or producing in national reserves ever really owns the oil, he said.
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Kassetas said he has seen the video and has “concerns relating to the conduct of the officer who discharged his firearm.” He said the department “will take swift action” if the investigation determines the officer acted improperly. Gallegos said based on what he’s seen from the video, the district attorney’s office will not pursue criminal charges against the officers. But he said that could change if state police present more evidence. On the video, the initial officer could be heard telling Farrell she had been driving 71 mph in a 55 mph zone. Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Top 25 Healthy Muscle Building Foods

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Ladies, Your Muscles Are Sexy

You can open jars, change tires and move the fridge without needing to ask for help. Many women look at Madonna’s arms and think she is too muscular. I think that is crazy talk. Madonna has a very strong, fit looking body that can be attributed to years of dancing, yoga and strength training. The video above is Madonna at 54 years old.
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Thirst For the active man, eating about a gram of protein for every 2.2 pounds of body weight helps build muscleif the protein is processed correctly. “A high-protein meal has a slight diuretic effect,” says Lischin. When the body uses protein for energy, it has to remove the nitrogen component of the molecule to turn it into glucose. “This requires plenty of water,” he says.
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Lets throw some light on these different phases: Phase 1 This phase is mostly about the sarcoplasmic hypertrophy. It is basically a kind of muscle growth which results in creation of bulk muscle, but without providing any sort of muscle definition. Phase 2 Although it is the phase 3 where the user observes the transformation in his body, I find phase 2 to be the most interesting. This stage involves bridging up the gap that exists between building defined muscles and building large muscles.
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Muscle And Meanness: Incognito Hazing Comes Down To ‘what’s A Real Man?’

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In Martins view, experts say, team-building initiation traditions had morphed into team-breaking abuse, meaning that he could no longer trust his own teammates to stand up for him on the gridiron. [E]specially in the NFL, being a man a man’s man, a real man, a manly man all too often means projecting an air of invincibility, a willingness to absorb pain at all costs, an expectation that even the most vicious insults can do no harm, writes espnWs Kate Fagan. Vulnerability is seen as weakness. She adds that until America has a real debate about the nature of manhood in the wake of the scandal, too few people will see and appreciate the real men in our midst, the ones who refuse to perpetuate this toxic brand of masculinity. But many have rushed to Incognitos defense, blaming Martin for failing to resolve the matter inside the locker room, and for not just punching back twice as hard at Incognito to assert dominance. If Incognito did offend him racially, that’s something you have to handle as a man! one anonymous NFL-er told Sport Illustrateds Jim Martin . In the same vein, the push to root out hazing in the NFL comes up against a broader complaint about what some have called the wussification of American society, to the point where, according to books like Helen Smiths Men on Strike, men are increasingly boycotting college and relationships because America has become anti-male. Brian Phillips in the online magazine Grantland takes a different view, writing that football has become the major theater of American masculine crackup. He adds: It’s as if we’re a nation of gentle accountants and customer-service this link reps who’ve retained this one venue where we can air-guitar the berserk discourse of a warrior race.
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Researchers build muscle max workout review in diseased mice; create human muscle cells in a dish

Many people start upping their protein consumption as soon as they start a bodybuilding program. After you workout, so that your muscles can build and repair themselves well.Someone under the age of forty should hold each stretch at least 30 seconds. People who are over the age need to hang on longer; holding each stretch for a full minute is recommended. This method of stretching helps you avoid injury after your safety while building muscle. You need to be mindful of your caloric intake, if you’re going to build muscle.
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