A social unrest flares Brazil

A social unrest flares Brazil

Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, but Porto Alegre, Fortaleza, Maceio, Vitoria, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba from north to south, from rich to poorer areas, capitals of the major Brazilian states were set ablaze on Monday, with events bringing together some 250. 000 people to protest against the cost of living, violence and are involved in the organization of sporting events such as the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games. In Rio de Janeiro, where a first gathering of 1000 people around the Maracana soccer stadium during a Mexico-Italy match, was violently dispersed by military police, there were more than 100. 000 to pound the pavement in the city the next day. Initially peaceful, the demonstration turned violent when a group of youths attacked the Parliamentary Assembly of the State of Rio, throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at the building. After burned cars, garbage and broken windows of neighboring banks, they were finally dispersed by riot police, armed with tear gas and guns firing rubber bullets. This violence, after minority bands, was condemned by the majority of the demonstrators, anxious to preserve the political nature of the gathering. First demonized by the major newspapers of the economic capital, mostly conservative and close to the governor Geraldo Alckmin rallies won their sympathy because of the extent of police violence that befell journalists. The photo of a young reporter Folha de Sao Paulo, wounded in the eye by a rubber bullet, made the rounds of all the social networks. After days of silence, the federal government came out against police violence, calling agents to more moderation. "The voice of the street must be heard," said yesterday President Dilma Rousseff. Several municipalities, including Porto Alegre, Recife and Sao Paulo, made a concession to protesters yesterday, agreeing to reduce the cost of transport. But it may be too little, or too late, when hundreds of demonstrators flocked Tuesday to the center of the economic capital for the sixth consecutive day.

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Carsten S. NSU in the process: “Then I learned that this was already bitter!”

Carsten S. NSU in the process: “Then I learned that this was already bitter!”

S. answers, as so often in the past few days meeting that he did not have a specific recollection. "We sang songs," he says, "and Ralf sang.", He apparently still has the sound in the ear. He admits that the band had sung "oak" submersion of the trio. The two Uwe, Böhnhardt and Mundlos, and Beate Zschäpe obviously had cult status in the scene. "Were they admired Who admired them? Was there a difference in the scene between the older and the younger?" Edith Lunnebach has so many questions that it almost overflows the mouth. She wants to experience as a co-plaintiff in the case representative of stroke Probsteigasse in Cologne at Christmas time in 2000, the potential supporters of NSU in Cologne. Götzl brakes. P differs from: The elders who have long belonged to the scene, had been met with respect, for example, they may sit in the car in front, the younger sat in the back. Admiration for the people in hiding? S. winds at this point. Was the beginning of the process in many media by a flood of applications of speech and the defense of procrastination process – not what actually was true – would now be a never-ending flood of the speech issue. The plaintiffs have the right to ask questions or to let their lawyers. S. says now already from the sixth day. A by-law action follows another. It creates new impressions: What asks who? Who is prone to leading questions and must be able to reprimand by the President? Götzl it does the best of intentions: The Senate wants to work with prospective and genuine answers, not contaminated by specifications. Attorney Christa Clemm: "You said you would have found the scene funny music Is it about the killing of foreigners.?" "Yes," replied S. "What did you find so amusing?" S. delay. Thinking. "The Zillertal Turks hunter – yes, what I found funny about the self-standards-flouting." "Have you sung"? Of course. This was common in the scene.

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Chambon-sur-Lignon: Matthew, tried behind closed doors for the rape and murder of Agnes Marin

The first and the director of the establishment agree that the first warned the second of alcohol and cannabis problems of the young man and the violent sexual assault of a character girl. The word "rape" would not t pronounced. "If I had t aware of the exact nature of the facts reprochs Matthew, I would not have admitted in my establishment," repeats in 2011 Philippe Bauwens, director of al ge-lyce. Still, before the end of the year 2010, Matthew joined the Cvenol. The ducatrice in charge of his case, to visit him soon. As for the psychological treatment of LYCEN, it is ensured by a doctor chosen by his parents. The communication between the expert and the tablissment fishing. And, despite several problems of discipline and repetition, the young man is scolaris in Chambon-sur-Lignon, to drama. The mechanics of the facts which are reprochs – isolate the victim, the tie, the rape and Agns for the kill – suggest otherwise. And betray a "perverse operation", according to several experts. Similarly as various episodes during instruction. In June 2012, during the reconstruction, the battery "demonstrated an indifference, a coldness glaante, note me Szpiner. When you see the face of the young, it is the banality of evil ". In the office of judges, he cowardly: "If every time I felt coming, I passed the act there are more than two victims." In dtention the whimsical young man and fan yo -yo does not show more remorse. It causes the other inmates and even shows some satisfaction back to the facts. As he will be from the same box of accuss? Matthew incurs criminal perptuit rclusion if the court, in view of the state of rcidive, does not retain attnuation punishment accorded to minors.

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Tide protesters in Brazil, scenes of chaos in Rio

Tide protesters in Brazil, scenes of chaos in Rio

"We will not allow protests disrupt events that we engags raliser", warned a few more hours tt Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo. In an apparent willingness of appeasement, prsidente, Dilma Rousseff rectification shooting a few hours later, saying that "peaceful demonstrations are lgitimes and clean the democracy." "It is the nature of youth to express," she added in a statement. "I came because I want the Brazil wakes. This is not only against the rise in transport, but for education and health", explained Diyo Coelho, 20, dfilait that with a group of friends Sao Paulo, one hand white flower. "Come, come, come into the street, come on!" Chanted the demonstrators Rio mid-afternoon, while the high office towers of downtown, the EMPLOYEES threw a rain pieces of white paper as a gesture of support. "I'm here to show that Brazil is not only the country of football and the feast. Here proccupations other, as the lack of investment in things ACTUALLY important as health and education, "to justify its share Daiana Venancio, 24 years diploma in law.

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The chaotic weather is expected to last several days

The chaotic weather is expected to last several days

The hope is to live. There will never be hung as the old adage looking at the sky. Temperatures this June are certainly become much warmer and this view spring is much better end it began. However, just days before the official start of summer, it is always chaos over our heads. These and several other departments in the greater Southwest (Aquitaine, Poitou-Charentes, Gers and Hautes-Pyrénées), but also further north (Calvados, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Orne and Sarthe) were placed in amber alert for storms. Hail that fell in some places did major damage. Including where you do not necessarily expected. Vineyards have been devastated, sometimes entirely in the region of Tours, in Vouvray and particularly Reugny. There are also fears of flooding in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrenees and Haute-Garonne. Meanwhile, eastern France knew scorching while the Northwest faced cooler temperatures and humid weather. If the situation is not pleasant it is however not abnormal. "It is too idyllic what should be the June picture," says Stephen Kapikian. While everyone thinks that we deserve better after the disastrous April and May. But if we look back in 1997, 2007 or 2012, the month of June were also fresh and gloomy. Some even say that we have made some bad habits from 2000 and especially in 2003 and 2006 with June radiant. Explain these very disturbed periods is very difficult as the weather and climate are complex sciences. France is often caught between the warm air masses coming up from the Maghreb and those who go down much cooler Atlantic.

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Transparency and whether parliamentary assistants emerged from the shadows?

Transparency and whether parliamentary assistants emerged from the shadows?

I draw your attention to the 10th, which includes mention in the statement of identity and any business activities of the member of staff concerned. Indeed, parliamentary staff, who play an indispensable role in this house are still without status. However, according to the report from our colleague Christophe Sirugue the Office of the National Assembly, some of them, because of the precariousness of their situation – if they are part-time employees – have a private activity. It therefore seems important for parliamentarians to exercise their responsibility as an employer and being informed. These employees of the shadows raise the issue of potential conflicts of interest Finally, this amendment would point the finger at the undeniable insecurity that affects these assistants. "Many of them are in a precarious imposed by the employer." For forty years that the function exists, there has been no progress, "laments Jean-Jacques Urvoas. And because each member has to a budget of 9138 euros gross. Knowing that "employees credit", allowing it to compensate people who surround (up to five employees). This amendment would therefore review the situation of these workers sometimes paid slingshot – some earn the minimum wage – or sometimes members of the family member who uses a step towards transparency in public life.?

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How large influential brands in our brains

How large influential brands in our brains

So brutal but so true, the output of Patrick Le Lay, then CEO of TF1, caused quite a stir: "For an advertisement to be seen, it is necessary that the brain of the viewer is available Our programs are designed to. make available: that is to say, to entertain, to relax to prepare messages between What we sell to Coca-Cola, it's available human brain time "What Patrick Le Lay n.. 'Surely not imagine is how the connection between brain and major retailers was relevant and profound. Some researchers believe that the footprint of the brands in our heads is so strong that it is up to influence our perception, to transform the experience we have when we consume the products in question. A study from the early 1980s has shown that women with headaches felt more relieved by taking aspirin a well known pharmaceutical company rather than a company less famous, that while the formulation and presentation of the product was exactly the same. In an article published a few weeks ago by PLoS ONE, two German psychologists have questioned whether this effect "big brand" could be transposed into the world of power and influence tasting. To determine this, they developed the following experience: volunteer, lying in a MRI machine (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), would enjoy four gas sodas and note while we observe areas of the brain excited by this tasting. The protocol required that before their drink is injected into the mouth through a pipe, guinea pigs on a viewing screen for half a second, brand marketing said beverage: Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, River Cola and T-Cola. The first two are self-presentation. River Cola is the generic brand of a chain of German supermarkets while the T-Cola was introduced to the participants as a drink just focus and not yet on the market. In fact, T-Cola was an invention: the idea was to offer a totally unknown drink in a non-identifiable brand. The four samples used were actually exactly the same, a cocktail of Coke, Pepsi and Cola River. One third of each. To make it even more believable scenario, the experimenters showed before the containers whose contents were carefully labeled four test. The fifteen participants all felt that it was four different sodas (before it reveals their pot-aux-Roses). Samples stamped Coca and Pepsi, the two brands have performed significantly better than the other two scores, a result not surprising. The most intriguing is in fact not there. It lies in what appeared to MRI. Tasting what was presented as little or no known brands has led to more activity in the orbitofrontal cortex, showing that the subject was more interested in assigning a value to the product he was going to try to decide if it was good or not, which was less the case with pseudo-Coke and Pepsi. As if, in the case of River Cola and T-Cola, the brand was not a sufficient indicator of whether the drink liked or did not like. Known for drinks, this area proved to be less active, probably because for having already tasted before or seeing the expensive advertising M. Le Lay, subjects already knew more or less what to expect. However, another part of the brain "lit up" more when tasting the famous brands: the central striatum, a region associated with reward and pleasure. If Coke and Pepsi were perceived as better than others (although, remember, the mixtures were the same), it's probably because the brain had expected them to be. The anticipation of the result by the effect of "big brand" has influenced the treatment of gustatory information. In their sensory experience, which is also a thought experiment, participants actually had more fun with these drinks! The big brand seems to get this psychological domination that his mere mention handles in the brain, our perception of the product when it is consumed. . .

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70 years of Johnny Bercy, how was it?

70 years of Johnny Bercy, how was it?

2009 was a bad year for Johnny Hallyday. Stainless rock icon in the French had almost died. Were followed to a long depression and a lackluster album in 2011. But after this difficult period, the singer approached his 70th birthday "happy", "spruced", "toned". . . Those who approached him in recent weeks described a galvanized by Johnny Hallyday's recent success. His latest album, Waiting, writing custom in blues-rock vein, was a critical and commercial success, with over 600,000 copies sold since its release in November. And after a slower than usual, his last tour start, the 181st is finally profitable, with over 700,000 spectators. Anonymous fans and the many personalities (Jean-Paul Belmondo, acclaimed by the public, Jean Reno, but also politicians like Patrick Balkany, a lot of media people: Michel Drucker, Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, Laurence Ferrari, and of course Laeticia Hallyday) have not listened to Johnny, as for the show broadcast live on TF1, the septuagenarian is surrounded by guests, starting with his old friend Eddy Mitchell but Florent Pagny and Amel Bent for interpretation I promise duo. Aother duo of choice: one with Charles Aznavaour. This private show, for which only 600 people were open to the public should be more rock'n'roll tone, as this lover of USA who loves resume or Eddie Cochran Elvis in concert standards. And if in 50 years on stage, the rocker has never managed to launch his international career, Johnny was now looking towards America. It will record an album of duets in English for which he hopes to be surrounded by some of the leading bands of the current scene pop-rock like Muse or Phoenix. And after two concerts in Los Angeles and New York last year, the rocker has to embark on a U.S. tour. The "young idol has" a small audience of Americans interested in the singer, "assured last year's press singer in French magazine in North America FrenchMorning. Com.

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LITERATURE: The Grand Prix de la Francophonie delivered to the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal

LITERATURE: The Grand Prix de la Francophonie delivered to the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal

The French Academy Thursday awarded the Grand Prix de la Francophonie, with 20. 000, the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, an intellectual who fight for freedom of speech, culture and religion in his country. The 2013 winners of the Academy has a total of 69 awards. Grand Prix Roman will, as usual, presented in the fall, said the institution. Several books Boualem Sansal, born in 1949 in Algeria, are banned in her country. The writer received in October 2011 the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. The novelist and essayist is the author of "Oath of barbarians", in 1999, the "German Village" in 2008 and "Rue Darwin" published in 2012. He received this book for the price of the Arab novel. After a break of jurors with the Council of Arab Ambassadors, organizers and sponsors of the price, it had been delivered to his publisher Gallimard. Great Medal of the Francophonie she was assigned to the writer, teacher and translator Dong Qiang, one of the most active Chinese French intellectuals. He translated including Chinese Rimbaud or the Nobel literature J. Mr. G Le Clézio and translated several Chinese authors in French. Dong Qiang also participated in the creation of Blue Editions of China in France. The Grand Prize for Literature and the Grand Prize for Literature Henri Gal, each with 20. 000, respectively, were also awarded the poet and novelist Michel Butor, 86 years, for all of his work, and the journalist and writer Jerome Garcin, 56, also for the whole of his work. Among the many other awards from the French Academy, the philosopher Sylviane Agacinski, wife of Lionel Jospin received for "Women between sex and gender" Grand Prix Moron (000 5.), Which recognizes the French author a book or a work promoting a new ethic. AFP

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Chemical weapons in Syria, so what?

Chemical weapons in Syria, so what?

A watch CNN this week, we knew that a chemical war rages, but in Turkey, it was believed. For hours Tuesday, the envoys of the empire in Atlanta occupied the antenna, gas mask on the muzzle, livedepuis Taksim Square, between firecrackers and tear gas. As if this was the worst thing that takes place at this time in the world and as if in the neighboring country there was not a real war, including chemical, which has already claimed more than 90,000 lives. That said, the White House will do well a little something: "We will increase the size and scope of our assistance to the opposition," announced Rhodes, including promising support to the Military Council opposition, but are not yet clear what kind. Weapons will eventually be delivered by the Americans to rebel leNew York Times reported, citing anonymous senior officials. But the announcement has not been made official. "We will make decisions according to our own national interests and advance our goals" instead reminded Ben Rhodes Thursday night. That's the whole problem elsewhere: the Syrians and kill gazent but tonight, "self-interest" the U.S. president was rather spend the evening with her gay fans.

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