News Headlines (453) 29 January - 30 January 2014

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► Welcome back to the world of the living. You've been working hard lately and haven't taken time out to do much of anything else -- so play, of course, has been at the very bottom of that list. Well, it's time to make up for all that, starting tonight. Get in touch with your friends and family members. The universe has arranged for all of you to be in the mood for love, laugher and lots of hugs.

You're struck by an inspiring vision of the future -- so get to work on bringing it to life! You should be able to get at least a few people to follow along if you tell them what's coming.

You might not realize it at first, but whenever you're in a group of people today, laughing and having a good time, you are actually creating something -- energy, strong support and friendship. Right now, you'll find that group settings are a great source of productivity, even if the group is a chatty and relaxed one. So try to be as collaborative as possible. Even if it's just you and one other person, you'll get way more done than you would get done by yourself.

I've forgiven what she had done to me in the past. And when I hugged her body was lying weak, kissed her forehead, trying to hear her heart (With my inner ear) stared at her tears, (Did you also see my tears?), I felt I had been freed from my heaviest shackles for 17 years: insincerity. I went home with a light feeling as light as a leaf dry.


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► MEDICAL NEWS TODAY 27 January 2014 : Music therapy improves coping skills in young cancer patients  || ► MEDICAL NEWS TODAY 30 July 2014 : Music therapy strikes a chord with cancer patients  || ► WEBMD 27 January 2014  : Music Therapy May Help Teens With Cancer Cope || ► SCIENCE DAILY 27 January 2014 : Music therapy's positive effects on young cancer patients' coping skills, social integration

► CBS NEWS 24 January 2014 : New Harry Potter ride, shops coming to Universal Orlando

► SPACE 27 January 2014 : Wanted: Private Robot Moon Lander Ideas for NASA || ► SPACENEWS  27January 2014 : NASA Offers Non-financial Support for Commercial Lunar Landers  || ► VOA News 27 January 2014 : NASA Puts Out Call for Commercial Lunar Landers || ► NASA 24 January 2014 : NASA Discusses Lunar CATALYST Commercial Lunar Lander Initiative

► AUTO EVOLUTION 28 January 2014 : Antique Motorcycles Exhibit at the Packard Museum ||   ► SALEM NEWS 3 January 2014  : Packard Museum to offer exhibit of bobbers, custom motorcycles

BARACK OBAMA

■ WAPO 28 January 2014 : 5 takeaways from President Obama’s State of the Union address 
■ HUFFINGTON POST 28 January 2014 : State Of The Union Address: Obama Calls Out Congress For Dropping Unemployment Insurance
■ FOX NEWS 28 January 2014 : Obama vows to act without Congress in 2014, amid second-term woes
■ HUFFINGTON POST 28 January 2014 : Obama Renews Effort To Close Gitmo Prison In State Of The Union
■ CS MONITOR 29 January 2014 : Top five foreign policy points in Obama's State of the Union speech (+video)
■ NATIONAL JOURNAL 29 January 2014  : State of the Union: Obama's Security Priorities Include Iran, Afghanistan, Closing Guantanamo
■ REUTERS 28  January 2014 : Obama talks Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, Iran in State of the Union address  (VIDEO)
■ CNN 29  January 2014 : State of the Union: Obama calls for action, with or without Congress
■ CBS NEWS 29 January 2014 : Obama's 2014 State of the Union wish list
■ NATIONAL POST 28 January 2014 : State of the Union: Obama wants to re-ignite America as a land of 'opportunity'

► MIRROR 27 January 2014 : Desperate Syrians resort to eating GRASS after food supplies run out in besieged city of Homs || ► ENGLISH AL AKHBAR 30 January 2014 : UN awaiting green light to deliver food to besieged Homs ||  ► NEWS DAILY 28 January 2014 : Aid convoy stalled as Syrian government demands assurances

ERIC GARCETTI

■ LOS ANGELES CBS LOCAL 29 January 2014 : Garcetti Talks LAX People-Mover, Tougher DWP Oversight On 'Ask The Mayor'
■ VARIETY 28 January 2014 : Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Remembers 'Incredible Fighter' Tom Sherak

■ HUFFINGTON POST 27 January 2014 : My Conversation With L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti: State of the Union and Promise Zones




■ LATIMES 29 January 2014 : Mayor Garcetti on Sherak: "He was the right person for the job"
■ LATIMES 29  January 2014 : L.A. to hold U.S. Olympic marathon trials

► NEWS & POLITICS: State of the Union 2014 Address: President Obama's FULL SOTU Speech - Streamed live on Jan 28, 2014 by The New York Times



► NEWS & POLITICS : Republicans respond to the 2014 State of the Union. Streamed live on Jan 28, 2014 by Washington Post

► Love in the Time of Advertising

► Brahimi says no breakthrough in Syria talks

► Exclusive: U.S. readies financial sanctions against Ukraine: congressional aides

► Moscow sends mixed messages on Ukraine aid - By Steve Gutterman and Richard Balmforth
MOSCOW/KIEV - Russia's economy minister cast doubt on the timing of a $15 billion bailout deal for Ukraine, suggesting the make-up of a new government in Kiev will determine how quickly the vital aid is dispatched.

* Video: Putin pledges to honor Ukraine bailout deal

► Pakistan's 'tiger economy' potential, Kerry

► Elders call for ending Syria 'nightmare' on Iran visit

► France's former first lady eyes extending charity work



► Ivory Coast elephants get new home as habitat shrinks



► State of the Union: Obama challenges Congress on inequality  || ► Al-Qaeda threat evolving, Obama says || ► US Republicans respond to Obama's address



► UN chief meets with 87-year-old Fidel Castro in Cuba

► Merkel: Ukraine's pro-EU protesters must be listened to

► Germany hopes for medals in new Olympic addition, Slopestyle

► Brahimi not expecting 'substantive' results at Syria talks

► WFP brings food relief to S.Sudanese refugees in Uganda

► Obama: 'Let's Make This a Year of Action'

► Obama: "Raise Your Employees' Wages"

► Obama: No Change in Resolve Against Terrorism

► Obama: "Help Americans Save for Retirement"

► SOTU Analysis: Agenda More Bite-sized Than Bold. Count 2014 as the year President Obama's agenda went from bold to bite-sized, marked by modest proposals, not the grand ideas set forth in the past. As Brookings scholar John Hudak explains, this was Barack Obama the realist, not the idealist. (Jan. 29)



► Obama: Ready to Act Alone on Some Policies

► NEWS

■ Putin tells Russian government to honor Ukraine aid deals
■ Turkey's Erdogan visits Iran to improve ties after split over Syria
■ Israel minister apologises to PM over peace talks jibe
■ Iraq releases rare 'ISIL chief' photo
■ Russian providers drop opposition TV after WWII poll

■ Russia to await new Ukraine government before fully implementing rescue: Putin



■ Defiant Ukraine opposition refuses to back amnesty bill
■ IAEA visits Iranian mine as part of nuclear transparency pact
■ Cory Remsburg, John Boehner and 'Mad Men': Buzzy moments from the State of the Union
■ Stephen Hawking's New Black Hole Theory: Scientists Remain Unconvinced
■ Fossils of Neanderthal DNA clump in human genome

■ Watch  63 years of climate change in one horrifying GIF



■ Aw together now! Polar bear cub steps on snow for first time

► MIDDLE EAST : 'Eating grass to survive' in besieged Homs 

► HEALTH : Multiple sclerosis 'linked to food bug'

► FUTURE

■ Can we ever fully trust personal gene tests?
■ How one loudmouth can derail democracy

► Today's African Proverb : "One falsehood spoils a thousand truths"- An Ashanti proverb sent by Rexford Kingsley in Tema, Ghana

► Russian diplomat, wife stabbed in Sudan
► At least 1 American child is shot every hour - report
► Ukraine Prime Minister Azarov resigns
► US intelligence chief: Snowden and 'accomplices' should return stolen info
► Ukraine opposition defy govt-backed amnesty bill for protesters
► Monsanto protesters arrested outside shareholder meeting
► 'Our views are far apart': German chancellor slams US, UK over spying
► OP-ED : Three reasons why Shinzo Abe's visit to India is a game changer
► Russia in world's top 3 recipients of foreign investment for first time - UN
► Appalling truth of Leningrad siege: 95yo Russian writer gives powerful speech at Bundestag

► VIDEOS

■ Theater of Absurd: Happy Data Protection Day...oh, and we spy on you!
■ Far-Right Fears: Alarm spreads across Ukraine after Kiev carnage

■ Russia to support Ukraine, regardless of govt - Putin



■ Crossbones Uncrossed: Dutch court unblocks Pirate Bay as ban 'ineffective'
■ 'Label GMOs!': Giant mutant rat arrested at anti-Monsanto rally
■ Obama's SOTU: Blah-blah again or real promises?
■ CrossTalk: Radical Ukraine

► Inside Story : Geneva II: Talking about aid

► Rohingya refugees at risk of trafficking

► Empire - Extended interview: Steven Simon

► Witness : Ukraine: State of Chaos. Ukraine, the biggest country in Eastern Europe is sandwiched between Russia and the West. It was a vital player in the downfall or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1991. And the Orange Revolution in 2004 ended the corrupt autocratic pro-Russian regime. But six years later, through the newly elected president Yanukovich, head of the Party of Regions, it has returned to the grips of its powerful oligarchs and Russia. So the people got neither the rule of law nor the democracy they had imagined.

► FACEBOOK: Facebook Surges on New Earnings

► JAPAN : U.S. Rejects 'Comfort Women' Claim - American officials have denied a Japanese broadcaster's claim the country forced women to work as prostitutes during World War II

► STATE OF THE UNION : The Audacity of Optimism - President Obama's State of the Union message took an uplifting twist, an effort to build morale after several years of cynicism, Joe Klein writes.

* These Are the Words Obama Loves, and the Ones He Avoids
* Liberals Laud Obama's Minimum Wage Move

► UKRAINE : Ukraine Could Explode Tonight - After amnesty vote splits Parliament

► CHINA : Hong Kong: Third H7N9 Fatality - Bird flu claims another victim

► FRANCE : No Sympathy for Hollande's Ex - Why France is turning up its nose at Valerie Trierweiler

► PHOTO ESSAY : Fragile Minds - Inside an Iranian mental hospital

► EVOLUTION : We All Have Neanderthal Genes - 20% of caveman genome has survived

► GOOGLE : Google Selling Motorola for $2.91B - To Chinese PC-maker Lenovo

► LOCAL

■ Review ordered of rulings blocking state access to bullet train funds
■ Democrats may take action against Sen. Wright
■ Few L.A. teachers get bad ratings, trial documents show

► OPINION : Taking California's bullet train to a greener future

► BUSINESS : Obama's myRA: A good start, but not enough for retirement security

► FRAMEWORK  : Pictures in the News | January 29, 2014 - Posted By: Marc Martin 



Icicles hang off a camellia bush in historic Forsyth Park after freezing rain hit Savannah, Ga. A winter storm brought snow, ice and brutal cold to the Deep South, a part of the country more accustomed to hurricanes. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Stephen B. Morton / Associated Press



Two hikers walk past snow-covered trees in the Thuringian Forest near Masserberg, Germany. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Martin Schutt / Associated Press



Participants dressed as Vikings promenade around their longboat during England's annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands. Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian Vikings in the Shetlands and culminates with up to 1,000 "guizers" (men in costume) throwing flaming torches into their Viking longboat and setting it alight later in the evening. PHOTOGRAPH BY: ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP / Getty Images