There are celebrities who are growing up before our eyes. These children run the rest of Hollywood very often in baby teeth before they even reach the majority between the drug and the rest.
Natalie Portman is an exception relentless. Outstanding intelligence, she studied psychology at Harvard University in parallel while multiplying outstanding performance as an actress. Today it is the overwhelming favorite Oscar 2011 for The Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky.
I settled on this video or, at the dawn of his 21 years, she was visiting David Letterman on his talk show.
It already noted his maturity, his repartee (even if these shows are often very scripted), but what strikes me most about this little chat is that you can see a Natalie Portman jokingly saying she looks forward to "taste alcohol for the first time" (no under 21 years in California). The irony is palpable and it is obvious that this will not be his first drink. This little actress discovered while she was still a child grew and grew, but this video really sums up obsolete is the whole paradox of the United States in terms of relationship with alcohol . That's bad faith in American paraxysme her!
This is not a scoop: U.S. rail transport are at best outdated and certainly not the height of the level of development.
many already know, but in California, the project of a train linking north-south axis including the San Francisco / Los Angeles / San Diego is on the carpet for a very long time. For over 10 years been talking about and that referendums on financing or the terms of this project appear on the ballots at each election. But in 2009, the Obama administration has granted 2.25 billion to California through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (see this ). The overall cost is estimated at 43 billion.
Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, our California senators have written a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood last December to ask that the funds of the states that have abandoned the project of high speed trains are transferred to California. They claimed that no other state is also determined ready and able to develop this infrastructure in the near future.
A tender is expected this year, and the SNCF, which already operates the bullet train from Washington DC and Virginia, is well on in the race.
are many obstacles, however: The lobbies and in particular those of air transport that would have much to lose on flights from California are doing their work on this issue as they know so well. But beyond the lobbies, the billionaire Warren Buffet is also a piece of the puzzle because it is owners of kilometers of railway lines. This project can not be done without him.
heads gondolas stores never lie! United States is simple: Thanksgiving barely finished, they will celebrate the Christmas, then, of December 26, theme is New Year's Eve hangovers and parties of New Year has barely healed, those same heads gondolas stores are pink and populated heart-shaped balloons for Valentine's Day! It helps not to lose the Northern San Francisco or we do not have very pronounced seasons. And time goes so ...
and now Valentine's Day "is fast approaching! For some, finding the perfect gift is a stress elsewhere. So what are your options besides the traditional bouquet of roses? and although there are chocolates, dinner by candlelight, or the pillow fight was here .
But other options are available on the web, and I came across this one recently: he is paying to name a star in the sweet name of your sweetheart! For those who are interested: here.
Happy Valentine! but if you want my opinion, the bouquet of roses is a sure timeless!
State of the Union: the new master stroke of the Obama campaign
When you follow American politics year after year, it comes right even to ask what is the address on the state of the union today. It is the opportunity (the only annual opportunity) to both sides Democrats and Republicans and for all parliamentarians to meet in a somewhat pompous and over-formalized.
We know already that the analysis that follows is always the same in the U.S. political context and present regardless of the content of presidential speeches. Those who have decided to get Obama will do, other ecstasies. It does not advance the Schmilblick. This is a predictable! I do not know if I'm getting older but I find it tiring and very little "inspirational".
And yet, there has been a small turnaround this year. The presidential camp has opted for a format that breaks with tradition. It is of the form, you might think that this is not essential, yet we can only welcome this media coup obamanesque:
In the hearing of the speech on the State of the Union Democrats and Republicans were not all on their side, they were mixed. It's so simple yet so essential. This changes everything especially for a media event also. It really geniuses Organizing for America and the Obama camp!
In this metling pot democratico Republican (or is it vice versa?), The two Johns (s): Kerry and McCain with Republican Michael Burgess of Texas in the middle or Joe Lieberman on the right
To conclude on the discourse of the State of the Union of POTUS 2011 the performance of speaker Obama is undeniable, his willingness to unite seemed sincere with or without a teleprompter he saying things with his heart and with conviction, he has shown great respect in relation to recent events in Tucson ... Everything was. It was a lesson in form and class. Personally, I'm much more inspired when I see the president concluded with the signing of parliamentary bills concrete (even if they are fatally flawed 99.99% of the time). At least it is not so much rhetoric. It was very nice speech on the State of the Union, and I will not say that it was hollow, but it's still great lines. But broadly that abound in the sense of team spirit and unity, and this is no small matter, it is much more useful than one might think!
And I can not help but parallel it with the discourse of the State of the Union in 1972 that Nixon called him as a unit (a note in passing: there were very few women in Congress has the time!): here
It is from this that a small start-up San Franciscan who preaches environmentalism and including the installation of solar panels has released a ranking of U.S. states on its site history to speak of her . A very good idea and a great way to discover the United States.
We discover that the state produces more wheat (Kansas), who has the highest consumption gasoline per capita (Wyoming), the youngest (Utah with an average age of 28) or more obese (Mississippi). Surprise! The state uses the most marijuana is not California, is the state of Rhode Island. He's got taped!
Nevada multiplies the sordid statistics: the highest consumption rate of meth, highest rate of home foreclosures, the highest rate of teenage pregnancies.
If Illinois is the state that has the highest rate of gang membership (8 to 11 per thousand), Minnesota has the largest shopping center, Hawaii's most expensive electricity in the United States and Massachusetts is the champion of fines for speeding.
And the state has the highest suicide rate in the country (23.1%) also local taxation the lighter (and local taxes WIDE state are the lowest): it s 'acts of the State of Sarah Palin! Alaska!
And a little statistic to complete unusual: Pennsylvania is the state in which insurance companies refer the most accidents of collision with deer.
I spoke recently in 2004, Willie Brown ancient mayor of San Francisco had publicly stated that the problem of homelessness in San Francisco was perhaps these problems we can not solve see this.
This month, after almost seven years as mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom takes office as "Lieutenant Governor" of the state of California. If it has not solved the problem of paperless SF, his fight to remove the homeless from the street is regarded by many as one of his greatest successes as mayor.
Since 2004, 12.210 SDFS San Franciscans are no longer officially to the street, and, statistically, it is especially that which would have placed most of SDFS in public housing. As for the census (difficult to confirm in my opinion) the number of people officially living in Golden Gate Park, it would be from 200 to 25 since 2007.
Moreover, 20% of homeless patients and would regularly end up in hospital emergency rooms San Franciscans already overbooked. Yet, paradoxical as it may seem, Gavin Newsom has promoted many measures unpopular in associations for the homeless. His approach was never one of assistance.
It started when he was District Supervisor in 2002: he had campaigned for a measure by referendum called "Care Not Cash" and reduced the amount of subsidies SDFS for transfer to housing and services for the homeless. This program would provide housing for 3,296 homeless people since its inception.
San Francisco has used a controversial measure that has been seen in other major U.S. cities also: give money to the homeless for a ticket they "go home" if somebody has committed itself to accommodate them when they arrive at their destination. Homeward Bound is the project that is in my opinion a true symbol of the pragmatic way of doing politics in the U.S.! 5.518 people and go home with Homeward Bound.
Hello everyone! Here are some of the new little family Christol:
Augustine nearly 10 months. It grows at a rapid pace, and already has 6 tiny teeth that came out! It's a little guy smiling, greedy (he loves soups and house accounts!) And pickpocket! It is kept week by a nurse, who lives close to home and with whom it works very well.
Julien is full of partial examinations. Geography courses of interest and he himself teaches specific to a girl. Blandine is
CSD as a counselor at job center since late November. He likes it but she perseveres in her job search in hopes of getting a CDI!
FDA, Michelle Obama and the good resolutions of 2011
With the coming new year's resolutions for many but it will be almost a year since the first lady of the United Etas started the project "Let's Move!" (Last February). She has since toured regularly in schools to promote physical activity, salads and healthy meals for the youngest age.
Photo Miami has taken 22 November 2010.
Still on the subject, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has passed new rules to be laid at Congress this month. In the SF Chronicle this Sunday, January 2, 2011, columnist and author of "Food Politics" Marion Nestle announces more firmness on the part of the FDA 2011 Food Standards in the United States.
There will be more lawsuits against false advertising for food, more control at the labels with perhaps a simple visual symbol which will serve as a quick reference on the nutritional value of food. Another fight between the industrial agri-food and the FDA is ongoing because the FDA has even suggested adding a small packaging of lights with color corresponding to categorize products according to their effects on health. The industry does not want to hear about it. According to Marion Nestle, the lobby will be at its height in the new year, and actively directed at associations who fight in the sense of new rules for consumer rights. Huge groups were preparing food has already chopping a sudden check.
