Why an Italian lawmaker's phone call trumps Obama's speech

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti's decision to take a call from an Italian lawmaker during President Barack Obama's speech highlights the tentativeness of his claim to authority.

When Barack Obama praised Italian?Prime Minister Mario Monti's?work fighting his country's debt crisis, Italy's leader wasn't there to listen. He was talking on his cell phone.

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According to leaks from Mr. Monti's staff, he had to take an ?urgent call? from Fabrizio Cicchitto, a senior lawmaker from former leader Silvio Berlusconi's Freedom Party, just as the United States president began his speech during yesterday's nuclear energy summit in Seoul. The prime minister's?staff refused to disclose the topic of such an urgent conversation.?

While the world was well-acquainted with Mr. Berlusconi's gaffes (such has his description of Obama as a ?young man with a nice tan?), the new prime minister's faux-pas was quite unexpected.?Of the 52 world leaders at the summit, he was the only one who skipped Obama's speech.?He was also the only leader openly mentioned in the same speech ? a move widely interpreted as a demonstration of Mr. Obama's esteem.

Monti ? a former university headmaster and European commissioner with an understated, professorial manner ? seemed to fit in better than Berlusconi at international summits, making Monti well-suited to the task of restoring Italy's image abroad. It's one of the reasons Monti was chosen by the Italian Parliament to lead a transitional government when Berlusconi resigned last year.?

But while Monti has a better international reputation than his predecessor, at home he is much less respected.

As a crisis-time leader who was appointed, not elected, some view Monti as a lame duck hostage to a Parliament still controlled by Berlusconi's People of Freedom party, and to them the fact that he put a Freedom party lawmaker over Obama confirms this view.

The anecdote became a hit on the Italian blogosphere and reached Twitter's top trends, with many cracking jokes on the newly-acquired status of Mr. Cicchitto, a medium-profile politician.

Among the jokes: ?Pope Benedict had to postpone his meeting with Fidel Castro. He had to take a call from Cicchitto.?

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Healthy Living? Blog Archive ? Natural Treatment For Migraine ...

by Matthew Paul Armstrong

Migraine Headaches are more an energetic issue than a strictly physical one and undoing energetic blockages and balancing the body?s energy system through the use of EFT is the number one natural treatment for migraine headaches.

EFT ? Emotional Freedom Techniques (also known as meridian tapping) is a simple modality for balancing the body?s energy system and releasing blocked energy dissolving negative emotions, memories and past traumas or future worries and fears.

Meridian Tapping is practised by using the fingers to tap on the various acupressure points on the body, while at the same time focusing on a phrase that describes the issue and also putting attention on the issue.

Miraculous recoveries can be achieved when the reason behind the headache has been discovered and it is different for everyone because it is often a disempowering belief, a traumatic memory, or even some sort of fear of worry, which cause the energetic imbalance. So it is always important to tune into the root cause rather than just the presenting symptoms.

Another effective natural treatment for Migraine headaches can be found with the diet. Many foods and drinks that we consume cause inflammation, and inflammation of the tissues and sinuses can cause headaches. Certain foods are also mucus forming and when our sinuses are full of mucus and inflamed at the same time, this is a sure recipe for a migraine headache.

A predominantly raw plant based diet also known as a Raw Vegan Diet is the number one anti-inflammatory and anti-mucus diet that one can eat. I have never met anyone who?s migraine headaches persisted that ate a 100% raw vegan diet.

At the very least, the foods that you want to seriously reduce or remove are meat, dairy, bread and diet drinks, which contain Aspartame.

The foods that you want to eat more of are fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. By doing this not only will you be free of migraine headaches, your health, vitality and energy will also radically improve and you will look and feel younger.

Find and living your life purpose is also a little understood natural treatment for migraine headaches. To understand this, you must realise that all dis-ease in the body or mind for that matter is communication or feedback. When we don?t listen or act on this feedback then it will get worse or louder until we take action to rectify the problem. Ask yourself the question ?Am I doing what I love in life?? ?Am I fulfilling my highest aspirations?? If the answer is no, then ask ?What would I really love to do with my life??

Find out what your values are and what is really important to you and start living it daily. When we start to align our life with our true values and align our personality with our soul and our souls purpose then disease can vanish from our body. So you can naturally treat migraine headaches through some soul searches and asking the right questions.

To learn more about EFT ? Meridian Tapping, a Raw Vegan Diet and anything else you read about above, go now to http://www.outstandinghealthnow.com

Matthew Armstrong is a Transformational Specialist and best-selling author. He has interviewed experts in various fields of health and well-being to bring you a comprehensive resource for learning how to recover from any disease and attain vibrant health and vitality. Visit http://www.outstandinghealthnow.com to watch video interviews with leading experts in Natural Health, Nutrition and Fitness.

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At this year's SXSW Interactive, there was a panel titled The New Aesthetic: Seeing Like Digital Devices. It was about technology, and how it relates to art and design. Since SXSW, there have been many discussions, including a sprawling, 5,000 word essay on Wired, about the New Aesthetic's shortcomings, its potential, and its significance. More »

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Polar Fights, Hot Coffee, and Other Stories We Didn't Post [Video]

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The Post-PC Enterprise

In 1997, Larry Ellison had a vision for a new paradigm of computing which he called the Network Computer (NC). The idea was simple: a group of partners would build devices and services that leveraged the power of the Internet to compete against the growing Windows monopoly. Ellison believed that the computer in the client/server era had evolved into too complex a machine for most tasks. With the NC, the ?heavy? computation of software and infrastructure would be abstracted from the actual device and delivered instead to thinner terminals via the web, thus radically simplifying access and enabling all new applications and mobility.

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Dave Haywood and Kelli Cashiola: Married!

For Lady Antebellum member Dave Haywood, just a kiss yesterday signified a lifetime commitment to girlfriend Kelli Cashiola. The pair got married outside Nashville!

The ceremony took place at Front Porch Farms in Ashland City and attendees include bandmates Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott, the latter of whom also tied the knot this year.

Haywood and Cashiola (a record executive) were friends for years before they started dating, going public with their romance in early November.

Haywood then proposed the following month by spelling out Will you marry me? on the side of Cashiola's house in Christmas lights.

We wish these two nothing but the best!

[Photo: WENN.com]

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Motorola engineer leaks Droid RAZR HD, could lose his desk

If you spent your weekend scanning Picasa for photos shot on a Motorola Droid RAZR HD smartphone, then ordinarily you'd have wasted your time. No phone by that name officially exists, and the PenTile Super AMOLED displays on both the standard Droid RAZR and the RAZR Maxx are distinctly not high definition. Surprising then, that when Blog of Mobile searched Picasa they discovered an album shot by a Motorola engineer supposedly using a RAZR HD. The photos have since been removed, leaving only the blurry desk image shown above, which is also attributed to a RAZR HD even if we can't be certain who shot it. Fortunately, the EXIF data was grabbed before the wipe, and if you glance past the break you'll see that it mentions a possible 'Vanquish' codename for the phone as a well as ICS build 4.0.3. There, just when you needed yet another reason to love EXIF.

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