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Méridien Zéro reçoit JMLP ce soir à 23H

2011-11-13T11:40:00+01:00

Méridien Zéro rencontre Jean-Marie Le Pen.

2011-11-11T10:40:54+01:00

Vampire Vampire Le Requiem - Goules Jeu de rôles

2011-10-28T08:49:00+02:00

VampireVampire Le Requiem - Goules

Jeu de rôles-Autres

POUR COMMANDER

Sixième supplément pour Vampire : the Requiem, Ghouls décrit en profondeur les goules du Monde des Ténèbres : ces humains rendus immortels et torturés par l'absorption répétée de sang de vampire. Ce livre se présente selon le schéma habituel des suppléments White Wolf. Après une courte nouvelle de trois pages, un prologue introduit le lecteur dans le monde sinistre des serviteurs nocturnes. Y sont rapidement présentés les thèmes et l'ambiance du supplément, résolument glauques.

C'est pas le pied la guerre ?

2011-10-05T17:00:00+02:00

Rusgas do MINHO em Villiers-Le-Bel - Mais uma noitada de alegria

2011-10-04T19:23:02+02:00

Uma grande noitada de Rusgas do Minho foi o espectaculo que tiveram direito todos aqueles que estiveram presentes no passado sábado dia 01 de Outubro na cidade de Villiers-Le-Bell, organizado pela associação Portuguesa desta cidade e presidida pelo Sr.Maceira que e um grande representante do folclore Minhoto em Franca.

Esta associação dispõe dum recinto de festas e locais para dar vida a esta associação como quase ninguém tem na região de Paris, isso permite que aqui haja mais encontros entre os nossos compatriotas, tem uma sala para ver Tv equipada com um bar a maneira e todo o equipamento de cozinha com grelhadores, bar exteriores e muito mais !

Para quem não e Minhoto e nunca assistiu as " Rusgas do Minho " e algo que não deve de perder e nos aqui na região de Paris temos simplesmente as melhores Rusgas e ranchos folclóricos do mundo, são homens e mulheres, raparigas, rapazes e crianças de todas as idades que são atraídas para esta festas, para nos emigrantes e um grande orgulho sentir as nossas tradições tão bem alimentadas no estrangeiro.

Para quem quiser ver em filme esta grande manifestação de alegria va a Internet e faca : www.1portugal.com ou então no faceboock do Tuga Magazine e ai também dispõe das fotos dessa bonita noitada

18-09-2011 - Halls du Portugal em festa

2011-09-09T15:03:00+02:00

Trois hauts responsables du nuclaire japonais limogs

2011-08-06T13:44:05+02:00

Le Japon va limoger trois hautsresponsables du secteur de l'nergie en raison de leur gestion de lacrise nuclaire de Fukushima et d'une srie de scandales qui ontaliment la mfiance du public l'gard du nuclaire, a annonc jeudile gouvernement.

Lors d'une confrence de presse, Banri Kaieda,ministre de l'Economie, du Commerce et de l'Industrie, a indiqu qu'ilallait procder un remaniement au sein de son ministre (le Meti),charg du dveloppement et de la rgulation de l'industrie nuclaire.

Il a soulign qu'il voulait ainsi "donner une nouvelle vie" son puissant ministre.

Leministre a confirm les informations publies dans les mdias voquantle limogeage d'un haut fonctionnaire, avec rang de vice-ministre, dudirecteur gnral de l'Agence pour l'nergie et les ressourcesnaturelles et du chef de l'Agence de sret nuclaire et industrielle.

"Nousavons discut de ces changements depuis environ un mois", a dit M.Kaieda. Il a prcis que l'annonce officielle du dpart des troisresponsables interviendrait plus tard dans la journe.

Depuisl'accident survenu le 11 mars la centrale Fukushima Daiichi, gravementendommage par un sisme et un tsunami gants, le ministre a t aucentre des critiques pour sa promotion de l'industrie nuclaire et sestentatives de manipulation de l'opinion.

Les mdias ont galementvoqu la dmission du ministre lui-mme, dont les relations avec lePremier ministre Naoto Kan se sont dtriores au cours des derniersmois.

M. Kan, lu il y a plus d'un an, mais crdit aujourd'huid'un taux de mcontentement record dans l'opinion, s'est prononcrcemment en faveur de l'abandon progressif de l'nergie nuclaire au Japon au profit des nergies renouvelables.

Ila critiqu les liens troits unissant le Meti et le secteur del'industrie nergtique, qui offre (...)

Je suis féministe ! : La langue française a une dent contre les femmes...

2011-07-12T17:38:00+02:00

La langue française, la langue de Molière, si mélodieuse, si appréciée par le reste du monde, nianiania. Bon oui, elle est jolie la langue française, mais elle a planté ses piliers sur des régles sexistes. Les puristes de notre belle langue se défendrons (faiblement, maladroitement, piètrement) en nous disant que nous sommes paranoïaques.

Pourtant :

En Français, le masculin l'emporte sur le féminin : cette phrase, que nous avons toutes et tous entendu il y a bien longtemps déjà, au temps des crayons de couleurs et des tableaux noir, est une règle sexiste au possible. Elle consiste à dire que lorsque l'on parle d'un groupe, le pronom personnel s'accord en fonction du sexe des membres de ce groupe. Ainsi, pour un groupe uniquement composé de personnes de sexe féminin, on emploiera "Elles", pour un groupe uniquement composé de personnes de sexe masculin, on emploiera "Ils". La logique de tous voudrait que le nombre l'emporte sur le genre, mais non, c'est l'inverse, le genre l'emporte sur le nombre : voilà pourquoi, dans un groupe composé de 50 personnes, il suffit qu'une seule de ces personnes soit de sexe masculin pour que l'on emploi le "Ils". Imaginez la scène en suivant à la lettre la grammaire française : 250 femmes, 1 homme : "Ils ont passés près de deux heures enfermés dans cette pièce". Ça frise le ridicule, on est d'accord.

Pourtant, chez nos voisins anglais, le pronom est toujours le même : "You". La seule différenciation que l'anglais effectue se situe au niveau des pronom possessifs, et paradoxalement, cette différenciation n'entraîne aucune voie discriminatoire :

Le livre d'Anna -> Son livre donnera "HER book", si l'on remplace Anna par Peter, son livre donnera "HIS book". Pas de règle du masculin l'emporte, et comme chez nous français, si Anna et Peter se trouvent dans la même pièce, ce sera leurs livres : "their books."

Il semblerait que ce sexisme soit à l'origine l'apanache des langues romanes et latines dont nous avons hérité en grande partie.

J'ai effectué plusieurs recherches, afin de comprendre l'origine de cette règle grammaticale française. Et, à ma grande surprise, voilà ce que j'ai trouvé :

"Cette règle de grammaire a été fondée au XVIIe siècle par l'Abbé Bouhour, célèbre grammairien, qui l'a justifié en expliquant que "lorsque les deux genres se rencontrent, il faut que le plus noble des deux l'emporte." L'article complète le paragraphe par : "Les initiatrices/teurs de cette pétition (ndlr : de la pétition visant à abolir "Le masculin l'emporte), insistent sur le fait qu'avant la généralisation de cette règle, on utilisait la règle de proximité même en latin et grec ancien." [L'Express.fr]

Mais quelle est donc cette "règle de proximité"? C'est une règle grammaticale antérieure à la règle du masculin l'emporte qui consiste à, lorsque l'on a une suite de noms masculins et féminins, marquer l'accord avec le dernier mot prononcé.

Un petit exemple pour illustrer :

« Surtout j’ai cru devoir aux larmes, aux prières / Consacrer ces trois jours et ces trois nuits entières. » [Racine "Athalie"]

J'imagine, en appliquant notre mysogyno-grammaire, la version sensée aujourd'hui être correcte, donc en accordant le mot "entier" avec "jours", et non, décidémment, ça n'a tout de même pas la même gueule.

Alors, le fait que des femmes, et de surcroît, des féministes (Ah! Au bûcher!) puissent remettre en question les fondements de notre langue actuelle en a hérissé plus d'un. Mais oui, il faut bien le dire : on s'en fou.

Une autre règle française profondément mysogyne : Le Mademoiselle.

Il y a environ un mois de cela, j'entrais en débat avec mon aimé sur le sujet, et je suis ravie de voir, qu'en réalité, cet revendication n'est pas uniquement mienne, mais que beaucoup de femmes et de féministes montent au créneau.

En effet, voilà encore un fondement totalement sexiste.

Mademoiselle vient du pronom possessif Ma et du nom Demoiselle contracté en un seul et unique mot, et le Demoiselle du terme Damoiselle, beaucoup plus ancien encore. A l'origine, il était utilisé pour désigner les femmes non mariées et les femmes mariées non nobles. Aujourd'hui, sur tous vos formulaires administratifs, vous trouvez les propositions Monsieur, Madame, Mademoiselle. Parce que Mademoiselle, à ce jour, désigne simplement une femme qui n'est pas mariée et qui ne l'a jamais été. Concrêtement, et en suivant la règle, une femme de 80ans qui n'a jamais été mariée est une "Mademoiselle".

Pourquoi alors cette différence, pourquoi une jeune femme de 15ans est une Demoiselle, alors qu'un jeune homme de 15ans est un Monsieur. Parce oui, même si le terme Damoiselle a disparut pour laisser place à Demoiselle et Mademoiselle, le terme Damoiseau, qui a existé et qui désignait une jeune homme lui, a disparut pour ne laisser place qu'à Monsieur.

Là se marque encore l'insidieuse domination masculine qui a oppressé et opresse encore les femmes. Rappelez vous nos grands mères, rappelez vous simplement 50/60ans en arrière : la finalité d'une femme était de se marier, d'enfanter et de servir son époux dignement. Travailler? Certainement

pas! Porter des pantalons? Pourquoi ne pas clairement dire aux hommes "je vous domine" ?! Aller dans des bars ? Il n'y a que les femmes de petites vertues qui se le permettent! Non définitivement, une femme n'a pas le droit de se prendre pour ce qu'elle n'est pas : un sexe fort.

Ainsi, alors que l'homme dés sa naissance jouissait de droits fondamentaux (autorité, légitimité, liberté), et était un

homme très tôt, la femme elle, n'était qu'un demi être humain de Mademoiselle, avec le droit d'exister en tant "qu'égale" du Monsieur uniquement lorsqu'elle aurait trouvé un homme voulant bien d'elle. Ainsi, une femme qui ne s'était jamais mariée et qui finissait ses jours sans un homme à ses côtés était appelée une vieille fille. Autant dire que le terme est loin d'être flatteur, et généralement, était accompagné par des synonymes considérés comme évidents tels que aigrie ou mal-baisée.

Pour saisir la différence notoire de statut entre un Mademoiselle et un Madame, il suffit d'être témoin ou "victime" d'une remontrance faite par un homme à une femme, jugez plutôt :

"Je vous prierai Madame, de ne plus dorénavant agir de la sorte."

Un homme adulte fait une requête à une dame. Il lui formule une demande claire et polie.
Passons maintenant à la version où le Madame est remplacé par le Mademoiselle :

"Je vous prierai Mademoiselle, de ne plus dorénavant agir de la sorte."

Un homme adulte fait une remontrance à une demoiselle. Nous ne somme plus phonétiquement dans le registre de la requête polie, mais dans celui de l'ordre avec autorité de l'interlocuteur.

Peu importe que ces deux femmes aient le même age, elles n'ont pas le même statut social, et la différence réside dans l'appellation qu'on leur porte.

Dans la vie d'une femme donc, le passage à l'age adulte se valorise par le changement d'appellation, du Mademoiselle au Madame. Un passage a l'age adulte considéré donc par le mariage. Un homme lui, dés que ses premiers poils pubiens apparaissent, on l'appelle Monsieur.

Alors oui, il y a des femmes qui revendiquent ce Mademoiselle : Pour certaine, car cela les rajeunis, pour d'autres parce qu'ainsi elles revendiquent le fait de n'avoir jamais été mariée. Je peux comprendre, même si je pense qu'il existe d'autres manières de revendiquer son opposition au mariage, d'autant qu'il me semblait que le poids des années était gage de sagesse... fût un temps.
On me dira également que, sur la pratique, lorsque l'on voit une dame de plus de 30ans nous l'appelons d'office Madame. Oui, parce qu'inconsciemment, à 30ans, tu es sensée être maman ou mariée.

Voilà donc, pour résumer, deux exemples flagrants, deux pilliers de la langue française basés sur le sexisme. Et en cherchant bien il y en a d'autres, beaucoup d'autre. Pour ma part, je serais d'avis soit de réinstaurer le Damoiseau et de créer ainsi le statut Mondemoiseau (ahah! *rire maléfique*), soit de laisser proprement le choix à une femme de s'appeler Madame, puisque certaines tiennent à leur Mademoiselle (il ne s'agirait pas non plus d'interdir à une femme d'avoir le choix...).

Je vais clôturer cette chronique sur une touche d'humour, un sketch qui m'a fait beaucoup rire et qui est tout à fait dans le ton (oui les féministes peuvent rire de ce genre de choses), une petite vidéo d'un sketch de Rolland Macdane ;) Enjoy !

Je suis féministe ! : La littérature, les hommes et...les femmes.

2011-07-10T16:36:00+02:00

Cher(e)s Lecteurs/trices,

vous allez me dire "Noooon, ne fais pas çaaaa, ne rédige pas de chronique féministe!", ce à quoi je vous répondrai : Ne vous inquiétez pas, je n'émascule pas d'homme à la tombée de la nuit (je réserve cette pratique pour la journée). *Joke Inside*

Plus sérieusement, je ne me suis jamais revendiquée féministe...jusque là. Parce que plus les choses avancent, et plus je me dis que si le terme "Féministe" doit être une insulte, alors, que je sois insultée, après tout, une injure de plus ou une autre vis à vis d'une femme qui l'ouvre, ça ne change pas grand chose à mon sens ;)

Cette première chronique de ma rubrique "Je suis féministe !" concernera la littérature. J'en ai une autre sur le feu, mais beaucoup plus longue, et méritant une attention particulière de ma part, voilà pourquoi, malgré la logique, ce ne sera pas la première à sortir, et de plus, Patience et moi, on est en froid depuis longtemps donc...

Comme beaucoup de toxicomanes, je passe pas mal de mon temps libre sur le réseau social Facebook (Bouuuuh méchante fille). Et autant dire que Facebook, pour avoir du grain à moudre dans sa révolte, c'est vraiment le lieu internet parfait.

Inscrite sur la page d'Osez Le Fémininsme (OLF) et adhérante de l'asso Les Chiennes de Garde, je participe relativement régulièrement à celle-ci (Les Chiennes de Garde n'ayant apparement pas de page Facebook). Et alors que, rien à voir on en conviendra, je recherchais des citations sur les chiens, j'en suis arrivée à un nouveau constat : Décidémment, la femme a pas mal de boulets à trainer.

J'avais tapé sur Google le critère de recherche "Citations sur les chiens" pour nourrir une de mes pages "J'aime", et surprise, sur la première page du célibrissime Evene.fr, je tombe sur trois citations sexistes. Oui, on est d'accord, taper "citations sur les chiens" et avoir trois citations sur les femmes, ça fait un peu mal au fion moral.

Voilà donc, les trois citations qui m'ont remonté la pendule de la revendication féministe :

‎"La différence entre la femme et le chien réside dans le prix du collier.

François Giraudo"

"On parle à une femme, on lui dit des phrases en sachant bien qu'elle ne comprend pas, comme on parle à un chien ou à un chat.

Edmond et Jules de Goncourt"

"Un ménage n'est plus un ménage lorsque c'est le chien qui apporte les pantoufles et la femme qui aboie.

Henry Bernstein"

Donc pour résumer : La femme est vénale, demeurée et la boniche de service. Joli combo littéraire et sexiste.
Je m'empresse donc d'aller lâcher un petit message sur la page d'OLF, qui pour une fois, passe quasi innaperçut, mis à part pour un Monsieur qui commente alors :

"il y a d'autres citations sur les hommes sauf que les hommes ne sont pas complexés."

Ah, nous y voilà, si la femme revendique l'égalité des droits, de traitement et dénonce le sexisme, c'est une complexée.

Je décide donc de lui expliquer pourquoi nous, complexées, avons matière à l'ouvrir :

J'effectue alors une nouvelle recherche Google :

"Citations sur les femmes", Evene.fr en tête de liste, je clique et tombe sur une page m'annonçant 3703 résultats.

Dans la lancée, nouvelle recherche Google :

"Citations sur les hommes, Evene.fr en tête de liste, je clique et tombe sur une page m'annonçant 7611 résultats.

Je me dis alors "Tiens, il y a beaucoup plus de citations sur les hommes que sur les femmes, me serais-je alors emballée trop vite? J'entame alors une lecture des-dîtes citations, et voilà mon constat :

Citations sur les hommes :

1ère page : On glorifie l'homme, philosophe sur l'injustice, s'indigne de voir comment la société les traumatise, eux, les virils nés, dés qu'ils sortent des cases.

2e page : On le plaint, on valorise l'adultère, traitant l'homme marié comme une victime, une demi homme, enchaîné par une (odieuse) femme, au passage, on rabaisse la femme, puisqu'il ne peut manifestement il y avoir de valorisation de l'homme sans mépris de la femme.

Quelques Perles :

Les hommes célibataires devraient être plus lourdement taxés que les hommes mariés. Ce n'est pas juste que les hommes soient plus heureux que d'autres. [Oscar Wilde]

On n'a pas tort de dire que la femme est la moitié de l'homme, car un homme marié n'est plus qu'une moitié d'homme. [Romain Rolland]

Une femme ne quitte en général un homme que pour un autre homme, tandis qu'un homme peut très bien quitter une femme à cause d'elle. [Sacha Guitry]

En continuant : on continue de tomber soit sur des citations sur les hommes (Ô l'Homme) soit sur des citations qui le victimisent en tant qu'homme sous le joug d'une femme. Quelques citations de constats peu à leur honneur, mais celles-ci se perdent au milieu des autres.

Passons maintenant :

Au citations sur les femmes :

1ère pages : Autant dire que mis à part notre cher Gandhi, il n'y a rien là dedans qui glorifie la femme.

Il y a deux sortes de femmes : la femme bibelot, que l'on peut manier, manipuler, embrasser du regard, et qui est l'ornement d'une vie d'homme, et la femme paysage, celle là on la visite, on s'y engage, on risque de s'y perdre. [Michel Tournier]

Une femme, une vraie, c'est une femme avant tout qui n'est pas féministe. [Sacha Guitry]

La majorité des femmes mariées se plaignent de leur mari. La majorité des femmes non mariées se plaignent de ne pas avoir de mari. Donc le problème ce n'est pas le mari c'est la femme. [Christine Van Berchem]

On trompe toujours sa maîtresse avec sa femme. SI votre femme est convaincue de cette vérité, alors vous lui serez toujours fidèles. [Louis Teissier du Cros]

ou encore :

La laideur et l'insanité de notre vie viennent du pouvoir qu'ont les femmes : ce n'est pas à la femme d'élever des revendications contre l'homme, mais à l'homme de s'émanciper de la femme. [Léon Tolstoï]

Et on en est uniquement à la première page....

Du mépris, du mépris, et encore du mépris. On réduit la femme au rang d'objet (maléfique), à qui on ne devrait donner aucun pouvoir, on crache sur les féministes, on diabolise la femme, chantant du clichés à toutes les sauces , pour les pages suivantes, je vous laisse le soin de les lire, sinon, ça me prendrais le blog entier de vous copier ici celles qui m'ont agaçée voir scandalisée...

Donc pour résumer, Monsieur Machin, venez à nouveau me parler de l'égalité des femmes dans la littérature ainsi que dans les citations, et nous dire que si l'on s'offusque, c'est qu'on est simplement complexées et pas parce qu'on est rabaissées par la littérature pendant que l'homme lui est glorifié (et n'a donc effectivement aucune raison d'être complexé), que je me marre un peu...

Signé : La Complexée

La Francophobie

2011-06-22T20:19:00+02:00

Tax cheats undermine foreign aid, US warns

2011-06-17T07:42:01+02:00

Tax-dodging by the rich and lax tax enforcement systems are undermining foreign development aid to poor countries, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned on Thursday.

"Many wealthy people in low-income countries avoid taxes by hiding their money off-shore -- an outflow that by some estimates comes to more than $1 trillion every year," Clinton said in an address to the OECD economic group.

"Corruption and poorly functioning tax systems put a strain on our partnerships with developing countries," she told a ministerial meeting of the 34-member Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

"It is difficult to ask our taxpayers to spend money abroad while elites turn their backs on their own people. As donor countries make our assistance more effective, recipient countries must do their part as well."

She praised tax reforms in El Salvador, South Africa's efforts to fight corruption and Tanzania's crackdown on tax evasion, adding that encouraging tax reforms was a priority for the US government and its aid agency USAID.

"For example, with assistance from USAID, the Afghan government is expanding its work to pay police officers by cellphone," she said.

"This helps cut down on fraudulent payments and prevents corrupt officials from skimming from their workers? salaries."

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Eco Chic Gift Baskets Launches - Shoppers No Longer Have to Sacrifice Style for Substance

2011-06-17T03:51:47+02:00

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Easy Rider Tours Offers Big Savings on Fall Bike Vacations for Savvy Cyclists

2011-06-17T02:33:24+02:00

s autumn bike vacations, and earn a 40% discount on his/her own trip as a reward. “There’s nothing like biking in the fall,” says Easy Rider president Jim Goldberg, “when the air is fresh, the colors are changing, and the autumn harvest is coming in. Whether in Europe or North America, a bike vacation is a memorable and rewarding way to celebrate a special occasion or just spend healthy quality time outdoors with friends or family.”

Easy Rider Tours specializes in , Spain, Ireland, maritime Canada, and New England, so cyclists have a wide choice of fall tours. As Goldberg puts it, “The hardest part might be deciding which trip to take!” Ireland’s County Kerry, the Catalonian Pyrénées, Portugal’s Algarve coast, the Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia, and fall foliage tours in New England are among the company’s most popular bike trips. Tours are offered for all biking experience levels, and all the itineraries feature Easy Rider’s signature blend of cycling, culture, and cuisine.

Easy Rider’s offer is good for all . To qualify for the incentive, the group coordinator must reserve his/her party of four as a group; the 40% discount will be refunded to the coordinator after the group has completed their bike tour. The offer is good only for new bicycle tour bookings for parties of four made between June 7 and June 30, 2011.

Foror for individual bike tour itineraries, contact Easy Rider Tours at 800-488-8332 or visit .

About Easy Rider ToursSince 1986, Easy Rider Tours has specialized in biking vacations in Ireland, Portugal, Spain, the Canadian Maritimes, and New England.Each of Easy Rider Tours’ itineraries provides a satisfying balance of cycling, culture, and cuisine, delivering the experience of a lifetime to active travelers worldwide.Easy Rider Tours – Your Best Vacation by a Mile. Website:

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Inflation slows in May as gas prices fall

2011-06-15T21:05:58+02:00

Falling energy prices cooled overall inflation in May, offering some relief to consumers who have been coping for months with high gas prices.

Overall consumer prices rose 0.2 percent, the smallest increase in six months, the Labor Department said. It was the first drop in energy costs in nearly a year.

Still, Americans paid more for cars, clothing and hotel rooms in May. That drove the so-called "core" consumer prices, which exclude volatile food and energy, up by the most in nearly three years.

The increase in core inflation, which was higher than analysts expected, contributed to another bleak day on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled more than 180 points in afternoon trading, reflecting fears that the worsening debt crisis in Greece could spread.

Higher core prices will limit the ability of the Federal Reserve to take any additional steps to stimulate the economy. The Fed is wrapping up a $600 billion Treasury bond-buying program this month that was intended to lower interest rates, boost stock prices, and encourage more spending.

Critics have charged that the bond purchases could stoke inflation by increasing the amount of money in circulation. Rising core inflation will strengthen the hands of those Fed officials opposed to any further purchases.

Economists downplayed the increase in core prices. Auto prices will likely fall as the impact of supply disruptions from Japan fades and production picks up. And the big rise in hotel costs likely reflected a one-time increase before the summer travel season.

Most important, they noted, is that consumers are finally getting some relief from high gas prices. Prices have fallen by nearly 30 cents since peaking last month at a national average of $3.98 per gallon.

Overall inflation "is probably now close to peaking," said Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics. "While the bigger monthly rise in core prices is a concern, a lot of it was due to temporary factors that could be reversed in the next few months."

A separate report from the Federal Reserve showed that U.S. factories produced more business equipment and construction materials last month. That boosted manufacturing output 0.4 percent last month and followed a decline in April, the first after 10 months of increases.

Overall industrial production was essentially flat in May for the second month in a row. It was held back by a decline in utility activity caused by milder spring weather.

Ashworth said the report confirms that the April decline in factory output was an outlier. The March 11 earthquake in Japan created a parts shortage that affected U.S. car makers. And tornadoes in the U.S. slowed factory output in the South. Ashworth said factories are back to increasing production. But the rate of growth has slowed since last year.

"Things seem to be getting back to normal in Japan, so supply disruptions should ease up and it should unwind itself," Ashworth said.

Economists expect factory output to keep growing in the coming months as Japanese automakers, such as Toyota and Honda, bring production at their U.S. plants back to pre-earthquake levels. Full production likely won't be restored until fall.

Other reports Wednesday show the economy, for now, is still weak. A survey of manufacturers in the New York region found that activity slowed in June. The New York Federal Reserve's Empire State index fell to -7.8, down from 12 the previous month. Any reading below zero indicates that the sector is shrinking.

And homebuilders are getting even more pessimistic, according to a report from the industry's trade group. An index that measures builders' sentiment fell to 13 in June. That's the lowest level in nine months and just five points about the record low, reached in January 2009.

Some inflation can be healthy for the economy because it encourages people to spend and invest rather than sitting on their cash. More spending drives corporate growth, which makes businesses more likely to hire people.

But higher food and gas prices have hurt growth this year. Consumers have had to spend more at the grocery stores and to fill their tanks, leaving less money for spending on other goods and services, like appliances, furniture and vacations, that drive the economy.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has said that the rise in food and gas prices would likely be temporary. The latest readings on consumer and wholesale inflation seem to support that view.

In addition to the drop in consumer gas prices, the government reported this week that wholesale food prices fell in May by the most in nearly a year. Much of that decline resulted from a sharp fall in vegetable and fruit prices. Most economists expect overall food prices to stabilize later this year.

Consumer prices rose 3.6 percent from June 2010 through May 2011, the biggest one-year gain since October 2008. The yearly gain in the index was only 1.1 percent as recently as November.

Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, which account for about 20 percent of the index, core prices rose only 1.5 percent in that same period. That's below the Federal Reserve's informal inflation target of about 2 percent.

Autos and apparel drove core consumer prices higher in May. New car prices rose 1.1 percent last month, after rising 0.7 percent in April. Auto dealers have fewer popular fuel-efficient models on their lots because of the supply disruptions. As a result, they are offering fewer deals to boost sales.

Clothing rose 1.2 percent in May, a result of higher cotton prices and increasing labor costs overseas, where most U.S. apparel is made.

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Yemen fighting expands as tribe seizes army camp

2011-05-27T19:30:32+02:00

Fighting that rocked Sanaa for the past five days spread beyond the capital on Friday as Yemeni tribesmen opposed to the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh seized a Republican Guard military camp in battles that left dozens dead and prompted airstrikes by government warplanes, according to a tribal leader.

At least 109 people have been killed by this week's street battles in Sanaa between security forces loyal to Saleh and fighters from Yemen's most powerful tribal confederation, the Hashid, which has joined the popular uprising against the longtime ruler. The fighting has hiked fears the country could be thrown into civil war as Saleh clings to power in the face of months of peaceful protests demanding his ouster.

The violence poses a major new threat to Saleh because of the enormous strength of tribal loyalties among Yemenis. The Hashid groups northern-based tribes numbering hundreds of thousands of Yemenis, giving the Hashid's leaders enormous power. It includes Saleh's own tribe, the Sanhan, and the confederation's influence is strong enough that around half the Sanhan have abandoned the president since the Hashid leadership announced it was joining the opposition weeks ago.

Friday's assault on the base in the el-Fardha Nehem region was the most significant escalation yet outside the capital. Tribal fighters stormed the camp, 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Sanaa, and killed tens of troops — including the base commander — in the fighting, said Sheik Ali Saif, a leader from the Hashid confederation.

After the Hashid fighters captured the camp, government airplanes bombed them and other forces clashed with them on the ground, he said. At least 12 tribesmen were killed, Saif said.

When two military helicopters landed about 2 miles (3 kilometers) from the camp to unload reinforcements, tribal fighters assaulted them, capturing the helicopters and a number of troops, and the fighters shot down a third helicopter, Saif said. There was no immediate government comment on the fighting.

Saif said the tribe attacked the base to prevent soldiers there from moving in Sanaa to reinforce government troops there. The Republican Guard is one of the best trained and best equipped forces in Yemen, commanded by one of Saleh's sons, and has remained loyal to the president even as other military units have joined the movement against his rule.

Yemeni state TV on Friday warned residents in Sanaa neighborhoods that have been engulfed in fighting to evacuate in expectation of further fighting. Fighting spilled into new districts around Sanaa on Thursday, with government forces using artillery and mortars to blast tribesmen as frightened residents fled or cowered in basements.

The head of the Hashid tribe, Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar, demanded on Thursday that Saleh step down or else be held accountable for "dragging the country to a civil war."

The battles broke out Monday after an attempt by government forces to storm al-Ahmar's compound in the heart of Sanaa. By Thursday, the clashes had widened to include areas around Sanaa's airport, and other tribes had joined in alongside al-Ahmar.

The fighting could open a new chapter in Yemen's turmoil. Until now, Saleh's opponents have stuck to peaceful protests massing hundreds of thousands around the country. Several military units, along with tribal powerhouses like the Hashid, have joined the opposition, but they have avoided any violent confrontation with Saleh's loyalists.

But Saleh has managed to cling to power for three months despite defections, protests and pressure from Arab neighbors and Western powers to leave office. Efforts to mediate an exit for Saleh collapsed last week when the president refused to sign a deal providing for him to step down in 30 days.

Saleh has retained the loyalty of the regime's most elite military units — all commanded by close relatives.

But the escalation with the tribes could threaten that hold. Under Yemen's ancient codes, tribal leaders can declare that members follow their orders above all others — potentially forcing soldiers in pro-Saleh units to choose between their clan and military loyalties. So far, there have been no apparent signals of mass defections from the pro-Saleh units since the fighting with the Hashid began.

Most of Yemen's tribes boast heavily armed militias loyal to their chiefs. The tribes of the Hashid confederation hold powerful business and the government interests. Yemen's other main tribal confederation, the southern-based Bakeel, is larger but has less political and economic power and, with many more tribes, is less cohesive. Most Bakeel tribes have turned against Saleh.

The escalating violence prompted the State Department to order nonessential U.S. diplomats and their families to leave the country. Britain said it would scale back its embassy staff, while Germany and other countries issued travel warnings.

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New deep space vehicle to be based on Orion: NASA

2011-05-27T17:40:45+02:00

NASA said Tuesday that a new spacecraft to ferry humans into deep space will be based on designs for the Orion crew exploration vehicle and built by Lockheed Martin.

The Orion capsule, originally designed to take astronauts back to the moon, is a surviving component of the Constellation manned space exploration program canceled by President Barack Obama last year for being behind schedule and over budget.

NASA administrator Charles Bolden said the designs for Orion would be used to forge ahead with a new spacecraft known as the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), which would lift off atop a massive rocket and someday take explorers to an asteroid and Mars.

"We are committed to human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and look forward to developing the next generation of systems to take us there," Bolden said in a statement.

He said Congress's NASA Authorization Act "lays out a clear path forward for us by handing off transportation to the International Space Station to our private sector partners, so we can focus on deep space exploration.

"As we aggressively continue our work on a heavy lift launch vehicle, we are moving forward with an existing contract to keep development of our new crew vehicle on track."

Lockheed Martin Corporation is to continue its work on building the space capsule -- begun in 2006 -- which aims to carry four astronauts at a time on 21-day missions into deep space.

The capsule will weigh 23 tons and NASA has no date set for a potential launch, said Douglas Cooke, associate administrator for NASA's exploration systems mission directorate. There is also no final cost associated with the project.

"We are still working on our integrated architecture, and that includes the space launch system along with ground systems and other supporting projects," said Cooke.

"At this point we do not have a specific date," he said. "In terms of deep space exploration we hope to have test flights obviously in this decade. We are not exactly sure when but obviously as early as possible."

With the space shuttle program ending this year, NASA is working with private companies on a separate effort to build a new spacecraft to replace the shuttle and transport astronauts and cargo to the orbiting International Space Station.

When the shuttles become museum pieces, US astronauts will hitch rides on Russian spacecraft to orbiting station until a replacement is developed.

SpaceX successfully tested its Dragon capsule last year on the first ever flight into orbit and back by an unmanned commercial spacecraft.

Several companies are competing to be the first to have a new crew space vehicle ready for low Earth orbit by 2015.

Unlike the space shuttle, the MPCV is designed to be "10 times safer during ascent and entry," NASA said.

"The Orion government and industry team has shown exceptional creativity in finding ways to keep costs down through management techniques, technical solutions and innovation," Cooke said.

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America's Road Team Captains Remind Motorists to Be Safe During Memorial Day Weekend

2011-05-24T02:20:56+02:00

ARLINGTON, Va., May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Memorial Day serves as the start for the busy summer driving season and AAA estimates that nearly 35 million motorists will travel this holiday weekend. So as motorists prepare for the Memorial Day vacations, a team of professional truck drivers are helping to make our roads safer.

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America's Road Team Captains, elite professional truck drivers with millions of accident-free miles, are offering advice on how to navigate through highway traffic and arrive at your destination safely. Tips include:

Perform a pre-trip inspection Check your tire pressure, wipers and fluids. Simple maintenance can prevent many of the problems that strand motorists on the side of the road before you leave your home.Plan your trip Know where you are going and be prepared to exit. Indecisive driving is a major cause of traffic problems.Large Trucks Have Blind spots If you can't see the truck driver in his or her mirrors, then the truck driver can't see you.Do not cut in front of large trucks Remember that trucks are heavier and take longer to make a complete stop, so avoid cutting quickly in front of them. A fully loaded tractor trailer takes a football field and both end zones to come to a complete stop when driving at highway speeds.Pay Attention Distracted driving is a leading cause of crashes. Looking away for even two seconds doubles the chances of an accident. Turn cell phones and PDAs off.Allow a Safety Cushion Look 1/4 mile ahead for a safe path. Leave yourself an out.Slow Down Chances of a crash nearly triples when driving faster than surrounding traffic.Keep extra water in your vehicle Just as you keep a winter driving kit in your vehicle, it is important to be prepared when driving during the summer months. Keep plenty of extra water, sunscreen and non-perishable snacks in your car in case you are stranded.Buckle Up Safety belts are not a fashion statement they save lives.Abide by Traffic Rules Follow traffic signs and signals paying special attention to work zones.Be Careful Backing Up One in four preventable collisions involve backing up. Be sure to look before backing up; walk around your car prior to departure."Memorial Day Weekend is the first big vacation weekend of the summer," said America's Road Team Captain Tim McElwaney (ABF Freight System) from Conley, Ga. "There are additional motorists on the highway, with many in unfamiliar areas. For the sake of safety, drivers need to slow down, follow the rules of the road and be patient."

The America's Road Team would like to remind the motoring public that from driveway to highway, safety requires patience and dedication.

Editor's note: America's Road Team Captains are available for in-studio and phone interviews to share driving tips and promote highway safety during Memorial Day weekend.

The America's Road Team, sponsored by Volvo Trucks North America, is a national public outreach program led by a small group of professional truck drivers who share superior driving skills, remarkable safety records and a strong desire to spread the word about safety on the highway.

The American Trucking Associations is the largest national trade association for the trucking industry. Through a federation of other trucking groups, industry-related conferences, and its 50 affiliated state trucking associations, ATA represents more than 37,000 members covering every type of motor carrier in the United States.

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Le passeport malin qu'on attendait

2011-05-23T07:18:00+02:00

Il y a quelques années j'ai succombé au passeport gourmand......Chaque année à une date précise, je me connecte 10 minutes avant et je regarde le sablier qui indique le temps restant avant l'ouverture de ce précieux sésame, pouvoir profiter de tester des restaurants des plus basiques aux plus gourmands avec des réductions qui font du bien à mes papilles gustatives tout autant qu'à mon budget.

A l'époque, je ne doutais pas un instant du succès de ces passeports.

Cette année j'ai déniché une nouvelle trouvaille qui tombe à pic après tous ces restos......et quelques kilos en plus, c'est le Body Pass, qui pour moi ne fait aucun doute, le succès est au bout du chemin.

Pouvoir profiter d'une réduction de 50% sur un premier soin, que ce soit chez un coiffeur, une onglerie, un spa dans une bonne partie de la Suisse romande, ce n'est que pur bonheur ! Son prix Fr. 70.-- et valable pour toute l'année 2011

Voici la présentation par son concepteur :

Présentation

Body Pass est le passeport pour le bien-être. Il vous permet de bénéficier de soins à 50% auprès de chacun des instituts partenaires lors de votre première visite.

Il vous ouvre ainsi les portes de 70 spa, instituts et coiffeurs prestigieux dans toute la romandie.

Ce précieux sésame vous permet donc de découvrir une multitude de nouveaux soins ainsi que les meilleurs professionnels du bien-être.

Nous avons sélectionné minutieusement chacun des partenaires en fonction de leur qualité de soins, de l’harmonie des lieux et de leur professionnalisme.

Grâce à la diversité de l’offre de soins proposés par nos partenaires, c’est un monde polysensoriel qui vous attend et qui saura assurément répondre à vos souhaits les plus exigeants.

’utilisation du passeport est très simple :

1. Sélectionnez un institut de votre choix (vous pouvez tester les 70 instituts partenaires)
2. Choissez un soin dans la liste proposée (type de soins)
3. Réservez votre soin auprès de l’instiut en mentionnant votre adhésion à Body Pass.
4. Relaxez vous et profitez de votre soin.
5. Présentez votre numéro de carte Body Pass au moment de payer.

Veuillez annoncer lors de votre réservation votre adhésion à Body Pass. Les instituts partenaires se réservent le droit de ne pas appliquer la réduction de 50% en cas de non respect de cette règle. Avec la carte Body Pass, vous avez l’assurance de recevoir le meilleur accueil et les meilleurs soins.

Tous contre l'oligarchie du Siècle le 25 mai à 20H place de la Concorde

2011-05-22T23:21:00+02:00

Chers amis auditeurs,

Méridien Zéro soutient l'initiative du Collectif Mandrin (voir facebook pour ceux qui l'ont) qui organise un piquenique social et populaire devant les salons de l'Automobile Club à Paris, place de la Concorde à Paris, là ou se réunit chaque dernier mercredi du mois l'oligarchie du CLub Le Siècle.

Le Collectif Mandrin entend par ce piquenique faire comprendre à nos "élites" que désormais le peuple veille et que chaque diner du Club sera doublé d'un piquenique du peuple !

Ce piquenique aura lieu mercredi 25 mai à 20 heures. Apportez victuailles, boissons, instruments de musique !

Venez nombreux ! Du nombre dépend le succès de l'opération !

Émission n°50 : ”PANORAMA ACTU”

2011-05-21T23:55:00+02:00

Garland Real Estate SC, LLC Unveils New and Improved Silver City Real Estate Website

2011-05-15T00:48:21+02:00

The internet is where most of us get information these days, but not everything you find online is reliable,” says Las Cruces andand the firm’s founder Jaylen Garland. “This can be a problem especially if you’re dealing with something as important as a home sale or purchase. This is why we decided to improve our website so that we could provide online users with an up-to-date, one-stop destination for anything that has to do with Silver City and its real estate market.”

The revamped site is a fount of information not only onand homes, but also on the community itself. Featuring a diversity of customizable search tools, frequently updated real estate news articles, and guides to buying and selling, the site also provides access to Silver City community resources that are particularly helpful for those considering a .

“We hope to provide visitors to the site with a complete online experience, whether they’re interested inor they’re thinking about selling their home in the area,” says Garland. “Everything they need to get started in their home search or home sale can be found here.”

Garland Real Estate SC, LLC is one of the offices of Garland Realty and Development, LLC, which is one of Southern New Mexico’s leading real estate brokerages. Visitto preview available properties in Silver City and surrounding areas and to get more information on Garland Real Estate SC.

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Musical based on 'Candida' a pocket-sized jewel

2011-05-11T02:41:26+02:00

If "My Fair Lady" is George Bernard Shaw writ large, "A Minister's Wife" is Shaw writ small.

Everything about the new musical based on the playwright's "Candida" seems pocket-sized, from the fragments of songs by Joshua Schmidt to the use of just four musicians to the boiling down of the Shavian story to about 90 minutes without intermission. Even the space where it has landed in New York — Lincoln Center's the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater — is intimate.

All that isn't a bad thing. A fantastic cast of just five, a single set and a book by Austin Pendleton that keeps much of the original playwright's wit makes "A Minister's Wife" a little jewel of a musical, though it may be an acquired taste.

Unlike "My Fair Lady," the big, brash musical with sumptuous songs based on Shaw's "Pygmalion," the new show that opened Sunday has an operatic whiff and wears its Kurt Weil influence well. That means some 20 songs, but not the toe-tapping quality of "I Could Have Danced All Night." Some tunes last only a few bars, some in four-part harmony. None exactly stick in one's head, but many are missed as soon as they end.

Schmidt, who also wrote the music to the well-regarded "Adding Machine," makes atmospheric, tantalizing, often atonal songs — more like appetizers than main courses. The actors often sing unaccompanied or in isolation to the melody emerging from the orchestra, adding voices that dip or climb on a dime.

Pendleton has stripped Shaw's three act play written in 1894 to its very core. It is the story of a love triangle between the Rev James Morell, a pompous Christian socialist; Candida, his strong and beautiful wife; and Eugene Marchbanks, an 18-year-old poet with a crush on Candida. It is Shaw at his most feminist, laying bare how embarrassingly boyish men will always be.

"I am up for auction, it seems," Candida tells her husband when the two rivals begin preparing to make their cases for her affection. "What do you bid, James?" Lyrics by Jan Levy Tranen push the story forward almost as swiftly as the script. "Though I shrink, I shrink from your brutal embrace/Though betrayed, betrayed by the tears on my face/I am not afraid of you," Marchbanks cries at one point.

Given the challenging music, a good cast is crucial and "A Minister's Wife" has one. A charismatic Marc Kudisch plays the blowhard Morell so well that it is hard to root against him, while Bobby Steggert portrays the simpering poet with a callowness that makes him a natural romantic rival to the reverend's solid masculinity. Kate Fry is warm and loving and exasperated as Cadida, perfectly cast as the object of so much affection. Two smaller parts — Drew Gehling and Liz Baltes as employees of the reverend — add another pair of excellent voices to the mix.

Keeping all this together is director Michael Halberstam, the artistic director and co-founder of the Writers' Theatre in Glencoe, Ill., where the musical made its world premiere. Halberstam manages to keep what is a domestic drama seem breakneck and universal.

A simple yet effective cluttered, book-laden set by Allen Moyer and formal, 19th-century costumes by David Zinn add to the appropriateness of the stripped-down tale. You might not dance all night, but there's something lush here even in its spareness.

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Thieves steal Superman’s mark in Cleveland

2011-05-01T15:14:56+02:00

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Jeff Stacklin, Yahoo! Cleveland Editor

Could Lex Luthor be roaming the streets of Cleveland?would steal a piece of Superman's past?

Indeed, someone out there walks the streets with more than a guilty conscience.

Thieves purloined an Ohio historical marker honoring Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster earlier this month, . (Sorry, I don't have a photo of the marker, but the newspaper does. Just follow thisto see it.)

"Thieves, perhaps believing the aluminum plaque was bronze because of its coloring, used a hacksaw to cut the large plaque off the pole," reports the newspaper.

The plaque notes that Siegel and Shuster "infused popular American culture with one of the most enduring iconsof the 20th century."

It was installed along St. Clair Avenue near East 105th Street, near thewhere the original comics were written and drawn.

Tracey Kirksey, executive director of the Glenville Development Corp., tells the newspaper that the plaque will be replaced. This time, however, Siegel's name, which is misspelled on one side of the plaque, will be spelled correctly.

At least there's some justice here.

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Mac vs. PC: Stereotypes Confirmed

2011-05-01T14:54:56+02:00

s unscientifically official. PC users are more lame than their Mac-using counterparts.

An unscientific survey by , a website that makes custom predictions based on your interests, shows that PC users tend to prefer fitting in with others, are less tech savvy, and prefer Hollywood films over indie films. The same survey suggests Mac users tend to throw more parties, are modern art enthusiasts, and would rather drive a Vespa than a Harley.

Looks like that four-year-long, 66-commercial "" campaign had some truth to its stereotypes.

In case you forgot,pinned a nerdy-looking, suit-wearingas a PC against a younger and supposedly cooleras a Mac. (The irony of that whole campaign for me was that Justin Long played a nerdy, wimpish cheerleader in 2004sand an equally nerdy hacker in 2007's .)

Hunch was able to arrive at its conclusions by asking its user base if they self identified as a Mac or PC person. It then looked their answers to various other interest-related questions and grouped them with answers from other users that identified themselves the same way.

It's a gold mine of stereotypes.

CNN's Brandon Griggs said of the survey in his , "The results suggest Mac users can be seen, depending on your perspective, as bolder and more creative -- or elitist and more pretentious."

Couldn't say it better myself.

Before I go any further, I should note that I self identify as a PC person, even though I use a Mac most of the time at work. Like Hunch's data suggests of PC users, I live in the suburbs, seldom throw parties, am not a fan of modern art and enjoy the occasional .

And don't think the irony is lost that this article is appearing on PC World, not Macworld.

Here are a few other notable differences between Apple and PC fanboys:

Apple users are 80 percent more likely to be vegetarian than PC users. PC users' soft drinks of choice are Pepsi, Jolt Cola and Orange Crush. Apple users prefer San Pellegrino Limonata and Boylan's Root Beer. Apple fans get their news from 60 Minutes, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. PC users watch The Rachel Maddow Show, Newshour with Jim Lehrer and 20/20. Make sure to stop byto check out the rest of the data packaged in an infographic made by .

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S.Africa arrests six police over TV attack clip

2011-04-29T01:57:40+02:00

South African authorities have arrested six police officers in connection with the deadly attack on an unarmed protester last week, the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) said Sunday.

"The ICD last night arrested six suspects, two of them on murder charges, and four on assault with grievous bodily harm charges," said Moses Dlamini, the organisation's spokesman.

"The suspects were identified with the assistance of witnesses," he added.

Last Wednesday, state-owned television showed a footage of armed officers striking and kicking Andries Tatane, 33, during a protest against poor government services in the central Free State province.

He was shown holding his hand against his chest after the assault and collapsed around 20 minutes later, dying before an ambulance arrived.

His death has sparked a national outrage, even compared with the police heavy-handedness during apartheid times.

"Police brutality cannot be tolerated in a constitutional democracy. Policing in 2011 should be totally different from the apartheid past that we come from," he said.

Tatane was part of a group of about 4,000 protesters who marched to Ficksburg municipal offices over a lack of running water, electricity and housing in their community.

Media reported that he was also shot twice with rubber bullets in his chest.

The police officers will appear in court on Monday.

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Slideshow: High-profile royal wedding guests

2011-04-28T21:11:07+02:00

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Reuters/Mal LangsdonFollow The New Royals onand get royal wedding updates on .

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NY parents seek $100 million from Bloomberg over schools

2011-04-28T15:30:49+02:00

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg should be fined $100 million of his own money over his unpopular education chief's short and controversial tenure, a group of parents said in legal papers on Wednesday.

They say Bloomberg chose to burnish his three-term mayor legacy over improving education when he nominated his friend and former Hearst Magazines chairman Cathie Black as schools chancellor, despite her lack of credentials and experience.

Black quit the post this month after just 95 days in office and was replaced by her deputy.

The papers by Advocates for Justice, a law-firm and advocacy group representing the 14 parents, are a preliminary notice of a lawsuit handed to the City's Comptroller's office. The group has yet to file a formal legal complaint in a New York court.

"The mayor's ego, and his insistence on 'selling' the school system rather than building it from the ground up, led to this disaster," said the group's attorney Arthur Schwartz in a statement.

"The mayor took a lot from the City's school children with this error, and he should be required to make repairs -- in a sum that he is uniquely qualified to do," Schwartz said.

The $100 million in damages should be paid personally by the billionaire mayor, the legal papers said, and be pooled in a fund to help train teachers.

"This suit so lacks merit it's not even worth me commenting," said Kate O'Brien-Ahlers, a spokeswoman for the City's Law Department. A representative from the mayor's office was not immediately available to comment.

The parents, who are seeking class-action status to represent all New York City public school parents, said Bloomberg had committed "misfeasance of office" by ramming Black's appointment through the state bureaucracy.

After being appointed in November, Black clashed repeatedly with teachers and parents who saw her as a friend of Bloomberg with no experience that would suggest she had the credentials to succeed in one the most challenging jobs in U.S. education.

Black never seemed to recover after her comment in January that birth control "would really help us" solve the problem of overcrowded schools drew the ire of many parents of the city's 1.1 million public school students.

Black's resignation on April 7 came just days after an NY1-Marist poll found Bloomberg's approval rating had dropped to 40 percent, with 21 percent saying they believe his performance in office is poor.

(Reporting by Basil Katz; Editing by Michelle Nichols and Jerry Norton)

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Swiss government proposes stricter bank rules

2011-04-26T22:37:29+02:00

The Swiss government pushed ahead on Wednesday with plans to make UBS and Credit Suisse reach tough new capital standards, saying the benefit to the economy outweighed costs to the banks.

As it made its formal recommendation to parliament, the Swiss cabinet said the main direction of the draft law it issued in December was unchanged but it had made a few minor changes following a consultation period.

The government has proposed both big banks will need an equity Tier 1 capital ratio of at least 10 percent, versus the 7 percent minimum set under the Basel III global standards which begin to take effect in 2013.

Both UBS and the powerful right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) have warned the plan risks making UBS and Credit Suisse less competitive, raising questions about whether the rules might be watered down during the legislative process.

(Reporting by Catherine Bosley)

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In the Future, Every Politician May Have an Avatar

2011-04-14T14:42:29+02:00

Enter the scientists. Today's New York Times featured a head-scratching article about some innovative 3-D avatar software being developed at Stanford. One suggested use of the technology, virtual reality meetings and conference calls, sounds like a college student's slacker fantasy:

1) Without leaving your living room or office, you’ll sit at three-dimensional virtual meetings and classes, looking around the table or the lecture hall at your colleagues’ avatars.

2) Your avatar will be programmed to make a better impression than you could ever manage.

3) While your avatar sits there at the conference table gazing alertly and taking notes, you can do something more important: sleep.

But the Times kind of buries the lede. The same technology has also beento make politicians more likeable. The process is not unlike thefor Michael Jackson's "Black or White." Using pixel blending software, scientists can morph a politician's face with the features of any given voter, and that person is much more likely to approve of the politician. As long as the voter's face makes up no more than 40% of the composite image, she will likely not be able to tell the difference. Here's how Hilary Clinton might look:

At Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, a 2005 studythat a similar technique could have "manipulated the outcome of the 2004 Presidential election." Employing the technique in the many digital representations of candidates in videos, photos and mailers, candidates could instill altruism and trust by psychologically tricking voters into feeling similar to the candidate.

Will presidential hopefuls try these innovative techniques in 2012? Probably not--politicians already get for seeming robotic. Is it totally crazy to think that any politicians might morph their faces? Not really--in the age of airbrushed faces and Photoshopped bodies, we're already enhancing images of celebrities quite a bit. If a few mouse clicks can make politicians seem more empathetic, then I really do believe in America.

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Exclusive: HP held talks to buy Tibco

2011-04-14T05:01:18+02:00

Hewlett-Packard Co had considered buying business software company Tibco Software Inc until two weeks ago when talks fizzled, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The talks come as newly minted HP chief executive Leo Apotheker is expected to resort to acquisitions to beef up a software division that now just accounts for less than 3 percent of revenue.

Tibco, which was spun off from Reuters in 1999 and whose market capitalization is over $4 billion, had been working with its long time financial adviser Goldman Sachs to explore the opportunity, the sources said.

Tibco and Goldman Sachs declined to comment. A spokeswoman for HP was not immediately reachable.

It was not clear why the talks fell apart or if they will be resumed, although the tech giant is currently scouring the industry for other software targets, the sources said.

Tibco has been the subject of takeout rumors for the past several years, yet the company has never disclosed that it has been in talks to sell itself.

Analysts say the rally that has caused Tibco's stock to more than double over the past year has been fueled by stronger-than-expected sales of its software, which forms the backbone of sophisticated business computer networks.

"They have been consistent in hitting quarters and in delivering earnings growth," said Pacific Crest Securities analyst Nabil Elsheshai.

For HP, the search for software company acquisitions has been crucial to Apotheker's plan to rejuvenate the legendary company.

Apotheker, a former SAP AG CEO, has called software the "glue" of the sprawling computing giant's operations and has said he wants to restore HP's reputation for innovation - a reputation stemming from its early days as a founding father of Silicon Valley - and invest in research to galvanize growth.

HP's share price has dwindled since former CEO Mark Hurd - a cost-cutter popular with shareholders -- left the company.

Apotheker is also under pressure to appease investors and fend off a clutch of rivals ranging from Oracle Corp to IBM.

The centerpiece of his first strategy presentation in March to investors was a plan to expand into the highly competitive cloud computing market, where services are hosted remotely in data centers.

HP has spent $31 billion on acquisitions since 2006, making such high-profile purchases as smartphone maker Palm and networking company 3Com, and Wall Street analysts expect Apotheker to sustain that tradition while focusing on areas it lacks, including software.

(Additional reporting by Jim Finkle in Boston and Edwin Chan in Los Angeles; editing by Kenneth Li, Andre Grenon and David Gregorio)

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Podcast de l'émission du 3 avril 2011

2011-04-06T00:36:00+02:00

Méridien Zéro recevait le président de la Fondation Polémia et organisateur de la cérémonie des Bobards d’Or, Jean-Yves LE GALLOU.

Emission animée par le Lt.STURM assisté de Mr PGL.

Bonne écoute !

Émission n°43 : ”Méridien Zéro reçoit Jean-Yves LE GALLOU”

2011-03-31T17:31:00+02:00

UNE PENSER A ELISE LUCET ET SA PETITE FILLE

2011-03-16T16:01:00+01:00

INFORMATION CE SOIR SUR FRANCE 3 LE MAGAZINE PRËSENTË PAR ELISE LUCET.

PIECES A CONVICTION A 20 H 35 M....

LE MAGAZINE PIECES A CONVICTION PRESENTË PAR ELISE LUCET SUR FRANCE 3

ELISE LUCET COMME VOUS AVEZ PU LE VOIR SUR FRANCE 2

AVEC LE SOUTIEN ET LE GROUPE FRANCE TELEVITIONS

ELLE PRESENTE PLUS A CE JOUR LE JOURNAL DE FRANCE 2 DE LA MI JOURNËE LE 13 H 00 M.

TOUTES MA TRISTESSE VA POUR SA PETITE FILLE DE 4 ANS ROSE.

ET SANS OUBLIER SA MAMAN ELISE ET TOUTES & TOUS

SES PROCHES SA FAMILLE SES AMIES AMIS.

LA PERTE D'UNE PERSONNE CHER SON MARI,

SUITE A UNE LONGUE MALADIE DU SANG.

A MA CHERE CONSOEUR ELISE DANS CETTE EPREUVE QUI LA TOUCHE.

JE ME JOINT A LUI PRESENTEE TOURES MES CONDOLEANCES, ET MA TRËS GRANDE SYMPATHIE.

QUAND LA MALADIE TOUCHE LA PERSONNE LA PLUS CHER A VOS YEUX ! LA TRISTESSE & SURTOUT

LE MANQUE DE SON ABSENCE SA PRESENCE LUI PARLER C'EST LE PLUS HORRIBLE A VIVRE...

LE MERCREDI 16 MARS 2011

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JOURNALISTE INDËPENDANTS AU SJE SYNDICAT DES JOURNALISTE & ECRIVAINS.

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D. R. MOTS ET PHOTOS DE MARCO

ARTICLE DE Stéphane Clément

Elise Lucet : son mari foudroyé par la maladie

La journaliste vedette de France Télévisions se retire de l’antenne, après le décès de son mari, Martin. Il avait 43 ans.

Le 19 février aurait dû être un moment de joie et de fierté dans la belle carrière d’Élise Lucet. Ce jour-là, le site Internet du Journal du dimanche publiait un grand sondage sur les journalistes préférés des Français. Originaire de Normandie, présentatrice du magazine « Complément d’enquête » sur France 3, aux commandes du 13 heures de France 2 depuis 2005, la discrète blonde de France Télévisions, 47 ans, accédait pour la première fois à la troisième place du classement, juste derrière Harry Roselmack et Laurent Delahousse. Voilà qui, d’un coup, faisait d’elle la femme journaliste la plus appréciée du pays, loin devant des dinosaures comme Claire Chazal ou Laurence Ferrari. Belle revanche sur le destin pour cette fille d’une directrice d’école, grandie en Normandie et qui, depuis ses débuts à FR3 Caen, en 1983, avait gravi un par un tous les échelons du service public.

Ce jour-là, Elise Lucet s’est contentée d’un commentaire flatté et poli au JDD. Car la veille, vendredi 18 février, cette professionnelle reconnue avait fait sa dernière apparition en date à l’écran, sur France 2, pour y présenter son JT. À ce moment, seulement quelques personnes étaient dans la confidence du drame qui se nouait hors plateau. Remplacée depuis par sa doublure Sophie Le Saint, Élise Lucet avait demandé à prendre quelques jours pour rester au chevet de son mari, Martin Bourgeois, 43 ans, alors hospitalisé en région parisienne. Car il y a quelques mois, les médecins avaient diagnostiqué chez cet antiquaire, que la journaliste avait épousé en 2006, une grave affection du sang. Et malgré tous leurs efforts, le quadragénaire a finalement été emporté par la maladie, une dizaine de jours à peine après le retrait de son épouse de l’antenne.

Lire l'article intégral dans VSD n°1750 (du 10 au 16 mars 2011)

par Stéphane Clément10/03/2011 10:35

LE MIRABEAU - Baile Português todos os fins de semana

2011-03-15T10:02:00+01:00

No passado sábado estivemos na casa de baile LE MIRABEAU que fica situado no : 249 Avenue de Jean Jaures - 95100 Argenteuil.

Nesta casa pode vir dançar musicas Portuguesas e brasileiras, cantadas e tocadas ao vivo pelos melhores teclistas Portugueses da região, e o caso do JOHNNY Gama - Célia Suzy - Christian - e outros mais.

Como pode ver nos filmes que estão aqui nesta playliste as noitadas do MIRABEAU são as melhores noitadas da região de Paris para quem gosta de dançar rebaldeiras,folclore e outras lambada e todos os géneros musicais que dão as pessoas uma vontade natural de festejar as nossas belas canções ... Vivaa a musica Portuguesa e os seus bons representantes no estrangeiro.

Para reservar uma mesa telefone ao : 06 85 03 31 38

Alerte météo------------

2011-03-11T18:13:02+01:00

ALERTE météo----------ALERTE météo------------ALERTE météo------------ stop---- risque de gros orages--------stop------pouvant devenir de grandes et violentes TEMÊTES----------stop--------sur et au-----------stop- PALAIS de L' élysée----------Je répéte---------stop---------au palais de L'élysée------------NATURE et ORIGINE-----------stop------------cette Alerte se prénomme--------------STOP----------ADRIANA KAREMBEU-------------stop-- je répéte---------ADRIANA KAREMBEU------------------stop--------prévenir--------- Dame----------stop------------Carlinette----------------stop---------prévenir-----------je répéte-------- Dame Carlinette-------------STOP----------forts-----------------STOP--- Forts---------stop------DÊGATS en vue----------ou---------réglement----------stop a COUPS de POGNON------------Stop---------ou------------ENCORE ???????

Dame Carlinette, il faut vous rappeller, avant votre mariage, le petit nico, votre petit nico avait contacté par l'intermédiaire d'un tiers:<< MME ADRIANA KAREMBEU >> mais celle-ci, avait répondu; NON merci; il parait que son orgueil de petit mâle en pris un coup................Sauveuse vous arrivate, avec votre air de ne pas y toucher mais très pressée de voir le truc d'un nain, vous avez tellement vu de grands cons, vous vous dites mettons un peu de changer et si les on-dits sur les nains sont vrais, ma foi mon contrat de mariage bien payé plus un truc énorme, oui j'aurai fait le contrat du siécle en restant allongée, que demande le peuple, ce con de peuple qu'est-ce qu'il veut encore ??????? POUR mon contrat il faut que je tire ENCORE, 14 longs mois !!! Si cette Karembeu, qui en veut, s'introduit il va falloir que je fasse le pieds de grue et leurs tenir la chandelle, car je ne veux pas lui lâcher mon pognon à celle-la, qu'est-ce que je vais m'emmerder et ces cons de FRançais toujours aux aguets à épier............TROUVER; je vais les filmer et revendrais le CD à un prix exorbitant:<< il n'y a pas de petits profits >>

First Person: Waiting for Family News After New Zealand Quake

2011-02-25T09:07:40+01:00

s dream since we can remember.

The news of the earthquake shocked me the most in the family. I am not one who keeps up with the news throughout the world until a friend brings it up. I do not like knowing all of the bad that occurs around me and I find news from other countries very depressing. However, when I heard this news, knowing that I have a cousin sitting over in the area most affected by this earthquake, my heart sank and panic hit. The first news I heard was that there were 65 dead, dozens injured, and possibly 300 people missing in this tragedy. Knowing that I am the first in the family to panic, my cousin contacted me first by email.

This earthquake apparently ripped through the Christchurch area of New Zealand at a 6.3 magnitude on the Richter scale. For those of you who do not know what a 6.3 earthquake feels like, an earthquake feels like a giant walked up, picked up the building that you are peacefully minding your own business in, and started shaking it like a two year old with a rattle. Finding the floor, the walls, or the ceiling is impossible through the personal panic and noise and by the time you figure out what is going on, it's over and nothing is where you left it, not even the car you had left in the garage 30 minutes ago.

Currently, the communications from my cousin other than letting us know that he was alive have been cut off due to rescue attempts and lack of power for the most part. All trained personnel have been asked to help in the search for the missing, injured, and trapped.

As for my cousin and my feelings toward where he is now, I feel he is in the best place that he could be. He joined the military to help others and right now apparently that is where he is needed. As for family back here in Maryland, we are confident in who he is and stand behind him in his mission to help as many people as possible. Since he is United States military, he will not be evacuating when airports reopen, he will stay for his term in New Zealand and he will do so with pride.

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Website a window into John F. Kennedy's Oval Office

2011-02-25T06:58:00+01:00

Any history buff with a computer and Internet connection now has a chance to walk in John F. Kennedy's shoes -- or at least sit, virtually, at the 35th U.S. President's Oval Office desk.

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston has launched "The President's Desk," an interactive website that that seats users at Kennedy's desk and displays multimedia presentations of aspects of his life and administration.

(To view the website, see: http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/presidentsdesk/)

The displays cover topics ranging from JFK's experiences as a torpedo boat commander in World War II to his 1960 presidential campaign, to a video in which Kennedy expounds on his love for sailing around Massachusetts' Cape Cod on his sloop Victura.

Users can dial the Oval Office phone and hear conversations between Kennedy and secretary of defense Robert McNamara, NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper and others.

In one call, Kennedy and former President Dwight Eisenhower talk frankly about how to interpret Russian actions leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Another button launches an archive of once-secret recordings and transcripts on other sensitive domestic and foreign policy matters including the Vietnam War, nuclear arms testing and the civil rights movement.

Kennedy was the first president to record extensively his meetings and telephone conversations -- a practice famously ended during the Nixon administration. He selectively recorded over 12 hours of telephone conversations using a Dictaphone system, according to the library.

Kennedy's desk was an exact replica of the HMS Resolute desk, made from timbers of the British Arctic expedition ship and presented by Queen Victoria to President Rutherford Hayes in 1878.

The desk disappeared from public view until Jacqueline Kennedy found it in the White House broadcast room and had it installed in the Oval Office in 1961. The desk is still being used by President Barack Obama.

(Reporting by Ros Krasny; editing by Tim Gaynor)

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Hunting for Earth-like Alien Planets: Q & A with Astronomer Geoff Marcy

2011-02-07T08:38:01+01:00

Since astronomers discovered the first planet beyond our own solar system back in 1992, they've been on somewhat of a roll — the tally now tops 500.

And the finds are about to ramp up dramatically. Today (Feb. 1), NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission will make much of its data public. A press conference will follow tomorrow, during which researchers are expected to announce intriguing new information about many more possible alien planets.

Humanity thus appears poised to enter a productive new era in the study of alien worlds. One man leading the charge is Geoff Marcy, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Kepler co-investigator.

Marcy has had a hand in finding more alien planets than anyone else. He helped spot 70 of the first 100. He also found the first multi-planet system around a sun-like star, and he discovered the first planet that transits — or passes in front of — its star from our perspective on Earth.

SPACE.com caught up with Marcy last month in Seattle, at the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society, to chat about the accelerating pace of planet discovery, what we still don't know about alien worlds and whether there might be intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

SPACE.com: What has led to the recent explosion in alien planet discoveries? Is it primarily better instrumentation, or better techniques?

Marcy: Well, let me give you a different vantage point. There is a bunch of astronomers who've been working really hard, and they're really innovative, pushing on the frontier technically, pushing on the frontier in terms of the science. And basically burning the midnight oil, essentially literally. I'm giving you the human component of all of this, because sometimes you don't get to see it.

What sometimes gets lost in the shuffle when a nice result shows up on all of the Web pages and the newspapers around the world — what you don't realize is to get that result meant that five or 10 people were burning that midnight oil, trimming the errors down to the point that the Earth-size planets are detectable.

It's easy to dismiss the discoveries as, "Oh, it's new computers, or it's new optics." These things happen because amazing people dream and then put their dreams into perspiration-dripping action.

SPACE.com: So if we were to have this conversation in 20 years, where do you think the total exoplanet count would stand?

Marcy: Honestly, Kepler's so good that it's hard to beat it. It gets the numbers. Kepler's going to find thousands. There's going to be another follow-up to Kepler, either from Europe or the U.S. or both. They'll find thousands.

I bet by 2020, there'll be 10,000 planets, and by 2030 there might be another 20,000 or 30,000 more planets. [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]

SPACE.com: Will this discovery arc we're on now continue to go up exponentially, or will it plateau?

Marcy:It'll plateau, because you can't do much better than Kepler. But let's be fair here. It's not the number of planets we care about; it's the quality. We want the Earth-size. We want planets in the habitable zone, and ultimately planets that are sending little radio signals to us for some reason or another.

SPACE.com: You've said that, with exoplanets, theory has really struck out. What are some of the things that we thought we knew, but it turns out were totally wrong about?

Marcy: Well, the first thing — I go back to 1996. No one wants to talk about this, because it's so embarrassing. The reason that as a community we struggled to find the first hot Jupiters isn't because we didn't have the technology. It's because the theorists led us astray. I'm speaking slightly jokingly, but not really.

There were theorists who said, "Look at our solar system. Of course the small, rocky planets are close in. The host star burned off the gases, so you're left with rocky planets. And look at the giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn — they had to form farther out, because it's colder, and the gases can gravitationally stick to the planets. Therefore, all planetary systems will have the following architecture: There will be an inner planet. The second planet out will be named Venus. The third planet out will have great lattes." I mean, it was just silly.

SPACE.com: And that's based on a sample size of one.

Marcy: It would be like trying to characterize human psychology by going to one distant Indonesian island and interviewing one person, and thinking that that gave you the full range of human psychology. And in 1996, there were papers where they said, Jupiter-sized planets, Saturn-sized planets, will all orbit far from their host star. Well, that of course tells you what to look for. If you write a proposal to try to find anything else, you're flying in the face of wisdom.

And we know now, of course, how near-sighted that was, how parochial that was.

SPACE.com: So do you think we are starting to get a handle on exoplanets now?

Marcy: I think so. We're always a little too confident, so I would hate to say, "Go home, we're all done." We do have these planets we're finding with Doppler work, and now with Kepler, that are five times the size of Earth, three times the size of Earth, 1.4 times the size of the Earth. And I don't think we really know how they formed.

Even the one we announced [the rocky, nearly Earth-size Kepler-10b], there are two main ways it might've formed. It might've formed like the Earth, or it might have formed like Uranus but it got so close to the host star that the gases and the water got evaporated away and left a bare, rocky core remnant.

SPACE.com: What are some of the biggest mysteries that are left?

Marcy: There's one huge one that nobody really wants to talk about. It's the age-old question: Are Earth-like planets common? We know they're out there for sure. I mean, there's too many stars. But there's two parts to the question. What do you mean by "Earth-like?" And then, how common are they?

Basically, we know what we want for Earth-like, so we shouldn't beat around the bush: We would love to know whether there are planets suitable for life as we know it.

And those Earth-like properties are a little bit mysterious, but we have some ideas. You want water in liquid form, you want stable temperatures over the course of millions, preferably billions, of years so that Darwinian evolution can get a good toehold.

You probably want a moon to stabilize the spin axis. You probably want a Jupiter to sweep up the debris. You probably want a stable ocean for a long enough time that it can serve as the solvent for biochemistry.

So that's probably what we mean by "Earth-like." But how common they are, we just don't know.

SPACE.com: Your research suggests that smaller planets may be pretty common — that nearly one in four nearby sun-like stars could host a roughly Earth-size planet.

Marcy: Yeah. But here's the sleeper idea that no one wants to talk about: Because Earth-size planets are so much smaller than the Jupiters, Saturns, Uranuses and Neptunes, and we now know that planets often get thrust into eccentric and misaligned orbits, the Earths are like the Volkswagens on a highway full of 18-wheelers.

The vulnerable planets are the small ones. And so to the extent that planetary systems undergo a billiards era — the Earth would be like putting a small marble on a pool table of 15 billiard balls. As you break, the littlplanets are going to be the ones slingshot right out of the solar system pool table.

SPACE.com: It's one thing to say they can form. But to say that they'll actually stick around long enough — that's a totally different question.

Marcy: Yeah. And I think they'll form. It's hard to imagine they wouldn't. If you make Jupiters, why wouldn't you make Earth-size planets? But the Earths — and maybe the Volkswagen is giving it too much credit. It's an 18-wheeler and a tricycle. Earth is a tricycle on Highway 5 running up and down the Pacific Coast.

And you don't even have to hit the tricycle. You just have to come close enough that gravity slingshots the poor tricycle right out of the system. So it's possible that Earth-like planets form, they get thrown out into the cold darkness of the galaxy and they have no chance of starting — never mind sustaining — life, because it's too cold out there.

And that's possible. We might be rare.

And by the way: Where are the SETI [search for extraterrestrial intelligence] signals? There is a non-detection that's like the elephant in the room. Forty years of Frank Drake and Carl Sagan looking for SETI signals, and we have precisely zero to show for it. So there's an indication — not definitive — that maybe the Earth is more precious than we had thought.

SPACE.com: Our solar system is so young, compared to the universe. And the universe is so big. So there's been lots of time and opportunity for advanced civilizations to get started, and to try to contact us. Some people think that the fact that we seemingly haven't been contacted means that we may well be alone in the universe.

Marcy: Well, you have to fold it in. The absence of an intelligent radio or television wave from any advanced civilization represents one indication, not a proof, that maybe habitable planets that sustain Darwinian evolution for a billion years —maybe they're rare. Maybe.

SPACE.com: What do you reckon? Do you have a gut feeling about this?

Marcy: I do. If I had to bet — and this is now beyond science — I would say that intelligent, technological critters are rare in the Milky Way galaxy. The evidence mounts. We Homo sapiens didn't arise until some quirk of environment on the East African savannah — so quirky that the hominid paleontologists still can't tell us why the australopithecines somehow evolved big brains and had dexterity that could play piano concertos, and things that make no real honest sense in terms of Darwinian evolution.

Why the high chaparral on the East African savannah would've led to a Tchaikovsky piano concerto, never mind the ability to build rocket ships — there's no evolutionary driver that the australopithecines suffered from that leads to rocket ships. And so that — and the fact that we had to wait four billion years without humans. Four billion years?

SPACE.com: Yes, it took four billion years to get there.

Marcy: Since the Cambrian explosion, we had hundreds of millions of years of multi-cellular, advanced life in which, guess what happened with brain size? Nothing.

You know the greatest species ever to roam the Earth? The dinosaurs — every kid knows this. And why? Well, because for 100 million years, the dinosaurs roamed the Earth. There were big ones, there were small ones. Every generation of baby dinosaurs had to outcompete all of the other dinosaurs. And you would think after 100 million years, each generation of baby dinosaur that was a little smarter would have out-survived the others and thereby slowly but surely increased dinosaur cranial size.

The reality from the paleontological record? Dinosaurs had the brains of chickens, and never got bigger. It shows that braininess is not a primary driver in evolution. We humans came across braininess because of something weird that happened on the East African savannah. And we can't imagine whether that's a common or rare thing.

SPACE.com: People assume evolution is directed, and it's always leading toward higher complexity and greater intelligence, but it's not.

Marcy: It's not. Dinosaurs show this in spades.

SPACE.com: You've said that we're about to enter a golden age of direct exoplanet imaging. Is that what the future holds — getting good, direct looks at alien planets to try to gauge their potential to support life?

Marcy: It is. There's two great things that we should be doing. One is that we should, as a species — and this means ESA [the European Space Agency], Japan, China, India, the United States, Canada — work together internationally to fund a space-borne telescope, probably interferometric, that can take pictures of Earth-size and Earth-like planets. We know how to do it.

Yes, it'll be expensive, but we do expensive things in science, and this is a great quest for humanity: Are there Earth-like and, indeed, habitable planets out there?

But the other thing to do — we should say it right away. We should have a full-fledged, Apollo-like SETI search. Why haven't we coherently gathered our resources and done SETI right?

SPACE.com: Finding alien intelligent life would be such a huge deal. It would change the way we think about ourselves and our place in the universe.

Marcy: Exactly. So why aren't we putting together our resources, nationally and internationally, and constructing a major radio telescope facility — and maybe, if there's money left over, an infrared facility — and sampling the universe for signals?

We know what to look for. That would be the rat-a-tat-tat of a radio signal. We don't know exactly what the code would be, but we'd be looking for pulses in the radio, in the infrared maybe, in the X-ray or UV. We'd have to think broadly. But this is a great quest for humanity.

It's the Armstrong, it's the Columbus of our time, essentially reaching out with radio waves and hunting for alien intelligent life. It would be a marvelous, inspirational effort. And right now we don't have enough going on, in my opinion.

Because it would mean — all 7 billion people on planet Earth would get up in the morning wondering, "Did they find the signal last night?"

SPACE.com: It makes you wonder why nations haven't joined together to do something like this. Economically, it would be a drop in the bucket.

Marcy: It's a drop in the bucket. Frankly, $1 billion would be good. It sounds like $1 billion is a lot of money. But not really. NASA's budget is $19 billion. Nineteen billion dollars every single year. So how about a billion of that for a SETI search? How about one year — 5 percent — to do SETI in a historic, Apollo-like way? I mean, Wow!

It puts Armstrong and the invention of fire sort of on a par. So it's worth one-nineteenth of one year's NASA budget. I think it's a great idea, and we know how to do it.

Yeah, it's a luxury. We need to feed the people on the planet Earth, we need to provide health care, we need to provide better education, we need to make sure that human beings are living. But we're doing that. And a billion is really a teeny fraction of many countries' annual budget.

Nintendo nine-month net profit tumbles 74 percent

2011-01-27T22:07:30+01:00

TOKYO – Nintendo's nine-month profit tumbled 74 percent as weaker sales of the Wii console and a strong yen battered its bottom line.

The lackluster results announced Thursday led the company to slash sales expectations for its video game devices and underscores a rocky year for the creator of the Super Mario franchise.

The Kyoto-based company faces waning consumer demand for its game machines and new challenges — from Apple's iPhone and rival Sony — as well as a stubbornly strong yen, which shrinks the value of overseas profits.

Last fall, Nintendo slashed earnings forecasts after announcing that its new 3DS game machine wouldn't be ready for the holiday shopping season. It then reported a first-half loss — its first since 2003.

Nintendo managed to avoid red ink this time, reporting a net profit of 49.56 billion yen ($603 million) for the April-December period. It posted a 192.6 billion yen profit for the same nine months a year earlier.

Sales dropped 32 percent to 808 billion yen, while operating profit fell 47 percent to 158.8 billion yen.

The company did not break down quarterly numbers.

While holiday sales were "robust," the numbers fell short of the U.S. sales record set by the Wii and the DS handheld the previous year, the company said. It also cited 84.4 billion yen in exchange rate losses.

Nintendo now says it will sell 16 million Wii consoles in the fiscal year through March 31. That's 1.5 million fewer than it predicted in its previous forecast. It cut its sales estimate for the DS by 1 million to 22.5 million units.

The company left its earnings forecasts unchanged. It continues to expect annual net profit to fall more than 60 percent to 90 billion yen on revenue of 1.1 trillion yen.

Nintendo is banking on the 3DS to propel sales and help the company regain momentum against intensifying competition. The glasses-free handheld 3-D device is being billed by Nintendo as a unique experience not found anywhere else.

But Apple Inc.'s iPhone has emerged as a popular casual gaming platform, and Japanese rival Sony Corp. unveiled an upgraded version of its PlayStation Portable machine within hours of the release of Nintendo's earnings. Sony also announced the "PlayStation Suite," an application enabling video games to be played on smartphones with Google's Android operating system.

The 3DS goes on sale Feb. 26 in Japan for a suggested retail price of 25,000 yen ($304). Sales in the U.S. begin on March 27 for $250 — the same price the revolutionary Wii console cost when it launched in 2006.

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata told the Nikkei financial daily earlier this month that his company plans to ship about 1.5 million units of the 3DS in Japan in the first month.

The company released its earnings results after financial markets closed. Its stock rose 0.9 percent to 22,540 yen.

Nintendo reports earnings based on Japanese accounting standards.

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Robert Pickton case carried hefty price tag

2010-11-18T12:14:06+01:00

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) – Canadian authorities spent more than C$100 million ($98 million) to catch and convict serial killer Robert Pickton, who preyed on Vancouver sex trade workers and disposed of their bodies on his pig farm.

The police investigation, including a more than year-long search of the farm after his arrest in 2002, cost British Columbia about C$70 million, according to a budget document quietly released by the provincial government late on Monday.

The actual cost of the investigation was significantly higher because the province was only responsible for 70 percent of the costs, with the rest paid by the federal government, according to the document.

Additional court costs included more than C$12 million in public funding for Pickton's defense team, and nearly C$2.5 million to assist families of the victims during the years of legal proceedings, the according to the document.

Pickton was convicted of killing six women and is believed connected with the deaths of more than 50 women who disappeared from Vancouver's drug-infested Downtown Eastside neighborhood over a decade before his arrest.

The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the conviction in July.

The provincial government has launched an inquiry into why it took police years to acknowledge a serial killer was preying on the city. Police have apologized for missing clues they say could have led to Pickton's earlier arrest.

(Reporting by Allan Dowd; Editing by Frank McGurty)

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Date d'Halloween 2011

2010-11-13T09:58:00+01:00

La date d'Halloween 2011 sera le lundi 31 octobre 2011.

Mme le Ministre,

2010-11-09T12:42:13+01:00

Bonjour a Toutes et a Tous,

Tout d' abord, je remercie les 1629 lecteurs, visiteurs qui sont venus sur mon blog et qui m' ont lus, durant le mois d' octobre qui vient de s'écouler; mais un:<< grand reproche.>> mettez-moi vos commentaires svp, même si ils sont crétiques !

AUJOURD' hui je vais vous parler de notre ministre Mme Lagarde, la semaine dernière une petite revue, D' AUTO-SATISFACTION :<< <<< publicitée >> notre minitre, en rapportant les louanges des jounaux englich ( le tim, le financial tim ) où forbes, très amerloc dont voici les éloges qu' il adresse a notre Ministre: << 17é dans la liste, des femmes les plus influentes de la PLANETE ! 5é dans celle des femmes d' affaires EUROPEENNES, dressée par WALL STREET journal !!! >> que du beau linge, de ceux qui nous baisent continuellement, dont leur dernière crise bien organisée :<< les subprims . >> et a ce tableau élogieux je rajouterais, enfin une nouvelle Française:<< la dette publique de la FRANCE a dépassée les 80 % de son P I B au 1er TRIMESTRE 2010 !!! >> TOUT va très bien madame la marquise, après mai 2012 la FRANCE devra payer, rembourser, plus de 55 milliards D' INTERÊTS pour la dette !!!!!!!!!! RIEN a craindre avec les connaissances amerloques de Mme le Ministre ( le cabinet juridique - Baker & Mickenzie - et la ste Cie......)NOUS SOMMES :<< SAUVES . >> pour être mieux bouffés par le monde anglo-saxon, UNE HONTE Mme Le Ministre .

MAIS revenons a ce:<< petit coup .>> de Mme Le Ministre cette petite revue distribuée la semaine derniére dans le XIIé arrondissement dont elle est conseilliere municipale et d' ailleurs que l'on voit jamais dans les rues de son arrondissement ( :<< c'est plus mieux, washington, londres....... >> ) EH- BIEN, Mesdames, Messieurs , mes lecteurs, mes visiteurs, JE SUIS UN MENTEUR, Madame le Ministre a paliée a son absence dans le XIIé arrondissemment en faisant distribuer ( sans manquer UNE SEULE BOÎTE aux lettres ! ) a tel point que les poubelles de l' arrondissement débordées de SA PETITE revue .

:<< Semblable a un petit Jules César, paré de rouge . >>Mme Le Ministre apparait ceinte d' une grande écharpe rouge aux pieds des arcades ( lieu important du XIIé ) Classe, simple et imposant; pour le commun des électeurs. Vraiment Madame Le Ministre soigne sa communication aux prés des électeurs, OUAIS, ouais, ouais je suis la CONS d'électeurs Franchouillards, VOUS m' avez vu, donc vous voyez bien que je m'occupe du XIIé arrondissement......................................... Tout va très bien Madame la Marquise, Sauf que cette photo, POSE de très grave interrogations à L'électeur sain d' esprit; CETTE PHOTO a été prise en GERMANY oui en GERMANY !!! et sur cette photo d'origine Mme LE Ministre était couverte de ses bijoux de sortie, d' apparat !!! LA PREUVE PAR EXCELLENCE que Mme LE MInistre Ment a ses électeurs, Trompe son monde, se MOQUE des électeurs, se MOQUE des FRançais, MAIS Mme Le Ministre puisque vous vous plaissez si bien dans le monde anglo-saxon restez-y et ne revenez plus en FRANCE; ou allez vivre en GERMANY !

CETTE PETITE revue appelle à d' autres questions ???Le service photographique du ministére des finances, dont vous êtes le patron nous dit:<< mais cette photo est public elle est dans le service des archives, consultable par tout le monde. >> FAUSSE, TOTALEMENT FAUSSE réponse, ce n' est pas cela QU'ON VOUS DEMANDE ET DIT! VOUS MENTEZ EN FAISANT CROIRE QUE VOUS ÊTES DANS:<< <<VOTRE XIIé Arrondissement et que vous allez a la rencontre des Habitants DES électeurs !!! LÀ vous ÊTES EN GERMANY !!! EN GERMANY; drôle de XIIé arrondissement, BERLIN où le XIIé, pour vous c'est PAREIL !!! MAIS PAS POUR LES électeurs du XIIé, qui serons vous rendre la monnaie de votre piéce , soyez-en assurée MADAME Le Ministre .

DERNIERE QUESTION, qui a PAYE cette REVUE POUR CE COUP DE PUB ? VU que vous êtes Ministre Irréprochable comme votre GRAND PATRON VOUS ALLEZ TRÈS HONNÊTEMENT nous PUBLIEZ LE COÛT DE CETTE: << OPERATION !!! >> QUI A PAYE ??? votre COPAIN, LE SIEUR, tapie, quel monsieur sympa il sait renvoyer l'ascenseur. OÙ CELA EN EST de son CHEQUE, qu'en est-ce que vous lui donnez, bien sûr moins le montant de cette revue, ( création, photographies, pour VOUS gratuit puisque vous vous servez grâcieusement du service photographique du ministére des finances, sinon a quoi ça sert d' être ministre; cons de Français, vraiment ces FRançais ils sont étroits, petits d'esprit, vivement qu' on les fassent disparaitres, plus imprimerie et un SERVICE de distribution de BOÎTES AUX LETTRES PARFAIT !!! COMBIEN ??? DONNEZ- NOUS LA FACTURE COMPLETE Mme Le MIINISTRE .

MADAME LE MINISTRE y-a-t-il, un FLOU, un broillard, une opacité sur vos comptes ??? votre :<< saint patron, nain inconscient . >> est -il au courant ?
CE très mauvais temps qui se pointe a l'horizon, serait-il annociateur de très mauvais orages ??? MAIS je ne me fait pas de soucis pour-vous, vos arrières sont très bien prévues.

112th Congress: John Hoeven, R-N.D. (Senate)

2010-11-07T11:11:01+01:00

Pronounced: HO-ven

Residence: Bismarck

Born: March 13, 1957; Bismarck, N.D.

Religion: Roman Catholic

Family: Wife, Mical Hoeven; two children

Education: Northwestern U., M.B.A. 1981; Dartmouth College, B.A. 1979 (history & economics)

Career: Bank CEO

Political highlights: No previous office; governor, 2000-present

Hoeven, the longest-serving active governor in the country, was heavily recruited to run for the Senate seat held by retiring Democrat Byron L. Dorgan. Consequently, he is likely to be spared the kind of dues-paying that usually awaits freshmen.

Before declaring his Senate candidacy, Hoeven -- phenomenally popular in North Dakota -- received promises from Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky that he would be given seats on the Appropriations and Energy and Natural Resources committees. That positions him to bring funding and projects to his state, which has experienced a boom as a result of its growing energy industries. Under his leadership, North Dakota has achieved the lowest unemployment rate in the nation.

"I want to be able to come down and have an immediate impact, work on issues important to our state and to our country," Hoeven says. "Appropriations touches just about everything that goes through Congress."

A banker most of his life, Hoeven was financially supported by organizations such as the American Bankers Association (ABA). But the ABA and others who donated to and backed Hoeven's run will likely be disappointed that the former CEO and president of Bank of North Dakota does not see banking issues as one of his top legislative priorities in the 112th Congress.

Instead, Hoeven wants to focus on shaping energy policy, with a mind to encouraging investment by keeping standards consistent and taxes on businesses low.

"In the energy world right now, they don't know what the rules of the road are going to be when it comes to carbon emissions," he says. "That holds them on the sidelines, so they don't invest. We have to make sure we can give them a favorable tax policy."

Hoeven does not support a cap-and-trade policy for carbon emissions. But he says there may be pieces of the energy bills that were in the works in the 111th Congress that he would support once the new Congress convenes.

Although other new GOP senators are likely to be hard-line partisans, Hoeven may be more willing than others to work with Democrats. "I do think that's something that a governor brings to the mix," he says. "Governors have to work with people from both sides of the aisle."

Agriculture is a major industry in North Dakota, and Hoeven expects to back legislation to support food production as well as biofuels. He also hopes to have a hand in international trade policy, health care legislation and moving a six-year highway bill.

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Afghanistan, France, Otages, Stephane Taponier, Herve Ghesquiere, 277 jours de trop – Les portraits des journalistes otages en Afghanistan sur les cimes du mont Blanc – lemonde.fr – AFP – Une banderole avec les portraits des deux journalistes français otages en Afghanistan a été déployée au sommet du mont Blanc par leurs confrères, vendredi 16 juillet, à la veille de leur 277e jour de détention. Trois journalistes et montagnards expérimentés ont hissé les portraits d’Hervé Ghesquière et Stéphane Taponier au sommet du mont Blanc, dans une action symbolique de la rédaction « pour ne pas oublier les otages ». Les deux journalistes de France 3 et leurs trois accompagnateurs afghans ont été enlevés le 30 décembre 2009 au nord-est de Kaboul. « On veut que nos deux confrères aient vent que leur portrait a été hissé sur le toit de l’Europe et qu’ils puissent, depuis leur geôle, voir que des confrères partout dans le monde pensent encore à eux », a expliqué Jean-Pierre Vincendet, l’un des journalistes à l’origine de l’initiative.

Une banderole avec les portraits des deux journalistes français otages en Afghanistan a été déployée au sommet du mont Blanc par leurs confrères, vendredi 16 juillet, à la veille de leur 200^e jour de détention. Trois journalistes et montagnards expérimentés ont hissé les portraits d'Hervé Ghesquière et Stéphane Taponier au sommet du mont Blanc, dans une action symbolique de la rédaction "pour ne pas oublier les otages".

South Korea's Kia halts exports to Iran

2010-09-14T08:13:32+02:00

SEOUL (AFP) – South Korea's Kia Motors, whose Pride model is ubiquitous on Iranian roads, said Tuesday it had suspended exports to the Islamic state partly in response to Seoul's nuclear-related sanctions.

"South Korean government sanctions... were part of the decision," Kia spokesman Michael Choo told AFP, declining to comment further.

Kia's Pride, a small hatchback, accounts for 30-40 percent of all vehicles on Iran's roads, according to the company. The firm last year exported 4,210 complete vehicles to Iran and 17,040 cars in kit form for local assembly.

Kia suspended all exports to Iran last month, including completed vehicles, kits and spare parts -- before South Korea's government announced its detailed measures but after it announced its intention to impose sanctions.

According to a survey issued Sunday, more than three-quarters of South Korea's small and mid-size exporters have partly or totally discontinued shipments to Iran following Seoul's sanctions.

The survey of 88 smaller exporters conducted by the Small and Medium Business Administration showed 28 percent had halted exports. Another 48 percent said they had partially suspended shipments.

The cut-off was due to fears they would be unable to receive payments for shipments.

South Korea last week announced its package of sanctions over Iran's suspected nuclear weapons programme, in line with US-backed United Nations action.

The finance ministry said it would impose a "severe" penalty on the Seoul branch of Bank Mellat for violating laws on foreign exchange transactions. It did not elaborate but Yonhap news agency said the Iranian bank would likely face a two-month suspension.

The measures included blacklisting 24 individuals and 102 Iranian entities, including 14 other banks, as well as the strengthening of inspections of cargoes related to Iran.

There were also restrictions on new investment in Iran's oil and gas industry, but no ban on oil imports, which provide 10 percent of South Korea's needs.

Transactions with Iranian entities not subject to sanctions will require approval from Seoul if they exceed 40,000 euros (51,000 dollars).

South Korea also said it would reduce export guarantees for shipments to Iran. Trade between the two countries was worth 9.74 billion dollars last year.

In July, South Korea's GS Engineering and Construction announced that a 1.42 trillion won (1.2 billion dollar) gas plant project in Iran had been cancelled by the Iranian side due to the UN sanctions.

Kia, with its larger partner Hyundai Motor, forms the world's fifth largest automaking group.

Kia's second-quarter net profit this year soared 61 percent year-on-year thanks to strong sales in domestic and overseas markets. It makes cars in the United States, Slovakia and China as well as South Korea.

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OS X's ten most innovative features

2010-09-13T21:25:07+02:00

When Apple took the wraps off Mac OS X a decade ago, it clearly marked a big leap forward from the old Mac operating system. But as Mac users installed that first beta disk, it wasn't exactly clear how big a leap OS X would turn out to be. With ten of updates, innovations, and enhancements under our belt, we can now see how far we've come since Steve Jobs released the Mac OS X Public Beta at the Apple Expo in Paris on September 13, 2000. We now rely on OS X features that early OS adopters probably couldn't even conceive of a decade ago.

But which OS X innovations have been the most significant for the Mac and its users? We put our heads together and came up with a list of ten features^aEUR"for the tenth anniversary of the OS X beta^aEURTMs release^aEUR"that we consider to be the most significant contributions to the Mac experience.

Time Machine

Computing is risky business: All hard drives will fail eventually, and people accidentally delete files. , Time Machine was hugely important for one simple reason: It made backing up your data easy-and therefore, something you were much more likely to do.

Sure, the 3D interface may be a little cheesy, and Time Machine can slow down your system. It's also not always easy to find a file when you need it. But Time Machine makes backing up a given. And on top of that, Time Machine backups are great when you're migrating to a new Mac. Those are reasons alone to celebrate this OS X capability.-JONATHAN SEFF

Native PDF support

Apple's Preview app is the visible face of Mac OS X's system-level support for the PDF format. Mac users can easily create PDF files with any program that supports the Print command. Because PDF files recreate the layout of the original document, saving files electronically is now as convenient as printing them, except you're free to save, e-mail, or embed them in other documents without losing their unique look.

Now at version 5, Preview has undergone numerous improvements over time, but its Annotations toolbar, easy selection of columns, and image editing capabilities emphasize its advantage for users.-JACKIE DOVE

Spotlight

Introduced as the desktop search successor to Apple's Sherlock in OS 10.4, Spotlight made waves for its metadata index and instant-search capabilities.The utility's in-depth search allowed users to search inside their files, rather than by name alone. And with Leopard, introducing the calculation of simple math equations and dictionary searches, Spotlight has only grown as a reference and lookup tool.-SERENITY CALDWELL

iChat

IM clients existed before Apple folded iChat into Mac OS X 10.2 in 2002. But iChat upped the ante by integrating with the operating system's address book and mail applications, and an updated version included in Panther added video conferencing capabilities as well. The inclusion of a built-in chat client gave OS X a notable productivity boost-one we experienced first-hand in the Macworld office. We suddenly had a way to communicate with far-flung colleagues and contributors in a way that was more immediate than e-mail and more convenient than the telephone. (Instead of dropping what you were doing to make a phone call, you could keep working in one window while conducting an iChat in the other.) The Mac has made notable in-roads in the workplace during the past decade, and we suspect the presence of a built-in, full-featured messaging tool is one of the reasons why.-PHILIP MICHAELS

The Classic Environment and Boot Camp

The Classic environment and Boot Camp are very different technologies, but they serve (or, in the case of Classic, served) the same essential purpose-provide the technological safety net and the psychological peace of mind that allowed millions of people to make the switch to Mac OS X.

For most "classic" Mac users, the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X went far more smoothly than even the most opmistic among us expected. But it never would have been so had it not been for the Classic environment, a hardware-abstraction layer that let users run OS 9 applications within Mac OS X, side-by-side with native OS X software. Without the Classic environment, upgrading to Mac OS X would have meant either doing without your favorite software until it was updated for the new OS, or dumping all your existing software and starting over-a prospect only slightly more appealing than simply giving in and switching to Windows. The Classic environment wasn't perfect-some OS 9 apps acted a bit quirky when run within Classic, and a few didn't function at all-but for the most part it worked well and worked invisibly, tiding many a Mac user over until one day, as if by magic, it was no longer needed.

Boot Camp has fulfilled a similar role for Windows users. Since its debut (in , with an official release in late 2007), Boot Camp has offered Windows users the assurance that if they decide to switch to the Mac, they can still run all their Windows software-or, in the worst-case scenario, that if they end up hating OS X, they can permanently boot into Windows and just use their Mac as a fully supported Windows PC. (The latter option makes Boot Camp more compelling for many Windows switchers thansuch as Fusion and Parallels.) Of course, after making the switch, many Windows users end up finding suitable-or superior-OS X replacements for their favorite software, and become full-time Mac OS X users. But without Boot Camp, they never would have been in the position to not boot into Windows.-DAN FRAKES

Developer Tools

Apple's developer tools are probably the top candidate for the title of "most important technology that the majority of Mac users will never touch." Back in the heady days of the classic Mac OS, developers who wanted to write software for the Mac were dependent on integrated development environments (IDEs) such as Metrowerks's CodeWarrior. When OS X rolled around, Apple seemed to have realized that in order for its future platform to thrive, it couldn't afford to have the means for creating great software controlled by someone else. Hence, the introduction of Apple's own developer tools alongside Mac OS X. Included in the package was an IDE-Project Builder-that was a tweaked version of the IDE that came with NeXT, . In 2003, Project Builder became the now familiar Xcode.

Controlling the tools used to build software gave Apple a huge edge: the company could make sure developers were able to take advantage of the new, compelling features that Apple rolled out in each successive OS X update. The company positioned Xcode and the other development tools as an investment in the future of its platform, distributing them for free along with every copy of OS X-that was a marked contrast to IDEs like CodeWarrior, which often ran hundreds of dollars. While Xcode may not be a technology that most Mac users are intimately familiar with, it's the software that makes possible pretty much every application you use on your Mac, and that's no small deal.-DAN MOREN

Unix underpinnings and a modern core

The Unix underpinnings provided Mac OS X with something long lacking in the Mac OS: stability and performance. Prior versions of the Mac OS lacked protected memory, which meant that when one app crashed, the Mac itself usually crashed. Multitasking performance was also far from stellar, as the OS was written without multitasking in mind.

Mac OS X changed all that, thanks to its modern core and Unix foundation layer. Typical users may never directly see the Unix side of Mac OS X, nor even care that it's there...but every time they use their Mac, they benefit from that core: multiple programs run simultaneously, all playing nicely with each other; when a program crashes, only that program crashes. With the advent of Mac OS X, multi-daily reboots became a thing of the past, and were soon measured in days or weeks. Thanks to this solid core, Mac OS X and its programs are stable, responsive, and work well with one another.-ROB GRIFFITHS

Expos'e

As displays got larger through the years and Mac OS X's multitasking features became even more robust, the desire to keep more windows and applications running concurrently could often lead to "window-itis"-the condition of getting buried under one's virtual workspace. When Apple released Mac OS X 10.3 in 2003, it showcased its unique knack for tackling usability problems like this with the introduction of Expos'e.

Expos'e was arguably the first significant attempt by a major OS maker to improve window management since Windows 95 (or perhaps WindowShade in System 8). When Command-Tab and repeatedly hiding or minimizing waves of windows were no longer enough, Expos'e offered a refreshing bird's-eye view of all the applications, or just multiple windows in a single application, that were currently open, as well as the files on your desktop. The feature debuted with just three modes, accessible by keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures: All Windows, Application Windows, and Show Desktop. For some, Expos'e was largely a novelty or a fun trick to show friends why the Mac is cool. For others, Expos'e was a window management game changer, a new lease on being productive that helped proved why the Mac is great.

Apple eventually added multi-touch trackpad gestures in Leopard, as well as some other minor perks in Snow Leopard, to make Expos'e more accessible. But the feature has largely remained unchanged-though useful as ever-since its introduction in 2003.-DAVID CHARTIER

Bonjour

Thanks to Bonjour, it's a lot easier to connect to printers, servers, other computers, and other devices over a network. Originally introduced in 2002 as Rendezvous in Mac OS X 10.2 andwith the 2005 release of Tiger, Bonjour is Apple's version of the Zero Configuration Networking (Zeroconf) technology. When devices on a network are using Bonjour, there's no need to mess with confusing network settings and controls. Bonjour devices automatically make themselves available on the network, and the technology resolves any addressing issues for you.

Bonjour has a wide variety of implementations; it can be used to connect your Mac to a printer, or you can connect to another Mac to share files. There's even a Windows version of Bonjour, so your Mac can connect to a Windows PC. Software programs like iChat and iPhoto can use Bonjour, too-the most common software use of Bonjour is in iTunes. When you connect someone who's sharing their music, you're witnessing Bonjour at work.-ROMAN LOYOLA

Smart Folders

The Finder evolved as a way to put a friendly face on the scary world of computer file systems, but as the way we've used computers has evolved, our file systems have gotten out of control. Smart Folders (and its cousin, Smart Mailboxes) was Apple's way of letting users tease order out of an unruly set of personal files. Using the power of the Spotlight search engine (also added as a part of Mac OS X 10.4), Smart Folders are essentially saved searches. Tell your Mac that you want to see all the Word files you've created in the past 10 days, and boom, there's a folder full of those files. For many users, Smart Folders make it okay to toss all your stuff in one big folder rather than using a complex, folder-based filing system. After all, Smart Folders can do the organization for you.-JASON SNELL

Also Worth a Mention

Limiting yourself to just 10 noteworthy features for something as complex as Mac OS X means you're going to wind up with some noteworthy omissions. We had several features that just missed making our list, including the Dock (and its clever way of keeping the applications you need close at hand) and Automator (which demystified script-writing for most users). We're also fans of Quick Look, one of OS X's best time-saving features for getting a glimpse of a file with a simple stroke of the space bar. And we debated including OS X's support for Intel-built processors as well.

But that's just our list of OS X features worth celebrating on this anniversary. We're sure we've overlooked a couple of your favorites; let us know what's on your list of OS X's greatest contributions.