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Zénitude... (5)

2012-02-05T05:56:00+01:00

LA TECHNIQUE DU POT DE MIEL

Ralentir ses gestes 1 fois par jour

Choississez une action quotidienne, que vous faites normalement rapidement ou de façon routinière :

1) Préparer le thé

2) Prendre une douche

3) Laver la vaisselle

4) Eplucher des légumes

5) Ranger des vêtements

6) Classer des papiers

7) Arroser les plantes

ou autres...

Lorsque vous êtes prêt, respirez lentement, profondément, et ralentissez à l'extrême tous vos mouvements. Concentrez-vous sur votre posture, sur chacun de vos gestes, sur l'objet que vous utilisez, sur la sensation physique de son contact...

Pour ralentir encore plus, imaginez que vous êtes plongé(e) dans un énorme pot de miel.

Cet exercice vous permettra de ralentir votre tempo et d'instaurer le calme intérieur en quelques minutes, mais aussi d'expérimenter avec intensité le moment présent et votre présence à vous-même.

(Extrait de "Petit cahier d'exercices pour rester zen dans un monde agité" de Erik Pigani ) Ed. "Jouvence" - 2010)

à suivre...

Zénitude... (4)

2012-01-28T08:06:00+01:00

LA TECHNIQUE DU POT VIDE

Ecouter le silence une fois par semaine pendant deux mois.

Puis une fois par jour.

Eteignez télévision, radio, ordinateur, téléphone, portable. Tamisez la lumière. Asseyez-vous confortablement, sans raideur, mais sans vous avachir, les bras décontractés posés sur les jambes, placez le dos de votre main gauche dans votre main droite, et posez le pouce droit dans la paume de la main gauche. Ne serrez pas. Fermez les yeux, repirez lentement et profondément en focalisant votre esprit sur la sensation du contact du pouce dans la paume. Relâchez votre attention, et écoutez le silence pendant cinq minutes.

Lorsque vous être familiarisé avec ces cinq minutes de silence, vous pouvez méditer pendant deux minutes supplémentaires sur cette question : Feriez-vous vôtres les "Trois préceptes purs" du zen ?

1) Cesse de faire le mal.

2) Fais seulement le bien.

3) Fais du bien aux autres.

(Extrait de "Petit cahier d'exercices pour rester zen dans un monde agité" de Erik Pigani - Ed. "Jouvence" -2010)

3 ans, 3 mois, 3 jours.

2012-01-11T07:50:00+01:00

Je n'en croyais pas mes oreilles en écoutant une émission sur les retraites, pas celles que nous attendons avec impatience et qui ne cessent de s'éloigner inexorablement, mais les retraites pour méditer.

Je connaissais les retraites dans les monastères, mais à vrai dire c'est à peu près tout. Je ne me suis jamais intéressée à la chose. De temps en temps, lorsque je joue les caliméros j'émigrerai bien sur une île déserte, mais une fois le coup de blues passé plus question de départ intempestif.

Là je découvre avec stupeur que des personnes peuvent se couper du monde pendant 3 ans, 3 mois et 3 jours... En effet, en Auvergne une centaine, pas trois péquins illuminés, une centaine de personnes sont sorties il y a quelques mois de leur retraite. Ce sont des adeptes de la religion Bouddhiste. Ils ont passé 1190 jours à méditer, sans contact avec l'extérieur.

Avant que les portes ne se ferment pour 1 190 jours, tous ces retraitants avaient fait, au minimum, cinq vœux : ne pas tuer, ne pas voler, ne pas mentir, ne pas prendre d’intoxicant et être chaste. Un programme qui exerce la vigilance. Chaque pas compte, car une fois entrée, les journées sont longues et riches.

Au programme introspection et travail de groupe de 4 h 30 le matin à 23 h le soir. Les premières semaines chacuns s'adonnent aux trois mille prosternations quotidiennes par jour pour atteindre les cent onze mille cent onze grandes prosternations à la fin du séjour. Les retraitants sont logés dans des ermitages non-mixte espacés de deux kilomètres.

Evidemment pendant ces 3 ans, 3 mois, 3 jours pas question d'avoir de contacts physiques avec sa famille. Certains pour pouvoir débourser les 335 € de pension par mois font appel à des donateurs.

Moi, je ne pourrai pas, d'abord me prosterner une fois par jour j'y arrive pas, en plus quand je médite c'est souvent tout haut alors bonjour la tranquillité des autres et enfin m'éloigner physiquement de ma famille pour 3 ans, 3 mois et 3 jours impossible !

Zénitude... (2)

2011-12-12T09:13:53+01:00

Bâillez...

Bâillez est un excellent exercice anti-stress ! Faire semblant de bâillez génère automatiquement les réflexes physiologiques de détente d'un véritable bâillement. Le principe est très simple : chaque fois que vous sentez la tension intérieure montée et l'esprit s'encombrer, ouvrez la bouche et bâillez ! Plus vous bâillerez avec générosité, plus vous retrouverez rapidement à la fois la détente physique et la disponibilité de l'esprit.

Le calme est contagieux ! Lorsque tout le monde s'agite autour de vous, adoptez une attitude sereine et attentive à la fois. Soyez présent en vous-même, et constaterez un résultat immédiat.

(Extrait de "Petit cahier d'exercices pour rester zen dans un monde agité" de Erik Pigani - Ed. Jouvence)

Zénitude... (1)

2011-11-20T04:05:00+01:00

Etre le calme : exercice anti-stress (1)

Soyez... Zen !

La "pleine conscience du ici et maintenant" est non seulement l'état zen par excellence, mais aussi le meilleur remède au stress.

Dès que vous sentez le stress monter, accompagnez mentalement chaque geste acte que vous effectuez :

1) Lorsque vous marchez, dites-vous mentalement : "Je marche" ;

2) Lorsque vous préparez le petit déjeuner, dites-vous mentalement : "Je prépare le petit-déjeuner" ;

3) Lorsque vous rangez une assiette, dites-vous mentalement : "Je range une assiette" ;

4) Lorsque vous montez dans votre voiture, dites-vous mentalement : " Je monte dans ma voiture"... etc.

Trop facile ? Essayez voir...

(Extrait de "Petit cahier d'exercices pour rester zen dans un monde agité" de Erik Pigani - Ed. "Jouvence")

à suivre...

Surtout, surtout : rester zen

2011-10-14T14:57:37+02:00

Je fais la guerre depuis des decénies dans tous les coins de l'univers.

Je porte la haine, la sauvagerie et la destruction partout où je le peux parce que ma race d'aliens anarcho-spatiaux a ça dans le sang.

Ne vous en déplaise, chers terriens étriqués, étroits d'esprits, bourrés de préjugés et de codes sociaux exclusifs et qui ne voyez pas plus loin que le bout de votre nez.

J'en ai donc vu beaucoup dans mes sagas galactiques.

Mais ça !

Je dois admettre que ce ptit humain français recruté récemment chez nous parce qu'il en avait ras le bol de votre monde, force l'admiration. Je n'avais jamais vu, surtout chez les tarés de mon clan qui défoncent tout comme les bourrins qu'ils sont, une telle maîtrise de soi.

Il est calme. Zen. Sage. Maîtrisé. Tempérant. Mais déterminé.

Il coordonne les pilonages d'artillerie, les combats tactiques, les combinaisons terre-air-mer, les mouvements et les assauts sans mouiller le maillot, avec un putain de calme... On dirait qu'il est détaché de tout mais qu'il a pris en compte tous les facteurs. Il nous a assuré de foutues victoires dans plus d'une situations délicates.

Eh, les terriens ! Ce ptit con vient de chez vous !!

- Comment tu fais, merdeux ? C'est quoi ton secret ?

- J'écoute du métal.

- Nan-nan-nan. Le métal terrien c'est pas mal, mais ça vaut pas le nôtre.

- Ouais mais du moment que c'est pas du rap ou du hip-hop de merde.

- Nan allez, comment tu fais ?

- Tu veux vraiment le savoir ?

- Bah ça m'intéresse.

- C'est simple. Je suis né sur la Terre.

- Et alors ?

- L'Occident merveilleux. Je suis né avec le chômage de masse. Je suis né avec la dette publique. Je suis né avec les compressions de salaire. Avec la compétition scolaire. Avec le déclassement social. Avec l'accroissement des inégalités. La vie chère. La dévalorisation du diplôme. J'ai vu la cellule familiale se désagréger. Ne plus remplir son rôle pour tout le monde. J'ai vu l'école choisir, trier, exclure, saquer. Famille et école ? Vexations ; dévalorisations ; frustrations ; moqueries ; relégations ; déterminisme ; fatalité. Le marché du travail ? J'ai vu des collègues se comporter en caïds insolents et intouchables qui surévaluent leur micro-savoir-faire pour létigimer un savoir-être pourri jusqu'au trognon ; ça existe dans les quartiers, ça existe en prison, ça existe aussi dans le boulot ; j'en ai vu d'autres mettre leur santé en cause, parfois gravement ; j'ai vu une hiérarchie tantôt parternaliste, tantôt timorée, jamais pertinente, et poussant les gens à bout.

Et tout ça pourquoi ? Les émissions de bouffe à la télé ? Les iphones ? Les ipads ? les 4x4 ? Le carré de jardin jouxtant un pavillon gardé par un chien ?

Les exigences ? La performance ? La compétition ?

Oui, pourquoi ? Pour voir un STEVE JOBS ADULé COMME UN GOUROU DE SECTE ??? C'est donc pour ça qu'il faut bosser ?

La sacro-sainte considération socio-professionnelle ? Mais là où je suis passé, aucune rue ne portera mon nom, ni celui de mes collègues, ni celui de mes subordonnés, ni celui de ma hiérarchie ; aucune salle des bâtiments où j'ai bossé ne portera mon nom, ni celui de mes subordonnés, ni celui de mes chefs, ni celui de mes collègues.

J'ai vu la cascade des mépris du berceau au monde du travail en passant par la famille et l'école, avec comme point culminant la crise de 2008. Famille, école, travail - institutions ô combien incontournables et respectables, par lesquelles nous passons tous et qui nous déterminent tous. Parce que nous n'avons pas le choix. Parce qu'il n'existe aucun autre modèle. Et que celui qu'on nous vend est à bout de souffle.

- Ha. Je vois. Je comprends mieux, maintenant.

- Eh ouais. Alors je vais te dire. Partir dans l'espace. Rejoindre ton clan. Faire la guerre partout et toujours. S'enivrer de la victoire et des richesses acquises. Profiter des promotions que tu me donnes sans avoir à correspondre à un profil ultra-corseté-formaté. Profiter d'une liberté de ton, d'une liberté de paroles qu'il n'y a plus sur Terre.

C'est ce qu'il pouvait m'arriver de mieux.

Et ça, je te jure : ça amène le calme et la paix intérieurs. Mieux que le yoga.

- Eh bah dis donc.

Ouais, les terriens ; ce ptit mec vient de chez vous.

Voilà ce que vous fabriquez.

ça calme non ?

Elargissez votre horizon avec la sophrologie.

2011-10-09T20:10:09+02:00

Ne subissez plus le stress, l'anxiété, ou les épreuves de la vie sans aide ni soutien. La Sophrologie peut vous aider à mieux harmoniser votre vie et à élargir votre horizon. Par des méthodes de relaxation faisant intervenir la maitrise de sa respiration et la pleine conscience de son corps, une séance de sophrologie peut vous aider plus que vous ne l'imaginez.

En tant que sophrologue et praticienne en relation d'aide je peux vous offrir un accompagnement personnalisé en fonction de vos besoins. N'hésitez pas à me contacter.

Catherine Rascovsky
Sophrologue à la Celle-Saint-Cloud, Yvelines (78)
www.villa-zen.fr

Page zen

2011-08-16T21:58:45+02:00

Bonjour,

Me revoici, et devibnez quoi ? Il s'agit toujours d'un défi chez Pimenta's Paper... Cette fois-ci, nous partons direction la Thaïlande et sa "zénitude" (^^)....

Pour ce nouveau défi, il s'agissait de créer une page A4 ou 30*30 avec comme contraintes :

- le mot zen

- un tag à la forme pointue et non arrondie (pour rappeler la forme particulière des temples thaïlandais)

- 3 couleurs de ce combo : vert, bleu, orange, mauve, blanc, noir

J'ai trouvé que les photos prises au jardin japonais d'Albert Kahn au printemps dernier colleraient parfaitement à la thématique (et grosse pensée pour Chouquette fan des Kokeshis) :

18 juillet - Patates Zen

2011-07-18T08:28:00+02:00

A l'occasion d'une balade dans les allées d'un grand magasin dédié au bricolage, ma fille tombe nez à nez avec cette photo ou une lui ressemblant ...

"Mais pourquoi ils ont pris des pommes de terre en photo ? C'est drôle!"

The Tinnitus Audiologic Evaluation overview by Robert Sweetow

2011-07-06T10:32:00+02:00

The Audiologic Evaluation

from Tinnitus: Patient Management (Robert S: Sweetow, Ph.D)

Prior to selecting a course of action, it is first necessary to determine whether the tinnitus is related to a hearing loss or an etiology amenable to medical or surgical treatment.

The audiologic evaluation should include, at a minimum, threshold assessment (air and bone conduction, including inter-octaves 3 KHz and 6 KHz, and possibly the ultra high frequencies). It may be preferable to use a warbled, rather than a pure, tone to minimize confusion with the tinnitus. In addition, word recognition testing, immitance testing, tinnitus matching, and measurement of masking ability and residual inhibition can be useful.

Questions have been raised regarding the reliability of tinnitus pitch and loudness masking. Even so, it is believed by some to be essential, particularly when acoustic therapies are prescribed. Even if sound stimulation is not being considered as a therapy, variability or changes in tinnitus matches may be useful as a means of monitoring other forms of therapeutic progress.

The ability to mask an individual's tinnitus and the presence of residual inhibition (temporary absence or diminution of tinnitus perception following the termination of the masking stimulus) should be assessed in an effort to determine the likelihood of success with tinnitus masking and acoustic desensitization protocols (see below). The audiologist should be aware; however, that the intensity level required masking tinnitus may change over time.

Other audiologic procedures such as otoacoustic emission testing, auditory brainstem evoked response testing, electrocochleography, and additional site of lesion procedures should be administered, as required.

Click on hte pciture above to watch the videos of Robert Sweetow on how to reach a tinnitus relief throught the use of the Widex Zen sound generator

Jardin ”Zen” à Aigle

2011-06-30T11:35:00+02:00

Pour les amoureux de l'Asie, sans faire des heures interminables de vol, tout près de chez nous, un endroit idyllique, le jardin zen d'Aigle.

Sur votre chemin, vous pourrez découvrir des roulottes gitanes, des yourtes mongoles, un temple du désert ou encore une jonque chinoise.

Tout au long du parcours de 15 étapes, vous pourrez admirer plus d'une centaine de végétaux qui fleurissent selon les saisons.

Vous pourrez terminer votre visite par le magasin d'artisanat et de mobilier et selon envies, vous restaurer au restaurant Shalimar qui vous proposera de la cuisine indienne

Le jardin est ouvert tous les jours d'avril à octobre, de 13 h 00 à 18 h 30

Image et atmosphères
Chemin de la Biole 1860 Aigle

Pensée du Jour...

2011-06-26T03:01:00+02:00

Si vous gardez

les poings fermés,

vous n'obtiendrez

que quelques grains de sable.

Mais si vous ouvrez les mains,

vous obtiendrez

tout le sable du désert.

(Dôgen - maître zen japonais)

WorthPoint -- The On-line Antiques and Collectibles Resource -- Acquires eBay Transaction Data

2011-06-15T19:05:43+02:00

s only licensed seller of eBay transaction data, to create the most extensive internet resource for antique research and appraisal.

(PRWEB) May 17, 2011

WorthPoint () - the on-line resource serving the global antiques and collectibles community - has announced that it has reached an agreement with Advanced E-Commerce Research Systems (Advanced) to acquire transaction data on antiques and collectibles bought and sold globally through eBay.The eBay data provided by Advanced will be incorporated into WorthPoint’s ‘Worthopedia’ database of antiques and collectibles transactions and will immediately add historical and ongoing information on price, description and images from approximately 150 million transactions to the existing market data from GoAntiques.com, TIAS, and many of the world’s leading auction houses already available at WorthPoint.

Advanced E-Commerce Research Systems is the sole authorised re-licenser of eBay market data, and provides custom market insights that benefit a range of clients, from international corporations to individual power sellers on eBay.Advanced also produces Terapeak for eBay (), the market-leading SaaS eBay research tool for all online sellers.

The agreement between Advanced and WorthPoint makes the ‘Worthopedia’ database the most comprehensive price information resource available on-line for the antiques and collectibles market.

Announcing its agreement with Advanced, WorthPoint CEO, Will Seippel, said:“Our agreement with Advanced is a major milestone in our plan to create the number one web resource for anyone wishing to establish the value of an antique or other item for collecting, investing or selling. This will support buyers and sellers to establish the value, or worth, of an item by referencing hard data from actual transactions and will allow them to trade with confidence – on-line or in the auction house.”

Advanced E-Commerce Research Systems CEO Fred Speckeen also commented on the agreement: “We are pleased to be continuing and developing our WorthPoint partnership; a partnership that is creating the ultimate resource for collectors and sellers. “

In addition to the ‘WorthPoint’ transaction database, WorthPoint also provides the option to consult recognised experts in the antiques or collectibles field. ‘Worthologists’ will offer WorthPoint members knowledge and insights,research items, helping to establish their provenance, and offer views on pricing.

WorthPoint CEO, Will Seippel, said:“We see the range of services available at Worthpoint.com, which includes opportunities to connect with other collectors, learn about items of special interest, including notifications of events and exhibitions, as appealing to every level in the antiques and collectibles market including private collectors, the antiques trade and once-off buyers or sellers who need to learn about a particular item and establish its price, or worth. “

About WorthPoint: WorthPoint () is the on-line resource dedicated to supporting communities interested in antiques and collectibles. WorthPoint has the most comprehensive database of buy and sell transactions in antiques and collectibles available on-line, and incorporates eBay market data. The ‘Worthopedia’ database can help establish the value of an item with reference to hard transaction information and supports users to buy and sell with confidence. WorthPoint also provides information and insights on collectible items through the opportunity to connect with other collectors, consult WorthPoint experts, or ‘Worthologists’, and with the deep repository of on-line articles and other information on antiques and collecting. WorthPoint is a user subscription service with subscriptions available from $9.99 per month.

About Advanced E-Commerce Research Systems (): Advanced is a leader in ecommerce market research and payment analytics, and is the sole authorized re-licensor of eBay data globally. The company provides custom insights as well as Terapeak-branded SaaS, technology-enabled solutions to e-commerce merchants around the world.Currently aggregating over 20% of all online commerce sales data, Advanced helps merchants make faster, more-profitable business decisions based on real-time market trends, pricing, and transaction data.

(Advanced's eBay Research Tool)

(Advanced's PayPal Reporting Tool)

For further information, please contact:

WorthPoint: Maria Archer, CEO, WorthPoint Europe. +353 (0)1 68 77 430; E. maria.archer(at)worthpoint(dot)com

Advanced: Fred Speckeen, CEO, Advanced E-Commerce Research Systems T. 1-250-483-3252; E. fspeckeen(at)aers(dot)ca

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Maria ArcherWorthpoint Europe+353 (0) 1 68 77 430Email Information

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Broadway's 'Spider-Man' to open; Taymor to there

2011-06-15T04:40:03+02:00

"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" opens Tuesday. Where have we heard that before?

But this time — the sixth scheduled opening, for those keeping score — producers mean business. The $70 million show, shorn of its original director Julie Taymor, reworked from top to bottom and missing a few actors, finally officially begins after a record-setting preview period.

Taymor herself is expected to attend, according to her spokeswoman, Mara Buxbaum. "She is so proud of the cast, crew, musicians and creatives with whom she worked on this amazing project for so many years and she looks forward to sharing in tonight's celebration," Buxbaum said in a statement.

Among the celebrities expected to attend are former President Bill Clinton, Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Barbara Walters, Steve Martin, Liv Tyler, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Liam Neeson, Vanessa Redgrave, Spike Lee, Christy Turlington, Ed Burns, Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Strokes and John McEnroe. U2's Bono and The Edge, the show's music writers, will also be on hand.

Taymor, the Tony Award-winning co-writer and director, was fired from "Spider-Man" after delays, accidents, poor audience reaction and money woes turned the musical into a punch line.

The principal cast — Reeve Carney as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Jennifer Damiano as Mary Jane Watson, T.V. Carpio as a spider-woman named Arachne, and Patrick Page as the Green Goblin — have been with the production since the tortured beginning.

The show's planned opening was initially set for Feb. 18, 2010, but financial issues forced producers to suspend work. A new opening was set for Dec. 21, but that was pushed back to Jan. 11, then again to Feb. 7 and then to March 15. "Spider-Man" has broken the record for the longest preview period in Broadway history.

Injuries to several cast members — including a 35-foot fall by a stunt actor playing the web-slinger that left him with a skull fracture and cracked vertebrae — have marred the production, as well as the defection of a lead actress after she suffered a concussion.

Many theater critics grew impatient and their reviews that appeared in early February — a violation of the established agreement by critics to wait for opening night to weigh in — were mostly savage pans.

Producers finally intervened in March, firing Taymor and shutting down the show for four weeks to retool. Taymor was replaced by Philip William McKinley, who directed the Hugh Jackman musical "The Boy From Oz," in 2003.

Co-book writer Glenn Berger and newly hired playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who has written comic books and for the HBO series "Big Love," toned down the story's darker themes, and expanded the romantic angle between Peter Parker and Mary Jane.

Consistently strong weekly revenues are critical for the show to break even and to begin repaying investors. Last week the show earned $1.2 million — a little more than 60 percent of its $1.9 million potential.

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Hand Wax with Your Dental Work?Fairway Dental Care Integrates Spa Comforts with Traditional Dentistry

2011-06-13T05:06:56+02:00

s chair. To combat that anxiety, Fairway Dental Carehas added spa services to their already top-notch dental offerings.

"I decided to include spa services because excellent customer service is very important, and patient comfort is the first priority with our care," said Rohn Falter, DDS, owner of Fairway Dental Care. "People avoid going to the dentist because of bad memories, so they often ignore a dental problem until the later, more serious, more costly stages. We're changing that with a package of good experiences in addition to excellent dental care that looks good, feels good and lasts a long time."

Among the spa services offered are paraffin wax for hands, warm and cool eye therapy wraps and massage treatment chairs. Patients can also enjoy aromatic candles throughout the office, knee and neck pillows, warm blankets provided during care, big screen HD televisions in the treatment rooms and a beverage bar with hot drinks such as coffee, hot chocolate, hot apple cider and herbal teas.

Fairway Dental Care offers both general and cosmetic dental services, including dental crowns, dental bridges, oral cancer screening, tooth-colored fillings, free teeth whitening and a deal involving free teeth whitening for life with the purchase of necessary X-rays, exam and cleaning. The dental office now also offers free nitrous oxide sedation.

Dr. Falter established his practice in 2002, and when he relocated to Centralia, WA in 2007, he added the Fairway Dental Care name to the business. "Our goal is to create connections with people while providing outstanding, quality dental work," he said. "Our vision statement is 'Our passion to play will make your day, one smile at a time,' and we live up to that. We share a lot of laughter and fun in our office."

Although his practice is the only one he knows of offering spa-like services in the area, Dr. Falter feels what really sets him apart from competitors is his practice's individualized attention to each patient. "Our personal care approach means we will always go the extra mile for you," he stated.

Contact:Cheryl PetersonSchedule Coordinator1716 South Gold StreetCentralia, WA 98531(360) 623-1350

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Pensée du Jour...

2011-06-07T04:05:00+02:00

Connaître

son ignorance

est la meilleure part

de la connaissance.

(Proverbe Zen)

Manassero, Donald share the lead at Wentworth

2011-06-02T03:58:32+02:00

Luke Donald birdied two of his last three holes for a 1-over 72 and a share of the lead at the BMW PGA Championship with Italian teenager Matteo Manassero after Saturday's third round.

Donald dropped five strokes heading into the turn, but regained four of them on a flawless back nine that left him at 5-under 208. Manassero had two birdies and three bogeys in an erratic front nine before making nine straight pars to also shoot a 72.

"I knew the nature of this course. If I could just find a couple of birdies, get back in the mix, then I thought I might be all right," Donald said. "So I kind of had to dig pretty deep and find a few birdies out there. I think getting that one birdie is important, just to kind of right the ship.

Top-ranked Lee Westwood and Fabrizio Zanotti of Paraguay shot 69s and were two strokes back.

Raphael Jacquelin of France (69), Bradley Dredge of Wales (69) and Simon Dyson of England (72) were three behind.

The second-ranked Donald needs to finish in front of Westwood to capture the No. 1 ranking.

"It will be disappointing if I don't win, but I'm going to have to play a lot better than I did today," Donald said. "It wasn't pretty, but I'm back in with a chance, a good chance."

Manassero had shared the lead with Donald and Alvaro Quiros entering the round and was alone on top of the leaderboard after Donald had double bogeys at Nos. 2 and 6 and Quiros dropped four strokes in four holes up to the turn.

"It was the toughest of the three days we played so far," Manassero said. "Being on top of the leaderboard with some tricky flags and tough weather, it made it really tough. So I'm happy with the way I played. I saved a few good pars down the stretch and that is going to help me tomorrow."

Quiros made his second double bogey of the round at No. 17 in a 76 that left him four strokes back in a tie for eighth.

Lady Gaga Downloads Overwhelm Amazon

2011-05-30T08:32:49+02:00

s new album from Amazon MP3 today? Count yourself lucky. The rock-bottom price of 99 cents has attracted Little Monsters far and wide, overloading Amazon's servers.

"We're currently experiencing very high volume. If you order today, you will get the full @ladygaga album for $.99. Thanks for your patience," Amazonearly this afternoon.

At this point, the album, "Born This Way," is downloading, but very slowly. PCMag started downloading it from Amazon MP3 around 2:45pm Eastern, and by 3:30pm, one song had been downloaded and the rest were hanging at 0 percent.

Lady Gaga's album made its debut at midnight, and Gaga herself promoted the iTunes release on her Twitter feed. It appears that some people are bypassing cheap prices in favor of getting their hands on the album as fast as possible. Gaga's album is now number one on iTunes, where the deluxe version is available for $15.99 and the regular version is selling for $11.99.

Prior to the release, Gaga was on Twitter sharing tidbits about the album and its songs ("I wrote HAIR about how my parents used to get pissed at my outfits and my hair when I was a kid"). She was recently the first person to reach 10 million followers on Twitter.

Over the weekend, Gaga was the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live," but the show also featured the debut of her new commercial (below) for Google. "Makes me choke up, cause i think about us monsters + how far we've come," sheon Sunday.

The spot features Gaga singing her latest single, "The Edge of Glory," on the Brooklyn Bridge with YouTube videos of her fans singing along spliced in. It also shows Gaga using the Web (Google in particular, of course) to connect with fans. "Lady Gaga. Monster Monster. The Web is what you make it," reads the tagline.

Those who want to see Gaga in person can head to the Union Square Best Buy for an album signing tonight. Might want to hurry; fans are already lined up around the block.

State Department names new spokesperson after Wiki-flap

2011-05-30T07:12:17+02:00

The State Department on Thursday named career diplomat Victoria Nuland as its new spokesperson, filling a vacancy left when the former incumbent resigned in a flap over the soldier accused of leaking secret WikiLeaks documents.

Nuland was a national security advisor to former Vice President Dick Cheney and served as U.S. ambassador to NATO from 2005-2008. She has been the special envoy for conventional armed forces in Europe since February 2010.

Nuland, a Russia specialist, steps into a job vacant since March, when former spokesman P.J. Crowley resigned after reports that he had labeled as "ridiculous" the Pentagon's treatment of Bradley Manning, the former military intelligence analyst accused of leaking secret documents that appeared on the WikiLeaks website.

Crowley, a retired Air Force colonel who often spoke freely from the State Department podium, took responsibility for the remarks, which were made to a small group in Massachusetts and which threw new focus on Manning's case.

The Obama administration has been criticized for Manning's treatment, although the president says the Pentagon has assured him the 23-year-old soldier is not being ill-treated while he is awaiting trial.

Manning is being held during an investigation of charges involving reams of sensitive diplomatic and military documents he is accused of leaking while posted as an intelligence analyst in Iraq.

Many of the documents appeared on the WikiLeaks website, and have been a major diplomatic headache for the United States which says they were stolen government property.

U.S. military officials have not said when Manning's trial might begin, but he was transferred in April to a detention facility at Fort Leavenworth military base in Kansas after his lawyers complained he was being mistreated at a Marine brig in Virginia.

Nuland will take over from Mark Toner, who stepped in following Crowley's departure and will remain as deputy spokesperson, the department said in its announcement.

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Le sumo qui ne pouvait pas grossir - Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

2011-05-27T15:56:00+02:00

Jun, adolescent solitaire et révolté, mène une existence misérable dans les rues de Tokyo. Il vend à la sauvette des produits qu'il aurait honte d'acheter. Il reçoit des lettres d'une mystérieuse mère à la fois ange et analphabète, qu'il ne lit jamais. Jusqu'au jour où il rencontre Shomintsu, un maître de force et de sagesse qui lui affirme à plusieurs reprises : "je vois un gros en toi". C'est, pour Jun, le début d'un chemin vers la maîtrise de son corps et de son esprit pour accéder à la connaissance. Pour cela, il faut se débarrasser de ses opinions toutes faites, en allant au-delà de la logique du tangible et accepter le passé familial.

Un petit condensé de la philosophie zen à la portée de tous servie par des personnages attachants et un style clair.

Le maître des estampes / Thierry Dedieu

2011-05-22T11:52:00+02:00

Seuil Jeunesse

octobre 2010

2021031950

A partir de 8 ans

Tombé en admiration devant une estampe, un riche mandarin passe commande à l'artiste qui lui demande une importante somme d'argent et un certain délai. Le jours passent et l'oeuvre ne vient pas. Excédé et convaincu de s'être fait avoir, le seigneur est sur le point de se venger du présumé malfaiteur jusqu'à ce que l'oeuvre arrive enfin! D'une grande beauté!

: Une belle histoire sur la patience, sur le temps de profiter des choses de la vie pour en saisir toute la beauté. Des esquisses de l'oeuvre du personnage sont joints à la fin du récit afin de nourrir l'idée de mois d'observation et de précision.

Un récit de Dedieu parfaitement dans l'esprit asiatique Zen et orienté vers ce qui fait l'essentiel et le sel de la vie!!!

Fine Homebuilding Magazine Awards New Home of the Year

2011-05-14T15:18:16+02:00

s New Home of the Year Award for The Vermont Street Project, a sustainably designed and built timber frame home in Portland, Oregon. The home is featured in Fine Homebuilding’s 2011 HOUSES issue along with 11 finalists.

Portland, OR (PRWEB) May 13, 2011

New Energy Works Timberframers received Fine Homebuilding’s New Home of the Year Award for , a sustainably designed and built timber frame home in Portland, Oregon. The home is featured in Fine Homebuilding’s 2011 HOUSES issue along with 11 finalists.

Inclusion in Fine Homebuilding’s Annualis one of the most prestigious honors a design/build professional can receive, while winning New Home of The Year is akin to winning The World Series. HOUSES features just twelve homes out of the hundreds of applications sent in from around the globe.

Fine Homebuilding special editions editor Charles Miller comments on this year’s winner, “The house expertly balances a contemporary floor plan with traditional detailing rendered in sustainable materials. And its state-of-the-art mechanical systems will substantially lower its demand for energy and water usage for decades.”

“The Vermont Street Project is a living example of greater sustainability in a design and craft intensive home,” says Jonathan Orpin, President, .

Design and construction of the project was approached with the principle that a well built home stands on four legs:

1: A long-lasting, thermally efficient structure2: Advanced and efficient mechanical systems3: Sustainable structural and finish materials4: A plan tailored to the family’s needs and to carefully crafted, coherent detailing

Features include: a reclaimed Douglas fir timber frame; reclaimed elm and oak flooring; interior woodworking (link NWW) using reclaimed walnut (cabinets/interior doors); solid wood framed windows; recycled redwood siding; antique barn siding; photovoltaic panels; solar hot water panels; rainwater collection system; SIPs panels; recycled wood and cement form blocks; natural plaster wall coverings; a high efficiency boiler, and more. For details visit .

Partners who collaborated on this project: Pioneer Millworks, Basco Appliance, Chown Hardware, Custom-Bilt Metals, Dimensional Millwork, Inc., ecohaus, Evolution Floors, GLD DesignStudio, Imaginenergy, Landscape East & West, Loren Nelson Photography, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, Traditional Natural Plaster Company, Premier Building Systems, and Shelter Works.

New Energy Works Timber Framers have been designing and building environmentally responsible timber frames across the USA for nearly 30 years from their facilities in New York and Oregon. Offerings include: Timber Framing (design, engineering, manufacturing, build), Enclosure Systems, Fine Woodworking, Recycled and Sustainable wood products. New Energy Works has 2 LEED AP staff members, is a member of the US Green Building Council, and is FSC Certified in three categories.

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Jennifer YoungNew Energy Works Timberframers800-486-0661Email Information

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Le zen est masculin

2011-05-05T20:38:00+02:00

Les statistiques étant manipulables et non vérifiables, on ne parlera pas de chiffre. Ni de nombre. On se contentera tout simplement d’évoquer un phénomène traduisant bien le paradoxe profond de l’être humain. Cette semaine, mettons-nous à la lecture de notre société. Scrutons les modèles que l’on nous impose et que l’on accepte de manière délibérée.

Quels sont aujourd’hui les préoccupations de notre société ? Si l’on s’en tient à ce que l’on voit dans les magazines féminins, le plus important pour un homme, et surtout pour une femme, serait de trouver son équilibre. Et pour y arriver, il faut aller sur plusieurs pistes. Il y a tout d’abord son développement personnel. Cela consiste, pour simplifier les choses, à accepter ses travers, s’accepter telle qu’elle est, et vivre en harmonie avec les autres par la zen attitude, la méthode Coué, l’autosuggestion... Il y a ensuite, et c’est là que cela devient ...intéressant, une grande part d’expression de soi, une manière de pousser la femme à aller au-delà de ses limites, à être plus ceci ou plus cela, à devenir en fait, un moi idéal, une superwoman. En d’autres termes, pour s’accepter soi, il faut... devenir une autre.

Devant autant d’ambiguités, il est probablement nécessaire de décrypter les « messages subliminaux » que l’on nous fait ingurgiter. Car derrière cette possibilité d’être soi et d’être bien, de s’accepter comme on est et de vivre en paix avec ses « défauts », de ne rien changer puisque rien ne vaut le naturel, on nous explique avec insistance qu’il faut se conformer au diktat de la mode et savoir « comment mincir en dix jours en traquant le moindre gramme sur la balance ou encore comment rajeunir de dix ans, et pire, qu’il faut réagir avant qu’il ne soit trop tard »...

Le chemin du développement personnel masculin, lui, est moins sauvage, plus conciliant. Pour trouver son équilibre, l’homme a besoin de s’affirmer tel qu’il est, avec ses compétences et ses travers. Son secret : un regard indulgent. Pour lui, il n’est jamais trop tard. Mincir en dix jours, il n’y croit pas. Rajeunir de dix ans, il le voudrait bien mais sans en faire une obsession. Bien sûr, il sait qu’il n’est pas un modèle de beauté, mais ça, il a réussi à l’accepter. Il peut ne pas être un modèle de réussite, mais il n’en devient pas malade. Il conçoit qu’il a des défauts mais ce n’est pas lui que cela dérange.

Haingo Rarivoson

Former Miss USA says she felt "violated" by TSA agent

2011-05-01T05:39:40+02:00

A former Miss USA who says she felt "helpless and violated" during a pat down by a female airport security guard in Dallas, Texas has started a Twitter campaign on her blog to stop "invasive" body searches.

Susie Castillo, 31, who won the Miss USA Pageant in 2003, says she was hand searched after she refused to go through a full body scanner at the Dallas Fort Worth International airport.

"To say that I felt invaded is an understatement," Castillo wrote on her blog. "What bothered me most was when she ran the back of her hands down my behind, felt around my breasts, and even came in contact with my vagina!"

Castillo also tearfully recounts the April 21 incident in a five-minute video on her website.

"I felt completely helpless and violated during the entire process (in fact, I still do), so I became extremely upset," she wrote on her website. "I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this treatment as an upstanding, law-abiding American citizen?' Am I a threat to US security? I was Miss USA, for Pete?s sake!"

Castillo said on her blog that she has started a Twitter campaign to stop invasive "enhanced pat downs."

The US Transportation Security Administration allows passengers who are requested to go through full body scanners to refuse, but they are then subject to a pat-down.

The TSA announced in October that it was implementing new pat-down procedures, but they have been criticized by passengers. In November, the TSA body searched a screaming three-year old, a search which was partially captured by a cell phone camera.

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Nokia Trims Workforce In Anticipation of Phone 7 Shift

2011-04-29T08:37:41+02:00

s Windows Phone 7 operating system, Finnish cell-phone giant Nokia is ditching control of its Symbian platform and cutting 7,000 jobs in a major restructuring.

Accenture, a global technology consulting and outsourcing firm, will take over development of the Symbian platform, which hasn't gained traction in the important U.S. market as Apple's iOS and Google's Android have captured consumers.

While no employees will lose their jobs this year, the job cuts will affect workers next year in Finland, Denmark and Britain.

Losing Ground

The 12 percent reduction in its phone-division workforce is part of an effort to trim nearly $1.5 billion by the end of the year. The company's new CEO, former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop, recently signed a deal with his former bosses reputed to be worth $1 billion to put the struggling Windows Phone 7 on Nokia devices. Though still the world's top cell-phone maker, Nokia's smartphones have lost ground to Apple's iPhone in the global market.

Market-research firm Strategy Analytics said Nokia sold 24 million smartphones in the first quarter, up 13 percent from the same period in 2010, but global market share fell from 39 to 24 percent.

Symbian is still alive. Two weeks ago, Nokia announced an update for the operating system as well as two new Symbian-based phones. The update is designed for the N8, E7, C7 and C6-01 phones, with improvements to icons, scrolling, touchscreen keyboards. and browsing. The upcoming X7 and E6 handsets will ship with the new version, code-named Anna.

Elop has said new Nokia devices running Phone 7 may arrive within the year. That can't be soon enough for Microsoft, which has been struggling to gain market share after the OS launched late last year. Phone 7 saw a small boost to seven percent of new smartphone buyers during March, up from five percent in the previous quarter, according to Nielsen.

Windows Phone 7 currently powers a handful of phones made by HTC, Samsung, LG and Dell.

Move Was Expected

Charles King, principal analyst of Pund-IT, said the changes at Nokia are "unsurprising. It's fairly normal for a new CEO to make some sort of sweeping change six months or so after he/she was hired."

He said the hiring of Elop was a clear indication that Symbian's days are numbered. "Shifting 3,000 workers to Accenture should take away a bit of the sting, but cutting loose 4,000 others is still painful," he said. "The question remains whether aligning itself with Microsoft can be a winning strategy for Nokia, especially against formidable competitors like Apple and vendors leveraging Android. I expect that's a question we'll be asking ourselves for the next year or so."

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Pensée du Jour...

2011-04-16T08:56:31+02:00

Apprendre à se connaître,

c'est s'oublier soi-même.

S'oublier soi-même

c'est être illuminé

par tout ce qui se trouve

dans l'univers.

(Dogen - maître zen japonais)

.... Équilibre 2

2011-03-29T15:32:43+02:00

Le vrai bonheur ne dépend d'aucun être, d'aucun objet extérieur, il ne dépend que de nous !

Visible dans l'album ABSTRAIT

Zen habits : le blog célébrissime d'un papa zen...

2011-03-22T21:59:00+01:00

Zen habits est l'un des 25 blogs les plus influents au monde, écrit en anglais par un père de famille nombreuse qui vit à San Francisco, Leo Babauta. Mari et papa aimant, il cumule les jobs, les projets d'écriture et les réussites. Et pourtant, cet homme qui court pour le plaisir aime vivre plus, consommer moins et tout simplement être bien. Pour commencer à découvrir sa philosophie, vous pouvez aller là.

Merci à Tatiana L. d'avoir posté sur sa page Facebook un lien vers ce blog que je ne connaissais pas et qui deviendra certainement l'allié des parents pressés dont je fais partie !

Pour illustrer cet article, la couverture du best-seller de Leo Babauta.

Carte avec du fait maison

2011-03-11T17:49:00+01:00

Je vous avais déjà présenté la fleur faite en quilling pour cette carte... A celle-ci sont venus s'ajouter un fond fait maison (en fait deux, le cadre bleu l'est aussi) et une bande festonnée et colorisée par mes soins.

Une carte avec des embellissements perso, c'est ça aussi le domaine du scrap !

Timeline: Apple milestones and product launches

2011-03-05T10:37:23+01:00

Apple Inc unwrapped a sleeker iPad 2 on Wednesday and its maestro Steve Jobs took the stage in San Francisco to a standing ovation after a brief medical absence.

Here are some of Apple's milestones:

1976 - High-school buddies Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs start Apple Computer. Their first product, Apple I, built in circuit board form, debuts at "the Homebrew Computer Club" in Palo Alto, California, to little fanfare.

1977 - Apple II is unveiled, the first personal computer in a plastic case with color graphics.

1983 - Apple starts selling the "Lisa," a desktop computer for businesses with a graphical user interface, the system most users are familiar with today.

1984 - Apple debuts the Macintosh personal computer. It is hyped with a dark, stylized commercial in which a heroine takes on Big Brother characters reminiscent of those in George Orwell's novel "1984" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8).

1985 - Jobs leaves Apple in 1985 after a power struggle.

1991 - Apple introduces the PowerBook 100, its first hit portable computer.

1993 - The Newton Message Pad debuts. Apple's first handheld device, it has a touchscreen and features tools found in today's smartphones, such as an address book, calendar and e-mail function. It flops.

September 1997 - Jobs is named Apple's interim CEO after the company records losses of more than $1.8 billion.

November 1997 - Jobs introduces a new line of Macintosh computers called G3, and a website that lets people order directly from Apple.

1998 - Apple unveils the iMac desktop computer.

2001 - Apple introduces the iPod, a palm-sized, hard-drive-based digital music player.

2003 - The iTunes Store opens, allowing users to buy and download music, audiobooks, movies and TV shows online.

August 2004 - Jobs announces he underwent successful surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his pancreas. The rare form of cancer is highly treatable.

2005 - The iPod adds video, and Apple fills out its portable media line with the low-end iPod shuffle, and sleek iPod nano.

October 2005 - Tim Cook is named Apple's chief operating officer, after serving as executive vice president of worldwide sales and operations since 2002.

January 2007 - Apple announces the iPhone. The device features one button on its smooth face and a virtual keyboard. It also introduces Apple TV, which attracts few buyers.

September 2007 - Apple unveils the iPod Touch -- essentially an iPhone without the phone -- which has wireless capabilities and performs much like a portable computer.

2008 - Apple opens its App Store as an update to iTunes. The store features small applications -- from games to social and business tools -- that add functions to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Apple also releases the MacBook Air.

January 2009 - Jobs takes leave for health reasons. COO Cook leads the company in the interim.

June 2009 - Jobs returns to the company after undergoing a liver transplant.

2009 - Apple releases the iPhone 3GS. The company has sold more than 220 million iPods so far.

2010 - Apple awards Cook a bonus valued at $22 million for leading the company during Jobs' sixth-month leave, during which its shares soared about 70 percent.

April 2010 - Apple begins selling the iPad, a 10-inch touchscreen tablet, and has an 84 percent share of the tablet market by year's end. Researcher iSuppli estimates 12.9 million iPads were shipped as of December 10.

November 2010 - The Beatles' 13 albums become available on iTunes, ending years of talks between Jobs, Beatles' management company Apple Corps and Beatles label EMI Group.

January 17, 2011 - Jobs announces that he will take another medical leave.

February 10, 2011 - Verizon Wireless, a venture of Verizon Communications Inc and Vodafone Group Plc, starts selling the iPhone in stores and puts an end to AT&T's exclusive contract for the phone in the United States.

February 15, 2011 - Apple launches a long-awaited subscription service for magazines, newspapers, videos and music -- a move that could hurt streaming services Netflix and Hulu.

March 2, 2011 - Apple launches the iPad 2, a sleeker, lighter version of its tablet with a new dual-core processor, two cameras and, for the first time, it comes in either white or black.

(Reporting by Liana B. Baker, Ilaina Jonas, Franklin Paul, additional reporting by Stephen Culp; Editing by Maureen Bavdek and Richard Chang)

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PLATO Learning Courses Named in District Administration Top 100 Products

2011-03-04T19:07:00+01:00

choice awards cite new courses and platform enhancements.

Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) February 28, 2011

PLATO Learning online courses have been named in District Administration magazine’s 2010 Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products. District Administration, the most read and most preferred publication in its industry, is read by over 73,000 K-12 school district leaders across the country and a record number of them participated in selecting the 2010 Top 100 Products winners. Other 2010 winners include Apple’s iPad, Google Apps for Education, and The ActivClassroom from Promethean.

According to the magazine’s Kurt Eisele-Dyrli, “Many readers described their district’s limited budgets and reduced resources in their nominations, while simultaneously praising the products that helped them maintain a high quality of instruction, offer new educational opportunities to students, streamline complex administrative tasks, and do more with less.” PLATO Learning courses were specifically cited for new collaboration features, including digital drop boxes and threaded discussions, as well as for new Advanced Placement courses.

“We are very gratified to be included in this year’s Top 100 Products,” said Jamie Candee, vice president of product and marketing at PLATO Learning. “It is a reflection of the commitment we share with the readers of District Administration to improve student achievement. PLATO courses deliver real results through high quality content and the ability to adapt to the many ways in which students learn and educators teach.”

About PLATO Learning, Inc. PLATO Learning is a leading provider of online instructional solutions for elementary through adult learners, offering curricula in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and life and job skills. For more information on PLATO Learning, visit , or contact Mary Schneider at mschneider(at)plato(dot)com.

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French group PSA mulls low cost car

2011-03-04T10:57:31+01:00

French car group PSA Peugeot Citroen said before the Geneva Motor Show opens on Thursday that the the group is thinking of setting up a low cost brand, in the steps of rival Renault.

PSA is "studying the question for Europe," brand director Jean-Marc Gales said in the western Swiss city, after the company had shown reticence about the idea.

However, no decision has been taken and the top French car maker did not suggest a timescale for a launch.

Renault's Dacia brand has proved to be a major success for the French car maker since it was launched in 2004 with a Romanian-made cheap but solid small saloon aimed initially at developing eastern and central European markets.

"In 2011, Dacia will be the first European brand to offer online sales of its ordinary new car range," Renault's global marketing director Stephen Norman told AFP.

PSA, which this week intensified its partnership with German premium car maker BMW to build hybrid petrol electric engines, had even ruled out the idea of a low cost car until a few months ago.

"One thing is for sure it will neither be a Peugeot, nor a Citroen," said Gales, even ruling out the possibility of selling such a car through their current dealer network.

Renault by contrast is planning on sales of three million Dacia vehicles in 2013, compared to 2.6 million last year, with low cost vehicles accounting for 28 to 30 percent of worldwide sales, according to plans released last month.

The range is being expanded and the saturated Romanian manufacturing plant will be supplemented from 2012 by a new plant in Morocco.

"We will be extremely faithful to our credo for Dacia in Europe, that is cars which are built for people who have limited finance," Norman said.

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CBS, Warner pull plug on season of Sheen's sitcom

2011-02-25T04:37:51+01:00

In the wake of an incendiary radio interview with "Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Sheen, CBS and Warner Bros. Television said they are ending production on TV's top-rated sitcom for the season.

The decision was based on the "totality of Charlie Sheen's statements, conduct and condition," the companies said in a joint statement Thursday. The show's future was not addressed.

Production had been suspended in January to allow Sheen to seek rehabilitation. Earlier Thursday, Warner and Sheen's publicist, Stan Rosenfield, said the series would resume taping next week with Sheen.

That was before the 45-year-old actor's rambling, often vitriolic radio interview with host Alex Jones in which Sheen blasted "Two and a Half Men" producer Chuck Lorre and other targets including Alcoholics Anonymous.

The abrupt decision to pull the plug on additional episodes of the lucrative sitcom came after Sheen's increasingly erratic behavior, including an earlier interview in which he claimed he had sought to return to work but was barred by producers.

In his interview with Jones, Sheen repeatedly evoked violent images and ideas. He also derided Lorre in an attack that suggested anti-Semitism.

"There's something this side of deplorable that a certain Chaim Levine — yeah, that's Chuck's real name — mistook this rock star for his own selfish exit strategy, bro. Check it, Alex: I embarrassed him in front of his children and the world by healing at a pace that his unevolved mind cannot process," Sheen said.

"Last I checked, Chaim, I spent close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold. And the gratitude I get is this charlatan chose not to do his job, which is to write," he said.

Lorre, who was born Charles Levine, is a veteran producer whose hits include "The Big Bang Theory," "Dharma & Greg" and "Cybill."

Speaking of himself, Sheen said he has "magic and poetry in my fingertips, most of the time."

Warner had already planned to cut this season's 24 planned episodes to 20 because of the hiatus. Now, CBS is left with a total of 16 episodes of its cornerstone Monday comedy, all of which have aired.

The network and studio had tolerated Sheen's recent misadventures, part of a long-checkered life. He went into rehab in January, reportedly at home, after three hospitalizations in three months. The most recent was a brief hospital stay that followed a 911 call in which he was described as very intoxicated.

In the interview with Jones, Sheen had harsh words for Alcoholics Anonymous. He referred to it as a "bootleg cult" with a 5 percent success rate, compared to his own "100 percent" success rate.

One of the group's mottos, he said, is, "'Don't be special. Be one of us.' News flash: I am special and I will never be one of you."

When Jones told Sheen he sounded like Jefferson, Sheen dismissed the U.S. founding father with a rude insult.

"It may be lonely up here but I sure like the view, Alex," he said.

Sheen referred to himself as a new sheriff in town who has an "army of assassins."

"If you love with violence and you hate with violence, there's nothing that can be questioned," said Sheen, who played a soldier in the war film "Platoon."

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O.K.! Arena's Sold-Out 'Oklahoma!' Will Get a New Life in DC This Summer

2011-02-23T12:27:34+01:00

s acclaimed, sold-out fall 2010 production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! will return in summer 2011 for an encore that will feature many of the same cast members.

The in-the-round staging at Arena's signature Fichandler Stage was directed by artistic director Molly Smith and was the first production in the new Mead Center for American Theater, Arena's massive new three-theatre complex in Washington, DC's Southwest neighborhood.

Oklahoma!, the 1943 musical about farmers and cowmen and their women folk — populating Indian territory about to become "a brand new state" — featured a multicultural cast led by Nicholas Rodriguez and Curly and Eleasha Gamble as Laurey, with E. Faye Butler as Aunt Eller. The run was extended by one week, to Dec. 30, 2010.

The musical will return to the Fichandler July 8-Oct. 9. Tickets will be available to supporters of Arena Stage starting Feb. 22, to subscribers starting Feb. 28, and to the general public starting March 4 with a 24-hour one-day sale (a limited number of $50 tickets are available in this period).

Arena managing director Edgar Dobie said in a statement, "When we first opened Oklahoma! last fall, audiences couldn't get enough of it, and it was difficult to have to turn people away at the box office. Even though it was playing to an average of 99 percent capacity each performance, we couldn't extend to meet demand this winter due to the next incoming show in the Fichandler. We're so pleased to bring it back again this summer."

Smith said in a statement, "The optimism and drive of the characters exploring a new frontier matched the ambition Arena Stage staff felt as we opened our new theatre complex. It was thrilling that audiences shared that enthusiasm and supported our inaugural production in our new home."

New York producers and national media descended on the production, giving wing to talk of a wider commercial life, perhaps on Broadway. For now, the not-for-profit Arena revives the production at its home.

Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II's score (chock full of such classic stage songs as "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'," People Will Say We're in Love," "The Surrey With the Fringe on Top," "Out of My Dreams," among others) was under the musical direction of George Fulginiti-Shakar. Parker Esse choreographed. The design team included Tony Award-winning designers Eugene Lee (sets) and Martin Pakledinaz (costumes).

According to Arena, Oklahoma! had the highest single-ticket sales for a production by opening night. By opening night, Arena Stage had 54 percent more in advanced single-ticket revenue than the previous record holder, the 2010 production of Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies. The run had the highest single-ticket sales for a single production in a 24-hour period, surpassing Molly Smith's 2002 production of South Pacific by a 50 percent increase in revenue.

Full casting and creative team will be announced at a later date. For more information about Arena Stage, visit www.arenastage.org.

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J. Crew shareholder group rejects settlement

2011-02-05T00:17:26+01:00

NEW YORK – Shareholders who sued clothing chain J. Crew Group Inc. over its $3 billion takeover by two private equity firms have rejected the company's $10 million settlement proposal.

In a letter filed to Delaware Chancery Court, the dissenting shareholders' lawyer said Monday that J. Crew sought to"undermine the benefits" for shareholders of the settlement, which included $10 million for the plaintiffs, due after the buyout closes.

The settlement also extended the deadline for competing offers by a month to Feb. 15, and it reduced to $20 million the fee that J. Crew would pay the firms for canceling the deal if a better offer came along.

TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners LP offered $43.50 per share for J. Crew in late November. The stock closed at $43.43 Tuesday.

Lawyer Stuart M. Grant told Chancery Court Judge Leo E. Strine that J. Crew officials did not create any incentives for potential bidders. Grant said the company's "rush" to set Jan. 21 as the cut-off for shareholders eligible to vote on the buyout and for release of proxy information prior to the Feb. 15 deadline showed the company wasn't committed to seeking other offers.

The actions "sent a signal" that no one else "should bother to bid for J. Crew," Grant wrote, adding that the suing shareholders now plan to seek a trial and a larger payment.

In response, J. Crew said Tuesday that it has honored its obligations under the settlement, which it said is binding, and "the company will challenge any attempt to change or revoke it."

J. Crew said it is still planning a March 1 shareholder meeting to vote on the takeover.

Renault to invest 5.7 billion euros in industrial sites

2011-02-03T13:13:13+01:00

PARIS (AFP) – French automaker Renault on Wednesday unveiled plans to invest 5.7 billion euros ($7.8 billion) in its industrial sites by 2013, with 40 percent to go to plants in France.

The company, currently embroiled in an industrial espionage scandal, said it had no plans to close plants or lay off workers as it tries to adjust production capacity and staffing to shifts in global demand.

Renault said it expected a "lasting decline" in the European market, and that forecasts for 2016 "do not see the European auto market returning to its pre-crisis level of 2007."

Car market growth will be driven by markets outside Europe, notably Brazil, Russia, India and China, the company said, adding that the market outside Europe was likely to expand nearly 50 percent by 2016.

"Our strategic plan enables us to adjust industrial capacity to global demand, without closing sites or implementing redundancy plans or staff reduction plans," chief executive Carlos Ghosn said in a statement.

Renault will present its medium-term strategic plan on February 10 along with its 2010 full-year results.

The automaker said it was adjusting its industrial base as part of the plan and adapting capacity in Western Europe.

It will focus on added-value products, chiefly European middle- and upper-range vehicles, light-commercial vehicles, and electric vehicles and their motors and batteries.

Plant capacity was being expanded in the rest of the world, especially in emerging markets such as Russia, India and Brazil, Renault said.

The firm aims to generate 43 percent of its sales outside Europe in 2011, compared with 37 percent in 2010 and 17 percent in 2000.

Renault said it would manufacture the successors to its upper-range Espace and Laguna models at its plant at Douai in northern France from 2014, and that they would be based on a platform shared with Renault's partner Nissan.

The strategic plan to be rolled out next week is expected to identify areas for deepening manufacturing and organisational synergies with Nissan.

France will remain the heart of Renault's plan to become the global leader -- along with Nissan -- in electric-vehicle technology.

Renault last month suspended three of its senior executives it accuses of industrial espionage reportedly involving the company's key electric cars programme.

The firm is readying production of its Zoe plug-in electric minicar and its Kangoo electric van at two plants in France, and is predicting that 80 percent of the electric vehicles sold world-wide in 2015 will be made in France.

The planned battery plant at Flins, west of Paris, will be producing 100,000 units annually by 2013, Renault said, and another French engine-manufacturing facility at Cleon would make a third-generation electric motor.

The company said it plans to make a new van at its plant at Sandouville, western France, that currently makes the Laguna, with production targeted at 100,000 units a year.

Outside France, Renault will start production at its new plant in Morocco next year and a second production line will come on stream in 2013, making entry-level vehicles destined for Europe, Africa, Mexico and the Middle East.

Renault's shares were trading down 2.57 percent on the Paris CAC 40 exchange by late afternoon Wednesday.

-- Dow Jones news wire contributed to this story --

Comment devenir un Bouddha en cinq semaines

2011-01-30T11:53:00+01:00

Giulio Cesare Giacobbe

First Editions

Pourquoi ce livre?

J'ai envie d'être zen plus souvent. J'aimerais réussir à prendre de la distance par rapport aux évènements de la vie en général et ainsi atteindre une certaine sérénité en évacuant stress et anxiété. Tout un programme!

Est-ce que c'est simple de devenir un Bouddha?

Pour être tout à fait honnête, non! Il ne suffit pas de vouloir être zen pour le devenir même si c'est important d'être motivé et d'y penser souvent. La concentration, la méditation et les exercices de respiration ne suffisent pas à faire face à toutes les situations. Et malgré ma motivation, il m'est arrivé régulièrement cette semaine d'oublier mes objectifs, envahie par mes pensées ou par mes activités quotidiennes. Être "apprentie Bouddha", ce n'est pas facile! Je pense que ce sera long et je ne sais pas si toute une vie suffira à atteindre cette fameuse sérénité mais "Je contrôle!" enfin, j'essaye.

Qu'est-ce que ce livre m'a apporté?

J'ai pris conscience de certaines failles dans ma manière de vivre et de penser. Certains sujets abordés dans ce livre m'ont beaucoup fait réfléchir. J'ai passé du temps, notamment à méditer sur le non-attachement et la présence au réel. Ce livre contient des pistes de réflexion, des conseils assez intéressants. Je crois qu'il suffit juste de modifier sa manière de penser pour mener une existence plus sereine mais quel challenge tout de même. Mes pensées n'en font parfois qu'à leur tête, j'ai beaucoup de mal à les domestiquer. On trouve aussi dans ce livre de quoi satisfaire sa curiosité sur la vie de Bouddha, sa philosophie et de manière très accessible.

On se retrouve dans cinq semaines pour faire le point?

Pourquoi pas! Je viens de terminer ma deuxième semaine de "Bouddha attitude" et ce n'est pas complètement au point. J'attaque la semaine prochaine: la conscience du changement. Je suis contente de m'être penchée sur ce livre plus sérieux qu'il en a l'air!

Les cinq capacités à maîtriser

Le contrôle de l'esprit (Semaine 1)
la présence du réel (Semaine 2)
la conscience du changement (Semaine 3)
le non-attachement (Semaine 4)
l'amour universel (Semaine 5)

Lu dans le cadre du

organisé par Allie

2011 une année zen

2011-01-16T11:40:00+01:00

Je participe au Défi sérénité organisé par Allie.

L'objectif de ce challenge: "Lire 5 livres qui apportent bien-être et beauté". Personnellement, je mise surtout sur le bien-être.

Allie nous propose de choisir des titres dans au moins deux de ces catégories:

Fiction: des livres qui apportent sérénité et spiritualité (L'alchimiste, Petite plume, Le petit prince...)
Art de vivre: de beaux-livres pour agrémenter son chez soi et son mode de vie (rituels, thé, feng-shui)
Nature: de beaux-livres à regarder, des paysages à découvrir
Spiritualité: conseils de vie, méditation
Sports et loisirs: un esprit sain dans un corps sain! Hockey, vélo, yoga, jardinage...

J'ai choisi de tester:

Comment devenir un Bouddha en cinq semaines - Giulio Cesare Giacobbe (Spiritualité)
Petit cahier d'exercices d'estime de soi - Rosette Poletti (Spiritualité)
La Boîte à thé - Gilles Brochard (Art de vivre)
Zen! La méditation pour les nuls (Spiritualité)
Un livre sur la nature mais je n'ai pas encore choisi le titre. (Nature)

Sage résolution

2010-12-29T05:30:00+01:00

Pourquoi ne pas finir l'année sur une note de sagesse ?

Où faudrait-il s'installer, que faudrait-il faire pour goûter ne serait-ce qu'un instant le contentement du coeur ?

Notes de ma cabane de moine - Kamo no Chômei - Editions Le Bruit du temps
Un classique qui date du XII ème siècle et qui aujourd’hui parle à tous. Traduit de belle façon par le Révérend Père Sauveur Candau.

Qui est Kamo ? Un lettré du Bureau de la poésie qui après bien des déconvenues décide de se retiré dans un ermitage, une cabane et d’y vivre dans la simplicité.
Il décide de "quitter le monde", de choisir " la voie du renoncement" et ce retrait, cet isolement nous donne un texte dépouillé, simple, d’une grande poésie, apaisant pour l’esprit
Vivre au plus près de la nature et s’en contenter car dit-il "l'ambition de toute ma vie est de pouvoir, selon les saisons, contempler un beau paysage" sentir le passage des saisons " En hiver, je contemple la neige, qui s´accumule ou non, comme nos péchés qui apparaissent et disparaissent " sans pour autant oublier le monde " Si par une soirée tranquille, à ma fenêtre, je pense à de vieux amis tout en contemplant la lune, et si j'entends les cris du singe, je mouille ma manche de mes larmes "
Cet homme qui vivait à une époque troublée, mais laquelle ne l’est pas ?, cet homme nous donne un leçon de sagesse, nous propose de vivre conscient de " l'impermanence de toutes choses en ce monde et la précarité de sa propre vie »
A qui s’adresse ce petit livre ? à toute personne qui " approfondirait ses pensées et essaierait d'acquérir un savoir profond "

Un de ces petits livres indispensables dans une bibliothèque et qui est déjà sur les étagères de Cécile

Tchaïkowski, mon Amour...

2010-12-27T23:39:08+01:00

Parce que j'ai fais partie des petites filles émerveillées par le patinage artistique, et parce que je suis toujours et encore émerveillée par les petites fées de Fantasia (mais oui, souviens-toi: y'avait même des hippos qui dansaient en tutu) je me suis replongée dans la musique de ce cher Tchaïkowski... Et quel plaisir! Me voici plum fairy au milieu de tout ce monde de cons... (Pasque faut bien avouer que dans ce bas monde on est bien entouré d'une sacrée brochette de cons...)

Parce que mon petit chat, tu dois savoir que j'ai passé une journée de ouf, du genre "saut du lit-gestion du stress-mise en pratique du secourisme-gestion émotionnelle de l'entourage-18-embarquement en ambulance-gestion administrative-poireautage des heures durant-gestion matérielle-médiation interfamilliale-gestion matérielle-ouverture de cellule psychologique". OUfff!

Ne t'inquiète pas chéri, je vais bien.

En plus tu sais que je suis un chef de projet hors paire.

En plus tu sais que je suis une dure-à-cuire.

Mais bon, là, maintenant, j'avoue que mon petit Tchaïkowski il fait du bien...

Et me voilà volettant entre les connards... Enjambant gracieusement la flaque de sang dans la cuisine... Répondant avec diplomatie, le sourire au lèvre à tous mes chers interlocuteurs...

Aaaah Tchaïkowsky, mon Amour!

Evola on Zen & Everyday Life

2010-11-30T00:05:00+01:00

Evola on Zen & Everyday Life

Translation anonymous, revised by Greg Johnson

Ex: http://www.counter-currents.com/

Eugen Herrigel
Zen in the Art of Archery
New York: Vintage, 1999
[Zen nell’arte del tirar d’arco (Turin: Rigois, 1956)]

Kakuzo Okakura
The Book of Tea
Stone Bridge Press, 2007
[II Libro del Te (Rome: Fratelli Bocca, 1955)]

The first of these little books, translated into Italian from German, is unique of its kind, as a direct and universally accessible introduction to the spirit the fundamental disciplines and behavior of the civilization of the Far East, especially Japan. Herrigel is a German professor who was invited to teach philosophy in a Japanese University, and decided to study the traditional spirit of the country in its most typical living forms. He took a special interest in acquiring an understanding of Zen Buddhism, and strange as it may seem, he was told that the best way to do so was to study the traditional practice of Archery. Herrigel therefore untiringly studied that art for no less than five years, and the book describes how his progress therein and his gradual penetration into the essence of Zen proceeded side by side with archery, conditioning one another reciprocally, leading to a deep inner transformation of the author himself.

The essence of Zen as a conception of the world is, as is known, its special interpretation of the state of nirvana which, partly through the influence of Taoism, is understood in Japan not as a state of evanescent ascetic beatitude, but as something indwelling, an inner liberation, a state free from the fevers, the ordeals, the bonds of the ego, a state which may be preserved while engaged in all the activities and in all the forms of everyday life itself. Thanks to it, life as a whole acquires a different dimension; it is understood and lived in a different way. The “absence of the ego” upon which, in conformity with the spirit of Buddhism, Zen insists so strongly, is not however akin to apathy or atony; it gives rise to a higher form of spontaneous action, of assurance, of freedom and serenity in action. This may be compared to a man who holds on convulsively to something and who, when he lets it go, acquires a higher serenity, a superior sense of freedom and assurance.

After calling attention to all these points, the author notes the existence in the Far East of traditional arts that both arise from this freedom of Zen and offer the means for attaining it through the training required to practice them. Strange as it may seem, the Zen spirit dwells in the Far Eastern Arts taught by the Masters of painting, serving tea, arranging flowers, archery, wrestling, fencing, and so forth. All these arts have a ritual aspect. There are, moreover, ineffable aspects thanks to which true mastery in any of these arts cannot be attained unless one has acquired inner enlightenment and transformation of ordinary self-consciousness, which makes mastery a kind of tangible sacrament.

Thus Herrigel tells us how in learning to draw the long bow, little by little, through the problems involved in this art as it is still taught in Japan, he came to the knowledge and the inner understanding that be sought. He realized that archery was not a sport but rather a kind of ritual action and initiation. To acquire a thorough knowledge of it one had to arrive at the elimination of one’s ego, overcome all tension, and achieve a superior spontaneity. Only then was muscular relaxation paradoxically joined to maximum strength; the archer, the bow, and the target became one whole. The arrow flew as if of its own accord and found its target almost without being aimed. Stated in these terms, the mastery attained is a degree of spirituality, or “Zen,” not as theory and philosophy but as actual experience, as a deeper mode of being.

By describing situations of this kind, based on personal experience, Herrigel’s little book is important not only because it introduces the reader to the spirit of an exotic civilization, but also because it enables us to view in a new light some of our own ancient traditions. We know that in antiquity, and to some extent in the Middle Ages also, jealously guarded traditions, elements of religion, rites, and even mysteries were associated with the various arts. There were “goods” for each of these arts and rites of admission to practice them. The initiation to crafts and professions in certain guilds and “collegia” proceeded along parallel lines with spiritual initiation. Thus, to mention a later case, the symbolism proper to the mason’s art of the medieval builders served as the basis for the first Freemasonry, which drew from it the allegories for the proceedings of the “Great Work.” It may therefore be that in all this the West once knew something of what has been preserved to this day in the Far East in such teachings as “the way of the bow” or “the art of the sword,” held to be identical with the “way of Zen” in a singularly positive form of Buddhism.

The Author of the second little book, to the Italian edition of which we now turn, is a Japanese interested above all in aesthetic problems, who has studied the modern schools of art in Europe and America but has remained faithful to his own traditions and has engaged in a resolute and efficient action in his own country against the introduction of Europeanizing tendencies. His Il Libro del Te confirms in the central part devoted more closely to the subject under consideration, what we have just been saying.

There have been close connections in the Far East between Zen, the “tea schools” and the “tea cult” (the term used by the author to designate this is “teaism,” an infelicitous word given that “theism” indicates in our countries every religion based on the notion of a personal God). Indeed it is claimed that the tea ceremonial as elaborated in Japan in the 16th century was derived from the much more ancient Zen rite of drinking tea from one single cup before the statue of Bodhidharma. Generally speaking this ceremonial rite is one of the many forms in which the Taoist principle of “completeness in the fragment” is expressed. Lu-wu in his book Cha-ching had already asserted that in preparing the tea the same order and the same harmony must he observed that from the Taoist standpoint reigns in all things.

The author adds that it is part of the religion of the art of life. “The tea became a pretext for the enjoyment of moments of meditation and happy detachment in which the host and his guests took part.” Both the site and structure of the rooms built for this special purpose—the tea-rooms (sukiya)—follow the ritualistic principle; they are symbolic. The variegated and partly irregular path that, within the framework of the Ear Eastern art of gardening, leads to the tea-room is emblematic of that preliminary state of meditation that leads to breaking all ties to the outer world, to detachment from the worries and interests of ordinary life.

The style of the room itself is of refined simplicity. In spite of the bare and poverty-stricken appearance it may offer to Western eyes, it follows in every detail a precise intention. The selection and the use of the right materials call for infinite care and attention to detail, so much so that the cost of a perfect tea room may be greater than a whole casement. The term “sukiya”—the author says—originally meant “the house of imagination,” the allusion being not to wandering fancies but to the faculty of detaching oneself from the empirical world, of recollecting oneself and taking refuge in an ideal world.

Other expressions used by the Masters of Tea rite are “the house of emptiness” and “the house of asymmetry.” The first of these expressions traces back directly to the notion of the Void proper to Taoist metaphysics (and here we may recall also the part played by this notion, almost as a key or background in the “aerial” element of Far Eastern painting). The expression “house of asymmetry” refers to the fact that some detail is always intentionally left unfinished and care is taken to arrange things to give the impression of a lacuna. The reason for this is that the sense of completeness and harmony must not arise from something already fixed and repeatable, but must be suggested by an exterior incompleteness which impels one to conceive them inwardly by means of a mental act.

The author deals also of the connections existing between the art of tea and that of selecting and arranging the flowers in the sukiya, here again in conformity with symbolism and a special sensibility. Often one single flower rightly selected and placed is the only ornament of the “house of emptiness.”

Lastly the author reminds us that a special philosophy of daily life is accessory to the tea ritual, so much so that in current Japanese parlance a man lacking in sensibility to the tragi-comical sides of personal life is said to be “lacking in tea,” while those who give way to uncontrolled impulses and feelings are said to have “too much tea.” This brings one back to that ideal of balanced, subtle, and calm superiority, which plays so large apart in the general attitude of the man of the Far East.

If we think of the wide use made of tea in the West, and of the circumstances of this use in our social life, more especially among fashionable circles, it would be natural to draw comparisons which would show that, even in this seemingly commonplace field, as on the plane of ideas, all things of the Orient are diminished when imported into the Western world.

East and West, vol. 7, no. 3, October 1956, pp. 274–76

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