<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531</id><updated>2012-02-16T03:24:46.503-08:00</updated><category term='Paleo Festival 2011'/><category term='Das Festival'/><title type='text'>Petit Swiss Experience Project</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>62</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-2496675817413611883</id><published>2012-01-31T07:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T07:51:12.387-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Finding an apartment in Zurich</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;On January 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt;, I got a bright idea. I will move from the trouduculdumonde to the Big City, e.g Zurich.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Well ok, this is the biggest city in my area of living and if you compare with the village I am living in, Zurich is like the New York of Switzerland. I was so confident. I have a good job (not the best job but still), I am a nice person (not the nicest but still), earn money (not a millionaire but still!). Ok, I did not speak German but French is an official language in Switzerland so that would not be a problem. At the worst, I would speak English with my most sexy French accent and I should be able to convince I am the fittest to rent the apartment. I have done my plan, listed the apartments of interest, visited between 1 and 4 apartments per night, involving a 2h30 commute round trip from the trouduculdumonde. I was all laughing : “ok this is a pain is the ass, but come on, it won’t take long”.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;After 25 visits, 3 weeks later, 10 applications with cover letter in english (and then in german, I harassed my colleagues to get them translated my letter).. I am to the same point I was on January 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt;, less the illusions. It is much easier to get a job interview than to get a apartment in Zurich ! So this is an appeal, a bottle in the sea full of sharks .. if you have any information about an apartment available in Zurich, please send me a message ! I will be very grateful and will treat you to&amp;nbsp;Pizzeria to properly thank you ! There is no Pizzeria in Trouduculdumonde so I definitely need to move to Zurich..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-2496675817413611883?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/2496675817413611883/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2012/01/finding-apartment-in-zurich.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/2496675817413611883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/2496675817413611883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2012/01/finding-apartment-in-zurich.html' title='Finding an apartment in Zurich'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-7348975889066388372</id><published>2011-11-11T07:54:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T08:59:30.870-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Don't cry for me Coffeinnnnaaaaa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;I decided to officially stop drinking coffee. Coffee is bad, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUfDRULmf-A&amp;amp;noredirect=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Coffee is Evil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;. Yes. while I was sipping my coffee a minute ago, I took my decision : it must stop. Addicted since I am 14 (e.g not so long ago actually, since I am very young. I am &lt;span style="background-color: black;"&gt;xxxxx&lt;/span&gt; years old, still ok I believe &lt;span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Wingdings;"&gt;J&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1f497d;"&gt; ). &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Green tea is definitely more healthy, more trendy, more .. well, more B-o-r-i-n-g as well..&amp;nbsp; I already stopped smoking a few years ago while I was &lt;span style="background-color: black;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;xxxx&lt;/span&gt; (still a kid, as you can see). I am not drinking as much as I used to. Cafeine is&amp;nbsp;one&amp;nbsp;of my&amp;nbsp;last part of &lt;em&gt;coolitude..&lt;/em&gt; Adi, &amp;nbsp;like the swiss german would say.. (translation: adieu, adios, good bye, sayonara!). I will drink my cold green tea instead: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1f497d; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img height="345" id="il_fi" src="http://letsgethomeyhomies.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/marge.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Me, while drinking cold green tea&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Fortunately, I have still my junk food. I am still a rebel. Hamburger on the left, Kebak on the right, Chocolate in the middle. Yéééééé !&amp;nbsp; Will come a day where I would have to eat.. I cannot say the word... Hea... Heal.... Heatlhy.. brrrrr, it give me goosepumps.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-7348975889066388372?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/7348975889066388372/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/11/dont-cry-for-me-coffeinnnnaaaaa.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/7348975889066388372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/7348975889066388372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/11/dont-cry-for-me-coffeinnnnaaaaa.html' title='Don&apos;t cry for me Coffeinnnnaaaaa'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-3766347406811834662</id><published>2011-09-05T13:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-05T13:21:27.912-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Quote of the Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f9ff; color: #454545; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dt class="quote" style="font-size: 17px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 100px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/23578.html" style="color: #454545; text-decoration: none;" title="Click for further information about this quotation"&gt;Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dt class="quote" style="font-size: 17px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 100px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dd class="author" style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 150px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="icons" style="float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="16" src="http://www.quotationspage.com/icon_blank.gif" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;" width="16" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Oscar Wilde&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd class="author" style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 150px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd class="author" style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 150px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dd class="author" style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 150px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QQt9UVy0MCo/TmUvO6f06fI/AAAAAAAAPvI/R5ru3uxF3ok/s1600/oscarwilde-jpg.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QQt9UVy0MCo/TmUvO6f06fI/AAAAAAAAPvI/R5ru3uxF3ok/s200/oscarwilde-jpg.jpeg" width="145" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;dd class="author" style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 150px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-3766347406811834662?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/3766347406811834662/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/09/quote-of-day.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/3766347406811834662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/3766347406811834662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/09/quote-of-day.html' title='Quote of the Day'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QQt9UVy0MCo/TmUvO6f06fI/AAAAAAAAPvI/R5ru3uxF3ok/s72-c/oscarwilde-jpg.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-3813944335302508996</id><published>2011-08-19T06:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-19T06:45:45.722-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tunisia</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;A week in Tunisia between Hammamet and Carthage. No tourists in the street because of the Revolution. No Tunisians either because of the Ramadan. Tunisia was mine for one week. Just enough to remind me of my roots, to eat mechouia salad, makrouds and bumbaloni, to daydream on the beach, play beach ball at sunset and drink green tea at night when the temperature was still over 30 degrees celsius.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uWZWPcpdC80/Tk5n3maXNVI/AAAAAAAAPtE/5cI7-alqECQ/s1600/col+de+serat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uWZWPcpdC80/Tk5n3maXNVI/AAAAAAAAPtE/5cI7-alqECQ/s640/col+de+serat.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mA4DNxgM5yc/Tk5oOrKOG2I/AAAAAAAAPtI/b5GFKkdo1Fc/s1600/rue+bizerte.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mA4DNxgM5yc/Tk5oOrKOG2I/AAAAAAAAPtI/b5GFKkdo1Fc/s400/rue+bizerte.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FUEMWJydiAE/Tk5ocOj1LSI/AAAAAAAAPtM/n5NACRvN1R4/s1600/Mosquee+Alphaewine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FUEMWJydiAE/Tk5ocOj1LSI/AAAAAAAAPtM/n5NACRvN1R4/s400/Mosquee+Alphaewine.jpg" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-3813944335302508996?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/3813944335302508996/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/08/tunisia.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/3813944335302508996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/3813944335302508996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/08/tunisia.html' title='Tunisia'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uWZWPcpdC80/Tk5n3maXNVI/AAAAAAAAPtE/5cI7-alqECQ/s72-c/col+de+serat.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-1090537320323714291</id><published>2011-08-05T00:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-13T07:24:00.824-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Das Festival'/><title type='text'>DAS FESTIVAL In Schaffhausen</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_lNYcbIn_Qc/TjueKpM-5sI/AAAAAAAAPs8/hU3Lgu3Tv4c/s1600/das+festival" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_lNYcbIn_Qc/TjueKpM-5sI/AAAAAAAAPs8/hU3Lgu3Tv4c/s400/das+festival" width="400" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Nada Surf, Skunk Anansie, in the middle of Schaffhausen old city..&amp;nbsp; surrounded by bratwust and beers .. great, great ! Did I already say that Switzerland is great ?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-1090537320323714291?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/1090537320323714291/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/08/das-festival-in-schaffhausen.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1090537320323714291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1090537320323714291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/08/das-festival-in-schaffhausen.html' title='DAS FESTIVAL In Schaffhausen'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_lNYcbIn_Qc/TjueKpM-5sI/AAAAAAAAPs8/hU3Lgu3Tv4c/s72-c/das+festival' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-9121849267432559969</id><published>2011-07-01T10:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-13T07:24:29.138-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Paleo Festival 2011'/><title type='text'>Paleo 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #9c9c9c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"&gt;Rain was expected. Rain came. Amy Winehouse was expected but never came. Robert Plant is old but still very good and Micah was surprisingly refreshing. Overall, a very Paleo 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4qqh2X-2jq4/TjufqfYrmhI/AAAAAAAAPtA/BrYE4hrJDfk/s1600/PALEO" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4qqh2X-2jq4/TjufqfYrmhI/AAAAAAAAPtA/BrYE4hrJDfk/s1600/PALEO" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9c9c9c; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span class="gl" style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-9121849267432559969?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.paleo.ch' title='Paleo 2011'/><link rel='enclosure' type='' href='http://www.paleo.ch' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/9121849267432559969/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-york-bar.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/9121849267432559969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/9121849267432559969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-york-bar.html' title='Paleo 2011'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4qqh2X-2jq4/TjufqfYrmhI/AAAAAAAAPtA/BrYE4hrJDfk/s72-c/PALEO' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-3836185351958516814</id><published>2011-06-29T13:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-05T00:48:35.874-07:00</updated><title type='text'>If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;I want to testify at the instant that German Switzerland is currently bearing the brunt of the global warming.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;36°C that's 97°F. I&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;am not sweating, I am melting. I am melting while being assaulted by what look like starving mosquitoes. Well mosquitoes or bed fleas.. not sure. Someone from NY came recently at the office. He may have brought this scourge from the US. Anyway, there is a blood sucker in my bed every night and I look at my arms I had the very unpleasant souvenir of myself, 4 years old suffering from chicken pox.. surrounded by my sadists sisters pretending scratching themselves so I could not resist the urge to do so. This is how you find yourself, 28 years later with a scare in the middle of your forehead.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0VU0ZLQ_xDM/TguJL3dFsAI/AAAAAAAAPq8/6XW0VB0ax4Q/s1600/funny-pictures-happy-bucket-kills-cat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="182" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0VU0ZLQ_xDM/TguJL3dFsAI/AAAAAAAAPq8/6XW0VB0ax4Q/s320/funny-pictures-happy-bucket-kills-cat.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Anyway, we are melting and burning. The white skin of German Swiss are not used to that degree and intensity of lights. They are all turning&amp;nbsp;red as a beetroot and are throwing themselves into the Rhin to cool down. Bridges are flooded with people waiting for their turn to jump into the river. The Rhine is like Time Square during the day, like The&amp;nbsp;Halles&amp;nbsp;on a Saturday, or the Promenade&amp;nbsp;des&amp;nbsp;Anglais&amp;nbsp;during Summers. This is the fight for life and &amp;nbsp;the ducks have no choice than to go out of the river and to walk on the edge. And..&amp;nbsp;ok,&amp;nbsp;ok, maybe I exaggerate a little bit the situation.. but this might be because of some&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;"some minor electrolyte disturbances from profound sweat loss during".&amp;nbsp; This is what a guy is saying on his blog, complaining about the terrible heat in Kirkuk (but this guy first need to taste the heat in Schaffhausen !), a city is the Iraki desert (http://gregkirkuk2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/heat-delirium.html). &amp;nbsp;Well whatever.. a thing I am sure I did not dream is the terrific firework launched from the Munot last Saturday Night. Direct view from home. 15 magic minutes. It is warm, it's hot, but i am in love with my little swiss city.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-3836185351958516814?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/3836185351958516814/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/06/if-you-cant-take-heat-dont-tickle.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/3836185351958516814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/3836185351958516814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/06/if-you-cant-take-heat-dont-tickle.html' title='If you can&apos;t take the heat, don&apos;t tickle the dragon'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0VU0ZLQ_xDM/TguJL3dFsAI/AAAAAAAAPq8/6XW0VB0ax4Q/s72-c/funny-pictures-happy-bucket-kills-cat.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-6421618366247772213</id><published>2011-06-24T01:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-13T07:24:59.922-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Shaffhusia June 24/25 .. 1st edition</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Je les connais tous ces proverbes sur la colere : le mot que tu retiens entre tes levres est ton esclave tandis que celui que tu prononces est ton maitre, ou bien, ne prononce jamais un mot en colere : prendrais tu les voiles durant la tempete ou si tu veux que quelqu'un cesse d'exister, cesse de le regarder.. etc. oui mais Grrrrr, ya aussi : La colere ca fait vivre, quand t es plus en colere t'es foutu ! par le celebre Richard Borhinger ou parmi les classiques (Seneque) : L'homme en colere peut n'etre pas irascible.L'homme irascible peut n'etre quelquefois pas en colere, que je traduirais par c'est pas si mal d etre en colere, y'a pire : etre irascible !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jgsAEAAMc3Q/Ta59c6t7mrI/AAAAAAAAPcw/veP2qxVjM-w/s1600/colere1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jgsAEAAMc3Q/Ta59c6t7mrI/AAAAAAAAPcw/veP2qxVjM-w/s1600/colere1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;N'empeche que la gestion de la colere, specialement sur le lieu de travail, ca me connais pas, mais alors pas du tout.. alors je cherche des solutions sur internet et je tombe sur des sites qui mettent en scene des petites histoires du genre :&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Journée 1 :&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Vous sortez du travail. Manque de bol, votre boss s’est pointé deux minutes avant votre départ et vous a déclaré, par le biais d’un discours postillonnant, que vous faites mal votre travail. A peine sorti, vous recevez un texto de votre rencard de ce soir qui annonce qu’elle ne pourra « malheureusement » pas venir au rendez-vous.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Avant de rentrer, vous achetez quelques provisions chez l’épicier. L’épicier se montre amer avec vous.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Journee 2 :&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Deux mois que vous travaillez dur sur le dossier Duschmoll et Cie. L’heure de la présentation devant le client approche... Oui mais voilà : la veille, votre boss vous annonce que c’est Nathalie, votre collègue, qui présentera les résultats de votre travail car elle est plus à l’aise à l’oral. Intérieurement, vous bouillez : elle va encore recueillir tous les lauriers. Vous êtes sur le point d’exploser.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Ok, deux horribles journees et que nous propose les specialistes du net pour se pas se mettre a hurler contre les malotrus ? (dans mon cas, je ne met pas a hurler, je fulmine. Rouge comme une tomate, regard tueur, levres qui tremblent, coeur qui bat a 100 a l heure. Je ne parle pas, je crache mes mots entre deux respirations pour juguler mon hyperventilation. Je ne respire pas l'agressivite, je suis l'agressivite incarnee ! Mon seul moyen de gerer c'est d'envoyer un email au lieu de discuter, ce qui frise le ridicule quand la personne a laquelle j'ecris travaille dans le box a cote du mien.. C'est un truc horrible qui se passe qu'au boulot. Je ne suis pas encore assez maso pour frequenter hors du boulot les personnes qui generent chez moi ce type de reaction.)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RYp1_bMkl40/Ta59idrIc0I/AAAAAAAAPc0/tCZ8iFdckOU/s1600/colere2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RYp1_bMkl40/Ta59idrIc0I/AAAAAAAAPc0/tCZ8iFdckOU/s1600/colere2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Alors, les psy du net nous disent : il faut analyser les causes de la personnalite reactive. Pourquoi on se met en colere donc. Par exemple, je peux supporter sans ciller n'importe quel type de comportement .. sauf le manque de respect. Je suis une psycho rigide du respect et ma palette de ce que je concois comme etant un manque de respect est tres tres large. A l'instar d'un detecteur de fumee (mince la simple evocation de fumee me rappelle des mauvais souvenirs, cf supra), je detecte, renifle et decouvre a travers un ton de voix, un battement de cils, ou un comportement, la volonte de rabaisser, de dominer ou de mepriser. Et dans le cadre du boulot, croyez moi c est facile de trouver des collegues en mal de domination, habitues a commander a tout va. Le hic : on ne me commande pas et on ne commandera jamais. Je ne suis pas responsable, c’est dans mes genes, ca vient de Papa, un allergique de l’autorite. Je suis programmee automatiquement pour bugger au moindre signe d’autoritarisme. Et je dois dire, chapeau Papa, le systeme marche du tonnerre, sans jamais faillir !&amp;nbsp; Attention, je n’ai aucun probleme avec la hierarchie. J ai un probleme avec l’incompetence double d’autoritarisme.. de la TNT &amp;nbsp;pour moi..&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Donc, selon les psy du net, que faire quand monter en nous ce delicieux sentiment :&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;1.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Ne rien faire : Catastrophique! &amp;nbsp;Vous ramenez le bebe pas content a la maison et inondez votre conjoint de tous ces mots que vous n’avez pas dit.. Il faut bien que quelqu’un prenne ! (j’en profite pour m’excuser platement a ce propos..)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;2.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Etre agressif : Tres mauvais ! bien que je n ai jamais teste puisque je suis du genre a imploser, prostree sur place, mais j’imagine sans mal la lettre prealable a l’entretien de licenciement qui ne manquera pas de se profiler.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;3.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Etre Assertif : agir en controlant son agressivite.. mais c’est quoi exactement, ca, l’article ne le precise pas. Est ce que rentre dans cette categorie la reponse par email pleine de sous entendue, alliant point d exclamations de smileys pour infiltrer dans le coeur de l’autre son plus profond mepris. Pas de clash et plus question de ma colere alors. Le but : faire fulminer de colere celui qui le lira.. gniac, gniac, gniac.. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;4.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Faire du sport : ce que je vais faire sur le champ !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-3608215428454979716?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/3608215428454979716/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/04/la-gestion-de-la-colere-lecon-1.html#comment-form' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/3608215428454979716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/3608215428454979716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/04/la-gestion-de-la-colere-lecon-1.html' title='La gestion de la colère Leçon 1'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jgsAEAAMc3Q/Ta59c6t7mrI/AAAAAAAAPcw/veP2qxVjM-w/s72-c/colere1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-7116326910790617022</id><published>2011-04-14T15:03:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T15:03:38.451-07:00</updated><title type='text'>To Medidate</title><content type='html'>Don't compromise yourself. 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cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 236px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 350px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Saint Valentine's day everybody ! Well at least for 1) those of you that are in couple 2) those of you lucky enough for living with somebody that does not despise this celebration allegedly only marketing-based and will offer you a wonderful and huge bouquet of red roses.  If I cannot do a thing for you if you belong to the first group, I can tell you this thing in case you live with a boor that absolutely refuses to show any specific sign of affection during this day : this celebration is 2000 years old and has nothing to do with the marketing policies of some gigantic companies. Once upon a time ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The History of Saint Valentine's Day&lt;br /&gt;Valentine's Day started in the time of the Roman Empire. In ancient Rome, February 14th was a holiday to honour Juno. Juno was the Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The Romans also knew her as the Goddess of women and marriage. The following day, February 15th, began the Feast of Lupercalia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lives of young boys and girls were strictly separate. However, one of the customs of the young people was name drawing. On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. Each young man would draw a girl's name from the jar and would then be partners for the duration of the festival with the girl whom he chose. Sometimes the pairing of the children lasted an entire year, and often, they would fall in love and would later marry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under the rule of Emperor Claudius II Rome was involved in many bloody and unpopular campaigns. Claudius the Cruel was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military leagues. He believed that the reason was that roman men did not want to leave their loves or families. As a result, Claudius cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome. The good Saint Valentine was a priest at Rome in the days of Claudius II. He and Saint Marius aided the Christian martyrs and secretly married couples, and for this kind deed Saint Valentine was apprehended and dragged before the Prefect of Rome, who condemned him to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off. He suffered martyrdom on the 14th day of February, about the year 270. At that time it was the custom in Rome, a very ancient custom, indeed, to celebrate in the month of February the Lupercalia, feasts in honour of a heathen god. On these occasions, amidst a variety of pagan ceremonies, the names of young women were placed in a box, from which they were drawn by the men as chance directed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The pastors of the early Christian Church in Rome endeavoured to do away with the pagan element in these feasts by substituting the names of saints for those of maidens. And as the Lupercalia began about the middle of February, the pastors appear to have chosen Saint Valentine's Day for the celebration of this new feaSt. So it seems that the custom of young men choosing maidens for valentines, or saints as patrons for the coming year, arose in this way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;St. Valentine's Story&lt;br /&gt;Let me introduce myself. My name is Valentine. I lived in Rome during the third century. That was long, long ago! At that time, Rome was ruled by an emperor named Claudius. I didn't like Emperor Claudius, and I wasn't the only one! A lot of people shared my feelings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claudius wanted to have a big army. He expected men to volunteer to join. Many men just did not want to fight in wars. They did not want to leave their wives and families. As you might have guessed, not many men signed up. This made Claudius furious. So what happened? He had a crazy idea. He thought that if men were not married, they would not mind joining the army. So Claudius decided not to allow any more marriages. Young people thought his new law was cruel. I thought it was preposterous! I certainly wasn't going to support that law!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did I mention that I was a priest? One of my favourite activities was to marry couples. Even after Emperor Claudius passed his law, I kept on performing marriage ceremonies -- secretly, of course. It was really quite exciting. Imagine a small candlelit room with only the bride and groom and myself. We would whisper the words of the ceremony, listening all the while for the steps of soldiers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One night, we did hear footsteps. It was scary! Thank goodness the couple I was marrying escaped in time. I was caught. (Not quite as light on my feet as I used to be, I guess.) I was thrown in jail and told that my punishment was death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried to stay cheerful. And do you know what? Wonderful things happened. Many young people came to the jail to visit me. They threw flowers and notes up to my window. They wanted me to know that they, too, believed in love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of these young people was the daughter of the prison guard. Her father allowed her to visit me in the cell. Sometimes we would sit and talk for hours. She helped me to keep my spirits up. She agreed that I did the right thing by ignoring the Emperor and going ahead with the secret marriages. On the day I was to die, I left my friend a little note thanking her for her friendship and loyalty. I signed it, "Love from your Valentine."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe that note started the custom of exchanging love messages on Valentine's Day. It was written on the day I died, February 14, 269 A.D. Now, every year on this day, people remember. But most importantly, they think about love and friendship. And when they think of Emperor Claudius, they remember how he tried to stand in the way of love, and they laugh -- because they know that love can't be beaten!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Valentine Traditions&lt;br /&gt;Hundreds of years ago in England, many children dressed up as adults on Valentine's Day. They went singing from home to home. One verse they sang was:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good morning to you, valentine;&lt;br /&gt;Curl your locks as I do mine ---&lt;br /&gt;Two before and three behind.&lt;br /&gt;Good morning to you, valentine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Wales wooden love spoons were carved and given as gifts on February 14th. Hearts, keys and keyholes were favourite decorations on the spoons. The decoration meant, "You unlock my heart!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In some countries, a young woman may receive a gift of clothing from a young man. If she keeps the gift, it means she will marry him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some people used to believe that if a woman saw a robin flying overhead on Valentine's Day, it meant she would marry a sailor. If she saw a sparrow, she would marry a poor man and be very happy. If she saw a goldfinch, she would marry a millionaire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A love seat is a wide chair. It was first made to seat one woman and her wide dress. Later, the love seat or courting seat had two sections, often in an S-shape. In this way, a couple could sit together -- but not too closely!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think of five or six names of boys or girls you might marry, As you twist the stem of an apple, recite the names until the stem comes off. You will marry the person whose name you were saying when the stem fell off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pick a dandelion that has gone to seed. Take a deep breath and blow the seeds into the wind. Count the seeds that remain on the stem. That is the number of children you will have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you cut an apple in half and count how many seeds are inside, you will also know how many children you will have.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-3021667659594479997?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/3021667659594479997/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/02/valentin-is-good-guy.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/3021667659594479997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/3021667659594479997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/02/valentin-is-good-guy.html' title='Valentin is a good guy'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CVCWG-Ian_c/TVhGMzBwu0I/AAAAAAAAPYU/P-AcgGorri0/s72-c/saint-valentin.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-5378233974214008203</id><published>2011-02-01T05:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-01T05:20:37.862-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bike Trip</title><content type='html'>Just discovered a really good website that tells the story of two guys during their one-year bike trip over Asia and Eastern Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we wish to do the same, hopefully sooner rather than later, we try to gather information on the topic. Here is a good start : &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://routedescimes.jimdo.com/films-1/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-5378233974214008203?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/5378233974214008203/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/02/bike-trip.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/5378233974214008203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/5378233974214008203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/02/bike-trip.html' title='Bike Trip'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-5763863331073398197</id><published>2011-01-12T14:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-12T14:25:59.931-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Interesting quotes</title><content type='html'>If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing. -Anatole France&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. -John Burroughs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. -H. Jackson Browne&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -Chinese Proverb&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-5763863331073398197?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/5763863331073398197/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/01/interesting-quotes.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/5763863331073398197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/5763863331073398197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2011/01/interesting-quotes.html' title='Interesting quotes'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-2403750594699384896</id><published>2010-10-03T13:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-03T14:05:26.490-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/TKjv7It913I/AAAAAAAAPPA/kp3e5V01UDw/s1600/michel+et+jacques+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/TKjv7It913I/AAAAAAAAPPA/kp3e5V01UDw/s400/michel+et+jacques+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523928742201513842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/TKjuWsYRCNI/AAAAAAAAPO4/zEjLSigyKA0/s1600/michel+et+jacques.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/TKjuWsYRCNI/AAAAAAAAPO4/zEjLSigyKA0/s400/michel+et+jacques.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523927016607385810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just bought a Nikon D300S. Here a view from the plane Seattle - Paris . Amazing, isn't it ?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-2403750594699384896?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/2403750594699384896/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2010/10/just-bought-nikon-d300s.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/2403750594699384896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/2403750594699384896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2010/10/just-bought-nikon-d300s.html' title=''/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/TKjv7It913I/AAAAAAAAPPA/kp3e5V01UDw/s72-c/michel+et+jacques+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-596090690976324584</id><published>2010-09-24T10:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-29T12:20:10.554-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Switzerland I am coming !</title><content type='html'>After having been living in the US for three years, time to go back to Europe, temporarily for now, at least for 6 months. The port of call is Switzerland. I have been there only once for 24 hours. I am really looking forward to start this adventure ! Leaving on October 1st ..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-596090690976324584?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/596090690976324584/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2010/09/geneva-here-we-go.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/596090690976324584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/596090690976324584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2010/09/geneva-here-we-go.html' title='Switzerland I am coming !'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-5195404450802796759</id><published>2010-04-26T21:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-26T21:55:01.889-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Passed the NY Bar :-)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;BOLE ID: B100000000000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CANDIDATE: MYRIAM  B&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The New York State Board of Law Examiners congratulates you on passing the New York State bar examination held on February 23-24, 2010.  An official notice is attached and will contain your Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) scaled score.  (Please note that a score will not be reported if you transferred an MBE score to New York from another jurisdiction).In addition to taking and passing the New York State bar, you must also take and pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE). The passing score in New York for the MPRE is a scaled score of 85. The MPRE is administered three times each year, in March, August and November....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-5195404450802796759?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/5195404450802796759/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2010/04/passed-ny-bar.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/5195404450802796759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/5195404450802796759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2010/04/passed-ny-bar.html' title='Passed the NY Bar :-)'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-5179167189532364607</id><published>2010-02-17T15:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-06-05T20:00:21.370-07:00</updated><title type='text'>France wine producers guilty of US scandal</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style=" border-collapse: collapse; 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border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 11px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 13px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="cap"   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  line-height: 13px; font-size:11px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;The conviction brought suspended sentences and fines&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p class="first"   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;A&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; dozen French winemakers and traders have been found guilty of a massive scam to sell 18 million bottles of fake Pinot Noir to a leading US buyer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The judge in Carcassonne, south-west France, said the producers and traders had severely damaged the reputation of the Langedoc region.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The 12 more than doubled profits passing off the wine to E and J Gallo under its Red Bicyclette brand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;E and J Gallo was not involved in the court case.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;In a statement on its website it said it was "deeply disappointed" to learn its supplier, Sieur d'Arques, had been found guilty of selling falsely labelled French Pinot Noir.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;'No complaints'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The court ruled the 12 had deliberately and repeatedly mislabelled the wine as one of the more expensive varieties of grape in order to get a better price from E and J Gallo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The Red Bicyclette Pinot Noir single grape wine is hugely popular in the United States.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;French Customs officers spotted the swindle and called in investigators.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;They found the amount of Pinot Noir being sold to Gallo was far more than the region produced.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Some of those in the scandal were not even Pinot Noir producers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The judge handed out suspended jail sentences ranging from one month to six months for the most prominent wine trader and ordered all the defendants to pay fines.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The fines ranged from 1,500 euros ($2,050; £1,300) to the top figure of 180,000 euros ($247,050; £156,500) for Sieur d'Arques. The judge said that the accused together made seven million euros in profits from the scam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The judge said: "The scale of the fraud caused severe damage for the wines of the Languedoc for which the United States is an important outlet."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;A lawyer for Sieur d'Arques, Jean-Marie Bourland, told Agence France-Presse: "There is no prejudice. Not a single American consumer complained."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;A lawyer for three other defendants argued his clients had delivered a wine that had Pinot Noir characteristics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;E and J Gallo said it was no longer selling any of the wine to its customers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p   style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-  font-size:13px;color:initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;From BCC Website&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-5179167189532364607?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/5179167189532364607/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2010/02/france-wine-producers-guilty-of-us.html#comment-form' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/5179167189532364607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/5179167189532364607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2010/02/france-wine-producers-guilty-of-us.html' title='France wine producers guilty of US scandal'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-5025926785279379750</id><published>2010-01-19T15:50:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-19T15:54:52.894-08:00</updated><title type='text'>On the Top of Mount Pilchuck</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/S1ZGCF15WVI/AAAAAAAAOqw/QM6jF8_Bk8E/s1600-h/IMG_8539.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428603402583628114" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/S1ZGCF15WVI/AAAAAAAAOqw/QM6jF8_Bk8E/s320/IMG_8539.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/S1ZFrgFGgzI/AAAAAAAAOqo/nzcXc9IQAZw/s1600-h/photo+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428603014489735986" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/S1ZFrgFGgzI/AAAAAAAAOqo/nzcXc9IQAZw/s320/photo+1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;"&gt;Et voila, c est fait !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Goudy Old Style;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br clear="all"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-5025926785279379750?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/5025926785279379750/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2010/01/almitra-spoke-again-and-said-and-what.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/5025926785279379750'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/5025926785279379750'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2010/01/almitra-spoke-again-and-said-and-what.html' title='On the Top of Mount Pilchuck'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/S1ZGCF15WVI/AAAAAAAAOqw/QM6jF8_Bk8E/s72-c/IMG_8539.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-8745791400667871860</id><published>2010-01-04T16:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-06-07T23:15:05.946-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas in Nice</title><content type='html'>Nice, South East of France, December 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/S0KHrPMqTsI/AAAAAAAAOoQ/WbH4PGg6MoQ/s1600-h/DSC_7699.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/S0KHrPMqTsI/AAAAAAAAOoQ/WbH4PGg6MoQ/s400/DSC_7699.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423046078191259330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/S0KHq4DQmxI/AAAAAAAAOoI/nO4sm-n32Gk/s1600-h/DSC_7697.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/S0KHq4DQmxI/AAAAAAAAOoI/nO4sm-n32Gk/s400/DSC_7697.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423046071977810706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/S0KHqUk4FjI/AAAAAAAAOoA/LlH2qzkjdh4/s1600-h/DSC_7696.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/S0KHqUk4FjI/AAAAAAAAOoA/LlH2qzkjdh4/s400/DSC_7696.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423046062455133746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/S0KHqCOkvYI/AAAAAAAAOn4/9Xy8CweNXNk/s1600-h/DSC_7675.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/S0KHqCOkvYI/AAAAAAAAOn4/9Xy8CweNXNk/s400/DSC_7675.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423046057529752962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/S0KHp11TnII/AAAAAAAAOnw/qPgBX2SRmjs/s1600-h/DSC_7673-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/S0KHp11TnII/AAAAAAAAOnw/qPgBX2SRmjs/s400/DSC_7673-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423046054202547330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-8745791400667871860?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/8745791400667871860/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2010/01/christmas-in-nice.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/8745791400667871860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/8745791400667871860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2010/01/christmas-in-nice.html' title='Christmas in Nice'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/S0KHrPMqTsI/AAAAAAAAOoQ/WbH4PGg6MoQ/s72-c/DSC_7699.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-1294235917020973792</id><published>2009-11-24T10:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-26T19:37:50.237-08:00</updated><title type='text'>California bar again..</title><content type='html'>November 20&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4 PM : I have been proscratinating all day long, trying to convince myself that it was a day like any other. No bar exam result at 6PM, in two hours for example. And even considering that there was such a thing, what's the problem ? it is just an exam after all and there are things far more important in life.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4:30PM : Take my shoes and go for a run. Never found anything better than running to get my thoughts in order.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;6PM: just back at home. Scores are available. Well, do not feel like taking a look and discovering that I failed. I am a foreigner, I am a repeater. If you believe the statistics, I have a 10% chance to pass. No way I can do it, I prefer to dream a little longer that I could before checking the score.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;6:45PM : Stuck in my chair, I look at my screen computer. I must enter my ID to check whether my name or an error message appears. I try with wrong numbers just to get used to the error message before entering the real number.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;8PM: We are both before the screen.. I type my ID in the allocated place but do not want to press the Enter button.. Fabien opens a bottle of red wine. I think i need a glass..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;8:45 PM: Fabien moves the computer and I accidentally touch the pad.. Fabien: "Hey your name is on the screen" - Me: ???????? - Fabien : yes, take a look. - Me : !!!!!!!!!!!  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;9:30 PM: Between two extactics drunk laughs, I realized how hard I worked, how stubborn I was, refusing to consider the statistics, refusing to accept that I could not do it. Of course, it was logical that I passed !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;9:45PM : wake up my mother (5:45AM) in France to announce the news.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;10:00PM: Champagne and another glass of wine, before going to a party and relieve the pressure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;November 21:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wake up with a big big hangover (i think it is the right word for Gueule de bois). Our cat wants to eat and I have stuff to do. Nothing has really changed, but still, something inside me has changed. The belief that I was able to open doors.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-1294235917020973792?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/1294235917020973792/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/11/california-bar-again.html#comment-form' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1294235917020973792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1294235917020973792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/11/california-bar-again.html' title='California bar again..'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-275033612139798802</id><published>2009-11-20T20:59:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2010-06-07T23:13:51.166-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I paaaassssed !</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;h1 style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial, sans-serif; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;July 2009 California Bar Examination&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" style="border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); "&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#660000;"&gt;Application Number:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#660000;"&gt;11111&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#660000;"&gt;File Number:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#660000;"&gt;111111&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#660000;"&gt;Name:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#660000;"&gt;MYRIAM B&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p style="width: 39em; "&gt;The name above appears on the pass list for the July 2009 California Bar&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="width: 39em; "&gt;Examination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.calbar.ca.gov/state/calbar/calbar_generic.jsp?cid=10115&amp;amp;id=3829" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); "&gt;Information for Successful Applicants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-275033612139798802?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/275033612139798802/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-paaaassssed_20.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/275033612139798802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/275033612139798802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-paaaassssed_20.html' title='I paaaassssed !'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-1887886575091396341</id><published>2009-11-19T10:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-19T10:02:19.551-08:00</updated><title type='text'>California Bar Examination</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helveltica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; "&gt;Results from the July 2009 California Bar Examination will be mailed to applicants on &lt;strong&gt;Friday, November 20, 2009&lt;/strong&gt;. Applicants will be able to access the pass list that evening, beginning at&lt;strong&gt;6:00 PM  (PST)&lt;/strong&gt; using their &lt;em&gt;applicant number&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;file number&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; "&gt;Results will be available in &lt;strong&gt;1 day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-1887886575091396341?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/1887886575091396341/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/11/california-bar-examination.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1887886575091396341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1887886575091396341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/11/california-bar-examination.html' title='California Bar Examination'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-3059249416536332810</id><published>2009-11-17T19:06:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-17T19:06:11.716-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; "&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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Do not know exactly how it comes that I was completely addicted to caffeine and that I need to stop that, but here I am, trying to regain my independance from the "petit noir". Drinking green tea instead.. much healthier. It reminds me when I stop smoking. I used false cigarette made with eucalyptus during the 1st period. It was smelling like marijuana and I was pretty annoyed to explain to everybody that those cigarettes was in free sale in pharmacy. "Yes of course, and I am the Queen Elizabeth" could some people say.. Anyway, it ended well since it is been somethink like 6 years that I stopped smoking. Sometime I dream that I smoke one however. Well, now, I will dream that I smoke while I drink some veinte americano from Starbuck...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-5647732926729944709?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/5647732926729944709/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/09/coffee-coffee-coffee.html#comment-form' title='8 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/5647732926729944709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/5647732926729944709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/09/coffee-coffee-coffee.html' title='Coffee , coffee, coffee...'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-8329355572310991348</id><published>2009-09-02T09:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-02T09:45:08.796-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hood river</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-e27fde87491be00a" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v17.nonxt5.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3De27fde87491be00a%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331619173%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D3CDDE9D1E7586B8935AD878C7713B1CC6B2EBB44.7A90FE3539B146E963B0EDEA22CD1B536C5A576%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3De27fde87491be00a%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DKb8khezoQeriIYwthDcNX3fZbpQ&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v17.nonxt5.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3De27fde87491be00a%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331619173%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D3CDDE9D1E7586B8935AD878C7713B1CC6B2EBB44.7A90FE3539B146E963B0EDEA22CD1B536C5A576%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3De27fde87491be00a%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DKb8khezoQeriIYwthDcNX3fZbpQ&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-8329355572310991348?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='video/mp4' href='http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=e27fde87491be00a&amp;type=video%2Fmp4' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/8329355572310991348/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/09/hood-river.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/8329355572310991348'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/8329355572310991348'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/09/hood-river.html' title='Hood river'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-6231132086462785673</id><published>2009-07-25T14:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-25T15:11:31.166-07:00</updated><title type='text'>California bar, you are a pain in the teeth</title><content type='html'>Days - 4 before the 3 days marathon of the California bar exam : 1st day : morning essay, afternoon performance test, 2nd day, full day of multiple choice question, 3rd day , again morning essay, and afternoon performance test&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will take the exam in the heat of the city of Sacramento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What makes this exam difficult (with an additional difficulty for foreigners like me) is not the question asked but 1) how the essay are very stricty graded 2) how it is asked to the takers to think about very remote issues, almost not linked to the fact given 3) the fact that for some essays, there is not less than 15 issues to be discussed in one hour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you get 60 out of 100 on the esssays part, you fail. And I can tell you that the one who obtain 60 is not a looser. You can read his copy and seer that he well and fully discussed  8 issues that showed that he know and understands the law. But poor boy, either (1) he forget the 3 remaining isssues that prevented him to have a passing score (2) all of the other student fully discussed at least 9 issues and because of the ponderation of the grades, he got a lower score.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This makes you hope that the year you take the exam, a bench of big loosers (the real one) will take it also and collectively lower the level required to pass. This makes you evily hope other students fail and more evily conceal some information from the other bartaker to be sure that they will actually fail. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, dear readers, I am not that kind of person and I hope that all the takers of the CA bar exam will pass (I talk about the next year takers only) and I think especially to these poor things that take it for the 6st or 7st time, and they are numerous in this situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other part of the exam, the MBE (Multiple choice question) is full of crazy question with crazy fact that will never happened in real life. There is not good and bad answer. There is the good answer that gives you point, and the 'less good' answer that gives nothing and that drive crazy any prospective taker of the exam. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You understand the persons that think that lawyer are a sort of bizarre category of human being when you read some question. Example : Robert wants to kill Jennifer. He throw her out of the window. Unknown to Robert, Jennifer wanted to killed herself and in this prospective, carried a explosive belt. She triggered it and exploded before reaching the ground. Is robert liable for the murder of Jennifer ? an imagine that Jennifer had a incurable desease that would have killed her a month later, does it change the answer ?  ..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-6231132086462785673?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/6231132086462785673/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/07/california-bar-you-are-pain-in-teeth.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/6231132086462785673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/6231132086462785673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/07/california-bar-you-are-pain-in-teeth.html' title='California bar, you are a pain in the teeth'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-754426890484869414</id><published>2009-07-19T11:36:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-19T11:38:38.406-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Doing the same error again and again ? you are not liable, it is because of your brain</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SmNn4yLdvgI/AAAAAAAAMTg/pqKZc43_fyU/s1600-h/07mind2-190.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 190px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 130px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360242206741216770" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SmNn4yLdvgI/AAAAAAAAMTg/pqKZc43_fyU/s320/07mind2-190.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;At one time or another, almost all of us do or say something we were trying hard not to and meet always the same ruthlessness: a man walks across the room with a full glass of red wine, repeatedly telling himself not to spill it, then he does spill it, all over the host’s white carpet. Daniel M. Wegner, a psychologist at Harvard, explored the issue (&lt;a href="http://science-mag.aaas.org/cgi/content/abstract/325/5936/48"&gt;science-mag.aaas.org/cgi/content/abstract/325/5936/48&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When the pressure is on, Wegner wrote, the unconscious attempt to avoid errors consistently increases their likelihood of occurring. The same happens with words and thoughts as it does with physical actions. Tell someone, “Don’t think about a white bear,” and you can almost be guaranteed that for the next 10 minutes, white bears are all the person will think about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Under even a little stress, the problem becomes worse. If you tell people not to think of a given word, then give them a word association test under time pressure, they are likely to blurt out the forbidden word as a response. The concentrated attempt not to think about it becomes just another way of thinking about it. Wegner calls this “the ironic return of repressed thoughts.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;In one experiment, researchers put eye-tracking cameras on soccer players and instructed them to avoid a particular part of the goal in making a penalty kick. Guess which part of the goal their gazes most often fell?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wegner suggested that the Creature is with us when we look over the edge of a high cliff — that queasy feeling that we are teetering toward the edge is a symptom of our trying hard to prevent a deadly fall.&lt;br /&gt;Wegner said that therapies for the problem had never been scientifically tested, so any advice offered, however well intentioned, was likely to be unhelpful. Some recommend accepting the symptoms rather than trying to avoid them, advice that is probably easier to give than to follow. Because the problem is invariably worse under stress, others have suggested relaxation techniques as a solution.&lt;br /&gt;Whatever the treatment, there is little reason for optimism.&lt;br /&gt;“Recidivism is huge and cure is rare,” said House, who may be the only college pitching coach with a Ph.D. in psychology. “The research indicates that it’s the fear of the Creature that causes the problem. I tell people to bring the Creature with them every day and put it out front so you’re not wondering when it’s going to show up. Make it a public thing.”&lt;br /&gt;“A certain relief can come from just getting it over with, having that worst thing happen, so you don’t have to worry about monitoring in anymore,” Dr. Wegner said.&lt;br /&gt;All of which might be hard to explain, of course, if you’ve just mooned the dinner party.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;NYTimes July 18 2009&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-754426890484869414?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/754426890484869414/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/07/doing-same-error-again-and-again-you.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/754426890484869414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/754426890484869414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/07/doing-same-error-again-and-again-you.html' title='Doing the same error again and again ? you are not liable, it is because of your brain'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SmNn4yLdvgI/AAAAAAAAMTg/pqKZc43_fyU/s72-c/07mind2-190.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-5814328817184952605</id><published>2009-07-18T23:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-18T23:41:19.677-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Swearing is good for your health</title><content type='html'>Although a common pain response, whether swearing alters individuals' experience of pain has not been investigated. This study investigated whether swearing affects cold-pressor pain tolerance (the ability to withstand immersing the hand in icy water), pain perception and heart rate. In a repeated measures design, pain outcomes were assessed in participants asked to repeat a swear word versus a neutral word. In addition, sex differences and the roles of pain catastrophising, fear of pain and trait anxiety were explored. Swearing increased pain tolerance, increased heart rate and decreased perceived pain compared with not swearing. However, swearing did not increase pain tolerance in males with a tendency to catastrophise. The observed pain-lessening (hypoalgesic) effect may occur because swearing induces a fight-or-flight response and nullifies the link between fear of pain and pain perception.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neuroreport. 20(12):1056-1060, August 5, 2009.Stephens, Richard; Atkins, John; Kingston, Andrew&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;Qui n'a jamais lancé un juron en se coinçant le doigt ou en se cognant le coude ? Contre toute attente, ce réflexe courant bien que peu élégant semble contribuer à soulager la douleur.&lt;br /&gt;Des chercheurs de l'université britannique de Keele ont constaté que le fait de répéter un juron augmentait le seuil de tolérance à la douleur de volontaires dont la main était plongée dans l'eau glacée. Cela leur permettait de maintenir cette position plus longtemps que lorsqu'ils répétaient un mot plus "neutre".&lt;br /&gt;Le fait de jurer, "phénomène linguistique presque universel", n'entraîne donc "pas seulement une réponse émotionnelle mais aussi une réponse physique", ce qui pourrait expliquer pourquoi cette pratique séculaire s'est développée et persiste aujourd'hui, a expliqué &lt;a class="listLink" href="http://www.lemonde.fr/sujet/b295/richard-stephens.html"&gt;Richard Stephens&lt;/a&gt;, l'un des auteurs de cette étude publiée dans la revue scientifique &lt;a href="http://www.neurosite.com/pt/re/neuroreport/abstract.00001756-200908050-00004.htm;jsessionid=KgpflvWpYMw9QgF719vHY29sX3k9nFvD7qJMfc3yJGR0hTnnNtFH!940204909!181195628!8091!-1" target="_blank"&gt;Neuro Report&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LE MONDE.FR avec Reuters  17.07.09&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-5814328817184952605?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/5814328817184952605/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/07/swearing-is-good-for-your-health.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/5814328817184952605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/5814328817184952605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/07/swearing-is-good-for-your-health.html' title='Swearing is good for your health'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-6607040961902685329</id><published>2009-07-13T17:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-13T17:26:55.659-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Seattle la solidarite ca existe</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Les Américains ne sont pas, comme nous, collés à leurs racines, à leurs grandes et petites villes. Ils sont des pragmatiques, confiants enDieu, optimistes en leur avenir. Ils aiment le mouvement ; symbole de la vie riche et foisonnante. Ils se déplacent sans cesse dans leur immense pays, en quête d'une possibilité d'améliorer leur existence. Leurs villes naissent et meurent en l'espace de trois ou quatre générations, avec les familles d'industriels et les entreprises qui les font vivre. Pittsburgh et Cleveland au XIXe siècle incarnaient lamodernité des États-Unis, au XXe siècle, ce furent Detroit et San Francisco. Maintenant c'est Seattle, la capitale de l'État de Washington, au nord-est des États-Unis. Avec les sièges sociaux deGoogle,Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, T-Mobile, AT&amp;amp;TWireless, les grandes usines de Boeing, cette métropole de trois millions d'habitants est le fer de lance de la puissante «Corporate America» (l'entreprise Amérique).&lt;br /&gt;« Corporate America» a le génie du marketing pour détecter les attentes de la jeunesse. Ce n'est pas désintéressé. Les adolescents sont une cible primordiale pour l'ingéniosité humaine, parce que partout dans le monde, ils sont tournés vers l'avenir. Ils se précipitent sur les nouveautés qu'on leur propose. Seattle, avec ses hommes d'affaires innovants, est donc un bon observatoire des dernières tendances américaines.&lt;br /&gt;Comme tout Européen, j'ai tendance à privilégier l'histoire, et je décide de commencer ma visite par le Seattle Art Museum, réputé pour ses collections d'art amérindien. En fait, je ne verrai rien de ces collections, sinon une famille d'Américains. Je suis cette petite tribu sympathique, pas à pas. Je suis fasciné. Le père avance dans l'endroit, une caméra fixée sur l'œil. Son regard passe par la machine. Il balaye les lieux, à travers l'objectif. Il me regarde à travers l'objectif. La machine et lui ne font qu'un. Il est déjà une sorte de robot, assez primitif toutefois (parfois, il doit se moucher). Ses deux garçons sont en avance sur lui de cinq cases. Ils déambulent en fixant l'écran de leur PlayStation. Je vois bien que lorsqu'ils veulent communiquer entre eux, les enfants n'échangent pas un mot, mais utilisent des « téléphones intelligents», manipulés avec une folle dextérité. Pour eux, le musée est de trop. Ils vivent dans un monde virtuel. Le réel ne les intéresse pas.&lt;br /&gt;Seattle, tellement contemporaine qu'elle sue l'ennui&lt;br /&gt;Je sors dans la rue, m'assois dans un jardin public. Des jeunes gens courent là, isolés du chant des oiseaux par leurs écouteurs. De temps en temps, ils consultent leurs écrans portables. C'est leur unique compagnie. Je me souviens de West Side Story. Le film avait bouleversé mon adolescence. C'était Romeo et Juliette, mais à New York dans les années cinquante. L'histoire de la rue américaine, à cette époque. Un film de la préhistoire. Notre sociabilité aujourd'hui est dans l'échange texto. Elle se résume à trois mots : «I, me, mine» (je, moi, à moi). Dans les sondages qui nous renseignent sur l'état psychologique de nos sociétés voilées par les technologies, l'entreprise incarnant le mieux notre modernité est Apple. Son fondateur se donne des allures de gourou dirigeant une société secrète. Il a compris le narcissisme égocentrique de ses contemporains. Il fait précéder chacun de ses produits de «I».&lt;br /&gt;Mon «I Phone» en poche (pourrais-je vraiment vivre sans lui ?), je découvre Seattle : la cité n'a ni la puissante beauté de Vancouver, au Canada, ni le cosmopolitisme de Melbourne, en Australie, mais ressemble, par son côté «culturellement correct», à Göteborg, en Suède. Ses banlieues aplaties autour des sièges sociaux luxueux des groupes «high-tech» sont autant de jardins magnifiques, ou des milliers de «desperate housewives» tentent de positiver leurs existences, derrière les volants de leurs cabriolets de sport. Pendant qu'elles déjeunent avec d'autres femmes stressées par l'ennui dans les restaurants à la mode, leurs époux désertent des bureaux paysagers pour se détendre sur les terrains de football ou de rugby. On travaille ensemble et l'on joue ensemble. Il faut démontrer que l'on a toujours le feu sacré, c'est-à-dire l'esprit d'équipe et le goût de la compétition. Le soir, si l'on veut être fou, on va au restaurant «Crabpot» de Kirkland, où l'on vous revêt d'une bavette avant de déverser un chariot de crustacés sur votre table.&lt;br /&gt;Seattle est tellement contemporaine, bien sous tous rapports, qu'elle sue l'ennui et l'angoisse existentielle. Un ami psychanalyste me confie sa bonne fortune : de nombreux cadres japonais travaillant ici finissent sur son divan, lessivés par tant de perfection.&lt;br /&gt;Cette ville de l'intelligence moderne s'est ruée sur Barack Obama, lui offrant une victoire locale écrasante. Cela me surprend. Car s'il est assez naturel que le nouveau président ait reçu le soutien massif des «minorités» (les Noirs, les Latinos, etc.), pourquoi les jeunes cadres supérieurs extrêmement diplômés et ambitieux de la ville ont-ils massivement voté pour lui ? Dans une logique carriériste et ambitieuse, cela ne semble pas très cohérent. Jamais Barack Obama, pendant sa campagne, n'a prononcé le mot «Je». Toujours il a dit «Nous».&lt;br /&gt;Où est la connexion entre ce «Nous» et le «Je, moi, à moi» de la modernité branchée ? Ou est le clic ?&lt;br /&gt;Il est dans un soudain basculement de valeurs.&lt;br /&gt;Dans les cabinets de conseil, les recruteurs n'en reviennent pas&lt;br /&gt;Une banque alimentaire de Northwest Harvest. Crédits photo : ASSOCIATED PRESS&lt;br /&gt;Vous souvenez-vous de &lt;a href="http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=166.html" target="_blank"&gt;Délivrance&lt;/a&gt;, ce film de John Boorman racontant le départ d'une paisible bande de quatre copains pour descendre une rivière, et qui se retrouvent plongés dans l'horreur absolue d'un univers d'une sauvage cruauté ? Le film était une métaphore de la guerre du Vietnam. Le remake de Délivrance, façon Obama, raconte aux Américains l'histoire contraire. Oui, nous sortons exsangues de trois décennies de capitalisme échevelé, dit en substance le président, et cela nous a précipités dans une crise dont nous sommes les premières victimes. Nous devons maintenant nous reprendre, nous retrouver, nous recentrer, nous épauler les uns les autres. Oui, «It's time to serve» et «Oui, nous le pouvons !» Il est temps de recouvrer nos valeurs. De redéfinir l'Amérique. Aux yeux du monde, mais d'abord pour notre propre résurrection.&lt;br /&gt;À part New York, toujours en marge de «l'Amérique profonde», ce discours de solidarité mobilise la jeunesse du pays. Jamie Bollenbach, un vieux militant des associations de défense des libertés civiques à Seattle, explique «l'explosion d'Obama» auprès des nouvelles générations : «Ces jeunes sont meilleurs que nous, mieux formés, et pourtant ils vivaient avec une impression d'échec, car ils avaient le sentiment de ne pas pouvoir changer les choses. Il leur manquait cette énergie que l'on attend de la jeunesse !», dit-il, avant d'ajouter : «Aujourd'hui ces jeunes qui ont toujours grandi attachés par des ceintures de sécurité à l'arrière des voitures, veulent s'enrichir autrement. Obama a lancé un mouvement culturel.»&lt;br /&gt;Dans les cabinets de conseil, les recruteurs n'en reviennent pas : «Les jeunes disent soudain qu'ils se verraient bien avec une triple carrière dans les affaires, la politique et l'engagement envers la communauté. Ils veulent tout : consommer et remplir des buts plus nobles», note un dirigeant de McKinsey, qui requiert l'anonymat. Alison Silver, journaliste politique, ajoute : «Dans les années soixante-dix, les élites allaient vers Hollywood. Puis ce fut l'industrie de l'Internet. Puis la finance. Aujourd'hui, c'est la politique.»&lt;br /&gt;Mike Kane, un photographe de 32 ans au chômage, explique ce retournement : «Nous étions fiers du rôle de notre pays pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et l'on a été embarrassés et honteux de ce qui s'est passé avec George W. Bush. Cette arrogance ridicule ! L'Amérique est là pour délivrer le monde de la peur, pas pour lui faire peur ! Nous avons fini les années Clinton et Bush découragés. L'élection d'Obama n'a pas transformé les Américains, mais elle les a poussés à se lever. Kennedy avait demandé aux jeunes de servir leur pays à l'étranger, avec les Peace Corps. Aujourd'hui, cet effort, nous le faisons vers l'intérieur de notre pays. Oui, les choses sont redevenues possibles !» Steve, un étudiant de l'université de Washington, partage cet enthousiasme : «Il y a quarante ans, le mouvement de pureté personnelle de nos parents n'était pas orienté vers le bien-être de la communauté. Là, on va prendre les problèmes à bras-le-corps et les régler !» Bryan, une étudiante en travaux publics, me dit : «Vous pouvez être vieux ou hypercompétitif, à chaque niveau on se dit que l'on va faire marcher ce pays, on va s'entraider… C'est un courant profond.»&lt;br /&gt;Pourquoi les gens viennent-ils aider ?&lt;br /&gt;Tel un prince charmant, Barack Obama réveille l'idéalisme et l'optimisme fondamental qui sommeillaient dans l'âme de chaque Américain. La crise économique est bien sûr le catalyseur de cette ardeur. Mais cette énergie est puissante, car l'idéalisme américain n'avait plus été chatouillé depuis des décennies. Les organisations charitables à Seattle sont débordées par les offres de bénévolat. «Depuis six mois, tout le monde est venu nous aider, des cadres, des étudiants, retraités… Tout le monde !», explique Matt Campbell, le directeur de Northwest Harvest.&lt;br /&gt;En plein cœur de Seattle, l'organisation ressemble aux Restos du cœur. Elle distribue 500 000 rations par mois dans ses 300 centres éparpillés dans l'État de Washington. Les dons ont débuté en 1967, après les premières grandes vagues de licenciements chez Boeing. Dans la file d'attente, une pauvreté internationale, silencieuse. Personne ne parle, en attendant de manger. Northwest Harwest est le baromètre de la crise. L'association distribue de plus en plus de rations. «Plus 50 % ces trois derniers mois, plus 30 % en un an» , dit Matt.&lt;br /&gt;J'entre dans le bâtiment offert par l'église du coin et rénové gracieusement par un entrepreneur local. Terry Johanson dirige une équipe de 30 «tartineurs» : «Allez, faites d'énormes sandwichs ! Mettez plein de beurre et de dinde, ce sera pour la plupart d'entre eux le seul repas du jour !», crie-t-elle aux volontaires. Elle ne chôme pas. Pourquoi les gens viennent-ils l'aider ? «Lorsque la crise a frappé, ceux qui avaient encore un travail ont compris qu'ils devaient en être reconnaissants. Demain, ils peuvent se retrouver dans la file», répond-elle. Les écoles collectent la nourriture. Clare, une étudiante de 19 ans, m'explique sa présence parmi les tartineurs : «J'ai commencé à venir dans le cadre du programme scolaire obligatoire. J'ai continué, comme beaucoup de mes amis. Je ne peux pas faire autrement, en voyant cette multitude dans le besoin. Beaucoup de gens pensent comme Obama. Il faut changer la vie !»&lt;br /&gt;Voici donc l'Amérique nouvelle, qui, dans l'épreuve, se métamorphose.&lt;br /&gt;Le «I, me, mine», l'égoïsme et l'individualisme, sont devenus des poses ringardes. «Le changement fondamental est que les gens ne consommeront plus jamais comme avant, ils n'emprunteront plus jamais comme avant ; et la solidarité, ça existe», dit Jerry Large, chroniqueur au Seattle Times. Les mains dans cette ville se tendent. Elles ne veulent plus prendre.L'autre Amérique, celle des grandes plaines, des cow-boys et des Indiens, bouge-t-elle dans le même sens ? Je dois le vérifier. Je m'envole vers un coin vraiment perdu du Montana, Great Falls.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;From : &lt;a href="http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2009/07/13/01003-20090713ARTFIG00389--seattle-la-solidarite-ca-existe-.php"&gt;http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2009/07/13/01003-20090713ARTFIG00389--seattle-la-solidarite-ca-existe-.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-6607040961902685329?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/6607040961902685329/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/07/seattle-la-solidarite-ca-existe.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/6607040961902685329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/6607040961902685329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/07/seattle-la-solidarite-ca-existe.html' title='A Seattle la solidarite ca existe'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-7584657363778264353</id><published>2009-07-07T16:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-07T17:00:44.076-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Food Inc.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SlPhnPO-zfI/AAAAAAAALRo/DNeAmL2J0h0/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 207px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355872446094167538" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SlPhnPO-zfI/AAAAAAAALRo/DNeAmL2J0h0/s320/untitled.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Food Inc an exposé on agribusiness monopolies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is about far more than food though problems with food safety and American eating habits are part of it. The bigger part of the story stems from recent legislation that makes farmers and consumers vulnerable to lawsuits if they publicly discuss food, safety or challenge agribusiness monopolies. Federal regulators' compromising industry ties play a role here too. No food companies present their point of view but that's not the filmmakers' fault. The corporate behemoths aren't talking. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Movie to be seen, to become aware of our power as consumer to change things.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foodincmovie.com/"&gt;http://www.foodincmovie.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-7584657363778264353?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/7584657363778264353/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/07/food-inc.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/7584657363778264353'/><link 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width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-722754990740890699</id><published>2009-04-30T08:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-30T08:36:17.764-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Seattle la créative malmenée par la crise</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfnFbHH2hHI/AAAAAAAAI_I/aGBt_HMrVrs/s1600-h/seasea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330508703528813682" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfnFbHH2hHI/AAAAAAAAI_I/aGBt_HMrVrs/s320/seasea.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Rencontrer à Seattle un responsable de Microsoft pour évoquer sa stratégie dans la crise est un parcours du combattant. Après une semaine d'appels répétés, le verdict tombe : "Non, personne chez nous n'est disponible." Pour quel motif ? "Eh bien parce que c'est ainsi, au revoir, monsieur." L'histoire fait rire Doug Downing, économiste à l'université du Pacifique. "Microsoft, dit-il, n'a jamais été un parangon d'amabilité. En ce moment, ils sont à cran. Terriblement nerveux."&lt;br /&gt;Microsoft est à Seattle ce que General Motors est à Detroit, le pouls de sa vitalité. Or pour la première fois de son histoire, le géant du logiciel licencie : 5 000 personnes, dont une moitié ici, au siège. Il entend réduire de 15 % ses coûts de sous-traitance, renégocie à la baisse les contrats signés avec ses partenaires, parmi les innombrables start-up locales qui se sont créées à sa périphérie. Phil Palios, 23 ans, a refusé de voir ses prestations horaires réduites de 10 %. Il a organisé une manifestation avec des collègues devant le siège de la firme, à Redmond, en banlieue. Une autre première : "Jamais, explique-t-il au Seattle Times, je ne me serais imaginé en syndicaliste."Premier port de la côte Pacifique américaine, Seattle fut longtemps une ville de dockers et de cols bleus qualifiés : ceux de Boeing, qui y détient plusieurs sites et y a longtemps eu son siège ; de Paccar, troisième fabricant mondial de véhicules industriels. En une génération, Seattle est devenue une icône de la "nouvelle Amérique" : moderne, branchée. Bill Gates y est arrivé en 1979. Là sont nés T-Mobile et Amazon, fleurons des entreprises high-tech qui se sont multipliées. Modernité a aussi signifié finances. Organisme local de taille moyenne, Washington Mutual (WaMu) y est devenu un géant national du crédit, sixième organisme financier américain. Le mode de vie a suivi : là s'est créé Starbucks, qui a révolutionné le rapport des jeunes à la consommation, installant aux Etats-Unis un concept neuf : le café convivial, sans télévisions constamment allumées sur les murs. Un café où l'on n'entre pas que pour écluser une bière. Où l'on trouve expresso, viennoiseries et sandwiches frais, où l'on s'assied pour lire ou travailler en se connectant à Internet.Seattle, donc, est moderne en diable. Ville blanche avec une immigration asiatique croissante, c'est la ville la plus éduquée des Etats-Unis (51,6 % de diplômés universitaires). La plus laïque aussi : au recensement, elle détient le plus fort taux de réponses "sans religion". Dynamique, elle a été classée par le magazine Forbes, en 2005, numéro un pour le "climat favorable à l'expansion". Clark William-Derry, économiste au Sightline Institute, organisme écologique d'études économiques, évoque "sa tradition d'innovation, son esprit entrepreneurial". Seattle est aussi une ville jeune au revenu moyen supérieur de 35 % à la moyenne américaine. Une ville "cool" et verte, dans les premières à avoir équipé ses bus en moteurs hybrides. Une ville "globale" : "Ce qui nous caractérise, c'est que le Pacifique est notre horizon, pas l'intérieur du pays", dit l'écrivain Tim Egan. Qui s'en étonnera ? Seattle a voté Obama à 70,4 %.Entrée dans la crise avec retard, la ville y est désormais plongée. Il n'y a pas que Microsoft. Boeing supprime aussi 10 000 emplois. WaMu, qui s'était lancé à corps perdu dans l'allocation de prêts subprimes, s'est effondré. "WaMu, c'était le Far West. Il suffisait d'être en vie pour obtenir un prêt. Même mort, ils vous en auraient fourni un", aux dires de Steven Knobel, de l'étude immobilière MMJ. Il y a deux ans, ses brokers gagnaient jusqu'à 10 000 dollars par emprunt placé. WaMu a été repris, en septembre 2008, par JP Morgan Chase, qui a fermé son siège : 4 000 emplois perdus, 10 000 autres induits.Le chômage était quasi inexistant à Seattle. En mars, il a rattrapé la moyenne nationale et croît plus vite. "Nous sommes bien plus diversifiés qu'il y a trente ans. Il n'empêche : c'est un véritable choc", dit l'économiste Chris Webber. WaMu, Boeing et Microsoft sont les premiers employeurs de la ville. "Quand les trois licencient en même temps, imaginez l'impact !" relève Michael Parks, économiste chez Marples Pacific NorthWestern.Même Starbucks est touché. La chaîne ferme 975 enseignes : 18 400 emplois perdus, dont 1 000 dans sa ville. Surtout, elle modifie sa stratégie. La firme représentait l'anti-McDo, l'anti-low cost, le produit au plus bas prix, martelé à longueur de spots publicitaires. Starbucks, c'était "le luxe abordable", dit M. William-Derry. L'universitaire, le cadre moyen étaient prêts à débourser un peu plus pour une meilleure qualité. Les franchisés avaient ordre de mettre en avant leurs produits originaux, un goût d'Europe sous le palais, fraîcheur garantie. Mais "dans les récessions, le "facteur cool" régresse", constate M. Webber. Désormais, la directive de Starbucks est de favoriser le petit déjeuner à 3,95 dollars - café plus sandwich ou pâtisserie - plutôt que le frappucino, le capuccino glacé à l'italienne. "Lorsqu'une entreprise brouille son message, elle prend un gros risque", craint M. Downing.Amazon, champion du low cost, prospère ; mais les autres phares locaux de la "nouvelle Amérique" se mettent en veilleuse. La crise a agi sur Microsoft comme un révélateur de maux plus profonds. "Son modèle s'épuise. Il n'a rien inventé de neuf depuis très longtemps. Google, l'iPhone, MySpace, Facebook, tout ça lui a échappé", assène M. Parks. Microsoft "est déstabilisé", confirme M. Downing. "Il avait l'habitude d'intimider ses adversaires, c'est de moins en moins vrai."Barack Obama ? Le maire, Greg Nickels, fut l'un des premiers élus démocrates à se prononcer en sa faveur. Durant les primaires, lorsque Hillary Clinton devançait son concurrent de 35 points dans le Kentucky, chez les ouvriers de la "vieille Amérique", Barack Obama lui rendait la monnaie de sa pièce dans la "nouvelle", autour de Seattle. L'enthousiasme est resté : Obama apparaît plus encore comme le seul capable d'affronter la bourrasque. "Sous Bush, les gens d'ici vivaient une véritable dissonance cognitive, se sentaient exclus. Avec Obama, ils se sentent en harmonie", dit l'écrivain Knute Berger.La municipalité a réduit son budget de 125 millions de dollars et supprimé 500 emplois "par mesure préventive". Le maire devait trancher fin avril sur l'abandon de plusieurs projets d'infrastructures. Mais il entend en lancer d'autres... grâce au plan Obama d'investissements publics. Au menu : un "corridor santé" de centres de recherche en coopération avec la Fondation Bill &amp;amp; Melinda Gates, la réhabilitation d'une autoroute vers le port, deux lignes de métro automatique entre l'aéroport, le centre-ville et le quartier des universités, et un pont vers le "campus" de Microsoft pour y désengorger le trafic. Ce dernier suscite déjà une vive opposition. "Gates et Ballmer (son successeur à la tête de Microsoft) ont assez de fortune personnelle pour financer eux-mêmes ce projet", s'indigne Steve Ellis, le président de l'association locale Contribuables pour le bon sens.Surtout, dit M. Nickels, "notre avenir restera basé sur l'économie du savoir". Avec les projets présidentiels de réforme de la santé, l'investissement dans la recherche médicale et dans les nouvelles énergies, le maire se sent "en phase". Il veut faire de sa ville l'"avant-garde" de l'économie verte. "Cette région peut devenir le pivot du projet Obama d'informatisation du système de santé. Nous avons la matière grise pour ça. Et celui qui trouvera la batterie efficace pour le véhicule électrique touchera le jackpot. L'énergie propre, c'est l'avenir", assure M. Downing.Ainsi va Seattle dans la crise. On y sent une grande colère contre WaMu et les financiers, mais pas l'abattement rencontré à Detroit, coeur de l'automobile américaine. "Ici, dit M. Webber, les gens sont optimistes par nature. Ça va mal ? Cela ira mieux demain, parce que nous sommes les plus dynamiques, les plus inventifs."M. Berger est sceptique. Il a récemment publié un ouvrage, Pugetopolis, où il dénonce les contradictions du "gentil Seattle" et sa pseudo-harmonie entre respect de la nature et affairisme. Après New York et Los Angeles, Seattle, dit-il, se veut "le lieu de la troisième utopie américaine. Mais, derrière la carte postale, la vérité est que nous déversons des millions de tonnes de déchets dans notre baie, que les orques se meurent en mangeant les poissons contaminés, mais que personne ne veut vraiment changer de mode de vie". Cette ville, poursuit-il, ne rêve pas de changer, mais de revenir à la situation qui prévalait avant la crise. "Nous nous croyons supérieurs. On vénère ici le pouvoir de la matière grise, la "classe créative". Mais la crise a montré que l'esprit ne peut totalement remplacer les bras." &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sylvain Cypel - Article paru dans l'édition Le Monde - 30.04.09&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-722754990740890699?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/722754990740890699/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/seattle-la-creative-malmenee-par-la.html#comment-form' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/722754990740890699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/722754990740890699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/seattle-la-creative-malmenee-par-la.html' title='Seattle la créative malmenée par la crise'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfnFbHH2hHI/AAAAAAAAI_I/aGBt_HMrVrs/s72-c/seasea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-3966689051964955776</id><published>2009-04-29T17:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-29T18:02:15.014-07:00</updated><title type='text'>When the authors off the blog get out and climb</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sfj4kLBFWdI/AAAAAAAAI-4/i3gG6Yh2Rw4/s1600-h/me.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330283459309296082" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 309px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sfj4kLBFWdI/AAAAAAAAI-4/i3gG6Yh2Rw4/s320/me.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sfj4UwlzthI/AAAAAAAAI-w/lGJD-jKATHk/s1600-h/Vantage_25Apr090148.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sfj3_K9FTII/AAAAAAAAI-o/Fls2B8RvonA/s1600-h/Vantage_25Apr090181.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330282823637355650" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sfj3_K9FTII/AAAAAAAAI-o/Fls2B8RvonA/s320/Vantage_25Apr090181.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sfj33LY4HiI/AAAAAAAAI-g/1rGEitbHIU4/s1600-h/Vantage_25Apr090004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330282686314978850" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sfj33LY4HiI/AAAAAAAAI-g/1rGEitbHIU4/s320/Vantage_25Apr090004.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;..in a paradisiac area, 2 hours from Seattle, called Vantage Vantage WA and also known as Frenchman. Coulee. The rock at Vantage is basalt and the cliffs, talas fields, ledges etc. and are erosional features that have evolved over the last 10,000 years. We especially climbed in Sunshine Wall and the Feathered area. Both looked like they made to be climbed. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-3966689051964955776?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/3966689051964955776/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/when-authors-off-blog-get-out-and-climb.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/3966689051964955776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/3966689051964955776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/when-authors-off-blog-get-out-and-climb.html' title='When the authors off the blog get out and climb'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sfj4kLBFWdI/AAAAAAAAI-4/i3gG6Yh2Rw4/s72-c/me.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-742377771878672377</id><published>2009-04-24T10:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-24T11:08:18.165-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dating Tips for Men from the Seattleite Duff Mc Kagan</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfH_rmswhuI/AAAAAAAAIsc/6wKOVcdGfv0/s1600-h/Duff_McKagan-13819.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328320958743742178" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 210px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfH_rmswhuI/AAAAAAAAIsc/6wKOVcdGfv0/s320/Duff_McKagan-13819.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfH_e_5HhkI/AAAAAAAAIsU/TL8K2FszW_A/s1600-h/GunsNRoses.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I have to admit something on this blog. I am a former big fan of Guns n’ Roses. What.. ?! You do not remember the unforgettable Appetite for Destruction and Use your Illusion and jewels like You Could be Mine or Civil War ? Well, that’s ok but I am sure you remember &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Duff Mc Kagan&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; the glamour bassist of the group &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;that comes from Seattle&lt;/span&gt; (Here comes the relation with the purpose of this blog). &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like all the members of the group, he met and meet again a pretty decent success with the women, and proposed to give some Dating Tips for men in a local newspaper, the Seattle Weekly. Here the opinion of the rocker.. :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dating, really, is a catch-22 for men. Look, it's simple; dudes want to get laid. It goes back to our instincts. It is a male's biological function on this planet to impregnate as many females as possible, therefore ensuring population and carrying on our species. Flash-forward to a first date: A guy must fight this urge and remain calm and almost aloof. On top of this, if you really like the girl, hooking up on the first date is usually not the best indication that she may be "the one"... in my opinion, anyway. So herein lies the contradiction for men: "I really, really like her, and I really want to 'do' her, but I hope it doesn't happen tonight!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Become a rocker&lt;/strong&gt;. This occupation helped me get through the awkward "dating years," as I really never dated at all until I got sober. Those early years were basically filled with post-gig hookups or some other male-female interaction as a result of dark, loud, booze-filled haunts. Of course, I was pretty much hammered all the time until I was 30, and experienced TWO bad (but thankfully short) marriages! This poses a most obvious question: What the hell am I doing writing THIS column? Hey, don't be so quick to judge! I don't really remember those years, so it's almost as if they didn't count, right? I look at my life in sobriety as an almost wholly different existence than the years prior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Get sober.&lt;/strong&gt; Damn, what a scary prospect my first sober date was. I really didn't know how to act. What was I supposed to talk about if I wasn't yet even comfortable in my own skin? What if I got food on my face? I know I wouldn't even have cared before. So many things were going through my head that I probably came off as some sort of weird loser with no social skills. Those first dates after I got sober were some of the most horrible, failure-filled times in my life. "Hooking up" was definitely the last thing on my mind. But of course, in the end, sobriety, and the choices that I make when sober, are really and truly mine. Now my life is filled with all of the good things that I initially thought were going to happen back when I was a teenager. Hey, it may have taken a while, but I have, at last, a lot of solid love in my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. To the ladies: Make your man feel important&lt;/strong&gt;. Men are pretty simple. We require very little, in fact, to make us happy. I think we feel more vital and "hot" when we are successful in whatever our particular field or job may be. This probably comes from our instincts as the hunter and provider. When you bring "food back to the cave," you are appreciated and important. &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;(Are you kidding me Duff ? What the heck is this comment ?! Don’t you think that women do not like equally to feel important ? I give you a negative grade here ..)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. To the fellas: Open the door for your date, especially if it's to your bedroom.&lt;/strong&gt; Old-fashioned values and courteousness never go out of style. Pulling the chair out at the restaurant is also a classy move. Opening car doors and shedding your jacket for a woman when it is nippy are two things that should become habit for you guys out there. Your date will appreciate these gentlemanly gestures and she will never tire of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. The three A's: Attention, Affection, and Appreciation&lt;/strong&gt;. These are three things that women crave, and that we men don't easily or naturally dole out. The "three A's" are applicable in matters big and small, and shouldn't be tossed off as unimportant kowtowing to your chick. She will respond in a positive manner, and that is good for you both. It helps if you actually mean the things you say, but it's not always necessary. Here are two examples, one good and one bad:&lt;br /&gt;Bad: "Hey you, you are HOT! [Attention.] Give me a hug! [Affection.] That felt good! [Appreciation.]" &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Totally stupid)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good: "Are you wearing new lip gloss? Let me kiss you! I like it!" &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;(Also completely pathetic…)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, both of these would work, and neither of them are stellar, but you get the idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. Wear something sexy underneath.&lt;/strong&gt; My Seattle Seahawks (Sea Gals) cheerleader lingerie had usually been my "go to" undergarment to make myself feel good and surprise a lucky girl if the night went that far! You get the drift.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7. Don't text your date.&lt;/strong&gt; I believe that protocol during the embryonic period of dating should be as text-free as possible. This early time in a relationship should be nothing short of poetic, and it actually used to be called "courting." Phone calls and sweet notes are far and away the best way to a woman's or man's heart. An unexpected delivery of flowers or chocolates shows women your sensitive side; even Cary Grant would be proud. Don't tell all your "boys" every last detail, thus spoiling an intimate place reserved in your heart. Girls, the same thing goes for you. If you are "falling for" a person and think you have a future, tell your people that and nothing more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8. Never split the bill on a first date, especially a Valentine's date&lt;/strong&gt;. I'm old-school; the man should pick up the tab. I do realize this is perhaps an antiquated way of thinking, but you can suck it! &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;(well it is definitely not equal and not fair for men, but ok, I have no objection..)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9. NEVER say someone else's name in the throes of lovemaking&lt;/strong&gt;. If you mistakenly call out your old girlfriend's name, make some shit up, and QUICK! This is the one instance when I can condone lying. If you can't remember the name of the person you're with, may I suggest coming up with some kick-ass moniker that you can remember. You will have to call that person by the same name tomorrow, after all! A name like "my little Irish whorelette," while it may be good after a couple of cocktails and thence into the "sack," probably won't work well in the morning with coffee and danish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;10. When dating my daughters, play by the rules. My oldest is 11, and the time is fast approaching when suitors will start the mad parade of jostling for her young love. Great! I live in the real world, and haven't buried my head in the sand about this upcoming period in her life. And when that first boy comes to my house to pick up Grace for her inaugural date with the opposite sex, I will be prepared. Remember, I DO know what that little dude's ulterior motives will be. No problem. I will take the young buck to the side for some ground rules, and it will go something like this: "Hey, bud. My name is Duff and I am Grace's daddy. Now, I want you guys to have a really excellent time tonight. As a matter of fact, let me store my phone number in your cell. Now listen, I would like it if you had her back home by 11 tonight, and just remember this: EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO OR TRY WITH MY DAUGHTER TONIGHT, I WILL DO THE EXACT SAME THING TO YOU WHEN YOU GUYS GET BACK HERE TO MY HOME! Great, now that that is FULLY understood, have a wonderful time and call me if you might need anything at all."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-742377771878672377?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/742377771878672377/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/dating-tips-for-men-from-seattleite.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/742377771878672377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/742377771878672377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/dating-tips-for-men-from-seattleite.html' title='Dating Tips for Men from the Seattleite Duff Mc Kagan'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfH_rmswhuI/AAAAAAAAIsc/6wKOVcdGfv0/s72-c/Duff_McKagan-13819.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-7006222481021309688</id><published>2009-04-23T12:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T12:09:45.498-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Chocolate Holics</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfC8iNPWjaI/AAAAAAAAIrw/YbqXyeKjyE8/s1600-h/larousse.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327965655034924450" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 146px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfC8iNPWjaI/AAAAAAAAIrw/YbqXyeKjyE8/s200/larousse.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Seattle and United States in general are not the best place to talk a dessert. I gave up on trying to find a cake without ginger, without cinnamon, and without this huge amount of sugar that covers the taste of all the other ingredients. Consequently this post has nothing to do with Seattle food and would have nothing to do in this blog, except the fact that it is a recipe of a absolute delicious chocolate cake. A kind of cake you dream about before eating it, and after until the next time you would be able to taste it again. The recipe made the unanimity around me and turn any “do no like dessert’s person” into a chocolate addict. It comes from a French recipe book “Larousse du Chocolat”, a kind of huge bible about everything you can cook with the precious ingredient.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here the secret and enjoy ! : for 6 chocolate holics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;400 g black chocolate (70% min) - 200g butter - 120g white sugar - 100g white flour - 80g almond powder - 4 eggs - Cacao powder unsweetened&lt;br /&gt;Preheat the oven (180 C). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Melt the butter. Separately Melt the chocolate. In a bowl, pour into the sugar, the sieved flour, the almond powder, melted butter, eggs and melted chocolate. Blend during 3 minutes.  Pour into a cake tin buttered and bake during 20 to 25 minutes. Turn out the cake when it is still warm. Sprinkle with cacao powder. Serve warm.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-7006222481021309688?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/7006222481021309688/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/seattle-and-united-states-in-general.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/7006222481021309688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/7006222481021309688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/seattle-and-united-states-in-general.html' title='Chocolate Holics'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfC8iNPWjaI/AAAAAAAAIrw/YbqXyeKjyE8/s72-c/larousse.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-5635714354126478456</id><published>2009-04-23T11:37:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T12:10:35.422-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Spring time in Seattle</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfC1m8zezuI/AAAAAAAAIro/vP1HH-y-5is/s1600-h/uw_fountain8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327958039941009122" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 253px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 193px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfC1m8zezuI/AAAAAAAAIro/vP1HH-y-5is/s320/uw_fountain8.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; As one of the citation put in this page says, ‘Living in Seattle is like being married with a woman (or a man) always ill’. However, when comes the time of the convalescence and finally the recovery, you discover or remember how amazing and beautiful this wife (or this husband) can be. When the sun comes and because the city is of a middle size, you can use your bike to go anywhere. You can make a jogg’ in numerous places, from a park to the border of the ocean. You can also swim in the lake or join team to play beach ball all the night, with always this amazing view on this amazing mountain, the Mount Rainier. For those who never came to Seattle, it the highest mountain of the States, and actually one of the highest among all the states (13,210 feet). She’s huge and overwhelming omnipresent when the clouds do not hide her view, and is the symbol of the city with the Space Needle. Even the campus of the University of Washington was build in consideration of the mountain, to allow the students strolling in the central aera of the campus to have an unrestricted view on it.  Amateur photographers never grow tired of trying to take the perfect picture of the lady, including me. There as some crazy view point at dusk, where you can see the city, the mount Rainier enlightened by the last ray of sunshine. You understood it : If you want pay us a visit in Seattle, the perfect period begins now !&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-5635714354126478456?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/5635714354126478456/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/spring-time-in-seattle.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/5635714354126478456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/5635714354126478456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/spring-time-in-seattle.html' title='Spring time in Seattle'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfC1m8zezuI/AAAAAAAAIro/vP1HH-y-5is/s72-c/uw_fountain8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-1631244907547668003</id><published>2009-04-23T10:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T11:07:15.007-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Rock N' Roll Seattle Marathon</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfCuSdTlU-I/AAAAAAAAIqg/piLO2slBB6Y/s1600-h/seattle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327949991306941410" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 86px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfCuSdTlU-I/AAAAAAAAIqg/piLO2slBB6Y/s200/seattle.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the middle of summer will take place in the warm and sunny Seattle, a very trendy event that associates runners and musicians : a Rock and Roll Marathon. ( &lt;a href="http://www.rnrseattle.com/"&gt;http://www.rnrseattle.com/&lt;/a&gt;). As its name lets you guess, this will be a race where joggers of all kind will enjoy rock and roll music played by local groups every miles from the beginning of the course in Tukwila until the end in Seattle downtown area. This kind of even has already been organized Boston, and San Diego with a huge success. Chicago is on track to organize a similar musical event. But in the city devoted to Rock n' Roll and Grunge, where Jimmy Hendrix,Kurt Cobain, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chain, Dave Matthews born and grew, the Rock n' Roll Marathon has a particular echo, and will be without a doubt, one of the event of the year. I hope you took your ticket in advance, since there are now sold out and I will see you on the road the Saturday June 27th !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-1631244907547668003?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/1631244907547668003/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/rock-n-roll-seattle-marathon.html#comment-form' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1631244907547668003'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1631244907547668003'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/rock-n-roll-seattle-marathon.html' title='Rock N&apos; Roll Seattle Marathon'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfCuSdTlU-I/AAAAAAAAIqg/piLO2slBB6Y/s72-c/seattle.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-1536126202048529247</id><published>2009-04-13T08:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-13T08:16:26.796-07:00</updated><title type='text'>$80,000 for a Year Off? She’ll Take It!</title><content type='html'>Heather Eisenlord, 36, works in Skadden’s banking group. She would like to use her year off to teach English to monks in Sri Lanka and possibly help bring solar power to parts of the Himalayas.&lt;br /&gt;This year may be a disastrous one for the global economy, but it’s shaping up to be one of the best that Heather Eisenlord has enjoyed in a good long while. Granted, that might not be saying much: For the past five years, Ms. Eisenlord has been an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &amp;amp; Flom, a notably grueling place for a lawyer to work.&lt;br /&gt;But even by more stringent standards of fun, the coming year looks pretty good. Ms. Eisenlord, 36, who works in Skadden’s banking group, will be buying a plane ticket that will take her around the world for a year, and she’s been stocking her apartment in Brooklyn with Lonely Planet travel guides.&lt;br /&gt;Although she’s not yet sure exactly what she’ll be doing on her trip, she has some ideas. She would like to teach English to monks in Sri Lanka and possibly help bring &lt;a title="More articles about solar power." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/solar_energy/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier"&gt;solar power&lt;/a&gt; to remote parts of the Himalayas. She’ll probably hit 10 to 15 destinations around the world, most likely practicing not-for-profit law wherever she can be helpful.&lt;br /&gt;The best part of all: Skadden is paying her about $80,000 to do it.&lt;br /&gt;For a sixth-year associate at a New York law firm, $80,000 isn’t exactly competitive pay. But for someone cruising around the world, doing good wherever she sees fit and, let’s face it, probably hitting a beach or two, the pay is excellent.&lt;br /&gt;Only in a financial world turned upside down would an arrangement like this one make sense. Looking to cut costs like everyone else, but not prepared to lay off employees, Skadden has chosen instead to offer all of its associates — about 1,300 worldwide — the option of accepting a third of their base pay to not show up for work for a year. (So far, the partners have no equivalent arrangement.)&lt;br /&gt;The company is helping associates find pro bono work, and is encouraging them to do so. But the lawyers could also spend the year catching up on every episode of “Top Chef” that they missed during the boom years, or traveling around the world, “all of which is O.K. by us,” said Matthew Mallow, a partner at the firm. Other firms have adopted similar strategies, but Skadden’s program is unusual in that it has no pro bono requirements.&lt;br /&gt;As of Friday, about 125 associates had expressed interest. “I think it’s fair to say that the numbers are in excess of our expectations,” Mr. Mallow said.&lt;br /&gt;Only at a corporate law firm would the managers underestimate employees’ interest in taking a year off from the grind for what most of America would consider a small fortune.&lt;br /&gt;Not everyone could cover monthly living expenses on a third of one’s pay, and naturally some skeptical lawyers grilled the partners about job security. If there are layoffs in a year, they wondered, is it really possible that the lawyers who’d been defending trees in British Columbia wouldn’t be disadvantaged, compared with the lawyers who’d been slaving away on contracts in Midtown?&lt;br /&gt;Not only were the lawyers assured that their time away wouldn’t hurt them; in some ways it would be protective: If there are layoffs while they are away, they will be immune.&lt;br /&gt;So far, the majority of the lawyers are looking for worthwhile legal work, Skadden says, to keep them as competitive as possible; but yes, some will take the year off to spend time with their children or look after a sick relative. Someone’s planning to wrap up his Ph.D., someone else is looking into legal work for a news organization, and another associate will be joining Ms. Eisenlord on her round-the-world adventure.&lt;br /&gt;Ms. Eisenlord says she fully intends to go back to Skadden after her trip, and will be eager to return to the work she loves and the co-workers she admires. It’s possible that after a year teaching monks English, installing solar panels in the Himalayas and working on human rights in developing nations, she will come to the conclusion that there is no more fulfilling life than the one she has spent in corporate law.&lt;br /&gt;But maybe she will have some kind of revelation. If there is any silver lining to this financial catastrophe, it’s that business as usual has come to a grinding halt. Sometimes it takes getting thrown out of the office to notice there is a life outside.&lt;br /&gt;Already, Ms. Eisenlord seems to be making some sort of transition. Has she been getting any work done lately as she anticipates this thrilling new trip?&lt;br /&gt;“No comment,” she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spoken like a lawyer — but a lawyer on the verge&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                       Nytimes.com April 13th&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-1536126202048529247?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/1536126202048529247/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/80000-for-year-off-shell-take-it.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1536126202048529247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1536126202048529247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/80000-for-year-off-shell-take-it.html' title='$80,000 for a Year Off? 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Pour ceux qui auraient echappe au phenomene, FMA, c'est &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Full Metal Alchemist&lt;/span&gt; qui raconte les aventures de deux freres Edward, et Alphonse, alchimistes de profession, parti a la recherche de la pierre philosophale. FMA fait partie des rares animes traduits et diffuses sur les chaines etrangeres (en tout cas francaise, sur canal +) a des heures de grande ecoute. Et la saison 1, ainsi que le film sont a voir de toute urgence par les retardataires pour etre updates pour la season 2..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-4766681576695285714?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/4766681576695285714/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/big-event-in-manga-world.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/4766681576695285714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/4766681576695285714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/big-event-in-manga-world.html' title='Big Event in Manga World'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SdVhlOmzhxI/AAAAAAAAIKc/_L1scFBS-jc/s72-c/FMA+BD.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-656370399137168884</id><published>2009-04-02T17:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-02T17:51:22.410-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Apprenti Climber season two</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SdVdhWT136I/AAAAAAAAIKM/_Ebc-DG_vFE/s1600-h/Mount_Rainier_from_west.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320261362313977762" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SdVdhWT136I/AAAAAAAAIKM/_Ebc-DG_vFE/s320/Mount_Rainier_from_west.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well, last year it was all about compass, orientation, ice axe knot,.. and how to be the Castor Junior of the mountain. Amazing first real steps in the alpinism world despite the difficulties to wake up at 4AM some saturday. We begin again this year, maybe because we are maso, or maybe because it's finally lot of fun. Affaire a suivre..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-656370399137168884?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/656370399137168884/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/apprenti-climber-season-two.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/656370399137168884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/656370399137168884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/apprenti-climber-season-two.html' title='Apprenti Climber season two'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SdVdhWT136I/AAAAAAAAIKM/_Ebc-DG_vFE/s72-c/Mount_Rainier_from_west.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-6537606994508822413</id><published>2009-04-02T16:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-02T17:08:24.779-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Beijing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SdVTHsZ3yYI/AAAAAAAAIKE/kSx5V82tprM/s1600-h/IMG_5276.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SdVSsmgZGuI/AAAAAAAAIJ8/dkWrkH_tQVE/s1600-h/IMG_5384.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320249461012241122" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 235px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 236px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SdVSsmgZGuI/AAAAAAAAIJ8/dkWrkH_tQVE/s320/IMG_5384.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Je m'imaginais une megalopole active et grouillante et je ne me suis pas trompee. Beijing est une enorme fourmilliere en pleine transformation dans laquelles les temples et autres souvenirs d'une ancienne civilisation sont en train de se perdre dans la masse des buildings ultra modernes construites ces dix dernieres annees. La nouvelle generation parle anglais et tranche avec les manieres un peu frusques (malpoli ?) de l'ancienne. Le metro, c'est ce joyeux melange, entre ceux qui vous bousculent, vous piquent la place dans la file d'attente, et vous devisagent comme si ils n'avaient pas l'habitude de voir un facies europeen, et ceux qui portent les derniers habit a la mode, cheveux gomines, petit bouddha au tour du cou (well, c'est la mode chinoise..) et vous indiquent poliment le chemin lorsque vous etes perdus (c'est a dire tout le temps quand on a le malheur de ne pas lire le chinois..). Les rues ont beau etre modernes, elles restent poussiereuses, et les buildings n'ont pas gagnes tout les quartiers. En me baladant dans le quartier musulman ou se trouve la plus belle et plus grande mosquee de la ville, c'est surtout des Hutongs poussiereux, sorte de commerce niches dans des couloirs entre la rue et les immeubles, et des petits marches que j'ai visites. Mais quelque soit l'endroit de la ville, j'ai senti le choc de la difference culturelle. Mon estomac l'a particulierement senti aussi lorsqu'il s'est s'agit de gouter tout une serie de plats extremement esthetiques mais pour lequels il etait simplement impossible de definir ce dont il s'agissait. &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Le plus beau moment du sejour a ete la muraille de Chine. Impossible de passer a Beijing sans faire un petit trip sur une portion de muraille construite au milieu des montagnes. Une vision magique, si l'on oublie que, pour l'edifier, l'empereur enlevait de leur famille les enfants garcons pour les faire travailler toute leur vie sur le chantier. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Au retour vers Seattle, passage express de 24 h a Tokyo. Encore une decouverte culturelle, a l'oppose de Beijing. La ville est ultra propre et ultra moderne et les Tokyites sont extremement courtois. Un million de choses a voir mais j'ai eu juste le temps de visiter un temple et d'acheter un kimono temoin de mon passage avant de rejoindre l'aeroport par le Narita express. Japon : definitivement prochaine destination !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-6537606994508822413?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/6537606994508822413/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/beijing.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/6537606994508822413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/6537606994508822413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/04/beijing.html' title='Beijing'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SdVSsmgZGuI/AAAAAAAAIJ8/dkWrkH_tQVE/s72-c/IMG_5384.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-1871149410254527448</id><published>2009-03-31T12:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T12:35:15.761-07:00</updated><title type='text'>US Financial crisis</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SdJp-hWJeeI/AAAAAAAAIB8/gEFADcQvYjk/s1600-h/noname.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319430632702048738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 364px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SdJp-hWJeeI/AAAAAAAAIB8/gEFADcQvYjk/s400/noname.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-1871149410254527448?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/1871149410254527448/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/03/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1871149410254527448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1871149410254527448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/03/blog-post.html' title='US Financial crisis'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SdJp-hWJeeI/AAAAAAAAIB8/gEFADcQvYjk/s72-c/noname.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-6879473866703498148</id><published>2009-03-16T23:04:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T12:41:54.599-07:00</updated><title type='text'>American Way of Life and How to be the best : 1st Lesson n 1 by Stephen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sb9Af7rzJqI/AAAAAAAAHZU/MjdjsKD5soE/s1600-h/seven-habits-of-highly-effective-people-2-Large.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314037002661996194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 309px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sb9Af7rzJqI/AAAAAAAAHZU/MjdjsKD5soE/s400/seven-habits-of-highly-effective-people-2-Large.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sb9ABOoSSkI/AAAAAAAAHZM/Dxm6AOUIvS8/s1600-h/seven-habits-of-highly-effective-people-2-Large.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Les highly effective people ne sont pas actifs. Ils sont plus que ca. Ils sont &lt;strong&gt;proactifs&lt;/strong&gt;... Pro-quoi ? Pro c'est le cran au dessus, c'est Professionel de l'action, c'est l'individu qui manage son actif. Il ne contente pas de s'activer, il gere aussi son activite. Et oui, il y a d'un cote la populasse qui s'agite dans tous sens, banale actifs de bas etage, et de l'autre l'elite qui se proactisent en conjecture et en plan d'attaque. En fait, Stephen n'a pas cree un nouveau concept revolutionnaire ( Sorry Stephen, mais je suis sure qu'alors que tu nages dans ta piscine de billet, les reviews d'une specialiste de la procastination (echelle en dessous de l'actif) comme moi ne t'atteindront pas. Car la Lesson n 1 c'est l'Anticipation. Repetons en coeur la regle : "Je ne subit pas les evenements, Je prevoit les tuiles, J'accroit exponentiellement les succes par l'anticipation" .. Suite a la prochaine lesson.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-6879473866703498148?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/6879473866703498148/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/03/lesson-n-1-de-stephen.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/6879473866703498148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/6879473866703498148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/03/lesson-n-1-de-stephen.html' title='American Way of Life and How to be the best : 1st Lesson n 1 by Stephen'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sb9Af7rzJqI/AAAAAAAAHZU/MjdjsKD5soE/s72-c/seven-habits-of-highly-effective-people-2-Large.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-2183834960101619275</id><published>2009-03-16T22:53:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-16T23:19:01.437-07:00</updated><title type='text'>bon voila quoi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sb88L3-iFzI/AAAAAAAAHZE/dQA25sSvGgQ/s1600-h/tokyo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314032260022933298" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 198px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 229px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sb88L3-iFzI/AAAAAAAAHZE/dQA25sSvGgQ/s400/tokyo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sb88BbPFcqI/AAAAAAAAHY8/g6JvPULvvvM/s1600-h/cite+interdite.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314032080509039266" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 233px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 177px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sb88BbPFcqI/AAAAAAAAHY8/g6JvPULvvvM/s320/cite+interdite.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Donc, du nouveau , du nouveau, voyons voir..bah rien de special.. ah oui, j'oubliais presque : Je pars, la semaine prochaine, en&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; Chineeee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ET &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;au &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Japonnnnnnn.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Houuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-2183834960101619275?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/2183834960101619275/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/03/bon-voila-quoi.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/2183834960101619275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/2183834960101619275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/03/bon-voila-quoi.html' title='bon voila quoi'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sb88L3-iFzI/AAAAAAAAHZE/dQA25sSvGgQ/s72-c/tokyo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-1041042698458490542</id><published>2009-03-11T10:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T10:18:28.963-07:00</updated><title type='text'>On arrete pas le progres</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sbfxu8laFLI/AAAAAAAAHYc/t9gP6p-o868/s1600-h/obama.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311980074346091698" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 210px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sbfxu8laFLI/AAAAAAAAHYc/t9gP6p-o868/s320/obama.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;They made it : an image of Barack Obama depicted as a saint is seen on 10-inch-tall votive candles. The members oof the St. Philip the Apostle Church did not like the joke and saw the candles as mocking Christ. You can buy a small motive for $12.95 each but also invest in the 2 foot-tall candles, which go for $395...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-1041042698458490542?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/1041042698458490542/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/03/on-arrete-pas-le-progres.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1041042698458490542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1041042698458490542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/03/on-arrete-pas-le-progres.html' title='On arrete pas le progres'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/Sbfxu8laFLI/AAAAAAAAHYc/t9gP6p-o868/s72-c/obama.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-7013300236253478457</id><published>2009-03-11T09:44:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T10:03:54.709-07:00</updated><title type='text'>the secret of highly effective people</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SbfsGIvIp7I/AAAAAAAAHYU/5IY359c7aSg/s1600-h/BOOK.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311973875675342770" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SbfsGIvIp7I/AAAAAAAAHYU/5IY359c7aSg/s320/BOOK.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;J'ai ose. J'ai cede. Shame on me. Me voila en possession d'un livre attrape gogo qui a seduit plus de 16 millions de personnes a travers le monde. A ma decharge, c'est plus pour entreprendre une etude sociologique de ces 16 millions de personnes que pour m'approprier une liste de remede miracles que j'ai achete l'Attrape-gogo. Le livre en question c'est "&lt;em&gt;the 7 habits of highly effective people&lt;/em&gt;" de Stephen R.(obert?) Covey. L'auteur est un specialiste du filon de la performance a 20 dollars puisqu'il a precedemment edite les "7 habits of highly effective teens" , les "tools for taking in crucial conversation", "the 8th habit"..  Stephen propose aussi un personal workbook pour travailler ces seven habit, en supplement. C'est la qu'on apprend que les americains sont friands de cours et d'exercice pratique en tout genre. Aux US, on a souci : on prend un cours sur le sujet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;La nouvelle edition propose une introduction refondue, les editions en braille et interactives ne devrait surement pas tarder. On peut le lire en francais, mais les traduction des bouquins psy americains font paraitre leur continu encore plus futiles que ce qu'ils sont.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Le bouquin fait quelques centaines de pages dont plusieurs dizaines sont des exemples inutiles de personnes de tout age et de tout age qui ont appliques avec succes les principes du livre, l'auteur etant le premier a se mettre en scene dans ses examples.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La substance du bouquin, ce sont ces fameux 7 principes qui revolutionnent notre vie, et qui feront chacun l'objet d'un billet different. Autant vous dire toute de suite qu'ils ne sont pas revolutionnaires, relevent au contraire d'un bon sens dont, certes, nous somme beaucoup a manquer. Le livre presente cependant plusieurs points tres interessant pour chacune des habitudes que je tenterais de synthetiser. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-7013300236253478457?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/7013300236253478457/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/03/secret-of-highly-effective-people.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/7013300236253478457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/7013300236253478457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/03/secret-of-highly-effective-people.html' title='the secret of highly effective people'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SbfsGIvIp7I/AAAAAAAAHYU/5IY359c7aSg/s72-c/BOOK.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-8546943330793584487</id><published>2009-03-11T09:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T09:43:11.234-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Clear, cold morning across the Sound</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SbfqD9ARE7I/AAAAAAAAHYM/pN0WlUQ27eo/s1600-h/lune.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311971639142978482" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 296px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 136px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SbfqD9ARE7I/AAAAAAAAHYM/pN0WlUQ27eo/s320/lune.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;7:42 AM "Arctic air and clear skies gave area sky watchers a clear view of the moon as it set behind the Olympics this morning. It helped light the Vashon ferry as it heads to Vashon from Fauntleroy this morning. The weather is expected to remain clear and cold today." Seattle times.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ce matin, vue imparable depuis le balcon d'une lune ronde comme un disque solaire, tout pres du bord de l'eau. Des fois, ca prend du sens de se lever "aux aurores"..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-8546943330793584487?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/8546943330793584487/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/03/clear-cold-morning-across-sound.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/8546943330793584487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/8546943330793584487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/03/clear-cold-morning-across-sound.html' title='Clear, cold morning across the Sound'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SbfqD9ARE7I/AAAAAAAAHYM/pN0WlUQ27eo/s72-c/lune.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-4231667308375921649</id><published>2009-03-09T16:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-09T16:15:22.843-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Regime detox de mars</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SbWjAWe832I/AAAAAAAAHX8/5QbiEFDmcJM/s1600-h/souris.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311330561984094050" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 218px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SbWjAWe832I/AAAAAAAAHX8/5QbiEFDmcJM/s320/souris.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A bas les pesticides, les insecticides, les fongicides et autres produits en ides qui s’accumulent dans notre organisme. Vive le the, les legumes bio et cereales completes. Ca dure 10 jours et ca revigore n’importe quel loukoum. Ok. Bon. Je vais tenter d'essayer. Conclusion dans quelques jours .. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-4231667308375921649?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/4231667308375921649/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/03/regime-detox-de-mars.html#comment-form' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/4231667308375921649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/4231667308375921649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/03/regime-detox-de-mars.html' title='Regime detox de mars'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SbWjAWe832I/AAAAAAAAHX8/5QbiEFDmcJM/s72-c/souris.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-355320235309159756</id><published>2009-03-09T12:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-09T12:14:34.683-07:00</updated><title type='text'>BBP  (Bulletin Bon Plan)</title><content type='html'>Pour les jeunes ecolo-presses, voici un bon petit tuyau sur le net, pour trouver des produits bio, naturels et de super qualite: &lt;a href="http://www.greenrepublic.fr/"&gt;http://www.greenrepublic.fr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A essayer particulierement : l huile au Jasmin de Tade qui donne l'impression d'etre couverte de fleurs de jasmin  et la creme fraiche (aucun agent conservateur) de Codina. La creme de jour Jasmin (oui j'aime cette plante..) de Forest People est aussi particulierement prometteuse.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-355320235309159756?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/355320235309159756/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/03/bbp-bulletin-bon-plan.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/355320235309159756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/355320235309159756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2009/03/bbp-bulletin-bon-plan.html' title='BBP  (Bulletin Bon Plan)'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-1713524229498881960</id><published>2008-11-12T18:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T18:27:47.067-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mac cain is sleeping like a baby. he sleeps two hours, wake up and cry</title><content type='html'>Oui l’échec, c’est moche, tres moche meme. Mais John my friend, je te le dis comme je le pense : celle-ci tu l’a pas vole, et je me fais un devoir de t’enoncer la liste des anneries que tu as commise : radicalisation de ton discours pour plaire la frange extreme de ton partie, nomination de l’autre bouffonne (a prononcer avec l’accent nicois) comme candidat a la vice presidence, references permanentes a ton passe dans l’armee et a tes qualites de Maverick, discours teigneux et agressif a l’oppose de ta veritable personnalite et j’en oublie surement. Je saupoudre tout cela de 10 ans de Georges W Bush, et il est evident que tu n’avais aucune chance. Tu passes maintenant dans des shows televises de seconde zone (Tonight Show with Jay Leno) pour faire ton auto critique devant des millions d’americains, et tu penses que le probleme, c’était ta personnalite (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5136102.ece). Are you kidding me ? En tout cas, John, merci de ton concession discours juste apres l’annonce des resultats (disponible ici  &lt;a href="http://www.johnmccain.com/splash110408.htm"&gt;http://www.johnmccain.com/splash110408.htm&lt;/a&gt;). Comme quoi, un bon echec, ca remet les idees en place (Message de dernieres minute aux correcteurs du bar exam : les miennes sont parfaitement rangees)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-1713524229498881960?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/1713524229498881960/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/11/mac-cain-is-sleeping-like-baby-he.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1713524229498881960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1713524229498881960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/11/mac-cain-is-sleeping-like-baby-he.html' title='Mac cain is sleeping like a baby. he sleeps two hours, wake up and cry'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-6918505299317985429</id><published>2008-11-12T17:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T12:40:15.702-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"Yes We Can" Remixed</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SsV2O4fCgjk&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SsV2O4fCgjk&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-6918505299317985429?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/6918505299317985429/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/6918505299317985429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/6918505299317985429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post.html' title='&quot;Yes We Can&quot; Remixed'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-1677772697900559422</id><published>2008-11-12T17:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T17:28:22.596-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Election americains vu d'un canape (mais d'un canape aux US)</title><content type='html'>Il fallait sortir dans la rue pour participer a la liesse collective et communier avec les americains dans ce moment d'emotion historiques pour temoigner aupres de nos enfants et petits enfants, mais aussi aventuriers de ce blog, de l'intensite de la joie de ce peuple ratatine et lamine par deux mandat de Georges W Bush.. Oui, oui et oui.  Et c'est d'ailleurs la mission qui fut assignee au courageux co-auteur de ce blog qui, en  ce soir du 04 novembre, aux alentours de 21h,  enfourcha vaillamment son velo malgre la pluie et le vent pour aller retrouver au centreville de Seattle, un ami americain pur souche, qui, quelques minutes auparavant, nous avais temoigne son bonheur dans un sms tres parlant : "Obama elected, it's better than sex at Christmas". Pendant ce temps, tranquillement enfoncee dans mon canape, je communiais avec moi-meme et avec la television pour offrir a mes futurs enfants, petits enfants mais aussi aventuriers de ce blog une lecture inedite de ce soir du 04 Novembre. Dans mes tongs, mon jogging, ma mug de cafe d'un cofe, et mon pot de Haggen Daz vanille de l'autre, je me suis sentie pleinement americaine. Je comprenais meme tout ce qui se disait a la television. Une bonne partie de la soiree a ete consacre a la portee symbolique de cette election pour le afro americains. Ce sujet avait ete soigneusement eviter durant toute la campagne pour eviter de faire de Barack Obama le seul candidat des noirs. En les voyant pleurer, en les ecoutant parler, j'ai ressenti la puissance du message vehicule par cette election et c'etait magnifique. Je me suis endormie sur le discours du nouveau President, portee par toute l'esperance qu'il a su insuffler, heureuse d'etre dans un pays qui a fait le bon choix et dans un canape chaud avec mon chat pour bouillote.&lt;br /&gt;. Les jours passent mais l'allegresse persiste, que ce soit a la fac, ou a l'occasion de concert de musique blues ou la salle fait une innovation au chanteur lorsqu'il parle du resultat de l'election. Dans cet Etat majoritairement democrate, il est difficile de trouver une personne decue par le resultat des elections, mais j'en ai quand meme trouve un, un Chinois Erasmus, qui n'a cependant pas su me dire pourquoi...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-1677772697900559422?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/1677772697900559422/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/11/election-americains-vu-dun-canape-mais.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1677772697900559422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/1677772697900559422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/11/election-americains-vu-dun-canape-mais.html' title='Election americains vu d&apos;un canape (mais d&apos;un canape aux US)'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-7889769163540319758</id><published>2008-11-12T17:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T17:05:28.980-08:00</updated><title type='text'>J-9</title><content type='html'>Ca fait quelques jours que mon ventre gargouille anormalement, voir meme a plein tube. Le matin, je me disais que le cafe sur un estomac  ajeun d'une 30aine d'annee, ca commence a plus le faire, le midi, c'etait surement que j'avais faim et le soir, un signe que je devais arreter la junk food (demain j'ai dit). Et puis je me suis rappele la chose suivante :&lt;br /&gt;"Results from the July 2008 California Bar Examination will be mailed to applicants on Friday, November 21, 2008. Applicants will be able to access the pass list that evening, beginning at 6:00 PM  (PST) using their applicant number and file number.&lt;br /&gt;Results will be available in 9 days".&lt;br /&gt;Et je me suis aussi rappelee que : 10 pour cent de reussite des etrangers, et C'est reparti pour 3 mois de revision pour la prochaine session en cas d'echec. Bref, du concentre de bonheur qui me tombe sur la tete. J'en demandais pas tant..&lt;br /&gt;Bref, en langague cru : j'ai les lebou, les chocotes, les chtons, j'attrape la chienne (merci amis Quebecois pour cette derniere expression)&lt;br /&gt;En meme temps, un examen dans une vie c'est rien qu'un bout de papier a rajouter sur son CV, rien qu'une raison de plus de raler si on trouve pas un boulot interessant et bien paye, rien qu'un fichu systeme de selection selon des bases que je conteste (des QCM en droit .. pathetiques..). Ca donne des grosses tetes enflees par la fierte de la reussite ( sacre maladie chez les avocats ) sur des petits corps sans muscle et bedonnants (ca, c'est le drame des professions intellectuelles). Ca donne encore pire : de la credibilite. Ce bout de papier rikiki, ca conditionne votre serieux, la confiance qu'on vous porte, votre intelligence. Ca non plus je cautionne pas. En bonne francaise, je devrais faire la greve de diplomes pour manifester. Enfin je ferais ca dans deux jours, juste apres avoir passe mon diplome d'alpinisme..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-7889769163540319758?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/7889769163540319758/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/11/j-9.html#comment-form' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/7889769163540319758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/7889769163540319758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/11/j-9.html' title='J-9'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-7526450086153131647</id><published>2008-11-05T12:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T18:50:47.502-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Election Night</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SRH-IdzoyxI/AAAAAAAAEgQ/o_bAnEtfUHM/s1600-h/2008353038.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265268860766440210" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 250px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 226px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SRH-IdzoyxI/AAAAAAAAEgQ/o_bAnEtfUHM/s400/2008353038.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Yesterday we witnessed history with the election of Barack. Until the last minute I was hoping but not holding my breath, still cooled down from the last two "elections". This campaign was a long wait I have to say and this improbable time where the TV called the race finally happened. In the moment, a deep feeling of serenity, admiration and joy overwhelmed me.&lt;br /&gt;I guess our parents had the same feelings of being in a history book when the Berlin's Wall fell.&lt;br /&gt;After the moving images of people crying, the speeches of Mc Cain and Barack, it was time to anchor this in reality and off again on my bike I was headed for Capitol Hill in the cool and humid night. Cars where honking and following the crowd becoming denser and denser I arrived at the corner of Pike St and Broadway. The cops had secured the blocks, the TV helo roaring above and everybody was converging, huging strangers, kids, older folks, all colors coming together. It was like a big 8 year big grey cloud of the kind of those we host around here had just lifted and the sun was shining again. People were yelling to me " I am proud to be an American again", "democracy is back", "Thank you my fellow Americans". I finaly found Robert wearing his Obama T shirt with his friends in the crowd. People were drinking openly (can you imagine?) and fireworks were launched from the emptied bottles. Improvised sound systems were pouring music from the windows. That had been a while I hadn't admired this country so much. We stayed there in these suspended moments, happy, very happy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SRH9_DcNqAI/AAAAAAAAEgI/etzwgJ6bEcQ/s1600-h/3005173288_3cec6b651c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265268699070048258" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SRH9_DcNqAI/AAAAAAAAEgI/etzwgJ6bEcQ/s320/3005173288_3cec6b651c.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SRH96u8AbqI/AAAAAAAAEgA/9wrFQkFZY_E/s1600-h/3004335559_e2de8a3928.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265268624846778018" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SRH96u8AbqI/AAAAAAAAEgA/9wrFQkFZY_E/s400/3004335559_e2de8a3928.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-7526450086153131647?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/7526450086153131647/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/11/election-night-at-seattle.html#comment-form' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/7526450086153131647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/7526450086153131647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/11/election-night-at-seattle.html' title='Election Night'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SRH-IdzoyxI/AAAAAAAAEgQ/o_bAnEtfUHM/s72-c/2008353038.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-8839619802688536519</id><published>2008-11-05T11:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T11:47:39.134-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Editorial du Monde - 05 Novembre</title><content type='html'>D'abord il faut écrire ces mots en toutes lettres. Les lire lentement à haute voix pour mesurer l'ampleur de la nouvelle, sa charge d'histoire et d'émotion : le peuple américain vient d'élire à la Maison Blanche un homme à la peau noire. Quelle intelligence, quelle maestria, quel sang-froid aussi a-t-il fallu à Barack Obama pour enlever un scrutin qui, rappelons-le, était tout sauf acquis, si l'on se reporte moins d'un an en arrière. Combien d'écueils évités, de pesanteurs et de préjugés vaincus, avant de donner par sa victoire un puissant signal d'optimisme à l'Amérique et au reste du monde. Obama a fait coïncider l'espoir avec le noir. Sans que jamais, et ce fut sa virtuosité, il apparaisse comme le candidat d'une communauté.&lt;br /&gt;Mêlant sa jeunesse à la sagesse qui n'a pas d'âge, le sénateur de l'Illinois a su dépasser les fractures originelles d'une nation née dans l'esclavage et la ségrégation pour la rattacher à son idéal fondateur, le fameux "E pluribus unum" : faire un seul de plusieurs; considérer que la multitude des origines n'empêche pas le partage d'une aspiration commune.&lt;br /&gt;Président postracial? Oui, et surtout légitime pour se faire entendre sur les deux berges de cette cicatrice mal refermée entre Noirs et Blancs, ce passé "qui n'est même pas passé" comme il l'a déclaré, citant Faulkner, dans son exceptionnel discours de Philadelphie, le 18 mars, où s'est imposée sa quête forcenée et pourtant si calme, si sûre, d'une "Union plus parfaite".&lt;br /&gt;Pour vaincre, il devait convaincre.&lt;br /&gt;Barack Obama l'a fait en racontant une histoire "qui n'aurait été possible dans aucun autre pays du monde" ; son histoire métisse qui plonge ses racines en Afrique et en Asie. Un père Kényan (et non descendant d'esclave), une grand-mère paternelle vivant sur les bords du lac Victoria, une aïeule maternelle blanche, décédée la veille de son sacre, pleine d'amour et de préventions raciales, craignant les Noirs autant que l'ancien mentor d'Obama, le révérend Wright, pouvait fustiger les Blancs.&lt;br /&gt;Le nouveau président a transcendé les tensions pour atteindre l'essentiel : placer dans une seule balance rancœurs noires et inquiétudes blanches, les unir dans un même dessein de justice. Il est ainsi le premier à s'affranchir d'une lourde et longue chaîne qui va des premiers esclaves bâtisseurs du Capitole au mouvement des droits civiques. De Martin Luther King à Malcolm X, de Rosa Parks (jadis verbalisée pour n'avoir pas cédé sa place à un Blanc dans un bus en Alabama), à Condy Rice ou à Colin Powell propulsés vers les sommets de l'Etat.&lt;br /&gt;"Avant même d'être élu, Obama a fait plus pour la cause noire dans le monde que Martin Luther King", a pu déclarer ces jours-ci en privé un chef d'Etat Africain. "Ce sera d'abord un président américain", a jugé un autre. Parfait résumé de la scène qui va se jouer maintenant : les Etats-Unis ont en effet choisi un Américain qui défendra le leadership et les intérêts américains – jusqu'au protectionnisme –, et nul doute que des millions de Noirs se sentiront désormais plus américains qu'ils ne l'étaient avant, sans que des millions de Blancs s'en trouvent lésés.&lt;br /&gt;"America is back", avait claironné Ronald Reagan en 1980. "America is black", nous dit aujourd'hui la plus grande puissance de la planète, une puissance meurtrie par ses guerres sans fin, par son image défaite, par la haine inouïe et insupportable qu'a pu susciter l'administration sortante, son repli sur soi, son manichéisme et ses réflexes anachroniques aux relents de guerre froide.&lt;br /&gt;Après avoir par deux fois élu George W. Bush, dans un virage incroyable d'audace, de dynamisme et de foi en ses propres ressources, l'Amérique met ainsi un terme à sa révolution conservatrice faite de dérégulation et de loi sauvage du marché, achevée dans la crise des subprimes et l'écroulement du système financier. Grâce à son charisme et à sa lucidité, Obama s'impose ainsi comme l'homme du moment, l'homme du maintenant de l'Amérique, rejetant brutalement dans un hier sombre le président sortant et John McCain, qui prétendait lui succéder.&lt;br /&gt;Voilà la chance de ce pays, et celle de ses partenaires. Celle aussi de ses ennemis, à commencer par l'islamisme armé qui s'est nourri d'une idéologie bushiste belliqueuse, de ses slogans répulsifs sur l'"axe du Mal", de ses pratiques indignes d'une démocratie, de Guantanamo à Abou Ghraib. Après Bush enfermé dans ses certitudes démenties par la réalité, Obama offre au monde un autre visage, en même temps qu'à l'Amérique l'occasion tant espérée de se regarder en face, dans un respect retrouvé de soi, de ses valeurs et de ses institutions politiques.&lt;br /&gt;"Obama va régénérer la marque Amérique comme Jean Paul II a relevé la marque papauté", note avec esprit le commentateur Andrew Sullivan. De l'avis de Jean-David Levitte, conseiller diplomatique de Nicolas Sarkozy et excellent connaisseur des Etats-Unis, où il représenta longtemps la France, le nouveau président "ne porte pas une vision différente du monde. Il s'est construit seul et ne doit rien à personne".&lt;br /&gt;Ayant forgé lui-même ce qu'il est, son message et son programme, "il n'est pas marqué par une idéologie démocrate" qui viendrait se substituer à la précédente.&lt;br /&gt;Le maître mot qui vient au sujet de Barack Obama, c'est son pragmatisme. Sans doute sera-t-il plus coopératif avec ses alliés, adepte du softpower, plus enclin à chercher le dialogue là où il a cessé, comme en Iran. "Mais son multilatéralisme n'ira pas très loin, prévient Hubert Védrine, l'ancien ministre des affaires étrangères du gouvernement Jospin. Jamais il ne fera dépendre la politique des Etats Unis d'une réunion à l'ONU." Entouré des équipes diplomatiques de Bill Clinton1 (1992-1996), Obama a inversé les rôles face à McCain. Il a paru mettre l'expérience de son côté. Et c'est son rival qui est devenu au fil des jours le candidat inquiétant, peu sûr de lui. Par son slogan "le changement crédible" ("change we can believe in"), le nouveau président a annoncé la couleur : il fera son possible, tout ce qui peut réussir pour réduire les injustices, éduquer, soigner, aider les gens à se loger, à trouver un emploi, dans une approche où l'Etat joue son rôle sans pour autant révoquer l'économie de marché.&lt;br /&gt;Obama est un "possibiliste". S'il est juste de le comparer à John Kennedy, ("un réaliste brillamment déguisé en romantique"), il faut ajouter aussitôt qu'il est l'homme de son époque, le mieux en phase assurément pour plonger l'Amérique dans le bain multipolaire de ce XXIe siècle.&lt;br /&gt;Sur chaque dossier ou presque, hormis l'idée directrice consistant à s'affranchir au plus vite de l'héritage Bush, Barack Obama s'en est tenu à de grandes orientations, comptant sur ses facultés de compréhension rapide pour prendre les décisions appropriées.&lt;br /&gt;Porté au pouvoir sans doctrine véritablement établie, le voilà chargé du rêve américain, ouvert et souriant, préférant le calme au drame, la raison à l'excès. Il est l'homme qu'il faut. A lui d'inscrire ce moment dans la marche du temps.&lt;br /&gt;Eric Fottorino&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-8839619802688536519?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/8839619802688536519/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/11/editorial-du-monde-05-novembre.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/8839619802688536519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/8839619802688536519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/11/editorial-du-monde-05-novembre.html' title='Editorial du Monde - 05 Novembre'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-9076793470367175964</id><published>2008-10-31T08:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-31T08:59:25.254-07:00</updated><title type='text'>12 heures de course .. vue de mon canap', ca a l'air easy like pie..</title><content type='html'>Que font les louf' de Seattleites quand vient l'hiver et la pluie ? Ils courent pardi, mais pas une heure ni deux heures, mais 12 heures.. On est pas seattleites mais on est surement un peu louf' puisqu'on a decide de participer (l'essentiel est de participer) a cette course de maboules sur pattes qui se deroulera dans un des parcs de la ville. Top depart, en principe sous le pluie, demain matin a 7h. Affaire a suivre.. &lt;br /&gt;Pour en savoir plus : &lt;a href="http://www.carkeek12hour.com/"&gt;http://www.carkeek12hour.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-9076793470367175964?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/9076793470367175964/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/10/12-heures-de-course-vue-de-mon-canap-ca.html#comment-form' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/9076793470367175964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/9076793470367175964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/10/12-heures-de-course-vue-de-mon-canap-ca.html' title='12 heures de course .. vue de mon canap&apos;, ca a l&apos;air easy like pie..'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-9186191153386326447</id><published>2008-10-30T13:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-30T13:04:35.860-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A vos citrouilles</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SQoTJ7hlYxI/AAAAAAAAEe4/vzdz3O8CbQg/s1600-h/citrouil.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263040175854150418" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 229px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SQoTJ7hlYxI/AAAAAAAAEe4/vzdz3O8CbQg/s320/citrouil.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dans la perspective d'Halloween, des Patterns des candidats a l'election presidentielles, et de leur epouses ont ete disponibles. Si vous ne les voyez pas assez dans les journaux ou a la television, voici l'occasion unique des les immortaliser en citrouille. Les patterns sont disponibles a l'adresse suivante : &lt;a href="http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_lifestyles/political_pumpkins/"&gt;http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_lifestyles/political_pumpkins/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-9186191153386326447?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/9186191153386326447/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/10/vos-citrouilles.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/9186191153386326447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/9186191153386326447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/10/vos-citrouilles.html' title='A vos citrouilles'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SQoTJ7hlYxI/AAAAAAAAEe4/vzdz3O8CbQg/s72-c/citrouil.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-8574663458868892299</id><published>2008-10-28T16:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T12:33:01.294-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Local News : Brain injury gives mom a "foreign" accent</title><content type='html'>After a serious accident in 1981, life had become fairly normal for CindyLou Romberg, a caregiver and motorcycle enthusiast living in Washington's Olympic Peninsula. All that changed last year, when out of nowhere, she began talking like someone who'd grown up on the European continent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her diagnosis: A rare condition called Foreign Accent Syndrome. Romberg's speech changes without warning. Once, at a diner stop during a charity bike run, she rattled off something that sounded Swedish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1981, Romberg, then in her 20s, fell out of a moving Toyota and hit the pavement, splitting her head from front to back. For months afterward, she suffered terrible headaches. One day last year, her back was bothering her, and she decided to go to a local chiropractor instead. He tried an adjustment, then tried it again. But something wasn't right. That night, her neck swelled up. By the next day, a Friday, the swelling had subsided. Then, that night, she went downstairs to talk to her daughter, and all that came out was gibberish. Doctors weren't sure what was wrong. Eventually, her speech returned, but sounded like she'd come from Berlin. Finally, a doctor at Harborview told her: I think you have Foreign Accent Syndrome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first widely recognized case of Foreign Accent Syndrome, or FAS, involved a Norwegian woman struck by a piece of shrapnel during World War II. Afterward, she emerged with what sounded like a German accent and, given the times, was shunned by her community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Romberg doesn't blame the chiropractor. It's not, she points out, as if he'd said, "I'm going to crack your neck today and make you talk French."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seattle Times 10/27/2008&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8993663115016767531-8574663458868892299?l=usa-fr.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/feeds/8574663458868892299/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/10/brain-injury-gives-local-mom-foreign.html#comment-form' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/8574663458868892299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8993663115016767531/posts/default/8574663458868892299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://usa-fr.blogspot.com/2008/10/brain-injury-gives-local-mom-foreign.html' title='Local News : Brain injury gives mom a &quot;foreign&quot; accent'/><author><name>Myriam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04093289256041426948</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sHFibeoAzHs/TmNs-cc57NI/AAAAAAAAPts/lw8POPe4Rk4/s220/de.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993663115016767531.post-4419228958812231934</id><published>2008-10-27T13:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T12:39:04.650-07:00</updated><title type='text'>a Blog is born</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfDBfyNqegI/AAAAAAAAIr4/5NnjXAh3bCo/s1600-h/Seatte.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327971110978484738" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 260px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 203px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfDBfyNqegI/AAAAAAAAIr4/5NnjXAh3bCo/s320/Seatte.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This blog is created to share with the people we love our daily life in Seattle, and to allow ever&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfDB3x8JfMI/AAAAAAAAIsA/DNKNzpXutrk/s1600-h/Nice.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327971523221880002" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 301px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 201px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xg3B580a2lo/SfDB3x8JfMI/AAAAAAAAIsA/DNKNzpXutrk/s320/Nice.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;yone to discover this part of United States through our posts.  We aim also to talk sometimes about our field of competence (Legal / Aeronautics). We are a couple of Frenchies, 30 years old, and we come from Nice, a city located in the south east of France.&lt;br /&gt;We respectivelly work as engineer in the aeronautic industry, and study law at the University of Washington. We fall in love in this amazing aera and urge you to include a visit of the surrounding if you plane a trip in United States. 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