Particle physics can inspire rap song too !

Your favorite frenchie is back in town :)

MagSafe huh ?

It's practically a national mourning day here because Bernard Boum Boum Geoffrion died today . He was the first man to use the slapshot and the second to score 50 goals after Maurice Richard.

What is even more sad was that the Canadiens were retiring his shirt number tonight. He didn't survive to see it after they took so much time to do it. The game tonight will be quite charged in emotion. If you can watch the game it might be an historical one. Altough the CH has a tendency to break all the magic in everything ... we'll see !

Habs legend Geoffrion dead at 75

How is it going, Stephen?
fine! and you Jean ?

I'm sad tonight because one of my favorite actor/clown/poet is dead. This is really an enormous loss for anyone who appreciate the french language. Sol is dead and there will never be another one. His poetry was simple, populist,childish, but so deep and marvelous. This man was a genius like there is few in this world . Rest in Peace Sol aka Marc Favreau

After the jump some text from the master:

Thursday 1 December 2005 from 12:00 to 24:00 CET

http://www.cern.ch/beyondeinstein

Geneva, 18 November 2005. CERN and the World Year of Physics

International Steering Committee are partnering with some of the world's

leading physics laboratories, science museums and technology partners to

present a twelve-hour live webcast to celebrate Einstein and look beyond

the World Year of Physics 2005.

This unprecedented event will be broadcast live on the Internet from a

webcast studio in the CERN Globe of Science and Innovation. Similar

locations around the world are connected via Tandberg videoconference:

the Telecom Future Centre (Venice), Imperial College London, the Fermi

National Accelerator Laboratory (Chicago), the Exploratorium (San

Francisco) hosting scientists from the Stanford Linear Accelerator

Center, the Bloomfield Science Museum (Jerusalem) and the National

Science Education Centre (Taipei).

The latest album of Asterix is out, "Asterix and the falling sky" . And it is a shame ....

Manga style Robots ? Aliens ? american style super-heroes ? Reference to GWB and american imperialism ? WTF ???  Where are the heroes of my youth ?

Shame shame and re-shame . Asterix and Obelix are dead, and only capitalism and the stubborn Uderzo do not want to pull out the feeding tube. What a shame.

Goscinny must be spinning in his grave.  

And a myth was born  

http://www.jamesdean.com/

In yellow , the electricity price in Quebec , and the dotted line is inflation.

more under the fold .

Thought that was funny so I'll share

 The 24 Hour Montreal special is a student guide, but it's more than an embellished listing of STD clinics and cheap falafel joints - it's your clip-'n-save guide to arranging and rearranging your body clock. Time is different here in Montreal. If you live here, you already know that, and if you've just arrived, you'll quickly figure it out. Unless you grew up in Europe or the army, you probably aren't familiar with the 24-hour clock. Just learn how to count to 24 instead of 12. You're a bright young mind, you can do it!

There are only a few rules: 1) don't sign up for a class at 8h if you plan on being a party animal (that isn't a nighttime class, dude, it's 8 a.m.); 2) people generally eat and party later and longer here, i.e. don't show up for a party before 11h (11 p.m.); and finally, 3) the only exception to the 24-hour clock is the drinking hour: "5 à 7." This is the cocktail or happy hour - though the hours from 5h à 7h proper (a.m., or dawn) are also considered acceptable drinking hours here.

The real point of the 24-hour clock though, and our 24 Hour Montreal special, is that this is a city of possibilities where you can do pretty much anything, any time. Whatever makes you tick.

More under the fold (With juicy B Mulroney tales)

So I prunked him in the head with a tire iron

Steve Lalla

"My whole artist M-O is about wiggerism," explains Dac Chartrand, a.k.a. Basement Wigger, who this week releases his debut solo album A Celebration of the Concept of the People's Republic of North Korea on his own Trotch Recordings. Wiggerism is "at its core, the misappropriation of culture," Dac continues. "The PRNK album, pronounced 'prunk', is about taking North Korean art, despotism and isolation as a gateway to a new aesthetic in breakbeat music. I create seemingly arbitrary constraints and rules out the ass to give an imaginary 8-bit-sounding commie dance club feel - a North Korean club culture, if such a place were to exist."

"The fact that I know nothing about North Korea yet am fascinated by communism makes it an ideal candidate for misappropriation. I've been Basement Wigger since about 2000, and North Korean aesthetics were accumulating for me up until about September 2004, when I had enough North Korean orchestra, film and propaganda posters to constrain it as a Basement Wigger project."

listen here !!!

The old against the young

first set to Nadal... more to come

NADAL INTO FINAL

Rafael Nadal is one win away from his first career hardcourt title. Andre Agassi is one win away from his fourth title at the Rogers Cup alone.

The 19-year-old Nadal and the 35-year-old Agassi set up their first encounter after a busy Saturday at the US$2.45 million US Open warm-up event.

HOPES SINK FOR LOST CHEESE

2.8.2005. 08:09:14

A team of divers are searching at the bottom of the Baie des Ha! Ha! in northeastern Canada for 800 kilograms of cheddar sunk by an entrepreneur hoping to revolutionise cheese making.

"A few years ago, a fisherman came to us and said he'd found a piece of Boivin cheese at the bottom of a lake where he'd been diving. He took it, hesitated, ate it and told us it was one of the best cheeses he'd ever eaten," said dairy owner Luc Boivin.

Stunned by the fisherman's gastronomic adventure, the dairy, established four generations ago, discovered that deep depths are good for cold storage and water pressure accelerates the cheese aging process.

After remaking the map of the bottom of the bay, after several weeks of search, and free advertisement for Boivin cheese, still no cheese in sight :(

This is so funny. Every Sunday, thousand people gather togheter on the hills of the Mount Royal to play some tambourine , dance, have a pic-nic, get tanned, or .... fighting each other with Plastic medieval weaponsall the day .

But people decided to dress in Zombie, angd give those the surprise of their life, facing a real zombie attack ! All documented on Flickr.

link

Un ancien premier ministre français à l'ENAP

no comments ... :(

Paris - Temporairement exclu par la Justice de la vie politique française, l'ancien premier ministre Alain Juppé s'installe à Montréal dans quelques jours.

Cette semaine sur son blogue, il confirme qu'il s'envolera mardi pour la métropole, où l'attend un poste de professeur invité à l'École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP). «Nous faisons les derniers bagages. Je peaufine mon cours, écrit Alain Juppé. Départ: le mardi 2 août. Début de l'année universitaire: le 29 août. Titre de mon cours: l'État et la mondialisation.»

See also the Alain Juppé blogue !

Found this text on the models of cooperative in Quebec, interresting altough sometime very optimist;)



Development of Cooperatives and Employee Ownership, Quebec Style

 In Canada, the province of Quebec is notable for the number and diversity of its cooperatives. This is a result of a supportive provincial government and a well-developed strategy of cooperative development undertaken by a unified cooperative movement. Quebec, with a population of about 7.4 million, boasts over 3500 cooperatives, compared to about 5000 cooperatives in all the rest of Canada, population 28 million. The Quebec cooperatives have 5.4 million members and 70,000 employees, do $12.2 billion Canadian in sales and have $78 billion in assets. (The Canadian dollar, which is used throughout this article, is worth about 65 cents US.) Although it continues to struggle with an unemployment rate of 8.4% in 1999, in that same year, Quebec topped the other Canadian provinces in economic growth.

I found this intresting article on a gay man who was in the Luftwaffe during ww2. In french only sorry.

here

We will have Hockey ! It's official ! Yahoo !

Nah nah naaaah nah , nah nah naaaa nah , hey hey hey, welcome back :)

Now who will get Sydney Crosby ? suspense suspense ...

Steve Jacob

Professeur adjoint de science politique Université Laval

Édition du jeudi 21 juillet 2005

Depuis quelques mois, les célébrations du 175e anniversaire de la Belgique battent leur plein et culmineront ce 21 juillet, jour de la fête nationale. Or, dans le même temps, cet anniversaire suscite de nombreuses interrogations sur l'avenir du pays. La question récurrente est de savoir si la Belgique fêtera ses 200 ans. Ce qui peut apparaître comme un paradoxe témoigne d'une crise profonde que traverse le pays depuis plusieurs années. En effet, alors que le fédéralisme (dont on fête également les 25 ans cette année mais qui ne fut inscrit dans la Constitution qu'en 1993) était censé pacifier les relations entre les deux grandes régions du pays, il est évident qu'il ne représente pas un remède contre l'éclatement de la Belgique. À cet égard, le 11 juillet dernier, à l'occasion de la fête de la Communauté flamande, le président du gouvernement flamand a constaté l'échec du modèle fédéral belge. Selon lui, le fédéralisme de coopération entre les différentes entités de la Belgique a cédé sa place à un «fédéralisme centrifuge».

There once was, I have been told, a Maya princess who fell in love with a man she would never be permitted to marry. So heartbroken was she that she wept night and day over her forbidden love. A shaman, hearing her cries and learning of her misery, transformed her into a glittering beetle, a piece of living jewelry. Her beloved pinned her to his breast. Thus she spent her life, close to the heart of the one she cherished.

The most surprising under the fold

365gay - Canadian cardinal who had been considered a possible successor to Pope John Paul says that the children of married same-sex couples cannot be baptized in the Catholic Church.

Testifying at a Senate committee hearing into the same-sex marriage bill Marc Cardinal Ouellet said that the Conference of Catholic Bishops has decided that if both parents want to sign the certificate of baptism the church will not allow the blessing to take place.

also :

Cardinal's same-sex predictions groundless, experts say

By GLORIA GALLOWAY

Friday, July 15, 2005 Page A4

Globe and Mail- Legal experts say the predictions by Canada's top Catholic Cardinal that opponents of same-sex marriage will be prosecuted for publicly denouncing the unions are unfounded -- and at least one labels the prophecy "rhetorical hysteria."

We, the participants of the 17th World Congress of Sexology, assert our commitment to the Mission of the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS), to promote sexual health throughout the lifespan.

we declare that:

The promotion of sexual health is central to the attainment of wellness and well-being and to the achievement of sustainable development and more specifically to the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. Individuals and communities who experience well-being are better positioned to contribute to the eradication of individual and societal poverty. By nurturing individual and social responsibility and equitable social interactions, promotion of sexual health fosters quality of life and the realization of peace. Therefore, we urge all governments, international agencies, private sector, academic institutions and society at large, and particularly, all member organizations of the World Association for Sexual Health to:

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Anti-Islamic Italian author in new legal fight



Long-running battle over post-9/11 books pits freedom of speech against respect for religious belief

John Hooper in Rome

Wednesday July 13, 2005

The Guardian

One of Italy's best-known authors faces renewed legal action in a dispute that has raised fundamental questions about respect for religion and the right to free speech.

A radical Muslim leader, Adel Smith, told the Guardian he was bringing a civil action for damages against the writer and journalist Oriana Fallaci. He has already succeeded in getting Ms Fallaci committed for trial next year in criminal proceedings for blasphemy.

Last month a judge in the northern Italian city of Bergamo agreed that the 76-year-old Ms Fallaci should answer to claims of abusing Islam in her book The Strength of Reason. Since then, her cause has become a rallying point for mainly rightwing intellectuals and politicians in Italy and the US, where Ms Fallaci lives.

76 is maybe too late to talk about menopause , but well ...

Laetitia Casta alias Marianne

And happy birthday France !