The autumn or ... spring equinox!

The first day of the Autumn is given on a quite precise date according to the positioning of the sun compared to the ground.
The autumn equinox is alternate between the Northern hemisphere and the Southern hemisphere: for the countries of the Northern hemisphere, the fall equinox takes place on September 23 in 2006 whereas for those of the southern hemisphere, this same date corresponds to the spring equinox!

The first day of the Autumn corresponds to the entry during one time when the sunning decreases. It is one period of the very pleasant year, neither too heat, nor too cold, where nature offers a blazing and coloured face to us.

Derailed ...

USA (2005)
with: Cleave Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel
of: Mikael Hafström
scenario: Stuart Beattie
original history: James Siegel
music: Edward Shearmur




Because one morning, Charles Schine missed his train to go to work, it made a meeting which upset its life. With the first glance, Lucinda Harris and knew to him that their history would not be like the others. They were unaware of at which point…

If you want to discover their adventures or mishaps... rent this movie!

More than 12 million visitors for the Days of the Heritage ...

PARIS (AP) - The 23e edition, this weekend, of the Days of the Heritage, joined together more than 12 million visitors, according to announced figures' Sunday by the ministry for the Culture and the Communication.
More than 15.000 sites their doors with the public under the topic opened “Make live our Heritage”.
The official places and to be able have this year still voted by plebiscite by the French, with 6.000 visitors in Matignon, 24.000 with the Senate, 7.800 with the ministry for the Interior, 20.000 with the French National Assembly and 11.851 in the Elysium. The historical places of the capital like the Pantheon with 23.600 visits, the Arc-of-Triumph with 20.565 visitors, were with the honor.
Partners of this year as the RATP accomodated more than 15.000 visitors during their various animations of which 540 attended the concert of Mozart in a workshop of maintenance. France Télévisions had for the occasion open of many sites of which its Parisian seat which received 5.000 people. The Palais Royal was visited by 7.000 people while 4.500 people went to the ministry for the Culture and the Communication.
In Alsace, 5.000 people went to the Palate from Europe to Strasbourg, to Aquitaine, 4.500 people visited the national museum of the customs hotel of the Farms of Roy in Bordeaux while 5.000 admired the castle of Pau. In North-Not-of-Calais, inter alia, 6.000 people saw the old military hospital of Lille become Préfecture of North and the 7.000 Palates from the Art schools in Lille. The abbey of the Mount-Saint-Michel, in Basse-Normandie, saw passing 12.500 visitors.
AP

Our first aquarium…

Installation this weekend of the decoration and the plants.
It is now necessary to have patience (and hope that the plants do not die) a few weeks before our aquarium can accomodate its first boarders.

To be continued ...

Happy New Year ....

… Not, it is not an error, it is quite simply Ethiopian New Year's day!

“Like the calendar copte, the Ethiopian calendar has twelve 30 days months each one plus five or six epagomenes days (usually called thirteenth month), but with names into amharic. The sixth epagomene day is added every four years on August 29 in the calendar Julien, six months before the epagomene day of this last.
Thus, Ethiopian New Year's day, 1st of the month of Mäskäräm celebrates on August 30 in the Julien calendar when the sixth day is added. For the years of the Gregorian calendar going from 1901 to 2099 included, the equivalent corresponds to September 11.
To indicate the date, the Ethiopian ones used in the beginning the Era of the Incarnation, which fixes the date of the incarnation of Jesus at March 25 of year 9 of the Christian era (Julien) (chosen by Annianus of Alexandria at the beginning of Ve century). But the first calendar year began seven months earlier, on August 29 of year 8 (Julien), which involved a eight years shift with the Gregorian comput of January 1 to September 10 then a seven years shift for the remainder of the Gregorian year. “
Wikipedia.fr source

2 days ago...

Two days ago, it was my name-day, which everyone superbly forgot!
I am offered to myself this superb rose photographed in the immense garden Londoner : “Kew Gardens”.

One year… already

One year ago, I started preparing my return in France after a few very instructive months in Munich and astronomical science (ESO with Garching) to take care of the data observed from the VLT (Broad Very Telescopes) in Chile or from HST (Hubble Space Telescope).

Talent can not be ...... bought !!!

Paris Hilton: it is caught a beautiful snap!
By public.fr
The sales of its album do not take off!
One well not thought that all succeeded with our preferred wealthy heiress, Paris Hilon is suffering into a serious reverse in its career of singer!
Only 75.000 specimens of her eponymous album “Paris” have been sold for the moment, while in only one week, Christina Aguilera already sold more than 320.000 albums! The dreams of singer of the blond bombshell is thus likely to leave very quickly in smoke… except if she does pay people to buy her album!

Poor Paris. She was sure of being a more talented actress than the awarded Charlize Théron and of replacing Madonna….
Lastly, she always has her fortune to continue her extravagances.
Money does not buy the talent, but… without talent, money and the notoriety acquired thanks to a video porn amateur, she could never have made this album!

Quotes, Lyrics ...

Here, you will find a couple of English quotes or lyrics and a lot of French ones !

Garfield ... speaking ....

... for nothing !

Lilian Thuram… (French international soccer player)

… “Noone will force me to return in team of France”
The international defender Lilian Thuram declared that noone “would force it to return” in team of France of football.

What are these players who condescend to play in Team of France only when they want to ?
To represent its country as a member of its national Team is an honor.
It is the role of the selector to determine if the presence of a joor is necessary, useful or not for the team and not for each player to decide according to his own personal desires!

Poor Suri ...

Monday 14 August 2006, 9h08
Beckham are invited to see Suri Cruise, but…
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes invited their friends met with a match of foot the year spent to come to see their small four month old daughter.
Victoria Beckham and David Beckham are magic of this invitation, but a little surprised of all the precautions which are required of them and which are specified to them in writing…
As an enthusiastic scientologist, the actor their request according to Daily Star not to have any photographic material at the time of their visit, not to touch Suri only once and not to speak “baby” with it, nor to chirp…

The life of this child must be very sad: no photographs, no human contacts, no chirp or others grimaces…

Albert II of Monaco does not think about marriage

Sunday 13 August 2006, 21h42
New York (AP) - In spite of media beating around his relation with the blonde South-African swimmer Charlene Whitstock, prince Albert of Monaco affirmed Sunday that it was not question of marriage.
“I in the near future do not have projects or moved away”, declared the 48 year old sovereign during the emission “Good Morning America” of ABC News.
“Each time one sees me with pretty young woman at my sides more once, everyone starts to pronounce the fateful word starting with “me, like you say. That becomes then very difficult to have a relation with somebody in a way semi-official or deprived”, it has déclaré.

Thus as that the word “marriage” is the fateful word according to Prince Albert…

The suspension of the hostilities came into effect to Lebanon…

“The war made nearly 1.200 died and 3.700 wounded in Lebanon, moved more than 900.000 people, the quarter of her population, and inflicted enormous destruction, evaluated to 6 billion dollars.”

The suspension of the hostilities came into effect, but Israel maintains its blockade.
Who, once more, to suffer more: the civil ones, women, children!
Will the State of Israel finance the rebuilding of the destruction or it will leave this country in this state of decay?

Where does the world go?

Snow in South Africa!
Never seen: falls of snow through South Africa. Flakes are also awaited in the French Alps today!
After the heat wave, welcome in winter!

Lebanon.... now ...

Last nine hundreds died and a million moved in Lebanon
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Israeli offensive started on July 12 in Lebanon made 900 died, 3.000 wounded and a million moved, is a quarter of the population, declared Thursday Lebanese the Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora.
The children of less than twelve years represent a third of the victims, underlines it in a video document carried out for the extraordinary meeting of the Organization of the Islamic conference.

Canaa...

Canaa is a small locality which is in Southern Lebanon not far from Tyr.
According to the Bible, it is there that the miracle of Cana took place, where Jesus changed water into wine, at the time of a ceremony of marriage. Another village of the same name disputes the fact to him of being the place present in the biblical account.
On April 18, 1996, during the operation Grapes of anger, it was the place of a drama, when Israeli aviation bombarded South-Lebanon. The population of Canaa, terrorized, put itself at the shelter in a camp under control of the FINUL. 106 people, as a majority of the women and the children perished in a camp of UNO. A cemetery and a monument commemorate this tragedy.
On July 30, 2006, during new confrontations between Israel and Hezbollah, the bombardment of a sheltering building of the refugees caused the death of at least 56 people, including 37 children.
Source: www.wikipedia.fr

At Canaa took place the miracle of the water transformed into wine. Unfortunately, no miracle saved, twice, of the women and the terrorized children of the bombardments of Israeli aviation.
Without pressure of the United States on Israel to obtain one to cease fire, only a miracle could save this area. Will it take place?

Lebanon: the conflict strikes the children hard…

BEIRUT (AP) - a third of the hundreds of civil killed in Lebanon since the beginning of the Israeli offensive is children, as at least the 34 who perished Sunday in Cana.
As for those which have escaped with the bombardments, much will remain a long time traumatized by what the adults should have saved to them: visions of died and destruction.
Beyond the many lives mown in their youth, the psychological cost undergone by the surviving children is him also considerable. “You cannot escape the noise from the bombs”, explains Nadine Maalouf, a psychologist for children who works with children Lebanese traumatized by the war.
Violence, the Lebanese one lived a long time with. They suffered from it during the 15 years from the civil war (1975-1990) and the Israeli invasion from 1982.
But the young people who knew this long period of conflict, become today parents, hoped to be able to protect their own children from these horrors.
Instead of that, they are found again impotent vis-a-vis the uninterrupted bombardments of aviation and the artillery Israelis which destroy whole districts in the south of Lebanon and certain suburbs of Beirut. “There was a plane which made a noise of pffff”, small Nour el-Hoda Cherri, 11 years tells, which still remembers at which point it trembled during the bombardment of its district of Haret Hreik, when its building was destroyed.
“My heart hurt me. It beat too quickly”, she says while pressing on its chest. “I said myself: “that is there, one will die, it is our destiny, God will punish me for all the things not although I made”.” And to quote the banal silly things of its age: to lie to his/her mother, to hide things with his/her parents, to push a young girl younger than her…
The assistant secretary general of UNO to the humane businesses Jan Egeland estimated Friday that a third from the 400 to 600 people killed in Lebanon was children.
The Israeli offensive also caused to make flee and move hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, which found refuge in schools, parks or underground car parks in surer areas of the country. It will be necessary years before all the houses are not rebuilt. Meanwhile, the children will have to thus live in places which will not be familiar for them.
According to the psychologist Nadine Maalouf, the effects of the traumatism will be felt even hard after the war, when these young people cannot still return on their premises and miss “reference mark”: friends, places of plays favourite, the store where they bought their dairy ice creams. The children whom it has met for one or two weeks present various symptoms, energy of the depression to hypertension while passing by the loss of reference mark. Many parents also note that their children became aggressive and disobeying because of the lack of framework and discipline.
The majority of the refugees come from areas mainly Shiites, in the south of the country, where is established the radical militia Shiite of Hezbollah, target of the Israeli attacks since it captured two soldiers on July 12 and car of the rockets against the Jewish State. And, another consequence of the offensive of Tsahal, many moved children of these zones, especially the boys, aspire to join the armed struggle against Israel.
“I want to be avenged for the Israelis”, clamp Ali Kalache, 14 years, originating in a district bombarded by the forces of the Hebrew State. At one time, the teenager wanted to become airline pilot. Even thing for Hussein Mqachar, 11 years, which always smelled a heart of chief and wants to join “resistance today”, name given to Hezbollah by its partisans.
As for Jamil Qbeis, 13 years, it dreamed to become surgeon. Now, it in the rows of the Party of God, “because Israel destroys us, kills to us and”

Which future for this area with all the sufferings moves us hopes from here a few years to fight which his/her children will have undergone?

Without the knowledge of their full liking ...

… Israelis bombard innocent civils, observers of UNO, humane convoys intended to come to assistance of civil in distress.

In the middle of all do these massacres, sometimes happen to them to reach terrorists?
They transform a country in ash, but for which results?

According to Pline, “the Phenician people has the badge honor to have invented the letters of the alphabet”. Do their descendants deserve all the atrocities that they have to undergo of then decades?

Such a phoenix, will this country birth again, once more, from its ashes?

Suri Cruise ...

… is an "happy baby", affirms a friend of her parents.

How a baby confined like were the poultries at the time of the crisis of the avian flu can be happy?