Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Do Plain Yogurt Really Work For Bv

Holidays are made to study! (Cheers Fac)

Compared to the last comment there is nothing personal. I have no hatred against France or French, but there are differences and sometimes I have no one to talk about this and you're done.
Now is the holidays, it's time for ... STUDY. Yes, it must consider my friends (imaginary), examinations of January arrived. What you gonna do? Read, write, read and write. Litt.Gener examinations. and grammar make me afraid, but that's normal. I think it depends on revising I'm doing. If I revise well I would have good grades. "Good notes" that means a 10, 11 or 12, but that's normal. I hope to succeed. But we must also take on 31. At 31 I want to go out for a drink with imaginary friends and real life friends too.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Puppy Purple Testicules

2011 Christmas camp





Photo 1: The Magpies have welcomed us upon our arrival, they were present (and hungry) throughout the two days spent at camp. Each turn, and sometimes both at the same time, we had the privilege of their visits to eat in our hands, head, and they have even taken a few miles when we left.

Photo 2: This is not because there was no "snow man" that deprived himself of the character who fascinates Félixe. It asked us just a little more creativity, and there she saw that the fire! This tree then now has a name, it will be our Christmas tree for all the years to come. Patented in the nursery on site, it lacked the "presence", then after this photo was taken of toys and nursery Félixe became inhabited by a princess, a prince and ... a pink horse!

Photo 3: At night, when lit up our Christmas tree using the generator, I wonder which of the five of us was most amazed ...

Photo 4: In the little house under the trees and snow, there is Felix and I want to wish you the most magical, the most wonderful Christmas.

Christmas at Camp

13 kilometers in the forest, far from civilization, the camp Fra-Gilles was the scene for a simple story to us procured miles happiness. It was the greatest gift we could get to live it together.

The moon shone in the clear sky of 22 December the temperature was ideal, magpies showed up at the rendezvous, not at all shy, the forest had begun all beautiful and we were immensely happy.

To Fast Two is what we told Felix, Santa delegates some deliveries of gifts to her friends, magpies, which helps a lot in his work. Do you know where they have deposited the gift for Felix? In the house of fir that feels so good when I'm photographed with her. She could not, Félixou, and the rest of us either!

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

G Can People Get Fleas

Our little Christmas




Photo 1: Taming the magpies, it starts like that.

Photo 2: Crocodile Dundee maintains close links it has established close with these birds that never leave us.

Photo 3: This is where we are headed tomorrow to live ...

Our little Christmas

We've always had this tradition since our daughter is in the world. The holiday season, it lasts long with us, our families are large, many come from outside and enjoy the time off to travel, meetings are continuing at a steady pace and it begins very early with the birthday of my mother, December 20. His brothers and sisters still have celebrated this year but since they are all retired, it lasts three days!

In my little family to me, before losing sight in the whirlwind of Christmas, the "in between" and New Year's Day, we always felt the need to live somewhere something more intimate, sweet and nice, simple and relaxing: Our little Christmas. We were three for a long time ...

Our daughter grew up, our tradition has been ingrained over the years, so there was a need, increasingly hard, especially when we formed a family even greater when Dominic 's is joining us. We had become four and we find ourselves a taste before we lose it again for one whole world around us.

In January 2009, we became five, and our little Christmas took a facelift!

This year, I do not know where the original idea to start but we want to live it in the woods at the camp called Fra-Gilles is one of the two is really very highly in the woods, far far away! Just five of us, far from the commercial madness, stress, work, obligations, commitments and responsibilities, cell phones and computers, and everything goes too fast. Take Time is the gift that is, us five, five of us, with all our love ...

Crocodile Dundee was cool the trail last weekend and a friend lent us a big cart that will attach to the snowmobile. I finish preparing our little comic for two days, because there will be from 22 to 24. Christmas will be our little getaway for two days this year, we planned two days long, we have always stuck in our diaries too well filled. Dominic returns from filming outside this late at night, Isabella finishes his last course at the university this night at 23 o'clock we'll be free as air as we and tomorrow morning we share together.

The moon is full, clear skies, the snowy forest, the trail entered, magpies will eat in our hands, the stove purr and we will play out as we please, the day the evening. They announce the nice weather, when snow can be sticky, it will make a big snowman for Felix, who loves them. (Hey, I think, should not forget to bring a large carrot, an old scarf and a hat funny). Crocodile Dundee dream of putting a lot of lights in a tree without cutting it, then send off the generator to show the expression of Felix when he lights up like magic, in our midst.

Merry Christmas to you all!

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Start Choice Motorola Remote Programing

We lost the rink! Ti


Photo 1: It was Sunday, Dec. 5 last. They had spent part of the afternoon playing outside with our little visit, to clear the ice in anticipation of the hockey year-end. You remember the smallest pool in the world this summer? Here the winter version of Grandpa Dundee: the smallest sled in the world!

Photo 2: Yesterday morning, December 13 is the vision I had from the garage doors.

Photo 3: Same time, same place, but a little closer. Do you see the rink? No? Me either. We lost ...

We lost the rink!

It's one week you must shovel every day. But yesterday was the grand prize: snow, blowing snow, wind, slippery conditions, zero visibility, schools closed, leaving the road. "My country is not a country is winter" Vigneault sang. In the great book of the seasons, it says that winter starts December 21. As always, we are ahead.

The frozen lake once covered all this snow, is not at all safe, there are yellow patches everywhere. The rink is "slushée" as we say now and it would take a miracle of nature and hard work for you to recover before the holidays, which endangers our tradition of the hockey game December 31.

To be continued ...


Friday, December 10, 2010

Is It Ok To Use Oral Gel While Pregnant?

The dodo, the slice of apple ... Happy Birthday Dad


Illustration: If I read a long time, you've probably already seen, since I posted here, December 2, 2007, an extract from this text that I wrote in 1996. Today, I offer you the full, direct from my bottom drawer. If you had a father as wonderful as mine, I hope you bring your most memories. If you have not had that chance, I would like to share a little of all this love that I received.

The dodo ti,
slice of apple,
the sublet and the white horse

Sometimes an object, a smell, a song, a book or a picture comes back instantly instead magic of our childhood ... For me, the roundness of an apple red evokes unequivocally all the tenderness of the world, laughing in the complicity of a loving father and his beloved little girl: me!

the days of home range VII and throughout our family life, La Sarre, Matagami, Noranda, Dad was always at least three jobs, a main to support our family and at least two in the sale, which enabled him to meet lots of people and we pay little treats. He sold cars at Auto Nicol, snowmobiles, jet skiing, furniture Lapierre removals Labrecque, tires Abitibi Nylart nylon stockings, industrial products Mica, clothes tailor Tailoring Stephen, Amway products, Coke, Vachon cupcakes and I forget. Dad was not as she said, a good seller. He loved the world and thought hard as iron in customer service. I always thought he was above all a great communicator, able to convince when very satisfied himself.

In this swirl of life around him and us, it happened to be a father very far. I even think that it was he who invented the concept of quality of presence.

The dodo ti

When he finally returned home, exhausted but happy, all lit up with his warm smile. I ran toward him as if he were my savior. Then, his blue eyes became even more blue and I snuggled in my little circle in the arms of the strongest man in the world, certain that nothing could ever happen to me, only because he was there.

Sometimes, when he was very tired, he told me: "Come rock a little before ti ti sleep". And then I discovered it was for he makes a DODO IT, IT. Still nestled against Dad, I listened to his heart beat regularly and loudly. Was normal, he had a big heart. His chest rose and resumed his position with a regularity and a calm had me thinking once again beyond a doubt that nothing could ever happen to me as he would be there. When I raised my head to watch him sleep, he always had that smile, even with eyes closed. It definitely lacked something but I never risky move at all for fear of breaking the spell. I admired her sleep, while smiling, confident as can be in four years that I was the maker of his happiness.

The apple slice

One day I turned 5, I was fortunate to have my first little brother. Although I content, I also realized that he had become the new focal point of the family ... It was the day of his baptism I think, anyway, there were plenty of people around the cradle of the child. Dad came and sat with me in the lounge with a beautiful red apple all plump and a small knife. Without saying a word, he looked at me and then looked at the apple. He smiled all the time. His eyes crinkled more. It seemed he would burst out laughing. I knew he would give me the best slice of apple, first, when he had finished the peel. But you should not say, that I felt, it was unwise to say ...

More
knife walked methodically wheeling on the apple, the more he looked at me intensely and we both had a wild desire to laugh. It seems to me that in the end it slowed a bit, to take this complicity between us. There he produced a moment of grace. He cut the first slice, all white, I placed it in front of my eyes and offered it as if it were the most precious stone. Still without saying anything, I accepted a gesture as dramatic, and I finally tasted while he ate the rest of the apple. We were there, both alone in our universe, this house full of people, to eat our apple in silence, with the satisfied air of happy people who do not even call into question their happiness.

often over the years, he repeated the gesture complicity between us but it was the New Year's Day 1996, still in his house full of people, where I was again very touched. He came to offer me the first slice of apple and I accepted with the same eyes that dazzled as a kid. There was a long time apple did not taste as good and again, we did not say anything. Not one word. Just a glance and a smile, with an urge to giggle. Besides, we never speak, neither he nor I understood it was because we knew it could break the spell.

The sublet

I must have been about 10 years when Dad started building a cottage in Bay Dunlop, Matagami Lake, this cottage that has left us memories even if they never lived. I went to complain to him that was boring, no friends, no music, nothing to read, nothing to do. He said: "Wait a minute, it goes without making music, Dad will make you a sublet. What a mystery. A sublet?

With an energy that was calling me to follow him, he went to the tiller of alder in the small wood behind the cottage. Still without saying a word, he cut a small branch after having evaluated all. I was intrigued, I did not understand at all where he wanted to come but I gave him my full confidence and that was unconditional. As if a genie had appeared to him to whisper words and gestures to make, he said, gravely and mocking at the time: "Here, if you want it to work, your sublet, we will have you sing all the time that I do. There, you'll never stop you sing the song of the sublet ... Listen ...

peeler peels my sublet
Never worry'll regret
When my Tom Thumb peel
I will make it "

With application and determination, I sang in reproducing the words as well as its emphasis madelinot while he, with application and determination as he did weird things with his knife on the small branch of alder.

Suddenly he threw at me a look that meant it was when ever not stop singing. He sang with me the last time the magic verse ...

peeler peels my sublet
Never worry'll regret
When my Tom Thumb peel
I will make it

Instinctively, we are silent. These few seconds before the miracle lasted a century. And if it does not work? However, it was well sang the song sublet. Make a musical instrument was not easy but I knew Dad capable of all miracles since he did regularly.

With dignity near the devotion he brought to his mouth branch of alder, which emitted a pure sound, strange and beautiful, who had to agree to the bay to the mouth of Dunlop Bell River, without a shadow of a doubt. In the middle of nowhere, right in the woods on the shores of lake Matagami, my father came again with the same chemistry, give me what was best: a little of himself!

And the white horse

Among the memories of childhood, it is one that still serves me in the bad moments of my life. A panacea for a rainy day or general pain. A miracle cure that is similar to what we call self-healing, visualization, and perhaps also positive thinking. It's called "The white horse."

When I hurt your ears, teeth, I took a search by bicycle, he spoke of the white horse. If we made fun of my accent, I lost pieces of the puzzle, or that I had missed my sculpture clothespins, he also told me his story of the white horse, so much so that I ended up really see. It always began same. He told me to close my eyes, he took his soft-spoken, calm, serious and thoughtful, and he told ...

"Think of a beautiful white horse ... It is beautiful, white horse there ... It's loud and proud, he runs through the meadow, the mane in the wind, free as air ... It is a beautiful white horse happy, thinking nothing but his heureusité to run fast and strong in his meadow ... Oh it's so beautiful, a beautiful white horse ... "

And then I forgot but what I remember is that it worked all the time. No pain, physical or moral, no trouble, great or small, could resist the white horse. When I became a teenager, and later a woman, he never told me the story of white horse but I always remembered it was me, and I kept saying to me as necessary, until the day when ...

I was 29 years. For eight years, I wanted to become pregnant and finally, I was, but I was bedridden from the beginning of my pregnancy, sick, unable to feed me, weak and worried about losing this baby awaited, if desired. Inevitably, I ended up losing a lot my joy. The physical was eventually rub off on morale. As I more or less trapped at home or in hospital, I saw only the people who visited me because I, I could not move.

This morning, Dad had stopped at the house for no reason. Lying on the sofa, I only had not even opened the door he had entered simply to stealthily, silently. He sat in the rocking chair next to me. Without saying a word. I was not the conversation I either.

He was lying on the coffee table of old white boxes and scissors. He wanted to pick it to help me. Mechanically he began to cut into the cardboard, without seeming to know where he went. Then he asked me how I was.

While I told her about my worries of losing this baby, my doubts whether I could go to term a healthy baby, he cut as he always listened. When I had finished answering her, he had finished carving. He got up to carry the clippings in the trash and I noticed a small rocking the white form lying there. I went to fetch her and I took in my hands a beautiful white horse, the most beautiful white horse in the world. He smiled and said: "It is not successful, I had no model, but look, he has a little paunch and still, he looks strong enough and it still stands ! "

I told him:" It's white horse when I was little! Do you remember when you told me Dad ... And in his little boy embarrassed laugh, I felt two things clear: First, yes, he remembered exactly, and secondly, that it, it was unwise to say. So I kill because that is not expressed prints and then we both smiled because we knew all the wonderful hiding in this little white horse box.

was the greatest gift he could offer me. I put it on the mantel where I watched so often until the end of my pregnancy in bed. Of course, this is the first thing I put in my bag when leaving for the hospital. My little white horse followed me to the delivery room and then, on my bedside table.

When he came to see me in the hospital with Mom and get acquainted with his first granddaughter in full health, he saw " our "white horse on my bedside table. He smiled, perhaps even more fondly on that day.

I wanted to tell him all the beauty of my childhood, all the magic he had created in my life as child and adult, all hope I had to make even for my little girl.

I wanted to say many thanks especially for this panacea, this child would be happy for my whole life a guarantee of happiness, or rather, as he himself says, "to heureusité" but I said nothing and I smiled because that's for sure, it was not say. It could break the spell.

Francine, November 1996.

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Papa

December 2, 1996 This marks your 69th birthday. This text, I did not intend to offer it to you just because they value the tacit complicity between us. Literary Café in November, several men told me it was terrible to think that thou didst not ever read. Mom who I consulted suggested I offer it to you at your party. She had a tender smile when she told me that she, too, you often was offering the "first tranche" of your apple.

So here's what I hesitated to text you to read if this complicity can be diluted in any way in the future. And come what may, I trust we! What I have written a few pages, at bottom, I could sum it up in two words: "I love you, Dad." Happy Birthday!

Sunday, December 5, 2010

What Are Some Cute Save The Date Sayings

Latest news, very sad

Friends, Knowledge, Players,

It is with great sadness that we send you the news of the death of our friend Andrew Schreurs who died on Friday 3 December.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Fotos De Bikiniwaxing

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Photo: * It must be Mom who took this picture. It was a joyful moment, an annual tradition here in March or April, when my parents returned from the south. It was called "the party of oranges!

Happy Birthday Dad!

If he were alive today, he would now be 83 years. I think of him so hard every day, it is always present in my life. I wish I could go and hug her, plunging our glances into each other, full of smile, just two seconds and say "Happy Birthday Dad! . His smile and his blue eyes like the sea with me everywhere and at all times, Me and intensely over me with such tenderness that there is more room in my heart for anything but a great recognition at this time.

My lucky star in life, it was my Dad. It was the first man I loved, he gave a special touch to all my relationships with men later, love, brotherhood and friendships based on trust, respect, admiration and closeness, the equality.

He died in February 2005 and I do not forget what I lived with a father like him, a wonderful man, a man who has sown so much. He knew so well how to make love ... I've never known him a single enemy or even someone who himself is the least bit indifferent.

That would make him the trouble of having the sentence, he loved us deeply and unconditionally. He wanted us happy. Time has done its work, think of it not hurt anymore, my memories are once again full of warmth, joy, laughter, and not stress more so cruelly miss, emptiness, absence. He must have really liked to be able to still find the strength to say thank you, as we sing in the most beautiful version of Evangeline ...

is my gift for him this year. And I go to dinner with Mom, that too, he would be happy.

Happy Birthday Dad!

***************** * I already posted this photo to illustrate my post on November 20, 2007, titled "The party oranges . For the full story is here:

http://chez-zoreilles.blogspot.com/2007/11/le-party-des-oranges.html

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Man Wearing Jockstrap

Hey, Martin!


is the poster for the film "See Ali" I already told you about in my post of Thursday, October 28 and the following note.

Hey, Martin!

About This documentary was premiered at the Festival du cinema international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, I feel like repeating the slogan could be heard in time, in advertisements of Habitant Soup "There's a little bit of us in there! .

The director, Martin Guerin, tells a story very beautiful, very real, which was somewhat overlooked in 1983 for reasons that include over 52 minutes of View Ali . What this film says, beyond this story, especially what kind of wood warms the population of a region like ours when crazy wonderful start to believe that anything is possible.

View Ali took more than two years of work and a lot of passion, determination and talent of any team throughout the shoot. What happened behind the scenes Equally interesting is what we see on the screen. How do I know? Because my step-son, Dominic Leclerc, told me little bits, since there involved from the outset, the cinematography, editing and in many fruitful discussions with Martin Guerin and the whole team. Even me, I have a small stake in the end, the secret is that I had revealed in my next post!

Since then, many people told me they were disappointed to have missed during his presentation that had a full house at the Theatre du Cuivre October 31. But all is not lost, I quote an excerpt from an email I just received from Martin

"Hello Francine,

Like your blog seems popular, I'll refile the info that you could convey to your readers ... Thank you in advance. See you soon. Martin "

What my blog is frequented a little much, so passionately or not, who cares, we would not want Martin to remove his illusions, is not it? I'm delighted if Chez zoreilles can use the link in this case. Here is an excerpt from the press release:

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(Rouyn-Noranda, November 2010) - After an acclaimed performance at the Festival du cinema international en Abitibi- Témiscamingue where he was awarded a mention of the jury, the documentary View Ali Guerin Martin will screen one last time in Rouyn-Noranda. The film will be broadcast on the big screen at the Paramount Theatre Monday, December 13 to 18 h 30 and Tuesday, December 14 to 18 h 30. Spectators will also have the chance to discuss with stakeholders and the makers of the film after the two projections. The film See Ali offers a sincere look on the improbable and entertaining stay the great boxer Muhammad Ali in Rouyn-Noranda in June 1983.

Outlets tickets until Thursday, December 9:

Chocolate The deposit
Café The Abstracto

point ticket sales from December 10:

Cinema Paramount

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You're probably wondering: "Yes but if you really do not live near Rouyn-Noranda how do you see this movie? "There, I confess, I do not know. Like all films produced in Quebec, I guess View Ali take flight and experience a career soon. I promise you I'll let you know when I hear about it. And I should hear about, because ... "There's a little bit of us in there! "

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Outers Rifle Cleaning Kit P-477

Luncheon



Photo 1: Last Tuesday, I started to get ahead for the holiday issue of having enough to receive all who come. With the last scraps of pie dough, I even made ... Do you recognize the timeless classic and very farts sister?

Photo 2: This is the backdrop for our luncheons ... At first, it is still dark, we got up very early, but when one is made to stretch coffee, the sun rises on our conversations already very busy.

Luncheon

Crocodile Dundee and I have been best friends before being lovers, and as one does not preclude the other, we the chance to eat breakfast every morning with our best (e) friend (s). But seriously, we are lucky. We persist, we chatter, we laugh, we remade the world, said the news on the radio when it indulges in short, it's never quiet here in the morning.

Even sometimes, sometimes the conversation is not over and he has to leave work, then we give ourselves a kiss on the edge of the door and say that it will end with dinner. This morning we discussed generosity, baskets, Christmas Food Drive media, solidarity and good intentions. All because he was lying on the table at lunch an information sheet with suggestions Ressourcerie The purchase of non-perishable food for Christmas baskets.

Crocodile Dundee remembered with nostalgia the days when it was "the grocery store to another family" and we had so happy to do so. That was before solidarity is institutionalized.

In time, we were newly married, no children, yet a family. We had a friend who was a priest, who knew the families of his parish, those who needed a basket of Christmas but never dared to ask for their own reasons and I respect that. Our friend used to pander to this family never knowing who we were and that we do not know who they were. Our annual tradition continued long after the birth of our daughter.

We took an appointment in advance with our friend in early December. On the appointed day and hour, it would bring groceries to the presbytery in question, three or four boxes filled with all kinds of food. For its part, our friend would bring these boxes in the minutes that followed where it was expected and probably appreciated. This scheme allowed us to buy everything and not just non-perishables. We had a great time every year, Isabelle still remembers it too, do the double grocery store, that is to say we took two big trucks, and when you bought something for we were bought exactly the same for the other family, knowing they will enjoy the same fantasies that other families that we did not know.

A turkey for us? A turkey for them! A large jar of Nutella for Crocodile Dundee? A large jar of Nutella for the other family. Grains teddy with us? Of such homes. Three liters of milk? Okay, three liters of milk in the other carriage as well. Chocolates? Yes, chocolates, it's Christmas, you want pretzels, peanut butter, frozen raspberries, ready soups, crackers, shrimp rings, peas, bags oranges, apples, yogurt, a Yule log and all the fantasies we wanted, for us and for them. It was Christmas in our hearts long before Christmas, just because we felt to share the little we had, but with all our heart.

This morning at breakfast, we regret this epoch and this tradition selfish (not too much, it started from a good will) that had been established and maintained to give something to a Another family we did not know. This store-there, that night was a magical moment, just thinking that what chose for us was the immediate impact we hoped happy for other ... so close to us.

Our priest friend died there over 10 years. We never knew if he gave this store the same family every year or if the family ranged from one year to another, everything we say and everything we needed know was that it made people happy.

Baskets Christmas gifts have become very supervised and shared by recognized bodies, processed food banks operate at full capacity, throughout the year. That's fine. The needs are great. The Food Drive media gives a boost to replenish the reserves in warehouses and well garnish Christmas baskets to be awarded to individuals and families who request it. It's discreet and anonymous. Now, our way of sharing with others, it is to give money to street corners when it's time, sometimes adding bags of nonperishable food. It is this list of suggestions for purchase which arrived in our publication bags this week and that was this morning on the white sheet that lay between our two coffees ...

It was sad, Crocodile Dundee and me, when you read this list of suggestions that was too ordinary, colorless, tasteless, without surprise, without insanity, without imagination. I let you judge, I'll transcribe in full:

Peanut Butter, Cheese Whiz, mayonnaise, ketchup, canned vegetables, mushrooms, corn, beans, mixed vegetables, stewed tomatoes, cereals: Frosted Flakes, Mixed Cereal (small boxes), fruit salad, pasta: elbow macaroni, spaghetti, biscuits, tuna, canned meat: Stew of meat, flaked, baked beans, canned soup, juice, Kraft dinner, tomato juice. And that's all. I swear, that's all. Can not find it sad, you guys?

Guignolée The media, it will be Thursday, December 2 throughout Quebec. We will do our part, certainly, by preparing our donations will be collected on street corners by volunteers who will freeze all day to take everything you may wish to provide for a clear conscience. We will again this year with bank notes, because we can not bring himself to give boxes Kraft dinner, cans of tomato juice, from Cheese Whiz and cereals-even-not-to-bear.

I have too much respect for poverty, for those not as fortunate as us ... At Christmas, are we could not give them anything to eat but misery? I understand these things with my head but not with my heart. I just can not imagine a Christmas Eve in a family, we will open an aluminum can of baked beans or they will heat the contents of a large can of stew. And children in there? Toddlers? Well, do not even think of it, I cried. Especially there children will still be bored with other families who have too. Crocodile Dundee thinks like me, we will try together to find something more and better to do. Otherwise, we will have failed. We said we would talk again at dinner ...

Monday, November 8, 2010

Bellypunching Husband

The Green March





Photos 1, 2, 3 and 4: The Green March was held this morning November 8, 2010, from 10:00 to 12:00, Ville-Marie, Témiscamingue. This solidarity march was organized in just one month by the Mobilization Committee Témiscamingue.

The Green March

First, we must know a little background. The name of my region, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, I do not teach you anything there ... Population: 145,000 inhabitants. Space: A boundless land of 65 143 km / 2, the size of a country. In contrast, Lebanon is 10,452, Rwanda 26,338, Belgium 30,528, 41 290 Switzerland, Costa Rica 51 500, Sri Lanka 65 610, Ireland 70 280 and so on. To go faster, I often say that my area is nearly large as Ireland.

In Abitibi, the base of the economy are the mining, forestry, agriculture. When the forestry crisis shakes throughout Quebec and the difficulties in agriculture becoming unviable for small producers, Abitibi can rely on mining for survival. And that is what is happening now.

For Témiscamingue, the situation is quite different. With a population of 16,000 inhabitants (the total of 145 000 mentioned above) distributed in small towns and villages, their economy has always been based on exploitation of the forest and then agriculture. It everything. They can not count on any other industry that these two pillars of their economy. This is the summary portrait of reality Témiscamingue.

The Green March was held this morning in Ville-Marie, Témiscamingue. It aimed to mobilize the population to sound the alarm to the rest of Quebec, to be heard by decision makers at all levels of government, so that finally led to some projects that laws soften and modulate taking into account the peculiarities and realities faced by Témiscamingue.

To be honest, it was explained the appellation from "The Green March" to make a nod to "The Blue Walk" held in Quebec to promote the idea that a hockey team come to settle there. The challenges are different but they are even more important when the survival of a region depends on it.

Today, I was there, I would not have wanted to be elsewhere. We were between 3000 and 5000 people to march in the streets of Ville-Marie, to say that we exist, we will not be forgotten, we love living here and we are ready to put into action to work together, regardless of origin or political party to which it subscribes.

For a population of 16,000 inhabitants in Témiscamingue, when a human tide between 3000 and 5000 people marched in the street singing and dancing his pride, his courage, his will and his sense of belonging and solidarity , 30% of the population that cares and believes that with the energy ... I would say desperation, but it was more hopeful. A vast and infinite hopes that the region, as deep as Lake Temiskaming Algonquin name in French means "deep water". Imagine if the temperature was mild!

Ville-Marie, at home, it usually 90 minutes drive. This morning it was quite two hours because of heavy fog. But we have passed the test, nothing can stop us, Timiskaming not request it, take charge, roll up their sleeves and move forward with pride, courage, solidarity and dignity. We will not wait for a miracle or forestry crisis unlikely in the agri-food sector to respond.

This morning, for the Green March, between 10 am and noon, they came from everywhere, but especially all the villages of Témiscamingue, Abitibi a little too but not as much as I would have liked .. . Témiscamingue, the appeal was heard, almost 400 companies were closed for the cause unifying, schools also, shops, services and converged all Témiscamingue this rally was heartening to live, see and hear.

There were long since I had not seen such an example of solidarity. Call me an idealist if you want but I firmly believe that it is the people who change things, not elected. And the people, this morning he was there, despite the cold and humidity, zero visibility and slippery conditions.

I saw old people, some with canes, others in wheelchairs, young in strollers, others on the shoulders of their parents, very beautiful women, her cheeks rosy from the cold, some pregnant, men proud of strong men, dressed in work, we knew where they would go after, children who had drawn signs touching (photo 3) workers who lost their jobs with placards of their company closed, farmers with colored coats of "production milk, adolescents who were standing by the hand, which is not let loose, dancing more than they walked, others who advanced by beating the market with their tam-tam, and the most moving moment for me was to hear the crowd sing so loud as if the chorus of Mario Peluso, "I'm going back to, until ... Témiscamingue, when we arrived at the top of the hill, I looked back and saw this sea of people that stretched tightly woven to the majestic Lake Temiskaming, which was lost in the fog.

These are people who change things, not elected.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Water From The Mouth To Theurethra

Secret filming ... Revealed! See



Photos: It was Sunday afternoon, Oct. 31, on stage at the Theatre du Cuivre, Rouyn-Noranda, main location of projections International Film Festival in Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Part of the crew of the documentary by Martin Guerin, See Ali, presented the fruit of two years of work that tells a beautiful epic, an event occurred in June 1983.

Secret filming ... Revealed!

View Ali received a hero's welcome. Beyond the fact that this film tells with authenticity, humor and tenderness a page of history that was far too overlooked at the time, what I found most is the extraordinary constructive and creative madness of those who made it all possible at this time. You might think it's just a fact unusual and unlikely but there is in this film much more than a document archive that has been created with people who remember and who intensely reliving the telling.

Whether you like boxing or not, we have had the idol Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali or not, "The Greatest" was beautiful and many came to Rouyn-Noranda in June 1983 because of Magnificent Men had set his mind to do the right thing to crazy steps, and then move to Los Angeles to sell this idea, make it attractive and he agreed to come here, give a speech at a dinner, and so by its mere presence, helping to establish the funding that would ensure the holding of the Championships in Quebec Rouyn Sports -Noranda.

That is the context. You can see the trailer here: http://vimeo.com/15468250

I not tell you the whole movie but I will only say that this story deserved to be told and it is also believed that Réjean Tremblay La Presse. Here is the article he wrote when he saw the press screening of documentary:

To do his research, scripting, documenting, and his film, Guerin Martin, the director, had a tiny budget, nothing to do with other films that look at Quebec and the rest of the world. In this sense, I see a link made between this documentary, the International Film Festival in Abitibi-Témiscamingue and the visit of Ali in Rouyn-Noranda in 1983, believing that anything is possible if one is willing to put the effort to roll up their sleeves and take action with enthusiasm, passion, love of adventure, sense of innovation, daring and just enough naivete to open doors that others would think impossible to unlock, even with the key!

My participation

One of the difficulties of filming this documentary, is that the event did not seem to have left traces of concrete in the archives of local, regional, national, etc.. Several remembered, had lived, had attended and whether the memories remained etched in the hearts and memories, many rumors had run and a host of questions remained unanswered. This story dozed into oblivion and would have remained without the determination of Martin Guerin. There were reasons for this "oversight" and the documentary explains them very well.

On several occasions, calls were made on all waves of our regional radio stations to provide photos, testimonials, videos, film, etc.. Our regional news television (Radio-Nord) were well presented reports of the event in 1983 but they had kept no records. Not the slightest trace. National TV networks were present on site but none of them had kept nothing either portion of the "Greatest" in Rouyn-Noranda. Journalists from the print media covered the event and reported the matter, of course, the radio people, too, but none had a small piece of film or audio clip that could prove that it actually happened.

As I often saw Dominic in a family context, it is working on this film and I had heard myself in interviews all make calls to get their hands on a video that would embed this in the reality of the time, I often inquired if they had answers, and each time he answered me not. They were sorry. One Sunday evening I decided:

- Cou'donc, Dominic, is what I'll have you so my first film to life, when I tried my new Super 8 that I had just bought, and that Muhammad Ali was just in town?

Dominic looked at me with eyes as big as thirty cents ...

- What?

- I remember what year it was but I picked up my money to buy a camera was a Super 8, I had a reel of film with my instruction book I hardly knew how to open and close, I just discovered that I had a zoom, I was eager to try it and Joce was just cutting the hairs again here, he told me: "Jump in the 'char, it will go try it, your film, Ali is in town! "And I had answered:" Are you sure that's true, "Mohammad Ali in the city? "

- You had it worse you not tell me?

- Ben ... It was my first film to life, I just wanted to try my new camera, I was hoping that you find others, it must be full of errors, then this old movie ...

- Do you still have it?

- It must have a big bag with at least fifty coils is below the stairs.

- Do you have a projector?

- Yes bad screen!

So, we were digging underneath the stairs, we get everything back up, we started to want to watch some unidentified reels and old films broke constantly. Everything has stopped this, Dominic was afraid of damaging the film, moreover, little Felix was tired and they went home with my big bag of old reels, Dominic was just happy to be happy!

I thought it was a shame to do so much work for maybe not much. I vaguely remembered the video I shot but I did not have them reviewed since 1983. A few weeks later I get a call from Dominic, euphoric. At the 24th he was viewing coil, he had just put my hands on it, it was my film of Muhammad Ali. Three minutes of Mohammad Ali in a jeep convertible under a blazing sun, waving people crowded on both sides of the street to see him pass, Ali who had stopped the car to take a baby in his arms and give her a kiss , pretending to punch a kid, Ali near and far, heading for the House guests from the mine, where he was hosted during his visit here, I had used my zoom to maximum, and if the film was perfect for the pace, according to Dominic, my explanation was simple: I could not go faster, I was trying it, my new Super 8.

When Martin (Guerin) learned of the existence and content of my film, he told Dominic that he loved his stepmother! They scan my old coil and this completes the documentary "See Ali." This is serious then it seems I had the only video document existing in this true story and the film ends with my Super 8 images of June 1983, which brought me to be thanked by Martin on the scene yesterday, and my name in the credits, in the Acknowledgements.

Seated on the balcony yesterday afternoon for the world premiere, in absolute darkness, I blushed slightly, I admit. I was proud to have participated, even a little bit, and a series of coincidences, this documentary film that tells a great story if true, funny and touching, which is now well documented. Anyway, me too, it just warmed my heart of 'Ali View .

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Best Way To Break In Danskos

large screen Giant


Illustration: To achieve the poster of the 29th International Film Festival Abitibi-Témiscamingue, the designer Staifany Gonthier has captured the essence of the feast of international cinema, highly unlikely that the 48th parallel north, which continues to delight and amaze for this 29th edition.

Thinking Big on the big screen

with tradition, I'll talk to you again, as every year, MON Festival, one where I worked behind the scenes, communications, the where only edition I could not see a mozusse film, but since I corrected myself, since the end of October always means big brush my film, my annual appointment with the seventh art and my friends also bitten me In this amalgam of parties, p'tites and great views, encounters magic and sheer lunacy that will befall us from 30 October to 4 November.

For six days, will be presented 17 feature films, 83 short and medium length films, 42 animations, from 25 countries: Algeria, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Burundi, Canada, Denmark, United States, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Malawi, Netherlands, New Zealand, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, United Kingdom, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Venezuela. The lineup of 35 films this year presents awards and 36 premieres, including 16 world, 10 North American and 10 in Quebec.

a program! You can read more by clicking site FCIAT: http://www.festivalcinema.ca/

As you can imagine, I am present there rather than here in the coming days. I will not see any, it would be impossible, but I do not sulk my pleasure, for sure, even take out all the stops to spare me the beaches in my free time already and save me crazy at the Festival.

In addition to the screenings taking place at the Theatre du Cuivre, there are also many activities that are grafted around the Festival: The public education (youth component), the great movie, with the speaker Pierre-Henri Deleau, release movies across the region, Short (Dominic will present his film, Between Spruce and the unicorn Saturday night at the Cabaret of the last chance), Nocturnes and other events that bring people who participate in this frenzy that already feels around town, Rouyn-Noranda at least.

I will not be missed especially in block 3 on Sunday afternoon, a world premiere, the film See Ali, director Martin Guerin. This film, I hear speak for two years, among other reasons because Dominic is involved with all his heart, camera, editing, calibration and whatnot. This documentary tells a great story, 100% true, an incredible story that shows that anything is possible in a region like ours, when crazy wonderful start to want the same thing at the same time with all their might.

The trailer See Ali, you can view it here: www.vimeo.com/15468250

In a few minutes, I leave to go to 5-7 Launch of this film. I was invited to be part of all those who participated, from near or far, this documentary tells this wonderful story that would be forgotten if Guerin did not consider Martin to be the general screen. What was my involvement? Even under torture, I will not say anything ... until next week, after the screening of See Ali, a world premiere!

Monday, October 25, 2010

Brazil's Employment By Sector Agriculture

My daughters hate the seasons change ...

Phase 2 of the season change, it is the fittings ...
far, tee shirts have been spared, and although it's over ... With the cards last year, cartons of gifts from friends and grandmas start the fitting. To avoid disorientation, everything starts with heaps: 8 years, the rare 7 years, 6 years and 5 years (yes, yes, the higher the pile of clothes in stature and not age). Soon there is some disparity in the heap:
- the great 8 years will reach 10 years and 12 years of waiting patiently, waiting their turn in a cardboard
- the big 6-year-old joined the pile of 7 or
8 years - the major stores with one 5 years 6 years
- 5 years we have found great last season but are really riquiqui
- But what are those 4 years in this box?
comes a time when the "light of nas" is not enough ... Called a kid (at random, the large) and he is trying on clothing. That dispatches heap:
- those who will
- those too large (the executive board for later)
- those too small (towards the pile of the little sister)
In general, it is equipped a girl whose overall size is "not the same," and there is no fun: example here: Grand peas made up of 8 years (compared with sleeves that are all in 6 years 3 / 4) or 7 years old when it exists and 6 / 7 years down, except for the gauchos or she is still easily the 5 / 6 years (arggggggg), 8 years old so we forget except for dresses or it may put the models of 6 or 8 years (yes, 7 years old when there) at once, should try them all ...
The nightmare, have sweaters and jackets, I do not know what the manufacturers are smoking but my front door as models and brands of 4 to 10 years ... looking for the error, again we try everything. And skirts? Overall it is of 6 years if there is no adjustable elastic, and tightly, some 8 years (yes, and 7 years ...)
Oh yes, the joys of adjustable elastic .. . So I agree, it's a great invention, but ... The most basic rule of survival for us as recycling clothes come for almost all the girlfriends (thank you girls <3 ), des vides grenier et d'Emmaüs. Forcement certains sont plus que distendus, pour d'autres, désolée mais il y a une limite au nombre de plis que les tours de taille petit-poitesque de mes filles peuvent supporter, régulièrement c'est pile poil la bonne longueur et impossible à régler à la taille : direction la pile à donner.
When the big swoons amid piles of clothes, I pity, I call the little one.
.. another thing ... Little miss pea strongly held opinions about what she deigns to wear, in general, pink, purple violet, the straws are in the odor of sanctity, the dresses and skirts that look too. Everything else, much less. It must however be on cold winter days where the skirt and tights country-of-fairies will be a fair bit, especially since the girl is timid. Very. Kind to put on pants sweatshirt even though it is ... brown or green. Even with a thick blue sweater wholesale oil ...
But for him to try a rather mild autumn day ... Ben
it rattle. Throughout the fitting, except for the dresses that turn AND are pink and purple sequined ... And if by misfortune a pink dress is too small, the absolute tragedy, I remember a certain purple skirt with a tulle petticoat I had inadvertently tried to fit one more winter and, although struggling to cover the top of the pantyhose had one more year, there are things which cons we do not fight ...
few battles later, piles regain the shelves, and here we count ... This year, my Grand peas can open a shop of sweaters and vests, thanks to the generosity of manufacturers (from 4 to 10 years) she has three stacks (a stack = nas given 4-6 pull), it does will not butt-naked I have not counted a dozen pants ... dresses and skirts, they are good by cons, surprisingly, tights and long sleeve tee shirts do not really matchent, and even if it sees no reasons to "impose" a red dress and pink tights with a high green and blue bin I avoid ... We'll probably go full of tights ... For
Peas is more strange, she has skirts and gauchos, and a reasonable number of sweaters and vests, but very few pants and dresses (very little, but enough for the winter, calms the grannies and godmothers ;-)), so, again I'll have to find a supplier of tights ...
At this time of storage, when the piles are all distributed in a scientific rigor, I advise a box all alone in his corner ... WE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE PAJAMAS ... We forgot pajamas ...
For reasons beyond my control, this winter, my daughters proudly sports pajamas "in light of nas ', not' cause at a time, just have not Poussy!
Ha and as I am, girlfriends, I decided to break the chain of clothes BHAAAAA. Yep, you see exactly what I mean: the stuff back of boxes you have all pretended not to see, which must date from well ... More than that, which have not been worn since the end of Year 90 at a minimum (not there yet a revival 90, it is not possible, even in the 80s we had better taste. ..). Widget circulating cardboard carton girlfriend girlfriend and end up in my living room: white dresses printed with stylized flowers such ugly tapestry, big collar lined with synthetic lace scratch, with unlimited length, probably mid calf, privateers with a steering wheel down (yes and scratchy lace), the Power Pig Tshirt (sic) or synthetic "peach skin". Then one evening after sunset girls, I put everything in the box to Emmaus (not dare throw it happens once the revival 90) and closed the box. Not because if I do nothing, my peas have a hidden talent for finding the horrors, even though when I stash in the bottom of a box not closed, or under the pile "to give". The great delights of all that defies the notion of color balance, little of everything that is flying ... And then I find myself Super U with two lamps in one color, one at the wheel, you see the picture?

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Eagle Project Blueprints

I hate the seasons change! What

No, I'm not even talking about runny noses of the rain that invites the gray piles up, I mean the biennial horror that awaits everyone, especially single mothers sex ( yes when you do not know how to choose the girls or boys). You come to me voyer? I speak of the horror of rotations wardrobe. If you are an adult basic, you do have a vague idea of the problem, it's true what is not funny to empty her closet, out of boxes full of dust dripping (yes it can dribbling dust) on you, leave the clothes you had forgotten to make a possible sort of what you do not take more than x years ago and locked in the same boxes and clothes of the opposite season. Well, you're not at all. The rotation of the clothes of a mother, it's horror, it lasts for days, it's beating down the morale and it makes you sneeze for hours.
It begins with a simple observation barometric "It's not freshened a little, right?" or "It's hot these days, eh." Do not trust them: it can snow in May after an attempt to put the beautiful running short and in November it may be days spearing hands down a 30 degree girl. Therefore expect that children are the choice of blue or cold in their scarlet turtleneck. There is no need to back off, he'd better get started!
Take for example (random like that) the transition from summer to winter in a small family with two girls, 5 and 7 years (thus going on 6 and 8 years, it has a vital importance for the future ) ...
should wait for a weekend preferably gray to get started: you start with the empty wardrobe summer in a beautiful burst of rationalization, it turns outdated sizes: 4 years, finished, hula, there is still of 3 years behind ...
And here begins the puzzle of the bunch:
Yeah, there's a lot "to throw", almost as easy, the stuff really unwearable
damaged, impossible to give even Emmaus
The pile of "not possible" that you ask without hesitation in a box "to give" tips pink or bright yellow (with purple flowers on a yellow gold polka dot striped ...) that you can not imagine seeing your children on a more year as they give you a headache when you see them in, the stuff that does not resemble anything ironed (no I do not iron, or at least minimally)
The adorable tricks that your children stubbornly refuse to (well, mostly small, it is the great all there in her wardrobe, especially the stuff fluorescent, floral, stripes and sequins, preferably not when ironing ironed s proves essential)
The pile of too little "give" and you wonder for the umpteenth time whether or not you'll keep the clothes that you like too small especially when a (e) third child points his nose, please note the parenthesis: if the third child passed the conditional, even should he be a girl ... So brief dilemma. The
heap but too small to keep time (you included) : All these little cute clothes that you tell so many stories of love with your girls and you do not solve to give, hidden behind your excuse "desfoisque" ...
And there's the evil-doing "next year": the great clothes that could still go next year, the garment of which will go to great early next year, the garment of that small could still go next year.
And here starts the puzzle in your immense foresight, you've made a cardboard "pea summer" and another "big pea been", then 5 years, it's easy, it goes in the too small advance, except that thing in 5 years but certainly a great five years to properly go another year, and this one also ha ... Good
on 6 years, it's easy it is to early next year, they notify the moment so it may or may not do one more season for the big ...
But what do the 4 / 6 years? Too small? Still good for a year? Rhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
What about the 6 / 8 years? For large, small? Both? Unmanageable: tested this year and impossible: the clothes are for a child at a time point bar.
Here we begin to do something despicable is overlaid with a 6 years (early) and 8 years (for large) and "in view of nas "dispatches it in both boxes, the scientism of the situation will not have escaped anyone!
Haaaaaa approach the impossible thing, the nightmare in a pile that grows casually: the size and stature, and not old grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! So what is already 112? 6 or 7 years? Another Failed verification on the internet later, you sit and you realize you've already forgotten ... So you bunk. And you dispatches. In pif. ..
Note in passing: there are two hinges ages that are a major headache for moms: 2 years is almost more babies (0-2 years it usually stops before 2 years) almost not in children (children is 3-6 years to 2 years ...), so you do not get dressed, you explode in 18 months / 2 years and you float in 3 years ... And 7 years, suddenly, you go to heights of 2 to 2 years, so if you have not grown up enough and that 7 years would be welcome, well ... you float or you blew up, or you bless the few brands that do not t'imposent choice between a floor lamp 6 years or 8 years old baggy attitude ...
Note: at this time of sorting, the shelves are empty, there are plenty around the house and not a cardboard "Winter" is released, you need a break, you go blogger. 1 to 2 h later, not a cardboard "Winter" is released and there are heaps around the house. So I go back, then tomorrow (given the number of months since my last post, you should be fine) ...

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Hampton Silversmith 18/10 Flatware

The first house

photo: This little house in a tree on the shore of Lake Osisko, fascinates me and delights me every time I see it. It was built by the grandfather of Felix, not Crocodile Dundee, but his other grandpa, Guy, an architect at the tender heart that was fun to create something special and fun for his daughter Ariadne, who is now 21 years!

The first house

It is therefore the first house of Ariadne in the backyard with his parents. I guess it always will come back even though she grew up ... Anyway, I think if I were him, I'll talk with emotion, to meet my childhood and the indifference of those years.

If I linger today in the idea of the first house we do not forget, is that earlier in an hour ago, Isabella and Dominic will be among the undersigned, are signing all official documents that will make them the new owners. The transaction is agreed, approved and planned for months, today they are buying their first home.

My memories bring me back to early 1981 when we bought our first house, Crocodile Dundee and me. We had visited some before but this one we had rallied more than any other. We recognized it, we saw live there in each room, outside in the courtyard, the workshop-garage, everywhere. We were ready for anything.

I was 23, Crocodile Dundee, 24, but we seemed to almost 15! Moreover, our new neighbor, an elderly gentleman, quite charming, had come to welcome us in the neighborhood, one called Noranda West, the same neighborhood inhabited by Isabella, Dominic and Felix from this weekend ...

Mr. Côté had come knocking on our door to find his new neighbors. We were there with my parents, trying to paint the kitchen and dining room. It was busy with courage, good humor and energy, while continuing to talk with him, encouraged as it was, we had no time to lose. After a moment, before taking leave, he shook hands with my father and my mother, saying: "In any case, you young people who are working, it's not every day that you see that! "And then we realized that he thought my parents were the new owners of the house, Crocodile Dundee and I were brother and sister!

Our new neighbor was amazed when we told him we were the new owners. It took my parents to confirm that it was indeed true, we do not believe. He told this long story then everyone who would listen. Still, buying a single family home in that price at the time, with interest rates that bordered on 22%, it was a real madness. It should be young, full of passion and recklessness and believe that anything was possible. I remember that my father had given us advice worth its weight in gold and which we used often since. He told us: "You two? You want the same thing with all your strength? When you're two, you're very a lot! .

go back in January 1981. Newlyweds, we lived in a large home, a half duplex, with 3 bedrooms, lounge, kitchen, dining room, bathroom, basement with laundry room, workshop, large yard, good location, $ 160 months, which was quite honest and in the order of things. We bought a single family home of $ 42 000, with a quarter of the sum as a down payment, a interest rates that had been negotiated, just barely, at 17%, which was awesome. Our monthly mortgage payment, I still remember, was $ 435. Our friends told us: "But you're sick! "

You do not forget these things, we remember with humor and tenderness. Our first house, it was inhabited and renovated from top to bottom, we have been happy for 7 wonderful years. When we sold, Isabella was 18 months. Today, at age 23 she too returns while nearby, a few blocks away, as co-owner with Dominic a property where I wish them much happiness as we experienced ourselves in our first home.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Mississippi River Decomposer



status and future of Brussels: how to reconcile the points of view?

Minister-President of Flanders, Mr Kris Peeters, recently said in an interview Soir that Flanders will never let go Brussels, which is its capital and it constitutes an important added value . He added that the CD & V does not want to split Belgium, but a profound reform of the state granting more autonomy to regions and communities. This allows Mr. Peeters to say that Brussels is "the capital of Flanders," is that it is the capital of the Flemish Community, as it is also that of the French Community.
But the situation of French and Dutch is not the same, the fact that the Community and the Flemish Region merged into one institution, having one government and one parliament, both established in Brussels. This is the reason why Flemish parties in the '70s, claimed priority to the creation of Communities, while the Walloons claimed especially the institution of Regions. With this concept of "Communities" without specific territory, responsible for matters relating to individuals (education, sports, etc.), the Flemings could retain influence in Brussels, even though they constitute about 10 to 15 % of the population .. In addition, after a "put on ice" for ten years from the creation of the Brussels-Capital Region, the Flemish parties were granted an over-representation policy, both in parliament in Brussels that the colleges of the 19 municipalities.
For the Walloons, the situation is quite different. Not only the Walloon Region and French Community have not merged, but the latter alone has established his "capital", its government and parliament in Brussels, Namur Walloon preferring to choose as the capital of Wallonia. It is as if the Flemish Region had not established its capital in Brussels, but Ghent and Antwerp.
It seems that although clearly marking their difference from Brussels, the Walloon leaders do not want more "drop" it and postulate the creation of a Federation Wallonia-Brussels, prelude a possible state of the same name in case of Flemish independence. It seems he is in this spirit that Mr. Rudy Demotte was wearing two hats, that of minister-president and the Walloon Minister-President of the French Community, creating between the two institutions not a merger as in Flanders, but in some areas of synergy. Under the famous "Plan B", some as Mr. Di Rupo even want this new state without Flanders retains the name and attributes of Belgium.
Therefore, the question that arises is a co suivante.En outside of Brussels in Flanders and Wallonia - which could be associated Brussels Francophone community - what other solution could be found for Brussels, which would have both the approval of the Flemish, Walloons and Brussels?
After the formal declarations of the Minister President of Flanders, one can not evade this question makes more difficult an amicable divorce, however, seems to us indispensable. In this regard, we can not compare Belgium and Czechoslovakia, because the latter did not include a central capital disputed between the Czechs and Slovaks.
Let us open the debate, hoping that users will be likely to send us feedback.





Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Can Using A Laptop Affect Fertility For Women

Country of contrasts




Photo 1: Last Friday, the sun was rising all shy and my office, I just had to do two steps to photograph the house in this light nostalgic autumn. If the door was open, we would have seen all the drawings in chalk Félixe this summer and we, whenever we were going to get our jackets for a boat trip: ducks, loons, flowers, suns, ships, sailboats, apples, bananas, etc..

Photo 2: Always last Friday, I was the Abitibi-West, an hour's drive from home. On the way back in the late afternoon, just before the beautiful village of Palmarolle, I was struck by the splendor of light, sky, colors and landscape of my childhood. I parked my car off the road and seen here a little this time.

Photo 3: Without disembark from my car, near the scene where we saw a tractor and a trailer at work in the dark. I do not know much about working the land but I admire those people whose labor is proportional to the heart and courage it takes to choose and take on this lifestyle.

Country of contrasts

This morning, much to my mind, but nothing worthwhile to do a ticket. And I think that this is not a valid reason not to write one! As we know, regularly publish a new text is a gym should not be overlooked too long, otherwise the aches and bad habits insidiously installed, disinterest is so fuzzy edge first, then we seek motivation and no longer exists and so this taste of writing that had always been there fades, withers and dies without making waves, like a candle goes out. I fight against that right now.

my way of blogging is not that much of the world. For 4 years I'm in a kind of network unorganized, free, places of exchange, reflection and discussion, friendship real and / or virtual, with those I call my blog-friends, I faithfully visit and make me well. This list is there, right next door, do you see? This is what might be called "MA blogosphere." Other people also read me, comment or sometimes not at all, and all are important to me. I want to say thank you sincerely for this precious time they grant me, this play so generous that goes straight to my heart and I will never take for granted, so it surprises and amazes me every time.

However, when the foundations are crumbling in my network as now, this tightly knit social network that was the blogosphere, as I've known this social network I said, became unfashionable when Facebook and Twitter have responded better to what people wanted. The blog as a means of communication and discussion has lost ground over recent months to such an extent that he went quietly dying in old-fashioned, in my opinion. Blogging has suddenly become the same meaning for me either. I tell you what I think, without trying to explain myself more and not knowing what will happen to mine. I always said I would be the last to close my blog so I found the pleasure, but when all my friends have left-blogs, though I must be thinking of closing shop too ...

I watched the last 4 years of human phenomena in this fascinating virtual world where I participated with joy, with enthusiasm, happiness in a constantly renewed. I'm attached to people I learned to know and love deeply ... without ever having met. It's not so strange after all, we communicate by using our words, our images, and when writing, it must dive deep within themselves, in truth, the heart of the subjects, in areas where one does not often browse on a daily basis in our social relationships often superficial. Inevitably, friendships are born and grow, relationships are formed, loyalties, affinities, habits are formed and ultimately, these virtual relationships become real. Finally, for me, that's it.

That's where I am. And I pass without further delay to other subjects.

alliances promising

You know how much I love my area and all of Quebec. Because of this, I can not support cleavage (especially media) between Montreal and Quebec, between Montreal and the regions, and anything that contributes to divide us, we oppose, we ignore or despise us rather than us to join forces in our differences, seek to become or complementary partners in the goals we share.

What I advocate, I have a great opportunity to introduce you to become a prime example. If I mention, not only because Dominic is taking part this year as a filmmaker, I beg you to believe me.

Last year, for the first time, the network access Montreal culture was associated with another region of Quebec to offer a showcase in Montreal and awareness of its artists, its environment, the wealth of creativity and its territory. The event "From the Island to the sea" opened its doors to artists from the Gaspé and the Magdalen Islands, Quebec Maritime shone for two months in Montreal, in autumn 2009. I find these constructive alliances and rich benefits for both regions for the metropolis that will open the entire province, a region at a time.

This year, the event invites the Abitibi-Témiscamingue. The project is called "AT @ MTL " which means, you guessed it, Abitibi-Témiscamingue in Montreal. From 26 September to 28 November, the Accès culture network, a group of 24 broadcasters Montreal, presents artists of our region show, music, theater, films and exhibitions that bring together many of our talents, creations and productions. Access Montreal culture highlights the cultural vitality of a region each fall and this time it's ours that is in the spotlight.

Many of them work with pride and hard for months. To get an idea, you can visit sites, blogs, various social networks that are dedicated as accesculture.com / event / ATMTL, vimeo.com/12398660, atamtl.tumbir.com and several others that I am deliberately did not include clickable links in order not to slow Blogger. If I hear about it for a while, is that Dominic had a mandate to make a documentary that would do the portrait of our cultural life in Montreal to present at the launch event which will span two months. Quite a challenge he noted brilliantly in a documentary 20 minutes, putting his vision, his heart and talent to our region and its artists. Because it was not easy ... It was at the meeting of about fifty artists across our vast region and he has not counted his hours or his feet. He decided to show our reality, and here I quote, as he himself said in an interview excerpt published in The Bohemian Index, "even in city centers with the sheet because c is also what makes our rawness and honesty ".

Dominic did not compromise on authenticity and honesty, I know him well in this artistic choice. But we will also see beautiful things, wonderful creatures, artists engaged and engaging, a sky day and night, with stars or northern lights as a guide for this country that we live as we live there. I had the privilege (of step-mom) to watch his film and I was proud of the choices he made and what he wants to show that we are in this cultural specificity, this membership to this territory, this way we create and live here.

The documentary AT @ MTL titled "Between the spruce and the Unicorn . A fter was launched in Val-d'Or on October 6, it will make its debut this week in Montreal, Thursday, October 14 to 17 hours at the Maison de la culture Maisonneuve. My children, Isabella and Dominic (this one, I have adopted) will be present. Not me although I liked it ... I have more important things to do, like spend quality time with Felix! Tags

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The day her parents will be in full press conference in Montreal for the 5-7 start of the event AT @ MTL , Felix has just 21 months, adorable age where language and communication are growing at an alarming rate. And funny. And touching. I had another great show yesterday, so we spent the morning together, her and me.

All is not quite developed yet in his manner of expressing things she wants to say but it made me laugh so much yesterday when she served me a perfect imitation of me. Looking back, I still laugh. She wanted me to go draw with it, as has been done so often this summer. She arranged for me to understand his message. She had taken the large crayons (washable), leaf color, stickers of kitties, flowers, butterflies. And then, with his expression cheerful, energetic, bright eyes, inviting smile, she said

"Grandma-Granny-cry-there-Edin-tights-Elisse weuriodena-wow-it boooooo Elisse "which means" Grandma, grandma, just write about on the leaves, we'll put stickers and when me, Felix, I'll show you what I did, you'll still t'exclamer "Wow it's Félixe boooooo! "...

Much has been drawn, both of us yesterday. She told me many things, I did not understand everything but the conversation was going well, it was fluid, it was question of kitties, flowers, boats, loons, loon dad, mom and lil loon loon p'tits on his back, fell into the water, apple juice, and WoW is beautiful everything that is important in life.