Friday, March 4, 2011
Are Chupa Chups Lollipops Vegetarian
"Unworthy you!" Stéphane Hessel
Back Cover
93 years. The end is not far away. What chance to take this opportunity to recall what has served as a base for my political involvement: the program developed there are sixty-six years by the National Council of Resistance! "How lucky can we feed the experience of this great strength, escaped the camps of Buchenwald and Dora, MO co-editor of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, elevated to the rank of Ambassador France and Commander of the Legion of Honor! For Stephane Hessel, the "basic pattern of the Resistance, was outraged.
"Certainly, reasons to be indignant in the complex world of today may seem less clear than in the days of Nazism. But" seek and ye shall find ": the growing gap between the very rich and very poor The state of the planet, the treatment is to undocumented immigrants, the Roma, the race "ever" on racing, the dictatorship of financial markets and sold off to the achievements of the Resistance - Pensions , Social Security ...
To be effective, it must, like yesterday, acting in networks: ATTAC, Amnesty International Federation of Human Rights ... are the proof. So we can believe Stephane Hessel, and follow suit, when it calls a "peaceful insurrection".
Notice JB:
"Unworthy you! "Truste months now rankings of book sales in France, with our usual big sellers such as Levy, Brown, etc..
What are the reasons for this success?
Undeniably through work and form. 3 euros (which is still more expensive than a conventional book, if we reduce the price by the number of pages), an elongated shape that reminds a leaflet or a booklet, a readable and enticing headline when you wander into a bookstore and excellent media coverage (radio, TV, Internet ...). The success is such that the book is now in supermarkets stripped shelves of literary and some tobacco-bar ...
Say you just bought the book. You start flipping. It is published in "Native" ("knowledge and arts of non-industrial cultures, First Nations and our own indigenous companies"), a new collection called "those who walk against the wind" (a reference to the Indian people, the formula is in pretty all cases). Okay, so before starting the book itself, it falls on a small biography of Hessel covering the last pages of the book. Without spoiling the fun, Hessel was born in 1917 in Berlin to Jewish parents who moved to Paris later. His studies, rue d'Ulm, will be interrupted by the war where he will engage with the strength and will be deported. Became a diplomat, it will be particularly involved in the drafting of the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and held several official functions. He became a late writer in the early 1990s.
And, medium, the text, which begins with a brief introduction on the resistance and the values it intended to defend and implement. "[...] Energy and nationalized banks [...] struggled against great feudal economic and financial [...] like the fascist state." The empathic link qu'entretient the French way of resistance is clear, we will therefore emphasize through the "if we were the heirs of the resistance." I must confess to rather poorly made this little speech blaming, whereas inheritance is an individual notion: each is free to claim or not values, persons or actions affecting them, first as an individual, then as French, although the concept has value for him. This is followed by a few small
autobiographical elements (rue d'Ulm, Sartre, Proust, drafting of human rights ...) that never fail to give a hand "serious" in the text.
ome findings then: "We live in an interconnected world [...] but in this world there are things unbearable, we must look, look." Finally, ideas about disparity rich / poor and the importance of the Declaration Universal Human Rights embellish the argument.
The book ends with two central themes: The situation in Palestine and the notion of violence. In a few tens of minutes, the book is closed: you just finish the literary bestseller of recent months.
Do not take this text for what it is not, that is to say for a small manual to complete an economic-social revolution. It is primarily a short essay, a collection of ideas and experiences that the author has accumulated during his long career and life. The ideas developed here will unanimously in 99% of readers (Strength / Fight poverty / Less Violence / Compliance Declaration of Human Rights) will remember that people before them fought for the gains they enjoy TODAY 'hui. The appeal is more human and citizen than revolutionary. Everyone should defend his ideas and stand up if he considers that one attack his freedom, his free will, or values or acquired which he believes. This text finally, each citizen could write it in turn ...
Read or not
Great principles, great humanist ideas, a lot of generalities, the author may be sought collective awareness. In my opinion, it does not work, it's a lot of deja vu. It's finally warm enough and moralizing, and it does not give me new reasons to be indignant. 
Back Cover 93 years. The end is not far away. What chance to take this opportunity to recall what has served as a base for my political involvement: the program developed there are sixty-six years by the National Council of Resistance! "How lucky can we feed the experience of this great strength, escaped the camps of Buchenwald and Dora, MO co-editor of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, elevated to the rank of Ambassador France and Commander of the Legion of Honor! For Stephane Hessel, the "basic pattern of the Resistance, was outraged.
"Certainly, reasons to be indignant in the complex world of today may seem less clear than in the days of Nazism. But" seek and ye shall find ": the growing gap between the very rich and very poor The state of the planet, the treatment is to undocumented immigrants, the Roma, the race "ever" on racing, the dictatorship of financial markets and sold off to the achievements of the Resistance - Pensions , Social Security ...
To be effective, it must, like yesterday, acting in networks: ATTAC, Amnesty International Federation of Human Rights ... are the proof. So we can believe Stephane Hessel, and follow suit, when it calls a "peaceful insurrection".
Notice JB:
"Unworthy you! "Truste months now rankings of book sales in France, with our usual big sellers such as Levy, Brown, etc..
What are the reasons for this success?
Undeniably through work and form. 3 euros (which is still more expensive than a conventional book, if we reduce the price by the number of pages), an elongated shape that reminds a leaflet or a booklet, a readable and enticing headline when you wander into a bookstore and excellent media coverage (radio, TV, Internet ...). The success is such that the book is now in supermarkets stripped shelves of literary and some tobacco-bar ...
Say you just bought the book. You start flipping. It is published in "Native" ("knowledge and arts of non-industrial cultures, First Nations and our own indigenous companies"), a new collection called "those who walk against the wind" (a reference to the Indian people, the formula is in pretty all cases). Okay, so before starting the book itself, it falls on a small biography of Hessel covering the last pages of the book. Without spoiling the fun, Hessel was born in 1917 in Berlin to Jewish parents who moved to Paris later. His studies, rue d'Ulm, will be interrupted by the war where he will engage with the strength and will be deported. Became a diplomat, it will be particularly involved in the drafting of the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and held several official functions. He became a late writer in the early 1990s.
And, medium, the text, which begins with a brief introduction on the resistance and the values it intended to defend and implement. "[...] Energy and nationalized banks [...] struggled against great feudal economic and financial [...] like the fascist state." The empathic link qu'entretient the French way of resistance is clear, we will therefore emphasize through the "if we were the heirs of the resistance." I must confess to rather poorly made this little speech blaming, whereas inheritance is an individual notion: each is free to claim or not values, persons or actions affecting them, first as an individual, then as French, although the concept has value for him. This is followed by a few small
autobiographical elements (rue d'Ulm, Sartre, Proust, drafting of human rights ...) that never fail to give a hand "serious" in the text.
ome findings then: "We live in an interconnected world [...] but in this world there are things unbearable, we must look, look." Finally, ideas about disparity rich / poor and the importance of the Declaration Universal Human Rights embellish the argument.
The book ends with two central themes: The situation in Palestine and the notion of violence. In a few tens of minutes, the book is closed: you just finish the literary bestseller of recent months.
Do not take this text for what it is not, that is to say for a small manual to complete an economic-social revolution. It is primarily a short essay, a collection of ideas and experiences that the author has accumulated during his long career and life. The ideas developed here will unanimously in 99% of readers (Strength / Fight poverty / Less Violence / Compliance Declaration of Human Rights) will remember that people before them fought for the gains they enjoy TODAY 'hui. The appeal is more human and citizen than revolutionary. Everyone should defend his ideas and stand up if he considers that one attack his freedom, his free will, or values or acquired which he believes. This text finally, each citizen could write it in turn ...
Read or not
Great principles, great humanist ideas, a lot of generalities, the author may be sought collective awareness. In my opinion, it does not work, it's a lot of deja vu. It's finally warm enough and moralizing, and it does not give me new reasons to be indignant.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
What Happens If You Squeeze Scabies Scores
"Logicomix" A. Doxiadis, C. Papadimitriou, A. Papadatos, A. Di Donna
Back Cover:
England, 1884 - In the solitude of an old English manor house, the little Bertie Russell discovers, fascinated, the power of logic. This discovery will lead his life ...
on an American campus, 1939 - As Nazi troops invade the Old: Continent Professor Russell tells an audience of students a fascinating story, one of the greatest minds of his time, Poincaré, Hilbert, Wittgenstein, etc.., that of their relentless pursuit - but apparently he lost before - the foundations of scientific truth. And how these thinkers obstinate aesthetes those who thirst for absolute truth, always preyed by madness and exposed to the violence of their times, tried to reformulate mathematics and contemporary science.
Athens today - Three men, two women and a dog wondering about the fate of these exceptional men and their extraordinary discoveries and their continuing legacy in our everyday life ...
Immerse yourself in an exciting intellectual adventure that has already attracted hundreds of thousands of readers around the world!
notice of Emmanuel
Logicomix is one of my acquisitions Angoulême 2011. With the nice bonus dedication below (thank you again Ben and So). It is also currently my most interesting discovery. Surprising at first sight for a graphic novel that traces the history of logic, a topic that is certainly not trivial, but let's face it, not really exciting at first. And yet the four authors of this very nice pad of 340 pages are able to make this unlikely material a very good book, innovative in many ways, as smart as beautiful, and instructive as rhythmic. Once is not custom, the subject deserves a little dissection rule to take all the good measure of its rich originality.
First the background. The authors do not hide the purpose of the work was to expose the history of modern logic, focusing on the major issues that formed in the early twentieth century 'the quest of the foundations of mathematics. " So it was for them to convey to the reader a certain amount of very specific information that would likely hit a rare elite particularly interested in the subject if the data had been compiled in an essay or a treaty, or absolutely no one if the track's classic novel had been followed, the risk was as great a story to produce dry and tasteless.
Second bias narrative. The use of a multi-layered narrative is really smart and makes the narrative a fluidity that would probably not have been achieved otherwise (the authors take stage in creating comics, comic which tells a conference September 3, 1939 by Bertrand Russell in a U.S. university on the role of logic in human affairs, conference during which Bertrand Russell himself describes the events of his personal biography and the history of the quest of the foundations of mathematics. "). This seemingly complex structure is made clear by using the format "graphic" and reinforced by clever tricks of formatting or coloring that differentiate implicitly (I only realized after the finished book) different levels of narration: coaching boxes (cutout with rounded corners, square corners ...), sidebar background color pages, color codes in the boxes (black and white illustrations / examples ...).
the center of this structure in the form of Russian dolls is the biography of Bertrand Russell who did a bit of a hero of the story, or character to which attention is that we hate that one understands or that disturbs, but which leaves no one indifferent. Although this choice has forced the authors state in which the afterword, some approximations or even some historical inventions, it immediately gives a very theoretical subject a human who carries the reader from the world of ideas to the facts. Third
form. The choice of comics, it is more daring, finally appears to be an excellent idea. The design (and color) infuses indeed a precious life to work, facilitates the example and demonstration and allows a flexible organization of the narrative whose other media have failed. I must confess that over the single line without being simplistic and colorful impressed me even before they begin reading.
I leave aside the parallels and entanglement between logic and madness put forward by the authors to conclude by stressing the main message of the book, which seems very relevant (to me scientific training aspiring to a minimum of literary and humanistic). Of course, Logicomix highlights the logic as a powerful scientific tool that will find numerous fields of applications, including for example that of making decisions about human affairs. Yet "when logic freezes in global theories and seemingly perfect, it can become very vicious scam!". We now have some clues to take the measurement.
To read or not?
Yes, I strongly recommend reading this graphic novel hybrid absolutely innovative and totally exciting. I would recommend only to those like me who have no specific knowledge regarding the history of logic and mathematics to first read the notebook end of the book or refer to it regularly so as not to pass side by ignorance of important elements of context "historic" or concepts. 
Back Cover: England, 1884 - In the solitude of an old English manor house, the little Bertie Russell discovers, fascinated, the power of logic. This discovery will lead his life ...
on an American campus, 1939 - As Nazi troops invade the Old: Continent Professor Russell tells an audience of students a fascinating story, one of the greatest minds of his time, Poincaré, Hilbert, Wittgenstein, etc.., that of their relentless pursuit - but apparently he lost before - the foundations of scientific truth. And how these thinkers obstinate aesthetes those who thirst for absolute truth, always preyed by madness and exposed to the violence of their times, tried to reformulate mathematics and contemporary science.
Athens today - Three men, two women and a dog wondering about the fate of these exceptional men and their extraordinary discoveries and their continuing legacy in our everyday life ...
Immerse yourself in an exciting intellectual adventure that has already attracted hundreds of thousands of readers around the world!
notice of Emmanuel
Logicomix is one of my acquisitions Angoulême 2011. With the nice bonus dedication below (thank you again Ben and So). It is also currently my most interesting discovery. Surprising at first sight for a graphic novel that traces the history of logic, a topic that is certainly not trivial, but let's face it, not really exciting at first. And yet the four authors of this very nice pad of 340 pages are able to make this unlikely material a very good book, innovative in many ways, as smart as beautiful, and instructive as rhythmic. Once is not custom, the subject deserves a little dissection rule to take all the good measure of its rich originality.
First the background. The authors do not hide the purpose of the work was to expose the history of modern logic, focusing on the major issues that formed in the early twentieth century 'the quest of the foundations of mathematics. " So it was for them to convey to the reader a certain amount of very specific information that would likely hit a rare elite particularly interested in the subject if the data had been compiled in an essay or a treaty, or absolutely no one if the track's classic novel had been followed, the risk was as great a story to produce dry and tasteless.
Second bias narrative. The use of a multi-layered narrative is really smart and makes the narrative a fluidity that would probably not have been achieved otherwise (the authors take stage in creating comics, comic which tells a conference September 3, 1939 by Bertrand Russell in a U.S. university on the role of logic in human affairs, conference during which Bertrand Russell himself describes the events of his personal biography and the history of the quest of the foundations of mathematics. "). This seemingly complex structure is made clear by using the format "graphic" and reinforced by clever tricks of formatting or coloring that differentiate implicitly (I only realized after the finished book) different levels of narration: coaching boxes (cutout with rounded corners, square corners ...), sidebar background color pages, color codes in the boxes (black and white illustrations / examples ...).
the center of this structure in the form of Russian dolls is the biography of Bertrand Russell who did a bit of a hero of the story, or character to which attention is that we hate that one understands or that disturbs, but which leaves no one indifferent. Although this choice has forced the authors state in which the afterword, some approximations or even some historical inventions, it immediately gives a very theoretical subject a human who carries the reader from the world of ideas to the facts. Third
form. The choice of comics, it is more daring, finally appears to be an excellent idea. The design (and color) infuses indeed a precious life to work, facilitates the example and demonstration and allows a flexible organization of the narrative whose other media have failed. I must confess that over the single line without being simplistic and colorful impressed me even before they begin reading.
I leave aside the parallels and entanglement between logic and madness put forward by the authors to conclude by stressing the main message of the book, which seems very relevant (to me scientific training aspiring to a minimum of literary and humanistic). Of course, Logicomix highlights the logic as a powerful scientific tool that will find numerous fields of applications, including for example that of making decisions about human affairs. Yet "when logic freezes in global theories and seemingly perfect, it can become very vicious scam!". We now have some clues to take the measurement.
To read or not?
Yes, I strongly recommend reading this graphic novel hybrid absolutely innovative and totally exciting. I would recommend only to those like me who have no specific knowledge regarding the history of logic and mathematics to first read the notebook end of the book or refer to it regularly so as not to pass side by ignorance of important elements of context "historic" or concepts.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
How Long Can You Take Benzonatate
An Angel Passes: A small thing that makes you so BIG
An Angel Passes: A small thing that makes you so BIG : "We often underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, a compliment sincere, or ... " 
An Angel Passes: A small thing that makes you so BIG : "We often underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, a compliment sincere, or ... "
Does Vegeta Love Bulma?
A broadcast ... to share .....
I have a tiny heart of anything, but I send my heart filled full of light, full of love and I pray with all my strength for peace on our planet !!!!! not staying negative, lamenting to our screens that we can help! I remain convinced of the power of the mind and heart when both are directed with such sincerity and love!
THEN if united to send peace would only be in our thoughts more positive, and no I'm not a fool, where a dreamer, a good friend Matthew said: "It's the thought that we create the world" it does no wrong!
Since the power of visualization and thought in my life works why not you?
Prayer is not an "I salute you ..." I do not pray that way, my belief is different, I just pray with short sentences and clear especially with the heart, and it works!!
I have a tiny heart of anything, but I send my heart filled full of light, full of love and I pray with all my strength for peace on our planet !!!!! not staying negative, lamenting to our screens that we can help! I remain convinced of the power of the mind and heart when both are directed with such sincerity and love!
THEN if united to send peace would only be in our thoughts more positive, and no I'm not a fool, where a dreamer, a good friend Matthew said: "It's the thought that we create the world" it does no wrong!
Since the power of visualization and thought in my life works why not you?
Prayer is not an "I salute you ..." I do not pray that way, my belief is different, I just pray with short sentences and clear especially with the heart, and it works!!
De La Ghetto 2010 Hairstyle
I may be naive, but I believe in ME! YES I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES! PEACE that is deposited on the earth once and for all !!!!!! Annie
The Prince of Egypt (with faith) 
AND yes I believe with all my heart !
The Prince of Egypt (with faith)
Gall Bladder Polyps Pregnancy
"Journey to the Land of Cotton" by Erik Orsenna
Back Cover:
Notice JB:
Back Cover: This story begins in the mists of time. A man passing remark a shrub whose branches end in white flakes. One can imagine that the hand approach. The human species has become acquainted with the softness of cotton. For years, something told me that by following the paths of cotton, agriculture, the textile industry through biochemistry, [...] I understand better my world. The results of the lengthy investigation has exceeded my expectations. To understand the globalisations of yesterday and today, nothing is worth examining a piece of cloth. Probably because it is fact that son and links, and travel of the shuttle.
Notice JB:
Erik Orsenna young academician (63 years), has many hats, the main one being that of renowned author especially for the Colonial Exhibition, which earned him the Goncourt in 1988. In addition to numerous past political responsibilities under Mitterrand, has more recently been part of the Attali commission.
I like to read essays. Maybe too much so, in view of the stack piled menacing on my bedside table. The annotations are making more frequent than in novels, the reader's eyebrows frown, the pace of play breaks and lengthens the time ... Fortunately for us, some authors are kind enough to write essays descriptive enough, or disseminated uninteresting to soften the course of their reading.
Take a product known and used by all (indirectly): cotton. Reassemble the whole chain "your t-shirt -> peasant -> collect it" will allow us to highlight the interrelated political and economic mechanisms that govern our planet. The concept is not new (see eg Gammon on this blog), purpose, either ("We walk on the head, the bad aspects of globalization will pose to our loss).
The story is meant that a traveler who travels the globe, fueled by his curiosity. The author crosses continents, asking questions, gathering information, meeting the different actors in the cotton sector, and the book ends with twenty pages where he gives his opinion. Each new destination (China, USA, Egypt, etc..) Is accompanied by some historical and economic benchmarks succinct rather interesting.
We discover, through the pages, the facts certainly interesting but a lot of déjà vu. The U.S. over-subsidize their agriculture, creating unfair competition. Their response to this problem is "Stop our grants will not raise the price of cotton, and we will only do so if all other producers are doing it," something obviously false, since doubling the price go up gradually and it is impossible in emerging countries, devoid of American economic power, plunging thousands of people into starvation. Brazil meanwhile, chose to play the card of fair competition by building giant plantations at the expense of the Amazon rainforest. With regard to a country like Mali, whose only asset is her funeral manpower at low cost, production is almost 100% managed by the state. The situation is deteriorating, the world price fell, the government continues to buy fixed-rate production and loss of his peasants, avoiding social revolt, but got bogged down even further into debt. Other examples are presented to us (and Uzbekistan in particular its faux-Mafia).
As for the beef industry is the endless circle of economic interdependence that makes the game of the rich against the poor. China and India are buying more than they poor (that is to say to Africa) to produce low cost to the U.S., the West and support the growth of domestic demand. When the rural exodus will slow, and especially when the middle class will be the majority, rising wages and living standards that China will (it is already beginning to do) will "make happen" in turn. Brazil, among countries with the strongest growth world, made the economic choice of the short term. Its huge land used to grow cotton, oil palm or soybeans for export, disfigure its primary forest. For several decades now, France is disqualified. It is impossible to manufacture manufactures simple, competitive, despite government subsidies and high productivity of French workers.
few spikes on Monsanto, cakes to feed the cattle, "China requires that social peace in order to better support its growth" and is obtained from an interesting product Base (e cotton) and a few local examples (countries) a nice little treatise against evil counterparts of globalization.
can agree or not. But, since this is the book and not the ideas that I think here we would have liked to read more engagement, provoke debate, and not fall into the eternal cotton / cattle / seed / pesticides, although this probably also works with diamonds / shoes / salmon.
To read or not
No. The ideas are interesting but too general to fuel a debate that is not new. We would like to stop read the findings for reading suggestions, solutions (if there is a problem) or at least approach the subject differently. Journey to the Land of Cotton is certainly not a bad book. But it is wrong to describe what has already been written a thousand times and sometimes better.
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