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November 21 2009

Sigalon02
06:48

Week in Political Cartoons

Who is Obama bowing to now? What song gets Khalid Sheikh Mohammed grooving? And what does Sarah Palin have in common with a disaster movie? VIEW OF OUR GALLERY of the week's best political cartoons. Click Image Below to View Our Gallery For more of...
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Sigalon02
06:47

Opinion: China has a President Hu, now Europe chooses President Who?

The process of elimination that led to Van Rompuy's appointment represents all that is institutionally wrong with the European Union.

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Sigalon02
06:45

Urbanisme : modification simplifiée du plan local d'urbanisme

A paraître prochainement, le texte intégral de la modification simplifiée du plan local d'urbanisme (PLU).
Urbanisme : modification simplifiée du plan local d'urbanisme
Parallèlement à la révision actuellement en cours, la Ville tiendra, très prochainement, à disposition du public le dossier de modification simplifiée du plan local d’urbanisme (PLU).

Quelques points évoluent comme les nouvelles dispositions pour l’installation des panneaux photovoltaïques en zone agricole.

Vous pourrez alors donner votre avis et consultez le dossier de modification en mairie, auprès du service d’urbanisme, tous les jours de 8h30 à 12h et de 13h30 à 16h30 ou sur www.uzès.fr, uniquement pour la consultation du dossier.

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Sigalon02
06:44

Fermeture du site EDF-GDF d'Uzès le 1er Décembre 2009

Synthèse du communiqué de presse du personnel EDF-GDF d'Uzès

Depuis 12 ans le personnel EDF-GDF d'Uzès lutte pour le maintien du…

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06:43
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November 20 2009

Sigalon02
17:09
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Tatin de pommes de terre et brie - CUISINE TV

Ingrédients pour 4 personnes:

250 g de pâte feuilletée
1 cuil. à soupe d’huile pour le moule

Pour la garniture :
1,5 kg de pommes de terre
300 g de brie de Meaux bien « fait »
100 g de comté
1 oignon
10 brins de ciboulette
10 cl de crème fraîche
5 cl de vin blanc sec
Sel
Poivre

Préparation de la recette

Préchauffez le four à 180 °C. (th. 6).
Pelez les pommes de terre et faites-les pré-cuire 10 min dans une casserole d'eau bouillante salée. Egouttez-les et laissez-les refroidir

Pelez l'oignon et émincez-le et faites le compoter.
Coupez les fromages en lamelles. Ne retirez pas la croûte du brie.

Lavez la ciboulette, essuyez-la dans du papier absorbant et ciselez-la.
Coupez les pommes de terre en rondelles

Huilez une tourtière (ou un moule à manqué) d'environ 26 cm de diamètre. Saupoudrez de ciboulette ciselée et de compotée d'oignons.

Disposez-y une couche de pommes de terre (la moitié). Salez et poivrez. Ajoutez les lamelles de fromage et recouvrez du reste des pommes de terre. Salez et poivrez à nouveau. Versez dessus la crème et le vin.

Etalez la pâte feuilletée et recouvrez-en les pommes de terre et glissant les bords de la pâte à l'intérieur du moule. Donnez-lui des coups de fourchettes, puis enfournez pour 30 min. environ à 180°C. Démoulez la tarte sur un plat de service et dégustez bien chaud.

 ”
— Tatin de pommes de terre et brie - CUISINE TV
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Sigalon02
14:40
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Faroe Islands

(Wikipedia)
The Faroe Islands, sometimes Faeroe Islands, Faroe(s), or Faeroes (Faroese: Føroyar, Danish: Færøerne) are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland.

The Faroe Islands have been an autonomous province of Denmark since 1948. Over the years, the Faroese have been granted control of most matters. Some areas still remain the responsibility of Denmark, such as military defence, foreign affairs and law.

The Faroe Islands have close traditional ties with Iceland, Shetland, Orkney and the Outer Hebrides. The Faroe Islands were politically associated with Denmark in 1380, when Norway entered the Kalmar Union with Denmark, which gradually evolved into Danish control of the islands, but this association ceased in 1814. The islands are represented on the Nordic Council by the Danish delegation.

Whaling
Killed pilot whales on the beach in the village Hvalba on the southernmost Faroese island Suðuroy, 11 August 2002.

Whaling in the Faroe Islands has been practiced since 1584.[13] It is regulated by Faroese authorities but not by the International Whaling Commission as there are disagreements about the Commission's competency for small cetaceans. Around 950 Long-finned Pilot Whales (Globicephala melaena) are killed annually, mainly during the summer. The hunts, called "grindadráp" in Faroese, are non-commercial and are organized on a community level; anyone can participate. The hunters first surround the pilot whales with a wide semicircle of boats. The boats then drive the pilot whales slowly into a bay or to the bottom of a fjord.

Most Faroese consider the hunt an important part of their culture and history. Animal-rights groups criticize the hunt as being cruel and unnecessary, while the hunters claim in return that most journalists do not exhibit sufficient knowledge of the catch methods or its economic significance.[14][15][16]

As of the end of November 2008 the chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have recommended that pilot whales no longer be considered fit for human consumption because of the levels of toxins in the whales.

Islanders in motorboats first drive the whales into a bay. The chase may be lengthy. The whales are eventually driven into the shallows. The islanders hammer 2.2 kg metal gaffs into the flesh of each whale until the hooks hold. A 15 cm knife is then used to slash through the blubber and flesh to the spinal column. Next the main blood vessels are severed.

The Faroese treat the hunt as a festive occasion. Children are often given a day off school.[citation needed]

According to Faroese legislation it is also permitted to hunt certain species of small cetaceans other than pilot whales. These include: Bottlenose dolphin; Atlantic white-beaked dolphin; Atlantic white-sided dolphin; and Harbour porpoise (There are also specific regulations for the hunting of harbour porpoise. Harbour porpoises are killed with shotguns).

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Today, Sigalon received an email with the content below:

 Denmark is a big shame.  The sea is stained in red and in the mean while its not because of the climate effects of nature. 


It's because of the cruelty that the human beings (civilised human) kill hundreds of the famous and intelligent Calderon dolphins. 


This happens every year in Feroe island in Denmark. In this slaughter the main participants are young teens. WHY? To show that they are adults and mature.... BULLLLsh 


In this big celebration, nothing is missing for the fun.. Everyone is participating in one way or the other, killing or looking at the cruelty "supporting like a spectator"



Is it necessary to mention that the dolphin calderon, like all the other species of dolphins, it's near extinction and they get near men to play and interact. In a way of PURE friendship  



They don't die instantly; they are cut 1, 2 or 3 times with thick hocks. And at that time the dolphins produce a grim extremely compatible with the cry of a new born child. 


But he suffers and there's no compassion till this sweet being slowly dies in its own blood


 



It's enough! We will send this mail until this email arrives in any association defending the animals, we won't only read. That would make us accomplices, viewers. 


Take care of the world, and these beautiful, wonderful & friendly creatures- it is your home!

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Sigalon02
14:25
Google Chrome OS Open Source Project Announcement
Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security. www.chromium.org
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Sigalon02
14:25

Google to Test New, More Colorful (and Permanent) Sidebar

Google is rolling out a design prototype to some users which will have a permanent new pane to the left hand side. Within that pane, as the screenshot by Search Engine Land (with more coverage) shows, there will be sections such as “Everything”, “Images”, or “Video”, as well as related search queries and more fine-tuning options. Clicking “Images” switches to what Google internally calls the images “mode”, meaning the results will now consist of images. “By default, Google guesses at the modes it thinks are most relevant to your search,” Danny Sullivan explains. The top bar of the prototype still contains navigation links like images and video, too, causing a bit of redundancy.

I also got hold of a sprites image that looks like it’s used for this prototype (a sprite image is referenced by a stylesheet, and quicker to transmit because it only needs to be downloaded once, and can then be cropped as needed for different icons on the client side). Have a look, you can see the new Google results page logo and some of the pane icons, among other things:


If Google doesn’t switch its place, this image is hosted at google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo3w.png

Here’s another one (going by the number 5; a number 4 is available too):

If this is ever rolled out for everyone – right now, around 1 - 3% are going to see it, Search Engine Land says – it’s going to be a pretty major design step. Right now, the left hand pane still needs to be manually expanded, which probably means many people ignore it. I guess the question for the new harder-to-ignore pane will be whether it’ll start to get in your way or not. For many queries, we may just be looking for the best website out there, or a quick bit of textual information; for other queries, we may well like to have richer results. Right now, Google already automatically sometimes shows richer results and sometimes more text based ones – the “universal search” approach, though Google’s Marissa Mayer finds it can cause unexpected “Jazz" style result design that slows searchers down. I guess for the new constant sidebar there’s both the chance that it causes more organization, or more clutter. If any of you stumbles upon this prototype, please let me know via email of the contents of the Google.com cookie named PREF so we can reproduce the test and have a try ourselves!

[Thanks Ionut! Image CC-licensed by Search Engine Land.]

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Sigalon02
14:24

Caritatif: Bientôt la collecte de la Banque alimentaire

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Le comité local de la Croix-Rouge française recherche des bénévoles afin de participer efficacement à la collecte nationale de la Banque alimentaire, comme l'an dernier.
En 2008, les bénévoles de la délégation, avec l'Entraide protestante, le Secours catholique et le groupe Axa, ont collecté des denrées alimentaires aux entrées de l'hypermarché Carrefour, de Spar, Shopi, ED, Utile. En tout 60 bénévoles ont récolté plus de 7 tonnes de denrées. Qui s'ajoutaient à la participation, deux fois par semaine, de l'hyper qui donnait à la Banque alimentaire des marchandises (42 tonnes en 2007) retirées de la vente avant leur date limite de consommation...

Les 27 et 28 novembre, les consommateurs sont appelés à se mobiliser pour les plus démunis. Une solidarité indispensable à l'heure où les banques alimentaires constatent, entre juin 2008 et juin 2009, une augmentation moyenne de la demande d'aide alimentaire de 16 %.
Les consommateurs pourront offrir les conserves de légumes, de poisson et de fruits, les légumes secs, les féculents ainsi que les huiles végétales qui permettent de compléter les autres sources d'approvisionnements des banques alimentaires.

Cet acte de générosité a représenté 126 tonnes l'an dernier (collectées sur deux jours !), soit l'équivalent de 58 000 repas. Quelque 800 bénévoles se sont mobilisés pour le Gard dans 135 magasins pour collecter les dons des consommateurs.
Ces produits alimentaires non périssables ont ensuite été répartis dans le département où ils ont été offerts... Les produits collectés pendant ces deux jours viendront compléter la distribution des Banques alimentaires (80 000 tonnes distribuées en 2008).

Contact : Croix-Rouge du secteur d'Uzès, tél. 04 66 22 73 88.

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Sigalon02
14:23

Loto: la chance frappe à nouveau à la porte d'un Uzétien

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Rien à voir avec la tirelire de 6,4 M € du Quintet plus gagnée à la mi-octobre par une Uzégeoise. Il s'agit cette fois d'un Uzétien, bien entendu anonyme, qui empoche 139 895 € au Super Loto du vendredi 13 novembre, que la Française des jeux avait doté de l'énorme cagnotte de 15 M€.Le billet a été cette fois validé au tabac presse Le Longchamp, face à la mairie, tenu depuis douze ans par Claude et Jo Hernandez.En fait, c'est la sixième fois que cet établissement enregistre de gros gagnants. Il y a deux ans, un couple d'une quarantaine d'années ne réalisait pas ce qui lui arrivait lorsqu'il emporta plus de 2,2 M€.Quelques années auparavant, on ne sut jamais qui avait gagné 5 M€...Nul doute que l'anonymat sera à nouveau bien gardé.

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Sigalon02
08:55
“ Seriously, how awesome have the past few hours been? Engadget turns the design stakes up to 11, Google finally dishes the dirt on Chrome OS, and now you can even download the forthcoming software to have a fiddle with yourself. It's completely free, though you'll need VMWare running atop a Windows, Linux or OS X installation to make the magic happen. Naturally, we've been considerate enough to provide download links for everything you'll require at the source below, so get those fingers clicking. We've already successfully installed the browser-based OS and will soon be sharing our own hands-on thoughts, but if you beat us to it, spill your insight in the comments below. We do read 'em, you know. ”
— Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download -- Engadget
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Sigalon02
06:39

What's cooking with iGoogle...

We're both huge foodies, and we always love spending time in the kitchen with friends and family, especially around the holidays. Particularly during this season, many of us turn to Google when searching for recipes. But, in addition to spicing up your recipe repertoire, Google can be a huge resource in the kitchen. From helping you with sugar measurements, to jump starting ideas for unique Thanksgiving table settings, the web has made becoming a culinary master much easier.

Since many of us love to celebrate great food, we're excited to announce that we've partnered with a variety of top chefs and food industry experts to bring you some elegant new, food-focused iGoogle themes and gadgets. iGoogle is all about personalization and freshness, and in that spirit, these unique themes are sure to delight the chef in all of us. Be sure to check out our iGoogle gallery, where you'll find some tasty new themes from chefs like Alton Brown and Paula Deen, food artists like Carl Warner and James Parker and even famous bakeries like New York City's Crumbs Bake Shop and Magnolia Bakery.

In addition to these taste bud tantalizing themes, we've also partnered with many top food industry names to build a suite of new gadgets for your iGoogle page. For example, Supercook lets you input various ingredients you have on hand, then gives you some great recipes you can whip up. And if you're feeling like a night out at a new restaurant, Urbanspoon will help you pick a restaurant on the fly — all from your iGoogle page.

We hope this new element of gourmet iGoogle personalization will get you even more interested in enhancing your cooking and dining experiences. Here's to some great new food with family and friends this holiday season!


Posted by Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience and Brittany Bohnet, Product Marketing Manager
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Sigalon02
06:38

Yahoo Search Now Indexing Twitter Tweets for Breaking News

Yahoo Nov. 19 began indexing Twitter tweets, photos, and videos pertaining to breaking news stories on its Yahoo News Shortcut, which is displayed on our the company's search results page when users search for fresh news.

Today, users will see new tabs for Twitter, news, photos and videos, when they search on a topic, such as "Maersk, Alabama." Clicking on the Twitter tab surfaces fresh tweets on the topic:

Yahoo twitter 1.png

Or, search for "Space Shuttle Atlantis" and you can see news, photo, video, and Twitter tabs in the news shortcut. Clicking on the Videos tab yielded this:

Yahoo Video 1.png

You can scroll from left to right through the photos and videos tabs, which pull information from Yahoo News.

Yahoo Search engineers Ivan Davtchev and Nitzan Achsaf wrote:

This is our first integration of fresh social content like Twitter into Web search, and we are planning to continue further along these lines. In the future we will enhance this experience with more real-time and exciting content so you can find all the information you need about a news event in one place.

This is a smart, logical move by Yahoo, but it also feels like a me,too shot after Microsoft launched Bing Twitter one month ago. But hey, at least Yahoo beat Google to indexing real-time tweets.

I've already noted how indexing real-time information can help the search engines.

I haven't heard yet if Yahoo's Twitter integration comes courtesy of the alleged real-time pact it inked with OneRiot.

Yahoo needs help. Fast.

As I reported earlier this week, Google and Microsoft's collective gain for October came at the expense of Yahoo, which plummeted to 18 percent in October from the prior month's total of 18.8 percent. That's Yahoo's lowest share ever and its largest month-to-month share decline since August 2008.

I asked Yahoo how planned to avoid being further squeezed by its rivals. A Yahoo spokesperson responded through the lens of the new Twitter tweets:

As of today, the other search providers don't have experiences like the one we are launching. We are the first company to aggregate all that content in one place for our users. Between the unique Y! News content and the "from the field" Twitter info, our users get to experience truly advanced search results -- with relevant and recent news, images and tweets -- when searching about a current or timely topic.

Okay, but it's not like Yahoo will advertise these new features. People aren't suddenly going to leave Google or Bing, which is already indexing Twitter quite nicely, for this feature upgrade.

Now that Yahoo is indexing tweets, albeit for breaking news, will the people come?


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Sigalon02
06:37

Google Chrome OS Event

Google will announce more information about Chrome OS at a press event that starts at 10:00am PST. Google will offer "an update on Google Chrome OS and provide at the work that has been done thus far, an overview of the technology, and launch plans for next year. Speakers will include Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management and Matthew Papakipos, Engineering Director for Google Chrome OS." You can watch the live webcast here.

Meanwhile, the source code for Chrome OS is already available. Here's the login screen:


... and one of the wallpapers that are included:


Chrome OS is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Debian that uses a lot of open-source software: Host AP Linux drivers, PAM (an authentication mechanism), Syslinux (a lightweight bootloader), IBus (Intelligent Input Bus for Linux / Unix OS), ConnMan (Internet connection manager), XScreenSaver and other software. More on this later.

Other sites live blogging the event:

* Gizmodo
* Matt Cutts

Live blogging:

- Chrome OS launches next year

Chrome, the foundation of Chrome OS
- Chrome has 40 million users
- Chrome focuses on: speed, security, simplicity
- new stuff: Chrome for Mac/Linux and extensions

HTML5: making the web more powerful
- powerful web apps
- web apps should use threads
- offline web apps

Converging trends
- netbooks have an explosive growth
- millions of users are living in the cloud

Chrome OS:
- instant boot
- Chrome on Chrome OS is faster
- every app is a web app
- all data is in the cloud
- browser security model

Demo:
- 7 seconds boot time
- the UI is a work in progress
- easy to access favorite apps
- app menu
- panels: persistent lightweight windows (example: Google Talk)
- file browser
- local files open in web apps (including Microsoft Office online apps)
- native video player



Under the hood:
- design documents
- no hard disks, only solid-state drives
- verified boot
- security: the OS does not trust any app
- read-only root file system
- user data synced to the cloud
- automatic updates for the entire OS


Market:
- reference hardware
- you can't download Chrome OS and install it on your machine
- the only way to install the OS is to buy a Chrome OS machine
- the target launch time: the end of next year

What is Google Chrome OS?
- the web browser is the most important program on your computer
- your browser is your operating system


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Sigalon02
06:37

Google Video Explains What Chrome OS Is

Google Nov. 19 made developers happy by releasing Chrome Operating System to open source.

Chrome OS is a Web operating system intended as an alternative to Microsoft Windows, allowing users to run Web apps much faster. Google intends to use Chrome OS to power netbooks, those light, speedy machines, from Sony and other providers.

Caesar Sengupta, Chrome OS Group Product Manager and Matt Papakipos, Engineering Director for Chrome OS, noted:

All apps are Web apps. The entire experience takes place within the browser and there are no conventional desktop applications. This means users do not have to deal with installing, managing and updating programs.

Google officials, including Papakipos and Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, announced the news at an event at Google's Mountain View headquarters.

Programmers can find links to the source code on Chromium, as well as design documents and videos walking them through the booting procedure, security and other aspects of the OS here.

However, Pichai noted that Chrome OS is still more than a year away from appearing in netbooks. Papakipos explained in a blog post:

We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partners, the open source community and developers. As with the Google Chrome browser, development will be done in the open from this point on. This means the code is free, accessible to anyone and open for contributions.

And for the lay user who has no idea what Chrome OS is all about, Google has a top level view of what the Web operating system is all about here:

That's the gist of the news. I will have more on the actual event in a story for eWEEK later this afternoon.


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Sigalon02
06:33

YouTube Audio Transcription

YouTube added a feature that generates video captions. "We've combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video."

The feature only works for English and it's been enabled for a small number of channels that usually feature talks and interviews: UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Yale, UCLA, Duke,UCTV, Columbia, PBS, National Geographic.


Another new feature is auto-timing, which lets you upload the transcription of a video and it automatically generates the time codes. "All you need to do is create a simple text file with all the words in the video and we'll use Google's ASR technology to figure out when the words are spoken and create captions for your video."

Since Google's speech recognition technology is not perfect, it would be useful to generate the captions and then to manually edit them to correct the mistakes.


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Sigalon02
06:33

More new imagery in Google Earth

It's only been a couple of weeks since their last update, but Google has just pushed out more new imagery for Google Earth.

Some of the areas that have been updated are various locations in the United States (including Florida and California), a few locations in Brazil, northern India, northern New Zealand and a variety of other locations around the world.

You can see the new locations using this KML file, or view them here in Google Maps.

Airplanes on the ground in Rio de Janeiro

Share your finds: As with previous updates, they're encouraging you to Tweet about interesting things that you find in the new imagery using the #GEarthIMG hashtag. You could also drop a link to your interesting discoveries in our comments, or submit them to the database over at Google Earth Hacks.


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Sigalon02
06:32

A Preview of Google Chrome OS

Google has released Chromium OS*, the open source precursor to their Chrome OS (which Google says will be “ready for users” in a year). Google in a blog post explains that the Chrome operating system will be all about web apps, not traditional apps, so the “entire experience” takes place within the browser. Additional focus in Chrome OS will be on speed, as well as security; “Every time you restart your computer the operating system verifies the integrity of its code,” Google promises. They also mention that they “benefited hugely from projects like GNU, the Linux Kernel, Moblin, Ubuntu, WebKit”, some of the layers of Chrome OS.

Below video is giving an overview of the Chrome OS user interface:

[Thanks Fabio, Ricardo, Inferno, everyone!]

*I was not able to reach that site at the moment.

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: A Preview of Google Chrome OS | Comments]


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