A Patchwork Planet: March 2006

Friday, March 31, 2006

Malade, la France ?

Malade, la France ?: "Un organisme en faillite dont la réforme s’impose de toute évidence. Sur fond d’angoisse sanitaire provoquée par les menaces de peste aviaire, telle apparaît la France aux yeux d’une cohorte de « déclinologues » de droite (1). Ce pessimisme a été conforté par des événements récents de nature disparate qui, en donnant le sentiment que les institutions se délitaient, ont contribué à l’actuel mal-être général : catastrophe judiciaire et naufrage des médias dans le procès des « pédophiles » d’Outreau, loi du 23 février 2005 reconnaissant le « rôle positif » du colonialisme (2), cafouillages à propos du porte-avions Clemenceau, émeutes des banlieues en novembre 2005, replis identitaires et affirmation des communautarismes à l’occasion de l’affaire des caricatures de Mahomet ou de l’odieux assassinat du jeune Ilan Halimi, privatisation déguisée de Gaz de France, etc. (...)"

YouTube - VideoHotpot - The Restaurant

Sunday, March 26, 2006

Ma fiche de lecture et Internet

Je dois faire une fiche de lecture sur un livre pour l'école et Google Book Search est un outil intéressant en effet, il rend possible la recherche "within the book". (google book search existe aussi en français)

J'ai la chance que mon livre se trouve dans la base de donnée.

Une fois arrivé là, je peux faire une recherche dans le texte du livre.
Par exemple, je veux savoir quand est-ce que le livre reprend sa définition de la "culture" donnée au début du livre.
Cette définition la voilà: "a set of shared and enduring meanings, values, and beliefs that characterize national, ethnic, or other groups and orient their behavior "
Donc je fais une recherche "within the book" sur "set of shared and enduring" ("set of shared" aurait suffit...)
hop: le résultat!

Il n'y a pas que Google qui offre ce service. Amazon.fr et Amazon.com aussi. On obtient à peu près le même résultat:

Google:

Pages 1 - 6 of 6 in book for "set of shared and enduring". (0.04 seconds)

Page 3 It is possible, however, to offer a working defmition of culture, one that will guide the present study: Culture is a set of shared and enduring meanings, ...
Page 8 Culture and Negotiation: Interactions and Influences Recall the working definition of culture suggested earlier: a set of shared and enduring ...
Page 64 Broadly defined in Chapter 1 as “a set of shared and enduring meanings, values, and beliefs that characterize national, ethnic, or other groups and orient ...
Page 104 Regarding definition, culture is meant in this chapter to represent “a set of shared and enduring meanings, values, and beliefs that characterize national, ...
Page 177 It involves a “set of shared and enduring meanings, values, and beliefs that characterize.. . groups and their behavior.” But the cultural nexus here is not ...
Page 201 [Sorry, this page's content is restricted]

Amazon.fr:

6 références à "set of shared" dans ce livre

1. à la page 3:

" ... terms, culture may be understood as a system of widely accepted beliefs combined with a set of self-justified assumptions. These beliefs and assumptions are transmitted from one generation to the next ... however, to offer a working definition of culture, one that will guide the present study: Culture is a set of shared and enduring meanings, Palues, and beliefs that characterize national, ethnic, or other groups ... "

2. à la page 8:

" ... Negotiation: Interactions and Influences Recall the working definition of culture suggested earlier: a set of shared and enduring meanings, values, and beliefs that characterize national, ethnic, of other groups ... "

3. à la page 64:

" ... conflict in which the south is contesting the national identity of the north. Broadly defined in Chapter 1 as "a set of shared and enduring meanings, values, and beliefs that characterize national, ethnic, or other groups ... "

4. à la page 104:

" ... interactions are not at the center of the analysis. Regarding definition, culture is meant in this chapter to represent "a set of shared and enduring meanings, values, and beliefs that characterize national, ethnic, or other groups ... "

5. à la page 177:

" ... Bureaucratic culture meets the general test of culture used in this volume. It involves a "set of shared and enduring meanings, values, and beliefs that characterize ... groups and their behavior." But the cultural ... "

6. à la page 201:

" ... does it affect the negotiation I am engaged in? The definition of culture used in this book is "a set of shared and enduring meanings, values, and beliefs that characterize national, ethnic, or other groups ... "

Amazon.com page of this book is certainly one the most interesting if I want further information.

Encore plus interessant... Un résumé un peu plus détaillé trouvé sur Internet

Have you seen my new badges?

"Badge" are the things you can put on your sidebar of you blog (or website!.

my new badges:

Pandora's badge

(doesn't look so good... maybe i shoudl do something about it)

Douban's badge

pretty cool. hope i will keep them up to date.

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Yuan.CC Maps (Geotagging Flickr)

As Geobloggers website is no more, an alternative is Yuan.CC Maps

I guess I now have to remove my link to geobloggers from Flickr...

[update] ...and put the flickrfly link instead!!!

other resources:

Geotagged your pics via Google Earth: GETrackr
Flickrmap.com is a web service that allows you to put a flash based world map on your own website or blog. Flickrmap will thenautomatically search your photos at Flickr for location information and plot the photos on your own Flickrmap, on your own website.
Learn new things about this: Flickr Group about Geotagging

[update 2] That's it, i found the GOOD alternative: i will put this under my geotagged pics:
See the links in the comment section of this pics:

Flickr: Eyes of the World

When listenning to the news this week, you find yourself doing the terrible comparaison between the situation in Belarus and France...

From Flickrblog:

For more:

Hugo*'s outstanding Demonstrations set.
The la france brule-t-elle ? / is france burning ? group

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Culture by Ryszard Kapuscinski

-Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Emperor:
“And you must know this law of culture: two civilisations cannot know and understand each other well. You will start going deaf and blind. You will be content in your civilisation surrounded by the hedge, but signals from the other civilisation will be as incomprehensible to you as if they had been sent by inhabitants of Venus. If you feel like it, you can become an explorer in your own country. You can become Columbus, Magellan, Livingston. But I doubt that you will have such a desire. Such expeditions are very dangerous, and you are no madman, are you?”

http://www.avovision.co.za/2006/03/21/to-explorer-or-not-to-explore-that-is-the-question-a-quote-from-ryszard-kapusciniski/

Sunday, March 19, 2006

IUCN News - International experts discuss China’s draft Protected Areas Law in Beijing

IUCN News - International experts discuss China’s draft Protected Areas Law in Beijing: "Located within the Three Parallel Rivers World Heritage Area in China’s Yunnan Province, Diqing Prefecture is one the world’s most biodiverse areas. A workshop gathering international protected area experts and government officials was recently held to help protect this area of outstanding natural beauty, while encouraging its sustainable economic development.

The workshop, held on 16-17 January 2006 in Zhongdian in Yunnan Province, gathered international conservation experts and government officials with the objective of defining a roadmap to declare a national park and contribute to the economic development of Diqing Prefecture. This included identifying tradeoffs and options for economic development, such as through ecotourism, and exploring ways to provide essential income generating opportunities for the local people."

Saturday, March 18, 2006

- Chinatown -

塞翁失马
- Chinatown -: "塞(sài)：frontier. 失(shī)：lose. 马(mǎ): horse
翁(wēng)：ancient Chinese word, meaning 'old man'."

Rencontrer l’Etranger, cet événement fondamental

Rencontrer l’Etranger, cet événement fondamental: "L’assaut désespéré des candidats à l’immigration contre les barbelés dans les enclaves espagnoles de Ceuta et Melilla, des émeutes à caractère raciste, à Sydney, en Australie… Ces images fortes de la fin 2005 symbolisent la montée de la peur et de l’intolérance, sur fond de misère sociale, un peu partout dans le monde. Pourtant, seuls le dialogue avec l’étranger, l’échange d’expériences – y compris pour s’unir contre un système qui écrase les hommes et les cultures – peuvent faire vibrer la corde de l’humanité commune, si nécessaire dans le monde contemporain. L’écrivain-journaliste Ryszard Kapuscinski, qui a de longues années durant « cohabité avec d’Autres », fait l’éloge des rencontres."

Saturday, March 4, 2006

Back from Cameroon

Flickr: Philou.cn's photos tagged with cameroon

Tagzania: Philou's items tagged with cameroon (use the hybrid view to see the border)

1.	à la page 3:
	" ... terms, culture may be understood as a system of widely accepted beliefs combined with a set of self-justified assumptions. These beliefs and assumptions are transmitted from one generation to the next ... however, to offer a working definition of culture, one that will guide the present study: Culture is a set of shared and enduring meanings, Palues, and beliefs that characterize national, ethnic, or other groups ... "
2.	à la page 8:
	" ... Negotiation: Interactions and Influences Recall the working definition of culture suggested earlier: a set of shared and enduring meanings, values, and beliefs that characterize national, ethnic, of other groups ... "
3.	à la page 64:
	" ... conflict in which the south is contesting the national identity of the north. Broadly defined in Chapter 1 as "a set of shared and enduring meanings, values, and beliefs that characterize national, ethnic, or other groups ... "
4.	à la page 104:
	" ... interactions are not at the center of the analysis. Regarding definition, culture is meant in this chapter to represent "a set of shared and enduring meanings, values, and beliefs that characterize national, ethnic, or other groups ... "
5.	à la page 177:
	" ... Bureaucratic culture meets the general test of culture used in this volume. It involves a "set of shared and enduring meanings, values, and beliefs that characterize ... groups and their behavior." But the cultural ... "
6.	à la page 201:
	" ... does it affect the negotiation I am engaged in? The definition of culture used in this book is "a set of shared and enduring meanings, values, and beliefs that characterize national, ethnic, or other groups ... "