“Dès que nos instances auront validé le résultat [du] vote, (…) je veux dire à tous très simplement que je serai le premier secrétaire de tous les militants du parti socialiste car aucun militant ne doit manquer au parti” a déclaré Martine Aubry à l’issue du second tour qui la place en tête de l’élection du premier secrétaire du PS avec 42 voix d’avance. (et là j’apprends qu’on ne féminise pas “premier secrétaire” ?)

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A European study reports that the common genetic birth defect hypospadias may occur more frequency when the male babyrsquo;s mother is a hairdresser or beauty therapist while pregnant, or is...

After several compilations romping through various related fields, Volume VIII returns to what this compilation series began with in Volume I, bringing the post-rock hits. The current edition brings together tracks from some current albums we're enjoying at the TSB headquarters and ones that should be making some huge waves come the fall. It's a compilation we're proud of and are confident our readers will find enjoyable. We graciously thank all artists and labels who made this compilation possible. Hopefully all who find this venture worthwhile will look into supporting these artists in whichever way possible. It is our support which enables them to continue creating music that they, and we, love.

Two years ago The Silent Ballet magazine and the Lost Children Net Label joined forces with the goal of providing a quarterly compilation that operated outside the boundaries of genre stereotypes, consistently promoted new and emerging artists, and released exclusive tracks into the public. Nine compilations later, we'd like to think that this venture has been a success; over one hundred artists have graciously lent a track to a compilation, the series has been downloaded over 70,000 times, and we've received great feedback from readers and musicians alike about discovering a new favorite band thanks to the series. The future looks just as bright as ever. We're currently planning the tenth volume of the series and we do hear the demands to make these compilations available in physical form. While on one hand we do enjoy the fact that the series is 100% free and does no harm to the environment, we are currently exploring a few projects that may result in a physical CD being created at some point in the future. If there's one thing you can count on us for, it's being spontaneous.

The Nintendo Wii tops the list as most energy-efficient game console in a study which recommends console industry adopt easy-to-use power-management features.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) may boycott a meeting to discuss a constitutional bill that would allow President Robert Mugabe to form a unity government, an opposition official said on Sunday.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=W4F61kps"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=PRKC3Gzc"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=PRKC3Gzc" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=KUdJ5ccj"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=KUdJ5ccj" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/OTkx-m04ewc" height="1" width="1"/

Shots are fired as a motorcade carrying Georgia's president nears South Ossetia, Georgian officials say.

Dan Nosowitz / Gizmodo:
iPhone Firmware 2.2 Jailbroken!  QuickPwn 2.2 Released!  —  Once again, anything Apple can make, the enterprising Dev Team can break: the brand-new firmware 2.2 has been jailbroken.  QuickPwn should take care of everything, unless you're one of those unfortunate owners of the second-generation iPod touch …

Senior Democrats in the US Congress consider backing a huge stimulus plan to boost the flagging US economy.

Senior Democrats in the US Congress consider backing a huge stimulus plan to boost the flagging US economy.

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a href="http://www.playingforchange.com/"Playing for Change - Peace Through Music/a (flash) is a documentary film by Mark Johnson. He traveled the world and recorded various musicians playing the song a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExMfeature=related"Stand By Me/a. Each musician was charged with layering a single song over the previous artist thus building upon it. Over thirty musicians globally participated in this project and not one artist knew the other or came in contact initially. br / a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10242008/watch3.html"Bill Moyers talks with Mark Johnson/a, the producer of a remarkable a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC-LBpqa9EY"documentary/a about the simple but transformative power of music.

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The 2007 writers strike delayed Season 7 of the hit Fox series 24 by a full year. To make it up to the rabid fans who have missed their weekly Jack Bauer Power Hour, Fox is giving us a special 2-hour movie entitled, 24: Redemption. Set between the end of season 6 and the beginning of season 7, this film will help bridge some of the time gap, and explain what has happened to the former CTU agent.

Whether you’re new to the series or a long-time fan, we’ve gathered up a list of 10 places to help get you up to speed. Have a favorite 24 site? Tell us more in the comments.

24 Official Site - The official site for the 24 series features episode and character guides, photos, message boards and a whole lot more to prepare you for the special movie and upcoming season.

24:Redemption official site - Learn all about the 2-hour movie event that will bridge the time gap between seasons 6 and 7 of the popular series.

24 On Hulu - Hulu, the popular video site for streaming television episodes, oddly only has ten complete episodes of 24, but numerous clips of the show. To add to the strangeness, the full episodes are the first five episodes of seasons 1 and 6.

24FanClub.com - The official fan club of the hit series has a store open to anyone, but if you join the club you get exclusive news, a free club tshirt and discounts on their regular items.

24Forum.net - 24Forum is a popular unofficial forum for fans of the show to gather and discuss the popular series.

24:Redemption Exhibit Photos - While on location in Africa to film the movie, the show’s creative team took numerous images from behind-the-scenes and of the locals they worked with. The photos are now on display at the The Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles, but if you can’t make it there, you can view them on this official Photobucket account.

JackBauerTortureReport.com - JackBauerTortureReport helps you keep a running tally of the yearly Bauer body count.

The Jack Sack - A blog dedicated to the deadliest fashion accessory ever, Jack Bauer’s man purse, AKA The Satchel of Doom, AKA The Jack Sack.  Between seasons they discuss other subjects, but their main focus is Jack’s bag of death.

TwentyFour.tv - While TwentyFour.tv is a basic fan site, its claim to fame is the Chuck Norris type facts about Jack Bauer.  Some of them include gems such as “When bad things happen to good people, it’s probably fate.  When bad things happen to bad people, it’s probably Jack Bauer.”

Wiki 24 - Do you have a burning desire to know how many people Jack Bauer has killed each season? Even better, do you want to know how he has killed each person? Need to know when and where Mr. Floppy made his cameos in season 1? Then Wiki 24 over at Wikia is the place for you. It has every piece of trivia a 24 fan’s heart could desire.

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Finding the right business partner is probably the most important business decision you can make. Do it wrong and life is miserable. Do it right and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

In my first technology startup, I found a great partner while getting my MBA. He handled the technology, and I handled the business (fundraising, hiring, board and investor management, etc.). It worked out well — so well that we ended up getting married and now have two kids (human ventures)! We’re 7 years into marriage, so we’ll see how that turns out.

I’ve been going at it mostly alone in my current business, Babble Soft, with sideline help from my husband. And, although I’d made progress, it was tough and tiring. I didn’t have someone I could bounce around ideas with. I needed a partner. I found my first business partner in business school, so how would I find a partner working from my home office? How could I find someone who shared the same vision I did: to help new parents navigate the world of parenting in a digital age? I ended up finding her — where else? — online.

Once upon a time, I met Connie Reece, Austin’s social-media maven. She set me up with my first blog and began introducing me to people, including Wendy Piersall, who runs Sparkplugging. Wendy and I got along famously, and she invited me to join a Blog Mastermind group of extremely talented folks like Char Polanosky, Jill Koenig, Edward Mills, Easton Ellsworth, Dawud Miracle, and David Bullock. After one of our calls, Edward sent out links to articles he wrote on Sparkplugging about the experiences of a company called Pick Nick’s Brain, a baby sleep consulting site run by a woman named Nicole Johnson.

After reading his posts, I reached out to Nicole, and we started a dialogue. PickNick’s Brain was a perfect complement to our baby sleep offerings; she has two little boys; and, more importantly, she had the drive and passion to make a difference in the world of parenting. I’ve never hired an employee sight unseen, let alone a full-fledged partner. But a Skype video call (so we could make eye contact), several voice calls, tweets and emails later, it was official. She took a leap of faith and joined me, and I can already feel the difference in productivity and energy.

Nicole is smarter than me in technology development — my head had hurt daily trying to manage it. She received her undergraduate Computer Science degree from UC Berkeley and her MBA from Ohio State. I now have someone I trust handling the technology, so I can do the things I’m much better at doing and like to do. I’m anticipating that this partnership will work out just as great as my first business partnership — without the marriage part!

Since picking a virtual partner sight unseen can be a daunting task, here are some things I’ve learned about evaluating a potential partner:

• They must be smarter than you are in their respective area of expertise. Heck, they can even be just plain smarter than you and increase your perceived braininess! Michael Dell hired smart people, and the people that Bill Gates brought on were pretty darn smart, too.
• They must communicate well. Observe their communication and conflict resolution style. The last thing you want is to beg someone to communicate with you when things don’t go as planned. If they don’t live in the same city, you can’t show up on their front door!
• Spend time getting to know them. Watch them and see how they behave online and with other people. If you watch someone online (e.g., read their blog, tweets, comments) for a couple of months, you can make a reasonable assessment of their personality and reputation.
• Check each others’ references. You don’t want something to surprise either one of you. References usually say great things, but knowing what questions to ask and what to listen for gives you 80 percent of the information you need.
• Take care of necessary paperwork. Getting a lawyer involved is a necessary evil. Agreements should be in place to protect both of you. If you assessed item No. 2 above correctly, then agreements can always be amicably adjusted to reflect new information.

Bringing on a virtual partner can be a daunting task. You are taking a risk by giving up part of your company to someone you have never met. But taking the chance to bring on the right partner can make all the difference in the world!

Aruni Gunasegaram is a serial entrepreneur and Founder/CEO of Babble Soft. She blogs at entrepreMusings. She has two kids and runs Operations for the Austin Technology Incubator during the day. You can follow her on Twitter @aruni.

Finding the right business partner is probably the most important business decision you can make. Do it wrong and life is miserable. Do it right and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

In my first technology startup, I found a great partner while getting my MBA. He handled the technology, and I handled the business (fundraising, hiring, board and investor management, etc.). It worked out well — so well that we ended up getting married and now have two kids (human ventures)! We’re 7 years into marriage, so we’ll see how that turns out.

I’ve been going at it mostly alone in my current business, Babble Soft, with sideline help from my husband. And, although I’d made progress, it was tough and tiring. I didn’t have someone I could bounce around ideas with. I needed a partner. I found my first business partner in business school, so how would I find a partner working from my home office? How could I find someone who shared the same vision I did: to help new parents navigate the world of parenting in a digital age? I ended up finding her — where else? — online.

Once upon a time, I met Connie Reece, Austin’s social-media maven. She set me up with my first blog and began introducing me to people, including Wendy Piersall, who runs Sparkplugging. Wendy and I got along famously, and she invited me to join a Blog Mastermind group of extremely talented folks like Char Polanosky, Jill Koenig, Edward Mills, Easton Ellsworth, Dawud Miracle, and David Bullock. After one of our calls, Edward sent out links to articles he wrote on Sparkplugging about the experiences of a company called Pick Nick’s Brain, a baby sleep consulting site run by a woman named Nicole Johnson.

After reading his posts, I reached out to Nicole, and we started a dialogue. PickNick’s Brain was a perfect complement to our baby sleep offerings; she has two little boys; and, more importantly, she had the drive and passion to make a difference in the world of parenting. I’ve never hired an employee sight unseen, let alone a full-fledged partner. But a Skype video call (so we could make eye contact), several voice calls, tweets and emails later, it was official. She took a leap of faith and joined me, and I can already feel the difference in productivity and energy.

Nicole is smarter than me in technology development — my head had hurt daily trying to manage it. She received her undergraduate Computer Science degree from UC Berkeley and her MBA from Ohio State. I now have someone I trust handling the technology, so I can do the things I’m much better at doing and like to do. I’m anticipating that this partnership will work out just as great as my first business partnership — without the marriage part!

Since picking a virtual partner sight unseen can be a daunting task, here are some things I’ve learned about evaluating a potential partner:

• They must be smarter than you are in their respective area of expertise. Heck, they can even be just plain smarter than you and increase your perceived braininess! Michael Dell hired smart people, and the people that Bill Gates brought on were pretty darn smart, too.
• They must communicate well. Observe their communication and conflict resolution style. The last thing you want is to beg someone to communicate with you when things don’t go as planned. If they don’t live in the same city, you can’t show up on their front door!
• Spend time getting to know them. Watch them and see how they behave online and with other people. If you watch someone online (e.g., read their blog, tweets, comments) for a couple of months, you can make a reasonable assessment of their personality and reputation.
• Check each others’ references. You don’t want something to surprise either one of you. References usually say great things, but knowing what questions to ask and what to listen for gives you 80 percent of the information you need.
• Take care of necessary paperwork. Getting a lawyer involved is a necessary evil. Agreements should be in place to protect both of you. If you assessed item No. 2 above correctly, then agreements can always be amicably adjusted to reflect new information.

Bringing on a virtual partner can be a daunting task. You are taking a risk by giving up part of your company to someone you have never met. But taking the chance to bring on the right partner can make all the difference in the world!

Aruni Gunasegaram is a serial entrepreneur and Founder/CEO of Babble Soft. She blogs at entrepreMusings. She has two kids and runs Operations for the Austin Technology Incubator during the day. You can follow her on Twitter @aruni.