If you thought that wearing fur was outdated - what with all those green movements and animal rights activists who put this cruel sense of fashion in its right place with the likes of Cruella de Vil - fashionista's say, think again.

Last month the fashion world went literally “wild” in New York, Paris and Milan during the unveiling of their fall collection. They had models strutting the catwalk in so much fur, it was scary enough to make animal rights activists and environmentalists jump out of their skins.

In this era of global warming and dwindling animal species, one would think that we humans would come to our senses and rethink our actions. Not so, it seems, as there is a whole other world out there - the fashion industry of the west - whose endorsement and use of fur and exotic animal products simply encourages the mass slaughter of many endangered species.

A dealer's bounty at the Quartzite annual show for art and crafts. Image by Flickr user cobalt123. Used under a Creative Commons License

To name a few, the Chiru or Tibetan antelope, whose underbelly fur is used to make “Shatoosh” the world's most expensive shawls, also known as “shawls of death”. It takes 3 dead antelopes, to make one shawl, so fine it can fit through a finger ring, and each one can cost between $5000 to $20,000 in the international market. Even babies, and mother's who have just delivered, are not spared.

According to WWF, the population of this species has declined by over 50 percent in the last 20 years and the Tibetan Plateau Project says that it was the fashion-driven demand for Shatoosh in the U.S that resulted in as many as 20,000 antelopes being slaughtered. It is alarming to know that the animal could become extinct in the next three years at this rate.

In a blog run by Uma and Hurree called Animal Rights India, they argue how farming of Chiru's - like Eider ducks in Iceland for eider (as an alternative), will not make a difference to the dwindling numbers.

But hello: Eider ducks are now a protected species, and farmers in iceland use a technique of collecting the down without harming the bird. And no, it is not possible to obtain the shahtoosh wool without killing the chiru.

They go on to say:

It's impossible to justify killing three beautiful wild animals every time you want to push a length of shawl through a ring, blah blah. And to farm them just to kill them for shawls?

Raja Basu, another blogger said:

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) – which controls the trade in endangered species products – has completely banned international trade in Tibetan antelope products (including Shahtoosh). It is illegal to import Shahtoosh into many countries, including the USA (ironically, Shahtoosh products are so popular in the US fashion industry). Unfortunately, despite such laws being in place, the Shahtoosh trade is going on in full swing. This is because it is not enough to have laws. There must also be a strong public protest across the board against every person who is by any means related to the Shahtoosh trade. There should be a widespread public sensitization campaign to educate the common people.

Bloggers in the west, however, were giving this some thought and debated:

Rachel Menashy wrote on her blog:

1. People eat rabbits at restaurants. These rabbits have been killed to provide ‘dinner' for people like us (I would like to point out that I have never eaten rabbit and by ‘us' I mean people who eat in restaurants). Why is it right that rabbits can feature on a menu in a restaurant but wrong to wear a fur coat? These rabbits inevitably are skinned in preparation to be cooked - what else should we do with the fur?

2. Is it more acceptable if the coat is Vintage? Why?

3. Is rabbit fur better/worse than Mink? Some argue that rabbit fur is not as bad because rabbits are not in danger of becoming extinct, unlike mink which is. Then again, people keep rabbits as pets so is it more cruel to wear rabbit than mink?

4. If a fur coat is hanging on a rail at a store and one customer refuses to buy it, somebody else will…

5. Should role models such as Kate Moss be seen wearing fur? Kate's style is copied by millions of girls (and women) - is she giving a bad impression?

To which Denise replied:

1. I would personally be more likely to wear rather than eat rabbit. The eating of it seems less acceptable somehow.
2.Vintage coats have been around for a while and should be recycled - which I'm definitely into.
3. Mink are feral creatures and even though their fur is more desirable, mink are not aiming for extinction, so why not wear it?
4. Agreed.
5. I don't mind fur being worn by anyone, and Kate Moss is just showing that this is acceptable. Too many people are on the “fur is bad” bandwagon. I bet most of these people eat meat and wear leather, so what's the difference?

But there is a difference as Barry Williams responded to a thread: Wearing Fur is not immoral on www.helium.com

If we go around killing cattle for leather, alligators for shoes, deer for chamois and see nothing morally wrong in that , why it is immoral to wear fur. What I see as immoral is the killing of animals simply for the fur alone. It really is such a waste, isn't it? Apart from the leather we obtain from cattle not much of the animal is wasted. Beef cattle supply our meat.

There are a multitude of arguments out there, but in the meantime the Humane Society for the United States, says that Canada will slaughter 388, 200 harp, grey and hooded seals this year, an increase of 50,000 from 2009. This, because of the overall demand for fur. The site of the Fur Council of Canada shows styles and celebrities modelling various furs in what it describes as a fashion trend of 2010.

And unfortunately in the U.S, and much of the west, where Global Fashion trends are set, laws don't seem to be enough to curb their greed. According to the International Fur Trade Federation Blog:

..the shift in the attitude towards fur can be attributed to “changes within the fur trade, such as the introduction of the new Origin Assured initiative, which guarantees that fur bearing the label comes from a country with animal welfare regulations”. This shows that the fur trade efforts and initiatives to challenge the outdated ideas of our industry have been noticed. We are a transparent and well-regulated industry that supports high animal welfare standards and we welcome the confidence and support shown by the fashion designers as well as the European Commission, who recently recognised the importance of the Origin Assured label.

Fashion designers who have been courted by Furriers say they are “confident using fur after examining the chain of production and finding it humane. But could this confidence be based on a lack of investigation or knowledge? According to an endangered species handbook :

The New York luxury department store, Bergdorf Goodman, advertised shahtoosh in 1995 as a “royal and rare” fabric, making incorrect statements about the wool having been obtained from the Mountain Ibex goat of Tibet which “sheds its down undercoat by scratching itself against low trees and bushes” from where it is gathered by local shepherds (Schaller 1998)

And if the clubbing of baby seals and mass slaughtering of Chiras, mothers and babies, is “humane” then its sad to think of what “humane” means anymore, and what we are willing to condone in the name of “Fashion”.

This week, Donna Simpson announced her plan to be the fattest woman in the world. But are 'gainers' who purposefully overeat risking their health or liberating themselves?

There isn't much that Emma Allen doesn't know about dieting. She once gave up solid food for four months. It didn't work out. She tried the weight-loss programme NutriSystem, but needless to say, they didn't help either. She was even one of the first generation of Atkins devotees who were required, among other things, to test their own urine.

Yet while she was publicly attempting to shed the pounds, secretly, Emma liked being overweight. As a child she had fantasies of taking a pill that would make her fatter and fatter until she eventually just floated away.

She never told anyone, but when she got pregnant 18 years ago, everything changed. "It was like a religious epiphany," Emma says. "I remember having this incredible feeling that I could think about what was good for me, instead of calories. The possibility of thinking about food differently was a big turning point."

Over the next 10 years, Emma immersed herself in the world of size politics. She paid closer attention to the size liberation movement: a political movement that started in the 1970s and made size an axis of oppression. Groups such as Fat Underground and Fat Activists Together (FAT) fought for anti-discrimination legislation on the grounds of weight. Then three years ago she finally took the decision to do something she had always wanted to do. "I'd had these fantasies all my life and had been restraining them all my life. There came a time when I wanted to explore," she says. "I wanted to know more about what they were about. How would I feel about actually gaining weight, would I enjoy it?" In spring 2007, she took the plunge and gained 33lb, to reach a total weight of 17.5st.

Emma is a 49-year-old professor at a university in the north-west of England. She is also a "gainer" – sometimes known as a "feedee" – who overeats in an active attempt to put on weight. Although there are no statistics on the number of people doing this, gaining is more common than one might think. "They are everybody: every age, every country, every size; I mean, tiny, skinny people wanting to gain . . . it really is a case of, look around you, somebody is having these fantasy scenarios," says Emma.

This week Donna Simpson, a 42-year-old mother from New Jersey who weighs 43st, made headlines by revealing that her ongoing weight gain was part of her plan to become the fattest woman on earth. Pictured with an enigmatic smile and a burger in her hand, the press coverage showed varying degrees of restraint in highlighting the £400-a-week food shops, fast-food binges and unrepentant bid to hit 73st.

Gaining is often linked to feederism; a topic that occasionally pops up as freakshow fodder in magazines, chat shows or documentaries such as Fat Girls and Feeders: a 2003 Channel 4 documentary. This focused on the relationships between men and the overweight, vulnerable women they chose to fatten to immobility and beyond. Yet many women actively seek to gain weight of their own volition.

There are many websites and groups dedicated to gaining but Fantasy Feeder (FF to its members) is perhaps the most comprehensive. There are forums, stories and photographs that show unbuttoned blouses revealing pot bellies, wobbly tummies and impressive mounds of flesh cascading over waistbands. Large bosoms escape the confines of their bras, and rolls ripple beneath over-stretched T-shirts. Before and after pictures show the usual weight transformation journey, but in reverse. The poses are proud, matter-of-fact and often sexual.

There are lots of men on the site, but it is the images of female gainers that catch the eye. In our present landscape of body blandness, they stand out as controversial, bold and visually political. Fat is still, most definitely, a feminist issue for some female gainers."I think being a feminist has affected my relationship to my body and gaining in several ways," says Emma. "I started, very young, bucking the trends of beauty norms, like bra-wearing and shaving and makeup. I always thought that these practices were ridiculous; so that made it easier to go against the norm. Gaining is very liberating."

Others say they like making a statement with their weight because it challenges our stereotypical notions of beauty. Some, like Helen Gibson, a 40-year-old nurse from the Midlands, gain weight simply to please themselves. "It is my right to be fat; nothing about making a point." Yet even she concedes putting on weight after her marriage made her feel free: "Those three months were the most liberating of my life; I could feel the fat going back on. My tummy returned to its former glory – fat, soft and flabby, just how it should be."

Helen's husband knows she is a gainer, as do friends, who are well aware of how much she "adores being fat"; understandably, though, being an NHS employee, she cannot come out of the gaining closet completely. At the latest estimate, 57% of women were classified as being overweight, including 25% who were obese. Overall, obesity and related health issues now account for 9% of the NHS budget. As a nurse, says Helen, she cannot be seen to publicly advocate being overweight. For others, anonymity is the result of not wanting anyone to know, which might explain the profusion of headless pictures on the FF website.

As any gainer will tell you, life outside the community can be harsh. There is still a huge amount of derision and discrimination towards the obese, so the decision to keep their gaining a secret isn't really a surprise. Lauren, a 20-year-old American gainer, says she does not want to offer more ammunition to people by explaining the predilection. "As a fat woman, I have experienced fat discrimination almost on a daily basis," she says. "It's usually not so glaring as an intolerant jerk screaming, 'Diet, fatty!' but smaller, more painful ways: going to parties and no one talks to me, being glared at while I'm eating in restaurants, the snickering in changing rooms in department stores."

For many non-gainers, the practice seems strange because of the health implications – both physical and psychological. Even organisations such as the US-based National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (Naafa) dismiss gaining on health grounds. Obesity experts say that being overweight can cause everything from heart problems and diabetes to high blood pressure and gall stones. The message is that fat and health don't mix. But Emma disagrees. She says that it would be more useful for people to consider the multimillion-pound diet industry and its "95% failure rate", and feels overweight people are instead blamed for all the world's ills. "I think people worry about health because it's the easiest place to hang fat hatred. The data actually suggests that it has to do with activity, and not size. People respond badly to anything that asks them to reconfigure their presumptions and preconceptions."

Psychologically, gaining is still a grey area. While one would assume purposefully overeating to gain weight is as much of a disorder as not eating, Susan Ringwood, chief executive of Beating Eating Disorders (Beat), says that isn't the case. "It isn't an eating disorder as such, because there is no morbid fear of fatness, or weight gain. In its extreme forms it is more likely to be a personality disorder that is organised around submission/domination and sexual fantasies."

Another theory, says psychotherapist Phillip Hodson, is that intentional weight gain for women could well be an avoidance tactic: they don't want to attract the unwanted attention of men, so they transform themselves into something deemed conventionally unattractive. Most women don't feel this way, but it could be true for a small minority. "I have come across cases where it's quite obvious that women deliberately become large, or remain large, for psychological reasons," he says. "These include trying to avoid attention and becoming sexually invisible. Some women use food to become so different from the stereotype and to avoid all that is involved in fitting that stereotype: from wolf whistles to being propositioned."

It's a thought, but it doesn't appear to mean anything to Emma or Helen who define weight gain in very sexual terms. Although Donna Simpson's press coverage glossed over the sexual aspect of gaining, for them, more fat means more sex appeal; the extra flesh that everyone else is attempting to shed fuels their desires.

Emma goes one step further to say that gaining is an intrinsic part of her sexual identity. She cannot gain at the moment because of MS and diabetes, but still calls herself a gainer.

For most of us, weight gain seems simple: a bit too much butter on your toast and one chocolate biscuit too many can mean the difference between zipping up your jeans or not. But the question of how to gain weight is quite a hot topic on Fantasy Feeder. There are "Eat Yourself Fat" tailormade diet plans to increase your weight, and the advice ranges from eating ice cream before bed to homemade milkshakes and lots more pasta.

While some favour junk food overload, others, like Emma, say that it is the very antithesis of what gaining is about. "For me, it's all about a kind of hedonism; it's about opening the doors and allowing in fleshy pleasures, whether it's food itself, or what happens to my body, or what happens to somebody else's body. I need a big variety, because what's appealing to me are contrasts of textures and tastes and aromas and colours . . . if I have to eat a big bowl of pasta, I'm not interested. I mean, I love pasta, but I'm not going to eat four servings of it."

Instead Emma maintains a healthy eating regime. "I know no one will believe this, but I eat lots of wholegrains, fruit and veg; probably a bit too much cheese, and chocolate – although I now only eat sugarfree candies. Fish, if it's fresh . . . of course. My diet isn't primarily McDonald's and KFC; in fact, it almost never is." Likewise, Helen's love of gaining is as much about the act of eating as the result. "It's the pleasure of food that is the biggest pleasure for me; followed by each extra roll of fat that comes with the amount that I eat," she says. "I adore how I look naked – and I have been known to spend far too much time admiring myself in the mirror."

The presence of online gaining communities has provided people with a support system. Many say it is like coming home. "This is our small part of the world where we are surrounded by people who say, 'You're not weird; it's perfectly fine to feel as you do, in fact, we think you're great because of it,'" says Lauren. "To virtually everyone, it is a liberating, wonderful feeling." Emma says that she is in the privileged position of "coming out" because she has little to lose: her partner will not leave her because of it, and she is unlikely to lose her job. Colleagues don't know, but she doesn't think they will be too surprised, given her outspoken views on fat issues.

As a moderator on the FF site, she comes across a lot of people who on the one hand are desperate to be fat, on the other, desperate to be thin. "Real desires need attention, not curing," she says. "Lots of people in the community want to understand why they have these fantasies and desires, and there's sometimes an undertone of; 'so that I can cure them'. Not always, but there are definitely people who feel that way."

Some, she says, are just as unhappy with their bodies as those trying to lose weight. "Most people who tell you that they're happy with their bodies are lying. There are people who are like, 'Yeah, I'm cool: fat is beautiful – I'm having weight loss surgery . . . certainly, there are women on FF who are dieting."

Being a gainer isn't as straightforward or easy as it might seem, she says. "One comes into contact with messages about weight loss, health and beauty, about, I don't know, 20 times a day. Every time you open your email, a magazine, every time you turn the television on . . . so any attempt to do anything different, takes incredible strength and courage – and we all fall down," including Emma. "Of course it gets me down! I often feel like all men – and women – believe that stereotype is beautiful, even though I know better," she says. "I hammer myself over not being that stereotype, but only when I'm having a bad time and am already vulnerable because of other things going on around me."

If we look around us, says Phillip Hodson, it is clear that regardless of increased pressures to be thin, we are getting fatter as a nation. "The natural figure of the hunter-gatherer has returned: good childbearing hips and a good abdomen," he says. "But I would be worried about people who are saying they want to get fat."

But Helen is not worried. At 16st she still only considers herself to be pleasantly plump. She has a picture in her head, she says, of what she will look like when she is fat. "I am a long way off that, although I am on my way," she says. "With each mouthful, calorie and year, I am on my way to achieving it."

Some names have been changed

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Sygic has finally announced the public availability of Sygic Mobile Maps with Turn-by-turn navigation for the Nokia N900 Maemo devie. It’s available for purchase for around 60 euros and you need to download around 1.8 Gigabytes of maps data to your phone !

Official Press Release Below

The first turn-by-turn voice guided navigation application for Maemo phones has just got available for European Nokia N900 users at Sygic web e-shop. With the full set of navigation features, multiple user settings, fast route calculation, user-friendly operation and the latest maps situated on-board of the device, Sygic Mobile Maps turns Nokia N900 into a full-featured personal navigation device, and provides for superb user experience and reliable navigation.

The first available region, launched today, is EUROPE. It costs EUR 59,99, it has no time limit on use after purchase, and it includes countries of Western Europe and Eastern Europe as follows:
- Maps included: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican.
- Maps with transit roads only: Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, Belarus, Moldova, Montenegro, Bosnia -- Herzegovina, Romania, Ukraine.
Further regions will be added and announced gradually. Sygic Mobile Maps navigation application for Nokia N900 Maemo OS phones features Navteq maps.

Product description
Sygic Mobile Maps is a turn-by-turn voice guided navigation software that converts mobile phones into full-featured navigation devices. It is fully operable on hundreds of mobile phones and smartphones running major mobile operation systems, incl. iPhone, Symbian, Maemo, Android and Windows Mobile, incl. Windows Mobile 6.5. It also supports various PDA, PND and MID devices based on Windows CE, Windows XP/Vista or Linux. Sygic Mobile Maps uses latest maps located on-board of the device, which means that the use of the navigation is not conditioned by mobile network signal availability.

Features and benefits of the Mobile Maps:

• All latest maps are with you on your phone.
• Speed cameras, speed limits and railway crossings warnings provide safety for you and others.
• Signposts help you to head in the right direction.
• Lane assistant informs you about the correct lane to be in.
• Automatically adapts to horizontal or vertical view with
• Automatically or manually adjustable color schemes for day and night use.
• User interface and voice guide speak your native language.
• Search for millions of restaurants and other points of interest, with an option to call in, find parking, and navigate to.
• Design your trip with multi-stop route planning before you head out.
• See the summary of your trip before you set off.
• Avoid a roadblock with a single click.
• Save and organize favorites according to your needs.
• Customize what you want to see on the navigation screen.

Download Sygic Mobile Maps for Nokia N900 from: sygic.com/maemo

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Un adage populaire dit Parisiens têtes de chiens, Parigots têtes de veaux.

Bien qu’il ne m’ait pas été donné d’expérimenter pleinement la véracité de ce postulat, je possède, pour être installé dans la capitale depuis quelques années, une certaine expérience du Parisien.

De ce que j’ai pu en apprécier, Paris recèle une véritable douceur de vivre et une réelle humanité pour qui prend le temps de la découverte.

Las, quelques Parisiens méritent malgré tout leur réputation. Pour les quelques-uns parmi vous tentés par le côté obscur du comportement capitalistique, voici la méthode pour atteindre les sommets et adopter un vrai comportement de parisien :

En général

• Prenez un air blasé de tout.
• Extasiez vous. Trouvez toute nouveauté géniale, même si elle est d’une nullité crasse.
• Soignez votre look sans être excentrique.
• You are the best ! Votre leitmotiv : « Etre, c’est paraître »

Au restaurant, au bistrot

• Ne dites jamais merci
• Parlez fort
• Soyez ostentatoire

Dans la rue

• Marchez vite.
• N’oubliez jamais vos lunettes de soleil, même en hiver
• Au moindre rayon de soleil, vautrez-vous sur le premier carré d’herbe à portée. Si vous avez une fontaine à proximité, trempez-y vos pieds. Les verrues adorent.

Dans les commerces et services publics

• Râlez dans les files d’attente et, si vous êtes en forme, engueulez la personne du guichet
• Votre vie n’intéresse personne, parlez fort aux personnes qui vous accompagnent.

Dans le métro

• Equipez vous d’un walkman, un accordéoniste peut s’introduire dans votre rame à n’importe quel moment.
• Ne retenez jamais le portail d’accès pour la personne qui vous suit
• Ne souriez jamais.
• Prenez un journal, un livre ou un truc à lire pour ne pas avoir à relever la tête quand les mendiants passeront dans les rames
• Si le métro est blindé, appuyez vous contre la barre du métro ou courez pour récupérer un siège ou un strapontin
• Bousculez les gens pour entrer dans la rame
• Prenez un air occupé et agacé
• Ne regardez personne
• Si vous possèdez un gadget dernier cri, exhibez le fièrement
• Râlez si quelqu’un vous bouscule par mégarde.
• Dites « Pardon » 3 fois et de plus en plus fort pour sortir de la rame tout en forçant le passage. N’oubliez pas de râler lors de votre avancée.

En voiture

• Klaxonnez
• Doublez où vous pouvez et comme vous pouvez
• Insultez les passants
• Insultez les autres automobilistes
• Brûlez les feux orange, pilez aux feux rouge
• Ne démarrez jamais immédiatement après que le feu soit passé au vert (voir condition du dessus)
• Forcez le passage

Je crois avoir fait à peu près le tour de la question. J'en ai oublié ?

La communauté urbaine de Lyon a décidé de faire de l'eau du robinet une marque afin de la valoriser. Une campagne de communication va être lancée sur ce sujet. Désormais, au restaurant, à Lyon, il ne faudra plus commander de l'eau
du robinet. Elle n'existe plus. Il faudra dire une carafe de « Grand'O
de Lyon ».

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April 2010: The Perfect Pairings Menu Campaign brings together 50 of Los Angeles’ most talked about chefs and restaurants to raise funds for the nation's largest Meals on Wheels program. Throughout the month, participating restaurants will feature delicious food + beverage pairings on their menus tagged with the Perfect Pairings fork-and-bottle logo. When these exceptional items are ordered, a portion of proceeds is directly donated to Los Angeles' St. Vincent Meals on Wheels. (PRWeb Mar 18, 2010)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/perfectpairings/losangeles2010/prweb3715004.htm

Pour célébrer le lancement de la version complète de Skype Access, Skype vous offre ce week-end l'accès Wifi en illimité et totalement gratuit auprès de plus de 100 000 hotspots dans le monde (17 200 en France)! Une belle occasion d'aller "prendre l'air" ailleurs...

C'est quoi déjà "Skype Access"?
Lorsque vous êtes en déplacement et que vous avez besoin de télécharger vos emails ou d'accéder au Web, Skype Access reste le moyen le plus simple et le plus économique de vous connecter à Internet. Terminé les accès WiFi casse-tête et hors de prix: avec Skype Access vous vous connectez d'où vous voulez (ou presque), vous payez simplement à la minute et avec vos crédits Skype le temps dont vous avez besoin (et pas une minute de plus) pour surfer sur Internet.

Mais en ai-je vraiment besoin?
Peut-être pas aujourd'hui si vous êtes déjà connecté de chez vous ou au travail, mais peut être en aurez-vous besoin demain lors d'un déplacement!

Et bien ça tombe bien car à partir de 01h00 du matin ce samedi 20 Mars 2010 et jusqu'à à 00h59 le dimanche 21 Mars 2010, Skype Access sera totalement libre d'accès et gratuit où que vous soyez dans le monde! Il vous suffit simplement de vous connecter à un réseau sans fil compatible Skype* et de disposer de la dernière version de Skype pour Windows ou Skype pour Mac installée sur votre ordinateur. Vous pouvez bien entendu télécharger gratuitement ou mettre à jour Skype si vous ne disposez pas de la dernière version en date du logiciel.

Pour vous connecter, rien de plus simple: Il vous suffit simplement de cliquer sur le bouton "démarrer" de la fenêtre Skype Access pour lancer une connexion Internet. Vous ne payez que les minutes que vous utilisez et il n'y a pas d'autres frais supplémentaires. Lorsque vous avez terminé d'utiliser Internet, vous cliquez sur le bouton "arrêter" de la fenêtre Skype Access ou quittez tout simplement Skype.

Alors n'attendez pas et profitez de ce week-end pour partir à la découverte des terrasses de café ensoleillées et connectées, grâce à Skype Access!

* Skype Access est disponible auprès de 100 000 points d'accès WiFi répartis dans le monde entier, dont 17 190 en France (3 935 pour la seule région Parisienne), et Boingo, le partenaire de Skype qui fournit l'accès WiFi, offre un navigateur en ligne de recherche de points d'accès WiFi pour tous types de lieux comme les hôtels, restaurants, cafés, aéroports, bureaux, grandes surfaces, parcs, etc.
Afin de savoir si vous êtes dans une zone couverte par l'un des nombreux fournisseurs d'accès partenaire de Skype il vous suffit de démarrer Skype depuis votre ordinateur, de vous connecter à un réseau WiFi et alors une fenêtre pop-up s'ouvrira vous indiquant qu'il vous est possible de vous connecter à un réseau WiFi.

Credited for being a positive influence on Britney and keeping her from riding a tricycle down PCH with a human head taped to the handle bars or throwing her tampon in a restaurant or whatever it is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit IDontLikeYouInThatWay.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Soul Kitchen, c'est un restaurant géré par Zinos Kazantsakis, jeune restaurateur à Hambourg (Allemagne). L'enseigne est un clin d' il à la soul music. Des titres de Quincy Jones et de Kool and the Gang rythment le film. Le personnage principal, interprété par Adam Bousdoukos, est un jeune homme sérieux et parfois à côté de plaque. Dès le début, il apparaît comme un cuisinier maladroit, l'hygiène, c'est pas trop son truc. Il dirige son Soul Kitchen (qui ressemble à un entrepôt) en plein milieu d'une zone industrielle. Un endroit spacieux et désert qui sert aussi de lieu de répétition pour Lutz, le serveur, et son groupe de rock. Ça commence bien