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The irritated vine growers cut Internet in Catalan Country, according to Free.fr

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:54:46 GMT

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The totality of the subscribers to the supplier of French access Internet Free underwent this Thursday in Perpignan a total cut of the service. Not less than 157 systems duplexers, called "DSLAM" and charged with gathering the traffic of the lines, indeed remained inaccessible, depriving of connection Internet, telephone and television several thousands of people. This surprised cut, which has also affected several sectors of Provence and the town of Paris, would be curiously due, according to the service of communication of Free, with an act of vandalism perpetrated and asserted by the Regional Committee of Wine Action (CRAV), which would have caused a causing fire of tires of important property damages.

Battle of interpretations over the 350 years of the Treaty of the Pyrenees

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:43:25 GMT

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This Saturday November 7, the downtown area of Perpignan will accomodate the important manifestation of the 350 years of the Treaty of the Pyrenees, by which the Northern part of Catalonia passed under French administration, before becoming the department of the Eastern Pyrenees in 1790. After a simple recall mémoriel in 1959, it is in 1985 that the first identity demonstration was organized, attracting from now on several thousands of people, in presence, this year, of the direction of the political party souverainist ERC (left republican of Catalonia), established in Barcelona. Ten organizing associations, in a Catalan vision of the History, asserts a feeling of "resistance", but on the other hand, in a French vision, the city council man perpignanais MRC (Republican Movement and Citizen) Olivier Amiel, considers that the term "annexation" of Roussillon in France, usual in Catalonia, goes to "misinterpretation of the history".

A group of 20 blue dolphins outline with broad of the course of Creus

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:31:42 GMT

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For the first time since the epidemic of "morbidivirus", which had affected this species of dolphins, the "Stenella coeruleoalba", in the years 1990, a group of a score of individuals, whose three or four small, was seen last Thursday by the civils servant of the Catalan Department of the Environment, with 5 miles of the Cape de Creus. It is about a very good news for the species and the conservation of these Cetacea on the Catalan coasts, where, moreover, the number of stranding on the beaches had decreased these last years. This dolphin, actually blue and white, is indigenous in the Western Mediterranean, where it lives in group enough far from the coast. This social animal is often found in the stem of the boats, but never close to the coast, unlike the large dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, is popularized in Florida by the televised series "Flipper the dolphin", most abundant in the Mediterranean, which one sometimes sees since the littoral or in the marine reserve of Banyuls-Cerberus.

Treaty of the Pyrenees ~ lyrics of the nationalists

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:00:58 GMT

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Every year November 7 is an opportunity for nationalist Catalan or French to be heard on the northern Catalonia.

Everyone is sure to hold the truth.

C omme chaque année le 7 novembre est l'occasion de commémorer l'anniversaire du Traité des Pyrénées. As each year November 7 is the opportunity to commemorate the anniversary of the Treaty of the Pyrenees.

C'est l'occasion pour plusieurs chapelles politiques de faire entendre leur voix. This is an opportunity for several chapels policies make their voices heard.

Elles sont catalanistes ou bien jacobines, mais elles sont indéniablement nationalistes (1 ). They are Catalanists or Jacobin, but they are undeniably nationalist (1).

Côté nation catalane, CDC - Convergence démocratique de Catalogne - et Unitat catalana se sont déjà exprimés dans nos colonnes. Side Catalan nation, CDC - Democratic Convergence of Catalonia - and Unitat Catalana have already expressed in our columns.

A Casa Nostra On the occasion of Halloween some of our beautiful little witches Laurentins

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:39:54 GMT

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A Nostra Casa A l'occasion de Halloween certaines de nos belles petites sorcières laurentines ont démontré qu'elles avaient un gros coeur en rendant une très touchante visite à leurs aînés de la maison de retraite Nostra Casa. A Casa Nostra On the occasion of Halloween some of our beautiful little witches Laurentins showed they had a big heart by making a very moving visit to their seniors in the nursing home Casa Nostra.

C'est ainsi que notamment sorcière Enora, sorcière Alicia, sorcière Loriane ou sorcière Fanny, sorcière Océane et leurs petites copines sorcières sont allées offrir quelques-uns de leurs jolis et timides sourires à ces personnes âgées souvent recluses, et passer un moment avec elles. Thus Enora including witch, witch Alicia, a witch or sorceress Loriane Fanny witch oceans and their girlfriends witches went to offer some of their pretty and shy smiles to those elderly often hidden, and spend time with them .

The Pyrenean treaty signed 350 years ago: the Roussillon he was united with France or attached?

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:32:24 GMT

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On November 7, 1659, was signed in the Island of Pheasants on the Bidasoa, the Pyrenean treaty that ended 24 years of war with France.

L'article 42 du traité des Pyrénées, signé le 7 novembre 1659, comprenait la cession du Roussillon et du Conflent à la France, ainsi que du Vallespir et de 33 localités de Cerdagne situées au nord de la chaîne des Pyrénées (hors l'enclave de Llívia). Article 42 of the Treaty of the Pyrenees, signed November 7, 1659, included the sale of Roussillon and Conflent to France, and the Vallespir and 33 localities of Cerdanya north of the Pyrenees (outside the enclave of Llívia).

En effet, le traité retenait que les antiques limites des Gaules et de l'Espagne devaient séparer les deux royaumes. In effect, the treaty that kept the ancient boundaries of Gaul and Spain were two separate kingdoms.

Ghostly 'dance of a sea dragon'

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:27:28 GMT

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A mirror of each other

One of the most elegant courtship rituals in the animal kingdom has been captured on film by a BBC crew.

The dance of the weedy sea dragon takes place every year in the shallow seas off the coast of Australia.

During the ghostly dance, two beautifully odd-looking fish mirror each other's every movement.

At the end of the ritual, the male fish is the one to get pregnant, giving birth two months later, a process the BBC crew filmed for the first time.

The dance of the weedy sea dragon is captured for the BBC natural history series Life.

Weedy sea dragons are a type of fish related to seahorses and pipefish.

When a male and female weedy sea dragon come together to mate, they perform an elaborate courtship ritual known as a "mirror dance".

"It's an amazingly engaging sequence, because it is so beautiful and graceful, and yet totally observed," says Adam Chapman, a BBC producer who helped film the behaviour with cameraman Doug Anderson.

Hunters angered by the disappearance of dogs

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:27:00 GMT

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The President and the office of the Municipal Association of licensed hunting (ACCA) Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans protest against the disappearances of too many dogs found recently on the common border villages. Ces disparitions inhabituelles et réitérées laissent à penser que ces animaux ont été probablement volés. These unusual and repeated disappearances suggest that these animals were probably stolen. L'ACCA invite fermement les auteurs de ces faits à restituer les chiens en les relâchant à proximité des lieux où ils les ont subtilisés. ACCA urges the perpetrators of these acts to return the dogs by releasing close to places where they were stolen. Des investigations sont cependant en cours et la mobilisation des chasseurs est importante face à Investigations are underway, however, and the mobilization of hunters is important in the face

des actes qu'ils qualifient d'insupportable. acts they say are unbearable.

Salvador Dalí for iPhone

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:49:30 GMT

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Salvador Dalí per als iPhone Salvador Dalí for iPhone

Per encàrrec de la Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Barcelona Multimedia ha produït el primer joc d'art per a iPhone/iPod Touch del continent europeu que es distribueix a AppStore de forma gratuïta. Commissioned by the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, Barcelona Multimedia has produced the first art game for iPhone / iPod Touch from the European continent which is distributed in AppStore for free.

L'oli original que ha inspirat aquest joc, La persistència de la memòria, conegut popularment com els "Rellotges tous" de Dalí, pertany al MoMA de Nova York i va ser cedit en préstec al Teatre-Museu Dalí de Figueres durant els mesos de gener a març de 2009. The original oil that has inspired this game, The Persistence of Memory, popularly known as "Soft Watches" Dalí, belongs to the MoMA in New York and was temporarily on loan to the Theater Museum in Figueres during January to March 2009.

InternetSAINT-LAURENT- DE-CERDANS

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:16:46 GMT

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InternetSAINT-LAURENT- DE-CERDANS

Presentation of new Internet site of the village. Internet site of Saint-Laurent-of-Cerdans completely has been just altered. This modernization was entrusted to Jean Vilallongue, in addition also "webmaster" of the sites of Prats-to-Mollo it Preste and of Arles-on-Tech or even of that of Collioure. A presentation of this new site will take place, in the presence of its creator, tomorrow at 8 p.m. 30, the movie theater. This explanation and the revealing of this new more powerful tool Internet which could be daily updated, and which will be without question a genuine national window, European and world of the village will be addressed to the economic actors (commercial, craftsmen, independent professions, associations…) but also with the private individuals.

Girona will be the first Catalan capital consulted on independence

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:44:06 GMT

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On November 10, the town council of the town of Girona envisages to approve a motion favorable to the organization of a bearing poll on the sovereignty of Catalonia. By this vote, suggested this Wednesday by the "Civic Commission Girona", the city will be thus the first capital of province, on the four which account Catalonia of the South, to take part in the movement of the consultations, launched on September 13 in the commune of Arenys de Munt, located in the province of Barcelona. For the time being, the 13 city council men of the Catalan parties Convergence and Union, Iniciativa per Catalunya and Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya are favorable to this referendum, while the 12 advisers of the Socialist Party of Catalonia and the droitier Partido Popular, formations traditionally more centralist, show themselves reserved for the first, and opposed for the seconds. This consultation, suggested with Girona at the beginning of 2010, will be added to the present campaign

Figueres launches for 2012 its Faculty of renewable energies

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:37:29 GMT

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"The Figueres Conference", which joined together on October 9 with the Manor house Sant Ferran, on the heights of Figueres, eminent specialists in renewable energies from Munich, Rome, Berlin, Leicester and Perpignan, will have finally had as a consequence the installation of a die of higher studies in the city. Indeed, after the signature of an agreement with the English university "De Montfort University" of Leicester, as of February 2010, ten figuerencs will be able to be registered in master and doctorate "Change climatic and energy effectiveness", before the installation, since 2012, within the same Castle of Sant Ferran, of a complete Faculty devoted to renewable energies. This initiative will receive the financial support of the town hall of Figueres, the English University and the European Union. After the opening in Perpignan, in September 2009, school of engineer PolyEnR, department "renewable Energies" of the school Polytech' Montpellier

The tunnels TGV Girona will be 6 months late

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:51:35 GMT

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Le dossier de la réalisation de la Ligne de Haute Vitesse entre Perpignan et Barcelone, attendue en 2014, rencontre une nouvelle embûche, qui s'ajoute au retard issue de la perforation du sous-sol barcelonais. The record of achievement of the High Speed Line between Perpignan and Barcelona, expected in 2014, meets a new ambush, in addition to the delay after the perforation of the basement Barcelona.

Cette fois-ci, le problème survient plus au Nord, la création des tunnels du TGV sous la ville de Girona, d'une longueur de 3,6 km, prévue dès à partir de ce mois d'octobre, ne commencera qu'à la fin du mois de mars 2010. This time, the problem occurs further north, the creation of the TGV tunnels under the city of Girona, a length of 3.6 km, as expected from this October, will begin at the end of March 2010.

The late autumn favors a new drought in Catalan country

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:47:14 GMT

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Without reaching a level of alarm imposing a prefectoral decree of restrictions of consumption, the water reserves of the department of the Eastern Pyrenees currently post worrying volumes at similar season. If the stopping of Bouillouses, in the area of Cerdagne, at share in the territory, shows a rate of filling of 95%, the area of Roussillon and the contiguous parts would be directed towards difficulties, by the discretion of the rains since May. The last readings, taken in September by the unit Hydrology of the Regional Management of the Environment, show a rate of 74% for the water reserve of Caramany, on the course of the river Agly, and of 63% for that of Vinça, on the course of the Small fireclay cup.

The summer which does not finish any, expressed by 15% of the usual volume of the rains of September in Roussillon and the 30° raised by Météo France, last week in Perthus

3rd dam for Saint Laurent de Cerdans ?

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:38:23 GMT

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Pruja François, St-Laurent-de-Cerdans, advocates. About the Water Plan and risk prevention (PPR) Amélie-les-Bains and following articles in The Indep it There may be a solution to these problems. Ce serait celle de construire un 3 e barrage (identique à ceux de Caramany et Vinça). This would be the one to build a 3rd dam (identical to those of Caramany and Vinci). En 1936, mon grand-père François Brunet (...) était conseiller général du canton de Prats-de-Mollo. In 1936, my grandfather Francois Brunet (...) was general counsel of the township of Prats de Mollo. Il m'avait affirmé qu'un plan de barrage avait été décidé au lieu-dit "Le Grammaxó", confluent de la rivière de St-Laurent "La Quera" et du Tech. He had said that a plan of dam had been decided at a place called "The Grammaxó" confluence of the St. Lawrence "The Quera" and Tech.