Thursday, June 28, 2007

Shoulder Surgery Excercises

Pearl case, "whereas the hen is a trivial and stupid animal"

I can not resist you reproduce the extract from a decision that must be the famous orator of the Court of Appeal of Riom (he was to chair) and relaxes all the lecture halls of the first year of law school. At the time to savor the end of my degree, the desire to share what I remember biting itch.

Here's the story: in the hamlet owned La Rochette the village of sallede (63), a neighborhood conflict pitted the Mr. Rougier its neighbors, spouses Roche, owner of a poultry house that the first thought too close, too noisy and too smelly. Seized of the dispute, the court gave Clermont-Ferrand with the complainants and ordered the destruction of the house troublemaker. Furious, the husband Roche has appealed the court decision to the Court of Appeal of Riom, which gave them reason, in flowery terms:

"Whereas the chicken is an animal trivial and stupid to the point that no one has yet managed to draw, not even a Chinese circus, that his neighborhood has many of silence, a few soft clucks and cackles that range from joyful (laying an egg) in serene (tasting of a worm) through the panic (for a fox), that this peaceful neighborhood n has never bothered those who for other reasons, feed on anger against the owners of such fowl, the court will not consider the vessel the seaman unwelcome, flour the baker, the head of the violin orchestra, and an inhabitant of the chicken place called La Rochette sallede village (402 people) in the Puy de Dome.
For these reasons: acting publicly and contradictorily, reversed the ruling, dismissing the complainant of its actions and Rougier condemns the expense ... "

Court of Appeal of Riom, 1st Civil Chamber, 7 September 1995.

Monday, June 25, 2007

Monster Energy Corona Ca

Isabelle Prevost-Desprez - THE SECRET OF 'ARCADIA

The suspense thriller, the accuracy of testimony, under the headlines.

Isabelle Prevost-Desprez is magistrate. She made a detour through the brigade's financial Palais de Justice in Paris, As part of its history, before being appointed Vice-President of the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Nanterre. In his years as a judge instruction, the judge certainly does not keep good memories. Pressures, threats, and constant attention that doubt. Who is with you, which is cons. When nothing is as simple as that JT Pujadas.

If you thought everything about the judicial machine, if you believed the master role and challenges of the office of judge, if after a parade of mediocre media you thought it was the character The most powerful person in France, dive into this book. The author makes us feel, viscerally, all this trouble, all the tension that chair every day at his office. Conduct an investigation because is playing every second son tightrope on several multiple razors. The prosecutor on the one hand, the judicial police of the other, his colleagues, the court, witnesses, indicted.

Julie Cruze, heroin, is primarily a woman who fights for his position of judge and her role as mother, wife, too. She fights for justice when his family would ask him to forget a little. Traditional chorus? No. This is not just the life story of an addict's job. It's a real dive into the arcane surgical political, judicial and financial an all-romanticized Paris.

This book is not a "key book", that is to say one of those books that tell the story of a famous case of changing the names. Nothing to see. And all the same: the author asserts that all is nothing less than likely. If the plot and characters are pure fiction, the goal was to stay in the field of completely plausible. This is in no political fiction. It is almost closer to a self-fiction autobiographical when no about it. It is obvious that the feelings experienced by the magistrate of the novel, her difficulties in reconciling his high office and all the love his own, are not as pure intellectual works.

is a great heart for helping this novel who is blamed poor literary quality. Wrong. Certainly we discover a passion for the author sayings, many of whom are well outdated, but it is characteristic of a good lawyer. Some expressions are a bit outdated, sweet, but the work is not adversely affected. The suspense is maintained until the last page. It does not close the book on the orders of sleep.

The copy I have ever read was dedicated by Author (alas not for me but whatever). I give you this handwritten sentence that summarizes what I am trying to argue since the beginning of this post:


"The battle, life, death, a judge, a woman before everything. "

Friday, June 1, 2007

Dressing In Ladies Underwear

Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

The Fantastic and Literature: The English novel in the state ...

It would have taken me two weeks to overcome the 860 pages writing tight hit the pavement. Either the same time as taken me two thousand pages in six volumes combined "Chronicles of San Francisco de Maupin (a must for the summer by the way). Much fun? I do not know. Something at the very least extremely different? This is without doubt.

In the early years of the nineteenth century, a British socialized, player crazy fan of the magic that had made all the glory of his country until four centuries earlier before disappearing into disuse - and being rather than explored in theory - will decide to change history. He wants to make its letters of nobility to magic by delivering into force in England. This Mr Norrell, which will first be everything to ensure the only magician of the country practitioner before meeting Jonathan Strange, his exact opposite in every way, also very talented in the same discipline. It will take to the student before being doubled by it, and it is in confrontation that their story will turn.

It is miles away from Harry Potter and yet it seems necessary to clarify. Nothing expected, no foregone conclusion. Here the magicians take their art to the study of dusty old manuscripts. They are experienced in solitude, and want only one thing: helping the government in its mission to protect the nation. The enemy is not a ghost but sticky Napoleon Bonaparte, the French conqueror threatens the island kingdom. Item wands and brushes to play football in the air but the spells in Latin to inform the general of the royal army.

The purpose is fantastic, its treatment could not be more realistic, even naturalistic (in nearly nine hundred pages, there are some pitfalls that we will not escape but they give the work his small craft stamp and "first novel "). After a while we said nothing more likely. We would sometimes rebuke to the characters remain in their spells and curses so down to earth, conventional plausible. Here of enchanted kingdom. Point Edenic dream. It is through a new way of thinking about the world, politics, human relations and the relation of man to the world that Susanna Clarke invites us into its pages.

And this is why Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is not to classify as fantasy or science fiction for some time but held a prominent place in the top ranks of literature Contemporary. A great discovery. A magical journey that begins with the "packaging" chosen by the publisher to carry out without delay.