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29 décembre 2010

Film - Charlie et la chocolaterie

L'histoire :

Charlie Bucket vit pauvrement dans une toute petite maison de trois pièces avec ses parents et ses quatre grands-parents cloués au lit. Charlie est un enfant gentil, attentionné et soigneux qui aime sa famille malgré leurs difficultés communes. Hors sa famille, la chose qu'il aime le plus est le chocolat. À cause de sa pauvreté extrême, il ne peut toutefois n'en recevoir qu'une barre par an, à l'occasion de son anniversaire.

Il y a près de sa maison la plus grosse chocolaterie d'alors, dont le propriétaire est Willy Wonka.

Willy Wonka est le plus important, le plus créatif et le plus inventif raffineur de chocolat au monde, produisant une importante variété de sucreries merveilleuses ou délicieuses, dont certaines semblent irréalisables (comme les glaces qui ne fondent jamais ou les chewing-gums qui ne perdent pas leur goût). Le grand-père de Charlie, Grand-Papa Joe, raconte que l'espionnage industriel ayant pratiquement ruiné la fabrique, Willy Wonka l'a complètement fermée, puis ré-ouverte ultérieurement avec l'aide d'ouvriers inconnus et mystérieux.

Après avoir passé plusieurs années en fonctionnant de la sorte, Willy Wonka, à la surprise de tous, décide de ré-autoriser la visite de sa chocolaterie par le public, en organisant une loterie. Cinq tablettes de chocolat « Wonka » contenant des billets d'or cachés sous l'emballage sont dispersées dans le monde. Chaque billet autorisera son découvreur (et un seul membre de sa famille) à accéder à la chocolaterie pour une visite guidée par le chocolatier en personne. Une frénésie d'achat de chocolat secoue alors le globe. Les gagnants des quatre premiers billets s'avèrent être :

  1. Augustus Gloop, un garçon glouton

  2. Veruca Salt, une enfant gâtée

  3. Violet Beauregard, une mâcheuse de chewing-gum compulsive

  4. Mike Teavee, un petit garçon passionné de télévision

Parallèlement, la pauvreté qui enserre la famille de Charlie se ressent davantage.

Par pur miracle, et à la dernière seconde, Charlie parvient à trouver le dernier billet d'or. Grand-Papa Joe se lève alors de son lit, et tous deux partent pour la chocolaterie de Willy Wonka où les autres gagnants les rejoignent. Ils y découvriront ses merveilleuses réalisations, y compris certains prototypes aux effets secondaires à dormir debout. Par ailleurs, Willy Wonka révèle à ses invités que les mystérieux ouvriers sont des Oompa Loompas, un peuple pygmée venu de l'Oompaland, qui a accepté de venir travailler dans sa fabrique, car il peut leur fournir des quantités illimitées de leur mets préféré, la graine de cacao (ingrédient principal du chocolat). Tout au long de la visite guidée, ils se lancent régulièrement — et massivement — dans des couplets en vers improvisés pour commenter la conduite des autres enfants et les conséquences de leurs actes.

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28 décembre 2010

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27 décembre 2010

Movie - Hope Floats

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PLOT :

Birdee Pruitt (Sandra Bullock) is a Chicago housewife who is invited onto a Talk show under the pretense of a free makeover. The makeover she is given is hardly what she has in mind...as she is ambushed with the revelation that her husband Bill has been having an affair behind her back with her best friend Connie. Humiliated on national television, Birdee and her daughter Bernice (Mae Whitman) move back to Birdee's hometown of Smithville, Texas with Birdee's eccentric mother Ramona (Gena Rowlands) to try to make a fresh start. As Birdee and Bernice leave Chicago, Birdee gives Bernice a letter from her father, telling Bernice how much he misses her.

Birdee struggles to make a new life for herself as a working single mother and must deal with the growing attraction between herself and a former high school classmate, Justin Matisse (Harry Connick Jr). She also must deal with rebuilding her relationship with her estranged mother, her ailing father (who suffers from Alzeimer's disease), and her daughter, who wants desperately to be with her father and blames her mother for the breakup, even going so far as to try and sabotage the romantic overtures Justin makes towards Birdee.

Adding to Birdee's heartache is her former status as the school queen bee and a three-time beauty pageant winner, alienating many of her former classmates who have never left Smithville or have left and returned. They also haven't forgotten Birdee's high school snobbery and rub her nose in her televised embarrassment from her husband and former friend.

Ramona tries to mend the gap between her daughter and granddaughter by telling a story about the importance of family if hope is to come alive through a childhood story of her own. She asks Bernice what she's wishing for her birthday. Though Bernice doesn't say it, she secretly wishes for her father to return.

Ramona dies from an apparent heart attack/stroke, leaving Birdie to now have to take care of herself and her daughter, but also her nephew Travis.

At the funeral, Bill arrives at the church, joining the large crowd of mourners for Ramona. Bernice believes that her father's presence is a sign that her wish has come true...that her father wants them both to come home and life will be the same as it was in Chicago. She murmurs a thank you to her deceased grandmother.

Bernice, who has long been the apple of her father's eye, is dealt a hard blow of reality, when it becomes clear to her that her parents' split is permanent when Bill asks Birdee for a divorce. Wanting to be with her father, Bernice is devastated when he tells her that though he loves her, he has no room for her in his new life with Connie. Bernice tries to beg her father to bring her along, knowing how much he wanted her in the letter he wrote to her at the start of the film. Crushed at the thought that her father put another woman before her, Bernice breaks down sobbing, screaming for him to come back. Bill turns his back on her and drives off, leaving her to be comforted by her mother.

Bernice ultimately accepts Bill's departure from her life as a full-time parent, and begins to accept Justin as her mother's new love interest and a father figure. Both mother and daughter share a tender yet humorous moment when Bernice asks Birdee if she's going to marry Justin. When Birdee asks her if she means she doesn't like Justin, Bernice says her only real concern is being known as "Bernice Matisse."

26 décembre 2010

If only I could - Mersin ...

Mersin is a large city and a busy port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey and is the capital of the Mersin Province. It is part of Adana-Mersin Metropolitan Area and lies on the west part of Çukurova, a geographical, economical and cultural region. According to Evliya Çelebi, the city is named after the Mersinoğullari tribe. Another theory is that it is derived from the myrtle (Greek: μύρτος) which grows abundantly in the region. Mersin is important for Turkey's economy. Mersin is Turkey's biggest port.

Slogan:The Pearl of Mediterranean (Turkish: Akdeniz'in İncisi)

Atatürk visited Mersin ten times and stayed in Mersin five times. He said, 'Mersin is the most important trade area in Turkey between Turkey and The World'. The 'Atatürk House' (more formally Atatürk Museum) was established there and it is still used as a museum.

Today, Mersin is a large city spreading out along the coast, with Turkey's second tallest skyscraper (the 52-floor Mersin Tower, which was the tallest skyscraper in Turkey for 13 years between 1987 and 2000, until the completion of the İş Bankası Towers in Istanbul), huge hotels, an opera house, expensive real estate near the sea or up in the hills, and many other modern urban amenities, although still nothing like the long-established nightlife and culture of Istanbul or Izmir.The seaside of Mersin is the longest seaside in Turkey as well as in Eastern Mediterranean. The population of the city is 912 597 (with all provinces 1 741 215) according to 2009 estimates.

The Metropolitan Municipality is now trying to rescue the sea front with walkways, parks and statues, and there are still palm trees on the roadsides especially where the young generation like to hang out in the cafés and patisseries of smart neighbourhoods such as Pozcu or Çamlıbel. These are established neighbourhoods where there are many well-known shops and restaurants with years of experience and reputations to protect. The city centre is a maze of narrow streets and arcades of little shops and cafes, with young people buzzing around on scooters. The old quarter near the fish market is where you will find the stalls selling Tantuni (a hot lavaş wrap consisting of julienned lamb stir-fried on a sac on a hint of cotton seed oil), and grilled liver sandwiches.

One of the most distinctive features of the city as a whole is the solar heating panels, they are everywhere, on top of every building.

The port is the mainstay of Mersin's economy. There are 45 piers, a total port area of 785,000 square metres (194 acres), with a capacity of 6,000 ships per year. Adjacent to the port is Mersin Free Zone established in 1986, the first free zone in Turkey, with warehouses, shops, assembly-disassembly, maintenance and engineering workshops, banking and insurance, packing-repacking, labelling and exhibition facilities. The zone is a publicly owned center for foreign investors, close to major markets in the (Middle East, North Africa, East and West Europe, Russian Federation and Central Asia. The trading volume of the free zone was USD 51,8 billion in 2002.

Mersin has Highway connections to the north, east and west. Mersin is also connected to the southern railroad. Adana airport is 69 kilometres (43 miles).

70% of the male population and 46% of the female population is employed. Unemployment is about 6.7%

Mersin port is an international hub for many vessels routing to European countries. Its now operated by PSA.

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MERSIN: the place where I want to be ...

25 décembre 2010

Film - La Planète du temps

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Synopsis :

Alors qu'il s'est écrasé dans le désert avec son avion, un aviateur rencontre un petit garçon. Celui-ci est également tombé du ciel, venant de l'astéroïde des 612 dont il est le Petit Prince. Se liant d'amitié avec l'aviateur, le Petit Prince va progressivement lui dévoiler les raisons de son voyage et les multiples rencontres qu'il a fait durant son périple.
Tout a commencé lorsqu'une graine, venue de l'espace, a fait pousser une rose, si belle mais si prétentieuse...


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25 décembre 2010

Bonnes Fêtes !

Joyeux Noël Merry Christmas

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Buon Natale Fröhliche Weihnachten

Iyi Noeller

24 décembre 2010

Poem - Meeting the One

In your life you search and search

for the right person for you.

Every time you break up with someone

you get one step closer to that person.

You should look at moving on

as getting closer to meeting the one.

(Ian Philpot)

via Paula @ http://paula-betweenthelines.blogspot.com/

24 décembre 2010

Christmas Tags

Looking at EZ's blog at http://www.creaturecomfortsblog.com/ I liked very much her today's post which is dedicated to Christmas tags. Hereunder some of my favorites :

Which can also be found at http://www.designspongeonline.com/2010/12/merry-christmas-downloadable-holiday-tags.html to be downloaded for free

FREE printable gift tags

Which can also be found at http://blushprintables.blogspot.com/2010/11/freebie-friday-holiday-gift-tags.html to be downloaded for free

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Which can also be found at http://theblackapple.typepad.com/inside_a_black_apple/2008/12/tagged-and-read.html  to be downloaded for free

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Which can also be found at http://www.eatdrinkchic.com/post.cfm/holiday-jumbo-gift-tag to be downloaded for free

Which can also be found at http://lovelydesign.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-gift-tags-for-me-and-for-you.html to be downloaded for free   

24 décembre 2010

Movie - The Golden Compass

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PLOT :

The film is set in a world where a person's soul resides outside his or her body in an animal-like form called a "daemon". An authoritarian religious organization called the Magisterium exercises power in the secular world. Orphaned Lyra Belacqua, a ward of Jordan College along with her dæmon Pantalaimon (nicknamed "Pan"), spins tales of the "Gobblers", whom she and her friends believe are snatching children.

Forced to hide in a closet, Lyra learns that her uncle Lord Asriel is about to present a proposal to the master and scholars of Jordan College. She watches as a Magisterium official pours powder into a flask of her uncle's favorite Tokay wine. Left alone in the room, Asriel pours a glass of Tokay, but Lyra rushes out and knocks the glass out of Asriel's hand. Asriel later presents evidence that particles called "Dust" exist. Over the objections of the Magisterium, the college funds Asriel's expedition to the far north to investigate the Dust. He believes it originates in a parallel universe and enters a person's body via their dæmon. The Magisterium has secretly been experimenting on children to discover a way to inoculate them against its influences.

At dinner Lyra meets Mrs. Coulter, who insists on taking Lyra north as her assistant. Before Lyra leaves, the master of the college entrusts her with the only remaining alethiometer (the film's titular Golden Compass). This device, he tells her, reveals the truth. The Magisterium has destroyed all the others; he warns her to tell no one she has it. Lyra accepts the gift, promising to keep it hidden.

At Mrs. Coulter's house, Lyra mentions 'space dust'. Mrs. Coulter warns her never to mention it again. Lyra refuses to remove her shoulder bag which holds the golden compass. Mrs. Coulter's dæmon attacks Pan, causing Lyra to give in. After hiding the compass under her pillow, Lyra and Pan search Mrs. Coulter's secret room, where they discover that Mrs. Coulter is head of the General Oblation Board, the "Gobblers", who have been kidnapping local children. She also discovers that her best friend Roger and her Gyptian friend Billy have been taken by the Gobblers.

Hearing Mrs. Coulter call out for her, Lyra and Pan meet her in a hallway. Running to her bedroom, they see Mrs. Coulter's dæmon holding the alethiometer. Changing into a hawk, Pan swoops down, grabs the golden compass, and flies out an open window. Lyra escapes behind him, slamming the window on Mrs. Coulter's dæmon. The "Gobblers" pursue her, but she is saved by some Gyptians. Aboard a Gyptian boat heading north to rescue their children, Lyra shows the alethiometer to a Gyptian wise man, Farder Coram, who advises her in its use. On deck that night Serafina Pekkala, the witch queen, tells Lyra that the missing children are in a place called Bolvangar — a place shunned by all living things. Mrs. Coulter sends two mechanical spy flies after Lyra and Pan; one is batted away but the other is caught and sealed in a tin can by Farder Coram, who explains that the spy fly has a sting with a sleeping poison.

At a Norwegian port, Lyra is befriended by a cowboy aeronaut named Lee Scoresby, who advises her to hire an armoured bear. Exiled in shame, the giant polar bear Lorek Byrnison has been tricked out of his armour by the local townspeople, for whom he now performs menial jobs for buckets of whisky. Using the alethiometer Lyra tells Iorek where to find his armour. Armoured again, the fearsome Iorek and his friend Lee Scoresby join the trek northward.

That night while riding on Iorek's back, Lyra finds a cowering Billy separated from his dæmon. Lyra reunites Billy with his mother just as the group is attacked by Samoyeds who capture Lyra. Taken to the armoured bear king Ragnar, Lyra tricks him into fighting Iorek one on one. After killing Ragnar, King Iorek carries Lyra near Bolvangar, to a thin ice bridge. Reaching the station, Lyra is taken to eat with the missing children. While hiding again Lyra discovers that the Magisterium scientists, under the guidance of Mrs. Coulter, are performing experiments to sever the bond between a child and their dæmon. Caught spying, Lyra and Pan are thrown in the separation chamber, causing them to scream in agony. Mrs. Coulter rescues Lyra and takes her and Pan to her quarters.

When Lyra wakes up she is comforted by Mrs. Coulter, who tells Lyra that she is her mother. Lyra then guesses that Lord Asriel is her father. When Mrs. Coulter asks for the compass, Lyra gives her the can containing the spy fly. The spy fly stings Mrs. Coulter, knocking her and her daemon out. Lyra runs to the room with the separation machine and toggles the switches and dials wide open. The growing chain reaction builds as Lyra yanks a control box loose and hurls it into the separation machine, causing it to explode. This sets off a series of explosions that tear the facility apart. As alarms whoop, Mrs. Coulter is found and carried outside.

Outside, the children are attacked by Tartar mercenaries and their wolf dæmons. The battle is joined by Iorek, the Gyptians, and a band of flying witches. The Tartars are defeated and the children are rescued. Rather than returning south, Lyra, Roger and Iorek fly north with Lee Scoresby in search of Lord Asriel.

Unaware that he is in mortal danger, Lord Asriel has set up a laboratory to investigate the glowing Dust from another world, but Lyra is certain that, once she delivers the alethiometer to her father, the two of them will be able to make things right.

21 décembre 2010

Movie - Enchanted

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PLOT :

Giselle (Amy Adams) lives in Andalasia, an animated fairy tale world with talking animals, characters breaking into song and "happily ever after" a foregone conclusion. Prince Edward (James Marsden), her designated true love, saves her from a troll and they plan to get married the next day. Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon), Edward's evil stepmother, schemes to protect her throne. She throws Giselle into a portal that transports her to a world without "Happily ever after" – modern (and live-action) New York City.

In New York, Giselle soon meets Robert Philip (Patrick Dempsey), a hardened, yet friendly divorce lawyer. At his daughter (Rachel Covey) Morgan's insistence, he lets Giselle stay at his apartment. Giselle, following the ways of her fairy tale world, recruits urban animals – pigeons, cockroaches and rats – to clean his apartment while she fashions a dress out of his curtains. Robert's fiancée, Nancy (Idina Menzel), misunderstands the situation and begins to argue with Robert.

He decides to part with Giselle at Central Park, but rejoins her after seeing her give the money he gave her to an old woman. During their walk through Central Park, Giselle questions Robert on how he displays his affection for Nancy and spontaneously starts the musical production number "That's how you know" with many performers in the park joining her. Giselle helps Robert reconcile with Nancy by sending an apology on Robert's behalf, along with tickets to the King's and Queen's Ball.

Meanwhile, Queen Narissa's henchman Nathaniel (Timothy Spall) follows Edward and Pip, a speaking chipmunk who is friends with Giselle, who have journeyed to New York to save Giselle. They stop at a motel, where Nathaniel questions his relationship with Narissa after watching a soap opera. He sneaks out to give Giselle a poisoned apple. Pip is unable to speak coherently in this world and has a frustrating time alerting the Prince of the minion's intentions. When Nathaniel fails twice to poison Giselle, Narissa becomes infuriated.

As Giselle and Robert spend more time together, Giselle discovers that the real world is much more complicated than she realized, while Robert is affected by her optimism and idealism. Edward continues to look for Giselle and eventually finds her at Robert's apartment. While Edward is eager to take Giselle home, they go on a date around New York at her insistence. To Nancy's chagrin, Giselle and Edward attend the King's and Queen's Ball. After Nancy and Edward pair off to dance, Giselle dances with Robert. During their dance, Giselle realizes that Robert is her true love as he, very softly, sings the lyrics of the song to her. Unbeknownst to them, Narissa has traveled to New York from Andalasia. Under her old hag's disguise, she manages to successfully poison Giselle, but is stopped by Edward before she can escape with Giselle's unconscious body.

A remorseful Nathaniel reveals Narissa's plot, admits his deeds and reveals that the spell of the poison apple has to be broken before midnight or Giselle will die. Robert realizes that only true love's kiss can revive Giselle, but it doesn't work for Edward. Desperate, Edward begs a hesitant Robert to try. Nancy gives her consent and Robert kisses the sleeping Giselle. Giselle awakens to Robert's kiss. Narissa uses the distracting moment to break free. She transforms into a dragon, deciding to write her own ending to the story. Taking Robert hostage, she lures Giselle out the window and up to the top of the Woolworth Building. With help from Pip, Narissa falls from the roof to her death, exploding into magic dust at street level. Giselle catches Robert, and they manage to keep themselves from falling off the roof.

Nancy goes with Edward to Andalasia and marries him. Giselle opens a boutique in New York City, where she is assisted by both humans and animals. Both Nathaniel (in New York) and Pip (in Andalasia) become successful authors. The last scene shows Giselle, Robert, and Morgan playing together and living happily ever after as a family.

I love happy ending ...

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