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Quizz 12 leçons sur l'europe en FR (CRDP)
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Quizz Slovenian presidency 2008 SI/ EN/ FR
32 questions

Quizz géographie europe FR
Amusant, rapide mais il faut s'enregistrer

Pour les enfants: Je suis tombée sur certaines de ces questions en passant les tests EPSO:
Connais-tu les pays?

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Europe Map Puzzle for children and olders

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EPSO: Good news for the candidates

18/07/2008

"We have to really work hard to create a positive image for the EU Institutions as a potential employer..." said David Barfield, director of EPSO

"Some 11,000 people have been shortlisted since 2003 when EPSO was created. 7,000 of them have been hired in the last five years to work in the EU institutions in Brussels, Luxembourg, and many other cities around Europe. More than 300,000 people have taken part in at least one of the 300 competitions".

The live streaming of this press briefing is available on the Commission’s audiovisual website during one week (18/07/2008 + 7).

http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/ebs/schedule.cfm

The European Personnel Selection Office adopts major improvements ...The FINANCIAL, Georgia - 10 hours ago The FINANCIAL -- In a bold shake up of its current practices, the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) will significantly change the way it selects ...

EU to simply tests for people seeking to be hired as `Eurocrats' PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 18 Jul 2008 «The smartest people are simply less inclined to wait around while we take our decision,» said David Bearfield, director of EPSO, the agency that selects ...

UE valorará más aptitudes que conocimientos en la selección de su ... Finanzas.com - 18 Jul 2008 EPSO ha anunciado además que la duración del proceso se reducirá en dos tercios, de forma que los candidatos tendrán que dedicar entre cinco y nueve meses a ...

Bonnes nouvelles pour les futurs candidats: L'Office européen de ... Edubourse.com (Communiqués de presse) - 18 juil 2008 Dans le cadre d’une réforme en profondeur de ses pratiques actuelles, l'Office européen de sélection du personnel (EPSO) se prépare à modifier radicalement ...

Reference: EPSO/08/01 Date: 18/07/2008


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good news!
Elisa, le 18 Juil à 17:20
in case you had not seen it:"Good news for future jobseekers: The European Personnel Selection Office adopts major improvements to its selection methods "to take effect from 2010...see http://europa.eu..."

Margot Wallstrom: political elite is a male cartel...

Record Europe: Margot Wallstrom

07/06/2008
Vice-President of the European Commission Margot Wallstrom
tells Shirin why she thinks the EU political elite is a male cartel and calls on the European Union to appoint a woman...

Souce BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/bbc_parliament/7440768.stm

Margot Wallström's Blog 28 05 2008:
http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/wallstrom/a-call-for-action/

Lettre ouverte à EPSO - Utopía E concours EPSO AD/99/07

Utopía*E, la candidate à un concours EPSO* qui aurait préféré être traitée comme un marché public.

20/04/2008 et 15/06/2008 pour la version finale.

Ce billet a été transféré sur le site de Succeeding in the EU Examinations
à l'adresse suivante: http://eu-exams.blogspot.com/2008/06/lettre-ouverte-epso-utopia-e-concours.html

Utopía

Campaign "Females in Front"

250 million women in the EU. Not a single one good enough?

Brussels, 04/06/2008 and 15/06/2008


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During the coming 12 months, four politicians will be appointed as leaders of the European Union. For fifty years now, the picture of European political leadership has remained the same. It is time for a change. International top posts should always go to the most competent candidate. There are 250 million women in Europe; it should not be too hard to find qualified candidates among all these.

If you wish to see at least one female appointed as leader of the European Union, sign the form in "Females in Front Website" .

On 15/06/2008 more than 12 000 people have firmed the petition online...

==Location==
Internet,Cyberspace, the World ...

Website "Females in Front Website" EN] DK SE EN FR PL DE ES HU SK RO

==Description==
"In all its activities, the European Union shall aim to eliminate inequalities and to promote equality, between men and women" says the Lisbon Treaty. The Treaty of Lisbon introduces the principle of participatory democracy with a "citizen's initiative" which requires the signatures from a minimum of 1 million EU citizens from a significant number of Member States. With 1 million signatures, we can ask the Commission to take action to secure that the Union fulfils the Treaty's goal of gender equality, starting with the upcoming nominations.

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SELOR, l'un des principaux partenaires d'EPSO en Belgique.... 23/05/2008

Le Selor se dit victime d'accusations "hasardeuses"7sur7 - 23 mai 2008 Selor, le bureau de recrutement de l'administration, a finalement décidé de réagir aux accusations du GERFA (Groupe d'Etude et de Réforme de la Fonction ...

Le patron de Selor sur un siège éjectable RTL Info.be

SELOR Le candidat top manager des Finances avait7sur7 - 15 mai 2008
Un des neuf candidats top managers au Fisc, Jean-Claude Laes, a eu les questions de l'examen lors d'une sélection pour une autre fonction dirigeante la veille de son propre examen...

SELOR Irrégularités des nominations dans la fonctionRTL Info.be - 16 mai 2008
Un expert remet en cause la régularité des nominations en cours dans la haute fonction publique wallonne. L'expert relève deux vices de forme aux allures irréparables et estime que la régularité de chaque processus de sélection des 21 mandats paraît pouvoir être mise en cause, écrit samedi La Libre Belgique.
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Cherchez la différence: 14/4/2008

Find the 1,500 differences (per month) in both pictures:

Recently, EPSO published a competition, (EPSO/AD/125/08), to recruit doctors with two different seniority "branches" even though the tasks to be performed by both types of doctors are the same:
Downgrading the Commission staff
Degradando al personal de la Comisión
Dévaluation du personnel de la commission

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• http://www.ivanchev.org/EU/eurecruit.zip Note SELECTING STAFF FOR THE COMMISSION SERVICES AND THE CONTRIBUTION OF EPSO, SEC (2007) 1412/2, 09/11/2007
  
  
• "I thought the guinea pig's name was 'Snoopy'. In fact it was 'Pooky'. For that, I failed the 'Concours'." 2006
  
  

Grey whales airlifted To UK?

Scientists want to fly in fifty grey whales, hunted to extinction in the North Atlantic 400 years ago, from the Pacific to the Cumbrian coastline to spawn a lucrative whale-watching industry. Russell Jenkins reports


CONSERVATIONISTS are divided over a plan to airfreight up to 50 grey whales from their native waters in California to the Cumbrian coastline to try to revitalise the area.

Under the plan to be put forward today by two academics the whales— so docile that they are known as the friendlies — would be released into the Irish Sea off the Solway Firth. Dr Andrew Ramsey and Dr Owen Nevin, of the University of Central Lancashire’s School of Natural Resources, are convinced that the grey whale, hunted to extinction in the North Atlantic 400 years ago, can be reintroduced.

They would then spawn a lucrative whale-watching industry, creating hundreds of jobs and helping to regenerate devastated fishing communities on the northwest coastline.

But the scheme has already received heavy criticism from the Whale and Dolpin Conservation Society, which has branded the idea “neither feasible nor sensible”. Their scientists are adamant that whales extinct for hundreds of years cannot simply be replaced by imports. They also claim that the Pacific whales may not be able to survive in the Atlantic.

Dr Ramsey, who is proposing the plan today at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, in Brazil, said: “Within a few years there could be a significant breeding population around the UK.”

Grey whales, the only member of the family Eschrichtiidae, hold a totemic place in the world marine conservation. Each day flotillas of tourists sail from California and Mexico to the basking grounds to marvel at the 40-tonne mammals who swim at a stately pace close to the shore and allow human beings to touch them. The academics insist that the Californian population could afford to lose 50 whales by 2015.

Dr Ramsay said: “Modern cargo aircraft can easily accommodate adult grey whales and make the journey from capture sites off America to release sites off Britain in less than 12 hours.”

The two conservationists believe that there is no logistical problem to prevent the whales from being netted alive off Baja, hoisted on board a cargo plane and kept alive on a long haul flight. The vital necessity is for the mammal to be kept moist.

In 1996 Keiko, the star of two Free Willy films, was airlifted via a C130 Hercules from Mexico to Oregon.

A survey conducted in the Lake District last year suggested that 90 per cent of people were in favour of their reintroduction.

Mark Simmonds, the director of science for the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, said: “We can well appreciate the enthusiasm for trying to replace the whale species here but the notion is far more complex than it might appear.”

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Times BBC Wikipedia

Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder is not a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated mood, clinically referred to as mania. Individuals who experience manic episodes also commonly experience depressive episodes or symptoms, or mixed episodes in which features of both mania and depression are present. These episodes are normally separated by periods of normal mood, but in some patients, depression and mania may rapidly alternate, known as rapid cycling. Extreme manic episodes can sometimes lead to psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations. The disorder has been subdivided into bipolar I, bipolar II, Bipolar NOS, and cyclothymia based on the type and severity of mood episodes experienced. Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person’s mood, energy, and ability to function. Different from the normal ups and downs that everyone goes through, the symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe. They can result in damaged relationships, poor job or school performance, and even suicide. But there is good news: bipolar disorder can be treated, and people with this illness can lead full and productive lives.
Bipolar disorder typically develops in late adolescence or early adulthood. However, some people have their first symptoms during childhood, and some develop them late in life. It is often not recognized as an illness, and people may suffer for years before it is properly diagnosed and treated. Like diabetes or heart disease, bipolar disorder is a long-term illness that must be carefully managed throughout a person’s life.

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The Mozart Effect

06 November 1999

LISTENING to Mozart boosts your brain power. ...

The excitement started six years ago when researchers reported that people scored better on a standard IQ test after listening to Mozart. But last summer, this "Mozart Effect" suffered a setback when several sceptics repeated the original study but failed to find any improvement.
This is not the end of the story, though. A closer look shows that Mozart's music does have a profound effect on the brain, though no one yet knows why. Rats raised on Mozart run through mazes faster and more accurately. People with Alzheimer's disease function more normally if they listen to Mozart and the music even reduces the severity of epileptic seizures.

Minimalist music by the composer Philip Glass and pop tunes scored among the lowest on this measure, he found, with Mozart scoring two to three times higher. Hughes predicts that sequences repeating regularly every 20 to 30 seconds may trigger the strongest response in the brain, because many functions of the central nervous system, such as the onset of sleep and brain wave patterns, also occur in 30-second cycles. And of all the music analysed, Mozart most often peaks every 30 seconds, Hughes found. Results such as these may help predict which pieces of music have the strongest effect on the brain, says Hughes, who hopes to begin testing brain response soon.

Meanwhile, another of Shaw's collaborators, Julene Johnson of the Institute of Brain Aging and Dementia at the University of California at Irvine, gave Shaw's original paper-folding test to Alzheimer's patients, who often have impaired spatial reasoning because of their illness. In a pilot study, one patient's scores improved by 3 or 4 correct answers out of 8 test items after 10-minute doses of Mozart, but not after silence or popular music from the 1930s. "The popular tune was familiar to the patient and intended to account for a possible emotional effect of music versus silence," says Johnson. She has now followed up with a group study comparing Mozart versus silence in 18 patients. Though results are not yet published, Mozart did improve the patients' test scores, especially in people who showed little improvement after practising the test.

Even stronger support for Mozart's effect on the brain comes from other studies. Rauscher, for example, subjected 30 rats to 12 hours of the Sonata in D daily for over two months. (Pity the poor laboratory staff!) These rats ran a maze an average of 27 per cent faster and with 37 per cent fewer errors than 80 other rats raised with white noise or in silence, she found. And this improvement can't be due to enjoyment arousal, because rats have no emotional response to Mozart. Instead, the study suggests a neurological basis for the Mozart Effect, says Rauscher.

Rat-squeak sonata?

Steele, a specialist in animal learning, is not convinced. After all, he says, a rat's brain is organised to respond to rat-squeak sounds, not European music. "What is the line of reasoning that rat brains respond the same way as humans? There is nothing in terms of current evolutionary or psychological theory that suggests there would be a related effect on rat brains. It is a great speculative leap," he says.

Rauscher does acknowledge that Mozart may simply give the rats a richer, more stimulating environment, something the rats could also get from other distractions or activities. "The control group rats are severely deprived—an extreme condition," she admits. She has begun a new study comparing rats with the heavy Mozart diet to rats given plenty of social interaction and toys in their cages.


Another study, by Shaw and neurobiologist Mark Bodner of the University of California at Los Angeles, used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to map the regions of a subject's brain that respond while listening to Mozart, `30s pop music, or Beethoven's Für Elise. Not surprisingly, Bodner found that all music activates the auditory cortex, where the brain processes sound, and sometimes triggers parts of the brain that are associated with emotion. "But with Mozart, the whole cortex is lighting up," Bodner says. Specifically, only Mozart also activates areas of the brain involved in fine motor coordination, vision, and other higher thought processes, all of which might be expected to come into play for spatial reasoning.

Unfortunately, an MRI scan won't tell you anything about how a person may respond to the music. "I don't doubt that music affects the brain, even beyond auditory cortex—it must," responds Chabris. But he doubts those measurable effects actually cause any of the changes in spatial reasoning or other abilities.

But these short-term improvements may not be Mozart's most important effect on the brain. In a five-year study with children, Rauscher has found that keyboard music training improves skills that require mental imagery—and after two years of lessons, the effect doesn't wear off. "All of the Mozart Effect experiments are based on the idea that the brain can be anatomically influenced by music. With children it may be actually building the neural network," says Rauscher. In other words, a childhood rich in music may have lasting benefits. This may be finally where the Mozart Effect makes its real encore.

Gary Kliewer is a freelance science writer living in Ashland, Oregon
From issue 2211 of New Scientist magazine, 06 November 1999, page 34
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16422115.100-the-mozart-effect.html

The European green crab

The European green crab, Carcinus maenas, has arrived on the shores of Washington State. This recently-introduced exotic species has the potential for great destruction. Green crabs can disperse over large areas and have serious adverse effects on fisheries and aquaculture; their impacts include the possibility of altering the biodiversity of ecosystems. When the green crab was first discovered in Washington State in 1998, the state provided funds to immediately begin monitoring and control efforts in both the Puget Sound region and along Washington's coast. However, there has been debate over whether or not to continue funding for these programs. ..

http://academic.evergreen.edu/h/holmesd/