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The Scandinavian Christmas called “Jul”. They adopted the name of the pre-Christian celebration of the winter solstice “the wheel” which expresses the solstice year again.

The pre-Christian feast of Jul

This festival (Jul, Jol, Yule) was took place in the Nordic countries and Saxon (Yule) on the day of the winter solstice on Dec. 24. She celebrated the birth of the sun god of the child born from the sun goddess. The name means Yule wheel is the wheel of the year turns once again to the spring. It was the beginning of a period of 12 nights from December 24 to January 8, and it symbolized the winter night, the longest nights of the year, during which prepares the rebirth of light and vegetation. It was at once a celebration of the sun and fertility. This world of the night was also a time when the dead were honored.

For the feast of Jul, we brought in a log house oak representing the sacred fire. They also planted a tree in front of the house. The tree still green symbolized the triumph of nature over the winter.

The Christian feast of Jul

The word “jul” original pre-Christian became the name of the Christian festival of Christmas which has adopted certain customs and some pre-Christian symbols. The birth of Jesus means night victory over the dark. On 24 December, depositing a candle on each grave. The day before and after Christmas Day are holidays in Norway.

For Christmas dinner, it leaves an empty place at the table for meals souls of the deceased of the family. Once the meal savored, the Christmas tree is lit. Then, in some families, the ritual of reading the Gospel Christmas.

Then we get up, everybody gives his hand. The whole family sings Christmas songs and dance around the Christmas tree. They form two circles around the Christmas tree. As soon as everyone sings, the first circle turn right and the second to the left. When the singing stops throughout the world is changing and we circle again with another song.

The gifts are given to the feast of St. Lucia, Dec. 13.

CHRISTMAS is a feast prepared at length and in November created the first decorations and “Pikku Joulu” noëls small, are already valid. From the beginning of December, Pikku Joulu are organized within firms and schools, but most often it is a feast entr’amis. These pikku joulu are part of the Finnish tradition since 1920. It eats a lot (especially if it happens in a restaurant), including confectionery, Piparkakut (cupcakes shaped about Christmas) and they drink the famous Gloggy (mulled wine). In general, after a plantureux meals, games are organized (a bit like those held in the summer camps), and then we dance until a late hour (12-4h00 all depends on the operator). This festival is a good way to unwind, drinking a lot. I strongly to a tourist does little for Finland, participate in a Little Christmas, during a cruise. These are the worst! I remember a Little Christmas that we celebrated in the countryside … At the end of the feast, a very respectable politician was in an advanced state of intoxication. He took refuge under the table of the room to eat! The Finns Finnish do not sing much, unlike suèdophones. This is a personal comment (Nadine). In the United States, Finno-Américains have preserved the tradition, in their own way.

For the church, this is the first Sunday of Advent, which opens officially the Christmas season. But there are already many organized events before that. Every year, Santa Claus makes his entrance official in Helsinki. This year, Santa Claus has come to Rovaniemi on November 24 and arrived in steam train station in Helsinki. Then, accompanied by his wife, his elves and his reindeer, Santa has paraded through the streets and lit garlands of the city. The festivities are launched.
  The month of December will be dotted with important dates, including 6: celebration of the independence of Finland, and the 13: celebration of Saint Lucia. This feast comes from a popular tradition in Sweden, introduced in Finland in 1950 by the Swedish minority. It is to be elected among ten young girls, the Finnish National Lucie (voted by the public and it is often an act of charity).
Lucia makes his first appearance on Dec. 13, she is dressed in a long white robe and head covering a crown of candles lit. During the rest of the month, she will visit the hospitaux, schools, celebrations of Christmas and delivers a message of light, hope and charity.
To wait for the big day, all children in Finland décomptent day from December through their schedule of Advent.
On the eve of Christmas Day, we went to the cemetery, when a parent has disappeared. This tradition takes place at 18 h00. You put a candle on the grave of the deceased. It is also an opportunity to pay tribute to the soldiers who died in Finland during the Winter War.
On Christmas Day:
As for Christmas … This is a whole program. In general, there must be a large clean-up to Christmas, prepare Christmas dinner, during a good week before the party.

On 25 and 26 December are public holidays in Finland. On 24, the stores will be opened only in the morning. Christmas is a family celebration par excellence.

On Christmas day, we eat, took the sauna (to wash his sins of the year, this is my interpretation – Nadine), it listens to the speeches of Peace Christmas broadcast live from Turku, then, we receive family members, drink coffee. It decorates the Christmas tree. Then, “JOULUPUKKI” (the name of Santa Claus in Finnish) comes to 18 h00. It is a very long wait for the children … And for some adults, too. It distributes gifts on December 24. Santa or one of his elves distributes gifts!

In Finland, there are people (students or others) who act as Joulupukki, and just distribute gifts at home. To hire a Joulupukki, it is necessary to read the small ads in the newspaper or on the display, and there’s even a Santas who speak french!
And once gifts unpacked, the feast can begin.

The Christmas meal is varied and there are traditionally: rosolli: salad with carrots, beets, eggs, herring, pickles, with a cream sauce.
 Herring prepared with different sauces.
Pig Christmas with mashed potatoes, mashed carrots, mashed turnips.
Porridge Christmas with a coulis of prunes.

This is the traditional menu. There are alternatives. For example, we eat foie gras, instead of herring. The pig may be replaced by a turkey, salmon …
On 25 December generally rests. On Christmas Day happens in the family, in contrast to Saint Etienne on 26, it is customary to visit his relations, friends.
In Finland, it sends a lot of greeting cards for Christmas! It distributes calendars with the dates for sending them. Now, e-mail and laptops compete mail! And the sellers of greeting cards!

Santa receives thousands of letters from all over the world entier.Bien on, Joulupukki responds to each of his correspondents. (In the language of the country) It is possible to send a letter to Santa, visit Rovaniemi

In Korea, with the Christmas season, it is freezing. It is rare that snow, but our first two Christmases we woke up on December 25 surprised and delighted to see the snow. This is the time of year when the sky is blue, which is very pleasant despite the cold (not fresh) from the air.

Christmas is a day like any other at the “land of morning calm.” What do Koreans for Christmas ?…. There’s nothing much they follow the lunar calendar and their two major holidays fall around October, Chusok (harvest festival, a tribute to the ancestors) and into February, Solnal (celebration of the Lunar New Year). We, the West, are quite disappointed to not see illuminated streets, spruce, decorated windows, especially the first year. We know that approach Christmas even if we are completely “staggered” when we benefit from the trip (if applicable) in France by the husband or family visits to bring gifts, foie gras and possibly champagne, of course they are unaffordable here.

The toys are quite limited in choice, Barbie for girls and for boys Lego …. thanks to the websites of VPC and dads traveling with surpluses toys, books, CD-rom and food!

Al’Église Catholic, we can have a Christmas Mass in french. Moreover, this evening many Koreans Christians attend mass in their paroisse.Ils are doing in general. Then, they make a meal (and fast as everyone else!) And voila.

So there is no real tradition of Christmas as we understand it, then we try to recreate the atmosphere in our homes. Over the past two years, we are now more and more Christmas decorations (Koreans often look in our caddies and take the same thing) … And, nod to my neighbor Korean! Who placed a wreath on his door at Christmas in 1999 when we put ourselves ours (when we arrived), and who has since left! !

A Foreign you know, Anne-Mariexpat, as well as Japanese students we speak in this article of the Christmas season in Japan.
Japan, non-Christian country, celebrates Christmas in a special way. As in all Christian countries preparations are made well in advance, from the beginning of November but sometimes also in October in conjunction with Halloween.
This period of preparation is perhaps the largest and most visible. We find all the usual decorative objects: wood or trees to climb, finely decorated balls or colored glass, figurines, or simple electrical garlands, crowns enrubannées, etc. The loudspeakers broadcast all day long Christmas songs traditional or contemporary, sung in English by big stars. Everything is adorned for the feast. The activity on the streets is more dense. Girls and young people already believe their deto or go where lovers gifts and meals are in the spotlight. Another very important period is preparing the pots end of the year or bonenkai.
Junko, Kei, Reiko, Midori, Misa, Tomomi, Japanese students in French in Paris
For the Japanese, Christmas is a holiday as well. Although the majority of the population is Buddhist, Christmas was introduced as a new culture about a hundred years ago, with the Meiji era. But we do not see as a religious holiday.
The month of December approaches, all the stores in most neighborhoods, and many houses are decorated and illuminated. The music of Christmas are distributed everywhere, as “Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell …”, the song in English.
At home, decorate the Christmas tree. The children write a letter to Santa Claus.
Many people will do their shopping to buy gifts for children, friends and girlfriends.
Christmas in Japan is a party trade. Department stores are preparing a month before Christmas. On Christmas Day, an employee masquerades as Santa Claus, targeting children and couples.
It celebrates Christmas Day with family and children or with friends and boyfriends.
For Christmas Eve, many couples reserve a table at a restaurant and take a luxurious dinner, rather European, and then exchanged gifts. If you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend, it is a little sad when Christmas approaches.
Those who have children spend the night with your family. After the meal, we play cards. The next day, children receive gifts.
Although how to celebrate Christmas is different, there is a relationship with the family, friendship, love, it is sufficient. So Christmas is a special day for everyone.
But as soon as Dec. 25 rose, the atmosphere of Christmas is rapidly disappearing. Everything will then be focused on the preparation for the New Year

Deborah studying the French language in Paris, where she now lives, and it tells the Christmas traditions of an American family USA.

In the United States, the joys of the past and present are combined for Christmas to prepare for a beautiful holiday season eagerly awaited. Everyone gathers nostalgic elements: sleigh with bells and horses crossing the villages of New England’s 19 th century; virtues of the past drawn from the story “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, the English author and wonders of childhood outings tale “T’was the Night before Christmas” by Clement Moore, the American author. The latter made known a little mysterious elf called Santa Claus (Santa Claus) to the Americans. This figure was derived from old Europe devoted to tales of saints full of goodness. The nativity scenes appear everywhere, in public and private spaces, to present the story of the birth of Jesus Christ, a story astounding. Almost all American Christmas traditions have their origins in these sources well known that we are telling every year.

Our family celebrated Christmas in a way characteristic:

To prepare for the Christmas season, Mom (that’s me) began to make lists: the list of Christmas cards, the list of gifts; several lists of races to make or buy gifts, decorations, or to prepare for the the great feast or Christmas meal, a list of places where you should go during the season, as the school to watch the spectacle of little kids, or the church to sing a Christmas carol in the choir, and always an endless list of things to do.

The first thing on the list? Putting the Christmas music on the radio, on the stereo, piano, everywhere! From ancient Christmas music, classical, jazz, popular and religious airs at every moment of this season.

And then? Enabling mailed Christmas cards. Then put the decorations. Dad was the chief down the decorations from the attic, driving the family to buy the perfect Christmas tree, putting lights on the Christmas tree. Then everyone involved for hanging decorations.Mom has finished decorating: she put the Nativity on fire and placed nodes, ribbons, fruit, pine cones, candles and flowers throughout the house. Lights were installed by Papa and Joshua: a candle in each window (which Joshua lit every night), a projector on the entrance door (to brighten the Christmas wreath hanging on the door), and lights on trees and shrubs in the front garden. Not only do we admired our decorations every year, but we are also walking in the car to watch other decorations.

Mom was the supervisor of the “factory of Christmas” with us. Almost every year, everybody was like gifts, for example, candles, carvings, embroidery, blankets or knitted sweaters and drawings painted or pyrogravure. One of the gifts made by Kirsten favorites, which everyone loved, was a biscuit tin decorated by it. We prepared a lot of biscuits, confectionery, fruit cakes and other specialties in our kitchen during the Christmas season. A specialty, which has become a tradition with us, was an oyster stew with bread to the onion and cheese. We ate on Christmas Eve, after returning from the church and just before Kirsten and Joshua went to bed. They always left cookies and a note of thanks for Santa Claus, next to the fireplace.

On Christmas day began very early, because Kirstein and Joshua wanted to look for gifts that Santa had brought them. After visits to the paternal family (where we ate the turkey, cranberry sauce, turnips, sweet potatoes, green beans, squash, cakes (coconut, chocolate, lemon) 4 days. Often, we simply did not know the time and stay in pajamas every day. we always reserve an exit for our annual visit to the “Spaghetti Factory for dinner.

A day or two before the New Year, we were going to see the maternal family to celebrate once again with Christmas gifts. Around 23 pm on the eve of New Year, everyone gathered outside to light fireworks. Then, we would come in the house to listen to music, dancing, open a bottle of champagne, to accommodate all the New Year After the last kiss to wish Happy New Year, children were sent to bed. Adults watched during the night and spoke of life, laughing and sometimes crying.

On New Year’s Day has always put an end to the Christmas season and marked the beginning of the return to work and school. In the following days, Christmas decorations were removed and packed, but not our imagination or our goodwill, nor our expectations. All these things, born of tradition, would last until the next Christmas season.

Today my children have grown up and my husband and I live in France, far from the children. We will be together at Christmas, but many things are different now.

Zahara, the little Ethiopian that the American actress Angelina Jolie, adopted in 2005, was supposed to be an orphan. However, the biological mother of the child seems to be alive and well.

Mentewab Dawit Lebiso, 24 years, calls for the return of her daughter. “I want my daughter back to Ethiopia so that it understands where it comes from,” she says. “I was too poor to take care of her and I jumped that it would starve,” says the young woman who confides that Zahara is the product of a rape.

Mentewab Dawit Lebiso says she never signed a paper entrusting her child to the orphanage. “I was mistaken when they told me that I might reconsider my daughter over the years,” she says. The adoption has been made in the rules. As the mother was supposed to be deceased is Zahara’s grandmother who signed the papers.

the egyptian actor younes shalabi died today after suffering from a disease. The place of death of shalaby is almokawilon al arab hospital.
the comedian shalabi youness is one of the biggest and famous actor in egypt .he is known with his role in the teatre ‘madrasat almochaghibeen’ , ‘el 3yal kibrit”..
the death of youness shalabi leave a big place in the heart of all egypt.
here are some article about younes chalabi biography

It was the drop that made the cup overflow. Prince Harry and his girlfriend Chelsy Davy are separated after the young man had not returned to the 22nd anniversary of the young woman preferring instead attend to the final of the Rugby World Cup in Paris, reported Sunday The British tabloid News of the World.

The weekly, citing “friends” Davy, law student in Leeds, wrote that the woman “could no longer bear the escapades of Harry” and was “tired” of the young officer 23 years, the 3rd in the order succession to the British crown. She is said to have ended the relationship after a series of phone calls early November between Leeds and Lesotho, where Harry met orphans of AIDS victims.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have indicated that they were particularly interested in the California ranch of Michael Jackson.

Indeed, since last Tuesday, official documents available on the Internet revealed that the famous singer Michael Jackson would be threatened with seizure of his property to Neverland.

After three successive deadlines for payments unfulfilled, it is left to singer Thriller, 90 days to find the sum of 23 million dollars and repay the mortgage.

Meanwhile, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have not hesitated to declare himself convinced that Neverland is the perfect place to raise their family. No doubt that the two actors who have already adopted three children: Maddox (6 years), Pax (3 years) and Zahara (2 years), and a natural daughter, Shiloh (17 months), think that the place is dreamed for them.

Named in reference to the imaginary country of the character Peter Pan, the ownership of Neverland, near Santa Barbara, in fact, extends over 1000 hectares and has even a small zoo. The couple of players seemed very convinced by the effectiveness of the security system of ownership..

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have hope of ever acquiring the field, especially as Michael Jackson lived there since 2003, when his ranch was searched by the police under charges of pedophilia hanging over him. The singer had said: “I do not live there. I do not myself feel more at home. This is only a place of transition. ”

However, the official representative of Michael Jackson, Raymone K. Bain, however, has hastened to declare that the situation would improve his client, and that Michael Jackson did not lose his property.

Dream or reality? It is to be hoped that if Neverland falls into the hands of the most glamorous couple of the earth, they will not be haunted by the ghosts of the life of the former owner…

Bernard Kouchner is in front of the microphone! The Foreign Minister french and his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, record an r’n'b song in the language of Goethe… This song , Deutschland, will serve as a focal point for a campaign to promote European integration.

Three young Germano-turcs (Muhabbet, star outre-Rhin) who are behind this initiative. The video of this meeting will be broadcast on unpublished YouTube. it would be more fun with Tokio Hotel… or competing in the Eurovision.;)

mane of Candidates for the Democratic Party us election 2008:

- Joe Biden, U.S. Senator from Delaware (has already began Campaign 2008 usa election)
- Hillary Clinton, U.S. Senator from New York and former First Lady (has already began Campaign 2008 usa election)
- Christopher Dodd, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (has already began Campaign 2008 usa election)
- John Edwards, former U.S. Senator from North Carolina and 2004 Democratic Vice presidential candidate (has already began Campaign 2008 usa election)
- Mike Gravel, former U.S. Senator from Alaska (has already began Campaign 2008 usa election)
- Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Representative from Ohio (has already began Campaign 2008 usa election)
- Barack Obama, U.S. Senator from Illinois (has already began Campaign 2008 usa election)
- Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico and former Secretary of Energy (Campaign Site)

picture of the Former President George Bush father and Army Golden Knights .Mike Elliot free fall while parachuting during the George Bush Presidential Library & Museum grand reopening ceremony on Saturday in College Station, Texas.

source : www.msnbc. msn.com

Far from being obsessed with schemes all the rage, détox, macrobiotic vegetarian – or “the human body is not made for that”, it remains attentive to his diet: “You have to eat everything in small quantities. And still I accompany meat, fish or pasta, vegetables. “Does the gym? In gymnastics, swimming and yoga. “But not on a regular basis. I am moving all the time: the shooting, preparations, baby, this is not obvious, regrets. But I like this lifestyle. “

Thin but not lean, a red carpet posture even when Apple and Moses walking in the streets of Manhattan, the actress is the embodiment of the beautiful and “healthy” American.
Fitness Plan: Gwyneth is a fan of Gyrotonic, a discipline that takes place on an aircraft equipped with weights, pulleys and straps combining movements of swimming, yoga, dance and gymnastics (www. gyrotonic.com). “It relaxes, stretches and tones smoothly,” she says. He also occasionally join her friends Stella McCartney and Madonna in a room in North London for 90 minutes of yoga.
Routine diet: as Madonna, Gwyneth is a macrobiotic addict. She is convinced that the key to
Health is eating simple. It limits their consumption of meat, eggs, dairy products and caffeine, and enjoys eating whole grains, soups, vegetables and seaweed

More fine and firm than Lindsay Lohan or Mischa Barton as she displays over twenty years, the quadra icon par excellence. All women want to be like him. Sharon admits that it can not buy a shirt without the saleswoman asked her secret. So much that it would consider a DVD realize “how to”.
Fitness plan: an exercise in abdos gold, taught by a trapeze artist twenty years ago in Africa… but it refuses to disclose (thanks Sharon). She admits, however, have swapped the intensive training sessions for the new special program lazy that everyone’s talking about: the integrative gym. We put on the most trivial to maintain its shape: climbing stairs, bearing races (putting mascara does not count)… Sharon, who continues to make abdos and pumps, said his car station that the most beyond its possible meeting places to be bound to walk. A joke, you say? Not at all. The “American Journal of Clinical Nutrition says that” three times 10 minutes of physical activity have the same beneficial effects as 30 minutes of training.
Routine diet: Sharon is fond of Gi Diet (Gi for Glycemic Index, nothing to do with GI Joe). Basically, it is quiet on the sugars. Foods are categorized by color: red for those with a high glycemic index (so as to avoid), yellow, consume in moderation, green, according to emphasize the precepts of dietician Canadian Rick Gallop, author of “The Gi Diet” (www . amazon.com).