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Republicans, though they do not look or act like Pat Robertson. They
believe in liberty, not conformity. They can enjoy watching The
Sopranos even if they are New Jersey Italians. They can appreciate the
tight abs of Britney Spears or Brad Pitt without worrying about the
nation's decaying moral fiber. They strongly believe in liberty,
personal responsibility, limited government, and free markets. However,
they do not live by the edicts of political correctness.
MOORE: Are you against
that? Stopping this war?
O'REILLY: No, we cannot
leave Iraq right now, we
have to�
MOORE: So, you would
sacrifice your child to secure
Fallujah? I want to hear you say that.
O'REILLY: I would
sacrifice myself..
MOORE: Your child? It�s
Bush sending the children
O'REILLY: I would
sacrifice myself.
MOORE: You and I don�t
go to war, because we�re too
O'REILLY: Because if we
back down, there will be
more deaths and you know it.
MOORE: Say, �I, Bill
O�Reilly, would sacrifice my
child to secure Fallujah.�
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a, that�s ridiculous�
MOORE: You don�t believe
that. Why should Bush
sacrifice the children of people across America for this?
O'REILLY: Look it�s a
worldwide terrorism � I know
that escapes you �
MOORE: Wait a minute,
terrorism? Iraq?
O'REILLY: Yes. There are
terrorist in Iraq.
MOORE: Oh really? So
Iraq now is responsible for
the terrorism here?
O'REILLY: Iraq aided
terrorists. Don�t you know
anything about any of that?
O'Reilly may be the only person who can't see that ducking the
question and changing the subject do not secure rhetorical
victory. Now, ordinarily, we wouldn't care if an inveterate blowhard
comes up empty once in a while, but Michael Moore has gotten a lot of
mileage out of this "sacrifice your children" ploy, and he and others
will likely keep using it until someone with a particle of intelligence
and judgment stops them in their tracks. It isn't that there's nothing
to say in such situations. O'Reilly, for example, could have countered
with George C. Scott's famous line from Patton: "It's not the job of an
American soldier to die for his country; it's to make the other poor
sonofabitch die for his." Or he could have pointed out that American
soldiers are not children, but adults who have volunteered on their own
to defend their country and, if necessary, to sacrifice their lives in
exchange for a higher purpose -- the defense of American civilians,
including children and babies yet unborn. He could have said, as a
parent, I would be proud if my children chose to serve their nation in
the armed forces, and if they died in doing their duty, I would be
permanently grief-stricken and permanently proud of their lives. He
could have said, this is America, there is no draft, and no parent has
to "decide" to sacrifice a child to the military; it is always their
adult offspring who make such decisions for themselves. He also could have said, "Yes."
But no. Michael Moore's question did paralyze Bill O'Reilly. His
answer was lame, evasive, and non-responsive. Why? Because for all his
tough talk, O'Reilly is hostage to the great American obsession with
the "kids." Scarcely a night goes by that he doesn't, at some point in
his program, demand some government or community action on behalf of
the "kids." He does not see them as young citizens-in-training, but as
something inert and vulnerable, like the family silver, that has to be
protected at all costs. The subject of kids has become so sacred that
it suppresses even his native common sense. And he's not alone.
Sometimes it seems there's no crime we Americans wouldn't sanction as
long as someone puts it in the context of the "kids."
This is all precious nonsense. Yes, we have a responsibility to
protect children, but it's not the only purpose in life. It's just one
of many responsibilities adults and citizens have, including duty,
integrity, loyalty, honor, and bravery in the face of life's
challenges. When we start taking this one particular responsibility more
seriously than all the others, we are also taking ourselves too
seriously, and more importantly, we are putting children on a pedestal
where they don't belong. That's probably why we have stopped
disciplining our children, stopped making demands on them with respect
to their behavior, education, and work ethic. We treat them like little
godheads, bowing and scraping whenever their name is invoked.
Is there an antidote? Don't know. But any reasonable first step must
involve puncturing our inflated notions about the sanctity of
childhood. Only when we've done that might we have a shot at realizing
how thoroughly and disgustingly that sanctity has already been violated
by allowing our little darlings to engage in whatever pursuits appeal
to their narcissistic and stunted personalities.
But we are only InstaPunk. We can't provide antidotes. All we can
offer is the bracing air of dark and ruthless humor. That's why our
lesson for today is this link to Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies. It's
a hilarious alphabet book recounting the horrible deaths of some of the
sweetest looking little kids you ever saw. Read it or don't. Laugh or
draw yourself up in self righteous outrage. But spare us your
complaints. We don't give a damn. Children are also human, which means
they are not exempt from the human comedy. No one is. When we forget
that, we tend to forget a lot of values that we just might need someday
soon to save the lives of our precious kids.
Oh. And one more thing. Grow up, O'Reilly.
The main question is not whether John
Kerry is a nice guy. It's whether his policies are more suited for the
country's security needs over the next four years. That's what people
were trying to divine from the Democrats' convention in Boston.
After watching the speech,
talking to Kerry foreign policy advisers - and visiting Iraq three
times since the war - I'd say the answer is yes. Here's why:
The Bush antiterror policy has lost its
way. Yes, the President does what he says, but what he says and does
has led us into a defensive position in the struggle against terrorism.
Our military is bogged down in a
guerrilla war against Iraq that hasn't weakened al-Qaeda. Just the
opposite. The terrorist organization has found a new base in an
unstable Iraq.
Anti-Americanism in the Mideast has never
been greater. Iraq's instability and Bush's abandonment of efforts to
promote Israel-Palestinian peace are a recruitment ad for al-Qaeda.
And, no, Ms Rubin's matter-of-fact assessment of the situation does
not mean she's chalking it up to bad luck or the predictable chaos of
international politics. All of the ills she describes are George Bush's
The Bush administration's hype on Iraq -
expanding Saddam Hussein's real threat to the Mideast into a nuclear
threat against the U.S. mainland - has made much of the world cynical
about the antiterrorist struggle. Most Europeans and Arabs don't
believe in the reality of this battle against Islamist jihadists. That
makes the effort much harder.
If the United States is to rally other
countries to this long-term goal - and convince their citizens - a more
credible U.S. leader is required. The world's growing anti-Americanism,
which hampers any global alliance against terrorism, is focused on the
persona and policies of George W. Bush.
Kerry has stressed over and over that he
will rebuild our alliances and repair the breeches within NATO. On
Thursday he said, "We need a president who has the credibility to bring
our allies to our side and share the burden." He is overly optimistic
about what the allies would contribute, especially in Baghdad. But he
would have a far better chance than Bush of persuading our NATO allies
to do more in Afghanistan, and take on new missions outside Europe.
Kerry advisers say he would push for needed reforms in NATO and the
United Nations.
Wiithout wasting time disputing her highly debatable
characterizations, we'll simply highlight the collapsing confidence in
the final paragraph of the quote. Up to this point, she's been marching
briskly toward a seemingly rational conclusion that we need someone
better than George Bush. But just when we expect to learn why Kerry is
so much better, she acknowledges that Kerry's best credential is that
he has "stressed over and over" that he will make our so-called friends
like us more. Then she admits that he is "overly optimistic" and
stumbles to the end of her thought with the lame asterisk that "Kerry's
advisers say" he might try to secure "reforms" in the U.N. and NATO.
Hmmm. Before, it sounded like she was saying all the obstructionism in
the U.N. and NATO was Bush's fault. So why do they need reforms? Isn't the big
idea here that Kerry himself is the necessary reform?
Despite Ms. Rubin's breezy exposition of Bush's failures, her essay
winds up at a different destination than her tone promises. It's really
an exercise in wishful thinking. We don't like the way things are. We
don't like it that people around the world are trashing America at
every whipstitch. We don't like it that America is still a terror
target and nobody else seems to care. We don't like it that winning the
war on terror hasn't been a neat little miniseries which could be
wrapped up before the audience got bored. And here's a guy who says he
can make it all better by applying his impeccable continental manners
at the diplomatic table. Yeah, maybe we don't completely believe that,
but it sure would be NICE, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it?
We said that Ms. Rubin's piece was representative. It is. All the enthusiasm for Kerry is
wishful thinking. That's why there are never any specifics. No
specifics in his nomination speech. He didn't utter the term 'Islamic
fascism' once. He didn't mention exactly which allies have to be on our
side before an American action is not unilateral. (His rhetorical
history would indicate that 'multilateral' means with the support of
France and Germany, while 'unilateral' means without the support of
France and Germany. That's a helluva big picture view, isn't it?) Yes,
he said he would double special ops forces and add another division to
the army, but what for? We aren't ever going to fight another war
unless we have to. What does
that mean? After the suitcase nuke levels Los Angeles? He didn't say.
And there have been no real specifics in the various pro-Kerry articles
following the convention. There are only vague aspirations for a
foreign relations rapprochement designed to substitute European troops
for American so that our boys can come home where they belong. No one's
used the term "peace with honor," but with all the Vietnam nostalgia
floating around the country like a cloud of methane, perhaps we can be
excused for being reminded of that old figleaf for surrender. It's as
if the war on terror itself can't be justified unless the rest of the
world agrees to it. If they don't, we should forget about it and cope
with whatever happens whenever it happens.
...after being
for-and-against the war for the last year according to political
necessity, Kerry seems to have settled on a position of doing pretty
much what Bush is doing while simultaneously spending more time on the
blower to Kofi, Jacques and Gerhard. If I were a principled anti-war
Democrat, I'd be furious.
But they're not. Because
the real distinction is not between pro- and anti-war, but between
September 11 Americans and September 10 Americans. The latter group is
a coalition embracing not just the hardcore Bush haters - for whom, as
the opening of Fahrenheit 9/11 makes plain, it all goes back to chads
in Florida - but the larger group of voters who've been a little
stressed out by the epic nature of politics these last three years and
would like a quieter life. That's what John Kerry's offering them: a
return to September 10.
In another perilous time -
1918 - Lord Haig wrote of Lord Derby: "D is a very weak-minded fellow I
am afraid and, like the feather pillow, bears the marks of the last
person who has sat on him." It's subtler than that with Kerry: you
don't have to sit on him; just the slightest political breeze, and his
pillow billows in the appropriate direction. His default position is
the conventional wisdom of the Massachusetts Left: on foreign policy,
foreigners know best; on trade, the labour unions know best; on
government, bureaucrats know best; on defence, graying ponytailed
nuclear-freeze reflex anti-militarists know best; on the wine list, he
knows best.
Mother Teresa
DEMOCRACY. There were some real heavy hitters at the convention
Tuesday night, but they'd been told to leave the loaded gloves at home,
so we got pale, sanitized imitations of Teddy Kennedy, Dick Gephardt,
Tom Dashle, and Howard Dean. The singular source of all their hatred
was, by DNC edict, forbidden to be mentioned by name. This gave
Dubya something of the stature of Yahweh -- he whose name may not be
uttered lest thunder and lightning consume the speaker from on high. Only Dean
seemed as if he could barely restrain himself from unleashing the
stupefying left hook he became famous for on the campaign trail. At
times, his face twisted briefly into the familiar grimace, and more
than once he began listing individual states, which is the trademark
sign of an incipient Dean psychotic episode. But the heavy hand of enforced
pretended civility prevented him, in the end, from giving the delegates
what all of them yearn for like so many thirst-maddened vampires -- the feast
of Bush blood that substitutes in their lives for the light of the sun.
That may help explain why the convention crowd reacted so fervently
to the evening's featured speaker, Ms. Teresa Heinz Kerry, who appeared
before them as a vision in red and buoyed their hopes with an accent
that really could have originated in Transylvania, though some of us
also detected a soupcon of Gabor glamour and maybe half a cup of Garbo
hyper-theatricality. The speech had been billed as an opportunity for
us ordinary Americans to get Ms. Heinz Kerry's inside insight into the
charm and gravitas of John Kerry, but thankfully, we were spared the
tedium such an approach would have ensured. Instead, the queen of the
night chose to tell us practically everything she could think of about
Teresa Heinz Kerry. Was it a prescient gratitude for the
non-John-Kerryness of her remarks that caused the delegates to mount
such a
prolonged and evidently spontaneous demonstration upon her entrance?
Or was there some subterranean,Transylvanian-esque telepathy that
inspired every single delegate on the floor to think of exactly the
same placard -- color-keyed to the lady's costume -- to hoist and wave
as they adored her greatness?
Alas, such questions can only be answered in full by Democrats. The
rest of us must piece together what partial answers we can infer from
evidence such as the speech script itself. That's why we labored
mightily to copy down as much as we could of it from the TV before the
pencils dropped from our numbed and exhausted fingers about 40 minutes
in. So all we have for your persual is the beginning, but it speaks for
itself, we think. Here is a great personage waxing eloquent on her own
favorite and most admired great personage. It's enough to make one fall
mute with astonishment. To set the scene: her son Christopher
introduces her, she enters, the crowd goes wild, and then she begins to
KERRY: Tank you. Tank you.
Tank you. I love you, too.
Tank you.
Tank you, Christopher. Your
[INAUDIBLE] would be [INAUDIBLE]
of you and [INAUDIBLE].
And I love you. And I love our [INAUDIBLE].
My name is Teresa Heinz Kerry.
KERRY: And by now, I hope
[INAUDIBLE] no surprise
that I have something to say.
And tonight, as I [INAUDIBLE]
campaign, I would
like [INAUDIBLE] you from my heart. For all you
Latinos, el libro est� en la mesa y el telefono fue inventado
por [INAUDIBLE] Bell...
... for all you Franco-Americans,
la plume de ma [INAUDIBLE] tante est dans la salle de
bain, [INAUDIBLE], n'est-ce pas...
.. for all you Italian Americans, e puo
far portari su i [INAUDIBLE] bagagli, per favore, e posso avere un
[INAUDIBLE] asciugamano...
... for all you Portuguese
Americans, [INAUDIBLE] um cerveza se faz favor, onde e lavabo...
... and for all you
African-Americans, yo jimmy hat be [INAUDIBLE] fly!
This is a much powerful moment for
me. Like many other
[INAUDIBLE] like many of you, and like even more your [INAUDIBLE]
grandparents, I was not borned in this country.
And as you will have seen, I [INAUDIBLE]
in East Africa, in Mozambique,
in a land that [INAUDIBLE] a dictatorship. My father, a
caring man who [INAUDIBLE] for 43 years, and who taught
me how
to understand [INAUDIBLE], only got to [INAUDIBLE]
for the first time
when he was 73 years old.
KERRY: That's what [INAUDIBLE]
As a young woman, I [INAUDIBLE]
University in
Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated.
But I [INAUDIBLE]
Apartheid everywhere around me.
And so with my [INAUDIBLE] marched in the streets of
Johannesburg against [INAUDIBLE] higher education.
This was the late 1950s at the dawn
of [INAUDIBLE]
America. And, as history records, [INAUDIBLE] South
Africa failed,
and the Higher Education [INAUDIBLE] passed. Apartheid
tightened its [INAUDIBLE] Nelson
Mandela [INAUDIBLE] to Robben Island.
I learned something [INAUDIBLE]
still. There is a
value in talking [INAUDIBLE] anybody may be noticing it,
whether [INAUDIBLE] to do.
KERRY: And if even those who are in
danger can raise their [INAUDIBLE], isn't it more that is
[INAUDIBLE] us, in this
land where[INAUDIBLE] birth?
I have a very personal feeling
about how [INAUDIBLE] America is,
and I know how precious [INAUDIBLE] a sacred gift, [INAUDIBLE]
who have lived it and [INAUDIBLE] defending it.
My right to speak my mind, to [INAUDIBLE],
to be what some
have called "opinionated"...
... is a right I deeply and [INAUDIBLE]
HEINZ: And my only hope is that [INAUDIBLE]
women, who have all earned their right to their
... instead of being labeled [INAUDIBLE]
will be called smart
and [INAUDIBLE], just like men.


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Algae Blooms Spread Across Lake Champlain
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At Oakledge Park in Burlington a sign warns people to keep children and dogs away from the potentially toxic blue-green algae.
The blooms were thick here earlier in the week. And on Friday, they're still visible in the water and dried crusts of algae coat the rocks.
Still, it's sweltering and the lake is cool. And some people aren't concerned about algae toxins. A swimmer who gives his name only as Art isn't really sure what the fuss is about.
"I didn't know anything about until I just read that sign," he says. 'But I have no concerns about swimming. I'm going in in just a second."
Just off the beach, Linda Miller and her friends are cleaning out a barbecue grill after a picnic. For Miller, the water is definitely not inviting.
"We don't swim here," she says.
Miller says she's had experience with the algae blooms at her home in the Lake Champlain Islands.
"I live up in North Hero and there are lots of blooms up there," she says. "And our dogs, we have to keep them away from the water. And we don't swim off the beach. We go out into the middle of the lake on our boat."
Blue-green algae have spread across a broad swath of Lake Champlain this summer. A quick tour of Burlington area by boat shows that the thick blooms seen earlier in the week have been mostly dispersed by the wind and waves.
But near Red Rocks Park in South Burlington, the blue greens are still visible as small paint-like scum lines in the water.
Louis Porter, a clean water advocate for the Conservation Law Foundation, says the blooms arrived earlier this summer and are more widespread, moving into the main body of the lake.
"And the reason for that is probably the record number of phosphorus inputs that came in through the streams last year," he says. "As you know last year was a record level of phosphorus coming into the tributaries of Champlain both because of the spring floods but especially because of Irene floods which washed a lot of sediment. There was a lot of bank erosion; it washed a lot of farm waste, manure, other things into the streams."
Phosphorus acts a fertilizer for the blue green algae, and it fuels their explosive growth. Porter says this summer's blooms are a visible reminder of the need to control phosphorus pollution.
"And that phosphorus doesn't go away right away. It can stay in the water column for quite a long time and cause blooms in the next year or even the next following years," he says.
The algae produce two kinds of toxins that the state Health Department is concerned about. State Toxicologist Sarah Vose says people should exercise caution and stay out of the water when blooms are present.
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Welcome to the Year of Faith resource page for the Diocese of Rockville Centre.
October 11, 2012 - November 24, 2013 With his Apostolic Letter of October 11, 2011, Porta Fidei, Pope Benedict XVI declared a �Year of Faith� will begin on October 11, 2012 and conclude on November 24, 2013.
October 11, 2012, the first day of the Year of Faith, is the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) and also the twentieth anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. During the Year of Faith, Catholics are asked to study and reflect on the documents of Vatican II and the catechism so that they may deepen their knowledge of the faith. The upcoming Year of Faith is a �summons to an authentic and renewed conversion to the Lord, the One Savior of the world� (Porta Fidei 6). In other words, the Year of Faith is an opportunity for Catholics to experience a conversion � to turn back to Jesus and enter into a deeper relationship with him. The �door of faith� is opened at one�s baptism, but during this year Catholics are called to open it again, walk through it and rediscover and renew their relationship with Christ and his Church.
Belong More Deeply in the Year of Faith in the Diocese of Rockville Centre: The Diocese of Rockville Centre began a new evangelizing initiative in 2010-2011 entitled, Belong More Deeply. Bishop William Murphy initiated this event with a Pastoral Letter, �Belong More Deeply.� On October 13-14, 2012, Bishop Murphy released a second pastoral letter, �You Too Go Into the Vineyard� that inaugurated the second phase of Belong More Deeply as the Diocese joins the Universal Church in this Year of Faith.
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The Bulgarian government has approved a privatisation strategy for local production outfit, Boyana Film. The film-maker, as one of the country's top six companies, is being used to spearhead moves by the Centre for Mass Privatisation (CMP), to float businesses on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BBE).
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Here's some shoegazey stuff from San Fran band Echodrone to…listen to…I suppose…
Here's some shoegazey stuff from San Fran band Echodrone to…listen to…I suppose…
Alas Swing Lo Magellan has arrived. As I tweeted yesterday it lacks the sharp focus and epic momentum of that breakthrough album, but is by no means a failure; it is, rather, another excellent entry in the Dirty Projectors' already stellar discography.
Really, there's nothing to fault the album on – I can't think of one bad track, the production and songwriting is as ambitious and inventive as ever, and the whole things flows quite well. Where it loses out to its predecessor, however, is in pacing and grandeur. Swing Lo Magellan's songs are for the most part more laid back, though by no means "simple": Longstreth's complex harmonies and schizophrenic guitar work make any such description impossible. But these are songs that allow you to come to them, rather than blowing you away like "Cannibal Resource" did on Bitte Orca. There are some songs closer in spirit to the stunners on Bitte Orca – such as the first single "The Gun Has No Trigger", which actually sounds much more dramatic in the context of the album – but it would simply be impossible with the album's length (twelve songs vs. Bitte Orca's sharp nine) to use them to create the same kind of momentum Bitte Orca had.
That being said, Swing Lo Magellan is incredibly rewarding. The arrangements are dense and reveal more upon repeated listens, and the songs, as mentioned before, are complex and may require a bit of time to really get used to. There's a lot going on on this album – Beefheart-esque experimentations with discordance, gentle acoustic baladry – and lyrically I haven't even begun to explore what's going on. All I know right now is it's weird to hear Longstreth sing about romantic stuff – I think we're all more comfortable hearing him sing pretty songs about Portuguese explorers, as he does in the title track. Why doesn't he get the incredible female vocalists (or vocalist, since Deradoorian's taking time off? Do they still have more than one chick singing?) in his band to handle that kind of stuff? Sometimes he does, but it seemed he wanted to hog the mic a bit more this time around – it doesn't hurt the album.
Nor is the album particularly "challenging", or at least I wouldn't call it such. This is an album waiting to be discovered, just as the Americas were perhaps. So swing lo you young Magellans…swing lo…or something…
BTW: Dirty Projectors are gonna be playing Toronto's Danforth Music Hall on July 6th and the show is being put on by my hommies at Embrace, so check that yo.
Awesome Toronto hyper-psych band Hellaluya's got some more music coming out after a long break presumably spent honing the craft. It comes in the form of a split 12″ w/ Cartoons on the ever-more-legit Daps and Buzz label. (via CHARTattack)
When you're in a bad place and you lose some loved ones, if you're a musician you make an album. Usually these super sad albums are actually amazing – look at albums like Arcade Fire's Funeral (inspired by deaths in the family), or Patti Smith's Gone Again (inspired by the death of her husband Fred Smith, her brother Todd, friends Allen Ginsberg, Robert Mapplethorp and former bandmate Richard Sohl). Fresh And Only's guitarist Wymond Miles recently lost a best friend and some family members and so he went and made an album called Under The Pale Moon. Haven't heard the entire thing yet, but this song off it is really good and Pitchfork gave it a deece review.
Andres Pichardo grew up in the Dominican Republic but now he's in Brooklyn making twee-gaze pop that's totally gorgeous as Grand Resort.


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Beware the iPod 'prize'
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With 4.4 million sales in 2004, the iPod has been one of the year's big success stories. It also costs upwards of $399 and, since 'tis the season to be strapped for cash, you may not want to pay full price. What are the options?
Well, the internet is full of them. Chances to win or to claim a free gift have swarmed email accounts as more and more internet sites are promising free prizes for those who are curious enough to double click.
One website that caught our attention was www.getgiftsforfree.com They have been advertising on discussion groups, classifieds and even on eBay, while cyber citizens have erupted into a fierce debate as to whether or not this deal is the real thing.
Frankly, we were just too intrigued by the possibility of a free iPod to dismiss it. So we did some digging. As it turns out, the "gift" is not really free. You can be eligible for a gift only after you spend $US40 ($53) on a set of signal boosters for a mobile phone. Then you wait until enough people have bought these boosters before they will send you a prize.
If you are starting to think this sounds like a scam, you'd be right. Matrix schemes such as these work like pyramid schemes. Many are banned because, ultimately, they collapse under their own weight.
This structure cannot be maintained indefinitely as people will eventually stop buying the signal boosters. Unless you are one of the first few people to sign up, it will be difficult to get your "gift".
Unemployed Norwegian net surfer Henrik Thomassen stumbled across this matrix scheme while at an online auction site. Last month, he paid the $US40 and, as promised, received his signal boosters within a week.
Thomassen chose not to go with the iPod, but with a new Nokia phone. "My cellphone is not so good any more and I don't have the money for a new [one]," he says. "I haven't had any recruiting, so it will take a long time before I get the free gift."
Thomassen also put his name down for the free Sony VAIO K23 laptop, for which he is 1074th in line. At the time of writing, the site was 44 sales away from sending a gift to the first person in line.
This means that if they add six names to the list every day, as promised, Thomassen will be waiting a long time to receive a free laptop, unless he promotes the scheme to others. Unless you can find one of these schemes that will last long enough for you to receive an iPod, you should probably look elsewhere.
So we turned our attention away from the web and noticed a number of Telstra shop advertisements offering iPod minis for $99 with a Telstra $30 plan on a Sony Ericsson phone. Strathfield Car Radios has a similar deal, offering an iPod for $129 when you sign up for a $38 monthly plan.
Our interest was piqued, again. And so the digging resumed. As it turns out, mobile-phone dealers make their profits by two means. There are contract payments for which users are billed each month and then the commission paid by the mobile phone carriers, such as Vodafone, Telstra or Optus.
Unfortunately for these dealers, the market has changed. Consumers have grown weary of contracts and are now reluctant to commit to a phone plan. This can be seen by the increasing popularity of pre-paid phones.
The change has forced phone dealers to scavenge for those customers still willing to commit to a contract. Whereas once upon a time dealers would pocket their commission, it is now standard for them to use it as a carrot to dangle in front of their customers. By doing this they can knock a couple of hundred dollars off the cost of the iPod.
This means that if you are willing to commit to at least $30 a month for two years, this deal might be worth your while. Of course, if you already have a phone and don't need to get another contract, the minimum cost for the entire deal is $819, so you only win if you really need the phone.
At the end of the day, as with everything else, you have to weigh the risk with the reward. You can try to get an iPod for free if you take a gamble on a barely legal scheme, or you can pay a fraction of the price if you commit to a phone plan you might not want. Or maybe you can do it the old-fashioned way and buy one at a store.


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It's been awhile since my last taco truck post...still on the hunt, but have found little worthwhile until now. Takos Katrochos is a taco trailer that sets up on Slauson Ave just east of Vermont daily (I was told) from 10a-10p. If you want to be sure of the hours, call them at 323-356-8161. On to the chow:
Since I arrived pre-lunch, I only ordered two tacos. The first was the asada. It appeared a bit dry, but the more I ate the better it got. The true beef flavors kept coming. The meat was not overly tender, yet easy to eat. This was a solid asada taco. Then I ventured to a pastor taco. By apprearance, I thought I really made a big mistake. Their pastor looked nothing like others I have eaten in the past (I have probably visited 50-60 trucks and always have pastor). It was darker in color, almost more beef-like in appearance. There was none of the standard rust color sauce cooked in.
ONE BITE IS ALL IT TOOK! Holy Guacamole Batman. The intensity of the slow-cooked roast flavor was intoxicating. How could something so ordinary looking taste so exceptional. This was the king of all pastor. I talked to the owner, who must of wondered what got into this gringo with the silly grin on his face. I looked like I was four and just got my first bike. When queried, he said the secret to his pastor is that he removes all the grease from it. I simply bowed to him and vowed to return soon.
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Nobel Peace Winner Urges Holdouts to Join Chemical Weapons Pact
The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons demanded that the six nations, including Israel, that have yet to adopt the convention banning the use of the arms to join without delay or conditions.
"There has long been no reasonable defense for not doing so -– all the more now in the wake of the robust international reaction to recent use of chemical weapons," Ahmet Uzumcu, OPCW director general, said today in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo. "It's my fervent hope that this award will spur on efforts to make the Chemical Weapons Convention a truly universal norm."
The intergovernmental watchdog was formed in 1997 to enforce the Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans the development, production, stockpiling and use of such weapons of mass destruction. It was in October awarded the prize for its work to define "the use of chemical weapons as a taboo under international law," the Nobel Committee in Oslo said when announcing the honor.
Non-members of the OPCW include Israel and Myanmar, which have yet to ratify the convention, and Angola, Egypt, North Korea and South Sudan, which have "neither signed nor acceded" to the convention. Syria became the latest member in October.
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Centuries of Trying to Stop Chemical Weapons
The OPCW, based in the The Hague, is working in Syria to ensure the destruction of chemical weapons and production facilities and equipment. The group moved in after the UN Security Council resolved in September to rid the country of such weapons after a gas attack near Damascus that opposition groups say killed more than 1,400 people, including children.
Uzumcu said yesterday at a press briefing that progress in Syria has been "satisfactory" and that it expects its mid-2014 target of the destruction of weapons to be met.
"Never in its history has the OPCW overseen the destruction of such a major chemical weapons stockpile in the midst of a civil war, and in such compressed timeframes," he said today in the speech. "As much as this mission is testing our capacities and resources, our progress so far has only strengthened our confidence that we can succeed."
The convention demands that member states commit to enforcing prohibition within their jurisdiction, declare and destroy any stockpiles of chemical weapons they may hold and any facilities that produced them. The OPCW said in June that almost 80 percent of all declared chemical weapons have been destroyed under international verification by the group.
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"Some 20 percent, chiefly American and Russian weapons, have not yet been destroyed," said Thorbjoern Jagland, the head of the Nobel Committee, in a separate speech. "It's, of course, not acceptable that two leading powers, themselves so eager to see others destroying their stores as quickly as possible, have not yet themselves managed to do the same."
The Nobel Prize, along with literature, physics, medicine and chemistry honors, was created by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel and first awarded in 1901. Past peace laureates include the European Union, which won last year, as well as U.S. President Barack Obama, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa.
The other awards, also including the economics prize, are being handed out in Stockholm today.
The OPCW will use the 8 million-krona ($1.2 million) prize to establish an award that recognizes contributions to advancing the goals of the convention and it will continue to adapt its resources to respond to "future challenges," Uzumcu said.
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He lived what men call a good moral life, his deportment was very agreeable, and his sobriety was commended by many.
They found her person agreeable and her deportment dignified.
For there was something in the captain's deportment dimly suggestive of stone, and the dignity of stillness.
This was further demonstrated by the deportment of the vapour itself.
The female differs little from the male, being distinguished by voice and deportment more than by plumage.
What should his deportment be when he came face to face with her?
This one is very handsome, quiet, and what Dickens calls "in a high-shouldered state of deportment."
Tragedy is a looking at fate for a lesson in deportment on life's scaffold.
His stature was lofty, his countenance majestic, and his deportment graceful.
To have been the object of such a mystification, he, a professor of dancing and deportment!


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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0238 Thursday, 1 February 2001
Date: Wednesday, 31 Jan 2001 13:02:00 -0500
Subject: 12.0225 Re: Rosalind
Comment: Re: SHK 12.0225 Re: Rosalind
>We plan to go ahead with the idea of Orlando becoming aware of who
>Ganymede is - but of course not 'letting on,' It feels that this could
>give another dimension to the relationship and add to Orlando's
>character without detracting at all from Ros. I was interested that
>Evelyn Gajowki's students thought this happens in the BBC video - I must
>get it out to watch.
My students have occasionally wanted to think the same thing (mostly
because they found NOT penetrating the disguise "unrealistic"). Usually
they've focused on Oliver's telling Orlando "greater wonders than that".
I have argued, and would still, that their anxiety about Orlando's being
so manipulated and easy to fool is something they should live with, that
the play on the face of it very clearly puts Rosalind in charge of this
action, and we should therefore give serious weight to its making HER
the only arbiter of when she will emerge, rather than giving the
audience the satisfaction of seeing her in turn hoodwinked by a
conniving Orlando ( i note that you immediately want to compensate for
this by having her know he knows, etc...). It's so rare and dramatically
interesting to have a benign female character calling the shots in these
plays that I would be very loath to undercut her authority by having it
made part of a secret joke. I don't have a good picture of how you can
do it "without detracting at all from Ros". And the earlier or wider it
happens, from this point of view, the more unfortunate. Does Jacques
know? Duke Senior? Phebe? What's "awkward" about having Orlando kiss a
boy? Why not sustain that "awkwardness" dramatically instead of making
us more comfortable by defusing it in advance? Who's hiding behind what
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I can find very little literature of any kind on doing a StaX->DOM transformation although I would have thought this would have been common for anybody parsing very large XML documents - DOM would be the preferred parsing method but the document size precludes it. The StAX->DOM transformation resolves the problem by converting sub-trees of the source document to DOM.
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From humble beginnings as a blackberry patch, the resort's owners, Paul (a former mayor of Seattle) and Pam Schell, created The Inn at Langley in 1989. Today the Inn at Langley is one of the most awarded resorts in the Pacific Northwest.
Dear Guests,
Paul and I were captured by the Whidbey Island spirit of place and people. We built our weekend home in Langley in 1975. We thought this charming, waterside town was so special and just an hour from Seattle. At that time Langley had a dry goods store, a grocery store, two gas stations, a library, a movie theatre, a bookstore, and a marina. Two waves of residents made the community more vibrant: the Chinook Learning Community (Whidbey Institute now) and those who chose Whidbey for the more rural life and escape to the idyllic. Langley already appealed to painters but the new immigrants brought playful new expressions of art and theatre.
Enjoying the town of Langley so much, we wanted other people to discover it. Paul had built several hotels and thought that an inn would be successful. The city had built a seawall giving us the idea of building an inn two stories above the bluff and two stories below, wlth the room, deck and jacuzzi on the waterside. The dining room was a part of the plan to attract weekend guests. The Inn at Langley opened in 1989 and has since become an established year round booster to the local economy. We decided to add two cottages, and a spa in 1999 and the Saratoga and the Gallery Suites in 2008, making the room total now 28. Our guests understand that the inn is a quiet "retreat", except for the waves beneath and the birds in flight. With the dual roles of manager and chef, Matt Costello has brought the guest experience beyond what we ever imagined. Hi wife, Jodi, is managing the gardens and honoring the plan of landscape architect, Tom Burger. The team of employees embrace the ideals of hospitality and we have been so proud to offer The Inn at Langley to our guests.
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My driver's test was about 1 mile total length with 2 stop signs and a left hand turn. The parallel parking thing is a myth unless you live in a city. I learned to drive in a 2000 Cadillac Escalade so I can park anything anyway. Luckily I'm actually not a moron, but imagine a 16 year old girl behind the wheel of a 5000 lb Chevy Tahoe. They suck at driving and sadly enough often kill people on the interstate because they are so ****ing stupid. I wish our driver's test was much more difficult. I would still pass easily, but I want many of these people off the road. You know 90% of people don't even know that you drive in the right lane and pass in the left. They just drive in the left the whole time, slowly, creating parades on the interstate. Some people like to see how long they can take to pass a 70 foot long, 75,000 pound tractor trailer. I believe the record is a 0.01 mph speed differential that I have experienced. You just have to hang back and watch them die if something happens.
UK population is around 80 million I think. Traffic deaths per capita is a bad number to go by though. Americans drive WAY more than Europeans. I probably drive more every day than 90% of Europenas in a week. The best number to use for safety comparisons is deaths per mile traveled.
What do you mean by "the parallel parking thing" is a myth?
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In his 15 year career, Strahan has many accomplishments. No. 92 is the Giants' all-time leader in games played with 216 and is the franchise leader in sacks with 141.5. Strahan was named to the All-Pro team four times and was the NFL Defensive MVP for his great performance during the 2001 season.
The biggest accomplishments for Strahan in his illustrious career is holding the NFL sack record for a single season with 22.5 sacks, that he set back during the 2001 season.
Since he retired from the game of football after the 2007 season, Strahan transitioned himself into the entertainment business. The former defensive end is currently one of the co-hosts of the Fox NFL Pregame show, as well as one of the co-host of the Kelly & Michael Show, a morning talk show that is broadcast on ABC.
If Strahan is elected into the Pro Football Hall Fame this year, he will join the only four other Giants players that are in the NFL Hall of Fame. These players include Rosie Brown, Emlen Tunnell, Harry Carson, and the great Lawrence Taylor. Last year, former Giants head coach Bill Parcells was elected into the Hall of Fame. Strahan will find out whether he made the cut on Saturday February 1, when the hall of fame committee will announce the class of 2014.
In his last NFL season, Strahan helped lead the Giants to a Super Bowl victory against the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. Strahan currently ranks fifth on NFL's all time sack list and when he retired ranked first with the most sacks among active players in the leauge.


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Family in the dock over hit-and-run death
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A son and his parents will face trial over the hit-and-run death of a university student in Canterbury almost two years ago.
But as Phillip Josefski faces charges over the death of 20-year-old James Donnelly, he was cleared yesterday of the most serious charge.
Magistrate Raffaele Barberio said there was insufficient evidence to support a conviction of culpable driving. He ordered Josefski to stand trial on charges of failing to stop at the scene of an accident, failing to render assistance, careless driving and three counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Mr Donnelly, a Monash University arts student who lived in Surrey Hills, died after being hit by a vehicle allegedly driven by Josefski on Canterbury Road on July 14, 2002. He was walking home alone from a 21st birthday party nearby.
Outside court, Mr Donnelly's family expressed disappointment with Mr Barberio's decision to dismiss the culpable driving charge.
"The punishment must fit the crime," said Mr Donnelly's mother, Julia.
The court heard that Mr Donnelly, who was returning home from a 21st birthday party, had a blood alcohol level of 0.21 and had consumed cannabis "to some extent".
Mr Barberio told Mrs Donnelly during yesterday's hearing that the collision was "a tragic circumstance that no parent would want to endure", but added there was no evidence of excessive speed.
Senior Sergeant Peter Bellion told the committal hearing that the vehicle was travelling at about 43 km/h when it struck Mr Donnelly about 35 centimetres from the kerb on Canterbury Road.
While Mr Barberio said Josefski had consumed some alcohol before the time of the collision, there was "no evidence to suggest any impairment".
Josefski and his parents were charged in connection with the hit-and-run killing last July, more than a year after the incident.
Prosecutor Ian Heath said that because Josefski had failed to stop and render assistance, he had showed a "consciousness of guilt".
Josefski, 33, of Richmond, will appear in the County Court later this year with his father, Alex Josefski, 61, and his wheelchair-bound mother Lena Josefski, 54, both of Greensborough. Josefski's parents will stand trial for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, attempting to pervert the course of justice and perjury.
Two other men, Agostino Carideo, 32, and Kymon Mitsilias, 32, both of Doncaster, were also ordered to stand trial on charges that included perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice. All five defendants had their bail extended and indicated yesterday that they would plead not guilty as they were ordered to appear in the County Court for a case conference on August 18.
Mrs Donnelly applauded the work of the police's major collision investigation unit.
"I have the utmost praise for the hard work of the police, who have done a most outstanding job in bringing this case to the court," she said.
"Naturally, my husband and myself and all of James's friends, we want justice done. Not that it will bring our boy back. We know that."


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Former Sen. Chuck Hagel apologized today for a remark he made in 1998 that was disparaging toward an openly gay nominee for a U.S. ambassadorship.
Hagel — widely considered one of the frontrunners for the nomination as secretary of defense — issued an apology today, according to Politico. He apologized for criticizing James C. Hormel for being "openly, aggressively gay."
He told the Omaha-World Herald at the time that ambassador posts are sensitive and represent America.
"'They are representing our lifestyle, our values, our standards," he said. "And I think it is an inhibiting factor to be gay — openly aggressively gay like Mr. Hormel — to do an effective job.'"
As opposition to Hagel's nomination began growing based on the comment, Hagel's aide released a statement saying, ""My comments 14 years ago in 1998 were insensitive. They do not reflect my views or the totality of my public record, and I apologize to Ambassador Hormel and any LGBT Americans who may question my commitment to their civil rights. I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families."
Opposition from the gay rights community comes amid concerns from Jewish groups and Israel supporters who don't like Hagel's past comments on Israel and Iran. The Emergency Committee for Israel has bought ads attacking Hagel — a decorated Vietnam veteran — as soft on Iran.
Hagel, a moderate Republican, represented Nebraska in the Senate from 1997 to 2009.


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Dancing In The Streets
Greater Lafayette Commerce
Saturday, July 20, 2013 from 4:00 PM to 11:30 PM (PDT)
Who's Going
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Event Details
Year after year, thousands of people return for the best
festival around! Three stages of continuous live music,
great food and beer/wine and a classic car and motorcycle cruise.
And each year, it just gets better!
Always the 3rd Saturday in July! We'll see you there!
Visit our website for more details!
When and where is the festival?
Downtown Lafayette and across the John T. Myers Pedestrian Bridge into West Lafayette.
How much are tickets?
$10 Adults, advance $5
$5 Kids (Age 5-12), advance $3
Free for kids under age of 4
$10 Car Show Registration
Where can I get tickets?
Greater Lafayette Commerce, any Old National Bank location, and Guaranteed Transmission Service.
Are there any group discounts on tickets?
We only have discounted advance single tickets available.
Where can I park?
Free parking is available at several garages within walking distance to the festival. Street parking is available on a first come first served basis. There will be no parking next to the gates or behind the stages.
Are there emergency aid stations available?
Yes. We will have a fully equipped ALS (Advanced Life Support) ambulance on site along with a full engine crew from the Lafayette Fire Department.
Can I volunteer?
Of course! Please contact us and we will get in touch with you soon. All volunteers get a free t-shirt and free admission!
Is the event handicap accessible?
Yes. It is a street festival and handicap parking is available.
Is the festival family friendly?
Yes. Children are welcome with an accompanying adult. Due to the intimate nature of the event, wagons are prohibited. There will also be a kids corner feature Radio Disney.
Can I pass out info or flyers about my event?
Dancing in the Streets is a no solicitation venue. Please do not give out my pamphlets, flyer, etc. about your organization or event (yes, this includes religious and political organizations). If you are a politician running for office, please do not have out election information. We want Dancing in the Streets to be a place to relax, be entertained, and have fun without being harassed inundated with marketing or advertising.
Is smoking allowed?
No. Dancing in the Streets is a NON-SMOKING Event. If you need to smoke please step outside the fenced area. Your wristband will get you back in.
Can I bring food or beverages?
Local restaurants and breweries will offer a variety of food and drink choices. Water and Coke products will be available for purchase. Please do not bring your own food or drinks with you.
Are pets allowed?
Please do not bring any pets to the festival (with the exception of service animals which are very welcome).
Prohibited items:
Firearms or weapons of any kind.
Pets. Service animals are welcome.
Food, beverages or glass bottles of any kind.
Flyers, handbills, promotional material, or banners.
Musical instruments or street perfomers (unless of course you are a contracted perfomer).
Bicycles, Skateboards, Loud music devices (beat boxes).
Resale merchandise of any kind (art, glow products, toys) you WILL be escorted out.
Required Items:
*Any items brought into the event are subject to search by event and emergency management staff.
When & Where
Downtown Lafayette - West Lafayette
Saturday, July 20, 2013 from 4:00 PM to 11:30 PM (PDT)
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November is Diabetes Awareness Month
About 15 years ago the American Diabetes Association started two awareness programs.
First, the fourth Tuesday of March became Diabetes Awareness Day. Programs were established all over the country to bring diabetes to the forefront. There was very little media attention to diabetes at that time. I arrived at Beth Israel to start up the Diabetes Management Program that January. The previous year, during my tenure as president of ADA, I spent a lot of time with Nicole Johnson, the reigning Miss America. She agreed to come to Beth Israel in March of 1999 and meet and greet people in the lobby of PACC. Although she was somewhat ill, she kept her promise, and her beauty and charm won the day. So, for us diabetes was on the map. Even though we don't get celebrities now, we have a very aggressive awareness day.
The success of diabetes awareness day led to establishing November as Diabetes Month. Again, multiple programs over the 30 days brought the message home. Not to be outdone, a few years later the United Nations declared Diabetes Mellitus a world health issue and declared November 14th World Diabetes Day. This is acknowledged around the world with education and interactive programs. A young school girl won a competition by designing a simple blue circle pin indicating that we are all impacted by diabetes, and we all must take the responsibility of "preventing and curing diabetes through programs of research, education and advocacy." The latter is taken from the ADA mission statement.
As more and more data come in, it is clear that close to half of the world is affected by diabetes or prediabetes, and both must be aggressively treated to improve quality of life and reduce the risk for complications.
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The Grand Paris aims to be the city of the future: sustainable, creative and solidarity-based. It will make the Île-de-France an attractive 21st century metropolis.
The project is supported by the State and the Ile-de-France – a region of 12 million inhabitants that accounts for almost a third of French GDP – and provides a splendid opportunity to involve all city stakeholders including developers, transport operators, public and private investors, construction companies, architects, urban planners and all Greater Paris residents.
At the heart of the scheme lies an ambitious project to modernise the existing transport network and create a new automatic metro – the Grand Paris Express.
Significant urban projects will emerge along this transport route: new neighbourhoods with an array of features including housing, economic activities, university centres and cultural facilities – especially around the strategic, structural points provided by the stations. The idea is to enable business clusters to take root while rebalancing the Paris region, opening it up to its more remote, isolated areas.
The Grand Paris Express consists of a ring route around Paris (line 15) and lines that serve developing neighbourhoods (lines 16, 17 and 18). The Grand Paris Express will also involve extending existing metro lines.
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The SGP is a public agency overseen by the Ministry for Housing and Regional Equality, the Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy and the Ministry for Finance and Public Accounts.
Tasked with designing and implementing the future transport network, the Société du Grand Paris is building "new generation" stations alongside real estate projects that could help new neighbourhoods emerge in the Paris metropolitan area.
The Grand Paris Express will mark a break with the way the Paris transport network operates, creating new patterns of mobility by making travel between the suburbs easier. In enabling regional areas to engage in dialogue both with each other and with Paris, the Grand Paris Express will provide businesses with numerous opportunities for economic development.
The Société du Grand Paris plans to use land holdings earmarked for infrastructure near or overlooking the stations to develop additional real estate projects that will provide housing, economic activities and other facilities. This approach is in line with aim to make the station part and parcel of the urban fabric and will help with the construction of new mixed neighbourhoods.
The Société du Grand Paris is thus making its land holdings available for the development of urban projects and helping to deliver on calls to build more densely around stations.
With €300 million invested in the first 33 kilometres of the network in 2013, the Société du Grand Paris is proceeding apace with the creation of the future metro. The first construction sites will open in 2015 and are expected to generate 15,000 to 20,000 new jobs per year. In addition to these construction-related jobs, the arrival of the Grand Paris Express will create between 115,000 and 315,000 additional jobs.
Three levels of governance
The Société du Grand Paris is governed by three complementary bodies.
• The Supervisory Board constantly monitors the way the Management Board runs the Société du Grand Paris. It comprises 21 members representing State and local government authorities. The Supervisory Board's responsibilities include approving the SGP's general policy guidelines, its financial management and its development or construction operations programmes.
• The Management Board is responsible for running the Société du Grand Paris, under the supervision of the Supervisory Board. Its three members take a consensus-based approach, with one member being appointed as Chairman :
- Philippe Yvin: Chairman of the Management Board, in charge of managing the Société du Grand Paris and implementing the overall scheme and related development and building programmes.
- Frédéric Brédillot: Member of the Management Board, in charge of cross-company functions, particularly financial and legal issues, human resources and general affairs.
- Bernard Cathelain: Member of the Management Board in charge of programme design and delivery for the transport project, and responsible for industry and procurement.
• The Strategic Committee is the SGP's forum for discussion, proposals and continuing consultation. It assists the Management Board with direction and decisions relating to the creation of the Grand Paris Express network. It currently comprises 139 members who represent the municipalities through which the Grand Paris Express network will run, 4 Members of Parliament and representatives of socio-economic stakeholders. It acts as a think tank and discussion forum for elected representatives from the Île-de-France communities and Société du Grand Paris partners.
In brief
Le Grand Paris Express should simultaneously:
- Relieve the RER and existing transport systems
- Reduce congestion and car pollution
- Combat urban sprawl and agricultural encroachment
- Promote the economic development of the Ile-de-France Region
- Contribute, by ripple effect, to the competitiveness of France as a whole
By 2030:
- 205 km of automatic metro lines will have been built;
- 68 new stations will connect the Grand Paris clusters with the three airports and TGV stations;
- 2 million passengers will travel on this new network every day;
- Journey times will be significantly reduced, especially from suburb to suburb, with ring routes and trains traveling at 55 to 60 kilometres per hour (average operating speed).


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(CNSNews.com) - Neither side in the "global warming" debate is happy over the witness list compiled by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee as the panel plans to convene a one-day climate conference Tuesday.
Liberal environmental groups are concerned about what they see as a "roster of speakers heavily weighted toward economic interests over the environment."
Meanwhile, a free market environmental think tank skeptical of predictions that human-caused climate change will produce a catastrophe, also accuses the Senate committee of stacking the deck.
"This doesn't look like a public spirited discussion. It looks like the pirates all gathered around the table figuring out how to split up the booty," said Myron Ebell, director of Energy and Global Warming at the free market based Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee chairman - New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici - and the committee's ranking Democrat - Jeff Bingaman, also from New Mexico -- are hosting the climate conference in order to "address the challenge of how Congress might go about creating a mandatory [emission] trading program to control U.S. greenhouse gas emissions."
But Ebell sees the proposed emissions trading program "as an undeclared tax on energy" that will benefit a few select corporations. Ebell also said environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense, energy companies and other non-governmental organizations will attend the climate conference to leverage the best deal for their agendas.
"Every special interest that hopes to make money from higher energy prices is there to present how they can benefit the most at the expense of American consumers. I would call it a conspiracy except that it is right out there in the open," Ebell told Cybercast News Service.
"Enforcing arbitrary limits on energy use throughout the economy would have a disproportionate effect on small and medium sized businesses and likely force a significant portion of U.S. manufacturing jobs overseas, where such restrictions are not in effect," he added.
Ebell also warned that there would be an absence of groups that do not view "global warming" as a crisis. "Without a significant voice for critics of a greenhouse gas emissions scheme, the [Senate] hearing amounts to little more than cheerleading for the senators' pet policies rather than an attempt to educate or enlighten," Ebell said.
Environmental groups have also expressed frustration over the Senate climate conference. On Monday, a coalition of more than a dozen environmental groups released a letter urging Sens. Bingaman and Domenici "to focus upcoming discussions on designing a mandatory [emission] program that guarantees today's levels of global warming pollution will be stopped soon enough to prevent irreversible harm to the environment."
The environmental groups, pointing to the presence of such corporations as General Electric Co. and Wal-Mart, lamented that the Senate's "roster of speakers heavily weighted toward economic interests over the environment."
David Doniger of the Natural Resources Defense Council warned that the Senate must act immediately to "protect the planet" from human greenhouse gas emissions.
"The earlier you start, the less expensive this can be," Doniger told reporters during a teleconference on Monday with representatives from several environmental groups including Greenpeace, Union of Concerned Scientists and the National Environmental Trust.
Doniger and the other green group spokesmen urged the Senate to heed what they considered to be the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing to catastrophic human influence on the climate.
But Ebell rejected the notion that there is scientific consensus on human caused climate change and instead offered another reason for the recent media reports about impending "global warming."
"We should be much more worried about what [the Senate is] proposing than a little bit of global warming. I think that all the things that are going on right now look to me to be coordinated and one of the climaxes is going to be [former Vice President] Al Gore's book and movie," Ebell said.
Gore's new documentary entitled "An Inconvenient Truth," is set for national release on May 26 by Paramount Pictures. Gore's book of the same name is set to be released on May 16. Both the movie and the book take an alarmist view of what he sees as human caused "global warming." Both endeavors are based on a slide show lecture that Gore has been presenting around the country.
Ebell shrugged off the impact of climate change alarmists, claiming that those groups and individuals have "been trying to move the political ball for several years now but haven't gotten anywhere." Ebell noted that many of the countries that signed the Kyoto Protocol such as Canada, Spain, Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Austria, have all seen their emissions go up more than the U.S. which did not sign Kyoto.
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Greens Concede Kyoto Will Not Impact 'Global Warming' (Dec. 17, 2004)
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Amsterdam, Antwerp and Rouen - river cruising on a seagoing ship: Braemar Cruise Review by Saligo
Overall Member Rating
Amsterdam, Antwerp and Rouen - river cruising on a seagoing ship
Destination: Europe - British Isles & Western
Embarkation: Dover
SHIP INFORMATION Braemar is a modest ship. It lacks many of the attractions of larger and newer ships, but suits people who like a more relaxed, low-key cruising experience We had travelled More on it before it was stretched, and found that very good use has been made of the extra 32 metres, including an additional swimming pool, a very attractive observation lounge and a pleasant new restaurant as well as several new cabins. Being an older, screw-driven ship, there is quite a bit of mechanical noise and vibration, especially on the lower decks aft. Some forward cabins are also uncomfortably close to the bow thruster units which can lead to early awakenings, so midships cabins may be advisable if you are sensitive to such things. Braemar is also not the steadiest of ships, so open-water cruises on it are best avoided by people prone to seasickness. Internally, furnishings are pleasing and interiors are light, bright and airy. Braemar does not have a proper theatre, though, and the main Neptune Lounge is far from ideal as a venue for shows, with inadequate tiering, poorly arranged seating and some columns restricting views of what is going on on the stage. Talking about tiering, the tiered stern is magnificent, fully accessible to all passengers rather than just to those with aft-facing balconies as on most modern cruise ships. There is also plenty of sunbathing space on the upper decks, a full wrap-round promenade deck and access to the tip of the bow for Kate Winslet and Leonardo di Caprio impressions – just don't stand on the rail to do them.
EMBARKATION We parked our car on the pier at Dover, which was a very easy process with a short walk (or courtesy minibus ride) to the cruise terminal. The terminal does not have many facilities but the cafeteria is adequate and there is plenty of comfortable seating. Check-in was painless, with no noticeable queues, but embarkation did not start until 2pm which meant that most people had a significant wait in the departure lounge.
ACTIVITIES There was only one "proper" sea day on this cruise, which limited the need to resort to activities as such. We normally go to series of talks, but only went to one talk on this cruise, which was all right but not outstanding, trying to cover eight centuries of Anglo-French history in one hour. A second day of cruising was spent navigating down the River Seine, which was delightfully scenic, so we had no need of organised activities.
SERVICE Staff and crew were friendly and helpful. People who cruise regularly with Fred noticed cutbacks in staff, notably in the elimination of wine waiters, but we found the level of service in all areas to be at least adequate and often better than that.
CABIN Although most cabins are small by modern standards, they do not seem cramped or claustrophobic. Ours only had portholes but was still light and airy. There is plenty of hanging space, but not much drawer or shelf space. Equipment is good, with a flat-screen television, a safe and an adequate supply of toiletries – oh, and the essential (for Brits) tea and coffee facilities. Everything worked, after we had tightened up light bulbs that had been shaken loose. The design of shower curtain made it very difficult to avoid flooding the bathroom when showering. There are no British-style sockets, so plug adapters are vital.
DINING No for-fee speciality restaurants here, just the MDRs and the buffet restaurant and fish-and-chips-type meals from the open deck Marquee Bar in fine weather. We used the buffet for breakfast and lunch and our assigned MDR for dinner and were happy with the quality and choice in both locations. Our table companions disappeared off to the buffet for the Asian theme evening and pronounced it to be very good. There was a late-night chocoholics' buffet on one evening, which looked good but not as lavish as we have seen on previous cruises.
ENTERTAINMENT The song-and-dance performances by the Braemar Show Company were good, especially the singers who were definitely better than most in this kind of company. Other entertainment by hired-in performers was not brilliant, but the crew shows were excellent.
PORTS OF CALL I will put more details into individual port reviews, but it was the itinerary that sold this cruise to us and we were not disappointed. We do not like the way that Fred describes times in port in advance publicity, just referring to early or late am or pm rather than giving times. This caught out several people who were expecting one and a half days in Rouen and elected to visit Paris on the first day in the expectation of a couple of hours in Rouen the next morning, but the "late am" departure turned out to be 10.15, too early for a look round the city when it is two miles from the cruise terminal. Our departures from Amsterdam and Antwerp were at 16.00 and 17.00 respectively, giving us almost two days in each of those cities. The cruise terminals in Amsterdam and Antwerp are close to the city centres and no shuttle buses were laid on, though in Amsterdam we resorted to a couple of short tram rides to get to the heart of the city because we knew we had a hard day's walking ahead of us exploring the city's canal rings. One of the canal bus routes stops very close to the cruise terminal. In Antwerp the ship docked within a few yards of the cathedral and the historic core of this fine city. In Rouen a shuttle bus service was provided for the first day, at a modest £5 for unlimited journeys. It was originally stated that it would finish at 7pm, but this was revised to 1am when the management were made aware of the late night son-et-lumiere at the cathedral. There were some major hiccups with the shuttle arrangements, but we were still glad we went to this fantastic free show.
DISEMBARKATION We had a cabin on one of the lower decks and were travelling independently so we were some of the last to leave the ship, but we were still back at our car for 9am after a smooth disembarkation process.
SUMMARY We enjoyed our cruise very much. Braemar has some shortcomings, but also some nice features that you don't find on newer and larger ships, and made a perfectly adequate base for what was effectively three city breaks stuck together with no packing and unpacking to do between them. Less
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Being on deck three on larger ships can feel very low down, but with our assigned MDR on deck four and the lounges and promenade deck on deck five we did not feel that we were too far from the action. Outside cabins on decks two and three have portholes on Braemar, and those on deck four have picture windows but are no larger or better appointed. This cabin is quite a way aft and opposite the engine casing so there is quite a bit of mechanical noise. I got used to this but my wife found it a bit disturbing. Conversations with other passengers suggested that we were still better off than those in cabins well forward where bow thruster noise was very intrusive when berthing in the early morning. We were handy for lifts and stairs but did not experience much foot traffic. All in all, not a bad location but cabins in the mid-section of this ship are better.
Port and Shore Excursions
Our ship was berthed at quay 20 on the River Scheldt, just a stone's throw from the cathedral and the historic core of this fine city. We were there for two days, a Sunday and Monday, and since most museums are closed on Mondays we made the Sunday our museum visiting day. We chose to visit the Plantin-Moretus Museum, very close to the ship's berth. This is nominally a museum of printing but it is sited in a beautiful old building with a peaceful central cloister. The entry fee is 8 Euros, and we thought it was worth it. We then visited the very modern MAS (Museum aan de Stroom), which is built on eleven levels with a differently-themed mini-museum on seven of the levels and a rooftop panorama of the city. Entry to the rooftop is free, but there is a 5 Euro charge for the permanent exhibitions and an extra 5 Euros for the temporary exhibitions. In the afternoon we visited two more museums, the Rubens House and the Museum Mayer Van den Bergh. Entry to each of these museums costs 8 Euros, but a combined ticket is available for 10 Euros. The Rubens House contains many fine works of art and is a fine old building with a pretty courtyard garden. The Van den Bergh Museum is also good, but possibly not worth the separate admission charge. We bought the combined ticket which was good value, especially on a rainy Sunday when few shops are open.
Antwerp offers great opportunities for shopping in the areas of Grote Markt, Groenplaats and (especially) Meir, with particularly tempting chocolate shops. There is also the diamond district which has a certain fascination but is not very picturesque. We are not natural shoppers, and chose to spend our second day admiring the architectural gems that Antwerp abounds in. Foremost among these is the cathedral, Onze Lieve Vrouwekathedraal, one of the finest Gothic cathedrals you will see anywhere. Another place worth visiting for its fine architecture is Centraal Station, magnificent inside and out. We spent most of a morning exploring two residential areas, Zurenborg and Zuid, packed with striking buildings, many in Art Nouveau style. This involved taking trams and buses, which are easy to use and cheap if you buy a day ticket for 5 Euros from the tourist office in Grote Markt (or 7 Euros if bought from the driver).
Many of our travelling companions chose to spend their time on tours to Brussels or Ghent, both great places, but I think we did better staying in the fine city of Antwerp.
Rouen is a fascinating city, with a magnificent cathedral, strong historical connections to Joan of Arc and quaint half-timbered buildings seemingly at every turn. If you are there on a summer evening, don't miss the fantastic son et lumiere show projected onto the west front of the cathedral. Don't waste your time on a tour to Paris. It's a long way on the coach, you won't have time to do it justice and it's very easy to visit in other ways. If you have already seen Rouen, then a shorter tour to Monet's house and garden at Giverny or the picturesque harbour town of Honfleur may be a good bet.
The cruise terminal at Rouen is at the edge of the city, a two mile walk from the cathedral in the heart of the city centre. Shuttle buses will probably be available and are probably the best way for independent explorers to access the city. Rouen has a good public transport system, but the nearest bus stop is 1300 metres from the cruise terminal. Those who choose to make the long walk to the city centre can do so along a pleasant riverside walkway.
We were initially puzzled that our departure from Rouen was scheduled for 10.15am, giving almost 20 hours to cover the relatively short leg to Dover and depriving us of a morning's sightseeing in Rouen, but the six-hour run down the Seine during the main part of the day proved to be a highlight of the cruise. Although some stretches of the river are industrial, most of it is lined with cliffs and pretty countryside and villages, with three transits under high-level bridges including the spectacular Pont de Normandie, a special farewell to a special cruise call.
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Did the job, but old and tired
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