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Learning Does Not Stop At The Pro Level.
I am currently in my fourth year of coaching basketball, my second at the high school level with St. Mary's Catholic Central, in Monroe. The Varsity coach contacted me to help the program & take the freshman team. I was honored to have the opportunity to help these young men learn the game of basketball. Jim Welling, the head coach of Toledo Central Catholic men's varsity team, told us on-air last Thursday on The Fox Sports Morning Blitz (check us out weekdays from 7a-9a) "many kids want to play the game, but not all of them want to learn to play the game".
Yes the pressure of a freshman high school coach is not the same as a varsity coach, which certainly not even in the same ballpark as a professional coach. But in the game of basketball, a coach is just that, a coach. A coach by definition via dictionary.com states these two definitions (among others) "tutor who prepares students for examinations" & "a person who trains an athlete or a team of athletes". These principals of preparation & training are constant throughout every level of roundball.
What Detroit Pistons head coach Maurice Cheeks must do, is prepare his team to defend the opposition & train them to stop dribble penetration, get into help-side defensive positioning & "help-the-helper". Concepts that should be in place already but for whatever reasons the Pistons can't seem to grasp, leading the "Stones" to be out of position on the regular & it all starts at the first line of defense… The Point Guard.
The signing of Brandon Jennings, an NBA All-Rookie 1st Teamer with career 17 point- 6 assist numbers, brought some serious excitement to a team without a legitimate PG. A guy with flash & dash, a guy who can break down an opposing point with a lightning quick handle & a guy who can create his own shot. The issue with Brandon has always been his shot selection & his defense. Yea sure, he's a pro & not a student, you pay him to play, but as a coach you must get it through his mind that he is the floor general & he must facilitate the offense. You must also get through his head that he must play DEFENSE… Brandon struggles to defend his own position & if you can't get stops against your position, there's a problem. Defense is something that you have to take pride in; locking down your man is a "right of passage" amongst the best in the game & the Pistons can't stop the dribble… at all.
The Jennings, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Josh Smith (at the 3 or Small Forward), Greg Monroe, & Andre Drummond line-up has been rough thus far offensively, due to an inability to understand spacing (but that's another article for another time). More importantly defensively, this bunch has been, well, a failure. At 16-22 this season, with a 13-26 Utah Jazz team on the horizon Friday night (when I'm writing this), this team needs to get their act together & it begins with learning how to play defense. Communication is the key to successful defense, rotation & help-side are keys to successful defense; if you can't stop the dribble-drive you are going to need help & if you receive help, someone has to have the backside to "help-the-helper". These are teaching points. These are fundamental concepts of defense, it's sad that this group of professionals doesn't seem to understand these principals. At this point it's on one man & his staff to make these corrections. It's on the COACH, Maurice Cheeks, to teach & it's on the players to LEARN…


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Ashodaya Mahila Samanwaya Samithi, commonly known as Ashodaya,
a community based organisation of male, female and hijra sex
workers, organised a midnight candlelight rally here on Sunday.
Over 200 members of the community took part in the midnight
march into the wee hours of May Day.
Auto drivers' union, students, NGOs, several self help groups,
medical professionals including doctors and other marginalised
communities have expressed their solidarity with the cause by
participating in the rally.
About 30 sex workers from Maharasthra and a handful of
members from Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) have also
joined to facilitate and take part in the rally.
DMSC of West Bengal, which is now synonymous with the Sonagachi
movement, now boasts of 60,000 empowered sex workers, is the
first sex workers' organisation in the country and presently
is mentoring Ashodaya.
"As members of Ashodaya, we have taken this bold step to
express our feelings to the public and to assert our rights. Our
work is physical labour and, we demand labourers' rights. This
rally is the first step towards our struggle," voiced Lakshmi,
secretary, Ashodaya.
Ashodaya in Kannada means a 'ray of hope'. 'Rays of
Hope' were rekindled among the marginalised communities who
have come together and formed their organisation, Ashodaya.
"Earlier we were scattered here and there. We are forced to
run from street to street. Due to this, adopting safe sex
practices, accessing health care services or even using
preventive measures such as condoms is difficult. Now we started
coming together and started organising ourselves," she said.
Lighting of candle by a senior member of the community and
passing on the light to others, symbolically represents the
igniting of the light of knowledge and dispelling the darkness
of ignorance thereby empowering them to come out of the shackles
imposed on them by the society, she said.
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Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years
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I thought about Oppenheimer and Conant—both of whom had recommended dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima—and Fermi and Rabi, who had, that same month Dad was resigning, expressed internally their opposition to development of the superbomb in the most extreme terms possible: It was potentially "a weapon of genocide … carries much further than the atomic bomb itself the policy of exterminating civilian populations … whose power of destruction is essentially unlimited … a threat to the future of the human race which is intolerable … a danger to humanity as a whole … necessarily an evil thing considered in any light" (York, "The Advisor," pp. 155-159).
Not one of these men risked his clearance by sharing his anxieties and the basis for them with the American public. Oppenheimer and Conant considered resigning their advisory positions when the president went ahead against their advice. But they were persuaded—by Dean Acheson—not to quit at that time, lest that draw public attention to their expert judgment that the president's course fatally endangered humanity.
I asked my father what had made him feel so strongly, to act in a way that nobody else had done. He said, "You did."
That didn't make any sense. I said, "What do you mean? We didn't discuss this at all. I didn't know anything about it."
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I said that must have been John Hersey's book "Hiroshima." (I read it when it came out as a book. I was in the hospital when it filled The New Yorker in August 1946.) I didn't remember giving it to him.
"Yes. Well, I read it, and you were right. That's when I started to feel bad about working on an atomic bomb project. And then when they said they wanted me to work on a hydrogen bomb, it was too much for me. I thought it was time for me to get out."
I asked if he had told his bosses why he was quitting. He said he told some people, not others. The ones he told seemed to understand his feelings. In fact, in less than a year, the head of the firm called to say that they wanted him to come back as chief structural engineer for the whole firm. They were dropping the DuPont contract (they didn't say why), so he wouldn't have to have anything to do with the AEC or bomb-making. He stayed with them till he retired.
I said, finally, "Dad, how could I not ever have heard any of this before? How come you never said anything about it?"
My father said, "Oh, I couldn't tell any of this to my family. You weren't cleared."
Well, I finally got my clearances, a decade after my father gave his up. And for some years, they were my undoing, though they turned out to be useful in the end. A decade later they allowed me to read the Pentagon Papers and to keep them in my "Top Secret" safe at the RAND Corp., from which I eventually delivered them to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and later to 19 newspapers.
We have long needed and lacked the equivalent of the Pentagon Papers on the subject of nuclear policies and preparations, nuclear threats and decision-making: above all in the United States and Russia but also in the other nuclear-weapons states. I deeply regret that I did not make known to Congress, the American public and the world the extensive documentation of persistent and still-unknown nuclear dangers that was available to me 40 to 50 years ago as a consultant to and official in the executive branch working on nuclear war plans, command and control and nuclear crises. Those in nuclear-weapons states who are in a position now to do more than I did then to alert their countries and the world to fatally reckless secret policies should take warning from the earlier inaction of myself and others: and do better.
That I had high-level access and played such a role in nuclear planning is, of course, deeply ironic in view of the personal history recounted above. My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
There was a close analogy with the Manhattan Project. Its scientists—most of whom hoped the Bomb would never be used for anything but as a threat to deter Germany—were driven by a plausible but mistaken fear that the Nazis were racing them. Actually the Nazis had rejected the pursuit of the atomic bomb on practical grounds in June 1942, just as the Manhattan Project was beginning. Similarly, I was one of many in the late '50s who were misled and recruited into the nuclear arms race by exaggerated, and in this case deliberately manipulated, fears of Soviet intentions and crash efforts.
Precisely because I did receive clearances and was exposed to top-secret intelligence estimates, in particular from the Air Force, I, along with my colleagues at the RAND Corp., came to be preoccupied with the urgency of averting nuclear war by deterring a Soviet surprise attack that would exploit an alleged "missile gap." That supposed dangerous U.S. inferiority was exactly as unfounded in reality as the fear of the Nazi crash bomb program had been, or, to pick a more recent example, as concern over Saddam Hussein's supposed WMDs and nuclear pursuit in 2003.
Working conscientiously, obsessively, on a wrong problem, countering an illusory threat, I and my colleagues distracted ourselves and helped distract others from dealing with real dangers posed by the mutual and spreading possession of nuclear weapons—dangers which we were helping make worse—and from real opportunities to make the world more secure. Unintentionally, yet inexcusably, we made our country and the world less safe.
Eventually the Soviets did emulate us in creating a world-threatening nuclear capability on hair-trigger alert. That still exists; Russian nuclear posture and policies continue, along with ours, to endanger our countries, civilization and much of life itself. But the persistent reality has been that the nuclear arms race has been driven primarily by American initiatives and policies and that every major American decision in this 64-year-old nuclear era has been accompanied by unwarranted concealment, deliberate obfuscation, and official and public delusions.
I have believed for a long time that official secrecy and deceptions about our nuclear weapons posture and policies and their possible consequences have threatened the survival of the human species. To understand the urgency of radical changes in our nuclear policies that may truly move the world toward abolition of nuclear weapons, we need a new understanding of the real history of the nuclear age.
Using the new opportunities offered by the Internet—drawing attention to newly declassified documents and to some realities still concealed—I plan over the next year, before the 65th anniversary of Hiroshima, to do my part in unveiling this hidden history.
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By J.Schultz, August 5, 2009 at 11:27 pm Link to this comment
While it has been refreshing to read this article, the post by joneshenry summarizes for me all that is wrong with the world and the concept of deterrent. A person who can sanction the murder of children under any circumstances and still look at themselves in the mirror has lost a fundamental part of their soul. It is a pure step on the path to eugenics and the end of anything noble in the existence of humanity.
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I am reminded of the artist Walt Kelly and his famous charter POGO who is credited in saying "WE have met the enemy and he is us."
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It is too late- sorry but I will read it.
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In the information age, one of the
key challenges is the production and dissemination of information—making
sure that the wheel is invented, on the one hand, but not
re-invented on the other. I argue in (2) (with Friedman)
and (8) that these two objectives—discovery and dissemination—are
potentially at odds. That is, in an age where more information
can spread faster than ever before, in the absence of property
rights or other supporting norms, fewer innovations will be
produced, although those that are produced will be exploited
more fully. Further, with Carpenter
and Esterling, I argue
in (7), and with Friedman in (2), that individual incentives
in creating the network may result in a network that is quite
suboptimal from the system point of view.
These ideas are then examined in
the context of policy diffusion in (6) (10) (11). In (11)
I examine the "informational mode" of policy interdependence,
comparing to the coordinative and cooperative modes of interdependence.
In (10) Mayer-Schoenberger and I apply the informational (and
cooperative and coordinative) mode to an evaluation of the
governance frameworks of telecommunications in the US and
EU. In (6) I focus exclusively on the informational mode of
interdependence, examining the various networks and institutions
that create and disseminate information in the international
In (1), Mayer-Schoenberger
and I have assembled a collection of work from leading researchers
focusing on the intersection of governance and information
technology. Governing is increasingly about managing information,
and government, because of its massive needs, has been a major
driver of the development of information technology in the
20th century. This volume examines both how information technology
is potentially at odds with the hierarchical nature of government—because
bits can follow the commands of multiple silo's at once—and
how IT makes the boundary between government and governed
blurrier. In both the edited volume and in (5) we also examine
the particular ethical and privacy challenges involved in
how government governs its own information.
In collaboration with
Ines Mergel and Maria
Binz-Scharf, and an NSF grant, I am also examining the
processes of knowledge
sharing among state and local forensics DNA laboratories across
the US. The rise of the use of DNA in the criminal justice
system has posed particular knowledge-sharing challenges for
these laboratories that are, on the one hand, both extreme
(because of the dynamic nature of the area) and typical (because
of their cross-boundary nature). We are conducting both qualitative
research (based on interviews) and quantitative research (based
on surveys) to examine these knowledge sharing processes.
In addition, we have created a quasi-experimental intervention,
through the creation of a website, DNApolicy.net, to examine
the potential of the Internet to facilitate knowledge sharing.
With Ines
Mergel, Nancy Katz,
and a $150,000
grant from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, I am now
launching a project to evaluate the inter-state network among
state health officials (SHO's), as well as the impact
of the RWJF's State Health Initiative on the social
capital of SHO's (13).
Finally, with Kevin
Esterling and Michael
Neblo, and the Congressional
Management Foundation, and supported by approximately $1m
of NSF grants, I am examining the role that information
technology may play in transforming the citizen-representative
relationship. In part, this involves the potential of the
Internet to facilitate the capacity of representatives to
communicate with constituents regarding policy; and, conversely,
for constituents to find out about policy and to communicate
preferences to their representatives. In our initial forays
into this area, we have examined what predicts aggressive
use of the Internet by Members of Congress in (3) (4). We
will also be conducting a series of online deliberative experiments
involving Members of Congress and their constituents this
Spring (14).
(1) From E-Gov to I-Gov: Governance and Information Technology
in the 21st Century, edited with Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger
(MIT Press 2007), including chapters: "From Egov to Igov" (with Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger), "The
Governing of Government Information" (with Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger),
and "It Takes a Network to Build a Network" (with
Maria Binz-Scharf).
(2) David Lazer and Allan Friedman,
"The social structure of exploration
and exploitation," in Administrative Science
Quarterly 52 (2007): 667–694.
(3) Kevin Esterling, David Lazer,
and Michael Neblo, "Managing the web: how Members of
Congress use the Internet," in Advanced Topics in Electronic
Government Research, Donald Norris, editor, Hershey, PA: Idea
Group, forthcoming in 2006.
(4) Kevin Esterling, David Lazer,
and Michael Neblo, "Home
(Page) Style: Determinates of the Quality of House Members'
Websites," International Journal of Electronic Government
Research 2(1), 2005.
(5) David Lazer and Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger,
"Statutory Frameworks for Regulating Information Flows:
Drawing Lessons for the DNA Databanks from other Government
Data Systems," Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics,
34.2 (Summer 2006): 366-374.
(6) David Lazer, "Regulatory
Capitalism as a Networked Order: The International System
as an Informational Network," Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science, 2005.
(7) Daniel Carpenter, Kevin Esterling
and David Lazer, "The
Strength of Strong Ties: A Model of Contact-Making in
Policy Networks with Evidence
from the U.S. Health Politics," Rationality
and Society, November 2003.
(8) David Lazer, "Information
and Innovation in a Networked World," in Dynamic
Network Analysis: Proceedings from the National Academy of
Sciences, 2003.
(9) David Lazer, "Regulatory
Review: Presidential Control Through Selective Communication
and Institutionalized Conflict," Center for Public
Leadership Working paper, 2003.
(10) David Lazer and Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger,
Networks," Brooklyn Journal of International Law,
volume 27, number 3, 2002, 819-851.
(11) David Lazer, "Regulatory
Interdependence and International Governance," Journal
of European Public Policy, April 2001, 474-492.
(12) The
DNApolicy.net initiative
(13) The
state health official initiative
(14) The
Connecting to Congress project
**(For any of
the above articles without a link, please
email david_lazer(at)harvard.edu
for a PDF or hardcopy)


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Football bowl game coming to Charleston
From our News Partners at WCBD-TV:
Organizers will announce that "The Medal of honor Bowl" will be played at The Citadel's Johnson Hagood Stadium in January of next year.
The official announcement will be made Wednesday at the stadium.
This isn't the first time organizers have tried to get a bowl game in the state of South Carolina. The Confederate flag controversy has stopped any chances in the past.
News 2 has been told this bowl game will feature Senior all-star football players from around the country.
More on The Medal of Honor Bowl Wednesday on News 2.
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Stop us when you've heard this one before; the New York Giants have another injury to another prominent player on the team. This time, it's Jason Pierre-Paul, who is officially on the injury report with a sprained MCL in his knee.
However, as Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News has reported, JPP will attempt to play through the pain and was at practice for the Giants this week fully participating, and is expected to play on Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles at MetLife Stadium.
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JPP missed most of the summer after being forced to undergo surgery to repair a herniated disc in his lower back; which kept the Giants star defensive end out for all four preseason games and didn't make his Giants debut until Week 1 almost a month ago against the Dallas Cowboys.
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Puppies - no matter how many toys you buy them, they're going to get into the things that they shouldn't. In the case of my 3-month-old Beagle, he chews on everything he shouldn't. So for his safety (and for the safety of our high-end home theater components and computer equipment), my boyfriend and I decided to clean up all of our audio and video cables before we brought him home.
We live in an apartment, so running wires behind crown molding or painting the wires to match our walls isn't really an option. Thankfully, other basic cable management techniques worked well in our living room and made it look much nicer.
When we set up our home theater system, we started by running our speaker wires under the edge of the carpet to keep them out of the way and out of sight. Later we went back and organized our audio/video cables into neater bundles, and used the cable raceway built into our TV stand to make things look cleaner behind our components. Now most of the cables in our system are conveniently hidden behind the TV stand, where our puppy can't get to them easily.
However, we knew that he'd be spending a lot of time with us in our guest room where we keep our desks and computers, and so we had to do something to keep him from chewing on power cords and Ethernet cables. In addition to running cables along the edge of the carpeting, we simplified the mass of cables between our wall outlets and our machines by using short, plastic cable runs available at our local home goods store. We also used cable ties to bind the cables, and covered t hem with a woven, Velcro covering that protects the cables and makes them look like one cable instead of a jumbled mess. My boyfriend was even able to mount his power strip underneath his desk to keep it out of our puppy's direct sight.
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We wanted to organize our cables to protect our puppy from electrocuting himself, and to keep the power cords on our stuff intact. But there was another reason: hidden cables just look better. When you spend a lot of money putting together a nice-looking home theater system, the last thing you want to see is a mess of cables stuffed behind your TV. I mean let's face it, most people notice flaws and inconsistencies first. So do you really want to show off your home theater system to your friends, only to have them point out the messy ball of cables behind it?
Of course our curious little Beagle puppy can usually find a random power cord leading to a lamp and test us by nibbling on it. But at least with the basic cable management techniques that we've used, he's got a significantly lower chance of getting into any large bundles and hurting himself. So please clean up your cables for the safety of your gear, and first and foremost, for the safety of your kids and canines.
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12.1 The 2005 European Consensus on Development (signed jointly
by the Council, the Commission and the European Parliament under
the UK's EU Presidency) sets out a clear framework for EU development
policy focused on poverty reduction and achieving the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) and is based on best practice principles
for delivering aid.
12.2 The Consensus identifies shared values,
goals, principles and commitments which the European Commission
and EU Member States will implement in their development policies,
in particular:
poverty, particularly focussing on the MDGs;
development based on Europe's democratic
values (respect for human rights, democracy, fundamental freedoms
and the rule of law, good governance, gender equality, solidarity,
social justice and effective multilateral action, particularly
through the UN); and
developing countries to be mainly responsible
for their own development (national strategies developed in collaboration
with non-government bodies, and mobilising domestic resources;
EU aid aligned with these national strategies and procedures).[107]
The earlier Green Paper
12.3 In November 2011, the European Commission
Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, announced his intention
to update the EU's development policy and, depending on the outcome
of a Green Paper consultation (which was to run until 17 January
2011), that he might choose to launch a full review of the Consensus
in late 2011, aiming to conclude in 2012.
12.4 The Green Paper considered how to update
the EU's development policy so as to improve its impact and increase
its focus on economic growth as a driver of sustainable development.
12.5 In his Explanatory Memorandum of 24 November
2010, the Minister of State at the Department for International
Development (Mr Alan Duncan) noted that the Green Paper posed
questions covering a range of EU development policies, focusing
on the following areas:
'High Impact' cooperation into practice:
Should the EU and Member States develop guidance setting out
conditions to be met (for example, on coordination and results)
before any programmes can be implemented? How should different
aid flows (for example, from public and private sources or different
EU budget instruments) be managed together?
Growth for human development:
How can the EU and Member States ensure that aid for health
and education contributes to human development and growth? How
should the EU support skills development, for example through
its approach to migration?
Promoting Governance: How should
the EU adapt its development policy to support governance reforms
in partner countries, with greater incentives for reform? How
should the EU promote more robust results monitoring?
Security and Fragility: How should
the EU intervene in fragile and conflict-affected States, coordinating
short term conflict or crisis response with longer term development?
Making coordination of aid a reality:
How can the EU promote aid effectiveness and make European
Country Strategy documents a reality?
Policy Coherence for Development:
How can policy coherence be improved and measured?[108]
Partnerships for inclusive growth:
How should the EU support industrial investments in partner
countries, e.g. in the extractive or post-extractive sectors?
How can the EU better protect social and economic rights, such
as labour standards? How can the EU help partner countries to
promote a business-friendly environment, especially for small
and medium sized enterprises? How can the EU support low cost
finance and financial guarantees? How can EU funding promote innovation
and technology transfer in partner countries?
Fostering regional integration:
How can the EU's experience inform regions seeking to strengthen
their integration?
Continuing to ensure trade for
development: How can the EU improve aid for trade provisions
and ensure consistency between its trade and development policies?
Climate change, biodiversity and development:
How can climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction be
mainstreamed into the EU's development policy?
Energy and development: How
can the EU help partner countries to secure sustainable energy
for their citizens, combining climate change funding and leveraged
loans from Development Finance Institutions?
Agriculture and food security:
How can EU development policy better support food security and
stimulate sustainable intensification of agriculture, fishing
and aquaculture? How can the EU support the fight against malnutrition?
12.6 The Minister went on to say that it was
not currently clear whether the Green Paper consultation was intended
to focus only on growth, or cover the entire remit of EU development
policy. He saw the broad remit of questions as suggesting a wholesale
review, although also noted that the title of the Green Paper
and discussions with Commission officials put the emphasis on
12.7 The Minister also noted that similar consultations
were presently being run on the EU's approach to Budget Support,[109]
while those on the future of the EU's external financial instruments
had yet to be officially launched. The Commission had, he said,
indicated that all these consultations would feed into a Communication
in autumn 2011, at which point a decision would be taken on whether
to open up the European Consensus on Development for a full review.
12.8 The Minister saw this consultation process
as an important opportunity to influence emerging EU priorities
on development. He welcomed the focus on sustainable growth and
wealth creation in the Green Paper and reference to the private
sector as a key driver of growth, which he said was an area in
which the Department for International Development was stepping
up its efforts. He also welcomed the increased focus on demonstrating
the impact and results achieved by EU development aid. However,
he was concerned that a major review of the Consensus in the current
climate could downgrade its poverty reduction focus and undo the
achievements of 2005. In addition to focusing on growth and the
private sector, he would want any potential review of the Consensus
to ensure that EU development policy continued to prioritise poverty
reduction and the MDGs, certainly the most off track ones like
maternal mortality, as well as press for a stronger focus on ensuring
value for money from the EU's aid budget; and it should also embrace
the EU's future role in combating climate change and preventing
conflicts across the globe.
12.9 In the short term, the Minister noted that
general discussion on the Green Paper was scheduled for the 9
December 2010 "Development" Council, and that the Government
would provide written comments on the Green Paper (consulting
other Government Departments, including the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) and
work closely with the Commission and other EU Member States through
experts' groups and officials' meetings to steer the emerging
Our assessment
12.10 We reported this development to the House
because of the importance of the subject matter and also drew
it to the attention of the International Development Committee.
12.11 We asked the Minister to write to the Committee
in due course about the outcome of his Department's consultations
and the Government's response.
12.12 In the meantime, we cleared the Green Paper
from scrutiny.[110]
The Minister's letter of 2 March 2011
12.13 On 2 March 2011, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary
of State at the Department for International Development (Mr Stephen
O'Brien) wrote to update the Committee on his Department's responses
to the Commission's recent consultations on development policy
and budget support, and to set out the then Hungarian EU Presidency's
development priorities.
12.14 With regard to EU development policy, the
Minister said that the Government's response emphasised that it
12.15 The Minister also attached a copy of the
Government's full response, as set out in a 3 February 2011 letter
to the EU Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs.
12.16 As the Minister's lengthy letter and attachments
were also copied to the chair of the International Development
Committee, we decided that a further Report to the House at that
point would be otiose.
The Commission Communication
12.17 In his Explanatory Memorandum of 28 October
2011, the Minister recalled that the aim of the consultation,
to which he says the UK provided significant input, was to launch
a public debate on how the EU could best support developing countries
in mobilising their economic, natural and human resources in support
of poverty reduction strategies. The Minister noted that, as well
as providing written comments on the Green Paper, the UK worked
closely with the Commission and EU Member States through expert
groups and officials' meetings to steer the direction of the Communication;
and in so doing, pushed for a strong focus on demonstrating impact
and results achieved by EU development aid as well as ensuring
strong engagement with the private sector as a driver of growth.
12.18 The Minister went on to say that the consultation
confirmed the relevance of the existing policy framework, but
agreed on the need to increase impact, with a convergence of views
on ensuring:
12.19 The Communication set out a more strategic
EU approach to reducing poverty, including through a more targeted
allocation of funding. It noted that the EU is "not simply
the 28th European donor", implementing 20% of the EU effort,
but "also acts as coordinator, convener and policy-maker."[111]
To be fully effective, the Commission said, "the EU and its
Member States must speak and act as one to achieve better results
and to improve EU's visibility."[112]
12.20 Against this background, the Commission
contended that the EU must seek to focus its efforts where it
can have the greatest impact and concentrate development cooperation
in support of:
rights, democracy and good governance; and
inclusive and sustainable growth.
12.21 With this in mind, the Commission laid
out an Agenda for Change (see Annex to this chapter of our Report).
To ensure best value for money, this should be accompanied by
differentiated development partnerships; coordinated EU action
and improved coherence among EU policies. The main proposals are:
of partnerships and aid allocations and mechanisms:
target aid based on where it is needed for poverty reduction and
where it will have the greatest impact. In particular, focus on
the EU neighbourhood and sub-Saharan Africa. The Communication
details criteria for differentiation which includes: a) Country
needs; b) Capacity (the ability of the country to generate financial
resources and their aid absorption capacity); c) Commitments and
Performance; and d) Potential EU impact;
Fragile situations: specific forms
of support for fragile States from the EU should be defined to
enable recovery and resilience; country-based decision-making
will give the EU the flexibility to respond to unexpected events
and shocks;
Human Rights, Democracy and Good Governance:
EU support to governance should feature more prominently in all
partnerships and further focus on partners' commitments to human
rights, democracy and the rule of law; the mix and level of aid
should therefore depend on the country's situation, including
its ability to conduct reforms;
Inclusive and Sustainable Growth for
Human Development: the EU should encourage more inclusive
growth through sectors such as social protection, health and education
and through doing so promote a "green economy"; there
should be continued support for social inclusion and human development,
including implementing the Gender action plan;
Business Environment, Regional Integration
and World Markets: the EU should support the development of
competitive local private sectors with a greater focus on investing
in drivers for growth and job creation; also further develop blending
mechanisms to boost financial resources for development with a
greater focus on innovative financial tools;
Coordinated EU action: the EU
should give further consideration to Joint Programming as a way
to reduce fragmentation and increase its impact proportionally
to commitment levels; programming should be synchronised with
the strategy cycles of partner countries where possible; and also
work towards a common EU results reporting framework; and
Policy Coherence for Development (PCD):
intensify the EU's joined-up approach with more PCD through new
thematic programmes especially in regards to security and poverty.
12.22 The Commission concluded with a section
on Embracing The Agenda For Change, in which it called
on the Council to endorse the proposed Agenda for Change that
it says seeks to:
the EU with high-impact development policy and practice for the
coming decade and give it a leading role in setting a comprehensive
international development agenda up to and beyond 2015; and
support the change needed in partner
countries to bring about faster progress towards poverty reduction
and the MDGs.
12.23 The Commission said its services and the
European External Action Service will ensure that the guiding
principles set out in this Communication are progressively reflected
during the remainder of the current programming cycle and in future
programming documents, as well as in the proposals regarding the
architecture, legislation and programming of future financial
instruments for external action; and urged Member States also
implement the Agenda.
The Government's view on the Communication
12.24 The Minister began by noting that the Communication
did not represent further decision-making powers granted to the
EU "rather its intention is to improve the effectiveness
of existing EU aid", and "to improve the impact of EU
development cooperation in support of a) human rights, democracy
and other key elements of good governance, and, b) inclusive and
sustainable growth for human development."
12.25 The Minister said that he supported the
emphasis that the Commission put on improved value for money through
a differentiated development partnership based on the needs, capacities
and commitment of the partner country and the potential impact
of EU's support, and its call for improved coordinated EU action
and coherence among EU policies; and that he would work closely
with Commission, European External Action Service (EEAS) and Member
States to implement these policy changes.
12.26 Overall, the Minister said, the Communication
was broadly in line with UK priorities and he professed himself
pleased with the focus on poverty reduction and targeting aid
to where it will have most impact. The Communication is, he said,
in line with the UK priority for aid to be based on individual
country needs and priorities.
12.27 The Minister then commented on the notion
of greater EU coordination at country level as follows:
"there is a clear value for money rationale
in doing so. However, we are not satisfied with the EC's suggested
Joint Programming approach in its current form. The UK's view
is that the EU approach needs to be country-led, pragmatic, flexible
and open to others who are willing to align around partner country
led dialogue and coordination. This is reflected in the Communication
stating that the process will be country-led and will support
partner country strategies. The UK has made this clear to the
EC and Member States from the outset that this process should
not be led by the Commission in Brussels there is evidence
that this increases transaction costs in partner countries. We
will continue to work with the EU, alongside like-minded Member
States such as Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands, to make sure
coordination will be country-owned, transparent and have a focus
on results."
12.28 The Minister then recalled that a key priority
for the UK, as outlined in DFID's Multilateral Aid Review 2011,
was improving the results focus, value for money and the transparency
of the Commission:
"The Communication has a strong focus on results
and the need to develop a results framework and improved monitoring.
The UK will continue to engage with the EC and like-minded Member
States to ensure that the new emphasis on EU results leads to
a more effective EC with the ability to demonstrate development
12.29 Looking ahead, the Minister said:
has been no consultation process on his Explanatory Memorandum
but he will be consulting with other Government Departments, including
the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in working with the Commission
on the policy changes it proposes;
Council Conclusions are expected in the
first half of 2012.
12.30 We discerned a distinct undertone of the
Commission calling the other Member States to order in this Communication
for example, its description of itself as "not simply
the 28th donor" but the "coordinator, convenor and policy-maker"
and wondered if it was this that the Minister had in mind
when noting that he had sought to make it clear that a dirigiste
approach from Brussels was not the right one. That he did not
expect early Council Conclusions on the Communication suggested
that this discussion was not yet concluded.
12.31 That being so, we continued to retain the
document under scrutiny until the Minister was able to let us
know what shape he expected those Conclusions to take, and whether
or not he expected them to endorse the proper balance that he
was seeking.
12.32 Given the importance of the policy under
discussion, we also made use of our power under Standing Order
No. 143 (11) to request an opinion on the Commission's approach
from the International Development Committee.[113]
The Minister's letter of 27 April 2012
12.33 The Minister said that, as they were nearing
finalisation following discussions in CODEV (the Council working
group on Development Cooperation) and will be adopted by Development
Ministers at the 14 May Development Foreign Affairs Council, he
was now in a position to update the Committee on the shape of
the Council Conclusions.
12.34 He said that, from the outset, his negotiating
position has been fully in line with his 28 October 2011 Explanatory
Memorandum, and continued as follows:
"As in the Commission Communication, the proposed
outcome of the Council Conclusions is broadly in line with UK
priorities, including a strong focus on poverty reduction and
targeting aid to where it will have the most impact. As a result
of significant UK lobbying, there is a strong emphasis on results,
transparency and value for money all of which are UK priorities
for EU aid. Furthermore, as stated in the EM, we are determined
to ensure the EU achieves its commitments on Official Development
Assistance (ODA) and engages further with the private sector.
Specific priorities for the UK have been to ensure that vulnerable
small island states are protected in future EU funding and that
middle-income countries graduate away from bilateral grants. As
negotiations conclude, we will continue to press for the EU to
adopt a differentiated approach with a greater focus on low-income
"The UK has made good progress on influencing
the Council Conclusions particularly concerning the one
issue of contention. On Joint Programming, we are content that
the approach suggested in the Council Conclusions reflects the
UK's view and that any form of proposed EU coordination will be
country-led, pragmatic, flexible and open to others. Throughout
negotiations, the UK has worked uncompromisingly and tirelessly
to ensure that we retain our sovereign decision-making."
12.35 The Minister concluded by saying that he
will continue to work closely with the Commission, European External
Action Service and Member States to ensure that UK views are reflected
as discussions conclude.
12.36 In its response of 16 May, the Committee
said that it welcomed in particular that the Minister would be
pressing for a greater focus on low income countries, and asked
him, after the Foreign Affairs Council meeting, to send it a copy
of the Conclusions and illustrate how they did indeed reflect
UK positions and protect UK sovereign decision making in the way
that he anticipated.
12.37 The Committee also said that, by the time
he replied, it expected to be able to take into account the Opinion
that it had sought, in its report of 9 November 2011, from the
International Development Committee on this important policy document.
12.38 On 27 April, the International Development
Committee published a report on EU Development Assistance. At
that time, the Chair of the Committee said:
"British taxpayers want the aid they give to
go to the places where it can make the most difference
to countries where millions of people are getting by on less than
a pound a day.
"Giving aid to relatively rich countries like
Turkey could devalue the concept of aid."[114]
12.39 The International Development Committee
noted that the UK spends approximately £1.23 billion each
year on aid through the European Union, approximately 16% of the
UK's total aid budget; and observed that only 46% of this aid,
however, goes to low income countries a figure that the
Committee said was "unacceptable" and that,
instead middle income countries bordering Europe are benefiting
(Turkey having consistently been in the top five recipients of
European Commission aid (223 million in 2010) as has Serbia
(218 million in 2010)). [115]
The letter of 21 May 2012 from the Chair of the
International Development Committee
12.40 The letter reads as follows:
"In your Committee's 46th Report of the last
Session you referred the Commission's Communication on: Increasing
the impact of EU development policy: An Agenda for Change
to the International Development Committee for an Opinion, using
your powers under the House's Standing Orders.
"In the last Session of Parliament the International
Development Committee published a report on EU Development Assistance
the sixteenth report from the Committee which the
Committee invites you to treat as its Opinion.
"The report came to a number of conclusions
relevant to the Communication, in particular on the following
The Minister's letter of 6 June 2012
12.41 The Minister encloses the Council Conclusions
("Improving the EU's contribution to development in a global
world")[116] and
says that they reflect the UK priorities set out in his Explanatory
Memorandum and in his letter of 27 April 2012, and reaffirm the
EU commitment of eradicating poverty and the key role Official
Development Assistance (ODA) continues to play in the EU achieving
its development aid targets, including the collective 0.7% ODA
target to be reached by 2015.
12.42 The Minister then continues as follows:
"Throughout the discussions the UK lobbied for
a strong emphasis on results, transparency and value for money
all of which are reflected in the Council Conclusions.
They also recognise the importance of the private sector and wealth
creation. EU development policy will need to enable a business
environment that encourages private sector participation and looks
at ways of increasing regional integration so as to develop and
expand existing markets.
"Following UK pressure, the Council Conclusions
propose that future partnerships between the EU and partner countries
now have a differentiated approach. This will allow the EU to
adapt its support to a country's situation but still permit it
to monitor a country's progress on its commitments and record
on the key principles of human rights, democracy and the rule
of law. By implementing these new approaches the EU will be able
to assess more effectively a partner countries' ability to conduct
reforms and meet the needs of its people.
"The Council Conclusions reflect the UK's view
that any form of proposed EU coordination will be country-led,
pragmatic, flexible and open to others, in line with international
consensus agreed in the Busan Partnership for Effective Development
Cooperation. Future EU coordination, including joint programming,
will take into account the existing agreed international and EU
"The Coalition Government will continue to work
uncompromisingly and tirelessly to ensure that the UK retains
its sovereign decision-making and continues to hold EU Development
Institutions accountable for the delivery of EU development aid."
12.43 The picture having now been completed,
we are content to allow interested Members to pursue the important
issues covered in the Commission Communication, and in the Council
Conclusions, in the many ways open to them.
12.44 With that in mind, we are forwarding
a copy of this chapter of our Report to the International Development
12.45 We also now clear the Commission Communication.
Annex: Commission Agenda for Change[117]
The EU seeks to build synergies between policies other than development
cooperation that have a strong impact on developing countries,
for the benefit of overseas development (Policy Coherence For
Development, or PCD). In 2005, the EU agreed to apply the PCD
approach in 12 policy areas that could accelerate progress towards
the Millenium Development Goals For Development: trade, environment
and climate change, security, agriculture, bilateral fisheries agreements,
social policies (employment), migration, research/ innovation, information technologies
and transport and energy. The European Commission reports every
two years on progress made on PCD by the EU in the 12 areas. The
aim is to encourage continual progress, based on feedback from
developing countries, Member States, civil society and the European
Parliament. For full information on PCD, see http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/what/development-policies/policy-coherence/index_en.htm. Back
For the Committee's consideration of that other Green Paper, see
(32105) 15240/10: HC 428-viii (2010-11), chapter 11 (17 November2010).AndforitsconsiderationofthesubsequentCommissionCommunication,see(33245)15561/11:HC428-xl(2010-2012),chapter3(2November2011). Back
See headnote: (32174) 16146/10: HC 428-xi (2010-11), chapter 18
(15 December 2010). Back
COM(11) 637, p. 3. Back
Ibid. Back
See headnote: HC 428-xli (2010-12), chapter 6 (9 November 2011). Back
See press release: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/international-development-committee/news/substantive-eu-dev-report-press-release/. Back
Ibid. Back
The Council Conclusions are available at http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/130243.pdf. Back
See pp. 4-5 of the Communication. Back
"Human Rights, Democracy and other key elements of Good Governance"
and Inclusive and Sustainable Growth for Human Development". Back


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Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 2:00pm
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Cory Doctorow is widely known for his seven sci-fi novels, the latest of which, Pirate Cinema, is scheduled for publication just days before this year's Writers Fest. But he is also known for his push for liberalizing copyright laws. In 2003, his first novel was simultaneously released in print and freely circulated to readers in electronic form. In Pirate Cinema, Doctorow creates characters fighting a new bill that would criminalize much Internet creativity and make felons of millions of British citizens. This is sure to be a thought-provoking conversation between two active and energetic minds that focus on imagined futures.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barak Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are standing in the orange glow of the White House's northern portico on a snowy afternoon passing out Halloween treats to trick-or-treaters from capital area elementary schools and children of military families.
The White House north lawn is festooned with web-like gauze and decorated with pumpkins, gourds and hay bales.
Actors from Washington-area theatres are entertaining the children.
Treats include White House M&Ms, sweet dough butter cookies baked by White House Pastry Chef Bill Yosses and a serving of dried fruit.
Children from military families also have been invited to attend a special Halloween party inside the White House on Saturday evening.


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Crunch time: after all the hype, Sonny Bill Williams' first game of the season lasted just 32 minutes last night after he was injured in a tackle, above.
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All that really matters in a game of football is what happens when it's still there to be won, and on that score St George Illawarra have a lot to answer for after falling at the feet of the Bulldogs last night.
Sure, the Dragons didn't have a lot of ball in the first half and what the Bulldogs tried usually worked. Nothing came off for the Dragons, but the bottom line is that when a team trails 28-0 at half-time they really only have themselves to blame.
The fact the Dragons came back to outscore the Dogs in the second half meant little in the big picture. They got what they deserved for being awful when it mattered. It was lucky for St George Illawarra that young superstar Sonny Bill Williams was only out there for 32 minutes before a knee injury ended his night. He delivered an outstanding performance for the Bulldogs before being forced off with a slight ligament strain, from which he is likely to recover in time to play next weekend.
Mark O'Meley is a bigger concern for the Bulldogs after tearing a calf muscle. The representative prop will be out for up to a month. Like second-rower Williams, O'Meley was gone before the break.
Their exits, on top of the fact that Bulldogs forward Willie Mason did not play because of injury, evened things up after St George Illawarra had gone into the game without injured trio Trent Barrett, Jason Ryles and Mark Gasnier.
But that was too late for the Dragons, whose coach Nathan Brown admitted the obvious when he said they could not handle Williams.
"Sonny Bill was a bit too good for us," Brown said. "We were a bit loose around the ruck at marker, and he got a bit of ball one-on-one. You need to win the early rucks and not have Sonny coming at you while you're still running backwards."
But, typically, the humble Williams wanted to focus on where he could improve rather than lap up the superlatives.
"I missed a couple of tackles early and I wanted to stay out there and work on defence," he said.
Brown said it wasn't as if his players weren't trying and that when they got a bigger share of the ball after the break they did better on the scoreboard. But that won't appease their fans.
St George Illawarra had entered the game coming off a welter of bad publicity. The talk was that there was trouble in the camp. They denied the rumours, but last night's performance will only turn up the heat on Brown and everyone else at the club.
The Bulldogs had been the subject of plenty of publicity, too, but that was all about whether Williams, Mason and Braith Anasta would stay or go when their contracts expired.
St George Illawarra were effectively out of the game before they had even registered a challenge. Williams offloaded in tackles three times in the first six minutes - including twice in one set. The first Dogs try came when he carried the ball like a peanut in his giant right paw and offloaded untouched to five-eighth Anasta.
Three more tries before the break and the Dragons had been slayed.
Bulldogs coach Steve Folkes was pretty satisfied with what he had seen, without doing cartwheels. He said the performance was good, but not quite as good as last season's first-round thrashing of Parramatta.
Not a bad night when the hardest thing you have to do is compare one easy win with another.
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A string quartet is marking its 25th anniversary, but there's turmoil among the long-harmonizing foursome. The group's cellist and senior member, Peter (Christopher Walken), has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and wants the other three to start planning for his replacement. The second violinist, Robert (Philip Seymour Hoffman), thinks Peter's departure opens a door for him to occasionally take the first-violin duties. Daniel (Mark Ivanir), the perfectionist first violinist, thinks this will destroy the quartet's sound and it's a blow to Robert's ego when the violist, Robert's wife, Juliette (Catherine Keener), agrees with Daniel. Oh, and by the way, Daniel starts a relationship with Robert and Juliette's daughter Alexandra (Imogen Poots), an up-and-coming violinist.
The script by director Yaron Silberman and co-writer Seth Grossman is fascinating, even poetic, when it discusses the joys of music and connects the harmony of the quartets (specifically, Beethoven's Op. 131) with the harmony of the musicians playing it. But the melodrama among the main characters is more soap opera than grand opera, even with a quartet of actors as fine as this.
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Would you like to save as your currency permanently or for this visit only?
Position of the hotel and the staff A little pricey for whats on offer
the overall quality of the room, TV channels, internet availability, the garage, quiet, location during breakfast, there clearly was understaffing due to unexpected last minute bookings. The lady on duty did what she could and stayed friendly, but we had to exercise patience to find the food or drink we wanted. During dinner there was only one set menu at 35 Euro in the restaurant; they said there had been some technical problems in the kitchen.
Neat the track of Spa Francorchamps -
All the staff were very friendly and helpful. Great breakfast and early enough for the early start required for the race circuit. Shower water in my room did not evacuate properly - blocked out pipe I guess. Otherwise all fine.
Modern hotel met perfecte locatie aan het cicuit. Mooie, ruime kamer met alle comfort.
Personable and helpful staff, good food.
The Hotel is one of the best I have stayed in. Not cheap but worth the price. The welcome was excellent and personal by the co-proprietor. It is set in nice grounds in a lovely village with interesting historical features. The rooms, interior and cuisine were superb, as was the level of service.
Hospitality, kindness. Restaurant prices are a bit exaggerated
Enjoying the countryside
Modern room, good restaurant, nice people. Very noise rooms, uncomfortable toilet seat.
The staff is very gentle, speaks at least 3 different languages, explains the service of the hotel very well, we felt very good there, they take care of you!
Owner very welcoming. Clean & comfortable fine dining and ambiant atmosphere. I would book in a future trip.
Most rooms are in a high-tech new building, with windows on the (arguably not busy) road. This is fine, but bears no relation to the pictures on the site, which give the impression of an old, romantic hotel in a secluded garden.
i liked the rooms, the animals, the staff, the breakfast, the sunny garden a little noise from the street, when we had the window open. when closed, it was no problem
The atmosphere in the hotel was second to none, and the service and welcome were impeccable, espeacially the dogs.
The friendly welcome by the owner. The uniqueness of the rooms. The views were fantastic. Everything was so clean. The music at breakfast. Nothing
Friendly owner, beautiful decor, sumptuous breakfast. Our room was the smallest one and not as posh as the others (but still very nice).
Extremely helpful service from the manager from the moment we arrived to the moment we left. The price was extremely high for what was, ultimately, a bed and breakfast service.
Hotel Dufays is a small boutique hotel, beautifully decroated with excellent facilities inside and out. The owners, Ad and Frank, are friendly welcoming and always willing to be helpful, whther making a dinner reservation or giving ideas for trils around the area. The room we stayed in was very large and wonderfully decorated. In addition, we took our dog and she was welcomed by the wners, just as much as they welcomed us. The hotel is a gem and a real find. We plan a return visit to the hotel and are highly recommending it to friends.
Excellent buffet breakfast, quirky but tasteful interior decoration, peace and quiet, knowledgeable host, sense of history.
Excellent location. Normal health and safety precautions nill. Phillipe Constant, proprietor, uncaring and totally lacking in consideration,concern and normal social graces. Healthy, fit and active husband returned home shatter, nerv ous wreck thanks to this hotel. Not sure if we would even consider a future holiday. Where were hotel inspectors???It is not the only odd steps left like this in building. The first afternoon of our holiday my husband fell headlong down two unmarked and without any warning steps bwteen beddroom and entrance hall, cracking eyebrow and nose on corner of wardrobe 10 feet away with full force of his 13 stone weight. 5Hours later he collapsed, unconscious and was hospitalised.Xrays of shoulder and brain scan confirmed, thankfully, no clot or bleed to brain. 11 days later very ill and gp told him 'a couple of inches to one side your head would have been split open and you could have been killed.' Floor covering in entrance hall, on steps and room matched; in dim light difficult to see and when coming in from daylight impossible to see until eyes adjusted.
location chairs were not comfortable, bouncy castle for children was dangerous and play room was not suitable for young children.
Nice location Got locked out of room!! No staff at hotel on our return at 11p.M.!! Had to sleep in another room!! Total rubbish.
Very friendly staff and hotel in a pretty location Nothing to complain about really as the hotel is inexpensive so dont expect fantastic luxury, it is basic, comfortable, clean, good food and friendly staff.
Excellent location, environment is relaxing and pittoresque and right next to the Plopsa Coo family park. Rooms are clean. Hotel restaurant is quite nice with riverside tables, food is reasonable quality. Very nice terrace connected to the room (18) although this probably isn't the case for all rooms. The rooms could do with some renovation. In the bathroom the shower was leaking quite badly and the hot/cold water was irregular in temperature. The wallpaper was loosening in some places. Its not horrible, but could be a lot better.
The food was very good, nicely presented and the waiter seemed to care about service Bed linen. Would prefer to have cotton sheets but it was not to bad
very good, busy spot, but seperate carpark at rear which was more secure for the classic car we travelled in Mainly the cost of the room which was quoted at 70 euro per night, but we ended up being charged 90 euro per night - they need to sort this out!!!
Pleasant surroundings, the F1 race circuit was 20 minutes away, restruant was good, with a wide selection of european style food, no english cards but we were able to work out selection, staff has limited english did very well to meet our needs; room comfortable; overall a positive experience No
Good service at the restaurant and well prepared food. No problems arranging an extar bed since the Grand Lit was to small. Huge balkony.
this is a very pleasent hotel. ideal for the spa race track and only 4hrs from calais. i will be using this hotel again.
Excellent friendly staff, comfortable recently refurbished room, convenient location near A26 and Manhay Near A26' no aircon
Very friendly people working here. The rooms are made simple and pleasant - not 'overstuffed' like many small hotels. The nature in the area is lovely. The food was very good and good value. It is on a side road but the main motorway is also close. So there is some traffic noise. The rooms on the back side are very quiet.
friendly staff and owners.we were on our way to germany, good overnight stop.Did Henny enjoy the english cider named after him little bit remote
a small familly run business, they are very friendly and helpful, the food is excellent. It is a good place to use as a base location if you are touring the area or would make a comfortable stop over if travelling on.
The dinner There's nothing to do
The hotel is ideally located to explore the province of Luxembourg. Hosts are very helpful and friendly. For those who want to dine in there is a value for money menu.
Very friendly and competent staff with a personal approach, the room was clean, nice, and in a good condition. Noisy highway next to the hotel, but this was only disturbing when the windows were open.
We booked a room at the back (+5 Euro) and had a quite room. Large, clean room.
Excellent value for money. Rooms were clean and adequately furnished. Staff were very helpful. Food was excellent. Best of all, my dog was made very welcome. Our room at the front of the hotel was a little noisy at night due to the traffic on the adjoining motorway. You may want to reserve a room at the back.
we felt like friends not like guests no TV in the room
nice place
Beautifully furbished – but small – rooms. Don't be put off by the eccentric exterior of the building. Free wifi. Friendly owner. On street parking is free overnight. Very basic continental breakfast.
The manager and staff were extremely friendly and helpful despite limited communication as we don't speak much French and they didn't speak much English. Room was basic, but modern, clean and comfortable. Breakfast was substantial for a 'continental' breakfast. The evening meal was very good and great value for money. We would have no hesitation recommending this hotel and hope to return here sometime.
Stavalot is a very nice little town and the hotel itself is very comfortable and stylishly decorated.


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Interesting and Unusual Holiday Decorating Ideas
Cool Idea: Hang It All
Interior designer Kristen Buckingham recommended that we check out the produce aisle when decorating for the holiday season. Pomegranates, oranges, and green apples can all provide an interesting counterpoint to all of the evergreen boughs and pinecones this holiday season. Here's a further twist to that idea: hanging the produce!
It's definitely a little out there, but there's a quirky charm to this holiday window. Too weird for you? Then try simply hanging forced bulbs in the window instead. Stars of Bethlehem and amaryllis are two gorgeous choices for holiday bulb displays.


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New: 55 Inch mounted flat screen TV in family area with HD/DVR
New: Flat screeen TV's in master suite and twin bedrooms; HD/DVR in master suite
Wireless internet available in condo
Beachfront condo on Florida's Suncoast with gorgeous views of the beach from all windows. This 3 bedroom, 2 bath condo is on the 3rd floor of a five-story building. The balcony overlooks the beach, pool, hot tub, and tennis court. Parents can easily view children across the entire campus and beach from the balcony, adding a secure feeling for families with children of all ages.
'Reef Club' unit 303 is beautifully decorated and meticulously maintained. Master suite has a gorgeous bathroom, as well as private views of the gulf. With recently updated tile, this condo is the perfect choice for a relaxing and comfortable vacation on the white sandy beaches of Indian Rocks.
You will enjoy a heated freshwater pool, a hot tub, tennis court, and gas BBQ grills. The facility and grounds are impeccably maintained, and a private sheltered parking place is included.
Accommodations: Beachfront Condominium - 3 Bedrooms - 2 Baths
* Master bedroom -- king bed with balcony and beachfront view
* 2nd bedroom -- two twin beds and window view of the beach
* 3rd bedroom -- full bed and window view of the beach
Lovely, open, and spacious living area with full kitchen and dishwasher, all dishes, utensils, and linens provided.
Approx. 1300 square feet, with air conditioning, a wet bar, washer/dryer in unit, wireless internet, cable TV with DVD player in the family area with additional TV's in the master suite and children's twin bedroom. A stereo system in provided in the family area as well.
Awesomely comfortable bedding adds to the pleasure and comfort of our unit. Listen to the surf loll you to sleep!
Children or other guests can enjoy the privacy of their own bedrooms, with a separate bath.
Cool new feature: Sun Coast Trolley will take you from St. Pete Beach to Sand Key/Clearwater daily with unlimited stops for one price.
Pool is surrounded by cool pavers so you won't burn your feet. It is just steps to the beach! A raised deck provides lounging chairs, tables, and umbrellas. Packed sand is great for jogging or walking on the beach. Many wonderful (and inexpensive) restaurants nearby. Great seafood!! Shop at John's Pass! Or drive only 90 minutes to Disney, Seaworld, and all of the attractions in Orlando and Kissimmee!
Keywords: 3 bedroom condo - The Reef Club - Indian Rocks Beach
Our family has been vacationing in this town since 1950. After renting at many beach locations, we determined that The Reef Club was the safest and cleanest, most family friendly, and most convenient to everything.
The beach view is incredible, including amazing sunsets. Restaurants within 1-2 miles are amazing and reasonable. Busch Gardens is an easy access over to Tampa in about 25 minutes. Moms will find the Publix Grocery about 5 minutes away!
Located on the beach, about 5 miles south of Clearwater. You will enjoy a large heated pool and spa, tennis courts, and outdoor gas grills are available for your cooking convenience. Several wonderful restaurants are located with a 2-5 mile drive, with John's Pass featuring water sports and shopping.
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My Standard Rate
5 night minimum stay
|$140 + Tax
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