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Baroness Ludford: My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. He has just referred to self-appointed bodies. I imagine that he does not mean that the Commission is self appointed. If he is citing the example of the appointment of the president of the European Central Bank, is it not fair to assume that the Commission wanted one person to be appointed for eight years and that it was national governments who were responsible for splitting that term? It is rather unfair to blame the Commission for the problems over the appointment of the president of the European Central Bank.
Lord Bruce of Donington: My Lords, owing to a personal affliction, I did not hear the majority of what the noble Baroness said. On the assumption that she wished to draw attention to the incongruity of a Member of the House of Lords who is not democratically elected referring to these problems, I would immediately agree with her. But that still does not diminish one's right to speak upon it.
Perhaps I may mention the organisations that are at the moment responsible to no one but themselves. They are, first, the administrators of the European Social Fund, established under Article 147 of the treaty. Then there are the members of the European Court of Justice, who are chosen from persons whose independence is beyond doubt. They are responsible to no one but themselves. Then there are the members of the Court of
That is not always so. I can well recall an incident of four years ago when a member of the Court of Auditors felt it necessary to retire because he found that the Court of Auditors was under pressure from the Commission to alter a report which it proposed to submit.
There is also the Economic and Social Committee in Europe, which once again is responsible to no one and consists of representatives of various categories of economic and social activity. It is not bound by any mandatory instructions. All it is required to do is to consult with the Commission. Then there is the Committee of the Regions and the European Investment Bank. There is also the European Central Bank, on which I will not touch further at the moment.
There is a whole series of organisations. The European Monetary Institute, which will soon cease to exist, will have its functions taken over by the ECB. There are all these bodies which are accountable to no one. As I understand it--I may have to cite as an authority, although I hesitate to do so, the honourable Member for Hartlepool, Mr. Mandelson--something will have to be done. I am at one with him on that and I trust that those remarks, coming from the quarter that they did, will receive more general support.
The fact of the matter is that legislation, or proposed legislation, is a monopoly of the Commission, which is appointed by accord. Later amendments will deal with the president and members of the Commission. At the moment the Commission is responsible for all proposals. The Council of Ministers cannot act save on a proposal. Now there are proposals and there are proposals. Normally speaking, under the kind of leisurely society which is probably more conducive to a calm appraisal of a country's real problems, we used to have just about the amount of legislation with which we could cope in terms of its interpretation and in terms of its enforcement. Now we are bombarded with a whole series of proposals upon which explanatory memoranda have to be drawn up by the departments concerned in this country and in other countries. This has reached a point where the legislative machines in practically all the countries comprising the European Union are becoming so clogged that those politicians individually responsible for presenting legislation to their parliaments are unable to consider the proposals put forward by the European Commission.
It is of course the oldest dodge in the world. If you want to confuse your Ministers, you make quite sure that the volume of proposals you lay before them is such that they cannot physically deal with it. That state has already been reached in the United Kingdom and has probably echoes in other fields that are more topical at the moment.
Those are the things we have to moderate. I do not mean moderate by some kind of drastic action that will cause friction in every quarter affected. I mean moderate
Lord Willoughby de Broke: My Lords, I rise to speak briefly in support of the amendment, to which I have put my name. The arguments have been put very clearly and I do not propose to cover the same ground. What is plain is that some of the provisions of the Amsterdam Treaty as they now stand are in direct conflict with the constitutional tradition of our own--for example, that no parliament may bind its successor. Any treaty which contains words such as "irrevocable" or "irreversible" is sowing dragon's teeth for the future.
Although I was unable to be in the Chamber for the Committee stage of the Bill, I read the Hansard reports carefully. I was struck by how often Ministers answering in the debates would try to persuade themselves and the House that the treaty as it stands would not mean that any future British government would have to take action contrary to their own interests or with which they disagreed. For example, one has only to look at the articles dealing with common foreign and security policies. One example is Article 14.2 which reads:
The unwritten rider to that must be, even if it is contrary to the interests of a member state. Article 15 states:
Is it not conceivable that a member state may disagree with that common position? We need look no further back than the Falklands war to find differences between the position of the United Kingdom and of other members of the Union at that time. More recently, there was the Gulf war. There was a chasm between our position and that of some of our partners in the European Union. I remind noble Lords that Belgium's contribution was to refuse to sell us ammunition for the guns it had previously sold us.
All this goes to show that the idea of the European Union that one size fits all is simply unrealistic and will not work. I support this amendment because it will ensure that final decisions which affect us and our interests will always be taken at Westminster and not in Brussels. Whichever way one looks at the treaties on European Union, whether it is the Single European Act, the Maastricht Treaty or the Amsterdam Treaty, the traffic is all one way. We are gradually but inexorably ceding powers away from Westminster to Brussels.
When the noble Lord, Lord Stoddart of Swindon, introduced this amendment I believe he said--if I did not mishear him--that this was a contentious amendment. But I do not see how it can possibly be construed as contentious.
Lord Stoddart of Swindon: My Lords, I said quite the reverse. I said that noble Lords will be used to my moving only contentious amendments but that this amendment was uncontentious and that I believed that everyone could support it without any problem at all.
Lord Willoughby de Broke: My Lords, I am glad to hear that. This amendment is uncontentious and I apologise for mishearing what the noble Lord said. All it does is to enshrine in the Bill the unassailable fact of the supremacy of Parliament and to ensure that empty declarations relating to "irreversible" and "irrevocable" will be treated as the nonsense they are.
I do not believe that this or any government should be able to fetter their successors. I cannot believe that they would wish to do so. Therefore, I hope that the Government will be able to accept this modest and uncontentious amendment.
Lord Grenfell: My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, can he tell us whether he is aware of the fact that the basic voting rule on common foreign and security policy is by unanimity? Where there are disagreements there has been introduced through the treaty the device of constructive abstention. Is the noble Lord aware of that?
Lord Willoughby de Broke: My Lords, I am indeed aware of that. But it does not alter the fact that in the past our position has been very different from that of some of our fellow members of the European Union.
Lord Moynihan: My Lords, I wish to say a few words on this new clause covering the subject of the sovereignty of Parliament and the constitutional principle that one Parliament cannot bind its successor.
As noble Lords are well aware, and as has been made clear during the exchanges we have had so far this afternoon, the notion of sovereignty, both political and legal, is one of the most complex and emotive of constitutional concepts. Given the unusual nature of our constitution, which is uncodified and which has evolved over a thousand years from Magna Carta to the Maastricht Treaty, this is particularly true within the context of our relationship with the European Union.
It is for that reason that I specifically wish to speak to this new clause. I want to clarify the Opposition's assessment of the effect that our membership of the European Union has had on the Diceyan tradition of parliamentary sovereignty, particularly since the legal relationship between the member states and the European Union is not simply one of conventional, international law between sovereign entities but instead it is unique in its supranational quality and its effect on the domestic law of those member states.
As noble Lords are well aware, it is our tradition that legal sovereignty rests with Parliament and that political sovereignty rests with the electorate. That means that every time we co-operate with Europe and sovereignty is affected, as in the Single European Act, the Maastricht process and now in the Amsterdam Treaty, it is incumbent on the government of the day to ensure that it is fully in the interests of the people of this country to do so. That is the point I wish to focus on because I believe it is particularly important since decisions taken in Europe are different in kind from those we take nationally.
The composition of national parliaments changes; national governments change and with them national policies. But in the European Union such changes do not take place every four to five years, giving the member states a chance to reconsider. Treaty change is permanent. If one member state changes its mind it cannot simply reverse policy; it needs the agreement of all other member states. Therefore, the issue of our sovereignty and decisions to transfer or share it within the European Union is one which rightly pierces to the very heart of the process of legislative scrutiny in which we have been engaged over the past few months. It is an issue which raises fundamental questions about the vision of Europe that the Government have for the future; about where the limits of European integration lie and where they should lie; and about the correct balance of powers between European institutions and nation states.
During the progress of this Bill it has sometimes seemed that in the Government's responses to our questions on this very issue they have managed to obfuscate their vision for the future of Europe rather than to clarify it. The progress of this Bill has demonstrated again that in your Lordships' House, across all political hues, voices can be heard championing their vision of the future of the European Union. This Bill has in particular raised questions concerning our constitutional principle that Parliament cannot bind its successors.
I wish to ask specifically about Article K.7 of the Amsterdam Treaty. That article explicitly involves the European Court of Justice in the home affairs pillar by giving it a degree of jurisdiction therein which has raised concerns about the continued supremacy of this key constitutional principle. At the very least this article encroaches on the intergovernmental structure agreed at Maastricht whereby the question of the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice was to be left open. At the most it may have implications for the fundamental constitutional principle which the noble Lord, Lord Stoddart, has raised in introducing this new clause.
So can the Minister clarify whether a declaration, annexed to the treaty and giving notice to the other 14 member states of the UK's intention not to incorporate this article into law, was required before signing the treaty? If so, did the Government make such a declaration? Can the Minister confirm that, if such a declaration was not made and the Government adhered to their clearly stated commitment not to incorporate Article K.7 into UK law, that means that in the UK the
The issue of Article K.7 clearly illustrates that the provisions of the Amsterdam Treaty underlying this Bill have constitutional implications for this country. Any Bill which affects our constitution, the very guardian of our democracy, requires constructive, measured and adequate scrutiny in both Houses of Parliament.
That brings me to my second point. We have repeatedly heard from the Government that this measure is a modest treaty; an unexciting treaty; a treaty that is not radical; a workmanlike, pragmatic treaty; a compromise treaty; or in the favourite phrase of the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, a "consolidating treaty". The implication is clear: such a constitutionally timid treaty does not merit the forensic scrutiny to which it has been subjected. Indeed, the Bill's constitutional implications have been minimised so as to render it almost invisible by the Government. In our efforts to raise the profile of these issues during the Committee stage of the Bill, on occasions we have been accused of paranoia, demonology and fantastic constructions. Yet we have sought to explore the implications of the transfer of powers contained in the treaty. Such scrutiny is not paranoia; it is our essential duty, for every time that we co-operate with Europe and transfer or share sovereignty we must ensure that it is in the best interests of this country.
In this treaty there is an increase in the powers of European institutions at the expense of nation states. We do not say that such an increase is ideologically wrong, but we on these Benches strongly believe that each increase in the power of the European institutions, which necessarily involves a diminution of the powers of the nation state, must be judged against the key litmus test of the benefit that accrues to Britain. To be blunt, does such a transfer bring a quantifiable benefit to this country or represent an ever-finer shaving, chiselling, and gradual erosion of the powers of our national institutions? The Government plainly do not appreciate the point of this litmus test; or why would they seek to limit the scrutiny of this Bill as they did in another place?
It is tempting to take the view that this Bill cannot contain anything of very much import since one of the greatest sins of the Treaty of Amsterdam was its glaring omission of all those European Union problems which the IGC was intended to tackle and which the treaty left unresolved. It turned a blind eye to enlargement, quota-hopping and reform of the European Court of Justice. The sheer scale of its omissions does not justify relegating the treaty to the status of some kind of post-Maastricht MoT, overshadowed by the towering themes of the single market and economic and monetary union which underpinned the two previous European treaties, for this Bill (which incorporates into British law the treaty agreed at Amsterdam) has clear constitutional magnitude. That was why our procedure required it to be debated on the Floor of both another place and this House. One would expect disagreements over its constitutional magnitude and comparisons with the fundamental constitutional implications of the Treaty of
The Bill makes important changes to our relationship with the European Union. Those changes cannot easily be undone because the Bill gives effect to a major international treaty which cannot be set aside by a subsequent parliament but which provides for the transfer of substantial powers from the Parliament of the UK to sources of powers and authorities outside this kingdom. It provides for an extension of QMV and therefore the surrender of our veto. It will give more power to the European Parliament. It also includes the social chapter and a new employment chapter which will impose new regulations upon British people. It neuters any substance in the concept of subsidiarity. It also makes new arrangements for border controls and moves us closer to an integrated foreign and security policy. It changes the law on subsidiarity and gives more power to the President of the Commission.
These among others are important measures that need to be considered in the context of this new clause. They go to the very heart of the sovereignty of our institutions. Nor am I compelled by the Government's arguments on institutional change in this context. The changes made to the institutional arrangements of the Union are not merely technical, minor amendments but significant changes in the nature and powers of key European institutions.
I still fail to understand why the Government agreed to give more powers to the President of the Commission, which is a subject to which we shall return in a later amendment. Why should the President have the power to veto Commissioners recommended by member states? Why should all Commissioners now be required to work under the President's political guidance? These and many more points on institutional change demonstrate the constitutional significance of the Bill.
Yet in another place the Government ruthlessly moved to guillotine this Bill after only 12 hours in Committee. The remaining Committee, Report and Third Reading proceedings were crammed into just two days, thereby ensuring that a Bill with constitutional implications and involving potentially momentous decisions on QMV, the co-decision procedure, institutional change, flexibility, the free movement of people, discrimination, proportionality and subsidiarity, proceeded without full and proper debate. Parliament has not been given adequate opportunity to consider in detail the vitally important issue of sovereignty both here and in another place.
It is upon the management of the consideration of this Bill--it has been played down as a minor, amending, technical change to the existing treaties--that I have focused in the few words that I have uttered. That is why the new clause moved by the noble Lord and his colleagues is vitally important and that is why it is right and proper that this House should give it due consideration.
Baroness Williams of Crosby: My Lords, I owe the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, an apology. I indicated to him that I probably would not intervene in this debate. I shall do so only briefly, largely in the light of what he said. Perhaps just a couple of sentences should be added to the debate.
First, the Treaty of Amsterdam is a relatively modest treaty and a certain amount of it flows fairly directly from the implications of the Single European Act of long ago. I take one example. Because our citizens will be free to move around to seek work in other countries of the European Union, such matters as racial discrimination will no longer be issues for only one country but for all member states. That is just one obvious example. There are many other similar examples.
When one passes legislation, one must always consider that the consequences may be very far-reaching. It is quite clear that the consequences of the Single European Act--I make no criticism of the previous government for the passing of that Act--have been much greater than perhaps was imagined at the time. Like a stone falling into a pond, the repercussions continue today.
Secondly, so far we have looked almost entirely at just one side of the equation and not the other. Whether we like it or not, we live in a world in which the problems have moved on and have ceased to be contained within the borders of a single nation state. I give one or two examples of the way in which these problems have moved on which have absolutely no bearing on the European Union but a very close bearing on the sovereignty of the British Parliament. One example goes right back to the establishment of NATO in 1949. When in 1963 the then Prime Minister, Mr. Macmillan, accepted the deal under which this country received Polaris on strict conditions about the way in which it was used, we qualified our sovereignty in one essential respect; namely, national defence. From that day to this, at no time has the United Kingdom been free to use nuclear weapons supplied under agreement with the United States entirely according to its own sovereign wishes; for example, we could not have used nuclear weapons in the Falklands without the full agreement of the United States. I think that most of us know that.
A second example arose in the 1980s under the previous administration. That administration accepted the removal of controls over the movement of capital, as did many other advanced industrial countries including the United States. That had a tremendous consequence for our parliamentary sovereignty. It is true that today certain fiscal policies cannot possibly be pursued because the international bond markets respond in ways which make those policies too expensive to continue. That has grossly affected the ability of any British Government to do exactly what they please. The French Government, too, discovered that when, between 1981 and 1983, they attempted to buck the opinion of international markets. I do not say that that is either a good or bad thing; it is simply a very harsh fact of the world in which we live.
A third and final example is the nature of some of the challenges that confront us today, ranging from organised crime to environmental challenges with regard to the pollution of seas, lakes and rivers. These matters cannot be handled by one nation alone; they require an international response. In some cases, they involve agreements that go beyond individual sovereignty to the pooling of sovereignty. I do not want to detain the House, but one could give very many more examples.
I have a great deal of sympathy with those who say that we should fully examine this Bill. I have no objection whatever to sitting here for many hours while that examination takes place. I respect noble Lords' persistence on the matter. That is what parliaments are for. Having said that, I think we have underplayed seriously the nature of the world into which we are moving.
I give one final example; the impact of information technology. Although we might like to control information on the internet that is virtually impossible--even with regard to information which many of us regard as highly dangerous in terms of encouraging criminal activity. I simply ask that we address that and accept that we will therefore have to move in directions that are new and constitutionally different from the ones in which we have moved in the past.
Within the scope of those challenges, I believe that time and again the Treaty of Amsterdam leans over backwards to accept the rights of member states. We have heard the example from the noble Lord, Lord Grenfell, of the common, foreign and security policy. We will be discussing that matter on a later amendment. If you read the whole of that section very carefully, every possible attempt is made to allow countries which do not wish to participate to stand aside and not to be involved. But it is not unreasonable to say that they should not actively seek to obstruct the action of other countries.
It is of vast importance that we retain democratic accountability. That is a central task for this Parliament and the parliaments of other democracies in Europe. In my view the crucial element of democratic accountability lies in ensuring that there is full parliamentary scrutiny of European legislation. We will come to that later in this debate; but I believe it to be absolutely central and crucial. Attempting to talk about parliamentary sovereignty, which is essentially theoretical, without noticing the problems which must be addressed, is not a helpful way of addressing the dilemmas that confront the Government.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean): My Lords, perhaps I may begin by saying that I have more sympathy with the argument that the noble Baroness, Lady Williams of Crosby, put forward than with the argument that the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, put forward in relation to the impact of this treaty.
In the Government's view this is a relatively modest treaty or, as my noble friend Lord Whitty described it--the noble Lord acknowledged this description--it is a "consolidating" treaty. Nonetheless, it is a consolidating treaty which has made some extremely useful progress in some areas, notably on human rights, employment, equality, the social chapter, and parliamentary scrutiny. I accept that not all of the measures that the Government regard as "useful progress" may be regarded as such by others. Nonetheless, I do not think that we are dealing with anything more extraordinary here than a treaty which is essentially one of consolidation.
In your Lordships' House we enjoyed considerable scrutiny of the treaty after Second Reading: five Committee days, two now on Report and no doubt there will be a substantial commitment of time on Third Reading. So I hope that noble Lords will feel that in your Lordships' House we have given this a considerable amount of time and scrutiny.
This amendment, in the Government's view, is both unnecessary and undesirable. It is undesirable because if the new clause proposed in this amendment were to be inserted in the Bill, that would create doubts about other Acts of Parliament and other Bills. Similar clauses would have to be inserted into all Bills, especially those designed to enable the United Kingdom to comply with international treaties. That would clearly be unacceptable.
Nothing in the Amsterdam Treaty or in this Bill alters the right of this Parliament to amend or repeal any existing Act of Parliament. Nothing affects the ultimate ability of the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union, hypothetical and undesirable as that would be. But the amendment is also unnecessary because it merely restates the constitutional principle that no parliament can bind its successors.
The general position has already been explained, in Committee on 12th March, but I should like to restate it here. In our constitutional law, Parliament may amend or repeal any existing Act of Parliament. In that respect, this Bill is no different from any other. Of course, if a future parliament were to repeal the European Communities Act, that would put the UK in breach of its Community treaty obligations and the Government would have to negotiate the term of its departure from the European Union--something that this Government have no wish to contemplate.
Naturally, such negotiations would be extremely complicated. The United Kingdom has been a member for 25 years and UK and EU law are intricately interlocked. So although this Parliament ultimately retains the ability to repeal the 1972 Act and withdraw from the European Union, it would be by means of detailed and protracted negotiation. It is not a proposition to which I should like to give any currency in this House or elsewhere.
As regards the sovereignty of Parliament, the position is clear. Successive governments and parliaments have agreed that it is in the UK's best interests to work together with our partners within the Community framework. But should a future parliament decide that that was no longer appropriate and that we should no
Let us not beat about the bush. The amendment goes to the heart of the differences which have been aired in Britain and the European Union during our debates on this Bill. The noble Lord, Lord Pearson of Rannoch, went to the heart of the matter when he said that in his view the real villain of the piece was the 1985 Single European Act. As the noble Lord, Lord Stoddart, and indeed the noble Lord, Lord Pearson, and others have said on various occasions, what they really object to is our very membership of the Union. That is what this amendment is really about.
I respect the sincerity of the views held by those who support this amendment, but I disagree with them most profoundly. Withdrawal is not something which the present Government even begin to contemplate. On the contrary, the Government believe that our membership of the European Union is central to UK interests. This treaty is perhaps, as I have said, not as far reaching as the Single European Act--and certainly not as far reaching as the Maastricht Treaty--but it touches on the real concerns of ordinary people in areas like employment, the environment and the fight against crime. It contains many improvements of the kind that the Government declared they would seek in their pre-election manifesto. It provides the basis for a successful enlargement process. The Government believe that it is a treaty which is good for Britain and good for Europe.
The noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, argued about Article K.7 which he said could affect the sovereignty of this Parliament by giving the European Court of Justice jurisdiction to overrule national legislation. I believe that is wrong. The argument is based on a misunderstanding of Article K.7(6) There is no question that the article could be used to strike down legislation passed by Westminster. The references in Article K.7(6), which are often quoted, to the Court's jurisdiction over "framework decisions" or "decisions" do not refer to the decisions made by this Parliament. They refer back to the instruments which may be adopted by the Council under Article K.(6)(2)(b) and (c) respectively. As noble Lords will know, these are new types of instruments available to the Council under the Amsterdam Treaty specifically for co-operation in the field of police and judicial co-operation in criminal matters.
Article K.7(6) only allows the court jurisdiction over decisions of the Council and only in the field of police and judicial co-operation. That jurisdiction does not extend to measures taken by member states to give effect to their national law or resulting obligations. This article can have no effect on the sovereignty of this Parliament. It does not give the court the ability to override legislation by Westminster. On the specific point which the noble Lord made, Article K.7 will not be incorporated into UK domestic law.
The noble Lord, Lord Bruce of Donington, spoke eloquently in favour of democracy. It is a sentiment which the Government fully share. But his attitude exactly defines the difficulty which he and those who agree with him have in this respect. One way in which democracy in the EU manifests itself is through the European Parliament. However, I have heard little from the noble Lord in support of extending the powers of the European Parliament so that it can be an effective watchdog on the Commission or even on the Council. Indeed, the European Parliament is in the process of delivering its view on the appointment of Mr. Duisenberg as president of the European Central Bank.
Much of what was said by the noble Lord, Lord Willoughby de Broke, can be regarded only as an attack not on the Treaty of Amsterdam but on the whole framework of this country's membership of the European Union. This is not a framework which the Labour Government invented after 1st May. The basic tenets of our membership of the European Community were drawn up in 1972 by the then Conservative government.
I turn to some of the issues which run through the whole of our discussions on the treaty in relation to parliamentary scrutiny and accountability to Parliament. That represents much of what has worried noble Lords who have addressed this amendment and much of what has worried noble Lords who dealt with amendments in Committee.
The Government are committed to a European Union that is more open and democratic. We want a Union whose activities are transparent and whose decisions are subject to proper public and parliamentary scrutiny, as the noble Lord, Lord Bruce, suggested. We made proposals in the IGC last year and our presidency this year will help to achieve more open decision-making; better public access to documents; closer oversight by the European Parliament of legislative decisions that are subject to majority vote in the Council; and there will be introduced in the treaty a legally-binding minimum period for national parliaments to scrutinise legislative proposals.
The measures involving national parliaments are the most important. We believe national parliaments remain the primary source of democratic legitimacy in the EU. I believe that the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, agreed with that in Committee. We will therefore take action nationally to reinforce progress at the EU level.
The Government have recently made proposals to strengthen the scrutiny of European business by this Parliament. They will build on the very extensive arrangements already in place. Your Lordships are familiar with the formal parliamentary scrutiny process. Each year about a thousand pieces of draft legislation and other EU business are examined by the committee of the noble Lord, Lord Tordoff, and its counterparts in another place. Their recommendations lead to several dozen debates and many high quality reports. I pay tribute to their work.
The information that we give Parliament, and the scrutiny carried out by Parliament, range even more widely than this. Every six months we publish a White
In this House and another place there are regular debates on European Union business. Ministers from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and other departments regularly give evidence on EU matters to Select Committees, including that of the noble Lord, Lord Tordoff.
We make particular efforts to facilitate parliamentary discussion of business before the European Council. Before each meeting, the Foreign Secretary provides a memorandum and gives oral evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee in another place. That is followed by a debate on the Floor. After the European Council has met an oral report is made to each House. A Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister gives oral evidence about the meeting to the committee of the noble Lord, Lord Tordoff. We provide other information on a more frequent basis. As the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, pointed out in Committee, each month we announce by Written Answer the agendas for future meetings of the Council of Ministers and a forecast of other main events over the next six months. Every meeting of the Council of Ministers is followed by a written report to Parliament.
These channels of information are supplemented by the regular occasions to question Ministers and raise subjects for debate. Taken together, these represent a considerable commitment to keeping Parliament informed, and facilitating parliamentary scrutiny, of developments in the European Union. By tradition, these arrangements are laid down in convention and standing orders or resolutions. We believe this flexible approach remains more appropriate than primary legislation.
We are, however, committed to building on these arrangements, as part of our efforts to strengthen the scrutiny system and to reinforce the role of national parliaments in the EU. The President of the Council has published a memorandum setting out our proposals. The memorandum takes up several proposals made by the noble Lord's committee and other Select Committees. It has been sent to the Modernisation Committee in another place, as well as other interested Select Committees whose views on its contents we would welcome.
Our proposals include giving Parliament a strengthened, formal role in scrutiny of second and third pillar business. Detailed arrangements must reflect the specific character of the pillars. In the second pillar, for example, the nature of business means that confidentiality is vital and decisions are often needed at short notice. This may require explanatory memoranda to be submitted after adoption of a proposal.
We also propose to extend the scope of the scrutiny reserve to cover documents in the second and third pillars or on which political agreement may be sought
We should remember the strengths as well as the deficiencies in the scrutiny system. The 1996 report by the European Legislation Committee in another place noted that it "compares extremely well with others", and that the vast bulk of scrutiny cases are handled satisfactorily. The proposals I have described will build on and improve the existing system. They will add to the wider arrangements in place to report to Parliament and ensure proper scrutiny of European business.
I hope that the explanation I have given answers the specific points raised on sovereignty in your Lordships' House and has put them into the wider context of the scrutiny which we hope will be available through this treaty to your Lordships and to our colleagues in another place.
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With Steve MacIntyre on the shelf for several weeks with a broken bone in his face, the Oilers reinforced their toughness yesterday with the addition of Jesse Boulerice.
They claimed the 6-foot-2, 215-pound winger off waivers. The 30-year-old New York native had four points and 46 penalty minutes in 12 games with Colorado's AHL affiliate, the Lake Erie Monsters.
He's played 170 NHL games with Philadelphia, Carolina and St. Louis, scoring 8-2-10 with 333 penalty minutes.
"We weren't sure of the (MacIntyre) time frame and wanted to take the advantage of adding a physical presence to our lineup and that happened to be through waivers," said Oilers GM Steve Tambellini. "We want to make sure we cover all the bases, from a skill standpoint, from a physical standpoint."
Boulerice spent last season splitting his time between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Phantoms. He was scoreless with 29 PIM in five games with the Flyers and registered 2-4-6 with 101 PIM in 36 games with the Phantoms.


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A man has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of 10-year-old Northridge girl, who turned up barefoot and wounded in Woodland Hills last week.
Daniel Martinez, 29, of West Hills, was booked into jail in connection with the case, the Los Angeles Police Department said during a press conference on Monday.
The case drew national headlines when a girl turned up outside a Woodland Hills coffee shop after having disappeared from her Northridge home 10 hours earlier.
The news comes two days after police announced they were searching for a man they said was their their primary suspect, Tobias Dustin Summers. Summers has not been caught.
Little was known about Martinez, but police said they gathered information over the weekend to make an arrest, said LAPD Commander Andrew Smith, a department spokesman.
Martinez was being held in the Los Angeles County Jail on a kidnapping charge. Police declined to discuss how the two suspects knew each other.
The search for Summers (pictured, below) has expanded to the San Diego area, Smith said. Smith said that Summers may have shaved his head to alter his appearance.
"The information on him being in San Diego is very new," said Smith, adding that detectives are still working to verify the lead.
The girl told police that two men took her from her bedroom sometime between 1 and 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday, police said.
She was taken to an abandoned house nearby and a storage unit before being dropped off in Woodland Hills.
She walked about a mile to a Starbucks where a passerby recognized her from media reports and alerted police, officials said.
She was found barefoot and with bruises and cuts on her face at 3 p.m. the same day she went missing, police said.
Police identified Summers on Saturday as the primary suspect in the case. Authorities said he has a lengthy criminal history dating to 2002 including arrests for assault and battery and kidnapping, was the primary suspect in the case.
Summers, 30, was released from prison in July 2012 under California's AB 109, an initiative aimed at easing prison overcrowding. He was under the supervision of a probation officer, police said.
He's believed to be homeless and is known to frequent the North Hollywood and Devonshire areas.
He's described as about 6-feet tall, 160 pounds, with blue eyes and cropped blond hair.
Police said they do not believe the victim nor her family knows Summers.


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Schalke is yet to receive an offer for Arsenal target Julian Draxler, according to sporting director Horst Heldt.
Goal exclusively revealed on January 11 that Arsene Wenger is weighing a move for the 20-year-old this month, with the Gunners manager already stating his desire to sign cover for the injured Theo Walcott.
Heldt previously admitted that a January exit for Draxler is possible, but now he insists no offer has been forthcoming from any potential suitors.
"There are no offers from not a single club," he told Sky Sports.
However, Heldt also admitted to Bild that Schalke will have no choice but to sell its prized asset should a club meet his release clause, which is believed to be set at 45.5 million euro.
"We are still hopeful Julian is to stay on at Schalke, however there are certain arrangements we cannot change," he said.
Draxler, who is currently sidelined with a ruptured tendon, has been open in the past about his desire to move on one day, telling Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger in October: "I can honestly say that it is my dream to play for one of the big clubs at some point."
The Germany international has scored five goals in 24 appearances in all competitions for Schalke so far this season.


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A veteran instructor from Belleville has been identified as the skydiver who died in an accident.
The Winnebago County Sheriff's Office says 55-year-old Paul Olsen died Tuesday during a tandem jump with a student at Lake Butte des Morts. The cause of death has not been determined.
The sheriff's office says Olsen was a master instructor who had logged 5,000 jumps. He was jumping with a student through Skydive Adventure in Omro when sudden strong winds at the outset of severe weather pushed him and his student off course and into the lake after a 10,000-foot jump.
The student swam to shore for help about 12:30 p.m. and was not injured. Olsen's body was found five hours later.
Olsen also worked for other skydiving operations in the area.
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Today we bring you an anonymous weekly column about real estate by one of the most experienced agents in Brooklyn:
WHAT is going on here? This week I listed a new house. It is on a previously shunned Carroll Gardens block and it is small — 2,000 square feet. It has been totally renovated and has a large, lovely garden. The sellers and I agreed that we would reach a bit and price it slightly above where we felt the market is at right now. Fingers crossed.
I arrived for the Sunday open house 10 minutes before the start time. Cars were double parked and people were bunched up outside, all waiting to see it. That was a first for me in all these years — a crowd waiting for an open house?
After two hours of the constantly packed open house, during which one buyer and his broker came up to me and demanded to know "What will it take? We know how this works," I closed up. I had given out more than 75 show sheets and there were 82 separate groups who had signed in. 82!
As soon as I got back to the office, and up until I turned my phone off at midnight, the offers poured in. There were 10 of them, all at or significantly above the asking price. Two buyers tried to prevent a best and final round by going quite high. More than half of the offers were either all cash or had no mortgage contingency. The next day two more offers came in. Requests to see the house were nonstop, too.
I sorted through each offer, making sure I knew where the money was coming from, that the preapprovals had some weight, and what the income and assets of each buyer were. One buyer was way above the others but the details were sketchy — did they need to sell first? Their broker did not know, which wasn't helpful.
The sellers and I conferenced. After reviewing the spreadsheet I made, they decided they wanted the highest number, even if the likelihood of actually getting to closing was iffy. Not a surprise — it usually goes this way. But they asked me to hold a best and final round in hopes of getting that high number with good finances. By the time you are reading this, those final offers will be in and a decision will be clear, we hope. There will be 11 disappointed buyers.
Now that high number, which would have appeared ludicrous one week ago, is the new normal. I continue to ask, WHAT is going on here?


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Could I Use This Name?
The thread asking what names are off limits because of a last name is inspiring me to ask this. I (we) have been really struggling with a boy's name for my baby due at the beginning of July. I was feeling the same stress regarding the girl's name, but in the end, my BF and I returned to the original first name we had always planned on, and then we found a very meaningful mn to pair it with.
I was hoping to find something as meaningful for the boy name. It's a struggle. I have names I really like, but I don't get the feeling any of them are the one. We recently set on the middle name Sanders. My mom, Sandy, died 2 years ago this May, and she would be so absolutely thrilled to have another grandchild, particularly a grandson. All of my friends really like Sanders as a first name, but I have shot it down as a fn because baby's last name will be Baumgartner after my BF. I am worried that the repeating -er sounds are just too much.
What do you all think? Does Sanders Baumgartner have too much -er going on?
Baby will have 2 middle names. The second middle name is my last name. It's 3 letters and simple. The first middle name would still need to be determined.Mama to Desmond Sanders
April 29th, 2013 01:29 AM #3
I don't think it's too much "er" at all.
So, you're thinking, Sanders something something Baumgartner or something Sanders something Baumgartner?
I think Sanders Baumgartner is fine and a lovely way to honour your mother. I will think some about another middle for you!
By the way, I love your girls name choice! Ione Marin is beautiful. Were you thinking of including a Sandy-related name if you have a girl?
To use the name Sanders, whether as a first or middle, you could pair with Calvin, Malcolm or Ezra from your signature. I'd avoid Caspian, Leonidas and Sterling because of the "s" sounds. Hope that helps!~ Violet Elizabeth Rose ~
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I don't think its too much -er, especially with the s at the end. I love the meaning behind it too.
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Thanks @sarahmezz and @sweetpeacelove. You are helping me to rethink this. My BF loves it as a first name so I think he'd be on board. Now I need to come up with some middles. I like my original first name options (Malcolm, Ezra, Calvin), but I like the middle spot to have significant meaning of some sort, and those are names I just happen to like. I could use my last name as the only middle. (I'd give my last name, but I feel like I've shared so much personal info already, I want to keep one last piece of anonymity on NB).
Anyway, I will throw this idea around with my BF and some friends for a few days and see how it ends up settling with me. I am very open to any criticisms of this too, if anyone wants to voice opinions on it. Thanks.Mama to Desmond Sanders


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The Dallas Cowboys remain confident that, if third-year cornerback Morris Claiborne can stay healthy, he is fully capable of living up to the expectations the team had for him when they traded up to land him with the sixth overall pick two years ago. Granted, that's a pretty big "if."
Claiborne has missed seven games in his first two NFL seasons--including six last year, as he dealt with shoulder and hamstring issues--and, midway through the 2013 campaign, he lost his starting job to Orlando Scandrick.
"He's played well for stretches and then he gets dinged up and then he misses a stretch and then he has to get back," said secondary coach Jerome Henderson, per the Dallas Morning News. "You want him to just be able to ascend from preseason and keep getting better and better and better throughout a season. He just hasn't been able to do that thus far.
"I hope this is the year he breaks through from that standpoint."
The good news is Henderson believes, for the moment anyway, that Claiborne healthy, and getting quality reps in at Valley Ranch.
"I know he's working his butt off now, he's healthy now, he's moving around well now," Henderson said. "I hope he stays at the level he's at now and continues to get better from there."
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Letters to the editor — The Courier-Gazette
CMCA thanks
Thank you for your thoughtful and balanced editorial regarding CMCA's plans for our new gallery in Rockland [Dec. 26 edition]. We much appreciated the opportunity to have a preliminary discussion with the city's Planning Board about our building design and we welcome the conversations and feedback we are receiving.
CMCA is most fortunate to be working with the talented and experienced architect Toshiko Mori, who has a deep and long relationship with Rockland, fostered over 30 years. Working together, we are hopeful that we can achieve a design that is both responsive to the community and meets our needs as a contemporary art center.
Our goal remains the creation of a landmark building that reflects both our mission and Rockland's future as a vibrant cultural and commercial center for Midcoast Maine.
Suzette McAvoy
Director and CMCA Executive Committee
In the space of a week we've lost the Rockland city manager and the regional school superintendent. Regardless of what we thought of their programs and approaches, (I for one had high hopes for the former man and had begun to despair of the latter) I suggest it is time we pause as a community and a region and consider the tone of our discourse, our obsession with conspiracy and perceived slights, our confusion of solitary opinion with global fact (if presented forcefully enough), and the elevation of our own narrow short-term interests.
Instead, let us refocus on the ultimate goal: building a prosperous community of opportunity that is at ease with itself. Any talk of officials being "not local enough" is a red herring. As a community we should be looking for talent, knowledge and empathy and then interact with whomever we hire from a basis of fundamental human decency. Then we might be able to keep them on the job, even when we disagree.
Dan Bookham
Long-term vision needed
It would seem to be a good move to enact your decision before our RSU has become more disgraced in public.
I am simply an elementary teacher, and yet it is possible that I, and all of our teachers, care and know more about what our students need than the transient superintendents who have been hired in the past decade. I do want to clarify, almost without exception, that teachers and principals in our RSU put students first and so many are more educated and capable than I. Yet I believe we are of one mind. It has sickened many of us to see the parade of leaders who have seemingly come here to line their pockets for retirement or advance their own careers.
Prior to the last decade, we had superintendents who were invested in the community. We know that the position of superintendent is a lonely one and cannot escape criticism. However, before your 11-year reference, Donald Kanicki became a homeowner and vital member of our community. His wife is an exemplary teacher and supports Midcoast culture in significant ways. Mr. Kanicki, in addition to his own position, took on the jobs of business manager and assistant superintendent to compensate for the financial deficit he inherited. In addition, he managed to build us, through taxpayer support, a middle school that has served us well and will continue to do so.
Mr. Collins, we have always welcomed any changes that would move our students forward. Initially, we imagined a well-balanced approach under your leadership, but increasingly it seemed that you made personnel decisions that were self-preserving. Ultimately, we have been concerned for the welfare of children impacted by those changes.
In closing I know that all of us, who are directly involved with students, want desperately to support meaningful changes that back student success. We have dedicated our professional and much of our personal lives to this end. We need a leader, with a long term vision, to incorporate the best of what we have and move us into the future. We need someone whose only agenda is to work with us to advance the students in the communities of RSU 13.
Pam Walton
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released its recent monthly temperature data, and we continue to observe a decrease in global warming; while carbon dioxide increases (Source: ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/us).
For the last 15 years, the temperature trend for the USA is down. Global cooling in the order of minus 7.54 degrees per century is occurring. You can click around in the link above looking at different time spans and convince yourself that global warming is occurring; but you will not find the scientific explanation of how it is possible for carbon dioxide to increase, while temperature does not….for the last 15 years. Once you become aware that NOAA has manipulated the temperature data by revising the past numbers downward; that should invite further scrutiny. The manipulation is explained at this link: wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/06/noaas-national-climatic-data-center-caught-cooling-the-past-modern-processed-records-dont-match-paper-records/
The past temperatures used by the National Climate Data Center are lower than the past temperatures published years ago by the Monthly Weather Reviews and Climatological Data Summaries. For example, the 1934 February monthly average for Arizona in the Monthly Weather Review is listed as 52.0 degrees Fahrenheit. The National Climate Data Center is using 48.9 degrees F. Check it out at the link provided above. They got caught in Texas too….."Like with many other states, NOAA has turned a long-term Texas cooling trend into a warming trend – by cooling the past." Source: stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/noaa-messing-with-texas/
You may have heard the claim that 97 percent of climate scientists believe global warming due to carbon dioxide is occurring. That is a false statement. When the author of the 97 percent plan decided to "conclude" the 97 percent support, his plan was to review the written works of "climate scientists"; rate them as supporting, neutral or opposed, and find 97 percent in support. The climate scientists were not interviewed; nobody asked them if they supported global warming. Their written scientific papers were reviewed and it was the reviewer that decided whether or not the author supported global warming. How do we know this? "In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums 'hacked' and the contents posted online." In the introduction of the 'plan'; before any studies were conducted, we find the goal as stated: "It's essential that the public understands that there's a scientific consensus on AGW."
That "study" was a hoax. Here is what some of the scientists had to say when they discovered the plan misrepresented their position without their knowledge: "That is not an accurate representation of my paper"….." I think your sampling strategy is a load of nonsense"…. "Certainly not correct and certainly misleading"…. "No, if Cook et al's paper classifies my paper, …as 'explicitly endorses AGW but does not quantify or minimize,' nothing could be further from either my intent or the contents of my paper." 9Source: populartechnology.net/2013/06/cooks-97-consensus-study-game-plan.html).
Once you get a good understanding that certain molecules (like carbon dioxide and water) reflect infrared rays back toward the earth; and once you understand that 95 percent of the molecules up there are water; and of the remaining 5 percent (dry gasses) only 0.04 percent are carbon dioxide, it seems logical to conclude that any effect of carbon dioxide on global warming is negligible. I so conclude.
Larry Grimard
For the record
To the National Rifle Association:
I do not support any human being owning an assault weapon of any kind and I do not support owning any weapon that can handle a magazine that can hold more than five rounds.
I am not against owning a pistol or a rifle, but I will say for the record, anyone who has more than four weapons in his or her house, home or apartment has too many weapons period.
I have stated in the past that when I was active duty I handled many types of weapons from the M-14 through the M-60 and I operated the M-60 tanks, Abrams and Bradley, up until I retired in 1991 from the United States Army. The first tour of duty was in Vietnam from 1969-1972. In 1994, I went hunting with some friends of mine and came across individuals who were also hunting and at the same time they were hunting they were also drinking and did not take time to identify what they were shooting at and almost killed other hunters in the area.
Owning a weapon of any kind is like anything else, the person should know what they are doing with it. When it comes to owning a weapon it should be alike a vehicle, it should be a privilege to operate, not a right. You should be required to take a course on it and learn how to handle it before you are even allowed to own it.
I am aware of what the Constitution says on the Second Amendment, but I will say this, when the Constitution was drafted they had no idea what type of weapons would be created and the damage and destruction these modern day weapons can do.
My question on the issue is how many of our children must die in our schools and shopping malls before we as a society say enough is enough and put a stop to what we can purchase when it comes to a gun of any kind.
If you own a single shot pistol and a single shot rifle and know how to shoot them then you have enough, anything else is pure insanity.
Robert J. Robinson
I have good news for Larry Grimard about the 97% consensus of climate scientists that anthropogenic global warming is real: the figure is no longer valid.
It is now much higher. In the latest study, released Jan. 9, 2014, 9,135 out of 9,136 scientists believe climate change is happening. See: http://bit.ly/1fjMcuM
This supplements the previous study showing that out of the 13,950 peer-reviewed science articles on climate between 1991 and 2012, only 24 rejected global warming.
Woody Emanuel


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Private Affair rallied to win the $90,290 CTT-TOC Handicap for older fillies and mares by 2 1/2 lengths Friday in her U.S. debut at Del Mar.
Ridden by Hector Berrios, Private Affair ran 1 3-8 miles on the turf in 2:13.52 and paid $20, $9 and $5 at 9-1 odds. The Peru-bred filly arrived in the U.S. five months ago after competing in Argentina.
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Kathmandu (AFP) Aug 07, 2007
More rain and blocked roads have delayed efforts to help 300,000 people in southern Nepal hit by major flooding, amid fears of a rise in water-borne illnesses, officials said Tuesday. "We are concerned about water-borne diseases like diarrhea, dysentery and typhoid," Arjun Bahadur Singh, Nepal's health ministry spokesman, told AFP. "There is no shortage of medicine. However, accessibility is a problem: highways are blocked, there is no transportation and it is very hard for our medical response teams to get to some of the worst affected areas," he said.
Flooding and landslides have killed at least 93 people, mainly in the country's lowland south bordering India. Floodwater fed by monsoon rains and Himalayan snow melt displaced or marooned some 300,000 people.
The kingdom's home ministry said that continued rainfall was hindering relief efforts by the army, police and local and international aid agencies.
"There are still some areas receiving sporadic rainfall, and this is causing problems for our relief work," home ministry official Thir Bahadur G.C. told AFP.
Flooding has hit 33 of Nepal's 75 districts. Officials in the Himalayan kingdom have said dams built in India exacerbated the problem.
India in turn blames Nepal for its failure to control huge water flow from its rivers, which has inundated the northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
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HOLLYWOOD: OSCAR HOST -- And the host is . . . Billy Crystal. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tapped Mr. Crystal, left, yesterday to be the master of ceremonies at the 76th Academy Awards presentations on Feb. 29 at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Mr. Crystal last presided over the Oscar presentations in 2000. In announcing the choice of Mr. Crystal, who will be the host for the eighth time, the producer, Joe Roth, said yesterday: ''Billy's personality and quick wit are uniquely suited to this 900-pound gorilla of a live show. He's proved he can tame it with style and flair.'' Mr. Crystal said: ''It was either this or run for governor.''
PITTSBURGH: SYMPHONY SETTLEMENT -- Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra musicians will take a 7.8 percent pay cut in the first two years of a new three-year contract, which they approved on Tuesday. But their salary is expected to increase in the 2005-6 season. The settlement was greeted by the musicians and management as essential to overcoming a projected $3 million deficit in the 2003-4 season, The Associated Press reported. Thomas Todd, president and chief executive of the symphony board, said: ''The musicians' thoughtful sacrifice is a very meaningful investment in the future of this great orchestra. Without this critical piece of funding, this institution, as we know it, would be in great jeopardy.'' In the first two years of the agreement, the annual wage will be cut to about $83,000 from $90,220. In the third year the musicians will earn 95 percent of the average wage of orchestra musicians in Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia and New York, giving the Pittsburgh musicians a projected salary of $103,000.
ATLANTA: POET'S PAPERS -- Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize in 1995, will donate thousands of literary papers and letters to Emory University in Atlanta. Mr. Heaney made the announcement before a reading on Tuesday night at Emory, already a repository for the papers of Ted Hughes and W. B. Yeats, among other writers.
EXHIBITION: PHILHARMONIC HISTORY -- On display are the first-edition score of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Mahler's own marked score for his First Symphony and the original choral part used in the United States premiere of Beethoven's Ninth at Castle Garden in 1846. All this and much more are part of the celebration of the New York Philharmonic that opens today at the UBS Art Gallery, at 1285 Avenue of the Americas, between 51st and 52nd Streets. On view through Dec. 5, ''The Longest Run: New York's Philharmonic'' ranges over more than 160 years to tell the story of America's first symphony orchestra and its influence on New York culture.
FAULKNER'S BIRTHDAY -- On this date in 1897, William Faulkner was born. The author of ''The Sound and the Fury,'' ''Light in August'' and many other works, he would win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. At 12:30 p.m. today the 106th anniversary of his birth will be celebrated in ''Happy Birthday, William Faulkner,'' a program of readings at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Lexington Avenue at 54th Street. Presented by the nonprofit initiative TIPA (Toward International Peace Through the Arts), the event will include selections from ''Light in August,'' ''Sanctuary,'' ''Go Down, Moses,'' as well as Faulkner's Nobel address. Among the scheduled readers are Tammy Grimes, Anne Jackson, Frances Sternhagen, Betsy von Furstenberg and Eli Wallach.
ART: MAJOR GIFT -- A donation of 11 paintings by Dutch masters of the Golden Age is to be announced today by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The works, including ''Bouquet of Flowers on a Ledge,'' left, by Ambrosius Bosschaert, and others by Frans Post, Jacob van Ruisdael, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam and Jan van de Cappelle are on view in the Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Carter Gallery in the museum's Ahmanson Building. Hannah L. Carter and her husband, Edward W. Carter, who died in 1996 and had been the museum's founding president and first board chairman, are the donors. Mrs. Carter has been a trustee of the museum since 1989.
BOOKS: PEDDLING POTTER -- Here's the picture: a scowling, shaggy-haired, tattooed biker against a blue-and-black background. Here's the inscription above the image: ''Flying cars. Fire Whiskey. Death Eaters.'' Here are the words underneath: ''We all have our reasons. What's yours?'' The product being marketed by this advertising is none other than the adventures of the boy wizard, Harry Potter. The ad goes on to say: ''There's some pretty tough stuff in Harry Potter -- bad guys so bad they're called Death Eaters. That's one of the reasons even bikers think Harry Potter is cool enough to ride with them.'' Ads like this are to appear in Rolling Stone and other magazines next month as Scholastic, the United States publisher of the J. K. Rowling novels, seeks sales among readers 18 to 35 years old, The Associated Press reported.Continue reading the main story
It seems too early to call the return of ''Tony 'n Tina's Wedding'' a revival. Maybe the proper word is resurrection. After all, this popular interactive show ended its 15-year run as recently as May 18. Now it is coming back. Beginning next Thursday ''Tony 'n Tina's Wedding,'' with its pasta and Champagne for the guests, will play on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at 7. The ceremony takes place at St. Luke's Church, 308 West 46th Street, in Clinton, and the reception nearby at the premises known for the occasion at Vinnie Black's Coliseum, 221 West 46th Street. On Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. and on Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m., that site will be home to the musical ''Café à Go Go.''Continue reading the main story


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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
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The Daughtry guys visited Napster a few weeks back to lay down songs from their debut album, including an acoustic version of the current single, "It's Not Over", which is blowing up at radio and TV.
I'm sure you remember frontman Chris from Season 5 of American Idol, and you know how they like to keep it in the Idol family, so don't be surprised when you hear the ballad "Home" being played as dismayed contestants are booted off the show this season. "I'm going home, to the place where I belong..." The lyrics sound specifically written for an Idol exit song, but Chris actually wrote the song years ago, before auditioing for Idol. Lucky for him, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more appropriate theme for the walk of shame. Talk about a twist of fate for Chris, who was voted off Idol early himself last year and has since gone platinum!
In addition to showcasing Chris's nice falsetto on "Breakdown", the Daughtry crew also performed a stellar cover of U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday". Check out the dummer Joey, one of Chris's old pals from back home in North Carolina, playing the snare with his fingertips. That was slick, especially as he somehow managed to get shaker sounds in there, too.
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It's not just for fairy tales anymore: the Talking Mirror Butler, created by the Hollywood animatronics guru behind the King Kong ride at Universal Studios, and Jurassic Park's T-Rex.
No word on Basil the English Butler's cost, but it's bound to be pricey. Of course, if you have a couple hundred Benjamin's lying about, they can even fully customize the butler for you.
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Smarter Mom: Quick and Easy Easter Egg Hunt
you're running around preparing Easter brunch or dinner, it's easy to
think there's not enough time to plan an Easter egg hunt for your kids
or for your guest's kids, but you can. Its easy, and the kids love
searching to find as many eggs as possible.
The week before Easter buy the plastic eggs, they're inexpensive and you can probably get them at your local food store. Pick up some candy and trinkets for the eggs, like stickers or other dollar-store items that will fit in the eggs. Grab large plain gift bagas or canvas totes to pass out to each kid to collect the eggs. (After the hunt, the kids can decorate their bags. )
The morning of the hunt, it it's nice out, hide the eggs outdoors. If the weather isn't cooperating, go ahead and hide the eggs inside, just be sure to keep them clear of the main dining area where they're sure to be spotted easily.
After the hunt is over, and they've shown off what they've found, set them up at a kids table to decorate the bags. Supply them with markers, stickers, stencils, stamps or whatever you have on hand. You'll still have time to enjoy the brunch with the adults, and enjoy watching the kids have so much fun.
Do you have an easter egg hunt at home?
We also do the plastic eggs and fill them, no real eggs hidden.
my kids are 17 and 15 and they still want to find them, so I will keep hiding them. It is fun cause we can hide them good now that they are older.
When the 5 kids were younger and growing up yes we did various easter egg hunts both that we attended in the community like at parks and we also did our own in the yard or indoors if the weather was bad.
We also always hid their baskets and sometimes they looked for the baskets and sometimes they had a flurry of little clue notes to find them like a treasure hunt. We always had fun
Cute idea! My DD is almost 2 so it might be fun, but her cousins are only 8 weeks old so hopefully next year all 3 kids will want to do an egg hunt together.
We had one every year...this will be our first without one since my youngest announced he is too old for an egg hunt. =(
This is going to be our first Easter egg hunt for our family. I am so excited!


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Affiliate Marketing Tips – Everything you really need to know
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This one audio will be worth more to you than many of the products you may have paid hundreds or thousands of dollars for, or conferences you may have traveled to attend.
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And I'm giving it to you… as a gift.
I didn't prepare for the call, it was completely off the top of my head information based on 17 years experience of doing internet-based business.
The list of topics and details I revealed is listed below, so just trust me on this one (and I don't ask that often of you), go to this link and look for the October 11, 2011 session… it will be available for a short period of time, so don't delay.
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-----Original Message-----From: Alex Bartok [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: 08 June 2004 11:44 To: Gary Parker; firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: Re: SS5 with Quattro HME SBUS Speed Issue not sure if these utilities work properly on a sparc system - never tried might be something worth looking into though.Well, they're in stable...I had a look for mii-tool as well but that doesn'tseem to exist on debian/sparc.
Yep, but a possibility is that the HME simply doesn't support these settings
(as in the way those apps try to set it).
Sidenote: I screwed that up - I meant to say UDP (should give you higher transfer rates)AFAIK the SS5 has ide disks, considering the age of the machine the ide bus is probably not the fastest. I'd try to generate data randomly without utilizing the hds and send that to another machine. Maybe catting urandom into a tcp listener on another machine....Nope, definitely SCSI. Copying a single large file over from the SS5 to theXP box and looking at the network traffic in task manager shows an almost perfectly flat line at 10% of the 100Mb/s adapter's available bandwidth, that's what made me think it was a negotiation problem.
Maybe these two are of help: http://supportforum.sun.com/network/index.php?t=msg&goto=570&rid=0 http://dbforums.com/t674555.html -Alex


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The Sun Sentinel, December 22, 2010
State Surgeon General Ana Viamonte Ros, head of the Florida Department of Health, is resigning following a withering attack on her management by Gov.-elect Rick Scott's transition team.
An agency spokesman said Tuesday that Viamonte Ros had offered to resign several weeks ago, like other Crist appointees. But while most agency heads are staying for another 60 to 90 days, Viamonte Ros was told Monday that her job would end Jan. 3, Health Department spokesman Rob Hayes said.
The Health and Human Services Transition Team is headed by Alan Levine, who had been secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration under former Gov. Jeb Bush.


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