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Lenovo is going head-to-head with Asus' Eee PC by launching two IdeaPad mini laptops. The Lenovo IdeaPad S9 and IdeaPad S10 laptops cost from £279.
The IdeadPad is a 1in thick mini laptop that weighs just under 1kg and is available in two models; the S9 has an 8.9in display while the S10 has a 10.2in screen. Both versions use an energy-efficient LED backlit display and are powered by an Intel Atom processor and 1GB of RAM.
Customers can choose between Windows XP and Linux operating systems and designate either a 160GB hard disk drive or a 4GB SSD (solid state drive).
Lenovo's IdeaPad mini laptops will be available in a choice of colours including black, red, white and baby pink. The laptops have an integrated webcam and come with Wi-Fi, a 4-in-1 card reader and have two USB ports. Bluetooth connectivity is available as an option extra.
"As rapidly as the technology changes, today's consumers are looking for mobile products that feature the best of basic computing functions in an extremely compact and affordable form. Lenovo designed the IdeaPad netbooks for that purpose," said Liu Jun, senior vice-president of Lenovo's consumer business group.
The Lenovo IdeaPad S9 is priced at £279 while the S10 costs £319. Both machines will be available in the UK from October.
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What's really in Spam?
Dear Cecil:
We've been having a heated discussion in the office, and we need to know how Spam luncheon meat is really made. Also, how come they never released a chicken or turkey version (i.e., Spurkey or Spicken)? Finally, what is Monty Python's true relationship with Spam?
Cecil replies:
In the interest of thoroughness I thought that somebody here at Dopecorp should actually eat some Spam before we wrote about it. You'd think I was asking these guys to throw themselves on a grenade. "Cecil, I ate a damn Circus Peanut," wailed my assistant Jane. "I did laundry. Hell, I even sniffed out sperm trees. This is where I draw the line." Little Ed was likewise unwilling, the pup. So it was up to me.
I bought a tin and popped it open, fully expecting to be bowled over by who knows what awful aroma. Didn't happen. The smell was … surprisingly mild. Moreover, the stuff was edible, if salty. Granted, I ate Circus Peanuts without ill effects, and I've had a couple of airline meals that I considered tasty, so maybe I just have a high threshold of disgust. Still, when I see the reaction some people have to this stuff — come on, folks, get a grip. Our ancestors ate meat they'd just killed with a rock. What's so bad about Spam?
What does make you a bit queasy is the nutritional labeling on the side of the can. A single serving — two thin slices — contains 30 percent of your daily saturated-fat quota, 31 percent of your sodium, and 13 percent of your cholesterol. If people ate Spam exclusively we'd solve the Social Security crisis in a generation. Nobody would live long enough to collect.
On to your questions. The common assumption is that Spam is made of stuff even pigs don't like to admit they've got. Not so, says a spokeswoman for Hormel Foods, which manufactures Spam. It contains a mixture of ham and chopped pork shoulder. (Ham is the pig's thigh; pork is everything else.) Ham is Hormel's top-of-the-line product, and Spam was created in 1937 partly to use up what was left of the pig after the ham had been removed. But only the wholesome parts.
The name Spam, dreamed up by the actor brother of a Hormel vice president, is short for "spiced ham." (Cute story: Said brother supposedly had this brainstorm at a name-the-product party, in which you had to contribute a possible name in order to get a drink. It took a few rounds, so nobody is sure whether the guy was inspired or just drunk.) Since Hormel is in Austin, Minnesota, these are Minnesota spices: sugar and salt.
As for what Monty Python saw in Spam, one supposes they were celebrating the ineffable, I dunno, pinkness of it all. (The Brits, like so many others, had been introduced to Spam during World War II.) Their famous Spam sketch, in which the dialogue is periodically drowned out by the chorus "Spam, Spam, Spam," was the inspiration for the Internet term "Spam," meaning the junk E-mail that now floods the net. Presumably a similar sort of artistic impulse animates the annual Spam sculpture contest as well as a Web site for users' Spam haikus (http://web.mit.edu/jync/www/spam/). Samples from the more than 19,000 currently on file:
The color of Spam
Is natural as the sky:
A block of sunrise
Pink tender morsel
Glistening with salty gel
What the hell is it?
Old man seeks doctor
"I eat Spam daily," he says
Pink beefy temptress
I can no longer remain
Thanks to aggressive marketing, worldwide Spam sales have grown substantially over the past few years, with well over 150 million cans sold annually. Previously, Hormel marketers concede, people thought of Spam as something you kept in the basement in case the refrigerator went out during a nuclear war. To change this perception, Hormel boss Joel Johnson promoted concepts such as the Spamburger, sold Spam merchandise (e.g., Spam-can earrings — check 'em out at http://www.spamgift.com/), and even made a concession to the current interest in not dying young by introducing a low- (well, lower-) fat Spam. Which brings us to your question about chicken Spam: they do make it, sort of — chicken is one of the things that go into the aforementioned low-fat Spam, known as Spam Lite. Some may find the taste a little funkier than that of the regular version. But what the heck, it's still pink.
The secret of Spam
Dear Cecil:
Regarding Spam, is it true, as travel writer Paul Theroux claims, that the people of the South Pacific love their Spam because it tastes so much like … people?
Marketing Spam must present some unique challenges. Imagine the conversation in the boardroom:
Spam product manager #1: I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that Spam is hugely popular among the people of the South Pacific. The bad news is that, according to the famous travel writer Paul Theroux, the islanders dig it because they're ex-cannibals and they think Spam tastes like human flesh.
Spam product manager #2: Hmm. Is this a problem … or an opportunity?
Let's start with the facts, then segue to the rumors. Spam is one of the favorite foods of Pacific islanders, including Hawaiians, who consume it in vast quantities and consider it a delicacy. This offends the upper-middle-class sensibilities of some writers, who consider Spam emblematic of all that is vile about western culture. For example, in The Island of the Colorblind (1996), Oliver Sacks writes about the fare served during his visit to the island of Pingelap:
We were all revolted by the Spam which appeared with each meal — invariably fried; why, I wondered, should Pingelapese eat this filthy stuff when their own basic diet was both healthy and delicious? … How was it that not only the Pingelapese, but all the peoples of the Pacific, seemingly, could fall so helplessly, so voraciously, on this stuff, despite its intolerable cost to their budgets and their health? I was not the first to puzzle about this; later, when I came to read Paul Theroux's book The Happy Isles of Oceania, I found his hypothesis about this universal Spam mania.
Turning to Theroux's Happy Isles (1992), we find the following:
It was a theory of mine that former cannibals of Oceania now feasted on Spam because Spam came the nearest to approximating the porky taste of human flesh. 'Long pig' as they called a cooked human being in much of Melanesia. It was a fact that the people-eaters of the Pacific had all evolved, or perhaps degenerated, into Spam-eaters. And in the absence of Spam they settled for corned beef, which also had a corpsy flavor.
Nowhere does Sacks say he actually believes Theroux's theory, and it seems clear enough that the often peevish Theroux is exercising his tongue-in-cheek … eh, not the best choice of words. His ironic sense of humor. So far I haven't been able to get him on the phone to confirm this, but what's he going to say?
- Yes, it was a joke.
- No, it wasn't a joke. I have personal knowledge that human flesh tastes like pork and corned beef.
Still, these things have a way of taking on a life of their own. Lest our great-grandchildren find this wacky story circulating on the Intergalactinet in the year 2098, let it be known that there's no correlation between alleged prior cannibalism and love of Spam. As Sacks notes, the Spam-craving Pingelapese had no tradition of cannibalism. More important, Hawaii, epicenter of Pacific rim Spamophilism, has been more or less cannibal-free since the arrival of Christianity in the early 19th century. The popularity of Spam among Pacific islanders can be readily explained by the scarcity and expense of other types of meat and the lack or unreliability of refrigeration. Fresh meat is stored primarily in a self-propelled biounit known as a pig, which is only slaughtered for major occasions. If you're looking for a spicy bit to have with your breadfruit you can't beat the convenience of Spam.
Still, let's concede one point to Theroux. Does Spam taste corpsy? Of course it tastes corpsy — it's meat. We're just arguing about the identity of the deceased.
Cecil, my man!
You were right the first time. Yes, it is a joke. In spite of my solemn declaration in The Happy Isles of Oceania, the voracious Spam consumption in the Pacific is not conclusive evidence of a cannibal past.
And I enjoyed seeing my laborious joke cleverly adumbrated in yet another of your witty, wide-ranging, and inexhaustibly erudite columns.
But also, speaking as a vegetarian, all meat-eating looks to me like the first step down the road to anthropophagy.
With good wishes, Paul Theroux

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My husband got fired from his union job because while he was laid off and collecting a reduced union catd he worked for his dad a couple times. He never received any payment from hos dad. Can they still fire him even though he never received any payment?
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Statement on Thrangu Monastery Earthquake by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
April 15, 2010
There are many disasters caused by the four elements—earthquakes, wildfires, strong winds, and turbulent seas—and they also bring disease and illness. In such a time, we need to be careful and practice the Dharma as much as we can.
Jyekundo in Tibet is a small and sparsely populated area, but it is a place where there are many Tibetan people, and there are also many monasteries. At Thrangu Monastery in Jyekundo, many of the lamas and monks both those abroad and those on site have put in tremendous efforts for many years. These efforts have not just been in terms of external things; they have also put effort into spiritual practice. In terms of study and contemplation, a monastic college for the study of texts and philosophy was founded. It gradually grew and there formed a body of students and scholars, who are the foundation of the teachings. A primary school to provide basic education for young students had also been built.
In terms of meditation, a retreat center for the practice of the Six Yogas of Naropa was built where monks engaged in practice. Another retreat center for the practice of the deities who purify the lower realms, Sarvavid Vairochana and Protector Akshobhya, had been restored and retreatants were doing the practices of those deities. A Mahakala retreat center was built during the time of Karmapa Thekchok Dorje (1798-1868) and contained a statue of Mahakala. Here, daily practices had been held for many generations. In addition, there was a large new temple where daily services were held.
Now there has been the terrible earthquake in Jyekundo, Qinghai, and these structures have all been ruined. Additionally, many monks have passed away in the earthquake. This is a great tragedy and a great obstacle. Please think of this and make good prayers on the behalf of all those who passed away. If you gather merit by helping with the relief and restoration, it will be helpful for the world in general and in particular prevent the Dharma from disappearing. It is important that the lineage of teaching and practice not wane: Without a lineage of teaching and practice, the Dharma would perish.
Sometimes people might think that temples and monasteries are not all that important. However, there are both transient sentient beings and the lasting external environment. With sentient beings, there might be many for a while, including great scholars and meditators. Great lamas might appear. There may be many members of the Sangha, but just as water flows downstream, fifty, sixty, seventy, or eighty years later they will all pass away and a new generation will come. When this happens, even if there were a strong lineage of Dharma in the previous generation, we do not really know whether that lineage would continue in the next.
The way that the lineage can continue from generation to generation is to have a good, stable outer environment. When there is the external environment of a monastery with a shrine, retreat center, and monastic college, then due to that place, the Sangha, great lamas, and great meditators might pass away but the continuity of their activity will remain present there.
This is why restoring monasteries is crucial. If the monasteries fall into ruins, the environment declines as well and the inhabitants gradually disappear. Buddhism would not be able to remain long in this world. But if a monastery continues to exist, the great lamas and masters can perform vast activity for the Dharma during their entire lives. A group of students will gather; the lamas will teach the students; and they will practice. Thus gradually the students will spend the first part of their lives studying and practicing the Dharma and the latter part upholding, protecting, and spreading Buddhism. When that generation comes to its end, a new generation can continue that work, upholding, protecting, and spreading the teachings, which can thus remain. This is why temples and the Sangha are so very important.
If sponsors can make contributions and help in either large or small ways, that would be wonderful. We spend this life gathering wealth and possessions, and sometimes this can be meaningful, but sometimes there is the danger that this might become the grounds for conflict and dispute. For that reason, I ask all the faithful benefactors to help in any way you can.
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PowerShares to Introduce Low Vol High Dividend ETF
Invesco's (NYSE: IVZ) PowerShares unit, the fourth-largest U.S. ETF issuer, said it expects to introduce the PowerShares S&P 500 High Dividend Portfolio (NYSE: SPHD) on Thursday October 18. The new ETF, which will track the S&P Low Volatility High Dividend index, is expected to be home to the 50 S&P constituents that historically have provided high dividend yields with lower volatility, according to PowerShares.
"The PowerShares S&P 500 High Dividend Portfolio (SPHD) combines two key objectives that are important to many investors today: an emphasis on high dividend equities with the well-documented benefits of low-volatility securities," said Ben Fulton, Invesco PowerShares managing director of global ETFs, in a statement. "The Fund's underlying Index is designed to perform well in absolute terms and on a risk-adjusted basis compared to the S&P 500 Index, and had an average dividend yield of 4.51% as of Sept 30, 2012."
SPHD will join PowerShares' already successful lineup of low volatility products. The PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Portfolio (NYSE: SPLV) is one of the pioneers of the "low vol" ETF space. SPLV debuted in May 2011 and has almost $2.5 billion in assets under management.
The PowerShares S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility Portfolio (NYSE: EELV) debuted in January and now has $13.5 million in AUM while the PowerShares S&P International Developed Low Volatility Portfolio (NYSE: IDLV), which also debuted in January, has $16.7 million in AUM.
SPHD's index is screened for the 75 securities with the highest dividend yields over the past 12 months and from those securities, selects the 50 securities with the lowest realized volatility for inclusion in the Underlying Index, according to the statement. The stocks with the highest yields receive the largest weights in the index, which is rebalanced semi-annually.
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SANTA CLARA — Coach Jim Harbaugh downplayed Monday what emerged as the 49ers' biggest concern during their bye week: linebacker Aldon Smith's latest off-field incident, if there even was one.
Smith took to Twitter last Thursday to deny social-media reports that he had been attacked early that morning at a restaurant in Columbia, Mo.
"What Aldon said to us was the same as what he said publicly," Harbaugh said Monday. "Also, you tend to take a man at his word. I don't think there's anything more to add."
Smith, a University of Missouri product, has found himself in a few precarious situations this year, though not necessarily at his own choosing. He was a passenger in a one-car accident two days before the 49ers' home opener in September, when he sustained a cut above his eye.
During the summer, Smith got stabbed while allegedly breaking up a fight outside a party at his San Jose house. Shortly after the 49ers' season ended in the NFC Championship game, Smith was arrested for suspicion of drunken driving in Miami Beach, Fla.
Regarding Smith's potential involvement in the Thursday incident that drew a police response, Harbaugh replied: "I personally tend not to believe everything I read on the Internet."
Smith spoke with general manager Trent Baalke about the alleged incident, Harbaugh noted.
Players used their six-day break to scatter all over the map: from Hawaii to Florida to Disneyland to Rand, W.Va. Coaches, however, stayed at the facility Tuesday through Friday to scout and scheme for the St. Louis Rams' visit Sunday to Candlestick Park.
The "usual suspects" who Harbaugh said worked out at the facility during the bye were: Justin Smith, Isaac Sopoaga, Randy Moss, Alex Smith, "etc." Harbaugh took Saturday and Sunday off to spend time with his wife and kids, which included a train ride and a toy store visit.
With no candidates at defensive end, the 49ers instead list defensive tackle as the position for Justin Smith, Ray McDonald and Sopoaga. Ted Ginn Jr. is the 49ers' designated kick returner and C.J. Spillman their special-teams candidate.


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Hey guys! Christmas is officially over, and to be honest, this was one of our most stressful yet, so I'm excited to be looking forward to what's next. We have less than a week until New Years & I wanted to share my free New Years resolutions printable for this year! I did one last year, and it was a huge hit! Okay, so here's a peak at the new printable for 2015…
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Howard County prosecutors are dropping charges against a Columbia, Md., man who had been accused of killing his twin brother.
Prosecutors told a judge Monday that they will not pursue another trial for 24-year-old Wael Ali after a mistrial was declared last month. After speaking to jurors, Assistant State's Attorney Jim Dietrich said prosecutors didn't think they could do better in a retrial of the circumstantial case.
Wasel Ali disappeared the same day he was fired after admitting a role in a theft scheme and implicating his brother, authorities said. After the brothers were seen on surveillance video leaving the Mall at Columbia, Wael Ali called a friend saying his brother was missing, authorities said, but he had already searched the area where Wasel Ali's body was later found.


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Yellow is my FAVORITE color! It's so bright and cheery :) My
craft office room is painted a pale green color and is accented with yellow. When I walk in this room to do stuff I instantly feel calm. The green is so soothing and the bright pops of yellow aren't enough to make you go crazy!
This little project was super easy. All I did was recover the lids with fabric. I found the yellow damask fabric online and I LOVE it. I like black and white damask too, but this is a little more subtle. Here are a few more shots of the cutie photo, oops I mean storage boxes!
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Seán Quinn Jnr is to travel to Moscow to get statements concerning bank accounts held there by himself and other family members, the High Court has heard.
Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne welcomed that development and also welcomed news that Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, formerly Anglo Irish Bank, was accepting Mr Quinn Jnr's offer to sell his Dublin home.
Those were "two positive developments" in the efforts by Mr Quinn to purge his contempt of court orders, she said.
The judge was told by Shane Murphy SC, for IBRC, the bank had decided to accept the offer by Mr Quinn to sell the home he shares with his wife, Karen Woods.
Matters had to be addressed in that regard, whether via a charge or otherwise, counsel said.
The bank was also consenting to Mr Quinn's offer to go to Ocean Bank in Moscow and get statements from that bank concerning accounts held by Mr Quinn and other family members there.
The court was previously told Ocean Bank would not release statements unless an account holder appeared in person.
Issues related to the funding of the Moscow trip are to be discussed later between the sides in circumstances where a freezing order on Mr Quinn's accounts remains in being.
Mr Murphy said the bank considered it was not necessary for a bank representative to travel with Mr Quinn and it was the bank's position he should pay the costs of the trip.
It seemed Mr Quinn has access to a third party contribution to his legal costs, which was not from a company in the Quinns international property group (IPG), counsel added.
Martin Hayden SC, for Mr Quinn, said the monies referred to by Mr Murphy were not owed directly to IBRC.
The judge said the trip was a useful and positive development and the costs issue should be addressed between the sides.
It was not a matter for the court, she added.
Given the developments, Mr Murphy, with the consent of Mr Hayden, sought and secured an adjournment of the proceedings to 25 January next.
Mr Quinn Jnr was jailed last July for three months for contempt of court orders of June and July 2011 restraining stripping of assets from the IPG after Ms Justice Dunne found he was involved in a €500,000 payment made in late August 2011 to Larissa Puga, general director of QPU.
Mr Quinn Jnr's cousin, Peter Darragh Quinn, was also jailed for three months, but has not served that sentence and he remains at his home in Northern Ireland.
Mr Quinn Jnr's father, former billionaire Seán Quinn Snr, remains in prison for contempt.
The contempt proceedings were brought in the context of an action by IBRC against members of the Quinn family and several companies aimed at protecting more than €430m assets in the IPG.
Last week, the judge was told Mr Quinn is prepared to sell his home at Alder Lodge, Farmleigh Woods, Castleknock, Co Dublin, and give his half share of the proceeds of the sale to Quinn Properties Ukraine, a company within the family's IPG.
He was prepared to have the sale monies lodged in court, he indicated.
The bank sought time to assess the offer and other matters in a letter from Arthur McLean Solicitors, solicitors for the Quinns.
Due to court orders restraining Mr Quinn and his wife disposing of assets, they require court permission to sell the property.
In their letter, the solicitors said the couple wanted the court to defer the marketing and sale of the property until September 2013 to allow them some months "to regularise their lives together" as they had just married earlier this year and shortly afterwards Mr Quinn Jnr was jailed.
The letter stated the Alder Lodge property is the only asset of Mr Quinn's likely to achieve a value of $500,000, the sum paid to Ms Puga which had led to his imprisonment.
The letter also outlined the Quinns viewed the entitlement of IBRC to that money as "questionable" as IBRC had only a 15% stake, owned principally by relatives and neighbours of the Quinns.
Proceedings are under way in Ukraine in which IBRC is seeking reimbursement of the money, the letter added.
Notwithstanding that, the solicitors said Mr Quinn Jnr wanted to take whatever steps were open to him to purge his contempt and intended, with his wife's consent, selling their home.


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Most people already know that the Chancellor's pre budget report in October scored an own goal in its attempt to simplify capital gains tax. In the case of inheritance tax (IHT), a tax which given the cost of collection has more to do with politics than UK fiscal and economic need, the announcement of transferable allowances, for married couples and those in civil partnerships, has the appearance of a marginally benign, relatively pointless, headline seeking measure.
Actually it is yet another measure aimed at discouraging middle wealth individuals from tax planning, and likely if anything to increase the tax take. The discouragement can be seen from the undoubtedly more attractive proposition (at least from the survivor's perspective) that if a couple's joint estate ends up in the hands of the survivor, on the survivor's death a double IHT allowance will be available. No complicated trusts or loss of control over part of the estate for the survivor to worry about. The likelihood of an increase in the tax take is explained below.
Nil Rate Trusts
Growth in house prices and disposable wealth has meant that increasingly middle wealth individuals have recognised the need to tax plan for IHT. Many have wills which use the nil rate band for IHT, on the first death, by creating a nil rate band trust. Those who hadn't got round to doing that wrongly think the Chancellor's announcement means there is now no need to do anything.
Actually relying on the use of a transferable allowance rather than making use of nil rate band trust planning is likely to give rise to a bigger IHT bill.
Nil rate trusts work by slicing off the tax free capital on the first death into a trust established for the benefit of the survivor and the couple's other heirs. The trust fund is a rainy day fund for the survivor. To the extent that if it is not used, the trust capital will grow in value according to the nature of the assets in the trust – and it is a reasonable expectation that the growth will outstrip the official rate of inflation.
Depending on the length of the survivor's remaining life, what is moved out of the tax net on the survivor's death is thus likely to be an increasing percentage of the couple's estate.
Transferable allowances, the new measure, work by applying to the estate of the survivor the percentage of allowance unused on the first death. The annual change in value of the allowance broadly reflects no more than the official rate of inflation.
For example…
A comparison between two couples shows the effect. Each couple have a joint estate worth £1m. Each Husband dies now and each Wife dies 10 years later. By that time the tax threshold has increased to £600,000 (i.e. a 100 per cent increase) and each estate has become worth £2.25m (i.e. a 125 per cent increase).
Couple A made Wills leaving everything to each other. On second death the IHT bill would be £600,000.
Couple B have Wills incorporating nil rate band planning using a trust. The tax on second death and termination of the associated trust would be about £634,000, a saving of £25,000. The difference becomes more marked as the difference between the rates of growth increases.
Additionally the trust could have been used by Mrs B to make gifts to the heirs, which if made by Mrs A would increase the tax bill in the event of her death within the ensuing seven years.
So relying on the transferable allowance can be predicted to reduce the proportion of a couple's capital moved away from tax on the survivor's estate.
Its gets worse. The unused allowance is lost to the survivor if he/she remarries. Again, taxpayers encouraged by this new measure to think they do not need tax planning advice are unlikely to recognise this consequence.
Here then is the real point – what looked like a beneficial measure, even if only mildly so, is actually a wolf (well a fox at least) in sheep's clothing. Clever? Could be. Cunning? More like it. Politically astute? Well the jury's out on that one, but not judging from what my clients say.
Simon Leney is a partner at Cripps Harries Hall


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|Jan 201288000 mi
|o2 sensors front and rear replaced again - under warranty no charge
|Cadillac CTS in Virginia, United States
Mar 2014 - Mar 2015
|Mar 2014130000 miUS $875
|replace seals on motor head gaskets
|Nov 2014136400 miUS $528
|replace throttle boby
|Cadillac CTS in Massachusetts, United States
Jul 2014 - Aug 2015
|Aug 2015224000 mi
|EVAP solenoid is damaged Each time I fill in gaz, it won't start easily This is the second time I face this problem and the EVAP had been changed 10 months ago.
|Cadillac CTS in Indiana, United States
Oct 2012 - Oct 2013
|Nov 201289200 miUS $50
|Valve cover gasket leaking
|Oct 201392000 miUS $45
|Replaced crank angle sensor
|Cadillac CTS in Pennsylvania, United States
- Mar 2007
|Oct 200625000 mi
|Exhaust manifold gasket replacement
|Dec 200627000 mi
|Thermostat/Exhaust manifold gasket replacement
|Mar 200731000 mi
|Battery replacement, software upgrade, transmission o-ring replacement
|Cadillac CTS in California, United States
- May 2008
|Nov 200659411 mi
|Window motor
|May 200871000 miUS $400
|ABS wheel sensor
|Cadillac CTS in Texas, United States
- Jul 2006
|Jul 200648000 miUS $27500
|I basically bought a lemon. The car the first few weeks was awesome, had to replace the tires, windshield first month. Had to replace the brakes and rotors. Car has check engine light on, leaking oil and coolant. Just did the 100k mile warranty
|Cadillac CTS in California, United States
Sep 2013 - Jun 2017
|Apr 201764000 miUS $200
|Valve cover gaskets.
|May 201764000 miUS $985
|No cold air, Bad repair Job
|Cadillac CTS in Georgia, United States
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
|Oct 2015117000 mi
|Removed top of black box on side of transmission. Cleaned contact points with alcohol, replaced cap. Found this solution through web search
|Cadillac CTS in Indiana, United States
Dec 2013 - Mar 2014
|Feb 201493600 miUS $100
|Oil fill neck spilling oil
|Cadillac CTS in Quebec, Canada
Feb 2013 - Feb 2014
|Jun 201367580 miC $1300
|Grinding sound from rear differential. Changed 2 gears and pinion.
|Feb 201471920 miC $5200
|Transmission oil cooler in the cars radiator ruptured causing transmission oil and vehicle coolant to mix.The contaminated mixture made its way to the transmission and ruined the transmission. The radiator plus the transmission were replaced
|Cadillac CTS in Maryland, United States
Mar 2013 - Sep 2015
|Dec 2014172000 miUS $350
|Engine head gasket leak, oil leaks around valve cover.
|Cadillac CTS in California, United States
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
|Jul 2013150000 miUS $600
|Could not pass smog
|Cadillac CTS in Texas, United States
Oct 2009 - Mar 2010
|Nov 2009147000 miUS $1500
|valve cover gasket and sending unit leak, power gear leak thermostat stuck open throttle body adjustment
|Cadillac CTS in New York, United States
Sep 2010 - Jan 2011
|Dec 201055000 miUS $60
|Stabilization light flashed on and car had slight shift in rear end. Mechnic could not find problem. Did all test nothing showed. Returned after problem occurred again without turning off engine, still could not find problem.
|Cadillac CTS in Illinois, United States
Oct 2006 - Nov 2011
|May 200657061 mi
|Sep 200662667 mi
|May 200881000 mi
|Pinion leaking, sealed. Right tie rod loose, replaced. Front end link rattled, replaced. Painted rims replaced x2 (peeling) Solenoid replaced (P0128 code - bypassing solenoid)
|Aug 200883000 mi
|Right external mirror mechanism replaced (curb-view-while-in-reverse was intermittently moving to show the wrong objects) A/C compressor replaced (below specs)
|Sep 200884000 mi
|Transmission gasket leaking, replaced. Steering master cylinder/gasket leaking, replaced.
|Dec 200889000 miUS $500
|Leaking master cylinder and brake hose. Waited weeks for parts from shut-down GM plants. Seat belts no longer properly retracting - replaced. Bushing on stabilizer bar and front shock absorbers replaced. Thermostat replaced. Compass and external temperature sensor replaced because inaccurate.
|Jun 200994000 miUS $305
|Replaced right shock absorber - parts ordered 12-24-08, arrived in March, finally installed. Oxygen sensor, bank 2 #2
|Oct 200997000 miUS $697
|Replaced valve cover gasket, and resealed. Leaking oil had previously damaged the oxygen sensor replaced at last visit. O2 sensors cleaned and replaced. Same O2 sensor dropped a code on the way home - O2 sensor re-replacement pending.
|Dec 200998000 miUS $500
|Oxygen sensors re-replaced. No further codes.
|Feb 2010100000 miUS $1200
|Replaced lower intake gasket and PCV hose for the oil leak that continued after the last repair. Re-replaced gaskets as needed for access.
|Oct 2010106000 miUS $400
|A/C Compressor replaced
|Sep 2011117000 mi
|New water pump
|Cadillac CTS in California, United States
Aug 2007 - Jun 2012
|Nov 200782000 miUS $800
|Brake pads for 4 wheels Disks turned for 4 weels Brake fluid flushed and replaced Struts and Hinges on trunk replaced
|Dec 200892000 miUS $130
|Replaced rear window regulator and motor.
|Jan 2010101000 miUS $1500
|A few days after dealer performed 100,000 service car wouldn't start. Dealer claimed carbon buildup and cleaned heads and valves. Also replaced several sensors.
|Nov 2011126000 miUS $36
|Window regulator failed on passenger rear window. Ordered new part on eBay and replaced unit using the original motor. Repair successful.
|Dec 2011126000 miUS $88
|FM / Wireless antenna above headliner near rear window went bad. Ordered replacement online and exchanged unit.
|Jun 2012127000 miUS $30
|AC blew hot air. Diagnosed as bad compressor & condenser. Estimated to cost $1700 to repair. Chose to sell the car.
|Cadillac CTS in Manitoba, Canada
Aug 2007 - Jun 2011
|Dec 200746500 miC $495
|thermostat broken. Seal and thermostat on backorder, had to take vehicle back at a later date.
|Mar 200846500 miC $580
|Thermostat broken. Seal and thermostat on backorder, had to take vehicle back at a later date. Month: December 2007 outcome, ordered parts.
|Cadillac CTS in Pennsylvania, United States
Aug 2007 - Feb 2010
|Jan 2010145000 miUS $1500
|L/R Valve Covers Replaced/Regasketed. New coil pack. New thermostat.
|Cadillac CTS in Ontario, Canada
Jun 2007 - May 2011
|Jul 200733356 mi
|Rough idle: engine idles at 600 rpm, reset computer setting and seems to have taken care of the problem. still idles minimally rough but is not annoying any longer. slightly rough idle, brought rpm's up to about 750-800, seemed to help quite a bit.If it holds at those rpm's and computers don't re-adjust.
|Mar 200849786 miC $100
|Driver's side rear wheel bearing and both rear wheel bearing seals replaced after annoying hum coming from rear (suspected wheel bearing failure). Fixed under extended warranty (satisfied with work done promptly by dealer) Driver side rear wheel bearing, plus both wheel bearing seals on rear replaced under extended warranty.
|Dec 200966340 miC $980
|Broken brake hydraulic flex line on front driver side, lost all brake fluid,wait for parts ordered.
|Jan 201175020 miC $520
|Long time for heater to throw heat. Figured it was the thermostat. Took to dealer and got P128 fault. Thermostat replaced and intake manifold gaskets replaced b/c had to be removed to make repair. Decided to replace spark plugs also.
|May 201178120 miC $1300
|Broken left front brake line. Had to order parts. fixed under recall. Luckily was not on highway when line broke. Severe safety hazard recall. Had fixed at first other than dealer. Then to dealer for GM parts. Refused to cover expenses.
|Cadillac CTS in Bahrain
Dec 2006 - Dec 2008
|Jan 200773780 mi$80
|Throttle body replacement
|Mar 200775640 mi$250
|small engine cooler inside the engine leaked radator water, need to be replaced part cost US$ 180 labour charge US$ 70.
|Apr 200884940 mi$250
|Replacement of cranck sensor. Radiator repair.
|May 200886180 mi$300
|Window regulator failure
|Aug 200888040 mi$120
|Overheat problem, Mechanic replaced the thermostat, it took one week to get the part, no problem after part replacement.
|Cadillac CTS in Illinois, United States
Jan 2007 - Dec 2014
|Feb 200750000 miUS $761
|Rear differential seals replaced after spotting leak on garage floor.
|Jun 200854000 mi
|Trunk lid struts failed. Due to change in their design, trunk hinges had to be replaced at a cost of $500. E-mailed Cadillac for solution after returning home. Cadillac offered to arrange for dealer to pay 1/2 of $500 cost of repair. Dealer replaced trunk struts and hinges at no cost. Service manager said that it was the least they could do for a good customer.
|Cadillac CTS in Ontario, Canada
Jan 2007 - Sep 2013
|Jun 201190520 mi
|Ball joints on tie rods were worn out and steering out of alignment, totally expected due to milage and bad roads out in the country where I live.
|Cadillac CTS in Georgia, United States
Nov 2009 - Jan 2010
|Dec 2009110000 miUS $5000
|lots of electrical problems, cracked heads requiring engine to be rebuilt, currently needs head job again, transmission needs to be repaired, heater not working, back window motors gone!!! car from HELL!!!
|Jan 2010109000 mi
|The car ran hot about 1 month ago and it's a total loss now. The engine is gone! The car is currently junked.
|Cadillac CTS in New Mexico, United States
Nov 2007 - Oct 2012
|Feb 201070500 miUS $1080
|Oil leak from valve covers. Replaced gaskets. Coolant leak from water pump area. Replaced water pump.
|Nov 201075000 miUS $525
|Rear window mechanism broken, part ordered and replaced.
|Apr 201178000 miUS $930
|Rear hub speed sensor bad. Integral with hub. Hub replaced.
|Sep 201180000 miUS $373
|Replaced crank position sensor
|May 201284400 miUS $1758
|A/C compressor seized.
|Cadillac CTS in Florida, United States
Aug 2008 - Apr 2013
|Sep 200931000 miUS $50
|Steering Rack leaked all power steering fluid.
|Dec 201036000 miUS $345
|Wiper motor continued to run when car running. Had to pull the fuse in engine compartment to turn off wipers. Replaced the Circuit Board on the motor.
|Cadillac CTS in Manitoba, Canada
Jul 2009 - Jun 2013
|Aug 200968200 miC $100
|car would not start in the morning, brought it into the shop and found that there was spark and fuel so had to be a sensor. Crank sensor failure.
|Cadillac CTS in Tennessee, United States
Feb 2008 - Mar 2010
|Mar 200864000 mi
|Needed new water pump.
|Cadillac CTS in California, United States
Jun 2008 - Jun 2014
|Jul 200845000 mi
|Crankcase sensor went out. Lens on rear deck covering backup lights and around license plate came off in car wash. Broken, over $400.00 to replace.
|Sep 200961295 miUS $625
|Main computer module replaced Electronic Control Module
|Jun 201064000 miUS $5100
|Blown water line. Had a major replacement of all rubber under the hood: timing belt, water pump, all hoses, valve cover gaskets.
|Cadillac CTS in North Carolina, United States
Aug 2008 - Mar 2010
|Feb 201097000 mi
|Unexpected stalling. Required new transmission sensor.
|Mar 201097000 mi
|Valve cover gasket leaking oil when sold.
|Cadillac CTS in Michigan, United States
Apr 2008 - Dec 2014
|Nov 200979000 miUS $6750
|replaced master cylinder
|Dec 200979000 miUS $800
|replaced 6cd player, player only clicked would not play. dealer replaced with refurbished unit.
|Jun 201188000 miUS $413
|replaced rear window regulator and motor
|Mar 201393000 miUS $789
|Remove and replace thermostat
|Mar 201495000 miUS $770
|driver door electrics not working. Removed door panel, discovered plug not completely connected. Checked system everything works fine
|Jul 201495200 miUS $50
|replace gas cap
|Cadillac CTS in Ontario, Canada
Apr 2008 - Jun 2011
|May 200871300 miC $100
|Cranking signal for security system, electronic piggy-back harness ordered and to be installed this week. Also small oil leak,rocker cover gasket needed to be replaced and ordered, also warrenty.
|Jun 200871920 miC $100
|Returning security system errors after harness installed. I read the codes and it appears to have a communication error that may be caused by a power loss, it is currently working after the dealership cleared the error codes, however I expect same issue
|Jul 200874400 miC $100
|Trunk bezel fell off,attempting to get it replaced for free 05+. this was not a suprise I have been expecting it to fall off and smash, 04.5+ much better design of bezel,03 discontinued. Found used temp replacement for $100. not a big deal. love this car!
|Oct 200878740 miC $60
|Crank position sensor, cheap repair,common prob wit 3.2L,car wouldnt start,key stays turned to start by itslef then gives up,several attempts,let sit for 1hr car started and drove it home, next day drove to the shop and had it repaired
|Mar 200980600 miC $250
|Thermostat Steering position sensor.
|Sep 200986800 miC $1200
|Tranny cooler lines, rad, full tranny service filter and fluid. Lines broke off radiator.
178-horsepower 2.6L V6 5-speed automatic RWD
|Cadillac CTS in Moscow City, Russia
Oct 2008 - Jul 2011
|Dec 200839060 mi$1200
|Fire under the hood while driving. Oil leak from head gasket detected. Had to replace head gaskets, the cover, burned wires and vacuum hose. Waited 3 weeks for parts to arrive.
|Feb 200941540 mi$300
|Replaced head gasket covers.
|Mar 201174400 mi$320
|Generator belt broke in the middle of drive. The problem was caused by tensioner falling apart. Car had to be towed as one belt is used for steering, AC, generator and water pump. Do not neglet routine maintenance to avoid such a hassle.
6-cylinder automatic 2WD
|Cadillac CTS in New Mexico, United States
Jan 2007 - Sep 2007
|May 200731000 mi
|Right front driving lamp going on and off-dealer changed the lamp, did not fix the problem.
|Cadillac CTS in Michigan, United States
Dec 2006 - May 2008
|Jan 200738000 mi
|Rough noisy ride was first discussed with dealer in October. It took three trips to diagnose correctly. Brakes replaced, shocks/struts replaced, alignment, tire balance/rotate (not considered maintience)finally control arm bushings were replaced and seems
|Sep 200751000 miUS $105
|Replaced the trunk struts.


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When the expansion and renovation of the former Saunders Hall of Chemistry is complete in August, the sounds of bubbling test tubes will be replaced by the whir of elliptical machines.
A new fitness center, nearly triple the size of the current fitness room in the Scott Field House, will feature resistance and weight-lifting machines, equipment for aerobic/cardio training, free weights and a 3,000 square foot rock-climbing wall. In addition, the dance studio, currently located on the top floor of Kirkland Residence Hall, will move to the facility. The building will also house a juice bar, locker rooms and faculty offices for the Athletics Department.
According to Athletics Director Dave Thompson, the new fitness center is designed to reach out to a broader campus population. Situated near the gym, pool, field house and football field, it will be within easy reach of residence halls and classrooms."Fitness is a growing priority for students as well as faculty and staff," Thompson said. "We want to offer everyone an opportunity to develop a healthier, more fit lifestyle, and this facility will accommodate a volume that the current space no longer can."
Thompson is also excited about the impact the new center will have on prospective student-athletes considering Hamilton. "Especially in Upstate New York, access to high-quality indoor exercise facilities is a priority. The new fitness center] will give us one of the finest facilities of its kind in the Northeast and will definitely be a stop on campus tours. It will be something that prospective students are going to remember after their visit."


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ECRI's Round Table in Germany
in co-operation with the German Institute for Human Rights
12 May 2010
NH Hotel Berlin-Friedrichstrasse 96
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is a great pleasure and honour to be able to participate in ECRI's Round Table here in Berlin, and to have an opportunity to present and discuss with you some of the main conclusions and recommendations made by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) in its fourth report on Germany.
This report was adopted by ECRI on 19 December 2008 and published on 26 May 2009. Almost a year has thus passed since the publication of the report, but most of ECRI's findings and recommendations contained in the report are as valid today as they were then.
Since the publication of the report, we have learned that some of the recommendations are in the process of being implemented, although there are still some issues of concern. This round table therefore comes at a timely moment. We know that the German authorities are committed to the fight against racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance, and we hope that the debates and exchanges at today's round table will help the German authorities to develop their policies in this field further.
As already stressed by ECRI's Chair, Nils Muiznieks, ECRI's aim is not to criticise governments, but to assist them in dealing with the problems they face by proposing practical, targeted and reasoned solutions as to how these problems might best be solved. This is why we are here today. Many of the issues we will be talking about have parallels in other member states of the Council of Europe and we think that their experiences also have relevance to the situation in Germany.
Before I outline the main findings of ECRI in its fourth report on Germany, I would like to give some brief additional background information on how this report was prepared.
This report is based first of all on wide-ranging research. The report draws on written sources such as legislative texts, government reports and policy statements, as well as reports of non-governmental bodies. This research was followed up, as is the case for all of ECRI's country-by-country work, by a visit to Germany itself, which took place in September 2008. During this visit, another member of ECRI, Mazhar Bari, and I had the opportunity to speak directly with many governmental and non-governmental experts working in the field of combating racism and intolerance.
The draft report on Germany was then discussed at length at ECRI's plenary session in December 2008, where it was adopted and endorsed by ECRI as a whole. It is thus the product of an international body of independent members with expertise in the various aspects of the fight against racism and discrimination both in their own countries and more widely.
Against this background, I would like to move on now to the content of the report on Germany. This report has been placed at your disposal during this Round Table, and I hope that you have all had a chance to re-familiarise yourselves with its contents. I will only briefly highlight here some of ECRI's main areas of interest and conclusions.
First, let me deal with questions related to the legal framework in the field of combating racism and racial discrimination. This is one of ECRI's priority concerns in all countries. ECRI recognises that it is not enough to have a strong legal framework in place. But at the same time it is convinced that a strong legal framework against acts of racism and racial discrimination is an indispensible part of the arsenal of every state in combating these phenomena.
Germany is a party to a number of international legal instruments that can make an important contribution to the fight against racism, and this is of course welcome. However, in its fourth report, ECRI noted that Germany has not ratified Protocol No. 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights. This Protocol extends the scope of protection against discrimination that is provided by this Convention. ECRI considers ratification of Protocol 12 by all member states of the Council of Europe to be of the utmost importance, as it gives victims of discrimination a right to redress before national courts and the European Court of Human Rights independently of the violation of another human right or fundamental freedom protected by the Convention. Therefore, ECRI urged Germany to ratify Protocol No. 12.
Let us now turn to domestic legislation.
In the field of criminal law, ECRI has already had occasion to note several provisions of the German Criminal Code. These include sections 85, 86 and 86a, which deal with the activities, symbols and propaganda of unconstitutional organisations, and section 130, covering incitement to hatred and the denial of the Holocaust. These provisions are of course all welcome contributions to the fight against racism.
Less encouraging is the fact that, although section 46 of the Criminal Code allows for the motivations of an offender to be taken into account in sentencing, it does not expressly provide that racist motivations constitute an aggravating circumstance for ordinary offences. (By this we refer – unlike Holocaust denial and the other offences prohibited by the specific provisions I have just described – to offences such as assault and battery, for which racism is not already taken into account as an integral part of the offence.) ECRI expressed particular concern in its fourth report that, as a result, racist motivations may not be systematically taken into account when sentencing persons convicted of ordinary offences, whose acts were motivated by racist prejudices but who do not, for example, visibly belong to extreme right-wing groupings. ECRI strongly recommended that the German authorities make specific provision in the criminal law for racist motivations for ordinary offences to constitute an aggravating circumstance. ECRI is aware that there was some debate occurring around this issue in 2008, and it hopes that a way forward can be found so that the criminal law very clearly provides for heavier penalties to be imposed where individuals commit crimes motivated by racism.
As regards civil and administrative law, in its fourth report, ECRI welcomed the enactment of the General Equal Treatment Act as a significant step forward in ensuring that victims of discrimination have justiciable rights1 in Germany. However, ECRI noted that neither language nor nationality were listed as prohibited grounds of discrimination. ECRI recommends as a matter of general policy2 that the law explicitly prohibit discrimination on the grounds not only of "race", colour, religion, or national or ethnic origin but also of language or nationality. ECRI considered that, even though these latter grounds may in many cases be indirectly covered within the existing grounds, including these elements as part of the AGG would be useful, for example to counter the practice of advertising housing reserved to mother-tongue German speakers. It recommended that the authorities incorporate in the relevant anti-discrimination legislation all of the grounds referred to in ECRI's General Policy Recommendation No. 7, in order to ensure that the highest level of protection is afforded to victims of racial discrimination. It seems that language in particular has been at issue in several cases of alleged discrimination in the field of employment that have gone through the courts since then, with varying degrees of success.3 Of course not all claims of discrimination are always justified, but this is a point that remains of concern to ECRI, and we hope that the authorities will amend the legislation as recommended. I should perhaps stress that prohibiting discrimination does not mean that all differential treatment is against the law: it is only when there is no objective and reasonable justification for any given differential treatment that it will fall foul of the law.
I would like to mention two other points that were highlighted by ECRI in this context in its fourth report, and these are closely linked. One was the rather strict time-limits within which claims much be lodged under the AGG: ECRI considered that given the difficulties involved for victims in lodging discrimination cases, the two-month period for initiating a complaint may be too short. We are aware of one case in which the Federal Labour Court has since found that harassment had indeed occurred in the workplace, but that the complaint was time-barred.4
The other very important and obviously related issue in this context is the need to ensure that the new anti-discrimination legislation is widely known – both in order to deter or prevent discriminatory treatment from occurring in the first place, and in order to ensure that victims are aware of their rights and know how to exercise them. With this in mind, ECRI welcomed the information that the Anti-Discrimination Agency had published information on the internet in several languages in addition to German. ECRI nonetheless recommended that the German authorities take a more proactive role in raising awareness of the legal framework now in force against racial discrimination; to this end, it recommended that the authorities run an awareness-raising campaign specifically targeted at ensuring that potential victims of racial discrimination are aware of the existence and scope of the AGG and of the mechanisms for invoking their rights before the courts.
I know that the operation of the AGG, as well as discrimination in the field of employment, will be examined in more depth in our next session, and I look forward to hearing more then about how these matters are working in practice today, almost a year after ECRI's report was published.
Two other very important issues that were explored in ECRI's fourth report were racism in public discourse and racist violence, and, of course, the measures being taken to try to counteract these. Across Europe, a hardening in the tone of political debates has occurred in recent years, in parallel with a rise in the influence and electoral success of extreme right-wing parties. The success in local and regional elections in Germany of certain parties that express racist, antisemitic or revisionist views is worrying, and ECRI noted in its fourth report that support for such parties had increased in recent years. At the same time, incidents of hate speech continue to occur, including racist propaganda on the internet, and neither the prevalence of racist expression on the internet nor the number of Neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists appear to have decreased.
ECRI welcomed in its fourth report the considerable efforts of the German authorities to combat racism, racist violence, xenophobia and antisemitism and promote a tolerant society. It welcomed the fact that action is being taken at several different levels, including supporting victims, fighting crime when it occurs, assisting perpetrators to break out of extremist groups and seeking to prevent young people from going down the path of extremist activity. It also emphasised the long-term aspects of this fight, stressing that these kinds of programmes were likely to be needed for a considerable time to come, and recommending that long-term funding be provided to grass-roots organisations working in this field. ECRI encouraged the authorities in their efforts to ban organisations that resort to racist, xenophobic and antisemitic actions and propaganda.5 It also encouraged them to intensify their efforts to counter racist, xenophobic and antisemitic activities on the internet, and to implement measures aimed at ensuring the media are better equipped to deal with the diversity of present-day German society.
With regard to racist, xenophobic and antisemitic violence in particular, ECRI encouraged the authorities in their efforts to take a comprehensive approach, not focusing exclusively on the activities of right-wing extremists but also addressing underlying causes that may be found in society as a whole. ECRI also recommended that the authorities seek means to improve the application of existing criminal legislation to combat right-wing extremism and, more generally, to combat racist, xenophobic and antisemitic violence, including through training all the relevant actors in the criminal justice system on such legislation. The aim should be to ensure that no incidents of racist, xenophobic or antisemitic violence pass unnoticed due to an unnecessarily narrow interpretation of the existing law.
Here again, I know that questions related to preventing and effectively responding to racism will be examined in more detail later this afternoon, and I look forward to rich discussions on these issues as well.
Discrimination in daily life in Germany is reported in particular by members of the Muslim, Turkish, Black and Sinti/Roma communities. Black persons continue to be especially vulnerable to racist violence; they report that there are "no-go areas" in some Länder to which they avoid going alone, or avoid going altogether. As regards the exercise of the Muslim faith, ECRI noted in its report that – although there are some noteworthy positive examples – the construction of mosques has at times been surrounded by controversy. Muslim women have reported that, since laws were passed in certain Länder banning the wearing of headscarves in all or some parts of the public sector, it has, in parallel, become increasingly difficult for women who choose to wear a headscarf to find employment in the private sector. Muslims also report that, since the events of 11 September 2001, they have increasingly been identified in public discourse with crimes, and more specifically with terrorism.
There are more than 3 million Muslims from Europe, Northern and sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Asia living in Germany today, and until recently there was no permanent space for dialogue between the authorities at all levels and Muslims in Germany. As ECRI noted, the creation of the German Islam Conference (DIK) – still in its infancy at the time of ECRI's fourth report – was thus an important symbol of change for the authorities. The authorities' aim was to foster integration, counteract segregation of Muslims in Germany, and prevent Islamism and extremism. ECRI observed at the time that the exercise at stake was a delicate one: as much as the new dialogue between the authorities and Muslims could send a positive message to society as a whole, this message risked being obscured if there was an excessive focus on security issues. ECRI thus recommended that the authorities intensify their efforts to combat and prevent racism and discrimination vis-à-vis Muslims in Germany effectively. It also recommended that the authorities make every effort to differentiate, in their own work and in the messages sent to society as a whole, between the small number of Muslims who may, as in any group, hold radical views, and the vast majority. We are aware that it has not always been smooth sailing since then as regards the functioning of the Conference,6 but ECRI certainly hopes that dialogue remains possible and that common ground exists for moving forward and strengthening both the sense of belonging of Muslims to German society, and the openness of German society as a whole to Muslims, who are a part of it.
ECRI also devoted considerable attention in its fourth report to the National Integration Plan. It welcomed the authorities' recognition that Germany is today a country of immigration, and that immigrants should be encouraged to participate fully in society and helped to master the basic tool for such participation: the German language. It noted that the National Integration Plan represented a significant investment by the authorities in assisting the process of integration, and welcomed the authorities' willingness to devote considerable resources to this process. At the same time, ECRI expressed concern that the authorities' new and still evolving understanding of Germany had not yet filtered through to German society as a whole. ECRI noted that at grassroots level, the experience of immigrants was that the onus to integrate is placed very much on them – that only migrants were being asked to make individual efforts to adapt to the environment they live in. Some of the debates surrounding integration, including discussions on "parallel societies", may, at their worst, have contributed to creating an impression amongst migrants that understanding and respecting the German constitutional order is not enough, and that they would only be welcome in German society if they dress, look and think like the majority population.
The Chair of ECRI will outline in today's final session the key principles that guide ECRI's work in the field of integration, so I will just mention briefly here ECRI's recommendations to the German authorities in this field. First, ECRI encouraged the authorities in their efforts to assist migrants to learn German, and recommended that everything be done to ensure that measures taken to achieve this result do not stigmatise those whose mother tongue is not German or endanger their individual rights. It also encouraged the authorities to develop further other aspects of the National Integration Plan, aiming to support immigrants through measures in such fields as education, employment, health, sports and the media. At the same time, it recommended that the authorities pay particular attention to developing programmes to help German citizens be more receptive to the diversity of contemporary German society. Finally, it recommended that the German authorities keep under review the new, national, naturalisation test, in order to ensure that it does not have a counter-productive effect and to allow corrective measures to be taken if necessary.
I would like to touch very briefly on some other issues covered in ECRI's fourth report on Germany and that have not been selected for more in-depth exploration in later sessions today, but that are no less important for that. ECRI welcomed measures taken to eliminate inequalities in the field of education – such as measures to foster the linguistic abilities of children from the very earliest stages – and to fight exclusion and discrimination in the field of employment. At the same time, it expressed concern that children with a migration background continue to have significantly lower chances of success in the school system than other children, and recommended that the authorities take measures to ensure that children are not wrongly directed into lower educational streams than necessary. It also noted the existence of some discriminatory practices in the fields of employment and housing.
Finally, ECRI saluted the authorities' commitment to denouncing and combating all forms of antisemitism and to supporting Jewish culture in Germany, although it noted that even more intensive efforts may be needed to combat antisemitic crimes.
I should perhaps mention before I end that as part of ECRI's fourth cycle of monitoring, it has decided to choose three recommendations from amongst all the recommendations made in its report that are to be subject to a process of interim follow-up two years after the report is published. These should relate to important issues, should be feasible within two years, and should aim to ensure that measurable progress is made. They are intended, as are all of ECRI's recommendations, to make a constructive contribution to the fight against racism, racial discrimination and related forms of intolerance. In the case of Germany, these recommendations include:
I should stress that these interim follow-up recommendations are not intended to overshadow the full breadth of recommendations made in ECRI's reports – all are carefully weighed, and all are considered important to strengthening the fight against racism. Nonetheless, ECRI hopes that by implementing these recommendations, each member state will be able to make concrete and measurable progress in several fields that are important to the fight against racism and discrimination, even in a short space of time following the publication of ECRI's reports.
As you will have seen, the breadth of issues related to the fight against racism and discrimination is considerable. ECRI, with its fifteen years of Europe-wide experience in this field, very much looks forward to today's discussions, and, as always, stands ready to contribute to the efforts being made to fight these phenomena.
1 A justiciable right is one that gives a person access to a court (as opposed to a purely declaratory right, such as (for example) constitutional rights, which are often set out in the Constitution but without any mechanism for their enforcement having been laid down by law).
2 See GPR No. 7
3 See update on the situation in Germany, pages 11-13.
4 Federal Labour Court, 24/09/2009, 8 AZR 705/08; see p13 of Update.
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Denton police say five people have been arrested in connection with a home burglary ring.
Police said flat-screen televisions, video-game systems and even swords were stolen from as many as 13 different locations in Denton County over two months.
Investigators said detectives Jeff Laughlin and Mike Mayfield helped break up the ring. Police said they got a break in the case when a stolen item came up at a pawnshop. Officers were able to trace the information, leading them to four men.
Police later arrested a fifth suspect who is accused of knowingly buying the stolen goods at his resale shop in Trophy Club.
"He knew the guys were actually stealing it and taking the merchandise, knowing it was stolen, and providing them money," Officer Ryan Grelle said.
Police said many of the victims were college students. Investigators said as much as $20,000 in goods were stolen.
"They know that college kids are either going to have a nice TV, or some type of game system," Grelle said.
Chad Foxworth said he came home to an open door after burglars broke into his Denton apartment with a crowbar last month.
"The first thing I noticed when I walked in; I looked at my entertainment center, and my two prize possessions were gone," he said, referring to his Xbox and PlayStation.
Foxworth, who works at a Denton church, didn't have much faith when asked if he thought he'd get his stolen electronics back. But Denton police have recovered several items.
Grelle said the five men face charges of participating in an organized criminal activity charges, which is a first degree felony.


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Dan Savage and husband Terry: Remember, it gets better. Very inspirational words from the loving couple.
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CIA & Pakistan: U.S.-trained Afghans a special, well-paid ($300 a month) kill squad roaming Pakistan. Things that can go wrong? Nothing. No chance.
Gay Adoption: Florida's ban on Gay and Lesbian couples adopting children is ruled unconstitutional.
Text Censoring: T-Mobile blocks texts about medical marijuana – gets sued.
Forbes Rich List: Give these men a tax cut or else we're all doomed.
Preaching Hypocrisy: Atlanta Pastor rails against Gays and Lesbians. And then gets accused of coercing young men into sexual relationships. That's how these things work.
Joaquin Phoenix: Sorry Dave, I was just acting.
Mel Gibson: However it plays out in court, he is forever douchified.
Jennifer Lopez: Promising not to be a Diva on American Idol. Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson, however, can do whatever the hell they want.
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Mainstream closes €500m energy deal with S Africa
EDDIE O'Connor's Mainstream Renewable Power has finalised a €500m-plus deal with the South African government to build a wind farm and two solar energy plants in the country.
Mainstream has just signed off on the projects and will instruct its contractors to commence the schemes this week. It hopes they will be operational by 2014. The company will build a 138 megawatt wind farm at Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Cape. The two solar projects – each of which will produce 50 megawatts of electricity – are both located in the Northern Cape.
Mainstream, which Mr O'Connor founded after making millions of euro from the €1.8bn sale of Airtricity to Scottish and Southern Energy in 2008, has been working on the South African projects for the past four years. It will manage the full construction programme under the supervision of a joint steering committee with Texas-based power firm Globeleq.
The US company is part of a consortium assembled by Mainstream last November, which made a bid to build the three schemes under the South African government's first ever renewable energy programme designed for independent power producers. Globeleq is a strategic equity partner in the consortium.
Mr O'Connor said the deal reinforces the position of Mainstream in South Africa.
The commencement of the projects comes just as Irish businessman Pascal Phelan's Solar Capital vehicle also won a contract to supply electricity to South Africa's grid from a 75 megawatt solar energy plant in Northern Cape. He said Solar Capital plans to develop as many as 25 solar plants in the country, where the former meat processor has lived for the past 12 years.
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Originally announced in late 2006 and developed on advanced 90 nm CMOS technology utilizing 300 mm wafers, the LatticeECP2M are low-cost devices that offer high-speed embedded SERDES I/O, plus a pre-engineered Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS) block.
In the not-so-distant past, high-speed embedded SERDES serial I/O with speeds over 3 Gbps was available only on relatively expensive high-end FPGAs. Integrating this capability into a low cost FPGA fabric made this higher performance interface technology accessible to a much broader range of applications in rapidly emerging, cost-conscious markets such as high volume communications, consumer, automotive, video and industrial equipment.
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Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president says a terror trial pending against him in Baghdad amounts to a "preemptive attack" on a chief political rival by the Shiite prime minister.
Tariq al-Hashemi alleges Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki may have engineered the trial because he is mindful of Syria's uprising and wants to stifle political opposition in Iraq in case he is threatened by a similar uprising.
Al-Hashemi, who has been accused of bombings and assassinations, spoke to The Associated Press on Friday in an Istanbul hotel.
His trial was postponed Thursday as his lawyers appealed to have parliament create a special court to hear the case that could deepen Iraq's sectarian divide.


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Two underground Church leaders from Wenzhou, eastern China, received prison sentences in March, six months after their arrest upon returning from a pilgrimage in Europe.
Frs. Peter Shao Zhumin and Paul Jiang Surang (alias Jiang Sunian), vicar general and chancellor of the diocese respectively, were arrested on Sept. 25, 2006, in Shenzhen, southern China. They were subsequently transferred to Putaopeng Detention Center in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, 1,380 kilometers southeast of Beijing.
According to a report by UCA News, the two priests were charged with "illegal exit," and then sentenced in March. Word of the priests' imprisonment is only now coming out because of the concealment by the government.
The sources told UCA News that Fr. Shao has been sentenced to nine months, and Fr. Jiang to 11 months, as the latter is a "repeat offender." Fr. Jiang was imprisoned, from 2000 to 2004, for illegally publishing hymnals.
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An Entrust Gold IRA allows you to expand your investment options beyond stocks, bonds, and CDs, providing a better opportunity to diversify your IRA portfolio. These investment options include gold, silver, platinum, and palladium.
Unlike a mutual fund, ETF, or paperbacked IRA, a self-directed IRA through Entrust gives clients the flexibility of investing in physical precious metals - including gold, silver, platinum, and palladium coins and/or bullion. The coins or bars are purchased through a precious metals dealer of your choice and stored at a nationally recognized depository.
See the list of account plans that can hold precious metals.
When establishing a physical precious metals IRA, it is important to know the parties involved.
When you open your account with Entrust, we walk you through the process of establishing, funding, and completing your transactions safely and accurately via email, mail or fax.