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Mont Ventoux looms large over the 96th Tour de France, with everything tailored to ensure a dramatic finish on what the organisers hope will be a ?Super Saturday? in Provence.
There are only 55 kilometres of individual time trialling and only two summit finishes before Mont Ventoux. The Pyrenees and Alps lack the wow-factor, but there could be some hidden gems. This year?s stage to Prato Nevoso showed you don?t have to climb the most famous mountains in order to have a great race.
Aptly for a race that starts in the glamorous casino city of Monte Carlo, Christian Prudhomme has put all his chips on red, gambling that the race for the yellow jersey will go all the way to Provence. It is a risk, though, because a close race does not necessarily guarantee drama, particularly if the favourites opt to wait until the last minute.
What the Tour organisers want is four or five riders within two minutes of each other overall when they reach the bottom of Mont Ventoux. And the only way to guarantee that is to water down the opportunities to gain time. However, that?s not the same thing as saying it?s an easy course. Far from it.
Here is Cycling Weekly?s week-by-week summary of the 2009 Tour de France, including the stages we think that British sprint powerhouse Mark Cavendish could win.
For a comprehensive guide to all of the stage in the 2009 Tour de France, Cycle Sport Summer issue includes a full guide to the race, including stage maps, team lists and the favourites.
Cycle Sport Summer 2009 issue is on sale from next week, priced £4.10
Week one: Monaco to Tarbes
Week two: Limoges to Colmar
Week three: Martigny to Paris
Tour de France 2009: Route map
Tour de France week one
Monaco to Tarbes
For only the second time in the race?s history, the Grand Depart is in the south-east.
The opening time trial in Monaco is far from traditional. At 15 kilometres long, the first half climbs continuously to the high point at Beausoleil before plunging back down to sea level.
Then the race hugs the Mediterranean on its way to Barcelona. The second stage from Monaco to Brignoles is hilly and may slip from the grasp of the sprinters, but the following day?s leg from Marseille to La Grande Motte should end with a bunch gallop.
Garmin-Chipotle will be eagerly anticipating the team time trial at Montpellier. Britain?s David Millar and Bradley Wiggins lead a powerful team for this. for 2009, each team?s time will be taken as the fifth rider crosses the line and the times will count directly towards the GC, unlike in 2004 and 2005 when a bizarre time bonus system was used to limit the weakest teams? losses.
Perpignan offers the second of the two best opportunities for sprinters in the opening week. The sixth stage from Girona to Barcelona packs a sting in the tail, climbing the hill in Montjuic. Barcelona is the most southerly point the race has ever visited. Girona is also the European base for the Garmin team who, with two time trials in the first four days, will hope to take the yellow ?home?.
The opening mountain stage is from Barcelona to Arcalis in Andorra. The 2,240-metre climb at Arcalis has only been visited once before, in 1997 when Jan Ullrich won. The stage is a brute, but will tempt the favourites to wait until the final climb. It?s the race?s longest.
The other two Pyrenean stages seem to be designed to minimise their impact. The biggest difficulty of stage eight from Andorra to Saint Girons, the 2,408-metre Port d?Envalira, is at the start and the Col de Port and Col d?Agnès are not severe enough to do much. Gains will be wiped out by a 44-kilometre descent and run-in.
While the Col d?Aspin and Col du Tourmalet are legendary, they come in the middle of stage 10 to Tarbes.
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Tour de France week two
Limoges to Colmar
After a transfer and rest day, the race resumes in Limoges. On paper the middle week looks desperately uninspiring, particularly after a varied first nine days.
The saving grace for British fans is that there could be plenty of opportunities for Mark Cavendish to win stages and build a lead in the green jersey competition. Issoudun, Saint Fargeau (the smallest host town with a population of 1,800) and Vittel are all transitional stages in the traditional sense and will see the usual pursuit between the bunch and the breakaways during the closing kilometres.
Stage 13 from Vittel to Colmar takes the peloton into the Vosges. Although the Col de la Schlucht, Col du Platzerwasel and Col du Firstplan are not severe climbs, this is an awkward stage that could catch out the inattentive, as the region almost did Discovery Channel in 2005.
Although stage 14 to Besançon is relatively flat, it will be questionable whether the sprinters? teams have the stomach for the chase after three flat stages and a tricky run through the Vosges.
A first visit to Verbier ushers in the Alps. The Swiss climb is only 8.8 kilometres long, so even though it is one of only three summit finishes in the race, it is not exactly grandstand stuff. It?s not even as hard as this year?s Prato Nevoso.
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Tour de France week three
Martigny to Paris
The 30-kilometre Col du Grand Saint Bernard rises to 2,473 metres and comes right at the start of stage 17, a day which starts in Switzerland, heads into Italy and eventually finishes in Bourg Saint Maurice. However, it?s another stage where the final col, the Col du Petit Saint Bernard, is a long way from the finish, potentially limiting the impact it can have on the overall picture. The descent is 26 kilometres long, shallow and on a main road.
The hardest stage of an already hard Tour ? which features 20 climbs ranked either hors-categorie, first-category or second-category ? is stage 17 from Bourg Saint Maurice to Le Grand Bornand. A vicious start takes the riders over the Cormet de Roselend, before the Col de Saisies, two smaller mountains and then the Col de la Colombiere. Although it?s another downhill finish, it?s a shorter, more technical descent, making the climb more strategically important.
After neutralising the mountain stages, at least the finale is potentially thrilling. The Annécy time trial will be aesthetically pleasing and, at 40 kilometres, won?t allow anyone to win by two minutes.
After that it?s all about Mont Ventoux. Let?s hope it?s worth the wait.
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Tour de France route
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Tour de France 2009 stage list
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CW picture exclusive: Mark Cavendish in London
Brits in the 2009 Tour de France
Tour de France 2009: Week-by-week guide
9 reasons why Mont Ventoux is a symbolic climb
Analysis: Mont Ventoux to decide the Tour
Inside the Tour: 2009 race by numbers
Etape du Tour 2009: It's the Ventoux


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Beck posted a short clip and the album art from his upcoming single "Dreams."
Kanye's favorite Grammy-winning musician has forgone his recent melancholic aesthetic and returned to the ironic-loser sense of humor that made him famous. In a Facebook post published on Friday, the psych-folk-alt-rock trouper shared artwork from his new single "Dreams," as well as a fuzz-laden 15-second clip that could be pulled right off of Mutations or Modern Guilt. Festooned with confetti, a blood-weeping eye, and a trio of orbs that vaguely resembles organs or balloons, the moving, animated art harkens back to the multi-cover release of Sea Change, but without all the sad. Pitchfork reports the art is part of an ongoing project, which you can see more of at Beck's site.
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At 10 am eight of us met at Morrison's Fleet Ville, Graham, Carol, Helen, Jackie, Esther, Cath & Jill.
They were a happy and chatty group of riders ranging from all abilities. Four of them had already met and were familiar with the CTC, as they had been out with Rona on her Five Miles to Fabulous rides. Cath and Jill were new for everybody and were new to the idea of riding in a group.
We set off for Valley Road via Marshalswick, and from there we headed out to Childwickbury, down through the small but very lovely estate there and onto the Redbourn road which we pootled along until we found the entrance for Gorhambury park. It was here that we lost two of our company as they didn't see us turn in, but after a quick look around we found them and the party was re-united.
We proceeded into the park and as we passed the cows happily munching away in the fields, we were shouted at by an epileptic gentleman (or so he seemed). I didn't know that the park was closed for shooting every Saturday until January. So that put paid to the main part of my ride.
We made our way back to the entrance and headed down the Redbourn road to the roundabout then up the Hemel road to St Michaels Street, from there we popped into Inn on the Park for a cuppa. Then we made our way back to the start via the park and The Alban Way.
Although a short ride, it was very enjoyable and everybody had a great time. The next time I try this one will be after January as I think Gorhambury is a wonderful place to visit if you're not being shot at.
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For some, dream trips consist of long walks along abandoned, exotic beaches or a culinary tour of Italy or France or even a road trip across Australia.
For us, one of our dreams is to tour the homes and architectural marvels of Frank Lloyd Wright. Though we would hardly call ourselves experts on the topic, there are so many stunning examples of his work around the country it would make for an engaging trip.
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The United States' economy, the largest in terms of total GDP measures by purchasing power parity, suffered an economic recession during 2008-2009 like much of the world. However, consumer spending in the US has not been robust enough for a strong recovery. Consumers do not have the resources to spend, even with low interest rates, economic bailouts, and tax cuts. However, consumers spent more in July 2012 than previous months, leading to a hopeful yet reserved outlook for the rest of the year.
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The long running science radio show, Quirks and Quarks has taken a step beyond their normal broadcast bracket. The show is now connected to an interactive web page; and as such, is a Qualitatively new experience.
Quirks and Quarks and other programs are using Applications to improve the consumer experience. These new format are stepping stones towards Convergence.
The experience we are beginning to have on the net - via various applications that allow us to upload, download, link, search, and blog - are leading edge tools in a fast changing universe called Web 2.0.
Together the tools of Web 2.0 are sketching out a schematic that will define the convergence of all media into one.
What exactly is the Web 2.0?
Tim O'Reilly the founder of O'Reilly Media, Inc. - the people who coined the term Web 2.0 - says, " The Internet as platform is the sum of all connected computers and devices. "
If you think about that statement, you begin to realise that the consumer of the Internet chooses which nodes or pages to connect. You're the missing silicone(carbon) switch that chooses which of the billions of sites are linked.
What is Convergence?.
Convergence is the coupling of the web with all media. Futurists envision a single piece of furniture that is a TV but also a computer, a game station, a phone, a printer etc..
Here's how you can connect links to create a Web 2.0 media experience at Quirks and Quarks:
- First go to Quirks and Quarks; now click on 'Click here for our most recent program', this weeks show will come up; now click on the podcast for this weeks show. (The page your on will disappear and become the podcast window, so open a new browser start page and open Q & Q's web page again.)
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Soon, Quirks and Quarks will have a Blog, so while you listen, search, bookmark and take notes; you can also start creating; or start a discussion with other bloggers.
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She burst onto the music scene in 2003 and by 2006 her album 'Back to Black' won Amy Winehouse not one but five Grammy awards, with songs like 'Rehab' and 'Valerie'. Things went well for a while but despite her blossoming music career it seems not everything was peachy in Amy's own world. In a rollercoaster relationship her then-boyfriend Fielder-Civil, Amy turned to drugs and booze at every break up and thought the two were eventually married early 2007 but when it became clear Amy couldn't control her addictions, Fielder-Civil left her claiming it was the best thing for her. Sadly, the 27-year-old singer quickly deteriorated, missed or totally screwed up shows and was found dead in her London apartment of accidental alcohol poisoning
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Taiwan's largest carrier China Airlines has said it will increase flights to Japan by around 30 percent beginning from Sunday to meet rising demand.
The company will add flights to Tokyo, Osaka and two other major cities and fly to three new destinations -- Shizuoka, Kagoshima and Toyama -- to boost its weekly flights to Japan from 90 to 119, it said in a statement Friday.
The announcement came after Taiwan and Japan signed an open skies agreement late last year, allowing Taiwanese carriers to offer unlimited flights to any Japanese destination except Tokyo.
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Marcel Proust Quotes About FeelingsQuotes about: Feelings
When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within ourselves. It radiates towards the loved one, finds there a surface which arrests it, forcing it to return to its starting-point, and it is this repercussion of our own feeling which we call the other's feelings and which charms us more then than on its outward journey because we do not recognise it as having originated in ourselves.
I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.
... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.
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Controlling Construction Costs
She had no financial expertise--in fact, Veronica Klinefelt was a stay-at-home mom with a high school diploma when she won her bid for a seat on the East Detroit School Board in January 1998. But it was enough background to uncover a $3 million construction fraud scheme in her district that sent two board members and two superintendents to jail.
A clerk at a Home Depot store unraveled a pattern of fraud stemming from the Roslyn School District superintendent's office in New York simply by picking up the phone to see why someone was using the district's official credit card to purchase tens of thousands of dollars in building materials to be shipped to a private residence. And while he was asking, why did they choose his store 35 miles away instead of the Home Depot in Roslyn? When law enforcement tallied the abuses they uncovered since this warning light in October 2002, the bill came to $11.2 million--and again, several people are sitting in prison today.
These incidents shouldn't shock educators. After all, the construction industry ranks among the top 10 percent of industries known for corruption and fraud, says Michael Kessler, president and CEO of the New York-based Kessler International, a corporate investigations and forensic accounting firm. And for school districts, the ramifications reach deeper than the monetary losses. Businesses in Camden, N.J., for instance, are disillusioned that statewide school construction came to a grinding halt when its oversight group ran through the $8 billion budget before the jobs were completed.
"There were a lot of high hopes that with new schools being built, it would improve the reputation of the town, the housing and the commercial environment. They were looking to spur economic development that brings community pride," notes Timothy Duggan, the chairman of eminent domain at Stark and Stark, a Princeton, N.J., law firm that represents several of the property owners whose land is now on hold for future projects.
Of course, not all over-billing problems rise to the level of fraud, cautions Judy Marks, associate director of the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities in Washington, D.C. Her database spits out numerous articles in the past two years that detail disputes between districts and contractors, poorly organized oversight systems, and pure waste that socked it to taxpayers. "But fraud isn't a rampant problem among schools," she says. "I'd use that word sparingly."
Ironically, so does Mary Jane Cooper, New Jersey's Inspector General who delved into the Schools Construction Corporation records to discover what went wrong with this public agency the state government created to disperse and oversee its school construction dollars. She found plenty of reasons to shake her finger at the SCC in the report she filed in April 2005, "but we've really just found situations of waste and mismanagement rather than fraud," Cooper says.
Spotting the difference, she admits, is difficult. "Sometimes when we saw an incidence that looked like there might be collusion, we referred it to the prosecutor's office," she says. "When someone might be gaining from the system as opposed to just failing to know or do their job."
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Certainly fraud wasn't Klinefelt's first instinct when she began peering into East Detroit School System's working budget that was passed out to board members every month. She and fellow newbie Larry Burton simply wanted to be good stewards of the $30 million bond the community had just voted for. Health services in particularly jumped out--at one point, the line item amounts came to nearly $1 million--a figure nearly six times the amount allotted there for basically school nurse salaries. "We later figured out it was a section of the budget that no particular administrator was assigned to oversee. That allowed the finance director to run things through there that wouldn't have a principal looking at it and saying, 'Wait a minute,' " she explains.
She and Burton then asked for the contracts and invoices so they could do the math themselves. That's all it took to rip the lid off of what Klinefelt says she believes inched toward $9 million in losses. Among the paperwork, they discovered that under the building trades program, East Detroit's contract agreed to pay $2,000 per student per year. The invoices were for $2,300 per student per semester. In another line item, the finance director paid almost six times the amount budgeted, claiming it was because insurance didn't cover the loss.
A quick call to the insurance company revealed it was covered, and they did write a check--reimbursement that eventually found its way into private pockets. It was that tidbit that eventually gave the FBI the proof it needed to storm in.
What's more, the "uninsured" water-damaged gym floor at an elementary school was originally bid at $5,000. When the truth came out, the construction manager told the successful bidder to give him some blank stationery, which he used to doctor up a bid in the $70,000 range to present to the school board. The company owner received $5,000 for the job and $5,000 for the use of his paper; the finance manager and construction manager split the remaining $60,000.
"In our situation, any lay person actually going through the papers and looking at the lines would have seen something was wrong," says Klinefelt, now an Eastpointe (Michigan) city council member and mayor pro tem. "The two key areas are tight control of your finance department and your maintenance department. Because if those two guys are in collusion with each other, an audit will not pick up half of what they do."
Cooper's investigation honed in on a host of vulnerabilities for school districts:
Incorporate Checks and Balances
When Kessler addresses school administrators, he stresses "fraud begins from Day One. There can be bidding irregularities, theft on the job sites, questionable change orders, non-authorized transactions--you name them and they exist.
"We've seen luxury offices set up by construction managers with top-notch equipment that should have been turned over to the school district but wasn't," he adds. As his general rule, with hard bids, fraud will exist in change orders. GNP contracts foster general condition problems, where general conditions that don't belong to the school district are being included.
On the other hand, Cooper hasn't found any pattern in whether fraud lies more with the prime contractors or subcontractors.
And don't forget perhaps the most damaging weakness of all: human nature. Kessler currently is monitoring a fraud case in the Southeast where school officials could lay the blame on laziness. The contract required the contractors to produce itemized bills for every expense, but administrators requested they hold all that until the end of the job. "Meanwhile, the construction managers were just raking this district over the coals," he says.
Indeed, Cooper condenses New Jersey's problems to two fundamental areas: weak internal management, financial controls and questionable personnel practices; and lax and/or non-existent oversight and accountability. Klinefelt sums up the problem in just one word: cronyism.
"Before I understood what was really going on, I understood that there were unusually close relationships in this district," she says. The construction manager, for instance, was traveling with board members and the superintendent. The finance director had a picture in his office of a rafting trip he took in Colorado with the construction manager's sons. The construction manager himself confessed in testimony that he regularly dined with a superintendent and a retired county sheriff inspector at Paul's Chop House. "The more we drank, the more we negotiated," he reportedly said.
Certainly tales like that prompted Cooper's office to recommend New Jersey school scene enforce a code of ethics that requires board members to sign off that they have no relationships to either the company selling the land, any management companies hired to represent the board, or the prime contractor. Vendors, too, must put their John Hancocks to that no-conflict-of-interest agreement.
Stopping Fraud Before It Starts
Many districts set up a system where multiple people must sign off on a project, assuming these approval layers protect them from fraud. That's a myth, says Kessler. He once worked a case where six individuals were required to give permission and the district still fell victim. "Everybody thinks everybody else is doing their job, and therefore they just sign their name," he notes.
It comes as no surprise his solution is for school districts to bring in forensic accountants to manage the project. After all, construction is such a specialized field with so many key things to watch for that a CPA who incorporates construction oversight as part of his job doesn't really have time to do it justice. And with school building costs anywhere from $30 million to $50 million, he argues, it's certainly worth some money to make sure you're not getting ripped off.
As a package, project auditors do bring some impressive skills--they examine a district's construction firm to determine its choice of building materials, its crew size and whether its cost projections are inflated or unrealistic. Firms like Kessler police change orders, double-check material quality and inspect workmanship.
Cooper backs his advice. "I have lawyers and accountants that make up most of my staff and they all agree it is better to spend the money upfront in prevention than in trying to detect that you've been defrauded afterwards. That can be tremendously expensive, difficult to prove and ends up in litigation," she points out.
But that still shouldn't allow school administrators to abdicate responsibility to this person, says Cooper. Her office recommends also having someone representing the district on site, on a daily basis when possible, to compare deliveries to invoices and contracts. New Jersey had one case where the construction firm was to be paid at completion milestones, but the management oversight firm didn't always trot out to the site to confirm.
Districts should also require a provision in the contract that states they have the right to audit vendors' books any time they suspect fraud. Next, add a provision stating that if the prime contractors don't pay the subs within a certain period, they must notify the district. "That alerts you to the fact that something may be going on," she says, explaining the red flag.
Nor should you dismiss the multiple signature set-up. Among the most glaring internal control deficiencies Cooper found in her report was an SCC official's ability to unilaterally sign off on the approval and award of large contracts without board approval. For instance, a COO or managing director title could give a nod to change orders as long as they didn't exceed $250,000, or the CEO could approve a construction contract that came in under $20 million. Such sums create very large windows of opportunity for anyone tempted to help himself.
"Single-signature authority can lead to huge problems," she says. "You need someone to open the bills, someone else to record the money going out. You need a lot of different levels so that if there is going to be collusion, it takes a number of people and that isn't as easy as having one or two people agree to defraud the system." The trick lies in not making it your only defense.
"Fraud can never be prevented totally," Kessler says, breaking the bad news. "But you can certainly put up enough checks and balances that it tells people, 'Do this somewhere else.' "
Julie Sturgeon is a contributing editor.


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I once went on a mission to charm Sepp Blatter, the Swiss lawyer who controls global football. I was ushered into his lair and found the ancient autocrat on a sofa, surrounded by statuesque blondes of possibly Ukrainian extraction. Stumped for something to say, I went for the old chestnut.
"Mr President," I said, in tones of calculated self-deprecation, "how come England hasn't won the Fifa World Cup since I was two? France, Germany, Italy, Spain — all our European rivals, but not England. What's wrong with us?" Blatter figuratively stroked the white cat on his lap, and replied that it was very simple. The trouble with England was the Premiership, he said. You import all these players from around the world. It means that the local talent never gets the same attention, or the same investment. That's the problem with English football, he said, and then I found that my time was up and that the blonde Ukrainian six-footers were heading me to the door.
I was much struck by his analysis, and relayed it immediately to one of my colleagues, an ardent Lefty and lifelong Arsenal fan. I wondered whether there could be a smidgen of truth in what Blatter suggested. Perhaps all these intergalactic imports — Brazilians, Nigerians, Russians, Croats, you name it — were depressing the growth of our autochthonous talent. Perhaps we should have some rule — as Blatter suggested — to exclude these superstars, or to limit their numbers, in order to protect and bring on the native English players.
My colleague sighed with the impatience of one who has heard it all before. Don't be fooled, he said. The English Premiership is the jewel in the crown of global football. English teams are supported and followed by the entire planet. The Premiership is where the money and the sponsorship go, and of course Fifa is and always has been jealous of the commercial dominance of English football. That is why Sepp Blatter would like to see foreign players excluded from the English game — it's a cynical ploy from a rival business interest. As for the suggestion that English players are being somehow suppressed or forgotten, nothing could be further from the truth.
All the big clubs have massive and well-funded scouting operations. They have all kinds of junior teams and missions to discover the potential of inner city kids. No, said my Left-wing colleague, he didn't for one second believe that young English players would do any better if their foreign rivals were kept out of the market. Quite the reverse, he said. If anything, the foreigners helped to ginger them up and provide a high standard to emulate.
Oh, ah, I said, and accepted the wisdom of his judgment. I have been thinking about this argument over the past few weeks and months, because our number one priority as a society is to boost growth — and get people into work. Some readers may have been following the London elections, and will have gathered that we have fantastic plans to invest in transport, housing and regeneration schemes — projects that will cumulatively help create 200,000 jobs. We are building a platform now for a more successful and prosperous city in 10 and 20 years' time: high-quality family homes, a better Tube network, new river crossings, orbital rail; and we are addressing the immediate economic problems by getting Londoners into work.
The trouble is — as many people have pointed out to me at street corners — that London's formidable job-creating powers do not always seem to involve the creation of jobs for native Londoners. Go into any coffee shop and talk to the staff, listen to the voices on the building sites — and you will see how the city is working as a magnet for talent and energy from outside the UK, many from the countries that have recently acceded to the EU.
There are plenty of people who take a Sepp Blatter-ish line about this phenomenon. There are some who say the immigrants are simply too talented and energetic. I was discussing the problem with a group of journalists not long ago, when a Guardian man — a kindly and distinguished fellow — started heckling me. It wasn't fair, he suggested, that indigenous Londoners should be asked to go toe to toe "with Polish graduates". I see his point. I see the unfairness.
But we are forced to ask what is the alternative, and what is the best way forward for the young Londoners who are not finding the work that they need. I suppose we could try to protect them by constructing Blatteresque barriers and quotas — though we would almost certainly find that such moves were against EU law. But surely the best approach now is to look at every stage in the chain of causation that results in a young Londoner losing out, in the jobs market, to a contestant from abroad. We need to hear an honest and unflinching account from the employers: just why is it that so many individual recruitment decisions seem to go against young Londoners?
Why do immigrant workers seem to look at a job in McDonald's or Starbucks as a stepping stone, while some who were born here apparently regard it as a dead end? Is the problem just to do with pay and conditions? Is it really true that immigrants will work harder for less? Is there really a difference in the "work ethic", or is that an urban myth? One of my first priorities as re-elected mayor is to analyse and expose the roots of this problem.
I have already launched an inquiry into education in London, and we will now extend this to include all the failures of the labour market — all the reasons Londoners are not getting the jobs they need. We will simultaneously expand our apprenticeship programme by a colossal 250,000 — to give young people that vital experience of competing in a workplace. So far, 84 per cent have gone on to full-time jobs. But should we go for the Blatter solution, and haul up the drawbridge?
Against illegals, yes. Against talent, no. In football as in the economy at large, you don't make people more competitive by excluding the competition.


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the geneva convention only allows the US to do what they are doing in camp x-ray because these people are not part of a recognised army, nor a nation's armed force. so, if they have declared war, and as such are being recognised as some sort of nation (which they can't) then the US is breaking the geneva convention. if they are "non-lawful combatants" then its not war and is indeed "criminal action".
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hoorah for belgium! (and i'll be back over there at the end of the month) see, ~that's~ how it should be done.
none of this hellfire sh!t ...
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Originally posted by ultra_phoenix:
1) maybe this is your less-than-perfect english, or maybe it is your real opinion,
2) take a look at the rulings from the WTO, IMF and World Bank. take a look at how the CIA funded, armed and trained terrorists such as bin laden. take a look at how the US arms and funds the israelis, which then goes straight into killing palestinians. these are all things we've done - and continue to do - wrong.
3) we're not against our democracy, in fact we excercise our democratic right to discuss and influence the policies and actions of our leaders. i also think it perfectly reasonable for myself - as a british citizen - to argue with, discuss and try to influence, say, american democracy because we are supposed to be a worldly-wise global community of "civilised" people.


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Sure, no doubt, any time you can clear positive funds by moving from old to new, it is a good thing.
After the interesting release of the 6DII, it will be very telling about the 7DIV, 5DV and 1D whatever that should be announced over the next year or so, I suspect. It is just hard to see where Canon could wow us, vs just providing evolutionary products. Sony keeps trying new things though, but I am not a Sony fan. I have seen them try many things in the past, then abandon them, or just have products simply just fail with poor customer service. I have written them off as a consumer, but not as a shareholder.
When Canon's F-1 first challenged Nikon for the slot of the "professional's professional camera," (particularly the photojournalist's camera), most were wielding Nikon F2 and weren't sure Canon was really serious.
Through the 70s and 80s, some other manufacturers dabbled with their own versions of cameras designed to compete with the Nikon F2--the cute lil Olympus OM-1, the Minolta XK-E, the Pentax LX, and the Topcon Super D--that I recall offhand (having lusted for all of them at one time or another, owning the Topcon). Only Canon also took the step of providing professional service as well. I remember in 1978 strolling in to a Canon regional office with my new F-1 with an MF motor drive with an idea for a modification to the drive. The technician merely grinned and hustled into a back room, returning a short while later with my modification made...no charge.
It took, however, until the late 80s before the professional market as a whole really believed Canon was in it to win it, and that was after they had dropped the FD mount (curses!...at the time) and swept away Minolta's 3-year autofocus lead with the far-sighted all-electric EF mount.
And when I finally resolved to let go of my FD equipment, I looked over at Nikon...and was confused by their hodgepodge efforts at trying to gradually transition the F-mount from mechanically manual to electrically automatic. So I grudgingly admitted that Canon's "big bang" transition to the EF mount was smart after all.
And that is something Canon can arguably do again. Arguably, Canon can sit back and tinker in the background with their own version of a professional mirrorless system that will knock everyone off the fence again.
I dunno if that's what they're doing or not. It seems more to me that they're diddling around protecting their video cameras, or as a company much larger than just DSLRs, they're happy with other Canon divisions.


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WRITING FROM ARDFERN, SCOTLAND. — Was it Providence or rain that brought me to a sliding halt 10 years ago on a well-traveled Scottish highway?
On a nearby tree flapped a hand-lettered, flimsy sign beckoning to ``The Annual Ardfern Fair`` and to what turned out to be a very special place to stay in Scotland called Lunga House.


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It is very rare that I go to the movies and am enthralled from start to finish.
There's always something that could be left out, a part of the film that lags, or a character you can't stand. Even in the most recent Spider-Man, I was peeved at Tony Stark for the first time in my life. Or as I like to call him "Dad-Stark."
At any rate, I had the privilege to check out this end-of-the-summer smash, The Hitman's Bodyguard, and it was the perfect concoction of hilarity.
Samuel L. Jackson
The thing about Samuel L. Jackson is that his line delivery is impeccable. Some may call it cheesy or redundant because he essentially is him in every role he plays (and I'm sure most of the time, he gets hired because he's great at swearing). But, that doesn't take away from what a great actor he is, and how funny he is. Because he's honestly the most hilarious person ever. His character in the film, Darius Kincaid, is a wise cracking, super mouthy, deadly hitman who is being transported to a trial against a Russian dictator named Vladislav Dukhovich (played by Gary Oldman). Dukhovich's team is so strong, they try to kill Kincaid before he makes it from prison to the trial, which is where all the fun begins.
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Ryan Reynolds
I'll say it once, I'll say it again: Ever since Ryan Reynolds has played Deadpool, he has embodied the full attitude that Ryan can exude. Meaning: Ryan Reynolds has been Deadpool this entire time and we just didn't know it. Sassy, mouthy, and crazy. In contrast, his character Michael Bryce is very uptight and full of rules, but he's still a jerk, therefore, he plays into the same attitude.
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Put Them In A Car Together...
After Bryce's ex-girlfriend, Interpol Agent Amelia Roussel (Elodie Yung), saves Kincaid, she asks Bryce to get him safely to the hearing. You find that Bryce is not a run-of-the-mill guy, but a protection agent. I blame and thank Carpool Karaoke for this whole idea of putting superstars Reynolds and Jackson in a car together because that's exactly what happens next. They encounter messes along the way, and you find out they have more history than they realize.
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Supporting Cast
Though I much prefer the villainry that came from Gary Oldman in Léon: The Professional, he plays a sinister Russian Dictator very well. Looking at his filmography, it's not the first time he's played a Russian, or an evil guy, so they got the best of the best with Oldman. The other-gladhand goes to Salma Hayek, who tweaked her accent enough to sound more understandable, but also she dropped so many F-Bombs during her short time on screen as Sonia Kincaid, that you really did believe she could be married to Samuel L. Jackson's character.
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Solid Through And Through
The film has action, romance, hilarity, a ton of swearing, bombs blowing up, and some brutality that is crazy epic, but it all flows together so well, that there's not a part of the film where you're hoping it's going to end. You become immersed, and that's what a movie should do - immerse you to where you forget about real life for a while. Now, the critics are putting it down, saying it's a lame attempt to get chemistry out of the pair, but honestly, go see it for yourself and make your own judgements. This isn't a Scorsese, it's an action flick.
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The film opens today in theatres, and quite frankly, we need a great laugh these days, so go get roughly 2 hours of it with Jackson and Reynolds.
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Louis Pasteur's realization at the end of his life has, however, gone unnoticed by most conventional physicians and by the public at large. When a person experiences an infection, most people think that it is best to take an antibiotic for bacterial infection and an anti-viral drug for viral infection. There are, however, problems with such drugs. Besides the various side effects they cause and the various instances in which they are not effective, even when they are effective, their usage tends to increase the chances of infective agents to adapt to the drugs, thereby reducing the chance that the drugs will be effective in the future.
As Jonas Salk noted, instead of trying to attack a specific problem, another strategy to re-establish health is to attempt to stimulate a person's own immune and defense system, which is ultimately the approach commonly used with homeopathic medicines.
Most people today do not know that homeopathy actually gained its greatest popularity in Europe and America during the mid- and late-1800s primarily due to the significant successes it achieved in treating people suffering from the often fatal infectious disease epidemics that raged during that time.3 Cholera, typhoid, yellow fever, and scarlet fever were but some of the infectious diseases that homeopathic medicines were exceptionally effective in treating.
These natural medicines were not effective because they "attacked" the infective agent but because they stimulated the body's own immune and defense system to defend and heal itself.
Ideal Medicines?
There are no specific homeopathic medicines which are thought to be more effective than others in augmenting a person's own immune and defense system. Each homeopathic medicine is thought to be effective when it is properly prescribed. The trick is to find the correct homeopathic medicine that fits the person's unique pattern of symptoms.
For instance, Arsenicum album (white arsenic) is a very common homeopathic medicine. There are numerous acute and chronic conditions for which it is effective in treating, ranging from food poisoning and digestive disorders, to fatigue and various anxiety states, and to asthma and insomnia. Arsenicum album is not effective because it has antibiotic properties or stimulating or sedative effects. It is effective according to basic homeopathic principles because it has the capacity to heal those specific patterns of symptoms it is known to cause if taken in large dose. Arsenicum album will not be effective in treating a person whose symptoms do not match the symptoms that arsenic is known to cause.
There are various books that help people to find the correct single homeopathic medicine. This individualization of medicine is sometimes easy and sometimes hard. If a person does not know how to find the correct remedy or if this medicine is not readily available, it is often useful to use one of the various homeopathic formulas available to the general public.
Although some authors, including myself, have accidently described homeopathic medicines as immunostimulating drugs, it may be more accurate to refer to them as immunomodulating drugs (drugs that stimulate a depressed immune system and that tone down an overactive immune system).
Immunomodulating effects from drugs may be the ideal effect that drug companies and physicians have longed for. Ironically, these drugs have been with us for a long time. Indeed, it is time to further investigate homeopathic medicines.
1E. Davenas, B. Poitevin, and J. Benveniste, "Effect of Mouse Peritoneal Macrophages of Orally Administered Very High Dilutions of Silica," European Journal of Pharmacology, 135 (April, 1987): 313-319.
2R.G. Gibson, S.L.M. Gibson, A.D. MacNeil, et al., "Homoeopathic Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Evaluation by Double-Blind Controlled Trial," British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 9(1980):453-459.
3D. Ullman, Discovering Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st Century, Berkeley: North Atlantic, 1991, 39-40.
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This is the first, experimental installment of A Guy Recaps Lady TV in which Noah Garfinkel -- a guy who mostly watches CNN and the History Channel -- watches a lone episode of a television program geared toward women and recaps it. Here, Noah takes in an episode of the long running soap opera, "The Bold and the Beautiful."
First, it is important to note why "The Bold and the Beautiful" was chosen over other soap operas as the subject for this recap. The choice was entirely based on how interesting today's cable guide descriptions made each show seem.
"The Bold and the Beautiful" was by far the most intriguing:
Dazyee follows Beverly onto a bus! Why would she do that?! Is Dayzee trying to tail Beverly to find out something about her, or is she perhaps just trying to learn how to take public transportation by emulating what might be a street smart friend? I gotta know!
And I've always been curious about whether "The Bold and the Beautiful" refers to people who are both bold and beautiful or two separate groups, one bold and one beautiful, who are in some way at odds.
We begin. The first shot of the show is a close up of a fairly young Asian woman in an office as somebody says in an accusatory voice, "I saw you, Beverly!" So immediately we know this is Beverly.
Awesome! Now we know one of the people who will get on a bus! Already we're not as lost as we thought we might be. Five people are in a room accusing Beverly of stealing pictures of a fashion collection and sending them to a rival fashion company called Jackie M who then copied the designs and used them in a show. Apparently this program is about infighting between fashion companies. Tight. Beverly vehemently denies that she sent the pictures to the other company, but everyone including a woman who vaguely resembles Martha from Denis The Menace are skeptical.
We then cut to Jackie M and her son who, by the way, looks exactly the same age as she does.
They are in an office, talking about how they stole the designs with the help of someone from the other company. Jackie M says that her son clearly has an "effect" on Pam. Who is Pam? I don't know! But she's not Beverly! Beverly was telling the truth! Poor Beverly. So, so poor. Perhaps that's why she ends up on a bus. (No offense to bus riders. I take the bus sometimes too! But, also, I am poor.)
Then the opening credits start to roll. There are 23 people in the opening credits. That is a lot of people. They are each bold and beautiful in their own way. Question number one: Answered. We then cut to the mom from The Wonder Years. What a nice surprise! The camera zooms in as we fade into a flash-back of her drunk in a sauna with Jackie M's son.
Don't be drunk in a sauna, Wonder Years Mom! You're going to deplete your electrolytes. Then, by way of the flashback, we learn that Wonder Years Mom is Pam and that she works for the first Fashion company where she stole the pictures from them after slyly sneaking into Denis The Menace Martha's office. She just really slyly snuck in there. Like a super sly sneak.
She then gave the photos to Jackie M because she likes being drunk in a sauna with her son, who, once again, is the same age as his mom. We end up back in Denis The Menace Martha's office where people are still yelling at Beverly who says, "Why must I learn the same damn lesson over and over again, to trust ANYONE!" which is a sentence that absolutely makes sense. They tell her she's fired, and she storms out out of the office, passing by a secretary who is holding a telephone with his arm straight out the way any normal person would hold a telephone with his arm straight out.
The people in Denis The Menace Martha's office then start raising other questions about Beverly. The following exchange takes place verbatim.
Dark Haired Guy: What do we know about this girl?
Blonde Lady: Just what your mother told us.
Blonde Lady 2: I mean, if we can believe any of it... Miss Beverly Hills...
Gray Haired Guy: Yeah, that can NOT be her real last name.
Hahaha, probably not, Gray Haired Guy! From now on we'll call him Dr. Smarts.
Denis The Menace Martha then goes to Jackie M's office to confront her about knowing that Beverly is the one who gave her the pictures. Jackie M denies that it was Beverly. We then cut to Beverly at a bus stop. We're about to find out all about the bus! Her friend meets her there. It's Dayzee! The one who's going to follow her onto the bus! They get on a bus. Beverly then explains the whole story to Daisy about how she got fired but didn't steal the pictures. So they ride around and talk about that for a while... On the bus... It turns out that this is the whole extent of the bus's role in this episode. So, yeah. That was kind of an arbitrary plot point to put in the cable guide description. It would be like if the back of the Jurassic Park DVD said, "Scientists find a way to bring dinosaurs back to life; a fat guy drives a Jeep." Anyway, Beverly lets off more steam and makes an upset-on-a-bus face.
The Gray Haired guy and the Dark Haired guy from before then ask Wonder Years Mom to hire a private investigator to find out more about Beverly. Good! I would like to know more too. For example, was her last name originally "Hills-Cop" and she just shortened it to "Hills" to seem less made-up? Wonder Years Mom then calls Jackie M.s son to say she feels guilty that an innocent woman is suspected of the act that she, in fact, committed. She wants to be comforted. "Maybe a pep talk from my number one sailor will help!" she says like that's an okay thing to say. Jackie M's son says she can come over.
Back in Denis The Menace Martha's office, Dark Haired Guy, Dr. Smarts and Blonde Ladies 1 and 2 figure out that Beverly couldn't have stolen the pictures because she didn't start working at their company in time to actually do that. It's sort of a group realization, but obviously Dr. Smarts was doing the heavy lifting in figuring this one out. Anyway, they all feel awful. We return to Jackie M's office where Denis The Menace Martha is finally leaving after being convinced that the picture thief was not Beverly. She leaves and goes back to the office where she and Blonde Lady 2 decide to go find Beverly and apologize. Dark Haired Guy and Blonde Lady 1 then discuss how the company is in trouble now that all their designs have been stolen. Blonde Lady 1 says that Dark Haired Guy and his father will come up with new designs and everything will be okay.
So, apparently this guy is this company's clothes designer?
Yup, that's what you imagine when you think of a women's clothes designer. EVERYTHING CHECKS OUT SO FAR. Blonde Lady 1 then assures him everything will be okay, and Dark Haired Guy passionately kisses her. You know, just a nice impromptu passionate kiss, the way male clothes designers always kiss a woman right before they get down to some women's clothes designing.
We then cut back to Beverly who is still on the bus making another upset-on-a-bus face.
Then we're with Denis the Menace Martha and Blonde Lady 1 in a car on the way to Beverly's house. And then there was a promo for "CSI" while credits began rolling.
Wait, that's how the episode ends?! Yes. Yes it is. So, that was a weirdly paced show that ended very abruptly. What was nice about it though, is that it gave you every chance to get caught up at any point. You're never like, "Wait, who's this person?" because every line of dialogue begins with someone saying the name of the character they are talking to. That was considerate of the writers. What was inconsiderate of the writers, however, was to write a whole episode about a mistake a bunch of characters make that they realize is an easily resolved mistake, with half the episode still to go. I revoke my criticism of the bus being included in the cable guide description. That was, in fact, the most interesting part of the show.


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ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP — It was a small project — about a $14,000 job — the kind of routine transaction that goes on daily in municipalities across New Jersey.
But in the end, the awarding of a water-retention system contract by the Rockaway Township School District is raising questions larger than its cost or its goals.
The biggest question in Rockaway seems to be: What's going on here?
It all begins with a mystery over the awarding of the water-retention project. Initially, the school district said the winning price quote came in on Oct. 26 and was one of three that were reviewed before the job was awarded Nov. 10.
But about two months ago, township resident Tucker Kelley asked the district to provide the names of those who submitted quotes in addition to the winner, John Suckey of JPS Everything, who wanted $14,660 for the job. The school district responded with documents that showed Eric Caldwell of Caldwell Landscape and Miles Kuperus of Farmside Landscape also submitted quotes.
But when contacted recently by The Star-Ledger, Kuperus said he never heard of the school district project and never offered a quote.
"There was no submission from this company on that subject," said Kuperus, who, according to an Oct. 23 price quote the district supplied, said he'd do the work for $20,100.
Caldwell said he had been contacted by the Morris County Prosecutor's Office and didn't want to say anything else.
"I want to cooperate fully," said Caldwell, who, according to another price quote the district provided, sought $15,500 on Oct. 10. "I don't want to make any comment until I know what is going on."
After more inquiries, the district called the whole thing a simple mix-up. The school board said it regretted the inconvenience, according to a note sent to Kelley, the township resident, from district business administrator James Verbist.
District officials and school board members have repeatedly declined to discuss the matter. When asked about it, acting Superintendent Deborah Grefe said she would look into it. Three days later, she said, "I'm sorry, I have no comment."
The county prosecutor also offered no comment.
And the confusion continues.
The Star-Ledger, after inquiring about the discrepancy, was also provided with quote sheets, but they had names on them that were different from the ones Kelley had received a few weeks earlier.
Caldwell and Kuperus were replaced by Tim Sherlock, who sought $16,000, and Todd Armstrong, who sought $15,000. Both submitted quotes Nov. 2, according to the new documents.
Armstrong did not return several calls seeking comment, though his wife said he had provided a quote. Sherlock said he also gave a quote and declined to speak further.
But the names and dates on the paperwork the district provided raised more questions.
The district's purchase manual, written by Verbist, requires that a "purchase order rationale form" be sent to the business administrator, explaining the educational or operational need of each purchase.
Art Pierfy, buildings and grounds supervisor, sent the purchase order to Verbist on Nov. 6.
The form lists Grefe as acting superintendent, even though she was not appointed to that position until Nov. 14, more than one week after the form was signed, and did not assume that role until Dec. 1.
Neither Verbist nor Grefe would explain why Gary Vitta, the superintendent at the time, was not listed.
A purchase order report shows the district committed to paying Suckey on Oct. 31. That's two days before Sherlock and Armstrong submitted their quotes and more than a week before Pierfy signed an "acceptance of proposal," awarding Suckey the project.
Reached on his cell phone, Pierfy declined to answer questions.
"No comment, I'm sorry," he said.
Michael Friedberger, the school board president, has not responded to several calls seeking comment.
Asked to explain, Verbist would only say, "if you try to mix apples, oranges and peaches from various OPRA request responsive documents, you will be missing something."
A lot of drama for a project that involved digging a trench to move water away from the Katharine D. Malone School's septic system, and took less than a week to complete. The project was small enough to be no-bid. The only possible law being broken would involve changed documents, but no law enforcement agency has accused the district of that.
Questions were also raised recently about another small transaction. District officials previously have declined to discuss why it was necessary to spend more than $14,000 to sweep two board offices for electronic bugs. The Star-Ledger reported in November that Fitzgerald Investigations was paid $14,400 to check several offices at the district's building and the staff lounge at Copeland Middle School.
The wording on the purchase order rationale form for that project was identical to the one for the water-retention work. Both stated: "Goods/services received are part of the district's 5 year Maintenance and Repair schedule. They are essential to the daily operations of the district in the areas of health and safety."
The boilerplate statement does not appear to satisfy Verbist's own requirement for administrators "to put in writing why the purchase is essential to the school district."
The K-8 school district with approximately 2,500 students has refused to comment.


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Be Brave Ranch Treatment centre for sexually abused children denied funding
Canada's first treatment centre for child victims of sexual abuse—the Little Warriors Be Brave Ranch—denied funding from the Government of Alberta, told money isn't available
January 28, 2013—Little Warriors recently received a letter from the Government of Alberta, stating that $650,000 in funding for the Be Brave Ranch was not available.
"We are shocked and devastated by this news," said Glori Meldrum, founder and chair of Little Warriors. "We have been doing everything in our power to build the Be Brave Ranch for our kids. We know that the Government of Alberta provides funding for the rehabilitation centers for sex offenders, but we have been denied funding for the victims that are left behind."
On January 23, the Alberta government announced that it was awarding $30 million toward the $90-million River Valley enhancement plan to make the river valley more accessible for Albertans, and on October 6 of 2012, the Alberta Government announced it was awarding $5 million to CKUA as part of the Community Facility Enhancement Program that provides funds to not-for-profit organizations for their cultural contributions.
"We understand that the river valley is an invaluable asset to Edmontonians. I myself enjoy running in it during the summer months" said Ms. Meldrum, "But how can we give money to projects like these when there are victims of sexual abuse who don't have a treatment centre to turn to?"
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Three German climbers seized by Kurdish rebels during an expedition on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey were released last Sunday in good condition, authorities said.
The climbers, part of a 13-member German team, were abducted on July 8th from the group's camp at 3,200 meters (10,500 feet).
The PKK rebels have been fighting for self-rule in southeastern Turkey since 1984 in a campaign that has left tens of thousands of people dead. Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union consider the PKK a terrorist organization.
Cetin said the rebels were forced to free the hostages after being pursued by Turkish troops.
"They left them on a hill and fled," Cetin told a televised news conference. "Half an hour later, paramilitary forces picked them up."
Cetin said the climbers were rescued before the rebels could cross the border with them.
Read the full story on the International Herald Tribune Website
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