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|Front Crash Passenger
|Side Crash Overall
|Side Barrier Overall
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|Side Barrier Passenger
|Side Pole Driver
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|Window trim
|Front bumper color
|Mirror color
|Door handle color
|Rear spoiler
|Rear spoiler color
|Exhaust tip color
|Rear bumper color
|body-color, chrome accents
|Fender lip moldings
|dual tip
|Rocker panel color
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|Grille color
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|Roof rails color
|Roof rails
|Moonroof / Sunroof wind deflector
|Daytime running lights
|Front fog lights
|cornering, auto high beam dimmer, LED, wiper activated, auto delay off, auto on/off, self-leveling
|LED, adaptive
Tires and Rims
|Tire type
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|Tire Pressure Monitoring System
|Run flat tires
|Rear wiper
|intermittent, with washer
|Window defogger
|Front wipers
|speed sensitive, variable intermittent, rain sensing
|Power windows
|safety reverse, remotely operated
|Rear privacy glass
|Liftgate window
|Rear door type
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Comfort Features
|Center console trim
|leatherette, wood
|Cargo area floor mat
|Floor mat material
|Dash trim
|Shift knob trim
|rear center folding with storage, rear center with cupholders
|Steering wheel trim
|Door trim
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|Interior accents
|wood, aluminum
|Floor mats
|rear, front
|Floor material
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|Power outlet(s)
|12V cargo area, 12V front and rear
|One-touch windows
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|Reading lights
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|Power windows
|lockout button
|Courtesy lights
|Footwell lights
|Overhead console
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|garage door opener
|Push-button start
|Vanity mirrors
|dual illuminating
|Assist handle
|rear, front
|Center console
|front console with armrest and storage
|Steering wheel
|power tilt and telescopic
|Rearview mirror
|in floor, front seatback, cargo tie-down anchors and hooks, sunglasses holder, door pockets, accessory hook
|Ambient lighting
|Touch-sensitive controls
Air Conditioning
|Front air conditioning
|automatic climate control
|Front air conditioning zones
|Air filtration
|active charcoal
|Rear vents
|second row
|Rearview monitor
|in dash
|Cross traffic alert
|Pre-collision warning system
|vibrating steering wheel, audible warning, visual warning
|Autonomous braking
|Impact sensor
|post-collision safety system, battery disconnect, door unlock, fuel cut-off, alert system
|Active head restraints
|dual front
|Child safety door locks
|Child seat anchors
|LATCH system
|Energy absorbing steering column
|Body side reinforcements
|side impact door beams
|Camera system
|Parking sensors
|rear, front
|Blind spot safety
|Lane deviation sensors
|Crumple zones
|Airbag deactivation
|occupant sensing passenger
|Side airbags
|Knee airbags
|dual front
|Front airbags
|Side curtain airbags
|front, rear
|Side-curtain airbag rollover sensor
|Anti-theft system
|audio security system, engine immobilizer, alarm with remote
|2-stage unlocking doors
|Power door locks
|Side mirrors
|integrated turn signals, heated, driver side auto-dimming
|Side mirror adjustments
|power, reverse gear tilt, power folding
Audio System
|voice operated, touch screen display, AM/FM, HD radio
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|Hard drive
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|SiriusXM ready
|Smart device app function
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|roadside assistance
|Satellite communications
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|hard drive, touch screen display, voice operated
|hands free
|Real time traffic
In Car Entertainment
|Apple CarPlay ready
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|Instrument cluster screen size
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|External temperature display
|Warnings and reminders
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|Battery saver
Stability and Traction
|Hill descent control
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|Rear brake type
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|Front brake type
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|Cornering brake control
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|Front spring type
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|Front shock type
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|Front seat type
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|Seatbelt force limiters
|Emergency locking retractors
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|Front seatbelts
|Steering ratio
Drive Type
|Drive Type
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Montreal (French: Montréal) is the cultural capital of Quebec and the main entry point to the province. Once the largest city in Canada, recent years have seen it cede that distinction to Toronto. It remains a city rich in culture and history, has an inordinate number of attractive, fashionably dressed people, and a well-deserved reputation as one of the liveliest cities in North America.
Montreal is the second-largest Francophone metro area in the world, after Paris.
Situated on an island in the St. Lawrence River just at its highest navigable point, Montreal has been a strategic location since before the arrival of Europeans in Canada. A First Nations village called Hochelaga was on the site of present-day Montreal when explorer Jacques Cartier first visited in 1535. A hundred years later, in 1642, the tiny town of Ville-Marie was founded as a Jesuit mission, but soon became a center of the fur trade. After its capture by the English in 1762, Montreal remained the most important city in Francophone Canada, and was briefly capital of the province in the 1840s.
Prohibition on sales of alcohol in the United States during the 1920s and '30s made Montreal a mecca for cross-border fun seekers from nearby New England and New York. The city built up a seedy yet playful industry in alcohol, burlesque, and other vices. In the 1960s, an urban renewal drive centered around Expo 67. The World's Fair in Montreal brought a subway system and a number of attractive urban parks, and is considered to be one of the most successful World Fairs. The 1976 Olympics left a strikingly idiosyncratic stadium and many other urban improvements.
The opening of the Saint Lawrence Seaway in 1959, though much lauded as an economic boon, spelled the beginning of the end for Montreal's economic dominance in Canada. Once the transition point between western railroads and eastern sea carriers, Montreal watched helplessly as some of this business moved farther west, up the now navigable Seaway, to ports in Ontario and on Lake Superior. The Quebec sovereignty movement, which began to pick up steam in the 1960s, further chilled the atmosphere for Canada-wide businesses, many of which moved their headquarters to Toronto.
After an economic depression in the 1980s and 1990s — due to automotive and aerospace plant closures in the surrounding area — Montreal today has become more secure in its place in North America and the world. It remains a center of culture, arts, computer technology, the biotech industry and media for all of Canada and for the French-speaking world.
Get in
By plane
Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport (http://www.admtl.ca/) (airport code: YUL), formerly Dorval Airport, is about half an hour west of the city center on highway 20. Taxi fare to and from downtown is a fixed price of $35 (a sticker on the window behind the driver gives the boundaries of the zone where the flat fare applies; for origins and destinations outside this zone, you will have to pay a metered fare). The Aérobus is a shuttle running from Dorval to a station at 777 de la Gauchetière West about once every half hour from 7AM to 1AM. Tickets are $13. Alternatively, public bus no. 204 leaves every half hour to Gare Dorval (Dorval train station), where bus no. 211/221 can be caught to the metro (subway). This costs only $2.50 but exact change must be provided and the trip is about 20 minutes.
Montreal has a second airport, Mirabel, about an hour north of the city center. It has been exclusively a cargo terminal since October, 2004.
By car
From Toronto, take Highway 401 east for about 6 hours until it becomes Autoroute 20 on the Quebec side of the border. Highway 20 takes about an hour to get to downtown. Be alert for frequent speed-limit changes along this road. To reach downtown follow the Centre-Ville signs and take Highway 720 (Highway 20 continues over the Pont Champlain bridge to the South Shore).
From Ottawa, it's about 2 hours east along Highway 417 (which becomes the 40 in Quebec) to Montreal.
From Quebec City, it's about 2.5-3.5 hours west on either Highway 40 or 20.
From New York City, take Interstate Freeway 87 north through Albany and the eastern half of New York State for about six hours. After the border crossing near Plattsburgh, the freeway becomes Highway 15, which leads directly into downtown Montreal over the Pont Champlain — the most beautiful approach to the city.
From Boston, take Interstate Highway 93 to Highway 89 in Concord, New Hampshire, through Vermont to the border crossing near Burlington, where it turns into Highway 133 which intersects Highway 10, which taken west leads directly into downtown Montreal. The whole trip takes about 6-7 hours.
By train
Montreal Central Station is at 895 rue De La Gauchetière Ouest, one block west of rue University.
VIA Rail Canada (http://www.viarail.ca/) operates trains from several Canadian cities into Montreal. From Toronto, trains leave daily for the five-hour trip to Montreal about every 2 hours from 7AM to midnight, with adult economy round-trip fare running about $160. The train's first class car is equipped with WiFi service for those computer nuts wanting to stay in touch. There's also a regular train from Quebec City, leaving four times a day, taking about three hours. Other trains run to and from the Maritimes and various destinations in the Gaspé Peninsula.
Amtrak's Adirondack service from New York's Penn Station takes about 10 hours, leaving at 9:45AM and arriving after 7PM. The train passes through much of upstate New York and hugs Lake Champlain for a large part of the trip.
Amtrak also offers a Thruway Motor Coach connection from Montreal to St-Albans, Vermont, where the "Vermonter" service begins and runs through Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, to Washington DC. The full trip from Montreal to Washington is about 14 hours. Fares are competitive with Greyhound. Departs once daily, see schedule (http://www.amtrak.com/timetable/apr05/P55.pdf/).
By bus
Get around
Montreal is divided east-west by boulevard Saint-Laurent. Numbered addresses start there and increase in either direction; most addresses are given as "rue Saint-Quelqu'un Ouest" (west) or "rue Saint-Quelqu'un Est" (east). Many streets are named after Catholic saints and figures from local history, both well-known and obscure.
On foot
Walking is a favored way to get around the densely-packed downtown and the narrow streets of the Old Port, especially during the warmer months. Sidewalks are icy and hazardous during the winter except on a few major streets. Jaywalking is the rule and laws against it are not enforced, but be aware that drivers will usually not stop or slow down if a pedestrian steps out in front of them. Prince Arthur Street east of St. Laurent is pedestrian-only. A good trick for navigating downtown Montreal is to remember that streets will slope up towards the North.
By car
Driving (SAAQ (http://www.saaq.gouv.qc.ca/)) in Montreal can be a bit of a hassle. The severe winters take their toll on the roadways, which are either heavily potholed or subject to perpetual construction. Downtown traffic is dense, and street parking is rare and subject to byzantine restrictions and regulations (tourists are well-advised to consult with a local on whether a particular spot is legal). Many downtown streets are one-way, which can complicate navigation. If you see a sign at an intersection that has direction arrows in a green circle, that means those are the only directions you are allowed to go; many left turns are prohibited. Freeways can also be difficult for visitors, as signage can be somewhat cryptic or ill-placed and on-ramps are sometimes much shorter than elsewhere in North America. Also, there is no right turn on red lights on the island of Montreal.
By bike
Cycling and in-line skating ('rollerblading') are very popular once the cold winter weather is over. The city is criss-crossed by 660km of well-maintained cycle paths, including some which cross the St. Lawrence onto the island, such as over the Jacques Cartier bridge. Outside of these paths the potholes and generally rather manic driving style do not encourage the self-powered visitor. If one is comfortable driving in Montreal, one generally can feel comfortable biking there as well. While wearing a helmet is not required under the law, it is highly recommended. Skate and bike hire shops are common, particularly in the Old Port and the Plateau. Visit La Masion des Cyclistes (the cyclists's house) at 1251 rue Rachel Est for all info on cycling in Montreal. (See Do for specific bike paths)
By metro or bus
The public transit system, run by Société de transport de Montréal (http://www.stm.info/) (STM), is safe, efficient and pleasant to use. Tickets valid for unlimited use of the metro and buses during one and a half hours are $2.50, and available for about 25% discount in strips (lisières) of six. Tourist passes offer unlimited travel on the bus and metro for periods of one day or three days. They are available from most downtown metro stations during the summer, but only at Berri-UQAM and Bonaventure stations on the off-season. Transit passes are also available for periods of a week (CAM hebdo) or a month (CAM mensuelle).
The STM website offers a trip-planner service called Tous azimuts (http://stm.info/English/azimuts/a-index.htm).
For instructions on how to use the metro, see Metro FAQ at metrodemontreal.com (http://www.metrodemontreal.com/faq/basics.html#fares).
For a map of the metro, see Montreal Metro at Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro).
By train
Montreal also has a commuter train system run by Agence métropolitaine de transport (http://www.amt.qc.ca) (AMT), and many find the ticketing system rather confusing. Commuter train stations are divided among various zones based on their distance from downtown. Stations have automated machines from which you must purchase a ticket appropriate to the zones of the station you are travelling to or from, whichever is farther (e.g. a trip from Zone 3 to Zone 1 or vice versa would require a Zone 3 ticket.)
Trips in zones 1 and 2 can be reduced in price if you have an STM transfer from the city bus or metro. You must then purchase the tarif combiné ticket at a lower cost. In general, reduced fares (for students and seniors) require ID that is not available to travellers.
There are no ticket machines on the train. A security agent sweeps the train on occasion looking for infractions. If the incorrect zone is typed in, the customer can get a fine of up to $400. In some cases, incorrect tickets will go unnoticed because the security agents pass through only occasionally. In most cases the fine is $100. Instructions for paying are clearly displayed in French only. To further confuse things, payment procedures are often changed or updated.
An interactive map of the cycle path network is available at the Vélo Québec (Bike Quebec) website (http://www.velo.qc.ca/fr/reseaux_cyclables/index-MTL.lasso). Particularly pleasant places to cycle and skate include:
Montreal has a bewildering variety of festivals, ranging from one-day ethnic fairs to huge international productions running two weeks or more. They are generally held in the summer and autumn, though increasingly they can be found throughout the year. Here are some of the larger ones:
Sports to watch
Montreal has the continent's largest proportion of students, due mainly to its four urban universities. Montreal is home to one of Canada's oldest and most prestigious universities, McGill (http://www.mcgill.ca/), which many people refer to as "Canada's Harvard" (to the point that joke T-shirts have started to appear, branding Harvard as "America's McGill"). Concordia (http://www.concordia.ca/) University is the city's other English-language university and has over 30,000 students. Its student population is generally more multicultural than McGill's, and the school's origins in and continuing emphasis on adult education make it popular for mature students, since it still holds many graduate-level courses at night. The Université du Québec à Montreal (http://www.uqam.ca/) (UQAM) and the Université de Montréal (http://www.umontreal.ca/) cater mainly to Francophone students. The Université de Montréal is the second largest French-language university in the world, after the Sorbonne in Paris, and is one of the largest research institutions in Canada.
Illegal factory work paying around $7.50 per hour is fairly easy to find in Montreal, but painting during the summer and moving furniture in June can be better alternatives. McGill and Montreal universities are always in search of research subjects, and so are Montreal's many biotech firms.
Although Montreal's economy has been booming in recent years, the city remains remarkably affordable compared to other major cities in Canada and the United States. There's shopping for every taste and budget here.
Rue Ste-Catherine, between rue Guy and boulevard St-Laurent, has most of the big department and chain stores as well as a few major malls. Avenue Mont-Royal has funky consignment and gothic clothing stores from boulevard St-Laurent to rue St-Denis, and a mixed bag of neighborhood stores, used record shops, and gentrified boutiques heading east towards avenue Papineau. Rue St-Viateur is one of the city's most interesting streets, with its amazingly varied range of businesses crammed into the short stretch between St-Laurent and avenue du Parc. Boul. St-Laurent remains one of the city's prime shopping streets, more or less along its whole length. Just about anything can be found there, with different blocks having different clusters of businesses (Asian groceries and housewares near de La Gauchetière, cheap electronics a little farther up, hip boutiques between Prince-Arthur and des Pins, anything and everything Italian between St-Zotique and Jean-Talon, etc.). Rue Sherbrooke, west of the Autoroute Decarie, boasts an increasingly interesting concentration of largely food-oriented businesses.
Trendier boutiques can be found on rue Saint-Denis, north of rue Sherbrooke and south of avenue Mont-Royal. Rue Sherbrooke itself has a number of high-end stores (notably Holt Renfrew) and commercial art galleries in a tony strip running approximately from McGill University west to rue Guy. Farther west, Sherbrooke intersects with Greene Ave. in Westmount, which boasts a short but luxurious retail strip. Rue Laurier, between St-Laurent and its western end, is one of the city's prime spots for eating and shopping in high style, though there are still a few affordable spots here and there.
Furniture and antiques
On boul. St-Laurent, a cluster of high-end home furnishing stores has grown up in recent years. It starts roughly at the corner of rue Marie-Anne and is very prominent in the block between Marie-Anne and avenue Mont-Royal, with sparser but still interesting stores as far north as rue St-Viateur. Antique buffs will find interesting stores all over the city, but they'll want to make a special pilgrimage to rue Notre-Dame, heading east from avenue Atwater. Rue Amherst, in the Gay Village, also has a significant concentration of antique dealers.
Montreal has a huge variety of food options, from diners and fast food to low-cost ethnic restaurants to haute cuisine. The large local Jewish population has contributed local specialties including huge smoked meat sandwiches (beef brisket) and small, crusty bagels, of which the sesame variety is the most popular, poppy a distant second and all others decidedly marginal (worth remembering — Montreal bagels are best when very fresh). Other specialties are "all-dressed" pizza (pepperoni, mushrooms and green peppers), pizza and spaghetti with smoked meat, and Quebecois favorites like split pea soup.
No visit to Montreal is complete without at least one plate of poutine (possibly from a French word meaning "mess"). This unique dish is a plate of French fries drowned in gravy and topped with chewy curds of white cheddar. There are variations on the theme — adding chicken, beef, vegetables or sausage, or replacing the gravy with tomato sauce (poutine italienne). Every Montrealer has their favorite poutine restaurant where you can get "the real stuff."
Many Montreal restaurants allow you to bring your own wine (you'll see an apportez votre vin sign in the window). This may sound like a hassle, but you end up paying much less for wine with dinner if you bring it yourself. Note that if you can bring it yourself, you can't buy it there; conversely, if the restaurant is licensed to sell wine, you can't bring your own. There's usually a SAQ (government liquor store) or a dépanneur (convenience store, with a limited selection of typically inexpensive wine) nearby; ask your waiter. Your waiter will open your wine for you; corkage fees are rare, but don't forget to factor this service into your tip. In some cases, you may be able to bring beer instead of wine, but check first — it's not a given.
To buy your own food or regional products, the Jean-Talon public market, 7075 avenue Casgrain (metro Jean-Talon or De Castelnau), is the place to go. Open daily from 8 AM to 6 PM. The Jean-Talon market is especially noteworthy for its selection of produce; though not strictly part of the market, the many stores lining it on the north and south sides complete it wonderfully with superb selections of cheese, meat and just about anything edible. In particular, a store specializing in Quebec products (Produits du terroir), Le Marché des Saveurs, is located near the southeast corner of the market. On the north side, Fromagerie Hamel has a terrific selection of cheeses. The surrounding streets are heavily Italian-flavored and feature a number of excellent grocery stores, butchers, bakeries and restaurants. Across town, the Atwater Market is also superb, though quite different from (and much smaller than) Jean-Talon. Here, you'll find the city's best butchers, as well as good selections of cheese, fish and produce. Located on avenue Atwater, just south of rue Notre-Dame (metro Lionel-Groulx).
Restaurants lie thick on the ground in Montreal. Here is a very small sampling:
Separate bills are common, and you may be asked ensemble ou séparément? (together or separately?) The standard tip for acceptable restaurant service is 15%, and is not included. The calculation is done for you, though, since sales taxes are 15% and will be shown on your check.
Never call a waiter "garçon"! Use "monsieur" or "madame".
Quality wine and liquor can only be purchased at SAQ shops, most of which are open until 6pm Sunday - Wednesday and 8 or 9pm on weekends; the smaller SAQ Express outlets are open daily from 11am to 10pm, but selection is restricted to the SAQ's most popular items. Beer, and a small selection of lower-quality so-called "dep wine" (not what you'd usually bring to a dinner party, but sometimes drinkable — it's plonk that has been imported in bulk and bottled and sometimes blended in Quebec) can be purchased at corner stores and supermarkets. All retail alcohol sales stop at 11pm and bars and clubs stop serving at 3am.
Montrealers are largely unaware of how blessed they are by the selection of beer to be found in the humble corner store. Two local breweries in particular are world-class: McAuslan (brands include St-Ambroise and Griffon) and Unibroue (Belgian-style ales such as Maudite, La Fin du Monde, etc.; the U and U2 lagers are rather ordinary). Boréale also makes a good if unspectacular range of brews. Other micros and imports jostle for shelf space with the mass-market stuff; visitors with the time and inclination would do well to sample and to shop around a little, as selection will vary from store to store. The SAQ does not carry domestic beer, and generally has few imports that can't be found elsewhere. Again, selection varies by outlet, so it can pay to shop around, but in general the SAQ is simply not the place to buy beer.
Note - The SAQ Stores Are Divided Into Catagories.
Some types of Alcohol will only be available in certain stores.
Montreal has three main strips for bar-hopping. rue Crescent, just west of downtown, caters mostly to Anglophones and tourists. It tends to be trendy and expensive. boulevard Saint-Laurent, especially between rue Sherbrooke and avenue des Pins, has trendy clubs and bars with more of a Francophone clientele. Farther up St-Laurent it's relatively downscale and linguistically mixed. rue St-Denis between Sherbrooke and de Maisonneuve is the strip with the strongest Francophone feel. There are also many good bars away from the main strips — you should never have to line up to go have a drink, because there's virtually unlimited choice.
Dance Clubs
Dance clubs are often found all over the downtown area, hotspots being on st. laurent and crescent streets. Last call is 3 am for serving alcohol.
After Hours Clubs: 2am-10am, no alcohol
Gay and lesbian
Montreal is an extremely inviting destination for gay and lesbian tourists (http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/B2C/00/default.asp?TitleBarItem=6), and it is arguably the most gay-friendly city in North America. Canada's contributions to gay rights have recently become widely known, but Quebec was the first province in Canada to pass a non-discrimination law for sexual orientation and to provide same-sex civil unions. Same-sex marriage is legal in Quebec (neither residency nor citizenship are required for a marriage licence, but there is a three-week waiting period after you receive the licence). Canadian and Quebec immigration law allow residents to sponsor their same-sex partners or spouses.
Montreal itself is a very safe, open, and inviting city. It has the largest gay village (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Village,_Montreal) in North America (rue Sainte-Catherine from rue Saint-Hubert to av. Papineau - metro Beaudry, whose entrance is marked with rainbow pillars). Montreal's pride celebration, Divers-Cité (last week of July, first week of August) is the second-largest in North America after Toronto's.
Montreal has as many gay and lesbian bars as San Francisco, and every October on Canadian Thanksgiving (Columbus Day in the US) hosts the Black and Blue circuit party, attracting thousands to enjoy the thrill of harder dance music and hordes of pretty, shirtless men.
Trendy gay establishments include Unity (Ste-Catherine and Montcalm), Sky (Sainte-Catherine and Alexandre-de-Sève), and Parking (Ste-Catherine and Amherst), all in the Village. Le Drugstore (1366 Ste-Catherine)is more casual and attracts a large lesbian clientele for happy hour on Fridays.
Bars catering to a male leather clientele include Stud (Sainte-Catherine and Papineau - not exclusively leather) and Aigle Noir (Sainte-Catherine and Panet).
Cabaret Mado (Sainte-Catherine and Wolfe) is a drag show with outrageous spectacles every night, run by the city's chief drag queen, Mado Lamotte.
Outside the Village, gay bars include Agora (René-Lévesque and Mackay, metro Lucien-L'Allier) and Mystique (Stanley between Sainte-Catherine and De Maisonneuve, metro Peel), both quiet, friendly neighbourhood bars in the west end of downtown.
To find out everything about what's going on, pick up a copy of Fugues, the free monthly gay magazine with a complete listing of what's on where. You can get it at Priape, the gay sex shop and unofficial information clearinghouse in the Village on Sainte-Catherine between de la Visitation and Panet. Fugues is in French; if you don't read French, ask the staff at Priape for help.
Photocopy shops often have internet terminals available, as do many cafés and some bookstores. The Bell phone company has installed public internet terminals (cash or cr cards) in McGill and Berri-UQAM metro stations; there is also a long-standing internet café (minus the café part) at mezzanine level in the rue Guy entrance of Guy-Concordia metro. The Grande Bibliothèque de Montréal (http://www.bnquebec.ca/) (corner of Berri and de Maisonneuve — direct access via Berri-UQAM metro stations) has many internet terminals; a library card (free to Quebec residents with proof of address) is required, but visitors can get free temporary access by asking a librarian.
Internet Coffee shops are becomming more and more popular in Montreal. The organization Île Sans Fil (http://www.ilesansfil.org/tiki-index.php) provides free wireless Internet in cafes and other locations throughout the city. If you are on the South Shore of Montreal and are equipped with a laptop, Zeeba Booksoffers (http://www.zeebabooks.com/) free wireless Internet. There are also two Internet stations available, not to mention cheap paperbacks and great cappuccino. Check the website for directions. Mention that you are from out of town and the owner will probably offer a free coffee.
Stay safe
Although Montreal is Canada's second largest city and has some problems with crime, it shares Canada's low crime rates; therefore, problems are unlikely. A traveller's usual common sense will suffice.
For emergencies call 9-1-1.
Muggers and pickpockets
If muggings or pickpocketing were to occur, the metro system would be their most likely location. If this concerns you, police would advise you to use the first metro car where the driver is. Emergency intercoms are on every metro car. Emergency phone booths are on every platform throughout the metro system. Pickpockets have been known to stand in line at fast food restaurants and other crowded locations.
The homeless
Although Montreal has seen homelessness decrease greatly in tandem with the city's economic renewal, the homeless remain a visible presence on the streets of the city. Most of those you may see begging are harmless. They sleep downtown with their hand open, or quietly ask for change and politely accept donations or take "no" for an answer. The top of metro station escalators downtown are a favoured local for these individuals. In some rare cases they may walk with you, talking friendly, and eventually ask for change. If they are pushy or obviously intoxicated, say no firmly; they will then leave you alone.
Strip clubs and prostitution
Montreal is know as the strip(or genltleman's) club capital of Canada. The city has over 30 strip clubs in the downtown area alone. The strip clubs in Montreal are unique in that the majority of them offer full contact lap dances. Full-contact lap dances are legal in the province of Quebec as of 2001. During full-contact lap dances, patrons are allowed to touch the dancers as long as the dances are private. Strip clubs in Montreal are either categorized as full-contact or non-contact.
The strip clubs in Montreal operated differently than U.S. strip clubs. In Montreal the exotic dancers are mostly independent workers, not house dancers. Due to this, the exotic dancers are free to work at a variety of strip clubs, and often do. Unlike U.S. exotic dancers, those working in Montreal retain all of the revenues from their performances; gratuity is not expected.
Street prostitution is visible in evenings in the area around the corner of Sainte-Catherine and Saint-Laurent and north of the gay village.
Quebec is renowned for its aggressive drivers. Drivers are quite assertive on the highway. Lane changes often occur without signalling. The slow lanes will be very slow and the fast lanes are not for the faint of heart or light of foot. Accelerating and decelerating can occur rapidly so prudence should be used. Pedestrians are equally assertive when crossing the street, especially downtown. They generally expect oncoming drivers to slow down, and are usually disappointed. Oddly enough, according to the Canadian Automobile Association, rates of traffic accidents are not overly high in Montreal. On the entire island of Montreal, right on red is illegal.
Also, potholes are a fairly common sight on Montreal roads, so be prudent and leave enough space between a car in front of yours. Another thing to remember while driving in Montreal and the rest of Quebec is that mostly all street signs are in French. Some important translations to remember are:
nord (N) - north, sud (S) - south, ouest (O) - west, est (E) - east,
Roadsigns, Highway signs:
arrêt - stop cédez - yield sortie - exit rue - street chemin (Ch.) - drive autoroute (Aut.) - highway échange (Ech.) - interchange jonction (JCT) - junction pont - bridge
On the major Montreal highways, there are illuminated placards with messages regarding the traffic conditions approaching. In the greater Montreal area, they display messages both in French and English.
Car thefts
Montreal has been touted as car-theft capital of Canada. 24,088 cars were stolen in Montreal in 2002; a rate of 7 cars per 1000 persons.
As in the rest of Quebec, language politics and nationalism are contentious issues in Montreal.
In general, Francophones, Anglophones, and Allophones (those whose first language is neither English nor French) get along in Montreal without difficulty. Nevertheless, consideration should be used when interacting with French-speakers. A few may feel offended if you begin the conversation in English, so it is best to be apologetic or to start conversations with a polite "Parlez-vous anglais?" ("Do you speak English?"). In particular, loudly insisting that someone speak English to you is seen as very offensive even by those who might otherwise be willing to help you.
Conversely any attempt to speak French, no matter how terrible, is appreciated. Learning some key French words for your trip to Montreal would be a good idea. In most cases if a bilingual French person sees that you do not speak French fluently, they will readily switch to English or listen patiently.
Remember, there is a significant percentage of Montrealers who actually do not understand English; they are not refusing to speak English to you - they truly can't. Service personnel may fall into any of these categories, so don't be surprised if a public employee cannot speak English at all. Quebec law states that employees must be able to address customers in French; English is permitted but not legislated. Practically any business in downtown Montreal, especially west of Boulevard St-Laurent, will be able to serve you in English. Montreal is a very popular tourist destination for people from the US and the rest of Canada, and staff at tourist attractions are perhaps the most likely to speak English. A small number of Allophones speak neither French nor English, but will probably not be encountered except in Chinatown.
Federal employees (for example, customs officials, employees of national historic sites, or postal workers) speak both official languages as a rule. (However, don't be fooled by the word "national," which may well indicate a Quebec government institution.)
It would probably be best for you not to start any conversations regarding the "national question" (the Constitution, sovereignty, and Quebec language policies) in order to stay out of hot water.
See also Quebec#Language and Quebec#Respect.
Get out
Montreal makes an excellent entryway for visiting other cities and destinations in Quebec. Quebec City, about 3 hours to the north east on Highway 40, is almost but not quite a day trip — you'll want to stay over, anyway. Mont Tremblant lies less than 2 hours north in the Laurentides, while the Eastern Townships are about the same distance straight east. If you're continuing to Ontario, Ottawa is 2 hours west by car, and Toronto is more distant, but still doable, 6 hour drives. Boston is a five and a half hour drive to the southeast. A really nice resort is located 1.5-2 hours west in the countryside of Quebec, known as Chateau Montebello, located in Montebello.
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This is so annoying like a headache especially with the legal experts from both teams screaming on TV channels that they are the right and the other team is wrong.
Al Jazeera Mubshar Misr claims that Morsi will address the nation tonight yet hours later of its announcement the official spokesperson of Morsi ,Yasser Ali denied the news !!
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A recent BBC article, Clash of the titans: Email v social media by Fiona Graham (Nov 25, 2011) falls solidly and flatly in the "He said, she said" camp of reporting.
Ping ponging back and forth between experts on social media — Zuckerberg is pictured with his vision of better messaging's somewhat redundant six points — informal, immediate, personal, simple, minimal and short — Graham recounts very briefly the history of email name-checking @ sign promulgator Ray Tomlinson in the process.
Overdue attention is given to MIME creator Nathaniel Borenstein. Borenstein notes that email use continues to grow and rues the slow uptake that IBM's LotusLive has seen. Graham notes that until recently Borenstein was an IBM employees working on LotusLive. Borenstein became chief scientist at email management company, Mimecast, in June 2010
Who speaks for social? Lee Bryant, co-founder of Headshift, the world's biggest social business consultancy (according to Graham). I wonder what he will say. "He believes email's dominance over business communications is coming to an end." Since he's based his business on this, I guess so.
But setting the snark aside for a paragraph or two, I agree with Bryant as he opines:
"I think we've reached the stage where email as means of communicating is overloaded. I think we will see what happens on email today transitioning towards various kinds of both internal and consumer facing social tools."
For a finale, Graham turns to Dave Coplin, head of Microsoft's Envisioneers team. The guy who works for a company heavily invested in email solutions — Outlook, Exchange and HotMail — and famously unsuccessful at anything social can't find anything wrong with email. Social media is just a "shiny new penny." The Envisoneer is no Imagineer. He cannot speak publicly in a way that would disrupt his company. He does in the course of the discussion utter a keen observation: "I think that email is dead when it comes to social media in the same way that snail mail was dead when it came to email."
Perhaps he's still writing letters in the way we wrote them in 1960 or sending postcards as frequently. Maybe he hasn't noticed that the USPS is seeing a precipitous drop in first class mail usage. Heck, we don't even get billed on paper any more. Yes, I agree with the Softie: snail mail is diminished and fading like AM radio. Email will soon follow.


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La Geste des Chevaliers Dragons
Edouard Guiton was born in Chicago as the son of a French father and a franco-belgian mother. He grew up in Paris and studied Applied Arts at the Académie Charpentier. In 1997, he found employment with Rackham, a games publisher, where he became lead character designer for a period of ten years. He has been working on new video game projects for Ankama since 2009. His first comic book was the 10th installment in the series 'La Geste des Chevaliers Dragons', written by Ange and published by Soleil in 2010.


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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: NT Scheduler !!
You could use the soon command (in the resource kit) to schedule it to run
in 3600 seconds.
The batch file could also have logic to check the current time to work out when to schedule it next.
You could also use at and have your batch calculate the next time to run at - using either batch commands, some other scripting language or a freeware date time arithmetic program.
Or as mentioned below, use the NT GUI scheduler (or some other scheduling tool that works on NT)
Do you need more details?
Bruce Reardon
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Sent: Wednesday, 31 October 2001 4:40
The only way that I can do this is using NT's GUI Task Scheduler. There is an advanced option there that lets you repeat tasks at every specified interval and the duration.
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Hello Guru,
I want to run one batch in Windowns NT using At scheduler.
Thw question is :
I am facing the problem in AT command how to specify the interval time i.e every 1 hr the batch will be run.
Please help me.
Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com
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Joel Perlman gives the phrase "industrial revolution" new meaning in his recent metal sculptures. His raw metal forms revolve in space. Circular shapes propel forward, like the charging wheels of a runaway locomotive; they spiral upwards, like a twister hitting a scrap yard . We stand back from these works, afraid of being smacked in the head by the flying debris. Then, we are drawn back in by their surfaces, rich with the craftsman's elbow grease.
Perlman has been creating complex sculptures out of steel, bronze, and aluminum since the early 1970's. While minimalism was the predominant style of his genration, Perlman chose to push his forms into ever-more complicated, gravity defying, configurations. Though he shares certain qualities with his peers - the thrill of danger in a Richard Serra, the blue-collar heroism of Mark diSuervo - Perlman always investigates with originality. He expands, rather than appropriates, enriching our experience with industrial materials.
It took three decades for Perlman to pick up a circle, a shape he always believed too perfect to use. Its deliberate addition pumps unexpected motion and energy into his sculptures. Even his more modest scale pieces, roosting atop pedestals, have the buzz of machinery, hard at work. They recall the collages and maquettes of Vladimir Tatlin and the Russian Constructivists, who like Perlman, admired the creative ingenuity of industry, without imitating the deadening appearance of automation.
Up close, we can see Perlman's craftmanship; his oversize connection welds are left exposed. Yet, the source of propulsion remains a mystery. How can such inflexible weight appear to fling itself through the air?
These revolutions-in-steel succeed precisely because of the artist's craft. they are handmade, not ready-made. They remind us of a time when men, not machines, made even industrial enviornments. we recall the era of foundries and furnaces, of shipyards and iron works. And, next time we cross the Brooklyn Bridge and stare in awe of its cables and girders, we remember, yes, that it too was made by hand. - Barbara Pollack
Joel Perlman has been creating metal sculptures for more than thirty years. The angular and circular elements are welded or cast in a way that recalls the early constructivist, and the formalist tradition continues.
Perlman exhibited at the Andre Emmerich Gallery for twenty-five years and is now represented by the Kouros Gallery. He is represented in museums throughout the world including, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., The Storm King Art Center, and The Utsukushi-Ga-Hara Open Air Museum , Japan.
Curriculum Vitae:
1943 Born New York City
1964-6 Central School of Art, London
1965 Cornell University, B.F.A.
1967 University of California, Berkeley, M.A.
1973-1998 Represented by Andre Emmerich Gallery
1973-Present Instructor School of Visual Arts
1974 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1977-1996 Council of advisors, Cornell University, College of Architecture
1979 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1980 Commission for the Winter Olympics, Lake Placid
1988 R.S. Reynolds Aluminum Award for sculpture
1995 Awarded the special prize, Fujisankei Biennale, Japan
1996 Commission for Tenneco world Headquarters
1998 Elected Cornell University Council
Solo Exhibitions:
1969 Axiom Gallery, London
1979 Bennington College, Vermont
1973, '76, '80, '82, '85, '87, '93 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
1977 Gallerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich
1977 Gallerie Pudelko, Bonn
1978, '81, '88, '96 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago
1980, '83, '86 Roy Boyd Gallery, Los Angeles
1983, '89, '90 Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami
1990 Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell
1991 Samuel P. Harn museum, University of Florida
1993 Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta
1994 Margulies-Taplin Gallery, Lyons Gallery, Florida
1994, '95 Lyons Gallery Florida
1996 Century Association, New York City
1996 Glenn Horowitz Gallery, East Hampton
1999 -2000 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Group Exhibitions: (Selected)
1973 Whitney Museum of American Art Biennale
1977-Present Storm King Art Center
1978 "Art 9/78" Basel Switzerland
1982 "Mayor Byrne's mile of Sculpture", Chicago
1985-1998 Top Gallant Farm, Pawling, New York
1987 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1991 and 1992 "Table Sculptures" Andre Emmerich Gallery
1992 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago
1993 "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture" American Embassy, Tel Aviv
1993-1998 Century Association, New York
1995 Fujinsankei Biennale, Japan
1996-Present Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, Hamilton, Ohio
1996-Present Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
1996-Present Grounds for Sculpture, Hamiltonm, New Jersey
1997-1998 Pier Walk, Navy Pier, Chicago
1998 Laurmeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri
1999 The Art Show(ADAA) - Linda Hyman Fine Arts, New York
Public Collections: (Selected)
Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT.
Bates College Museum, Lewiston, ME.
Grove Isle Sculpture Garden, FL.
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles County Museum, California
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y.
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Earlier this month we reported that Pinterest is driving more referral traffic than Google+, so it's not surprising that interest in the online pinboard site is growing fast among marketers.
Having little experience beyond personal playing around on it, my view was that Pinterest was shaping up to be a fun toy, but had little value for marketers. Of course, I love to be proven wrong when someone can bring the numbers to back up their experience with a new "toy."
Steve Gerencser from Steam Driven Media did just that; I was intrigued with his experience using Pinterest to drive traffic to client sites (and convert!) and asked him to share a few tips and tricks for marketers who want to use Pinterest.
Pinterest Works for Both E-Commerce and Brick-and-Mortar Stores
When this first came up, Gerencser was adamant that Pinterest was an amazing source of traffic for his clients, the majority of whom are high-end brick and mortar jewelry stores. Most have e-commerce sites, but there are some who are actually using Pinterest to drive traffic to their physical stores.
To gauge its success in the brick and mortar world, he went in to each store for employee training. Each and every paying customer answers questions about how they heard about and interact with the store. It is important, said Gerencser, that employees understand how the company uses Pinterest, which strategies work and why, and how they can participate.
He has been using Pinterest longer than most people I know, so I was interested in learning when it became more interesting to the marketer in him.
"We spotted Pinterest as a viable traffic source around Thanksgiving, one because I hang out in a lot of jewelry forums and a lot of people were literally begging for invites," he said. "I asked for one just too what all the fuss was about. Shortly after that, I was looking at the analytics from one of our client sites and saw the traffic from Pinterest climbing, through no effort on our part. It was the people who come to her website driving this traffic; we had nothing to do with it but I was definitely keeping an eye on it."
The first week of December, a Steam Driven Media client who sells fitness products online had their first 5,000 visitor day. That was when they decided to get in there and really start to test and experiment. Gerencser explained that they played with different types of photos, experimented with tying photos they wanted pinned to blog posts, and tried out watermarks.
"Now, every time something new is released, it gets pinned at several different levels," said Gerencser. "So these are still her own followers driving the majority of the traffic. We're not just pure marketing and it's not a broadcast channel. We're just using better pictures, making suggestions, repinning, and participating."
Pinterest by the Numbers
Between February 1 and 20, Pinterest drove 73,000 visits to the fitness client site, 95 percent of which were new visits. The mobile site drove an additional 6,324 visits. This is a long established client account that has been with Gerencser for years, so he was able to compare Pinterest's success against other, more established channels.
"We're converting just under 1 percent of the Pinterest traffic in the online store. It doesn't seem like a lot, but when you're driving 75,000 people to the site, you make it up in volume. If you're only driving 100 people to the site, obviously it's not going to be worth it for you," Gerencser said. However, if you have a product your customers are already pinning, it's a pretty good clue there's an opportunity there.
Gerencser shared with us that this particular client's conversion rate for traffic from Facebook is somewhere around 4 percent, so even with the lower conversion, Pinterest is dominating.
Gerencser's clients in the jewelry niche are seeing success with Pinterest, as well.
"We're converting at 4 or 5% on fine jewelry but with less traffic," he said. "We're just now starting to do some lower price point items. We don't have trends to speak to yet about that, but obviously we're interested in seeing where that goes."
Pinterest is blowing the client's YouTube traffic out of the water. However, said Gerencser, their YouTube video views have tripled since they started pinning the videos.
How to Use Pinterest for Marketing
If you're looking for a sure-fire recipe for success, there just isn't one – though there are plenty of creative ideas. Keep in mind that it's relatively new, the level of interest in your pins will vary widely depending on the industry, and there simply isn't enough historical data to say, "This will definitely work and this won't."
With all of that said, Gerencser now has all of his clients using it and has shown me enough data to make me a believer. He shared a few tips for marketers getting into Pinterest or trying to build their presence.
2 Things That Will Pretty Much Kill You on Pinterest
First, don't watermark or brand your images. People will recommend this – don't do it.
Second, don't use a price tag banner. Again, it just doesn't work.
"With the volume of traffic we have with this client, we can test and get real traffic out of it easily. When you watermark something, the initial pins do okay, but you will lose on repinning. It only gets about 10 percent," Gerencser said. "We've seen some with price tags not get repinned at all. Take the price tag off and it travels as normal."
Take Advantage of What Data You Can Get Your Hands On
Pinterest.com/source show pins and repins, but it doesn't appear to keep the history for long. You'll see that same picture over and over again, as there's a new stack for each pin. You can see the original and repins others are sharing from your site.
It's a very manual process to get the data out of there, but paired with your analytics data, it gives you a better idea of how Pinterest is working for you.
When Setting up Your Account, Use a Real Name Unless You're a Major Brand
Most businesses can't pull off using the company name. The same thing goes with the profile picture; don't make it a logo unless you're a major brand.
Pinterest is personal and social. If you're going to pretend you're a corporation, you'll be ignored.
Be Careful About the Board Names You Use
You want to be a little unique, but you don't want to be so vague or out there that visitors don't understand what you are talking about. If users see something come through the stream, look at your board name and it doesn't make sense, they're probably not going to click on it and follow your board.
Take "nom nom noms," for example; if you're into the Food categories and you understand what that means, great. But if you're using industry-specific terminology for your boards, some people just won't get it.
Bounce Rate Isn't Necessarily a Relevant Metric
You may have noticed the higher bounce rate shown in the above screenshot. Gerencser said he doesn't care about bounce rates all that much.
"I'd rather have them come to the site and leave than never have come at all," he said. "We're tracking the entire sales funnel and time to sale, with sales happening almost a month later in some cases. So if they visit, bookmark and bounce but buy later, that's still a sale. Conversions don't always happen the same day."
Your Experience With Pinterest?
Are you using Pinterest for clients or your own business? Let us know how it's working for you in the comments!
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New York Times reporter David Carr has responded to criticism from Contentions and elsewhere that he failed to identify several so-called "journalists" killed in Israeli strikes as terrorists in a recent article. BuzzFeed has the interview:
New York Times media reporter David Carr defended his Monday column accusing Israel of killing journalists in Gaza on Monday, after Israeli officials and their allies accused him of conflating Hamas operatives and reporters.
"The three men who died in missile strikes in cars on Nov. 20 were identified by Reuters, AP, AFP, and Washington Post and many other news outlets as journalists," Carr told BuzzFeed in an email. "The Committee to Protect Journalists, which I treat as a reliable, primary source in these matters, identified them as journalists. (as did Reporters without Borders.)"
"I ran my column by reporters and editors at our shop familiar with current events in the region before I printed it," Carr said. "And I don't believe that an ID made by the IDF is dispostive or obviates what the others said. Doesn't mean that I could not have gotten it wrong, only that the evidence so far suggests that they were journalists, however partisan."
So because another news organization reported it, that automatically makes it accurate? Carr never even informs readers that he was relying on the reporting of other news outlets, and doesn't attribute his information to the AP, AFP or the Washington Post (as the New York Times ethics policy requires). Instead, readers are given the impression that Carr verified the information himself.
Carr claims he used the Committee to Protect Journalists as a "primary source," even though he didn't cite the organization. The problem is, if you check the CPJ website, it never independently confirmed that the terrorists killed in the Israeli strike were journalists. It clearly noted that it was citing outside news organizations, which means it wasn't a primary source in this case. Here's the CPJ story:
Two Israeli airstrikes killed three journalists in the Gaza Strip today, according to news reports. The fatal attacks followed a series of Israeli strikes earlier in the week that injured at least nine journalists and damaged news outlets.
Mahmoud al-Kumi and Hussam Salama, cameramen for the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV, were covering events in the Al-Shifaa neighborhood of central Gaza when a missile hit their vehicle at around 6 p.m., according to a statement by Al-Aqsa TV. The statement said the journalists' car was marked "TV" with neon-colored letters. The journalists suffered severe burns and died in a nearby hospital, the statement said. Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the Gaza health ministry, confirmed the journalists' deaths to Agence France-Presse.
A third journalist was killed when his car was hit by a missile this evening, The Associated Press reported citing a Gaza official. Initial local news reports identified the journalist as Mohamed Abu Aisha, director of the private Al-Quds Educational Radio. The reports said his vehicle was hit while he was driving in the Deir al-Balah neighborhood, but did not say whether Abu Aisha was reporting at the time. CPJ continues to investigate the circumstances of his death.
The CPJ posted this on November 20. That same day, the IDF publicly identified one of the "journalists" as Hamas military commander Muhammed Shamalah. Carr published his story six days later, yet does not cite the IDF's identification of Shamalah at all. Carr is correct when he says the Israeli government's ID of Shamalah shouldn't necessarily "obviate" other information — it's reasonable for journalists to be skeptical of information released by governments. The problem is, Carr's "other information" came solely from other news organizations (and the CPJ citing other news organizations). The Israeli government is actually a primary source when it comes to identifying terrorists, while these other media outlets were not. It's mind-boggling that Carr wouldn't at the very least include the IDF's statement.
Elder of Ziyon sums it up:
Real journalists are supposed to be skeptical. They are supposed to be spending their time uncovering the truth. They are supposed to be honest enough to admit when they are wrong, to revisit the story when facts indicate they are mistaken, because the real story should be more important than their egos.
This is not just an indictment of Carr. This is a systemic problem in the entire profession. The smugness that they are infallible, and the groupthink that they can rely on others' work without double-checking it, all indicate that there is some significant daylight between how many journalists do their work and what the truth really is.
New York Times readers deserve a better explanation than the one Carr has given.


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