Scandal

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Shonda Rhimes the sequence of ideas. And it is not “Scandal”, his new series, Canal + broadcast the first two seasons (14 ?? 52 minutes), with two episodes per night, who will deny. Indeed, having established in 2005 “Grey’s Anatomy”, two years later, the American writer offered with “Private Pratice” its derivative, before producing “Off the Map” (2011), a sort of “ER” in the jungle. But without hearing this series – broadcast on 6ter – is interrupted by heat is ABC?. The medical vein exhausted, Shonda Rhimes has therefore turned to the procedural.

However, if the sanitized world of h? Hospitals and other clinics in the chic C? Is you gave way to the more subdued and sieved to a law firm, the designer has not fundamentally changed its revenue narrative. Starting with the chorus structure that dominates here the figure of Olivia Pope, interpreted, not without gusto, by Kerry Washington.

Time communications adviser to the Republican President Fitzgerald Grant (Tony Goldwyn), this brilliant lawyer with a strong character opened a pharmacy that specializes in crisis management. Whether adultery, kidnapping of women heads of state or murder, our “white knight” – his favorite color – is invariably solution that allows him nothing and nobody comes taint reputation of his illustrious clients. ? Including the hours you to the White House, in the recent past, was able to measure the formidable powers of persuasion – and seduction – this ambitious woman.

Damn ADDICTIVE

Around this character – inspired by Judy Smith, Communications Advisor to George W. Bush – gravitates a team of “gladiators in suits” entirely devoted to Olivia. And for good reason. Each with a debt that has emerged is that the street or in prison, or the clutches of an abusive husband.

Behind the archetypal figures of patented seducer (Stephen, Henry Ian Cusick), the novice with a troubled past (Quinn Perkins, Darby Stanchfiels) or serious collaborator Stepless – apparently (Harrison, Columbus Short) – gradually off more complex and tormented there para? t beings. We think in particular Hunk (excellent Guillermo Diaz), the geek-like service hitman afflicted with a terrible addiction …

If it is regrettable, however, the poverty of some of the dialogue – a shame for lawyers! – Cut, what is more, the machine gun, but also the low intrigues of the first episodes that serve to lay the foundation for the narrative arc is drawing between Olivia and President Grant, we still leaves wrapped by politico-sentimental fragrance of this perfume of “Scandal” devilishly addictive.

Roxann Dawson and Shonda Rhimes – (USA, 2012, 14 x 52 min). With Kerry Washington, Tony Goldwyn, Jeff Perry, Katie Lowes …

Broadcast Thursday, March 28 at 20:55 on Canal + (2 episodes).

School time: in 2008, almost painless transition to the four-day week – kitchen faucets for sale

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How to organize the week of classes in elementary school? Should there be class on Saturday mornings? Wednesday morning? Ministers of education are followed and give to these questions different answers.

Xavier Darcos, the Prime Minister of National Education of Nicolas Sarkozy, chose to remove the school on Saturday morning, passing twenty-six to twenty-four hours on hours of class per week. Today, for better respect the rhythms of the child’s learning, Vincent Peillon wishes to return Wednesday morning worked to further spread these twenty-four hours, with days of five and a half hours maximum, and half day pastrois not exceeding thirty.

The reform of school timetables has been variously received by teachers. According to a survey by the Snuipp-FSU, the main union of school teachers, and education institute Harris Interactive, they are a minority (35%) believe it is “Priority” from the action ( read the blog post “Grand amphi” on the subject). In Paris, nearly 80% of primary school teachers were on strike Tuesday, January 22 to protest against its implementation in September 2013 or 2014.

The elimination of Saturday morning in 2008, though criticized by union representatives and chronobiologists, did she, aroused no strike or demonstration. How this change had happened? Back in three acts on the transition to the four-day week in 2008.

Act I. The announcement

September 2007, this is the first school year of Nicolas Sarkozy, elected president a few months tt. In its program, not a word on a possible reform of school timetables. Only the promise of establishing “directed studies” and generate additional time for “sport and culture.”

While no teacher organization is formally requesting, Xavier Darcos, Minister of Education, said in an interview wish to Paris on September 3, “that the question is based on Saturday morning.” “I do not have a miracle solution, he says. Should examine the problem? Has not be set in two days.” Three days later, Nicolas Sarkozy decides in Latest News from Alsace for “the abolition of classes on Saturday mornings without delay on the other days of the week.”

“From the next academic year, anywhere in France in primary school, we do not work on Saturday morning, and then I hope, very soon, we can extend the system to college,” Darcos announced last September 27, 2007 20 hours of TF1.

Minister wants three hours paid “to be used for those who need it most”, that is to say 15% of students in very big trouble. “In the entire schedule of the week, the students will be supported by teachers to enable them to work in a much more sustained and personal way.” Saturday morning will be “family time.” For some children are not “left to fend for themselves,” the minister wishes “that we do the open school” and suggests that schools and municipalities offer cultural or sports activities.

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Act II. The startup

A few weeks of summer holidays, May 15, 2008, the decree imposing the 4-day week in the next school year is published in the Official Journal.

Considerating they will not have time to organize the school care by the fall, the mayors expressed their discontent quickly. Jacques P??lissard, Mayor (UMP) to Lons-le-Saunier and president of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF) asks Darcos delaying reform.

For other reasons, specialists in educational matters begin to move this back to the four-day week. In an article in Le Monde dated May 29, Antoine Prost, education historian and former employee of the Socialist Minister of Education Alain Savary and Michel Rocard, denounced a “pedagogical Munich.” “The removal of two hours of class in the primary and the four-day week could (…) be irreversible,” he wrote. He denounced a “catastrophe” and “enterprise of deconstruction.” “The package is accomplished in general indifference. Munich was accompanied by a ‘relief loose.’ This loose consent announcement, too, a debacle.”

Read: An educational Munich by Antoine Prost

Teachers, union or educational specialists rhythms take over this forum. In June, an appeal entitled “Rhythms school to primary school: avoid disaster” is launched under the aegis of the journal Educational books. It re? Ilo a few months thousands of signatures.

But unlike what happens in 2012, no strike or demonstration is held to denounce the reform. In Le Monde, journalist and columnist Sandrine Blanchard wrote: “As parents, [teachers] are enjoying their new weekend and not one of their unions do not feel ready to apply for reinstatement of Saturday morning Besides the. subject has never caused any strike or demonstration. Yet … that is do we heard a few years ago [in 2002] when the mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delano?, wanted to switch on Saturday morning on Wednesday morning. Teachers were yelling, ensured he was unwise to touch the Saturday morning ‘special moment’ families to meet with students and review the work done during the week. ”

Act III. The September 2008

The four-day week is officially widespread. However, each municipality is free to distribute twenty-four hours a week over four days and four and a half days, with Wednesday morning worked. Only those who were already above their Saturday to Wednesday seem to have held on Wednesday morning, then finds Le Monde. At a press conference, Xavier Darcos ironic about some criticism that “two hours spread over a four-day week” would be a “complexity inou? E”.

In July 2011, the national conference on school timetables, meeting at the request of Education Minister Luc Chatel, recommends in its policy report (read the PDF). A “spreading of the week at least nine half- days, which, in elementary school, a half day extra three hours of instruction (Wednesday or Saturday). ” Luc Chatel has remained at the stage of observation.

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“Promised Land”: the man who Whisperer rural – comfortable office chair

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Matt Damon is not only the star of this film which displays is only in the middle of a plain in the Midwest . He carries on his shoulders, for better or for worse. Producer, co-writer (with John Krasinski, it has proposed the idea and gives the answer to the screen), it had the same staging. Only, he argues, for reasons of schedule he gave up, postponing his first director. And it is a trustworthy man he passed the reins, his old friend Gus Van Sant, the same one that launched his career with a bang with Good Will Hunting in 1997 and with whom he s is risky without a net, a few years later, in the desert hallucinating Gerry (2004) …

Sociopolitical thriller extracting shale gas background, Promised Land gave the director the opportunity to return to its commercial lines, which we know nothing dishonorable, quite the contrary. It is indeed zigzagging between registers that Gus Van Sant has made a place among the greatest American writers, displaying as much ease and elegance in the most regions of experimental cinema that heart of the Hollywood machine.

Promised Land is one hour and forty-six minutes. We would cut the last quarter of an hour. Not that the film is too long, but the first hour and a half, which lays bare the heist operated on American consciousness by the capital ideology …

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The prison school crime

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“The prevention of crime is the sole purpose of punishment,” wrote William Blackstone already in 1776, in his Commentary on the Criminal Code of England. But in the eighteenth century, it is clear that the prison in no way restricting recidivism and is very little on prevention of crimes. Thus, criticism of the prison model appears t the same time as the modern prison, from the years 1820-1845, in terms that are no different today. His failure strikes his contemporaries, for three main reasons.

First, the proliferation of prisons does not reduce crime. “Despite this series of means, the vice retains its audacity, the number of crimes does not diminish”, is indignant the newspaper La Fraternity, in 1842. It does, however, prevent e …

650,000 households victims of credit card fraud – elliptical reviews

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In 2011, 2.5% of households in France have been victims of fraudulent bank debits, half on the Internet from their accounts or card numbers, according to a study by the National Observatory of crime and criminal responses (ONDRP).

It is a “very significant” increase over the previous study: in 2010, 2% of households (500,000) reported being victims of these crimes.

This study was carried out, said ONDRP at its traditional survey called “victimization”, which is to ask, with INSEE, the Frenchman on the facts of crime they claim to be victims, and for which they do not always carry complaint. These investigations contrast with official statistics, often controversial.

In 2011, the victimization survey carried for the second time on the fraudulent charges of bank accounts of households. They covered nearly 650,000 of them, or 2.5%, according to what they said during the investigation.

What reacting, UFC-Que Choisir, who “unworthy of government inaction on this major issue, and urges parliamentarians to take the necessary measures to ensure that payments are finally safe distance.”

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SOME ARE HIGH

Just over half of the victims (52%) say that the most recent to the flow “was made in an online business” that is to say using their confidential bank information, account number, of card or login.

These are small sums, also observes the study of ONDRP: 27% say the amount of flow is less than or equal to 100 euros, 25%, that is between 100 and 300 euros, 29% between 300 and 000 1 to 19% of them, it was more than 1 000 euros.

Seven out of ten households reported having discovered the existence of these flows by looking their transaction records. 56% of them do not know how the author proceeded to get their banking information.

Slightly less than one in two households (44%) claims to have filed a complaint and 77% have been repaid by the bank of the full damage.

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Change banks, the obstacle course

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If you want to switch to the competition, arm yourself with patience. Change bank entered? Still too many administrative burdens. “As long as there is no principle of portability of bank account number, as in the mobile phone, it will be tedious,” laments Ludovic Herschlikovitz Choose from my bank.

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First step, of course, open an account in your new bank. It should then list, with your statements, all withdrawals or transfers into and out of your account: EDF, GDF, telecom operators, social security, health insurance, imp costs, insurance company pay?. .. Then you should contact one by one to inform them of your new account details and provide a bank account (RIB).

DO NOT LIE IN RED

To help you in these complex procedures, all banks offer free since November2009 support bank accounts, whose mission is precisely to facilitate the change of bank service. It is responsible for sending a letter to the concerned within five working days from the time agencies or necessary information is provided. “The customer fills out the site’s contract numbers and contact information for suppliers, of which about 200 are pr??r??f??renc??s in our directory,” said Beno? T Grisoni, activities director Boursorama in France. Online banks in customer acquisition strategy, particularly treat this service, but this is not true of all traditional institutions.

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Do not forget to leave the old account balance sufficient to deal with potential rates in the months that follow, for example, if an organization is slow to save your new account details and place a levy on your old account. Also, make sure to point all of your issued checks to avoid being in the red. An important point since only NSF may lead to you being banned bank. It is only six to twelve months after the opening you can cl? Turing, free, the old account.

Finally, note that the transfer of savings products (securities portfolio, PEA, etc..) Is difficult or impossible (for life insurance) and usually pay. But nothing prevents you to negotiate with your new bank to take over the transfer fee.

The Saclay, a future paradise for scientists?

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Located south of Paris, between the valleys of Yvette and Bi??vre, near the park of the Valley of Chevreuse, Paris-Saclay is one of the most ambitious projects of the Grand Paris. The University Paris-Saclay will be officially launched on January 1, 2014. The campus will include two universities, eleven colleges and six research organizations.

Since the 1970s, Polytechnique, HEC, Central, ENS Cachan, Inserm, Institut Telecom-mines, CEA, CNRS and the University of Orsay settled in the green region. Attracted by the deposit of exceptional brainpower, the bucolic setting and the low price of land close to Paris, many companies like EDF, Danone and Thales have also taken up residence.

“But each of these entities operating fa? We isolated, explains Guillaume Pasquier, Deputy CEO of the Paris-Saclay EPA. Line 18 subway connecting Versailles Orly will operate the network.”

By 2025, more than 20,000 faculty and 30,000 students will work on the site. For housing, 5000 housing come out of land on the Saclay plateau in 3000 and the towns south: Massy Palaiseau, Gif-sur-Yvette, Bures-sur-Yvette, Orsay …

COMPLEX FOR STUDENTS

Near these areas, surrounded by wooded areas, new neighborhoods host homes, offices and shops. Pending the commissioning of underground “no later than 2020,” high frequency bus will wait to often exasperated by delays RER line B users.

Those who have invested in old housing in cities around the campus will certainly benefit from their opening to achieve comfortable gains since today m2 oscillates between 3500 and 4000 euros in the cities of the valley.

Those who buy apartments in the vast complex for students could also find their account. But the rental demand will be the appointment if the developers manage to create a dense urban fabric, a real “street life”, which is a challenge on such a large area.

Researchers and students they prefer to live on the spot rather t that take the metro to Paris rally? It is only on this condition that Paris-Saclay win his ambitious goal.

The previous Afghanistan has changed the game for Paris – best vacuum

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The new doctrine of France in terms of hostages held abroad covers all risk areas, including Afghanistan. On March 7, Ambassador of France in Kabul, Bernard Bajolet, gathered the Frenchman working in the humanitarian sector in the country to discuss the consequences of this new situation and the nature of the risks involved.

In early March, the Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, during a meeting with a French NGO? Comfortable presence in Afghanistan a responsible family, also relayed the message of the French authorities? Ease. In cases of kidnapping in the country, France will oppose any payment, “where it comes from.”

“It is necessary that everyone is well aware, says Colonel Thierry Burkhard, spokesman for the General Staff of the French armies? Ease, that will at all costs out of …

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Australia: 95 migrants rescued after their boat sank

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Some 95 migrants were rescued Monday, March 25 off Australia after their boat capsized. According to The Australian, at least two people died in the accident, and two wounded are in serious condition. The boat was spotted by Australian Customs 26 kilometers northwest of the Australian territory of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.

Australia is a marginal destination for asylum seekers, representing 2.5% of filings worldwide in 2011. But migrants who attempt the journey from Indonesia are taking huge risks by embarking on boats totally unsuitable for the high seas in the stormy waters of the Pacific. Hundreds of them were killed in recent years. In early March, a building of the Australian navy recovered 77 migrants on a sinking ship.

Budget cuts: an Obama adviser hopes to avoid the worst – espresso machine reviews

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The principal economic adviser to the White House, Gene Sperling, said Sunday, March 3 that the worst automatic cuts could still be avoided, predicting an easing of Republicans face the discontent of the electorate.

“I think when the painful effects of these cuts will begin to gradually affect the communities dependent on military programs and services to aid the mental health of children, more concerned Republicans elected a negative impact on the electorate will opt for a bipartisan “compromise, he said on the chain does ABC.

He also discredited the Republican proposal to give President Obama more choice cuts of $ 85 billion in force Friday for lack of agreement in Congress. “It is a bit like asking someone to choose the three fingers of the hand should be cut,” joked Gene Sperling. This proposal could not avoid eliminating 750,000 jobs in a time of economic weakness, he said.

NO SIGNS OF FLEXIBILITY Republicans

To address the deficit, President Barack Obama accepts the idea of ??reforming social programs, as Republicans demand, but it also emphasizes the need for new tax revenue by eliminating tax niches that benefit businesses and wealthy Americans.

Republican heavyweights have not given signs of easing Sunday in their opposition to any new tax, preferring a drastic reduction in the lifestyle of the federal state. “The question is whether we will meet the bipartisan commitment made to the American people there is a year and a half and signed by President Obama, that we will reduce federal spending for this fiscal year without increasing imp? Ts “he told Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader of the Senate, on the chain does CNN.

“He (Obama) has had its rise imp t, it is now time to cut spending and all Americans know well,” also said Sunday on the chain does ABC Republican John Boehner, President the House of Representatives. According to him, neither side is willing to compromise. “I do not think anyone has any idea how to get out,” ruled Mr Boehner.

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