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from Afghanistan in orange jumpsuits and shackles, the Guantaacute;namo Bay detention camp has been
a hefty burden around the Bush administration's neck. /ppThe defence secretary at the time, Donald
Rumsfeld, picked the Cuban enclave as the "least worst place" to hold captives accused of
terrorism. But the effort to run a camp outside the reach of US or international law, so that
"enemy combatants" could be held indefinitely without charge, steadily corroded America's standing
in the world. The images of the inmates languishing in small metal cages in Camp X-Ray, the
rudimentary first phase of the complex, and the steady stream of reports of human rights abuses,
have taken a daily toll. The camp's existence has angered and embarrassed Washington's closest
allies, and become a recruitment tool for its enemies. /ppNearly six years on, there is no debate
over whether "Gitmo" should be closed - only how. As it approaches the end of its term, the Bush
administration is anxiously attempting to dispose of its own toxic legacy. John Bellinger, the
state department's top lawyer, has been trying to persuade other governments to accept detainees
cleared for release. More than 500 have already been sent back to their homelands or to third
countries, but there are still 250 prisoners left who cannot go home for fear of persecution and
who no one else will accept. They are now Barack Obama's problem./ppThe president-elect has
frequently stated his intention to close Guantaacute;namo. In an interview since the election, he
repeated that pledge, saying it was "part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature
in the world". But the question of what to do with the remaining inmates still divides his
ideologically diverse national security and justice teams./ppObama's inaugural speech on January 20
will be closely scrutinised around the world for signs of how bold or cautious he decides to be.
His policy on Guantaacute;namo will be widely seen as a benchmark for his intentions as president.
/ppA report by a non-partisan panel of US security and human rights experts, entitled Closing
Guantaacute;namo: From Bumper Sticker to Blueprint, estimates that the camp could be emptied within
a year if the Obama administration decided on a clean break from Bush policies and devoted enough
resources to the job. The report advocates the establishment of an independent commission to review
the cases of all the detainees, to assess the evidence against them and order the immediate release
of the innocent./ppThe first task will be to complete the Bush administration's effort to find
homes for the 150-200 prisoners who, according to lawyers familiar with their stories, have no case
to answer but who cannot be sent back to their native countries for fear they would be victimised,
tortured or killed. /ppThe clearest example of inmates stuck in this limbo are the 17 Uighurs,
separatists from a Muslim minority in China who were seized in Pakistan during the Afghan war. They
have all been cleared for release by the US authorities, most as long ago as 2003, but have so far
not been accepted by any third countries. Albania agreed to take in five other Uighur detainees in
2006, but has refused to take any more. /ppBellinger's efforts to find any other government to
receive the Uighurs have been undermined by the adamant refusal of the US authorities to allow them
to live in America because of the presumed threat they pose to the US, in part because of presumed
animosity caused by six years of detention without charge. Obama's envoys may find they have better
luck than Bellinger./pp"I don't think anyone is inclined to do this administration any favours, but
Obama will find he has a lot of goodwill to draw on," a European diplomat says. But that goodwill
will be greatly enhanced if the new administration stops fighting the resettlement of inmates in
the US./ppA second category of prisoners will be referred for prosecution outside Guantaacute;namo,
but that raises the question of whether that prosecution should be conducted by military courts
martial in the US or the civilian legal system. That will be a decision that goes to the
philosophical heart of the issue - should the US approach terrorism as a military threat or as a
criminal enterprise, or some hybrid of the two? Obama has refrained from using the phrase "war on
terror", but he is said to be under pressure from the more conservative national security experts
on his team to leave his options open and not bind himself with the procedural constraints of the
civilian judiciary./ppOn the other side of the debate is a "rule of law" camp within the embryonic
administration which argues that anything short of a complete return to constitutional normality
would rob Obama of the international goodwill he might otherwise gain by scrapping
Guantaacute;namo./ppThat debate underlies the toughest dilemma the new administration is likely to
face on closing the offshore camp: whether there should be a third category of prisoners, deemed
too dangerous to release but too difficult to prosecute. The evidence against them may be in the
form of intelligence material that cannot be disclosed in court, or that falls short of legal
proof. Confessions would also be ineligible if they were obtained under torture, as in the case of
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks who was "waterboarded"
(subjected to simulated drowning) by the CIA. And few if any of the inmates of Guantaacute;namo
were reminded of their right not to incriminate themselves, which is standard police
practice./ppThe Bush administration has been seeking international agreement for a new form of
preventative detention that would allow inmates in this third category to be held in the US and
abroad. "The problem is you've got 200-plus very dangerous people, and the question is what do you
do with them. And these are people who say regularly: 'If I'm let out of here, I will go
immediately and start killing Americans again,'" Condoleezza Rice, the outgoing secretary of state,
said during a visit to London this week. She argued that "even though you know that this person is
a future threat, we don't really have a legal framework for that, which is why it's been done
within a war framework. But if you don't hold a person who you know is a future threat, then you
risk the deaths of thousands of innocents. So I do think that this is something for the
international community to take up."/ppThere is little sign, however, that the international
community has any appetite for such a departure from established human rights law. The decision on
preventative detention will be Obama's alone. Several of his advisers and allies, liberals
included, think that terrorism is such a pernicious threat, and the security risks of releasing
suspects are so great, that new legislation allowing for preventative detention is unavoidable. The
political risk of a released inmate carrying out an attack are also enormous. Such an event could
prove crippling to a new administration. /ppOn the other hand, any new system of preventative
detention would be seen around the world as Guantaacute;namo redux, human rights lawyers say. It
would be every bit as effective as an al-Qaida recruiting tool, and would perpetuate the
extremists' self-image as warriors rather than mere criminals. Within the internal debate under way
in the transition team, liberal activists want foreign governments to lobby Obama against creating
a new legal limbo. /ppIt is one of the toughest decisions the new president has in his in-tray.
What Obama decides will say a lot about his presidency. Sarah Mendelson, a senior fellow of the
Centre for Strategic and International Studies and author of the Closing Guantaacute;namo report,
says it is uncertain which way Obama would lean. But she adds: "My sense is the president-elect has
taught courses in the constitution in one of the most reputable law schools in country. He ran on
opting back into the international system. The idea of going for a new legal regime that will
result in more years in litigation is not going to appeal. It will not be the clean break he needs
to make."/ph2A history of the prison camp/h2p· January 11 2002: First prisoners
arrive/pp· February 27 2002: First hunger strike begins/pp· April 29 2002: The first
prison, Camp X-Ray, closes, replaced by a more solid concrete construction, Camp Delta/pp·
November 10 2003: US Supreme Court agrees to hear appeals from inmates that they are being held
illegally/pp· February 13 2004: Bush administration agrees to establish review panels to
establish whether inmates still pose a threat/pp· March 19 2004: Five British detainees
freed/pp· February 16 2006: The UN calls for the closing of Camp Delta, arguing that the
treatment of some inmates amounts to torture/pp· June 10 2006: Three inmates hang
themselves/pp· June 21 2006: President Bush first expresses the wish to close the
camp/pp· September 6 2006: Fourteen "high-value" detainees are transferred from secret CIA
prisons around the world to Guantaacute;namo, including Khaled Sheikh Mohamed, Abu Zubaydah and
Ramzi Binalshibh, three alleged planners of the 9/11 attacks/pp· June 12 2008: US Supreme
Court rules that inmates have the right to challenge their incarceration in the US courts/pdiv
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width="1" height="1" //divpIt has been a while since Doon Mackichan was last hung, drawn and
quartered for laughing at the suffering of children. There was a week in August 2001 when you
couldn't pass a newsstand without seeing her handsome, sparrowhawk face, forehead partially
obscured by the word "evil" or "depraved"./ppThe Brass Eye paedophile special is now mostly
remembered as virtuoso satire, so it's easy to forget what a stink it caused at the time. And it
was Mackichan, who played TV presenter Swanchita Haze, who bore the brunt of it. People expected
that sort of thing from Chris Morris, but Doon was a woman with - gulp - children of her own.
"[Mackichan] had seen herself as a major comedy force in the making," wrote the Mail. "She even
dreamt of becoming a film star. But with the Brass Eye disaster as her epitaph, all those plans lie
in tatters."/ppLooking back, it's hard to say her career didn't suffer. There were two more seasons
of Smack the Pony, the girly Channel 4 sketch show with Sally Phillips and Fiona Allen, but to
diminishing returns. There were wifely roles in ropey sitcoms. There was theatre. Then came a
two-year break for unhappier reasons (of which more later). And now she's back, in a play that,
well, laughs at the suffering of children. Adults, too. Especially those six feet under. /ppJoe
Orton's Loot, like Brass Eye, is comedy that sets out to shock. Don't be fooled by its age;
although the play was first performed in 1965, Loot has weathered better than, say, a TV parody of
late-90s news shows. Death doesn't date as a cultural taboo; likewise religion. Rereading Loot is
like having a shower when you hadn't realised the boiler's broken: unexpectedly shocking./pp"Yep,
it's full on," says Mackichan, eating a tuna sandwich between rehearsals in London. "There's this
one line about a really great brothel run by Pakistanis who pimp out their kids for Mars bars." She
smiles: an attractive smile, heavy on the lippy. "I'm like, 'Oh we'll cut that, won't we?' Well,
no, we can't, because what about all the other things people might find offensive? Cut them all and
you won't have much of a play left."/ppOther lines trouble her. Orton's gleeful description of a
sexual assault, complete with tooth-breaking detail. "That specific image is just really horrible.
Do you lose a portion of your audience when you leave that in? Do people stop thinking it's a great
play? Or as my mum would say, 'Ooh, Orton's so kinky; yes, I love all that.' " /ppDoon plays Fay,
an Irish Catholic home nurse and a prolific serial killer (87 in one week alone). She has lately
buried her seventh husband and has her eighth in her crosshairs, having just dispatched his wife
with a syringe of poison. Loot takes place on the day of the wife's funeral, and charts the power
struggle between Fay, Hal (whose mother is being buried), Dennis, Hal's boyfriend, with whom he has
robbed a bank and put the money in mum's coffin, and Detective Truscott, the sinister inspector who
comes calling. /ppOrton's stage instructions put Kay in her late 20s; other than that Mackichan,
46, is a good fit. She is Celtic, by nurture at least. She grew up in Surrey but moved to Fife with
her family when she was nine. She survived the transition, she says, by acting, specialising in
"posh bitches". This is something she still does: she is a natural authoritarian, physically
pneumatic, temperamentally tough - a few years back she swam the English channel with a team of
paratroopers. /pp"Yes, I could kill someone," she says, without thinking too hard about it. "It
must be so easy to just nip a needle in, or hold a pillow over an old person's face. The power and
the buzz you'd get." She has been boning up on True Crime magazine to further understand her
character's homicidal motivation. "But I just can't read the books. There's such an orgasm about
they way they're written. 'Women who kill! Viciously!' When it comes to sex and violence, we're an
island of obsessives. I mean, how does it help people to know the details of how someone was
physically tortured?"/ppTen years ago, Mackichan got her fingers burned over an Anglican sketch on
her Radio 4 show, Doon Your Way, but it hasn't left her any more on-message when it comes to
religion. "It's been extraordinary finding out what Catholics actually believe!" she says of the
research process. "All the rituals and superstition. The whole voyeurism of talking to someone
behind a little screen. The idea that you can think, OK, I'll be a bitch, then on Sunday I'll say,
'Oh, I was a bit of a bitch' and then feel great!"/ppShe is not religious herself, "but I don't
think I'm in an atheistic universe. I do think there's a higher power". Has she ever prayed? "Oh,
I've been down on my knees many times." She pauses and then roars with laughter - it's a genuine,
accidental Orton-ism. /ppIt turns out that Mackichan has had an extremely tough few years. Her
father recently died. She is in the process of getting divorced from her husband, Common As Muck
actor Anthony Barclay, with whom she has three children, India, 11, Louis, 10, and Ella-Rose, four.
And, three years ago, Louis contracted leukaemia. Much of the past three years has been spent with
him in hospital. He is now in remission, but shadows still hollow out her face. She wells up
frequently, and there is something frayed behind the raucous laugh and actorly tics. "I do find
authority hard to deal with now," she growls, after an assistant gives us a 10-minute warning that
she needs to get back to work. "I feel a bit of an anarchist. I don't think I could work for
someone who was an arsehole any more." She gulps down some fruit juice. "I can't actually have
confrontations with people. It's too much. I'm a single muvva with three kids and a show to do."
She laughs but she's dead serious./ppWhen things were at their worst, she says, her monopoly on
heartache was hard to handle. "People would tut behind me in a supermarket queue and I'd have to
go, 'Please, go ahead of me, you've obviously got somewhere to go. I'm just going back to the
children's cancer ward.' I once had an actress telling me her hair was falling out because of her
new kitchen and I thought, I'm not going to say anything, because this is quite interesting,
because I remember how I was before it all." And how was she before it all? "Quite selfish,
neurotic. Up my own arse. It's made me very tough. I do think I have endurance beyond the pale."
/ppWhen Louis was well enough, Mackichan took her children with her to Africa to shoot a BBC2
series, Taking the Flak, loosely based on John Simpson's reporting from poverty-stricken,
war-ravaged places. After such harrowing experiences, how she can cope with her relatively
comfortable existence? "You walk into your house and you go: I'm a millionaire. I'm a princess; I
live in a palace. And you think: I don't have a lot of shoes, but I do have too many shoes. You
look at yourself and think: Party's over, mate. Time to be useful."/ppAnd yet she is not an aid
worker in Africa. She is in north London, rehearsing a play. "I did think, I can't go back to
acting. It's too vain, too ridiculous. I was going to retrain as a play specialist in Louis' cancer
ward. But this is what I've done for 20 years. It's what I do." /ppShe's right. Mackichan is a
natural born thesp, right down to her floaty black blouse and stripy woollen leg-warmers. Slice her
in half and you would see "actor" written right through the middle of her. "I have a real mission
now to be in work that will be cathartic for people. [Work] that's really honest about just how
fucking hard it is to stay afloat."/ppLoot isn't exactly what she had in mind, she admits, but its
no-nonsense attitude to tragedy has been cathartic. "My whole life lately has been a bit of a black
comedy." She snorts. Might she consider turning it into one? "There's a lot of mileage in a
children's cancer-ward comedy. All the opening curtains and waving at people being sick into bowls.
You could set it in the tiny coffin-like kitchen where only the adults are allowed. You see these
little bald children running past the window. It was like suddenly being in a war."/ppCould she
really bear to return there, even imaginatively? "I don't know. They haunt me, those nighttime
corridors. The characters, too: the carers and nurses and staff and the petty quarrels. And getting
high on Quality Street till 3am. But I would like to." /ppstrongmiddot; /strongLoot is at the
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YouTube is growing up. Thanks to the influence of Google, the
video-sharing site is becoming a haven for professional content, with advertising coming out of
every orifice. And now we have video guidelines to match the maturity.
YouTube As A Human
If we think of YouTube as a
human being, we can see how at the beginning of its life, it was slowly growing, with more and
more people aware of its existence every day. Its reach and influence also grew and affected more
people every day.
It then became the most popular kid at school, doing what the other kids wouldn’t dare do,
allowing copyrighted clips to be uploaded, and generally behaving like it owned the playground.
And then a father figure came into its life, with Google buying YouTube. Soon after that,
its first run-in with the authorities happened, with
Viacom suing the video-sharing site for $1 billion.
YouTube Growing Up
It has since started to clean its act up, and looked at where its headed in life. Gone are the
reckless days of youth, and in its place is emerging a grown up site trying to
embrace professional content and draw in advertisers.
And now, thanks to a new set of rules pertaining to the uploading of videos, YouTube is finally maturing into an
adult, and leaving those days of sexually suggestive material and profuse swearing behind.
The new guidelines are explained in a
YouTube Blog post which does its best to strike the balance between lecturing and teaching.
The new rules are as follows:
Stricter Standards For Mature Content
Pornography and footage of sexual activity has always been banned from YouTube, but those guidelines are now
being expanded to include sexually suggestive videos. These will now be age-restricted.
Sexually Suggestive Content And Profanity
Videos which contain sexually suggestive material, or profanity (swearing), will now be
“algorithmically demoted”. This means video marked as inappropriate will find
themselves falling down the ‘Most Viewed’ and ‘Top Favorited’ charts.
Improved Thumbnails
Thumbnails will now be algorithmically chosen to better represent the content of the video than
they currently do. Uploaders will still have the choice of three thumbnails, but these will no
longer purely come from the 25/50/75 percent points of the video.
More Accurate Video Information
Titles, tags, descriptions, and metadata has always been the place for unscrupulous video
uploaders to game the system in order to drive traffic. While gaming the system has always been
against the rules, more enforcement will now be brought it.
Conclusions
These rules represent a more mature approach from YouTube, and are mostly a good thing. If
Google wants YouTube to truly
start competing with Hulu and the
like, and attract serious advertisers, then a tightening of the video guidelines was always going
to be necessary.
However, there are some YouTube videos which contain copious
amounts of swearing, or rely on sexually suggestive innuendos or remarks to hit the spot. What
these content creators are now going to do remains to be seen, but the most likely outcome is
they’ll move to an alternative site that doesn’t have such strict rules.
Yeah, this marvel is a Nokia and it has been released at the Nokia World Event in Barcelona,
Spain! It's the latest Nokia smartphone It's the N97 here are some of the features
inside: a 3.5 touchscreen with haptic feedback and a full QWERTY keyboard and
a 5 megapixel camera, support to up to 48 GB of storage upgradable to up to 16GB via microSD. The
S60 OS has been improved to make use of the touch input, bringing it up to version 5 and includes
many of the 5800 XpressMusic's features, like the quick contacts bar and desktop widgets.
Jonas Geust, Vice President, heading Nokia Nseries said:
From the desktop to the laptop and now to your pocket, the Nokia N97 is the most powerful,
multi-sensory mobile computer in existence, together with the Ovi services announced today, the
Nokia N97 mobile computer adjusts to the world around us, helping stay connected to the people and
things that matter most. With the Nokia N97, Nseries
leads the charge in helping to transform the Internet into your Internet.
The phone will ship sometime in the first half of 2009 and it will retail for 550 Euro before
subsidies or taxes. What do you think? Don't you just love the new Nokia?
Réalisateur : Olivier Ducastel Avec : Laetitia Casta , Yannick Renier , Yann Trégouët , Théo Frilet ,
Sabrina
Seyvecou Année : 2008 Synopsis : 1968. Catherine, Yves et Hervé ont vingt ans, sont
étudiants à Paris et s'aiment. La révolte du mois de mai bouleverse leur
existence. 1989. Les enfants de Catherine et Yves entrent dans l'âge adulte et affrontent un
monde qui a profondément changé : entre la fin du Communisme et l'explosion de
l'épidémie de SIDA, l'héritage militant de la génération
précédente doit être revisité...
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p style=text-align: justify;Bien bel et curieux objet cinématographique que cette oeuvre du
cubain T.G. Alea. Mêlant images darchives et journal intime, le film narre les aventures du
gars Sergio, au tout début de la révolution cubaine. Bien quune large place soit
faite à certains événements quot;historiquesquot; comme lépisode de la
baie des cochons, cet intellectuel bourgeois continue de mener sa vie presque comme si de rien
nétait, alors que ses parents et sa femme ont quitté Cuba pour les Etats-Unis.
Même sil ne cautionne point le départ de ses proches, il pose un regard assez
laconique et ironique sur le monde quil entoure (aussi bien sur les intellos que sur le peuple
prorévolutionnaire) faisant de ce film un troublant compte-rendu de cette période
charnière./p p style=text-align: center;a target=_blank
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style=text-align: justify;Sergio regarde la ville (et la vie) à travers son
télescope, autrement dit par le petit bout de la lorgnette. Vivant de rentes, et nayant pas
grand-chose apparemment à branler, on suit le véritable périple existentiel de
cet homme dans les rues cubaines et dans son appart. Il se souvient des engueulades avec sa femme,
fantasme sur sa bonne protestante lorsquelle lui raconte son baptême, se souvient dune blonde
Allemande qui croyait en son talent (à lépoque où il voulait devenir
écrivain - projet avorté, comme si tout finalement lui échappait) et rencontre
enfin une très jeune femme (17 ans, oups) quil amène dans son lit. Jeune femme
insouciante, il tente son quot;éducationquot;, lamenant dans des musées dart moderne
ou dans la maison dHemingwa; mais cette dernière sen fout comme de sa première
chemise. Il fait le commentaire suivant en lévoquant - et explicite ainsi le titre ce qui
est bien urbain: quot;Elle ne sattache à rien (pardonnez mon cubain pour la trad): cest un
des signes du sous-développement; Elena, comme les autres femmes cubaines, est incapable de
sattacher à quelque chose, daccumuler de lexpérience, de se développerquot;...
Tout cela est un peu dur ma foi, mais derrière ses certitudes, son esprit critique (il se
barre nonchalamment dune réunion qui rassemble des littérateurs) notre homme a du mal
lui-même à analyser sa propre petite existence et le monde en mutation qui lentoure.
Il ne voit dailleurs pas le coup venir lorsque la mimi Elena laccuse de lavoir violer et le
mène au tribunal. Cet événement semble lui faire enfin prendre conscience du
monde alentour; cela coïncide en plus avec lincident des missiles (le summum de la guerre
froide, maybe) et après les discours de Kennedy et de Castro (remonté le bougre!), on
assiste à une conclusion qui ma curieusement fait penser à la séquence finale
de emLEclipse/em dAntonioni - même musique, même image blafarde, même sentiment
de malaise.../p p style=text-align: center;a target=_blank
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justify;Si le film est puissamment ancré dans un contexte historique, le cheminement
personnel de cet homme donne une véritable profondeur à cette oeuvre, une sorte de
complexité difficile parfois à cerner - cet homme paraît souvent un peu
enfermé dans sa bulle mais demeure également attachant par le regard subjectif quil
pose sur le monde autour de lui. Une véritable aventure quot;cinématographiquequot;
(linfluence de la Nouvelle Vague semble évident) et humaine. T.G. Alea réussit un
film qui, du même coup, par beaucoup daspects - sur la forme et dans le fond -, mérite
de rester en mémoire.nbsp; nbsp; /p p style=text-align: center;a target=_blank
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électorale avec les départements, prévient Alain Rousset (PS),
président de l'Association des régions de France (ARF) qui ...
TiVo users should soon have the option of watching Amazon's Video on Demand service in HD,
according to early reports. Technology reporter Rich DeMuro has noted the existence of a currently
inactive menu item that would let TiVo owners specifically browse parts of Amazon's catalog that
are available in HD, revealing both the existence of Amazon HD video in any form as well as its
spread to DVRs....
TiVo users should soon have the option of watching Amazon's Video on Demand service in HD,
according to early reports. Technology reporter Rich DeMuro has noted the existence of a currently
inactive menu item that would let TiVo owners specifically browse parts of Amazon's catalog that
are available in HD, revealing both the existence of Amazon HD video in any form as well as its
spread to DVRs....
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pThere are few cars that are a true one-of-one. If you've ever watched Barrett-Jackson auctions on
television, you've seen the guy who claims his '67 Camaro is the only one in existence... with that
particular combination of options. Yes, his car is unique, but we wouldn't declare it a one-off by
any means. We're talking a truly unique car, like this 1968 Lamborghini Miura Roadster with
coachwork by Bertone. Built for the 1968 Brussels Motor Show, the Miura Roadster features an open
top with larger air intakes integrated into a rollover hoop. The rear of the car was also reshaped
with a larger spoiler and unique taillights. The car was recently restored to its original
condition including its beautiful metallic blue paint. We saw it in person at this year's a
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class/a. The Miura Roadster is now being offered for sale, and we imagine it will go for quite a
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There was nothing wrong with the Eee Box, a PC not so dissimilar to the Wii, except that it lacked
any real reason for existence with processing no more powerful than a netbook. The new Eee Box
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processing no more powerful than a netbook./p pThe new Eee Box B204 and B206 look to beef up the
line's capabilities into something worthy of HTPC application. While still running light 1.6GHz
Atom processors with 1GB of RAM, the systems now feature ATI Radeon HD 3400 series discrete
graphics with 256MB of DDR2 memory along with HDMI output to play back high def video on an HDTV.
And when you account for the Wireless-N networking and 160GB SATA hard drive, you realize that the
the Eee Box could be a contender in the low end home theater PC market./p pNo word yet on pricing
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Kate Brown Mrs Kate Brow, 46 ans, a devant elle un été de liberté. Son mari,
neurologue, et ses 4 enfants dispersés aux quatre coins de la planète, Kate est libre
de disposer de son temps comme elle l'entend, pour la première fois depuis 25 ans.
Voilà pour la théorie. Dans la pratique, il n'est pas si facile lorsqu'on a
passé toutes ces années à s'occuper d'une famille de se laisser aller à
s'occuper de soi.
De Londres à Istanbul à l'Espagne, d'un travail temporaire comme interprète
à une aventure avec un homme plus jeune qu'elle, Kate, privée de ses repères
rassurants, se lance, presque malgré elle, presque sans en avoir conscience, dans un voyage
iniatique ardu que déclenche l'angoisse de vieillir — elle mentionne à
plusieurs reprises "le vent glacial du changement" ; de ses tribulations et réflexions, de
ce plongeon au tréfonds de ses angoisses de femme mûre, Kate ressort quelque 4 mois
plus tard, pacifiée et prête à rejoindre la famille dont elle avait
été séparée avant l'été.
S'il est vrai que certains aspects du roman datent et le situent avec certitude quelques
décennies plus tôt, le parcours de Kate est plus que jamais actuel, à l'heure
où la vie des femmes ne se termine pas dès que les enfants ont quitté le nid.
Un roman parfaitement réaliste auquel je reprocherais toutefois un nombrilisme trop
marqué, des passages où l'introspection prend des proportions telles que Kate —
et dans son prolongement, l'auteure — plongée dans son tourbillon intérieur, en
vient à négliger le monde qui l'entoure et tel qu'il va.
Les régions refuseront toute remise en cause de leur existence ou la fusion
électorale avec les départements, prévient Alain Rousset (PS),
président de l'Association des régions de France (ARF) qui ...
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