divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/29502?ns=guardianpageName=Sport%3A+New+Zealand+stun+Australia+to+secure+World+Cup+glorych=Sportc3=guardian.co.ukc4=New+Zealand+rugby+league+team%2CAustralia+rugby+league+team%2CRugby+league+World+Cup+2008%2CRugby+league%2CSportc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CRugby+Leaguec6=Andy+Wilsonc7=2008_11_22c8=1122300c9=articlec10=GUc11=Sportc12=New+Zealand+rugby+leaguec13=c14=h2=GU%2FSport%2FNew+Zealand+rugby+league" width="1" height="1" //divpNew Zealand produced the most significant upset in the history of international rugby league to secure their first World Cup in the 54-year-old competition's most dramatic final, although it seems destined to be remembered for just as long in Australia for the contribution of Steve Ganson, a video referee from St Helens./ppGanson stunned a 50,000 crowd at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium by awarding a penalty try to the Kiwis' full-back Lance Hohaia in the 70th minute which effectively sealed the result, as it extended New Zealand's lead from a precarious 22-20 to a far more comfortable eight points./ppIt was a decision that might euphemistically be described as brave, the sort that Ganson has become renowned for in the Super League over the last decade. He then had the formality of awarding a scrappy try to the Kiwis' prop Adam Blair to complete a result that nobody had been expecting - which denied Australia the seventh consecutive World Cup that most had thought a formality./ppThey had romped through their four previous games in the tournament without receiving a real test, including a 30-6 cruise against the Kiwis in each team's first match. But after a stirring haka that was faced head on by the Aussies, New Zealand produced a performance that combined inspirational physical courage with meticulous and brilliantly executed planning./ppMeanwhile the mighty green and golds imploded, with their performance best summed up by an astonishing mistake by Billy Slater, the Melbourne Storm fullback who was this week voted the best player in the world. With the Kiwis leading 18-16 with 19 minutes remaining, Slater flirted unnecessarily with the touchline near his own tryline, and when that backfired he simply hurled the ball inside allowing Benji Marshall to score the simplest try of his life./ppAustralia still had plenty of time to respond and cut the deficit to two points when Darren Lockyer, who had already scored two tries, floated a perfect long pass for Greg Inglis to cross on the left. But Johnathan Thurston was unable to add what would have been an equalising conversion, setting the scene for Ganson's dramatic contribution./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/newzealandrugbyleague"New Zealand rugby league/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/australiarugbyleague"Australia Rugby League/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/rugbyleagueworldcup2008"Rugby league World Cup 2008/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/rugbyleague"Rugby league/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Sportcountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227354408308112212000533185"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Sportcountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227354408308112212000533185" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a

pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/strangelovelive.jpg" /Every now and again some of us at ReadWriteWeb pop up in video or podcast recordings. Our VP Content Dev Marshall Kirkpatrick moreso than me, as he is based in the US. And Marshall is appearing on an interesting live video show tonight, called a href="http://strangelovelive.com/"Strange Love Live/a. It will be broadcast a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/strange-love-live"live on Ustream/a at 10pm PST tonight (Friday). Hosted by Cami Kaos and Dr. Normal, Strange Love Live focuses on the latest happenings in online tech - calling on techies around the Portland, Oregon area to provide insight into their areas of expertise. Interesting without being dull, recent topics have ranged from OpenID to WordPress to iPhone apps. We're looking forward to seeing Marshall live tonight! a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/strange-love-live"Tune in at 10pm PST/a./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12682amp;cb=12682' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12682amp;n=12682' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p h2Recent RWW Appearances on The Interwebs/h2 pYours truly (RWW editor Richard MacManus) was interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco a href="http://bub.blicio.us/web-20-summit-richard-macmanus-of-readwriteweb/"by Alison McNeill of bub.blicio.us/a:/p pobject classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="540" height="410" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"param name="src" value="http://blip.tv/play/AduRJgA" /embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="540" height="410" src="http://blip.tv/play/AduRJgA"/embed/object/p pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/netanight.jpg" align="right" /Marshall Kirkpatrick was a href="http://twit.tv/natn73"recently on the popular TWiT.tv show/a net@night with Amber and Leo. The hosts Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte had a lot of fun trying to pronounce our name - hence the episode title of strongWeadWiteWeb/strong!/p pAlso check out Marshall's a href="http://www.therecruiterslounge.com/2008/10/28/readwriteweb-launches-jobwire/"podcast with The Recruiters Lounge/a, talking about our new product a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/jobwire/"Jobwire/a, and a href="http://www.capturetheconversation.com/read/a-social-media-discussion-with-marshall-kirkpatrick"Jason Cormier's interview with Marshall/a on Capture The Conversation./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rww_on_strange_love_live.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/v3kZiA6JkStIqKWLSzOtHNxnSCA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/v3kZiA6JkStIqKWLSzOtHNxnSCA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=5n5sgMrv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1035" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=Z0V5ntqj"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=yeAaz7kk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=yeAaz7kk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=cqFG1uSy"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=cqFG1uSy" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=J4OUdZaH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=J4OUdZaH" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=2cgUfy8N"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=pGmICT5r"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1034" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/UqlWZ-tdlNU" height="1" width="1"/

The one and only gig I’ve attended as part of this year’s London Jazz Festival, and while Murcof would win a medal for Mexico in the 400m genre-straddle, he has hitherto never been at the jazz races. Tonight wasn’t to change that (although the fact that he is currently featuring on an album on [...]

The vultures are circling. What was once a small trickle of layoffs at major newspapers has become a waterfall of lost jobs within the media business. One can almost picture the Poynter Institute's widely read journalism industry blog Romenesko sauntering up to Time Inc. and Conde Nast and screaming, "Bring out your dead!"

But one advertising and blogging company is seeing opportunity in the storm of bad news, devising a method to "bail out" some of these journalists and use their skills for profit. Anil Dash, vice president of Six Apart, owner of blogging platforms Moveable Type and TypePad, has watched this ticker-tape of layoff announcements with growing concern. A few weeks ago, Dash and others within Six Apart began talking about what they could do to help fellow journalists fallen on hard times. On a lark, Dash posted a somewhat tongue-in-cheek item called, "The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program" on the TypePad site.

"Hello, recently-laid-off or fearful-of-layoffs journalist!" he wrote. "We're Six Apart (you know us as the nice folks who make Movable Type or TypePad, which maybe you used for blogging at your old newspaper or magazine) and we want to help you."

The idea, essentially, was to provide a net to soften the fall as journalists leapt from burning buildings. A recently unemployed journalist could apply for the program. If accepted, he would gain access to several features, most notably a TypePad Pro account, Six Apart Media's advertising program, and around-the-clock support and promotion from the company. Theoretically, he then could continue with his beat reporting, publishing his articles on his own blog rather than with a traditional news source.

"The idea had really been to just send it to a couple friends and they'll think it's clever and useful," Dash told me. "And now we have dozens of reporters that have written in asking about how to participate; the page has gotten thousands of views. Candidly, if we thought it was going to be this widely covered we probably would have been a lot less snarky. But that's the nature of the web."

The theory behind the program mirrors what Web 2.0 futurists have been saying for years -- chiefly that major news outlets are too weighed down by middlemen and that journalists should instead branch out and work under the umbrellas of ad networks. In this scenario, more money goes directly to the content maker rather than funding the over-staffed, bloated news outlet. Individual journalists could therefore work their beats while relying on an online advertising company to secure and place the ads. This way, the journalist is able to create and manage her own brand rather than being incorporated into a faceless company entity.

"It was a little bit like giving people tinker toys, saying 'Assemble this yourself'," Dash said. "And the people who had done it actually had done very well by it and had seen some success with it. And we thought that not everyone has the time to put all those pieces together, especially those who have their day job and are worried about it. They're not going to spend company time when they're chasing down stories to learn about this new [Web 2.0] world."

Dash has worked as a new media developer for The Village Voice, and today dozens of major news outlets, ranging from the Washington Post to Wired, use Six Apart products for their blogging platforms. As someone with a decade of blogging experience -- he was one of the earliest writers to experiment in the medium -- Dash has seen journalists start mini-media empires on their own as bloggers, founding online journals that would eventually account for a portion or even all of their annual income as they rose in popularity. Josh Marshall, for instance, was an editor at The American Prospect before launching Talking Points Memo, a site that now employs nearly a dozen people.

Six Apart's advertising program already represents more than 1,000 bloggers, and Dash said that it's backed by a sales team that focuses on placing CPM display ads. An individual blogger's revenue is based on various factors, including the amount of traffic coming to her site as well as her particular niche -- some topics sell for higher rates than others. As with most ad programs, the blogger receives a large percentage of the money made from the ads sold on her site.

Skepticism

But the journalist bailout program was immediately met with skepticism from some quarters, especially working journalists. Shortly after I tweeted a link to Dash's proposal, I received a message from Priya Ganapati -- a journalist for Wired who covers hardware and emerging tech -- who simply dismissed the idea as a publicity stunt to promote Six Apart's products and advertising program. In a follow-up phone conversation, she accused Six Apart of putting the cart before the horse and said that, while she enjoys its products (Wired, after all, uses TypePad), the company should focus more on convincing journalists why its platform is superior before speaking of advertising and revenues.

"You have to a build a blog, you have to build a following, you have to have a product out there before you even begin to think about revenue and a sales team," Ganapati said. "And what TypePad isn't doing is focusing on the features of the product; instead it's talking up the ad sales of it. If you're going to start a new blog, or you're an existing blogger and want to get into it full time, you have to concentrate on picking the best blogging platform that is offered and build a strong readership. And then you start thinking about ad sales. But if you start thinking about ad sales first, you probably will end up making an unsuitable choice for your means."

Many of these thoughts were echoed by Henry Copeland, founder of Blogads, one of the earliest advertising companies to focus exclusively on blogs (and a competitor of Six Apart's ad network). Though Blogads has a sales team that works to secure clients and place ads, its platform allows low budget advertisers to essentially create, pay for and place ads with little or no human involvement. Copeland told me that journalists -- even good ones -- often don't adapt well to blogging. The medium requires more than good writing and reporting skills. You also have to know how to network and promote your content, something about which many journalists are clueless.

"Journalism is kind of like being a monologist, and journalists are very used to pontificating," he said. "And I know a lot of people think that's just what bloggers do, but bloggers are more like someone in an improv theater group. It's just a different skill set."

What makes a blog successful, Copeland argued, is its personality -- or rather the blogger's ability to connect that personality to his readership. Though he wouldn't go so far as to say that these laid-off journalists weren't cut out to be bloggers, he said at the very least they would need to understand that in the blogosphere you often have to become your own marketer.

"There's just an awful lot of competition, which these people have not experienced recently," Copeland said. "At a newspaper the competition is really at the corporate level, and once you've won your slot as the metro reporter for City Hall, you might have competition with one other reporter in the town, you might have zero competitors -- either way it's not very competitive. And for every 100 reporters that look for jobs online, only one of them is going to be paying the rent a year from now. And whether that's with Six Apart or Blogads or Federated [Media], that's really beside the point. The point is that only one of them will have an appreciable audience that can be monetized.

I mentioned these concerns to Dash, and he immediately asserted that "we try to be very careful to not make any promises." He argued that the entire point of the journalist bailout program is that, although it's targeted at those who may be blogging novices, it's not necessarily a sink-or-swim endeavor. For instance, journalists involved in the bailout would automatically have their content displayed through blogs.com, which he said is a heavily-trafficked aggregator owned by Six Apart.

"[Blogs.com is] a great starting point and we're actually going to get some feedback from the journalists in the program to see what they're looking to do, because I think the answer's going to be different depending on the journalist," Dash said. "We don't want to dictate what is to happen, but we have a lot of experience in promoting sites that way and I think it'll be really interesting to look at [Blogs.com] as an aggregator of all these individual journalists. And another thing is because we've been doing this for so long, we know journalists in a lot of news verticals, we know a lot of bloggers in this area."

A Grim Future For Online Ads?

Of course, the underlying business model Six Apart is touting, online advertising, could well get hit hard during the recession. In fact, Six Apart itself announced recently it would lay off close to 10% of its workforce. In a recent widely-circulated post, Gawker Media founder Nick Denton argued that the decline in online ads would be even more severe than analysts expected. And sure enough, within days of that prediction, Denton announced that he would be cutting his own staff and folding some blogs.

Given these grim warnings, would it be realistic to think that journalists-turned-bloggers will be able to sustain themselves?

"For Nick in particular, I've been friends with him for years, there's nothing I wouldn't say to his face, but I think he's always made a very good business of being the most doom-and-gloom person in the room," Dash said. "And also he ends up being right a lot of time; if you're consistently negative then half the time you end up being right. But if what he's saying is true, I think it's better for writers if they get a bigger cut for what they're doing ... And secondly, we're not trying to be a publisher, and though I think Nick is a successful publisher, there's still a middle man with Gawker just like Conde Nast or any other publisher. I think that model is inherently a little harder to sustain. The web is very efficient at routing around middlemen."

What do you think? Is the bailout program a gimmick or a real boon for laid-off journalists? Have you signed up? Share your thoughts or experience in the comments below.

Simon Owens is a former newspaper journalist and an associate editor for MediaShift. He currently works as an online analyst for New Media Strategies. You can read more of his writing at his blog or contact him at simon[.]bloggasm [at] gmail.com.

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L'encadrement de Montpellier a communiqué la composition du groupe qui affrontera Bayonne, samedi à Jean-Dauger, lors de la 11e journée de Top 14.

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This is the one-hundred and eighty-first in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous one-hundred and eighty.

Let’s begin!

COMIC LEGEND: Marvel once did a special G.I. Joe comic made up of a comic by Todd McFarlane that was deemed unacceptable by Marvel only a few years earlier!

STATUS: True

Reader Billy Ray asked me about this a ways back (towards the end of last year), but I could not really help him out, as I did not have the issue in question either until recently.

As it turns out, this certainly was quite an interesting situation.

Some readers might recall that Todd McFarlane was slowly breaking into Marvel Comics in the late 1980s, and among the work he did was a fill-in issue of G.I.Joe, specifically #60.

What is NOT as well known, however, is that McFarlane actually drew the NEXT issue, as well!

For whatever reason, though, McFarlane’s issue was deemed unacceptable, so venerable veteran, the late, great Marshall Rogers was brought in to draw the issue, and that was G.I. Joe #61.

Rogers WAS asked back, as he would go on to draw two more issues of G.I. Joe in the next couple of years.

By 1994, the title was no longer the top seller it was in the mid to late 80s, when it was routinely Marvel’s top selling comic book (it even had a spin-off comic, G.I. Joe Special Missions). So with #155, Marvel ended the book.

However, in the time between #61 and the book ending at #155, a funny thing had happened, the young, inexperienced fill-in artist, Todd McFarlane, had gone off and become a major comic book artist superstar!

So now, somehow, the same pages that were considered unacceptable in 1987 were good enough to be published, for the first time, in a G.I. Joe Special, coming two months AFTER the cancellation of the series!!

Here’s the Phil Gosier drawn McFarlane homage cover.

Here, for your amusement, is a side by side comparison of five pages from McFarlane’s unaccepted take on Larry Hama’s script and Marshall Rogers’ accepted one.

Rogers did seem to do a better job.

All in all, though, it’s a weird situation through and through.

Thanks to Billy Ray for the suggestion!

Now, for something a bit different this week.

I’ve gotten enough suggestions involving Madelyne Pryor that I could get four or more urban legends just out of covering the story behind her creation and subsequent usage, but at the same time, it is a bit difficult to answer ONE of them without, in effect, answering ALL of them, so I’m just going to answer all of them at once here.

COMIC LEGEND: The Madelyne Pryor in Avengers Annual #10 was the first appearance of the Madelyne Pryor who married Cyclops.

STATUS: False

COMIC LEGEND: Madelyne Pryor was meant to be Jean Grey with amnesia.

STATUS: False

COMIC LEGEND: Madelyne Pryor became a clone of Jean Grey in an attempt to deal with the whole “Cyclops is married to Madelyne while hanging out with Jean Grey” deal.

STATUS: True

COMIC LEGEND: Madelyne Pryor and Cyclops were intended to stay married and live happily ever after.

STATUS: True

As has been established in more than one installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed (here and here, for two), Chris Claremont likes to work in the names of people he’s fond of into his comics. I think it’s a neat little thing he does.

However, his fondness for doing this has led to some confusion when it comes to Madelyne Pryor’s origins.

Claremont was a fan of the folk band, Steeleye Span, and of their popular lead singer, Maddy Prior.

I do not believe Claremont was a personal acquaintance with Ms. Prior, but I could be wrong there.

In either case, in the pages of Avengers Annual #10 (one of the first comics written specifically to address what a writer found to be a bad story by a different writer - in this case, Claremont addressing his distaste for how Carol Danvers was written out of the Avengers), Claremont featured a young girl named Madelyne Pryor as a minor background character.

A few years later, Claremont introduced a new character named Madelyne Pryor as a love interest for Scott Summers, Cyclops.

The two characters were not meant to be the same people - just the same name. That said, I’m sure someone will ultimately come up with a way for them to be the same person. Claremont actually even joked about the confusion in an issue where he had the little girl show up again (wearing the same clothes) as a mental manifestation by Pryor, only singing one of Steeleye Span’s more popular songs!

When introduced, Madelyne Pryor caused a lot of anxiety among the X-Men for her great resemblance to Jean Grey, as well as the fact that she had been in a plane crash at the same time Jean died in outer space.

However, Claremont’s intent with that stuff was strictly to be a really weird coincidence, so Cyclops and the X-Men would always be left wondering, “COULD she be Jean?” But in Claremont’s intention, she was not related to Jean Grey at all.

Claremont’s plans were for Scott to marry Madelyne and have a child and be in, more or less, retirement from that point out, only showing up for major events/emergencies (similar to how Claremont used Alex and Lorna and others during the early days of the All-New, All-Different X-Men). Claremont got to start the first part of his plan, the marriage and the baby part, but events out of his control led to his plans not working out.

Marvel decided to bring Jean Grey back from the dead and put her on a team with Scott Summers and the rest of the original X-Men. Part of that story involved Scott flying away from his family when he hears Jean is alive.

To Claremont, this was a major problem (and most readers agreed that it did not make Scott look too cool).

So ultimately, to deal with a story that he had no part of, Claremont decided to play along and help out X-Factor by revealing that oops, yes, Madelyne WAS a clone of Jean Grey. And now she is an evil villain named the Goblin Queen!

And bam, now she’s dead, so Scott and Jean can be together without having to feel bad - Scott’s wife was not REALLY his wife - she was a clone designed to marry him so that they could bear a child together, and now she’s dead anyways, so smooth sailing on the Scott/Jean love boat!

Maddie is (perhaps) appearing right now in Uncanny (perhaps) back from the dead! Good timing, as Jean is currently dead!

Thanks to Mike (who asked a couple of these), Jason and a few other readers over the years that escape my memory for the Maddie suggestions!

Okay, that’s it for this week!

Feel free (heck, I implore you!) to write in with your suggestions for future installments! My e-mail address is cronb01@aol.com.

See you next week!

Réalisateur : Steven Spielberg
Avec : Harrison Ford , Cate Blanchett , Karen Allen , Shia LaBeouf , Ray Winstone
Année : 2008
Synopsis : 1957, en pleine Guerre Froide. Indy et son copain Mac viennent tout juste d'échapper à une bande d'agents soviétiques à la recherche d'une mystérieuse relique surgie du fond des temps. De retour au Marshall College, le Professeur Jones apprend une très mauvaise nouvelle : ses récentes activités l'ont rendu suspect aux yeux du gouvernement américain. Le doyen Stanforth, qui est aussi un proche ami, se voit contraint de le licencier. A la sortie de la ville, Indiana fait la connaissance d'un jeune motard rebelle, Mutt, qui lui fait une proposition inattendue. En échange de son aide, il le mettra sur la piste du Crâne de Cristal d'Akator, relique mystérieuse qui suscite depuis des siècles autant de fascination que de craintes...

Réalisateur : Steven Spielberg
Avec : Harrison Ford , Cate Blanchett , Karen Allen , Shia LaBeouf , Ray Winstone
Année : 2008
Synopsis : 1957, en pleine Guerre Froide. Indy et son copain Mac viennent tout juste d'échapper à une bande d'agents soviétiques à la recherche d'une mystérieuse relique surgie du fond des temps. De retour au Marshall College, le Professeur Jones apprend une très mauvaise nouvelle : ses récentes activités l'ont rendu suspect aux yeux du gouvernement américain. Le doyen Stanforth, qui est aussi un proche ami, se voit contraint de le licencier. A la sortie de la ville, Indiana fait la connaissance d'un jeune motard rebelle, Mutt, qui lui fait une proposition inattendue. En échange de son aide, il le mettra sur la piste du Crâne de Cristal d'Akator, relique mystérieuse qui suscite depuis des siècles autant de fascination que de craintes...

psource: a href=http://www.capital.fr/actualite/default.asp?source=FIamp;numero=71910amp;Cat=IMMCapitalbr //a/p p style=text-align: justify;strongJean Naem :/strong Le gouvernement a décidé le 1er octobre de permettre aux organismes HLM et à la Société nationale immobilière de racheter 30 000 logements dont la construction n’avait pas encore démarré. L’idée de départ est excellente. Mais cela ne fonctionne pas : on assiste depuis à un gigantesque marchandage entre bailleurs sociaux et promoteurs qui sont incapables de s’entendre sur les prix. Sans compter que beaucoup de maires, à Rennes, à Toulouse..., s’opposent à ce que des logements prévus au départ pour être des habitats de standing soient transformés en logements sociaux. A ce rythme aucun logement ne sera racheté d’ici la fin de l’année/phr width=100% size=2 /pUn Grenelle, Un plan Marshall, Un Bretton Woods...ce serait pas plutôt un Waterloo, un Trafalgar ?/p