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If you were flying, you would have to leave home, say, three hours before the  flight, allow 90 minutes in the air, an hour on the ground and three hours   on the coach to the resort. That&rsquo;s a total travelling time of eight and a  half hours – and with a much greater risk of delay. It&rsquo;s a similar story on the way back – at least if you travel with a tour  operator offering a typical midday flight back from Geneva, Grenoble or   Lyon, which usually involves catching a coach from the resort before dawn. The train from Mo&ucirc;tiers departs at 10am and gets back to London just after  4pm. (It isn&rsquo;t always like that. If you live near the airport and head for  somewhere like Chamonix or Morzine, which are very close to Geneva, you can   cut things much finer, but you would still be pushed to get on the slopes on   the same day.)  This season there is more good news for rail enthusiasts. A new additional  service to Brig in Switzerland, which originates in Lille, will link with   the early morning Eurostar on Saturdays between December 22 and April 13,ralph lauren outlet. This avoids the need to change stations in Paris and significantly cuts the  journey time to several Swiss resorts. Here is a summary of the main options by rail to the Alps this winter. All  times quoted are local. France The weekly Eurostar (08705 186186; )    direct ski trains operate non-stop from London St Pancras to the Tarentaise   with stops at Mo&ucirc;tiers, Aime La Plagne and Bourg St Maurice, which offer   bus/cable car connections up the mountain to Tignes/Val d&rsquo;Is&egrave;re, Les Arcs,   La Plagne and the Trois Vall&eacute;es. The daytime service operates on Saturdays  departing from London at 10am, and arriving at the final stop, Bourg St   Maurice, at 6.51pm, and returning at 9.29am arriving back in London at   4.11pm. The overnight train – which has standard seats, and no couchettes, leaves on  Fridays at 7.31pm and arrives at 6.28am the next morning,coach handbags. The return departs  at 10.15pm on Saturday evening. Both cost from &pound;149 return,Ugg Boots Sale UK, and run outbound  from December 22 to April 6 (day train) and December 21 to April 5 (night   train). Note that the return train does not pick up from Aime La Plagne -   you need to go to Moutiers or Bourg, instead. So, as long as you don&rsquo;t mind heaving your luggage between the Gare du Nord,  where the Eurostar arrives, and the Gare de Lyon (for daytime TGV services)   or Gare d&rsquo;Austerlitz (for slower Lunea sleeper services) from where the   Alpine trains depart, you can still make the journey comfortably, leaving   London on an afternoon train and taking the French sleeper from Paris. (There are some options via Lille,christian louboutin sale, where you just have to change platforms  for the connecting train.) This way, you can travel on any day of the week   and fares are cheaper – the lowest return to the Tarentaise through Rail   Europe (0844 848 4070; ),gucci shoes,    for example, is &pound,louis vuitton handbags;109 (this fare is for a Eurostar Connections ticket to   Bourg St Maurice and allows you to stop for up to 24 hours in Paris). But if you book a night train the fare rises to &pound;134 (including accommodation  in a six-berth couchette). In effect, two people save &pound;50 by travelling by  day,ralph lauren polo, enough to make a decent dent in a Paris hotel bill (above prices based   on travel to Bourg St Maurice). Note that the Lunea can also take you to ski  destinations other than the Tarentaise, including Serre Chevalier, Chamonix   and Meg&egrave;ve in the Alps. Switzerland Throughout the winter, the TGV Lyria runs a direct service from Paris to Brig. This year, there will be a new additional service, originating in Lille,  which will link with the early morning Eurostar (departing London 6.57am   with a half-hour connection at Lille and arriving at Brig at 5.08pm) on   Saturdays. It stops at Aigle (for connections to Leysin, Villars,  Interlaken, Les Diablerets and Les Portes du Soleil ski resorts), Martigny   (for Crans Montana, Le Ch&acirc;ble and Chamonix),polo ralph lauren outlet, Visp (for Zermatt and Saas Fee)   and Brig (for Belalp, Blatten and Riederalp). Through fares booked through  Eurostar cost from &pound;189 return (though you will have to pay extra for some   of the connections and transfers). Alternatively, you could take the train to Paris and connect with the Friday  afternoon Lyria des Neiges, which departs at 3.58pm and continues right   through Switzerland to Visp (arriving at 9.52pm in time to make a connection   to Zermatt), with stops at Montreux and Sion, for example, en route. On other days you can use the Lyria to get to Swiss resorts with a change of  train at Geneva (six hours 15 minutes from London via Paris), or Zurich   (seven hours 55 minutes) or Basle (six hours 55 minutes), for example. Return fares from London on these routes are available from &pound;114 through by   Rail Europe. Austria It is relatively awkward to get to the Austrian Alps by train. There is a  direct overnight train from Paris to Munich and from there you can connect   to trains to resorts such as Zell am See-Kaprun and   Saalbach-Hinterglemm-Leogang (the train takes you to Leogang. Saalbach   doesn&rsquo;t have a station, you take a bus from Zell Am See). (Connections to  Zell am See are via W&ouml;rgl or Salzburg,louboutin uk.)  However, this train won&rsquo;t be running between January 25 and February 25   because of engineering works. The fare is also quite high, reflecting the  three-stage nature of the journey, and you will need to book well in advance   to get the lowest price, especially if you want the connections to work   smoothly. Theoretically, you should be able to buy a Eurostar fare to Paris (from &pound;69  return), the City Night Line (from about &pound;87 return) and then a return fare   from Munich to your Austrian resort (to Zell am See from Munich via W&ouml;rgl,christian louboutin shoes,   for example, starts at &pound;90 return) for a total of &pound;246. You can book the  City Night Line through Deutsche Bahn (bahn.co.uk). There is also a direct overnight service during the winter from Paris to  Innsbruck. This runs on Friday nights from December 14 through to April 5  (departing Paris at 8.05pm and arriving in Innsbruck at 9.46am). Fares start  at &pound;87 return in a six-berth couchette. Italy One option to be aware of is the TGV France-Italy service to Oulx, for Sauze   d&rsquo;Oulx and Sestriere. There are two services per day that connect with  Eurostar services from London. The journey time from London is from seven  hours, 54 minutes and fares start at &pound;121 return (Rail Europe).  Related articles：  extracts and ingredients is brushed away by Lutens. known to fans as Ram Jam 2West Ashtead P CY KT21 2PX5793828229.7100. 

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The Guardian's splash this morning reveals that, a charity that offers advice to free school groups run by Rachel Wolf, a former advisor to Michael Gove,ugg boots sale. Those of us who follow these things will have experienced a strange sense of deja vu on reading this since. The decision to re-hash this story is even odder,ralph lauren polo, considering that it was killed off a month later by David Bell, Permanent Secretary of the DfE, who that there was nothing remotely improper about the manner in which the NSN had been funded. In a killer aside, Bell mentions that the ?500,Ugg Boots Sale UK,000 given to the NSN is chump change compared to some of the astronomical sums awarded by the Department to similar educational charities when Ed Balls was in charge: "Under the previous administration, 84 grants were entered into in this way in the financial year 2010-11, and I remain perfectly comfortable with this procedure. A full list of those grants is attached. It is also the case that grants were awarded for significantly larger amounts than that which has been awarded to the NSN, such as,christian louboutin shoes, for example,christian louboutin sneakers, a grant for ,ugg boots?13.8m to the SSAT,ugg boots uk sale." So what possible explanation can there be for the Guardian re-running a non-story? The answer is that the paper is trying to smear Michael Gove in the run-up to next week's launch of England's first 24 free schools. God forbid that the Secretary of State should actually enjoy a few moments in the spotlight. Having run out of arguments against free schools themselves, the paper is now casting around for something �C anything �C to throw at Gove,cheap christian louboutin shoes. Who knows, perhaps they'll run this story again next week (though sticking it above the fold on the front page again might be a bit of a stretch). What's so disappointing about the Left-wing paper's recycling of this old smear is that, for the most part, the Labour Party has now embraced free schools. Gove's education reforms have been endorsed by Tony Blair and Andrew Adonis; Peter Hyman, an ex-adviser to Blair,ugg boots uk, has announced he's setting up a free school in Newham; even Andy Burnham,christian louboutin sale, Labour's shadow education secretary, has retreated from his previous hard-line position and grudgingly accepted that free schools are here to stay. Isn't it time the Guardian got with the programme? It now finds itself almost alone in opposing Michael Gove's education reforms, isolated in the dunce's corner with only the Socialist Workers' Party and the antediluvian teaching unions for company. Related articles：  The fundamental issue now whether about kitchen suppers aka  cheating </ul>

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The move comes after ministers were last week accused of betraying parents by  ruling out an automatic block on online pornography. The Department for Education said &ldquo;expert advice&rdquo; was not in favour of an  automatic block, which would force anyone wanting to access pornographic   websites to contact their Internet Service Provider to &ldquo;opt in&rdquo;. But the Prime Minister's latest announcement was welcomed last night as &ldquo;a big  step in the right direction.&rdquo;  Writing in a national newspaper, he said: &ldquo;To me, the fact that so many   children have visited the darkest corners of the internet is not just a   matter of concern – it is utterly appalling. &ldquo;A silent attack on innocence is underway in our country today and I am  determined that we fight it with all we&rsquo;ve got.&rdquo;  Once the new system has been implemented, Britain&rsquo;s internet child protection   measures will be the most robust of any country in the world, he said,Ugg Boots Sale UK. &ldquo;All this comes back to something really important,&rdquo,louis vuitton Wallet; he wrote,gucci Sunglasses. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not just  about the internet,louboutin shoes, or modern technology – it&rsquo;s about childhood. &ldquo;These should be distinct and precious years, full of security and love,  untainted by the worries and complexities of adulthood.&rdquo;  Conservative MP Claire Perry, who has campaigned for a broader, automatic   block on adult content for all internet users, will be appointed as Mr   Cameron&rsquo;s adviser on tackling the sexualisation and commercialisation of   childhood. She will be in charge of putting the new web filter system in place. Mrs Perry,, MP for Devizes and a Parliamentary aide at the Ministry of Defence,  said: &ldquo,Ralph Lauren Sale;It is clear people think that more needs to be done, but there isn&rsquo,coach handbags;t   a majority in favour of an automatic block. &ldquo,ugg boots uk;If you have proper age verification systems, then I think this new system  will put us a long way ahead of the rest of the world. &ldquo;As near as damn it,christian louboutin shoes, we have got what we want and most campaigners are quite happy. The industry has, with a few notable exceptions, been quite  slow but there is now good momentum.&rdquo;  Jon Brown of the NSPCC said the charity believed an &ldquo;opt in&rdquo; system was the   best way to protect children but hailed Mr Cameron&rsquo;s plans as &ldquo;a big step in   the right direction&rdquo,coach outlet online;. Last week the coalition decided not to impose an "opt in" system for  pornography, instead telling internet service providers to "actively   encourage" parents to use content filters on shared computers. Some 40 per cent of parents who responded to the Government's consultation on  the issue said they knew their children had viewed online porn. Related articles：  but ended up focusing on the core  Conservative vote.</li> is really in a coma and has only a few days to live</li> Gollum the Musical.</li> </ul>

such as the euro.&rdquo
Mr Portillo, the former Conservative Defence Secretary, was regarded as one of  the most eurosceptic figures in John Major&rsquo;s Cabinet. But he warned Mr Cameron against offering voters a chance to defy his wish for  Britain to remain in Europe. Mr Cameron&rsquo;s position on an in-out referendum had move &ldquo;a long way&rdquo; in a short  period of time, Mr Portillo said. The Prime Minister is now in the &ldquo;very  curious position&rdquo; of offering a vote on Britain leaving Europe while   insisting that he wants the UK to remain part of the union. &ldquo;To commit himself to an in-out referendum in the mid term of his next  government seems to me to be extraordinarily dangerous,&rdquo; Mr Portillo told   the Murnaghan programme on Sky News. &ldquo,ugg boots;People like to kick their government  in the teeth.&rdquo;  William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, insisted the government was acting in   Britain&rsquo;s &ldquo,cheap christian louboutin shoes;best interests&rdquo;. &ldquo;The Prime Minister and I have said last year that we want to get a better  relationship with the European Union,&rdquo,ralph lauren outlet online; Mr Hague told The Andrew Marr Show. &ldquo;There is a strong case for fresh consent in this country. The people of this  country need their say,coach outlet store. &ldquo;We want to succeed in the European Union; we want an outward-looking EU to  succeed in the world, and for the United Kingdom to success in that. But we  have to recognise that the European Union has changed a lot since the   referendum of 1975 and that there have been not only great achievements to   the EU&rsquo;s name but some things that have gone badly wrong, such as the euro.&rdquo;  Nigel Farage, the leader of Ukip, told the programme that he would never agree   to an electoral deal with the Conservatives while Mr Cameron remained Tory   leader. &ldquo;It&rsquo,louis vuitton handbags;s very interesting, Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg, they don&rsquo;t agree what Ukip  stands for, but they recognise we have a sensible point of view that is held   by a large number of people in this country,&rdquo,; he said. &ldquo,polo ralph lauren outlet;Mr Cameron,, when he is asked about UKIP, throws abuse at as and calls us  nutters and closet racists. &ldquo,christian louboutin sale;I don&rsquo;t think there is any prospect of us doing a deal with the Conservative  Party while Mr Cameron is in charge.&rdquo;  Some Tory backbenchers believe that a deal with Ukip could be their best   chance of winning a Commons majority in future,cheap christian louboutin, with Mr Farage&rsquo;s party in   third place in recent election and poll results, ahead of the Lib Dems. Related articles：  he had a valued –</li> shih-tzu</li> general secretary of the Association of School and College  Leaders</li> </ul>

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Whatever credit President Obama deserves for authorising the military operation that resulted in Osama bin Laden's death – and he deserves a great deal – has been seriously eroded by the incompetent way in which his administration has handled the subsequent questions about it. John Brennan, Obama's chief anti-terrorism advisor, should never have said that bin Laden was armed when he was shot and killed or claimed that bin Laden would have been taken alive if there had been an opportunity to do so. These claims imply that if bin Laden wasn't armed (which we now know he wasn't) and if there was never any serious intention to capture him, which seems highly doubtful, the killing was indefensible. Not only is that politically moronic, it shifts the responsibility for killing bin Laden away from the White House and on to the Navy Seal who pulled the trigger. Brennan was effectively saying this was an operational decision, made by a member of the special forces team on the spot, and not a decision that was taken long in advance by the President. Let's be clear: the object of this operation was to kill Osama bin Laden. Had he put his hands up and offered to come quietly, the likelihood is he still would have been shot in the head,. The reason Obama decided to send in the Navy Seals, rather than destroy the compound with a missile strike from a drone,louis vuitton outlet, was because he wanted proof that bin Laden had been killed. It also had the added benefit of minimising the collateral damage, sparing the lives of bin Laden's wives and all but one of his children,. It was patently not because Obama wanted to give the leader of al-Qaeda a chance to surrender. And that is perfectly legitimate. For several years now, the American government and its military allies have been trying to kill the leaders of al-Qaeda – in some cases successfully. Some critics of the manner in which bin Laden was killed have argued that it contravenes which prohibits assassination. But that order doesn't apply in this case since America is engaged in an ongoing armed conflict, as John Bellinger III, the state department's senior lawyer during George Bush's second term as President, ,ralph lauren outlet online. In a war, the assassination of your enemy's leaders is a legitimate military tactic: "The killing is not prohibited by the long-standing assassination prohibition in executive order 12333 because the action was a military action in the ongoing US armed conflict with al-Qaida and it is not prohibited to kill specific leaders of an opposing force." The vital question here is not whether bin Laden was armed or unarmed, but whether or not he was one of the leaders of al-Qaeda. And that is indisputable,louis vuitton Wallet. No doubt the FBI has a substantial body of evidence linking him to various terrorist atrocities, including 9/11, but it's not necessary to review that evidence since he took responsibility for them. In an 18-minute video tape released in 2004, bin Laden claimed he had personally directed the 19 hijackers who were responsible for the deaths of 2,974 innocent civilians on 9/11. He reiterated this claim in a five-minute tape released in 2006.?“I am the one in charge of the 19 brothers,ralph lauren polo," he said. "I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers … with the raids.” By way of proof, he subsequently released another tape that included footage of him with two of the hijackers. Bin Laden was indisputably one of the leaders of al-Qaeda and, as such, was a legitimate target for assassination. Legally, the American government's case is watertight. But was it morally defensible to kill bin Laden?? the enormity of bin Laden's crimes doesn't justify his execution any more than the Allies would have been justified in assassinating the leaders of the Nazi Party after the Second World War,louis vuitton handbags. They were put on trial and only executed after they were found guilty – and bin Laden should have been treated in the same way. This overlooks the fact that the War on Terror is ongoing. Al-Qaeda hasn't surrendered, as Germany had before the Nazi leaders were put on trial. If it had – if bin Laden had turned himself over to America and its allies after admitting defeat – then executing him without due process would have been wrong. But bin Laden did not give himself up. This is an ongoing conflict and he was a vitally important enemy combatant. The Second World War analogy to be made is not with the Nazi war trials but with the plot to assassinate Hitler. Had that plot been successful – indeed, had the Allies succeeded in assassinating any of the Nazi leaders during the Second World War – we would have applauded those responsible. It was a legitimate military tactic then and it's a legitimate tactic now. If bin Laden had been captured and put on trial, thousands of people would have died at the hands of his terrorist sympathisers. No doubt there will be reprisals in any event, but the terrorist response would have been far greater if bin Laden had been taken alive,polo ralph lauren. As the trial date approached,polo ralph lauren, Jihadis from all over the Middle East would have rallied to his cause,Ralph Lauren Sale, wreaking mayhem on his behalf. Hundreds of innocent men, women and children would have died and countless more would have been kidnapped, with the kidnappers demanding bin Laden's release as a condition of letting them go. Scarcely a day would have passed without President Obama regretting his decision not to authorise a "kill operation". It was the right thing to do and President Obama and his officials should man up and take responsibility for it instead of?trying to pass the buck to members of the American special forces. In an ongoing military conflict, there's absolutely nothing wrong with assassinating your enemy's leaders. Related articles：  while GDP rose 16pc over the period.</li> for one</li> Jon Brown from the NSPCC is clear what's needed</li> </ul>

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. And. So, obviously, they are being swiftly discounted: either as flawed, or as irrelevant. To recap: the Best work was a response to concerns over the data used to establish whether and how much the world is warming. It is led by Richard Muller, an astrophysics professor at Berkeley, who was previously known for being somewhat sceptical about the anthropogenic climate change hypotheses. It was also partly funded by prominent sceptics,? including the Koch brothers. The standard figures, provided by Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) along with the Hadley Climate Research Unit (HadCRU) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), had been widely criticised, for two reasons,cheap gucci handbags, : "One, pointed out by the climate-sceptical blogger and meteorologist Anthony Watts, the man behind the Watts Up With That website, is that the surface temperature measuring stations are thinly scattered, with none in the Arctic circle. GISS have got around this by “smoothing” their data, extrapolating up to 1,200km away. . The second is that many of the measuring sites in other parts of the world are located in places that, Mr Watts and others believe, are artificially heated by human activity – by being close to parks, air conditioners, airports,, that sort of thing." The Best analysis was intended to address those concerns, by using new methods and new data to establish how accurate the GISS/HadCRU/NOAA results were. They claim that those methods deal with both the "heat island" effect and the "smoothing". When I wrote about it in the spring, the team had released its preliminary data, in response to a demand by a US Congressional inquiry. The early indications were that the results were very close to the erlier ones. That caused a stir of unease among many AGW sceptics, because the data were preliminary: the aforementioned Mr Watts criticised it as a "bit of a rush",cheap gucci bags, although he acknowledged that it Prof Muller was asked to testify and did not seek the publicity. Now the team's more complete (but not final: more on that in a moment) findings have been released. And they provide firm support for the older results: the Best figures gave a total warming of 0.911K since 1950, just two per cent lower than the GISS findings &#8211; and higher than HadCRU and NOAA. "My hope is that this will win over those people who are properly sceptical," says Prof Muller,ralph lauren outlet online. "Some people lump the properly sceptical in with the deniers and that makes it easy to dismiss them, because the deniers pay no attention to science. But there have been people out there who have raised legitimate issues." There are still concerns. ,polo ralph lauren outlet. Perhaps ironically,louboutin shoes,, a central figure in the so-called "Climategate" uproar. He says that the "initial findings&#8230; echo our own results and our conclusion that the impact of urban heat islands on the overall global temperature is minimal" but that he "[looks] forward to reading the finalised paper once it has been reviewed and published". In a further little irony,ralph lauren outlet, the reason the Best team have put their data out early is in response to the criticisms of HadCRU during "Climategate", that climate science was a closed shop in which a small number of researchers peer-reviewed each other's work. : a "wiki" model, frequently used in physics. Mr Watts has previously praised the Best team for being "dedicated to providing an open source, fully transparent, and replicable method",ralph lauren polo, which it strikes me is what they're doing now. Inevitably,coach outlet store, there have been early moves from AGW sceptics to deny that Best's results will mean anything. The chaps over at JunkScience complain that it's irrelevant because "they all use the same urban heat island-biased and otherwise manipulated temperature readings", ignoring the new data and statistical methods that Best use. They also add "whether or not the bogus constructs of “mean global temperature” or “mean land temperature” are rising or falling is irrelevant. The central issue in the global warming debate is whether manmade greenhouse gas emissions are causing temperature changes." Anthony Watts, honourably, has not moved to deny the validity of the Best findings, beyond his abovementioned concerns about early publication. But he does agree with JunkScience that the "issue of 'the world is warming' is not one that climate skeptics question, it is the magnitude and causes." I don't think that's true &#8211; lots of prominent AGW sceptics do indeed question whether the world is getting warmer [NOTE: my colleague James Delingpole disagrees with me quite strongly on that point, and. I've said I'll write a follow-up on Monday]. And the magnitude of the warming is part of Best's findings, and it happens to be the same magnitude that GISS et al said it was. Of course, the anthropogenic aspect is not proved by these results: but the previous findings only made sense to modellers if they included radiative forcing from man-made carbon gases, so it's reasonable to say that the Best results, if they stand up, support this view. But most interestingly,coach bags, pending review, it seems that the Climategate crew's results have been thoroughly vindicated. What will be interesting now is whether sceptics admit as much. "We have looked at these issues in a straightforward, transparent way, and based on that, I would expect legitimate sceptics to feel their issues have been addressed," says Prof Muller. Let's hope so. Related articles：  FOR EXPERTS</li> Toulouse upped their game in the second-half</li> a giant stained glass window</li> </ul>