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The Democrats Are in Detroit. It's Time for Them to Finally Talk About Cities.
Near Fox Theatre in Detroit, where the debates will be held this week, there's a new hockey arena and upscale retail. But just a few miles north, you see the places the revival has missed
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In September 2015, then–Vice President Joe Biden addressed the Obama administration's ongoing efforts to see Detroit through the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. "The idea that we're not going to do everything in our power to bring back, not just a great city, but an iconic city was unthinkable," Biden said. The city had exited bankruptcy proceedings the previous winter but remained in some ways dysfunctional. Authorities had boasted, for example, of cutting 911 response times to 15 minutes from more than 30 a few years earlier. They did so by telling police to reduce the priority of responding to holdups or homicide reports. Still, optimism was in the air. "Detroit is like its people," Biden went on. "It's resilient."
This week, along with 19 other Democrats, Biden is back in a Detroit that seems to bear out his words. The candidates will debate each other at the Fox Theatre (already a symbol of the city's resilience), next door to a new hockey arena, alongside a new streetcar line. Walk a few blocks toward the river and you will find Lululemon and John Varvatos. H&M is on the way. It is easier to buy merch with slogans like "Detroit Hustles Harder" than toothpaste, illustrating the peculiar economy of downtown Detroit, but there's no denying the remarkable transformation of the past decade.
Drive a couple miles north on Gratiot Avenue, however, and you see the places the revival has missed. There's a shop called Graham's Printing at Gratiot and Burns. The brick façade is sharply painted in orange and black, and three items get top billing: "Memorial Pictures," "RIP T-shirts," "Casket Panels." The murder rate in Detroit remains one of the highest in the nation, as do the unemployment and the poverty rates. Detroiters will tell you there have been 10 square miles of recovery in a city that sprawls across more than 140. (Mayor Mike Duggan, who has presided over the resurgence and announced his support for Biden last week, did not respond to a request for comment.)
As American cities go, Detroit is an extreme case. But no one believes its problems are unique. In fact, some people here think that with its chic, consumer-oriented downtown, suffering semipermanent underclass, and enormous infrastructural burden (pipes, streets, homes, schools with a debilitating upkeep cost), the city may represent something closer to the future of the American city than its past. With the Democrats in town, vying for what may be crucial voters in a state Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 by 10,000 votes, Detroiters would like to know: What are the Dems going to do about it?
With the party's voter base increasingly aligned with the nation's metro areas, there are signs this could be the election the Democratic Party finally turns its attention to America's cities. Several candidates, for example, have rolled out housing plans to address the metropolitan affordability crisis. Mayor Pete Buttigieg has a proposal for Washington to finance local land banks that would help residents reclaim abandoned properties. (Detroit has about 80,000 of those.) President Donald Trump, meanwhile, who turned his racist vitriol toward Baltimore this week, has evidently left the ball in Democrats' court.
Whether the candidates will make more than a cursory mention of their host city is anyone's guess. But there are some things locals would like to hear. Anika Goss, the executive director of the Detroit Future City think tank, which works on long-term strategic planning, pointed to some Detroit-specific challenges where she thinks federal policy could help: investment in small-business growth, workforce training to better prepare Detroiters for available jobs, and environmental remediation (she mentioned the city's 2014 flooding, which caused $1 billion in damage to more than 100,000 properties). "There is no market-rate anything in Detroit," she said. "Anything new has some level of subsidy, so the question is where does that come from?" (The city has used public financing to build the hockey arena, for example.)
To some extent, says Rayman Mohamed, the chairman of Wayne State University's urban studies program, Detroit needs what most big U.S. cities need from Washington: criminal justice reform and money for public transit, lead abatement, and housing aid. The problems in Detroit are different in degree from peer cities but not in kind. Over the past half-century, the federal government has vastly reduced its role in all American cities. Some places have picked up the burden more effectively than others, but low-income urbanites have struggled across the nation. Housing in Detroit might seem cheap to outsiders, but for the median tenant household, the rent consumes 48 percent of income. It is exactly the kind of situation where the perennially underfunded Department of Housing and Urban Development is supposed to provide support, but doesn't.
Or take public transit. Until the Woodward Avenue streetcar was completed in 2017, Detroit was the largest American metropolis with no fixed-guideway transit.* Many bus routes serve city or suburbs but not both, isolating Detroiters from regional job centers. Voters in the four-county Detroit area rejected a ballot referendum in 2016 to construct a regional transit system. This is not because everyone in Detroit drives a car and always has: In 1950, the city had the largest municipal streetcar network in the country. Now the region spends less on transit per capita than any of its peers, despite the city having the eighth-highest share of carless households.
That trickles into other policy arenas, says Mason Herson-Hord, an organizer with the Motor City Freedom Riders, a group that advocates for better transit. "Young people go farther than ever before to get to school [because of charters]. Kids show up late because the bus didn't come," he explained. "On the metro scale, we see a similar problem, where the failure to provide effective mass transit denies Detroiters access to the employment, education, and medical care that has shifted out to the suburbs in the past few decades." Indeed, among major U.S. cities, Detroit has the worst job sprawl.
One precedent for an involved federal government is the Obama administration, which dispatched Gene Sperling to head up a Detroit task force and directed hundreds of millions of federal dollars into the city. (You can read more about the Obama administration's efforts in a back-patting report it published in 2016.)
That the Obama administration's loan of technical expertise appears to represent the apogee of federal interest in Detroit is a sign of the times. David Fasenfest, a sociologist and author of a recent book about the city, was critical of the administration's response. "There was no urban policy under Obama. There is no urban policy, and there is no urban agenda," he said. "Detroit of late has been called a renaissance city and has this cluster of high-tech jobs, but 85 percent of the city doesn't have a good education, has been unemployed for generations, and is too poor to leave. I'd like to hear someone talking about what it would take to reinvigorate cities."
There are some people dreaming bigger than tax credits and dedicated bus lanes. Various grassroots groups in Detroit, for example, have proposed making the city a centerpiece of the Green New Deal (an idea that has the support of U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, whose district overlaps with the city). In addition to addressing the city's infrastructural woes (lead, flooding, potholed roads), that proposal has a neat symmetry, since Detroit's most famous export has done so much to melt the polar ice caps.
A more ambitious idea, proposed by the Detroit Democratic Socialists of America, is to create a Great Lakes Authority (modeled after the Tennessee Valley Authority) to address issues like lead pipes, outdated infrastructure, and blight that are plaguing so-called legacy cities from Buffalo, New York, to Duluth, Minnesota.
Some of those issues are shared, national urban issues now. Others seem like Detroit problems now, Fasenfest suggested, but—like industrial flight—they will one day come for suburbs and newer cities too. Democrats may lately be consumed with winning over the suburban, Sun Belt voters who rushed into their column in 2018, but they shouldn't forget Detroit. An Obama-level turnout here in 2016 would have won them the state of Michigan.
July 31, 2019: This sentence has been updated to clarify that Detroit was the largest American metro area with no fixed-guideway transit.
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After years of building your DVD collection, the great migration to Blu-ray can seem a daunting task. Picking up a shiny new Blu-ray player isn't the end-of-life for your DVDs, however. Most Blu-ray players are compatible with DVDs, so you can still enjoy your DVDs on your new machine. Better still, thanks to upconverting, your DVD may look better than it did in a DVD player.
While DVDs and Blu-rays are superficially similar, they are in fact very different formats. Blu-ray discs store considerably more data than an DVD, with single-layer discs for each reaching 25GB and 4.7GB respectively. Data is also burnt and read at different laser wavelengths, with DVDs being recorded at 650nm in the red wavelength and Blu-ray being recorded at 405nm in the blue wavelength. Blu-rays feature a scratch resistant coating DVDs do not. Blu-rays also have a higher video bitrate at 40Mbps compared to DVD's 9.8Mbps. As a result of their superior storage capacity, Blu-rays can store high-definition content too large for DVDs.
There are also considerable differences between Blu-ray and DVD players. Blu-ray players are backwards compatible with DVD players, while DVD players can't play Blu-rays. Many Blu-ray players can also connect to the Internet to download important firmware updates and provide access to instant streaming video like YouTube and Netflix. Blu-ray players also support high-definition video, while DVD players can only output standard-definition video.
Most Blu-ray players also feature DVD upconverting, which converts a DVD's standard 480i resolution to a higher one. Depending on the player and the video, the upconversion can increase a DVD's resolution to 720p, 1,080i or even 1,080p. This will greatly improve the picture quality of a DVD, especially on high-definition televisions.
Upconversion isn't a flawless process, and a DVD's content is still encoded in standard definition. This means your upconverted DVDs will still seem lackluster compared to Blu-ray. Also, there is no set standard for upconversion, which means that different players will produce different quality upconversions. If you're looking for the best quality upconversion in your Blu-ray player, you'll need to do some research to find the right fit -- and potentially, spend a bit more than you might have planned.


Enzo Ferrari (1898-1998) was born to the sound of engines in his father's workshop in Modena. He saw his first car race in 1908, and knew then and there he wanted to be a driver. After serving in the First World War, he got his first chance with C.M.N. (Costruzioni Meccaniche Nazionali) in Milan, and in 1920 went over to Alfa Romeo's factory team.
Enzo had been a great friend of Italy's World War I flying ace Francesco Barraca (who died in a mysterious crash in 1918), and in 1923 his mother gave Enzo the famous Prancing Pony badge salvaged from his plane. It would be Ferrari's talisman: not only after he won his first race, the Coppa Acerbo at Pescara. Although he continued to race until 1932, he soon after began working in the Alfa shop, preparing race cars and managing drivers.
In 1932 Enzo started his own racing team or 'stable', the Scuderia Ferrari, with Alfa Romeo; in 1935, his star driver, Tazio Nuvolari, won at the German Grand Prix. In 1937, when Alfa took back control of its racers, Enzo decided it was time to move on. Unable, according to his contract, to use his own name for four years, he called his company Auto Avio Costruzioni, and built his first two cars (one of the survivors is now in the Collezione Righini) in time to race in the Mille Miglia of 1940. Then came the war, when Auto Avio Costruzioni was compelled to manufacture parts for Mussolini's war machine, until the factory was bombed.
Enzo moved operations outside Modena to Maranello and in 1947 started building race cars under the Scuderia Ferrari name, and it wasn't long before he began winning races. He signed on to Formula 1 when it was founded in 1950, and in 1953 began to build sports cars to finance his racing passion. Ferraris would win Le Mans nine times betwen 1949 and 1965, the Targa Florio seven times, the cross Italy circuit Mille Miglia classic eight times, and Formula One four times between 1956-64.
The darkest moment in Enzo's career occurred during the last Mille Miglia race of 1957, when Ferrari driver Alfonso de Portago, travelling at 250 km/h, blew a tyre (Portago had waited too long to stop for a change) and crashed into the roadside crowd at Guidizzolo, killing de Portago, his co-driver and nine spectators. It was the end of the Mille Miglia race and Ferrari and the tyre maker were charged with manslaughter; the case was finally dismissed in 1961.
In the 1960s, Ferrari was under financial pressure. After rejecting a takeover bid from Ford, Enzo sold half his company to Fiat in 1969, with the proviso that he kept control of the racing division. Known as 'il Commendatore' and increasingly 'il Grande Vecchio' (the Grand Old Man), he rarely travelled outside of Modena and Maranello, except for the annual Italian Grand Prix at Monza, although he did leave this short interview video before he died at age 90 in 1988, having launched one of his greatest cars, the Ferrari F40.
After his death, Fiat took over the company except for the ten percent belonging to the Ferrari family. Between October 2015 and January 2016 Fiat sold off its shares, and today the company floats on its own on the stock market (with Enzo's son Piero Ferrari keeping his ten per cent stake). It has been rated one of the world's strongest brands—there's even a Ferrari World Theme Park in Abu Dhabi.


The original material for this drama comes from a blog titled "Gekikakusatsu SS Nikki" by a person named Mighty. In the drama, Inaba Hirotaro, who has only been devoted to working so far, is hooked on online games now that he is over 60. His son Mitsuo, a salaryman, is trying to reach out to his father as a game player in the same world of online games without disclosing his true identity. Despite the secrets that each of them have, father and son, start to understand each other and become them closer through the online games.


'Dolphin' and 'Viagra' are not typical names, but they have been recognised by the Moscow registry office. However, authorities have refused to give a birth certificate to a boy whose name is simply a series of digits.
Sounding like 'Boch' in Russia, the seven-year-old child's name in English reads as 'BOH dVF 260602', which is an abbreviation of 'Biological Object Human descendant of the Voronins and Frolovs (the parents' surnames) born on June 26, 2002'.
He has no birth certificate, registration or insurance. For the authorities, he does not exist – all because of his name.
The boy's father explains that the name he gave to his son is a formula that underlines the boy is a human – and that's all that matters.
"It will make his life easier, so he won't interact with those idiots who think one's name defines their appearance. Every person who gets a traditional name is automatically linked to his historical background. And he will be devoid of his ancestors' legacy," Vyacheslav Voronin said.
His philosophy has earned a lot of adherents but that hasn't persuaded the district record office, which has refused to register the newborn. Although he doesn't have proof of his birth, Boch's file is getting thicker by the year.
"The record office is an authority that registers, it's not the authority that permits or decides. Thus the office official committed a crime by denying the parents' will," lawyer Aleksandr Budan says.
The authorities do not want to comment, but not one court in Moscow has agreed, and even the European Court for Human Rights refuses to consider the case.
The Russian Constitution enshrines the right to choose any name, but the registry has its own set of rules. According to them any name has to have letters rather than numbers. This boy's name does not.
"The world has changed – look at the internet, look what kind of nicknames people choose. Every person is unique and certainly wants to have a unique name as well," the boy's mother Marina Frolova said.
The parents have confidence in Boch's future. He goes to a private pre-school and takes karate lessons, so for his friends it's just a cool nickname.
"You can call a child a stool or a table, a child has a right to such a name, but one has to use common sense. Particularly when it concerns a child, why should one suffer from the parents' choice, he will go to a kindergarten and then to school and will be mocked, all because of his name," said Tatyana Baturina from a Moscow registry office.
The parents still have an option to take the case to the Supreme Court of Russia or simply drop the digital part of their son's name and keep only the abbreviation – 'BOH'.
For now the parents consider it a matter of principle, and for Boch it may determine whether he goes to school or not.


The government on Monday attacked Bharatiya Janata Party's criticism of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's performance as 'distasteful' and exuded confidence of taking the economy out of the present 'trough' and back to high growth.
"I think the most charitable way to describe that comment is extremely distasteful.
"I wonder what he (BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad) said when he read the article on (former Prime Minister Atal Bihari) Vajpayeeji in June 2002," Home Minister P Chidambaram said.
He was reacting to BJP's demand for the resignation of the Prime Minister following Time magazine's description of him as an 'underachiever'.
Referring to a Time magazine write up in 2002 after the Gujarat riots that was critical of the then Prime Minister Atal Bihar Vajpayee, Chidambaram asked BJP leaders not to make too much of magazine articles.
Commenting on the Time magazine's latest article, the Home Minister said the United Progressive Alliance-II was confident that it would overcome the present economic situation.
Image: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
"Short answer to your question can PM rouse himself ? Answer is yes. This government will get India out of the present trough. We will get back to high growth. . .That is the answer to the Time Magazine article," he said.
Chidambaram said the magazine also recalled the splendid achievement of UPA -I.
". . .then (the magazine) said in UPA-II, can the Prime Minister rouse himself ?
"The answer is of course.
"We are confident that we will get out of this trough and we will get back to the high growth", he said.


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Q: Instance Mapping - nServiceBus We can use "Instance Mapping" to route message to same instance hosted on multiple physical servers. What would be the impact if one of the physical machine goes down due to any reason? Will nServiceBus framework will start routing message to remaining active "physical" machine?
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You chose Sender Side Distribution, I assume from your question, using endpoint instance mapping. In that same document, there's a section about the limitations which mentions:

Sender-side distribution does not use message processing confirmations (the distributor approach). Therefore the sender has no feedback on the availability of workers and, by default, sends the messages in a round-robin behavior. Should one of the nodes stop processing, the messages will pile up in its input queue. As such, nodes running in sender-side distribution mode require more careful monitoring compared to distributor workers.

So the messages keep being sent to the machine that is down. If it is entirely unreachable, the messages will remain in the Outgoing queue on the sender machine. Otherwise they'll be stored on the incoming queue on the processing machine.

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Christmas in the Heart é o trigésimo quarto álbum de estúdio e o primeiro de Natal do cantor Bob Dylan, lançado a 13 de outubro de 2009.

Todos os lucros da venda do disco serão em beneficência das organizações não lucrativas Feeding America nos Estados Unidos e Crisis no Reino Unido, bem como para o Programa Alimentar Mundial.

Dylan declarou que apesar de ser judeu, nunca se sentiu deixado fora do Natal, durante a sua infância no Minnesota. Apesar da popularidade da música de natal, disse:

Faixas
 "Here Comes Santa Claus" (Gene Autry, Oakley Haldeman) – 2:35
 "Do You Hear What I Hear?" (Noël Regney, Gloria Shayne Baker) – 3:02
 "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) - 1:52
 "Hark The Herald Angels Sing" (Mendelssohn, letra: Wesley, arr. Dylan) – 2:30
 "I'll Be Home For Christmas" (Buck Ram, Kim Gannon, Walter Kent) – 2:54
 "Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone) – 2:52
 "The Christmas Blues" (Sammy Cahn, David Jack Holt) – 2:54
 "O' Come All Ye Faithful" ("Adeste Fideles") (Traditional, arr. Dylan) - 2:48
 "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) – 4:06
 "Must Be Santa" (William Fredericks, Hal Moore) – 2:48
 "Silver Bells" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) – 2:35
 "The First Noel" (Tradicional, arr. Dylan) – 2:30
 "Christmas Island" (Lyle Moraine) – 2:27
 "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Bob Wells) – 3:56
 "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Tradicional, arr. Dylan) – 2:17

Paradas

Créditos
 Bob Dylan – Guitarra, teclados, vocal, harmónica
 Tony Garnier – Baixo
 Phil Upchurch – Guitarra, bandolim
 Patrick Warren - Piano, órgão, celesta
 David Hidalgo – Acordeão, guitarra, bandolim, violino
 Donnie Herron – Guitarra steel, bandolim, trompete, violino
 George Recile – Bateria, percussão

Álbuns de Bob Dylan
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Wild Camping for Motorhomes > Motorhome Forums > Motorhome European / International Travel > Route to Granada - Recommendations for Aires or alternative route?
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Hi everyone - Just to say this is a great forum and I am now a full member and look forward to meeting a few people on our travels!
Ok, so I would appreciate some help on my route plan down to Galera, Huescar (Spain) from Calais.
We will be driving in July and have allowed 8 days for the trip down, a few weeks in Galera and then 8ish days back.
Day 2 - Montlouis - sur - loire (304Kms) I might like to break this down into two 150km journeys but not sure yet.
Day 6 - Guadalajara (336kms) Family live here so we may visit them en route.
Day 7 - Albacete (264) recommendations for Aire or site appreciated.
I am more than happy to consider completely alternative routes as long as I am not doing more than 300kms in a day. I would also appreciate recommendations for Aires and camping spots around the areas we plan to stop.
I am waiting for a micro SD so I can download the POIs which i am sure will open up some more stop over opportunities en route.
Just read an article from Saturday's travel section in The Guardian ...... Huelva - west of Saville is a definitely recommended to eat a tapas etc.
There is an aire (albeit next to the railway station) in St. Jean de Luz near the bridge - easy accesss on foot into the town itself - definitely an aire I will use next time I am down that way.
There is an excellent riverside aire at Saint-Savinien, slightly north of Saintes. Should be in the WildCamping POIs and the CCI database.
There is a free aire in Albecete but we didn't stay as it is in the town itself and would probably be noisy. (38.9769, -1.8522). Much better about 3 miles south east of Albecete on the A-31 at Chinchilla de Monte Aragon is a fairly new aire with all services free. (38.92089, -1.72269). We spent a really nice quiet night there a couple of weeks ago. A local chap who was a language teacher and spoke brilliant English welcomed us. It is also worth a walk round. There is a castle and lots of cave houses.
Much better about 3 miles south east of Albecete on the A-31 at Chinchilla de Monte Aragon is a fairly new aire with all services free. (38.92089, -1.72269). We spent a really nice quiet night there a couple of weeks ago. A local chap who was a language teacher and spoke brilliant English welcomed us. It is also worth a walk round. There is a castle and lots of cave houses.
I would get an ACSI camping card, to save money at camp sites. I would also download the poi files from archiescampings.eu for your satnav.
We stayed at the acsi campsites at Haro (below mirando de ebro) and at Albarracin, both ok.
We wild camped at Sorio (next to the town bridge) for 2 days, Molina de Aragon (again next to the town bridge), Cuenca (car park below the town next to a small stream) 1 day.
We then went of to the coast below Valencia for a week or so.
South of your route we stopped at Mazarron acsi (next to the beach and small village) for 3 days and wild camped at Aguilas (main town car park in front of harbour) 2 days.
We stayed at the acsi campsite east of Granada. Upside restraunt, views of the montains, bus to Granada outside of campsite,. Downside rubbish toilets/showers, tiny village down a steep hill and nothing for kids. I would not stay there again.
At the time two weeks ago there was a 4 day waiting for tickets to the Alhambro Palace.
The acsi campsite near Motril on the coast was ok for the beach but not much else. The resort part of the the town that's a few K's west of the campsite was worth popping along to.
Thank you to everyone for the advice, I have added them all to my route and have a few back ups now, should they be needed!
I have extended the journey so we arrive in Granada on day 8 - this was mainly for the kids and dog, just encase its too hot (we dont have aircon!). We now wont be driving more that 150 miles a day which should be a good amount for a relaxing journey down.
I think on the way back we will be more relaxed regarding the route and see where we end up - i want to go back to Girona as there was a lovely site there last time i visited.
Thanks again and I hope everyone is making the most of the lovely weather!
If you get near it, Lake Negratin, Baza, is amazing. We stayed in an empty carpark right by the river but stupidly I did not make a note of exactly where it was :( If I find it in my log I will post it for POI (sorry!) There was also a beach with a restaurant (reasonable) quite near Freila off the main A315 route.
I know the lake well, we are planning on staying there for a night or two - I have only approached it from Freila but will have a look around for a good spot for the van. I suspect if you eat in the restaurant they would be happy for people to stay in the car park, which is nice as its quite shaded.
Not for every body I know, but we never make plans as to routes, because you never know what you may find on the way so can not keep to time table. For the last 5/6 years all we have used is the book Camperstop.
The only book you now need for travelling in Europe is Camperstop, this with the downloads into your sat nave takes all the effort out of things and allows your passenger to enjoy the trip far more than having to sit with a map on there laps. Put a destination into the sat nave , or as we do when traveling down to Spain a town on the way ( and in our case no toll roads ) then just go when you feel like stopping, press the button and there in front of you all the Aires and Sites, with a page number and distance, look it up and there you have all details is it free ( that's the ones we use ) if water ,w/c dump shops ect, if you like the look of it press go and it takes you there. Over the years we have used lots of books, but for the last 5/6 years only Camperstop, so the only thing we do before going away is book the tunnel or ferry. Our last trip 5 weeks in France and all we spent was a few euros on service machines at some Aires, many of the Aires had free electricity as well. Vicarious Books, the book now contains 27 country's , at about £18.99 not the cheapest but we only change it ever 2 years, so £8.50 a year is good value when you think how much it saves you on site rents by using good Aires.
So you don't use our very large selection of POIs in France, Spain and Portugal then?
In the UK yes all the time, but lived in Spain for 7 years and found our own over the years but Camperstop has far more and more information about the Aires.
Stayed there a few times , not bothered by noise but incredibly busy Aire .


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The total fee for contingent participants will be approximately $1,550 (reduced from $1,650). The fee includes all Philmont Scout Ranch fees, shakedown/practice weekends at Little Sioux Scout Ranch, travel arrangements, any side trips, meals, and special mementos for the Mid-America Council contingent. Spots are limited to first-come, first-serve. A non-refundable $200 deposit is required to reserve a spot.
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Q: Incorrect @libdir@ when building *.pc using config.site? I'm working on Fedora x86_64. It uses /lib64, /usr/lib64 and friends. I have the following *.pc.in file:
$ cat libcryptopp.pc.in
prefix=@prefix@
exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
libdir=@libdir@
includedir=@includedir@
...

My config.site has the following. It was copied from Fedora's config.site at /usr/share/config.site. The copy was used because of config.site for vendor libs on Fedora x86_64.
$ cat /usr/local/share/config.site
...

# Note: This file includes also RHEL/Fedora fix for installing libraries into
# "/lib/lib64" on 64bit systems.

if test -n "$host"; then
    # skip when cross-compiling
    return 0
fi

if test "$prefix" = /usr \
   || { test "$prefix" = NONE && test "$ac_default_prefix" = /usr ; }
then
    test "$sysconfdir" = '${prefix}/etc' && sysconfdir=/etc
    test "$sharedstatedir" = '${prefix}/com' && sharedstatedir=/var
    test "$localstatedir" = '${prefix}/var' && localstatedir=/var

    ARCH=`uname -m`
    for i in x86_64 ppc64 s390x aarch64; do
        if test $ARCH = $i; then
            test libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib64'
            break
        fi
    done
fi

However, after Autoconf processes my *.pc.in file:
$ autoreconf --install --force
...
$ ./configure
...

$ cat libcryptopp.pc
prefix=/usr/local
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include
...

Notice libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib, and not libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib64.
GCC is definitely building 64-bit binaries for the package. I did not add -mx32 or -m32:
$ gcc -dumpmachine
x86_64-redhat-linux

Why is the wrong lib/ directory being used, and how do I fix it?

A: The /usr/local/share/config.site is wrong. Though it was copied from Fedora's config.site and placed in /usr/local/share, the prefix directories are wrong. The prefix test should use /usr/local and not /usr.
Below is the corrected one.
$ cat /usr/local/share/config.site
...

if test -n "$host"; then
    # skip when cross-compiling
    return 0
fi

if test "$prefix" = /usr/local \
   || { test "$prefix" = NONE && test "$ac_default_prefix" = /usr/local ; }
then
    test "$sysconfdir" = '${prefix}/etc' && sysconfdir=/etc
    test "$sharedstatedir" = '${prefix}/com' && sharedstatedir=/var
    test "$localstatedir" = '${prefix}/var' && localstatedir=/var

    ARCH=`uname -m`
    for i in x86_64 ppc64 s390x aarch64; do
        if test $ARCH = $i; then
            test "$libdir" = '${exec_prefix}/lib' && libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib64'
            break
        fi
    done
fi

Now, the next question is, why Fedora's /usr/share/config.site is not handling prefix=/usr/local properly. That's an open question at Issue 1510073 : Autoconf does not honor libdir in config.site for "libdir=@libdir@" in *.pc file, which has been closed as NOT A BUG.


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Woodward's account contradicts Libby prosecutor
November 16, 2005 | TONI LOCY AND PETE YOST
"The grand jury was going and reporters were being jailed, and I hunkered down more than I usually do," Woodward said, explaining why he waited so long to tell Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. what he ...
Horsey: Financial collapse threatens real journalism
February 14, 2009 | DAVID HORSEY
Leonard Downie Jr., the former executive editor of The Washington Post, spoke about how happy he was that his career had spanned a golden age in journalism and how sad he was that the golden age was over.
J.D. Alexander, former P-I publisher and editor, dies at 66
June 13, 2005 | M.L. LYKE
"J.D. was one of those unusual presences in our newsroom (who) always made the Washington Post an enjoyable place to work," said Leonard Downie Jr., the Post's executive editor.
Journalists become prey for Afghan killers
November 27, 2001 | ANNA BADKHEN
Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr., said his reporters in Kunduz and Taloqan "found both places to be, in the words of one of them, the Wild West."
J.D. Alexander, dead at 66: Former P-I publisher pushed for excellence
"J.D. was one of those unusual presences in our newsroom that always made The Washington Post an enjoyable place to work," said Leonard Downie Jr., the Post's executive editor.
A battling editor to the end: Harry Rosenfeld, 91
July 16, 2021 | News staff
Leonard Downie, who served as the Post's assistant managing editor under Rosenfeld beginning in 1974, called him "a proud and devoted newspaperman" to the end. "After effectively editing foreign news in New York ...
'Cub' young adult graphic novel recalls internship at Register Citizen
January 2, 2020 | Emily M. Olson
"I have read 'She Said' (by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the book that is credited with launching the anti-sexual harassment movement in 2019) and "The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril" by Leonard Downie Jr.
DAVID CUILLIER and ERIC NEWTON: Why freedom of information faces problems
March 13, 2017 | MNA Staff
"What I hear from reporters in Washington and my students is that exemptions are being used in way too many cases and delays are still very long," said Leonard Downie, former Washington Post executive editor ...
Attorney General Holder needs to go
Justice guidelines require subpoenas of media records to be as narrowly drawn as possible, according to Arizona State University journalism professor Leonard Downie Jr., writing in the Washington Post, which he formerly edited.
Randall Beach: Linda Greenhouse wants journalists to also be public citizens
But as she wrote in her book, then Leonard Downie Jr., managing editor of the Washington Post, heard that some of his reporters had participated in that march. ... During her talk in New Haven, Greenhouse read ...
Obama's White House has put big chill on open government
October 23, 2013 | Copyright 2013: Houston Chronicle
Former Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr., who authored the CPJ report, summed up the group's concerns forcefully: "In the Obama administration's Washington, government officials are ...
Emily Schwartz Greco and William A. Collins: Forging a secret legacy
"The administration's war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I've seen since the Nixon administration, when I was one of the editors involved in The Washington ...
June 10, 2014 | Emily Schwartz Greco and William A. Collins OtherWords.org
FBI apologizes for taking reporter phone logs
Mueller called Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. and Times Executive Editor Bill Keller on Friday to express regret that agents did not follow proper procedures in 2004 when they obtained the phone ...
Washington Post Content to Appear in WSJ
January 15, 2003 | LISA SINGHANIA
"This will significantly increase the worldwide audience for Washington Post journalism, which we believe will complement that of The Wall Street Journal in its international editions," said Leonard Downie Jr., the Post's executive editor.
All good news is local
A recent report "Reconstruction of American Journalism," by Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson, offers a detailed outline for what is happening in journalism.
Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor of the Washington Post. 8:30 P.M.


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Q: why when i use tracert in powershell,it doesn't return complete reponse? i use tracert in power shell,but it can not show all path,some parts talks Request timed out.
Tracing route to google.com [216.58.212.78]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    33 ms    33 ms    32 ms  172.31.4.1
  2    33 ms    33 ms    32 ms  192.168.160.2
  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 19   173 ms   168 ms   169 ms  216.58.212.78

Trace complete.

i set hops to 200,300,Request timed out  to 3,5,10 second but it is same before,
how i can tracert that has complete reponse?
thanks for reply

A: This does not look Powershell-related at all. Instead, it looks like your network (after 192.168.160.2) is filtering at least the ICMP Time exceeded responses, which is what tracert / traceroute relies upon to generate the routing path trace.
It does not matter what traceroute implementation you are using or how you tweak the parameters of the call - your network administrators have broken the network for you, most likely due to the misconception that ICMP is evil.


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In the late afternoon of February 4th, the Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) was noisy, dusty, and filled with construction workers going about their business. The sense of urgency in the Hell's Kitchen building was palpable, and with good reason. The new Jerome Robbins Theater, named after the iconic 20th century Broadway and ballet choreographer, would officially open at the gala event happening just twelve days later, and was still under heavy construction. The gala promised a lineup of performances by Mikhail Baryshnikov (BAC's artistic director), Wendy Sutter, Garrison Keillor, Benjamin Millepied's Danses Concertantes, and members of New York City Ballet, all of whom were undoubtedly busy rehearsing for the event. But if the highly anticipated theater were not completed, nobody would have the chance to grace the stage with their presence.
Photography by Alexander Severin/RAZUMMEDIA, Courtesy of WASA/Studio A
BAC's executive director, Stanford Makishi, seemed undaunted and surprisingly upbeat about the busy days ahead. The gala, he explained, was not only a celebration of the new theater, but also a turning point for BAC and the types of programming, creative residencies, and performances it can offer. His enthusiasm was apparent as he ducked under some equipment and pointed out the theater's new walls and some features in the small balcony. Although it will be "a very intimate space" with just 238 seats, the Jerome Robbins Theater will have the trappings of a much larger theater.
Until now, BAC only had black box spaces with sixteen-foot ceilings, but the Jerome Robbins Theater allows for performances with more technical demands, and can accommodate the needs of artists from various disciplines. The theater's acoustics make it an ideal setting for live music, and stretching 43 feet across, the stage is larger than that of BAC's other spaces and is therefore suitable for larger performance ensembles. Sight lines are excellent from all viewpoints, and the balcony is positioned low enough that the audience still feels close to the performers. Furthermore, the theater will be LEED-certified for sustainable design and construction—a rare and praiseworthy accomplishment for a New York City performing arts venue.
The idea for the new theater, according to Makishi, was "a glimmer in Misha's [Baryshnikov's] eye" when ground was first broken for BAC in 2001. But it was not until February of 2007 that BAC signed a letter of agreement to purchase "Theater C," as the space was called, from the consortium within the building that owned the three theaters at the site. The purchase was completed in November 2008, and with generous support from the Jerome Robbins Foundation, "Theater C" would be renovated and renamed the Jerome Robbins Theater.
Makishi explained that Baryshnikov imagined the new theater as a unique opportunity for both performers and the audience. Only time will tell if the public appreciates and flocks to BAC for the chance to attend performances in the Jerome Robbins Theater, but so far, artists have certainly embraced the space for its possibilities. Experimental theater company the Wooster Group will open the first season as resident company of the theater on March 10th, with a revival of North Atlantic, which takes a satiric look at the role of the military and technology during the late Cold War period, after Vietnam, and before the fall of the Berlin Wall. After the Wooster Group's six-week run in the theater, the Swiss duo Martin Zimmermann and Dimitri de Perrot (choreographer and DJ, respectively) will present the U.S. premiere of Gaff Aff. A continuously shifting work that explores the human being as marionette, curio, and illusionist, Gaff Aff runs May 4-8.
While the Jerome Robbins Theater will undoubtedly broaden BAC's programming, there are still other spaces that will be utilized for dance, music, theater, and film. Blending their use of live camera work, animation, and surrealism, Bridgman/Packer Dance will present the world premiere of Double Expose on March 25th in BAC's Howard Gilman Performance Space. In April, Makishi is looking forward to welcoming Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) to BAC to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Their performances are particularly meaningful to him because they will perform Opal Loop/Cloud Installation # 72503, a rarely seen work that Makishi, a former TBDC dancer, performed with the company when it celebrated its 25th anniversary at Brooklyn Academy of Music.
With the launch of the new Jerome Robbins Theater, along with the Howard Gilman Performance Space and other studios, BAC is well positioned to offer myriad opportunities to artists looking for performance and rehearsal space (twenty artists hold creative residencies in BAC's studios throughout the spring). Moreover, BAC has the potential to be a vibrant destination for audiences seeking a diverse range of performing arts.
Evan Namerow
Namerow devotes her time to dance writing, environmental activism, and exploring the outdoors.


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A sleepy district in Hebei province has suddenly become the centre of China's latest property craze and the talk of the country.
Recently, a new economic area was established by Chinese government to advance the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
The breaking news of April 1st immediately drew wide support from locals and authorities alike, with many predicting that the new area would help to boost Hebei's economy, as its GDP has ranked lower than those of other provincial regions in the past two years. But what arrived in the new area even faster than industrial investment was feverishly eager home-buyers.
Less than 24 hours after the announcement, counties located within the new area began to see home-buyers flocking into the region, toting millions in cash in order to grab properties on land expected to be on the receiving end of national and even international investments.
Under exploding market demands, housing prices within the new area have shot up from 4,000 RMB per square meter in 2015 to a current average of 15,000 RMB per square meter, with some high-end properties boasting per-square-meter prices of over 50,000 RMB, the Global Times reported, citing local real estate agents. The home-buying rampage not only affected counties within the new area, but also spread to areas beyond it. Housing prices in Baigou – some 20 kilometers away from Xiong'an New Area – doubled to 14,000 RMB per square meter overnight.


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Here we go again: Rail Round 2. Did "they" hear us in 2010? Apparently Not. They are playing the same game as other cities that were forced to go through multiple ballot referendums before they got the rail agenda passed. The Tribune is leading the rally for rail again.
The Tribune Op-Ed Time to get serious about transit:
"On March 20, Hillsborough County Commissioner Mark Sharpe will lead fellow commissioners in a discussion of transportation realities, including how to attract the best employers, how to make the Tampa area a more appealing place to live, and perhaps even how to afford to catch up to longstanding shortfalls in local transportation funding."
The Tribune starts with the mobility issue:
"If you support better mobility in this urban area, and if you understand the importance of the distinctive and rewarding development that modern transportation options can attract, now would be a useful time to speak up."
Once again, we have some questions.
Where is "this urban area" they are asking for better mobility? Is it the entire city of Tampa? Is it the urban core downtown? Is it the Westshore business district? Are the suburbs like Carrollwood, Brandon, Lutz, Apollo Beach, Plant City, Town and Country, Westchase, and others included? What about "better mobility" in the rest of the County where the majority of residents live? Are they also included in this "private conversation"? So far, this appears to be a rather one sided conversation.
How much time will we save? How much congestion will be relieved? How many cars will be removed from the roads?
How much money will we save?
What will be the true ridership numbers?
What are the risks to the taxpayers of Hillsborough County? Will bus routes be negatively impacted by rail options?
In addition, is there an assumption here that "better mobility" translates to "transit"? From the Trib:
"Serious private conversations are resuming in Tampa over the possibility of an additional sales tax for bus, rail, road and possibly trail improvements. Transit advocates hope this talk will inspire elected leaders to also have a serious discussion about giving the public a sales tax referendum in 2014 to talk about."
There's no discussion by the Trib on the COSTs of the various transportation options, except of course, costs of roads (which we'll deal with in a bit). So we will. Let's look at the costs and subsidies per passenger mile of transportation options. From the Cato Institution:
Transit costs and subsidies
CR = Commuter Rail
HR = Heavy Rail
LR - Light Rail
This is based on data from 2008. These costs and subsidies data have not changed much in the latest numbers from 2010. But certainly our federal debt is much worse, which is of concern since significant funding for these transit project is expected from the federal government (with inconvenient strings attached). That spigot of money is likely to end well before these grandiose projects are near completion.
"Personal cost" is the cost paid by the user -- in the case of transit it is the transit fare. In the case of driving it is the sum of all auto costs -- purchasing, operating, maintaining, repairing, insuring -- in 2008 divided by the auto passenger miles in 2008.
Subsidies for autos include the sum of general funds (property, sales, income taxes) spent on roads minus the sum of gas taxes, tolls, and other user fees that were diverted to transit or other non-highway purposes.
Subsidies for rail transit include amortized capital costs plus annual operating costs minus fares. Subsidies to bus transit include total operating and capital costs minus fares.
It's pretty obvious on the cost effectiveness of the various options.
The Trib goes on:
The investment, as rail advocates have long said, is not about the train. It's about the intense, highly desirable development passengers see out the windows of the train around the station stops. It's about improving incomes, raising property values and attracting the young, productive people who can live wherever they please. It's about building cities we're proud of.
So, the cat's out of the bag. The Trib and the rail proponents are about development, not mobility. That would be "desirable development", in case you didn't notice. Desirable according to whom? Rail advocates!
We've previously addressed mobility vs. development topics here and here.
We are all about improving economic prosperity in the Tampa Bay area. If we want to improve our prosperity, we should have that discussion in spades. Let's not assume there is some economic pot of gold at the end of the rail rainbow.
The elevated road that will soon connect the Tampa port to I-4 costs $400 million. The next phase of the reconstruction of I-275 between Westshore and downtown Tampa costs $278.7 million.
Widening I-75 from four lanes to at least six lanes from Fowler Avenue to State Road 56 in Pasco County costs $95 million, with another $22.8 million to be spent on widening the busy interstate farther north in Pasco.
Highway improvements are essential, but alone they are not enough to keep Tampa and its suburbs competitive with many other cities that are investing heavily in transit.
Yes, highway and road improvements are essential, and that is not going away. How convenient they left out any cost numbers associated with the other modes of transportation, as if they are free. They perform an accounting sleight of hand by talking absolute costs, vs. per passenger mile, which is the only way to measure the true costs of the different transportation modes.
We refer you to Hillsborough planners consider revised light rail proposal.
The centerpiece of the MPO's idea is a "hybrid" light-rail project to showcase what light rail could achieve.
The initial project would run only between downtown and the University of South Florida campus. That would be a dramatically shorter route than the one called for in 2010, which would have created a light rail system running from the northeast suburbs to downtown Tampa to Tampa International Airport.
The smaller scale of the project also would carry a smaller price tag – in this case, a half-cent increase in the sales tax instead of a full penny.
The 12-mile rail line could cost between $240 million and $475 million, or $20 million to $40 million a mile. The 2010 light rail project turned down by voters was estimated to cost upwards of $800 million, or more than $60 million per mile.
The cost to operate the trains and maintain the equipment, tracks, and stations would range from $8 million to $20 million per year.
We remind the reader from the 2010 light-rail referendum the actual cost estimates referendum was $1.2 billion not $800 million. So its not free either.
Also missing in this editorial is any reference to the Community Investment Tax (CIT). By 2007 the County Commission blew out our CIT taxes. That money is totally spent and we are now receiving zero dollars from CIT for roads, despite the fact the CIT included road improvement and safety projects through 2026. We are still paying the CIT, and getting no transportation benefits from it.
Hillsborough County currently has a huge list of unfunded transportation road and bridge projects. Some decisions must be made. Will we preserve and rehabilitate the existing roads that 98% of us use everyday? Is now a good time to incur additional debts on the "hope" that transit and the promised development will improve Tampa's prosperity? Is that "hope" on your dime a bet you would place with our County Commissioners?
Now those same people want more? Their last plans failed. And you can bet they want rail and transit oriented development. Just trust us, they say. Or is it likely they'll prop up rail at the expense of the roads and bus service, which has repeatedly happened in other municipalities that have gone down this path. Will they guarantee no cut backs in bus service and roads, and no further tax increases to cover the rail cost overruns, maintenance and operating expenses, which are the typical remedies to rail plans gone bad?
Can we be honest here? This discussion would not be re-opened again if we only wanted to improve the bus service, and open up some low cost private modes of transportation such as shared shuttle services, which we favor. It's only being opened up so the large developers in the Tampa Bay area can build around light-rail.
If there is anything we should have learned around here, it is that development is not long term economic prosperity. Tampa Bay needs diversification in its economy besides the developers. Development won't go away, but we should broaden that discussion around realistic growth and prosperity options that are best for Tampa Bay, not more of the same. Where is small business in this discussion?
Tampa does need improved transit. Lets have that discussion.
But lets not confuse mobility with development with prosperity. Those are three different things. They are not totally independent of course, but lets understand the optimum solutions for each rather than letting developers and other special interests drive to their preferred answer.
Here at The Eye we've already started the conversation on transportation to ensure all sides are being heard. You can start reading our posts related to transportation. Just keep scrolling.
Need more info? Check out https://www.facebook.com/TBCOST.
Be aware Connect Tampa Bay and the Sierra Club are actively organizing to get 100 or more supporters to the March 20th meeting.
If you want your voice heard, show up, and sign up to speak. The earlier, the better.
8:30am – sign up to speak, only 45 minutes for public comment, 3 minutes each!
9:00am – BOCC meeting starts
Hillsborough County Center
601 E Kennedy Blvd.
If you can't make it, because, you work, or have other commitments, email your county commissioners, or call them 813-272-5660 and leave them a message.
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Don't get fooled again!
Mark and Sharon.
Posted by EyeOn TampaBay at 1:13 PM
Labels: Hillsborough County, rail, Tampa, transportation
Sharon Calvert March 17, 2013 at 2:50 PM
Anyone can watch Wednesday's BOCC meeting LIVE at: http://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/index.aspx?NID=274
Brutal- March 21, 2013 at 11:09 PM
Wow, you managed to derail the light rail debate while everyone was asleep at the wheel enjoying their frapachinos and playing video games on their iPhones? It is 2 years later and people have come out in the sunlight and finally see what kind of damage the tea party is doing to this county... to the country. R&R were soundly defeated, especially here in Florida. I hope WE THE PEOPLE sent a clear message to the entire Tea Party. We are going to take this state back. We started with the President. Gov. Scott is next.
I don't know if there will be light rail in this county, but that was not the main goal here. The goal was for the county commissioners to see that the citizens of Hillsborough County need more transit options. The one we have currently needs help. It is underfunded, inadequate, and aged and will need the help of the citizens if we are to ever compete with major metropolitan areas.
7-0 Go People!
EyeOn TampaBay March 22, 2013 at 4:01 PM
Please be constructive. You can have a point of view, of course, but please back it up with some facts.
Even though San Francisco has both a public Rail and Public Bus, many employers find it makes sense to run Private Buses. Do you get the impression maybe the private industry meets its customers needs better than government? So what is your reaction? It should not be that we need to improve public transportation to compete with private, it should be to celebrate that the free market is allowing all these employees to get to work in a more efficient manner.
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Pensions: SMEs and craftsmen open to a gesture for those who started working early
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The fate reserved by pension reform to the French who started working early questions even in the ranks of employers who nevertheless support the government's project. Employers' organizations representing VSEs and SMEs say they are open to parliamentarians modifying the contribution period required for certain people who entered the workforce at a young age.
"It is an adjustment that can very well be done at the level of Parliament, here is an opening that could be discussed at the level of the National Assembly", declared Tuesday morning on France Inter, François Asselin, the president of the Confederation of small and medium-sized enterprises (CPME), while defending the need for reform.
Critics up to the majority
The employer leader was questioned in particular on the advisability of lowering from 44 to 43 years the contribution period for people who started working at 20 years old. Due to the postponement of the legal age, from 62 to 64, some will indeed have to retire having contributed one year longer than the contribution period required for most French people (43 years at the end of the scaling up of the reform).
"We are in favor of a modification on the 44 years, it is a point which we have already raised", also declares to "Echos" Pierre Burban, the secretary general of the U2P, the organization representing the craftsmen, the merchants and the liberal professions. Medef, on the other hand, is obviously not on the same line, some of its leaders already worrying about the fragile financial balance of the reform. The CPME, vigilant on the cost of such a measure, is awaiting the figures on this one.
The question of the necessary contribution period for people who started work early has drawn criticism from the unions but also among the Republicans key to obtaining the adoption of the reform without 49.3, and even in the ranks of the majority.
Knowing that the 44 years of contributions will also concern a certain number of people eligible for early departure under "long careers". In detail, French people who started working before the end of their 18th birthday will be able to leave at 60, but they must also have contributed at 44 years old. Those who started before the end of their 16 years will be able to slow down at 58, with 44 years contributed.
"Less demanding" rule
Asked about this subject on Monday, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, endeavored to defend the reform, arguing that the planned device has advantages compared to the one that applies today. "We are in a system where we ask those under 16 to be able to leave at 58 to have worked two years longer than the legal contribution period. We wanted to return to a less demanding rule by going to one year, "she defended. Similarly, a possibility of leaving four years before the legal age has been opened up to careers started before the age of 18.
"We will continue to have these debates in Parliament," she continued, before emphasizing that we could not base everything on the contribution period in a system which is also based on the legal age. "These are not at all subjects that came up in the debates with the employers' organizations and trade unions," added the Prime Minister. Not sure that the argument hits the mark on the side of the social partners who say they have discovered the details of the reform during his presentation on January 10.
The head of government did not mention the cost of possible changes to the duration of contributions. This is however key, while the balance promised by the reform already appears to be compromised beyond 2030. In the parliamentary camp, it is circulating that the lowering of the required contribution period from 44 to 43 years would cost around 1.8 billion euros by 2030.
According to our information, the executive estimates that it would cost 1.2 billion euros in 2030 if people who started at 20 could leave at 63, having contributed for 43 years. And the bill would swell quickly afterwards, because the number of people concerned per generation would become increasingly important. Moreover, this figure does not take into account the cost of a possible reduction in the conditions for careers started before the age of 18.
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GAF President urges corporate bodies to invest in Armwrestling
By Emmanuel Asante Attakora, GNA Accra, Jan. 30, GNA - Mr. Charles Osei Assibey, President of Ghana Armwrestling Federation (GAF) has urged corporate bodies to invest in Armwrestling for the upcoming 9th African Armwrestling Championship slated for Accra from 26th -29th July, 2018. Mr. Assibey noted that his outfit would need over $100,000 to host a successful championship in an interview with G
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Accra, Jan. 30, GNA - Mr. Charles Osei Assibey, President of Ghana Armwrestling Federation (GAF) has urged corporate bodies to invest in Armwrestling for the upcoming 9th African Armwrestling Championship slated for Accra from 26th -29th July, 2018.
Mr. Assibey noted that his outfit would need over $100,000 to host a successful championship in an interview with GNA Sports, after launching the 9th African Armwrestling Championship in Accra aimed at showcasing the beauty and culture of Ghana to the rest of Africa and the world.
"We need about $108,000 to be able to successfully host Africa most African countries want to participate, but are facing financial challenges, so we want to support them to get a good championship to sell Ghana.
"We took up the challenge to host this championship to continue to promote and expand the Armwrestling sport.
"Now that people know that the rest of Africa is coming to Ghana in July, it would be an opportunity to sell Ghana and it would help in our tourism and commerce." He added.
According to the seasoned sports journalist this is the time for corporate Ghana to invest into the sport and help project Ghana to Africa and the rest of the world.
"I am using this platform to invite and urge corporate Ghana and Africa to support Armwrestling to continue to grow to become a sport of choice for the people of Ghana".
The Federation, which is affiliated to the World Armwrestling Federation (WAF) and Africa Armwrestling Federation (AAF) has won over 22 medals at the 8th edition of the championship held in Nigeria.
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Trooper & Nurse Duo Save Man's Life in Backyard
Brian Published: August 18, 2020
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On off-duty New York State Trooper and his ER nurse wife, helped save a man's life at their New York home last month. The story, shared over a thousand times on the New York State Trooper's Facebook page has become somewhat viral, and for good reason. It's just another example of how our first responders and medical professionals never take off their superhero capes, even when they're off the clock.
On a Facebook post shared by the New York State Police, and reported by CBS 6 News, the life saving procedures acted out by the State Trooper and his ER nurse wife happened at their Glen Spey, NY home last month.
The situation unfolded late July in the backyard of the home of Ryan and Lisa Sturtz and that's when, according to the post, a man was filling the Stutz's pool with water "when he collapsed."
What happened next took some skill and quick thinking. According to the NYSP, "Trooper Sturtz immediately began CPR while calling for his wife. His wife called 911 and then assisted her husband with CPR."
The husband and wife dynamic duo took turns performing life-saving CPR until a heartbeat was detected as EMT's were in the process of arriving. The news is even better as the Facebook post goes on to say that the man is doing quite well and is no longer in the hospital.
Thank you Trooper and ER nurse Sturtz. You both are a shining example of how many first responders and front-line heroes never take off their superhero capes. Even when they're off-duty.
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Barr to challenge patent for Mirapex in court
Drugmaker Barr Laboratories Inc. said that it will challenge Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals' patent on Parkinson's disease treatment Mirapex in court.
The unit of Woodcliff Lake, N.J.-based Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. said it believes it is the first company to file for marketing approval of generic tablets of pramipexole dihydrochloride, the active ingredient in Mirapex. The first-to-file status would give Barr 180 days of generic marketing exclusivity upon FDA approval. The application covers 0.125 milligram, 0.25 milligram, 0.5 milligram, 1 milligram, and 1.5 milligram doses of the drug.
Mirapex was sensationalized over the summer when some patients reported that the drug caused compulsive behaviors like excessive gambling, sex and shopping.
Ridgefield, Conn.-based Boehringer Ingelheim sued Barr on Monday in a federal district court in Delaware for patent infringement. Barr filed its application to market a generic version of the drug with the FDA in July.
Mirapex was one of the top-selling treatments for Parkinson's drugs in 2004, with more than $200 million in U.S. sales, according to IMS Health, a pharmaceutical information and consulting firm.
Barr shares rose 38 cents to $53.65 in midday trading on the New York Stock Exchange.