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Sophie Masse

France Crippled by Nationwide Strike Over Retirement Age - 0 views

  • Strike
  • Hundreds of thousands of French protesters
  • 24-hour strike
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  • 500,000 people marched in more than 240 demonstrations in Paris and around the country.
  • France has one of the lowest retirement ages in the developed world.
  • will cause the administration to back down
  • current $44 billion to $138 billion
  • "This is a done deal and the French know it
  • raising the retirement age two years is actually a small thing."
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      good info about strikes
Dominick Wong

Concorde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • -powered supersonic passenger airliner
  • Anglo-French government treaty
  • ntered service in 1976
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  • ommercial flights for 27 year
  • 20 aircraft
  • represented a substantial economic los
  • ubsidised by their governments
  • ype’s only
  • crash on 25 July 200
  • n the late 1950s, the United Kingdom, France, United States and Soviet Unio
  • upersonic transport.
  • Bristol Aeroplane Company
  • Sud Aviation
  • Type 223 a
  • Super-Caravelle
  • ncreased radiation exposure
  • high altitude
  • Concorde
  • passengers received almost twice the flux of extraterrestrial ionising radiation as those travelling on a conventional long-haul fligh
  • pposition to Concorde’s noise,
  • Concorde produced nitrogen oxides in its exhaust,
  • o produce a net degradation to the ozone layer at the stratospheric altitudes it cruised
  • service was discontinued after three return flights because of noise complaints from the Malaysian government;
  • r transatlantic flights from London Heathrow (British Airways) and Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (Air France) to New York JFK and Washington Dulles
  • sonic boom, takeoff-noise and pollution
  • but with a history of tyre explosions 60 times higher than subsonic jets.
  • Safety improvements
  • specially-developed burst-resistant tyres.
Dominick Wong

Concorde Aircraft Facts, Dates and History - 0 views

  • delta wing configuration and an evolution of the afterburner equipped engines originally developed for the Avro Vulcan strategic bomber. It is the first civil airliner to be equipped with an analogue fly-by-wire flight control system.
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      Pros &Cons
  • For speed optimization: double-delta (ogive) shaped wings afterburning Roll-Royce/Snecma Olympus turbojets with supercruise capability thrust-by-wire engines, ancestor of today's FADEC controlled engines droop-nose section for good landing visibility
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  • Mach 2.04 'sweet spot' for optimum fuel consumption (supersonic drag minimum, while jet engines are more efficient at high speed) mostly aluminium construction for low weight and relatively conventional build full-regime autopilot and autothrottle allowing "hands off" control of the aircraft from climb out to landing fully electrically-controlled, analog fly-by-wire flight controls systems multifunction flight control surfaces high-pressure hydraulic system of 28 MPa (4,000 lbf/in) for lighter hydraulic systems components fully electrically controlled analog brake-by-wire system pitch trim by shifting fuel around the fuselage for center-of-gravity control parts milled from single alloy billet reducing the part number count.
  • unique experience of passing through the sound barrier was less dramatic than would be expected. The moment would be announced by one of the pilots, and could be seen on the cabin display, otherwise the slight surge in acceleration could easily be missed. At twice the normal cruising altitude, turbulence was rare and the view from t he windows clearly showed the curvature of the Earth. During the supersonic cruise, although the outside air temperature was typically -60 C, air friction would heat the external skin at the front of the plane to around +120 C making the windows warm to the touch and producing a noticeable temperature gradient along the length of the cabin. Most remarkably Concorde was the only passenger airliner able to overtake the terminator. On certain early evening transatlantic flights departing from Heathrow or Paris, it was possible to take off at night and catch up with the sun from the cockpit you could see the sun rise in the west.
  • aris crash The Concorde was the safest airliner in the world according to passenger deaths per distance travelled until the 25 July 2000 crash of Air France Flight 4590 in Gonesse, France, although it should be noted that the Boeing 737 fleet acquires more passenger miles and service hours in one week than the Concorde fleet acquired in the course of its entire service career. In any case, all of the people on board the flight perished, as well as four people on the ground. As the plane was on its take-off run, a metal piece punctured the tires which then burst, puncturing the fuel tanks and leading to the loss of the aircraft. The report of the investigation was published on 14 December 2004, attributing the crash to foreign object damage from a titanium strip that fell from another aircraft, a Continental Airlines DC-10 which had taken off four minutes before; the piece had not been approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration.
  • Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde supersonic transport (SST)
  • commercial servic
  • cruise speed of mach 2.04 and a cruise altitude of 60,000 feet
  • In the late 1950s the
  • British, Fr
  • ench, American
  • Soviets
  • developing a supersonic transport
  • ere lar
  • espective governments as a way of gaining some foothold in the aircraft market that was
  • designs called the Type 233 and Super-Caravelle
  • dominated by the United States.
  • prototype construction in the early 1960s, but the cost was so great that the companies (and governments) decided to join forces
  • egotiated as an international treaty between Britain and France
  • draft treaty was signed on November 28, 1962.
  • both companies had been merged into new ones and the Concorde project was thus a part of the British Aircraft Corporation and Aerospatiale.
  • Only 20 Concordes were built, six for development and 14 for commercial service. These were: two prototypes two pre-production aircraft 16 production aircraft
  • Critically, many of the victims of the 9/11 attacks were business executives based within the World Trade Center buildings who were either regular Concorde customers themselves, or authorised others to travel on the aircraft.
Puja DeGamia

BBC NEWS | Europe | France targets anorexia in media - 0 views

  • The bill targets pro-anorexia websites
  • The French National Assembly has passed a groundbreaking bill which seeks to criminalise the promotion in the media of extreme thinness.
  • nd publications that encourage girls and young women to starve themselves.
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  • It will affect websites, fashion houses, magazines and advertisers.
  • those found to have encouraged severe weight loss could be fined up to 45,000 euros and face three years in prison.
  • "Encouraging young girls to lie to their doctors, advising them on foods that are easier to regurgitate and inciting them to beat themselves up each time they eat is not freedom of expression," Ms Bachelot told the assembly.
  • It is necessary because we know now that we have a risk to some part of the population, young girls, who are pressed by different types of lobbies and the risk is increasing."
  • he law could also affect the fashion industry and magazine editors who publish photographs of extremely thin models.
  • Page last updated at 21:43 GMT, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 22:43 UK E-mail this to a friend Printable version
  • he BBC's Emma Jane Kirby in Paris says that with 40,000 anorexics in France, many parliamentarians feel the law cannot come soon enough.
Sophie Masse

TODAYonline | World | France's pension reform becomes law - 0 views

  • raises the retirement age has been signed into law by President Nicolas Sarkozy
  • 70 per cent of French people disapproved of the pension
  • eight times since early September
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  • fuel shortages
Sophie Masse

French Students Should Celebrate Pension Reform - Francois Melese - Mises Daily - 0 views

  • fear job losses
  • if older workers are forced to postpone retirement.
  • France faces limited options. It could postpone retirement; reduce benefits; raise taxes; increase workers (liberalize immigration); or increase productivity and grow the economy.
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  • this would delay a young person's entry into the labor force
  • If an older worker is forced to work an extra couple of years
  • youth unemployment already absurdly high
  • over 20 percent
  • young people need to realize they will live longer
  • reduce benefits.
  • greater job opportunities
  • signals the world that France is committed to more stable and responsible fiscal
  • launch new companies
  • business formation and job creation
Sophie Masse

France to raise retirement age to 62, Massive protests - Ars Technica OpenForum - 0 views

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      People's opinion! not reliable but useful
golan elzur

The EU Ban on Animal Testing for Cosmetics - Animal Free Zone (UK) - 0 views

  • The ban was agreed upon in 2002, but goes into effect in 2009
  • After years of discussion and debate, language for the ban was completed by 1998. Initial passage of the ban occurred in 2002
  • During the process, it was learned that some companies planned to circumvent the ban by testing cosmetics on animals outside the border of the EU and then import them for sale.
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  • The cosmetics industry maintains that animal testing is the only way to be sure that ingredients in cosmetics and personal hygiene products will not c
  • ause cancer or aggravate allergies
  • France has consistently opposed the EU ban. Collectively, the cosmetics companies in France make it the largest animal tester in Europe. However, opinion polls indicate that 60 percent of French citizens oppose animal testing
Dominick Wong

CONCORDE SST : LATEST NEWS - 0 views

  • AF4590 Trial Underway in France - Feb 2010
  • he official explanation - simply a cover-up for a blunder by Air France in the maintenance of the doomed Concorde's undercarriage?
  • safely re-fit after being idle since June 2003, when the aircraft flew for the final time.
Sophie Masse

Retraites : les vrais effets de la réforme - Attac France - 0 views

  • niveau des pensions baissera et pénalisera les salariés
  • inégalités ne seront pas réduites mais aggravées
  • les femmes perçoivent une retraite qui ne représente en moyenne que 62 % de celle des hommes en incluant les dispositifs de solidarité et 53 % sans ces derniers
Dominick Wong

National Air and Space Museum Press Release: National Air and Space Museum to Receive A... - 0 views

  • world's only supersonic passenger jetliner.
  • 27 years of Concorde service last mont
  • wice the speed of sound at around 1,350 mph,
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  • titude of up to 60,000 fee
  • about twice as fast as on conventional aircraft
  • 04 feet
  • 09 tons, is far too large and heavy for display in the Mall building. It will be exhibited at ground level in the Udvar-Hazy (pronounced OOD-var HAH-zee) Center aviation hangar.
  • made a round-the-world trip in 1998
  • d 17,820 flight hours during 6,966 flights.
Yasmin Tandon

foreign aid definition of foreign aid in the Free Online Encyclopedia. - 0 views

  • economic, military, technical, and financial assistance given on an international, and usually intergovernmental level.
  • included at least three different objectives
  • rehabilitating the economies of war-devastated countries
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  • strengthening the military defenses of allies and friends of the United States
  • promoting economic growth in underdeveloped areas
  • Aid may be given as a grant, with no repayment obligation, or a loan, and often comes with conditions that require that the recipient nation purchase goods or services with the aid from the donor nation.
  • In Recent Years
  • Although military aid continues to be provided
  • which finances the export of U.S. capital goods and agricultural products
  • Agency for International Development Agency for International Development (AID), federal agency created (Sept., 1961) to consolidate U.S. nonmilitary foreign aid programs. Originally an agency in the State Department, it has been a component part of the U.S...... Click the link for more information.  
  • Export-Import Bank
  • A large proportion of U.S. aid goes to Israel,
  • Egypt, and developing countries
  • U.S. foreign aid amounted to $10 billion (less than 0.6% of the federal budget)
  • gross domestic product (GDP) for foreign aid dropped from 2.75% in 1949 to 0.1%
  • Millennium Challenge aid program,
  • intended to target aid
  • toward poorer nations with good governance and open economies; the program places fewer restrictions on how participating nations use the aid.
  • Many nations in Europe and some in the Middle East and E Asia also have significant aid programs
  • Japan was the world's largest foreign aid donor, followed by United States, France, and Germany. Great Britain
  • 2001, the United States passed Japan as the world's largest donor as a result of Japanese cutbacks in foreign aid
  • 15% of foreign aid is provided by international bodies
  • International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and its affiliates, the International Development Association, and the International Finance Corporation;
  • Food and Agriculture Organization Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), specialized agency of the United Nations, established in 1945. The organization is governed by a conference composed of the entire membership (189 nations plus the European Union), which meets at least once biennially, and by..... Click the link for more information. .
Sophie Masse

France Moves to Raise Minimum Age of Retirement - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • increase of the minimum retirement age to 62 from 60
  • “It’s about preserving the pension system for our children.”
  • At 60, France’s retirement age is one of the lowest in Europe.
Sophie Masse

French retirement age change to 62 becomes law | World news | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • retirement at 60 was a cornerstone of France's social security system
  • French people are living longer
  • 62 became law in France
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  • want to claim full pension benefits must now wait until age 67 instead of 65.
Mihikaa Naik

"The Mozart Effect": A Small Part of the Big Picture - 0 views

  • the Mozart Effect actually does not increase general intelligence and lasts only a few minutes, it does not provide a substitute for music study and practice.
  • Studies have shown that music education and music-making have positive effects on many mental and behavioral factors that are themselves not part of music.
  • mass media have played a major role in starting and maintaining public excitement about the Mozart Effect.
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  • This story began in 1993 when Frances Rauscher, Gordon Shaw and Katherine Ky published a brief paper in the prestigious journal Nature
  • . The report by Rauscher, Shaw and Ky suggested that listening to music actually caused the brain to perform better in spatial reasoning, at least for a few minutes.
  • Mozart Effect was born as the idea that listening to Mozart increases intelligence
  • In short, they argue that the Mozart Effect is caused by a more pleasant mood.
  • Mozart Effect described here applies to children
  • long term involvement in music lessons
  • the question is whether or not brief exposure to certain music can produce long term improvements in intelligence, either limited to spatial/temporal abilities or to more general intelligence, then the answer is no.
  • Understanding and appreciating musical forms, genres, meanings and performances in historical, social and cultural context
  • Educated Listening in music classes for one or more school years
  • Reading musical notation, integrating sight, sound, touch and movements to perform and express self musically, solo, in cooperative group or both
  • Instrumental or vocal lessons and regular practice for several years
  • Mozart Effect requires only 10 minutes of exposure (not necessarily even attentive listening) to music.
golan elzur

Animal testing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Cosmetics testing is banned in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the UK, and in 2002, after 13 years of discussion, the European Union (EU) agreed to phase in a near-total ban on the sale of animal-tested cosmetics throughout the EU from 2009, and to ban all cosmetics-related animal testing. France, which is home to the world's largest cosmetics company, L'Oreal, has protested the proposed ban by lodging a case at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, asking that the ban be quashed.
  • The research is conducted inside universities, medical schools, pharmaceutical companies, farms, defense establishments, and commercial facilities that provide animal-testing services to industry
  • Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and in vivo testing, is the use of non-human animals in experiments.
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  • medical schools
  • universities
  • pharmaceutical companies
Mihikaa Naik

Frequently Asked Questions - 0 views

  • Mozart Effect® is an inclusive term signifying the transformational powers of music in health, education, and well-being.
  • Research with Mozart's music began in France in the late 1950s when Dr. Alfred Tomatis began his experiments in auditory stimulation for children with speech and communication disorders.
  • 1990, there were hundreds of centers throughout the world using Mozart's music containing high frequencies, especially the violin concertos and symphonies, to help children with dyslexia, speech disorders, and autism.
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  • Mozart's music is the most popular and researched music for helping modify attentiveness and alertness.
  • The time of day, the sounds in the environment such as air conditioners, and outside sounds all modify the way we can concentrate
  • ). Dr. Georgi Lozanov suggests slow Baroque music for optimal learning
  • When rhythm, melody, and harmony are organized into beautiful forms, the mind, body, spirit, and emotions are brought toward harmony.
  • Music reaches multiple areas of the brain, more than just language and therefore can be quite effective in a clinical environment
  • Studies show that playing music early in life helps build the neural pathways that allow language, memory, and spatial development to take place.
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