House OKs $410B bill to boost domestic programs

but the family budget which has to pay for the federal budget only grew at 1.3 percent last year."The debate occurred one day after Obama told Congress in a prime time television address that he intends to cut deficits in half over the next four years, and one day before he was submitting tax and spending plans for the coming year.Officials said the president's first budget would call for a permanent tax cut of $400 for lower- and middle-class workers and $800 for families, a break modeled after the temporary provision in the economic stimulus legislation.He also will seek $634 billion over 10 years as a down payment on health care reform, the start of an effort aimed at providing coverage for an estimated 48 million uninsured people.

There were 159 Republicans and 20 Democrats opposed.In a symbolic bow to the recession, Democrats included in the spending measure a prohibition on a cost-of-living increase for members of Congress for the year.Overall, the legislation would provided increases of roughly 8 percent for the federal agencies it covered, about $32 billion more than last year.The bill is intended to allow smooth functioning of the government through the Sept.

"Most all of the shovel-ready projects on the trillion-dollar stimulus bill would in fact be at risk," he said.Nominally, the provision halts implementation of Bush-era regulations that reduce the input of federal scientists in endangered species decisions and block the law from being used to fight global warming.

David Obey, D-Wis., and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said the legislation would merely give the new administration 60 days to decide the fate of the two regulations.Democrats also inserted a provision into the bill to end a program that allows students in the District of Columbia to use federal funds to attend private schools of their choice.



Source: http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20090225/APW/902250553

Pipe Fires Day One of Turbo Bodyboards Pipeline Pro presented Senor ...

All the indicators pointed towards an incredible day at Pipeline for the first day of the Turbo Bodyboards Pipeline Pro presented by Senor Frogs - what resulted did not disappoint.

With the first four rounds of the Turbo Bodyboards Pipeline Pro presented by Senor Frogs completed in epic conditions, the tone of the event had been laid, with the Ormerod twins from Australia, Ruben Quinones (Puerto Rico), Damian King and Oshi Grady (Hawaii) all leading the way.

By mid morning it was an "ant-farm", with hundreds of spectators lining the shore, all trying to get a glimpse of the best bodyboarders in the world.

The focus however was on the second heat of round four when Jamie O'Brien (Hawaii) hit the water.



Source: http://www.surfline.com/surfnews/surfwire.cfm?id=22368

LGV Paris-Nice: la décision sur le tracé sera prise le 30 juin - MSN ...

LGV Paris-Nice: la décision sur le tracé sera prise le 30 juin - MSN Actualites - Actualités Rechercher sur le web : AFP - mercredi 11 février 2009, 19h48 LGV Paris-Nice: la décision sur le tracé sera prise le 30 juin Jean-Louis Borloo, le 12 janvier 2009 à Bruxelles Le ministre de l'Ecologie, Jean-Louis Borloo, a annoncé mercredi soir, à l'issue d'une réunion avec des élus du Sud-Est sur la future ligne à grande vitesse Paris-Nice, que la décision sur le tracé définitif serait prise "au 30 juin", a constaté une journaliste de l'AFP."Vous verrez que le 30 juin, on aura un tracé et ce tracé sera extraordinairement bien", a déclaré M.

Borloo, répétant qu'il était "vital" de réaliser cette LGV qui mettra Paris à quatre heures de Nice contre cinq heures et demi actuellement."Nous serions irresponsables si nous ne le faisions pas", a jugé le ministre.Il a précisé qu'il faudrait ensuite six mois de plus pour boucler le financement de la LGV dont les études de Réseau ferré de France (RFF) estiment le coût dans une fourchette de 8 à plus de 11 milliards d'euros selon les tracés."Tout le monde a accepté que Yves Cousquer (à l'origine du tracé de la LGV Sud-Ouest: NDLR) soit nommé secrétaire permanent chargé de trouver un compromis régional", a rapporté M.

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UPDATE 1-Storms batter France, Britain and Switzerland

The manager of the power grid, Electricite Reseau

Distribution France, said earlier that a total 608,000 homes

were cut off from the power grid across northern regions of the

country as trees and electricity pylons fell down.

The worst-hit areas were a belt of regions along the centre

of the country, the coastal Pays de la Loire, the region around

Orleans, just to the east, and Burgundy, further east.

Switzerland was swept by high winds on Monday night and

Tuesday morning, with gales reaching up to 150 kph in the Jura

Winds were expected to strengthen during the day, moving

east into the more densely populated areas of the country.



Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSLA54352220090210

Green light for Tarkine tourist road - ABC Online / 4 February 2009 ...

Green light for Tarkine tourist roadABC Online - 6 hours agoThe Tasmanian Government has announced the go-ahead for a $23 million tourist road through the Tarkine forests in the north-west.

The Premier David Bartlett made the announcement in Stanley this morning.Critics attack Tarkine road Tasmania MercuryBULLDOZER BARTLETT' PROVES HE IS AS DIVISIVE AND SHORT-SIGHTED AS ...

ANKARA - The PKK tries to prevent Kurdish people from watching TRT 6 (TRT Kurdish TV), which has

As the long-running war in Sri Lanka draws to a close, more and more civilians find themselves caught in the crossfire.



Source: http://www.turkishweekly.net/other-news/111646/green-light-for-tarkine-tourist-road-abc-online.html

[Quotidien Le Soleil - SENEGAL]

L'Ecole supérieure polytechnique (Esp) est l'établissement phare de formation des techniciens supérieurs et des ingénieurs de l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar.

Sous le thème « Des mots pour demain », la Conférence des ministres de l'éducation des pays ayant le français en partage (Confemen) a lancé la 4e édition du Concours des 10 mots de la Francophonie.

Des élèves du niveau primaire et des premier et deuxième cycles du secondaire du Burkina Faso, du Mali, du Niger et du Sénégal vont concourir, du 9 au 13 février 2009, en rédigeant des textes, à partir d'une partie ou de l'ensemble des dix mots sélectionnés par l'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (Oif) ou sur le thème de cette année.

Pour inciter les jeunes à adhérer massivement à ce projet, la star du rap sénégalais, Malal Talla alias « Fou Malade », dont la musique est bien connue des jeunes en Afrique de l'Ouest, a accepté de se faire porte-parole de cette édition internationale du concours.



Source: http://www.lesoleil.sn/article.php3?id_article=43571

Prix de l'immobilier

- les personnes ayant un apport personnel, pour elles les années qui viennent vont être des années de rêve, si elles placent leur argent dans des investissements de père de famille (livret A, PEL, CEL...), elles pourront dans les années qui viennent s'acheter peut-être comptant, peut-être avec un petit crédit, un appartement dont elles ne peuvent que rêver maintenant.

La baisse des prix est de -6.5% en 3 mois (source FNAIM) et non 0,6% (qui est le prix indiqué dans les annonces et n'est pas un reflet de la réalité du marché mais juste des fantasmes des vendeurs).

La baisse réelle des prix doit être de l'ordre de 5 % en 3 mois (on retrouve donc ainsi les chiffres de la FNAIM, notaires, empruntis...).

On nous parle tout le temps de la baisse des prix mais personne ne parle du vrai problème des français : la perte de leur pouvoir d'achat et la montée du chômage.



Source: http://www.latribune.fr/patrimoine/immobilier-patrimoine/20090204trib000339612/baisse-generalisee-des-prix-de-limmobilier-affiches-en-janvier.html

Handicap : Petit retard et grosse polémique pour un vol Air France ...

Avant de décoller le pilote voulait s'assurer que ces passagers étaient en mesure de comprendre les règles de sécurité de l'appareil. Selon le quotidien La République des Pyrénées, le groupe sur lequel le pilote voulait de plus amples renseignements était composé de cinq skieurs béarnais en route vers les Jeux Mondiaux d'hiver pour handicapés aux Etats-Unis, et de leurs deux accompagnateurs.

Laurent Giscard d'Estaing a également précisé qu'aucune information n'avait été communiquée au préalable à la compagnie sur la présence de personnes handicapées, comme cela se pratique habituellement en vue des "attentions particulières" prises par le personnel de bord pour leur faciliter le voyage et pour la sécurité du vol. L'incident a provoqué l'indignation des familles des handicapés ainsi que des demandes d'explications d'élus du département, parmi lesquels Martine Lignières-Cassou, député-maire PS de Pau, qui se trouvaient à bord de l'appareil.

Si le commentaire de AIR FRANCE est correct, depuis le mois de juillet 2008, les passagers doivent informer la compagnie aérienne ou contacter les cas spéciaux de celle-ci afin de l'informer de la nature du handicape du passagers (PHMR).

Votre réaction* * Champs obligatoires En application de la loi n°78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 relative à l'informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés, vous disposez d'un droit d'accès, de modification, de rectification et de suppression des données vous concernant.



Source: http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/france/societe/0,,4248657,00-passagers-handicapes-un-vol-retarde-a-pau-.html

Asian tourism collapse worsens job loss uncertainty

The Japanese tourist market, which had been the third-most lucrative in 2007, all but collapsed last year, with visitor numbers dropping by 20.2 per cent, or 115,600 people, figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday show.

Overall the number of international visitors to Australia in 2008 was down 1 per cent on the previous year, the first year since 2003 it has fallen.

The executive director of the Tourism and Transport Forum, Olivia Wirth, said the implosion of the Japanese market was a major concern in an industry bracing for mass job losses.

A survey by the Tourism and Transport Forum released last Friday predicted two-thirds of tourism operators would have to cut their workforce in the coming year as international visitor numbers dropped off.



Source: http://bombala.yourguide.com.au/news/national/national/general/asian-tourism-collapse-worsens-job-loss-uncertainty/1427401.aspx