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Back to scrapping for used cars?

Published on: Friday, September 13, 2013 //
The rumor circulating yesterday Auto Show in Frankfurt - open until September 22 - evoked a possible next announcement of the return of the "Cash for Clunkers"

The return of cash for clunkers in France? It would not be associated with the acquisition of a new vehicle as was the case in the past, but a recent occasion.
In a context of general decline in sales, the new models are the first to suffer, this measure should first make a slight revival of a market opportunity that also collapsed and then try to pass the pill steady and excessive taxes on fuels, including so-called green.
Not to mention that the second-hand market is also a victim of the success of low-cost models, Dacia (Renault Group) in mind, and the most popular vehicles whose rates are scaled down during campaigns now regularly conducted by a virtually all major manufacturers and importers.
Peugeot: "It's just words dropped by a minister ..."
Which manufacturers as well as users' associations, waited yesterday for most of the content about the project before talking about it.
Three French manufacturers surveyed, the press service of Citroën was the first to respond and tell us plainly, from yesterday: " One can not comment on something that has not yet been formalized . " And early this afternoon, the Peugeot communications department wrote to us: " It is not a tool but just words dropped by unconfirmed by the government so no comment on that minister . "
So wait patiently until September 20, and the opening of the environmental conference, to determine the final position of president, Francois Hollande.Finally, Renault, this time it's radio silence about a possible return of any scrapping.
Analysis of the Automobile Club Association
However, as is often the case, the Automobile Club Association that can legitimately be considered as the "Party of the motorist" was the first to respond to Provence.
" The scrappage scheme was introduced as part of the recovery plan in 2009. It was reduced in 2010 and ended in 2011.
"Two years of scrapping associated with the bonus-malus helped boost new car registrations, initiate a clearance and newer cars, to reduce CO2 emissions by both incoming and new cars by outgoing cars.
"The return of a scrappage scheme appears as relevant to the scale of French households have their car budget significantly encumber their daily expenses at the level of the auto industry hit hard by the global crisis .
"In a difficult economic situation, the car is the key driver of the development of our economies, and a valuable tool for access to employment for all people who want to improve at the same time his car budget, preserve environment, drive more safely on the roads, and all without having to undergo unnecessary restrictions on their mobility. But hopefully this is not simply an announcement effect which gave birth to a "scoop." It should seems he is concerned not with the purchase of new vehicles, but used. "
A fleet average age of 8.5 years!
Automobile club and association concluded.
" But what used vehicles? On the environmental front, the age of the fleet is indeed crucial!
"The age of the French car park just level to continue its rejuvenation particularly because of the financial fragility of motorists. The device must be sufficient financial incentive for motorists.
"In 2012 it sold 2.8 times more used vehicles than new vehicles. Did not miss an opportunity to give a new breath to the new vehicle market in 2012 showed a 14% decline in registrations.
"The Automobile Club Association remains attentive to the Government announcements expected on September 20. "
Finally be noted that according to the latest figures published by the National Alliance of Automobile Experts (ASNA) in "mechanical horse, the journal of the car expert," the French fleet is aging: the average age is now 8.5 years while it was 5.5 years in 1995, the average age of a disposal is 13 years and the number of scrapped vehicles is 1.8 to 1900000 per year, and seven million annual registrations, five million relate VO.
So yes, the France of the car also apauvrit regularly. And there is no need to be an expert to know that a national car fleet gives the temperature of the economic health of a nation!

"My beautiful kid" fragile adolescence

Published on: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 //
A family holiday in a big house on the island of Ré, long hours of lazy mornings, bike rides, the languid as the sun caress dreams. Let the outset,My Beautiful kid  is a little brittle film, consisting of little things: shopping in the village shellfishing between cousins, half-siblings, lounging in the garden, under the gaze of adults apparently caring.
Maden was 17. She gets up late, do not talk much, avoids his father - who divorced his mother and would like to reconnect with his daughter, a link that you press distended. Maden melancholy behind a treasure and cherish it removes the eyes of others: a romantic correspondence with a prisoner thirty.
From this point of view, My beautiful boy  is also a sensitive and modest work on the age of secrets, crossed by the tenacious feeling so tragic and disgust of banality.
This light and serious work, which refrains from saying too much, touch the unspeakable and captures both its delicacy and bitterness hidden by the summer light. These qualities give it a singular tone.

Tokyo in 2020, the choice of economic wisdom

Published on: Sunday, September 8, 2013 //

Olympic Committee delegates swept Saturday night argument in favor of economic stability, weaknesses Madrid and Istanbul.
These Games are held in Asia's business potential candidacy Paris in 2024, under the rule of alternation between continents.
It is as much choice in Tokyo that the magnitude of his victory that surprised: 60 votes against 36 in Istanbul in the second round, a final score (1). A few months ago, even a few days, the race to host the 2020 Games seemed a foregone by ... Istanbul. Madrid, weighed down by economic, very violent on the other side of the Pyrenees crisis seemed disqualified.Just as Tokyo, severely handicapped by the management of the nuclear crisis (see next page). 
In contrast, the metropolis of the Bosphorus seemed dressed in finery: spectacular economic growth, perseverance with a fifth consecutive nomination ... and political stability. This last argument, essential for the sports potentates who fear more than anything the emergence of an unexpected disorder in competitions, was shattered in June with demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. 

THE DECISIVE ADVANTAGE IN FAVOR OF TOKYO LIES IN ITS GEOGRAPHY

Economic concerns were also finished by catching Istanbul, which nevertheless had the largest budget of the three candidates, with most of the infrastructure, airports, stadiums, state project. For the meantime, there was the Pharaonic excesses of Sochi for the 2014 Winter Games and the financial worries announced for Rio de Janeiro 2016.
The voice of economic wisdom has dismissed Istanbul and Madrid, so remained in contention reasonable Tokyo, reassuring budget estimate since much of the infrastructure already exists. But the decisive asset for the representative of Asia is its geography. "The Olympic flame will pass through the world,"  said the Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the French inventor of the Olympic Games of the modern era in 1896. The formula still resonated Saturday night in Buenos Aires, where there was a general meeting of the IOC. 
The unwritten alternating between continents rule, who chairs year after year for the Olympics since the 1956, the first Games held in the eastern part of the world in Melbourne, Australia, is applied. Previously, from 1896 to 1936, the five-ringed flag that had flown over Europe, two American exceptions, St. Louis in 1904 and Los Angeles in 1932.

THE WAY IS CLEAR FOR PARIS 2024

Twelve years after Asia (Beijing 2008), eight after Europe (London 2012) and four after America (Rio 2016), here is the Olympic flame back to the Levant in 2020. Enough to supply all the hopes of Paris, which can legitimately expect the coup defending European colors in 2024 or 2028.President Francois Hollande, visiting London in 2012 to salute the tricolor delegation had also, as a joke, started the machine by its desire to see the flame in Paris "during his lifetime."  A formula which authorized the Minister of Sports Valerie Fourneyron him to follow suit. "This is a great project, we'll see what is decided for 2020. " 
Now we have seen. The way is clear for Paris in 2024, a slight difference, far from being trivial. The residents of the capital in March 2014 will elect a new mayor who will naturally say. Anyway, taught by recent disappointments of Paris, defeated candidate for 2012 and received by the snub Annecy in 2011 when voting for the 2018 Winter Games (the capital of the Haute-Savoie had received only seven votes), the French sports officials are careful not to reveal their batteries. "It would be the best way to play against us,"  said Bernard Lapasset, which runs from April 2013 the French Committee of international sport, a new structure to attract large events.
France has another two years to consider whether an application for 2024 (applications must be made in 2015) and six position for 2028. A hypothesis may be wiser, since serious competitors are already in the running for 2024. Washington, with its financial standing, could very well be of interest to IOC members - in addition to the United States, which are the temple of the sports business, has not hosted the Games since 1996 (Atlanta). Even more formidable, the South African Durban, advancing with a powerful argument: if Europe, America, Asia and even Oceania (1956 and 2000) have experienced the adventure, the Africa is the only continent orphan of Olympism. This will not last forever.

A walk between nature and heritage along the seven impellers Valley Durolle

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The physical effort is minimal, the journey is intense. He takes the hiker in an almost subterranean place, obscure. A place that has participated in Thiers raise to the rank of capital of cutlery.
Strength, he has had to Durolle to dig its bed in the granite blocks of Thiers country. The grinders, those workers whose task was to sharpen the blades were forged freshly understood.
The circuit "Rouets Fourniot" looped one kilometer. The start and finish are below the village of Château-Gaillard Thiers, where a small reception building overlooking the valley. The guides will offer tours daily between noon and 19 hours.
To achieve its discretion, we must descend and enter the cool forest. The rustle of the water is louder until the river provides the eyes of walkers.
The world 
of work made ​​between steel, 
stone and water
Impetuous Durolle remained so, even if they are spinning wheels gradually fell into disrepair. These small buildings were workplace grinders, who used water power to turn the wheels and feed the huge stacks of 600 kg needed for polishing steel.
One of these buildings still standing proudly welcomes hikers upon their arrival in the valley. This is the wheel Lyonnet, the name of its last owner, who was operated until 1976 ( 2 e photo-cons ). The interior reflects the extreme difficulty of the job. Large boards on which workers were stretched flat belly, up to 12 hours to sharpen are still there. Upstairs, women and children were loaded finishes and took off all traces of abrasion on precious blades.
The impeller of Lyonnet is the gateway to the other world. That of water, stone and steel. That of past work.

The trail continues between the huge boulders of the mountain, according to the curves of Durolle. So we can not help but respect this nature, to feel little fracas between the water and the immutable stability of rock.
Walker walks for most of the way on mounds several meters wide sometimes built by the man in the bed of the river. They were designed to form small channels ( the bays ) , powering the wheels with a constant flow of water and controllable.
L'' he warned noticed strange stones embedded in the walls, or used as a stairs. They are rounded and as to provide evidence of their former lives, are numerous grooves. These are the famous wheels that were used to sharpen the blades. When they were too worn, the grinders used as masonry stones.Still others round were simply driven into the ground to fill irregularities in the road.
The surrounding area also reveal old workings and twisted metal parts or, more artistic, engraved stones. Beside an old condemned bridge, for example, a bust of Marianne signed Crocombette is dated 1928. Other blocks indicate the year in which such wheel has been restored.
Vegetation that thrives in cool, moist area and quickly reasserted itself since the closure of spinning wheels, following the arrival of electricity.
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