 authorities and supporting measures to help communities and individuals get involved in local democracy, such as participatory budgeting and citizens juries.
* We have provided local government with a 39 per cent real terms increase in funding in our first ten years in office and have allocated an extra £8.9 billion over the three years of the current funding settlement. This contrasts with a 7 per cent real terms cut during the final four years of the last Tory government.
* We have reduced bureaucracy and red tape, with a reduction in national performance indicators from around 1,200 to under 200 and less ring-fencing of funding.
* We restored London-wide government, abolished by the Tories, by creating the Greater London Assembly and the position of Mayor of London.
* We have seen an urban renaissance in Britain’s great towns and cities – regeneration on a massive scale in the centres of cities such as Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester and Newcastle.
* We will support and develop the role of the local councillor, while seeking to encourage people from a more diverse range of backgrounds to get involved in civic life.
* We will give a stronger voice to communities to help shape the places they live and local services.
* We are reducing the amount of central prescription so that local authorities and their partners are better able to respond to local needs and demands.
* We are strengthening Regional Development Agencies to help them in supporting economic recovery in our regions and to end the disparity in economic development between and within regions.
I would be interested to hear both positive and negative views on Labour’s Local Government policies in the comments below?
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Washington, D.C. — The 2018 budget unveiled by House Republicans today offers a shortsighted approach to national security by boosting military spending while severely underfunding crucial diplomatic and scientific programs to deal with a complex world, a new Center for American Progress column argues.
“Trump’s budget proposal was allegedly a ‘wish list,’ but the House budget shows how leaders in Congress have chosen to fall in line with President Donald Trump’s dangerous approach to diplomacy,” said Nathan Fenstermacher, managing director of national security and international policy at CAP and co-author of the column.
Despite pledges to go their own way, congressional Republican leaders are adopting the president’s reckless worldviews, according to the CAP column. The House budget resolution would increase U.S. Department of Defense spending even more than President Trump’s budget request—yet make dramatic cuts to diplomacy and aid programs that help reduce global conflicts. It turns a blind eye toward Trump’s efforts to hurt refugee resettlement programs during a global humanitarian crisis and guts crucial scientific efforts to reduce the effects of climate change.
Click here to read “The Mainstreaming of Trump’s Reckless Worldviews” by Nathan Fenstermacher, Silva Mathema, Cathleen Kelly, and Lawrence Korb.
Carducci’s $70k+ Custom Harley Dual Sport Gets Desert Tested
MotoGeo reviews the Carducci DS after putting the bike through its paces.
The Carducci Dual Sport is a custom Adventure Bike that starts out as a Harley Sportster, then gets a 6.3 gallon tank, HID headlight and a long list of other top-of-the-line components.
At 465 pounds (211 kg) without fuel, the Carducci is no featherweight for off-road use. However, off-road performance is greatly improved via a 48mm fork and twin rear shocks from Ohlins that provide a respectable 9″ of travel in the front and 8″ in the rear. Dirt-oriented 21″ front and 18″ rear wheels give it inertia to keep the suspension settled over big rocks, and a bored-out Harley V-Twin motor provides plenty of torque for good traction in the dirt.
The going rate for a Carducci Dual Sport is about $70,000, plus the cost of a donor Harley Sportster. Luckily for Carducci, there are a fair amount of people willing to pay for this kind of unique and exclusive motorcycle.
In the video above, Jamie Robinson of MotoGeo Adventures goes through his impressions on the Carducci after getting the bike dirty in the hot deserts of Southern California. The footage shows the bike is capable of being ridden off-road with confidence and that the Carducci Dual Sport is more than just a polished showpiece. While its price tag may make the Carducci Dual Sport unobtainable for most of us, the video only bolsters our opinion that it is the coolest Harley ever built!
To see Jamie’s adventure through the Southern California desert check out the video below.
Key motorcycle features:
• Aluminum 6.3 gal tank hand formed by Evan Wilcox, painted by Old School Customs
• Offroad enabling swingarm pivot gussets added to the stock frame
• Powder coated frame and rear fender
• Beringer brakes
• Ohlins suspension and Scotts steering stabilizer
• 2-into-1 SST hand built custom header by BTRmoto
• Billet aluminum swingarm
• Billet aluminum triple clamps
• Vibration damped and position adjustable bar risers
• Corbin custom seat
• Excel rims and heavy gauge spokes, Rad front hub, Billet Boys rear hub
• Leo Vince SST muffler with spark arrestor
• Acerbis / carbon fiber hand guards
• Melvin brake lines
• Pivot Pegz
• 1250cc NRHS upgraded H-D Sportster motor with Andrews N4 cams
• Re-jetted carburetor with SE K&N high-flow air filter
To learn more visit Carducci’s site.
Even though I would keep it as a show piece in my garage, that machine looks like a lot of fun!
Take a pile of junk, add 70 grand …ride an $80.000 pile of junk
Doesn’t look like junk at all.
Nice bike. Then again at that price it should be.Upper Yamuna River Board, under ministry of Water Resources River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, invites application from the employees of Central/ State Governments for recruitment of various Group ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ Posts on deputation basis.
Important Date:
- Last Date for Receipt of Application: Within Sixty Days from the Date of Publication of the Advertisement in the Employment News
Name of the Posts along with Vacancies:
- Member Secretary: 01 Post
- Superintending Engineer: 02 Posts
- Executive Engineer: 02 Posts
- Specialist Ground Water: 01 Post
- Specialist Environment: 01 Post
- Assistant Executive Engineer: 04 Posts
- Accounts Officer: 01 Post
- Section Officer: 01 Post
- Design Assistant: 04 Posts
- Junior Engineer: 04 Posts
- Draftsman: 04 Posts
Upper Age Limit: Maximum 56 years as on the last date of receipt of application.
Pay Scale:
- Member Secretary: Rs. 18400-500-22400/-
- Superintending Engineer: Rs. 12000-375-16500/-
- Executive Engineer: Rs.10000-325-15200/-
- Specialist Ground Water: Rs.10000-325-15200/-
- Specialist Environment: Rs. 10000-325-15200/-
- Assistant Executive Engineer: Rs. 8000-275-13500/-
- Accounts Officer: Rs. 8000-275-13500/-
- Section Officer: Rs. 6500-200-10500/-
- Design Assistant: Rs. 6500-200-10500/-
- Junior Engineer: Rs.5000-150-8000/-
- Draftsman: Rs. 5000-150-8000/-
How to Apply:
Eligible candidates may send duly completed application along with all required documents suggested in official advertisement to the
Member Secretary, Upper Yamuna River Board, West Block-1, Wing-4, Ground Floor, R.K. Puram, New Delhi – 110066
Candidates are strongly suggested to refer to official advertisement in detail before applying the same. For more detail on this recruitment please refer to official recruitment advertisement from Upper Yamuna River Board, here, //uyrb.nic.in/Employment/UYRBVaccancy.pdfDiscussion in 'Cool Places to Fly' started by bflynn, Jan 4, 2020.
Ok, it's not GMU, but LZU (east side of Atlanta) is only an hour from there. This Saturday morning (2/1/20) EAA 690 has their fly