Here’s some news to get your Bang on. Those in Europe may be happy to know that the PAL version of BlazBlue has a few features packed in it that the other releases don’t.
Author: Serkadis
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BlazBlue PAL version comes with extra features
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Tweexchange Lets You Check Available Twitter Usernames And Domain Names
Tweexchange, once a marketplace for Twitter handles (that operated against Twitter’s TOS) is now a site where you can check whether or not the username you had in mind for your new Twitter account is still available.If it turns out it’s not, you’ll get a list of possible alternatives. As a bonus, and thanks to a partnership with domain registrar and hosting company GoDaddy, you’ll also get to see which domain names related to your desired username are still available. Users can register or backorder domain names through GoDaddy straight from the site.
When a Twitter username is ‘pending removal’, you can also opt to be notified as soon as it becomes available (Twitter deletes usernames 60 days after their suspension). Note that the latter service will set you back $5.
The new Tweexchange is a product from Blast Applications, a New York-based developer of iPhone, Facebook and Twitter apps.
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How the technology can help you do good in the New Year
It’s the end of the decade. And like some people, you might be thinking about New Year’s (or Decade’s) resolutions. But instead of hitting the gym more, you could consider volunteering your time for a cause or organization. If you’re not sure where to start, there are a number of startups using technology to connect volunteers with organizations who need their time and energy.
For those who have not volunteered in the past and are looking to get more educated before giving your time, check out VolunteerMatch. The San Francisco based company holds monthly one-hour “How to be a great volunteer” webinars that a free and easy to register. Topics covered include: training and screening tools non-profits use, how to evaluate if an organization is a good fit for you, potential stumbling blocks volunteers might encounter and how to overcome any obstacles that you may face along the way. The next webinar is scheduled for Jan. 14, 2010. If you’re interested, you can register here.
If you’re looking for an easy and customizable way to search for volunteer opportunities in your area then check out iParticipate, which was started by members of the entertainment industry to promote volunteering. The site offers a clean user interface that makes finding a volunteer opportunity in your area quick and easy. After searching in the Boston area for “animal” volunteer opportunities, it generated a list of 100 possibilities – everything from shelter caretaker to fostering animals. For those looking to get more specific, the list can be filtered by cause, distance or post date. iParticipate also integrates with Google Maps and plots search results.
Many volunteer opportunities require time commitments every week. For those looking for a more relaxed volunteer opportunity, then Extraordinaries has created an innovative mobile or web browsing volunteering system. The company allows people on the go to complete tasks using their cellphones for organizations or causes by committing just a few spare minutes a day. One task available is sponsored by KaBOOM! who is looking for volunteers to help them map playground locations in an effort to determine which need to be rebuilt. By simply taking a photo of a playground and uploading to the Extraordinaries site, the task is complete for that volunteer. The company also gives organizations and causes a simple way to create tasks leveraging either a maps or photo format, such as the one described above.
Another mobile opportunity to volunteer can be found at Give Work, an iPhone application developed by Samasource and Crowdflower – both helping to bring key resources to refugees via the internet. The app is similar to the Extraordinaries concept and asks users to volunteer a few minutes of their time to help refugees by using their mobile phones. Users ares asked to complete onscreen tasks that could include tagging a map or tracing a road. The refugees are training to complete these same tasks, so by volunteering you generate money to continue training and the campaign, which is an effort to help refugees in Dadaab, Kenya – the world’s largest refugee site.
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SiBEAM says big TV maker Vizio supports wireless networking
The largest U.S. TV maker, Vizio, will use SiBEAM’s wireless networking technology in its flat-panel televisions to transfer video within the home.This is a big endorsement — on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas — for the fledgling technology, since Vizio will build the wireless networking modules into its XVT Pro liquid crystal display TVs shipping in the summer.
The Vizio deal is important because it cracks SiBEAM’s chicken and egg problem. To be useful, the wireless modules have to be connected to both TVs and the source devices such as game consoles, Blu-ray players and other equipment. The TV makers have waited for the source companies to add the modules, and visa versa. It will still be some time before any wireless networking technology becomes a true standard, but SiBEAM’s news shows it is making progress.
SiBEAM has been shipping the technology since 2007 and it is one of several contenders to create high-speed wireless networking in the home. The wireless networking is faster than Wi-Fi, though it has a shorter range, and is able to replace wires that carry high-definition video from one device to another.
Best Buy, LG, Panasonic and Sony have been shipping products with SiBEAM’s 60-gigahertz wireless transfer chips. The chips can transfer data wirelessly at 10 gigabits per second, or many times faster than Wi-Fi. But the technology has a range of about 10 meters and doesn’t really go through walls.
SiBEAM leads a WirelessHD consortium trying to establish the technology as a standard. It competes with the WiGig Alliance, which is fusing Wi-Fi and 60-gigahertz technology, and WHDI, a standard supported by Amimon that uses 5-gigahertz technology. John Lemoncheck, chief executive of SiBEAM, acknowledges the different standards may be confusing for consumers.
“The WirelessHD standard is becoming a reality in the market,” said Lemoncheck.
Lemoncheck says four more consumer electronics makers will join Vizio in 2010, with products shipping in 2011 and 2012.
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Flurry unveils deal with comScore for measuring mobile audiences
Mobile analytics firm Flurry is teaming up with web market researcher comScore to help measure the audiences for mobile apps.The two will combine comScore’s mobile panel data with Flurry’s data on how much mobile apps are used. The companies will thus be able to offer better data to app publishers, ad agencies, marketers, advertisers, ad networks and others. The service will cover the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry mobile phones and will be available through comScore in the first quarter.
Clients will be able to get more accurate data about how consumers use mobile apps. With access to usage on more than 50 million phones, Flurry can measure real-time consumption data for apps that use its analytics system. It can show how frequently and for how long an app is used, where the user is, new versus repeat usage and other data. That lets app publishers and others better target consumers. Meanwhile, comScore offers audience measurement reports.Smart phone usage grew 63 percent from August, 2008 to August, 2009, and app usage is skyrocketing as well. That has drawn the attention of brands and advertisers who want to reach the app users. But the key to that is collecting the right information about the users in a way that’s useful to advertisers.
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Jim Zorn Fired As Head Coach Of Washington Redskins
Washingtonians have seen the last of Jim Zorn. The Washington Redskins fired its disgraced head coach shortly after the team returned to Redskins Park following a season-ending 23-20 loss to the San Diego Chargers early Monday, The Washington Post has learned.
The loss ended the Skins’ worst season in nearly 15 years: the team finished with a 4-12 record.It was Redskins Executive Vice President/General Manager Bruce Allen who announced that Zorn has been dismissed and will not return as the franchise’s head coach in 2010. In a statement, Allen, who has been team General Manager for three weeks, said he “felt it was necessary to not waste a moment of time building this team into a winner.”
(Good luck with that, buddy…..)
Allen explained that his three-week game observation period was all the time he needed to make the decision that Zorn needed to go.
“The status quo is not acceptable. I felt it was necessary to not waste a moment of time building this team into a winner.”
Zorn was 12-20 over two seasons as head coach of The Washington Redskins. He was 6-18 in his last 24 games and still had one year left on his contract.
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A Kitchen Recovery Checklist To Start Things Off Right
At the start of each year, while the days still feel a little long, it’s a good time to make sure your kitchen is in tip top shape. You might have already done The Kitchen Cure, but post-holiday is a great time to run down this quick kitchen checklist to make sure your space is ready to take on all your culinary adventures in the new year!
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$5M for Digital Lumens
Wade Roush wrote:
Boston-based stealth-mode startup Digital Lumens has raised $5 million in new equity financing, according to a regulatory filing published December 31. The company, whose board members include Jon Karlen of Boston’s Flybridge Capital Partners and Lee Barbieri of Dover, MA-based Stata Venture Partners in Dover, MA, specializes in high-efficiency lighting technology. Digital Lumens previously raised $6.3 million in May 2009, as Ryan reported.
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Goldman’s Jim O’Neill: Easy Money And High Oil Prices Make Russia The #1 BRIC For 2010
Goldman Sachs (GS) strategist Jim O’Neill was on Bloomberg this morning reflecting on his ‘call of the decade’ to buy BRICs.
Not surprisingly, he’s still uber-bullish on Brazil, Russia, India, and China, but of all of those Russia he expects to be the big standout due to cheap money and high oil prices. He noted that he’s frequently bombarded with calls to drop Russia from the grouping.
While he likes the other three, he notes that they’re closer to tightening, which really just goes to show that in the mind of strategists, nothing is more important than what the central bank does. The central bank trumps all.
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- Russia Is The One BRIC Energy Companies Aren’t Interested In
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Experts with questionable credentials set policies for the world by Al Ritter, Examiner.com
Article Tags: Al Ritter, CO2 Propaganda
Al Gore, a self described expert in climate change has no degree in climatology. He doesn’t even possess a teaching degree to teach first grade science, but he now claims to be an expert in yet another field. He claims that Polar Bears are in danger of extinction. He spewed his opinion about their endangered status again at the Copenhagen Cop 15 meeting. He has used his opinion and those of his supporters alone to have the Polar Bear an endangered species in the United States, and hopes to have them declared “endangered” worldwide, but can’t site credible proof of that claim.
In this sadly inaccurate video another Hollywood actor supports the WWF and Al Gore.
Source: examiner.com
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Wikipedia Reaches Fund-Raising Goal of $7.5 Million
Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites in the world and one of the most heavily trafficked. Yet, it doesn’t have much of a revenue stream, in the traditional sense, and sticking to its core principles with all the content being available for everyone for free and with no advertising. Instead, it’s making most of the money it needs to operate through a yearly fund-raising campaign. This year the goal was to bring in $7.5 million in donations and Wikipedia announced just as 2009 came to a close that the sum has been reached. “As of December 31, 2009, we have reached our campaign goal of 7.5 million USD. Thank you to all who have donated! Your continued donations will support Wikimedia’s long-term operations and growth, cover contingencies, and allow us to fund new projects and activities,” Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales wrote updating his personal plea for donations.
The 2009 campaign has been running for a few months now and the sum has been gradually building up towards the set goal of $7.5 million. This was the highest goal set by the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia and other related sites, to date in the series of fund-raisers which has been running for a few years now.
After the success of last year’s campaign which saw Wikipedia get $6.2 million from donors… (read more)
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Microsoft’s Mobicast stitches multiple mobile camera streams together in real time
Microsoft labs in Cairo have been working on bringing their Photosynth photo-stitching technology to mobile phone video streams in real time, creating a synthetic view with greater viewing angle and more detail, as seen in the video above.
Mobicast, utilises two sets of software – one for the Windows Mobile smartphones and one for a server receiving the video streams. When two or more phones with the software start streaming video, they synchronise their clocks with the server, which then uses timestamps on the footage to align video frames in time. Then image-recognition technology gauges how footage physically overlaps: features such as edges and corners are used to find areas that match, before the images are blended to create a wider view of the scene.
"To do this in real time is very challenging," says Kaheel, but the relatively low quality and frame-rate of video from cellphones makes it possible to do live.
Users received feedback to their phones showing stills of the stitched-together video with their contribution to it highlighted. This helps users to target their phones so as to make the best contribution to the broader picture, says Kaheel.
Bhaskar Roy, co-founder of Qik, says this kind of technology has the potential to enhance services like his own. "Think of somewhere where there will be a lot of people capturing video on phones, like a sporting or breaking news event," he says. "This could bring us closer to experiencing it in 360 degrees from our desk."
Read more about the technology at NewScientist and the Microsoft Research MobiCast home page.
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Jillian Michaels to Promote 2010 H-D Women Riders Month
American wellness expert Jillian Michaels will be encouraging women to gear up and get behind the handlebars to highlight Harley Davidson’s upcoming National Garage Party Month, the company recently announced. Harley-Davidson will reward one woman and three of her friends with a transformational weekend and an opportunity to meet Michaels, a life-long motorcycle enthusiast and licensed rider.Learning to ride a motorcycle was an empowering experience for me, so I want to share t… (read more)
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A look at Apple’s love for DRM and consumer lock-ins
Apple is a company known for many things, but embracing copyright freedoms has not been one of them. The company loves creating new and innovative products that challenge the world’s perception of what it thought it wanted, but it then turns around and aggressively protects those products from being poked or prodded too much by curious onlookers. Some believe Apple is in the right to do this, while others feel the company could set a better example when it comes to using (or abusing) copyright legislation for its own self-serving purposes.
This is a topic that recently came up during our Premier Subscriber chat with Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Fred von Lohmann. von Lohmann pointed out that Google—a company that is often compared to Apple—has been at the forefront of the pro-innovation copyright agenda, fighting the good fight on behalf of tech companies and their users for many years. When it comes to Apple… not so much. The two companies could not be more different. Let’s take a moment to summarize some of Apple’s latest pro-DRM and pro-DMCA moves.
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Jude Law To Meet Love Child
It took a few months, but Jude Law has finally reached out to the mother of his love child in hopes of setting up a first meeting with his infant daughter.
The British actor became a father for the fourth time when Florida-born model Samantha Burke gave birth to daughter Sophia last September. The pair enjoyed a steamy fling in December 2008, after Jude met the catwalk maven outside a nightclub in New York City after leaving the set of Sherlock Holmes.
“Law plans to visit her within a few weeks. She’s (Burke) over the moon. She was hurt he had not seen Sophia,” a source has revealed to British tabloid The Express.
Law has three children with ex-wife Sadie Frost.
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Kubica Confirms Renault Stay
Polish driver Robert Kubica denied rumors that he is considering to leave the Renault F1 organization following the team’s sellout to Luxembourg company Genii Capital. His manager confirmed the stay himself, after admitting that both him and his client were trying to buy some time and find out what the new owner’s plans for the future are and where exactly they fit into it.We are going in the right direction. There were no doubts, really, but it was very important we understood w… (read more)
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Server problems are finally sorted out
Like our regular visitors already have noticed, we had unplanned 5 day downtime, in which we had to use Facebook as publishing platform… *shudder* Server problems are finally thing of the past, and regular newscasting will resume shortly, as soon as some minor problems still haunting us are solved.
Have good year 2010!
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Report: MG X-Power revivalist arrested
Filed under: China, Government/Legal, UK
Just when there was beginning to be good news associated with MG, tales of woe return. This time it has to do with British entrepreneur Will Riley, who somehow established himself as the force behind the MG X-Power even though MG branding rights had been purchased by China’s Nanjing.
Riley is in boiling water on three counts: Nanjing is suing to prevent him from using the MG name, employees are suing him for non-payment, and a Canadian man is suing him for theft. Riley bought a subsidiary division, MG Sports and Racing, from the failed company’s administrators, PriceWaterhouse Coopers. Nanjing contends that the subsidiary never had the right to use the logo and image of the parent company.
The employees say that they haven’t been paid for their time, with Riley’s second-in-command claiming that he nearly lost his house for having not been paid and that the company never produced even one car beyond the prototype. The Canadian, who was working to raise investment for Riley, was given that one prototype in exchange for his assistance. When he sent it back to the factory to have work done on it, he later discovered the car was put up for auction and sold to someone else who crashed it. The court proceedings have only just begun in all cases, meanwhile Riley claims he is still committed to bringing back the brand.
[Source: Birmingham Post via China Car Times]
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Brasília: a maior contribuição brasileira à arte do século 20
Imprudência que decolou
Discutida, atacada, Brasília chega aos 50 anos como a maior contribuição brasileira à arte do século 20André Aranha Corrêa do Lago – O Estado de S.Paulo
Não se pode negar: Brasília é a maior contribuição brasileira à arte do século 20. Apesar de um século de considerável produção cultural – com grandes momentos na nossa arte contemporânea, o Cinema Novo e, sobretudo, a Bossa Nova – acredito que em nenhuma outra expressão artística o Brasil terá atingido internacionalmente o patamar de respeito, aceitação e influência que conseguiu nossa arquitetura, principalmente graças a Brasília.
Nossa capital já foi amplamente discutida e continua a provocar, com 50 anos, os mais variados debates e opiniões; por isso procurarei concentrar-me no que me parece mais relevante: o fato de Brasília ser a realização mais completa de uma utopia que ocupou algumas das mentes mais favorecidas do século passado e, também, o de ser o símbolo mais inequívoco de que somos capazes de inserir-nos no main stream da arte ocidental.
O reconhecimento do Brasil como ator na arquitetura do século 20 veio pela construção (entre 1937 e 1942), no Rio de Janeiro, do Ministério da Educação e Saúde (hoje Palácio Gustavo Capanema). Logo depois, veio a repercussão internacional do conjunto da Igreja, do Iate Clube, da Casa de Baile e do Cassino da Pampulha (1943), que definiu Oscar Niemeyer como o grande nome da geração. Essas obras revelaram ser possível, em um país de mínima influência cultural em termos mundiais, a existência de um grupo de jovens arquitetos capazes de interpretar com talento as teorias e os princípios mais avançados do momento e até de dar novos rumos à arquitetura moderna.
No final dos anos 40 e início dos 50, a arquitetura moderna já tinha conquistado muitos novos adeptos em todo o mundo, tanto entre os profissionais como na academia. Isso foi possível, em parte, por ter sido um movimento rejeitado por Hitler e Stalin, mas também por diversos outros motivos, como o aperfeiçoamento e a diminuição dos custos das novas técnicas de construção e a divulgação das novas ideias com a participação de arquitetos de todo o mundo nas reuniões periódicas do Ciam (Congrès International d"Architecture Moderne).
O Ciam havia publicado em 1933 a Carta de Atenas, um manifesto que preconizava a adoção de um novo urbanismo com clara divisão entre os espaços de moradia, trabalho e entretenimento. A influência do Ciam permitiu que a reconstrução de novos bairros e cidades na Europa do segundo pós-guerra respeitasse, de maneira geral, os princípios da Carta de Atenas. Só foi possível, contudo, a execução de versões muito modestas dos projetos urbanísticos revolucionários desenvolvidos naquele continente em décadas anteriores.
As diferenças entre a visão norte-americana e europeia eram ainda mais marcantes na área de urbanismo: a falta de espaço físico para a expansão das cidades – um dado primordial na Europa – nunca preocupou os urbanistas norte-americanos, que favoreceram as propostas que incluíam solucionar o crescimento das cidades com a descentralização e a criação de núcleos autossuficientes.
Com o final da Segunda Guerra, os países da América Latina e as novas nações que se formavam na Ásia acabaram tornando-se o melhor terreno de prova para uma arquitetura que muitos viam como símbolo de confiança no futuro. Le Corbusier consegue, na Índia, transformar em realidade parte de suas teorias urbanísticas com a criação de Chandigarh (1951-1956), a nova capital da Província de Punjab.
Paradoxalmente, ao mesmo tempo em que se erguia Chandigarh, o desânimo dos arquitetos com a dificuldade de realização de grandes projetos urbanos, principalmente na Europa, o continente que havia visto nascer a arquitetura moderna – provoca o questionamento da Carta de Atenas até mesmo no seio do Ciam, e leva uma nova geração a desenvolver planos menos radicais e megalomaníacos. O planejamento utópico "tabula rasa" foi substituído pela busca de um relacionamento mais complexo e favorável entre o casco urbano antigo e as novas funções.
Quando o governo de Juscelino Kubitschek lança o concurso nacional para o Plano Piloto de Brasília, em 1956, a vanguarda da arquitetura internacional já não sonhava com a realização da cidade revolucionária. Mas não porque a ideia havia falhado e sim porque sua realização, pelo menos na Europa e nos EUA, se havia revelado impossível. Chandigarh, o que havia de mais próximo do sonho de uma geração de arquitetos até aquele momento, era criticada em todas as frentes: para alguns, era a imposição de conceitos ocidentais discutíveis a uma sociedade não ocidental; para outros, eram conceitos extraordinários executados por uma sociedade discutível. No Brasil, no entanto, estávamos no auge da confiança no futuro, e a nova capital tinha de refletir uma sociedade disposta a realizar utopias.
A vitória de Lúcio Costa no concurso nacional para o projeto urbanístico de Brasília esteve longe de ser unanimidade. Mas a grande força do Plano Piloto era não ser apenas mais uma cidade, e sim uma capital. Lúcio Costa, em seu texto explicativo, afirmava que a ideia lhe parecia tão boa que "os dados, embora aparentemente sumários, seriam suficientes"; com isso, se o projeto não agradasse, ele não teria perdido seu tempo "nem o dos outros".A aceitação de Brasília pelo público não especializado foi imensa, e não apenas no Brasil. Não é exagero, basta ver as revistas e os jornais da época na França, na Itália, nos EUA, etc. A divulgação de magníficas fotos – sobretudo as de Marcel Gautherot – de seu urbanismo radical e de seus principais monumentos, projetados por Oscar Niemeyer, cativou uma geração e provou que era possível fazer arquitetura governamental, monumental e moderna.
Brasília, segundo o crítico Paul Goldberger, simboliza, "com mais força do que qualquer coisa construída nos Estados Unidos, a fé inquebrantável dos anos 50 de que o design moderno podia criar um mundo melhor".
A crítica especializada, no entanto, procurou derrubar rapidamente o ícone popular. A chegada do regime militar, em 1964, facilitou a operação, e a cidade criada em um dos mais dinâmicos períodos democráticos do Brasil acabou sendo associada mundo afora ao totalitarismo. A crise econômica brasileira, apesar da redemocratização, dissociou Brasília do otimismo e do futuro e a cidade passou a ser estudada por antropólogos e sociólogos mais do que por críticos de arquitetura. A construção de um número considerável de edifícios monstruosos não ajudou.
Peter Blake, em seu livro Form Follows Fiasco, de 1977, refere-se a Brasília como a "solução final". Edmund Bacon, no entanto, em Design of Cities, um dos livros sobre urbanismo mais influentes até hoje, afirma que só é possível apreciar a cidade depois de visitá-la: "Muito maltratada pelos críticos, cuja maioria não conhece pessoalmente a cidade, Brasília representa para a arquitetura contemporânea o mais significativo exemplo de cidade planejada como um todo".
Segundo a revista The Economist, "Brasília é ao mesmo tempo a glória e a tumba do ideal modernista". É a glória porque dentro de cem anos a imagem de cidade planejada do século 20 será Brasília. E é a tumba porque, como diz Goldberger, Brasília "prova melhor do que qualquer outro lugar (…) que a arquitetura moderna não sabe fazer cidades, apesar de fazer edifícios maravilhosos".
Brasília é o primeiro conjunto arquitetônico moderno a ser colocado na lista do Patrimônio da Humanidade da Unesco. Isso deve nos recordar que nossa capital é uma cidade de concepção moderna, mas não contemporânea. É um conjunto arquitetônico do passado – apesar de recente – e deve ser tratado como tal. Brasília, se forem respeitados os princípios que orientaram sua criação, deverá ser, cada vez mais, para o Brasil e para o mundo, o símbolo de uma época. Como disse Mário Pedrosa, "se Brasília foi uma imprudência, viva a imprudência".
Todas as grandes cidades têm defeitos e não se deve negá-los, mas o fato de, por exemplo, os setores comerciais norte e sul não conseguirem agradar a ninguém, não justifica condenar o plano piloto como um todo. Há muitos políticos e arquitetos – atraídos por espaços "vazios" ou "subutilizados" – que se sentem tentados a "corrigir" os erros da cidade, mas o maior erro seria desviar-se dos planos originais. Se não preservarmos Brasília da maneira como foi concebida por Lúcio Costa teremos talvez uma cidade mais "normal", mas certamente teremos uma cidade feia e sem personalidade, como a maioria das cidades brasileiras.
Toda alteração em setores previstos no plano de Lúcio Costa deve ser feita sem afetar os princípios basilares do urbanismo da cidade. Por exemplo, a alteração da circulação nos setores comerciais sul e norte ou nos setores hoteleiros pode ser feita segundo o princípio de "acupuntura urbana", defendido por especialistas como Jaime Lerner: ou seja, corrigem-se problemas pontuais, sem questionar a lógica geral da cidade. Temos que evitar mais erros, pois muitos já foram cometidos.
Devemos, a todo custo, preservar de maneira muito atenta o espírito modernista de Brasília, pois é a maior contribuição brasileira à arte do século 20.
André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, Diplomata, crítico de arquitetura e autor de diversas publicações sobre o tema. Uma versão ampliada deste texto, baseado em artigo para o site no.com, fará parte do livro Brasília: Cinquenta Anos, a ser publicado pela Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo em 2010
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2010 Dodge Journey Available in the UK
Following the release of pricing information for the 2010 Chrysler 300C, the American manufacturer announced the availability of the 2010 Dodge Journey models on the UK market. The seven seater will be available in three versions, SE, SXT and R/T and two engine choices, a 2.4l petrol and a 2.0l diesel, with prices starting at £16,990.The Dodge Journey is the perfect ‘right-sized’ vehicle for families who don’t want the look of a traditional people carrier but need the funct… (read more)
