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In case you missed it last night in the All Things D event — and frankly, given the length and general jejune of it, we wouldn’t blame you — Reed Hastings of Netflix took the stage and sat down with Peter Kafka. Here’s the takeaway: when Kafka asked him the chance of “getting on Nintendo,” Hastings replied, “our chances are excellent.” It’s not much, but after at least a year of hints and teasers, it’s by far the best confirmation we’ve got. Of course, he didn’t say which system, but let’s be honest… the only logical choice is DS, right?

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During the year your chance of becoming ill from the food you eat:

Canada 35%
USA 25%
UK 2%
France 1%

Source CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/…n6076565.shtml

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Foram duas viagens, uma no verão passado e outro neste. Tornei-me apaixonado por este estado, pretendo voltar inúmeras vezes, hehe 🙂

Espero que gostem:

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02 – Sobrevoando o Galeão antes de pousar no SDU

03 – Ilha do Governador, mostrando os contrastes…

04 – Favela

05 – Mansões

06 – Donwtonw e o Porto do Rio

07 – Donwtonw visto da ponte Rio-Niterói

08 – Lado inverso

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10 – Aterrisando e centro:D

11 – Um túnel, nem sei

12 – Do outro lado… Favela em cima, pichações e um grande fluxo de veículos…

13 – São Conrado e Hotel Nacional

14 – Fly 😀

15 – Voltando…Lindo demais 🙂

16 – São conrado, voltando…

17 – Barra

18 – Rocinha… tenso.. não imagino como é conviver com isso :/

19 – Uma das 7 maravilhas do mundo moderno…

20 – Ele voltará…:D

21 – o Photobucket não desvirou ;/

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28 – Parece de brinquedo, sim city, etc, hehe 🙂

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30 – Novamente o Photobucket não virou ;/

31 – Zoom Maraca..

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34 – Perto do maracanã

35 – Batman no metrô de Copacabana… kkkkk

36 – Simplesmente espetacular….

37 – Fortaleza Santa Cruz, Pão de Açucar e Corcovado.

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46 – No pão de açúcar, após a saída do primeiro bondinho, tem-se uma barraquinha que vende passeios de Helicóptero, não resisti e foi uma das maiores emoções da minha vida, fantástico, berremos muito; estava eu, mais um casal, ele estado-unidense e ela brasileira. Fantástico, inesquecível, recomendo a você.

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48 – Praia Vermelha

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50 – Botafogo

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52 – Saindo de Barca para Nikit

53 – Gávea

54 – O passeio é maravilhoso :D:D:D:D:D (Ipanema de elikopterous)

55 – Ipanema & Lagoa

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só pra relembrar: fernandogeremias=eu=Fernando Rech Geremias 🙂

Andei pelo centro também, mas não bati fotos, tomei muito cuidado 🙂

Pronto, por enquanto é só,
COMENTEM!!
kkkkkkk
Na próxima página, todas as fotos das cidades restantes 😀

ZM de Saltillo l Frio y Nevada

Cae nieve en Saltillo

Con una temperatura de -7º la capital de Coahuila está más blanca que nunca

Saltillo, Coah.- Como hace años no sucedía en Saltillo, la mañana de ayer las calles, edificios y automóviles amanecieron cubiertos de blanco por la copiosa nevada que cayó durante la noche.

El fenómeno natural regaló a los saltillenses un hermoso paisaje atípico en la capital y en la Región Sureste del estado, además de una temperatura de seis grados bajo cero, cosa que no importó a los cientos de personas que salieron a las calles a disfrutar de la nieve.

Desafortunadamente, como suele pasar cuando el pavimento se cubre de hielo, en la ciudad se registraron al menos 16 accidentes viales derivados de lo resbaladizo de las calles y avenidas.

Ante el riesgo de más percances, las autoridades municipales tomaron medidas precautorias en diversos puntos de la ciudad, como los puentes Rufino Tamayo y Dos de Abril, que fueron cerrados a la circulación.

Y a pesar de que muchas de las actividades se paralizaron en la ciudad, otras, como el pago de servicios como la tenencia y el predial, continuaron de manera casi normal.

El recaudador Alejandro Treviño señaló que antes de las 11 de la mañana se habían realizado alrededor de 100 trámites, principalmente por maestros, por lo que el horario de operaciones se realizó de manera normal, de 8 a 2 de la tarde.

El transporte público tampoco funcionó al 100% debido al extremo descenso de la temperatura. La Subdirección de Transporte Municipal informó que la afluencia de usuarios disminuyó hasta la mitad. Las rutas 4B, 4A y Mirasierra no realizaron su recorrido habitual en las primeras horas de la mañana, pues las casetas y unidades amanecieron congeladas.

Ni alumnos ni trabajadores administrativos de nivel educativo de preescolar y superior se presentaron en los planteles escolares, ya que por la mañana la Secretaría de Educación y Cultura hizo oficial la suspensión de labores y probablemente serán retomadas el próximo lunes.

UN ‘FRÍO’ RECUERDO

Vestidos con gruesas chamarras, gorros y bufandas, saltillenses acudieron a los lugares públicos para tomarse fotografías, en el blanco escenario que se formó desde las primeras horas de la madrugada de ayer.

En el primer cuadro de la ciudad, la Alameda Zaragoza, la Plaza de Armas y la Nueva Tlaxcala ofrecieron una vista blanca a las familias y parejas que arribaron para tomarse fotografías, además de observar una postal poco común en Saltillo.

Al oriente de la ciudad, el Museo del Desierto y el Gran Bosque Urbano fueron los puntos más visitados por los saltillenses, que buscaban preservar en la memoria el singular paisaje.

Fuente de inf: Zocalo, Vanguardia respectivamente

I was cooking teriyacki tuna steaks and steamed veggies for supper. My dog Allie was hanging in the kitchen hanging around. Well once the steaming veggies were done I put a little butter on and grabbed the cayenne pepper.. I spilled the pepper on the floor and Allie decided to lick it up. She looked at me..HAHAHA.. started to lick her paws to get the buring to stop, went to her bowl, drank water and ate for a while while.

The look on her face was hysterical. She must have consumed at least a teaspoon of cayenne pepper! And she didn’t puke!

Porque no todas las noticias de El Salvador, son sobre homicidios de periodicos amarillistas. El país avanza:
Según los wikipedistas y con datos del banco mundial y de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, el índice de desarrollo humano del salvador para 2008 supera ya el 0.760, en comparación con el 0.747 de 2007. Recordemos que el último informe fué entregado el año pasado pero con datos de 2007, así que el informe de este año tendrá los datos de 2008.
Pero todavía podría crecer más, debido a que los datos de educación son de 2007.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:I…lo_Humano_2010

Indice de Salud…Índice de PIB….Índice de Educación……Estimación……..Posición CA
0.785……………….0.704……………..0.794………………….0.761……………3

País…………….Estimación
Costa Rica:…..0.857
Panamá:………0.846
Honduras:…….0.725
Guatemala:……0.708
Nicaragua……..0.703

Esperanza de vida 2008: http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?opt…id=308&Itemid=
Indice de educación 2007: http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_200…S_Complete.pdf
PIb per cápita: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/D…ources/POP.pdf
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/D…es/GDP_PPP.pdf

Why is this bothering me? Is it because it’s a rich person with medical world at her fingertips..and she ends up dead at a young age. i truley hope to god it’s not because of diabetes..i think this might depress me!

As the quaternary glaciers slowly melted, their ancient footprints remained like deep fjord-like scratches in the area just south of the alpine range in Lombardy.

Thaw and rain finished the job, leaving a broad band of lakes sweeping from the west to the east of Lombardy. This is a small trip of coastal smalltowns and villages. Far from being exhaustive and based on my wanderings alone, this is an ope thread. Feel free to add your own contributions.

Lake Iseo. Pisogne.

Lake Iseo – Sulzano

Lake Garda – Desenzano

Lake Garda – Monìga

Lake Garda – Limone

Yep, this is the setting for the tunnel chase in "Quantum of Solace"…:)

Lake Garda – Toscolano Maderno.

Lake Garda – Sirmione

I want to start another thread on an operational issue of public transit. A lot of PT systems, especially mid-to-low capacities ones, operate under an honor system, where payment is done users without any throughout control at gates/entrance points.

Of course, this leaves the road open to a variety of abuses, hence conductors and supervisors are put in place to check whether users had paid accordingly. In certain cases, like long-distance few-stoppings trains, this control is fair easy to be done: a pair of conductors can check a whole train seating 300+ withouth much hassle.

However, in case of more urban commuter systems, controlling proper ticketing is not so easy. Most subways, being closed-thight systems, put gates in place instead of honor payment collection.

Trams, buses and commuter rail have a harder time implementing either an all-gated design and throughout inspection (one that gives a high – say, >80% – probability of being inspect at any journey). As a result, fare dodging increase and put a strain on a system’s finances.

In many cities, determined cronic fare-evaders know a number of tactics to doge the farebox and avoid being caught/punished. Tourist internet forums are full of information on whether tourists can play the "out of town" card or not in different cities. In some routes/services where control is rather rare, cronic evaders can even fight or harass inspectors, like late-night bus routes that usually goes unchecked, therefore generating a falsa "entitlement" perception that cash-strapped teenagers can ride them for free to/from their hangout areas. Some racial oversensitive activist even tried to sue some transit authorities claiming that it is unfair to concentrate inspectors in routes serving mostly poor minorities.

On-spot fines seem to be one of the best remedies agains fare evasion, but in some jurisdictions (countries, states, citites) transit conductors have no legal power to demand payment for alleged infractions, and in others the allegedly offender must be given an opportunity to a hearing if he/she chooses to. Nonetheless, even high on-spot fines would not deter dodgers if the chance of being caught is slim.

In those cases (like uban buses or trams) a majority of people will comply and pay the fares, yet some groups will simple ignore it. I’ve lived in cities with such a system, and troubled/strange teens and the extremely poor used to ride buses for extreme long journeys instead of taking the subway, because there was virtually no control on the buses. For these people, some unpaid transit citations/fines will not do any difference – they will not pay and they will keep riding transit.

There are also other problems: students usually have some kind of discount or free acess on school days, but some of them don’t bother at all to use, improperly, their passes to ride transit on Sundays, or on vacation period. In one of the places I lived, inspectors paid little attention to these cases, and never bother to round up teens travelling without tickets during summer vacations (when they were supposed to pay a fare like everyone else).

With more advanced and modern controls and collection systems, such as enhanced gates, RFID card etc., wouldn’t it make sense to vastly adopt gate collection systems and scrap honor systems altogether? They are not dodge-proof, but I’d say the number of people who would be willing to jump turnstiles and gates is far lower than the number of people playing cat-and-mouse evasion with fare inspectors.

What do you think about it? It fare dodging a problem in your city? Has transit autorithies come with credible plans to curb this "free rider" (literally) behavior?