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Prezydent Inowrocławia wyraża poparcie dla Metropolii Bydgoskiej Podczas dzisiejszej sesji Rady Miasta Inowrocławia, radna PiS Anna Trojanowska złożyła interpelację, w której poprosiła o udzielenie poparcia dla utworzenia Metropolii Bydgoskiej, w skład której wejdzie także Inowrocław. |
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[Bydgoszcz] Metropolia Bydgoska
W związku z pojawiającymi się co jakiś czas jaskółkami prasowymi dotyczącymi prac nad ustawą metropolitarną należy zacząć promować jedyne sensowne w naszym województwie rozwiązanie czyli utworzenie przez Bydgoszcz wraz ze swoim powiatem oraz powiatem nakielskim metropolii w rozumieniu prawa unijnego. Jedynie takie rozwiązanie zapewni trwały wzrost i rozwój całego województwa. Oczywiśce należy kontynuować projekty zmierzające do zintegrowania pod względem komunikacyjnym największych miast regionu ale bez jednoczesnego wpychania je w ramy metropolii. Należy na papierze zapisać to co ma miejsce w rzeczywistości – sznury pojazdów osób zatrudnionych w Bydgoszczy mieszkających w Koronowie , Nakle czy Solcu przemierzające drogę rano w jednym kierunku i wieczorem w przeciwnym. Pociągi dowożące imprezowiczów na wieczorny ubaw do Bydgoszczy czy zakupowiczów tłoczących się na parkingach bydgoskich centrów handlowych przy jednoczesnej i nie budzącej sprzeciwu wiodącej roli bydgoskiego ośrodka. Oglądając i słuchając tego co dzieje sie w tej materii odnoszę wrażenie, że ta jasna rola jaką miałoby pełnić nasze miasto jest chyba najważniejszym argumentem przemawiającym za powołaniem metropolii bydgoskiej.Quote: -
Newswires: Blackwater, Aegis
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Benedict Radcliffe’s Wireframe Lambo: Yours for just £40,000
Benedict Radcliffe’s wire art Koenig Lamborghini Countach – Click above for image galleryIn 2008, UK artist Benedict Radcliffe created a wireframe Koenig Lamborghini Countach because he needed something to outdo the wireframe Subaru WRX. Using 160 feet of 10-millimeter steel tubing, the see-through coupe was parked on the street in London for people to generally gawk at, which they did in the expected large numbers.
Now The Times reports that the piece is for sale, allowing you to gawk at it in your living room for the low, low price of £40,000 ($64,828 U.S.). You’ll need a fair bit of room since the artwork is 14 feet long and six feet wide, and probably isn’t all that light. The extra effort could be worth it – when else will you get the chance to tell someone you bought a car from Wonder Woman? You can get a closer look at the wireframe Lambo in the gallery of images below.
[Source: Times Online]
Benedict Radcliffe’s Wireframe Lambo: Yours for just £40,000 originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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ISTANBUL | ATSHR Residence | 49 fl | Pro
ATSHR Residence
Istanbul, TurkeyFLOORS: 49 fl
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LOCATION: Atasehir Financial District
ARCHITECT: Uras & Dilekci
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Ella Fitzgerald – Get Happy (1998)
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Saddleback Saved, As Flock Coughs Up $2.4 Million For Rick Warren’s Church
The members of Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church responded big-time to his urgent, end-of-year fundraising call.
Last week he wrote a desperate letter saying, basically, the collection plates had run dry in the final week of the year, and that the church was $900,000 in the hole.
Well, he got a lot more than he asked for. The final haul was $2.4 million, which Warren chalked up to “radical generosity.”
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Coolse Poort, Rotterdam
Gegevens
Naam: Coolse Poort
Hoogte: 76 Meter
Plaats: Rotterdam, Coolsingel
Oplvering: 1978
Website: http://www.skylinecity.info/rotterda…_poort_rec.htm
Functie: Kantoren
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Brasil um País de 1° mundo
Tem as melhores praias do mundo.
é um dos paises mais populosos do mundo.
tem a 10 cidade mais rica do mundo e a mais rica da américa latina.Aki vou postar algumas fotos de cidades a maioria são capitais.
São Paulo. Cidade mais rica da américa latina, 2° maior cidade do mundo, 10 cidade mais rica do mundo.
Rio De janeiro. 2° maior cidade do pais, Cidade mais bonita do pais e uma das mais bonitas do mundo, 2° cidade mais rica e com uma das 7 maravilhas do mundo o Cristo Redentor.
Brasilia. Capital do Brasil, Uma cidade muito organizada.
Belo horizonte. Uma das maiores cidades do pais. é a capital do estado de minas gerais
Fotos garimpadas !!!
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Newswires: Yemen
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Helen Merrill – Just Friends (1989)
Helen Merrill – Just Friends (1989)
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03/01/10
Новый БЦ на пересечении ул. Коровий Вал
и 1-го Добрынинского переулка, вид с Октябрьской площади
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“You might be an economist if you refuse to sell your children because …”
I found the following WSJ article and forwarded it to my economist friends as I found it pretty funny. I highlighted a few interesting bits and added some comments. Enjoy.
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Secrets of the Economist’s Trade: First, Purchase a Piggy Bank
By Justin Lahart (WSJ)
Academic economists gather in Atlanta this weekend for their annual meetings, always held the first weekend after New Year’s Day. That’s not only because it coincides with holidays at most universities. A post-holiday lull in business travel also puts hotel rates near the lowest point of the year.
Economists are often cheapskates.
The economists make cities bid against each other to hold their convention, and don’t care so much about beaches, golf courses or other frills. It’s like buying a car, explains the American Economic Association’s secretary-treasurer, John Siegfried, an economist at Vanderbilt University.
“When my wife buys a car, she seems to care what color it is,” he says. “I always tell her, don’t care about the color.” He initially wanted a gray 2007 Mercury Grand Marquis, but a black one cost about $100 less. He got black.
Some of the world’s most famous economists were famously frugal. After a dinner thrown by the British economic giant John Maynard Keynes, writer Virginia Woolf complained that the guests had to pick “the bones of Maynard’s grouse of which there were three to eleven people.” Milton Friedman, the late Nobel laureate, routinely returned reporters’ calls collect.
Children of economists recall how tightfisted their parents were. Lauren Weber, author of a recent book titled, “In Cheap We Trust,” says her economist father kept the thermostat so low that her mother threatened at one point to take the family to a motel. “My father gave in because it would have been more expensive,” she says.
“Where do I begin?” says Marisa Kasriel when asked about the lengths to which her father, Northern Trust Co. economist Paul Kasriel, will go to save a buck: private-label groceries, off-brand tennis shoes and his 1995 Subaru, with a piece of electrical tape covering the “check engine” light.
Mr. Kasriel says he buys off-brand shoes “so that my lovely children could have Nikes.”
David Colander, an economist at Middlebury College in Vermont, says his wife — his first one, that is — was miffed when he went shopping for the cheapest diamond. Economist Robert Gordon, of Northwestern University, says he drives out of his way to go to a grocery store where prices are cheaper than at the nearby Whole Foods, even though it takes him an extra half hour to save no more than $5.
Mr. Gordon, however, is no ascetic. He, his wife and their two dogs live in a 11,000-square-foot, 21-room 1889 mansion on the largest residential lot in Evanston, Ill., outside Chicago.
“The house is full, every room is furnished, there are 72 oriental rugs and vast collections of oriental art, 1930s art deco Czech perfume bottles and other nice stuff,” he says.
Some economists may be cheap, at least by the standards of other people, because of their training or a fascination with money and choices that drives them to the field.
In recent research, University of Washington economists Yoram Bauman and Elaina Rose found that economics majors were less likely to donate money to charity than students who majored in other fields. After majors in other fields took an introductory economics course, their propensity to give also fell.
“The economics students seem to be born guilty, and the other students seem to lose their innocence when they take an economics class,” says Mr. Bauman, who has a stand-up comedy act he’ll be doing at the economists’ Atlanta conference Sunday night. Among his one-liners: “You might be an economist if you refuse to sell your children because they might be worth more later.”
Economists long have studied “free riders,” the sort of people who take more than their fair share of something when circumstances permit. Think of the person who orders the most expensive entr[eacute]e at a restaurant, knowing that the check will be shared equally among companions.
University of Wisconsin sociologists Gerald Marwell and Ruth Ames, in a 1981 paper, found that in experiments,economics students showed a much higher propensity to free ride than other students. In questioning after the experiment, the sociologists found that for many of the economics students, the concept of investing fairly “was somewhat alien.” [Kempton note: “investing is to try to find an “edge” in the deployment of money, thus “fairly” is a bit paradoxical in “investing”, I think.]
Cornell University economist Robert Frank, working with a pair of psychologists, mailed questionnaires to college professors asking them to report the annual amount they gave to charity. Their 1993 paper reported that 9.1% of the economists gave no money at all — more than twice as many holdouts as in any other field.
The professors also ran an experiment in which participating Cornell undergraduate students could get a higher payoff if they agreed to have their partner get less. Economics majors were more likely to go for the higher payoff, they found.
Some dispute the notion that economists tend to be skinflints. “They aren’t cheap,” but they are concerned with a loss of economic efficiency, says Betsey Stevenson, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. “That means that they often fail to do the nice little social gifts that seem wasteful to economists.”
And the principles that can make economists seem cheap sometimes lead them to hire help, because they are taught to value their own time.
Ms. Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, also of the Wharton School, gave a friend $150 to hire movers instead of helping him themselves. Harvard University economist David Laibson pays to have a driver pick up his sister from the airport rather than driving himself.
Stanford University economist Robert Hall, incoming president of the American Economic Association, values his time so highly that his wife, economist Susan Woodward, occasionally puts her foot down. “Bob doesn’t see why we can’t just hire people to trim the Christmas tree,” she says. “I tell him that’s not what it’s supposed to be about.” [Kempton note: this para reminded me of a blog entry Wallace wrote about Canadians seem to do a lot more of our household chores and fix our cars, etc much more than HKers.]
Given their understanding of the odds of gambling, economists seldom frequent casinos, which is one reason the meeting isn’t held in Las Vegas. A decade ago, a hotel sales representative showed Mr. Siegfried a chart showing how little economists gambled compared to other people, he says.
The American Economic Association meetings, however, have been held in New Orleans, which has a few casinos.
One year, Yale University economist Robert Shiller, who’d never gambled in his life, found himself at a casino there. He says that was because Wharton economist Jeremy Siegel realized that by using coupons offered to conventioneers, they could take opposing bets at the craps table with a 35 out of 36 chance of winning $12.50 each. Over two nights, Mr. Shiller netted $87.50.
He hasn’t gambled since.
[HT Krugman]
[Kempton: Please don’t blame me if you start gambling, especially applying the “Shiller technique”. 🙂
Hope you had fun and wishing you a happy & healthy new year.]
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Linkin Park(hot)2010remix .no1
Linkin Park/60.mbLinkin Park
1. New divide – Linkin Park
2. Bring Me Back To Life (Feat Evanescence) – Linkin Park
3. Crawling – Linkin Park
4. Numb – Linkin Park
5. Valentine’s Day – Linkin Park
6. What I’ve Done – Linkin Park
7. In The End – Linkin Park
8. Points Of Authority (Dj Chiller Vs Big Ed) – Linkin Park
9. Bleed It Out – Linkin Park
10. Lying From You – Linkin Park
11. Somewhere I Belong – Linkin Park
12. Pushing Me Away – Linkin Park
13. Don’t Stay – Linkin Park
14. Shadow Of The Day – Linkin Park
15. Papercut – Linkin park
16. Faint – Linkin Park
17. Leave Out All The Rest – Linkin Park
18. With You – Linkin Park
19. Points Of Authority – Linkin park
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Lenovo leaks ThinkPad Edge, X100e, T410s, W510, T510 and more ahead of CES
Hey Lenovo, your cards are showing. Just weeks after the FCC tipped us off on a new pair of netbooks that are all but definitely slated for a CES unveiling, Lenovo has no one but it’s web administrator(s) to blame for this one. A “New product showcase” portal over on the outfit’s site has just revealed a half dozen new lappies that are slated to go on sale starting January 5th – 7th, with the ultra-sleek 13.3-inch ThinkPad Edge leading the way. Said rig boasts up to 7.8 hours of battery life, a dual-core CPU, Windows 7, Bluetooth and WiMAX options, integrated WWAN / GPS, WiFi, a spill-resistant keyboard, three USB ports, a 5-in-1 media card reader and an option for a red paint job. There’s also a sub-3 pound ThinkPad X100e ultraportable with an 11.6-inch display, AMD processor and an only-available-overseas Arctic White color option. The T410, T410s, T510 and W510 are bringing up the rear, with their (admittedly brief) specification lists spelled out in the source links below.
[Thanks, Jake and Daniel]
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Playable Quake, OpenGL Demo and Native SDK Possibilities: Busy Day for webOS Internals
What a difference a day makes. As of yesterday, the biggest recent news from the webOS Internals global team was the launch of Doom and a video of a non-playable version of Quake. Today, there are three new announcements from webOS Internals:
First, Quake is now playable, with keymaps developed with help from user Jack87. As with the updated Doom, Quake launches through an icon rather than needing any typed commands in Terminal. The more complicated movements make Quake a bit more challenging to maneuver, but movement and sound work quite well. Both Quake and Doom are available via Preware.
Second, on the webOSInternals YouTube channel, the team has posted a video of a demo OpenGL application (a triangle containing moving concentric circles) by bpadalino, further proof that Palm has enabled this graphic functionality in webOS 1.3.5, and hinting at upcoming gaming possibilities that are even further confirmed by…
The third announcement, via Rod Whitby’s PreCentral forum post this morning where he details his discovery of a method for installing and running native Linux applications without the need for add-on services like webOSInternals’ own Upstart Manager Service. Rod points out that the ability to launch native Linux apps within webOS has implications well beyond gaming, in terms of advanced homebrew application development beyond that enabled by Palm’s current SDK. (PalmInfocenter posted a simpler explanation of what Rod and his colleagues discovered here.)
Palm’s CES 2010 event is scheduled for this coming Thursday, and based on what the webOSInternals folks are discovering literally every day, 2010 looks to be a very exciting time both for webOS developers and for the users who have benefitted from their innovation.
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More perks for renewable energy dev’t set – BusinessWorld Online
“We have a target to complete it by…early [this] year, around April,” Pedro H. Maniego, Jr., chairman of the technical working group on the feed-in tariff (FIT) and the renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) of the National Renewable Energy …
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ReadWriteWeb’s List of Kid-Friendly Online Resources
In an ironic twist of fate for 2009, Fox’s IGN Entertainment, a company known for its game reviews of products like Zombie Apocalypse acquired What They Play. The newest member of Fox Interactive is touted as the “family guide to video games” and offers reviews, warnings and suggested products. Under the umbrella company of What They Like, What They Play uses the “Entertainment Software Rating Board” (ESRB) to warn parents of games containing explicit lyrics, cartoon violence and drug references. Sponsor
Editor’s note: This story is part of a series we call Redux, where we’ll re-publish some of our best posts of 2009. As we look back at the year – and ahead to what next year holds – we think these are the stories that deserve a second glance. It’s not just a best-of list, it’s also a collection of posts that examine the fundamental issues that continue to shape the Web. We hope you enjoy reading them again and we look forward to bringing you more Web products and trends analysis in 2010. Happy holidays from Team ReadWriteWeb!
In an age when gross-out sites like goatse are just a click away, a number of services offer parents the information they need to find quality online entertainment. While past generations were raised on unfiltered television and video games, today’s parent take a more active role in the process of media consumption.
AOL’s PlaySavvy: PlaySavvy is another site that offers parents a chance to check out age-appropriate kids games. Similar to What They Play, this site lists the ESRB ratings next to games and information is categorized by topic and gaming system. Products for console favorites like Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii are often featured on the site. AOL also offers parents daily articles and a section to view the most popular games. Parents’ Choice: Established in 1978, this site is run by the Parents’ Choice Foundation – a nonprofit organization that offers awards to the top children’s media and toys. Some of the award categories include websites, video games, DVDs, software, television programming and toys. This site definitely skews towards narrative-based educational materials. If your kid has a shorter attention span, you might want to visit PBS Kids instead.
Common Sense Media: Common Sense media is a nonprofit organizations dedicated to offering parents reviews and suggestions on appropriate content. The group produces movie, website, TV, game, book and music ratings as well as a number of educational tools for classroom use. The site can be personalized for kids between the ages of 2-17 years old and it’s available in English and Spanish. This site tends to weigh the benefits of mainstream media sites.
PBS KIDS Island: This site offers parents reading resources, videos and games in English and Spanish. While the majority of the content is best queued up by a parent or teacher, the videos are of particularly high quality and completely commercial free. National Geographic for Kids: This site offers kid-friendly games, videos, stories and activities for nature lovers. The same photography that has made National Geographic a hit with grownups is likely to please kids. Not surprisingly, the video content is equally compelling. Discovery Kids offers a similar experience and is a great site for visual learners.
Totlol: Totlol is a parent-moderated version of YouTube. The site offers video options specifically designed for children and even offers “age optimized interfaces” to ensure that kids of different ages get the most appropriate content. In 2008, ReadWriteWeb covered Totlol’s beta launch. As of today the site charges a $3 per month subscription fee or $54 until your child grows up.
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