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<title><![CDATA[The Fed Up 69% - Trinidad and Tobago]]></title>
<link>http://akalol.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/the-fed-up-69-trinidad-and-tobago/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aka_lol</dc:creator>
<guid>http://akalol.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/the-fed-up-69-trinidad-and-tobago/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As is normal with international gatherings of world leaders and hot air, a group who knows Trinidad ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northern Rock Increase Mortgage Rates]]></title>
<link>http://mtgrates.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/northern-rock-increase-mortgage-rates/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>easyswitch</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mtgrates.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/northern-rock-increase-mortgage-rates/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  Northern Rock will increase rates on selected residential Fixed and Tracker products by up to 0.20]]></description>
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<p><a class="zem_slink" title="Northern Rock" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rock">Northern Rock</a> will increase rates on selected residential Fixed and Tracker products by up to 0.20% with effect from Friday 27 November.</p>
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<p><strong>2 Year Fixed rates now available from:<br />
3.89% up to 70% <a class="zem_slink" title="Loan to value" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loan_to_value">LTV</a> with a £595 Product Fee for purchase customers<br />
or a £995 Product Fee and incentives of free basic valuation fees and free standard <a class="zem_slink" title="Costs (English law)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costs_%28English_law%29">legal costs</a> for <a class="zem_slink" title="Remortgage" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remortgage">Remortgage</a> customers.</p>
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<p><strong>2 Year Tracker rates now available from: </strong></p>
<p>2.79% (BOE + 2.29%) up to 70% LTV with a £595 Product Fee for purchase customers</p>
<p>or a £995 Product Fee and free basic valuation fees and free standard legal costs for Remortgage customers.</p>
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2 Year Fixed rate Intermediary Exclusive withdrawn.</strong><strong>
<p>&#160;</p>
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<p><strong>End dates extended to 1 March. </strong></p>
<p>Please call us on <strong>08456 800898</strong> or <strong>01245 398466</strong> for further details of the Northern Rock Mortgage Range</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Suggestions required for maid,cleaner etc..]]></title>
<link>http://ektarwa.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/suggestions-required-for-maidcleaner-etc/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ektarwa</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ektarwa.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/suggestions-required-for-maidcleaner-etc/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dear Residents, We are receiving lots of complaints about the rates/behavior of service providers li]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Buy-to-let spree as investors exploit discounts dangled by developers]]></title>
<link>http://news.esm-cmm.co.uk/2009/11/25/buy-to-let-spree-as-investors-exploit-discounts-dangled-by-developers/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>easyswitch</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Investors are snapping up newly built flats in northern cities at substantial discounts, clearing ou]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cattive notizie verso Copenhagen Emissioni a «livelli mai raggiunti»]]></title>
<link>http://deamaltea.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/cattive-notizie-verso-copenhagen-emissioni-a-%c2%ablivelli-mai-raggiunti%c2%bb/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>deamaltea</dc:creator>
<guid>http://deamaltea.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/cattive-notizie-verso-copenhagen-emissioni-a-%c2%ablivelli-mai-raggiunti%c2%bb/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr A tre settimane dall&#8217;inizio della quindicesima Con]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div class="zemanta-img" style="display:block;margin:1em;"><div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 154px"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8623220@N02/3174169891"><img class=" " title="[General view, Copenhagen, Denmark] (LOC)" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/3174169891_feca96eb03_m.jpg" alt="[General view, Copenhagen, Denmark] (LOC)" width="144" height="105" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr</p></div></div>
<p><em>A tre settimane dall&#8217;inizio della <strong>quindicesima Conferenza Onu sul Clima di Copenhagen</strong>, gli esperti non forniscono buone notizie. </em></p>
<p><strong>Le emissioni di gas a effetto serra, infatti, avrebbero toccato livelli mai raggiunti </strong>dall&#8217;epoca preindustriale e si starebbero avvicinando «agli scenari pessimistici» ipotizzati finora. «Le notizie non sono buone», ha affermato l&#8217;<strong>Organizzazione meteorologica mondiale</strong>. «La concentrazione di <strong>gas a effetto serra</strong> continua a aumentare con un ritmo molto rapido, bisogna agire rapidamente», afferma il segretario generale dell&#8217;Omm, Michel Jarraud, presentando alla stampa gli ultimi dati raccolti dall&#8217;agenzia delle <strong>Nazioni Unite</strong>. Ciò conferma «la tendenza di un aumento esponenziale» di questi gas, dice Jarraud. Ci troviamo davanti «allo scenario pessimistico» descritto dal <strong>Gruppo internazionale di esperti sul cambiamento climatico (Giec)</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Intanto l&#8217;Unione europea e le grandi potenze mondiali</strong> si preparano alla conferenza internazionale. Per il segretario esecutivo della Convenzione Onu sul clima, Yvo de Boer, è di cruciale importanza che gli europei continuino a esercitare la loro leadership internazionale alla Conferenza internazionale di Copenhagen, in dicembre, mantenendo la loro offerta di <strong>tagliare le emissioni del 30%</strong>, in modo da spingere gli altri paesi sviluppati a offrire riduzioni simili.</p>
<p>Da<strong> l&#8217;Unità </strong> <a href="http://www.unita.it/news/ambiente/91676/cattive_notizie_verso_copenhagen_emissioni_a_livelli_mai_raggiunti" target="_blank">la notizia qui..</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[World economics now:]]></title>
<link>http://madhavgopalkrish.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/world-economics-now/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>madhavgopalkrish</dc:creator>
<guid>http://madhavgopalkrish.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/world-economics-now/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[World economics now:You will love this&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. It is the month of August, on th]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a title="Join Keralites Group! Have fun &#38; be informed...." rel="nofollow" href="http://keralites.net/" target="_blank"> <span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#5e5e00;">World economics now:</span><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#5e5e00;">You will love this&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#5e5e00;">It is the month of August, on the shores of the Black Sea.It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, Everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#5e5e00;">Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#5e5e00;">He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 Euro note on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to choose one.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#5e5e00;">The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the butcher. The butcher takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the pig grower. The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#5e5e00;">The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the town&#8217;s prostitute that in these hard times, gave her services on credit.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#5e5e00;">The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 Euro note to the hotel proprietor to pay for<br />
the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#5e5e00;">The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Euro note back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect<br />
anything. At that moment, the tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 Euro note, after<br />
saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.</span></p>
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No one earned anything.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#5e5e00;">However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism&#8230;&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;color:#5e5e00;">And that, friends,is how the world is doing business today.</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Quoted - With Social Media, Who Needs Santa? - Adweek]]></title>
<link>http://scotttesta.com/2009/11/21/quoted-with-social-media-who-needs-santa-adweek/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Scott Testa</dc:creator>
<guid>http://scotttesta.com/2009/11/21/quoted-with-social-media-who-needs-santa-adweek/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia ‘Tis the season for social media. Seventeen percent of U.S. consumers plan to le]]></description>
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<p>‘Tis the season for <a class="zem_slink" title="Social media" rel="wikinvest" href="http://www.wikinvest.com/concept/Social_media">social media</a>. Seventeen percent of <a class="zem_slink" title="United States" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&#38;spn=10.0,10.0&#38;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20%28United%20States%29&#38;t=h">U.S.</a> consumers plan to leverage social media sites to assist in their holiday shopping this year. The majority (60 percent) will do so to seek <a class="zem_slink" title="Price" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price">discounts and sales</a>, according to <a class="zem_slink" title="Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu" rel="homepage" href="http://www.deloitte.com/global/">Deloitte</a>’s 24th annual Holiday Survey.</p>
<p>More than half of social media users reported that they will also use these sites to <a class="zem_slink" title="Research" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research">research</a> potential gift ideas (53 percent) and view their friends and family members’ wish lists (52 percent). Forty-six percent will research product reviews and 30 percent plan to share their own wish list. The study, which was conducted online by an independent research company, surveyed more than 10,000 individuals.</p>
<p>Mobile phones are also getting the call. Nineteen percent of consumers plan to use their mobile devices and apps to aid in their purchasing decision. Of this group, 55 percent plan to use their handsets to locate stores, 45 percent will research prices and 40 percent will look up product information. About a third will also seek discounts (32 percent) and research product reviews (31 percent), while 25 percent plan to make purchases with their mobile phones.</p>
<p>This is only the beginning, said Scott Testa, <a class="zem_slink" title="Professor" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor">professor</a> of <a class="zem_slink" title="Business" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business">business</a> at <a class="zem_slink" title="Cabrini College" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.055,-75.374&#38;spn=0.01,0.01&#38;q=40.055,-75.374%20%28Cabrini%20College%29&#38;t=h">Cabrini College</a>. “The ability to do a lot of things around the shopping experience with <a class="zem_slink" title="Smart phone" rel="wikinvest" href="http://www.wikinvest.com/concept/Smart_phone">smartphones</a> is only going to grow and I think those numbers are going to go through the roof,” he said.</p>
<p>The most avid social media and mobile adopters were those aged 18 to 29 years old. However, older generations are also getting on board, as 33 percent of those 30-44 and 12 percent those 45-60 are embracing digital tools during the holidays.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Frameworks for Sustainability]]></title>
<link>http://ecostreamblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/frameworks-for-sustainability/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ecostreaming</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[When one decides to consider &#8220;Going Green&#8221;, or looking at &#8220;Sustainable Practices]]></description>
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<p><strong>When one decides to consider &#8220;Going Green&#8221;, or looking at &#8220;Sustainable Practices&#8221;, it can quickly become very confusing.</strong></p>
<p>There is so much information out there that it can become overwhelming. But relax; there are some <strong><em>scientific frameworks</em></strong> that can help you to achieve your sustainability goals, while at the same time considering your short-term and long-term business or community objectives.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The three frameworks that I will address here are: The Triple Bottom Line, Zero Waste, and <a class="zem_slink" title="The Natural Step" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Natural_Step"><span style="color:#000000;">The Natural Step</span></a>.</span></p>
<p><strong><em><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Triple Bottom</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"> </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Line</span></em></strong> is pretty straight forward. In decision making, one must consider the People, the Profits, and the Planet. According to our now mainstream Wikipedia, The Triple Bottom Line is made up of &#8216;Social, Economic, and Environmental&#8217; capital, or the &#8216;People, Planet, and Profits&#8217;.  The People are referred to as the &#8220;Human Capital&#8221;.  The Planet is referred to as the &#8220;Natural Capital&#8221;. And the Profits are referred to as the &#8220;Economic Capital&#8221;. All must remain in proper balance for long-term sustainability.</p>
<p><strong><em><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Zero Waste</span></em></strong> is a philosophy that encourages the redesign of resource use so that all products are reused or recycled. This is an &#8220;Upstream Philosophy&#8221;. Zero Waste is a philosophy that combines the elements of resource utilization and product or service design with a focus on the entire life cycle of the product or service. The focus throughout is:</p>
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<li>minimizing      virgin resource utilization</li>
<li>maximizing reuse      and recycled resources, service or product delivery with minimal      environmental impact</li>
<li>and end-of-life      de-construction resulting in materials that can be reused or recycled      through composting or inorganic technical closed-loop cycles</li>
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<p>Zero Waste requires design forethought upstream, during product planning, so that resource recovery, recycling and composting downstream can occur with minimal or no waste to bury or burn.</p>
<p><strong><em><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Natural Step</span></em></strong><strong><em> </em></strong>is based on <em>4 Systems Conditions</em>.</p>
<p>System Condition 1:  In a Sustainable society, nature is not subject to systematically increasing concentrations of substances extracted from earth&#8217;s crust.</p>
<p>System Condition 2: In a sustainable society, nature is not subject to systematically increasing concentrations of substances produced by society.</p>
<p>System Condition 3: In a sustainable society, nature is not subject to systematically increasing degradation by physical means.</p>
<p>System Condition 4; In a sustainable society, people are not subject to conditions that systematically undermine their capacity to meet their needs.</p>
<p>Working with The Natural Step, each organization or community must draw its own conclusions from these basic principles. In the Natural Step Framework, we utilize a four-step &#8220;ABCD process&#8221; to provide a systematic way of &#8220;<a class="zem_slink" title="Backcasting" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backcasting">backcasting</a> from principles&#8221; into practice, for sustainability planning and decision-making. The ABCD process really is the glue that holds The Natural Step Framework together. This framework can help us sort through the complexity and data by revealing patterns and relationships, so that we can make sense of all the information and help you to move forward in a strategic fashion.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Milano - Il vicesindaco De Corato: «Foro Buonaparte, da rimuovere le corsie preferenziali»]]></title>
<link>http://deamaltea.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/milano-il-vicesindaco-de-corato-%c2%abforo-buonaparte-da-rimuovere-le-corsie-preferenziali%c2%bb/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>deamaltea</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Image by DanteAlighieri via Flickr Il piano per le corsie preferenziali Atm ereditato dall&#8217;ex ]]></description>
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<p><em><strong>Il piano per le corsie preferenziali Atm</strong> ereditato dall&#8217;ex assessore Croci. Lavori stradali finiti ieri mattina. «Non piacciono, tutto da rifare»</em></p>
<p><strong>MILANO &#8211; Cade il muro di Foro Buona­parte. Doveva proteggere bus e tram</strong>, è stato costruito nell’ulti­ma settimana, di notte, turni straordinari pagati con i soldi pubblici. <strong>Ieri, il lavoro era con­cluso: una nuova corsia riserva­ta</strong> da Cadorna a Cairoli. Bene, anzi malissimo: «<em>Il cordolo in cemento sarà eliminato, è peri­coloso e crea un imbuto nella circolazione»,</em> attacca il vicesin­daco <strong>Riccardo De Corato</strong>. L’indi­cazione è stata girata ad <strong>Atm e ieri l’azienda ha risposto con una lettera: «Aspettiamo comu­nicazioni scritte».</strong> Il confronto è solo all’inizio.</p>
<p><strong>De Corato ha bloccato e ora sta rivedendo tut­to il piano dei nuovi percorsi per i mezzi pubblici</strong> ereditato dall’ex assessore <strong>Edoardo Cro­ci</strong>: «<em>È stato costruito su un crite­rio sbagliato, le barriere sposta­no solo le auto da una strada al­l’altra</em> ». Primo effetto: <strong>non sarà realizzata la preferenziale in via Solari</strong>, annunciata entro l’anno. Tutte le altre, 86,4 chilometri di qui al 2014, <strong>sono «congelate»</strong>.<em> L’opposizione è in rivolta: «È tornato il partito dell’auto»</em>.</p>
<p>[...]Le linee Atm coprono 186 chilometri di strade, ma <strong>solo il 19,9 per cento della rete è «pro­tetto »</strong> e metà dei percorsi unica­mente con le strisce gialle: Mila­no è quart’ultima in Europa quanto a corsie riservate (stan­no peggio solo Roma, Atene e Bruxelles). Il piano dell’ex asses­sore Croci prevedeva 17,2 nuo­vi chilometri entro l’estate 2010 e altri 7,3 per il 2011, oltre a 20 telecamere anti-traffico in più.</p>
<p>[...]<strong>La restaurazione avviata da Met­ternich De Corato va in senso opposto: </strong>contraddice non tanto le scelte di Croci, ma le politi­che sulla mobilità attuate in Eu­ropa e gli obiettivi di sostenibi­lità contenuti nel Pgt».<br />
[...]Aggiun­ge il presidente dei ciclisti mila­nesi (Ciclobby), Eugenio Galli: «È una controriforma<br />
[...]Da Atm si limitano a dire: «Le corsie riservate sono una priorità per il trasporto pubblico condivisa con il sinda­co Letizia Moratti&#8230;».</p>
<p>Da <strong>Corriere.it</strong> <a href="http://milano.corriere.it/milano/notizie/cronaca/09_novembre_18/foro-buonaparte-corsia-preferenziale-atm-de-corato-1602026887326.shtml" target="_blank"> la notizia qui&#8230;</a></p>
<p><strong>La rivolta deiblog &#8211; Da PArtecipaMI: </strong><a href="http://www.partecipami.it/?q=node/8251/13708&#38;single=1" target="_blank">Discussione: Consiglio comunale straordinario su Ecopass: portiamo la voce dei cittadini a Palazzo Marino?</a><strong> Da Ciclobby:</strong> <a href="http://www.ciclobby.it/ciclobby/index.php?section=29" target="_blank">Le bugie hanno le gambe corte</a><strong> Da 02blog:</strong> <a href="http://www.02blog.it/post/5976/il-gran-balletto-delle-deleghe-ecopass-a-de-corato-e-addio-alla-mobilita-sostenibile" target="_blank">Il gran balletto delle deleghe: Ecopass a De Corato e addio alla mobilità sostenibile</a> <strong>Notizie correlate:</strong>- <a href="http://milano.corriere.it/milano/notizie/cronaca/09_novembre_17/edoardo-croci-vittima-1602021120584.shtml?fr=correlati" target="_blank">Croci: «Io vittima di logiche politiche»</a> <strong>Notizia-</strong> <a href="http://milano.corriere.it/milano/notizie/cronaca/09_novembre_17/penati-rimpasto-1602021175827.shtml?fr=correlati" target="_blank">Penati: «Ora è chiaro, Milano ha un sindaco commissariato»</a>..</p>
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<title><![CDATA[How bad is it in Detroit?]]></title>
<link>http://nukegingrich.com/2009/11/17/how-bad-is-it-in-detroit/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Is this is any indication? Nearly 35 years after taxpayers spent $55.7 million building the Pontiac ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Is <a href="http://www.detnews.com/article/20091117/METRO/911170327/1411/METRO02/Silverdome-sale-price-disappoints">this</a> is any indication?</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://nukegingrich.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/silverdome-given-away.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-7344 alignright" title="silverdome given away" src="http://nukegingrich.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/silverdome-given-away.jpg?w=150" alt="" width="150" height="110" /></a>Nearly 35 years after taxpayers spent $55.7 million building the Pontiac Silverdome and a year after a $20 million sale fell through, city officials have sold the arena once called the most desirable property in Oakland County.<br />
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The price: $583,000.</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;This was a giveaway,&#8221; said David J. Leitch, a broker with an Auburn Hills based realty firm.</p></blockquote>
<p>By my calculations, that&#8217;s <strong><em>about 1%</em> </strong>of the actual cost to build the dome.</p>
<p>The winning bidders also got the surrounding 127 acres thrown in for free.</p>
<p>So, how bad is it in Detroit?</p>
<p>Scary bad.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Piste ciclabili - Ponte chiuso a Roma Nord da oltre 10 mesi]]></title>
<link>http://deamaltea.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/piste-ciclabili-ponte-chiuso-a-roma-nord-da-oltre-10-mesi/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>deamaltea</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Ponte (ciclabile ndr.) chiuso a Roma Nord da oltre 10 mesi, interverrà il Sindac]]></description>
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<p><em><strong>Ponte (ciclabile ndr.) chiuso a Roma Nord da oltre 10 mesi</strong>, interverrà il Sindaco o usa i ciclisti solo per gli spot mediatici?</em></p>
<p><strong>BiciRoma denuncia ( di mese in mese) la vergognosa situazione del ponte ciclabile</strong> ( unica via percorribile per i ciclisti sulla cilabile verso Castel Giubileo altezza fosso dell&#8217;Acqua Traversa) <strong>chiuso ormai da oltre 10 mesi</strong> e per il quale non si conosce ne la data di riapertura ne tanto meno la data di inizio lavori.</p>
<p><strong>Ottimo modo di dare credibilità all&#8217;annunciato piano di mobilità </strong>che si annuncia sostenibile solo nel nome, per quanto letto e nei fatti, purtroppo la situazione per la mobilità è assai poco sostenibile e il <strong>Sindaco Alemanno</strong> dovrebbe vergognarsi e scusarsi con i ciclisti romani per questa situazione invece sembra che si ricordi dei ciclisti solo per farsi gli spot mediatici come per l&#8217;inaugurazione del <strong>bike sharing</strong> e/o per accompagnare i due sventurati cicloturisti olandesi dal Papa.</p>
<p><strong>Ci auguiriamo che il Sindaco Alemanno dia prova di serietà</strong> per chi senza violenza e con civiltà come dimostrato ai suoi assesori (<strong>Marchi </strong>e <strong>De Lillo</strong> di cui si è apprezzata la presenza) nella <a href="http://deamaltea.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/fiaccolata-ai-fori-imperiali-per-eva-ciclista-travolta-e-uccisa-da-un-taxi/" target="_blank">fiaccolata di venerdì scorso in ricordo di Eva</a>, la ciclista investita sotto al suo balconcino del Campidoglio, chiede e contribuisce ad una Roma migliore dal punto di vista della <strong>mobilità realmente sostenibile</strong> ed in cambio da dieci mesi ha solo le chiacchiere come dimostra il ponte ancora chiuso.</p>
<p><em>Grazie e cordiali saluti</em><br />
Fausto Bonafaccia</p>
<p>Da <strong>Biciroma  <a href="http://www.biciroma.it/news/2009_11.html#001297" target="_blank"> </a></strong><a href="http://www.biciroma.it/news/2009_11.html#001297" target="_blank">la notizia qui&#8230;</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Still Looking for Options]]></title>
<link>http://luckylizard03.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/16/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Image by Getty Images via Daylife Still looking for options&#8230;.. I have found that living in Tex]]></description>
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<p>Still looking for options&#8230;..</p>
<p>I have found that living in Texas I am not allowed to use Lending Tree.com or most other Micro Lending peer to peer lending programs. The only problem is that I am trying to find a good micro-lending service in which I can be a micro lender, however due to area that is not possible. Well,I shall keep trying and keep all of you up-to-date on it all.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Tecnologie incredibili: calore dagli schiamazzi]]></title>
<link>http://deamaltea.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/tecnologie-incredibili-calore-dagli-schiamazzi/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Hai freddo? Prendi una caraffa d’acqua, ci urli dentro e la scaldi! Non funziona]]></description>
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<p><strong>Hai freddo? Prendi una caraffa d’acqua, ci urli dentro e la scaldi!</strong><br />
<em>Non funziona proprio cosi&#8217; ma quasi. Nell’acqua gli ultrasuoni provocano la formazione di microscopiche bolle di vuoto che implodono producendo calore.</em></p>
<p><strong>La cavitazione e&#8217; un fenomeno noto da oltre un secolo</strong> ma poco utilizzato. Il New York Times ha dedicato una pagina all’argomento, definendo la cavitazione una risorsa ma sono ancora pochissime le sue applicazioni.</p>
<p><strong>L’italiana Kwant produce una caldaia che sfrutta la cavitazione. </strong>Ovviamente e&#8217; ben isolata dal punto di vista acustico, gli ultrasuoni non sono udibili dalle umane orecchie ma, se non ci fosse un isolamento adeguato, alla lunga creerebbero disagi. <strong>Il risultato e&#8217; una caldaia che consuma meno di una caldaia a gas e non richiede tubi per le esalazioni </strong>perche&#8217; non c’e&#8217; fiamma. Inoltre queste caldaie non richiedono un locale apposito ne&#8217; le misure di sicurezza delle caldaie a combustibile.<br />
<em>Niente fuoco, solo una voce potente.</em></p>
<p>Da <strong>Jacopofo</strong> <a href="http://www.jacopofo.com/caldaia-cavitazione-riscaldamento-ultrasuoni-ecologia" target="_blank"> la notizia qui&#8230;</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Playing to win ...]]></title>
<link>http://brvanlanen.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/playing-to-win/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA["Tort Reform is Poison" --Lots of Hits--Michigan Economy Tanks]]></title>
<link>http://unaskedadvice.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/tort-reform-is-poison-lots-of-hits-michigan-economy-tanks/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Well, apparently putting out the article yesterday that labels tort reform as &#8220;poison&#8221; has people in Michigan, and nationwide actually, riled.  That was my top post yesterday, and has remained my top post today, on a Friday, which is a day known as notoriously hard to capture readers.  I even got international hits from my posts lately.  Hooray, I think.  But maybe the news is out that Michigan is suffering an image problem.  (But, I am not the first one to point that out.)   As you know, I have gone through a series of featuring Michigan personalities, artists, politicians, and I have just started moving through the courts/political systems.  The responses to Michigan&#8217;s tort reforms, birthed by the former governor John Engler, who now has self-listed Michigan as a &#8220;top business state&#8221; (posted about this yesterday Tort Reforms in MI) are vitriolic.</p>
<p>Summary:  Michigan business bedroom fellows mixed with the Republicans with the idea of giving businesses legal breaks to &#8220;encourage&#8221; businesses to want to come to Michigan to invest in Michigan&#8217;s economy, which judging by the forecasted 25%unemployment rate here, was a spectacular failure. Businesses and Republican politicians just took advantage of legal loopholes and still decimated Michigan&#8217;s economy.  Now lots of investigations are taking place to determine which businesses dumped unseemly amounts of cash into Republican campaigns in exchange for kickbacks and laws favoring their industries.</p>
<p>Great, apparently all elders, in their back-woods desperation to strike it rich, paid the businesses to come to Michigan, gave them unfair and maybe illegal breaks (like not investigating their campaign funding histories and not enforcing the law, Old White Man&#8217;s Club overlooking a few things) and now Michigan&#8217;s economy is bleeding uncontrollably and corruption investigations abound.  Wonderful.</p>
<p>The facts speak for themselves as Michigan tops the unemployment rates nationwide.  The medical care has gotten worse in this state as bad doctors aren&#8217;t removed by being held responsible in the courts (so now all the bad doctors flock to ole Michigan here where they won&#8217;t get caught), and insurance companies don&#8217;t have to pay for the care of mentally impaired children.  Makes you proud to be here, doesn&#8217;t it?  I had been so excited about Michigan&#8217;s prospects when looking at its artists, bu now looking at the politicians, the shit is about to hit the fan.  Spectacular.</p>
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<link>http://akalol.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/2012-a-movie-not-a-sex-tape/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[La rivolta dei ciclisti urbani]]></title>
<link>http://deamaltea.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/la-rivolta-dei-ciclisti-urbani/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>deamaltea</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[La rivolta dei ciclisti urbani Roma: Eva tornava a casa dal lavoro in bici, uccisa da un taxi. Fiacc]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignleft" style="border:0 none;margin:5px;" src="http://www.fiab-onlus.it/images/eva2.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="100" height="133" /><strong>La rivolta dei ciclisti urbani</strong></p>
<p><em>Roma: Eva tornava a casa dal lavoro in bici, uccisa da un taxi. </em><strong>Fiaccolate e proteste, anche nelle prossime settimane.</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><em>I ciclisti romani chiedono il diritto di pedalare in sicurezza.</em></p>
<p><img src="http://www.fiab-onlus.it/images/altro_sito.png" border="0" alt="" width="12" height="12" align="absbottom" /> Repubblica: <a href="http://www.repubblica.it/2009/11/sezioni/cronaca/ciclisti-in-citta/ciclisti-in-citta/ciclisti-in-citta.html" target="_blank">Nel                       nome di Eva la rivolta dei ciclisti urbani<br />
</a><img src="http://www.fiab-onlus.it/images/altro_sito.png" border="0" alt="" width="12" height="12" align="absbottom" /> Blog Ciclistica: <a href="http://www.ciclistica.it/post/2009/11/03/eva-che-voleva-vivere-roma" target="_blank">Eva,  che voleva vivere a Roma<br />
</a><img src="http://www.fiab-onlus.it/images/altro_sito.png" border="0" alt="" width="12" height="12" align="absbottom" /> AdnKronos: <a href="http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/News/Cronaca/Rabbia-sul-web-per-Eva-investita-e-uccisa-mentre-era-in-bici-ai-Fori-Imperiali_3950766224.html" target="_blank">Rabbia sul web per Eva, investita e uccisa mentre era in bici ai Fori Imperiali<br />
</a> <img src="http://www.fiab-onlus.it/images/newnew.gif" border="0" alt="" width="26" height="12" /> <strong>Immagini e voci dalla manifestazione<br />
</strong><img src="http://www.fiab-onlus.it/images/altro_sito.png" border="0" alt="" width="12" height="12" align="absbottom" /> Fiab-Ruotalibera Roma: <a href="http://www.ruotalibera.org/simplog/archive.php?blogid=1&#38;pid=5633" target="_blank">Eva                       aveva 28 anni ..<br />
</a><img src="http://www.fiab-onlus.it/images/altro_sito.png" border="0" alt="" width="12" height="12" align="absbottom" /> RomaPedala: <a href="http://www.romapedala.splinder.com/post/21648149/Roma,+citta+della+mortalit%C3%83%C2%A0+s" target="_blank">Roma,  citta della mortalità sostenibile</a><br />
<img src="http://www.fiab-onlus.it/images/altro_sito.png" border="0" alt="" width="12" height="12" align="absbottom" /> Blog Ciclistica: <a href="http://www.ciclistica.it/post/2009/11/07/palo-27" target="_blank">Palo 27</a><br />
<img src="http://www.fiab-onlus.it/images/altro_sito.png" border="0" alt="" width="12" height="12" align="absbottom" /> Corriere della Sera: <a href="http://roma.corriere.it/roma/notizie/cronaca/09_novembre_4/ragazza_travolta_taxi_muore-1601958764754.shtml" target="_blank">Ciclista 28enne investita e uccisa<br />
</a><img src="http://www.fiab-onlus.it/images/tick_red.png" border="0" alt="" width="8" height="8" /> <a href="http://www.fiab-onlus.it/mlfiab_2/view2.php?mid=1250&#38;ml=1"><strong>Comunicato Stampa Fiab</strong></a></p>
<p>Da <strong>Fiab-onlus</strong> <a href="http://www.fiab-onlus.it/index.htm" target="_blank"> la notizia qui&#8230;</a></p>
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<link>http://entrepreneurbizplans.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/neb-unemployment-rate-unchanged/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Nebraska's jobless rate remained stable at 4.9 percent during October. That is less than half that of the national rate, which continued to climb, reaching 10.2 percent.</p>
<p>Omaha, despite adding 1,346 jobs during the month, saw its unemployment improve slightly to 4.8 percent from 4.9 percent in September. Compared to last year, there are almost 10,000 fewer jobs in the <a class="zem_slink" title="Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha-Council_Bluffs_metropolitan_area">Omaha metropolitan area</a>, which includes <a class="zem_slink" title="Council Bluffs, Iowa" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.2536111111,-95.8625&#38;spn=0.1,0.1&#38;q=41.2536111111,-95.8625%20%28Council%20Bluffs%2C%20Iowa%29&#38;t=h">Council Bluffs</a>.</p>
<p>There were 483 jobs added statewide, and private education and health services continued to be the only sector to experience job growth, according to the Nebraska Department of Labor.</p>
<p>"Nebraska's economy appears to be starting on the road to recovery," said Catherine Lang, Nebraska labor commissioner. "We continue to have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country, and the numbers of layoffs and business closures have started to slow down as well."</p>
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<p>While the state jobless rate is now the second lowest in country behind <a class="zem_slink" title="North Dakota" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=47.5,-100.5&#38;spn=1.0,1.0&#38;q=47.5,-100.5%20%28North%20Dakota%29&#38;t=h">North Dakota</a> at 4.2 percent, it remains 1.5 percent higher than last year. In Omaha, it's increased 1.3 percent since 20008.</p>
<p><a class="zem_slink" title="Iowa" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.0,-93.0&#38;spn=1.0,1.0&#38;q=42.0,-93.0%20%28Iowa%29&#38;t=h">Iowa</a> saw unemployment rise slightly to 6.7 percent over a revised September rate of 6.6 percent.</p>
<p>“Significant economic obstacles lie ahead for the state, and October offered further evidence the Iowa economy continues to be challenged,” said Elisabeth Buck, director of Iowa Workforce Development.</p>
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<link>http://coppaamerica2007.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/e-riparliamo-delliva-sugli-ormeggi/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>deamaltea</dc:creator>
<guid>http://coppaamerica2007.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/e-riparliamo-delliva-sugli-ormeggi/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[ Energia pulita: in Norvegia nasce la prima centrale a osmosi]]></title>
<link>http://deamaltea.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/energia-pulita-in-norvegia-nasce-la-prima-centrale-a-osmosi/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>deamaltea</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia La norvegese Statkraft, utility pubblica attiva nelle rinnovabili, ha inaugurato]]></description>
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<p><em><strong>La norvegese Statkraft, utility pubblica attiva nelle rinnovabili</strong>, ha inaugurato oggi, su un fiordo nel sud di Oslo, il primo prototipo di centrale elettrica al mondo che utilizza i processi di osmosi per generare energia mescolando acqua salata e dolce.</em></p>
<p><strong>L&#8217;acqua dolce e quella salata vengono immesse in una camera unica</strong>, separate da una membrana artificiale. Le molecole di sale attirano l&#8217;acqua dolce attraverso la membrana semipermeabile, aumentando la pressione sull&#8217;acqua marina. <strong>Questa pressione può essere utilizzata per alimentare le turbine </strong>che producono energia. L&#8217;unico scarto che deriva dal processo è l&#8217;acqua salmastra.</p>
<p>Il primo prototipo al mondo produrrà pochissima energia (4 kilowatt), ma <strong>entro il 2015 è previsto il primo impianto commerciale con una capacità di 25 Megawatt</strong>, in grado di fornire corrente a 10mila case.</p>
<p>Da <strong>Sole24ore.it</strong> <a href="http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/SoleOnLine4/dossier/Economia%20e%20Lavoro/risparmio-energetico/frontiere/energia-osmosi-norvegia.shtml?uuid=188521e2-d8f0-11de-8609-abc9dbb7e40b&#38;DocRulesView=Libero" target="_blank"> la notizia qui&#8230;</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Overthrowing the incubation regime]]></title>
<link>http://sunilmalhotra.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/overthrowing-the-incubation-regime/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sunil Malhotra</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sunilmalhotra.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/overthrowing-the-incubation-regime/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From an earlier post Business Incubation 101 that forms the preamble of my incubation idea. Thanks f]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>From an earlier post <a href="http://sunilmalhotra.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/business-incubation-101-india/" target="_blank">Business Incubation 101</a> that forms the preamble of my incubation idea. Thanks for all the offers of support &#8211; shows me that the idea resonates with many.</p>
<blockquote><p>1. First bring the academia <strong>out of the safety of the cocoons</strong> we’ve woven around them. Have them check out what the world looks like. <em>Today’s </em>world. <em>Today’s</em> India.</p>
<p>2. Next, focus towards<strong> incubating ‘people’</strong>. They should be the real focus. Find <em>real</em> mentors. People that have been in the entrepreneurial world <em>even if they have failed</em>. They are the best teachers. Not professors of colleges. Don’t talk about incubating business. Leave that to the Western world.</p>
<p>3. Next, teach people to fish. No point in teaching fishing in your living room aquarium. At least walk them out to a brook. Pick up all the university incubation centres and physically put them <strong>off campus</strong>. That’s where the world exists. Not in the time warped government funded institutes.</p></blockquote>
<p>Entrepreneur-ism is not socialistic. And capitalism doesn’t necessarily mean greedy or mercenary - especially in the context of India’s ethos. Make entrepreneurship an attractive lifestyle and stop being condescending irrespective of the preamble of our constitution. That goes for all those holier-than-thou bankers and VC’s.</p>
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<link>http://news.esm-cmm.co.uk/2009/11/24/fewer-buyers-than-expected-helped-by-stamp-duty-holiday/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[  The Government&#8217;s stamp-duty holiday on properties sold for less than £175,000 has not helped]]></description>
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<dc:creator>easyswitch</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The mini revival in house prices is set to come to a juddering halt, Britain&#8217;s biggest buildin]]></description>
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<link>http://deamaltea.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/milano-in-bici-sui-marciapiedi-piu-grandi-palazzo-marino-verso-il-via-libera/</link>
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<dc:creator>deamaltea</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Image by mohammadali via Flickr Il neoassessore Massari: &#8220;Ho intenzione di favorire il più pos]]></description>
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<p><em><strong>Il neoassessore Massari:</strong> &#8220;Ho intenzione di favorire il più possibile i mezzi meno inquinanti, compresi quelli elettrici. E cancellerò per sempre le scritte dai muri&#8221;</em></p>
<p><strong>Primo: piste ciclabili sui marciapiedi larghi.</strong> Secondo: aree pedonali in periferia. Terzo: muri puliti dai graffiti, «definitivamente». Quarto: mostre sull’ambiente in piazza Beccaria. Ecco i primi quattro progetti che il neoassessore all’Ambiente, Paolo Massari, ha già deciso come suoi lasciti personali alla città di Milano, lui che sulla poltrona ci è arrivato un po’ tardi, ma ci è arrivato. Ha neppure un anno e mezzo davanti, prima delle elezioni amministrative, ma anche la grinta di uno che non vuole passare inosservato. <strong>E l’elenco delle promesse lo snocciola con sicurezza, al telefono,</strong> mentre trasloca i suoi scatoloni dall’u fficio da consigliere a quello da assessore in piazza Beccaria.</p>
<p>«<em>Ho intenzione di favorire il più possibile i mezzi meno inquinanti, compresi quelli elettrici. Venerdì scorso sono andato a Palazzo Marino con il segway (il monopattino elettrico in realtà mai decollato), ma <strong>anche le bici devono essere aiutate. Per questo proporrò di disegnare strisce gialle per percorsi ciclabili anche sui marciapiedi larghi</strong>, dove c’è lo spazio». E i pedoni? «Se ci saranno le strisce non potranno lamentarsi»</em>. Si spera.</p>
<p><strong>Secondo progetto: «Sto studiando, in via sperimentale, tre aree pedonali</strong> in periferia, in quei villaggetti che la città negli anni ha inglobato.</p>
<p>Da <strong>Repubblica.it </strong> <a href="http://milano.repubblica.it/dettaglio/in-bici-sui-marciapiedi-piu-grandi-palazzo-marino-verso-il-via-libera/1785886" target="_blank">la notizia qui&#8230;</a></p>
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<p><em><strong>L’Italia spinge l’acceleratore per il ritorno al nucleare.</strong> L’attesa mappa dei siti, dove verranno realizzate le nuove centrali entro il 2020 (si parla di tre &#8211; quattro impianti), sarà pronta entro primavera.</em></p>
<p><strong>Lo annuncia Claudio Scajola,</strong> ministro dello Sviluppo Economico, durante la trasmissione la Telefonata di Canale 5.</p>
<p><strong>In campo per ora, c’è il progetto guidato da una joint venture tra Enel e il colosso francese Edf</strong> (Sviluppo Nucleare Italia), per costruire quattro centrali nucleari di terza generazione avanzata, in grado di soddisfare circa il <strong>10% del fabbisogno</strong> nazionale. Anche il colosso tedesco<strong> E.On</strong> sarebbe interessato allo sviluppo del nucleare in Italia, magari in partnership (si è fatto spesso il nome del colosso francese Suez &#8211; Gaz de France e dell’utility lombarda A2A), qualora, però, si verificassero le opportune condizioni di stabilità politica.</p>
<p>Da <strong>Panorama.it </strong><a href="http://blog.panorama.it/economia/2009/11/17/nucleare-mappa-delle-centrali-pronta-entro-primavera-e-su-internet-scatta-il-toto-sito/" target="_blank"> la notizia qui&#8230;</a></p>
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