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In Hard Times, No More Fancy Pants - New York Times
Decalogo dell’automobilista
Decalogo dell’automobilista Scritto da: Gabriele Amodeo in Aiuti e approfondimenti Sul sito del Ministero dei Trasporti, che abbiamo apprezzato per la grande chiarezza e per la fruibilità dei contenuti, è stato pubblicato un Decalogo dell’automobilista, dieci consigli dalla disarmante ovvietà e semplicità , ma che quotidianamente vengono disattesi dalla maggior parte degli automobilisti con conseguenze spesso anche gravi. Riteniamo che pubblicarli in questa sede sia importante e
Detroit, USA - "Industrial Ghosts" (June 2008)
"Detroit was once the symbol of America's industrial power; the birthplace of Ford, the assembly line and the home of GM. But now it feels more like a ghost town littered with abandoned buildings. In 1913 Detroit was booming but when the Great Depression hit, this abruptly ended. Between 2006 and 2008 four of GM's plants in Michigan closed, and more than 15,000 are homeless in the city. "There' More.. s no work in Michigan... all you see is vacant houses" explains one homeless resident. As industries move to areas with cheaper labour, former assembly line workers and buildings are left useless." journeymanpictures *** Related: (documentary) Roger and Me, by Michael Moore (1989) "ROGER AND ME is a feature-length documentary film chronicling the efforts of the world's largest corporation, General Motors, as it turns its hometown of Flint, Michigan, into a ghost town. In his quest to discover why GM would want to do such a thing, filmmaker Michael Moore, a Flint native, attempts to meet the chairman, Roger Smith, and invite him out for a few beers up in Flint to "talk things over". In between his efforts to see Smith, Moore, the son of a Flint autoworker, takes us on a bizarre journey through Flint accompanied along the way by Ronald Reagan, Miss America, Pat Boone, Bob "Newlywed Game" Eubanks, and TV evangelist Robert Schuller--all of whom show up to save Flint from destruction. But, like a modern-day version of the "Grapes of Wrath," the situation seems hopeless--and the scenes from Flint are startling: --20,000 people standing in line at one location to collect federal surplus cheese and butter; --Large sections of the city filled with abandoned homes and boarded up stores, looking more like a war zone than an American town; --28,000 people who have lost their homes and their life savings and have packed up and headed south in search of work; --The social cost of 25% unemployment: record rates of suicide, spousal abuse, alcoholism, and, surpassing Miami and Detroit as the city with the highest rate of violent crime. These are a few of the results of General Motors laying off 40,000 people in Flint in the past nine years. It is expected that GM will eliminate another 10,000 Flint jobs in the next few years. 50% of Flint's GM workforce will have been abolished by 1989, an event of unprecedented proportion in American history. Yet, since 1983, car sales have steadily risen and GM has posted record profits of nearly $19 billion. So why lay off all of these people? Moore points out that he and his friends were raised on the American Dream which promised that if you worked hard and the company prospered, you would too. Now, it seems, GM has changed the rules: you work hard, the company prospers--and you lose your job. The film shows that GM has used these profits not to create jobs, but to buy data processing companies (EDS) and weapons manufacturers (Hughes Aircraft), automate their current assembly lines, and build new plants in Mexico and Asia. In addition, GM has bought a controlling interest in Isuzu, entered into a joint operating agreeement with Toyota, and has become the second largest mortgage holder in the United States. Flint, Michigan, it seems, is no longer part of the GM plan. In the midst of this rapidly crumbling city, the town leaders have gone a little crazy. They quickly devise a series of desperate schemes that seem more like a Marx Brothers movie than serious urban planning: --The mayor of Flint pays TV evangelist Robert Schuller $30,000 to come to Flint and hold a giant revival meeting, complete with live television coverage, to "heal" the city of its unemployment plague. --The city, along with the Flint-based Mott Foundation, spends $100 million to build an amusement park tribute "to the glory and wonderment of the automobile" called "AutoWorld"--the world's largest indoor theme park. Over one million tourists a year are expected to visit Flint and AutoWorld. Few toursits show up and AutoWorld closes in six months. --The city of Flint spends $13 million in tax funds to build a luxury Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Flint, expecting to draw major conventions to the city. The place goes bankrupt in the first five years. --The Flint Chamber of Commerce, spurred on by a survey that shows that 45% of Flint's residents say they would move out of Flint immediately if they could, installs a number of large billboards around the city to "help improve the citizens' self concept" (the signs read: "Tough Times Don't Last--Tough People Do!" "Flint--It Means So Much To Be Here" and "Visit Flint--And Leave the Real World Behind!"). --The city health department holds a press conference and announces that the rat population in Flint has surpassed the human census. The department blames it on the fact that the city can only afford to pick up the garbage twice a month and offers a bounty for every dead rat brought in by a city resident. --A group of laid-off auto workers show up at the GM annual board of directors meeting with a Brinks truck and demand that GM return the millions of dollars in tax breaks it has received for promising to create new jobs. All the while, the filmmaker, Michael Moore, has been trying to see Roger Smith. He arrives at GM world headquarters in Detroit and is immediately escorted out of the building. He then shows up at the GM board meeting and is removed from the audience's podium. He attempts to track down Roger's estate in Bloomfield Hills, but to no avail. From the Yacht Club to the Golf Club to the Hunt Club, Moore takes us on a tour of the havens of the rich and powerful in his seemingly futile, but finally succesful, attempt to talk to Roger Smith. ROGER AND ME is both a dark comedy and a compelling indictment of an American Dream gone awry." Roger & Me website Less..
82: 2008 Yacht Designs, Flying Manta Ray, Boat Show Mania
EP 82 http://www.TheBoaters.tv First up: Check out the RAM Wing 100 Yacht by Levi Designs. The most remarkable aspect of this design concept is its tremendous speed- 100 knots with a range of 2000 nautical miles. The yacht is featured in the latest issue of Boat International magazine, which publish design trends for the year to come at the end of the running year. Check out www.bornrich.org for more information on the RAM Wing 100 yacht. Next up: We have video of The Flying Manta Ray! For more information on the Flying Manta Ray, you can cruise on over to www.Gizmodo.com. Next: It's boat show mania - and how to manage it. Boating writer Janet Groene has some ideas for Making the Most of the Boat Show Experience. For upcoming boat show dates be sure to visit our homepage at www.TheBoaters.com Finally Profile Pick: Captain Peter B. & "Beaver Fever." TheBoaters.tv airs M, W & F and is also available on itunes. Please subscribe!
Gemini 94 Concept Motor Yacht
Gemini 94 - concept motor yacht for Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Various Ways To Use Twitter On Your iPhone - pressemeldungen.at
Twitter is based off of a basic concept to keep friends and family connected, without having to use extensive steps to communicate with them. When you own an iPhone, there are several tips that you can follow to keep your use of Twitter ...
Infiniti G37 Cabrio
Infiniti G37 Cabrio Scritto da: Stefania Russo in Senza categoria Infiniti, durante il mese di Maggio, aveva già annunciato l’introduzione di una versione Cabrio della nuova G37 Coupe. Verso la fine dello scorso mese, come promesso, la società ha ufficialmente annunciato che la nuova G37 Cabrio debutterà questo mese al Salone di Los Angeles e sarà immessa sul mercato nel primo trimestre del 2009 in America, mentre in Europa arriverà verso la fine dello stesso anno. L’auto avrà un
Listino Prezzi Nuova Golf VI Serie
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This Is My Yacht - Luxury Cruising and Travel: Celebrity Solstice ...
My thoughts, discussion and information on luxury cruising, yachting and the world of travel. To many I am known as Iamboatman...and if it has to do with boats I plan on talking about it. Calling it like I see it, trying to experience ...
Eco Gadgets: Kinetically Charged Concept Phone Keeps You Healthy ...
sunplant1 vaFzQ. Sunplant from Sanyo and Studio Kita showcased at Milan. sailyacht 1 NL3kH. Green Jet Yacht: Luxury meets eco-friendly technology. clear computing concept4 2dos5. Avant-grade tablet styled computer keeps e-waste at bay ...
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Decalogo dell’automobilista
Decalogo dell’automobilista Scritto da: Gabriele Amodeo in Aiuti e approfondimenti Sul sito del Ministero dei Trasporti, che abbiamo apprezzato per la grande chiarezza e per la fruibilità dei contenuti, è stato pubblicato un Decalogo dell’automobilista, dieci consigli dalla disarmante ovvietà e semplicità , ma che quotidianamente vengono disattesi dalla maggior parte degli automobilisti con conseguenze spesso anche gravi. Riteniamo che pubblicarli in questa sede sia importante e
Detroit, USA - "Industrial Ghosts" (June 2008)
"Detroit was once the symbol of America's industrial power; the birthplace of Ford, the assembly line and the home of GM. But now it feels more like a ghost town littered with abandoned buildings. In 1913 Detroit was booming but when the Great Depression hit, this abruptly ended. Between 2006 and 2008 four of GM's plants in Michigan closed, and more than 15,000 are homeless in the city. "There' More.. s no work in Michigan... all you see is vacant houses" explains one homeless resident. As industries move to areas with cheaper labour, former assembly line workers and buildings are left useless." journeymanpictures *** Related: (documentary) Roger and Me, by Michael Moore (1989) "ROGER AND ME is a feature-length documentary film chronicling the efforts of the world's largest corporation, General Motors, as it turns its hometown of Flint, Michigan, into a ghost town. In his quest to discover why GM would want to do such a thing, filmmaker Michael Moore, a Flint native, attempts to meet the chairman, Roger Smith, and invite him out for a few beers up in Flint to "talk things over". In between his efforts to see Smith, Moore, the son of a Flint autoworker, takes us on a bizarre journey through Flint accompanied along the way by Ronald Reagan, Miss America, Pat Boone, Bob "Newlywed Game" Eubanks, and TV evangelist Robert Schuller--all of whom show up to save Flint from destruction. But, like a modern-day version of the "Grapes of Wrath," the situation seems hopeless--and the scenes from Flint are startling: --20,000 people standing in line at one location to collect federal surplus cheese and butter; --Large sections of the city filled with abandoned homes and boarded up stores, looking more like a war zone than an American town; --28,000 people who have lost their homes and their life savings and have packed up and headed south in search of work; --The social cost of 25% unemployment: record rates of suicide, spousal abuse, alcoholism, and, surpassing Miami and Detroit as the city with the highest rate of violent crime. These are a few of the results of General Motors laying off 40,000 people in Flint in the past nine years. It is expected that GM will eliminate another 10,000 Flint jobs in the next few years. 50% of Flint's GM workforce will have been abolished by 1989, an event of unprecedented proportion in American history. Yet, since 1983, car sales have steadily risen and GM has posted record profits of nearly $19 billion. So why lay off all of these people? Moore points out that he and his friends were raised on the American Dream which promised that if you worked hard and the company prospered, you would too. Now, it seems, GM has changed the rules: you work hard, the company prospers--and you lose your job. The film shows that GM has used these profits not to create jobs, but to buy data processing companies (EDS) and weapons manufacturers (Hughes Aircraft), automate their current assembly lines, and build new plants in Mexico and Asia. In addition, GM has bought a controlling interest in Isuzu, entered into a joint operating agreeement with Toyota, and has become the second largest mortgage holder in the United States. Flint, Michigan, it seems, is no longer part of the GM plan. In the midst of this rapidly crumbling city, the town leaders have gone a little crazy. They quickly devise a series of desperate schemes that seem more like a Marx Brothers movie than serious urban planning: --The mayor of Flint pays TV evangelist Robert Schuller $30,000 to come to Flint and hold a giant revival meeting, complete with live television coverage, to "heal" the city of its unemployment plague. --The city, along with the Flint-based Mott Foundation, spends $100 million to build an amusement park tribute "to the glory and wonderment of the automobile" called "AutoWorld"--the world's largest indoor theme park. Over one million tourists a year are expected to visit Flint and AutoWorld. Few toursits show up and AutoWorld closes in six months. --The city of Flint spends $13 million in tax funds to build a luxury Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Flint, expecting to draw major conventions to the city. The place goes bankrupt in the first five years. --The Flint Chamber of Commerce, spurred on by a survey that shows that 45% of Flint's residents say they would move out of Flint immediately if they could, installs a number of large billboards around the city to "help improve the citizens' self concept" (the signs read: "Tough Times Don't Last--Tough People Do!" "Flint--It Means So Much To Be Here" and "Visit Flint--And Leave the Real World Behind!"). --The city health department holds a press conference and announces that the rat population in Flint has surpassed the human census. The department blames it on the fact that the city can only afford to pick up the garbage twice a month and offers a bounty for every dead rat brought in by a city resident. --A group of laid-off auto workers show up at the GM annual board of directors meeting with a Brinks truck and demand that GM return the millions of dollars in tax breaks it has received for promising to create new jobs. All the while, the filmmaker, Michael Moore, has been trying to see Roger Smith. He arrives at GM world headquarters in Detroit and is immediately escorted out of the building. He then shows up at the GM board meeting and is removed from the audience's podium. He attempts to track down Roger's estate in Bloomfield Hills, but to no avail. From the Yacht Club to the Golf Club to the Hunt Club, Moore takes us on a tour of the havens of the rich and powerful in his seemingly futile, but finally succesful, attempt to talk to Roger Smith. ROGER AND ME is both a dark comedy and a compelling indictment of an American Dream gone awry." Roger & Me website Less..
82: 2008 Yacht Designs, Flying Manta Ray, Boat Show Mania
EP 82 http://www.TheBoaters.tv First up: Check out the RAM Wing 100 Yacht by Levi Designs. The most remarkable aspect of this design concept is its tremendous speed- 100 knots with a range of 2000 nautical miles. The yacht is featured in the latest issue of Boat International magazine, which publish design trends for the year to come at the end of the running year. Check out www.bornrich.org for more information on the RAM Wing 100 yacht. Next up: We have video of The Flying Manta Ray! For more information on the Flying Manta Ray, you can cruise on over to www.Gizmodo.com. Next: It's boat show mania - and how to manage it. Boating writer Janet Groene has some ideas for Making the Most of the Boat Show Experience. For upcoming boat show dates be sure to visit our homepage at www.TheBoaters.com Finally Profile Pick: Captain Peter B. & "Beaver Fever." TheBoaters.tv airs M, W & F and is also available on itunes. Please subscribe!
Gemini 94 Concept Motor Yacht
Gemini 94 - concept motor yacht for Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Various Ways To Use Twitter On Your iPhone - pressemeldungen.at
Twitter is based off of a basic concept to keep friends and family connected, without having to use extensive steps to communicate with them. When you own an iPhone, there are several tips that you can follow to keep your use of Twitter ...
Infiniti G37 Cabrio
Infiniti G37 Cabrio Scritto da: Stefania Russo in Senza categoria Infiniti, durante il mese di Maggio, aveva già annunciato l’introduzione di una versione Cabrio della nuova G37 Coupe. Verso la fine dello scorso mese, come promesso, la società ha ufficialmente annunciato che la nuova G37 Cabrio debutterà questo mese al Salone di Los Angeles e sarà immessa sul mercato nel primo trimestre del 2009 in America, mentre in Europa arriverà verso la fine dello stesso anno. L’auto avrà un
Listino Prezzi Nuova Golf VI Serie
Loading ... Page 1 of 6712345678910»...Last » Visita il nostro network: Newsletter Direttamente nella tua mail tutte le ultime news dal mondo dei motori. Loading ... Ultime immagini inserite:: TAG PIÙ POPOLARI Alfa Romeo anteprime audi Auto da sogno auto elettriche auto ibride auto mini auto sportive barche bmw cabrio Concept coupè crossover elettriche fiat fiat 500 Ford foto spia fuoristrada ibride Intermot 2008 listino prezzi megaya
This Is My Yacht - Luxury Cruising and Travel: Celebrity Solstice ...
My thoughts, discussion and information on luxury cruising, yachting and the world of travel. To many I am known as Iamboatman...and if it has to do with boats I plan on talking about it. Calling it like I see it, trying to experience ...
Eco Gadgets: Kinetically Charged Concept Phone Keeps You Healthy ...
sunplant1 vaFzQ. Sunplant from Sanyo and Studio Kita showcased at Milan. sailyacht 1 NL3kH. Green Jet Yacht: Luxury meets eco-friendly technology. clear computing concept4 2dos5. Avant-grade tablet styled computer keeps e-waste at bay ...