Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Magnet In Shower Door

Audi Brussels engages the fourth gear

After scouring last year, the site of dying VW Forest must end its survival to the investment of infrastructure that recovers Audi to assemble Audi A3 Sportback (pending in 2009, the Audi A1 ). To mark this shift, the leaders of the German car company put the package

Show in the U.S. timed with German rigor, parade of luxury cars, presentation of video clips touting the brand with the four rings and photo shoots in the presence of former Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and new directors of the Brussels site, Audi has spared no efforts to make an impression: now called Forest VW Audi Brussels. The loss of 3,000 jobs is a bad memory to believe the German leaders that ensure the sustainability of the Brussels plant. " Initial situation was not simple" says Martin Winterkorn, the CEO of VW, came to Brussels with Ferdinand Piech, the big boss of the German group. "We met to find the best solution for Brussels in a constructive atmosphere. The result is respectable. With Audi, Brussels gets a strong partner. "
A partner who has registered 900,000 sales last year, which is a million this year and a half million in 2015. "Audi accumulates records for 12 years" ensures Rupert Stadler, CEO of Audi. "If, now, our brand has 22 models in the future we want to offer 40. To achieve these objectives, we rely on the skilled labor from Brussels. "
Forest, with its 2,200 workers who survived the restructuring last year, will produce 17,000 copies of the Audi A3 Sportback (in addition to the Golf and Polo) this year. The company guarantees until 2009 an annual order volume of 84,000 vehicles Audi and VW. In late 2009, the Audi A1 will land also the assembly line. The production rate is estimated at 100,000 cars per year.
unionists present at the baptism of Audi, explained their satisfaction with the resumption of Audi, but they still harbor concerns about working conditions that are far from being finalized. The new collective agreement mentions in particular a reduction in wage costs by 20% by 2009 in exchange for job guarantees until 2010 and the passage of 36 to 38 hours per week without extra pay. Discussions should be completed by end June

Friday, May 11, 2007

Skin Turns Green After Shaving

IXELLES: Place Flagey: proposed development area blocked

In the dispute over the future shape of the surface of Place Flagey, which opposes the common to the Regional Government and Transport Equipment (AED), Ixelles just succeed. The dispute was brought before the College of Urban Planning, which has blocked the permit issued by the Region to the EDA in January.

In the quarterly journal "Ixelles, our common" spring 2002, Ixellois could read on page 10: "The public debate on the redevelopment of the Place Flagey must go hand in hand with the site. Different scenarios will be put into debate with the aim of reaching a schematic diagram at the end of 2002 and lead to the issuance of a permit by the Brussels-Capital in late 2003 or early 2004 . What would make the redevelopment of the area of the square in 2004 and 2005.
May 2007, five years later, the promises are gone and the end of the tunnel is still far ... This site Pharaonic, which not only cost the tune of about 40 million euros (Under-estimated in 2002 to 25 million) and poisoned the lives of residents and traders for years, has not stopped exasperating. If the construction of storm basin, itself, has finally been completed and the Stib did the work to develop its new tram tracks, there are still finalizing the surface instead.
However, the proposed development area, submitted by the Administration and Equipment Travel (AED), and had obtained a building permit issued in January by the Region, has just suffered a setback: after the use of Ixelles cons this permit at the College of Urban Planning, this last comes to agree with the district.
Parking flood
Why all the fuss in a case dating from the early 90's and a host of experts and engineers would have had ample time to refine?
The conflict between the town and the region is really on the final landscaping of the site and more specifically on the future of underground parking that should settle in the service space, a space between the basin and the surface . This vacuum technique, desired and funded by the municipality, should accommodate parking for more than a hundred places. No worries so far, except that to avoid striking the storm basin in case of saturation, the valves were installed at the future of parking to be dumping the overflow of water. A situation that is quite exceptional in that basin, with approximately 32,000 m3, may contain heavy rain storms. But the risk of flooding exists.
However, a flood car, in the eyes of the mayor Willy Decourty unacceptable. Too much risk for cars and all electronic equipment that would be contained within this parking, but also for the safety, of course, motorists. Had to choose, then choose the preferred mayeur for a surface car park. But the town also has other objections against the proposed development area as the bad lighting of the place and insufficient strength of slabs of blue stone in weight truck gardeners and circus showmen who 's install in the future to Flagey.
the side of the Region, the Minister Evelyne Huytebroeck remember that zero risk does not exist and rather than launching costly new facilities, it would be preferable to establish a warning system in collaboration with the Royal Institute Meteorology in the future underground parking. In summary, such as MRI to predict storms provides 24-hour advance warning would be given to motorists to evacuate the car parking. Note that if the MRI has such capabilities, it is unfortunate that flooded Woluwe Uccle and Forest, last summer, have not received their warning.
Each party sticking to its positions, the dispute was brought by the municipality before the College of Urban Planning in March. A suspensive appeal that does not mind so much since, given the delays that had been achieved and the ongoing construction of the STIB, the surface works would anyway not to start. But, here, last month, left the Stib Flagey and now every day that passes adds to the delay in the construction company may charge to the Region (at taxpayer expense of course). "There will inevitably consequences," says Alain Lefebvre, Inspector General to the EDA. "The orders were placed and a halt to construction always implies the possibility for the contractor to be compensated."
The decision of the College of Urban Planning has just fallen: gain due to the municipality. The permit issued by the Region to the EDA is blocked. It now has the choice between wearing the case on the table ... or regional government to revise its draft (with all the implications and further delays that this entails).

Friday, April 20, 2007

Upconversion Blu-ray Players

Deniz Ates: the podium on the small screen

Recently, the Turkish community regularly appears negatively in some French media and blogs. Turkish youth is caricatured as necessarily revisionist, nationalist and poorly integrated in Brussels. While success stories abound. Evidenced Deniz Ates, here is the portrait.



What happens to participants in the Miss Belgium contest did not win first place? Deniz Ates, who was then Miss Schaerbeek Brussels in 2004, before finishing sixth in the Miss Belgium, started a very successful career in radio host and starts even in the TV

Deniz Ates (22 years) is embodied in a good mood. Always smiling, ready to joke, she hosted a morning show with brilliance on the waves of Turkic Pasa radio (90.9 FM). Become a small star in his home community, the girl captures attention in 2004 by winning the first title of Miss and Miss Schaerbeek Brussels. "I was absolutely not attracted to this type of competition but by the gifts" , smiled Deniz Ates. "I had just finished my school and I wanted to live an interesting experience. With the encouragement of a friend, I participated in the selection. I was the first surprise. " In the final contest of Miss Belgium, it reached sixth place. "In hindsight, I think I was not completely in the atmosphere of competition. It was more a game to my eyes. "
Sweeping proposals for modeling, she resumed her studies in public relations. "I do not see photo model or mannequin" , says Deniz Ates. "My greatest desire is to do journalism in print" . She also undertook a one-month internship at the newspaper La Derniere Heure. Then comes the radio. "The director of Radio Pasa had heard of me. He offered me a test. I had to do the voice of commercials. But auditors have had a surfeit of my voice as it would often repeatedly. Then I started in January 2005 a weekly Lyrics on demand. My biggest fear was mumbling in Turkish. At home, we always speak in French, except with my father. For cons, I was very comfortable at the microphone. " The chance came quickly: she landed a show every morning. "I prepared everything: horoscopes, news information, new people to the delight listeners. I wrote the same in advance feints I meant on the air. After one week I managed to de-stress and tell things more naturally. I speak often of unusual events occurring in my life. And then there is matter ". This passion for radio, Deniz Ates saw fully even if that job is voluntary. "The response from listeners is so great. This is my reward. "
Recently, she hosted and has also, once a month, a show "TR-roots can" on TV Brussel. " This lasts about fifteen minutes," continues Deniz Ates. " It portrays a Turk who has succeeded in life, a vox pop and presents an agenda for festive events. The program is Turkish and is subtitled in Dutch. "

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Highest Treglycerides Level

Sites

www.monvoteamoi.fr
Regardless of the personalities of presidential candidates, if the French choose their president based solely on their program, who would they vote? This site allows surfers to determine the candidate closest to their beliefs based on their responses to 35 questions on issues they consider priorities. For or against the reduction of working time, reduced burdens on business, the tax on capital, etc.. Then they can choose the candidates they wish to see in grading, and voila. Candidates are listed in order of affinity based on the responses provided. Too bad there is no equivalent to the Belgian elections of June 10

www.newsatseven.com
The presenter of the news programs on the Net is a synthetic image. Also his voice is artificial. Cons by the topics it treats are those that interest his audience: indeed, this is JT for the person who looks. A JT à la carte sum. The idea, which comes from the United States, is quite brilliant. Software searches the Internet the latest information on a topic selected by the user. It then explores the blogs to find the comments on this subject, then goes in search of images and videos to illustrate this "press review." A text is created, then a speech synthesis software prepares the speech. Finally, an animation to create a beautiful young woman who spoke before the images in the background. And this is the JT demand.