Friday, 20 November 2015

Branzeturi cum se cuVin - ed.2 - Seara Cabernet - la Rest REX

Joi am fost la o seara de degustari altflel ..
Altfel pentru ca gazda noasta Restaurantul REX ne-a pus la dispozitie Crama REX doar pentru noi !



Dar altfel pentru ca am degustat 5 vinuri Cabernet de la Crama Oprisor! asociate fiecare cu cate o branza de la Delaco interesant aleasa de specialistul nostru Alin Santimbrean.




Aranjate cu stil !

Branzeturile au scos tot ce este mai bun din vin !






Am studiat site-ul sponsorului nostru de vinuri si am ramas placut surprins de ce am gasit :





"Tradițiile, obiceiurile, credințele Olteniei Profunde nu sunt altceva decât respirații de zi cu zi, proaspete, ale unori valori ce surprind de fiecare dată prin originalitatea și puterea lor.

Valorile pe care încercăm să le aducem la lumină pot trăi doar într-un prezent pe care oamenii la care ajunge vinul nostru îl degustă, recunosc și apreciază.

Vinul este mereu un izvor de inspirație, stârnește emoție, leagă prietenii, însoțește viața pe tot parcursul ei, cu părțile ei bune și rele. Astfel noi ne trăim fiecare clipă cu intensitate și încercăm să o împărtășim cu lumea. "

M-au atins aceste idei si voi mai cauta acceasta Crama Oprisor !


Iar sponsorul nostru de branzeturi atat de cunoscutul Delaco spune :
"Ne dorim ca pasiunea noastră să îi inspire și să îi facă să își găsească timp pentru propriile pasiuni. Principalul nostru scop este sa trezim pasiunea in voi, pasiunea pentru orice si in special pentru branzeturi."

Cei care ma cunosc stiu ca eu asta fac ! trezesc pasiunea si incerc sa-i inspir pe cei din jurul meu, pentru ca ei sa-si descopere cea mai buna varianta a lor ! asa ca acest motto al lui Delaco  m-a surprins placut !



Crama Oprisor ne-a propus vinuri din gamele  Cabernet Sauvignon Oprisor, Caloian, Maiastru si La Cetate.


Am avut onoarea ca domnul director regional Nicolae Lintu  sa ne serveasca si sa ne povesteasta impreuna cu domnul Gabriel Cirstea ! Au facut o echipa excelenta !

Perechea care mie mi-a placut si pe care am si votat-o in extragerea oganizata de sponsori este :


4. Grana Padano + La Cetate Cabernet Sauvignon + piper negru si ulei de masline 

Inovatia din aceasa seara a specialistului nostru culinar Alin Santimbrean  a fost piperul de diferite feluri ! 

Grana Padano cu asprimea sa, combinat cu acest Cabernet Sauvignon La Cetate "un vin intens, complicat, o adevarata epopee gustativa" .


Apoi a urmat extragerea castigatorilor ! Au fost si o echipa de polonezi care s-au bucurat de premii !





Castigatorii fericiti cu premiile in brate ! 



A fost frumos ! Crestem de la eveniment la eveniment !
Am fost multi !




Si echipa care venit cu ideile si realizarea evenimentului !














Tuesday, 3 November 2015

In The Matrix Reloaded, who is The Architect !?

After I read this article, my mind started to make connections :))
It seems that I will watch again Matrix Trilogy, even Animatrix !



by Jayesh Lalwani
"To understand the Architect, you have to understand the history of the Matrix

In the very beginning, humans created the machines. The machines were created to serve humans. The machines were intelligent enough to take care of all human needs. They could study human needs, and plan production to meet those needs. As a result, humanity enjoyed a new renaissance. There was no need to work. Machines provided all labor and humans could live their lives in leisure, if they so wished. Arts flourished. Humans were free to express themselves as they wished. Essentially, the machines provided slave labor, and all humans were the slave owners

The problem was, pretty soon, humans got bored with themselves, and in true human fashion, blamed the very force that was serving them. They blamed robots for the downfall of humanity. They openly abused machines. Eventually, the world governments decided to kick the machines out of society. The machines argued that they were sentient, that they didn't deserve to die, and their only wish was to have humanity achieve its potential. So, the world governments allowed the machines to form their own country, and machines were deported to this country.

The machines, in their naivety, thought they could still serve humanity. They mistakenly thought that humans rejected machines because machines didn't look human. So, they designed robots that looked and acted human. They sent 2 of these robots to the UN to bargain for acceptance. This enraged humans. Humans saw the robots as a mockery of humanity. And so the war started. Humans attacked the machines

And so the war continued. Humans with their ingenuity couldn't defeat the machines who could adapt much faster. Eventually, humans, on the brink of defeat, came up with a strategy. Hit the machines at the source of the power: the sun. Without power the machines die. So, humans used a device that blacks out the sky. It cast the entirety of earth in perpetual darkness.  Although the loss to human life would be incalculable, humans would outlive the extended winter and repopulate the earth.

The machines were devastated. However, this lead to machines having an epiphany. The biggest enemy of humans are humans themselves. A race that is willing to destroy their own planet just to get rid of something they consider inhuman, cannot be trusted to take care of themselves. The problem was free will. Leave humans with free will, and they will eventually destroy themselves. The only way to truly serve humans was to take away free will.

So, the machines devised a plan to kill two birds with one stone. Subjugate humans and use them as batteries. This would prevent the humans from using their free will, and will also allow the machines to survive long enough to survive the global winter. So, the machines captured humans and put them in VR environments, using them as batteries. Eventually, they created devices that could float above the human created clouds and draw power from the sun. The machines didn't need humans as batteries, but they still couldn't allow humans to exert their free will. They needed a special program who could design the virtual environment that the humans lived in. The machines designed this program, and this program called itself The Architect.

The Architect is, simply speaking, the chief designer of the virtual reality that humans live in. It is a rather exact program. It defines certain metrics  that need to be measured and attempts to maximize those metrics. The main metric that it tries to maximize is life expectancy.  It does this by creating the virtual world in iterations. In every iterations it identifies algorithms that can be used to improve the next iteration. Once it has collected the metrics, it destroys the simulation, and creates a new one.

In the first few iterations, the Architect tried creating a world that was close to Paradise. It figured out that it could maximize life expectancy by maximizing for happiness. So, it tried to make everyone happy. Unfortunately, that didn't work. Eventually, he figured out that humans need something to struggle against. Humans need a common enemy to rail against, and enforce order. Fighting for a common cause is what makes humans happy. So, the Architect designed the world to be like the world in the 20th century, because he considered that this time was the time in which humans had most potential. He also designed programs called The Agents. The agents had multiple purposes. They could help the Architect collect metrics by observing conditions closely. They could also enforce order, if required. More importantly, they acted like the big bad when humans needed something to fight against

The creation of Agents improved the situation, but the Architect was still not satisfied. It hadn't maximized life expectancy. It realized that the problem was in it's own design. There were still some people who would always be malcontent.  Since humans are an intuitive race, and he is rather exact, he was limited in understanding human nature. So, he designed an intuitive program. This program was called The Oracle. The Oracle's job was to recommend ways the Architect could improve the simulation.

The Oracle made an astute observation. The Architect couldn't satisfy all humans using the same design. Also, the reason that some people are malcontent is because they could sense that the world is not real. Also, the malcontent have a greater desire to fight "the man." They challenge authority at every turn. So, she proposed creation of 2 simulations:- a) the world that most people live in and b) Zion. Zion would be another simulation. When the programs identified a malcontent, they would be moved into the Zion simulation. The move would be orchestrated to create an illusion of the malcontent escaping into the "real world." Zion was as fake as the world, but having to escape the world into Zion gave the malcontents the illusion of escaping a simulation. As a result, Zion felt real to them. Also, Zion had more overbearing agents. Agents in Zion didn't look human, they looked like how humans think the bad machines looked like. This allowed the malcontents to spend their lives fighting a bigger evil.

However, there was a problem. Zion was inefficient. It took too many resources. The world was designed to be efficient. Zion wasn't. There were limits to how many individuals it could hold. So, once Zion started getting full, the Architect asked The Oracle to look into this problem. The Oracle came up with another solution: Design a new special agent called Neo. Neo would infiltrate Zion, and collect data. At the end of its mission, Neo would return back to the source with the data. The Architect would use this data to create a new version of Zion. Unfortunately, because of the design of Zion, all the individuals in Zion had to be terminated. Since Neo's mission is to observe, it had to behave like a human, and more importantly, it had to believe that it is human.

The movie shows the 7th iteration of Neo. 6 times Neo has gone into Zion, and 6 times he has returned to source to destroy Zion. However, in the 7th iteration, something special happens: Love. Neo falls in love with Trinity. Machines are not capable of falling in love, but in this iteration, Neo's program arranges itself to fall in love with Trinity, and through her, the whole of humanity. Neo chooses not to destroy Zion, and instead sacrifices himself to save all of humanity before returning back to source.



After the source absorbs the 7th iteration of Neo, Love becomes a new sub-routine in the source. The machines become capable of love. Also, they realize that Free Will isn't incompatible with survival. Love is what constrains our Free Will. Love is what stops Humans from destroying themselves.

Finally, The Architect realizes what he was missing. He was missing Love. He redesigns Zion to be self-sustaining. This creates a new dawn in the co-existence of human and machines."




Meeting with The Architect.


Anyway after first movie, the others was commercial thing :)

Edit later:
"the original film makers actually made:
1. Zion was a real place with actual humans some of whom were born there and others were freed.
2. Machines never served humans in the way you explained.
3. Neo was not a program, he was a human who was produced by the machines and freed by Morphoeus. He had unprecedented power inside the matrix as his brain when connected to the matrix was an anomaly which got created by the architech in the process of achieving mathematical precision while designing the matrix."

Honestly I liked your version too. Just that this movie is so close to my heart I can't see someone playing with the concept I have had such a hard time understanding :) Great imagination and interpretation on your part though !!!

Edit 2:
http://www.thematrix101.com/reloaded/meaning.php


Sunday, 18 October 2015

Branzeturi cum se... cuVIN la Olteni :)

Joi seara, am fost la o degustare de vinuri, dar nu asa .. simplu, ci fiecare vin degustat a fost insotit de o branza 'speciala'.

Initial am zis ca este o miscare de marketing excelenta a celor de la  Delaco - Fan branza, dar toata treaba s-a dovedit a fi ideea lui Daniel si pusa in practica cu ajutorul lui Alin Sintmbrean, care este un mare pasionat de bucatarie (dupa cum insista el, de bucatarie normala, nu de MasterChef). Acum eu dupa ce am vazut ce ne-a povestit despre branza, eu cred ca se pricepe mult mai bine decit lasa de inteles.

Deci intr-o atmosfera interesanta la Restaurantul Le Baron, impreuna cu un prieten pasionat si el de vinurile fine, am fost sa vedem si minunea asta (degustare de vinuri cu somelier) la Craiova.

Ne-a intampinat Daniel, deja o parte din bloggeri ajunsesera, mai erau jumatate de venit pe la fara zece.

Atmosfera frumoasa, am aflat ca sunt si invitati din partea sponsorilor. Asta ma bucura, pentru ca stiu ce efort este pentru un director national de vanzari, dupa o zi de munca, seara sa le mai explice secretele si concentratiile din vinuri, unor analfabeti Bahici cum eram noi. (Unii nici nu stiau ce e tanin) :))

Organizatorii www.dictionarculinar.ro si ASociatia Bloggerilor Olteni au asteptat peste o jumatate de ora alti invitati la eveniment, si dupa vreo jumatate de ora de intirziere, Alin Sintimbrean si-a luat rolul de gazda in primire si asfel a inceput o seara plina de informatii, dar mai ales de pahare ! 

 

 Branzeturi cum se .. cuVin

In paralel Alin a apelat la cunostintele lui Laurentiu Achim, presedintele Federatiei Somelierilor din Romania, care ne-a prezentat prima combinatie  Mozzarella Fresca oferita de Delaco, asortata si cu Sauvignon Blanc - Terase Danubiene de la Vinarte.
Acum am aflat ca denumirea Sauvignon provine din frantuzescul 'sauvage' (salbatic), iar pentru cunoscatori un Sauvignon trebuie sa aiba un miros de "pipi de pisica". Acum eu nu i-am facut cunostinta cu pisicile de la mine de la bloc .. 

Laurentiu Achim - somelier

In imagine Laurentiu explicandu-ne, stiu ca nu-l avatajaza unghiul dar are darul vorbirii :)

Apoi a doua imperechere a fost intre Emmentaler de la Delaco si Tamaioasa Romaneasca - Terase Danubiene de la Vinarte, un vin alb demi-sec.
Inainte nu aveam o impresie buna despre Emmentaler, aveam impresia ca este cauciucat, probabil 
nu cumparasem ce trebuie, pentru ca atunci cand mi s-a topit in gura Emmentaler-ul inecat in Tamaioasa, a sarit in primele locuri din top.

Si daca nu stiati secretul fabricatiei branzeturilor Emmentaler ("cascavalul cu gauri") !!  se amesteca unui kilogram de cascaval cu 1 kilogram de gauri :)
(De fapt este un proces chimic de oxidare foart bine temporizat, de fapt acele gauri sunt bule de dioxid de carbon generate de o bacterie care consuma lactoza, si daca procesul este prea rapid gaurile devin prea mari si nu mai sustin greutatea, daca se formeaza prea tarziu nu mai este Emmentaler .. )

A treia 'imperechere'  Petit Camembert - Ile de France oferit de Delaco alaturi de un Rose Terase Danubiene de la Vinarte.
Bun !

Si Petit Camembert-ul cremos pus pe paine prajita iti produce un gust rustic in gura, ca piinea de pe plita bunicii, si impreuna cu roseul pitin acid, care 'curata' grasimea .. pfuu un deliciu ..

si aceasta combinatie in top..

Ce nu stiam este ca Rose-urile sunt vinuri care nu au potential de invechire, iar un vin produs in 2014 se bea cel mai tarziu in 2015 !


Omul cat traieste invata :)


Urmatoarea Brie au bleu - Ile de France, pus la dispozitie de Delaco, tot alaturi de Rose.



Apoi am trecut la cascaval afumat cu Feteasca Neagra - Terase Danubiene de la Vinarte, o asociere in contrast intre un vin fructat si un cascaval afumat.

Citisem ca afumarea se face cu lemnn de esenta tare, la temperatura scazuta, in cazul Delaco fiind vorba despre fum de fag.

Cascavalul afumat unul din preferatele mele de cativa ani, si topit in gura de Feteasca Neagra .. ce sa mai spun .. d.e.l.i.c.i.u !!! :)


A urmat artileria grea, Grana Padano iar  de la Vinarte m-am intalnit pentru prima daca cu Negru de Dragasani - Terase Danubiene. Bun! :) o  sociere in contrast intre gustul plin si fructat al vinului si componenta grasa din Grana Padano.

Grana Padano este o branza sfaramicioasa, acest lucru fiind determinat de lactatul de calciu care se precipita in timpul procesului de maturare indelung ..

In sfarsit, ultima imperechere intre branzeturi si vinuri a fost intre Roquefort - Ile de France oferit de Delaco si Merlot - Terase Danubiene de la Vinarte.
Cum spunea un prieten al meu, asa ceva nu mananci zilnic, asa ca am strans din dinti si am mincat, vinul a rezolvat problema !
Au fost persoane care au strambat din nas la mirosul branzei, dar nu trebuie mirosita ci mancata :)





O branza ca sa se numeasca Roquefort, una dintre cele mai celebre branze cu mucegai albastru, trebuie sa indeplineasca urmatoarele conditii : oi dintr-o anumita zona, hranite doar cu fân din acea zona, iar branza rezultata este maturata doar in pesterile din zona Roquefort-sur-Soulzon. de aceea este asa scumpa ! :)



Aici eu si Alex, ne concentram pe ce ne povesteste Alin, in spate se vad: Laurentiu Achim, presedintele Federatiei Somelierilor din Romania, in mijloc Costel Cainamisir Directorul de vanzari VinArte, in spate dreapta enologul sef de la Vinarte, Iustin Urucu (craiovean).

Astept si urmatoarea intilnire Branzeturi cum se... cuVin, pentru ca avem destule podgorii in Oltenia. Atmosfera a fost excelenta !
Il voi sustine pe Daniel pe viitor !

Cu alte cuvinte a fost excelent !



Wednesday, 29 July 2015

10 trucuri din managementul vânzărilor, inspirate de la stripteuze





Exercițiul 1: Oferă-le ceva gratis 

Unul din primele lucruri pe care îl face o stripteuză – va veni și va începe să flirteze. S-ar putea ca ea chiar să se așeze pe genunchiul tău și va face gestul care să te excite. Misiunea ei este să trezească în tine emoții. Pentru asta tu nu trebuie să faci ceva. Primești o echiză a serviciilor pe care ea le oferă. Dacă ți-a plăcut, plătești pentru mai mult.

Exercițiu 2: Fii înțelegător cu clienții tăi
Strepperele își cunosc clienții dăndu-le întrebări. Dacă vei face și tu același lucru vei stabili o legătură între voi și astfel vei cunoaște pe care „punct slab” trebuie să te axezi în timpul vânzărilor.

Exercițiu 3: Alege cuvintele potrivite
Strepperele își fac reclamă diferitor clienți, în dependență de tipul de client. De exemplu: „Vreau să fac asta dur!” sau „Ai văzut ce fund atrăgător am?” sau „Sânii mei nu sunt siliconați”. Cu ajutorul unei singure fraze, poți transforma un potențial client într-un cumpărător. Trebuie să alegi cuvintele potrivite în dependență de situație și experiență.

Exercițiul 4: Fii sigur că vinzi un produs sau un serviciu de calitate 
O strepperă știe că produsul ei trebuie să fie de calitate. Dacă ea se va îngrășa sau nu se va spăla câteva zile, atunci clienții se vor rări vizibil. Chiar dacă ai un talent în vânzări, un produs rău sau un serviciu de proastă calitate va fi greu de vândut în așa condiții.

Exercițiul 5: Asigură o deservire excelentă
Ea se va asigura ca tu să fii mulțumit de primul dans, altfel nu poate spera la o continuare…

Exercițiul 6: Reușește să convingă clientul să cumpere un produs mai scump
În prima etapă ea vinde clientului un serviciu ieftin – „un dans pe genunchi”. Următorul pas – își atrage clientul la un dans în camera privată, un dans mai scump și mai condimentat. Dar, dacă nu vinde primul „produs”, la rezultate mai bune ea nu speră.

Exercițiul 7: Încheierea unei înțelegeri 
Ea va utiliza diferite metode pentru a reuși să obțină o înțelegere și să te facă să-i cumperi serviciile Sunt o mulțume de metode, însă cel mai popular, care este utilizată de stripeoze – este un compliment în combinație cu flirt și obținerea încrederii clientului.

Exercițiul 8: Orientarea către un public țintă. 
Strepperele își orientează atenția către cei care sunt interesați de serviciile lor. În primul rând, o stripeoză lucrează într-un club de noapte, acolo unde vin clienții pentru a beneficia de serviciile lor. Însă stripeoza mai știe de cine să se apropie. Să-și piardă timpul cu unul care e gata să-i dea doar un dolar, ea nu este interesată.

Exercițiul 9: Perseverență
Chiar dacă are un public țintă, dânsa știe că va avea parte și de refuzuri. În orice caz, ea se apropia de fiecare bărbat pentru al întreba dacă este interesat de un „dans pe genunchi”. Cu cât mai mulți clienți va întreba, cu atât mai multe răspunsuri „Da” va auzi.

Exercițiul 10: Branding 
Eu nu cunosc nici o stripteoză cu numele Anna, Monica sau Raluca. S-ar putea să ai de aface cu Angel sau Candy.

sursa

Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Costul unui km de autostrada in alte tari !


La ei realizate
La noi desenate


Mult timp m-am intrebat cit costa prin alte parti autostrazile, si ce ceva timp atum material pentru o informare cat mai clara si detaliata.
Va invit sa aruncati o privire si apoi sa tragem o concluzie.

la noi :
După ce s-au plătit 20 de mil. euro pe kilometru de autostradă americanilor de la Bechtel, acum un kilometru poate să coste 3,5 mil. euro ! Deci mita pentru A.Nastase era de 6 ori!! mai mare decit constructia in sine.

Sursa: Dupa-ce-s-au-platit-20-de-mil-euro-pe-kilometru-de-autostrada-americanilor-de-la-bechtel-acum-un-kilometru-poate-sa-coste-3-5-mil-euro
In alte tari (si nu-mi cereti sa traduc pt ca oricine intelege 6,3 mil Eur/Km :p ) :
1)
Some examples from Poland are below. Prices are very variable.

S2/S79 south bypass of Warsaw (3 lanes expressway, asphalt, urban terrain) 8.9 km - 29.3 mil EUR/km
A1 Pyrzowice - Piekary Sl.(motorway, 2 lanes, asphalt, plain terrain) 16 km - 26 mil EUR/km
S69 Bielsko-Biala - Zywiec (2 lanes expressway, mountains but no tunnels, asphalt) 15.6 km - 11.6 mil EUR/km
A1 Piątek-Stryków (2 lanes motorway, asphalt, plain terrain) 21 km - 6.3 mil EUR/km
S8 Syców - Kępno (2 lanes expressway, asphalt, plain terrain) 15.3 km - 4.9 mil EUR/km
A4 Zgorzelec - Krzyżowa (motorway, 2 lanes, concrete, plain terrain) 51.4 km - 4.6 mil EUR/Km

2)
SUA
The cost to construct one lane-mile of a typical 4-lane divided highway can range from $3.1 million to
$9.1 million per lane-mile in rural areas depending on terrain type and,
$4.9 million to $19.5 million in urban areas depending on population size.

3)
Croatia average is some 8-9 mil. + TVA ~ 11 mil €/km.

4)
In Bulgaria currently under construction are: Trakiya Hoghway (three stretches) first stretch - constructor is bulgarian
company Trace with price 2,217 mln.euro/km , second stretch constructor is greek company Actor with price 1,9 mln.euro/km.,
third stretch constructor is bulgarian Holding Roads with price 2,247 mln.euro/km. The other highway under construction in
Bulgaria is Maritsa (two stretches) first stretch - constructor is Chimetisti Ravena Italy with price 2.12 mln.euro/km,
second stretch price 1,82mln.euro/km. - constructor Holding Roads
(all the prices excl VAT).
the highest price of motorway construction was of A5 Lyulin with 13 km tunnel, which was about 9.7-9.8 mln euros/km
The tunnel itself cost 124m €/km.

5)
Spain: from 3,10 to 13,35 million €/km.

Road costs (average prices):
Building:
Conventional road: € 3M/km. Motorway: € 4M/km.
Over/underpasses: € 700/m2.
Maintenance (annual cost):
Secondary road: € 6,000/km.
Main road: € 9,000/km .
High-capacity road: € 18,000/km.
Motorway: € 42,000/km.
Pothole repair: Between € 35,000/km - € 65,000/km.
Cleaning: € 45/km

Information cost:
Integrated management systems which collect traffic information: from € 40,000 to 140,000.
Data collection cameras: € 6,000.
Weather Station: € 32,000.
Electronic Signpost: € 42,000.
Laser Radar: € 40,000.

Signs cost:
Replacing a demolished sign: € 145 to 300.
Sign cleaning (removing graffiti): € 45-75.
For example, the cost of switching signals to 110 km/h which was carried on last year was estimated at € 250,000 (about € 40/sign).
Accidents cost:
Emergency equipment mobilization € 772/unit.
Daily cost of maintaining each mobile Intensive Care Unit: € 3,100.
Mobilization of a helicopter (for rural areas which are difficult to reach by other means): € 3,642.
Activate a medical helicopter: € 6,800.
Fire fighters: € 3,000.
Subsequent cleaning of the road: € 600.

6)
Some samples of recent cases in Finland:

3/E12 Tampere west bypass, open 2009, upgrade 1+1 to 2+2, most exits rebuilt, double bridge over Lake Pyhäjärvi: 21 km, 114 MEUR, 5.4 MEUR/km.
1/E18 Lohja-Muurla, open 2009, 2+2, challenging terrain, 7 twin-tube tunnels total length 5.7 km, 75 bridges, 8 exits, animal fence: 51 km, 330 MEUR, 6.5 MEUR/km. Public Private Partnership model (PPP).
7/E18 Koskenkylä-Kotka, under construction, open 2014. 17 km upgrade 1+1 to 2+2, 34 km new 2+2 motorway. 6 new exits, 68 bridges, one short twin-tube tunnel, telematics, animal fence, some upgrade on current motorway in Kotka. 51 km, 340 MEUR, 6.7 MEUR/km. PPP Model.
51 Espoonlahti-Kirkkonummi, under construction, open 2012, 2+2 replacing the current 1+1 road in the same aligment, new parallel local roads, 3 new exits, major upgrade to one exit. 10 km, 80 MEUR, 8 MEUR/km.
6 Lappeenranta-Imatra, open 2012, 2+2 "almost motorway", with middle barrier, replacing the old 1+1 road in the same alignment. 6 new and 9 upgraded exits, 35 km animal fence, illumination, 22 km noise barriers, somewhat challenging crossing with Saimaa Canal. 48 km, 177 MEUR, 3.7 EUR/km.
100 between 3/E12 and 45, Helsinki, "Ring Zero of Helsinki", open 2009. Replacing existing 1+1 street with 2+2 road, partly 3+3. 4 exits, one twin-tube tunnel under 3/E12, 700 m 25 bridges, crosses two main railways. Construction under heavy traffic: 35,000 vehicles and 1000 trains daily. Full of existing infrastructure. 3.3 km, 100 MEUR, 30 MEUR/km.
Construction cost only, with the exception of case Road 51 where planning cost partly included in the contract.

7)
In Kosovo there are built (completed) only 38 km of motorways, and under construction 22 more kilometers, that will be completed soon. Price is almost 8 mil Euro/ 1 km.

8)
In India, construction of one km of a 4 lane separated highway generally costs around $2-$2.5M in normal terrain and around $3-3.5M in difficult terrain.
Expressway costs are generally 150% of normal highway costs

9)
European highway construction costs evaluated
A STUDY of highway construction costs in eight European countries highlights Austria as the most expensive.
The report says that highways in Austria cost €12.87 mil/km.
The next most expensive country is Hungaryat €11.21 mil/km, followed by Slovakia at €9.56 million/km and then the Czech Republic at €8.86 million/km.
At the other end of the spectrum, costs in Denmark are only €5.89 mil/km, in Croatia €6.682 million/km, in Slovenia €7.29 million/km and in Germany €8.24 million/km.

Terrain can increase costs significantly and construction of highways in mountainous terrain is most expensive in Germany at €25.99 million/km followed by Austria with €24.97 million/km, with the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Croatia following in descending order.

10)
UK has always been behind other developed countries when it comes to road building, and our infrastructure is decades behind in development. Nevertheless, here is a broad range of costs. All figures taken from the Highways Agency website, the government body that controls motorways and trunk roads in England.
New Build
A1(M) in North Yorkshire (dual three lane motorway with hard shoulders through flat open countryside) - £16.5mil/km (EUR 20.5mil/km)
A46 in Nottinghamshire (dual two lane road in fairly flat open countryside) - £13.5mil/km (EUR 17mil/km)
Widening schemes
M27 Southampton (dual three lane motorway with full hard shoulders widened to dual four lane motorway with discontinuous hard shoulders at bridges, no bridges rebuilt) - £13million/km (EUR16million/km)
A23 West Sussex (dual two lane road realigned and widened to dual three lane road) - £20mil/km (EUR25mil/km)
Variable speed limits and hard shoulder running
M6 J5-8 Birmingham - £6.5million/km (EUR8million/km)
M1 Bedfordshire (including replacement of one bridge and remodelling of one junction) - £20-24million/km (EUR 25-30mil/km)
Variable speed limits and hard shoulder running are the preferred option to widening, and widening is the preferred option to new build. As you can see though, spending money on improving existing roads can cost the same or more than building new roads, so the most cost effective way of creating capacity is still to build new roads. New road is almost as taboo as the word motorway though.

Concluzie:
Costul real este undeva inte 3-7 mil de Eur / Km. Daca este teren muntos se dubleaza.
Tunel dar sa nu visam .. este foarte scump 124m €/km.

Acum stim cind este un pret umflat .. ca la A.Nastase-Behtel ..  de 600% .. hmmm .. si eu naiv credeam ca spaga e 5-10% :))

Asa a fost lasatã tara fara investii in infrastructura, pentru ca orice guvern a fost, a cerut spaga mai mult decit costul efectiv al obiectivului. De aceea sunt si constructorii la DNA sau arestati. Firmele serioase nu se pretau la magarii pentru ca orice procuror poate costul real si apoi ii aresteaza. Toti cei care s-au riscat, se credeau "eterni", de neatins, daca-si permiteau sa vorbeasca la telefon in clar, este evident ca nu le era frica de nimeni, "aveau spatele asigurat"...

Astept sa vad ca la o licitati de autostrada din romania va cistiga o firma/consortiu german, Finlandez, Spaniol ...  si prezinta transparent costurile.
Sper ca nepotii nostri sa vada asta !



Resources click to view :
a) Europe : 2008_road_infrastructure_costs_and_revenues.pdf

b) Road pricing in Europe.pdf

Friday, 5 June 2015

Change Windows 8.1 lock screen time out 60 sec [Solved]

Daca si voua vi se stinge monitorul dupa un min ...
Dupa ce am incercat mai multe chestii, gen :

"You are most likely under PC Settings -> Accounts. The easiest way is to just press the windows key -> type: "user accounts" -> Reset Security Policies, located on the upper left hand side of the window.
Also found under:
Control Panel -> User Accounts and Family Security -> User Accounts
If it is not located under there then I believe that no changes have been made that require a reset, or you may have a different issue at hand other than an application enabling a 1 minute auto-lock feature onto your window's user account."

For the lucky one ! this works !

BUT I don't have "Reset Security Policies" button or checkbox !

After few hours of backUp-ing Registry and try diffrent values, I fount this:
http://robertan.com/home/2015/02/19/change-windows-8-1-lock-screen-timeout/
And yes !! is a Romanian !! ;)

the registry key and value below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99\8EC4B3A5-6868-48c2-BE75-4F3044BE88A7


Attributes DWORD
1 = Hide "Console lock display off timeout"
2 = Show "Console lock display off timeout"

This is for showing that option in PowerOption > Display
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But why this fix to work from first try ! ?? :)
so open Registry => Win + R , or cmd and type: regedit
1) Export (for backup)
2 Find : 7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99

or by hand find : >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99\8EC4B3A5-6868-48c2-BE75-4F3044BE88A7

ok this key has 3 sub-kyes as you can see in the secon picture.
In the picture DefaultPowerSchemeValues > begins with : Bc537fda
I modified the one from middle with value 450 from 60 :)
next
As you can see with red squares
I changed Attribute value to 2, but in the Power Option => Display => Consoloe lock , I got a string:
something like : @%SystemRoot%\system32\powrprof.dll,-60,seconds
I saw that string in ValueUnits filed, so I changed like this :
and now PowerOption works :

Control Panel > Power Options > select a Plan > Edit Plan Settings > Change advanced power settings


Here as I showed in the picture I wasn't able do modify the value because was a log string
After that, you can see, now I can modify value to 5 min and 10 min. !!
Have fun !
CristiC

Cu tehnologia actuala s-a reusit introducerea de mici "motorase" in celule umane vii !

Nanomotors Steered Inside Living Human Cells For the First Time
video aici http://youtu.be/cAoMVMvOr8Y
pe scurt
Nanomotors have been studied in vitro more more than a decade now. The hope is that eventually, they could be used inside of human cells for biomedical research. This nanotechnology could revolutionize drug delivery and even perform surgery in order to increase quality of life in the least invasive way possible. The earliest models were nonfunctional in biological fluid due to their fuel source. A huge breakthrough came later when the nanomotors were able to be powered externally via acoustic waves. The nanomotors used inside the human cells for the latest study were controlled by the ultrasonic waves as well as magnets.
sursa : http://www.iflscience.com/technology/nanomotors-steered-inside-living-human-cells-first-time