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Help us make it rightDr. Samuel Lam is the founder of Lam Facial Plastics in Dallas, Texas. The triple-certified Facial Plastic Surgeon and Hair Restoration Surgeon believes the goal of every cosmetic enhancement, surgical or non-surgical, is to achieve the best natural aesthetic results and/or functional outcome while tailoring every surgery to the patient's features and desires. He has authored 5 major medical...
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On Dec 31, 2009, I wrote a letter BOTCHED PLASTIC SURGERY on a cosmetic surgery forum and to this day I stand by my words. He has forever stolen my identity and I may never get that back as this is nearly impossible to fix, but I can share these words. To that little girl who is feeling insecure about her looks or to that older woman who is frustrated over that wrinkle, you are absolutely beautiful the way God made you! I want to share my open letter with the world and I hereby mention that everything written is 100% true despite what Dr. Samuel Lam will tell you.
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I am several years out of Dr. Lam's fat grafting and this shameless doctor has mutilated my entire face with cysts or what looks like hardened lumps which is anything but fat--maybe scar tissue several years later after the surgery. The entire area where he grafted sticks out of the rest of the skin and 'pushes' the skin upwards. All of the fat has disappeared, but I most certainly don't look like I did before I saw him but instead am left with mutilated skin with hardened lumps in the grafted area. I have watched every single one of his videos and talked to him online. I agree, he responds to every single email and I thought I was special and what in front of me was a good doctor. WRONG! He is in fact, not knowledgeable but likes to make up science. He says that over time, his fat looks better, it "grows" and becomes beautifully blended. WRONG! Fat does not grow but it only gets resorbed. Worst of all, I got these massive lumps underneath the skin and this may be permanent as some of my doctors have said. I have had fat grafting done by other doctors and I have never in my life encountered this as I did with Dr. Samuel Lam. His solution to every nook and cranny is to fill fill fill. He doesn't know how to reverse or fix this problem because he is an inexperienced doctor.
Does this look good? NO! This careless man took thousands from my bank account and that wasn't enough for him to double check his notes and graft only areas we agreed to. Whats funny is that his markings on the day of the surgery differed from what we discussed, and what he grafted also differed. He took it on his own free will to inject fat all around my brows, and now I look like a very angry neanderthal with prominent brows. All of those hardened tissue is sticking out and pushing the skin forward. Apparently this is permanent and I can't get those massive hardened lumps out. My once beautifully scuplted cheekbones which I loved and other people have complimented on are now lumpy and unnatural looking. I had beautiful eyes and cheekbones and Dr. Lam was the first person I ever met that had a problem with them and wanted to do something about them. I never consented to the grafts he put in but something completely different. If the patient doesn't have a problem with a certain feature, why fix it? Thats exactly what a good doctor told me, but oh no not Dr. Samuel Lam. He thinks what he does to your face is much better than what you have naturally. I look older, more tired, and my face looks constantly puffy like I've been crying over a sad movie or just waken up with puffy eyes. Who gave him permission to do this? Does he even write anything down during consultations because obviously he has a terrible memory or takes in more patients than he can handle!!!
Dr. Samuel Lam you need to be ashamed of yourself and how dare you call yourself a doctor. You disfigued my face and mutilated me permanently with your botched fat grafting. Afterwards, you make yourself out to be a saint and say you were doing me a favour by trying to help me. Don't ever say that to a patient after being paid thousands of dollars. I don't go out anymore and spend most of my time as an indoor hermit thanks to your mutilation of my face. Don't make yourself out to be a saint in public by calling yourself a helper of people and charge exorbitant fees at the same time. I can't believe I let myself be mislead by your answering of emails, wonderful videos, sweet websites, comments like "Let me take care of you!" "You will love it!" When I met you in person you are a different person than your character online. I should have listened to my instincts by a man who says that most of his fat graft stays when he does not even follow up with every patient who has had fat grafted. Dr. Samuel Lam is nothing but a bold-faced liar and a professional mutilator of human faces. How does he even sleep at night after turning me into a freak of nature leaving with this destroyed face for the rest of my life? I can't and I want nothing more than my old face back! I want nothing more than to turn back the hands of time and never have watched his videos on YouTube and ended up sitting in his chair! He actually has a video on "Safety before Quality." A safe surgeon NEVER EVER does all fat grafting in one shot like he does and he is lying when he says hes more conservative than other doctors. That kind of plastic surgeon is someone who is arrogant and someone who gambles with your health. Safe fat grafting is about doing it in stages, always. This professional face mutilator knows nothing on both but only how to destroy people's lives and steal human identities. You have no idea on what botched plastic surgery can do to a person until you live through it and I wouldn't wish this on any one else on Earth, not even Dr. Samuel Lam who personally mutilated me.
I've had two procedures done with Dr. Lam. First, a filler to increase the bridge of my nose back in August 2013, and then a hair transplant earlier this year. I definitely recommend him for all of those looking for a professional, caring, and artistic doctor. His staff is fantastic; easy to talk to, very courteous, and knowledgeable. I enjoyed working with all of them. My recovery lasted...
I was online researching hair transplant surgeons in the area and actually I went on the ARTA's website, which is the new machine for hair restoration and it gave me Dr. Lam's information. I researched Dr. Lam and found really good reviews and saw YouTube videos about the procedure. When I came in for my appointment Dr. Lam explained everything thoroughly and clearly. He gave me confidence to...
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By Ollie Kew
Motor Industry
31 December 2012 09:30
Welcome to CAR Magazine's news aggregator as we round up the daily stories in the auto industry. Top tip: news summaries are added from the top hour-by-hour
Monday 31 December 2012• Despite reports earlier this month that shareholders valued Mercedes-Benz at half that of its luxury rival BMW, Mercedes CEO Dieter Zetsche has remained bullish about his ambitious targets for the carmaker's growth. 'I am confident that we will be ahead of our rivals by 2020 at the latest,' he told German newspaper Boersen-Zeitung in an interview. He said he hoped to reach that target during his time in office. Zetsche's contract currently runs until December 2013 but is expected to be extended by three years in February 2013. Daimler has already promised €2bn (£1.63bn) in cost cuts at the Mercedes-Benz division by the end of 2014, after warning in October that it would miss its operating profit target this year by €1bn. Zetsche admitted to the newspaper Mercedes had failed to keep up with its rivals in the compact car market and in China (Automotive News Europe)• Peter Schreyer has been promoted from design boss to president of Kia. He's the first non-Korean to hold the post. German-born Shreyer joined Kia in 2006 after a stint at Audi (where he played a part in the design of the original TT), and has since introduced the Kia brand's corporate 'tiger nose' look, now seen on all Kia models (Kia Motors)
Friday 28 December 2012• According to Bloomberg, Audi plans to spend €13bn (€10.6bn) between now and 2016 to develop new cars and expand production capacity as it pursues BMW's lead in the premium car maker stakes. Audi aims to sell at least 2m cars a year and overtake BMW by the end of the decade. The brand's expansion is part of Volkswagen's goal to become the world's largest automaker by 2018. The manufacturer plans to spend €50.2 bn on its auto division, including Audi, through 2015. However, leader BMW is expected to widen its advantage in 2013. The carmaker will increase sales 4.6% to 1.54m vehicles in 2013, beating Audi's 1% growth to 1.44m units, according to estimates from industry researcher IHS Automotive (Automotive News Europe)• Toyota Europe boss has reconfirmed that the company's automaking operations will make money for the first time in five years. 'Despite a difficult market, we are on track to return our automotive operations to a profit in the current fiscal year,' Toyota Europe CEO Didier Leroy told Automotive News Europe (Automotive News Europe)• Nissan's luxury brand Infiniti will likely take longer than 2016 to meet its goal of 100,000 annual vehicle sales in Europe, Infiniti President Johan de Nysschen said. The target stills stands but Infiniti will likely not meet the timeline that was originally set, he said. Renault-Nissan CEO Carlo Ghosn had set a target for Infiniti to boost annual sales in Europe, including Turkey and Russia, to 100,000 vehicles by 2016 from 12,500 last year. The goal was part of Ghosn's ambition to triple Infiniti's global sales to 500,000 units by 2016 from 146,000 last year (ANE)• Nissan Motor has confirmed it will replace some poorly performing batteries in its electric Leaf and will offer expanded warranty coverage to address battery issues for 18,000 U.S. owners. It's after some Leaf owners in hot-weather climates have complained of poor performance and battery capacity loss in the Leaf's lithium-ion battery (DetNews)
Friday 21 December 2012
• Since the first RX400h took to the road in 2005, through to the end of November this year, Lexus has sold more than 506,000 vehicles equipped with its Lexus Hybrid Drive system. In the UK more than 32,700 Lexus hybrids have been sold, with the RX the best-performing model. In 2005 26,000 vehicles Lexus hybrids were sold, while by 30 November this year the annual total was already at 113,000. Today hybrids account for about 25 per cent of all Lexus sales (Lexus)
Thursday 20 December 2012• Up to 13,500 Hyundai Velosters are being recalled in the US due to weakened panoramic glass roofs, which could shatter when the vehicle is in motion, or in a crash. A separate issue being chased up by Hyundai relates to the parking brake, which may become clogged with road dirt and not engage properly (safercar.gov)• On 1 February 2013, Neil Williamson will take his place as Director of Seat UK, reporting to Volkswagen Group UK Managing Director Simon Thomas. Mr Williamson is making the move from Mercedes' retail Group. At the same time, the current Seat UK Director, Peter Wyhinny, will begin a new role as Director of Seat Italy (Seat)• General Motors and PSA Peugeot Citroen will team up from 2016 to produce a new range of shared-component vehicles. The three compact vehicle platforms will nevertheless 'highly differentiated' to maintain their divisions' identities, according to a report from Bloomberg (Automotive News Europe)• Chevrolet's next-gen Camaro will be built in the US, according to GM. Production of the current retro muscle car is handled in Ontario, Canada, but from 2016 the Camaro will be stamped out at GM's Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant in Michigan (DetNews)
Wednesday 19 December 2012• The recently facelifted versions of the Toyota Aygo/Citroen C1/Peugeot 107 city car trio have had their safety ratings downgraded in the latest round of Euro NCAP crash tests. Back in 2005 the then-new triplets scored four stars overall, but the increasingly strict tests, and ageing cars, have led to NCAP scoring the cars as three star models. Dr Michiel van Ratingen, Euro NCAP Secretary General says: 'Our test protocols have evolved significantly over the past few years. There are more tests and the requirements have become more stringent. Despite this, many manufacturers have engineered their latest cars to achieve the highest score. On the other hand, we see that some manufacturers continue to offer popular best sellers without making the necessary incremental updates to safety. It is those models that obviously fall behind other, more modern cars competing in the same category.' The current model of Aygo and its twins lack basic items such as side impact airbags and electronic stability control as standard equipment. In response to Euro NCAP's findings, Toyota will make safety kit like side head and thorax airbags, ESP and seatbelt warnings standard on all cars from July 2013 (Euro NCAP)• Former Porsche SE CEO Wendelin Wiedeking and ex-CFO Holger Haerter have been charged with market manipulation by Stuttgart prosecutors over the use of options in the failed bid to take over Volkswagen AG. The indictment was filed after more than three years of investigations. The part of the probe looking into allegations of breach of trust was dropped, Claudia Krauth, spokeswoman for Stuttgart prosecutors, said in an e-mailed statement today. The two men and Porsche have denied the allegations. (Bloomberg)
Tuesday 18 December 2012• Are you the lucky owner of a facelifted Porsche 997 GT3? If so, you may be one of the 455 owners in line for a recall, after it was found that the wheelhubs of the gen2 cars' lightweight centre-lock alloys could fail, causing a wheel to detach, a loss of control, and a crash. The defect only affects rear wheels; it appears longer-than-ideal service intervals are to blame for the failure of the components. The recall affects GT3s built from 15 May 2009 to 11 February 2010 . Porsche will contact owners in due course to organise replacement wheel hub fitment (safercar.gov)• Porsche's board has unanimously elected Dr. Wolfgang Porsche as its chairman. The grandson of the company's founder, Prof. Ferdinand Porsche, and son of Ferry Porsche is also chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG and Porsche Automobil Holding SE and a member of the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG (Porsche AG)• Volvo expects 2013 to be a year of flat sales, though the Swedish company says it has no current plans to cut more staff to help balance its books. Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson said the company was budgeting for sales of 400,000 to 410,000 cars next year, roughly on par or slightly below this year's level. Volvo, which was sold by Ford to China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group in 2010, sold 450,000 cars last year and has an ambitious target to reach 800,000 annual sales in 2020 (Automotive News Europe)• Renault has confirmed plans to build a factory in Oran, Algeria, as part of its push for growth in Africa. An agreement with the Algerian government will be signed during French president Francois Hollande's visit to the North African country this week. Algeria is a fast-growing car market: new car sales there boomed by 46.5% to 225,000 vehicles during the first six months of 2012. The new Renault facility will eventually produce 75,000 vehicles annually, according to a spokesperson (Automotive News Europe)• In other Renault news, the company has set a challenge for Gerard Detourbet, the designer responsible for the low-budget Dacia Logan that's seen great success in eastern Europe. Renault wants Detourbet to come up with an even cheaper viable car that can fight Hyundai and Suzuki in emerging markets, especially India (Automotive News Europe) • According to The Detroit News, Toyota said today it will pay a record-setting $17.35m (£10.7m) fine for delaying the recall of 154,000 Lexus SUVs over pedal entrapment issues, and promises that it will 'make significant changes in how it responds to safety issues'. This latest fine is Toyota's fourth in 2010, relating to dithering over recalling unsafe cars while it assessed the reported faults (DetNews)
Monday 17 December 2012• Skoda has begun producton of the new Octavia at its Mladá Boleslav plant in the Czech Republic. The Octavia is is by far the brand's bestselling model, contributing to 44% of worldwide deliveries in the first eleven months of 2012 (Skoda)• Moustachioed Mercedes CEO Dieter Zetsche may have vowed to make Merc the world's biggest luxury car brand by 2020, but his shareholders aren't so optimistic. Daimler investors value the Mercedes-Benz cars unit at half what rival BMW would command, according to latest German reports. It's not actually as outlandish a claim as you might first imagine: market capitalisation at BMW has reached €45bn (£36.5bn), versus €42.2bn (£34.2bn) for Daimler. With the subtraction of a reasonable price for Daimler's truck business (incidentally the world's biggest HGV maker) the market value of Mercedes' car arm stands alone at around €25bn (£20.3bn). 'The market is saying that the prospects for Mercedes are much worse than for BMW,' said Hans-Peter Wodniok, an analyst with Fairesearch in Kronberg, Germany. 'The market's always right. In terms of innovation, BMW is the leader.' Lagging growth in China, sluggish expansion into popular segments like compact crossover SUVs, and an image that lacks appeal for younger drivers have hindered the Mercedes marque, allowing the BMW and Audi brands to widen their sales lead in the luxury segment. The growing gap comes a year after Zetsche, whose current contract expires at the end of 2013, vowed to almost double deliveries to 2.6m vehicles by the end of the decade and regain the top spot, which Mercedes relinquished in 2005. Zetsche has also announced in 2012 that Mercedes will introduce 10 new models by 2020, the first of which was the CLS Shooting Brake (Automotive News Europe)• Renault has sold its share in Volvo's truck-building arm in order to concentrate funds on its troubled car business. The deal's proceeds amounted to a total of €1.47bn for Renault (Renault)• Could the tax disc be abolished? More and more momentum is forming behind proposals to scrap the paper tax disc, due to its obsolescence nowadays. DVLA computers can now determine a car's tax status from their own databases, which, say campaigners, removes the need for a visual aid in the form of a paper disc in the windscreen (BVRLA)
Friday 14 December 2012• Lamborghini is recalling 144 examples of its Aventador supercar due to a headlight fault. The recall affects cars built between 15 July 2011 and 20 April 2012 (Motor Authority)• Volvo has received a $1.2bn (£740m) loan from the Chinese Investment Bank, in order to help the Swedish automaker pay off existing debts and invest in new models. Volvo, which is owned by Chinese outfit Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, has said it will invest $11bn as it aims to double total sales by 2020 to 800,000 vehicles. Currently, production at Volvo's European factories has been wound down from full capacity due to poor demand (Automotive News Europe)• US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will meet with officials in Washington later this month to finalise regulations imposing rear-view cameras on all new cars sold in the US. Congress approved legislation in 2007 requiring the government to set rear visibility standards by February 2011, but LaHood has exercised his power to delay the rule. Low-speed pedestrian collisions, called 'backovers' in the USA, kill about 300 people annually and injure 16,000. About one-third of fatalities involve children age 5 or younger. Carmakers have warned that the move will add around $200 to the cost of each new car (DetNews)• The Volkswagen Group recorded a further increase in worldwide vehicle deliveries from January to November, topping the eight million mark for the first time in this period. VAG saw a 10.4% increase to 8.29m vehicles from January to November, with an 11.7% rise in month of November alone (VAG)
Thursday 13 December 2012• According to the latest SMMT figures, UK car manufacturing rose 4.9% in November and 9.2% over the year-to-date. UK engine production fell slightly though, down 1.4% in November and 0.3% for the year-to-date (SMMT)• Production of the Citroen C6 comes to a close at the end of December 2012, marking the end of a 57-year run of big French saloons that began with the Citroen DS. Only 556 C6s were sold in Europe in the first 10 months of this year (Automotive News Europe)• Sources report Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne will soon give details of his plans for the production of Fiat and Jeep SUV models at the automaker's factory in Melfi, southern Italy. One of the new models is thought to be the 500X, a crossover replacement for the Fiat Sedici (Automotive News Europe)
Wednesday 12 December 2012• Jaguar Land Rover has recorded record sales for November 2012: JLR sold 29,893 vehicles in the month of November, an increase of 14% versus the same period last year. During the first 11 months of the year, Jaguar Land Rover sold 324,184 vehicles, up 32%. November sales increased in almost every major market with sales up in China (43%), Asia Pacific (26%), the UK (15%) and Europe (12%). In North America, sales were down 7%, reflecting model year changeover effects and increased competitive conditions. Since the start of the year, Jaguar Land Rover has seen strong sales performance across all of its major markets, with increases in China (73%), Asia Pacific (37%), the UK (20%), Europe (37%) and North America (12%) (JLR)• This year, Porsche has delivered 128,978 new cars, surpassing last year's total of 118,868 with one month to spare. November 2012, the Stuttgart-based sports car manufacturer sold a total of 12,928 vehicles, achieving an increase of 38.7% over the same month last year (Porsche AG)• PSA/Peugeot-Citroen will cut an additional 1500 jobs by 2014, deepening its workforce reduction as auto sales in the region plunge to a 17-year low. The redundancies come on top of 8000 job losses in July and will be made by not replacing people who leave, said Jonathan Goodman, a PSA spokesman (ANE)
Tuesday 11 December• Volkswagen's worldwide sales grew 11.5% in November 2012, delivering 504,800 vehicles. That compares to 453,000 in November 2011. So far in 2012, VW has delivered 4.69m cars, up 11.2% on 2011's performance. (Volkswagen)• It's a busy day for Jaguar news: for the full story on the canned C-X75 supercar, please click here. To read CAR's report on the planned Saudi Arabian JLR car factory, click here.• Nissan is set to finish 2012 with a strong sales performance: the Japanese company has retained its 3.7% market share up to the end of November 2012; this contributed to the 48,581 units sold during the month. In the UK and Russia, where Nissan has some of its busiest factory facilities, year-to-date sales were up 15.7% and 5% respectively (Nissan)• Russian new-car sales in November were flat for the first time in more than two years, as Russians put off spending following a slowdown in the country's economy. Western carmakers such as GM, Ford, Renault and Fiat have invested heavily in Russia in the hope a growing middle class will increase its spending, but a slowing economy and rising interest rates have caused would-be buyers to pull back, analysts said. A total of 240,322 vehicles were sold in November, up 0.4% from a year ago, a slowdown from the previous month when sales rose an annualized 5 percent, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) said. Industry analysts predict car sales figures could remain flat until 2015 (Automotive News Europe)
Monday 10 December 2012• Opel has told employees today that it plans to end vehicle production at the Bochum plant in Germany in June 2016. The company said it does not plan to give the plant another product once the Zafira completes its lifecycle, given Europe's shrinking vehicle sales market and overcapacity issues. 'Despite intensive efforts, this situation could not be changed,' Opel said in a news release (DetNews)
Friday 7 December 2012• In the latest fuel economy scandal to hit US-market motors, Ford's new C-Max Hybrid is coming under fire for its seemingly unachievable mileage figures. Fans on Ford's C-Max Facebook page have panned the car for not achieving anywhere close to its quoted 47 miles per gallon. Trade watchdog Consumer Reports said the car's fuel efficiency fell 10 (US) mpg in testing — getting 37mpg combined, with 35mpg for city driving and 38mpg highway. Ford's Fusion Hybrid, certified for the same 47mpg, scored 39mpg in testing overall, with 35mpg city and 41mpg highway. 'These two vehicles have the largest discrepancy between our overall-mpg results and the estimates published by the EPA that we've seen', Consumer Reports said in a statement. This follows a reprimand for Kia and Hyundai after their US arms were found to have artificially inflated claims of fuel efficiency for their most popular compact models (DetNews)• Italian private equity fund Investindustrial announced today that it has agreed it a deal to invest in Aston Martin. For the full story, please click here.• Sales of Hyundai's Golf sized i30 family hatchback have surpassed half a million units in Europe. Global sales of the car since its first-gen outing in 2007 have now topped 1m: 59,000 i30s have found homes in the UK. The total makes the i30 Hyundai's best-selling European model (Hyundai)• Ford has reported positive results, seeing its car sales grow ahead of the UK market trend. Ford car sales in November were 21,152, accounting for 14.2% of the market, while for the year-to-date Ford registrations of 266,261 equate to a 13.9% share and are up 6% compared with the same period in 2011. The Fiesta and Focus continue to occupy the two best-selling model spots in the country (Ford Motor Co.)• Mercedes-Benz UK has scored a record 4.5% new car registration market share for the year-to-date, according to figures released by the SMMT. In total, 6625 cars were registered by Mercedes-Benz in the UK in November – adding to a total of 85,819 cars for the year-to-date. It's not just the new A-class and B-class propping up the numbers either: high-performance arm AMG is enjoying bumper sales. AMG's sales rose 88.1% in November, part of a 135.8% rise in the first 11 months of 2012. AMG models released in 2012 include the C63 Black Series, SLK55, SL55 and SL65, G63, ML63 and GL63 (Mercedes-Benz)
Thursday 6 December 2012• The latest news in the Aston Martin sale story: private equity fund Investindustrial is near an agreement to buy an Aston Martin stake to shore up the finances of sports car maker, according to reports from Automotive News Europe. The exact size of the stake transaction, which values the automaker at about £750m including debt, has not yet been determined (ANE)• According to the latest figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, UK new car registrations rose 11.3% to 149,191 units in November, on the back of increased private demand. The UK new car market has grown 5.4% to 1,921,052 units during the January-November period. This positive performance over the year-to-date puts the full year market on track to be the best since 2008. The UK is now the second largest new car market in Europe, following growth in the UK over the last 10 months and a drop in demand in the other big markets (SMMT)• Tesla, the US brand behind the electric only Roadster and Model S, has reported positive cash-flow for the first time in its history. Founder and CEO Elon Musk shared the news via his personal Twitter feed. Tesla, which hasn't yet turned a quarterly profit, is racing to expand production of the rechargeable Model S sedan at its factory in Fremont, California. The base price of the car will increase by $2,500 to $59,900 on 1 January 2012 (Bloomberg)• BMW predicts the new 4-series Coupe and Convertible will push the brand to even higher sales records when it goes on sale late next year. BMW said sales will probably reach a third consecutive annual record in 2013, due to the glut of new models on the way, including the 3-series GT and X5. The U.S. car market is 'continuing to be in good shape,' Ian Robertson, BMW's head of sales and marketing, said at a presentation of the new 4-series concept in Munich late yesterday. The U.S. will be the biggest market for the car, which replaces the coupe version of the 3-Series next year, followed by Germany and the U.K., he said. Growth in demand in China and the U.S. has largely shielded Munich-based BMW from the effects of the sovereign-debt crisis in Europe, where the car market may shrink by the most in almost two decades this year (Bloomberg)
Wednesday 5 December 2012• Nissan and Fiat are engaged in a war of words over the styling of their respective electric cars. Fiat began the spat with a subtle dig at the Nissan Leaf: 'Let's be honest, ugliness is probably one of the worst forms of pollution,' marketing head Matt Davis told Bloomberg News. 'The Fiat 500e proves that you do not have to give up on good looks to deliver an electric car.' Nissan has now hit back at Fiat, saying 'Let's face it, Fiat has not shied away from controversial styling themselves. Many would describe many of their products as visual pollution. Take a long, hard look at the Fiat Doblo.' (Automotive News Europe)• Volkswagen Group has named Renault's former chief of Europe, Jacques Rivoal, as president of the German automaker's French operations. Rivoal, 54, will spearhead VW's aggressive campaign to gain more market share in Renault's home market. That's bad news for Renault and Peugeot-Citroen: despite the French new car market being in its lowest state since 1997, VW's market share is actually increasing, from 12.3% to 13.8% in the first 11 months of 2012 (Automotive News Europe)• Sales of the US-market Dodge Dart make for worrying reading for Dodge: the compact family car is missing sales targets and saw sales fall by 1000 to just 4849 units. This comes in the month the rest of the US car industry has posted its strongest sales in five years. The disappoint performance is being blamed on the Dart's much-lauded 100,000 customisation possibilities, which is causing a several month waiting list that puts off new buyers. Something for the million-combo Vauxhall Adam to ponder...(DetNews)
Tuesday 4 December 2012• New car sales in the Italian market fell by 20% in November, according to latest figures. The numbers freefall comes after a 12.4% plunge in October. This year is shaping up to be even worse than 2011, when Italian car sales fell 10.% to 1.4m cars, dropping for the fourth year in a row (Automotive News Europe)• Daimler has refused to comment on rumours that Mercedes may co-build cars in Mexico with high-end Nissan arm Infiniti. The report, in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, cited a senior source at Daimler as saying the two automakers planned to build a plant in Mexico to manufacture Mercedes small cars and Infiniti luxury vehicles, but added that no final decision had been reached on the project (Automotive News Europe)• Good news from across The Pond: America's automakers reported their strongest monthly sales in nearly five years yesterday, suggesting a solid end to 2012 and continued recovery in 2013. Overall industry sales totaled more than 1.14m units in the United States in November — up 15% from the 994,721 reported during the same period a year ago (DetNews)
Monday 3 December 2012• Porsche has restyled its Macan SUV with a more radical exterior after noticing the considerable sales success of the Range Rover Evoque. The 'baby-Cayenne', which goes on sale in late 2014, has got a bolder look according to Porsche design chief Michael Mauer, though Mauer did not specify exactly which aspects of the Evoque the Macan would cherry-pick. The SUV is part of Porsche's plans to double annual vehicle sales to 200,000 by 2018 (Automotive News Europe)• The details of Lotus' response lawsuit to ex-CEO Dany Bahar's unlawful dismissal row have emerged, with the Norfolk carmaker seeking to recoup £2.5m of unauthorised expenses and overpaid wages. Bahar is also accused of leaving Lotus saddled with the cost of his lavish lifestyle, including a private chauffeur, helicopter travel and ten wristwatches. Bahar himself dismissed the claims as 'ill-founded'. (Automotive News Europe)• Aston Martin could have its credit rating downgraded as it chews through cash reserves, according to Bloomberg reports. The Gaydon-based carmaker is said to have 'high credit risk' by Moody's, thanks to a weak performance and poor cash-flow in the third quarter of 2012 (Bloomberg)
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RE: News watch December 2012: today's auto industry news
@Sam the Eagle, Unless and until Gtrslngr accepts that America has no "god given right" to rule the world, his posts here and responses to others will, sadly, continue as before. Happy New Year.
@Sam the Eagle,
Unless and until Gtrslngr accepts that America has no "god given right" to rule the world, his posts here and responses to others will, sadly, continue as before.
Happy New Year.
02 January 2013 09:43
Sam the Eagle says
@gtrslngr So you got a pair of rose-tinted glasses for Xmas? www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/01/congress-nonsolution-fiscal-cliff-crisis 'Happy' New Year everyone!
So you got a pair of rose-tinted glasses for Xmas?
'Happy' New Year everyone!
02 January 2013 09:36
gtrslngr says
Once again Mr Kew . MERCEDES BENZ IS #1 IN SALES !!!!! With Audi at present not even in the running and BMW ever so slightly behind @ typos 1 - Tell you what son . You show me one solitary positive bit of ' genuine ' viable and real automotive news in this present era we're in and I promise I'll Wax Poetic and effuse in the Positive for line after line . But ..... as long as things remain as they are ...... ? DEAL WITH IT ! ------------- BTW . The World ( finacially speaking ) is once again safe . Somehow our brilliant politicians managed to avoid going over the Fiscal Cliff . Oh there'll be some serious reprocussions .. especially in the automotive world ( can you say " no more subsidies forE/V's and Hybrids ) ... but overall we ..... and you ... are safe .... for the moment
Once again Mr Kew .
With Audi at present not even in the running and BMW ever so slightly behind
@ typos 1 - Tell you what son . You show me one solitary positive bit of ' genuine ' viable and real automotive news in this present era we're in and I promise I'll Wax Poetic and effuse in the Positive for line after line .
But ..... as long as things remain as they are ...... ?
BTW . The World ( finacially speaking ) is once again safe . Somehow our brilliant politicians managed to avoid going over the Fiscal Cliff . Oh there'll be some serious reprocussions .. especially in the automotive world ( can you say " no more subsidies forE/V's and Hybrids ) ... but overall we ..... and you ... are safe .... for the moment
01 January 2013 13:30
typos1 says
Have you ever said ANYTHING positive in any of your posts ? !
29 December 2012 16:30
Audi can spend $100 billion in their futile quest to upstage BMW . As long as Audi's continue to be nothing more than Badge Engineered what evers and as long as BMW remains ' Bespoke ' Audi will as so many more before them have in the ' Just as Good as a BMW ' race come up the loser Speaking of the ' Just as Good as BMW ' race we've got another contender here in the US . The Cadillac ATS . Sorry Cadillac but you've missed again ! The most honest reviews all saying " Its not bad but its not a great car either especially in light of the asking prices " ( equal or higher to the BMW 3 Series ) Just say no ...... it'll go away soon enough .... assuming it ever makes it your way across the waters . BTW - From the Department of Corrections Mercedes Benz is #1 in the premium category ..... by a slim margin mind you ..... but still .... Mercedes is #1 ....... not BMW . Happy New Year all !
Audi can spend $100 billion in their futile quest to upstage BMW . As long as Audi's continue to be nothing more than Badge Engineered what evers and as long as BMW remains ' Bespoke ' Audi will as so many more before them have in the ' Just as Good as a BMW ' race come up the loser
Speaking of the ' Just as Good as BMW ' race we've got another contender here in the US . The Cadillac ATS . Sorry Cadillac but you've missed again ! The most honest reviews all saying " Its not bad but its not a great car either especially in light of the asking prices " ( equal or higher to the BMW 3 Series )
Just say no ...... it'll go away soon enough .... assuming it ever makes it your way across the waters .
BTW - From the Department of Corrections
Mercedes Benz is #1 in the premium category ..... by a slim margin mind you ..... but still .... Mercedes is #1 ....... not BMW .
Happy New Year all !
28 December 2012 13:14
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Position rack in top third of oven and preheat to 400°F. Butter 13 x 9 x 2-inch glass baking dish. Place cheese in medium bowl; add 1 cup/2 cream. Using fork, mash mixture to chunky paste. Mix in 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Mix in remaining 2 cups cream.
Melt butter in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms and herbs; sauté until mushrooms are tender and liquid cooks away, about 8 minutes. (Cheese sauce and mushrooms can be made 8 hours ahead. Cover separately and chill.)
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Bake gratin 30 minutes. Uncover and bake until potatoes are tender, top is golden brown and sauce is thickened, about 30 minutes longer. Let stand 10 minutes; serve hot.
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- Carbohydrates35 g (12%)
- Fat41 g (63%)
- Protein11 g (23%)
- Saturated Fat26 g (128%)
- Sodium709 mg (30%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber6 g (25%)
- Monounsaturated Fat12 g
- Cholesterol136 mg (45%)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. very funny whimsical fantasy. Cosmo Topper, nearing 40, functions staunchly as a banking officer in the big city, and a volunteer fireman in the little town where he lives. But then he buys a used and infamous car, comes under the delinquent influence of a couple of ghosts, and goes on an extended debauch in this charming 1920s classic. "Topper" (1926) is widely credited with establishing the current comic thread in treatment of ghosts. It led directly to the 1937 movie of the same name, starring Cary Grant, and the 1950s TV series, starring Leo G. Carroll. It led hardly less directly to endless TV and movie treatments too numerous to name. The ghost comedy, with all its permutations, is a hardy staple, with us to this day. It's easy to see why this slender work has all the credit. One could call it a harmless fantasy of rebellion, except that Topper doesn't come out of it unscathed. He has frequent – near daily – hangovers, spends one night in jail that we know of, and flees the law through unfamiliar wildernesses in the wee hours, on numerous occasions. All through this, he tries without success to explain or hide, the boisterous and mischievous behavior of his ghost friends. His head, his liver, and his reputation all take a beating, and he winds up crashing the car and nearly dying. But Mr. Topper's near-fatal vacation expands his life, his opinions, and his social experience. He becomes enamored with, and loses forever, the comely and obliging Marion Kerby, but emerges with a renewed appreciation of his wife. This engaging, light piece completely deserves its place as the seminal ghost comedy. Pick it up and be charmed, like generations of readers before you. http://bassoprofundo1.blogspot.com/2013/04/topper-by-thorne-smith.html Cosmo, a banker stuck in a rut, buys a car on a whim, despite being the car in which a young couple died in a few months before after crashing into a tree. Little does he know, but the car is haunted by the dead couple, and soon the three are having a whale of a time. Topper escapes from his humdrum life (and wife), spends most of his time excessively drunk, getting into trouble and hanging around with a lot of dead people - and Oscar the dog. I do vaguely remember the film with Cary Grant and I can just imagine the special effects being created for this - such as when Oscar can only (back) half appears. Think the book would best be described as "screwball" which is a type of book - and film - which has fallen out of fashion, especially in early 21st century England. We like our humour different now I think. Whilst mildly amusing, this is not the funniest book I've read It took me quite a while to get into this. I'm not sure old-school slapstick humour comes across well on the page. But I did quite like it in the end so I'm glad I didn't give up. Absolutely delightful. Must read the rest of these. While in some ways this was considered scandalous, it certainly seems innocent today, and what man hasn't fallen in love with a ghost? This modern era farce has a sweetness and innocence lacking in a post-modern era characterized by violence and overt sex. Smith uses an interesting motif in this book that he did not use in "Gods". Keep your eyes open for it. no reviews | add a review Is contained in
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'Jurassic Park 3D': Dinosaurs, and Jeff Goldblum, still rule
A movie review of "Jurassic Park 3D," a rerelease that brings back the dinosaurs, still menacing 20 years later, and Jeff Goldblum as "chaos theory" expert Dr. Ian Malcolm.
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'Jurassic Park 3D,' with Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough. Directed by Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and David Koepp, based on Crichton's novel. 127 minutes. Rated PG-13 for intense science-fiction terror. Several theaters.
Forget blowing the images up to IMAX size and converting the lunging velociraptors and T.rexes into 3D. The best reason to revive "Jurassic Park" for its 20th anniversary is Jeff Goldblum.
As "chaos theory" expert Dr. Ian Malcolm, Goldblum is the "Jurassic Park" skeptic in a cluster of greedy entrepreneurs and spellbound paleontologists (played by Laura Dern and Sam Neill).
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"Jurassic Park," adapted from Michael Crichton's conceptually brilliant novel, is a horror movie wrapped in the trappings of early '90s speculative science. Back then, kids were dino mad, the magical letters "DNA" were on every research grant, and the wonders of genetic code were just beginning to unravel.
What a great time for a scary movie about a tycoon (Richard Attenborough) whose efforts have led to the breakthroughs that enable him and his backers to open an island theme park where dinosaurs have been back-engineered back to life.
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Things, as Malcolm predicts, will go wrong. Storms happen, cages fail, "sterile" dinosaurs turn out not to be. And people, who never walked the Earth at the same time as these beasties, are now the main item on the menu. Chaos theory incarnate.
Steven Spielberg's film captures the terror in thunderous approaching footsteps, in breathy sniffs from a nose as powerful as an air compressor. The dinosaurs, impressive in their animated actions and leathery digital texture in '93, haven't lost much of their moist, tactile menace over the decades.
The frights still work, supersized and turned into 3D for your viewing and recoiling-from-the-screen pleasure.
If anything, science has closed the gap from the impossible to the merely improbable in the 20 years since this movie reminded us of "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth." Australians are close to bringing back a recently extinct species of frog, and others are working to bring back the day when dodos ruled the Earth.
Good idea? Maybe to some. But that's where Goldblum comes in handy. Nobody explained the improbable, and the risks involved in it, like Goldblum's Dr. Malcolm.
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Plain-clothed officers and undercover agents - sometimes dubbed "mosque crawlers" - were directed in New York City and across state lines into New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, to monitor hundreds of Muslim citizens who were not suspected of illegal activities. Entire neighborhoods were covered, as well as places where Muslims did business, went to school, hung out, worshiped or visited.
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The Associated Press had been reporting on this story since August of 2011. The NYPD denied the Demographics Unit existed, having their spokesman Paul Browne affirming "There is no such unit, there is nothing called the Demographics Unit."
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When Police Commissioner Rayond Kelly engaged the Fordham Law School graduates, and as over 100 protesters gathered outside, he defended the surveillance, stating in part "If terrorists aren't limited by borders and boundaries, we can't be either."
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Civil rights lawyers and organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, along with the American Civil Liberties Union, said this was an invasion of privacy and that it violated the US Constitution. Rutgers University balked at the harassment of their students.
Yale University students responded with a Facebook campaign using a mixture of serious and satirical photos decrying racial and religious profiling.
Muslims like Elizabeth Dann, a third-year law student at New York University, wrote articles and advocated readers to urge Congress to pass the End Racial Profiling Act, legislation that was initiated by congressmen Ben Cardin and John Conyers.
The FBI, as it turns out, was kept in the dark; but the FBI's general counsel Valerie Caproni weighed in, "If you're sending an informant into a mosque when there is no evidence of wrongdoing, that's a very high-risk thing to do, you're running right up against core constitutional rights. You're talking about freedom of religion."
The gap between reality and the perceived danger of Muslims was magnified when the New York Times interviewed Charles Kurzman, professor of sociology at University of North Carolina.
Kurzman happened to be releasing a report for the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security.
During his interview, he "called terrorism by Muslim Americans 'a minuscule threat to public safety.' Of about 14,000 murders in the United States last year, not a single one resulted from Islamic extremism".
Demonized Muslims
This isn't the first time a minority community has been targeted without justification or even suspicion of any wrongdoing.
In 1975, when the US Senate Committee (famously referred to as the Church Committee) investigated government operations with respect to intelligence activities, they found that "The Government has often undertaken the secret surveillance of citizens on the basis of their political beliefs, even when those beliefs posed no threat of violence or illegal acts on behalf of a hostile foreign power. The Government, operating primarily through secret informants, but also using other intrusive techniques such as wiretaps, microphone "bugs" surreptitious mail opening, and break-ins, has swept in vast amounts of information about the personal lives, views, and associations of American citizens.
â¦..Groups and individuals have been harassed and disrupted because of their political views and their lifestyles. Investigations have been based upon vague standards whose breadth made excessive collection inevitable. Unsavory and vicious tactics have been employed -- including anonymous attempts to break up marriages, disrupt meetings, ostracize persons from their professions, and provoke target groups into rivalries that might result in deaths."
One of the main problems of these activities was that the list of people being investigated was perpetually increasing.
As MIT professor and political analyst Noam Choamsky explained with the BBC's Andrew Marr, "The Socials Workers Party was one tiny fragment of it. It began, uh, by the time it got through - I won't run through the whole story - it was aimed at the entire new left, at the women's movement, at the whole black movement, it was extremely broad."
Today, it seems these lessons weren't learned.
The AP would eventually win the 2012 Pulitzer Prize two months later, but beyond the limited public outcry, there was little consequence.
In February, a poll conducted by Quinnipiac University showed that 63% of New Yorkers approved of how their police were working, while 58% approved of how they dealt with Muslims.
Aside from sincere concerns for national security, Muslims were being made to fear the very police force that was responsible for protecting them.
Clearly, there are police officers who object to these measures, evidenced by the multiple leaks within the NYPD to news organizations.
Congressman Rush Holt (NJ), along with some of his colleagues, publicly called for the NYPD to purge their spy files. Federal officials like Attorney General Eric Holder, have yet to launch an actual investigation into the matter even though they promised to consider them.So far, no one was punished or held accountable for marginalizing an entire minority.
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ratbag-data-length-dos (15188) | Medium Risk |
Multiple games developed by Ratbag, including Dirt Track Racing, Dirt Track Racing Australia, Leadfoot, Dirt Track Racing Sprint Cars, Dirt Track Racing 2, and World of Outlaws Sprint Cars, are vulnerable to a denial of service attack, caused by the value that identifies the length of the data. If a remote attacker sends an amount of data smaller than the amount previously specified, the attacker would cause the server to enter into an infinite loop and consume 100% of the available CPU resources.
Denial of Service
No remedy available as of September 1, 2014.
- BugTraq Mailing List, Wed Feb 11 2004 - 16:07:09 CST : Denial of Service in Ratbag's game engine.
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- BID-9644: Ratbag Game Engine Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2004-0278: Ratbag game engine, as used in products such as Dirt Track Racing, Leadfoot, and World of Outlaws Spring Cars, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a TCP packet that specifies the length of data to read and then sends a second TCP packet that contains less data than specified, which causes Ratbag to repeatedly check the socket for more data.
- OSVDB ID: 6618: Ratbag Game Engine TCP Socket Read DoS
Platforms Affected:
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- Ratbag Games Dirt Track Racing 2
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- Ratbag Games Dirt Track Racing Sprint Cars 1.01 and prior
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Museo Tamayo
Contributed by Rob Giampietro, principal at New York-based Project Projects.
Located in Mexico City, the Museo Tamayo is a contemporary art museum that also houses at its core a collection of works by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo.
Under its new director Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, the Museo Tamayo has refocused its program to present a wider range of activities including programming, events, and commissioned projects.
Project Projects designed an identity for the museum and a publication system for its in-house magazine, "Rufino." In the identity, "Museo" is signified by an angled "M" that floats within each design at different positions. The resulting identity exists in a perpetually shifting state, subverting the assumed authority of the singular, monolithic institutional identity by offering one that is responsive, dynamic, and hybrid in its place.
Project Projects is a design studio focusing on print, identity, exhibition, and interactive work with clients in art and architecture. The studio was founded in 2004 by Prem Krishnamurthy and Adam Michaels; Rob Giampietro joined as a principal in 2010.
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I am really trying to like this identity. Unfortunately I don't.
The scale relationship between the 'M' and 'T' seem to be somewhat disjointed, maybe this is intentional, I don't know but it makes it look awkward.
The form of the 'M' is ugly and would of been best omitted from the design and leave the stylised 'T' to do all the work.
I believe the overall design will also look dated sooner rather than later.
Sorry to be so negative about a design, it's just not my cup of tea.
Great blog though by the way.
I have to agree with Andy. The typography seems to be half baked. The color selection makes this feel dated rather then contemporary.
On a different note, the trashcans and the garbage in the photos doesn't help the cause any. They should be removed physically or digitally before being posted.
I agree with everything Andy and Juan have said. I think the actual identity would look better with just the T but needs a new color selection. If it stays green it seems more like a corporate logo than a art museum. However, I do like the wrap around sign.
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The wrap around sign is the only thing not done by Project Projects, it is part of the old identity. I'm a local, and personally I liked it better; just my two cents.
Juts thought about it a bit more: I know the sign has been part of the museum for a while now, however I don't truly remember that well the old design. I don't really know if the display design is new; I'm guessing it probably is?
I still agree with the comments above, though…
I feel this logo looks like its for a short run event rather than an identity that has to work over time. I also agree with the comments above about the T working better on its own.
i don't know.. somehow this "unusual" color and awkward type feels COOL. it feels random and unexpected. it feels new. i like.


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Simple Tip May Ease Athletes' Performance Anxiety
Sept. 20, 2012 -- Researchers have revealed a simple trick that may help athletes keep their cool during a game's high-pressure moments. Their advice to avoid choking under pressure: Clench the fist of your non-dominant hand.
The findings appear in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
In the study, right-handed athletes who squeezed a ball with their left hand or clenched their left fist before a competition were less likely to choke in high-stress matches.
Here's why: The left side of the body is controlled by the right side of the brain.
"Increasing activation in the right hemisphere decreases activation in the left hemisphere," says study researcher Juergen Beckmann, PhD.
Choking under pressure seems to be caused by a dominant activation in the left hemisphere, which controls key areas of the brain that help us psych ourselves out when under the gun.
Clenching Technique May Reduce Choke Risk
Brain scans show that a decrease of activation in the brain's left hemisphere boosts performance, says Beckmann. He is the chair of sport psychology at the Technical University of Munich in Germany.
The researchers conducted three studies involving soccer players, judo experts, and badminton players. They tested the athletes' skills during normal practice and during important matches that took place before a large crowd or video cameras. The researchers only tested right-handed people.
The athletes were less likely to choke under pressure when they squeezed a ball in their left hand than when they squeezed it in their right hand.
This technique seems to work best in situations where movements such as kicking a ball are automatic. Overthinking them, however, can impair performance.
"So far, we know that the technique seems to work only with complex motor tasks which have become automated," says Beckmann. "It should not only work with sports but also ... could be helpful for elderly people to maintain balance when they are afraid that they might fall."
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Beckmann and his team are now studying the technique among expert musicians.
"It might also be useful for surgeons or other professions in which precision, pressure, and highly automated tasks combine," he says. To date, the team has conducted 13 studies, including one with gymnasts. "Whenever the specified conditions were given, the technique never failed."
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Despite that, we decided early on that we weren't going to look for diamonds, because we'd lose access to our research sites. But in 1975 we were preparing kimberlite rock samples, and one of them chewed up a lap wheel at the USGS office at the Federal Center, in Denver. They called me and said, "One of your sections wrecked our lap wheel."
I said, "Don't touch a thing."
Dan Miller, director of Wyoming's Geological Survey, 1969-1981: Malcolm was working with a number of grad students at the time. He had them collecting small, bowling-ball-sized samples. The lab would then put them on a diamond saw--steel impregnated with diamond dust--and cut slices.
This one wouldn't cut, though. The saw kept bucking. It's like trying to saw a board with nails and the blade just keeps stopping. It would hit something and just bounce. The lab tech eventually became frustrated and broke his way through, ruining the saw. It just didn't register that there could be anything in the sample harder than the saw.
So next they tested it on a lap wheel--a horizontal steel grinding wheel, like a mill stone. And things just weren't grinding right. In fact, when the tech lifted up the sample, he found that gouges had been made in the steel. To a geologist, that's just inconceivable. There's only a couple things in the world capable of that.
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Then he said, "Diamonds have been discovered in Wyoming."
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As soon as I got off the phone, I made a quick phone call to the governor's office. At that time, it was an old friend of mine, Stanley Hathaway. I didn't tell him about the diamonds. I said, "I have some very, very important information that I can't tell you right yet. But I need to set up an appointment as soon as possible."
Three days later we met. At the end of my presentation I looked up at the governor, and he was grinning. He just kept grinning at me. Eventually, he said, "Now, Dan, you will take care of this problem, won't you?"
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We had many, many phone calls. The phones rang steadily for a week, wanting details. Well, we didn't have any details. But people from South Africa wanted to know: What was the terrain where the diamonds were discovered? What was the climate?
In the fall of 1872, newspapers throughout the West offered daily speculation as to the location of the fields where diamonds and rubies lay scattered about like spilled marbles. Guesses ranged from sites in Arizona and New Mexico to ones in Colorado and Nevada.
Denver's newspapers touted the prospect of diamonds in the backyard, although nobody knew for sure where, exactly, that might be. "Colorado is just as good a place to hunt diamonds in as Arizona or South Africa," the Denver Times mused.
The Rocky Mountain News was more circumspect. "Let no green youth drop his implements of husbandry and hie to the Rio Grande or the farther reaches of Colorado in quest of sudden fortune in the shape of heaps of diamonds like pigeon's eggs in size and of the finest, rarest quality," the paper editorialized.
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"For me to just spew off what they may or may not be doing after graduation would not be right," says Kathleen Hearne, placement director for Corinthian Colleges Incorporated, Parks's parent company. "It's an intense curriculum, and the Homeland Security needs are just now developing. I can tell you that meetings with very important companies are going on right now."
Furthermore, as anyone at CCI will tell you, the program was developed with input from very important people, including a NORAD colonel, a posse of SWAT team members, retired FBI agents, police officers, deputy sheriffs and anti-terrorist consultants.
"The feds and the state are trying to put their arms around this gorilla we call Homeland Security," observes Sisson.
Esmerelda, a student who says she once worked in classified areas of the federal government (and whose name is definitely not Esmerelda), wants to be part of it. "The interesting thing is that I left the government for the corporate world because I thought it offered so much more," she says. "But after 9/11, I knew I needed to be back in the family, and they have very stringent rules about coming back. Luckily, the federal government is very interested in this program."
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John makes good money, but he's tired of brushes and rollers. "I took 9/11 personally," he says. "First I was in shock, and then I was like, let's get that guy. Now my eyes are open. I realized I didn't have to go overseas to defend my country."
Which would be nearly impossible, anyway: John has four children, a fifth on the way, and a paralegal wife who attends law school at night. Nevertheless, he serves as vice president of Parks's Homeland Security Club and is the most vocal member of the class. Defending your homeland brings it out in a man.
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"Weapons-grade plutonium!" someone yells.
"That, and a whole lot of secrets!" shouts Sisson. "Rocky Flats would be an excellent place to attack."
So excellent that he gives the class an assignment: Describe your initial response and containment actions for a terrorist attack on Rocky Flats. And do it in twenty minutes, after breaking into small groups.
"But we haven't worked in groups before," John says.
"Haven't worked in groups? Get over it, folks," Sisson says. "You're going to live in a group from now on."
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Charleroitransfer.com is the only company in Belgium that offers a shared door to door shuttle service.
Since we invented this new type of service in Belgium, passengers can enjoy a convenient and affordable door to door airport transfer between Charleroi Airport and Brussels.
Wherever your accomodation is in Brussels, our shuttle service can pick you u por drop you of fin front of your door or hotel.
During the years we had to face a large number of tourists and groups, who needed coaches for their airport transportation needs and also requested sightseeing tours and day-tours to places like Gent, Bruges, Antwerpen, Amsterdam and other beautiful places around.
We're proud that we had the chance to contribute to the success of some great events and congresses as well. Brussels is a hectic place and many companies and organizations hold their meetings and events here. To meet their requests, we employ now several transfer co-ordinators and hostesses who can organize a professional airportpick-up for the participants of any event or congress.
Among our costumers we can mention Swarowski, Event Storm from UK, Deluxevent from Poland and many more. Airport transfer is a quickly growing business and pre-booked airport transfers are getting even more preferred by travellers.
However the huge amount of offers can be confusing – luckily charleroitransfer.com is a stable name in the business and most of our clients travel with us frequently.
We hope you'll book with us and join the rapidly expanding group of our frequent travellers.
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High Quality AA and AF
While we test all our games with maximum in-game settings, turning on Anti-Aliasing (AA) and Antistrophic Filtering (AF) helps take the intensity of our testing to another level.
Here we see video cards go from playable FPS to unplayable FPS and the real power houses continue to help break that 60 FPS mark we always aim for to provide a smooth gaming experience.
Turning on AA and AF, you can see that we fall short of the 60 FPS number we want at both 1920 x 1200 and 2560 x 1600 with the MSI R9 290X 4GB Twin Frozr Gaming OC like we do with the GTX 780 Ti 3GB.
Just Cause 2 performance is great at both resolutions. Not only does the MSI R9 290X 4GB Twin Frozr Gaming OC get a nice little boost in performance but it manages to sit ahead of all our setups.
Sleeping Dogs sees a nice little boost in performance, and 1920 x1200 manages to get a bit more breathing room with a solid 67 FPS being seen.