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For those that would like to post some plans here and are not quite sure how to go about it there are some excellent tutorials at Steve's Outerzone site.
Here's the link; http://www.outerzone.co.uk/tutorials/index.asp As for file sizes it's one of the things I've struggled with myself. One of the best ways to radically reduce the file size is once you've got a well sorted drawing that you've cleaned up in Photoshop or Gimp is converting it to first "Grayscale" then into a "Bitmap" Anyway have a read of the tutorials and that should help some. I feel strongly that it's far better for us all to contribute, we're all winners that way. Cheers John |
Feb 03, 2013, 08:06 PM | |
Actually Stuck. start with one that is a full plan in a magazine. The better the quality of the magazine paper the better the resultant scan will be. After the conversion to a Bit Map image it will be easier to clean as you are only dealing with 2 colors, black and white. I usually "zoom" in to about 1/4 of the image and from there you can see the imperfections and can easily clean them up with the paint brush function. It takes practice but the results are really worth the effort you put into each and every scan. I've started another tutorial but haven't had time to finish it, hopefully in the next several weeks if flying weather doesn't get in the way.
Feb 04, 2013, 03:44 PM | |
[QUOTE=brokenenglish; I have quite a few that I would like to post (from magazines).
However, maybe I need some advice (not to mention treatment!). In the past, I've made a couple of 600 dpi scans for Steve, and the result, each time, was a file of around 30 mega, far too big for posting. [/QUOTE] There is a trick to this. You have to get rid of all unnecessary image digital information. Plans are black and white so you don't need any "color" or "gray" information. To eliminate this extraneous information you have to save your image file as a bitmap file (.BMP). However the problem with bitmap is the lines in the plan tend to be jaggy and they lose their smooth flow. There is a trick to dealing with this:
Feb 04, 2013, 06:57 PM | |
Yep! And that is how it is done. It's not very hard but will take a few times to get used to what needs to be done to the scanned image. The other links posted will guide you through how to straighten the image and scale it to the proper size. I printed the instructions above when Planeman first presented them and after around three hours of playing with the setting in Photo Shop, I was able to produce a very nice scan.
There are literally thousands of plans that still haven't been added here or in the other threads in this forum. So, if you need help with setting up or scanning please post your questions along with your scans. One other note. While Acrobat remains the top performer for creating a PDF file, there are freeware solutions that will achieve the same desired results. |
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I put together this collection of links to interesting old glider plans for a friend who sometimes builds old designs. For instance, he built a Sinbad, and a German glider from the '70's that I forget the name of.
Anyway, I thought some of the people on this list would enjoy it too. Especially those of you who can read French, Slovak, Czech, or Italian, or at least have a lot of patience and don't mind guessing. http://gprc.free.fr/construire/cb28/cb28.htm You may have to download and save before you can view the plans. (two buttons that say "Click", just over halfway down.) pics of above: http://gprc.free.fr/construire/cb28/cb28-oh/cb28-oh.htm article: http://www.retroplane.net/forum/files/cb28_mra_189.pdf ------------ Lots of great stuff here: http://claudel.dopp.free.fr/Les_plan...e_antiques.php Check out the AS25, the 1953 Kavka, the Uranio and the Zehrovice II. Might be easier to look through the pictures here: http://claudel.dopp.free.fr/Les_plan...tm#liste_plans ------------ http://www.sam78.cz/apr_list/samlist...=1&orderby=rok Good stuff, including some of the plans missing in the previous list. ------------- http://www.riviste-di-aeromodellismo...x_eng_bis.html Not a lot of detail on most of these, but interesting. I like the GF20. Check out the Treviso, it looks like the Shuttle (notoriously weird looking rc sailplane from some years back) _______ http://www.sam119.sk/index.php?optio...d=17&Itemid=19 Some good stuff including: http://www.sam119.sk/images/sam119/d...amod/kavka.pdf http://www.sam119.sk/images/sam119/d...mod/sokol1.pdf a few more from same site: http://www.sam119.sk/index.php?optio...rove&Itemid=27 -------------------- http://clap54b.free.fr/vollibre/musee/musee.htm Lincoln |
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two more plans
First one is called "Twin Boom Jetex" and is from M.A.N., June, 1950. I found this on Colin Usher's site, where he has a bunch of magazines scans made by Zoe Quilter:
http://www.colinusher.info/Model%20Aircraft/images.html The second one is Alan D. Booton's Fokker G-1 from the April 1937 Air Trails, which I scanned a while back. It's 1/2 inch to 1 foot, so presumably the model's span is around two feet or so. I did a bit of editing with my really lame copy of Paint, so the sizes are probably messed up, but they should all be messed up to the same proportion. |
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Feb 05, 2013, 02:52 PM | |
Yeah, the idiot that took on this job (me) is juggling previously committed to obligations. It will take some time for me to finish the Stearman parts. But you may keep on reminding me and I won't take offense. Of course I will expect that you won't take offense when I keep dragging my heels. Planeman |
Feb 05, 2013, 04:55 PM | |||
I've been working on them every day since Steve asked for help. 29 January, I posted a clip of my CAD desktop. "dirty" scans, invisible parts, missing sheets. When will the Stearman parts sheets be done? Ask again in 10 minutes. |
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From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the Caribbean Island of Nevis to his untimely death in a duel with his old enemy Aaron Burr in 1804, Alexander Hamilton, despite his short life, left a huge legacy.
Orphaned at thirteen and apprenticed in a counting house, Hamilton learned principles of business that helped him create the American financial system and invent the modern corporation. But first the staunch, intrepid Hamilton served in the American Revolution, acting as General Washington's spymaster. Forging a successful legal career, Hamilton coauthored the Federalist Papers and plunged into politics. Irresistibly attractive, he was a man of many gifts, but he could be arrogant and at times a poor judge of character.
In this meticulously researched, illuminating, and lively account, Willard Sterne Randall explores Hamilton's life—his illegitimate birth, little-known military activities, political and diplomatic intrigues, and scandalous affairs—and its indelible impact on modern America.
Who was right about America--Jefferson or Hamilton? Such, writes Randall (Humanities/ Champlain Coll., Vermont; co-author, Forgotten Americans, 1998, etc.), was the single question leveled at him at a meeting of the American Revolution Round Table a few years back. "The hour was late," he writes, "my answer brief: Jefferson for the eighteenth century, Hamilton for more modern times." He capably defends his judgment in this well-written life of Hamilton (1755-1804), who mixed Clintonesque appetites for pleasure and policy-wonking while busily putting the new republic's economy on a sound footing. Hamilton's life was wreathed in legend even in his time; more or less adopted by George Washington, he also had a talent for acquiring powerful enemies who made every effort to discredit the young man as a bastard, a closet royalist, and an enemy of democracy. Randall defends his subject on all counts; to be sure, he notes, Hamilton's parents were not technically married, but "they lived as husband and wife for fifteen years," which was good enough in the eyes of English common law; to be sure, he carried himself with the air of an aristocrat, but Hamilton was no fan of the Hanoverian kings, and if he showed unusual clemency to captured Loyalists, he remained a devoted soldier of the Continental Army all the same, ardently espousing the cause of liberty. Unlike more idealistic revolutionaries, however, Hamilton believed that the chief role of government was to subdue the passions of the people, who "areinherently corrupted by lust for power and greed for property," which put him square up against the Jeffersonian camp and, in time, in the sights of Aaron Burr's pistol. But before he fell, Hamilton crafted several institutions--among them the national bank and the germ of the IRS--that prove him a modern man indeed, for better or worse.
A sturdy and readable life, in company with Randall's other portraits of the Revolutionary generation.
Alexander Hamilton realized instantly that he would die. Before he even heard the shot, the oversize lead ball had torn into his right side just above the hip, crashed through a rib, sliced through his liver, shattering a vertebra. Pitching forward on his face, Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury of the United States, the author of the Federalist Papers, George Washington's strong right hand, the financial genius who had created Wall Street, and as inspector general of the U.S. Army, launched the U.S. Navy, fell to the ground, clutching his dueling pistol. His friend and second in the duel, Nathaniel Pendleton, rolled him over, cupped him in his arms, and held him, half sitting, under a cedar tree, away from the glaring July sunlight.
"Dr. Hosack!" Pendleton yelled. "Dr. Hosack!" Waiting with the oarsman below by the Hudson shore, Dr. David Hosack rushed up the narrow path toward the dueling place atop a small granite outcropping of cliff below the waking village of Weehawken, New Jersey, that steaming Thursday morning of July 11, 1804. He brushed past Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States, shielded by his second's umbrella to conceal his face as he hastened toward a rowboat that would hurry him across to New York City.
By the time Dr. Hosack, breathless, reached him, Hamilton had slumped to the ground and was losing consciousness. But he managed to gasp, "This is a mortal wound, Doctor." Once, Hamilton had wanted to study medicine. He knew anatomy. He knew the path of his pain, that his legs no longer moved. He thought he would die on the spot. So did Dr. Hosack. When he pulled up the bloody shirt, probed for a pulse, he could not hear Hamilton breathing. Hamilton had, Dr. Hosack wrote a few weeks later, "become to all appearance lifeless. His pulses were not to be felt. His respiration was entirely suspended. Laying my hand on his heart, I considered him irrecoverably gone."
Hosack and Pendleton carried Hamilton out of the woods and down the steep path. The boatman helped wrestle him onto the barge, placing the ornate case and pistol beside him. The doctor worked over him, rubbing spirits of hartshorne over his face, lips, forehead, neck, breast, arms. The cool massage seemed to have a miraculous effect. About fifty yards from shore, Hamilton sighed, the fresh breeze on the open water helping to revive him. His eyes half open, "to our great joy," recounted Hosack, "he at length spoke: 'My vision is indistinct,'" he said. "His pulse became more perceptible, his respiration more regular; his sight returned." But when the doctor tried to press Hamilton's side, to examine the wound, the pain was too much for Hamilton.
For a while, as the oars groaned in the tholes and slapped the water, Hamilton tried to talk. He spied the pistol, lent to him by his friend John Church. It was the same hair-triggered pistol Hamilton's oldest son had used three years before when he had been killed in a duel. The sight jolted him. "Take care of that pistol!" Hamilton cried. "It is undischarged, and still cocked. It may go off and do harm." He did not realize he had fired the gun into the air when Burr's bullet had struck him. Now he tried to turn his head toward Pendleton, sitting behind him in the stern. "Pendleton knows I did not intend to fire at him." His second nodded. "Yes, I have already told Dr. Hosack that." Then Hamilton fell silent. He remained calm, his eyes closed. Just before the boat bumped into the dock, Hamilton asked his friends to summon his wife, Elizabeth, at home with their seven children at The Grange at Manhattan's northern tip. She had no idea of the duel. "Let Mrs. Hamilton be immediately sent for. Let the event be gradually broken to her, but give her hopes."
Hamilton's old friend William Bayard was looking down at him as the boat docked. A servant had told him that Hamilton had rowed away from Bayard's dock at dawn with two other men. Now Bayard strained to see as the boat neared: he could make out only two figures. Looking down into the boat, he could see why. Bayard had known Hamilton some thirty years since Hamilton, a young artillery captain, had fortified the Bayard family home and turned it into Bunker Hill Fort at the outbreak of the Revolution. I called [Bayard] to have a cot prepared," Dr. Hosack recorded. "He, at the same moment, saw his poor friend lying in the bottom of the boat. He threw up his eyes and burst into a flood of tears." Hamilton alone appeared tranquil and composed. "We then conveyed him as tenderly as possible up to the house."
Alexander Hamilton lasted thirty-one hours after Aaron Burr shot him. When they finally got him into a bed on the second floor of Bayard's house on Chambers Street, he was nearly comatose. The doctor undressed him and administered a large dose of a strong anodyne, a painkiller. During the first day, Hosack gave Hamilton more than an ounce of an opium and cider potion, called laudanum, washing it down with watered wine. But, Hosack noted, "his sufferings during the whole day were almost intolerable." The ball had lodged inside his second lumbar disk, which had shattered, paralyzing his legs. His stomach was slowly filling with blood from severed blood vessels in his liver. Hosack "had not the shadow of a hope of his recovery," but he called in surgeons from French men-of-war anchored in the harbor who "had much experience in gunshot wounds." They agreed that Hamilton's condition was hopeless.
During the night of July 11, the sedated Hamilton "had some imperfect sleep." He knew he had little time left to live: he asked Bayard to summon the Reverend Benjamin Moore ...
Alexander HamiltonBarnes & Noble.com: Having already written biographies of Washington and Jefferson, what made you decide to tackle Hamilton?
Willard Sterne Randall: Hamilton was the least known of the Founding Fathers. So much of what we know about him is from the words of his contemporaries. He needed a fresh perspective that would bring him to the attention of the public.
B&N.com: Could you describe Hamilton's upbringing in the West Indies? How did his being illegitimate effect his growing up, particularly his education? Was he socially not accepted? And what kind of effect did his being illegitimate have on his later life?
WSR: John Adams branded Hamilton as illegitimate, but today he would not be considered so. His father was actually his mother's second husband. He went to a school where Jews went to, and he studied Hebrew. He was always an outsider.
B&N.com: How did he come to New York? And please explain how, at such a young age, he rose in the Revolution to become a high-ranking officer and aide-de-camp to Washington. Also, talk about his personal relationship with Washington.
WSR: Hamilton was orphaned at 15 and got a job in a counting house. Fortunately for him, his boss had to return to New York. The business was in bad shape, but Hamilton saved it. The family he worked for gave him a scholarship to go to America, and he went to New York, where he studied at King's College, which later became Columbia. The Church of England then ran the college. While a student, Hamilton wrote revolutionary pamphlets.
After the Battle of Lexington, Hamilton organized a paramilitary company. He was the first to democratize the army. He insisted that enlisted men be promoted to officer when it was warranted. Hamilton rose to captain by the time of the victory over the Hessians. He gained Washington's attention, and he invited Hamilton -- who was only 20 years old -- to be his aide-de-camp. Although Hamilton was a "ringer," or outsider, Washington took to young men who could write well, and Hamilton was a superb writer. Hamilton specialized in POW exchanges and in espionage. He got the goods on Horatio Gates.
B&N.com: He played a pivotal role at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. What did he do exactly? Also, tell us about the Federalist Papers.
WSR: At the Constitutional Convention, Hamilton spoke only once -- but it was for six hours straight, without notes, in which he outlined the entire blueprint for the government we have today. Hamilton was the main contributor to the Federalist Papers. He wrote more pieces than Madison and Jay. At that time, he was in the New York Legislature, and he won the state's ratification of the Constitution.
B&N.com: What is his legacy as the first secretary of the Treasury? Along with that question, for generations, historians have made much of the division within the Washington administration between Hamilton and Jefferson, the secretary of state, in general and on foreign policy. How would you characterize that split?
WSR: As the first secretary of the Treasury, he faced the problem of paying off the nation's $76 million of debt. That would be an astronomical amount today. The country had no credit. The individual states were competing with each other for credit. Hamilton proposed a national debt and issued the first United States bonds. The very word of his plan doubled the value of the United States stocks. He set up a national debt, which actually had the effect of turning it [the debt] into a national asset. Then he founded what was essentially the national corporation by lowering the "corporate veil," so to speak. He provided a way for anyone to invest, democratizing the market.
Under Hamilton, the United States Mint came up with the dollar, and Hamilton put an African American, Benjamin Banneker, in charge of it. In addition to establishing the Bank of the United States, the modern corporation, and national debt, he plunged into the Industrial Revolution by setting up the nation's first mill town in Paterson, New Jersey. The fight with Jefferson revolved around the question of where power would reside -- in New York, the financial center, or in the South. There was the famous dinner table bargain in which it was agreed that the capital would be moved to what became Washington. As for foreign policy, Hamilton favored the U.S. as an international financial power, was a proponent of a sizable army, founded the U.S. Navy, and wanted an America that was able to defend itself and its interests.
B&N.com: Hamilton was, I believe, an early abolitionist. What caused him to be antislavery when slavery was not only common in the South, his native West Indies, and even in New York?
WSR: He was very much an abolitionist. In his childhood in the West Indies, the economy depended on slavery. He thought the idea of holding people in bondage was wrong. Then he married a woman with slaves. He also spoke for women's rights reform and spoke out for the divorce rights of women.
B&N.com: Hamilton had a well-known affair with a woman -- the kind of thing that would ruin a politician's career today. Could you tell us briefly about this affair?
WSR: In Philadelphia, he had an affair with a woman. He was secretive but he was found out. He could have paid a bribe or he could have confessed. He chose to confess, and that ruined any chance he had of being president, so even then it was the kind of thing that took its toll on a politician's career.
B&N.com: Numerous biographies have been written about Hamilton. How is yours different? Did you find any new sources?
WSR: I looked hard at his early years. I tried to understand why people at the time thought the way they did. I tried to follow the Founding Fathers and look at their personal lives. Hamilton's early sufferings had a lot to do with making him a humanist. He had insecurities with aristocratic society. I found some papers from St. Croix, the island in the West Indies, where Hamilton had lived as a boy, that had not been used before.
B&N.com: What can you tell us about Hamilton's duel with Aaron Burr?
WSR: The key thing in the duel was the pistols used. They were the same pistols that had been used not long before in a duel in which Hamilton's son was killed. Some have suspected that there was something wrong with Hamilton's pistols in comparison to Burr's. I am not a ballistic expert, but I know something about guns. I came at this question like the investigative reporter I was for over 20 years before I got into academia.
Even though Hamilton shot his gun into the air while Burr shot to kill, the condition of Hamilton's pistol is worth wondering about. Ballistic experts in the 1990s examined the pistol and found nothing wrong with it, but the pistol was provided by John Church, the husband of Hamilton's mistress. There are a lot of questions one could ask about the duel.
B&N.com: What is Hamilton's great overall legacy to the nation?
WSR: Hamilton's legacy is that every American has a chance to make money and not be bound by class. He truly helped make America a land of opportunity by making it solvent. Jefferson's vision was to make the opportunity one of owning land.
B&N.com: Put another way, what relevance does Hamilton, his life story, and your treatment of him and his era have for Americans in these uncertain times of 2003?
WSR: Our credit system still makes it possible for new immigrants and minorities to send their kids to college through student loans. Most of all, Hamilton believed that society should be democratic with a small "d."
B&N.com: Why doesn't Hamilton get his historical due?
WSR: Hamilton saw the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution and saw the great possibilities of it for economic growth in the United States and in the world. Before 1932 and the Great Depression, Hamilton was held in much higher regard. With the Depression and afterward, his reputation slipped. Jefferson's vision was one in which free land would be the center of the new society. John Adams had stigmatized Hamilton as being "the base born brat of a Scotch." Politics just didn't become ugly recently. It started out that way. And Hamilton didn't become president because of the illegitimacy charge and his admission of having an affair.
B&N.com: What will be your next project?
WSR: I will be moving from the Founding Fathers to the sons of the Founding Fathers.
Posted February 27, 2005
O.K., I¿ll admit it. I can¿t objectively review this book because, like Eliza Hamilton and Angelica Church I kind of have a ¿thing¿ for Alexander Hamilton. Enormously talented, energetic, and confident; visionary, principled, devoted to the public good; with a feminine side that allowed for deep love and friendships¿what¿s not to love? I have to say that Willard Sterne Randall, in his book ¿Alexander Hamilton: A Life,¿ just doesn¿t ¿get it.¿ It seems this biographer doesn¿t like his subject all that much. Which is strange, because Hamilton inspired remarkable admiration and loyalty among almost all the people he was close to and most of his associates as well. There is no George Stephanopolos among his Hamilton¿s inner circle, shouting that he was hurt and betrayed by his former friend. His only enemies were those, like Adams and Jefferson, on the receiving end of his political attacks; and even they admired his abilities. And often Hamilton remained on good personal terms with his political rivals. Aaron Burr, referred to him as ¿my friend Hamilton, whom I shot.¿ So I am writing to defend a man--an individual I feel I know from Ron Chernow¿s much better biography entitled, ¿Alexander Hamilton.¿ Randall tells the historical story competently enough. He spends pages clearly outlining a particular political or military situation and then describes the position that Hamilton took with regard to the issue or the role he played in the military maneuvers. (And he does a better job than Chernow of identifying Hamilton¿s mentors.) But Hamilton¿s personality has been drained out of the story, in ¿Alexander Hamilton: A Life.¿ Contemporaries found Hamilton constantly surprising, sometimes amazing. Randall makes Hamilton seem inevitable, predetermined. Why he did our founding father from the West Indies do what he did, and how did he feel about it? What explains his meteoric rise to fame at such a young age? Inquiring minds want to know, and Hamilton was such a prolific writer that all this information pretty much available. When I first got this book I skimmed the index for ¿Angelica Church¿ (Hamilton¿s sister-in-law), eager for Randall¿s take on the ¿did they or didn¿t they¿ controversy. In Chernow¿s much longer biography of Hamilton, Chernow scrupulously scanned the record and concluded, maybe yes and maybe no¿and he laid out the evidence pro and con. Randall presents as fact that Hamilton DID have an affair with Church. As evidence he gives us a ¿close¿ reading of some letters in which Randall discerns a ¿subtle code . . . scarcely if at all noticeable to Betsy [Hamilton¿s wife] who had fifty years to edit Hamilton¿s papers after his death.¿ Hmmm . . .? Was she an idiot? Disappointingly, for those looking for a scandal or at least a resolution of the mystery, the supposed ¿code¿ consists of faint or missing periods and consistently misspelled words and Randall¿s examples of coded messages are unconvincing. Furthermore, I soon lost all confidence in Randall¿s close-reading skills when I got to Randall¿s take on Hamilton¿s letters to his fiancé and future wife Betsy (or Eliza). These are obviously love letters¿from someone totally head-over-heals in love. Randall, after quoting from these letters, suggests that possibly Hamilton never loved his wife but only pretended to. I don¿t know what to say. I received similar letters from my finance and, now husband of 17 years, and Hamilton¿s letters totally ring true. Maybe, through no fault of his own, Randall is just ¿tone deaf¿ when it comes to love letters. In any case, I do not trust Randall to look for subtle codes of love in correspondence if he can¿t recognize the blatant and obvious codes. So for a more engaging take on the life of a remarkable human being and founding father, who, in Randall¿s words ¿helped to create the United States,¿ please read Ron Chernow¿s book on Alexander Hamilton.
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Being a history buff, I found this book to be lacking any information that hasn't been found in numerous other books on other Founding Fathers and on the Revolution. I was hoping to find more information about the duel with Aaron Burr and on the preceding duel involving Hamilton's son, but there was very little information on a subject that was such a large part of who Alexander Hamilton was in his private life. I have read many books on George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, etc. and found most all of the information that was included in this book.
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Controller.File Method (Byte(), String)
.NET Framework 4
Creates a FileContentResult object by using the file contents and file type.
Assembly: System.Web.Mvc (in System.Web.Mvc.dll)
'Declaration Protected Friend Function File ( _ fileContents As Byte(), _ contentType As String _ ) As FileContentResult
- fileContents
- Type: System.Byte()
The binary content to send to the response.
- contentType
- Type: System.String
The content type (MIME type).
The result object that is prepared by this method is written to the response by the MVC framework when the object is executed. The MediaTypeNames class can be used to get the MIME type for a specific file name extension.
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Lexus has unveiled what it calls 'the world's first dedicated luxury hybrid' at the Detroit show, the HS250h. If you're thinking the LS600h did a pretty decent job of being a dedicated luxury hybrid, here's the difference: the HS250h is - like the Prius – a standalone model that'll only be available as a hybrid.
There's a lot more shared with the Prius here, too. The platform is shared with the third generation of Toyota's family hybrid (which'll be unveiled here at Detroit tomorrow). Though the HS250h looks superficially similar to the Lexus IS range, it's completely different underneath – the HS250h is front-wheel drive while the IS is rear-wheel driven.
The HS250h's drivetrain is similar to the Pruis, but with a bigger engine for a bit more performance: where the Prius makes do with a 1.5-litre engine, the HS250h gets a 2.4-litre petrol four-pot putting out 187bhp. Combined with the electric motor, Lexus says that – on the US combined cycle at least - HS250h should return better fuel economy than a petrol Smart ForTwo. Impressive stuff.
There's plenty of clever tech on board, too – a heads-up display and Toyota's fancy iDrive-style interface, as well as a lane departure prevention system and collision mitigation technology. Phew.
The HS250h will go on sale this summer, and though we're yet to hear prices, Lexus says it expects to sell around 35,000 units a year. Would you bet against it?


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Lawmakers grill General Motors CEO Mary Barra over "culture of secrecy" surrounding recalls.
General Motors said on Friday it will recall 511,528 Chevrolet Camaro muscle cars.
Ford is issuing safety recalls for approximately 1.1 million cars in North America.
Federal safety regulators said Friday that it is "likely" that more than 13 people died in General Motors cars recalled earlier this year for defective ignition switches.
Petco became the first national pet retail chain to remove all China-made dog and cat treats today when it announced that it would stop selling the products in its more than 1,300 locations by the end of the year.
Toyota issued three safety-related recalls Thursday covering 430,500 vehicles sold in the United States, as the auto industry continued on pace for an all-time recall record this year.
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General Motors has issued four separate, new recalls for more than 2.4 million vehicles in the United States, the automaker announced on Tuesday.
A Detroit meat packing company is recalling 1.8 million pounds of ground beef after it was linked to nearly a dozen potentially dangerous E. coli infections in four states, federal agriculture officials said Monday.
General Motors has agreed to pay a record $35 million penalty for delays in reporting flaws in ignition switches that have led to at least 13 deaths, the Department of Transportation announced on Friday.
General Motors Co said on Thursday it has issued five more recalls, covering about 2.7 million vehicles in the United States and as a result is expected to take a charge of up to $200 million.
General Motors Co. said Thursday it has recalled 8,590 Buick and Chevrolet sedans in North America to address a potential braking problem.
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Honda is recalling 24,889 Odyssey minivans from the 2014 model year because their side air bags may not deploy during a crash.
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Mercedes recalls nearly 300,000 cars from 2008 through 2011.
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Have You Ever Questioned?Have you ever questioned?Have You Ever Questioned?3 years ago in Urban & Spoken Word More Like This
Life's compulsory regulations and lessons.
The processes that are automatically assumed.
These social facts that are hereditarily consumed.
This holy reasoning that can never be disputed.
A uniformed mass that are complacently suited.
Have you ever questioned?
Why things are, the way they are.
How one out of eight planets in this solar system,
Facilitates life which revolves around an incandescent star.
How on this one planet both good and evil thrive.
And god's subjects commit sinful, selfish acts just to survive.
How the quantity of printed paper assures your material stability.
And the lack of it limits your social and mental mobility.
How our faith is based in an invisible, omnipotent director.
And tragedies occur despite the presence of this all knowing protector.
Have you ever questioned?
Everything that you know and believe.
And that what ever the human mind can conjure.
It can actually achieve.
Have you ever questioned?
Whether we eternally
Falling StarsI step out the door,Falling Stars3 years ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
and gaze upon the beauty that I stand before.
I see little white stars falling
outlined on the sky, which is now darkening.
Desolate and noiseless it becomes,
the falling star, by gravity, succumbs,
joining the aesthetic sea of white,
gleaming and reflecting the dimming light.
It's truly magical to see such a sight,
Falling stars, a beauty in the night.
I retreat into my dwelling,
an end to my outing.
But the memory will not soon fade,
for the image that was just conveyed,
will stay permanent in my mind,
while a picture in yours is being defined.
But it will not compare to the beauty of the original sight,
the beauty of stars falling in the night.
NamesNames are not found in dictionaries,Names3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
Names don't tell of one's status, ability, or personality.
Each name is unique.
No matter how common it is.
For although others may share your name.
Share it right down to the last letter,
There never has been, and never will be,
another you again.
And that fact is what makes you, you.
Never Does a Day Go By.Never does a day go by,Never Does a Day Go By.3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
when you don't cross my mind.
Everything about you running through my head.
No memory goes unnoticed in the daily barrage.
Never does a day go by,
when I don't remember our first conversation.
Quite a funny one that you initiated.
A late night on facebook was the start of something special
but those late nights are long gone, we haven't talked in awhile.
Never does a day go by,
when I don't remember the night I asked you out
our feelings were clear,
we both felt the same thing.
But that didn't stop our awkward exchange.
Never does a day go by,
when I don't remember our first kiss.
your soft and warm lips pressed upon mine.
Later to realize how embarrassing our intimate moment really was.
Never does a day go by,
when I don't think of you.
not even your small quirks are safe from my mind.
Your light blue eyes that I could stare into for hours.
the same eyes that penetrate my heart and soul.
Never does a day go by,
when all of those late nights don't flood my mind.
Comic Book HeroWe met in the Summer, I was single and free,Comic Book Hero3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
So fragile and sweet, he took care of me.
He was so much fun, exciting and new,
It was all so amazing, too good to be true.
Like a comic book hero, he swept me away.
He promised me the world, the night and day.
But his heart was untrue, his words were lies.
No comic book hero, but a villain disguised.
Our romance was deep, like Superman and Miss Lane
Iron Man, Miss Potts, Spidey and Mary Jane.
He impressed me with gifts, and words sublime,
Affirmations of how he would always be mine.
Like a comic book hero, he swept me away.
He promised me the world, the night and day.
But his heart was untrue, his words were lies.
No comic book hero, but a villain disguised.
As time went by, his promises were lost.
His stories grew grander and my heart was the cost.
The hero, he ran. Where to? No one knows.
But a path of heart ache will follow where he goes.
Like a comic book hero, he too wore a mask.
Promises broken, our love not to last.
And his heart was
Am I weird?Am I weird?Am I weird?3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
So what if I randomly belt out in song?
Who cares if you can or can't sing?
I know perfectly well that I am not hitting a single correct note,
But I will still show off my "lovely voice" to anyone unlucky enough to hear me.
Am I weird?
Is it wrong to suddenly breakout into dance?
Yeah, sometimes I jump around like a crazy monkey and write it off as dance moves.
Sometimes you just gotta get crazy with your bad self.
And if I see others who aren't dancing, well...they won't be like that for long.
Am I weird?
I mimic movies because I wish my life was just as awesome.
Some days I have the stealth and sneakiness of the world's best assassin.
Other days I have the strength of ten men taking down baddies left and right.
Still on some days I am a powerful magician who can bring destruction on the puny mortals!
Am I weird?
I sing until my little lungs can't sing no more.
I get freaky and do a funky jive from time to time.
I let my imagination run rampant and pretend my life is a fan
ReflectionsRealist my friend, you are a bloody fool!Reflections3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
Did you honestly think that love was simple?
That everyone on earth has one person that
They are just destined to be with?
I didn't think...
I hoped.
No matter how unlikely it seems,
A Realist can still be a Dreamer.
And will you look where that got you.
When has hope done anything practical,
And since when has dreaming ever helped Superman
Find his Lois Lane?
I don't expect you to understand.
It's just something you feel deep within you.
If you ever felt love before,
You would know.
Come on man!
You have to move on.
If you live in the past
You are sure to miss out on the future.
If I could, don't you think I would have done it already?
No, I don't expect you to know exactly how I felt.
I was on top of the world, and I had my eyes open long enough
To see everything come crashing down...
DareI dare you to be creative.Dare3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
To express yourself in ways that only you can.
And in being creative, you can spark inspiration within others.
That inspiration can swell up and blossom inside them.
And from the blossomed inspiration, dreams are born.
Dreams, that can change the world.
So, in acceptance of this simple dare.
You may unknowingly inspire.
You may unknowingly plant dreams.
You may unknowingly change the world.
Are you up to it?
The WorldI can't believe it.The World3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
I don't understand.
How can you think that this awful man,
Is your entire world, let alone your friend?
Please tell me,
Please explain.
He is your world?
Since when does the world turn its back on you?
When does it leave you high and dry in your time of need?
When does it exploit and use you?
Cheat and abuse you?
Since when does the world build you up,
just to knock you down?
When does it make you feel special,
just to pull the rug from beneath your feet?
How can it make you feel so cold on the hottest day?
So alone around all your friends?
What? Oh, you mean to say,
that IS what the world is like?
Cruel? Unjust? Unfair?
Then, I guess you're right.
This awful man...
he is the world to you isn't he?
First KissI look at you, I'm nervous as hell, hoping against hope that you'd kiss me.First Kiss3 years ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
The empty street, the soft porch light, your hazel eyes are all I can see.
You lean down slowly, gently, letting your soft lips brush against mine.
You do it again, again, and again... We completely lose track of the time.
On my toes, your fingers lost in my hair, my body moulding to fit yours perfectly.
You kiss my neck, my heart hammers away, your lips tasting like heaven to me.
I was eighteen and never been kissed, until you came along, weakening my knees.
With you it was perfect, as it should be... Would you kiss me once more, please?
Why do you haunt me?Why does your memory haunt me so?Why do you haunt me?3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
Causing me to relive that painful time.
That first moment when we weren't together.
It's like you taunt me at the best possible instances.
Bringing my "all time low" ever lower.
When my friends laugh and are having fun.
I am trying with all my might to hide my violent shutters,
and to steady my quivering lip as I can barely hold back the tears.
Why? Why do you want to cause me such pain?
I don't want to remember.
It's done and over.
Somehow I see you among a sea of faces.
I can pick out your voice in a babble of billions.
Your scent somehow appears and I can't rid my nose of it.
I know you aren't there but why does it seem like you are?
My friends don't realize the pain you put me through.
I'm used to wearing a mask.
But someday soon it's going to fall off.
Your memories will expose me for who I am.
Miserable, depressed, pathetic.
I thought I could leave past memories in the past.
But I was never really good at anything.
Why would I think I could
What We AreI'm fucked upWhat We Are3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
You're fucked up
We're all fucked up
but that's okay
We are who we want to be
an everlasting war with society
Hanging by the noose
of poverty and misconception
laughing out suicide
our undead dreams
can never really die
Welcome to our lives
where self medication helps you smile
primetime depression
and forgotten sodomy
Filled in a cyonide world
a sick concoction
of synthetic drugs and
acoholic sex
Crying out blasphemy
making truth out of propaganda
take the blade that raped your brother
and the pills that killed your lover
An inspiration made from sin
pain and mistakes
a passion in finding
more than just sorrows
creating something
out of these lost souls
Inosense lost as children
just wanting it back
a hopeless wish
made as delinquents
All we are
is what we've become
haunting expressionists
dieing poets
and losing drug addicts
shot down artists
and starving loners
We're whithered and unseen
but we keep on living
in this war with society
Ready To IgniteMy chest feels like a furnace,Ready To Ignite3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
And my lungs are on fire.
Death is my mind's only desire;
But I will carry on with bitter grace,
Knowing my ashes may leave no trace.
My chest feels like a grenade,
And my heart is about to explode.
Shall I continue down this road?
But now I stop because I am afraid,
That the life I lead may never be saved.
My chest feels like an anvil,
And my ribs feel like lead.
In my palms is black blood that bled,
But I am scared so much my stare is still,
With bleak eyes I accept misery for good or ill.
either wayshe dances like a raindrop,either way3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
collapses on the ground,
and all of her bones shatter,
made from thin, liquid glass,
her voice ripples on the surface
and it screams
the soft syllables pirouetting on your eardrums
her fingertips tapping
can you hear them?
they are cotton balls
being dropped on the asphalt
can you hear them?
(it's the wind carrying her feet across the air)
and she dances like a raindrop.
you can catch her
and she can shatter in your palms.
WordsSometimes it only takes a few small words to fully express the enormous cluster of emotions that you are feeling.Words3 years ago in Emotional More Like This
MusicIt's magicalMusic3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
how music can quell the darkest of storms,
expel the most evil of demons,
and create happiness,
in the most horrid of times.
Grow Up KidI feel alone lately,Grow Up Kid3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
lost and hurt.
I try to tell my friends,
but they turn it into a contest.
Who's life is worse?
I get it
there are other people out there
who have it worse then me.
Yet venting isn't self centered.
Or I don't think it is.
I want to go back,
to when I was 5.
When I didn't know,
what this kind of hurt is.
When I didn't lay awake in bed,
lost and confused.
But you gotta grow up kid,
two more years,
then you're on your own.
Grow up kid,
because everyone is blaming this on hormones.
Everything Is Gonna Be AlrightThe sun dipped belowEverything Is Gonna Be Alright2 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
The horizon, capturing
The two friends' eyes.
A sense of security
Fell over them both.
Something they had forgotten.
Once all gleam of light
Had disappeared, the blonde
Broke the silence.
Hey, Sammy. Things are
Gonna be alright, right?
Nothings gonna happen, right?
Sammy looked around them.
The ruined homes,
The scent of smoke hanging.
She grabbed her friend's
Hand and smiled into the dark.
No, Brook, she whispered. But we'll make it.
Brooke squeezed her friends palm.
The two of us can make it
Through anything. Like roaches.
Sammy laughed a light laugh.
Yea. Just like roaches.
The Right FlowerLove is like a flower,The Right Flower3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
picked special from a meadow and cared for.
Once picked though,
the flower will begin to wither and wilt.
But you DO have time.
Time to trim it, beautify it, complement it.
How much time and compassion you put into that 'flower' determines how long it will last.
Even if it does die, do not fret!
Press it in the book of you memory; preserve it.
For that flower will be the foundation of all other flowers you continue to pick.
That book of flowers will teach you and remind you how to treat your flowers.
But one day, you will no longer need that book.
When that day comes you'll know,
you'll know you've picked a flower that will last a life time.
Best Night of my LifeLet's run away from this townBest Night of my Life3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
Where dreams fade into families,
We're going to watch the sky fall down.
The music will be our guide
Because everybody needs one night
To remember for the rest of their life.
We're looking at the starlight,
Because their clouds are our movies.
Climb up a little higher
To where nobody can hear us.
The authorities lost us down below,
We've found a place that no one knows.
We can just be young,
And stay up all night with the moon.
We can pretend we have forever,
And forget the comfort of our rooms.
Nature will be our playground,
And the sky can be our roof.
We'll just never come down
And watch our lives pass like hours.
But it's morning
And they'll find us,
The illusion fades to dust.
We'll leave here and go home,
To the place where no one knows
The flowers that grow in clouds,
And the town full of memories
Will be left only in our minds.
I live in a town called Owl CityI live in a town called Owl City.I live in a town called Owl City3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
A city made of Gold, inhabited by Angels.
A place where the sky is beautiful morning, noon, and night.
The Alligator Skies turn gracefully into the Vanilla Twilight.
Every night is rewarded with a spectacular Meteor Shower,
while Fireflies and Bees dance among the Plant Life.
Every day is a Good Time and nothing could Take it All Away.
Wondrous attractions speckle Owl City.
Go for a ride in a Hot Air Balloon, and you won't regret it.
Or perhaps stay awhile at the Umbrella Beach.
While the Yacht Club perform on the seas.
This town is nothing like the Real World and I never want to leave.
You have a chance to come too, and visit this lovely town.
Here's Hope that you will arrive soon.
If you cant get to Owl City, though, don't give up.
Because here we have a saying.
"Dreams Don't turn to Dust."
LoveLove; we all need love in this world,Love3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
But God, how do we tell if it's just lust for a girl?
The devil has my mind in a twirl,
Lord, do you feel what I feel?
Can you heal this sick appeal?
You always stop, you try to stop,
But you get addicted.
And when you think you've made on top,
That's when you drop,
It's back to hell; back to reality,
Can't you tell you're a monster loving lustfully?
Once you're done, there's nothing left but emptiness,
Where's this happiness that the media promised?
If only you knew it was a lie, all lie,
There's no love truer than the one in sky.
But why, why do I give in to the lies?
My heart and my mind are at different parts of life,
So God, I pray for that day you come a take my pain away.
Witching HourEyes entranced in the lustre of eternal nightfall;Witching Hour3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
passion of the Witch broods in forests dark'n wanton
Raven hair black as coal, bathes in winds hallowed
Arcane Moon beckons thirst of tongue
Flamed breath her blood song feasts stars & sky
Magick befalls in shadowy mists of spectral rain
Serpents rise like waves of liquid ivy,
as her soul wallows in the rapture of Winter's pain
O'er Earth and stone, ravenous streams bequest
twilight of dreams and sweet flesh
Enchanted in nocturnal fields, I lust evermore
Like velvet wine, the river ebbs and flows,
unto dark magick of her soul, shall be the lore
Arthur Crow © 2012


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Another holiday season is at hand, just more than two weeks away, and it's another holiday season when readers of the Northeast Times have again been so compassionate and caring in helping us to provide turkey dinners and presents to people in need in our region.
Philadelphia firefighters put out three fires in the Northeast on Sunday and doused another on Nov. 22.
A Frankford resident who earlier this month had been the victim of a burglary killed two men who broke into his home and wounded two others the night before Thanksgiving, police said.
Day by day, the clock is ticking. So much to do, it seems, and so little time to do it. In just more than three weeks, families around the Northeast will be celebrating with loved ones, preoccupied by the joy and goodwill of the season.
Work is about to begin on construction of a 4.5-acre park near the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge.
Leaders of the East Torresdale Civic Association and the owner of Maggie's Waterfront Café seemed to agree on at least one thing during the ETCA's monthly meeting on Nov. 14.
As seen on TV. Sorta.
It was a bad day for an early-morning Black Friday shopper at Franklin Mills mall but it could have been worse.
Kathy Perpetua, the Holme Circle woman who sells handmade rosary beads, last week donated $2,235 to the widows' fund of International Association of Fire Fighters Local 22.
Police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who struck a bicyclist early on Nov. 21 on the 500 block of Alburger Ave. in Bustleton,