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Thursday, Oct 8, 2015, 4:05 pm · By Bruce Vail
33 Workers Dead After U.S. Cargo Ship Lost at Sea. Could It Have Been Prevented?
Search and rescue teams officially gave up hope yesterday after a failed five-day effort to locate 33 cargo ship workers lost at sea in the waters near the Bahamas. The sailors and other shipboard workers are presumed dead in the wreck of the U.S.-flagged commercial vessel El Faro, which disappeared October 1 in the high winds and heavy seas of Hurricane Joaquin.
The last voyage of the El Faro has already taken on the air of maritime mystery. U.S. Coast Guard teams were not only unable to locate any survivors, but are not even sure about the current location of the ship. U.S. Coast Guard Captain Mark Fedor stated officials believe it sank near its last reported position about 35 miles northeast of Crooked Island, the Bahamas, but the precise location has yet to be identified.
Among the lost seafarers are 28 members of the regular crew, all American citizens, and five Polish nationals, who had been hired as a temporary "riding gang" to do special maintenance work. They departed Jacksonville, Florida, September 29 for a regularly scheduled voyage to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Another mystery has already been suggested by some family and friends of the crew: Were the deaths preventable?
Tuesday, Oct 6, 2015, 3:42 pm · By Mario Vasquez
Wave of Digital Media Organizing Continues as Al Jazeera America Goes Union
The unionization of digital media continues—now at Al Jazeera America (AJAM), after the National Labor Relations Board confirmed this morning that the news publication's digital workers voted 32-5 in favor of union representation under the NewsGuild of New York, an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America (CWA).
Tuesday, Oct 6, 2015, 1:32 pm · By Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
Rich Guy's Inequality Fix: Raises for Workers. Just Kidding! It's 'Give Free Stuff to Rich Guys'
Republicans and the rich guys who imposed on American workers 35 years of stagnant wages now offer a prescription for easing this pain.
Their solution for robber-baron-level income inequality is not the obvious: Give workers raises. They don't want to increase the minimum wage, which would eventually push up pay for everyone else as well. They don't intend to provide paid sick leave or decent pensions or fewer unstable contract jobs. They have no intention of strengthening unions so workers can collectively bargain for better wages and working conditions.
Instead of any of those straightforward measures, rich guys and corporate-owned Republicans assert that the solution is more free stuff for corporations! The government, they say, should provide that free stuff. The government, the very organization they deride and despise and denounce as incompetent and deserving of nothing but cutting and shrinking and destroying! Yes, they actually contend that very same government should take the taxes paid by workers and give that money to corporations to improve worker wages and working conditions!
Monday, Oct 5, 2015, 6:19 pm · By Bruce Vail
Adjuncts Win Union Contract at Maryland Institute College of Art
The national movement to unionize part-time faculty at U.S. colleges and universities has secured an initial beachhead in the Baltimore area with ratification of a first contract between Service Employees International Union Local 500 and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Voting on the ratification concluded in mid-September and a formal signing ceremony for the pact is set for October 8, labor representatives report.
It's the first union contract for any bargaining unit of part-time faculty, or adjuncts, in the city's greater metropolitan area, where thousands of such workers are employed at about a dozen similar private and public educational institutions. The overwhelming ratification vote of 91-7 came following a protracted contract negotiation initiated when a union organizing drive won collective bargaining rights for about 300 MICA adjuncts in April of last year.
Monday, Oct 5, 2015, 5:52 pm · By David Moberg
Central States Pension Fund Prepares To Slash Hundreds of Thousands of Workers' Pensions
For several months, many current and retired truck drivers have feared receiving a letter in the mail that could be "devastating," in the words of Teamsters union vice-president John Murphy. Finally, last Friday, the Central States Pension Fund sent those dreaded letters to 407,000 workers and retirees, mainly Teamsters employed by hundreds of trucking-related companies with roots in the Midwest, South and East.
Each individualized letter told them in detail whether the fund will now cut their promised pension payments—and, if so, by how much.
Monday, Oct 5, 2015, 4:56 pm · By Branko Marcetic
Carly Fiorina Didn't Pay Several Workers From Her Previous Campaign
Carly Fiorina's presidential campaign is running largely on the back of her highly dubious business record as CEO of HP. While Fiorina claims to have single-handedly turned the company around, others say she was a stubborn and irresponsible leader who couldn't handle criticism and fired tens of thousands of people.
Turns out, however, that Fiorina might have even more in common with your least favorite boss—she also didn't pay her employees.
Thursday, Oct 1, 2015, 6:01 pm · By Michael Arria
T-Mobile Workers Say the Company Has Repeatedly Engaged in Union-busting
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It's a safe bet that T-Mobile's parent company, Deutsche Telekom, won't have much to say in response to the second letter either. But if politicians are beginning to pay attention to T-Mobile employees, it's because workers have been organizing towards improved working conditions for years.
Thursday, Oct 1, 2015, 3:04 pm · By Branko Marcetic
Video Game Voice Actors Push for Strike Over Performance Bonuses and Stressful Recordings
After several failed negotiations with producers, frustrated video game actors may vote to strike for royalties and fairer work conditions that match those of other industries, threatening potentially massive upheaval in the $91.5 billion industry.
Voice actors are demanding they receive residual income based on sales, with a performance bonus for every 2 million online subscribers or copies sold. This set-up is designed to ensure smaller games are unaffected, as this is the threshold at which a game can be considered a "blockbuster," according to creen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), the union representing the actors.
Wednesday, Sep 30, 2015, 2:05 pm · By Crystal Stella Becerril
Netflix's Offer of Paid Family Leave Only to Salaried Workers Reflects Larger Divide in Tech
Last month, Netflix announced it would begin offering unlimited paid maternity and paternity leave to its employees during the first year of their new child's life. Within days of the announcement, the California-based tech company had become trumpeted as the new face of progressive employee benefits among private sector companies. The following day Microsoft announced its own maternity/paternity leave upgrade. (The company says the timing was pure coincidence and not at all related to Netflix's.)
But the web streaming giant failed to mention that this new and improved benefit only applies to salaried employees in its web-division and will not be enjoyed by the 450 waged employees who work in their mail order or customer service division, 261 of whom are part time or seasonal.
Wednesday, Sep 30, 2015, 1:41 pm · By David Moberg
The Fight For 15 Just Landed at America's Busiest Airport
Encouraged by an energetic rally of more than 100 janitors and other members of Service Employees (SEIU) Local 1, a group of low-wage security, cleaning and passenger service workers at Chicago's O'Hare Airport on Tuesday launched a campaign to organize 5,000 airport workers to win higher wages and the right to form a union without intimidation.
The O'Hare organizing drive hopes, first, to bring the non-union workers at the airport into the Fight for $15 movement, initiated three years ago among fast food workers and, according to SEIU, already responsible for raising wages of 11 million workers. Then SEIU organizers hope to use the energy of that campaign for higher pay—and whatever success they have—to help create a union that can continue to defend and bargain for better working conditions.


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First off I'd just like to mention that I've finally reached the last week of school. I'd like to say, "The only thing I have to do now is..." but unfortunately things are not that simple. I've become extremely busy of course wrapping up final projects, doing documentation, registering for courses, and preparing for two tests (one Monday one next Friday). I'm frequently seeing my VOCALOID family now which makes me very happy. I wish I could see more of them but unfortunately I'm too busy until I finish tests and projects and they all live too far away. Just when I'm hoping everything is going well I have to get all anxious and overthink things...I really need to learn to take it easy.
On another note, I was inspired by a friend to resurrect my DevArt: HERE. I don't know how often I'll even update it but it'll mainly be random design things or photography since I don't exactly draw anymore. On that topic though, I did enroll myself for a general "Drawing for Inquiry" course this Spring which I get to take with friends. Awesome.
Got a hefty box in the mail this week! Finally I get to hold the twins in my hands after months of waiting. Shana and Miyuki are adorable too. It's a shame how all the figure releases have been a bit delayed...The twins were due out in October along with the figma versions. I'm still waiting on Goth Punk Mikuru to come in stock before I ship the figmas or they'll end up getting shipped automatically and I have to pay for shipping twice over (Hobby Search is holding the figmas until Dec 1). The Canadian dollar has sunk down about 20 cents since when I ordered all of these so, you guessed it, I'm paying 20% more for everything now. It's almost becoming more worth it to just buy these at an anime store locally since I'm paying so much for shipping now.
Oh well! Here's some pictures of the loot. You can expect a proper photo shoot once I'm out of school. I'll be so bored here at home I'll probably take at least an hour with each figure to take proper pictures.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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- Q said...
Yea the current economic crisis really doesn't make the prices go any better. I gotta be careful with it too....
Nice tripe Nendo loot you've got there~ Take your time on the photoshoot. Gonna do headswapping for them like you do for the figma ones?
- November 26, 2008 at 7:44 PM
- Persocom-san said...
Nice haul ^^ I should be getting Miyuki soon, whenever Ryoko comes out at least. I've been bundling things together a lot more now too because of the economy. Just got my Rin & Len figmas, might want the nendoroids in the future so I look forward to more pictures ^^ That's really cool that you get to see your Vocaloid family so much, wish I had a cool group of friends like that. :)
- November 26, 2008 at 11:54 PM
- phossil said...
Shana with vocaloid twins looks great!!
- November 27, 2008 at 5:14 AM
- Kazearashi said...
That's nice! I'll probably open mine tomorrow... xD I don't really got any free time doing review stuffs this week... Keep on going out... lol
- November 27, 2008 at 6:40 AM
- Rin said...
I want the Vocaloid nendo!!!!!!
Waiting on it still though...
I see Miyuki!!!!! YAY for Lucky Star!!!!!!
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President Obama's approval ratings are down, the country's wrong-track numbers are up, the most recent employment numbers came in ("unexpectedly") as dismal. And as Jennifer Epstein of Politico reports, the president is telling his Cabinet:
So today the president is traveling to North Carolina where, as Mark Landler of the New York Times reports, he will:
Weary, perhaps, of waiting for the creation of those well-paying jobs, and unsure that the president can bring it off with a pen and a phone, North Carolina has taken steps of its own and its unemployment rate has dropped from nearly 9 percent last July to under 7.5 percent in December.
There is a Senate seat up for grabs in North Carolina and the outcome will depend heavily on who gets credit for those numbers. Washington, where they are debating the question of extending long-term unemployment benefits, or the (Republican) state government that took steps to end them.
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After dinosaurs, woolly mammoths are probably the best known extinct animals. We're familiar with these curved-tusk beasts because our cave-dwelling ancestors liked drawing them on their walls. We also have enough bits and pieces to prevent our imaginations from running amok. And soon we could have even more. If an ambitious effort to recover genetic material from a frozen Siberian mammoth fulfills its backers' wildest dreams, a living, breathing and perhaps even breeding woolly mammoth could be the star attraction at your favorite zoo.
Three years ago, French explorer Bernard Buigues spotted what turned out to be a mammoth tusk poking up from the frozen soil along the Bolchaya Balakhnya River in Siberia. He named it Jarkov after the family whose 9-year-old had found it several months earlier. When its teeth were carbon dated they were found to be connected to a 47-year-old animal that had died 20,000 years before.
Last fall, a multinational team of jackhammer-toting scientists led by Buigues successfully chiseled out a 23,000-pound block of permafrost containing the mammoth. With the help of a Russian heavy-lift helicopter, they moved it to an ice cave where it remains preserved.
If the mammoth meat--a term scientists would never use--is as fresh as hoped, it may be possible to extract enough undamaged genetic material to
create a living relative of an animal that has been extinct for 10,000 years.
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Cursory genetic examinations suggest the Jarkov mammoth is male. "There's a chance we could get a sample of frozen sperm," says Northern Arizona University paleontologist Larry Agenbroad, a scientist working on the expedition.
Like the sperm of any other warmblooded male, mammoth sperm contains only half the genes needed to create an offspring. This is not a problem. DNA analysis performed on Baby Dima, a mammoth found in 1977, suggests that the Jarkov mammoth might be sufficiently close to the Asian elephant for recovered sperm to fertilize an elephant egg. The offspring of this more or less standard artificial fertilization procedure wouldn't be a mammoth. However, over time selective breeding could wring out all the "elephant" traits, producing a mammoth.
If sperm is unavailable, the explorers would attempt to bring back cells with healthy DNA. Using the technique Ian Wilmut, of Scotland's Roslin Institute, developed to create Dolly the woolly sheep, it should be possible to produce Milly the woolly mammoth.
Genetic engineers believe that the cloning side of the operation, while difficult, would not be impossible. Since Dolly was introduced to a global television audience a few years ago, genetic engineers around the world have been making steady progress toward perfecting the art of cloning replicas of adult animals. Drug companies are driving this research. Their plan is to genetically modify one animal to produce, say, a cancer-fighting drug in its milk. Then, they hope to use cloning to produce an entire herd of genetically identical "twins" (see "Natural Born Factories," March 1998, page 66).
Despite progress since then (mice and possibly goats have been cloned), not everyone is confident ancient DNA could be used to create a new mammoth. "While we can now retrieve snippets of any gene, that does not mean we can put together the genome into organized chromosomes in a nuclear membrane with all the functional apparatus needed for life," cautions Alex D. Greenwood, a researcher at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He recently led the team that recovered DNA from animals dead for nearly 33,000 years. Greenwood points out that the warming which revealed the mammoth may have caused serious tissue decay.
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Even if scientists fail to inseminate an elephant with mammoth sperm or clone a woolly mammoth from recovered DNA, the Jarkov carcass appears to be so
well preserved that there is a considerable amount of knowledge to be gained from a careful examination. Its blood would help pin the tail on the mammoth's family tree. Even without DNA analysis, looking at the structure of a dried splotch of blood can identify the species. Police forensic labs do this sort of work all the time when, for example, they need to determine if a blood smear on the fender of a car is evidence of a crime, or unintentional four-wheel deer hunting. It was just this sort of analysis that told scientists that Baby Dima was more closely related to Asian than to African elephants.
Perhaps the most important question is why woolly mammoths suddenly became extinct 10,000 years ago. There are two schools of thought. For years, mammoths were believed to have been simply hunted to extinction, like passenger pigeons and--but for a last-minute pang of conservationist conscience--the bison. A newer theory proposes that mammoths were struck down by some sort of virus. The hair on this mammoth might help settle this question. Hair is nature's own fly strip. It collects small amounts of almost everything in the air. The pollen on the hair would tell today's scientists if there were any microscopic critters or viruses that caused this mighty creature to disappear from the face of the Earth in the blink of an eye. If the virus theory is indeed correct, it might be useful for us to know how, and more importantly why, it eradicated a fellow warmblooded animal.


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Fireworks didn't go as planned on Beech Mountain.In fact- they didn't go at all. According to Beech Mountain fire chief Jim Brooks, the fireworks are set off near the top of the mountain- and clouds were a detriment earlier this week. Hopefully when firefighters try again tonight- Beech Mountain will finally be able to have its show.
Brooks says not many places are having fireworks shows tonight- hopefully it will give Beech Mountain an edge.
The meadow across from town hall is the perfect spot, according to Brooks. Several restaurants on the mountains will also be open. According to Brooks, it should be a good time.
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Held on February 21 (the night before the Oscars - although undoubtedly there will be no crossover of attendees), this is the 29th annual Golden Rasberries. The full list of nominations includes:
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* Larry the Cable Guy, Witless Protection
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* Jessica Alba, The Eye and The Love Guru
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* The Day The Earth Blowed Up Real Good
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NEW YORK (AP) - Can't decide if you want a PC or tablet? Now you won't have to. With the release of Windows 8, computer makers are doing their best to blur the boundaries with an array of devices that mash keyboards and touch screens together in different ways.
Some of these configurations are new, while others have appeared and disappeared on the market since at least 2002, when Microsoft Corp. released Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.
Microsoft says it has certified 1,000 devices for use with Windows 8 and its sibling operating system, Windows RT. The two systems look the same, but under the hood, they're quite different.
Windows RT runs only on machines with the type of lower-energy, phone-style chips used in iPad and Kindle tablets. That makes for cheap, thin and light devices with very long battery lives _ more than 10 hours. But those devices won't run any programs written for other versions of Windows. In fact, they can run only applications downloaded directly from Microsoft's online store, in a setup borrowed from Apple and its iPhone.
The ability of Windows RT devices to connect to peripherals such as scanners and printers is also limited.
Here's a selection of the devices that went on sale Friday or will hit stores over the next few months:
CONVERTIBLES _ These are the Transformers of the bunch. They run Intel chips and may look like staid laptops at first glance, but one way or another, they convert into tablets.
Toshiba U925t _ To convert this laptop into a tablet, push the 12.5-inch screen back, then slide it over the keyboard with the display facing out. Available now for $1,150.
Sony Vaio Duo 11 _ Similar to the Toshiba but smaller, the folding mechanism on this model leaves no room for adjusting the angle of the screen. There's no room for a touchpad, either. Instead, there's a touch-sensitive "nub" in the middle of the keyboard that lets you guide the cursor. The 11.6-inch screen also works with a stylus. Available now starting at $1,100.
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge Twist _ Like all ThinkPads, the Edge Twist is a business-focused machine. This one incorporates a mechanism that's been in use in tablet computers for at least a decade: The 12.5-inch screen connects to the base with a swiveling hinge. Flip the screen around, then fold it over the keyboard to turn it into a tablet. Available now starting at $849.
Dell XPS 12 _ The 12.5-inch screen on this laptop is hinged inside its frame. It can be flipped around so the screen faces away from you, then folded over the keyboard for tablet mode. Sound original? Dell has actually tried this design before, for a 2010 laptop. Starts at $1,200, with an estimated ship date of Nov. 15.
Lenovo Yoga 11 _ This 11.6-inch screen goes back _ way back. You can push it so far back that it's flat with the underside of the laptop. Now you have a tablet with a screen on one side and a keyboard on the other. Luckily, the keyboard turns off when you fold the screen back, so you can hold the device. Unlike most convertibles, which run on standard Intel chips, this one uses Windows RT and a processor from Nvidia. Available in December for $799.
WINDOWS 8 TABLETS _ These slates run Intel chips and regular Windows software. Computer makers are hoping they'll find a home among businesses that need employees to access their work applications while commuting or traveling, but they're also hoping to entice consumers.
Samsung ATIV Smart PC 500T _ This tablet, with an 11.6-inch screen, looks much like a small laptop when docked into a keyboard base. The combination also folds up just like a laptop. Available now for $650. The keyboard costs another $100 and contains an additional battery to extend the workday.
Lenovo IdeaTab Lynx _ Similar to the Samsung model, the Lynx goes on sale in December for $599. The keyboard will cost another $149.


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Thick Chocolate chip cookies with chewy gooey goodness!
Spaghetti with Tuna & Lemon - Another fantastic recipe from Ciao Italia: Family Classics cookbook.
My experience of the 'not so sweet' Swiss Buttercream alternative for the original American Buttercream.
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Archive for the 'Felix Wankel' tag
Cars of Futures Past – 1964-1967 NSU Spider
1967 NSU Spider. Photos by David LaChance.
Though Mazda is the manufacturer most closely associated with rotary engines, the Japanese automaker didn't pioneer the unconventional engine's use in an automobile. That honor goes to a manufacturer that's now nearly forgotten, NSU, which worked with inventor Felix Wankel to develop the small-but-formidable power plant for automotive use. Its breakthrough car, the NSU Spider, was never meant to be more than a rolling testbed for the rotary engine, as well as a real-world advertisement for other automakers to license the technology. As a sports car, the 1964-1967 NSU Spider was a commercial failure, but as a car that gave a glimpse into an all-too-brief automotive future, it was groundbreaking.
Felix Wankel never had the benefit of a formal education, but that proved to be of little consequence for the engineering genius. In 1922, at the age of just 22, Wankel began sketching ideas for a new type of engine, one with fewer moving parts and lacking the violent stop-and-go reciprocating motion of pistons and connecting rods in a conventional engine. Designing such an engine from a clean sheet of paper proved to be a monumental task, and Wankel reportedly went through an estimated 800 shapes and 150 configurations before settling on a single design. By 1936, Wankel had been granted his first patent for the engine, but translating that into interest from automakers took decades longer.
NSU first took an interest in Wankel's engine design to power its motorcycle product line. In addition to being compact and light, the rotary engine produced power equivalent to a piston engine roughly twice its displacement, and delivered its torque in a smooth and linear fashion. It didn't take long for NSU management to realize such an engine had applications in the automotive realm as well, and by the mid-1950s, work was under way to develop a version of the Wankel rotary engine for use in an NSU automobile.
While the rotary engine uses the same intake, compression, ignition and exhaust strokes as a conventional four-stroke piston engine, its combustion chamber is an epitrochoid, and its "piston equivalent" is a triangular-shaped rotor. Filling in for piston rings in a conventional engine are the rotor's apex seals, necessary to maintain the compression necessary to produce peak power. Failure of these apex seals was a particularly vexing problem for NSU, and the automaker's solution to ensure long wear was to chrome plate the combustion chamber and use metal-impregnated rotor seals. Such a design, it was believed (in the days before computer modeling), would yield an engine reliable for roughly 50,000 miles. To further hedge its bets, NSU set the engine's redline at an artificially low 6,000 RPM, but lacking parts such as pushrods, camshafts, conventional valves or rocker arms, the engine could be revved quite a bit beyond that mark without fear of damage. In production form, the single-rotor 498-cc engine produced 50 horsepower at the NSU Spider's debut, but 54 horsepower in the car's final year on the market.
Realizing that a halo car would get the rotary engine the most exposure, NSU chose to fit it in a convertible based on the rear-engine Bertone-styled NSU Sport Prinz Coupe. Even by standards of the day, the resulting NSU Spider was a small car, measuring just 141 inches from bumper to bumper, and only 60 inches across (for reference, the original Mazda MX-5 Miata measured 155 inches in length and 66 inches across). Thanks in part to the rotary engine's light weight, the NSU Spider tipped the scales at under 1,600 pounds, which helped the car produce reasonable (if not inspirational) performance. Following the manufacturer's recommendations for shift points through all four gears, the run from 0-60 MPH took 17.4 seconds, on the way to a top speed of 95 MPH. Winding the engine out to 8,000 RPM dropped the 0-60 MPH time to 14.5 seconds, at the expense of prematurely worn apex seals.
Underneath, the NSU Spider used four-wheel independent suspension, consisting of coil springs, shock absorbers and unequal-length A-arms up front and semi-trailing A-arms in the rear. The 12-inch wheels were stopped by front disc and rear drum brakes, and to further improve handling, an anti-roll bar was used up front. NSU Spiders were raced (primarily in Europe) with some degree of success, as the car's half-liter rotary engine could be tuned to produce as much as 100 horsepower in Rennsport versions (where engine life was an insignificant factor).
As for amenities, the NSU Spider was well-equipped by sports car standards of the day. Side windows rolled up, and were made of glass, not thin transparent plastic. Seats were comfortable and well-padded, and the compact rotary engine allowed the Spider to offer both front and rear trunk spaces. While the soft top was standard, buyers could also opt for an accessory hard top to further extend the NSU's functionality in cold climates.
In the United States, the NSU Spider was priced less than $3,000, making it comparable to an MGA or Triumph TR4. As the rotary engine was still an unproven commodity, few consumers were eager to act as beta testers for the NSU factory, and dealers sold only 215 in the U.S. market. Worldwide, sales totaled 2,375 over the car's four years of production, but that was enough for NSU to introduce a more powerful rotary-engine sedan called the NSU R0 80 for the 1967 model year. Though it earned "Car of the Year" honors in Europe in 1967, problems with apex seal failures continued to dog NSU, driving up the automaker's warranty costs. With both profits and reserves dwindling, NSU and Auto Union were acquired by Volkswagen in 1969, then merged into the automaker we know today as Audi.
Mazda, which licensed the rotary engine technology from NSU (and nearly beat the Germans to market with its first rotary-powered car, the Cosmo), would go on to achieve reasonable success with the engine, albeit in niche markets. From the 1960s through the RX-8's demise in 2012, Mazda dealers almost always had a pistonless offering for consumers, but emission regulations and the financial realities of building a low-volume, low-profit engine have halted the further development of the rotary engine (for now, anyway).
Some believe that the future of the series hybrid automobile (like the Chevrolet Volt) lies with generators powered by light and compact rotary engines, tuned for fuel economy instead of power. If that turns out to be the case, the NSU Spider may well be remembered as the car that heralded the future, decades before it came to pass.
Cars of Futures Past – Mazda Cosmo
Mazda Cosmo Coupe. Photo courtesy Mazda.
At the dawn of the 1960s, Mazda was a little-known Japanese manufacturer of light-duty trucks, with a single urban commuter car (the R-360) to its credit. Like other Japanese automakers of the day, Mazda had great ambitions for its future, and it saw the Felix Wankel-developed rotary engine as the distinction it needed to rise above the rest of its Japanese competition. Just as the rotary engine was seen as bold and futuristic for its promise of performance in a compact, lightweight package, no ordinary car would do to introduce the Mazda name to a global audience. Looking for maximum impact, Mazda debuted its own version of the two-rotor Wankel engine in a futuristic sport coupe that seemed to blend the best of styling from both Europe and Japan. Calling its new car the Cosmo, Mazda forever cemented its reputation as a manufacturer of cars for those eschewing the shortest route between two points in favor of the most entertaining.
In the late 1950s, Felix Wankel's innovative design for an entirely new internal combustion engine seemed to hold far more promise than the antiquated and inefficient piston engine. The rotary engine was able to produce impressive power from a much smaller and lighter package than traditional piston engines, and held the further advantage of having fewer moving parts to fail. Eventually, rotary engines became known for their smooth running and stratospheric redlines, though these benefits were not without offsetting drawbacks. In February of 1961, Mazda's parent, Toyo Kogyo, became the fourth licensee of the Wankel engine from the patent holder, German automaker NSU.
Photo courtesy Basil McLaren.
Mazda's work on the rotary engine began immediately after it had licensed the rights from NSU, and before delivery of the first NSU-branded engine even took place. By July of 1963, the company had completed two prototype 798cc Type 8A engines to begin testing, and for the 1964 Tokyo Motor Show company president Tsuneji Matsuda drove the first Cosmo prototype (now with an improved 982cc 10A engine) onto the show stand.
Still, problems with Mazda's enhanced rotary engine design persisted. Apex seals, positioned at the tip of each rotor's three lobes, wore quickly, causing the engine to lose compression (and hence, power) while increasing oil consumption and boosting noxious emissions. To solve this problem, Mazda's engineers developed apex seals that used both carbon and aluminum in their construction, which proved to be far more durable than the previous hollow cast-iron design. In total, some 80 prototypes were built using the improved apex seal design, and the bulk of these (75 percent) were shipped to Mazda dealers as evaluation units. This allowed Mazda to generate a large amount of "real time" data on the engines in a fairly short period of time, and by the close of 1966 the design of the two-rotor, 982cc 0810 rotary engine was finalized. It would come to market producing some 110 horsepower, enough to get the lightweight Cosmo through the quarter mile in 16.4 seconds.
Production of the Cosmo coupes began in May of 1967, and the car featured far more than just a revolutionary engine wrapped in sensuous sheetmetal. Mazda was intent on using the Cosmo as a halo car, and each came with disc front brakes (coupled with rear drums), an independent front suspension featuring an anti-roll bar and an aircraft-themed instrument display that included a speedometer, tachometer, oil pressure gauge, water temperature gauge, amperage gauge and clock. Less than 350 examples of the Series I Cosmo were built before Mazda introduced the Series II car in July of 1968.
Series II Cosmo models built on the lessons learned from the Series I cars, and included such improvements as a more powerful (and less expensive) 0813 rotary engine, now rated at 128 horsepower and 103-lbs.ft. of torque; larger wheels (15-inch, versus 14-inch on the original models); a five-speed transmission (versus the original's four-speed); power brakes (still with discs up front and drums in the rear); a longer wheelbase for improved ride quality and better interior room and a larger grille area for improved cooling and more distinctive styling. The Series I's live rear axle and rear leaf springs were retained, but the improved Cosmos shaved 0.6 seconds off the original's quarter-mile time, while boosting top speed from 115 MPH to 120 MPH.
Photo courtesy Basil McLaren.
Mazda constructed 1,176 Series II Cosmos models, but only six were known to have been imported into the United States. While that's hardly a significant number, even for a low-volume manufacturer like Mazda, it did pave the way for later Mazda rotary-engined automobiles like the RX-2, RX-3, RX-4 and RX-7. In fact, as automakers like Mercedes-Benz, General Motors, Toyota and Rolls-Royce were beginning to abandon the idea of a rotary-powered future, Mazda stuck with its compact and (relatively) powerful engine, evolving it from the 0813 to the 12A, 12B and eventually the 13B and its many variants (including the complex but powerful turbocharged 13B-REW, as found in the last Mazda RX-7 sold in the United States). Mazda's 13B-MSP Renesis engine, as used in the Mazda RX-8, has the distinction of being the final production rotary engine built by Mazda, though word is that Mazda is still pursuing the design of an improved rotary engine that blends improved torque with better fuel efficiency and reduced emissions.
Though the rotary engine's thirsty nature and relatively low torque output make it suboptimal for use in mainstream production cars (and only somewhat suitable for use in sports cars), its compact nature and adaptability for multi-fuel use may someday make it the engine of choice for use in series hybrid automobiles (like the Chevy Volt), where an internal combustion engine is used to power a generator, providing electricity to power the electric drive and recharge onboard storage batteries. While both the Mazda Cosmo and the Mazda rotary engine may be out of production (at least temporarily), the engineering effort expended by Mazda on rotary engine design may once again pay dividends, helping to power hybrid-electric cars of tomorrow.


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Ah, cloud backup: both interesting and lucrative. Channel-friendly cloud backup provider Intronis copped a $12 million round in early November, with which it plans to hire additional employees, build its platform and expand its international market reach.
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Last week, I attended and presented at the Düsseldorf Interdisciplinary Workshop on Twitter Analysis (diata11), which I consider one of the best, most informative and discursive academic gatherings I vistited in the last years. Thanks to the invitation policy of Cornelius Puschmann and Katrin Weller, all presentations were well done and really interesting – without exception, and that's really not the usual case at most conferences ;-). Besides the good insights in the running projects of my fellow Twitter-researchers, it was the final discussion which I will most likely remember for a long time: We talked about the very basics of what we are actually doing, both the significance of our methods and the way we can actually describe the kind of communicationwe are observing within social media (I will write another post on this discussion soon).
My own presentation was on some preliminary results of the project on the evolution of news I am working on right now; with support from the Austrian Press Agency's Original Text Service (APA OTS) and Sensemetric. Here's the abstract:
Evolution of News in Networked Publics
In the past, diffusion research was mostly done through telephone interviews. Today, social media not only allows us to trace the diffusion of news but the evolution of a news story through content analysis. We set up and tested a research design to analyse the cross-medial diffusion and evolution of news in different, clear-cut cases, asking for how the dynamics are shaped by different types of media. We also ask for the differences in the way news media reports on a story and the way social media users talk about it.
We code publishing time and content aspects (distinct pieces of information of central relevance) of a wide array of available texts including news stories in online newspapers, blog entries and tweets, that all deal with a certain topic. After homogenizing the material structure and chronologically ordering it, we start by selecting the first item and defining the main aspects included in its content. For each of the following texts, we code whether those aspects are included or not. Each time a new aspect, a new piece of relevant information is added in a text, the code sheet is extended respectively. Our goal is to trace the evolution of a story according to the aspects people write about.
Our first case was Uwe Scheuch's (the deputy governor of Carinthia) conviction in early August this year. Even though the data was not completely coded when I presented at diata11, I was able to provide some first results on the course of the reporting and discussion on Twitter and the news media on the first day of events. Please browse my slides for some of those results – embedded in a discussion of diffusion research and presentation of our method:


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TEXAS guitarist fights for life.
Alistair McErlaine was taken to a London hospital on Thursday where his wife Shelly is keeping a bedside vigil, according to the Daily Record.
The Glasgow-born, 41-year-old was said to have been in good health and shown no symptoms prior to suffering the brain aneurysm.
Singer Sharleen Spiteri told the paper she was "heartbroken" by the news.
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A spokesman for the band told the Daily Record: "We heard the news today. It is something we are still coming to terms with. Ally is a great lad and well liked by everyone. He has had a bad one.
"We have been told the next 48 hours are critical."
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STO: TrekBBS Armada and House of TrekBBS - Fleet discussion and FAQ
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Re: STO: TrekBBS Armada and House of TrekBBS - Fleet discussion and FA
What I am afraid of, is that the Starbase building will be the biggest grind yet.
The new content it will come with might be interesting for 2 runs and then it's back to STF levels of repetition.
Technically our fleet is well equiped for it.
Devs said the sweet spot for efficient build times is member numbers of 40-50 which is pretty close to us (when all members are actively playing). Last time I counted we were around 30.
Efficient in this case means, enough players to make good progress and enough rewards to benefit all of us.
Then again, the reason for the inactivity is said grind I think.
Personally I had enough of it, since it wasn't going anywhere.
Every reward you can grind is completely useless cause once you have it there is nothing else we can do with it.
The recent State of the Game article says we will get the Tholians with the new season as enemies...
Great, enemies without content. I guess they will show up in the new repeatable grind missions.
Yes, DStahl also said that season 7 will be story contentpalooza with the Tholians taking center stage before the end of the year.
They said the same thing about season 5 after FTP before FTP became season 5 and then between release of season 5 nothing much happened up to now with season 6, another system- not content-update, is about to knock on the door.
So what are we grinding for?
Maybe it is time to shift the priorities of the fleet a bit.
I am not in charge anymore, but what do you guys think of trying to be more self sufficient and make our own content.
Through Foundry missions and Roleplay?
I am sure, there are lots of roleplay options in game? We can include PvP, Foundry and of course having our own starbase helps a lot!
We have our KDF faction as a counterpart which we can actually communicate with (I am looking at you TOR with no means of communication between factions).
Let's use that.
Spoiler me one more time! I dare ya! I double dare ya!
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For many of us, "first love" in the visual arts means a quick seduction by the French. It's hard to resist the charms of the modern masters who lived and worked in France, guys like Picasso, Matisse, Miró, Dubuffet and Chagall. Even working in what they probably considered the minor art of printmaking, they brought their top game to the task.
Their talents are made abundantly clear in the Naples Art Association's current exhibit, "Lithography from Galerie Mourlot, New York." It presents vintage posters, original works on paper, illustrated books and ephemera such as letters and photographs from the holdings of a historic Parisian printing house.
The prints and unique works on paper are the main attraction. However, humanizing artifacts, such as a hand-addressed envelope by Picasso, make the show come alive.
Though Galerie Mourlot is now located in Manhattan, under the direction of Eric Mourlot, the prints and posters on view here were created in Paris at the century-old Atelier Mourlot, mostly in the decades after World War II. The Atelier specialized in printing illustrated books and high-quality exhibition posters for French museums.
Inviting a legacy
Eric's grandfather, Fernand Mourlot, who died in 1988, invited major 20th-century European artists to create lithographs in collaboration with his artisans. The artists provided original artworks that were then hand-copied and transformed into lithographic prints by the workshop staff. Occasionally, an artist would work directly on the studio's large and heavy lithographic stones, creating an original design to be printed by the shop's master printers.
Their collective efforts bring a pure dose of Parisian charm to the von Liebig, as if a time capsule had been broken open on the spot. Marc Chagall's poster, "Le Magicien de Paris, Grand Palais," printed in 1970, depicts a jester or harlequin figure who surveys emblematic scenes from the City of Light. There is a bridge over the Seine, a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower, and a line of people ambling along in the sky, all washed in a soft shade of blue.
Nearby hangs an original gouache (a type of opaque watercolor) painting on paper by Chagall, dated 1975. In it, an enormous bouquet of flowers is flanked by a bowl of fruit, a glass and wine bottle. Chagall's ever-present pair of lovers embraces in one corner. The effervescent composition suggests the essence of the "movable feast" that was Paris in the days of Chagall's youth in the 1910s and '20s.
Naples Art Association executive director Joel Kessler said recently that the Mourlot exhibit is particularly appealing because it links the images to the historical context in which they were made. "When I was in New York back in July, I went to see Eric, and looked at a lot of old photos and letters that took place between Eric's grandfather and Picasso, Matisse, Chagall and other artists, and looked at pieces of artwork. I thought it would be a great exhibition for Naples. This is a family that's been involved in printmaking, the lithography business, back to the 1800s."
Cocteau with a pen
From an art-historical perspective, the French practically invented the modern poster in the 19th century. The artist Jules Chéret wove together words and painterly images to convey a graphic message that could be mass-produced on paper. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec made many famous examples and numerous other artists followed in the early years of the 20th century. Even the playwright and filmmaker Jean Cocteau tried his hand at it, as evidenced by a poster he made in 1957 that is in this exhibit, promoting his murals in the St. Peter's Chapel at Villefranche-sur-Mer, near Nice.
Cocteau was not a fabulous draftsman, at least on the basis of the works in this show, but with the Villefranche poster he succeeded in creating an image with strong visual impact. St. Peter, holding a key to the heavenly gates, is envisioned as a stylized angel. The figure's outline is echoed by and entangled in the poster's lettering.
Pablo Picasso brought a more blunt sensibility to his graphic work with Mourlot. He enjoyed an extended relationship with the printmaking studio, lasting from 1945 through the late 1960s.
Three versions of a poster he made – drawing directly on the stones – to publicize a 1948 exhibit of his "pottery, flowers and perfumes" at Vallauris in southern France are strong and appealing. The lettering is done in a thick, sturdy hand. The posters are crowned by a faun's head, drawn slightly differently on each, but all rendered with a sense of humor and confidence.
The artist who epitomizes the notion of visual pleasure in French art is, of course, Henri Matisse. In 1947, he designed an image for a tourist poster that was printed in large quantity by Atelier Mourlot the following year. The poster celebrates the city of Nice as a place of "travail et joie," or work and joy. Matisse's condensed forms, luscious colors and exuberant patterning convey both ideas perfectly.
Printed in an edition of 10,000, the Nice poster represents "a rare, old, beautiful interpretation" of Matisse's painting, according to Eric Mourlot. It required an experienced technician to copy Matisse's original painting in gouache onto lithographic plates to produce the poster. "It takes a skill that only a craftsman with 20 years of experience can have," Mourlot said.
Still for sale
The exhibit represents only a small portion of Eric Mourlot's personal collection.
"I have thousands of posters and prints. I have thousands of photographs and letters" from the studio archives, he noted.
Fortunately, in this season of power shopping, viewers who really feel the love can take home a memento of the show. Instead of an exhibition checklist, the gallery handout lists only those artworks that are for sale. Vintage posters range in price from $1,200 to $4,500. Unframed, open-edition lithographic posters can be had for as little as $75 to $700, with most in the vicinity of $200.
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This is the original article that I mentioned was syndicated in FMT. We didn't really plan to have those goofy hand gestures up =)
Riding Uber in Shanghai
Uber recently entered Shanghai and I used their launch promo code: hellosh to get my first ride for free (up to $20USD). It was a pretty smooth experience, and definitely fun to pick up a date in an Audi A6 and be dropped off in front of a nice restaurant in style, without having to fumble around with cash. Payment is all done via credit card (which I guess could be a problem in China? Though for their target audience, I'm assuming most of them will have a credit card on hand).
Booking the car is quite straight forward, though I did have a bit of confusion as to which button would actually book a car =) Do I click that round button with the car symbol? Or do I click on the pop-up over the pin?
The service is still really new, and I was my driver's first client, on his first day of work. I was amused because he kept asking me if I was "Jacky", and when I tried to confirm that he was an Uber driver, he didn't seem to recognize the company name at all. It seems like they're hiring drivers from Hertz for now, just to get cars on the street. Whatever works, right? Gotta tackle the chicken-or-the-egg problem somehow in a two sided market.
We're Famous! Okay, Not Quite
I realize I have yet to update about our previous two week business trip through Malaysia and Singapore, but here's a little tidbit for now. We were interviewed by The Malaysian Reserve newspaper, and our story was just published and syndicated recently!
Here's the news and link at the bottom from FMT:
RiseHub to launch system in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: RiseHub, a Shanghai-based provider of cloud-based retail system – iPad point of sale (POS), inventory management and reporting – will launch its system in the Malaysian market soon.
The company is in talks with retail chains which would serve as a stepping stone for it to gain access in the Malaysian market.
"We are also talking to investors but we are more keen on finding investors who can give us more than just money," the company's founder Wai Hong Fong told The Malaysian Reserve (TMR) in an interview.
Oozing unparalleled confidence for a business venture started by three young entrepreneurs with money pooled in from their pockets, the company is aiming for a big target of selling systems worth over RM100 million to retailers within three years.
Backing the confidence is the conviction with which Wai claims that the product created by Risehub – StoreHub – is priced at RM3,000, much lower than other retail systems available in the market.
With the system, retailers can have access to real time data about their business.
"If you go to any retailer and ask which is the most selling product in your store in the last one week, it is very likely he may not have an answer to it soon. With StoreHub, the retailer will have a 'finger on the pulse' understanding of the state of their retail business," Wai said.
"Whether you're running a single hot dog stand or a chain of high-end fashion retail outlets, we believe that StoreHub will simplify your processes, improve your understanding of operations and help you focus on growing the business," he said.
The concept of RiseHub is still new in Asia. However, in the US, a company by the name of Square Inc provides a similar application. Social networking site Twitter's founder Jack Dorsey was the founder of Square which is now worth over US$3 billion (RM9.86 billion).
Even though Wai's company came about accidentally, he is not shying away from churning big numbers for the company.
Wai was engaged in the retail business with his family and found the urge to provide an economical system for small businesses and online retailers at a cost that would be much lower than those available in the market.
Wai's own experience while grappling with managing a retail business led to the creation of "StoreHub".
He brought on board two more partners Cong Yu Li, the chief architect of the company and a software professional and the other partner Duncan Leung, the product manager.
Original link: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/business/2013/09/02/risehub-to-launch-system-in-malaysia/
RiseHub give way to StoreHub
"Develop the Product for the Few, Not the Many"
It pains me to see products/UI that are, what I call, "Frankenstein" products. I'm not against company clones. It makes sense that if there's a business/business-model that works in another country, then it's almost stupid to not try to bring it to a foreign market. I've also seen that well executed "copy" products can really flourish and do evolve with a unique edge for the local market. The cliche/no-brainer example is Sina Weibo, which started as a Twitter clone, but implemented a great commenting/re-weibo'ing UI before Twitter did. Frankenstein products, however, are basically cloned from another product, but instead of iterating from thereon out to fit the local market, it continually 'borrows' features/UI/product direction from their foreign competitors. But what this usually results in is:
- Cluttered UI
- Unfocused product focus and direction
- The user doesn't know "what the product is supposed to do"
- 'Extra' features become unused (see: Cluttered UI)
Basically: "Only do your one thing…" and do it well!
"Only do your One Thing" – Product Development
Random Aside:
I love StartupDigest's reading list. There was a point in time where I would use Google Reader everyday and check out all of the cool new technology that was being released into the world… then I realized that I was spending half of my day on Google Reader, and spending very late nights trying to catch up on work. Yeah, not smart.
My personal trick (that I use for myself, and more power to those who have the time to discover their own news) is to:
- Subscribe to newsletters. Newsletters are generally curated 'top stories', delivered right to my inbox! I always have my inbox open (except for certain periods where I vow to work by only opening my inbox at set times in the day. Those binges never last, and I always revert back to having my inbox always open, lol).
- Subscribe to people who love to curate news and Tweet/Google+/etc it to the world.
StartupDigest is one of those awesome curated resources. Chris McCann, I've never met you, but you rock my world with your curated startup reading list.
Two recent articles from StartupDigest that have stuck in the back of my mind, especially as I've started reading "The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win":
- 90 Things I've Learned from Founding 4 Technology Companies
- The Pmarca Guide to Startups, Part 4: The only thing that matters (by Marc Andreessen)
- Only do your One Thing. Everything else is a distraction. Don't do side projects. Don't take unnecessary meetings. Anything that distracts you from executing on your One Thing is just that, a distraction. Say no to everything that does not contribute to your One Thing.
- The only thing that matters is getting to product/market fit.
Come What May – Waiting
Never knew I could feel like this
Like I've never seen the sky before
Ukulele Jams [Daft Punk – Get Lucky]
Picked up a Ukulele the other week. Will get a mic and record some songs soon =)
In the meantime, this is a fun song to play.
Ukulele Chords: http://ukutabs.com/d/daft-punk/get-lucky-feat-pharrel-williams/
Swinging It Up
Waihong and I took some swing dance classes at Shanghai Swings just for kicks. Alright- I wanted to impress a girl, hah. Is that so bad?
Well, it ended up being a lotta fun. Will prolly go for the next level's classes when I find time again.


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The EX53U DLP projector is very similar to the XD530U, including a new wireless, native-digital DVI connection that shows Mitsubishi industry leadership once again. A built in antenna provides WiFi (802.11b/g) networking so theres no need for a cable connection to your PC. In just four simple steps you can download the files you need and then access your video projector wirelessly. The EX53U is a great choice when you dont plan for a permanent install that requires remote projector control.
General Information Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Manufacturer Part Number: EX53U Manufacturer Website Address: www.mitsubishi-presentations.com Brand Name: Mitsubishi Product Model: EX53U Product Name: EX53U Multimedia Projector Product Type: DLP Projector Technical Information Projection Method: Front Video Signals: NTSC 4.43 Lens Minimum Lens Aperture: F/2.5 Maximum Lens Aperture: F/2.8 Zoom Type: Manual Zoom Lamp Lamp Power: 280W Normal Mode Lamp Life: 2000Hour Economy Mode Lamp Life: 3000Hour Image Standard Mode Brightness: 3000lm Native Resolution: 1024 x 768 Graphic Mode: XGA Maximum Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Minimum Projection Distance: 51" Maximum Projection Distance: 427" Diagonal Image Size: 300" Compatible Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Contrast Ratio: 2000:1 Vertical Keystone Correction: -15 /+15 Maximum Vertical Sync: 85Hz Maximum Horizontal Sync: 80kHz Video Video Signals: NTSC 4.43 Audio Number of Speakers: 1 Speaker Output Power: 2W Speaker Output Mode: Mono Network & Communication Network Support: Yes Connectivity Technology: Wireless Network Technology: Wi-Fi Network Standard: IEEE 802.11b/g Interfaces/Ports Interfaces: 2 x HD-15 Video Input Power Description Input Voltage: 220V AC 110V AC Physical Characteristics Dimensions: 12.4" Height x 15.7" Width x 9.6" Depth Weight: 7.5 lb Miscellaneous Package Contents: EX53U Multimedia Projector 1 x Soft carrying bag 1 x Remote control 2 x Batteries 1 x Power cable (1.8m) 1 x VGA(D-sub) cable(1.8m) 1 x User-Manual (CD-ROM) 1 x Safety manual Quick start guide Lens Cap


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The Christian Right Meets Tea-Party Might
November 06, 2009
"We are turning to socialism and away from God!" Joseph Grab said as he stood amid the thousands who gathered on Capitol Hill today to attend Michele Bachmann's "House Call" protest against the health care reform bill. Grab, a retired engineer from Hershey, Pennsylvania, was clutching a leather-bound King James in his hand and a green sign that simply said "Pray" in the other.
Afghanistan Disarray
October 15, 2009
The Times of London has a pretty disturbing/infuriating story about payments the Italian Secret Service allegedly made to Taliban commanders and local warlords to buy peace and quiet in areas of Afghanistan where Italian troops were stationed. It's not the payments per se that were the problem; if members of the Taliban can be bribed over to NATO's side, I say bribe them.
The Supreme Allied Commander of Corn
October 15, 2009
When the world last left Wesley Clark in early 2004, he was a streaking meteor of a presidential candidate. Still fresh from leading NATO in the Kosovo war, he arrived as a savior for the left, who saw a bulletproof patriot that the rest of America could believe in; hero of the netroots, beloved by Michael Moore and Madonna; hope of the Clintonites, delighted by such a clean ideological slate. Alas, after five blazing months, Clark for President flamed out. There are the conventional explanations: He got in too late. He didn't play in Iowa.
Explaining Geithner's Call Log
October 09, 2009
Simon Johnson raises a fair question in response to this AP scoop about the bankers Tim Geithner was in touch with early in the Obama administration. Here's the AP: The calendars, obtained by the AP under the Freedom of Information Act, offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the continued influence of three companies -- Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Ironed Curtain
October 08, 2009
After the Russo-Georgian War in August 2008, the European Union found itself in a difficult position. Moscow had not only invaded a neighbor for the first time since the Soviet assault on Afghanistan in 1979. In recognizing Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states, it had also broken the cardinal rule of post-cold war European security: that borders in Europe would never again be changed by force of arms. Yet Georgia, too, had clearly made mistakes, not the least in embroiling itself in a military conflict with Russia that Georgia's own allies had repeatedly warned against.
Karl Rove, Lifelong Gay-Baiter
October 07, 2009
In the course of discussing with Sam Tanenhaus his book The Death of Conservatism (an expansion of this essay he wrote for TNR), Reihan Salam claims in passing Karl Rove never imagined that opposition to same-sex marriage would cement a permanent Republican majority. It was a distraction that I'm sure he found distasteful. Andrew Sullivan pounces Rove thought this was a distraction? From his realignment? Does Reihan recall the kind of politics Rove cut his teeth on in the South?
Truther Consequences
October 07, 2009
Alex Jones is a husky man with short sandy hair, weary eyes, baby cheeks, and the kind of deep, gravelly voice made for horror-movie trailers. And it's horror he has in mind. "Your New World Order will fall!" he screams through a megaphone at the shiny façade of a nondescript office building. "Humanity will defeat you!" A syndicated radio host, filmmaker, and all-around countercultural icon based in Austin, Texas, Jones has long been one of the country's most significant purveyors of paranoia.
Trouble in Beantown
September 29, 2009
A month-old labor dispute in Boston has taken a curious twist. It began when on August 31, a hundred housekeepers at three Hyatt hotels in Boston were fired and replaced by workers from a Georgia company, Hospitality Staffing Solutions. The housekeepers, some of whom had worked for Hyatt for over twenty years, were making between $14 and $16 an hour plus health, dental, and 401(k) benefits. Their replacements were to make $8 an hour with no health benefits.
Why Health Reform Matters: Some Personal Illustrations
September 09, 2009
Want a hint about what the president will say tonight? Check out the guest list for the First Lady's box, which the White House just published.
Blanche Lincoln As Ag Chair? Say It Ain't So.
September 09, 2009
Now that Chris Dodd has decided to keep his chairmanship of the Senate banking committee, it looks like Tom Harkin will leave his agriculture post to go take Ted Kennedy's former spot atop the HELP committee. To the dismay of a lot of food-policy reformers, this means the more conservative Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas will be next in line for the Ag Committee gavel (there are more senior members on that committee, but they all have other, more powerful chairmanships already). It's not unreasonable to ask if this will really make a big difference as far as agricultural policy's concerned.


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Cotton futures were down a nickel.
In livestock, fed cattle futures closed 90-cents lower. Feeder cattle were down 33-cents. The lean hog contract gained a dime.
In the financials, Comex gold gained two dollars an ounce. The Euro gained more than three points against the dollar. And the CRB Index finished the week more than a point-and-a-half higher to close at 228.70.
Here now to lend us his insight is one of our regular market analysts, John Roach. Welcome back.


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Arctic Parka Coyote-Trimmed Down-Filled Coat
Unfortunately, this item will not be back in stock.
Founded in 1830, Woolrich provides hard-wearing, practical outerwear for people facing the most trying conditions, as this down-filled cotton-blend coat attests. This water-resistant piece features a coyote-trimmed hood, drawstring waist and multiple pockets. Wear it in the city with beaten-up denim, or head to the great outdoors and add chunky leather boots. Shown here with an A.P.C. shirt, Beams Plus waistcoat, Levi's Vintage Clothing jeans, Alexander Olch tie and Grenson shoes.
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The small package in this case is MaCallister Gray, or Callie, as her friends call her, 8th grade student at Browning Springs Middle School.
As part of Student Shadow Day Feb. 28, Callie Gray shadowed SurfKY News Group copyeditor Maureen Berry.
Here is Callie's account of her Student Shadow Day at SurfKY News Group.
"On Friday, I shadowed Maureen Berry at SurfKY News group. It was a great experience, and gave me some insight on writing in a professional setting.
I learned how they publish their news, how they edit the photos and how they write about different topics. SurfKY publishes stories into categories by community.
I thought it was cool how they did it and learned a few things through their articles online.
We talked about the different styles of writing, in addition to journalism, like screen writing, web design, magazine writing, book publishing and graphic arts.
I think I would choose screenwriting or book publishing. My goal is to write a fantasy fiction novel or script for a movie or television.
I would like to shadow at SurfKY News again. I really liked it.
I told Maureen I also like to draw and she asked me to draw something for her.
I drew the angel because I've always liked fantasy things. Normal stuff is sometimes boring. Fantasy and Sci-fi is really interesting to me and I've drawn things relating to it since I was a kid. My dad also drew a lot of fantasy creatures when he was in his teens. That's where I get my inspiration."
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|Northern League Cup 4th Round
|Wednesday 18th March 2009
|Billingham Synthonia V Whitley Bay
Match Report By Julian Tyley
Whitley twice came from behind at Billingham to earn their place in the semi final of the League Cup, where they will have home advantage over either Penrith or Tow Law who meet in Cumbria on Tuesday evening.
Damon Robson made a welcome return to the starting line up following a lengthy injury, but Whitley were still without Mark Taylor while Paul Robinson and Terry Burke were also missing as the Bay went in search of their second semi final place of the season.
Synthonia, who were 4-1 winners in the league game at Central Avenue back in September, made the best possible start, going ahead with less than three minutes on the clock. Whitley's defence seemed to freeze when the ball was not cleared and David Barnes stabbed the ball past a static Rob McLean from six yards.
The lead only lasted for seven minutes with Whitley's equaliser coming in their first attack, when Chris Fawcett was put clear on the left wing by Lee Kerr's accurate pass. Fawcett raced through on goal unchallenged and slotted the ball past Synners' keeper Ben Escritt. Whitley briefly threatened again when Kerr sent a speculative looping half volley over the keeper and on to the roof of the net, but there was little to choose between the sides for much of the half. With 34 minutes gone, Fawcett and Escritt both went for a long ball. The ball rebounded off the keeper to Paul Chow whose hurried shot trickled wide of the unguarded goal. Five minutes before the interval, Billingham's former Middlesbrough man Craig Hignett found himself clear on goal but McLean did well to rescue Whitley, racing out to block the ball as Hignett hesitated. Seconds before the half time whistle, Lee Kerr's left wing corner was headed not far wide of the target by Phil Bell.
Six minutes after the restart, Whitley suffered a major scare when Craig Fawcett fell to the ground in obvious pain after a challenge for the ball. There was a lengthy delay and it seemed to be a serious injury but it was to the relief of everyone in the ground that a stretcher was not required. However Fawcett had to be helped off the pitch, still in pain with what appeared to be a badly twisted ankle. Eight minutes later things got worse for Whitley when McLean spilled a cross from the left by Jason Honeyman and Darren Sankey pounced to drive the loose ball home to put Synners back in front and seemingly in control of the game.
Whitley battled back and after 65 minutes heartened the visiting fans when they equalised for the second time, Paul Chow scoring from close range after a shot had rebounded of the base of the post. This goal appeared to knock much of the confidence out of the home side and barely two minutes later David Coulson came up to head Kerr's corner just wide of goal. Substitute Chris Reid was playing his part in the fight back as Whitley, scenting victory, stepped up the pace. Chris Moore troubled the home defence when he cut the ball back from the by line and Phil Bell's shot was collected by Escritt at the second attempt. Whitley deservedly went in front for the first time a minute later when Chow broke away on the left and beat Escritt at the near post with a low shot from 15 yards out.
Robson, who had made a good comeback, was replaced by Darren Reay for the last ten minutes as Whitley took control of the game, allowing Synners little time on the ball. Four minutes from time, Whitley made sure of their semi final place when, with the home side pushing forward in a forlorn attempt to force extra time, Bell cut the ball back into the six yard box where the unmarked Kerr side footed the ball home for Whitley's fourth goal.
Throughout the game, Whitley frustrated Synners by never giving them the time or space to settle on the ball, for which credit is due to every player. It was a hard earned but well deserved and confidence boosting victory, coming just days after the disappointing defeat at Morpeth. It means that Whitley are in the semi final of this competition for the first time since 2002, the year they won the FA Vase.
WHITLEY BAY: McLean, McFarlane, Picton, Robson(Reay 79mins), Coulson, Ryan, Moore, Kerr, Chow(Bone 89mins), Bell, Fawcett(Reid 51mins)