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Volkswagen says sales of diesel cars and SUVs account for about 20% of the VW brand's U.S. sales so far this year, a sign that American car buyers may not be as hostile to diesel as many industry executives fear.
Industry executives have debated for years whether U.S. consumers looking to be early adopters of advanced fuel-saving technology would start to embrace the latest generation of European diesels – which can deliver some eye-popping fuel efficiency numbers – or favor gasoline-electric hybrids or all-electric vehicles.
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VW's U.S. sales arm says about 28%, or 3,787, of its Jetta sedans and wagons sold last month were diesels. About 24% of the 9,007 Passats sold in July had diesel engines. About 45% of the buyers of the VW brand's big Touareg SUV chose a diesel – presumably to benefit from the diesel's 19 city/28 highway mileage rating. The gasoline Touareg is rated at 16/23.
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Diesels remain a small niche in the overall U.S. car and light truck market. But "small" is relative. General Motors Co. sold 1,849 Chevy Volt plug-in hybrids in July, and 10,666 Volts through the first seven months of 2012. VW still has a long road to travel before its diesel sales catch up with America's most popular hybrid, the Toyota Prius, which is on track to sales of about 150,000 cars through July.
VW's relative success with diesel doesn't mean that other mass market brands will rush to embrace the technology.
Diesels typically cost more than a comparable gasoline engine, reflecting in part the cost of technology to scrub the exhaust. For example, the gasoline Touareg starts at $43,375. Choosing a diesel adds about $3,500 to the sticker price. (VW offers a gas-electric hybrid Touareg, but it starts at over $61,000, and is rated at just 24 mpg highway.)
Then there's the problem at the pump. Gasoline is selling for an average of $3.51 a gallon as of July 30, according to the Energy Department. Diesel prices for the same period averaged just under $3.80 a gallon. http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/


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The After Effects Apprentice videos on lynda.com were created by Trish and Chris Meyer and are designed to be used on their own and as a companion to their book After Effects Apprentice. We are honored to host these tutorials in the lynda.com Online Training Library®.
- Drawing parametric shapes and pen paths
- Creating multiple shape groups
- Exploring Wiggle Paths and the Wiggle Transform effect
- Defining gradient fills
- Creating a swarm
- Blending multiple shapes into a texture
- Crafting and animating dotted and dashed lines
- Combining effects, layer styles, expressions, and Brainstorm with shape layers
- Showing tips for stylizing sidebars
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Most shape effects control what happens during line segments of your original shape, for example, Zig Zag, Rounded Corners, Wiggle Paths, et cetera. However, an exception to this is the Repeater, so let's play around with that for a little bit. If you have access to the exercise files, open up the Comps 02-Repeater*starter. What I did here is I just used the Pen tool to create something that looks a bit like a flame, a bit like a flower petal, something organic.
You can go ahead and create your own shape. You'll see in this case I used the gradient fill instead of a solid-color fill. We'll play with the gradients just a little bit later on. Now effects like the Repeater are indeed sensitive to the rendering order of your shape layer. I personally find that quite often I like to repeat the result of the entire group, including its transformations. So rather than selecting a group, I'll just select the whole layer, Add > Repeater, and Repeater will now appear after the entire group.
Let's twirl open Repeater, and we see we do have a Copies parameter. You can scrub this to as many as you like. I'm going to set 5 for starters. And I can change the Offset, whether or not my repeats are happening before or after my original shape. I'm going to set my Offset down to -2 so I'm centered on my original. These two repeats are before. These two repeats are after. Exactly what's happening with these repeats is controlled down here in the Transform section.
I'll twirl that open, and you'll see that Repeater defaults to offsetting by a 100 pixels in the x-direction. That means every repeat is another 100 x pixels away from my original shape. Scrub it down to bring them close together; scrub it up to push them further apart. Notice that my copies that happen before the original shape are going off the -negative x rather than going off to the right in positive x. I'm going to bring them a little bit closer together here. And next I'm going to play with Rotation.
Again, Transform properties are added to every repeat. So in this case, my first positive repeat is rotated 27 degrees, the next one another 27, which is 54, or my copies before the repeat are going off in a negative rotation. Same thing with Scale. If I increase the Scale, my positive repeats get larger, my negative repeats get smaller. Again, if you're confused about this idea of a positive or negative repeat, if I set my Offset just to 0, here's my original shape, and here are my subsequent repeats.
I'm going to hold down Command on Mac or Ctrl on Windows and slowly scrub down Offset, and you'll see I can tumble my shapes to all happen before my original, so they rotate negatively and get scaled down. I'm back to -2 and now we're centered around my original shape again. And for now I'm going to go ahead and set Scale back to its default 100%. You do have the ability to fade in and fade out during the course of your repeats. And interestingly, you also have this Anchor Point parameter.
Let' scrub the Anchor Point a little bit in y, and initially it may not be clear what's going on. Well, remember that we have Position Offset and Rotation Offset as well. So this is basically affecting the center around which these offset shapes are being rotated. I'll put that down to 0. Now what's happening makes a lot more sense. I can rotate around the center part of these shapes or offset to create something that's more circular in pattern. I now return my Anchor Point back to zero.
So now I have a bunch of rotated shapes. What's important to remember is that the Repeater is working on whatever's happening before it in your Timeline's stack. So, any changes you make to the path or to transformations for that path will then b repeated. For example, if I scale here, all the repeats are scaled up because it's taking the output of this transform and repeating those shapes. If I scrub the Anchor Point, we get a very interesting effect.
If I have my one source petal offset above this center point, now each of these rotations will be in reference to the one seed shape's anchor point. If you want to create something symmetrical like a flower, it's a good idea to have one shape offset the way that you want and then create more repeats. I'm holding Command again to scrub. Maybe I'll go up to 12 a nice, and even number, and bring Rotation down to nice and even 30.
Now we have something that resembles like a sunburst or a flower. I'm going to go ahead and create a few more copies and play with the Rotation and then play with my Anchor Points Offset till I have a nice overlapping shape like this. And again, this is one shape with Repeater turned off, and this is with Repeater turned on. If you want to rotate the final result, you don't necessarily want to animate rotation down on Repeater, because that's just an offset added to each petal. That's doesn't work at all. You can either rotate one petal and that rotated petal will then be repeated for your final shape, or you can go down to Transforms for the entire shape layer and rotate your entire layer around. I'll undo.
So the Repeater is really handy for quickly creating geometric shapes out of the one seed shape. And again, if I was to go back to my path, select it, press V to return to my selection tool, and carefully select one point, editing the outline of one shape will be repeated for the rest of the petals. I can see, by the way, that one petal is darker than the others, so I think I have an extra petal here. So I can say either take 360 degrees and divide it by 24 degrees rotation and that says I should have 15 copies-- now I've get a nice copy there--or I could have gone the other way and said no really I want 16 petals to my flower, bring out my calculator again and say 360 degrees divided by 16 petals equals 22.5 degrees per petal, 22.5. There we go.

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Apple's Wozniak: Toyota may have software trouble
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WASHINGTON (AFP) Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak suggested Tuesday in media interviews that Toyota's troubles with a defective accelerator pedal may have to do with software, after his Prius sped up while in cruise-control.
"Since my foot never touches the pedal," Wozniak told ABC News, the problem "cannot be a sticky accelerator pedal.... There might be some bad software in there."
He said the problem in his Prius might be related to the random acceleration issue that has forced Toyota into a massive recall of eight million vehicles worldwide and a halt to US sales and production of eight affected models.
The Prius, a best-selling hybrid, is not one of the vehicles under recall.
Wozniak, who founded Apple Computer -- now Apple Inc -- with Steve Jobs in the 1970s, said he tried unsuccessfully to get Toyota's and US authorities' attention after his 2010 Prius acceleration problems cropped up while he was in cruise control months ago.
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I'm afraid I have to agree with The Woz. The 'sticky pedals' thing is nonsense.
I think the fix is replacing a faulty sensor, relay, or the 'puter itself, not the pedal assembly. It may take a Toyota mechanic to spill the beans.
When this happens on a Prius, does it speed up rapidly from 40 to 43mph?
I have said that from the beginning and Im a dumb chit
Woz seemed to make it clear on CNN last night that this is a differenet issue.
He was talking about the Active Cruise (radar following) on the Prius, not the pedal issue common to the other vehicles. He said he didn't regard this issue as life threatening, but it's worry me enough not to use the feature.
Some Toyotas have a laser controlled device in their cruise control that will automatically decelerate if overtaking a slower moving vehicle, then automatically accelerate when you change to a clear lane. I have such a vehicle and the first time it happened to me I was startled.
I didn't start a software company but I do understand my own vehicle.
"Life Threatening"
That might explain why Toyota didn't appear to be concerned (according to Woz).
My thoughts too ... a Prius? Speeding up? He should be so lucky...
"That might explain why Toyota didnt appear to be concerned (according to Woz)."
That device is actually a safety device. It is not uncommon for people using cruise control to rear end traffic at high speed when distracted.
I think Wozniac ought to stick to marketing overpriced consumer electronics.
This has got the smell of OBAMA written all over it....seems his govmint motors are doing so well....watch out Honda,
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A software problem is a likely culprit since many of the high profile cases that I have heard about don't fit the "sticky accelerator" story. The cars speed up without warning, and the brakes don't override the accelerator.
I never, not once, thought it was a mechanical issue. Still don't.
Toyota is covering up something here, and it will come out, eventually, to their detriment. Ask Chevy (side saddle tanks) and Ford (exploding Pintos) and Audi (Calif. models gas pedal surge)
They should have been upfront from the get go, now it will live in infamy on the internet.
As an aside, Hyundai has moved into number 4 in Asian autos (52k sales in Jan.), with only 10k cars separating them and Nissan, and now has a Top Ten car, in the Santa Fe. Their Daily Sales Rate is up to 22.8% (Nissan up 16.1%), and in terms of overall increases, they are up 12.9% vs Toyota at -15.8%-2nd highest (%) in Asian sales, with Suburu besting them at 28%-which means Suburu sold a mere 2800 more this year.
We know Ford has finally woke up and is paying attention, and maybe GM as well, but Toyota had best read the writing on the wall, lest they be the GM of tomorrow.
How would Woz know which pedal his foot was on? He hasn't seen his feet in years.
Do a search for the Therac radiation machine and you'll see why swapping out hardware controls and safety mechanisms for software can lead to disaster.
If I were a Betting Man I'd offer to wager that what is happening is: the Toy is getting a bad reading from one of its sensors. The computer program is written assuming that the input from the sensor is valid. This is a mistake that green programmers tend to make -- and then they fail to supply the needed validity checking and error recovery code
This could be the cruise control system -- or the idle control motor that is yanking the throttle open but with these things going to full power, as reports seem to indicate -- I'd bet they have a bad sensor reading that is not questioned by the computer program. The obvious thing to do-- if you think you are getting a bad sensor reading --- release the cruise control
Personally though I suspect the idle control motor more -- as this happened to one Toy while the driver was trying to back out of his driveway. He probably didn't have the cruise on -- but that doesn't mean a computer glitch wouldn't affect things though
Therac is exactly what I was thinking.
You do know that Al Gore's son was arrested for doing 100 mph in a Prius?
Figures he'd own a Prion.
Luckily, I was on a straight road with no traffic. I let the van sit for a few minutes. I figured somehow the computer box got wet and caused a problem. Sitting there would let the heat of the engine melt whatever had frozen up.
That worked. Started it up, drove off. Never had a problem since. But it is scary and could be a very dangerous situation. Plan ahead, know what to do, if it happens to you. These type of emergency situations should be covered in driver's education and maybe through driving license renewals.
As soon as the press releases from Toyota said there was no electrical problem I was doubly sure it wasn't just a minor pedal problem.
These cars use a "fly-by-wire" system where there is no direct mechanical link cable between the pedal and the throttle body.
Something is getting hosed between the actual pedal the throttle body and computer control.
They're trying to cover it up like the Toyota vans that required the engine to be pulled to replace the spark plugs, so they made the service interval 60K miles for a tune up. Plugs didn't last 60K back then.
Or the Nissan vans that caught on fire because the fuel delivery system to the engine kept breaking. Nissan refused to service the vans, made excuses like no parts, and offered sweetheart deals like $3000 over the value of the van to sell another Nissan.
How many old Toyota or Nissan vans are on the road? Zero, haven't seen one in mucho many years.
Woz is probably correct. The Toyota accelerator pedal is a continuously pressable button that sends a signal to the automobile control unit (computer) that in turn controls a throttle actuator.
This is totally unlike the mechanical linkages that have been used since the automobile was invented. It's highly probable there's a software problem.
The MSM has failed to mention Toyota is including a software change with the recall that causes the control computer to ignore signals from the accelerator pedal whenever the brake pedal is depressed. This doesn't really fix any underlying software cause of self-initiated acceleration, but does end it when the brake pedal is pressed.
BTW, Woz is one of the most underrated geniuses and inventors of the 20th century, having single-handedly invented both the single-board computer and its BIOS.
Fly by wire? Why would they use such an expensive, over-engineered (and therefore fraught with potential problems) method to accelerate a vehicle?
Yeah, going downhill, with a three mile run, and a 30 MPH tail wind.
They (he and Jobs) have done awfully well doing that... and the APPL shareholders thank them for it...
With a combination electric/gas drivetrain we are a long way past just pushing open a butterfly valve with a mechanical linkage.
I can see it on a Prius hybrid, but the original post makes it sound like all Toyota vehicles use this method.
That was pretty much the point I was making.
I just checked with a shop and he said some vehicles still use mechanical throttle linkage but all Toyotas use Fly by Wire...
Woz says it's scary when he's zooming along and his Prius super-accelerates to 97 mph..
Software glitch? Power lines?
Bring back push button transmissions
Figures that a hardware guy would blame software. ;^)
See post #25 from catnipman. There is no mechanical linkage, asking for trouble.
Yes over a mile.
The those steep downhill mountain roads make a hybrid dangerous to drive.
Last i saw one of those it was on a 1966 Plymouth Valiant (i had an on the column stick shift on my 64 Valiant).
That slant six was a great engine.
Don't you mean bring back the Model A with the "Gas Feed" on the steering column...
Woz invented the KIM-1? The man did well, but he wasn't the first with either an SBC or a BIOS.
Have already seen the beginnings of the class action lawsuits down here.
Bunch of no-driving idiots. OK, that said, I did have an old LTD that drove off in reverse, by itself, one night.
The cure: turn it off when you get out, problem solved.
And you're still driving a Ford after that experience?
It's a valuable case study for software engineering. But I would have phrased your sentence differently.
The change from hardware to software safety interlocks didn't directly CAUSE the disasters, but removed the controls that would have PREVENTED the disasters.
The actual software bugs that caused the injuries and deaths were present in the hardware-interlocked machine too.
I just saw a lawyer commercial five minutes ago addressing this.
It "T" boned a car stopped at a redlight, didn't put me in danger. :)
The lady was miffed until she realized no one was driving, then she thought it was hysterical. Her husband, not so much, especially when she told the cop "you can't give him a ticket, he didn't do anything!"
The sharks are beginning to circle...
"Some Toyotas have a laser controlled device in their cruise control that will automatically decelerate if overtaking a slower moving vehicle, then automatically accelerate when you change to a clear lane. I have such a vehicle and the first time it happened to me I was startled."
The laser light assembly probably could be rendered inoperable or erratic by driving through a mud puddle, don't you suppose?
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- Introducing building information modeling (BIM)
- Adding levels, grids, and columns to set up a project
- Creating building layouts with walls, doors and windows
- Modifying wall types and properties
- Working with DWG files and CAD inserts
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We've already explored dimensions earlier in this training series. However, the focus of those explorations was on using dimensions to edit the model. Dimensions can of course be used purely for annotative purposes in any view where you wish call out the dimensions to the contractor. In this movie, we will look at some techniques for using dimensions to annotate our drawings and get them ready for presentation. I have a file here called Dimensions, and I am looking at the Level 1 floor plan view, and let's go ahead and add some dimensions to this view. On the Annotate tab I can click the Aligned Dimension tool. Now there is actually an Aligned dimension and a Linear dimension.
The Aligned dimension will follow the angle of the geometry that you are dimensioning, and the Linear dimension will always remain horizontal and vertical. I tend to prefer the Aligned dimension. I think it gives me nicer results. So I am going to use that one. Now the easiest way to dimension is similar to the methods that we have already seen. You simply find two items that you wish to dimension, like the faces of these walls, and you click the points and then you click your third point for where you want the dimension to go. It's pretty simple. It's pretty straightforward. I would like you to direct your attention to the Options bar so that we can understand why we were able to do that so quickly.
There are several choices that we have here for dimensions. We can use the wall faces. We can use wall centerlines. We can use the core as reference points for the dimension. My happens to be set to Wall faces which gives me nicer results, if I am trying to get the inside clear dimensions. If I change it to Wall centerlines, then Revit will automatically find the centers of the walls and anytime regardless of what the setting is in the Options bar, I am able to press the Tab key and cycle to other available options.
So you are never locked in completely to just the one setting, but you certainly do want to look there in the Options bar and choose the setting that you plan to use most frequently. Now we are not limited to just dimensioning walls, although walls are certainly one of our more common things to dimension. Let's start with these column grids. Notice that I can select several items at once. The items that I have selected will stay highlighted in blue while I have selected them. If I select it again, it will remove that item from the dimension.
I select it one more time and add it back. Those become the witness lines of your dimensions. However, you always need to end your dimension with a click in empty space. If you click on some geometry, Revit will think you are trying to dimension that geometry and add a witness line there. So if I click in white space that's where I am placing the dimension string, and it will place the dimension at that location. You can repeat it over here and place it where I want it to go.
Now I could go through and change this to Wall faces, and I could start the process of selecting all of the different points that I want to dimension, but let me show you a faster way. We have been choosing the Pick Individual Reference option. That's the default option. If you open that option up though, we have this choice below it, which is Entire Walls. Now the way this one works is you just simply click on a wall and then you get a dimension that goes from end to end. That's useful, but it would actually be more useful if it gave me more than just the end-to-end dimension of that wall.
So right next to it, if we clicked Options, we can actually see that there are several different options that we can take advantage of to get more points from our dimensions. So I am going to go ahead and tell it to dimension the Openings, and I am going to choose the Widths. When I click OK, let me just drag my wheel a little bit, zoom in down here, and I am going to select this wall and pull the dimension out here and click, and you could see that with one quick easy click I can create a dimension that covers quite a bit of ground. Let's do it again over here, select here, pull it out here.
It doesn't get much easier than that. Now if we click Options again, we can actually do Intersecting Walls. I tend to think this is a little bit too busy. So not my favorite choice. And I have a hard time reading all that. Certainly, we can move the text around and that is one of our options. So if you did like this, you could select it and you see these little squares here that allow you to drag the text. You could pull it out there. If you drag it far enough, it will actually add a little leader back to it.
So if you really do want all these dimensions, then I would certainly recommend going and cleaning up a little bit. But that's a little bit too much as far as I am concerned. So I am going to delete that. I will zoom back out a little, select my Aligned dimension again, go back Options, turn off Intersecting Walls. But what about Intersecting Grids? I will try that one. So I am going to select here and then pull it out to about here. Now this time, it just did the Walls and the Openings, which I think is much cleaner, but it did go ahead and include any gridlines that happen to intersect as well.
So that might be handy. Now let's get rid of this dimension that I drew before, overall wall length. We don't really need that one, and let's talk about Edit Witness Lines. If I select this existing dimension, I can add or remove points from it. Maybe I don't want gridline D to be part of the dimension anymore. I could do Edit Witness Lines, and I could highlight gridline D and remove it from the dimension. Maybe I want to add gridlines B to it or maybe I want to add this curtain wall opening. So I can go ahead and click there and then gridlines B and then this door opening.
Then finally the outer edge of this wall here. Here is the thing you want to be careful of. Don't press Escape here. Don't click Modify. If you do, that will cancel everything you just did. What you want to do is click somewhere in white space to actually finish the dimension, and then you can click Modify to deselect it. So even though we only are allowed to pick one wall with that Pick Walls option, it's pretty easy to come back and add additional items to that overall dimension string and makes one continuous string here. You can fine tune the position by just dragging on it.
You can even do stuff like this. If necessary, we can modify the actual value of that dimension. So perhaps right here let's say that this was actually a field dimension that we wanted to verify. We can click right on the dimension, click right on the text and then below the dimension I am going to type VIF for Verify in Field. That piece of text will appear there beneath the dimension. You can't override the number. So I couldn't put in like 18 feet there, but if I wanted to I could decide not to show the number at all and replace it with VIF.
So then I will remove it from here. When I click OK, it won't show any number at all. Instead, it will just say we are going to verify that dimension. We are not sure what it is. So you can do that, but if you tried to put in just a number here, 18 feet, Revit is going to say, oh no, you don't. We are not going to allow that, because that's not really what you have there in the model. So what they would rather you do is actually change the witness lines and have them edit something else. So I am going to do ZF, Zoom to Fit.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—Virginia softball head coach Eileen Schmidt announced Thursday (Nov. 29) that Ariana Hawkins, Iyana Hughes, Lindsay Mayer and Katie Park have signed Nationals Letters-of-Intent to join the Cavaliers for the 2014 season.
"This is an incredibly athletic and diverse class," Schmidt said. "They bring a lot of power to the lineup as well as gifted defensive ability. This class is strong in the classroom and will be an exciting group to watch on the field."
Ariana Hawkins
Middle Infielder
Mountain House, Calif. – John C. Kimball High School
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A middle infielder from Mountain House, Calif., Hawkins was named to The Record's All-Area First Team, hitting .583 with 14 doubles, three home runs, 28 RBI and 35 runs scored in 2012. She was named the Valley Oak League Offensive MVP in 2011, VOL co-MVP in 2012 and was the All-Area Offensive MVP in 2011.
"Ari really has the ability to be a force in the ACC and nationally," Schmidt said. "She is so smooth and versatile defensively. She can hit for power or just as easily drop a bunt. She is really just one of the players you watch and say, 'thank goodness she chose softball,' because she could have very easily been a star at whatever sport she picked."
Iyana Hughes
Manteca, Calif. – Sierra High School
Travel Squad – Grapettes
An outfielder from Manteca, Calif., and travel squad teammate of Hawkins, Hughes was named to the All-Valley Oak League First Team, along with being recognized on the Academic Honor Roll 2010-12. She helped lead Sierra to the San-Joaquin Section Division IV Championship in 2011 as well as being named the Modesto Bee Player of the Year.
"Iyana impresses with her strong arm in the outfield and her versatility at the plate," Schmidt said. "She can run and slap, drop the bunt or hit for power. A little frame with a lot of go, Iyana's tenacity and attitude is what makes her so special. There is no quit in her and that is what we expect her to bring to our team everyday."
Lindsay Mayer
Middle Infielder
Lincoln, R.I. – Lincoln High School
Travel Squad – RI Thunder
A middle infielder from Lincoln, R.I., Mayer is a three-time All-Rhode Island First Team selection by the Providence Journal and led Lincoln to the state championship in 2011. She was named both the Cox and the Gatorade Rhode Island Player of the Year in 2011, hitting .450. In addition, she has earned First Academic Honors all throughout high school.
"Lindsay was one of the most sought after infielders on the east coast in this class," Schmidt said. "She turned down a lot of great schools to be a Cavalier and we are excited to see her in the orange and blue. She can play the middle or corner position. Lindsey is extremely knowledgeable at the game and is going to be a great leader for us in years to come. The ball jumps off her bat already, so it is exciting to think of her potential once she hits the weight room and gains more experience."
Katie Park
Scottsdale, Ariz. – Xavier College Preparatory Catholic High School
Travel Squad – Killer Bees
A catcher and outfielder from Scottsdale, Ariz., Park was named honorable mention All-Arizona in 2012. She was named the Varsity Fiesta Region Second Team in 2011 and earned the Varsity Fiesta Region Play of the Year her sophomore season at Xavier College Prep.
"I really think Katie is just coming into her own on the softball field," Schmidt said. Her potential is amazing. She can catch, play centerfield or any position in between. Katie is so competitive. She loves the game, loves competing and is going to have a great career at UVa."
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Housing policy seen as important aspect of Angolan development
A statement by the Angolan minister of urbanisation and housing, Diankumpuna Sita Jose, at the opening of the development forum, 'Path for Angola's Development', in Luanda in November 2008, indicated that the Angolan government considered its housing policy as an important component of the country's social and economic development.
With this policy, the government is seeking to create opportunities for the establishment of mutually advantageous partnerships between the public and private sectors.
According to Sita Jose, the most recent studies on the country's demographic evolution forecast the emergence, in the period 2008 to 2012, of more than one million new families distributed between both urban and rural areas. This would create an urgent need for new housing.
About six million people are estimated to be living in Luanda which, the minister said, means a concentration of about one-third of the Angolan population in the capital city. In the view of the government, this trend should be discouraged. The minister said that 80% of the urban population lived in compounds considered as precarious or in informal settlements, a trend that would continue unless measures were taken to reverse the situation.
The minister pointed out that the Ministry of Urbanisation and Housing had started the implementation of its Integrated Programme on Constitution and Urbanisation of Municipal Land Reserves in 2008, with an emphasis on the promotion of housing programmes of social interest.
Sita Jose added that of the 100 000 hectares identified at national level, only about 32 800 would cover the urban goals for the 2008/20012 period. The minister also stated that funding of about Akz 60 billion (approximately US$ 798 million) had been allocated to the housing programme from the state budget for 2009, and the process to respond to the needs of about 390 000 inhabitants would therefore be set in motion.
The 'Path for Angola's Development' forum comprises three panels focusing on a range of topics, including housing credit, financing of public/private partnerships, housing tax, and challenges of housing promotion.
(Source: allAfrica.com, 1 December 2008)


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rocky posted a topic in Ford Escort ClubHi, I bought a car as a project at an auction but the previous owner said the electric locks were goosed, so I have to unlock the car and go in through the boot to open the drivers door as there are no key locks in the doors. Any idea on what to do with this? I got told by a friend to buy an electric lock key or something? Didnt really listen. Hope someone can help. Thanks