The 2010 North American International Auto Show witnessed the introduction of several long-awaited models, including the 2011 Honda CR-Z Sport Hybrid Coupe that will hit US stores this summer. The hybrid is powered by a 1.5-liter i-VTEC engine with Honda’s compact and lightweight Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) hybrid-electric system, with maximum power going all the way up to 122 horsepower at 6,000 rpm and 128 lb-ft of torque between 1,000 and 1,500 rpm.
These figures are slightly… (read more)
American manufacturer Ford took advantage of its presence at the 2010 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) and announced yesterday, on the sidelines of the new Ford Focus presentation, the release of an electric version of the car in 2011.
Until then, Ford made yet another announcement, this time confirming it will invest $450 million in its Michigan facilities to make them EV friendly. Ford will spend the money to engineer, produce and launch new electrified vehicles,… (read more)
More than 800 students bought tickets for the ASSU airport shuttle fall quarter, according to numbers released today by the executive office.
ASSU President David Gobaud ’08 M.S. ‘10 said the fall program cost $13,108.86, funded by the Stanford Student Enterprises, and brought in $11,089.87 in ticket revenue, translating to a total loss of $2018.99 and amounting to a loss of $2.37 per each of the 851 students who bought tickets. A total of $7,000 was originally budgeted for the fall program, according to Gobaud.
The program sold 681 tickets at $14 and 170 tickets at $16. The difference between sales and revenue went to eGroups transaction fees, according to Gobaud. The final numbers may change slightly after accounting for about $200 in refunds, Gobaud added.
The average cost per rider came to $16.76 after ticket revenues and the $2.37 per student loss. Last spring, the ASSU spent $6,236 to ferry 114 students to airports, with ticket revenue totaling $1,238.04.
The executives compared the program to similar local options like SuperShuttle, which charges $26 for a ride from Stanford to San Francisco or San Jose airports and offers a Stanford discount.
The ASSU airport shuttle program began in 2007.
Students tend the current community farm on campus, which Briana Swette ‘10 described as a “big garden.” A proposal to establish a two-acre farm is currently under review. (KATHRYN ROETHEL/The Stanford Daily)
Proposal calls for new two-acre farm on the Farm
On Nov. 17, a handful of student farmers gathered in Old Union and quietly began to sow the seeds of a small green revolution. The students discussed a proposal to build a new, bigger farm on campus–a plan that may become a reality if approved by the University Architect and Campus Planning Office.
The proposal, submitted to the provost nearly three months ago by Pamela Matson, Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, called for the establishment of a two-acre farm alongside Campus Drive, at the end of Santa Teresa Street. Students and faculty will use the farm for education, but they also hope to put homegrown produce in Stanford’s dining halls.
Christ Carter, Director of Land Use and Environmental Planning, told The Daily in an e-mail, “The proposal…will be considered along with a number of other potential uses and development in an updated area plan for that part of campus.”
He expects that the Land Use and Real Estate Department will present a recommendation about the project to Provost John Etchemendy within the first half of 2010.
The current community farm on campus is not particularly conducive to student projects or large-scale production with only one-eighth of an acre allocated to undergraduate farming. According to Farm Educator Sarah Wiederkehr, the current space is not large enough and can only accommodate a few dozen student plots.
“[The current community farm is] basically a big garden,” said Briana Swette ‘10, who has helped out there ever since she took a sustainable agriculture class her freshman year.
Swette, one of the leaders of Farmers and Eaters for Equality and Diversity (FEED), said the new farm will have room for a greenhouse, tool shed, tractor and, most importantly, much more cropland for education and production.
Emily Bookstein ‘11 is another aspiring farmer who leads the food and agriculture division of Students for a Sustainable Stanford (SSS).
“I’m really looking forward to the farm as a way to delve into agricultural education,” she said. Bookstein also mentioned that a new farm could help reconnect Stanford students and community members with the means of food production.
For Swette, the visibility of the new farm will help achieve this goal.
“Being able to see this farm is huge,” she said. “Having a farm on campus will help bring farming to the mainstream and it reminds our community that farming is an intellectual livelihood.”
Swette and Bookstein were not alone in their enthusiasm. This quarter, Wiederkehr had to turn 35 students away from EARTHSYS 180: Fundamentals of Sustainable Agriculture, even after opening a second section. Some of the rejected students opted to do independent projects on the farm instead.
Wiederkehr said the maintenance of such student commitment is essential for the success of a new farm.
“In my experience [Stanford students] tend to bite off more than they can chew,” Wiederkehr said. “That could be the biggest hurdle. That and the ground squirrels.”
Still, Matson said that the new farm’s primary goal will be to foster student research, not to provide campus with food. She envisions students developing projects on the new farm to investigate nutrient cycling, hydrology, compost, water holding and farm systems.
“The farm has tremendous potential to be a model farm in terms of ecological practices,” Bookstein said.
As they await the provost’s decision, some students and staff have already moved forward toward farm preparations. Financial planning is underway to raise money for land development, soil conditioning and equipment. They hope to break ground by fall 2010.
Bookstein hopes to spend this summer helping any way she can. She believes that, once underway, the farm will be a valuable and essential asset of the Stanford campus.
“To literally see how food is produced–that is something that will stick with you,” she said. “When Stanford graduates are scattered across the world, they’ll have that little seed of the Stanford Farm to carry with them.”
The guys from Motor Trend love their Cadillac CTS-V. The American sports sedan has 556 hp and 750 Nm of torque, and has already beaten the BMW M5 and the new Jaguar XFR in two previous challenges from Motor Trend. This time, though, they’re trying it against the Mercedes E 63 AMG sports sedan offering.
The Mercedes has 525 hp and 630 Nm of torque, but performance between the two is very close with the Cadillac making it to 100 km/hr in 4.5 seconds and with a top speed of 308 km/hr. The E 63 has a top speed of 300 km/hr but is slightly faster in the sprint to 100 km/hr, completing it in 4.2 seconds.
The E 63 is equipped with some impressive Mercedes/AMG technology, with a 6.2-litre V8 engine and super-fast seven speed paddle shift which has a sports mode option (this might also explain the 40,000 euros more on the price tag). It’s clear the Americans love their Cadillac CTS-V, but this time Mercedes might just have the edge.
The team behind EGG-energy has a statistic they cite often: In Tanzania 80 percent of the population lives within 5 kilometers of a transmission line but only 10 percent has access to electricity. To help solve that “last mile” problem, the team, which hails from MIT and Harvard, decided to create a business model that […]
After several hours of pounding on my keyboard I was able to resurrect the Anxiety Guru forum. Some time ago now a spammer did a real number on it, so I shut it down temporarily. But I think it’s been long enough and it’s now available.
After the “attack” I was a little bummed because the forum was gaining some momentum, but oh well it’s back now and I hope all of you take full advantage of it.
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Mercedes motorsport director Norbert Haug hit back at criticism coming from within the Stuttgart based company in recent weeks, insisting that the German manufacturer has taken the best path to the future in terms of Formula One commitments.
Soon after Daimler AG pulled their support from Team McLaren, some of the voices within the company’s board of directors argued that this would have been a great opportunity for Mercedes to quit the sport completely. Instead, Mercedes bought m… (read more)
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Marcus Brooks entrepreneur and business man sends a clear message to Al Gore regarding his fraudulent global warming scam.
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British carmaker Bentley showcased the Mulsanne and Series 51 Continental GTC convertible models at this year’s North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), marking the vehicles’ first motor show debut in the US.
The Mulsanne is set to go on sale in fall 2010 and will be priced at $285,000, while the Series 51 package, available on the Continental GT, GT Speed, GTC and GTC Speed models, will be priced from $192,750 (for the GT coupe model).
The Detroit Motor Sho… (read more)
The Zero-Emission campaign is the living proof that both Renault and Nissan are planning to rely more on electric vehicles but the French carmaker is also planning to reduce the average emission rating of its lineup by launching several upgraded versions of its existing models. For instance, the company recently presented the Clio dCi 85 Renault eco2 that produces only 98 grams of CO2 per kilometer, while fuel consumption goes around 3.7 liters per 100 km (63.5 mpg).
This means th… (read more)
The future of the luxury sedan segment, in the form of the Cadillac XTS Platinum Concept is being previewed this week at the 2010 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) by American manufacturer GM. At least this is how GM hopes to future will look like, because to us, the Cadillac looks just not much different than any other Caddys showed in recent years.
At least this the impression we got just by looking at the XTS. GM however says it has designed the car as a "per… (read more)
XDA-Developers have always focussed on HTC-manufactured devices, even if rebranded under a different name such as Sony Ericsson, but with HTC only producing around 50% of Windows Mobile devices these days that has always left out quite a large number of users trying to get community support for their chosen device.
Well, that is now all set to change. As part of a series of changes to make their content faster and more accessible they will also be including selected smartphones by other OEM’s
Finally– and hopefully this doesn’t cause a mass uproar– we are considering the idea of selectively adding non-HTC device forums (focused on Windows Mobile and Android devices). Every day we get requests from users for this, and there’s really no good reason why we cannot oblige them. Already the discussion is happening in the general forums. That said, we will only add new forums if: 1. We are confident added traffic won’t cause site speed to suffer; 2. We can recruit quality moderators; and 3. The content and discussion is of high quality. The only way to know these things for sure is to try it out. So, within the next 14 days we are going to add two or three non-HTC forums. The delay is to ensure the site continues to operate at a reasonable speed and so we can figure out where to put the new forums (the forum homepage is already absurdly long and cluttered). We are open to suggestions as to deserving devices for our first non-HTC forums, so give us your ideas in this thread.
Read more in this XDA-Developers thread.
Do you as an XDA-Dev user welcome these changes? Let us know below.
Thanks hubbie from HTCEros.com for the tip.
Ferrari presented its 2010 drivers lineup for the first time this year, during the traditional winter pre-season event at the Madonna di Campiglio ski resort in northern Italy. Of course, the event itself is no news to anyone, as it happens every year in the same place and approximately at the same time. This year, however, it marked the first appearance of Fernando Alonso in Ferrari clothing.
As reported by the Ferrari official site, Alonso came to the event via the helicopter, w… (read more)
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DFine, maker of a medical device that injects bone cement into spine fractures in order to heal them, has brought in $2.8 million of an anticipated $3 million round of securities, warrants, rights and debt financing. Based in San Jose, Calif., the company is backed by BB&T Fund, Highland Credit Strategies Fund, Prospect Venture Partners, and Vanguard Ventures.
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Nicira Network, developer of software used to transition data centers to cloud infrastructure by virtualizing computing networks, has raised $9 million of an anticipated $11 million round of equity. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., the company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, as well as several private investors.
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