Although Flavio Briatore’s lawyers told the media in recent days that there would be no point in the International Automobile Federation (FIA) launching an appeal to the verdict issued by the Paris’ Tribunal de Grande Instance, the ruling body today confirmed that it has decided to do just that.
In a press release released by the international federation earlier today, it is mentioned that the new president of the FIA Jean Todt also agreed to launch the legislative appeal over the… (read more)
The 2012 Ford Focus is generating huge buzz at today’s 2010 Detroit Auto Show. We now have a video of the 2012 Focus in action with some of Ford of Europe’s development team taking us through FoMoCo’s new compact.
Click here for our original post on the 2012 Ford Focus.
Refresher: Power for the 2012 Ford Focus comes from a 2.0L DI Ti-VCT engine making 155-hp and a peak torque of 145 lb-ft. It is mated to a 6-speed manual or Ford’s latest dry-clutch 6-speed Ford PowerShift automatic transmission. Sales of the 2012 Focus will begin in early 2011.
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Article Tags: ClimateGate, James Delingpole
But only in a Crecy (1346) way rather than an Agincourt (1415) way – which is to say we’ve got an awful long way to go before this war’s over.
Still, I do think we evil Climate Change Deniers can take heart from this characteristically incisive piece by Brian Micklethwait at the libertarian/classical liberal website Samizdata. (Hat tip: Richard North).
Micklethwait draws parallels between “climate change” and the Cold War
Meanwhile, the AGW debate has arrived at the same position that the Cold War argument had arrived at in or around about 1970 to 1980. An informed minority of pro-economic-progress critics had won the academic argument against the pro-economic-derangement academics, and word of this victory was spreading. And a particular thing that happened then is starting to happen now, which is that even intelligent layman critics of the John Redwood (and Brian Micklethwait) variety are starting to understand the details of the argument better than even the very smartest of the pro-derangement scientists, of the sort who are still advising governments, or who are still receiving and still trying still to believe this advice.
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Source: blogs.telegraph.co.uk
A new design challenge is revving up, Michelin announced today at NAIAS. The 2011 Michelin Challenge Design (MCD) theme has been revealed, giving entrants a chance to share their transportation concepts for ten years ahead in the year 2021 with the challenge dubbed ‘PLUS 10. The Best is Yet to Come!’.
Designers are being asked to render unique vehicle concepts that address the lifestyle preferences and transportation needs of a specific country or region for review by a jury of l… (read more)
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For just the third time in the 17-year history of the North American Car and Truck of the Year, one manufacturer has taken home both pieces of etched glass. Ford’s 2010 Fusion Hybrid and Transit Connect have yielded the hardware for the Dearborn automaker here at the Detroit Auto Show, with the Fusion emerging victorious over the shortlisted Buick LaCrosse and Volkswagen Golf, and the Transit Connect besting the Chevrolet Equinox and Subaru Outback.
The last time a single manufacturer won both the Car and Truck of the Year awards was back in 2006, when Honda did double duty with its Civic compact and Ridgeline pickup. In total, a U.S. automaker has won the car award nine times, and the truck award, 11 times. Official press release after the jump.
Gallery: 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid
Gallery: 2010 Ford Transit Connect
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Filed under: Concept Cars, Detroit Auto Show, Europe, Crossover, Hatchback, Chrysler, Luxury, Lancia
You are looking at… well, no one at the Chrysler booth seemed to know exactly what this is. They didn’t even have a proper name for it. But that tiny little fact will not be stopping us. You are looking at what they call a Chrysler Lancia, or more correctly, a Chrysler-badged Lanica. Specifically, a Lancia Delta with Pentastar badges. All of which begs the question: what makes a Lancia Delta?
Ah, well, we are happy you asked. On the surface it’s a small crossover/tall wagon-type people mover/MPV with some fancy electronic driving aids. But that sells the Delta short, as Lancia’s website is loaded with the sort of florid PR language that will warm the cockles of the most jaded car-hack’s heart.
Here’s a sample, “Luxury that is never flaunted: an originality that avoids useless overstatements, that always preserves elegance.” Sounds keen, huh? But wait, there’s more, “A concentrate of evolution, a hyperbolic expression of technology.” Ooh! Good stuff. Is this car for real? Will there actually be a Chrysler-badged Lancia? Probably, but we just don’t know. However, we are certain that Chrysler could really use, “A concentrate of evolution.”
Gallery: Chrysler Lancia
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The first concept to be officially unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show is this, a sculpture by Mercedes-Benz that foretells the future of its vehicles – and specifically the CLS.
From the SLS AMG-inspired fascia to the overly blistered fenders clearly inspired by the recent E-Class coupe, the T2-style sculpture features two signature lines that are set to infect the rest of the Mercedes line-up in the near future.
According to officials, this stylistic exercise represents M-B’s transition from its traditional wedge shape to a new, edgy art-deco design inspired by the ’30s. Aesthetic fripperies aside, this is the future of the CLS, which we expect to see in full concept form later this year.
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Over the past 18 months, auto shows around the world have taken a huge hit as the economic melt-down has caused a collapse in sales and automakers have tried slashing spending. Many of us in the business of writing about cars have wondered if the age of the big auto show is drawing to a close. One person who doesn’t agree with that projection is Bill Perkins, president of the Detroit Auto Dealers Association and member of the Organizing committee for the North American International Auto Show that opens its doors to the press today.
The Detroit show was particularly hard hit in 2009 as several manufacturers including Nissan, Mitsubishi and Porsche pulled the plug on participating. Meanwhile, Chrysler and General Motors scaled back their efforts as they veered toward bankruptcy. Perkins spoke with Autoblog last week and was feeling outwardly confident. While last month’s LA Auto Show was looking a bit sparse, Detroit this year seems to have stabilized and even recovered a bit.
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The Volkswagen Touareg hybrid is now just a few months away from production, but the crew in Wolfsburg are staying busy by cranking out small concept vehicles with hybrid powertrains. The latest that debuts here at the Detroit Auto Show this morning is called the New Compact Coupe (NCC), a handsome hybrid coupe that looks remarkably production-ready. Designed to slot globally between the not-for-North-America Scirocco and the rakish CC, we could see a serial version of the NCC competing well here in the States with coupes like the Honda Accord and Nissan Altima.
In showcar guise, the NCC features Volkswagen’s 1.4-liter TSI inline-four with 148 horsepower and 177 pound-feet of torque. The hybrid system uses the same basic architecture (if not dimensions) as the recent L1 and Up-Lite concepts from Frankfurt and Los Angeles. In this case, a 20-kilowatt electric motor is sandwiched between the engine and the seven-speed DSG dual clutch gearbox. A 1.1 kilowatt-hour lithium ion battery in the back of the car provides electrical energy storage for electric drive, electric boost and regenerative braking. The system also allows for the complete decoupling of the transmission for enhanced coasting even at highway speeds, although it isn’t immediately clear from the press release if the electric motor will push the NCC along for extended periods as it does with Volkswagen Audi Group’s Porsche Cayenne Hybrid system. Either way, VW is estimating the NCC’s mileage at 45 miles per gallon based on EPA test procedures with the EU numbers coming in at 56 mpg (U.S.) and 98 g/km of CO2. Acceleration to 60 mph is ballparked at 8.1 seconds and top speed is pegged at 141 mph.
The car itself is virtually the same size as the current Jetta except for wheelbase length and overall height (the concept has three more inches between the axles and the roof is two inches lower), and it may well be a preview of what to expect from the next-generation Jetta. Recently there have been rumors circulating that VW plans to revive the Jetta coupe, a model that hasn’t been in the lineup since the late ’80s. A production version of this poor-man’s Audi A5 could well be that car, although VW officials aren’t talking. Similarly, the forthcoming Tennessee-built New Medium Sedan is expected with both diesel and hybrid powertrains and the same could be the case for the next Jetta. While you wait, you can check out our high-res gallery below and VW’s official press verbiage available after the jump.
Gallery: Volkswagen New Compact Coupe
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Progress Software (NASDAQ: PRGS), the Bedford, MA-based maker of systems for integrating enterprise software applications, said this morning that it has acquired Santa Clara, CA-based Savvion for $49 million, net of Savvion’s cash. Savvion makes business process management software, and Progress president and CEO Richard Reidy said the acquisition “enhances our goal to provide unprecedented business visibility, responsiveness and business process improvement, coupled with the highest degree of data integrity and integration.” Progress hasn’t said how many of Savvion’s roughly 200 employees it expects to retain in the merger.
As you know by now, the 2010 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) features its own, dedicated electric avenue, with manufacturers of both cars and EV technologies being able to display at the Cobo Center their creations and solutions.
Among them, Ricardo and PEP Stations, who together unveiled the new electric vehicle charging station on which they have worked in the past year. Much like a regular gas station, the PEP station will allow drivers of electric vehicles to a… (read more)
(1)Vista do meu quarto…no apartamento da minha familia…que fica na Place D’Italie.
(2)Multidao de turistas embaixo da Tour Eiffel…
(3)Souvenir mais comum encontrado em qualquer esquina de Paris
(4)Marché de Noel em frente ao Trocadero…guloseimas tentadoras!
(5)Fondue de Chocolate…delicia!
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(7)Invalides
(8)Ponte Alexandre III
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(10) um detalhe indecente!…hehehehe…
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(14)Petit Palais
(15)Champs Elisée
(16)Calçadao da Champs Elisée
(17)Loja da Citroen em destaque na Champs Elisée
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(19)Essa ficou tortinha, mas o que importa é o detalhe…
(20)…e o detalhe é esse…pra minha surpresa!
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(22)
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(27)
(28)Realidade impressionante!!!
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(36)
(37)
(38)Opa!
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(40)..em frente a Catedral de Notre Dame
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(42)
(43)Detalhe..
(44)Carrossel em frente ao Hotel de Ville..
(45)Hotel de Ville
(46)Modernidades!!!
(47)Centre George Pompidou…marco da arquitetura contemporanea..
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(51)
(52)…interessante…hehehe…
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(55)Sacre-Coeur…em Montmartre.
(56)artista de rua..
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(61)Loja de camisetas e souvenirs…
(62)Cachorrinho de madame com carinha de antipatico…
(63)Artistas de rua de Montmartre..
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(65)Gostei muito do trabalho desse.
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(69)nas proximidades do Moulin Rouge
(70)Moulin Rouge
(71)Opera Garnier
(72)detalhe
(73)Teto da Galerie Lafaiette
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(75)e por ultimo uma foto de mim junto com minha prima…
Espero que tenham gostado!
David Jeremy Zobel, 32, of Ann Arbor, Michigan pleaded guilty in United States District Court here today to one count of coercion of a minor for driving two minor females from Xenia to Toledo and engaging in sexual activity with both of them.
Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio; Keith L. Bennett, Special Agent in Charge of the Cincinnati Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Andrew G. Arena, SAC, of the Detroit Division of the FBI; and Xenia Police Chief Randy Person, announced the plea entered today before U.S. District Judge Walter Rice.
Zobel faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and up to 15 years in prison. Judge Rice will set a date for sentencing.
According to a statement of facts filed with Zobel’s guilty plea, he began a series of sexually explicit online chats with numerous minor females from around the country, including a 13-year-old from Xenia, in approximately December 2008.
Over the next six months, Zobel used online chats and text messaging to persuade her to participate in sexual activities.
On June 2, 2009, Zobel exchanged a series of text messages from Michigan with the girl asking if she and one of her friends, who was 12, would “do ANYTHING [he] want[ed]?” if he helped them runaway from Ohio. Zobel drove to Xenia, picked up the two minor girls and drove them to a parking garage in Toledo. He had each girl perform oral sex on him, took photographs of the girls posing either in their bras or with their bare breasts exposed. Mr. Zobel then left the girls in the parking garage, giving them each $20.
FBI agents arrested Zobel in Ann Arbor on June 12, 2009. He has been in custody since his arrest.
Stewart commended the cooperative investigation by FBI agents and Xenia police officers, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Brent Tabacchi, who is prosecuting the case.
In honor of the guerrilla tactics of people climbing onto MAX trains without wearing pants, we’ll pretend we have an important news angle and tell this tale:
My brother* showed up at my house wearing pajama pants.
We hugged. He hauled his suitcase into the guest room. He was casual for a while and then felt compelled to come clean. He looked away, paused a long time, then said, “Ummm … … … I hate to tell you this …”
Slowly, he started to tell how a short way into his long drive he had stopped to fill the gas tank. He was in a certain state to the north of Oregon** where people have to fill their own tanks. He didn’t want to get his hands dirty and smell like gasoline for the whole trip so he used a paper napkin to grip the pump.
The gas tank filled. As he removed the pump the napkin started blowing around so he grabbed it, accidentally engaged the pump and spilled gas all over his pickup truck and pants.
Scrunched in the cab, he opened his suitcase and got out his pajama bottoms.
As he was taking off his pants they started to vibrate. His phone was ringing.*** It was his daughter.
“Where are you, Dad?”
“I’m, uh, at a gas station.”
Of course, he was neglecting to provide a key piece of information. One tiny prepositional phrase would have made that statement completely truthful. So let’s try it again. What he really should have said was:
“I’m, uh, at a gas station … IN MY UNDERWEAR!”
He finished the call and changed his pants. He stuffed the gas-soaked pants into a large, black plastic garbage bag.
He continued on his way. The cab smelled like gas. He pulled over.
He put the black plastic bag in the back of the pickup.
He continued on his way. The black plastic bag started blowing around. He pulled over.
To anchor the black plastic bag, he wedged (wedgied?) it in the side of the tailgate and shut it. He complained how putting up the tailgate produced extra drag and lowered his gas mileage. (Did he miss the irony of producing extra drag?)
Then he came to why he was telling me all this (as if he could keep quiet and not give me blackmail fodder for the rest of his life): “I’m not sure what to do with my pants.”
I stopped laughing long enough (not really) and went to the Google and typed in “How to get gas out of pants.”****
Of course I was being goofy, and was slightly disappointed Large Smelly Boys didn’t pop up on top, but the first item was titled, no kidding, “How to get gas out of pants.”*****
Tip No. 1 suggested laying the pants out in the sun. Like that’s going to happen in January in Oregon.******
We looked out the window at the rain. We considered how attractive a pair of smelly jeans would look splayed out on the front porch. We decided to hang them in the garage.
After a brief discussion about spontaneous combustion, I got the key, opened the industrial-strength lock on the garage and my brother hung the pants over a handcart.
Afterward, he settled in at the dining table with his pajama pants and a warm drink. Like he really needed to say it, but he did anyway, thankfully giving me a great quote: “You know the whole irony of it? I was trying to keep my hands clean.”
Epilogue: He left yesterday. As he was packing up, he asked — you can’t make this stuff up — “Do you have the key to my pants?”*******
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* Yes, Art Scatter regulars will know him as the same brother who has sprayed cold water on me with a garden hose while I was in a second-story shower and cleaned puked pasta out of my sink.
** Geography points if you can name the state above Oregon.
*** Imagine the headline: “Cell Phone Ignites Pants.”
**** For journalistic integrity, I really typed in “How to get gasoline out of pants,” but who cares?
***** For journalistic integrity, it was really titled “How to get gasoline out of clothing,” but who cares?
****** Geography points if you can name why it’s nearly impossible to lay out gasoline-soaked pants in the sun in January in Oregon.
******* Extra credit if anyone has the key to his pants.
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My brother was worried about telling me all this because he didn’t want a big public ordeal. I promised I would only tell his story, show his picture, and give his name, phone number and e-mail.
I was kidding him, but here’s a picture of him anyway:
I was kidding him, but here are his initials anyway (props to the Large Smelly Boys and Mr. Scatter):
Tough Rat Gonads
Two Rowdy Gerbils
Twin Reproductive Glands
Terminate Religious Guppies
Tranquilizer Reaches Gut
Testosterone Rattles Girlfriend
Totally Real Gore
Teacher’s Really Gruesome
Toss Rocks at Goliath
Teeth Get Rotten
Totally Rad, Girl
The Robust Girls
That Rascally Gal
Tch! Really Guys?
Timberwolves Rally Gazillions
Tiny Rectal Glitch
Tonic Rattles Gizzards
– Laura Grimes
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Downloading free or paid third-party applications has become such a key part of the Apple iPhone experience—with more than 100,000 apps now available through the iTunes App Store—that it’s easy to forget that outside apps weren’t even allowed on the device until summer 2008. But while Apple’s strategy has revolutionized consumers’ expectations about smartphones, and while mobile software developers have jumped onto the iTunes/iPhone bandwagon in full force, the transformation hasn’t been painless.
To be specific, Apple has maintained strict control over which apps can be distributed through the App Store, and it developed a reputation very early on for taking weeks (sometimes even months) to make up its mind on specific apps. Worse, it has often rejected apps for seemingly arbitrary or trivial reasons—and then forced their developers to the back of the line when they submitted fixes.
It’s an issue that has had many developers tearing their hair out, given that software development these days is all about rapid iteration (build, test, repeat). More than one company I’ve spoken with has said Apple’s unpredictability has undercut the iPhone as a platform for innovation, forcing mobile developers to turn to other operating systems such as Google’s Android, where it’s much faster and easier to iterate.
But all that may be changing now. Developer blogs and the Twittersphere started to buzz last week with some remarkable news: some new iPhone apps were getting approved much faster, sometimes within a single day. And not only that, but it seems that Apple is now giving a pass to certain features that had been automatic cause for rejection in the past. (One is the use of so-called “private APIs” or application programming interfaces, those not officially approved by Apple.)
Apple hasn’t said anything publicly about the changes, but it appears that the company is making a conscious effort to simplify and speed up the app approval process. For more about the recent changes, I contacted Greg Raiz, the founder of Raizlabs, a Brookline, MA-based software development house that specializes in iPhone applications. (The company has built such apps as GPS Twit, VideoUp for Facebook, Clock Radio, and Whiteboard Pro. It also created the initial versions of FitnessKeeper’s award-winning RunKeeper app.) He calls the reduction in app approval time drastic—and very welcome.
Xconomy: What changes are you actually seeing in regard to the time it takes to get iPhone apps approved, or the number of hoops Apple is asking developers to jump through? How do the new approval wait times compare to the old ones?
Greg Raiz: When the App store first opened we saw approval times of several weeks. Typical times over the past year and a half would vary, but we would typically see things reviewed in two to three weeks. For some of our products we saw much longer review times—sometimes as more than a month. In one case an application was rejected because Apple didn’t like an icon we used. It took us 30 minutes to resubmit the application with a new icon but we still had to wait another two weeks for the application to be reviewed.
Over the last few days we’ve started seeming much faster approval times: between 1-2 days for an approval. This marks a critical change in how apps are reviewed. We’re happy that Apple is listening and improving what has been a particular pain point in developing iPhone apps.
X: Speaking of pain points, Apple had also developed a reputation for being arbitrary, even capricious about which apps it rejected and why. Is that changing too?
GR: It’s still too early to see what other changes are present in this review process. We have seen a possible relaxation on automatic rejections for the use of private API’s. I don’t think the rejections are totally arbitrary, it’s just the result of …Next Page »
We’ve already reported to you that US F1 team has received dispensation from the International Automobile Federation (FIA) to debut their 2010 challenger in the United States. Due to geographic reasons – the Charlotte-based team is the only one located outside Europe from all current F1 outfits – Peter Windsor’s and Ken Anderson’s organization was granted permission to conduct testing on their car on home soil.
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“Dream bigger,” Steve Jobs told a Disney executive as they discussed plans to reinvent the media company’s retail outlets. He insisted Disney develop a prototype store, much as Apple did before it launched its first brick-and-mortar outlet at Tysons Corner, Virgina, in May 2001. As the majority shareholder it’s in his best interest, of course, for Disney to be successful, but you have to imagine he’d offer the same advice to anyone.
Well, it has been almost nine years since Apple got into the retail store game and with Microsoft blatantly copying Apple with their recent move into retail, it’s time for a change. As last week drew to a close, clues emerged suggesting Apple is looking to reinvent its retail store design, and once again it’s developing a prototype. This time, however, it’s not tucked away in an aircraft hangar at Area 51, but can be found at 340 University Ave, Palo Alto.
On Friday SiliconValley.com reported:
[Apple] will build an Apple Store that project developers referred to in planning documents as “a new prototype for the company.” The facade will be entirely transparent at ground level, vast skylights will flood the store with natural light, and trees will grow inside, fed by the sunlight from above.
It sounds so beautiful. Quite unlike the building that currently stands at 340 University Avenue;
Not much to look at now, but, give it time… Image from Google Maps
According to the report the architectural review board voted unanimously to approve the plans which, although referred to as a “renovation,” include completely demolishing the facade and roof of the building. It seems the structure has been altered so many times in recent years it doesn’t qualify for historic protection.
The plans credit architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson — the same firm behind Apple’s iconic Fifth Avenue store in New York, whose entrance resembles a giant transparent-cube. SiliconValley.com’s Will Oremus says several sources have told him Apple is behind the project, while Alexander Lew, chair of the arhitectural review board, said:
Apple is pretty secretive… But at the same time, when you look at it, the design is pretty unique. …I think a lot of people have kind of guessed.
The whole design is inside-outside, with everything completely exposed. With the huge skylight, there’s going to be lots of daylight and it will feel more like an atrium inside. … We’re excited about the project.
Naturally, Apple declined to comment on the plans. Shocker, eh? Thankfully, the proposal includes some tantalising descriptive prose detailing the vision for the new store, the beginning of which should sound familiar to anyone who has ever visited an Apple store.
The proposed store is a new prototype for the applicant. Fully half the function of the store serves to provide education and service to business as well as customer patrons in addition to product sales. The store is a commons for the applicant’s community to gather.
[The all-glass store front] dissolves the boundary that traditional store facades create. By not breaking the horizontal ground plane of the sidewalk with opaque wall or landscape element, for example, the street is made part of the store’s interior; the pedestrian is in the store before entering it.
Of course, we don’t know absolutely for sure if Apple is responsible; I suppose this could be Microsoft’s doing. And while we’re at it, Apple’s much-rumoured-tablet might run Windows 7 and feature a hardware keyboard and built-in fax machine.
I’m trying to imagine what makes this “prototype” so special and new. Aside from the interesting aesthetics (Apple does like its glass-walled cathedrals) what will make this store different?
The NYC Upper West Side store has been likened to a Cathedral. Image by Apple, Inc
Are we talking the tried-and-trusted Scandinavian furniture we see today in all other Apple stores, or will we be treated to a complete overhaul? Touch-enabled surfaces everywhere? More room dedicated to iPods and iPhones? A new Tablet Bar?
I’m holding out for a luxurious coffee bar in every Apple Store 2.0. If it did that, I could practically live in my local Apple Store. What would you change in yours? Share your ideas, and coffee-cravings, in the comments below.
While Chrysler isn’t holding a press conference today that the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, it is surprising the media with this 2009 Lancia Delta rebadged as a Chrysler. The vehicle can be seen as the first hint at Sergio Marchionne’s plans to slowly rebadge merge the Fiat and Chrysler lineup.
Like it? Hate it? Want it? Let us know in the poll below.
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2010 Detroit: 2009 Lancia Delta based Chrysler:
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В городе много исторических зданий, соборов, памятников итд, при
этом почти все они в нормальном состоянии, правда как и в остальных
городах сфотать здание без кучи проводов практически невозможно.
Помимо старой застройки, есть улицы и даже целые кварталы типовых
сталинок, что радует – тоже со свежими фасадами, буйства красок
как в Крске конечно нет – все цвета всех зданий бледные, бежевые.
Конструктивизм я в принципе ожидал увидеть, немного помня чем
был этот город в начале прошлого века, больше удивился множеству
здваний из обожженного красного кирпаича, причем немаленьких,
в провинциальной россии больше нигде такого не встречал, кроме
разве что Калининграда, но это уже можно сказать и не совсем РФ.
Транспорт – пазики, по 10 рублей кажется, очень много троллейбусов,
почти по всему городу ходят, сама планировка города довольно
нестандартная – центра как такового нет, основные улицы большим
квадратом, пересекая при этом какую-то речку, на окраинах пара
панельных жилмассивов, довольно большой район старой деревянной
застройки, причем многие дома вдоль больших улиц тоже покрашены,
за день увидел один ТРК (с макд), причем прям чуть не в центре ч/с.
Вообще архитектура радует – и разнообразием и состоянием, и пусть
казанцы наконец хоть уймутся со своей бауманкой и булаком – иваново,
как впрочем и десятки других горродов, отнюдь не менее живописны,
здесь к тому же нет всех уродских новоделов, как на Булаке например,
вообще новых зданий очень мало, практически нет, хоть немногие
высотки поставлены очень правильно – смотрятся со всех частей города.
Также думал что город плоский – а на самом деле есть рельефные горки.
По фоткам, как уже многие понимают, ориентироваться не стоит –
типовые фотоотчеты как правило не вкючают в себя неприметные
или облезшие здания, у меня же грубо говоря пройден весь центр
от автовокзала и по колцу, фотографируя почти что нон-стопом.
Article Tags: World Temperatures
Britain’s big freeze is the start of a worldwide trend towards colder weather that seriously challenges global warming theories, eminent scientists claimed yesterday. The world has entered a ‘cold mode’ which is likely to bring a global dip in temperatures which will last for 20 to 30 years, they say.
Summers and winters will all be cooler than in recent years, and the changes will mean that global warming will be ‘paused’ or even reversed, it was claimed. The predictions are based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
They are the work of respected climate scientists and not those routinely dismissed by environmentalists as ‘global warming deniers’. Some experts believe these cycles – and not human pollution – can explain all the major changes in world temperatures in the 20th century.
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Source: dailymail.co.uk
