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Foi anunciado pela Ford em clima de festa a produção da 500.000ª unidade do Focus para o mercado chinês. O modelo que foi construído na fábrica de Chongqing, demonstra a intensa atividade do mercado asiático.
A Ford começou a investir no mercado chinês a partir de 2005, e pelo jeito acertaram na mosca, pois após cinco anos, os números os números das vendas estão crescendo de forma espantosa para a companhia. Em janeiro, o Focus vendeu 17.151 unidades no país, o que representa 78% a mais que o ano anterior.
Atualmente, a fábrica de Chongqing produz unidades de quatro e cinco portas do Focus. A produção da nova geração do Focus que foi mostrada no Salão de Detroit não vai chegar ao mercado chinês antes de 2012, então só resta aguardar um pouco mais.
Via | Autoblog.it
You know how Frank Sinatra sang DO BE DO BE DO? He was a great crooner – but a dyslexic self help guru. To achieve all you want in your life, it’s important to put the emphasis on BE DO BE DO BE DO.
You must figure out who you want TO BE — because your identity is the ultimate chooser of your habits and actions.
For example:
If you view yourself as an organized person, you will choose the neatness habits of an organized person.
If you view yourself as a thin person, you will choose the eating and exercise habits of a thin person.
If you view yourself as a successful, positive person, you will choose the habits of a successful, positive person — even in the face of adversity and challenges!
YOUR ASSIGNMENT:
Here’s a great question to ask yourself when you wake up in the morning: “Who do I need to become to get all which I want in my life?”
Ask yourself this question, then write your TO BE LIST – before you write your TO DO LIST!
For example, do you need to be more PATIENT, more COMMUNICATIVE, more EMPATHIC, more ORGANIZED, more DIRECT?
Put these TO BE words on a list, and really think about them!
Work out your problems BACKWARDS! Ask yourself what “TO BE” quality do you need TO BE more of to get yourself out of the mess you are in.
For example, if you’re having a work problem, do you need to more CONFIDENT, more DISCIPLINED, more INNOVATIVE, more OPEN-MINDED? Put it on your TO BE LIST and think about these TO BE words all through your day.
Your TO DO LIST will go so much more productively when you write your TO BE LIST first!
For example, if you have an important phonecall to make — and you look at your TO BE LIST and see PATIENT, DIRECT, EMPATHIC, COMMUNICATIVE – your phonecall will be energized to a higher level by your conscious awareness of your BEING these qualities!
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Until April 12,Illinois legislators are in their home district offices and they need to see and hear you. Never has it been more important for our members to be involved. We are asking you to participate in Back Home Lobby Days from March 26-April 12. Call your legislators’ home offices, schedule appointments to meet with them and have a talk about what is happening in the state and what you’d like to see them do.
It’s easy to look up your legislators’ contact information. Go to our “Contact Your Legislators” page, then scroll down to the “My Elected Official” section and fill in your address. Your lawmakers’ names will appear. Click on your lawmakers and you can see information about them, including how to contact them. Call their home office and make an appointment sometime between now and April 12.
Our lobbying message now turns to encouraging lawmakers to support increased revenues in order to Save Our Schools, Save Our State. There are expected to be at least 17,000 education-related layoffs in Illinois. We need increased revenue to prevent this from happening.
A nova versão do Volkswagen Polo foi oficialmente anunciada. Segundo a companhia, o modelo vai ser construído na fábrica de Kaluga, na Rússia e comercializados em países emergentes e na Ásia, onde o modelo teve uma boa aceitação do público.
A mesma equipe que projetou o modelo anterior do Polo está trabalhando nesse, liderada por Walter de Silva, que também desenvolveu a versão hatchback do Polo. Todas as peças do novo veículo serão adaptadas de acordo com a região no qual será vendido, pelas condições da estrada e clima da Europa Oriental e da Ásia.
Segundo a Volks, o novo veículo será apresentado em junho, quando o Polo Sedan se juntar aos modelos Passat e Jetta que estão em produção. O preço do carro será de aproximadamente R$ 30.000. Importante também lembrar que esse novo Polo não pode ser confundido com o sedan que a Volkswagen está desenvolvendo para o mercado norte-americano, que possui diferenças em seu interior, de acordo com o público alvo da região, embora possuam traços muito parecidos.
Via | Autoblog.it
With companies like Digiprotect, Davenport Lyons and ACS:Law busy sending out tens of thousands of so-called pre-settlement letters that threaten people (often on very little evidence, if any) of copyright infringement, but allow them to pay up to avoid a lawsuit, is it any surprise that out-and-out scammers are jumping into the game as well? Ben alerts us to a warning from US-CERT of a new email scam, which involves the scammers sending out legitimate looking emails pretending to be from a law firm, telling the recipients they’re being sued for copyright infringement. The details are supposedly in a file at a URL provided in the email. When a visitor goes to that URL and downloads the file, they get malware instead. Yes, it appears that the malware scammers are now learning from the best in the business…
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Suzuki had previously planned to offer two alternate versions of its new Kizashi sedan, a hybrid and a V6. Those plans were scrapped however, due to GM’s sale of their stake in Suzuki; the technology for these vehicles was to be borrowed from GM.
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The move is a costly blow to Suzuki as a company that doesn’t offer a mid-size sedan in either a hybrid or V6 version. One option to consider is Volkswagen’s alternative-fuel engine technology, but that would be too expensive. Suzuki has dispatched a team of engineers to Germany to see what can be done as far as alternative technologies.
“We are looking at VW’s cost structure and their offerings,” said Steve Younan, director of product planning at American Suzuki Motor Corp. “We want to keep our cars reachable to mere mortals.”
Volkswagen recently purchased a 19.9 percent stake in Suzuki.
– By: Stephen Calogera
Source: Automotive News (Subscription Required)
El piloto español del a escudería Red Bull, Jaime Alguersuari, nos ha dado a conocer todos los secretos del circuito de Sepang del GP de Malasia que tendrá lugar durante este próximo fin de semana. En el vídeo podemos ver al piloto haciendo uso del simulador oficial del equipo.
Por otra parte, cabe destacar que el circuito de Sepang es totalmetne nuevo para Alguersuari y esta será la primera vez que corra en él. Aun así, como el mismo ha afirmado en diversas ocasiones, si consigue clasificarse en un buen puesto, podrá optar facilmente a entrar en la zona de puntos.
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“He was a hero and he was the love of my life.” – Albert Snyder, Matthew’s Father
“…The family of Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, US Marine Corps, has begun this civil lawsuit* against Mr. Phelps and certain members of the so-called Westboro Baptist Church to bring an end to the reign of terror and abuse that they inflicted upon the grieving families of US service members killed in defense of our nation. Using innocent children to deliver their twisted message of hatred and fear, the defendants in this suit have sought to attack the memory of our departed heroes, to strip their loved ones of their dignity, and to use abuse and intimidation as a tool for preventing surviving family members from reaching closure over their loss.
It is the sincere hope of Mr. Al Snyder, Matthew’s father, that this suit will spark similar legal actions against Mr. Phelps wherever he seeks to inflict harm upon the memory of our heroes and their families. If you feel strongly that such actions should be stopped, please consider a donation to help offset the legal expenses of bringing this suit…” (source)
I am assuming this is the reason a court has ordered Matthew’s father, Albert Snyder, to pay $16,000 in legal fees to Fred Phelps(D) and his Westboro Baptist “Church.” Not that even one of the three articles I read gave any background to the story… So we’ll surmise Snyder brought the suit claiming carrying “God Hates Fags” signs outside of the funerals of soldiers and Marines that were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq exceeds the boundaries of free speech. I think we’ll also have to guess that he lost the suit and has to cover the defendant’s legal costs.
“I don’t think I’m going to be writing a check until I hear from the Supreme Court,” Snyder told Fox News on Tuesday. “I’m not about to pay them anything.”
The two-page decision supplied by attorneys for Albert Snyder of York, Pa., offered no details on how the court came to its decision.
On Friday, Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered Snyder to pay $16,510 to Fred Phelps. Phelps is the leader of Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church, which conducted protests at Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder’s funeral in 2006.
Attorneys also said Snyder is struggling to come up with fees associated with filing a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court.
The decision adds “insult to injury,” said Sean Summers, one of Snyder’s lawyers. (source)
Though I do believe the First Amendment gives Phelps and his crew have the right to hold their disgusting signs… If this poor man, that has already lost his 20 year old son to OIF, has to pay that vile Fred Phelps one cent…ugh, it’s too horrible to even consider isn’t it?
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The missing pyramid of an obscure pharaoh that ruled Egypt 4,300 years ago could lie at the intersection of a series of invisible lines in South Saqqara, according to new astronomical and topographical research.Connecting the funerary complexes raised by the kings of the 6th Dynasty between 2322 B.C. and 2151 B.C., these lines would have governed the sacred space of the Saqqara area, in accordance with a number of criteria such as dynastic lineage, religion and astronomical alignment.
“We are talking of meridian and diagonal alignments, with pyramids raised at their intersections. The only missing piece in this sort of grid is the pyramid of Userkare,” Giulio Magli, professor of archaeoastronomy at Milan’s Polytechnic University, told Discovery News. His research will appear in the next issue of the journal Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry.
Also reported on MSNBC.
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With photo. Unfortunately not big enough to see the hieroglyphs.
An Egyptian excavation team has unearthed a 3,500-year-old door to the afterlife from the tomb of a high-ranking Egyptian official near Karnak temple in Luxor, Egypt’s Culture Minister Farouk Hosni announced on Monday.
Engraved with religious texts, the six-foot-tall red granite door belonged to the tomb of User, the chief minister of Queen Hatshepsut, the long-ruling 15th century B.C. queen from the New Kingdom.
The door, known as a false door, was meant to be a threshold that allowed the deceased and his wife to interact with the world of the living.
This “interaction” was not eternal for User. More than 1,000 years after his death, during the Roman period, the massive false door was removed from the tomb and used in the wall of a Roman structure.
The uncle of the well-known Rekhmire, who was King Tuthmosis III’s chief minister, User was a powerful man.
Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,500-year-old door to the afterlife from the tomb of a high-ranking Egyptian official near Karnak temple in Luxor, the Egyptian antiquities authority said Monday.These recessed niches found in nearly all ancient Egyptian tombs were meant to take the spirits of the dead to and from the afterworld. The nearly six-foot- tall (1.75 meters) slab of pink granite was covered with religious texts.
The door came from the tomb of User, the chief minister of Queen Hatshepsut, a powerful, long ruling 15th century B.C. queen from the New Kingdom with a famous mortuary temple near Luxor in southern Egypt.
User held the position of vizier for 20 years, also acquiring the titles of prince and mayor of the city, according to the inscriptions. He may have inherited his position from his father.
Twitter is once again revamping the homepage in an effort to make it more appealing to new users and casual visitors, but also in order to better reflect what the site is all about. The new homepage will feature more dynamic content listing some of the more recent and important tweets and also a “Who’s here” section that displays some major brands or other … (read more)
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The head of U.S. operations for Toyota, Jim Lentz, said that the company is making headway as far as repairs are concerned, but rebuilding the brand’s image will be a grueling process.
“I think it’s a matter of time,” Lentz said. “They’re going to come back. I can’t tell you when. It’s not going to be weeks. It’s going to be measured in months, hopefully not years.”
While it is widely agreed that Toyota will eventually move past its recall problems, many warn that they will not enjoy the steady growth they once did. Even with the 35% jump in sales forecast by Lentz, Toyota will not likely regain their 2009 market share. The company had 17% of the U.S. market in 2009, but saw a sharp decline during the first two months of 2010.
– By: Stephen Calogera
Source: CNNMoney
Article Tags: World Temperatures
Maps from NASA’s GISS reveal temperatures where no data exist, thanks to mathematical extrapolation of data.
NASA can put a man on the moon, but the space agency can’t tell you what the temperature was back then.
NASA was able to put a man on the moon, but the space agency can’t tell you what the temperature was when it did. By its own admission, NASA’s temperature records are in even worse shape than the besmirched Climate-gate data.
E-mail messages obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that NASA concluded that its own climate findings were inferior to those maintained by both the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) — the scandalized source of the leaked Climate-gate e-mails — and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center.
Source: foxnews.com
Craemer is reacting to the demands made by trade and industry for the development of a load carrier which offers higher levels of sustainability, functionality and longevity than the ‘Dusseldorfer’ and, at the same time, enables universal usage across the entire supply chain, with an innovative half pallet concept. Produced under the name of ECOmax, Craemer presents the first plastic half pallet which stands for sustainability and added value in pallet logistics.
ECOmax – the alternative to the ‘Dusseldorfer’
With ECOmax, Craemer provides an alternative to wooden half-pallets which do not always meet high professional standards and can create additional costs. There are not only economic reasons that cause trade and industry to increasingly look for alternatives to the ‘Dusseldorfer’ pallet. In an age of diminishing raw materials and the demand to reduce CO2 output the need has grown for an alternative that offers greater durability and functionality. More sustainability and added value in the supply chain are the central themes.
With the new ECOmax plastic pallets, Craemer has developed a new generation of load carriers which can do more than just replace the conventional ‘Dusseldorfer’. In so doing, Craemer is breaking new ground in production, e.g. through the careful use of resources and the controlled use of recyclable materials. The manufacturer is also investing in the research and development of new materials and production techniques.
High levels of longevity, functionality and process reliability across the entire supply chain
As the ‘Dusseldorfer’ often reaches its limits in modern conveyor systems, the ECOmax is the first series of half pallets that not only guarantees a high turnover rate and as a result, a longer useful life, but also enables universal application throughout the entire supply chain. The high handling capacity of the range is achieved through the additional strengthening of the runner material. The entry width to 573 mm provides optimal conditions for handling the pallets with industrial trucks. Moreover, the automatic roller / chain conveyor system-usable ECOmax measuring 800 x 600 x 160 mm feature a high level of process reliability, resilience and shape retention. Non-slip stoppers ensures transportation safety when conveyed by fork-lift truck. In addition, the patented ‘Lego structure’ facilitates the safe stacking of empty pallets.
Article Tags: Andrew Orlowski, ClimateGate
To the dismay of its sole scientific member, the House of Commons Select Committee on Science has come to the aid of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit – the department at the centre of the Climategate scandal – giving the boffins and the institution a gentle ticking off.
Phil Willis, head of the committee, said it was outside the remit of the committee to examine “the science”. He concluded the affair was a product of the scientists’ own making, but recommended that Jones return to his post as Director of CRU.
“His actions were in line with common practice in the climate science community,” the report concludes.
In doing so, it’s considerably more charitable than some leading environmental campaigners. George Monbiot called for CRU Director Phil Jones to resign, while James ‘Gaia’ Lovelock said he was ‘disgusted’ by the behaviour revealed in the Climategate archive, and predicted it may be years before CRU could restore its reputation.
However, the only MP on the committee with a scientific background, chemist Graham Stringer, said that by doing so the committee had gone too far. Indeed, it is not clear that MPs have attempted to read the emails in the archive themselves, merely excerpts presented to them by critics
Click source to read FULL article by Andrew Orlowski
Source: theregister.co.uk
Sergio Marchionne had made a commitment to break even in 2010, and that promise will be kept. When asked if Chrysler will turn a profit this year, he was unsure, but said that the company is still on track break even. He also advised that we ill not be seeing Chrysler engaged in any kind of incentive war, as has been the deal with Toyota and other companies that have followed suit.
Marchionne predicts industry sales in excess of 11 million units for 2010, and said that Chrysler ended ’09 with $5 billion in the bank. Chrysler is to provide a financial update on April 21 in Italy, as part of a Fiat event.
The Italian CEO is also touting the much-awaited Jeep Grand Cherokee, which will start being produced in May and is to showcase the latest and greatest in Chrysler’s vehicle technology. So far 86 former Chrysler dealers have been reinstated, and the company plans to invest $500 million in its dealer network over the next five years.
– By: Stephen Calogera
Source: Detroit News
Article Tags: Marc Morano
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Source: esquire.com
