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Audi acaba de publicar un nuevo vídeo promocial sobre su nuevo deportivo. No es otro que el nuevo Audi RS5. En este vídeo podremos ver al nuevo modelo en acción rodando sobre distintaos entornos urbanos. Además, lo podremos ver desde multitud de ángulos distintos.

Para los más despistados, os recuerdo que hará uso de un motor V8 de gasolina que desarrolla 450CV de potencia. Saldrá a la venta en España a un precio apróximado de 75.000€.

Por último, os dejo con este vídeo promocional:

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Heritage Key (Sean Williams)

Sean Williams argues that given the involvement of Lord Carnarvon, Howard Carter and other British team members some of Tutankhamun’s tomb discoveries ought to have found their way into the British Museum on long term loan.

When I’m strolling through the British Museum’s Egyptian Sculpture Gallery taking in its ancient statues, stelae and scriptures, it’s hard not to think something’s missing. For among its rows of exotic artefacts, nothing on display relates to Egypt’s most famous king in modern times, Tutankhamun. And I think Britain deserves to have kept hold of at least some of the ancient world’s greatest pieces.

Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes

Down from over 5.9% in the last reading…

Here’s part of the announcement from the BEA:

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     Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property
located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 5.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009,
(that is, from the third quarter to the fourth quarter), according to the “third” estimate released by the
Bureau of Economic Analysis.  In the third quarter, real GDP increased 2.2 percent.

      The GDP estimate released today is based on more complete source data than were available for
the “second” estimate issued last month.  In the second estimate, the increase in real GDP was 5.9
percent (see “Revisions” on page 3).

      The increase in real GDP in the fourth quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from
private inventory investment, exports, personal consumption expenditures (PCE), and nonresidential
fixed investment.  Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.

      The acceleration in real GDP in the fourth quarter primarily reflected an acceleration in private
inventory investment, an upturn in nonresidential fixed investment, an acceleration in exports, and a
deceleration in imports that were partly offset by decelerations in PCE and in federal government
spending.

      Motor vehicle output added 0.45 percentage point to the fourth-quarter change in real GDP after
adding 1.45 percentage points to the third-quarter change.  Final sales of computers added 0.01
percentage point to the fourth-quarter change in real GDP after subtracting 0.08 percentage point from
the third-quarter change.

The price index for gross domestic purchases, which measures prices paid by U.S. residents,
increased 2.0 percent in the fourth quarter, 0.1 percentage point more than in the second estimate; this
index increased 1.3 percent in the third quarter.  Excluding food and energy prices, the price index for
gross domestic purchases increased 1.5 percent in the fourth quarter, compared with an increase of 0.3
percent in the third.

      Real personal consumption expenditures increased 1.6 percent in the fourth quarter, compared
with an increase of 2.8 percent in the third.  Real nonresidential fixed investment increased 5.3 percent,
in contrast to a decrease of 5.9 percent.  Nonresidential structures decreased 18.0 percent, compared
with a decrease of 18.4 percent.  Equipment and software increased 19.0 percent, compared with an
increase of 1.5 percent.  Real residential fixed investment increased 3.8 percent, compared with an
increase of 18.9 percent.

      Real exports of goods and services increased 22.8 percent in the fourth quarter, compared with
an increase of 17.8 percent in the third.  Real imports of goods and services increased 15.8 percent,
compared with an increase of 21.3 percent.

      Real federal government consumption expenditures and gross investment were unchanged in the
fourth quarter, compared with an increase of 8.0 percent in the third.  National defense decreased 3.6
percent, in contrast to an increase of 8.4 percent.  Nondefense increased 8.3 percent, compared with an
increase of 7.0 percent.  Real state and local government consumption expenditures and gross
investment decreased 2.2 percent, compared with a decrease of 0.6 percent.

      The change in real private inventories added 3.79 percentage points to the fourth-quarter change
in real GDP, after adding 0.69 percentage point to the third-quarter change.  Private businesses
decreased inventories $19.7 billion in the fourth quarter, following decreases of $139.2 billion in the
third quarter and $160.2 billion in the second.

      Real final sales of domestic product — GDP less change in private inventories — increased 1.7
percent in the fourth quarter, compared with an increase of 1.5 percent in the third.

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Article Tags: Headline Story, NASA

Illustration depicting the overturning circulation of the global ocean. Throughout the Atlantic Ocean, the circulation carries warm waters (red arrows) northward near the surface and cold deep waters (blue arrows) southward. Image credit: NASA/JPL
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PASADENA, Calif. – New NASA measurements of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, part of the global ocean conveyor belt that helps regulate climate around the North Atlantic, show no significant slowing over the past 15 years. The data suggest the circulation may have even sped up slightly in the recent past.

The findings are the result of a new monitoring technique, developed by oceanographer Josh Willis of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., using measurements from ocean-observing satellites and profiling floats. The findings are reported in the March 25 issue of Geophysical Research Letters.

The Atlantic overturning circulation is a system of currents, including the Gulf Stream, that bring warm surface waters from the tropics northward into the North Atlantic. There, in the seas surrounding Greenland, the water cools, sinks to great depths and changes direction. What was once warm surface water heading north turns into cold deep water going south. This overturning is one part of the vast conveyor belt of ocean currents that move heat around the globe.

Source: jpl.nasa.gov

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Heritage Key (Helen Atkinson)

With slideshow.

You live long enough in this city and you’ll see things you couldn’t even imagine – like a 25-foot tall Anubis statue being towed around New York harbour, which is what happened on yesterday morning. Anubis’s arrival heralds the one-month countdown point for the exhibition, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, which opens April 23 at the Discovery Times Square Exposition in Manhattan, on the final leg of its journey round North America. Tickets for the show went on sale the same day.

Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes

Filed under: Etc., Porsche, Design/Style

You’d expect a studio like Porsche Design to come out with the occasional driver’s watch. But a diving watch is quite a different story. In fact, this is only the second time the studio has made one. The first was over 25 years ago, with the Ocean 2000, designed by company founder Prof. F.A. Porsche in 1983. The P’6780 is Porsche Design‘s innovative and rugged follow-up.

Capable of reaching depths up to 1,000 meters (3,280 feet), P’6780’s party trick is actually quite functional: the stainless steel case that houses the movement hinges forward out of its titanium bracket (which in turn attaches to the rubber wrist strap), thereby insulating the case from shock and keeping the crown from being accidentally re-set.

Follow the jump for more details in the press release and check out the photos in the gallery below.

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You probably hate the hassle involved when shopping for a new car and going from dealer to dealer. Well, General Motors plans on changing all that with its new “Test Drive Studio” program, which will offer shoppers the chance to test-drive Chevrolet vehicles against those of its largest rivals.

According to Steve Tihanyi, GM’s general director of marketing services, GM will offer new car shoppers the chance to test-drive the Equinox, Traverse and Malibu along with competing vehicles from Toyota, FoMoCo and Honda.

Click here to get prices on the 2010 Chevrolet Equinox.

“You come in and drive any of these competitive products at your leisure,” Tihanyi told Reuters. “You don’t have to go running around town to go to a bunch of dealerships. It fits perfectly with ‘May the best car win,’”

Click here to read our review on the 2010 Chevrolet Equinox.

GM is now leasing space in free-standing, high-traffic retail locations and plans to get the program up and running by mid-spring.

– By: Omar Rana

Source: Reuters

Κάτι τρέχει με την Βαρκελώνη. Μετά την φωτογράφηση της S-Line έκδοσης του Audi A1 και του promo video της νέας Alfa Romeo Giulietta και η Mercedes – Benz επέλεξε την Ισπανική μεγαλούπολη για να γυρίσει το διαφημιστικό της Mercedes SLR Stirling Moss. Με οδηγό των 2 φορές παγκόσμιο πρωταθλητή της F1 Mika Hakkinen το video θα είναι έτοιμο σε μερικούς μήνες. Θυμίζω ότι η SLR Stirling Moss κάνει τα 0-100 χλμ/ώρα σε 3.5 δεύτερα με την τελική ταχύτητα να αγγίζει τα 350 χλμ/ώρα. Η Mercedes θα παράγει μόλις 75 μονάδες με την τιμή της να ανέρχεται στις €750.000.

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We’ve always had a soft spot in our hearts for the Volkswagen Scirocco R, which leads us to be a little excited when we hear rumors of the Golf R coming to the stateside. However, our excitement is short lived when tuners like B&B provide performance upgrades for the Scirocco R.

The tuner is offering three levels of performance upgrades for the Scirocco R starting with a package that takes output up to 306-hp, allowing the hot hatch to hit a top speed of 171 mph. The second level package provides an upgrade to 320-hp, which helps it accelerate all the way up to 173 mph.

Click here to get prices on the 2010 Volkswagen GTI.

Last but not least, B&B is offering a third performance package that takes output all the way up to 357-hp with a top speed of 174 mph.

Click through for the performance stats.

B&B Volkswagen Scirocco R:

Standard – Scirocco R 2.0TSI (195 kW / 265 hp / 350Nm)

Level 1 – B&B Scirocco R 2.0TSI – 228 kW / 310 PS

• Modification of electronics
• Optimization and revision of the electronic injection
• Slight increase in boost pressure to ca.0, 2 bar
• Adaptation of the electronic maps to the increased boost pressure
• 410 Torque Nm at 1,900 rpm
• Vmax approximately 275 km / h
• € 1.198,-

Level 2 – B&B Scirocco R 2.0TSI – 238 kW / 324 PS

• Modification of electronics
• Optimization and revision of the electronic injection code fields
• Increase the boost pressure to ca.0, 25bar (total)
• Adaptation of the electronic maps to the increased boost pressure
• Downpipe modified for reduced exhaust backpressure
• Optimization of air induction and airflows
• Modification of ignition and fuel injection
• Motor coordination
• 435 Torque Nm at 2,000 rpm
• Vmax approximately 279 km / h
• € 2.798,-

Level 3 – B&B Scirocco R 2.0TSI – 266 kW / 362 PS

• B & B Special turbo
• B & B sport exhaust for reduced exhaust backpressure
• B & B Edelstahlabgasvorrohr for reduced exhaust gas temperature
• Air intake
• Optimized intercooling
• custom electronics / ECU modification
• Optimization of air induction and airflows
• Modification of ignition and fuel injection
• Motor coordination
• 480 Torque Nm at 2600 rpm
• Vmax approximately 280 km / h
• € 7.998,-

– By: Kap Shah

Source: WCF

One of the talking points from ACTA supporters was always that it wasn’t a “treaty” but an “executive agreement,” claiming that this meant something different. However, as we discussed back in February, this is misleading. Executive agreements are generally a way to sneak treaties through without Congressional approval. That post linked to a great legal analysis by Andrew Moshirnia for the Citizen Media Law Project — but some ACTA supporters in our comments claimed that since Moshirnia was “just a second year law student,” his arguments were meaningless (of course, this commenter also ignored all of the legal citations Moshirnia raised (funny, that…)).

But it appears that some law professors are also pretty concerned about trying to sneak ACTA through by calling it an executive agreement. Harvard law professors Jack Goldsmith and Larry Lessig have penned an opinion piece for the Washington Post where they lay out an explanation for why calling ACTA an executive agreement may not be Constitutional:

The administration has suggested that a sole executive agreement in this instance would not trample Congress’s prerogatives because the pact would not affect U.S. domestic law. Binding the United States to international obligations of this sort without congressional approval would raise serious constitutional questions even if domestic law were not affected. In any event, an anti-counterfeiting agreement made on the president’s own authority could affect domestic law in at least three ways:

First, the noncriminal portions of this agreement that contemplate judicial enforcement can override inconsistent state law and possibly federal law. Second, the agreement could invalidate state law that conflicts with its general policies under a doctrine known as obstacle preemption, even if the terms are not otherwise judicially enforceable. Third, a judicial canon requires courts to interpret ambiguous federal laws to avoid violations of international obligations. This means courts will construe the many ambiguities in federal laws on intellectual property, telecom policy and related areas to conform to the agreement.

If the president proceeds unilaterally here, ACTA will be challenged in court. But the best route to constitutional fidelity is for Congress or the Senate to protect its constitutional prerogatives. When the George W. Bush administration suggested it might reach a deal with Russia on nuclear arms reduction by sole executive agreement, then-Sen. Joe Biden wrote to Secretary of State Colin Powell insisting that the Constitution required Senate consent and implicitly threatening inter-branch retaliation if it was not given. The Bush administration complied.

Congress should follow Biden’s lead. If the president succeeds in expanding his power of sole executive agreement here, he will have established a precedent to bypass Congress on other international matters related to trade, intellectual property and communications policy.

At what point does President Obama begin to regret his blind support of ACTA?

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What are the true costs of cap and trade legislation? The Heartland Institute investigates.

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Refresh my memory please…weren’t Conservatives accused of using scare tactics and histrionics when they applied the term Socialist to Barack Obama? That’s somehow lumped in as part of our hate mongering and racism.

And then, earlier this week, we were told that Al Sharpton’s socialist comment shouldn’t be taken seriously and that people like him “don’t really speak for the causes, parties, initiatives for which they inveigh.” And then Rep. Dingell’s “control the people” comment was just a vocabulary misstep. Nothing to fear for the kooky right-wingers…

But now we can add another Obama friend to the growing list of associates that are telling it like it is:

“…[Cornell] West declared “socialism has a future.”

He stated, “We are at a very crucial historical moment. My dear friend Barack Obama, he needs help. He needs deep help. He needs pressure. Organized, mobilized pressure.”

West went on to urge the crowd not to rely on “messiahs” or “leaders,” instead explaining the mantel for ushering socialist change into the country “falls onto us.”

Obama named West, whom he has called a personal friend, to the Black Advisory Council of his presidential campaign. West was a key point man between Obama’s campaign and the black community.

“He is my brother and my companion and comrade,” said West of Obama. ” (source)

…This article over at Newsbusters about Robert Kennedy Jr should promptly make your head explode:

Here’s a teaser– “Many of the problems of today, Kennedy traced back to actions taken by Reagan. Kennedy believes the American people are fed a media diet of right-wing propaganda, and it “all started in 1988 when Ronald Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine.

If the Fairness Doctrine was still in place, “You could not have a Fox News,” he said, nor a Rush Limbaugh, for that matter. But the doctrine is gone and Fox and Limbaugh are here. Quoting Pew Research, Kennedy said, 30 percent of Americans now get their news from talk radio, which is 90 percent dominated by the right.” (Read the entire article)

This loon seriously laments the right to free speech in this country! I mean, we expect it from the Canadians…but from a member of an American political dynasty…even if it is the Kennedy’s?

Article Tags: James M. Taylor

The April issue of Environment & Climate News reports Arizona will not implement carbon dioxide restrictions under the Western Climate Initiative’s regional cap-and-trade system.

Also in this issue:

* Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter is pushing state parks and the state’s Parks and Recreation Department toward self-sufficiency. The proposal would save Idaho taxpayers $4.5 million a year.

* The American Wind Energy Association reports no increase in overall U.S. wind industry jobs despite “green” stimulus money given to wind power companies.

* Environmental activists are suing to halt a 500-acre railway project in northeast Kansas near Kansas City, billed as a huge boost to economic development that could bring thousands of jobs to the region.

* A trio of new polls shows the public does not believe alarmist assertions that people are causing a global warming crisis. The polls reinforce stinging public criticisms of alarmist science in the wake of the growing Climategate scandal.

* Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s plans to boost energy production have run into a roadblock as the Obama administration announced it will block the state’s plans for offshore oil and natural gas production until at least 2012.

* Pollution from Asia is crossing the Pacific Ocean and causing increases in U.S. ozone levels even as U.S. ozone precursor emissions are falling.

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Source: heartland.org

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Article Tags: CowGate, Gerald Warner

It is becoming difficult to keep pace with the speed at which the global warming scam is now unravelling. The latest reversal of scientific “consensus” is on livestock and the meat trade as a major cause of global warming – one-fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions, according to eco-vegetarian cranks. Now a scientific report delivered to the American Chemical Society says it is nonsense. The Washington Times has called it “Cowgate”.

The cow-burp hysteria reached a crescendo in 2006 when a United Nations report ominously entitled “Livestock’s Long Shadow” claimed: “The livestock sector is a major player, responsible for 18 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions measured in CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalents). This is a higher share than transport.” This led to demands in America for a “cow tax” and a campaign in Europe at the time of the Copenhagen car crash last December called Less Meat=Less Heat.

Now a report to the American Chemical Society by Frank Mitloehner, an air quality expert at the University of California at Davis, has denounced such scare-mongering as “scientifically inaccurate”. He reveals that the UN report lumped together digestive emissions from livestock, gases produced by growing animal feed and meat and milk processing, to get the highest possible result, whereas the traffic comparison only covered fossil fuel emissions from cars. The true ratio, he concludes, is just 3 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions in America are attributable to rearing of cattle and pigs, compared with 26 per cent from transport.

Mitloehner also makes the deadly serious point: “Producing less meat and milk will only mean more hunger in poor countries.” Precisely. The demonising of cows and pigs is just another example of global warmists’ callous indifference to starvation in the developing world, as in the case of the unbelievably immoral and reckless drive for biofuels – pouring Third World resources for subsistence into Western liberals’ fuel tanks – and, notoriously, carbon trading.

Source: blogs.telegraph.co.uk

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“…Female homicide bombers are being fitted with exploding breast implants which are almost impossible to detect, British spies have reportedly discovered.

The shocking new Al Qaeda tactic involves radical doctors inserting the explosives in women’s breasts during plastic surgery — making them “virtually impossible to detect by the usual airport scanning machines.”

It is believed the doctors have been trained at some of Britain’s leading teaching hospitals before returning to their own countries to perform the surgical procedures…” (source)

First the shoe, then the underwear and now the boobs… My first thought was that TSA applications were going to fly off the shelf as men applied in droves to be airport screeners…

But, this actually isn’t something I should be joking about. Undetectable explosives is a really scary thing… There does seem to be an Islamic theme of using our Western addictions against us. 9/11 funded by knockoffs (our need for name brands and Capitalism) and now plastic surgery. Maybe we should play the same game, use their weaknesses and send them goats with explosives in the butts… Sorry, that was bad…but I couldn’t resist…

Ότι είναι για την Ευρώπη η έκθεση της Γενεύης, είναι για την Αμερική η έκθεση της Νέας Υόρκης. Εκεί η Porsche θα παρουσιάσει την ολοκαίνουργια Cayenne S Hybrid που παρουσιάστηκε στις αρχές του μήνα στη Γενεύη. Η Cayenne S Hybrid διαθέτει έναν V6 3.0 λίτρων turbo κινητήρα απόδοσης 333 ίππων και έναν ηλεκτροκινητήρα 34 kW (47 ίππων) που συνολικά αποδίδουν 380 άλογα με 58 κιλά ροπής διαθέσιμα από τις 1.000 σ.α.λ. Ο ηλεκτροκινητήρας μπορεί να κινήσει μόνος τους το θηριώδες SUV με τελική ταχύτητα 64 χλμ/ώρα.Η μέση κατανάλωση της S Hybrid ανέρχεται στα 8.2 λίτρα/100 χλμ ενώ οι εκπομπές CO2 αγγίζουν τα 193 γρ/100 χλμ. Η κίνηση σε όλους τους κινητήρες μεταδίδεται σε όλους τους τροχούς μέσω αυτόματου κιβωτίου Tiptronic S 8 σχέσεων. Νέες φωτογραφίες στη συνέχεια.

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General Motors said yesterday that it will make its second loan payment to the United States and Canadian governments on March 31 and reassured its plan to pay back its loan by mid-2010.

“In keeping with our commitments to the U.S. and Canadian and Ontario taxpayers, GM plans to make its second quarterly loan payment of approximately $1 billion to the U.S. Treasury and $192 million (USD) to Export Development Canada on March 31,” GM said in statement.

The first payments, also of those amounts, were made in December 2009.

“While we have more work to do, GM is building high-quality, award-winning vehicles, our direction is clear and our plan is working, CEO Ed Whitacre said in a statement. “Given the progress the company is making, GM has every confidence that the remainder of the loans will be paid in full by June 2010; five years ahead of schedule.”

GM was not forced to make any payments on the loans before they matured in July 2015.

– By: Omar Rana

Google is once again pushing the boundaries of online privacy with a new advertising option, dubbed remarketing, which would allow advertisers to target potential customers who may be interested in their products but aren’t ‘convinced’ yet.

If a user visits your site but leaves without purchasing anything, you can then direct ad… (read more)

The Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate of Vehicle sales is expected to jump to 12.4 million for March; that represents a 2.1 million unit jump over February. Incentives are abound in dealer showrooms, and that is one factor being attributed to the jump.

Toyota is expected to see an increase of 80% from February, and Ford is once again expected to outpace GM. Experts warn however, to not take this as sign of a turning economy, as the sales have been spurred by defensive moves, and most likely will not last. Toyota launched a host of incentives in March, including 0% financing for 72 months.

New vehicle sales, including fleets, are expected to be in the neighborhood of 1,119,700 units; 30.9 percent higher than March of 2009, and a 43.9 percent jump over February 2010.

Edmunds expects all manufacturers except Chrysler to show improvements in the American market this month, with Chrysler, Ford, and GM taking 44% in March 2010. That is down from 45.1% in March of Ő09, and down 47.1% from February 2010.

– By: Stephen Calogera

Source: AutoObserver