KENNEWICK, Wash.– It’s been a rough month for Randy Dorn, elected for and praised because of his work to eliminate the WASL.
After his DUI in March, he’s been actively trying to polish his tarnished image. But is he doing all he can, or is there more he can do to teach students and help his career for the future?
In a new public service announcement, Dorn admits his guilt and also warns students on the dangers of drinking and driving, just in time for prom season.
But is he doing all he can to show he’s made a mistake? Some say he’s not going far enough.
“I think what he’s done is he’s tried to in some respects explain away the condition, by talking about how he just barely went over the alcohol limit and how it doesn’t impair his capacity to serve publicly,” says Columbia Basin College political science professor, Gary Bullert.
Part of the problem experts say is Dorn is not only an elected public official, but in charge of our children’s education, meaning character is even more important.
“I would say that its probably in the “C” to “D” range if you wanted to grade the superintendent. He’s in a kind of special relationship because of his role in education,” he says.
In an age where politicians have become increasingly synonymous with scandal, election consultants think he’s at least on the right track.
“It’s important go get out front very early and to be forthright and forthcoming with the whole situation,” says Sean McGrath, a consultant for political candidates [for full disclosure, he is also the current general manager for the Tri-Cities Fever.] “He appears to have done that, to be in the process of doing that now.”
“Going green” is becoming a way of life in many places. Your office doesn’t need to be an exception.
Fortunately, it’s easy to integrate some simple routines into your workday that will help lessen your impact on the Earth.
Bonus: most of them will end up saving you money, too.
From switching to non-disposable kitchen supplies (no more buying paper cups in bulk), to turning off lights whenever possible (lower electricity bills), these new routines will help you cut down on waste and your office costs.
Within a mile of the U.S./Mexico border, agents from both countries are in the midst of a politically sensitive operation that for the first time has Federales training with American officers. For my eight years covering this story here in southern Arizona this has been a question asked more than a few times, why isn’t there more cooperation and training together? Well, now there is an answer and we found that answer in Nogales, on the U.S. side.
The paint pellets snapped against the plywood targets echoing through the massive warehouse. Three Mexican police officers dressed in blue, lined shoulder to shoulder, sweep their rifles 180 degrees from left to right, following english and spanish instructions. American agents dressed in green are standing with them, providing instruction and demonstrating stances. An interpreter makes sure everyone is on the same page, as this close combat training continues throughout the day. Eventually agents from our side explain how to approach a building and then get in safely by providing cover on all sides, the Federales tell me they have never been shown any of this before.
So far about 50 Mexican police officers have completed this three-week course and there are plans for the U.S. to help train several hundred more. Not only is this new found cooperation helping save lives of fellow law enforcement south of the border, it is also building new found lines of communication and friendship between the law enforcement international brotherhood. Now as one Federale tells me, “I know of a face and a name on the other side of the fence, maybe somebody I can call.”
Tom Pittman from the U.S. Border Patrol agrees and says, “There’s always been cooperation, but maybe tense cooperation, if you will but we’re getting to know each other as people.”
It’s a politically sensitive alliance intended to save lives and possibly lead to the creation of a Mexican counterpart to the U.S. Border Patrol.
Inside the wherehouse we see agents use M-4 rifles where the lower receiver is exactly like the one used in the field, but the upper receiver is a bit different and modified to shoot paint pellets for training purposes. The Federales are also being shown ways to detect contraband in hidden compartments, ATV practice racing across the Sonoran Desert and how to provide first responder medical aid in the desert.
According to Tom, “We’re very excited to do it, we’re helping brother cops that don’t have the opportunity, or haven’t had the opportunity yet to get this type of training, so we’re happy to help fellow cops stay alive, that’s for sure !”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the International Monetary Fund says that the debt crisis in Greece is serious and there would be no “silver bullet” to resolve the issue in an easy manner.
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said that negotiations with the IMF over conditions for a support package were just beginning and would take some time to come to a resolution.
But Strauss-Kahn told reporters that the IMF was not considering some type of restructuring of Greek debt that would make holders of the debt accept something less than full value for their loans. That worry has roiled markets in recent days.
While quark is a term that you’ll hear in some physics textbooks, it is also one that you’ll find in some cookbooks – one that comes with a very different meaning. Quark is a type of soft, fresh European cheese. It is easy to make comparisons with other dairy products, since it is similar to many other types of cheeses, but definitely unique. It is hard to find in the US but with the ever-growing popularity of cooking as a hobby, it is now appearing in more specialty markets than before, and some US dairies are even producing their own.
Quark is smooth and creamy, with a consistency similar to that of thick, greek-style yogurt or sour cream. It’s flavor is somewhere between ricotta and sour cream, with a bit of a tang to it. It is probably most similar to the popular French fromage frais, although quark is of Eastern European origin and produced in a slightly different way. The exact consistency and flavor of quark will vary slightly from producer to producer.
The reason why quark is so popular in international cookbooks is that it is extremely versatile and low in fat. It holds up very well to heat (unlike yogurt) and can be used any number of ways. For instance, it can be substituted for sour cream, yogurt and even for cream cheese in many recipes, from baked goods to quiches to dips, and because of its consistency will add a richness to dishes even though it is low in fat. If you see it in your local specialty grocery store, it is worth picking up a container to experiment with and try incorporating it into some of your own recipes.
Ex-American Idol Kelly Clarkson’s upcoming concert in Indonesia will go down without the sponsorship of an Asian cigarette giant following protests from fans and anti-tobacco groups.
In recent days, Kelly’s Facebook page has been flooded with fans begging her to reject the cigarette sponsorship, saying she is sending the wrong message to kids. This as anti-tobacco groups rallied against the singer for using her image to sell products — which kill 200,000 people every year in that nation where more than 60 % of the population smokes.
On Wednesday, Kelly penned a statement to fans remarking that she was surprised to learn that billboards announcing her April 29 concert in Jakarta were being heavily promoted along the logo of the popular cigarette L.A. Lights.
“I think the hardest part of situations like this is getting personally attacked for something I was completely unaware of and being used as some kind of political pawn,” Clarkson charged, calling the debacle a “lose-lose situation.”
Despite her disappointment, the “Breakaway” star — who noted that she is not a smoker and does not advocate it — said it was too late to get out of the deal with tobacco brand and grudgingly stated that the show would go on with controversial sponsorship.
“I refuse to cancel on my fans,” she wrote in a posting on her blog.
Thanks to some work from her promoters — she won’t have to.
Promoter Adrie Subono has announced that his company has reached a “final agreement” with cigarette company Djarum, the maker of LA Lights, and the sponsorship had been cancelled.
“There will be no (LA Lights) media promotion at the Kelly Clarkson concert,” he told The Associated Press Thursday.
The New York Times: Pollution before the first Earth Day was not only visible, it was in your face: Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River caught fire. An oil spill fouled 30 miles of Southern California beaches. And thick smog choked many cities’ skies. Not anymore.
On Thursday, 40 years after that first Earth Day in 1970, smog levels nationwide have dropped by about a quarter, and lead levels in the air are down more than 90 percent. Formerly fetid lakes and burning rivers are now open to swimmers.
The challenges to the planet today are largely invisible — and therefore tougher to tackle.
”To suggest that we’ve made progress is not to say the problem is over,” said William Ruckelshaus, who in 1970 became the first head of the Environmental Protection Agency. ”What we’ve done is shift from the very visible kinds of issues to those that are a lot more subtle today.”
Issues such as climate change are less obvious to the naked eye. Since the first Earth Day, carbon dioxide levels in the air have increased by 19 percent, pushing the average annual world temperature up about 1 degree Fahrenheit, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
”We’ve cleaned up what you can see and left everything else in limbo,” said Kathleen Rogers, president of the Earth Day Network.
Improvements took shape in the form of the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and changes in the way businesses treat the environment, said Denis Hayes. Those reforms, he added, grew out of the first Earth Day, an event Hayes helped coordinate.
”It is the most powerful, sweeping, society-wide change America has had since the New Deal,” Hayes said. ”The air is cleaner despite the fact that we have twice as many vehicles traveling twice as many miles.”
Nancy Sutley, head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said progress in the past 40 years is about more than just laws. It’s also about innovation that made cleaner cars. And that innovation, Sutley said, ”is going to be the answer for tackling climate change.”
No place illustrates progress more than the Cuyahoga River.
Cleveland’s main river used to periodically catch fire. On June 22, 1969, trash and an oil slick ignited. The river burned for half an hour, drawing national attention to water pollution nationwide.
Catstudio creates the most beautiful drinking glasses I have ever seen! Their 15 Oz. Frosted Tumblers are decorated with 7 colors and matte GOLD, and the designs represent cities, regions, states, and countries. Enter to win a set of four by entering Lisa Cooking’s Catstudio Giveaway! Lots of bonus entries are available, enter by May 4th, 2010 at 12:00 PM CST.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele told a group of students that African-Americans haven’t been given a good “reason” to want to vote Republican.
“We haven’t done a very good job of really giving you one,” Steele said at DePaul University Tuesday, as reported by the Chicago-Sun Times.
“We have lost sight of the historic, integral link between the party and African-Americans.” “This party was co-founded by blacks, among them Frederick Douglass. The Republican Party had a hand in forming the NAACP, and yet we have mistreated that relationship. People don’t walk away from parties, their parties walk away from them,” Steele said.
The former lieutenant governor of Maryland has been staying relatively low-key since news broke about how money is being spent at the RNC, including funds that went for an erotic club in L.A.
He did not delve into RNC money woes in his remarks.
Steele did bring up the Tea Party movement and what he’s told other leaders, “I have advised our state chairs: Don’t turn your nose up, or turn away those who are active in the Tea Party movement. Embrace them. Welcome them. Talk to them.”
Steele also mentioned the Florida Senate race that is heating up between Marco Rubio and Florida Governor Charlie Crist.
“In Florida, Marco Rubio has captured the imagination of the Tea Party there to the detriment of the governor, Gov. [Charlie] Crist, but from my perspective, Marco Rubio if he wins is a good candidate to run for the U.S. Senate. Should Gov. Crist win, he’s a good candidate to run for the U.S. Senate. It’s a win-win,” Steele said.
According to credit rating data form Fitch Research, the outlook for corporate bonds has been improving. Thus corporate creditworthiness is trending in the exact opposite direction of many sovereign nations. The falling red bars, from mid-2009, reflect fewer downgrades. Meanwhile, the rising blue bars represent rising credit upgrades.
Here’s a close-up of the recent improvement for both Industrials and Financials:
High yield default rates remain high, but they are already lower than experienced during 2001 and 2002. Creditworthiness appears to be improving in this space as well. Even high-yield ‘junk bonds’ are moving in the opposite direction of nations like Greece:
(Via Fitch Research, 2010 Credit Markets Symposium, 15 April 2010)
At the 2010 Beijing Motor Show today, Bentley unveiled two unique Continental models, which have been built exclusive for the world’s largest automotive market – China. The Chinese market has become Bentley’s third most important single market for the brand globally in terms of sales and one of the fastest growing.
Since Bentley entered China in 2002, sales have increased nearly ten-fold to 421 cars in 2009, a trend that the company says continues despite the recent global recession.
Known as the Design Series China, the centerpiece of each Continental model is a three-tone interior that blends the main leather, accent color and insert color for a some nice visual impact. Exterior color choices include Orange Flame and Magenta Metallic.
The Bentley Continental Flying Spur Speed China gets a range of engineering upgrades developed exclusively for the Chinese market including a bespoke ‘comfort’ suspension setting, refinement and handling upgrades. The model also gets special edition status emblems including ‘Speed China’ treadplates and wing badges.
Follow the jump for the high-res image gallery and the press release for more details.
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Press Release:
BENTLEY – EXCLUSIVELY FOR CHINA
* Bentley Motors to launch unique special-edition Continental models for China
* Continental Flying Spur Speed China and the Continental GT Design Series China to make debut at 2010 Auto China Motor Show in Beijing
(Crewe, England)Bentley Motors is ready to unveil two unique Continental models which have been engineered and designed exclusively for the China market. These special edition cars will be created at Bentley’s Crewe headquarters with both models offering a range of striking features specially commissioned for Chinese customers.
The Chinese market is now the third most important single market for Bentley globally in terms of sales and one of the fastest growing. Since Bentley entered China in 2002, sales have grown nearly ten-fold to 421 cars in 2009, a trend that continues despite the recent global recession.
From Bentley’s first dealership in Shenzhen, the network has grown to become nine-strong in 2010 (with dealers in Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, Nanjing and Qingdao) and will grow with four new showrooms to open during the course of this year, the first of which will be in Kunming. Now two new models are to be launched specifically for this unique market.
The Continental GT Design Series China, which will debut at the 2010 Auto China Motor Show, highlights the creativity of Bentley’s stylists working in partnership with the company’s colour and trim experts to create some vibrant, design-led interiors.
The centrepiece of each Design Series China car is the three-tone interior that blends a main leather hide colour with accent and insert colours to create a visually impactful cabin for drivers and passengers to enjoy. This skilful and imaginative use of contrasting colours, as well as the application of accent colours to the smallest detail like the car’s seat belts, floor mats, seat piping or the hand-stitching applied to the steering wheel, further underlines this Bentley’s unique appearance.
The Design Series China cars will be the first Bentley’s to feature Orange and Magenta as accent colours and the vast Bentley paint palette is further extended with the introduction of Orange Flame and Magenta Metallic.
As well as creating a ‘talking point’ with the imaginative use of three contrasting hide colours, Bentley’s styling team has selected some striking wood veneers including Piano Black and dark-stained Burr Walnut. The rare Amboyna veneer, usually only available as a cost option, has also been reserved for the Design Series China editions.
These cars will be further distinguished by some subtle exterior and interior ‘Design Series China’ motifs. These include an exterior wing badge, treadplate and name badge positioned on the centre console – all bearing the Design Series China signature.
Bentley is also launching the Continental Flying Spur Speed China which retains all the potent performance of the company’s Continental Flying Spur Speed, the world’s fastest luxury four-door saloon, but with a range of engineering upgrades developed for the Chinese market.
A bespoke ‘comfort’ suspension setting has been developed for the Speed China which emphasises the car’s superior ride quality for both driver and passengers, whilst ensuring the class-leading performance of the W12 6-litre engine is in no way diminished. The car is capable of achieving a potential top speed of 200mph/322km/h and a 0-60mph sprint time of just 4.5 seconds (0-100km/h in 4.8 seconds).
The Flying Spur Speed’s distinctive, sporty 20-inch multi-spoke Speed wheels are retained to emphasise the car’s athletic character but for the Speed China, this performance is balanced with greater refinement through the re-tuning of the exhaust to produce a quieter note.
The Speed China’s refinement and handling upgrades are also accompanied by a range of design features that accentuate its special edition status. ‘Speed China’ treadplates and wing badges (with a matching badge visible on the centre console) have been created for this car and Bentley’s famous ‘B’ emblem has been affixed to both ‘C’ pillars.
Bentley’s ability to add extra, well-executed, touches of luxury can be found in the custom leather cushions for rear passengers which are embroidered with Bentley wings. Each car will also come with a special display case for the ignition key. Geoff Dowding, Regional Director, Asia and Middle East, comments:
“Bentley has a long and proud tradition of creating exclusive cars designed to meet the styling and driving tastes of our customers, wherever in the world they might be. Designed and offered exclusively for our customers in China, these special-edition Bentleys showcase our styling and engineering teams’ abilities and also underlines our desire to create cars for this influential market.”
Both models can be seen on the Bentley stand in Hall E5 of the Auto China Motor Show in Beijing which runs between 23rd April and the 2nd May in the New International Exhibition Centre.
A mere month and a half after launching, Brightkite says its new Group Text feature is a big hit with users in the United States.
According to the startup, which boasts more than 2 million registered users, the average Group Text user sends a whopping 17 messages per day. Already, its total usage is growing 19 percent on average per day.
Brightkite is now sending more than 20 million messages a month, nearly half of which are regular SMS messages.
How did Earth Day get its start? Here’s a historical perspective. …
… “In November of 1969, Nelson announced that the National Teach-In on the Crisis of the Environment would take place on April 22, 1970. The date was selected because it rested between spring break and final exams for most college students. In January of 1970, the event was renamed Earth Day. ” …
Well, I wanted to tell you that all’s well that ends well. Doug Moore, President of Sears Appliances did, in fact, “follow” me on Twitter which enabled me to send him a direct message. He replied back, asking for my cell phone number so that we could talk. Within 60 seconds of sending him my number, my phone rang. “Bob? Hello, this is Doug Moore….” I was pleasantly shocked that he called me himself, and was very pleased when he told me that he was going to have someone call me from their “Sears Cares” support group. Shortly thereafter, Robert from that group called me and he looked over the long list of items on that had been addressed. He told me – without me asking – that he would be getting me a replacement dishwasher and that he was very sorry for the inconvenience. So, thanks to Consumerist for providing the forum, and to Sears for listening. My faith in a great American institution has been restored, and our family can stop arguing who’s turn it is to wash the dishes!
Functioning appliances and family harmony: a happy ending indeed.
Most Xconomy events last only an afternoon or an evening. Barely enough time, in other words, to scratch the surface of all the amazing work technology entrepreneurs are doing around New England, in areas as varied as cloud computing, health IT, mobile commerce, smart grid technology, and the future of drug development. But our flagship annual conference, the Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (XSITE), is different: it’s a chance to gather for a full day with leading innovators and investors from New England and around the country and hear all the details on what they’re doing to turn ideas into great businesses.
We’re pleased to announce that registration is open for this year’s edition of XSITE, which will be held for the first time at Babson College in Babson Park, MA (that’s next door to Wellesley, for those of you not up to speed on your suburban geography). Neighboring Olin College joins Babson as co-host of the event, and we couldn’t ask for a more appropriate venue, given the focus at Babson and Olin on entrepreneurship and engineering that meets real social and economic needs.
Babson president Leonard Schlesinger, a nationally celebrated leader in the field of entrepreneurship, will be on hand to help us kick off the event, and we’ll also hear from keynote speakers like Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation, who knows a lot about igniting entrepreneurship and innovation. Other featured speakers will include Rod Brooks, whose startup Heartland Robotics is reimagining the way factory workers do their jobs; Alkermes chairman and CEO Richard Pops, a national leader in biotechnology; and Bob Metcalfe, the Ethernet inventor who has made a mission of promoting “enertech” or the idea of clean, super-abundant next-generation energy technologies. We’ve posted the whole list of confirmed speakers, who already number almost 30, over at the XSITE registration page, where you can buy a ticket to XSITE at our “super saver” rate until April 29.
The theme for XSITE 2009, last June, was “The Recovery Starts Here.” We planned all of our keynote talks and panel discussions around creative ideas from New England tech and life sciences companies for lifting the country out of recession. The theme this year, “Building the Next Economy,” grows directly out of the 2009 conference—but with a crucial difference.
There’s no question now that economic recovery is underway, though it’s been slow to show up in some parts of the country, like Xconomy’s newest home city, Detroit (from whence we’ll have at least one speaker). What’s important now, as we head into this century’s second decade, is the choices we make about the kind of economy we really want. Will it be based on rusty, outdated, and wasteful approaches to energy generation, transportation, healthcare, communications, and consumer-goods manufacturing? Or will it be built around new ideas like using advanced 3D design and prototyping technologies to streamline product development, putting IT and modern communications technologies to work remove the excess costs from patient care, and managing the electric grid and our homes and offices to extract hidden efficiencies?
Obviously, we have a bias here—because we believe, at bottom, that technological progress is what drives exponential growth (that’s where the X in Xconomy comes from, after all) and that innovation is the straightest way out of the economic doldrums and toward a solid, sustainable, rewarding economy.
In addition to our plenary sessions, we’re expanding the conference this year to include four breakout tracks. Three will be the same as last year: Life Sciences, Energy, and Information Technology. The new track will be focused, like our just-announced new channel, on Health IT.
And, like last year, we’ll close out the formal sessions with a raucous XSITE Xpo, a rapid-fire series of presentations by 12 startups in life sciences, energy, and infotech with the audience voting on their favorites. An evening networking party will follow, naturally.
We’ll provide a lot more details about the conference agenda over the coming weeks…but we hope you will sign up early for what’s sure to be 2010’s most XSITE-ing celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship.
German soldiers are wearing their hearts on their sleeves – in the form of a badge that protests their country’s involvement in the war in Afghanistan.
Some troops have taken to wearing the cloth accessory that states – ironically – ‘I fight for Merkel’ in a bid to persuade the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to explain exactly what they are fighting and dying for.
Yet, as the Germans question what their friends and family are giving up their lives for, the U.S. is asking them to deepen their commitments.
Chancellor Merkel is to make a statement to parliament tomorrow. Her spokesman said she wants to make clear her ‘high-esteem’ for the work of the German soldiers in Afghanistan in the light of the recent casualties.
But she will be speaking in the Reichstag after being put under pressure from U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, who arrived in Germany today with a brief from the White House to get the Germans to do more in Afghanistan.
With the rise in U.S. pressure to further engage, the German people are sending their own message to their leaders.
The trouble for Mrs Merkel is that German involvement is deeply unpopular with some 80 per cent of the public, who want the troops to come home. Germany’s disastrous wars of the last century have left its public with a deep pacifistic streak.
The German press has been swift to condemn the government for its indecisiveness.
The Financial Times Deutschland said: ‘With every dead German soldier in Afghanistan, the calls for an immediate withdrawal grow louder. This reflex shows that the German public is still not clear about the character of the mission.
Or, perhaps Germany’s citizens indeed clearly see the mission for what it is: a seemingly never-ending effort to nation-build that continues to cost more lives each day.
When it comes to buying apps in the iTunes App Store, books are the most widely available, but they’re also the apps least likely to be purchased, according to Apptizr, an iPhone application recommendation service. It found that 22 percent of all available paid apps in the App Store are books, yet they account for just 3 percent of all app purchases. For developers, a better return on investment comes from Games, Entertainment and Productivity software, the top three categories of paid software in the App Store.
Apptizr’s aggregated data is a gold mine for current and would-be developers alike. For instance, its latest report shows that utilities are the most-browsed category — potential software buyers look for utilities 24 percent of the time. That compares to 15 percent searching the games category, which is the runner-up in terms of interest. And the folks browsing through all those books only do so 2 percent of the time; in other words, developers may be creating many book titles, but they’re simply not in demand.
Apptizr’s report (PDF) comes from the crowd-sourced user data it collects from more than 10 million users, which install the free Apptizr software and “seed” the service by sharing the types of applications they prefer. The Apptizr app then tracks software titles users install on their iPhones and suggests new ones based on an in-house algorithm. Think of it as a Pandora service for iPhone apps.
Hulu is one step closer to rolling out a premium subscription plan, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times. The web video startup is reportedly going to charge users $9.95 a month for access to a larger library of video content than is currently available through its free, ad-supported service, and could begin testing the subscription plan as soon as May 24. But are consumers willing to pay more for content that up until now they’ve been about to view for free?
Hulu has been rumored to be considering a subscription plan for some time now, with the most recent report in the New York Times hinting that it could introduce the service along with an app for the Apple iPad. The introduction of a premium subscription option could bring new revenues to the startup, which reportedly pulled in about $100 million last year. While that number is impressive by most web video standards, Hulu is said to be under pressure by its corporate parents — broadcasters ABC, Fox and NBC — to bring in even more.
And there’s the inevitable question of how many users would actually subscribe. In our own (admittedly unscientific) poll of users last year, the majority (65 percent) said they would not pay for a Hulu subscription service, and 23 percent said they would shell out only $1-$5 for one. Just 9 percent said they would pay between $6 and $10, while another 3 percent said they would pay more than $10.
Of course, it would depend on what content would be available as part of the package. Hulu users can now watch the last five episodes of most current TV shows available on the site, which includes hit series like ABC’s Lost, Fox’s 24 or NBC’s 30 Rock. Hulu’s subscription service, dubbed Hulu Plus, would include a more extensive back catalog, which could include entire seasons of certain programs.
Then there’s the question of how profitable such a service would be. As Peter Kafka points out, TV executives expect that Hulu would have to pay its parents and content partners $1-$1.50 per subscriber, roughly the same price that broadcasters are seeking in retransmission fees from cable operators. That would cut into any profits Hulu could hope to establish from the service, and that’s before it takes into account the costs associated with hosting and streaming that content to users.
Finally, it’s not clear how many users would sign up for a subscription Hulu service when there are already other attractive options for streaming video online. A Hulu service priced at $9.95 would go up against Netflix’s $9-a-month subscription plan, which includes one DVD rental by mail and unlimited streaming. Not only will Netflix have an advantage in terms of the number of videos it has (at last count, more than 17,000 titles), but it’s also available on a growing number of consumer electronics devices, including HDTVs, Blu-ray players, TiVo DVRs, Roku set-top boxes and all three major gaming consoles.
Caterham Seven Lambretta Special Edition – Click above for high-res image gallery
While twist-and-go aficionados will recognize the Lambretta name for its classic Italian scooters, fashionistas know it as a British clothier. Now the latter has teamed up with Caterham to jump into the realm of open-air transport as well.
The special edition Caterham Seven by Lambretta features a special Union Jack paint scheme, matched inside on the dashboard, carpets and leather seats. A classic Moto-Lita steering wheel and the requisite special Lambretta logos complete the package, motivated by a 125-horsepower 1.6-liter four sourced from Ford and mated to a five-speed gearbox.
The special edition is available to British customers for £26,995, or about $42k in equivalent American funds. Get all the details in the press release after the jump.
Desde hace unos meses os hemos venido enseñando diversas imágenes de accidentes, algunos de ellos fateles, en los que se encuentran involucrados modelos de alta gama. La mayoría de los accidentes, por no decir todos, han tenido lugar en el extranjero, pero el que os mostramos hoy se ha producido aquí en España, más concretamente en la A-7 dirección Almería.
En el accidente se han visto envueltos un Ferrari F430 y un Porsche Cayenne Turbo, ambos conductores venían de celebrar una fiesta de cumpleaños, cuando se les ocurrió la fantástica idea de competir en medio de la autopista A-7, el resultado lo podéis comprobar en la foto, el conductor del Ferrari perdió el control y se estrelló contra el Porsche.
Lamentablemente, el conductor del Ferrari, que no llevaba el cinturón de seguridad puesto, falleció en el acto y del conductor del Porsche no tenemos información pero visto como quedó el Ferrari probablemente pudo haber quedado gravemente herido.
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