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Pricing of the new Audi S1, sports version of the A1, has been leaked by Audi itself on publishing the A1 price on the Spanish market. The Audi S1 is equipped with the 1.4-litre TFSI engine with 180 hp and 250 Nm of torque, which recently appeared on the Volkswagen Polo GTI and the Skoda Fabia RS. The S1 in Spain will cost 28,360 euros which includes the seven-speed DSG automatic gearbox.

It seems that Spain tends to have favourable car pricing, meaning the Audi S1 could cost signifcantly more on other European markets, starting from at least 29,000 euros. It will also be interesting to see what is left out of the standard pricing and what is requested in terms of options and additional accessories. While the S1 will be a veritable pocket rocket competing fully with models such as the Mini Cooper and the Fiat 500 Abarth, it’s starting to look a bit pricy.

Source | es.autoblog.com via Autoblog.it

Courtesy of a Dell representative who let a little too much information loose in a video interview with Shufflegazine, we now know that its gaming arm Alienware is readying an Intel Core i7 netbook next month. More »










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The 2-hour season finale of The Celebrity Apprentice 2010 last night reveals Bret Michaels as the new Celebrity apprentice.

The 47-year-old rocker Bret Michaels beats former 21 Jump Street queen Holly Robinson Peete on NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice.”

In last night’s finale, Bret and Holly both lead their teams to create marketing and advertising campaigns for their new flavors of Snapple drink. After completing the task, Michaels invented a Trop-A-Rocka Blend while Peete came up with the Compassionberry Tea. Both finalists won Donald Trump’s heart with their invented tea flavor.

After Cyndi Lauper performed her new song, “I’m Just a Fool for You,” Donald Trump finally announced Bret Michaels as the third Celebrity Apprentice and awarded the $250,000 bonus check for his charity of choice, the American Diabetes Association.

Holly Robinson Peete also received a $250,000 bonus check for her own HollyRod Foundation that supports families facing a serious illness.

American singer Bret Michaels is best known as the lead vocalist of the glam metal band Poison. Besides his band’s booming career, he also have several solo albums.

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—iPad’s hot: I kept mine in the shade, but others who soaked up the UK’s glorious sunshine this weekend found their iPad didn’t appreciate the near-30 degree temperatures, warning: “iPad needs to cool down before you can use it.” Via GadgetVenue.

—Bambuser: Norway’s NRK, which already inked a deal with the Swedish live mobile video streamer, is giving Bambuser-enabled handsets to entrants in this weekend’s upcoming Eurovision Song Contest.

—Evening Standard: The papaer has a new, free app for iPhone, Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Android, made by Handmark.

Angkor Wat located at Angkor in Northwestern Cambodia, is the largest temple in the world. Angkor was the Capital of the ancient Khmer Empire. The temple was dedicated to the Hindu God Vishnu by the Khmer king Suryavarman II, who reigned between AD 1131 and 1150.

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The Temple was constructed over a period of 30 years, and illustrates some of the most beautiful examples of Khmer and Hindu art. Covering an area of about 81 hectares, the complex consists of five towers, which are presently shown on the Cambodian national flag. These towers are believed to represent the five peaks of Mount Meru, the Home of Gods and Center of the Hindu Universe. Angkor Wat features the longest continuous bas-relief in the world, which runs along the outer gallery walls, narrating stories from Hindu Mythology.

With the decline of the Khmer Empire, Angkor Wat was turned into a Buddhist Temple and was continuously maintained, which helped its preservation. In 1992, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee declared the monument, and the whole city of Angkor, a World Heritage Site.

Apple may not appreciate “boobie apps” but that hasn’t stopped developers Doublesix from launching the Babeorella iPhone game which takes Jane Fonda’s Barbarella character to a whole ‘nother level of buxomness. More »










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Ultimamente no se libra ningún modelo de pasar por el taller. Hace cuestión de unas horas, Fiat ha comunicado que comenzará a ponerse en contacto con sus clientes que posean un Fiat Punto para que pasen por su taller más cercano.

Por lo visto, la Unión Europea ha encontrado un fallo que permitiría que el airbag del pasajero se reactivara tras haber sido utilizado a pesar de haber pulsado el botón de desactivación. Este fallo electrónico afecta a todos los modelos que han sido fabricados en el año 2009.

Tampoco se descarta que este fallo afecte al Fiat Punto Evo aunque aun no se ha confiramdo nada. Como ya es habitual, Fiat asumirá todos los costes que suponga la reparación de dicho problema.

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A documentary movie about the sinking of MTS Oceanos on August 4, 1991 will air tonight at NBC.

MTS Oceanos was a French-built and Greek-owned cruise ship. The passenger cruise ship sank August 4, 1991. On board were 581 passengers and crew. It was sailing from Cape Town, South Africa via East London to Durban. The Greek cruise liner Oceanos sank off the Transkei in an area called Coffee Bay off the Wild Coast.

The sinking of the MTS Oceanos was one of the most horrific events in the history of South Africa. The sea where it sank is known for treacherous currents and several ships have sunk there.

During that evening, the storm worsened and when the first sitting of dinner was served, the waiters could hardly carry the trays of food without dropping something. The ship was then rolling about from side to side so badly that crockery and cutlery began sliding off the tables and potted plants were falling over.

Captain Yiannis Avranas was accused by passengers for ordering his crew to leave the ship without informing the passengers and without ringing the emergency alarm. The passengers only came to know when thwy witnessed lower deck filled with sea water.

571 passengers were saved by the South African Navy and Air Force during the rescue operation that lasted for seven hours.

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Volkswagen will announce Tuesday that it will take a 90 percent stake in Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A, people familiar with the matter told Automotive News Europe.

The Giugiaro family will retain 10 percent in the Italian design house that is famous for styling cars such as the first-generation VW Golf.

VW plans to acquire control of Italdesign to help reach its goal of becoming the world’s largest automaker by 2018 with sales of 10 million vehicles a year. To reach that goal, VW’s 10-brand group, including Porsche, will need more designers and engineers. In 2010 alone, VW group plans to add 60 models, including upgrades.

Italdesign, co-founded by Giorgetto Giugiaro in 1968, currently has 975 employees and 800 computer aided design workstations.

Giorgetto Giugiaro, 71, who is Italdesign chairman, and his son, Fabrizio, 45, who heads the design and model division, are expected to continue working at the company following the VW takeover.

Italdesign does not disclose its financial results. The most recent data available shows that in 2008 the company increased its revenues 6.2 percent to 136 million euros ($166 million) and reported an operating breakeven.

Sources told ANE that the VW takover will be announced at Italdesign’s headquarters in Moncalieri, 15km south of Turin on Tuesday morning.

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Getting away from it all in Germany, where there are 8000 camping grounds and an equally massive motorhome industry, you need to go just a bit further to escape the madding crowd. Bocklet caters to the adventure touring market by building “go anywhere” motorhomes for those who do not wish to travel the road well traveled, and the company’s latest is the Unimog-based EUR 250,000 (USD 315,000) Dakar U685. Capable of carrying 330 liters of fuel and 300 liters of fresh water, the Dakar can take you a long way off the beaten track yet seemingly wanting for little. Creature comforts include diesel-powered heating and air conditioning, a hot water service, shower, toilet and kitchen, 110-liter refrigerator, 220 Ah battery, 260 watt solar panel, automatic battery charger, 1.2 kW inverter, satellite TV and a king sized bed. Anything else you need, just ask…
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Would you be interested in a sports car equipped with not one, but two Ducati Desmosedici RR engines? This concept isn’t from Filippo Preziosi, Ducati Corse’s General Manager and the engineering genius behind the Ducati D16, but from Anthony Collard, a young independent designer who came up with this idea.

Collard’s concept as he describes it is based on a two seater sports car made up from high performance motorcycle parts, with
a mixed tubular and carbon body structure, the engine is in a central front position, just behind the front wheel axis, and it is a V8 made of two L4 Desmosedici engines that develop 420hp. Ohlin suspensions and Marchesini wheels complete the concept.

Source | localmotors.com via ducatinewstoday.com

The company Systema SpA proposes an innovative technology for the heating system with a NEW product: THE WATER STRIPS “TS”. They are used particularly to environments with fire risk’ activity, for example textile industries, body shop, plaining mills, environments of public show and local with a lot of of people presence, warehouses with shelvings, environments dedicated to sporting activity and downtown.
The water strips “TS” are units that heat the space by radiantion, allowing an energetic saving, in fact the heat is directly to the people without loss of heat in the air.

THOMAS sets new standards on their metal bandsawing machines of high performing range SUPER TRAD.

The development of the Super Trad 301 has taken along two bigger hydraulic saws SUPER TRAD 380 MULTI-MODE (with sawframe gravity downfeed controlled by hydraulic cylinder) and SUPER TRAD 380 SO Digit (fully hydraulic). Both made of massive iron castings with new round working table (“plateau”) providing precision mitering, yet preventing the sawband to scratch its surface as the cut is completed; protection against chips obtrusion and rust seizure. This valuable system controlled by a 1,5-1,9 kW motor provides the ideal conditions for a precise and well performing sawframe downfeed which can cut up to 300mm diameter.

The MULTI-MODE version provides 3 Functions ! :

  Automatic sawframe downfeed with quick approach of the blade to the material being cut.

  Manual sawframe downfeed with constant feed rate.

  Manual sawframe downfeed with free feed rate.

The SO Digit semi-automatic version comes with a Digital Control very easy to use with helpful functions.

Automatic band sawing machine with numerical control for solid and metal profiles. Also steel, stainless steel, brass, aluminium, copper. Robust, versatile for professional duty.
Multi-function digital controller with piece-counter, piece presetting, work timer, diagnosis and alarm messages. Automatic control over cutting length and sawframe return stroke.
Hydraulically powered multi-feed system moves the material into the cutting zone, reducing indexing time and speeding the cutting process.
Adjustable sawframe downfeed speed.
Cast-iron sawframe on twin tapered bearings and ring nut to provide greater stability.
Precision blade-guide with hard metal pads, bearings and anti-corrosion treatement.
Cutting speeds with electronic speed variator.
The digital controller offers two different operating functions:
Semi-automatic cutting cycle: manual vice adjustment through handwheel – semi-automatic start through control panel switch – the machine carries out a complete cutting cycle including vice locking, sawframe downfeed, cut, sawframe return and vice opening.
Automatic cutting cycle: manual vices adjustment through handwheel – run a program (number of pieces to cut and cutting length are typed in) – adjustment of sawframe return stroke – automatic start through control panel switch – the machine carries out a complete cutting program including material feeding, vice locking, sawframe downfeed, cut, sawframe return and vice opening

We are writing to kindly inform you that from 23th to 27th March we will be exhibiting at MOSTRA CONVEGNO EXPOCONFORT in Milan. We would be very pleased to meet you at our stand L47 – pavillon 2.
Please notice that Systema will present its new range, ENERGY EVOLUTION that will enable you to save on energy and contribute to a less-polluted world.
In particular the following products will be exhibited:
– CASTALIA: a patented absorption chiller with condensation boiler included. Its global efficiency reaches 130% and allows the modulation of the thermal and frigorific power from 20 to 100%.
– SYCON: a patented solar concentrator which produces hot water at 110 C. It can be combined with heating and cooling systems and is perfect for hot sanitary water production as well as for cogeneration and Trigeneration.
– EHR: it is a heat recovery unit with simple and easy installation. Needless to say, this new product is cheap and highly efficient, since it recovers the energy normally released for free in the atmosphere. This product is customer-tailored according to the needs of the end users.
Don’t miss the opportunity to have a look at our absorption chillers, Castalia, EHR and much more!
Waiting to have you as our guests at our stand we remain with our.

Systema S.p.A. is pleased to introduce you the new range ENERGY EVOLUTION!
More and more people are now taking care of the environment and look for the best solution to save money and protect the nature. With SYCON, CASTALIA and EHR today this is possible and easy! These brand-new and innovative products allow you to have an extremely high efficiency without any cost!
Here are some examples:
SYCON, a solar concentratror which produces hot sanitary water up to 110° exploiting the free energy of the sun. It can be combined with heating and conditioning systems. A unique product that will let you feel different!
CASTALIA, its name derives from Greek mythology and it implies purity and genius. Its efficiency can reach up to 130%. Its payback, possible in three-years time, is well worth the purchase. This new system replaces old boilers and electrical chillers and produces both hot water to be used for heating and sanitary purposes and chilled water for cooling.
EHR is a modular enbloc system that allows you to regenerate the thermal energy usually expelled in the atmosphere. EHR works with a fumes temperature of 130°C and is extremely advantageous for recovering thermic energy released during combustion and production processes such as those taking place in smelting-furnaces, glasshouses, warming ovens and much more.
If you want to discover more about these product, please do not hesitate to visit our website: www.systema.it or send us an e-mail at: [email protected].
We look forward to receiving your comments and your enquiries soon!

Also the KIA and Hyundai Motor have chosen the company Systema SpA to heat their buildings in Korea with the radiant tubes OHA. These are only some of the important world references that the company Systema SpA has got, the leader company in Italy and all over the world in manufacturing radiant heating systems also for big areas thanks to its technological choices which allow high energy savings compared to the traditional heating and air-conditioning systems.
The main purpose of all Systema activity is customer satisfaction. An attitude which starts with he design and manufacture of the radiant heating systems and continues with the capillary assistance service which is guaranteed all around the world with timeliness and maximum efficiency.
With the three divisions of products AIR/RADIANT/COOLING the company Systema SpA is able to also guarantee solutions of climatization to a total satisfaction of the client. The range of products Systema are: radiant tubes, radiant strips for poultry farms, water strips, ceramic lamps, warm air heaters, recuperator of renewable energy, gas absorbtion chillers and gas convectors.

Safety Valves Calibration Stand

Application:
Performance test on direct loaded or pilot operated safety valves, such as valves¡¯set pressure, blow-down pressure
¡¤ Valve size: DN 15¡ªDN200mm
¡¤ Test port: 1port
¡¤ Test pressure: 0¡«40MPa
¡¤ Pressure precision: 0.4 class pressure gauge (Higher accuracy is available )
¡¤ Driven air: 6-10Bar
¡¤ Dimension: 1300¡Á800¡Á1200mm

Features:
¡¤ Air-operated pump/booster as the pressure source, and the system equipping with a cylinder allows continuous test.
¡¤ User configuration on testing pressure and rate of pressure rise is allowed.
¡¤ Wide range of high pressure output.
¡¤ All high pressure valves, pump, tubing and fittings made in USA with 316SS guarantee the pressure precision and stability.
¡¤ Most of the liquid and gases medium are applicable.
¡¤ Emergency stop system protects operators and equipment to the utmost extent.

Hydraulic/Hydrostatic Test stand for blowout preventer (BOP), christmas tree, choke & kill manifold.

Features:
· Test media can be water or oil with a wide range of testing pressure from 35MPa-280Mpa.

· The testing process is fully controlled by PC, all the settings and operations could be fulfilled on the control panel, meanwhile, the remote control allows the operators to manually control all the valves without a real site operation.

· Automatic data acquisition supports real-time display of pressure values, flow and time. Testing data can be saved and printed out for further analysis.

· All-round monitoring of test process, and the video archive is available.

· Electrical control strictly sticking to industry standard with sophisticated industrial control computer and data acquisition cards provides more reliable performance and precise data.

· All high pressure valves, tubing and pump made in USA with 316SS to guarantee the test precision and stability.

· Dual pressure releasing devices–PC automatic pressure release & manual pressure release, more reliable and safer.