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A reader, Derek, writes:

Not with a bang, but a whimper? I’m @ the VZN store with the earliest
opening time in a major metro region, and I am the line. I feel a bit
silly.

Did you wait in line? Do you want us to get you coffee?

Chef Terry Koval stands by my table, points to my half-eaten burger and says, “That was a good cow.”

I suddenly have an image of Bessie being led by the ring in her nose right into a meat grinder.

Koval continues. “This one is so juicy and has such a good flavor. Much better than that first cow we had.” He sighs. “Of course, I never thought we’d already be onto our second cow by now. But we’ve been so busy.”

You want farm to table? We got you some farm to table right here. Call it cow to bun.

The process of sourcing meat at Decatur’s new and phenomenally busy Farm Burger goes something like this:

The kitchen sources a grass-fed cow from one of several local farms. Koval mentioned a North Carolina farm for this one and says he works with Charlotte and Wes Swancy of Riverview Farms in Ranger to build a network of suppliers. The marked beast is sent to Happy Valley Processing in Dearing to be humanely killed (whatever that means), and the trimmed meat ages up to three weeks …

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The Google TV rumors are beginning to look a lot more real with several new details leaking out. The first hardware running Google’s Android operating system is expected to be announced next month along with the details of the program. Sony will apparently be the first partner and is expected to launch Android-powered TVs in about a … (read more)

KNOXVILLE — Daniel Berry, WUOT 91.9 FM program director and host of the station’s popular “Morning Concert,” will perform with pianist and WUOT weekend announcer Melony Maness at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 6, at the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church in Oak Ridge.

Admission is free.

The concert is part of WUOT’s 60th anniversary celebration. It will feature a variety of music composed by J.S. Bach, Richard Strauss, Ludwig van Beethoven and Ralph Vaughan Williams, as well as traditional Irish songs.

“We’ve been celebrating WUOT’s 60th anniversary with a variety of events since last fall, and one of our goals is to reach out to listeners in different parts of the region,” WUOT Director Regina Dean said. “Daniel and Melony are accomplished musicians, and we’re thrilled to be able to showcase their talents in Oak Ridge to thank listeners in that community for supporting the station over the years.”

Berry joined WUOT in 1983. He has served as program director since 1995. A native of Dearborn, Mich., he comes from a family of musicians. He attended the University of Michigan, where he was a pupil of Metropolitan Opera baritone Ralph Herbert and conductors Josef Blatt and Maynard Klein. He made his professional operatic debut in 1975 as Dr. Bartolo in Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” with the Milwaukee Opera Company.

Berry initially combined a singing career with parallel vocations as voice teacher and conductor, including appearances with the Florentine Opera of Milwaukee, Skylight Comic Opera, Peoria Civic Opera, Northern Indiana Opera Association and Music Under the Stars. He has performed as soloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Peoria Civic Orchestra, Bach Chamber Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and many others, and he is an acclaimed recitalist.

Berry debuted with the Knoxville Opera Company in 1983 as Angelotti in “Tosca,” and has appeared with the company in 28 productions.

Maness received her master’s degree in music (collaborative piano) from UT in May 2008. While a student, she accompanied the Concert Choir and was a coach/accompanist for UT Opera Theatre, and she continues to fill these roles as a staff accompanist. Maness has served as music director for musicals with numerous theater organizations and collaborates and performs with musicians throughout East Tennessee. She is instructor of piano at Walters State Community College.

For more information about the free concert, please call (865) 974-6167.

Listener-supported WUOT is licensed to UT. WUOT is a member of National Public Radio and a Public Radio International affiliate. The station’s primary format is classical and jazz music, news and public affairs. WUOT serves listeners throughout East Tennessee and parts of Kentucky, North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia. The station broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and streams on the Web at http://wuot.org. WUOT’s second audio channel, WUOT-2, is available on HD Radio™, Internet radio and on the Web.

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C O N T A C T :

Cindy Hassil (865-974-6167, [email protected])

Mal chegada a nova geração do Volkswagen Golf na Europa, a companhia alemã já vem desenvolvendo a próxima (sétima) geração do seu hatch. Apesar de as aparências enganarem, embaixo da carroceria dessa flagrada “mula”, já está a mecânica do novo Golf realizando testes de desenvolvimento, flagrada no famoso circuito alemão de Nurburgring.

Sua gama de motorização na Europa contará com as unidades turbocharger TSI e TDI onde, movidos a gasolina termos os TSI de 1.2L com potencias de 85 cv e 105 cv, de 1.4L com 122 hp e 160 hp e o 2.0L de 220 hp e 300 hp. Já nos TDI movidos a diesel, teremos as configurações 1.6L de 90cv e 105 cv e o 2.0L com 140 cv, 170 cv e de 220 cv de potência.

Além disso, a sétima geração do Volkswagen Golf também ganhará motorização hibrida. As especulações são de que o modelo receberá um motor elétrico de 25 hp e bateria elétricas de níquel de metal hidreto (NiMH), além de uma segunda opção elétrica vinda com um motor elétrico de 75 hp acompanhado da tecnologia plug-in e com baterias de íons de lítio mais avançadas que a primeira opção.

O futuro Volkswagen Golf deverá chegar aproximadamente daqui a dois anos e receberá além da carroceria hatch, a perua chamada de Variant. Além disso, a sétima geração do modelo sofrerá um processo chamado de upmarketing, no qual devera compartilhar mais pecas com o Audi A3.

Volkswagen Golf G7

Fonte: AutoBlog.it

RM Auctions will inaugurate its Sporting Classics of Monaco auction with a sale of 105 prewar and postwar European motor cars. The event, scheduled for April 30-May 1, will coincide with the Historic Grand Prix of Monaco, now it its seventh year.

Highlights include a 1938 Delahaye 135 MS Competition Cabriolet, a 1960 Maserati Tipo 61 “Birdcage” and a 1934 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental Cabriolet. The auction also includes the world’s largest single-owner collection of Shell Petroliana, featuring 1,000 Shell-related items.

The Sporting Classics of Monaco auction will take place at the Grimaldi Forum. On April 30, there will be a preview from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and a drinks reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. On May 1, the preview will begin at 10 a.m. and the auction will begin at 1 p.m.

Admission requires the purchase of an auction catalog, priced at about $94. The catalog admits two. Internet, absentee and telephone bidding options are also available.

For complete information about the items up for bid, visit www.rmauctions.com/monaco or call RM’s London office at +44 (0) 20 7851 7070.

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Garmin-Asus is following up the just announced nuvifone A50 with another device, the Android-powered A10. The A10 is a joint venture between Garmin and Asustek (that we’ve heard about for a long time now) and differs from the A50 in that it is also optimized for pedestrian navigation. What that means exactly, we don’t know. But obviously, navigation is going to be key for any ‘garminfone’ and for the A10, maps will be preloaded onto the device so you won’t get lost if you suddenly lose your network connection.

The Garmin-Asus A10 comes with a 3.2-inch HVGA screen and will feature the usual slew of Android apps under an assumedly heavily skinned UI. It’s expected to hit European and Asian markets in mid-2010. Which probably means, the T-Mobile nuvifone A50 will be the only ‘garminfone’ we’ll get in the states. We’re not sure if that’s a bad thing. [garmin]

Hartge has unveiled their new aerodynamic kit program based on the E89 version of the Roadster. The Hartge BMW Z4 Aerodynamic Kits includes only a front spoiler and a hood lid lip which might offer increased downforce on both axles of the car. The Hartge BMW Z4 Aerodynamic Kit parts are made from PU-RIM and are not compatible with the model’s M Aerodynamic package. The Hartge BMW Z4 Aerodynamic Kit also sits on new rims.

Source: Lincah.Com – New Car and Used Car Pictures

The German firm Neofonie held a press conference in Berlin yesterday demonstrating the “WePad,” a Linux based tablet with support for Android and Adobe Air apps.  Available for pre-ordering as of now, the WePad starts shipping in August of this year. Coming in two different models, customers will be able to choose from a 16 GB Wi-Fi-only version for €449 Euros (about $595) or a 32 GB WiFi + 3G version (with extra features such as GPS and and full HD 1080p via HDMI) for €569 Euros (approximately $754).

Featuring a 16 by 9 (11.6-inch) horizontal touchscreen, a 1.66 GHz Intel based processor, 1 GB RAM, a 1.3-megapixel webcam,  2 USB ports, SD card reader, SIM card slot, and full flash support just to name a few, Neofonie has definitely created a worthy iPad contender. In fact, it’s funny I should mention the iPad, as Neofonie’s whole marketing strategy seems to be revolving around the iPad’s disadvantages.  In their demonstration (see video below), Neofonie mentions flaws such as always having to hold the iPad with one hand while navigating it with the other (the WePad features thumb navigation), static apps (the WePad runs live apps letting you view information without actually opening the app itself), and the lack of flash (and yes you guessed it, the WePad features full flash browsing).

With statements such as the iPad being “a great device yet with little flexibility or features,” or “the iPad lacking full flash support as Apple just wants to sell tons of apps,” Neofonie is directly picking a fight with Apple. It’s going to be very interesting seeing how Apple responds over the next couple of weeks, and if the WePad manages to achieve equal publicity and popularity as the iPad.  Does the WePad interest you at all?  Sound off in the comments section!

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The two-litre TFSI engine renders nearly one quarter more performance after the JE DESIGN engineers have finished their work. Instead of 265 hp (195 kW), the Cupra R now reaches 330 hp (243 kW). The maximum torque is increased from 350 to 420 Newton metres. Therefore, the Seat reaches the 100-kph limit in already 5.8 seconds instead of the former 6.2 seconds. The acceleration ends at 268 kph, while the serial model achieves its top speed at 250 km/h.

The Cupra R owes this additional power to the optimised control unit, the sports air filter, the metal catalyser, the front- and centre mufflers and the four-pipe stainless steel exhaust system. JE DESIGN offers the entire performance kit for 6200 Euro including VAT and includes a 12-months warranty.

The enormous performance enhancement is confirmed with the new Cupra R aerodynamics kit (entire kit for 1539 Euro). The front spoiler (319 Euro) with the centre sword (149 Euro) sucks the front to the road surface and the rear wing (459 Euro) renders the necessary downthrust. The side skirts (299 Euro) pacify the air flow and convey it to the rear wing extension (299 Euro) with the centre diffuser insert (99 Euro). The latter is surrounded by two stainless steel end pipes at both sides measuring 90 millimetres (899 Euro). Of course, JE DESIGN offers all aerodynamics components with an approval by the Technical Control Board (TÜV).

For more information about the extensive JE DESIGN programme, please visit the web site www.je-design.de/en

Source: Lincah.Com – New Car and Used Car Pictures

Auto Industry Bailout was the Right Thing to do

President Barack Obama is using GM’s recent loan repayment and Chrysler’s operating profit as proof that his “unpopular” auto bailout decision was the right thing to do.

“I knew this wasn’t a popular decision. But it was the right one,” Obama said. Without the bailout, the American economic outcome could have been much more disturbing.

“General Motors and Chrysler…were on the brink of collapse. The rapid dissolution of these companies — followed by the certain failure of many auto parts makers, car dealers and other smaller businesses — would have dealt a crippling blow to our already suffering economy.”

Obama went on to justify the risky bailout by explaining that, even though the companies were to blame for their own downfall and it could have been viewed as “throwing good money after bad”, the bigger issue was keeping families’ income on the table.

If anything were to happen to the companies, upwards of a million jobs could have been lost.

The Detroit News explains one way in which the White House hopes to cover taxpayers’ losses: “collecting a fee from the nation’s 50 largest banks to pay for the taxpayer losses from financial and auto bailout.”

As expected, the GOP is putting up tripwires, wondering why the banks should be responsible for covering taxpayers’ losses. Maybe it’s because the banks were responsible for initially losing taxpayers’ money.

Obviously that’s an oversimplification, but social responsibility isn’t a one-way street, guys.

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As you may know already, the Bmw X6 was an immense success for the German brand and the firm sold more than 80,000 units since its launch, back in 2008.

Now here is the good news: it appears the Bmw is currently thinking at a smaller car in the same mould as the X6 which could be named X4. The bad news is that the car didn’t receive green light for production yet, but according to our sources, there is a small chance to see this car on the streets. “We haven’t made any firm decision,” said the source, “however, the X6’s success shows there is a continued demand for sporty off-roaders.”

[via autocar]

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The last decade has been a boon for technologies like traction and stability control, but the tire itself has remained relatively low tech. Schrader Electronics is reportedly looking to change that equation with a “smart tire” that could be production ready within three years. The electronics company already knows a thing or two about tires, as a self-proclaimed global pioneer of the Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems that stabilize today’s trucks and crossovers.

Schrader claims that its Smart Tire tech utilizes sensors on the tire itself that wirelessly transmits data to receivers in the wheel housing and is routed to the vehicle’s ECU sensor. Schrader is working with Pirelli to bring its new tire tech to market starting in 2010. The first tire, called ‘Cyber Tyre Lean,” will transmit pressure, temperature, average load and the number of revolutions.

The company claims that the fully-integrated “Cyber Tyre” will transmit information on “tread depth, pressure and temperature, along with the shape of its footprint and the amount of load it is under, will be combined with precise readings of road conditions to optimize control of the vehicle’s dynamics.” Schrader expects to offer the Cyber Tyre by 2013. Hit the jump to read over the Schrader Electronics press release.

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Daniel Tisch in the classroom

The academic fields and disciplines of the 2009-2010 Glennan Fellows vary as widely as the projects in which they are engaged.

Awarded each spring, Glennan Fellowships are administered by the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) and designed to reward excellence in faculty and to nurture their growth as teachers and scholars. Each Glennan Fellow has been awarded $6,500 to be used toward their projects.

The Daily will continue to feature each of the award recipients. Today, learn about Daniel Tisch‘s project.

Daniel Tisch, assistant professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Center for Global Health and Diseases

Project: ” A Model Global Health Course: Disease surveillance in real-time”

Tisch created a course focusing on a trans-cultural, trans-disciplinary multimedia learning experience in the field of global health. Faculty and students from both Case Western Reserve University and the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, used the information communication technology Adobe Connect® to create a single classroom between multiple institutions for instruction, analysis and interpersonal communication.

Collaboration with the Bahian health department, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Florida Department of Health permitted the analysis of historical and real-time data from the annual dengue endemics and sporadic epidemics in the Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Florida. “The goal is to prepare undergraduate, graduate, medical and other students for the field of global health,” Tisch wrote in his grant proposal.

Tisch said the web-based international experience is transformative for students who are unsure of global health career opportunities or who may have been otherwise unable to travel to a foreign site for learning and academic projects. An unexpected outcome of the course has been an invitation to present the project results to Brazilian health departments in May.

The class will use this opportunity to view the Dengue transmission sites, meet their international peers and gain additional applied epidemiological training. The course served as a model learning program in epidemiology and global health that can be expanded to other existing and new university partnerships.

On April 19, 2010, NASA’s newly-launched Solar Dynamics Observatory caught a massive eruption on the Sun, called a prominence, as it blasted millions of tons of 60,000 K (100,000° F) gas off the surface of the Sun. Check out this amazing footage as the material blows upward, then rains back down onto the Sun’s surface.

Holy Haleakala! If you watch carefully, you can see little hot spots flash as the gas hits the Sun again. At about 31 seconds, a thin streamer comes screaming back down; look carefully where it hits and you’ll see those spots. This animation is actually about four hours worth of images strung together.

Note the scale of this scene: it shows a region about 100,000 km (60,000 miles) across! The Earth would easily fit under the arch of this rising gas.

Oh– before you ask, that dark hair-like thing is a piece of dust or some other detritus in the SDO camera. That’s aggravating, but I’m hoping the engineers will figure out a way of getting rid of it or at least minimizing its influence.

Prominences like this have been seen for decades, but never in this much detail. And even though SDO has only been flying for a few weeks, it’s already solved one mystery: why the rain of gas moves more slowly than expected as it rains back down. You can’t see it in this video (but you can on this page about SDO) but there is a layer of much hotter gas near the surface of the Sun. This gas, at about 1,000,000 Kelvin (1.7 million° F) cushions the fall of the rain, slowing it down. SDO’s high resolution and ability to measure the temperature of the gas allows astronomers to understand this phenomenon for the first time.

SDO is extremely cool, and will be providing solar astronomers with more data than they can possibly handle for decades. But that’s good! It’s always nice to have more data than less. The Sun is fiendishly complex and difficult to understand in detail, so SDO will be an incredibly useful tool to help astronomers figure out what’s what.

After all: there not be anything new under the Sun, but there are always new ways of looking at it.

Credit: SDO/AIA

For the first time in more than three centuries, a Native American home stands in Harvard Yard.

Over three days, a group of Harvard students built a traditional Wampanoag home, called a wetu, near the site of Harvard’s Indian College, one of the first buildings on campus, constructed to house students from nearby tribes.

The structure, of a size that might have housed a small family, was built of traditional materials: long, thin poles lashed together with long strips of bark and sheathed in larger rectangular bark squares. It was left unfinished on one side to let passersby view its interior.

Kelsey Leonard, a senior and member of Long Island’s Shinnecock tribe, said the project was conceived as a way to commemorate the 360th anniversary of Harvard’s 1650 charter, which dedicated the institution to the education of English and Indian youth alike.

In addition, Leonard said, the project was also intended to commemorate the Indian College, built in 1655, the foundation of which was uncovered last fall by an archaeology class digging in the Yard.

Leonard was joined by other members of the student group Native Americans at Harvard College in the effort. She said the work, which included stripping bark from the thin poles, was sometimes tedious, but “therapeutic.” The students labored in shifts, trading off tasks as they left to attend class.

College administrators and officials at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, who took a lead role in the Yard dig that unearthed the Indian College’s foundation, said that though they handled some of the logistical necessities, the project was largely student conceived and run.

Leonard said that Harvard’s first Native American students were part of a cultural exchange between the English settlers and the local tribes as the two groups sought to understand each other better.

“We wanted to find a way to continue that exchange, so we’re building the first wetu in Harvard Yard,” Leonard said. “It’s been a very good experience, very positive.”

The wetu will stand in the Yard through Arts First weekend and be dismantled on May 3.

Tiffany Smalley, a junior and Aquinnah Wampanoag who co-directed the project with Leonard, said during the wetu’s opening ceremony April 22 that the project has made her optimistic about the future of Native Americans at Harvard and helped her understand a little more about her own native culture.

“Personally, I’m learning more and more how to honor my ancestors and how to honor [specific] spaces,” Smalley said.

The wetu was constructed with help from the Aquinnah Wampanoag of Gay Head, based on Martha’s Vineyard. Tribal council member Jonathan Perry directed the construction, providing traditional materials.

Perry, who has worked on constructing traditional structures like wetus and dugout canoes for several years, said traditional wetus varied widely in size. The largest could stretch 200 feet and be 40 feet wide. Building them was typically a community effort, done by men. But women owned the structures in their matrilinear culture, with a man moving to a woman’s wetu after marriage, Perry said. The frame was typically constructed of cedar saplings, which are insect- and rot-resistant and considered a sacred wood. The floor was white sand. The thick outer bark sheathing of the structure was typically taken from chestnut and elm trees — giants of the New England forest that today have been devastated by disease. For the Yard’s wetu, Perry provided bark from poplar trees.

Because native people moved with the seasons, families often owned two homes, Perry said. Because they spent most of their time outdoors, homes were relatively small, providing protected space for sleeping and shelter from harsh weather.

To honor those people, students began construction with a ceremony acknowledging the native people who lived there.

The wetu “is significant because of the fact that this place for thousands and thousands of years was home to many native people,” Perry said.

Home stretch

Mike Veino ’13 (left) and Tommy Miller ’11 help Jonathan Perry (center) construct a traditional Wampanoag home, called a “wetu,” in Harvard Yard.

Knifework

Tiffany Smalley ’11 assists with materials for the wetu. Poles were lashed together with long strips of bark and sheathed in larger rectangular bark squares.

Tree house

Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe member Elizabeth Perry helps fashion the inside walls of the wetu, which are made from thick panels of bark.

Hatchet job

Tommy Miller ’11 tools around with the foundational poles for the wetu.

Ties that bind

Here, cedar bark is peeled and moistened before it’s used to fasten the the wetu together.

Welcome home

The wetu is open for passersby to check out its interior. It will remain on display through May 3.

Photo slideshow: Building a wetu

Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer

A cidade de West Midlands no Reino Unido recebeu uma nova parceira na luta contra o crime nas ruas: Unidades adaptadas para a polícia do Jaguar XF. O que é comum na Europa é a adaptação de supercarros e esportivos para ações policiais, devido ao seu desempenho.

O Jaguar XF versão policial possui um motor de 271 cv a diesel, e por enquanto apenas sete unidades desse carro estão servindo a lei. Visualmente, o carro pode parecer um pouco “estranho” com a sua pintura chamativa (acho que essa é a intenção, se é para ser uma viatura), em cores em verde fluorescete e azul, lembrando muito as cores de uma de nossas operadoras de telefonia mais odiadas do país.

Curiosamente, carros da Jaguar eram muito usados em filmes policiais dos anos 50 a 70, mas pelos bandidos como carro de fuga. Agora eles fazem parte de um grupo onde veículos como Range Rovers, Vauxhall Omegas e Toyota Lands participam na luta contra o crime.

Imagens da nova viatura britânica

Via | Auto Guide

We learn that cleantech-focused private equity fund, NewWorld Capital Group, launched last fall by former Mckinsey and Company Director Carter Bales, is close to announcing a series of inaugural investments.

The investments are club deals directly supported by the firm’s founding partners as well as a couple of outside investors and would support at least two companies in the energy efficiency space, an industry source tells G.E.R.

Our source says the investments in the two energy efficiency companies, which he declined to name,  have not been finalized but are expected to be north of $50 million.

New York-based New World Capital is also considering investing in two companies in the waste management and water treatment space.

NewWorld still plans to raise an initial $100 million fund  but which, as we’ve reported, could grow to $500 million depending on investor appetite. The money will support companies in the clean energy and energy efficiency space as well as  companies involved in waste management environmental services and water.

The fund is not looking to invest in startups but in companies that have revenues, proven products and clients.

At McKinsey Bales founded the firm’s environmental practice. He launched NewWorld Capital last fall with Bradley Abelow, former chief of staff to New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and a Goldman Sachs veteran; Bill Hallisey, who joined from GSC Group; Ali Iz, who came from CMEA Capital and Everett Smith, who was a managing director with New Energy Capital.

Looks like President Obama is taking the whole green thing seriously. Every effort is being made on his part to save the environment and have the United States go green. His latest was a visit to Missouri, the first ethanol plant. The President stated that U.S. should be No.1 in bio-fuels.

The President is hard up on decreasing dependency on foreign oils, which is why these steps are being taken. In a little corn-filled barn, the President addressed a 200 member strong audience, stating that use of home grown fuels was a key strategy. He also wished for U.S. to be the first in the world of bio-fuels and lead the way before China and other nations. America is sure seeing a bright green future.

[Kansascity]