Usually when you see spy shots of an upcoming model you’ll see a bunch of camouflage covering the true design of the vehicle. Keeping that theme going until the covers come off at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, Mini has just dropped a teaser of its new Crossover wearing heavy camouflage traveling through a camouflaged town.
Gotta hand it to Mini for being creative.
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Mini Crossover Teaser:
– By: Omar Rana
This is not new technology, but as of a few minutes ago it is new to me. I finally swung by the Apple Store and picked up a Magic Mouse of my very own. It took all of 30 seconds to unpack it and get it paired up to my MacBook. I’ve been using it for all of five minutes but I’m already ready liking the way the multitouch gestures work. I had to enable right-clicking in the preferences (what’s up with that, Apple?), and so far I am just using the default gestures.
One of my concerns was how well the Magic Mouse would work with Firefox, but I needn’t have worried. Scrolling works fine with either one or two fingers, and even the swipe left and right works in Firefox. I’ll have to hold off final judgement as to whether it’s worth the $69 I paid for it, but so far it’s been pretty nice. Before anyone asks, yes, you have to remove it from the plastic case before using it. 
De manera más notoria, en los últimos días los aguaceros en el Litoral ecuatoriano han despertado la duda sobre un posible acercamiento de la presencia del fenómeno de ‘El Niño’. Es así que el Comité Nacional para el Estudio Regional del fenómeno ‘El Niño’ (Erfen) se reunió el pasado jueves para tratar la situación de este suceso climático.
“En diciembre (2009) e inicios de enero (2010) se evidenció el arribo de ondas que ocasionaron el incremento de la temperatura de mar en nuestras costas”, comentó el Teniente César Palacios, jefe del departamento de Meteorología del Instituto Oceanográfica de la Armada (Inocar), entidad que preside el Erfen.
Precisiones
Según el Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología (Inamhi), “las precipitaciones se presentarán con intensidad variable, siendo mayores al interior de la región, las mismas que superarán los valores medios”.
Es decir, que las lluvias seguirán haciéndose presentes.
Sin embargo, Palacios manifestó que “no se han evidenciado condiciones propias de un evento de ‘El Niño’”, es decir, que no ha existido una elevación de temperatura significativa de las aguas del mar.
Además, el experto agregó que se prevé que “para los próximos meses haya un ligero calentamiento de dichas aguas, que se traduce en factores que inciden en el incremento de las precipitaciones”. De manera específica precisó que habrá un aumento en marzo.
De igual manera el Inamhi, como parte del Erfen, informó que los parámetros analizados “hacen prever que durante el próximo mes continúen las condiciones cálidas, con temperaturas mayores que los promedios de la época”.
Aguaje de Fin de Año
Muchos turistas que viajaron a las costas de Esmeraldas y Manabí pudieron presenciar un estado anormal del mar en estas zonas del país.
El Instituto Oceanográfica de la Armada explicó que el oleaje que se presenció durante el último feriado no tuvo relación con el fenómeno ‘El Niño’, sino que “vinieron olas del norte del continente”.
DATOS
El aguaje se produce por el cambio de Luna llena a nueva, mientras que el oleaje es producto de bajas presiones en el Pacífico.
El Comité Nacional Erfen se reunirá el jueves 11 de febrero de 2010.
On Mad Money Friday, Jim Cramer predicted a huge market rally on Wednesday if Martha Coakley loses.
JIM CRAMER, MAD MONEY HOST: We know it’s earnings season. You can no more avoid it than you could avoid getting your report card or worse – your parents getting your report card. You saw that today when people sold the market on allegedly weak earnings from Intel and JP Morgan, emphasis on allegedly. The Dow getting hurt bad, down a hundred big ones. S&P giving back more than a percent. But that doesn’t mean that the most important factor in next week’s game plan is an earnings report. Far from it. Come with me. The number you need to watch is the number that Scott Brown racks up against Martha Coakley in this amazing Massachusetts Senate race. I say amazing ’cause this was supposed to be a walkover. I mean, even a few weeks ago it was a lock for Democrat Coakley. But now everything’s up in the air, and a Brown win would be devastating for the president’s agenda. Let’s put Brown, okay, and I don’t mean UPS which I happen to own for my charitable trust. Particularly on healthcare reform, because Republican Brown has said he will definitely vote against the plan.
Brown in the Senate? That wrecks the 60-vote supermajority the Democrats have been counting on. It could spell the end for this almost year-long nightmare of a piece of healthcare legislation.
What does a Brown election mean larger than this? Well, first you’re going to get a knee-jerk rally in all the so-called penalized stocks — the HMOs, the drugs, the medical device-makers. I call it “knee-jerk,” though, because these stocks have been on fire for months. Look at Cramer fave WellPoint, or United Health. 52 week high. 52 week high. Merck, 52 week high. It’s been clear as a bell that the healthcare reform wasn’t going to affect most healthcare stocks. That’s versus what we thought last year.
More important, though, I think investors who are nervous about the dictatorship of the Pelosi proletariat will feel at ease, and we could have a gigantic rally off a Coakley loss and a Brown win. It will be a signal that a more pro-business, less pro-labor government could be in front of us. Hey, would you say it is more China like perhaps? No, we can never be as capitalist as the Communist Chinese. But how about a little bit less like the old Soviet Union? Yeah, that would be a bit more like it. Pelosi politburo emasculation! Everything from the banks, which are usually in the Democrats’ penalty box, or the oils which are despised by this administration for being carbon, could be propelled dramatically higher all of this Tuesday night.
We really have no idea what the market will do in the event of a Scott Brown win, but we will say this: anyone who’s stil clinging to the notion that “liberal” Barack Obama is damaging the market needs to have their heads checked.
Talk about holding onto your pre-conceived notions in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence. You can slam Obama for decisions he’s made that may or may not hurt us in the longterm. But this idea that investors hate his liberal stance on various things (regulating Wall Street, healthcare, etc.) is just 100% false.
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The whirlwind of news and rumors surrounding Google and its dealings in China seems to grow faster, more disjointed and more chaotic by the day. Today, Reuters reports that, in addition to looking at the Chinese government, Google is looking at the possibility that help came from within its own ranks in the recent hacking successes.
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According to Reuters, some employees in Google’s China offices have either been denied access to parts of the company’s internal network, transferred to other locations or put on leave. Google, however, remains tight-lipped, saying that it will not comment on “rumor and speculation”. The company also denies reports that the company shut down its offices in China last week.
It seems lately that much of the news about Google’s security situation in China consists of little more than rumor and speculation. Immediately after Google’s threat to include previously censored results in China, reports started coming in that the search engine had begun showing results that the Chinese government would consider sensitive. Google, however, remained firm on the fact that search results on Google.cn remained censored.
According to one source in China that we contacted on Friday, search results for such hot-button terms as “Falungong”, “Taiwan Independence” and “Tibet” included a number of previously censored sites, when searching in English. Today, however, searches for “Falungong” and “Dalai Lama” in both Chinese and English carried a disclaimer saying that according to Chinese laws, some results were not being shown.
This news comes alongside reports from the New York Times that “at least two foreign journalists living in Beijing have had their Google e-mail accounts hacked”. The hacked accounts, in much the same manner as other accounts, were forwarded to other accounts, where outside parties presumably intercepted the emails.
As for the accusations that these security breaches could have come from within Google itself, there is one notable difference – the company is not denying the claim outright, as it has with other “rumors and speculations”.
It would be easy to drop some more jokes about Chuck Liddell losing. After all, he was wearing his Lorenzo Neal San Diego Charger jersey to the ESPNZone in New York on Sunday. We’ll be nice. Hanging out in the Big Apple, Liddell tweeted in support of his good buddy, Charger wide receiver Kassim Osgood. The two have been friends since Osgood’s days at Cal Poly.
It didn’t work out for Liddell or Osgood as the Jets shocked the Chargers. It’s all but a certainty that "The Iceman" took it on the chin from fans of Gang Green. He should’ve brought along ‘Snooki‘ and ‘J-Woww’ as bodyguards. That said, we’re guessing he walked out unscathed physically.
A Jets fans in San Diego wasn’t so lucky. In an odd twist, even the Charger fans seem to be outraged over this Qualcomm arrest (NSFW).
Liddell photo via Twitter.com/ChuckLiddell. Jets fans via Jets-Fan.com and the N.Y. Jet Fan Club of Tampa.
On January 14, L’atelier Renault on the Champs Elysees has inaugurated an exhibition dedicated to light commercial vehicles. The event has tried to capture the 100 years of everyday life history by displaying a variety of vehicles, from hand-crafted milk trucks to the latest electric commercial concept car.
People who visit the show will be presented the 100-year history of services in the presence of the group’s commercial vehicles, including the 900 Boulogne Billancourt milk truck, the Type… (read more)
Toy “Pugs” Fight Rousing Battle
A PUGILISTIC encounter by puppets two feet high and manipulated from the sidelines is the latest in amusements. Dressed in prize fight garb, they stand up in the ring and swing gloves at each other. Their actions are guided by wheels in the grips of the men playing the game.
A referee in the ring judges the points scored in the five rounds of one minute each. The point of the chin is the susceptible place for a “haymaker,” and when that is struck the manikin goes down for the count.
The James Randi Educational Foundation has teamed up with the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and a dozen other secular groups to set up a way to donate money to help out the people of Haiti after the huge earthquake last week.
As Randi says,
We at the JREF are very proud to be part of the concerted effort to aid Haiti to recover from this catastrophic event. To my mind, there is nothing more disturbing than hearing the distressed cries of children who are subjected to grief and/or injury, and my personal contribution has already been added to the encouraging total that mounts hour by hour. Please be generous and help us to reach out to Haitians of all ages, of any and all philosophical orientations.
Richard Dawkins will cover $10,000 of PayPal fees, so if you use that method 100% of your donation will go to help.
You can donate here. Please help.
THE PHYSICAL CULTURE CREED
We Believe:
That our bodies are our most glorious possessions; that health-wealth is our greatest asset; that every influence which interferes with the attainment of superb, buoyant health should be recognized as a menace.We maintain that weakness is truly a crime; that sickness is the penalty of violated health laws; that every man can be a vigorous, vital specimen of masculinity; that every woman can be a splendidly strong, well-poised specimen of femininity, IF THE LAWS OF LIFE ARE RIGIDLY OBSERVED.
We believe that the requirements in the building of glorious health are:
First: Pure air and sunlight whenever obtainable; thorough ventilation of living rooms.
Second: Wholesome diet of vital foods, well masticated, eaten only at the dictates of a normal appetite; frequent fasting of a day or two if needed.
Third: Reasonable regular use of the muscular system throughout the entire body in work, in the gymnasium, on the athletic field, or otherwise.
Fourth: Thorough cleanliness, which requires frequent baths—cold baths for a tonic, hot baths for cleanliness—though dry friction with the open hands, brush or towel is also valuable.
Fifth: Internal cleanliness, which is a matter of regular and thorough elimination.
Sixth: Abundant sleep, measured in depth or quality as well as duration; this power of deep sleep being dependent upon sufficient exercise and healthful habits.
Seventh: Right mental attitude; thinking is a powerful factor in maintaining vital health, and can be constructive or destructive. The mind can build you up or tear you down.
SINGLE-RUNNER COASTER
THERE is a knack to keeping one’s balance on a single-runner coaster which you may acquire quickly, or may not. The coaster requires a l-by-4 board 6 feet long for the runner and brace.
The runner must have a slight curve to its bow, as indicated in Fig. 1. To warp the wood, steam it or soak it in hot water, then place the bow end in a vise, and block up the other end until a curve a trifle greater than that shown is obtained.
EIGHTEEN-INCH PACKING CASE HOLDS CONTORTIONIST
CAN YOU wedge yourself into a packing case only a foot and a half square? The feat sounds impossible, but it is only an incident in the day’s work for a Berlin contortionist. The photograph shows him tied into a knot inside his narrow quarters, with his assistant looking on. Just how comfortable his position may be, is open to question, but it is at least certain that there is very little space inside the box that is not occupied by the actor. According to the contortionist, there’s nothing to the feat. He’s the ideal type of renter for a kitchenette apartment.
Prizes for Home-Built Baby Autos!
IT’S a safe bet to say that at one time or another practically every man in America has built himself a home-made vehicle embodying his own ideas in automotive construction. Maybe it was only a pushmobile made to imitate his favorite car; maybe, as he grew older, he turned out a race car job, or put a racing body on a chassis powered by a motorcycle engine. The longing for a means of mechanical transportation is universal. That’s why Modern Mechanics and Inventions is announcing a big new prize contest in which cash awards of $200 will be distributed among the builders of the most pleasing home-made autos. If you’ve already built a home-made car, all you have to do is take a snapshot of it and send it in, under the rules of the contest. If you haven’t built your car yet, start in at once— you have until August first to complete the job and submit your entry, and the suggested plans appearing on these pages will help you get started.
Prizes as announced in the box on this page will be awarded on a basis of originality of design and workmanship. Cars must be powered with gasoline motors of not more than four cylinders. Autos should not be too elaborate—they should make use of cheap or scrap materials so that other mechanics who might wish to duplicate the design can do so without great cost. When your car is built, send in a snapshot, together with a description of its construction, an estimate of cost and of the speed it develops, to the Auto Contest Editor, Modern Mechanics and Inventions, Minneapolis, Minn.
Now to give you a few pointers on how to build an ingenious, low cost baby car. The drawing on page 104, and on the cover of this magazine, illustrates an aero racer which makes use of the principles employed on some of the fastest airplanes. The body of the car is streamlined, the twin cylinder motorcycle engine mounted at the rear, turning the left rear wheel by a chain drive. Air wheels of the type employed on planes are used; these have the advantage of coming with brakes in the hub. They are practical for small cars, too—on another page of this magazine is an exclusive story announcing successful trials of this type of tires for use on trucks and buses. Soon they will be commonplace on passenger cars. The front axle is streamlined with a fairing and fixed to pivot in its center. Other suggested details of construction are given in the drawing. No dimensions are included, since it is intended to serve simply as an idea which you can modify or adapt in any way you see fit.
The drawing on page 105 shows another small car with a one-lung motorcycle engine, employing a different type of drive, a belt being used. This enables you to make use of an old style motorcycle engine in which the belt drive was popular. The wheels are motorcycle type, the front ones with brakes in hub. The left rear wheel requires the addition of a flanged pulley to accommodate the drive belt.
Steering gear consists of a wheel, a drum or bobbin, and a few feet of stranded steel cable. Four pulleys guide the cable from the drum to the front axle, as shown, so that the wheel winds and unwinds the cable around the drum and thus rotates the front axle on its central pivot.
Springing of the car is simple, an ordinary motorcycle spring being used for the front axle, and the rear one making use of airplane shock cord. The body frame follows airplane practice; it is really a fuselage. It can be covered with fabric, doped, or a plywood finish can be used.
Most motorcycle motors are equipped with kick starters, and with a little ingenuity you can arrange the starter so that it operates from a pedal in the cockpit.
These suggestions will no doubt bring a score of others to your mind—so get busy and send in your entry! Remember, it has until August first to reach us. There’s no reason why that $100 prize, or one of the smaller ones, shouldn’t go to you. In judging the winners, the car which shows the best results from the minimum of expense will rake in the prize money. Get going!
I never would’ve thought of bolo ties making it to any Fall/Winter collection this year. Bottega Veneta goes part rockabilly, part eccentric nomad for their range, and it works quite well in the presentation. Solid colored double-breasted blazers define most of the collection, but there are other items that transitions away from the “suit” style. You can also expect oversized coats and knits in the mix, as well as thick shoes, fedoras, and more string ribbon ties.
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Source: GQ
Urban Dictionary defines “red-headed step-child” as one who, unlike a stepchild who looks like their step parent, is likely to be singled out for abuse. Which may very well define my stint here at TheAppleBlog. Will you, dear readers, treat me with the respect of someone with a true birthright, or use and abuse me for being the one of us who doesn’t look like the others? Time will tell.
I do know this: I actually have red hair, and I’m excited to join the excellent team of bloggers at TheAppleBlog. My name is Patrick Hunt, and this is my story (well, not the whole story, just enough to give you an idea of who is writing this bile!).
I bought my first mac in 1986, and I haven’t looked back. I stuck with the company and its products as customers left in droves during the Great Jobless Era, buying my own Macs even when my jobs provided me with Windows machines. I bought the first and each subsequent Newton when they were launched, did the same for the earliest iPods, and am now on my third of three iPhones, purchasing each on day one. I still have the Rev A Apple TV and Time Machine on my home network, and at total count, my family of three (me, my wife, and our 3-year old daughter) has five Macs, four iPods, three iPhones, two Airports, and an Apple TV in a pear tree. As I told Josh, I eat Apple for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I’m likely to write a few posts that you really like and a few that get you riled up. Hopefully, I won’t write too many that you’re not interested in, so please use the comments feature to let me know! Look primarily for longer-form essays (which is why I’ve never really become an active blogger) on company and product strategy, design, and user experience. Because in my other life, I’m a strategy, design and user experience consultant, in which I use Macs and the iPhone everyday to get my work done. I won’t likely break any news, but when someone else breaks it, I’ll try cleaning up the mess. Also look for the occasional hardware or software review, and analysis of new product announcements, company/product strategy, and the competitive digital landscape. As a former business partner and friend once said about me, “often wrong but never in doubt.” Hopefully, this approach will inform and entertain.
You can also catch me elsewhere on the web as jpatrickhunt: twitter, facebook, and .com, to name a few. Thanks in advance for the read and support!
White House Crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi were in the spotlight — again –this weekend. The aspiring reality personalities, who made headlines when they arrived uninvited at The Obamas’ State Dinner last November, are giving something back, The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
The Salahis hosted a party at Sin City hotspot PURE on Saturday night and waived their $5,000 appearance fee, instead donating the fee to the earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. They asked everyone at the club to make a small donation at the door.
El registro europeo de patentes filtra las primeras imágenes de la última generación del Kia Sportage que se espera que pueda ser presentado en el próximo Salón de Ginebra que se le celebrará en marzo. Basándose en estos bocetos podemos ver que seguramente comparta la misma plataforma que el nuevo Hyundai ix35.
El nuevo Kia Sportage será más alto y más largo además añade una pequeña ventanilla trasera que permite una mayor luminosidad al interior del vehículo o unos faros más alargados que le da al Sub de Kia un aspecto más moderno. Sin embargo no podemos olvidar que unicamente se tratan de bocetos por lo que su diseño final puede modificarse levemente. Más imágenes tras el salto.
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Da familia das cucurbitáceas, a mesma da abóbora, o Cruá, Melão Croá, Caboclo ou Cheiroso (Sicana odorífera) é um fruto exótico originário da América do Sul, provavelmente Brasil, sendo conhecidao também como melocotonero, calabaza de olor, melão calabaza, ou alberchigo Pérsico, no México; melocotón ou melão de olor em El Salvador e Guatemala; calabaza de chila na Costa Rica; cojombro na Nicarágua; chila no Panamá; Pavi na Bolívia; padea , olerero, Secana ou upe no Peru; calabaza de Paraguai, curuba, ou melocoton pepino na Colômbia; cura, coroa, Curuá, curuba, cruatina, melão ou melão caboclo maca no Brasil; cajú Cajuba, cajua, cagua, calabaza de Guiné em Venezuela; pepino, pepino ou pepino angolo socato em Porto Rico; cohombro em Cuba.
Cruá é herbácea perene, de crescimento rápido(chegando a alcançar mais de 15 metros), pesado, exigindo uma treliça forte, e subindo em árvores por meio de gavinhas equipados que podem aderir firmemente à superfície lisa do tutor. Suas folhas são cinza-peludo, arredondadas ou cordiforme-arredondadas em forma de rim, profundamente recortada na base. As flores são brancas ou amarelas, em forma de urna. Apresenta flores masculinas e femininas na mesma planta
