SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – Officials associated with wind energy want Congress to establish a national renewable energy standard that they say would promote jobs in South Dakota and spark the economy. Steve Wegman with the South Dakota Wind Energy …
La Sección Octava de la Audiencia de Alicante ha condenado a una marca y a una empresa vendedora a pagar 20.142 euros de indemnización a un particular, por defectos de origen en un vehículo que adquirido en el año 2003. Tal sentencia es la primera en su tipo en España, de casos de coches que entran al taller siendo nuevos, y en donde las marcas no dan soluciones a los problemas de sus clientes.
En este caso en especial, el coche tuvo ocho entradas al taller en menos de un año, demostrándose que la falla era de orígen y que existía un defecto de fabricación en el coche.
Curiosamente, el tribunal dictaminó que no procedía el reemplazo del coche por otro modelo similar, por cuenta de la marca, ya que es comprensible su falta de confianza con ese modelo, por parte del demandante.
No se ha dado a conocer ni el modelo del coche ni la marca, pero todos los pormenores de la sentencia, que sienta un precedente jurídico en España, pueden ser encontrados en el enlace del vía.
Vía | Autopista
Article Tags: Andrew Neil, BBC, Joe Bastardi, Met Office, UK Winter Forecast 2009/10, World Temperatures
As much of the country braces itself for further snow falls and freezing temperatures word reaches me from several US forecasters that the whole of the Northern Hemisphere is in for a very cold start to 2010. Apparently there’s been a strong downspike in something called the Arctic Oscillation Index and the North Atlantic Oscillation Index is also strongly negative.
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Source: bbc.co.uk/blogs/dailypolitics
Article Tags: Financial, Sammy Benoit
When we look back at the decade 2000-2009, we may well define it by three crises: the crisis that didn’t happen, the crisis that wasn’t supposed to happen, and the crisis that we don’t realize is happening. We haven’t learned the lessons of the first two, and our ignorance of the third may doom us to be slaves to our government, rather than the other way around.
Leading into the changeover from 1999-2000, we faced Y2K, the crisis that didn’t happen. Many people thought computers’ dates would go from 1999 back to 1900, causing our computer-dominated world to fail: bank accounts disappearing, air-traffic systems (and airplanes) crashing, and everything leading to economic collapse and a return to the Stone Age.
Some scientists told us the world would end, but it didn’t. And the solution didn’t necessitate everyone throwing out their computers and buying new ones. We should remember this non-crisis when we think about global warming.
Source: americanthinker.com
Hyundai Motor America decides to extend and expand their Hyundai Assurance system in 2010. The system will include from now on America’s Best Warranty and 24-hour Roadside Assistance. This assurance program was first introduced in January 2009 as a way to protect consumers in the event they would lose their income by taking the vehicle back.
The system was offered as a complimentary service with every new Hyundai model sold in the United States. America’s Best Warranty refers to a… (read more)
As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, the Census Bureau projects that on Jan. 1, 2010, the total U.S. population will be 308,400,408. This would represent an increase of 2,606,181, or 0.9%, from New Years Day 2009.
In January 2010, one birth is expected to occur every eight seconds in the United States and one death every 12 seconds.
Meanwhile, net international migration is expected to add one person every 37 seconds to the U.S. population in January 2010. Combined with births and deaths, that means an increase in the total U.S. population of one person every 14 seconds.
Close to the end of the new decade, in July 2019, the Census Bureau projects the U.S. head count will have risen to 338,190,000.
As the 2009 year comes to a close I thought I’d spend some time looking at the past before I look to the future. We’ll do a quick rundown on how things are going at GeekTonic. We’ll cover a few stats for the statisticians, talk about the focus of content for the blog and finally run through the most read topics of the past year.
More than 1,493,000 Pageviews with a steady number of over 100,000 pageviews each month from February through December. The trend has actually been positive in the past six months as well for both unique visitors and returning visitors.
The most popular referring sites included Google (of course), Stumbleupon, ZatzNotFunny, SageTV Forums, EngadgetHD, Consumerist, MissingRemote, Snapstream, GreenButton, avsforum, Lifehacker and delicious.
The most popular search engines used to find GeekTonic were Google, Yahoo and Bing in that order. Google wins this battle with ease cornerning nearly 82% of all search traffic.
The top web browsers were Firefox (50%, Internet Explorer 33%, Safari 8% and Chrome 6%.
Countries Represented – GeekTonic visitors came mostly from the US 73%, Canada 7%, UK 5%, Austrailia 2% and Europe filling out most of the rest, but its always surprising to see that over 200 countries had visitors at GeekTonic.
I won’t bore you with more details, but going through the blog stats I also learned that GeekTonic readers are a loyal bunch and visit the site multiple times – even in one month. Thanks for that loyalty – I hope to continue to make it worth your while.
Topic-wise the blog will continue to bring you the things I think you’ve come here for in the first place:
1. HTPC – home theater PC’s are a passion of mine and I’ll continue to focus on them. SageTV is still what I use day in and day out, but I’m also dabbling with XBMC, Windows 7 Media Center, Boxee among others. I know HTPCs and I really enjoy covering them.
2. Media – TV updates (U.S. and Canada only) will continue to have front-and-center coverage here. I won’t review shows much, but I’ll continue to offer the weekly updates on new show premieres, specials, finale’s and cancellations as well as the full guides to each new TV season as those continue to be popular. I might on occasion cover other media topics such as movies, music, books etc – all digital of course.
3. e-Readers – I’m very interested in e-Readers as the devices improve. I think we are in the beginning of something important here – a shift in the way we consume books, magazines and newspapers. The Kindles in our home will continue to be covered as will new devices such as the Nook, Que and other e-Readers
4. Media Gadgets – This is a bit of a catch-all, but GeekTonic will cover those media gadgets that interest us and therefore make for good reading. Yes, the focus continues to be on HTPCs, media players and e-Readers, but we’re not excusive in that way. Watch for more on the things that interest you and me.
5. Everything Else – It looks like we might have a regular guest blogger here at GeekTonic. You know her from her reviews of the Kindle and Nook – she goes by the name Mrs GeekTonic on Twitter. Her focus will be on technology also with the occasional discussion of Tech in Schools & Education.
The main thing that keeps me from covering more is my time. Because of this, I really enjoy reader-submitted articles which also add a different perspective that is often shared by GeekTonic readers. You’ll note that two of the top articles from 2009 on GeekTonic were guest posts from readers just like you.
Thanks again for being a part of GeekTonic. I appreciate all of the readers and contributors here and will strive to make GeekTonic even better in 2010!
Over 65 delegates from the mining industry, waste and recycling, engineering companies and representatives from local, state and federal governments and organizations enjoyed a discovery trip into the future of separation technology.
A very successful occasion was enjoyed by the visitors who witnessed Steinert’s Induction (ISS) and X-ray (XSS) sensor sorters being put to work on a range of sample materials following an informative technical presentation.
The demonstrations included sorting materials from shredder product, upgrading nickel ore, separating sandstone from kimberlite and removing metal and non-metal contaminants from woodchips and magnetite ore.
Following the demonstrations, visitors were free to view other Steinert products on display within the production area while they enjoyed refreshments in the true German spirit. Discussions that ensued left no doubt that the Sensor Sorting Technology launch exceeded everyone’s expectations.
Steinert would like to thank all visitors for attending a great afternoon and to remind those who couldn’t make it that the test unit is here to stay … and to be used!
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iPhone accessory maker and recession antidote regular Mophie is about to make the most buzzworthy move of its short history by offering a credit card reader and accompanying transaction app for the Apple handset. Positioned as a direct competitor to Jack Dorsey’s Square iPhone Payment System, Mophie’s solution looks to be integrated into an iPhone case — making it possible to keep the reader on permanently, albeit at a slight cost to your device’s aesthetics. The decidedly cube-shaped Square system has a less ergonomic design, but we suspect that the winner (if either of these two succeeds) will be primarily determined by the usability of the app and affordability of the service. Look out for more info to emerge at some point during the maelstrom that will be CES 2010.
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The first striking point of this villa in the village of Vals in Switzerland is that it has been carved out of a mountain wall. The second most interesting fact is that the designer Jeroen van Mechelen has created a cabinet- cabin in the guesthouse with cardboards. Designed by the renowned architectural firm SeARCH in collaboration with Christian Müller architects this cathedral-like cabin is defined out of a 3 dimensional cardboard matrix. The two complete chapel like ceilings have been carved out of this matrix. The lightweight cardboard sandwich panels were directly CNC-carved from the design files and easily put together by the design team.
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It’s an old Chinese philosophy that you can take a horse to a lake, but you can’t make him drink the water. Keeping the phrase alive, WattVision has developed this real-time energy monitoring device that actually allows the user to counts the units consumed over every electronic device in the house. This simply means that unless people are actually made aware of the reality, in other words the statistics, the conscience will not prick. Thus no actually change can be made. To be honest, there are several existing energy sensors that can be easily snapped onto your gadget to monitor your consumption. But what makes WattVision different from the rest is an interesting looking structure, smart pricing and easy display. If you talk to the people in their own language, the reciprocation is immediate.
WattVision claims to have very simple to understand display and they believe in the mantra that ’what is measurable is manageable’, thus they hope to instill the energy conserving habit into their consumers who have so far not really bothered about the acute energy crisis we are facing today.
by David Roberts
One of the purported advantages of a carbon tax over cap-and-trade is that it would be simple, as simple as grandma and apple pie and just as hard to frak with. That view has taken a bit of a blow from the latest news out of France.
The French Constitutional Council has rejected a tax on carbon emissions strongly backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy that was to take effect Friday. But his ruling conservative party said the measure would be redrafted so it could be passed into law next year.
The council, which evaluates the constitutionality of proposed laws, ruled late Tuesday that the bill contained too many exemptions for polluters, broke with past practices and threatened to make tax collection unfair.
Sarkozy could make the tax more, er, simple, but “it remains unclear how the bill could be modified to meet the demands of the council without fierce objections from French industry.”
I guess implementation is rough all over.
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After being lashed out at in the many Copenhagen summits, China has taken environment consciousness seriously and has a massive budget for the ‘landmark green building project’ being developed for the World University Games coming in August 2011. They have decided on a new set of two charging stations for electric cars at the Universiade Center in Shenzhen. Apart from this they plan on having about 134 pole chargers around the town. The charging stations can be used during the day time, while the pole chargers can be putt o use during the night, for slow or overnight charging.
By Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
In a brutal year, technology companies responded by hunkering down and developing new products at a faster rate as they tried to wrest sales from one another.
While 2010 isn’t expected to be a blockbuster, consumers have shown they are still willing to spend on gadgets, at least for hot products like Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone and Amazon.com Inc.’s (AMZN) Kindle.
There are also signs that frozen corporate budgets are thawing—driven by aging equipment, falling hardware prices and new offerings, notably Microsoft Corp.’s (MSFT) Windows 7.
Tech vendors are tapping demand in China, India and other emerging economies for products like laptop computers and cellphones. At the same time, Web connections are being added to existing products in new ways that are spurring buyers into action.
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Japan is the future of the cell phone industry and developments and innovations from the land of the rising sun have helped change the way we use our phones. As dreamt by Japan’s mobile big shot, NTT DoCoMo, the mobile phone will be an essential part of our lives, more than it is today. The company displays its technology in cell phones at the ‘Future Station’, located in a Tokyo skyscraper. The company anticipates the use of its wearable phone by the year 2020. This phone is to be made out of recycled materials. It’s uncommon for cell phone manufacturers to use recycled materials for production today, however this will not be so in the future. DoCoMo’s phone will also be partially powered with kinetic energy created due to the movements of the user.
The phone will be capable of projecting images in the air in the form of a hologram. The people in Japan now use phones for entertainment purposes, buying goods and a whole lot of other applications besides calling. If DoCoMo’s dreams are realized soon enough, it will help change the world of telecommunication and help create a cleaner cell phone industry with its recycling policies.
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Article Tags: Lorne Gunter
The decade just past marked the transition from red into green. It was the decade in which environmentalism replaced socialism as the authoritarians’ and the busybodies’ ideology of choice.
Why are so few environmentalists truly unhappy about the failure at Copenhagen? In the run-up to this month’s Earth summit in the Danish capital, many “greens” were warning that if the world’s leaders failed to reach a comprehensive pact to control climate change our planet was doomed within the century. In the summer, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon insisted “we have four months to save the planet.”
But nothing that will save the planet came out of the UN eco-fest.
Source: network.nationalpost.com
In this article we will discuss about the types of hair loss or baldness but before going in detail let us know what exactly hair loss means. Hair loss or baldness is a condition in which hair does not grow on the scalp after hair fall. The most common form of baldness is the development of a hair thinning condition called androgenic alopecia or male baldness which occurs in adult males.
The nature of hair loss or baldness can vary greatly. These are the types of hair loss
1. Androgenic alopecia: Loss of hair in men is called as androgenic alopecia.
2. Alopecia areata: Here hair loss occurs in some portions of the head.
3. Alopecia totalis: In this the hair loss occurs over the entire scalp to an extreme limit.
4. Alopecia universalis: This involves the loss of all hair from the entire body.
The other less common kinds of baldness are:
1. Traction alopecia: This type of hair loss is mostly observed in people with ponytails who pull their hair with excessive force while combing. Wearing a hat for more than 8 hours also causes hair loss. The scalp should breathe at least 7 hours in a day.
2. Telogen effluvioum: Hair loss some times occurs due to causes like major surgery, poisoning, child birth, chemotherapy severe stress etc and such condition is known as telogen effluvium.
3. Mycotic Infections: Mycotic infections can cause massive hair loss.
4. Alopecia areata: This type hair loss is known as spot baldness and is caused due to autoimmune disorder.
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Ever heard of energy created due to the vibrations of a dance floor or train station? It is known as piezoelectric energy. This form of energy is formed due to the conversion of mechanical strain into electrical current. A tiny piezoelectric energy, capable of collecting energy from machinery and infrastructure is being developed by a team of researchers in Europe. These devices can be used to power remote sensing equipment that can detect deterioration of bridges and even wind turbines. Wind turbines are usually located in remote areas and accessing those burns up loads of energy.
Also, maintenance teams face huge risks while climbing up these turbines. Instead of burning all this energy for regular checkups, these remote sensing devices powered by piezoelectric energy can be used. Aluminum nitride as an alternative to lead is being developed by a European nanotechnology research team with the creation of a tiny device made out of micro-electromechanical systems. The use of lead- free piezoelectric energy devices is anticipated in the future and will change the way maintenance operations are carried out.
Canada spots its first bifacial photovoltaic solar module with the unveiling of Sanyo Canada Inc. and Avacos Solar Energy’s installation at DuROCK Alfacing International Ltd.’s headquarters. This installation combines Sanyo’s HIT (Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin-layer) Double bifacial solar photovoltaic modules and Tio-Coat reflective roof membrane. The Sanyo HIT Double PV is capable of generating energy from both the sides due to which, 30% more energy is generated as compared to common PV modules. The Tio-Coat is a roof coating made of elastomeric urethane. It provides 89% solar radiation reflectivity and weather resistance. Together, the HIT Double PV and Tio-Coat membrane will help provide energy for DuROCK and also reduce the cooling cost of the building. An increased PV module output and higher exposure to solar radiation is gained due to the combination of these two products with its 10kW grid-tied arrangement. According to president of Avacos Solar Energy, Sandro Costa, this is a win-win situation for the client and a great example of how combination of two technologies can help boost the solar industry.
