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Saturn Aura
At the press conference on Wednesday, April 12, Saturn General Manager Jill Lajdziak alluded to the fact that Saturn was able to get higher sale prices for Saturns over their list price (not by any shenanigans -- by offering packages to customers that raised the prices of the cars). So our concern with the Aura is that Saturn is going to push this closer to $30k than low 20s. But it appears to be a good car and we think it's worth you looking at......... Posted by: Jim Permalink Source Meet The Saturn Family
2007 Saturn Outlook, Aura, Vue Green Line and Sky Red Line
As always, our retail experience is the envy of the industry. But now we have a portfolio of exciting new products like never before. We're still Saturn. But we're about to become better than ever. We'll have more and better product to satisfy our customers and deliver on the promise of the Saturn experience. The Saturn Aura - which remains true to the critically acclaimed concept version - blends performance with Saturn's bold new design. While the standard 3.5 L V6 is a great engine, I'm especially excited about the optional 3.6 V6 (252 HP) that comes with GM's first application of a six-speed automatic transmission. Later this year we'll add a hybrid powertrain. And on the interior, the Aura delivers a level of refinement that sets a new standard for our brand. The Saturn Outlook crossover offers versatility and room for the Saturn customer who needs to haul more people and stuff. It comfortably seats eight real, adult people and still has room for luggage, golf clubs, groceries, etc. All that room, yet its optimal proportions still provide for nimble and agile handling......... Posted by: Jim Permalink Source The new Amazin' Mets
They're hitting better than anybody else [.312 BA], they're pitching better than anybody else [leading the league at 2.95 ERA], they're playing outstanding defense, plus they have that outstanding speed element. I just don't see a chink in their armor." I haven't seen a Mets team this good since 20 years ago, when the '86 team went 108-54 and won the division by 21 games (before winning the Bucky Dent World Series by a stroke of fate). They won't win quite that a number of games this year, but they could come close......... Posted by: Jim Permalink Source New Data On Risks And Consequences Of Seatbelt Non-use
The team used data from the 2002 Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System (CODES)* for Wisconsin. They studied 23,920 crash occupants, ages 16 and over, who were treated in hospital-based emergency departments (ED)'s, statewide in 2002, and compared ED outcomes and characteristics of seatbelt users with non users. Their study appears in the March 10, online issue of Academic Emergency Medicine. "Unbelted crash occupants represented 68 percent of the patients dying in the ED's," says lead author Shane Allen, a third year medical student. "Among motor vehicle crash patients who survived, only 20 percent of surviving unbelted occupants were successfully treated in an ED and discharged. The remainder mandatory hospital admission." Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for Americans ages two through 33 years. As per the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, crash fatalities in Wisconsin rose from 763 in 2001, to 803 in 2002; while reported seatbelt use in the state dropped from 69 percent in 2001 to 66 percent in 2002......... Posted by: Jim Permalink Source Aphex Twin hides pictures in songs
Aphex Twin embeds pictures in some of his audio tracks. Say what? Check out the demon face he hides in track 2 on Windowlicker.
I swear this is not a late April Fool's joke. Eventhough it is in the recent issue of Spin. Hmm. Sing along to the Clash, get questioned for terrorism. Ever wonder what 40,000 ecstasy pills would do to your brain? ......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source Kiss Tribute Band Rivalry
A Las Vegas incident highlights the MiniKiss- Tiny Kiss tussle over who owns the concept. By Robert W. Welkos, Times Staff Writer. April 11, 2006. They might be pint-sized performers onstage, but offstage they're in a giant-sized dispute. Joey Fatale, the 4-foot, 4-inch New Yorker who heads the all-dwarf KISS tribute band MiniKiss, is denying published reports that he tried to sneak past security last month at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas to confront a rival band leader, 4-foot "Little" Tim Loomis of Tiny Kiss, for allegedly ripping off his idea for such a group. Loomis, a former drummer for MiniKiss, waccording toforming with Tiny Kiss, which includes three little people and a 350-pound woman, on St. Patrick's Day at Beacher's Madhouse, a Las Vegas variety show, when the incident occurred. Show host Jeff Beacher told The Times on Monday that Fatale "tried to sneak in saying he was Tiny Kiss" and had to be escorted from the premises. As per the New York Post, Fatale's lawyers sent a legal cease-and-desist letter to the show trying to shut down the act. Loomis told the Post: "[Fatale] came out here [to Las Vegas] and tried to cause trouble, so I had him 86'd from the Hard Rock. The impression I got was that he was looking for a fight. He'd been threatening me over the phone"......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source Heart Of The Congos
In 1996 Blood and Fire repackaged the long sought after album and put it out on CD complete with a second album of remixes. It's a beautiful package of some of the finest dub and reggae you will ever here. There is some similarity to some other Jamaican music you will hear but for the most part, even to this day, the music on Heart of the Congos remains very original and sounds even fresh to this day, due to the brilliant production of Lee "Scratch" Perry. If you come across this at your local music shop, disregard the ticket price and pick it up. I think you will be very impressed and wonder how you previously did without this album. Dennis Scanland......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source Net Neutrality, Network Dvr, Downloads, Baby Bell Smackdowns
I'll come back to this later when time permits; I'll also post audio. For now, one subject has programmers flummoxed - how to handle Cablevision's network DVR service. NBCU's David Zasllav said during the Q&A his company's lawyers are still looking it over and they'll get back to Cablevision with an opinion in the next couple of months. "It's really more of a legal issue; we have to look at what the functionality is". At issue - is it supercharged VOD or truly a DVR? Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt talked about the ability to use set-top data to target advertising to viewing patterns. That's one of the qualms I hear from programmers - that operators could use a so-called network DVR as a targeted ad vehicle......... Posted by: Tom Permalink Lights, Cameras, And Engineering
"It's actually quite hard to mimic an animal's behavior and attributes, particularly in just five working days," said Chiara Daraio, a Ph.D. candidate in the Jacobs School of Engineering's Materials Science and Engineering Program. "Mother Nature has taken some million years to get things straight." The "Big Horn Ram" episode features four students, including Scott Anderson, a 2005 graduate of UCSD. The task of Anderson's team was to engineer a skull to protect a fragile glass brain in a 25 mph head-on impact. The team based two competing designs on the impact-absorbing skull structure of male bighorn sheep, which butt heads in vicious collisions during the mating season. Pairs of engineered skulls were attached to the front of dune buggies and crashed into one another. "What I learned at UCSD definitely helped guide our design," said Anderson. "I also took an acting class an undergrad and it helped me get through the long week of filming." In each episode, four-student teams are given four or five days to build a physical model that, on a human scale, replicates an important animal characteristic or behavior......... Posted by: Tom Permalink Source Google Taps BearingPoint to Reach Corporate Search Market
As per a Rueters article today, 85% of corporate data is unstructured information comprised of images, pictures, and disorganized documents. Google has taken notice that a solution to this problem could be a huge business. Indeed, leading enterprise search companies such as Fast Search and Transfer of Norway have paved the way for success in the market, which was estimated to be worth $1 million in 2005. Microsoft and IBM are said to be currently looking into enterprise search ventures themselves. BearingPoint will give Google the ability to tailor their search engine to fit the needs of specific industries, such as pharmaceuticals, banking, brokerage, high-tech and aerospace. BearingPoint plans to train several hundred of its 3,000 technology specialists to work on Google search in 2006......... Posted by: Tom Permalink Source |
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