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Sun, 07 Mar, 2010
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GARY, Ind. – Authorities say eight teenage boys were shot while leaving a Gary, Ind., skating rink where they were attending a concert. Police Cpl. Gabrielle King says "chaos broke loose" when a fight erupted Friday nike air max night event at World of Skates. Police say the shooting started in the parking lot. The victims were taken to three area hospitals, where some remained Saturday. Police say they ranged in age from 14 to 18, with wounds in the legs, wrist, stomach or back. King said injuries weren't believed to be life-threatening. King said Saturday evening no arrests had been made. A message seeking air max comment was left at World of Skates. King said the wounded weren't clear on what prompted the shooting. Gary is 30 miles southeast of Chicago. Max 97 Max Ltd
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Tue, 02 Mar, 2010
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Syracuse took quite a route to its first No. 1 ranking in 20 years. The Orange weren't in the preseason Top 25 and, just days after it was released with them in "Others Receiving Votes," they were beaten by Division II LeMoyne in an exhibition game. But they were back in the poll — at No. 10, in fact — just two weeks into the season after impressive wins over California and North Carolina in the 2K Sports Classic. The Orange haven't been out of the top 10 since and on Monday moved from fourth into the No. 1 spot, taking advantage of a weekend that saw the top three teams lose. "It's a great honor, a great testament for these players, these kids, to be ed hardy outletnumber one," Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said. "We all know it doesn't matter that much in the big picture, it's where you are at the end of the year. These kids have worked hard, been unselfish. They deserve it. They really do." This is the third time the Hall of Fame coach has had the Orange at No. 1. There was the preseason poll in 1987-88 and a six-week stint in 1989-90. "It's been a long time and we're happy to be there," said Boeheim, who has 826 wins in his 34th season at his alma mater. Syracuse (27-2), which received 59 first-place votes from the national media panel, moved to the top off its 95-77 victory over then-No. 7 Villanova in front of an on-campus record crowd at the Carrier Dome. As always, it's Syracuse's 2-3 zone defense, which it didn't use in the loss to LeMoyne, that is drawing all the attention in the rise up the polls. "The biggest thing is that we've been the biggest we've been inside in a long time and we just cover better. These guys have worked a little harder at it," Boeheim said. "We're also still leading the nation in field goal percentage (52.2) so we've also been a very good nike air maxoffensive team. They really move the ball and pass the ball extremely well. We've been good on both ends of the court. It's not one thing really." Syracuse is the sixth team to go from unranked in the opening poll to No. 1. Kansas was the last, reaching No. 1 on Jan. 9, 1990. "We made an unbelievable move this year and we have really played pretty consistently all year. Based on the whole year we deserve it," Boeheim said. "We may not be the best team in the country but I'm not sure who else is." Kansas, which had been No. 1 for the last four weeks and 13 polls overall this season, had the other six first-place votes and dropped to second. The Jayhawks (27-2) lost at Oklahoma State on Saturday, the same day Kentucky (27-2) lost at Tennessee. The Wildcats, who were No. 1 for one week in January, fell one spot to third. Texas, the fourth team to hold the No. 1 position this season,nba jerseys fell out of the rankings from 21st. The Longhorns became No. 1 for the first time in school history in January, but have dropped seven of 12 after their 17-0 start. They are the fifth team to hold the No. 1 ranking and drop out of the poll in the same season — Alabama was the last to do it in 2002-03. Duke and Kansas State each moved up one place each to fourth and fifth, while Ohio State jumped three spots to sixth. Purdue dropped from No. 3 to seventh following Sunday's 53-44 loss to Michigan State, the Boilermakers' first game since losing second-leading scorer and rebounder Robbie Hummel to a knee injury. New Mexico was eighth, followed by Villanova and West Virginia. Michigan State led the second 10, followed by Butler, Vanderbilt, BYU, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Pittsburgh, Gonzaga, Georgetown and Temple. The last five ranked teams were Baylor, Maryland, Texas A&M, UTEP and Xavier. Maryland (21-7), which is second to Duke in the ACC, was ranked for the first ed hardy denim two weeks of the regular season. UTEP (22-5), which has won 12 straight, is ranked for the first time since February 1992. Xavier (21-7), co-leaders of the Atlantic 10, moved in for the first time this season, knocking out Richmond (22-7) with a double overtime win over the Spiders on Sunday. Northern Iowa (25-4) dropped out from 25th after losing to Evansville, the last-place team in the Missouri Valley Conference. all star shoes Tracy McGrady
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Thu, 18 Feb, 2010
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Pluto was discovered 80 years ago today, and astronomers are still arguing over what it is. The oddball world, downgraded from planet to dwarf planet status in 2006 and then later reclassified, is really out there. Scientists aren't sure exactly what Pluto's made of, how it formed, or why it orbits so oddly compared to the eight primary planets. And there are at ed hardy outlet least two camps of astronomers when it comes to defining Pluto. Some just think of it as a planet, others call it a dwarf planet or a plutoid. While NASA has a spacecraft en route to Pluto and slated to make close-up images in 2015, the best images of Pluto so far, taken this year by the Hubble Space Telescope, are mere smudges. Pluto's discovery The hunt for Pluto began in 1905 when Percival Lowell (of Martian Canal infamy) hypothesized about the possibility of a Planet X in the outer solar system. Lowell died before Pluto was discovered. Clyde Tombaugh found it on Feb. 18, 1930 in a concerted scan of the sky. Tombaugh compared two photographs taken at the Lowell Observatory and noted the object's movement against the background of stars. Most of Pluto's orbit is out beyond that of Neptune. But the path is oblong, all star shoesso Pluto spends part of its 248-year orbit – the time it takes to make one circle around the Sun – inside the track of Neptune. Pluto's path is also extremely inclined, by 17.1 degrees, to the main plane of the solar system where the other planets travel. Asteroids also circle the Sun in the solar system's main plane. So do some comets. But many comets, like Pluto, have highly inclined orbits. This similarity, plus Pluto's small size – smaller than Earth's Moon – led to its demotion. Mysterious Pluto Studies in 2003 showed that despite an almost nonexistent atmosphere, Pluto Other NBA Star Shoeshas wind and seasons and appears to have recently gone through a phase of global warming. The leading theory for the formation of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, is a wild one: A nascent Pluto was struck by another Pluto-sized object. Imagine a glancing blow and a lot of cosmic Silly Putty getting stretched and repacked into new spheres with new rotations. Observational evidence for this collision theory remain thin, however.
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Thu, 18 Feb, 2010
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Pluto was discovered 80 years ago today, and astronomers are still arguing over what it is. The oddball world, downgraded from planet to dwarf planet status in 2006 and then later reclassified, is really out there. Scientists aren't sure exactly what Pluto's made of, how it formed, or why it orbits so oddly compared to the eight primary planets. And there are at ed hardy outlet least two camps of astronomers when it comes to defining Pluto. Some just think of it as a planet, others call it a dwarf planet or a plutoid. While NASA has a spacecraft en route to Pluto and slated to make close-up images in 2015, the best images of Pluto so far, taken this year by the Hubble Space Telescope, are mere smudges. Pluto's discovery The hunt for Pluto began in 1905 when Percival Lowell (of Martian Canal infamy) hypothesized about the possibility of a Planet X in the outer solar system. Lowell died before Pluto was discovered. Clyde Tombaugh found it on Feb. 18, 1930 in a concerted scan of the sky. Tombaugh compared two photographs taken at the Lowell Observatory and noted the object's movement against the background of stars. Most of Pluto's orbit is out beyond that of Neptune. But the path is oblong, all star shoesso Pluto spends part of its 248-year orbit – the time it takes to make one circle around the Sun – inside the track of Neptune. Pluto's path is also extremely inclined, by 17.1 degrees, to the main plane of the solar system where the other planets travel. Asteroids also circle the Sun in the solar system's main plane. So do some comets. But many comets, like Pluto, have highly inclined orbits. This similarity, plus Pluto's small size – smaller than Earth's Moon – led to its demotion. Mysterious Pluto Studies in 2003 showed that despite an almost nonexistent atmosphere, Pluto Other NBA Star Shoeshas wind and seasons and appears to have recently gone through a phase of global warming. The leading theory for the formation of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, is a wild one: A nascent Pluto was struck by another Pluto-sized object. Imagine a glancing blow and a lot of cosmic Silly Putty getting stretched and repacked into new spheres with new rotations. Observational evidence for this collision theory remain thin, however.
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Fri, 05 Feb, 2010
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Nearly three years ago, the Santa Clara Valley Water District — a government agency that serves as the primary provider of drinking water to Santa Clara County residents — found itself in the middle of a political tempest. The district's then-CEO, Stan Williams, hired board member Greg Zlotnick to a newly created, $184,000-a-year job without telling the other board members or advertising the job opening. The ensuing controversy led to Williams' resignation and a great deal of public scrutiny on how the agency spends taxpayer money. In addition, a state law signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in October saddled the district with new rules, including a ban on hiring its board members for at least one year after they leave office. This week, the saga came to something of a close when the water uggs outlet district's new CEO, Beau Goldie, fired Zlotnick. "It was not for nonperformance. We eliminated the position," Goldie said. The move was part of a cost-cutting pattern that Goldie has pushed since taking over as CEO in May. Zlotnick's job was an executive position that involved managing statewide policy changes over the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the source of half of Santa Clara County's drinking water. Now his duties will be divided among three existing employees, Goldie said. Zlotnick, a Mountain View attorney, was earning $169,000 most recently, and under district policy that provides four weeks of severance for top managers for each year served, he was given $33,800 in severance, said Susan Siravo, a district spokeswoman. In the past two years, the water district has eliminated 57 positions to bring its staff to 772, CEO Goldie said. The agency's budget has dropped from $411 million last ed hardy outlet year to $305 million as a result of reducing staff, overtime, some construction projects and new vehicle and computer purchases. "I'm aware of what happened in the past," Goldie said. "But I'm serious about making changes. I want the community to be proud of this water district." With the district potentially facing a state raid on its revenue, and the loss of a recent court decision over the way it collects groundwater fees, more staff cuts are possible, Goldie said, especially from the executive ranks. Dick Santos, chairman of the agency's board, said he supports Goldie's decision. "He wanted to appoint his own team," Santos said. "It'swholesale ed hardy part of cutbacks, and a streamlining, as a way to get more efficiency." Zlotnick, 46, did not return calls or e-mails Thursday.
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Mon, 01 Feb, 2010
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President Barack Obama's proposed budget predicts the national deficit will crest at a record-breaking almost $1.6 trillion in the current fiscal year, then start to recede in 2011 to just below $1.3 trillion. Still, the administration's new budget to be released Monday says deficits over the next decade will average 4.5 percent of the size of the economy, a level that economists say is dangerously high if not addressed. A congressional official provided the information, which comes from a White House summary document circulating freely on Capitol Hill and among Washington's lobbyists. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the spending proposal is not supposed to be made public until tomorrow. Details of the administration's budget headed for Congress include an additional $100 billion to attack painfully high unemployment. The proposed $3.8 trillion budget would provide billions more to pull the country out of the Great Recession while increasing taxes on the wealthy and imposing a spending freeze on many government programs. Administration projections show the deficit never dropping below ed hardy outlet $700 billion, even under assumptions that war costs will drop precipitously to just $50 billion in some years instead of more than three times that this year and next. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the administration believed "somewhere in the $100 billion range" would be the appropriate amount for a new jobs measure made up of a business tax credit to encourage hiring, increased infrastructure spending and money from the government's bailout fund to get banks to increase loans to struggling small businesses. That price tag would be below a $174 billion bill passed by the House in December but far higher than a measure that could come to the Senate floor this week. Gibbs said it was important for Democrats and Republicans to put aside their differences to pass a bill that addresses jobs, the country's No. 1 concern. "I think that would be a powerful signal to send to the American people," Gibbs said in an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union." Job creation was a key theme of the budget President Barack Obama was sending Congress on Monday, a document designed, as was the president's State of the Union address, to reframe his young presidency after a protracted battle over health care damaged his standing in public opinion polls and contributed to a series of Democratic election defeats. Obama's $3.8 trillion spending plan for the 2011 budget year that begins Oct. 1 attempts to navigate between the opposing goals of pulling the country out of a deep recession and dealing with a budget deficit that soared to an all-time ed hardy sweaters high of $1.42 trillion last year. The startling budget numbers — deficits would total $8.5 trillion over the decade — are raising worries among voters and the foreign investors who buy much of the country's debt. On the anti-recession front, congressional sources said Obama's new budget will propose extending the popular Making Work Pay middle-class tax breaks of $400 per individual and $800 per couple through 2011. They were due to expire after this year. The budget will also propose $250 payments to Social Security recipients to bolster their finances in a year when they are not receiving the normal cost-of-living boost to their benefit checks because of low inflation. Obama will also seek a $25 billion increase in payments to help recession-battered states. Obama's new budget will set off months of debate in the Democratically controlled Congress, especially in an election year in which Republicans are hoping to use attacks against government overspending to gain seats. Obama has argued that he inherited a deficit of more than $1 trillion and was forced to increase spending to stabilize the financial system and combat the worst recession since the 1930s. Obama's new budget was expected to repeat many of the themes of his first budget. But in a bow to worries over the soaring deficits, the administration is proposing a three-year freeze on spending for a wide swath of domestic uggs outletgovernment agencies. Military, veterans, homeland security and big benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare would not feel the pinch. The freeze would affect $447 billion in spending and is designed to save $250 billion over a decade. However, it would not fall equally on all domestic agencies. Some would see budget cuts to free up spending for programs the administration wants to expand such as education and civilian research efforts. NASA's mission to return astronauts to the moon would be grounded with the space agency instead getting an additional $5.9 billion over five years to encourage private companies to build, launch and operate their own spacecraft for the benefit of NASA and others. NASA would pay the private companies to carry U.S. astronauts. Obama's budget repeats his recommendations for an overhaul of the nation's health care system, the fight that dominated his first year in office. It proposes to get billions of dollars in savings from the Medicare program and again seeks increased taxes on the wealthy by limiting the benefits they receive from various tax deductions. Both ideas have met strong resistance in Congress. Gibbs insisted Sunday that the president's push for health care was "still inside the 5-yard line," but Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, also appearing on CNN, said the public was overwhelmingly against the bill and the administration should "put it on the shelf, go back and start over." In addition to the freeze on discretionary nonsecurity spending, Obama is proposing to boost revenues by allowing the Bush administration tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 to expire at the end of this year for families making more than $250,000 annually. Tax relief for those less well-off would be extended. The new Obama budget will also include a proposal to levy a ugg outletfee on the country's biggest banks to raise an estimated $90 billion to recover losses from the government's $700 billion financial rescue fund. Those losses are expected to come not come from the bank bailouts but from the support extended to General Motors and Chrysler and insurance giant American International Group as well as help provided to homeowners struggling to avoid foreclosures. Also on the deficit front, the president has endorsed a pay-as-you-go proposal that passed the Senate last week. It would require any new tax cuts or entitlement spending increases to be paid for, and he has promised to create a commission to recommend by year's end ways to trim the deficits. However, a legislatively mandated panel was rejected in a Senate vote last week. Republicans opposed establishing the panel because it might recommend tax increases to close the deficit.
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Fri, 29 Jan, 2010
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The recent cyberespionage attacks on Google and that company’s subsequent announcement that it would reconsider its search engine services in China gripped the world’s focus and set off a debate about China’s aggressive cybersecurity strategy. The apparent scope of the attacks – more than 30 companies affected, Gmail accounts compromised, human rights groups targeted – took many by surprise. Some observers believe the attacks were highly sophisticated in nature, employing never-before-seen techniques. Many reports concluded that the Chinese government undertook the attacks. As principal investigators in the Information Warfare Monitor, a project formed in 2002 to investigate and analyze the exercise of power in cyberspace, we have seen many of these types of attacks first hand in our research, and have followed closely those examined by other researchers. From our vantage point, the Google cyberattacks are unusual ugg bootsnot in apparent scope or sophistication – as some commentators believe – but rather in terms of the high-profile nature of the victim and the victim’s very public reaction. Indeed, we believe targeted cyber attacks such as these will grow in frequency as cyberspace becomes more heavily contested. Defense against cyberattacksThe question is what to do about them. Solutions won’t be easy. Nor will they be solved by technical means alone. They will require widespread and comprehensive public policy changes, greater awareness of network security practices, and above all else a recognition by governments worldwide that an arms race in cyberspace serves no country’s national strategic interest. For their part, companies should be encouraged to be more transparent and willing to share information about attacks on their infrastructure and less concerned about the liabilities of doing so. Google’s actions are exemplary in this regard and may set a new standard of disclosure. Although many people point to China as an aggressive cyberactor, it is important to understand that cyberspace has become a battleground for intense military competition. Many countries are developing offensive cyberwarfare capabilities, including targeted espionage. Just recently, for example, Dennis Blair, the director of US National Intelligence, argued the United States should be more aggressive in stealing other countries’ secrets in cyberspace. Other countries are less open about such intentions, but no less ambitious. Many successful operations, no doubt, are hidden. The actors in this intense arms race are not just states. Cyberspace allows anyone with the intent and capability to exploit network vulnerabilities. For example, there are countless criminal organizations thriving in the hidden ecosystems of cyberspace, profiting from cyberattacks, cybercrime, and cyberfraud. These organizations employ techniques and tools that are virtually indistinguishable from those that were uncovered in the Google attacks, and by us earlier in our Tracking Ghostnet investigation, a 10-month examination of alleged Chinese cyberspying of numerous diplomatic missions, ministries of foreign affairs, and international organizations. Such groups also offer their services for hire, giving UGG Ultra Tall Bootsother actors who want to benefit from them a good cover and plausible deniability. It’s called cyberprivateering, and it’s one of the best ways to avoid being caught. Indeed, it’s a major reason why sourcing attacks like the one on Google is so difficult. Risks from Web 2.0 companiesSecond, attacks such as these are becoming more common because of changes to the character of cyberspace itself. The services of Web 2.0 companies – so-called cloud computing platforms and social-networking groups – are the primary vehicles through which most people experience and interact with the Internet today. While Twitter, Google Groups, Yahoo Mail, and Flickr may make our cyberexperiences much more convenient, interactive, and richly engaging, they also create two risks: a wide spectrum of new security vulnerabilities and a multiplicity of ever-evolving vectors through which victims can be targeted and attacks mounted. It is common today for cyberespionage or fraud networks to propagate their malware by exploiting and infiltrating popular social-networking forums like these, or to command their systems through blogging sites and multiple, redundant groups, free hosting services, or anonymous mail accounts. It’s often said that dark clouds may have silver linings, but cyberclouds have turbulent and very dark hidden cores. A final ironic factor contributing to cyberespionage attacks relates to the very success of cyberspace itself. Over the past decade, numerous countries, organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and citizen groups have rushed to embrace new information and communication technologies. This is a way to jump-start economic development or take advantage of social-networking opportunities. But they have done so largely without attention to proper security ugg online protocols. Private, sensitive, and even highly classified documents that were once locked away in file cabinets now circulate through proprietary clouds and pass between USB sticks, from the home to the office to the laptop, from the coffee shop to the airport lounge. Vulnerabilities multiply as networking increases. When we issued our Tracking Ghostnet report, we concluded that it was not the first nor would it be the last of its kind. Unfortunately, the Google attacks have borne out that prediction. And there will surely be more. Ron Deibert is director of the Citizen Lab, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. Rafal Rohozinski is the CEO of SecDev.Cyber and a senior fellow at the Citizen Lab. Together, they are principal investigators of the Information Warfare Monitor project and coauthors of the “Tracking Ghostnet” report.
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Tue, 26 Jan, 2010
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Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina today reiterated her call to the opposition parties to join the parliament session and speak in the House for the people of their respective constituencies, reports BSS. The Prime Minister made the call while presiding over the Awami League Parliamentary Party (ALPP) meeting in the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban here this afternoon. Referring to BNP''s criticism against the government, Sheikh Hasina, also the President of Bangladesh Awami League, said the oppositions should criticize the government in the house, not outside the parliament, to show respect to the parliamentary democracy. Briefing newsmen after the meeting, Chief Whip Vice-Principal ugg bootsAbdus Shahid said that the Prime Minister has also asked the AL lawmakers to further increase contact with the people of their respective constituencies keeping in mind the greater national interest. Abdus Shahid said the Prime Minister directed the Awami League lawmakers to highlight the success of the government while taking part in the discussion on the thanks giving motion on the President''s speech in the House. Highlighting the success of her government''s first year in the current tenure, the Prime Minister apprised the meeting that a total of 317 decisions were taken in the cabinet, of which, 183 were implemented so far while the rest remained under the process of implementation. She also said that steps would be taken so that the parliament members could get more time to speak in the Jatiya Sangsad on different important issues. A request would be made to the Speaker for allocating more time for the lawmakers in this regard, she added. On a query, Abdus Shahid said the question of making the parliament ineffective is not correct. "The nation will not accept the comment made outside the House by a person who is not a member of parliament," he said. The Chief Whip in this context said, "the parliament is very much effective and we have constituted all parliamentary standing committees during the very first session of the 9th parliament, a rare example in the history of parliamentary UGG Classic democracy in Bangladesh." Besides, he added, seven members of parliament belonging to the opposition political parties were made the chairmen of different parliamentary standing committees. Among others, Chief Whip Vice-Principal Abdus Shahid, Health and Family Welfare Minister Prof. Dr Ruhal Haque, Awami League Advisory Committee member Tofail Ahmed also spoke in the meeting that lasted 50 minutes. UGG Classic Cardy Boots UGG Classic Tall Boots UGG Classic Short Boots UGG Classic Mini Boots
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Thu, 14 Jan, 2010
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The world's cheapest car is being readied for sale in the U.S., but by the time India's Tata Nano is retrofitted to meet emissions and safety standards, it won't be that cheap. Tata Technologies Ltd., the global engineering arm of the Tata group conglomerate, brought the tiny car to Detroit as a publicity stunt for the engineering group. Tata officials, while maintaining that they couldn't speak for Tata Motors, maker of the $2,500 Nano, said they were involved with the Nano from concept until it launched last July in Mumbai. They wouldn't say when the Nano might arrive in the U.S. or ugg bootshow much it might cost here, although Ratan Tata, chairman of the group of Tata companies, has said it should be ready for U.S. distribution in about three years. Tata Motors already has made a European version of the four-seat car that will cost about $8,000 when it debuts in 2011, and a Tata Technologies official said privately that the U.S. version is expected to have a comparable price. The official did not want to be identified because the price has not been made public. Warren Harris, Tata Technologies president, would only say that the price would be more than the roughly $2,500 charged in India. "The structural changes that would need to be made, the changes that would be required as far as emissions are concerned, and some of the features that would be appropriate to add to the vehicle for the North American market, obviously that would drive up the price point," he said. Tata Technologies could be involved in bringing the car up to U.S. standards, said Tony Jones, associate vice president of the global automotive practice. Before it can be sold here, the car's two-cylinder, 623cc engine would have to be engineered to meet stronger U.S. pollution standards, he said. Airbags would have to be added, the roof strengthened and the front bumper lengthened to meet U.S. requirements to limit damage in a 5-mph crash. The Spartan interior, with flat bucket seats, three knobs, a uggs outlet horizontal switch and a steering wheel, also would have to be changed to comply with U.S. safety standards that limit movement of passengers not wearing seat belts. Jones said the Nano Europa has airbags and has passed European safety tests with flying colors. The Nano, with 12-inch diameter tires, electric windows in the front and crank windows in the back, gets 50 mpg on the highway and has a top speed of 65 mph. If the $8,000 price tag holds true, it would cost far less than the $9,970 Hyundai Accent, currently the car with the lowest base sticker price in the U.S., according to the Edmunds.com automotive Web site. The price excludes shipping. UGG Ultra Short Boots UGG Classic Short Boots UGG Classic Mini Boots UGG Ultra Tall Boots
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Sun, 10 Jan, 2010
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Freakish cold weather continued to grip the South, with snow flurries spotted around Orlando and a record low set for Miami, and forecasters said Sunday that more of the same was expected. About 100,000 tropical fish being raised on a fish farm in South Florida couldn't bear the cold. Michael Breen, 43, who owns Breen Acres Aquatics in the small town of Loxahatchee Groves just north of Miami, said temperatures ugg outletdropped below 30 degrees overnight, leaving ice on his 76 ponds. The ponds should be green because of algae bloom that feeds baby fish, he said. "But all the ponds are crystal clear and fish are laying on the bottom. What we see on the surface died two days ago," he said, referring to the dead fish found floating Sunday morning. Breen estimated he lost $535,000 in business because of the cold. The National Weather Service issued a hard freeze warning for South Florida from Sunday night to Monday morning. A freeze watch will continue through Tuesday. Northern Florida residents will feel temperatures drop to the lower 20s and mid-teens. On Saturday night, a temperature of 35 degrees set a record that had stood since 1970, said Joel Rothfuss with the National Weather Service in Miami. He said a record low of 37 on Monday, which was set in 1927, could also be broken, with the forecast saying it would drop to 35 degrees again. For the first time in at least 30 years, Miami Metrozoo shut its doors because it was too cold. Atlanta's zoo was closed because the trails were iced over, officials said. Temperatures in Atlanta stayed in the 30s over the UGG Tall Metallic Bootsweekend with lows in the teens. The average high for Atlanta is in the 50s with lows in the 30s. The start of the Walt Disney World Marathon in Orlando was 28 degrees before dawn, though it climbed into the 40s by late afternoon. Average highs in the central Florida city this time of year are in the lows 70s. In a suburb north of Atlanta, two teens died Saturday after falling through the ice on a partially frozen pond. The surviving teen was in stable condition at a hospital, said Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services Capt. Tommy Rutledge. He said the three, ages 13 to 15, were playing and sliding on the semi-frozen pond when the ice broke. "I'm sure that that frozen over pond was probably enticing to the kids," he said. Ice does not freeze uniformly with some spots only an inch thick, he said. They had been warning children to stay off frozen-over ponds, he said. In Vermont, state police said a snowmobiling accident on a ugg bootspartially frozen lake killed three people Saturday, including a 3-year-old girl. Police say three snowmobiles carrying a total of six people went through ice on Lake Dunmore near Salisbury at around noon Saturday. Killed were: 50-year-old Kevin Flynn, of Whiting; 24-year-old Carrie Flynn, of Whiting; and 3-year-old Bryanna Popp. Breen said his Florida town, which raises everything from tropical birds and fish to organic produce and palm trees, was holding on to the little that was left from the cold. "Everybody is just wiped out. It's that bad," he said.
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