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Banana-Yellow Pagani Zonda RAK Built For German Dealership
The Pagani Zonda may be in the process of being replaced by a newer Pagani hypercar, but it's not moving out of the spotlight quietly. It seems that we've seen more flamboyantly painted Zondas in the past couple of months than ever before. Both the blue HH and the purple 750 were private commissions, and now we have yet another privately commissioned Zonda that's even louder than those two: the Zonda RAK.
Posted In: Special / Limited Edition, Reports, Exotics
Tags: Pagani, supercar, hypercar, Zonda, Zonda RAK, limited edition, one-offs
Tesla Plans For Global Growth
Elon Musk, CEO of electric sports car maker Tesla Motors Inc., said Friday that he expects Japan to become the company's largest market outside of the U.S. Musk also predicted that the niche luxury auto maker's U.S. customer base will expand steadily overseas, and the goal is that sales will be evenly split between the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
"We do believe Japan will be our No. 2 country in terms of sales, over time," Musk said, speaking at a joint press conference with the CEO of Toyota Motor Corp. "Japan is a key market for the kind of product we produce," he added. The first Asian Tesla showroom was opened in Tokyo as Musk announced plans to enter the European market with dealerships in Paris, London, and Monaco.
Posted In: Hybrid / Green, Reports, Technology, Exotics
Tags: Elon Musk, Tesla Motors, NUMMI, Panasonic Corporation, Toyota Motor Corporation, iQ Model, Akio Toyoda, akiotoyoda, iqmodel, teslamotors
Nissan Recalls Over 600,000 Vehicles Because of Steering And Battery Issues
Nissan Motor is recalling over 600,000 pickup trucks and cars globally because of concerns regarding steering shafts and battery terminals. Approximately 300,000 Frontier pickup trucks, 18,500 Sentras, and over 280,000 Xterra SUVs are included in the recall. Most of the vehicles (about 85%) are in the United States and are between 2001 to 2010 model years.
Posted In: Car News, Recalls, Reports
Tags: Nissan Motors, Frontier Pickup Trucks, Nissan Sentra, Xterra SUV, Tokyo Stock Market, March Subcompact
Brand New Mid-Engined Porsche To Debut In LA
We know that there are a lot of world and North American debuts coming to the 2010 LA Auto Show this week—20 and 30, at last count. Porsche has a couple of the latter in its 911 GTS and 911 Speedster, which will be shown for the first time on American turf at the show. A Motor Trend report yesterday indicates that Porsche has another debut up its sleeve, and this one is a world-debuting first-timer. Porsche didn't go into details, but said the car is a mid-engined sports car.
Posted In: Auto Shows, Reports, Exotics
Tags: Porsche, debuts, 2010 LA Auto Show, sports cars, reports
Despite the Fires, Ferrari 458 Is Auto Express 'Performance Car of the Year'
I don't know about you, but I'd consider one of the cornerstones of a "performance car" to be its ability to not catch fire when simply driving down the road. And if that car was, say, a 570-hp V8-driven supercar, I'd guess that it probably shouldn't catch fire even if you drive fast in hot weather. So if I was going to be judging a competition to decide the "performance car of the year," I'd probably use the penchant for fiery, car-leveling infernos as a quick elimination tool to narrow the pool.
Apparently, the folks over at Auto Express view it a little differently. They looked right past the well-publicized fire issue that Ferrari itself copped to just two months ago, and named the 458 Italia its "Performance Car of the Year." I'd love to know what kind of high-grade green the folks in Maranello shipped over to the U.K. to help grease the wheels toward that conclusion.
Posted In: Reports, Car Reviews, Videos, Exotics
Tags: Ferrari, 458, Italia, Auto Express, Performance Car of the Year 2010, awards, reviews
GE and GM Team-Up: GE Going Electric
If President Obama's plan to put a million electric and hybrids on the road by 2015 succeeds, at least 25,000 of those will belong to General Electric, as announced by the company this week. GE plans to add 25,000 plug-ins to its company-wide auto fleet by 2015 in what BusinessWeek calls the "biggest such order ever", beginning with 12,000 Chevy Volts. The cars will be used in part for GM's traveling salespersons.
No Surprises: Bugatti Veyron Is EPA's Worst Car
The Environmental Protection Agency has put together its lists of the most and least efficient cars of 2011, a list that has few, if any, surprises. While the top and bottom vehicles aren't that surprising, there's been at least one shake-up in the numbers.
It should be no surprise that the 2011 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is the least efficient car in America with an abysmal 8 mpg city and 15 mpg highway. That designation comes even though the Veyron actually added one mpg worth of efficiency on the highway for the 2011 model year. What's more surprising is that the 1,000-hp, 16-cylinder Veyron is a new list-topper. One might have thought it was there all along, but it actually took the retirement of the previous champion to put the Veyron into first. The Lamborghini Murcielago was previously at the bottom of the rung with its 8/13 mpg rating. Lamborghini may be out this year, but the 700-hp Jota promises to put it back on the map in the years to come.
Posted In: Car News, Reports, Technology, Exotics
Tags: EPA, emissions, fuel economy, cleanest car, worst car, Bugatti, Veyron, Toyota Prius
MIT Research Reveals that New Technology Lowers Stress in Drivers
A new study conducted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's New England University Transportation Center (NEUTC) revealed that drivers experience less stress when using specific advanced auto technology, such as the self-park feature.
A specially equipped 2010 Lincoln MKS test vehicle was utilized to detect the level of physiological stress experienced by drivers in different scenarios.
Research data revealed that many drivers experience high stress when having to perform certain functions behind the wheel, such as parallel parking Utilizing advanced technology, such as the self-park mechanism, reduced drivers' heart rate significantly, by more than 12 beats per minute.
Posted In: Car News, Reports
Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, New England University Transportation Center, NEUTC, Ford Motor Company, Lincoln MKS, Joe Coughlin, Active park Assist, Cross Traffic Alert System
More Recall Woes For Old GM: Lucerne And DTS Recalled For Power Steering Leak
Schleping through the NHTSA website this morning reveals two undeniable truths: Certain 2010 and 2011 Buick Lucerne and Cadiallc DTS models are being recalled, and so are an alarming number of recreational vehicles. Though the AutoShopper dables in the RV world, it isn't so much our bag here at the blog. Still, I can't help but notice 13 RV-related recalls since November 1st! Everything from poorly installed "trim" to leaky, explosive propane tanks. Geez, RV Industry, its like this every month! Get your act together! There is also a recall on sun roves (it couldn't be 'roofs' could it?) that seems to be bad for the Webasto Product Corporation, In case anyone cares .. .
The Cadillac DTS and Buick Lucerne front drive chassis are similar in many respects. Mostly, they are big, and they are old. Even old cars can't escape the recall bug, however, especially when they are being built brand new as we speak. Certain V8-equipped Lucernes and DTS suffer from cable over-lap. Yes, I just made that up. The battery and/or alternator cable interferes with the power steering return line, deep within the affected car's bloated bowels. The cable could wear through the line, causing fluid leaks. Besides loss of power steering, which is not a good thing given the age and physical strength of the average Buick Lucerne driver; the fluid may also leak onto hot engine parts. This leads to all sorts of unfortunate fires and insurance claims. GM doesn't want that, they want to help. Beginning November 19th, any affected car can be dropped off at its dealership of origin to have the cables rerouted free of charge. You can call Cadillac at 1-866-982-2339, or Buick at 1-866-608-8080 to find the nearest qualified dealer. Full recall notice inside the post . . .
Posted In: Car News, Recalls, Reports, Safety
Tags: GM, General Motors, generalmotors, Recall, Cadillac DTS, cadillacdts, Buick Lucerne, buicklucerne, DTS, Lucerne, Cadillac, Buick
Chevy To Return To IndyCar In 2012?
Honda has been the sole supplier of engines to the IRL and Izod IndyCar Series (same thing) since Chevrolet dropped out in 2005. The racing has been reliable, but boring. This morning it is expected that GM will return to open-wheel racing and field a new twin-turbo V6 for IndyCar teams in 2012. It is also expected that Roger Penske will be the first to use the Chevy power train, putting Chevrolet in a good position to win races quickly.
2012 will be the first IICS season run under a new rules package that does away with the current Dallara chassis; replacing it with a . . . Dallara chassis. The Series directors have taken an "open source" approach to the is new chassis however. The basic safety cell, or monocoupe, in each car will be identical, but the aero bits we can actually see are all fair game for designers. Dallara offers an low-cost entry kit; Group Lotus has already signed on to manufacturer a kit for the Dallara, and it is reasonable to think that Penske and Ganassi will both create their own kits. Engine size is limited to 2.4 liters, and can be a four- or six-cylinder design.
Watch the official announcement at 10 am EST at SPEEDtv.com. More from us after Chevrolet becomes the second Izod IndyCar Series engine supplier for 2012.
Posted In: Racing, Reports, Rumors, Technology
Tags: Izod Indy Car Series, izodindycarseries, Chevrolet, GM, Chevy, General Motors, generalmotors, Roger Penske, rogerpenske, penskeracing, Penske Racing, Chevy Indy V8, chevyindyv8, Honda, Dallara
Lamborghini Building Smaller, Supercar-Styled SUV
Rumors of the development of a new LM002 have been heating up of late and Auto Express reports some new details today, based on conversations with "industry insiders." The original LM002 was phased out back in the early 1990s and the SUV market has undergone much change since then—from the explosion around the turn of the century to the more modest, fuel-obsessed state of the market today. Lamborghini's new SUV effort will reflect today's market, aiming to be a smaller crossover, rather than the big, brutish "Rambo Lambo" of the late 80s and 90s.
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Barry Bonds is regarded as one of the best baseball players of the modern era but remains one of its most polarizing figures as well. The San Francisco Giants slugger broke Hank Aaron's career home run record on this day in 2007.
Bonds, a regarded "five-tool" player and left fielder for the Giants, hit the record-breaking ball off Washington Nationals pitcher and current analyst Mike Bacsik during a contest at AT&T Park. The moment was highly anticipated among baseball fans, but carried a shadow of shame of what the game had become.
Major League Baseball was embroiled at the time in a series of ongoing scandals involving BALCO and widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs. Coupled with the curious uptick in home runs from other sluggers such as Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire, Bonds' historic moment has been diminished by speculation.
Despite the record, 2007 would mark the end of Bonds' career after teams seemingly decided not to deal with the infamously surly and standoffish player. Further, Bonds was at the center of a controversial perjury case involving his appearance during a grand jury summons in 2003 which landed him a conviction of obstruction of justice in 2011. In 2015, the conviction was overturned in Bonds' favor after years of legal wrangling.
Bonds did return to baseball and currently serves as an assistant to the Giants' CEO. He has not been named to any of the Baseball Hall of Fame ballots in his first five years of eligibility nor has his number been retired by the Giants or his first team, the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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The government of New South Wales (my home state) met with fast food execs to devise a plan that will force restaurants to print nutritional information on their menu boards. this means calorie, fat, and salt content will be just as visible as the price.
the plan will model laws in the US, which require fast food chains with over 20 outlets to display calorie content on menus, menu boards, and drive-thrus. the Heart Foundation of Australia has suggested to broaden the spectrum though, to include all large franchises with a standard menu. this would mean juice bars, ice-cream shops, bakeries and coffee shops can no longer run and hide.
and in my humble opinion, this is a fantastic idea! how many menu items are disguising themselves as health food every single day? whether it's smoothies, soups, salads, veggie burgers, muffins, the general public can be very easily duped. beverages are probably the biggest culprit. with marketing words like, "made with real fruit juice", an unassuming customer may not realize their juice is actually sugar on steroids.
but will this new mandate really affect peoples' dining habits? can just knowing that Venti Green Tea Frappuccino is no healthier than a Big Mac actually sway one's cravings??
so i googled this question, just to see how well the plan was doing in the U.S. one study found Starbucks customers in New York were consuming fewer calories than they were before. a whopping 6% less. beverage choices were not affected, however, customers were making less food purchases or switching to lower calorie options. and those outlets who had a competitor within a 50 meter radius experienced an increase in sales since displaying their calorie content.
in even better news: a study done by NYC's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene showed consumers were buying significantly fewer calories at McDonald's, Au Bon Pain, KFC, and Starbucks. 56% of customers reported seeing the nutition information, and on average, chose foods of 106 fewer calories than those who didn't notice the posting.
truth be told, this contradicts an earlier study done by New York University and Yale University which found caloric postings had no barring on food choices in lower-income neighbourhoods. but city's researchers claimed their study to be more reliable since it involved more people over a longer period of time, and was not limited to one economic group.
what do you think of calorie posting? do you think it has an affect on how people choose to eat?
although i believe this is a great move for Australia, i can't help but be disappointed. if the bill onlyaffects chain restaurants, it won't affect the majority of eateries. Australia has a ton of independent restaurants, we're very cafe cultured. (not quite like Europe, but leaning towards.) there's one on every downtown Sydney block, yet 90% of them are not chain related. of course, i totally understand why these smaller companies are not required to be involved, but you know, if you're eating at them, thinking you're being "healthy" by avoiding fast food, how will you know for sure?


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The New Math of Renting vs. Buying People often aspire to own a home for reasons that have little to do with money, and rental options are limited in some communities. Yet owning property can limit your flexibility to move when you want and ties up a lot of your money.
Should You Manage Your Own Money? Do you really need a financial adviser? That depends on whom you ask. Most of the nation's roughly 223,400 financial advisers will tell you you're better off using their services. Do-it-yourselfers, meanwhile, shun hired advice as a waste of time and, yes, money.
Loans That Avoid Banks? Maybe Not It was that rare thing, scarcely seen in the financial world since the debut of the A.T.M. or micro-financing: an innovation to help regular people. When peer-to-peer, or P2P, lending began in the middle of the last decade, it offered an easy way for people to lend money to each other over the Internet.
Do Free Credit Scores Hurt My Credit? Sometimes trying to do the right thing for your finances has unintended consequences. You open a new credit card to take advantage of a balance transfer offer, but see your credit score drop a few points, for example. Or you set up auto pay for a bill, then don't bother to read your statement and pay a fraudulent charge.
Majority would trade pay for a pension Would you be willing to sacrifice some take-home pay for better retirement benefits? That's a trade-off a growing number of employees are willing to make, according to a survey released today. Among the 5,000 full-time employees surveyed by consulting firm Towers Watson, 62% said they'd be willing to give up some pay for a guaranteed retirement benefit.


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Crash forces Larter to retire
For the second British Motorcyle Racing Club meeting in a row, James Larter endured some bad luck at the weekend.
Last time out at Donington Park, the former Diss High School pupil was forced to retire on three separate occasions.
And the curse struck again at Brands Hatch, where his appearance in race two was brought to an abrupt end.
As he looked to over-take and move into second spot on Paddock Hill Bend, Larter lost his front end.
There was too much damage sustained to the bike to fix track-side, leaving Larter little option but to retire.
However, he did fare better in the opening race of the weekend, having qualified just two hundreds of a second off pole.
A battle with Ryan Folkes ensued, with Larter eventually finishing in third position.
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Dr. Mark McKenna has been accredited as a prestigious medicine and surgery practitioner of Georgia and Florida. His credentials are favored towards his accomplishments of achieving CEO, founder and director titles of numerous businesses in which have been known as extremely successful businesses with great operations in which the public have grown to love. Dr. Mark McKenna has managed to put together an outstanding career, through many business pursuits that has viewed the doctor as a sheer motivation to his community and to the world.
Starting as a real estate development business founder with his dad, Dr. Mark McKenna executed many intelligent real estate business moves from the combined strategic planning efforts from both him and his dad that has allowed the business to pull in a good stream of profit into the business. With this success came the start of two new businesses by Dr. Mark McKenna: Universal Mortgage Lending and Uptown Title. Dr. McKenna reached great heights in real estate until a huge hit would cause havoc on the business.
In 2005, the destruction of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans would destroy most of the doctor's business and he would then have to pack up and move to Atlanta, Ga. From this point, Dr. McKenna would only rise. In July of 2016, he would become CEO and Founder of OVME.
OVME today was exceedingly made possible with the efforts applied by Dr. McKenna in obtaining an MBA through an 18 month executive MBA program, which he would dedicate time online in doing so. Dr. McKenna owes most of his entrepreneurship drive to his parents who are both entrepreneurs themselves. His dad is a surgeon in a private practice and his mom is an owner of a publishing company.
Throughout Dr. McKenna`s pursuits, he has always remained focused and driven and with these two traits came an incredible history. There is definitely more to the doctor that we haven't seen as of yet. With a successful team of parents and the drive in which is still alive, Dr. McKenna is set to turn even more heads down the road. Look forward to his newly developed OVME website in March of 2018.


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I'm currently looking into adorning this website with a bit of semantic
isn't it?
Well, I've briefly looked into schema.org, which describes a reasonably simple set of types of information that can be directly embedded into the various HTML tags. So that's a plus, but there's something missing: There is neither a type for "source code" nor a type for "description of software". There's "blog" and "blog post" and all that - and the format is extensible. But still, that seems like quite a big omission to me. There's "software application" and "review" and "article", so you could make it an "article" about a "software application". Well, yeah. That's not very elegant, is it?
(As an aside I find it rather funny how the programmers designing and implementing those kind of things - other examples would be XML and most GUIs - completely forget about their own profession. I mean, obviously only catering to programmers would be bad too, but not at all thinking about programmers when programming something isn't quite right either, is it?)
Also, if you really want to present all the information you have about whatever it is you're publishing, the HTML tag soup gets rather - soupy (well, that didn't work). Maybe it would be better to a have a scheme where you basically just provide the site template as an extra page - but instead of the usual content you just describe what kind of content there would be, if this was the actual page. Something like:

author
And the other side (search engines for example) would fetch this template and parse it and apply it to your page. That way, you wouldn't have to rework all your markup if you want to include semantic information. Also, the question of what to specify would go away, because you would only say what it is, what you're publishing - and not have to worry about whether to include the author on every post or only on the main "blog"-element, or only on the main "website"-element and so on.
Aside from schema.org, there are countless other ways of including semantic information into HTML pages. And I can't read about them and compare them because I keep falling asleep. It's so boring.
Sometimes I long for the days of the font tag. Things weren't perfect, but
nobody said they would be. Everything is so right in today's web. You
separate semantics from presentation and separate that from that and load
everything asynchronously and everything defers everything somewhere else and
"don't use
" and it's all so static and it's still a huge mess. But now
with stricter rules.
So, fuck semantic tags.
Was that a post that started as a happy story about how I'd like to include semantic tags into my homepage and ended in a somewhat diffuse rant against - uh - progress?
You bet it was.
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Limited Sponsorship Options and Exhibitor Space Available for Seventh Annual North American Repossessors Summit
DALLAS, Texas – Feb. 2, 2015 – The North American Repossessors Summit (NARS), an industry event open to all recovery and remarketing professionals, hosted by American Recovery Association, Inc. (ARA) today announced Harding Brooks Insurance Agency will be a sponsor at the seventh annual summit to be held on March 12-14, 2015.
Headline sponsor, Digital Recognition Network (DRN), will host the annual Cocktail Reception on Thursday night open to all registered attendees. Other sponsors and exhibitors include National Finance Adjusters (NFA), Recovery Database Network (RDN), PAR North America, Atlanta Wrecker Sales, Dynamic Towing Equipment & Manufacturing, Eagle Group XX, KEYNET.com, MBSi Corp., Miller Industries, Minute Man Wheel Lifts, PRA Location Services, Recovery Agents Benefit Fund (RABF), Recovery First Insurance, Repoman.com, RepoRoute, Recovery Industry Services Company (RISC), Safety Vision, Thomas Reuters, TransUnion | TLOxp, and Vendor Transparency Solutions (VTS).
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The golf tournament will also provide another unique experience for sponsorships. This year's tournament will be co-hosted by Capital One Auto Finance and ARA to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Collin County. The sponsorships available for the tournament include a hole-in-one sponsorship, a golf tournament sponsorship and nine golf tournament hole sponsorships.
Sponsorship and exhibitor space is limited. To secure a space, go to reposummit.com/sponsorship.
NARS's 2015 theme, Money In The Bank, will teach attendees how to make a profit by using the building blocks of success. A list of dynamic speakers, including keynote speaker Commander Rorke T. Denver, Greg Crabtree, financial and business expert and author; Adam Boyd, sales force and management trainer and coach to Fortune 500 executives; Mac Fulfer, expert face analyst and author, and many more.
More than 600 professionals from the collateral recovery and remarketing industries are expected in Dallas to participate in NARS 2015. The summit will focus on open and collaborative discussions to address and improve industry challenges.
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It's time to shake, rattle and roll to the tune of the music with Live from Abbey Road Classics on ITV Choice.
The highly anticipated music series, Live from Abbey Road Classics is here! Premiering on Sunday 1 October at 19:00 on ITV Choice (123) see music's greats perform in back-to-back episodes.
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Tracks from Californian rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers and Kilmarnock's finest, Biffy Clyro as well as performances from lead Beach Boy Brian Wilson and Canadian soloist Feist feature in the first episode looking back at the best of the legendary music series.
8 October
This episode features Grammy-winning crooner Michael Bublé and Sweden's Lykke Li performing together as well as sets from Paul Simon and First Aid Kit.
15 October
Sets from Muse and The Zutons and performances from Elbow and Foals for fans of these artists.
22 October
A performance from Massive Attack and a set from The Good, The Bad and The Queen feature in the first half of this episode with sets from Paul Weller and Kaiser Chiefs taking up the second half-hour.
29 October
Performances from The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers and alt-J and in the second half there are tracks from Mary J Blige and Raphael Saadiq.
5 November
Features songs from Ray LaMontagne and TheVaccines as well as the not-to-be-missed Florence and the Machine and Fleet Foxes.
12 November
The brilliant Ed Sheeran and Damien Rice, followed by songs from The Black Keys and Anna Calvi
19 November
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The thing is, while I was on the bed, recuperating from that bout of food poisoning, I realized a few things. For starters, I cant handle this entire "being unwell" business well. I become a prick and I am a pain in ass. And I become this monster that I believe is very uncharacteristic of me. I try hard but I cant not do it. I end up hurting people that I mean to take care of. I try to be decent but I fail at it. Guess there's just one way to solve the thing - don't fall sick!
So last two/three days of recuperation have been spent in trying to not get unwell. That translates into no more street food. I've grown up in Delhi and I had these amazing guts of steel. I could eat whatever and I could have any sort of gastrointestinal attack and could digest even a brick. But not any more. May be with age, the steel has atrophied, the acids in my stomach have stopped performing. Who knows. But I now have to look and pause and think before I put things in my stomach. From now on, everything goes. Except McDonalds. Please. That's something I cant do without. There is something about fried batter and potatoes that I cant resist the temptation of. In fact, I start writing this at home and I am finishing it at a McDonalds. But apart from McD, I shall eat at home and avoid baahaar ka khana as long as I can.
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What we now call Mexico - or, to give it its full name, the United Mexican States - was ruled by both the indigenous people and the Spanish conquerors in an authoritarian, hierarchical and centralised style which has had its impact on Mexican political institutions even today. Indeed, when the country first became independent in 1821, its first leader Agustín de Iturbide declared himself emperor. One infamous leader Porfirio Díaz managed to rule from 1884 to 1911.
As is the case with all nations, the constitution of Mexico reflects its history and the political system continues to evolve with current circumstances. However, given the turbulent history of the last 100 years and the present state of flux in domestic politics, this is especially true of Mexico.
Compared to the other nations of North America, Mexico is similar to the United States [click here] in having a presidential system with separation of the powers but different from Canada [click here] which has a parliamentary system based on the British model. What is most different about Mexico, compared to both the USA and Canada, is that it has low levels of transparency and accountability and high levels of corruption and criminality. But, as this essay will make clear, in recent years there has been real progress in democratic consolidation.
Mexico achieved its independence in 1821 and has had several constitutions since then. The most durable constitution after the present one was that of 1857 which lasted until 1917. Following the Mexican Revolution of 1913-1916 and a social constitutional convention, the present constitution was adopted in 1917.
It can be argued that one of the principles that emerged from the revolutionary era represented by the 1917 constitution is the notion of 'constitutionalism', that is a legitimacy of and support for the fundamental principles of the constitution which is reflected in the popular culture. A notable illustration of this us that, in many Mexican cities (including the national capital), squares, streets and other features are named after the constitution itself or after notable articles of the constitution.
Articles which are particularly highlighted in this way are Article 3 on education, Article 27 on ownership of land and water, Article 123 on labour rights, and Article 130 on church restrictions.
A key principle of the constitution - set out in Article 83 - is that leaders should only rule for one term of six years. This was a reaction to the Portifirio Díaz rule of seven consecutive terms totalling 27 years and reflected the slogan of the 1911 revolution "Effective Suffrage and No-Reelection".
On the one hand, this rule can be seen as beneficial in that it prevents the sort of long-term, one-person rule that we have seen in many African and Asian countries. On the other hand, if a leader will never have to face re-election, there is little personal incentive to rule in a manner which attracts popular support (although, of course, there remains an incentive to use his power in a manner which is likely to result in his successor coming from the same political party).
A further complication of the 'six year rule' is that constitutionally it was only intended to apply to the executive (that is, the President) and not the legislature (that is, the Chamber of Deputies). However, in 1934, the rule was applied to Deputies as well, although qualified by the word 'consecutive'. Above all, this change weakened the legislature in relation to the executive as it is means that Deputies can build up limited experience and authority and gives the executive power over the nominees for congressional seats.
Furthermore this rule has the perverse effect of making Deputies lacking in accountability, because they are not going to face re-election at the end of their term and possibly ever, and encouraging them to seek as much personal advantage as possible, since they are probably only going to have one opportunity to milk the system.
To make a change to the constitution requires the approval of both houses of the federal legislature and the approval of at least 17 of the 32 state legislatures. in fact, the Mexican constitution is the most amended in the world - more than 500 changes in just over 100 years.
The President of the United Mexican States - the proper name for Mexico - is the head of the state and the government, as well as the commander-in-chief of the Mexican military forces. The President appoints the Cabinet and other officers. The President is responsible for executing and enforcing the law, and has the power to veto bills. It is a powerful position.
The President is elected for six years and can only serve one term. However, although this arrangement prevents self-perpetuating individual leaders, it has not stopped a self-perpetuating political leadership through the agency of one party so, for 71 years (1929-2000), the country was ruled by a succession of presidents from the same semi-authoritarian political party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
The last 10 presidents have been as follows:
The last presidential election was held on 1 July 2018. The winner - on his third attempt - was Andrés Manuel López Obrador who is popularly known as Amlo. He is the populist former mayor of Mexico City who previously stood for the presidency as the candidate of The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). This time he ran for the party he founded in 2014: the Movement for National Regeneration or Morena. He took office on 1 December 2018.
It should be noted that Mexico does not have a vice-president. The constitution provides a process whereby, in the event that the presidency becomes vacant before the scheduled election, the Congress chooses a temporary president and then holds a new election.
The Mexican legislature is the bicameral Congress of the Union, composed of a lower house called the Chamber of Deputies and an upper house called the Senate of the Republic. The Congress makes federal law, declares war, imposes taxes, approves the national budget and international treaties, and ratifies diplomatic appointments.
The Chamber of Deputies
Originally the Chamber of Deputies consisted of 178 congressional districts each filled by plurality or majority vote. However, the semi-authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) exercised such a tight grip on political expression and organisation that between 1949 and 1961 the PRI lost a mere 33 seats out of a total of 807 district contests.
In the face of increasing criticism of this political model, in 1964 the PRI decided to add additional seats based on the percentage of votes won by the opposition parties. Between 1964 and 1979, these extra seats numbered between 36-41. So the size of the chamber increased from 178 to 219. Most of these extra seats went to the National Action Party (PAN). The PRI introduced this change to create the impression that the electoral system was more democratic and competitive than was actually the case.
Then, in 1977, new legislation increased the number of district seats filled by majority vote from 178 to 300 and allocated 100 more seats to be allocated on the basis of the party's overall share of the vote in the election. So this time the Chamber increased from 219 to 400. Years later, the number of seats awarded through proportional representation went up from 100 to 200, making the total number of Deputies 500.
On the one hand, one could - and many Mexicans have - criticise this expansion in the Chamber of Deputies which represents an increase of 180% on the original size of the Chamber and makes it four times the size of the Senate. On the other hand, one could argue that the sizes of the two chambers are similar to the sizes of the two legislative chambers in the political system of the USA.
So today the Chamber of Deputies has 500 deputies. Of these, 300 are elected by plurality vote in single-member districts (the federal electoral districts) and 200 are elected by proportional representation with closed party lists for which the country is divided into five electoral constituencies.
Elections to the Chamber of Deputies are held every three years, every second election coinciding with elections to the Senate and the Presidency. Nobody can serve more than two consecutive terms - totalling six years - as a Deputy.
The Senate Of The Republic
The Senate is made up of 128 senators. Of these, 64 senators (two for each state) are elected by plurality vote in pairs - 32 senators are the first minority or first-runner up (one for each state) - and 32 are elected by proportional representation from national closed party lists.
Elections to the Senate are held every six years, each such election coinciding the election to the Presidency.
For many decades, there was growing concern that elections in Mexico were not free and fair. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was accused of ballot-rigging and media manipulation.
The growing strength of the National Action Party (PAN) and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in the congress led in the early 1990s to the creation of the Federal Electoral Institute and the Federal Electoral Court plus public funding for all political parties.
The Federal Electoral Institute, which was created in 1990, has complete control over elections. In 1996, it achieved more independence when it became an agency outside government whose nine members are selected by Congress. The president is selected for a six-year term and may not be reappointed. The regular members are selected for a term of nine years and may not be reappointed.
The Federal Electoral Court, which was cretaed in 1996, hears appeals against the results of elections. Appeals may be lodged by candidates and parties.
There are three major political parties in Mexico.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
This was created in 1929 when it was called the National Revolutionary Party (PNR). It was formed at the initiative of Plutarco Elías Calles who was president from 1924-1928 but was concerned for the political stability of the nation when his elected successor (Álvaro Obregón) was assassinated before taking office. In 1938, the party changed its name to the Party of the Mexican Revolution PRM). Then, in 1946, it adopted its third and current name, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI):
Astonishingly in a so-called democracy, this one party won every state governor race until 1989, most seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate until the 1990s, and all presidential elections until 2000. Although it failed to win the presidency in the elections of 2000 and 2006, it was successful in the presidential election of 2012.
The National Action Party (PAN)
This party was founded in 1939 by dissident politicians from the Mexican government and other leading political activists searching for an ideological alternative to the then PNR (then PRM, now PRI). It grew very slowly under politically adverse circumstances at the state and local levels and did not make significant headway until the electoral reforms of 1964 which assigned a small number of 'party seats' to the opposition parties in the Chamber of Deputies.
Then the PAN managed to win the presidential elections of both 2000 and 2006. More recently, the successful PAN canidate in 2000 Vicente Fox backed the PRI presidential candidate in 2012 and was expelled from the party.
The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)
This party was only founded in 1988 in the longer-term aftermath of the PRI government responding with violence to students protests in 1968. The party was an amalgam of Left-of-Centre parties and numerous defectors from the PRI who favoured fair elections and more state support for social programmes of expenditure. In the 2006 presidential election, the PRD candidate almost won.
The party has recently been seriously weakened by the withdrawal of several constituent parties, most notably the party led by the controversial populist politician López Obrador who ran unsuccessfully as the PRD candidate for the presidency in both 2006 and 2012 and is in a strong position to win in 2018.
Pact for Mexico
The Pact for Mexico is a national political agreement signed on 2 December 2012 by the political parties PRI, PAN and PRD (the PRD left the Pact in November 2013). The Pact and a subsequent addendum contain a total of 106 public policy commitments. Supporters of the Pact assert that it has broken parliamentary gridlock and enabled the enactment of important pieces of legislation. Critics of the Pact claim that it has made political negotiations more opaque and weakened the legislature in relation to the executive.
The key organisations outside government that influence public policy in Mexico are as follows
The head of the Mexican judicial system is the Supreme Court of Justice. The court has 11 members who are nominated by the President and must be approved by two-thirds of the Senate.
Each member of the court serves for a limit of 15 years or less if he or she reaches mandatory retirement age. An appointee is not allowed to have held a public office one year prior to his or her appointment.
Since the mid 1990s, the court has been able to rule on the constitutionality of laws.
The Constitution of the United Mexican States provides that there will be three levels of government: federal, state and municipal. Below the federal level, there are 32 states (one of which is the capital Mexico City).
According to the constitution, all constituent states of the federation must have a government composed of three branches: the executive, represented by a governor and an appointed cabinet, the legislative branch constituted by a unicameral congress, and the judiciary.
Like the federal Congress, the state legislatures, are elected by a system of parallel voting that includes plurality and proportional representation.
Each municipality elects a mayor and this is the one exception in the Mexican political world where an office holder can run for a second term. Each term lasts three years so one person can serve two consecutive terms.
Each state has a local version of the Federal Electoral Institute that is responsible for all state and local elections.
In state elections held in June 2016, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) came into the elections holding nine of the 12 governor seats that were being contested, but it held only five of those seats. Its chief rival, the conservative National Action Party (PAN) won the governor's offices in the other seven states, including three in a strategic alliance with the left-leaning Democratic Revolution Party (PRD).
At one level, Mexico's political experience has been exceptional compared to the rest of Latin America (excluding Costa Rica) in that, since the 1950s, most other nations in the region have suffered military dictatorships or military control over civilian governments, but Mexico has managed to keep the military out of politics since the 1930s.
On the other hand, except for a very brief period in 1911, Mexico had no experience of competitive electoral politics for most of the 20th century even while most other Latin American countries achieved electoral democracies by the 1980s.
In the last decade and a half, Mexico has shown itself capable of changing the political composition of its presidency through genuinely competitive elections, but the country is still in a process of democratic consolidation with much work still needing to be done to eliminate bribery and corruption and achieve full accountability and transparency.
Meanwhile Mexican politics is a turbulent and personal affair and the political establishment does not easily respond to grass roots demands. As one Mexican put it to me: "You need to be noisy to be heard".
Last modified on 6 December 2018
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Okay So the Weather Was a Good Excuse
Someone forgot to tell the weather person in Cape Breton that spring is here. Several days ago a friend posted a picture of pussy willows in her yard and today you wouldn't be able to find them under the snow. Don't get me wrong it is picture postcard beautiful but it is time for it to warm up and stay warm. In another month and a half our cruise ship season starts. Hate to have them arrive in snow.
And since my work area is in an unheated shed it's not seeing to much of me. It is COLD.


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By The Hip Hop Writer
Hip Hop Vibe Staff Writer
A little over twenty years ago, NWA took the world by storm. For the most part, the hip hop lifestyle and rap music was still a New York-based artform. With rap being about who a person is and where they are from, NWA let the world know they were Straight Outta Compton. NWA was easily the most-controversial group in the rap game and their emcee, Ice Cube, was the toughest of them all. No one would guess he would become the bankable Hollywood star he is twenty-five years later.
Landing his first film role in 1991, Ice Cube was producing his own films before the end of the 1990s. By the 2000s, Ice Cube began producing family-oriented films and soon he turned himself into a positive role model, something Cube takes pride in. Currently, Ice Cube has his own sitcom, based on his Are We There Yet? film series, which airs on TBS. Ice Cube is also the force behind the upcoming bio-pic for the NWA group, which has gained tremendous media attention.
In the music industry, Dr. Dre became the most-successful out of the NWA crew. While he created an identity of his own, Dr. Dre has always maintained a strong relationship with Ice Cube and MC Ren, in his post-Ruthlesss and Death Row days. Dr. Dre has recently spoken with Ice Cube about the upcoming NWA bio-pic. The famed producer revealed to TMZ that they are thinking of having the children of NWA play roles in the film. Lil' Eazy-E mentioned this a few months ago and his sister said no role should be handed to anyone because of their bloodline.


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The hunt for alpacas lead to an alpaca farm that apparently is never open. I took photos regardless.
To the daughter of the alpaca farmers: wow, you're embarrassing. Screaming about not getting to hang out with your friends so loudly that we could hear it while lolling at the alpacas, man, that's pure class.
The Alpaca Guardian.
While I'm sure he was stationed as a guard, what he really became was guardian...of my heart. We were total BFFs, y'all.
Disgustingly charming area outside of a B&B and an adorable candy shop. View from inside a gazebo swing.
Haystacks, pre-climbing. A stranger in my shot, it's like I'm unprofessional or something.
The suburbs. Duh.
Because lj is being a dicksmack, I can't upload my favorite photo taken this weekend, but I posted it over at my tumblr. Check it out. It's pretty fuckin' sweet.


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Independent Projects Trust
Post Conflict Peace Building in Richmond
Since 1990 when IPT began its peace building initiatives in KwaZulu-Natal, Richmond has been the focus of much of the conflict. By 2002, when IPT started to work on post conflict peace building in Richmond, the general perception was that some semblance of peace had returned.
However, there was dissatisfaction with the pace of development and the distribution of resources which some regarded as having the potential to disrupt the fragile peace. In addition, the people of Richmond said that it is a challenge to create a peaceful environment and to shift the mentality from one confrontation to co-operation.
Speaking in Richmond on Human Rights Day in March 2003, Deputy President Jacob Zuma stated: "The Richmond conflict has left many visible and invisible wounds and traumatised many families. It has distorted the family institution, and has left behind widows, widowers and orphans, while many young people are languishing in jail for serious crimes. The huge task of post-war reconstruction needs to be tackled vigorously. The reconstruction will succeed if all key players and communities participate in development."
For these reasons, IPT embarked on a project to train people from the Richmond community in mediation. This report documents the first phase of the project, which was funded by The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.
For further information regarding this research contact Glenda.


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Ratha Yatra Parade
Festival of the Chariots (Ratha-Yatra) is a Chariot Parade which travels from the corner of Beaconsfield Parade & Fitzroy Street and along Jacka Boulevard, encouraging visitors to participate in pulling the Chariot with ropes. All the while there is chanting and dancing.
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my environment: - AMQ 5.2.0 - java 1.6.0_12 the scenario: - few threads are waiting for long-time processing messages - each thread is using a separate connection and session - no transaction - session works on CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE mode case 1: - a lot of messages are present in queue - multi-thread application starts - only the first thread consumes messages, the other threads never. ok, if I well understands, the default value of prefetchPolicy assign all messages (<1000) to the first thread case 2: - set prefetchPolicy = 0 - now all threads work consuming sequentially (non in parallel!) messages. i.e: a thread receives a new message only when the previous thread do message.acknowledge (or session.commit) If I need to process more then 1 messages in parallel with acknowledge what can I do? many thanks steve56 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-can-I-really-use-more-then-1-receiver-on-the-same-queue--tp22534104p22534104.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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Lately I have immensely enjoyed yoga-practice. It clears my mind and brings me back to the basics. My breath, the earth and my body. It makes me feel connected to something much greater than myself and my day-to-day worries.
However I have a feeling that I am just chipping at the surface of something larger, much more beneficial. I feel that in spare time, especially in the next couple of weeks (which happen to be the holidays - yay!) I should be spending more time indulging in more things that make me feel connected, that make me feel fulfilled, whole.
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I set myself mini goals (the whole list might be a bit too private to share in such a public space) in order to appreciate the things that give my life meaning.
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- spending less time on the computer and on my phone - maybe even opting for no-electronic Fridays
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Hello, in July I'm going to Greece for a couple of weeks for holidays, can someone tell me the best internet mobile can get there?
Also the best offer.
Usually I use internet on my Samsung S2 for downloding emails and just to read some news, few download in pdf format about 20-30mb a day.
Hello is someone here?
Take a look at the recent posts on the sticky thread. You should check the Wind coverage for Sivota.
wind non stop plus is best offer for using internet.
I've seen a couple of posts mentioning Wind Non Stop Plus, but I can't find the offer anywhere. Is it still available? If so, can somebody provide a link to some info about it?
Last year I was using WIND mobile internet 100 500MB for 5 but that doesn't seem to exist either. I see some bundles here - eg Giga Surf:
The Cosmote bundles I was using still seem to exist (or rather the webpage still exists - which is not necessarily the same thing!)
Indeed, Wind Plus Non Stop is not commercially available.
However the data bundles of Wind still exist but their data volume got more so they've changed names. There are two main data plans:
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- 5GB for 30 days for 15 EUR
Wind is always the cheapest with prepaid data but that comes with a price, i.e., less coverage and slower speeds than Vodafone and of course Cosmote.
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- 1 11 oz. jar Cynara Artichoke Heart Florets, drained
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I definitely had "forced" myself to start up such a group, but for a good reason: meditation and mindfulness have had such a positive effect on the way I live my life, that for a long time I've felt the urge to spread the word, or better: the practice. I'm convinced that most people can profit from bringing more mindfulness into their lives.
I had prepared myself well, and gotten quite some good suggestions and support from my friends (Buddhist or not), but still I was very nervous before this first session. Well, just a normal hurdle to overcome - and it was worth it. I got positive feedback from all six participants afterwards!
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Cosmo knew breaking and entering
Derek's house was probably not the way to win the man's affection.
Cosmo Ruckman is very good at breaking and entering. He's had years of practice, starting from the time he was a child. Despite his criminal past, he manages to earn a spot on the Demon Elite team. Cosmo has had a mad crush on Derek Kyle from the first moment he met him. Since Derek never gave him the time of day, moving
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Struggling to think of what to get Sheila for her birthday I decided to speed the butterfly process along, having no idea the pure joy I'd find myself. Using Google I discovered the Florida Monarch Butterfly Farm just an hour away in St. Petersburg. While the idea of releasing butterflies is most often tied to weddings, when you're trying to build a butterfly garden, the idea had even more significance.
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Invitation to the half-day Workshop
13 March 2012 at SAP Bedfont
Metrics to Serve All Communities"
Next Conference
9th - 10th May, 2012 Marriott, Waltham Forest
Recent Conferences
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Dear CEdMA member,
early Spring
CEdMA Europe half-day Workshop will take place on Tue 13 March
1300-1700 UK time at
SAP in Bedfont
near Heathrow.
Training Metrics to Serve All Communities
Introduction by Mike Dowsey
It's important that any set of training metrics must serve the
needs of Training Management, Executive Management,
and Customers. We must define the problem, understand the
challenges, acknowledge constraints, consider the approach
then develop and implement the solution. The case study looks
at a solution and implementation, and describes the resulting
scorecard and dashboard.
After the break, members
from different size companies with different approaches will
then describe their experiences. So far, we have SAP,
Juniper Networks, Sybase, Blue Coat Systems and Snell,
although there may well be others!
Finally, participants will be invited to join a breakout group
of their choice (based on size and/or geography) to discuss
best practices. Groups will report back and their findings
will be written up and made available
to attendees and on the website.
1300 Coffee and Networking
1330 Introduction
Training Metrics to Serve All Communities -
Mike Dowsey
1415 Views from Members
1515 Break and Networking
1545 Breakout groups
1630 Report back
1700 Close and Networking
Here is the
printable agenda.
Please let
Mike know if you or any of your
colleagues will be attending, so that we can make sure we have
enough seats, coffee, biscuits, and so on.
We shall send out joining instructions in late February.
look forward to seeing you there!
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