November 25, 2012 at 09:48
At the third annual run of the environmentally friendly vehicles ?RAC Future Car Challenge?, held on the route London ? Brighton, experimental concept hybrid car Jaguar XJ_e won the ?most energy-efficient premium car? award as well as the ?Best Developers Group? title for the incredible team of engineers and designers who have put this great car into a reality!
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Barton Madbury writes:
As a passionate property professional, and as someone always quick to share an opinion, it?s my great joy to share advice with Truth readers a few tips on how they can maximize the value from their homes when considering re-sale.
The first and most important thing to realise is that location is everything. And if you have a bad location, then you need to take steps to alter it in order to make your home more appealing. One tip I can recommend is to rename the suburb using a neighbouring suburb plus approximater.
For example, if you live in New Windsor, but are worried that this won?t appeal so much, try describing your property as on the sunny side of West New Lynn. Otahuhu can become Penrose South and Takanini is West Ardmore. It?s easy once you know how! During the great property boom of a few years ago, new suburbs like Remuera South and Epsom South erupted onto the landscape, so don?t feel obliged to follow NZ Post addressing ? they?re hopeless at delivering the mail and probably will reduce their services even more in the near future.
The second part of advertising your home is how you catch people?s attention through the print and online advertising. Too many people promote bedrooms, views and the age of the home as marketing points. I find this all too boring. I swear by innovation in marketing, which is why I recommend advertising headers like ?Sail a ship upon the seven seas?, ?The Culture of Corporate Welfare? and ?Don?t point your guns at the pigs?. Unusual ? yes. Will it get your home ad read? Yes. Don?t ever think you can?t be too extreme when presenting yourself, because people need to see the real you and your real homes.
Thirdly, presentation is also very important. Some real estate agents swear by using freshly cut flowers to make their home seem more femininely scented and appealing. Others like to put a part baked loaf of bread in the oven before the open home to put a nice ?family oriented? smell of cooking and togetherness. But I travel a different path.
The?Madbury?tip for making your home as attractive as possible is to have a smell of a cooking pie wafting through the kitchen and living room. Some people like shepherds? pie. Others like apple pie. Recently I?ve been eating a lot of humble pie, and have been eating every last spoonful of it, but do what works best for you.
Lastly, when you choose an agent, make sure you don?t choose a shrinking violet. Find an agent as loud and as opinionated as possible. The agent?s duty is to correct the misinformed impressions of purchasers. If the prospective purchaser isn?t told they are wrong, then they won?t be made to feel positive about your home. Even more importantly, you need an agent skilled in the art of small talk, like weather, politics, and how Zionists and Bankers fund John Key. You?d be surprised at the looks I get from people when I engage with them about property and politics.
Anyway, I look forward to sharing with you my thoughts on life and how?Barton?can help you better yourselves.
Source: http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2012/11/barton-madbury-tips-on-real-estate/
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Some of the first birdlike creatures to emerge during the age of the dinosaurs probably couldn't get their heavy wings to take them off the ground, and they likely opted for gliding over flying, new research shows.
Modern flying birds have a single primary layer of easily separated long feathers covered with short ones ? a design that helps them overcome drag when taking flight. A new analysis of the fossils of two of their ancestors shows that the arrangement of feathers for primitive birds was quite different.
The birdlike dinosaurs Anchiornis huxley and Archaeopteryx lithographica had dense overlapping layers of wing feathers that were likely difficult to separate, the researchers found. Instead of lifting off from the ground, these creatures probably climbed trees and used their wings to glide from a height, the scientists said.
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What's more, differences in the wing feathers of Archaeopteryx and Anchiornis appear to represent early evolutionary experiments in wing design, according to the researchers. For example, Archaeopteryx had multiple layers of long feathers, while Anchiornis had an abundance of simple feathers that overlapped like a penguin's, said study researcher Nicholas R. Longrich, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale.
Longrich's colleague Jakob Vinther, a former Yale doctoral student, now with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, said the fossil analyses add to an intricate picture of how feathers and modern birds evolved.
"We now seem to see that feathers evolved initially for insulation," Vinther explained in a statement. "More complex vaned or pinnate feathers evolved for display. These display feathers turned out to be excellent membranes that could have been utilized for aerial locomotion, which only very late in bird evolution became what we consider flapping flight."
The research was detailed today (Nov. 21) online in the journal Current Biology.
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APSEN, Colo. (AP) ? Lindsey Vonn says she's healthy enough to race in one of the two World Cup races this weekend in Aspen.
The four-time overall champion will compete in the giant slalom Saturday, but skip the slalom Sunday.
Vonn recently returned to training after missing time with an intestinal issue that landed her in the hospital. She squeezed in two training runs Friday before calling it a day. Vonn then consulted with her coaches before electing to step into the starting gate just for the giant slalom.
The main concern with Vonn was whether she was in good enough race condition. The Olympic downhill gold medalist recently spent two nights in the hospital with what she described on Facebook as "some infection in my tummy."
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BANGKOK (AP) ? Oil prices fell Friday as a cease-fire agreement between Israel and the militant Hamas group that stopped weeklong fighting in the Gaza Strip continued to hold.
Benchmark crude for January delivery was down 18 cents to $87.20 per barrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 63 cents to finish at $87.38 per barrel Wednesday. Markets were closed Thursday for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.
Israel launched an offensive on Nov. 14 to halt rocket fire from Gaza, unleashing some 1,500 airstrikes on Hamas-linked targets, while Hamas and other Gaza militants showered Israel with just as many rockets. The eight days of fighting killed 161 Palestinians and six Israelis.
A truce reached Wednesday was still intact, easing fears of an escalating war that could spill beyond Gaza and eventually disrupt oil supplies.
"I think it's a bit of reaction to the cease-fire in the Middle East, said Ric Spooner, chief market analyst at CMC Markets in Sydney. Oil prices are "more or less flat-lining, a little bit up and down within a range," he said.
Brent crude, used to price international varieties of oil, fell 39 cents to $110.47 a barrel in London.
In other energy futures trading in New York:
? Heating oil fell 1.7 cents to $3.064 a gallon.
? Wholesale gasoline fell 2.1 cents to $2.702 a gallon.
? Natural gas rose 0.4 cent to $3.907 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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How young will the casualties become in the ongoing war against online piracy? You have to wonder, when you learn that a 9-year old girl's laptop was seized by Finnish police in a raid on her home, following a complaint by the CIAPC anti-piracy group which had ISPs block The Pirate Bay in Finland. The raid followed a request that the girl's father pay up around ?600 to settle piracy accusations.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/DndvY65xEZY/
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