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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd, the maker of Panasonic brand electronics, said on Monday it hoped to start selling the world's largest plasma television by early next year. Measuring 2.4 metres by 1.4 metres and weighing 215 kg, the 103-inch panel is bigger than a double-sized mattress and almost as heavy as an upright piano. The world's largest consumer electronics maker has yet to set the price but Matsushita's 65-inch plasma TVs, its largest available now, sell for about $7,500 in Japan......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source Blu-ray Disc
The format offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc. This extra capacity combined with the use of advanced video and audio codecs will offer consumers an unprecedented HD experience......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source DeFrantz musical picked for N.Y. festival
"The Man in My Head," a one-man rhythm-and-blues-laden tour de force starring Obie Award-winning actor Darius de Haas, was written by DeFrantz (book) with Berklee College of Music Associate Professor Michael Wartofsky (music and lyrics). The show was one of 14 musicals invited to receive full stagings at the festival, a celebration that introduces the next generation of modern musical entertainment to producers, artists and young adult audiences. Premiering more than 30 musicals, with more than 100 concerts and special events, 300 performances and 1,000 performers, spanning a range of genres from rock, hip-hop, and avant-garde, the New York Musical Theatre Festival bills itself as the biggest musical theater event in the United States. This year's festival will take place from Sept. 10 through Oct. 1 in sites throughout New York City. The protagonist of "The Man in My Head," Drew Durango, wants it all: a loving relationship with a rock-steady African-American man, solid friendships with Chelsea party boys and a way to share his world with his Granny in Indianapolis. But after seven years living in New York, he still hasn't quite figured it out, careening in and out of love and entanglements with a handsome but closeted attorney, a Zen-like children's basketball coach, a sister on a mission to find a husband, a hard-partying Harlem Hospital nurse and his nephew from the Midwest......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source Drive Time
Saturn Aura
The first is the Saturn Aura, which goes on sale later this summer. Simply put, I enjoyed it very much. It's a very refined, very civilized car, beautifully put together, with impressive levels of quiet, and wonderful handling. I believe it's a major milestone in terms of both refinement and vehicle dynamics, not only for the Saturn brand but also for GM, in the category of mid-size front-wheel-drive cars. Got lots of "what is THAT" looks while driving it, and people were invariably surprised to find out it's a Saturn. It's absolutely outstanding and a great value as well. I've also driven an astonishing Impala with the soon-to-be-released 3.9L Active Fuel Management system, which runs on three cylinders a surprising amount of the time. It switches off half the cylinders whenever the engine isn't fully solicited. And because of the unique characteristic of the Impala, which for its size is a relatively lightweight and aerodynamic car, it's ideally suited for Active Fuel Management with the 3.9L V6. You can even go slightly uphill on three cylinders......... Posted by: Jim Permalink Source Introducing The Acadia
The 2007 GMC Acadia
Crossovers are the fastest-growing vehicle segment in the U.S., with nearly a million sales last year. And because we expect that number to grow by another million by 2010, General Motors will double the number of our crossover entries by then. Right now, the GMC Acadia is our eighth crossover, joining the Chevy Equinox and HHR, the Pontiac Torrent and Vibe, the Saturn Vue, the Buick Rendezvous and the Cadillac SRX. We believe the Acadia will bring new customers to GMC showrooms......... Posted by: Jim Permalink Source Suspending Federal Gas Tax Is Bad Idea
"It makes absolutely no sense to suspend the federal gasoline tax, even if you believe that the reduction will be passed along to the consumer," says Rothstein, an associate professor of economics in Arts & Sciences. "The federal gas tax money goes mostly to repair and expand the highway system. The highway system, begun in the 1950s, is crumbling and the nation is going to need billions over the next decade to repair it. Even people who don't want the highway system expanded want the roads we have to be safe. Now is not the time to reduce this revenue". It's questionable if reduced gas tax translates to consumer saving. Although the proposed federal gas tax "holiday" has been touted as a means of off-setting the rising price of gasoline, Rothstein cautions that there's no way of knowing whether this reduction in fuel costs will be passed along to consumers. "People believe that an increase in the tax rate gets passed along to consumers, but they do not believe that a tax cut would also be passed along. Under perfect competition, the first situation implies the second situation must be true. But since most people don't follow that logic, they must really believe that producers manipulate the market," he says. "This certainly happened in the California energy crisis, but the manipulation would be harder to organize at the national level. That said, it could be happening"......... Posted by: Tom Permalink Source Latest iSoft Information
Pricing and availability have not yet been announced. We'll keep you posted as more information becomes available......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source Egyptian Mummy
The findings, together with the mummy fragments and a clay facial reconstruction are now ready to be handed back to the East Sussex school and will form part of a science project for future generations of pupils. "We have found out quite a lot about the historical background of the mummy and there have been detailed studies on the bones and teeth," said Professor Rosalie David, a world-renowned Egyptology expert and head of the centre. "We have also made a three-dimensional, facial reconstruction of the mummy and will present this with our findings to the teachers and pupils today". Uplands College in Wadhurst was given the mummy by the late Dr Dick Kittermaster, a pathologist at St Thomas's Hospital in London. Dr Kittermaster had been asked to investigate the history of the body by a museum in Cardiff in the late 1960s with help from experts at the British Museum. What they discovered was that the remains did not match the coffin it had been found in. Inscriptions on the coffin suggested the mummy was a 30-year-old male, who had been a royal carpenter around 700 BC. But what the team found was that the remains were, in fact, those of a woman......... Posted by: William Permalink Source Watching TV Could Help Your Parenting
The ITV1 series Driving Mum and Dad Mad returns on Monday (17 July), and will follow a new set of families as they try out the "Triple P" parenting programme. This was devised by Professor Matt Sanders from The University of Queensland in Australia, and aims to improve children's behaviour by rebuilding positive relationships, tackling discipline and setting rules and limits. Teams from both universities are collaborating on The Great Parenting Experiment which will run alongside the series, wherein parents of 3 - 9 year old children will be asked to watch the shows and try out its advice for themselves. Funded by the Respect Task Force, the study will test whether, by adopting the ideas suggested, mums and dads can improve their children's behaviour and reduce their own stress levels. Dr Calam, of the School of Psychological Sciences, explained: "One group of families will simply be asked to watch the programmes and put into practice what they see, whilst another will be given additional support. Everyone will receive a free self-help workbook at some point during the study......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source |
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