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My friend +Mark Maynard has applied for one of three scholarships to the Netroots…

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My friend +Mark Maynard has applied for one of three scholarships to the Netroots Nation Conference in Providence Rhode Island. Mark is a great guy that has been actively involved in agitating in our community for many years now and deserves a chance to go to this conference.

Among the many worthy projects Mark has organized locally are mayoral candidate debates, forums on how help and promote local business, the Shadow Art Fair http://www.shadowartfair.com/, the annual Krampus Ball and just generally getting people talking about what is going on through his blog at http://markmaynard.com/.

Take a moment and vote for Mark at the conference site linked below.

#markmaynard #netrootsnation

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I voted in DFA's Netroots Nation Scholarship Competition
I just voted for Mark Maynard in Democracy for America's Netroots Nation Scholarship Competition. The winners receive an all access pass to the biggest progressive conference of the year!

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This year's 24 Hours of Le Mans is going to be particularly interesting from…

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This year's 24 Hours of Le Mans is going to be particularly interesting from a technological standpoint.

We have Audi bringing the R18 e-tron Quattro with a turbodiesel V6 and a flywheel hybrid system, Toyota with a gas engine, battery electric hybrid and of course Highcroft Racing with the amazing DeltaWing.

Highcroft's prospects just got a huge boost with official factory backing for the project now coming from Nissan. Nissan will power the radical new race car with a turbocharged, direct injected gasoline inline four producing 300 hp. While that is maybe half the power of the other top LMP1 cars, the key to Deltawing's performance will be the fact that it has half the weight and half the aerodynamic drag of cars like the Audi and Toyota. Nissan and Highcroft will run some demonstration laps with the Deltawing at Sebring this Thursday.

#lemans #nissan #deltawing #highcroft

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NISSAN TO POWER DELTAWING

Nissan is aiming to change the face of endurance racing forever by becoming a founding partner …

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I'll be watching the new Audi R18 e-tron quattro closely at the 24 Hours of Le…

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I'll be watching the new Audi R18 e-tron quattro closely at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June.

I wrote quite a bit about the flywheel hybrid system that was originally developed by the Williams F1 team and then licensed to Porsche in 2010 for the 911 GT3R hybrid.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/alternative-fuel/hybrids/porsche-911-gt3r-hybrid-flywheel

In the 911's first 24 hour outing at the 2010 Nurburgring 24 hour, the car led for more than 8 1/2 hours before a problem with the gas engine caused it to retire. During its first races at the the 'Ring, the flywheel 911 was able to run 13 laps per tankful compared to just 11 for the conventional 911 GT3 RSR in the same race. In endurance races on long tracks like the 'Ring or Le Mans, that kind of efficiency is a huge advantage despite the extra mass of the hybrid hardware.

http://green.autoblog.com/2010/05/17/porsche-911-hybrid-retires-after-leading-nurburgring-24-for-8-ho/

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Thankfully rick santorum has his priorities straight planning to repeal the Rennaisance,…

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Thankfully rick santorum has his priorities straight planning to repeal the Rennaisance, evolution and ObamaCare in his first days in office. http://www.borowitzreport.com/2012/03/12/a-letter-from-rick-santorum/

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T-Mobile's CMO Cole Brodman would like to see subsidized pricing on new phones… 2

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T-Mobile's CMO Cole Brodman would like to see subsidized pricing on new phones go away because he thinks that consumers don't see the true value of the hardware under the current system.

The reality is that financially, subsidies hit carriers like T-Mobile and Sprint extremely hard, especially on popular devices like the iPhone. Sprint pays a huge upfront cost in the billions of dollars to Apple to get the iPhone in the hopes of recovering that in monthly user fees during the contract period.

While getting rid of the subsidies makes sense for carriers, it only benefits consumers if it means we get to eliminate contracts and get reduced monthly prices. After all, the carriers aren't eating that cost out of the goodness of their hearts, we pay the full price of that phone over time. If carriers aren't having to recover the cost of the hardware, there is zero justification for the contract unless they give us an ever larger discount to reflect the reduced customer acquisition costs.

What do you suppose the chances are of that happening? I'm not holding my breath.

#wireless

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Could an end to unsubsidized smartphones be on its way for US carriers? If T-Mobile's Chief Marketing Officer Cole Brodman had his way, that

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I've seen at least a couple of different sites today post photoshop renderings…

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I've seen at least a couple of different sites today post photoshop renderings of what an open top version of the new Ferrari F12berlinetta might look like. Unfortunately both demonstrate the lack of knowledge of the history of cars that is prevalent in online blogs today.

This car would never ever come out of a Ferrari factory badged as the F12berlinetta Spyder. A berlinetta in Italian sports car taxonomy refers to a hard top coupe. Traditionally an open top version is refered to as a barchetta (as in the classic Rush song Red Barchetta, but I digress).

If Ferrari builds an open top version of its new flagship it will almost certainly be named the F12barchetta.

#ferrari #ferrarif12berlinetta #ferrarif12barchetta

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Ferrari F12 Berlinetta Spyder rendered & beefed up
Following the highly anticipated unveiling of the new Ferrari F12 Berlinetta at the Geneva Motor Show this week, the rumors about the open top version are inevitable. Fortunately, we were given a pote…

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