Tuesday, 3 January 2012

La meilleure ann?e de l'histoire de Volkswagen Canada

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AJAX, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - 3 jan. 2012) - On se souviendra de 2011 comme d'une ann?e de r?sultats exceptionnels pour Volkswagen Canada. Avec des ventes de 3 565 v?hicules en d?cembre, les concessionnaires canadiens ont vendu 52 604 v?hicules neufs Volkswagen, ce qui d?passe de 16 pourcent le record ?tabli en 2010.

? Ces r?sultats reposent sur le fait que nous offrons des v?hicules bien construits ? bon prix, distribu?s par un excellent r?seau de concessionnaires, explique John White, pr?sident-directeur g?n?ral de Groupe Volkswagen Canada. Les ventes de la toute nouvelle Passat ont d?marr? en force, ce qui en fait une concurrente s?rieuse sur le march? de la berline interm?diaire. C'est un ajout int?ressant ? notre gamme de produits et un compl?ment aux autres v?hicules tr?s populaires comme la Jetta, la Golf et le Tiguan. ?

La Jetta est la grande gagnante de d?cembre, affichant 1 607 ventes pour le mois. Au cours de l'ann?e, 26 749 Jetta ont ?t? vendues, ce qui fait de 2011 la meilleure ann?e pour ce mod?le, offert pour la premi?re fois aux automobilistes canadiens en 1980.

La Passat 2012 a ?t? enti?rement redessin?e pour le march? canadien et offre maintenant un habitacle consid?rablement plus vaste malgr? une baisse de prix de plusieurs milliers de dollars. En d?cembre, les ventes de Passat se sont ?lev?es ? 373 v?hicules, ce qui repr?sente une augmentation de 87 pourcent par rapport au m?me mois l'ann?e derni?re. Nomm?e r?cemment voiture de l'ann?e par le magazine Motor Trend, elle est maintenant offerte ? compter de 23 975 $ partout au pays. La Passat propose un choix de trois moteurs, dont le moteur prim? TDI diesel propre.

Voici le d?tail des ventes de d?cembre 2011 par mod?le :

Volkswagen d?cembre 2011 Cumul annuel 2011
Mod?les City 0 93
Golf 730 12 070
Golf GTI 118 1 756
Beetle 98 380
Jetta 1 607 26 749
Eos 25 708
Passat 373 3 009
Tiguan 451 5 379
Routan 53 842
Touareg 110 1 618
TOTAL 3 565 52 604

? propos de Volkswagen Canada :

Volkswagen Canada a ?t? fond?e en 1952. Son si?ge social est situ? ? Ajax, en Ontario. Elle est la marque automobile europ?enne la plus importante au Canada et vend les Golf, Golf familiales, Golf GTI, New Beetle, Jetta, Eos, Passat, CC, Tiguan, Routan et Touareg chez 135 concessionnaires canadiens ind?pendants. Elle est le chef de file de la vente de v?hicules TDI Diesel propre abordables au Canada et elle fait partie de Groupe Volkswagen Canada Inc., une filiale de Volkswagen AG, dont le si?ge social est situ? ? Wolfsburg, en Allemagne.

Volkswagen est l'un des plus importants constructeurs de voitures de tourisme au monde et le principal constructeur automobile en Europe.

Visitez le site Internet de Volkswagen Canada ? www.volkswagen.ca.

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Monday, 2 January 2012

Unity America New Years Eve Special Broadcast to the TROOPS! - Dec 31,2011

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Dual-core A5 chip.?It?s fast, times two.

Two powerful cores in one A5 chip mean iPad can do twice the work at once. Multitasking is smooth, apps load quickly, and anything you touch responds instantly. And with up to nine times the graphics performance of the first-generation iPad, everything on iPad 2 is even more fluid and realistic, from gameplay to scrolling through your photo library.

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Pick up your iPad, press the Home button, and it wakes from sleep instantly. That?s because iPad features fast, efficient, and reliable flash storage that lets you access data quickly. So everything effortlessly springs to life.

Battery life keeps on going. So you can, too.

Even with such a thin, light design, iPad has an incredible 10-hour battery life.?That?s enough juice for one flight across the ocean, or one movie-watching all-nighter, or a week?s commute across town. Because iPad hardware and software are made for each other, the power-efficient A5 chip works with the iOS software to keep battery life from fading away.

Two cameras. And a big hello to FaceTime for iPad.

You?ll see two cameras on iPad ? one on the front and one on the back. They may be tiny, but they?re a big deal. They?re designed for FaceTime video calling, and they work together so you can talk to your favorite people and see them smile and laugh back at you.?The front camera puts you and your friend face-to-face. Switch to the back camera during your video call to share where you are, who you?re with, or what?s going on around you. When you?re not using FaceTime, let the back camera roll if you see something movie-worthy. It?s HD, so whatever you shoot is a mini-masterpiece. And you can take wacky snapshots in Photo Booth. It?s the most fun a face can have.

?iOS. The world?s most advanced mobile operating system.

iOS is the operating system for iPad. And it lets you see and do everything just by touching the screen. It includes all the powerful, innovative, and fun built-in apps you use every day, many times a day. It?s the platform for which more than 140,000 other amazing iPad apps have been created to take advantage of the large Multi-Touch screen. And now with over 200 new features in iOS 5 ? including?Newsstand,?iMessage, andNotification Center?? iOS is yet another reason no other device comes close to?iPad.

iCloud. Your content. On all your devices.

iCloud?stores your music, photos, documents, and more and wirelessly pushes them to all your devices.?So if you buy a song, take a photo, or edit a calendar event on your iPad, iCloud makes sure it appears on your Mac, iPhone, and iPod touch, too. You don?t have to do a thing.

LED-backlit display.?The view is?amazing.

iPad is one big, beautiful display ? 9.7 inches of high-resolution photos, movies, web pages, books, and more. LED backlighting makes everything you see remarkably crisp, vivid, and bright. Even in places with low light, like an airplane. And there?s no wrong way to hold iPad. It?s designed to show off everything in portrait and landscape, so with every turn (even upside down), the display adjusts to fit. Because it uses a display technology called IPS (in-plane switching), it has a wide, 178? viewing angle. Hold it up to someone across the room, or share it with someone sitting next to you, and everyone gets a brilliant?view.

Multi-Touch.?Everything?s at your fingertips.

With iPad, you use your fingers to do everything. And thanks to Multi-Touch technology, everything youdo ??surfing the web, typing email, reading books, swiping through photos, and switching between apps?? is easier and a lot more fun. When your fingers touch the display, it senses them using electrical fields. Then it?instantly transforms your taps, swipes, pinches, and flicks into lifelike actions. Just like that.

Gyro, accelerometer, and compass. ?iPad knows your every move.

With the built-in accelerometer, you can rotate iPad to portrait or landscape, or even upside down, and whatever you?re watching, reading, or seeing adjusts to fit the display. And now the accelerometer, three-axis gyroscope, and compass all work together. They sense which direction iPad is heading and how it?s moving. So games, maps, and other apps know your every twist, turn, tilt, and 360. It?s an epic win for gaming. And it?s just the beginning of better-than-ever iPad apps.

AirPlay.?Broadcast live to your HDTV and speakers.

All the great stuff on your iPad ? your music, photos, and videos ? can stream wirelessly to your HDTV and speakers via Apple TV or AirPlay-enabled speakers over a Wi-Fi network.?With just a tap on the AirPlay icon, you can blast some tunes, have a movie night, show off some photos, or watch YouTube. And go big.

Video mirroring.?See it here. See it there.

Video mirroring for iPad is great for every app, web page, presentation, video, movie, or photo you want to show a big audience. Just plug in the Apple Digital AV Adapter or Apple VGA Adapter (sold separately)?and your HDTV or projector becomes a bigger version of your iPad. One plug, that?s it. Or you can wirelessly stream what?s on your iPad with AirPlay Mirroring and Apple TV. Everyone sees what?s on yourdisplay ??even when you rotate iPad from portrait to landscape or zoom in and out.

AirPrint.?Print everything wirelessly.

Print your email, photos, web pages, and documents right from your iPad over Wi-Fi.?There?s no software to download, no drivers to install, and no cables to connect. With just a few taps, you can go from viewing something on the iPad screen to holding a printed copy.

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Size and Weight

  • Height:?9.50?inches (241.2 mm)
  • Width:?7.31?inches (185.7 mm)
  • Depth:?0.34 inch (8.8 mm)
  • Weight:?1.33?pounds (601 g)

Wireless and Cellular

  • Wi-Fi + 3G model: UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
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  • 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
  • 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)
  • Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
  • Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Chip

  • 1GHz dual-core Apple A5 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip

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  • Back camera: Video recording, HD (720p) up to 30 frames per second with audio; still camera with 5x digital zoom
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  • Tap to control exposure for video or stills
  • Photo and video geotagging over Wi-Fi

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  • Built-in 25-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery
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Input/Output

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  • 3.5-mm stereo headphone mini-jack
  • Built-in speaker
  • Microphone
  • Micro-SIM card tray (Wi-Fi + 3G model)

Sensors

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  • Accelerometer
  • Ambient light sensor

Location

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  • Digital compass
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Audio Playback

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Sunday, 1 January 2012

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The Akerkars, for instance, are planning on an "escape to Alibaug" where Rahul says, he and his friends will simply sit under a tree and while their time. And if that sounds incredible, Sangita Kathiwada is already in Australia, at her good friend Pavan Sukhdev's estate, in the heart of an ancient rainforest. "It's like standing still in the lap of luxurious nature," she gushed.

Sounding definitely upbeat, Queenie told us that she just got back from New York, where she had spent Christmas, and is headed to Goa in a couple of days to usher in the New Year. Meanwhile, wild horses may not be able to pull Riyhad Kundanmal away from his cosy abode in Mundhwa, where he has been cocooned for the longest time.

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The Year In Dirty Energy: Keystone XL

This year, a deal between TransCanada and the U.S. government almost allowed one of the most disastrous plans in energy history to win aproval. The deal would have allowed TransCanada to build the Keystone XL pipeline across the U.S. border to carry an exceptionally dirty form of oil from Alberta's tar sands through several U.S. states to refineries along the Texas gulf?coast.

But thanks to some bizarre GOP politicking in the year-end fight over payroll tax cut legislation, the table is set for President Obama to reject this fossil folly. The likely demise of one giant ill-advised pipeline is no small feat, but it doesn't mean the world can forget about the tar sands, by a long shot. The world is still addicted to oil, and Canada's fossil-friendly leaders will continue their quest to sell the tar sands bitumen on the global?market.

Ever since our founding in 2006, DeSmogBlog has helped spread the word about the dangerous health and climate impacts that the tar sands pose to the environment and the global climate. Over the past year, we focused our research particularly on the dirty tricks employed by the oil industry in an effort to get the Keystone XL pipeline?approved.

After Friends of the Earth exposed the fact that TransCanada's Keystone XL lobbyist Paul Elliott had worked on Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign and enjoyed special access with former colleagues, DeSmogBlog revealed further?ties between TransCanada lobbyists and the U.S. government. For example:

On?the web of lobbyists with connections to?Hillary Clinton:

However, the tar sands industry?s use of former Clinton associates to lobby on the controversial project extends beyond Mr. Elliott. DeSmogBlog has uncovered seven other influencers or lobbyists with ties to Clinton and Obama who have lobbied on behalf of tar sands interests for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.

McKenna Long & Aldridge is one of the key outside firms registered to lobby for TransCanada Pipelines, which paid the McKenna firm at least $190,000 over the last 5 years to lobby on their pipeline issues, including $40,000 in the first half of 2011. McKenna employees donated $41,650 in campaign contributions to Hillary Clinton in 2008, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

For the full report, see Hillary Clinton's Keystone XL Crony Lobbyists Problem.


We also helped make public the financial interests that members of Congress had in the approval of the pipeline:
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"Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, reported in his 2010 financial disclosure form?the most recent available, filed on May 15, 2011?that he owned Transcanada stock worth between $115,002 and $300,000 (financial disclosure forms ask members to report their assets within broad ranges)."

"Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., reported owning between $15,001 and $51,000 in TransCanada stock in his 2010 financial disclosure; according to his office, the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee sold his stock on January 5, 2011."

"Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., has held Trans Canada stock since 2004; her most recent disclsosure shows she owns a stake in the company worth between $1,001 and $15,000."

"Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y.?reported a $798 interest in Trans Canada."

"U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Susan E. Rice filed that she owned between $250,001 and $500,000 of TransCanada stock."

But the money didn?t end there:

TransCanada Corp, the company hoping to build the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, spent $540,000 on lobbying in the third quarter of 2011, according to lobbying disclosure records released this week.

In addition to $390,000 reported by Paul Elliott, TransCanada Pipelines, Ltd's infamous in-house lobbyist, two outside firms lobbied on TransCanada's behalf to promote the Keystone XL pipeline: Bryan Cave LLP, which reported $120,000 in earnings from TransCanda in quarter three; and McKenna, Long & Aldridge, which was paid $30,000 by TransCanada in the same period.

The industry ties became such a problem for the project that the U.S. inspector general?s office announced an investigation into the matter. And for good reason ? the State Department?s ties to TransCanada helped the company escape a more thorough review of the project:

EPA identified a laundry list of omissions in the State Department?s Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS), ranging from lack of adequate consideration for oil spills and impacts on low income and First Nations communities, to lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions and impacts on water and wildlife. They also provided a list of critical areas that need expansion in the Final EIS.

The EPA?s analysis raises considerable concerns about the proposed project that would carry 900,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day from Canada, through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and across numerous water bodies including the Yellowstone, Missouri, Neches and Red Rivers, as well as the Ogallala aquifer.

On another front, Rep. Henry Waxman urged Congress to investigate the financial ties to Keystone of the Koch brothers:

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) renewed his request to Reps. Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ed Whitfield (R-KY) that the House Committee on Energy and Commerce investigate Koch Industries' interest in the Keystone XL pipeline. Rep. Waxman's letter cites the recent revelations in InsideClimate News that Koch subsidiary Flint Hills Resources Canada LP claimed "a direct and substantial interest" in the Keystone XL in front of Canadian regulators, while the Kochtopus continues to deny any interest publicly.

Koch representatives previously told Rep. Waxman that Keystone XL has "nothing to do with any of our businesses" and that Koch has "no financial interest" in the pipeline.

And there was good reason to believe that the Kochs were among those behind the push to fast-track the pipeline?project:

What?s been left out of the fierce debate over the pipeline, according to SolveClimate News, is the prospect that if president Obama okayed the Keystone XL pipeline, he would be handing a major victory and great financial opportunity to Charles and David Koch, his staunchest political enemies and the most powerful opponents of his clean economy agenda.

SolveClimate?s analysis shows that Koch Industries is already responsible for close to 25 percent of the tar sands crude that is imported into the United States, and is well-positioned to cash in big from increased Canadian tar sands imports.

The major talking point behind the push for the pipeline was that it would create much-needed jobs for American workers. But as we and many others pointed out extensively, the job creation claims were completely bogus:

According to The Washington Post, the prospect of job creation ? the reason so many people in America support the pipeline ? isn?t as rosy as TransCanada would have us believe. In fact, their numbers don?t add up at all.

TransCanada threw out a figure of 20,000 jobs (13,000 construction, 7,000 for suppliers) that would be created directly and indirectly through the pipeline construction process. This is the figure that politicians have used to sell the pipeline to their constituents. But as The Washington Post points out, TransCanada chief executive Russ Girling admits the 20,000 figure is far from honest

And more:

In reality, according to the exhaustively researched Cornell report, even the earliest, most modest claims seem unrealistic.

In fact, in Pipe Dreams? Jobs Gained, Jobs Lost by the Construction of Keystone XL, the institute says more jobs could actually be destroyed than created by the pipeline.

As if the industry lobbyist ties and the lies about job creation weren?t enough, there is the glaring observation that the pipeline is just not safe?for water supplies and public?health:

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Pipeline Safety Trust, the National Wildlife Federation and the Sierra Club jointly published a new report [pdf] which details the likelihood that there will be leaks and major oil spills into waterways along the pipeline?s path.

The report explicitly states how tar sands oil is more corrosive than conventional oil and therefore is a much higher risk to pipeline systems. The report notes that it is:

?More acidic, thick, and sulfuric than conventional crude oil?contains fifteen to twenty times higher acid concentrations than conventional crudes and five to ten times as much sulfur as conventional crudes. It is up to seventy times more viscous than conventional crudes. The additional sulfur can lead to the weakening or embrittlement of pipelines.

Because of its damaging effects to pipeline systems, tar sands oil spills will be more frequent than with conventional oil and as such, more devastating to the health and livelihoods of residents, farms and communities

And who can forget the impact that thousands of?protesters rallying in front of the White House?had:

The DC police force must have recently put in a big order for plasti-cuffs. The commencement of the Keystone XL pipeline protest, which kicked off this past weekend, saw over 100 arrested in the first two days. But there won?t be time for a donut break yet, as the action is set to continue over the next two weeks with over 2,000 people signed up to get arrested in protest of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that would carry the world?s filthiest oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast if approved by the Obama administration.

With people coming in from all around the nation, protesters hope to pressure President Obama to deny the permit needed to build the proposed 1700-mile pipeline from Alberta to the US Gulf Coast. Reports about the supposed safety of the pipeline have proven less than stellar, and TransCanada pipelines have already had 12 spills this year. The administration must make a decision about the pipeline by November 1st, and there is pressure coming from cheerleaders of pollution such as the Chamber of Commerce and Americans for Prosperity, to name a few, for the pipeline to go through.

The Keystone XL pipeline is a perfect example of how direct action and independent media can help expose dirty politics and bring some accountability to those making important decisions about our energy future. Hopefully, more and more issues will meet the same resistance from citizens, causing government officials to rethink their disastrous plans to continue down the dirty energy?path.

Source: http://www.desmogblog.com/year-dirty-energy-keystone-xl

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