Question by nipples kostalakis: What do you think non americans, when an american uses a source that is one of their "news" networks? seriously does anyone outside the usa believe what the USA "news" networks say?
ok i understand that whatever is "reported" on usa news will be supported by around 50% of usa people and rubbished by the other 50% (oh thank you wonderful two party system), but why do they expect people outside the usa to believe anything on a usa news channel?
Question by Ana Stasia Nika: What is your definition of an "american made car"? Would that be the car manufactured here in the United Staes for Toyota and Honda by our citizens?
Or a car manufactured in Mexico for Ford, GM, and Chevrolet?
I find myself amazed at the people who insist we buy "american made cars" when there is no clear definition of what exactly that is.
Best answer:
Answer by puppylove Anything made by American citizens on American soil.
Question by chocolover212: How is "American football" different from rugby? I thought that the game "rugby" to the rest of the world is "football" to America, but in some places I see that there is some sort of difference. People say that "american football" is rugby with armor. Can someone explain? And does anyone know when american football was originated?
Best answer:
Answer by Let's go Murphys Rugby is better than Gridiron.
Hello I moved to Italy a few months ago and have an NTSC region coded console. I buy my games online (New egg, Amazon) and It works okay, except that I get new releases weeks late and it's kind of frustrating. Does anyone have any tips on how to get games day and date here for my console? Maybe a website that ships NTSC games from a location in Europe or something?
im going to get converters so the power can work over there but will it work? and will i be able to buy american xbox games over there via online like ebay or amazon?
The Ford Mustang Auto Was Not The First American Pony Muscle Car
Some auto and sports car enthusiasts will insist and swear on their life that the sports car that got it all going in America was the Mustang. After all the Ford Mustang was fast cheap and popular and got the whole "Muscle Car" era going. On top of that they may insist that if there were no mustang there would have never been any Camaro or the other whole host of "Pony Cars" It may well be true that buyer demand in the muscle car market segment had been and was created largely by the Mustang car but actually this had all started long before the Mustang ponycars arrived on the American automotive landscape.
Interest in sporty ,close-coupled compacts that could seat two comfortably as well as four in a pinch goes all the way back to 1956. That was the first year when Studebaker fielded its first "Hawks" - nimble, fast road machines that looked different and performed considerably better than the average family sedan. Then later in 1958, Ford punched out its two-seat Thunderbird out to a four-seat configuration which also introduced a radically new body design that met with overwhelming acceptance. To the response, the dominant American automotive manufacturer replied with the Pontiac Grand Prix in 1962 as well as the stunning four places Buick Riviera the following year.
Similar concepts followed in the wings such as Oldsmobile's Tornado in 1966. The race was now fully on and underway.
Until Mustang however, four seat "personal" cars had been mainly upper-price luxury models which were not affordable by the masses of car buyers. This was especially true for young men just starting out with their work careers or working part time after school. However it was not only Ford that was eyeing and evaluating of what became the Mustang's appreciative and enduring target market. Stylists, engineers and the marketing crew were thinking about some car product in the lower-price segment and class a good six years before the Mustang made its entry and debut in 1964. In the end the fly in the ointment of this project to bring a similar automotive product to market was a lack of real corporate interest. Talk about opportunity lost and not seeing the trees from the forest - or in case the highways and interstates from the roads.
Interestingly enough G.M. had missed the boat when it failed to notice the excitement by the general public of its accidental development of an inexpensive "Sports Car" to the American automotive market. It can be said that the first low priced "personal" car was the Chevrolet Corvair. Chevrolet had subtly introduced bucket seats to its Corvair sports coupe in the 1960 model year. Compared to its other lineups in its stable the Corvair sports coupe sold like hotcakes. The expression regarding the sales of Mustangs was they sold like donuts, Corvair sports coupes sold like hotcakes. The offering was a hot product - a real eye popper. These cars were offered in color-keyed interiors, the trademark comfortable vinyl bucket seats and in the 1961 model year the option of a fast four speed gearbox.
The marketing message may have eluded General Motors and their top executives but it sure was not lost on their competitors. Ford and Chrysler, both taking the cue rushed to equip their similar products in a similar way. For the Ford Motor Company it was time to dress up their "compact "car the Ford Falcon. In the case of Chrysler the Valiant line got the treatment.
The Mustang was not the first of the "Pony "muscle cars. Indeed Ford was even the originator of the concept. The concept and market did not originate overnight. While it took time for fruition it was Ford's fortune of both bringing the product to market. The lessons may have been lost to others but Ford was both focused enough and nimble enough to accomplish the task. In terms of absolute cars sales the Ford Falcon based Mustang cars sold 100,000 units in their first month and a full million cars in their first year. What an auto sales record and accomplishment.
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Complete video at: fora.tv Wilfried Porth, member of the Board of Management at Daimler AG, cautions against the assumption that the GM bailout saved American jobs. He warns legislators against subsidizing the auto industry to the same extent as of the commercial airline industry. ----- The recent economic crisis has accelerated long-run trends by which, over the course of decades, the industrial base in the United States and the European Union has been undergoing a radical restructuring. Globalization, competition from emerging and developing economies, and technological advances have led significant manufacturing employment declines in parts of Europe and the United States. Last year, the United States saw an estimated one-percent drop in its industrial capacity, the largest annual decrease on record, with goods-producing businesses shedding some 2.3 million jobs. In addition, investments in both the United States and Europe into R&D and plants and equipment have decreased, potentially threatening the long-term competitiveness and employment prospects of the US and EU industrial base. "Postindustrialism" has been held up as the new route to prosperity, but one of the obvious advantages of manufacturing is that it creates jobs for a wide range of people—both in heavy industries like the steel and automotive industries as well as high-tech industries like semiconductors or value-added chemicals. At a time when the recession has amplified the challenges for manufacturing ...
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Rescue the American Dream From the Tyranny of Foreign Oil
In The Ordeal of Change, Eric Hoffer, American philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1983) said “In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” Timeless words for rapidly changing times.
Let’s Face It, We’re Addicted to Oil
America, let’s face it, we’re so addicted to oil, not only do we divert hundreds of billions of dollars a year from our own communities to obtain it abroad, we devote vast military and political resources to court hostile anti-American regimes, corruption, and instability in countries like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. Bottom line: We must simultaneously diversify sources of oil supplies, dramatically slash oil consumption, and increase production of alternative-energy sources to clean up the environment, increase our energy efficiency, protect national security interests, reduce the military and political leverage of OPEC oil, revitalize the U.S. economy, and shrink trade deficits.
It is of vital military and political importance we end our uneasy alliance with the House of Saud and our footprint in the unstable Persian Gulf region. We should start by forming an oil consortium with other non-OPEC nations, including Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Norway, and the United Kingdom to compete directly with OPEC for world oil revenues. We should follow this up by seizing the assets of Petróleos de Venezuela in the United States as compensation for President Hugo Chávez’s seizure of assets of American oil companies operating in his “Bolivarian Republic.” This seizure should include the assets of the CITGO Petroleum Corporation.
Role of Domestic Production and Refining Capacity
We also need to ramp up the domestic production and refining capacity of oil. World energy consumption has surged due to the rapid growth of economies in countries like China and India. It also has surged due to the growing energy needs of non-producing countries like Germany and Japan. This wouldn’t matter one iota if supplies were keeping pace with the growth in demand. Global exploration and development as a percentage of oil-related revenues has fallen well below long-term averages since the early 1990’s. With at least 100 billion barrels of untapped oil reserves in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska, the lower 48 states, and off U.S. shores, we are shooting ourselves in the foot by not developing the domestic sources at our disposal. We should start by uncapping the numerous closed oil fields in America’s heartland, creating jobs for Americans and revenues for America. We also need to construct new refineries on closed military bases, on tribal reservations, and on land in defunct communities like Cheshire, OH. In addition to exploiting our untapped oil reserves, we also must exploit our untapped natural gas supplies, whether they’re located on or off shore.
Role of Automotive Technologies and Alternative Fuels
As nearly half our domestic and imported oil is consumed primarily in the form of gasoline to fuel personal vehicles, this is where we need to focus a great deal of our attention and investment dollars. We need to nurture breakthrough automotive technologies and investment in commercially-viable alternative-fuel sources (i.e., ammonia, bio-diesel/bio-fuels, compressed natural gas, gas/electric hybrids, plug-in electrics, etc.) through targeted financial and tax incentives. Credit trading mechanisms that currently enable automakers to “borrow” or “swap” fuel efficiency should be suspended entirely. Instead, we need to put mechanisms in place that reward automakers for producing (and consumers for buying) vehicles that perform better than Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. Whatever mechanisms we put in place should require market-driven increases in the CAFE threshold on an annual basis. We also do not necessarily need to end federal subsidies for “Big Oil,” rather we need to force Big Oil to reinvest these subsidies in retrofitting retail gas station pumps to handle multiple alternative fuels. One thing is certain, OPEC nations, including state-owned sovereign wealth funds, should be prohibited from investing in or controlling our alternative-fuel resources, as it would make no sense for us to allow OPEC to maintain its death grip on our economy as we shift from oil.
Automakers can drive up CAFE thresholds in a couple of ways. One is by substituting the same lighter-weight carbon-fiber composite body panels used by our military for steel. Another is by harnessing kinetic energy from the natural motion, rotation, and vibration of the vehicle and its parts as a supplemental power source.
We also must replace current “flex-fuel” (a.k.a. E85) vehicles with “multi flex-fuel” vehicles capable of using any pure or blended fuel source. This should include bio-diesel/bio-fuels, and not the kind made from valuable food crops, such as corn. Switchgrass or some other source of so-called “cellulosic ethanol” might be a better fit, but we must learn to produce it in a way that doesn’t increase air pollution, global warming, soil erosion, or water pollution, or harm environmentally-sensitive habitats. In addition to excluding valuable food crops, we also must exclude bio-fuels produced on cleared old-growth forest or tropical rainforest lands. To fully move the U.S. away from oil, we must use bio-fuels as an alternative to gasoline rather than as an additive; we also must phase out petro-diesel in favor of bio-diesel. Additionally, we must create a viable national high-speed passenger and freight rail network to ease traffic congestion and improve logistics. Imagine “land ferries” that transport people and their vehicles from point A to point B.
While hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, most of it remains locked up in more complex compounds such as ammonia, methane (natural gas or propane), or water. Not only does it require tremendous amounts of energy to separate the hydrogen from its natural compounds, it requires tremendous amounts of energy to liquefy and condense hydrogen; however, scientists are experimenting with electrolyzers, genetically-engineered bacteria, and various reactive metals that might one day lead to an abundant alternative-fuel source. According to Kevin Mayhood in a June 30, 2008 article in The Columbus Dispatch, Gerardine Botte, director of Ohio University’s Electrochemical Engineering Research Laboratory, is working on a method to pull hydrogen from the ammonia in animal and human urine. This is important for several reasons. First, we already have the infrastructure in place to distribute ammonia to retail gas station pumps, as it’s been used to make fertilizer for decades. Second, separating hydrogen from ammonia does not produce “greenhouse gases” as long as the required electricity comes from a source which produces no greenhouse gases. (The same can be said for gas/electric hybrids and plug-in electrics.) Third, ammonia is more easily liquefied and condensed than hydrogen.
Role of Power Production for Businesses and Homes
In addition to transforming our automotive fleet and fuel-distribution infrastructure, we need to transform power production for our businesses and homes. This can be accomplished through farm-waste power generation, geothermal heating systems, landfill-gas power generation, solar panels, and wind turbines. We’ve already noted that nearly half our domestic and imported oil is consumed primarily in the form of gasoline to fuel personal vehicles. Likewise, nearly one quarter of all electricity we produce is used to light our businesses and homes. We need to scrap incandescent lights in favor of more-efficient compact fluorescent lights and light-emitting diodes, not in phases, but immediately. We also need to invest in dual-fuel furnaces and water heaters, providing the end-user with the power to automatically switch between electricity and natural gas, depending on real-time energy costs. Buildings and homes must be retrofitted to make better use of daylight and heat gain/loss. Imagine advanced roofing materials that are white (to reflect heat) in the Summer to reduce cooling load and black (to absorb heat) in the Winter to reduce heating load. Additionally, new appliances and electronic devices must be developed that do not require “stand-by” power. Finally, we need to deploy wind turbines across The Great Plains from North Dakota to Texas, harnessing the power of an emissions-free, inexhaustible energy source that does not require oil or other fossil fuels, radioactive materials, or water.
Role of U.S. Dollar and Speculation
A large chunk of the price of every barrel of oil can be tied to the strength of the U.S. Dollar and speculation. Government policies should focus on strengthening the U.S. Dollar and reining in rogue speculators with federal oversight. We’ve provided ample opportunity for energy traders to responsibly exercise the rights of a free market, and they’ve squeezed every drop out of our wallets. Remember Enron?
Role of the Environment and Other Issues
Our thirst for oil and other fossil fuels spews enormous quantities of greenhouse gases and toxic pollutants into the atmosphere each year. Every effort we make now to diversify sources of oil supplies, dramatically slash oil consumption, and increase production of alternative-energy sources will enable us to clean up our act and reduce our “carbon footprint.” In addition to the measures mentioned above, we need to develop chemicals, lubricants, plastics, and road pavements that do not require oil as a feedstock. Not only will this dramatically slash oil consumption, it will enable the heat content traditionally locked up in these products to be used elsewhere. For existing oil-based products, we must implement mandatory recycling or reuse programs. It’s senseless for oil to end up in our landfills or to be poured out on our highways. Additionally, we should explore using “energy labels” on foods and other products detailing the amount of energy required (and the CO2 emissions generated) to produce and transport it, with particular emphasis on the amount of oil and its source. Back to wind turbines: it’s hypocritical for environmental “advocates” to vehemently oppose an emissions-free, inexhaustible energy source that does not require oil or other fossil fuels, radioactive materials, or water.
Christopher M. England, a finance and marketing professional, is an accomplished management and process improvement consultant. His audiences range from senior executives to middle managers, from seasoned professionals to entry-level support staff. He has an MBA in Organizational Leadership and Management and resides in Pickerington, OH.
Staff from Poker Flat Research Range have traveled north to assist fire personnel in mapping the Crazy Mountain Complex fires with unmanned aircraft. The team is stationed at Mile 145 of the Steese Highway, between Circle and Central. They have been deploying the aircraft since Aug. 5. The mapping operation is using 40-pound Insitu ScanEagles equipped with infrared cameras. The aircraft have collected data that has allowed fire personnel to track the progression of fires and current hot spots. This work has proven difficult with manned aircraft. Dense and widespread smoke has grounded or severely limited logistical support from the air in recent days. With the infrared sensors aboard our unmanned aircraft, theyre identifying where the edge of the fire is, said Ro Bailey, special projects manager at Poker Flat Research Range. Anything the aircrafts get will be used to improve the accuracy of the current fire maps. The infrared cameras are performing exceptionally well. The equipment has the ability to peer through dense smoke as the unmanned aircraft fly above active fires. A ground-based pilot controls the aircraft during its flight. When the universitys unmanned aircraft is in flight, no other aircraft is permitted in the airspace. The University of Alaska is the first entity, other than NASA or the Department of Defense, to receive an emergency certificate of authority from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly in civil airspace with an unmanned aircraft beyond ...
