| New MINI Clubman Motors Into Dealer Showrooms
Enhanced Function With MINI Performance and Driving Characteristics. MINI has developed the new MINI Clubman specifically for the active and passionate individualist wishing to consciously stand out. The MINI Clubman retains its sporting character, while offering new and flexible options in interior use and practical value. Despite its slightly longer proportions the MINI Clubman retains MINI's typical "wheels at the four corners" stance and the car's driving characteristics still offer the legendary go-kart feeling unique to MINI. The MINI Clubman will be available in the U.S. with two different engines: * Powered by a 1.6-liter four-cylinder with twin-scroll turbocharger, direct gasoline injection and maximum output of 175 hp at an engine speed of 5,500 rpm, the MINI Cooper S Clubman offers the highest level of performance.
Off-duty Portland cop cleared in Scappoose shooting
Columbia County District Attorney Stephen Atchison on Friday said he would not pursue charges against an off-duty Portland Police Bureau officer who shot and killed a drug-crazed, gun-wielding man outside the officer's home. Greg Stewart, a sergeant with the Portland Police Bureau, early on Oct. 5 shot and killed Jeffrey Dean Turpin, 42, of Ocean Park, Wash. Turpin was wielding a handgun and repeatedly pounding on the front door of Stewart's home in a Scappoose subdivision. "Taking into account the facts of this case and the applicable law, it is my opinion that no charges should be filed," Atchison wrote in a 13-page legal opinion and investigative report that outlines events leading up to the shooting. "It was reasonable for Mr. Stewart to believe that he needed to act to protect his family and home before an intruder escalated the situation to the level of actual violence or harm, rather than likely harm, to himself or his family," the report continues.
Science, symphonies mix with Alsop's 'CSI'
The project will explore diagnoses of the composer's hearing loss and a long list of physical ailments that made his last years especially difficult, from respiratory trouble to skin disorders. Joining Alsop at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall for the examination will be two medical experts -- Dr. Philip A. Mackowiak, professor and vice chairman of the department of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Dr. Charles J. Limb, assistant professor of otolaryngology at the Johns Hopkins University. "Beethoven is probably the most famous deaf person the world has ever known," Limb says. "Beethoven's hearing loss is the closest thing that classical music has to an urban legend. There is a tendency to romanticize it, but he hated it." Expect the participants in the BSO program, including William Meredith, director of the Ira F.
Bicycle parts shop destroyed in JB morning blaze
JOHOR BARU: A bicycle parts supply shop was destroyed during an early morning blaze in Bandar Baru Uda here. Twenty-seven firemen and seven fire engines were dispatched to the location after receiving a distress call at 8.20am. Operations commander Hamid Suhari said the fire was controlled within 15 minutes but was only put out totally at 2.20pm. "Some shop workers who discovered the fire when they reached the store informed us about it," he said. He added that no casualties were reported. Hamid said losses were estimated at more than RM200,000. Last Thursday, a bicycle workshop in the same housing area and situated near the supply shop was also destroyed in the fire. The incident also occurred at about 8.20pm. Losses were estimated at more than RM100,000 in that fire.
Tian Liang pays for cashing in on fame
Tian Liang knows what it is like to be at the heart of China's secretive state-run sports sector. Plucked from the long-jump pit on the school playing fields of Chongqing at the age of 7 and sent to the swimming pool, he was carefully nurtured to become one of the country's most successful divers. During a 20-year career he won three world titles, 15 World Cups, two Olympic gold medals and a bronze. The 28-year-old also knows what it is like to be cast out of the system. Despite his two-medal haul in Athens in 2004, he was kicked off the national team in 2005 for endorsing everything from electric bicycles to seafood snacks. His coaches, who demoted him to a provincial team despite his continued superiority, said that he had been "violating team regulations concerning commercial activities ...
The Di Blasi trike: A different kind of green tech hybrid
Last year about this time, I brought my neglected 15-year-old GT mountain bike down to a local repair shop for some much-needed TLC. After spurning all sales pitches to invest in a new one, I then dropped nearly as much moolah to get my faithful ride street-legal. And there it sits, tires going flat in the garage. Chalk it up to the hills in my New Jersey town, which are a little bit too intense for my desk-job thighs. New Year's Resolution #1 … So, what to do for quick trips into town? Oh, for the old moped I used to share with my brothers in high school. Actually, scratch that. I don't even want to know how fuel-inefficient it was. Today, there are so many more interesting options available to folks like me who are trying to avoid taking the car out except when necessary for longer treks.
Vancouver city council enacts helmet law
Beginning in 30 days, all cyclists and skaters in Vancouver will have to strap on helmets or risk receiving a $50 ticket. The city council, by a 5-1 vote Monday, decided to require both juveniles and adults to wear helmets when riding bicycles, skateboards, roller skates, roller blades, scooters and unicycles on public streets, sidewalks and trails. Once the law takes effect, Vancouver will become the first city in Clark County to require helmets. Safety was the prime reason for the law. Councilwoman Jeanne Harris recounted how, more than 25 years ago, a bicyclist wearing a helmet smacked into her car and walked away. "I can’t tell you how it affected me that I could have hurt somebody," Harris said. "You can’t plan not to have an accident, and that is what’s this is about.
Bill Gates - You Asked The Questions
I've just emerged from the Microsoft machine, shaken but unscathed. I've interviewed Bill Gates three or four times over a 12 year period, and each time I come out impressed by the sheer professionalism of the Microsoft PR operation but wondering whether we've been successfully spun. This time we tried a new tactic - getting BBC viewers, listeners and readers to ask the questions. We had thousands, covering every aspect of Bill Gates and Microsoft - past, present and future. Over two hundred were seeking jobs, one gentleman was proposing himself as the next CEO of Microsoft, and another wondered whether the secrets of Windows software had been recovered from a crashed UFO. We did not ask that one, but managed to get through around fifteen questions during our allotted fifteen minutes.
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