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Honda adds to hybrid line

31.01.10

Honda's back with another entrance in the hybrid segment, this time a informal two-seater called the CR-Z, which was introduced in staging form at the recent Detroit auto show.

At shown as a concept vehicle at the 2007 Tokyo and 2008 Detroit auto shows, the CR-Z will go on purchase this summer as somewhat of a replacement for the sporty CRX facsimile that Honda enthusiasts loved in the 1980s.

What the CR-Z as a matter of fact is, though, is a two-seat version of the Japanese automaker's latest compound, the Insight, which debuted last year to anything but accolade reviews. Looking like a marginally junior-size version of the groundbreaking Toyota Prius, the new Acumen has yet to gain any traction in the marketplace.

As for the 2011 CR-Z, the composite part of the vehicle seems to be more of an afterthought than a primary rumination; the car is intended for the sport-performance press, not the “green” consumers who roughly seem to want the most fuel-efficient, least polluting car they can find.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle (blog)

Tale of a Terrorist

29.01.10

For Tarek (Shredi Jabarin), accepting a suicide job will restore the honor of his father, suspected of being an informant. Wearing an precarious-rigged vest and a terrified announcement, he heads for a Tel Aviv market, but when a on the blink trigger scuppers his plans, he finds an electrical seek owned by the eccentric Katz (Shlomo Wishinski) and, producing the offending article from inside his sleeve, requests a replacement. It is hoped Katz isn’t essential to the local neighborhood superintend.

While waiting for the trigger, Tarek becomes a kidney of well-padded Good Samaritan, interrupting Katz’s chain midsuicide and helping a shunned loveliness (Hili Yalon) evade the Jewish posse that wants to reappearance her to the Orthodox fold. Ignoring his grainy jacket and tendency to run up trees at the catch sight of of a police car, Tarek’s new friends take care of him from nosy officials. In the meantime his old friends wait impatiently back adept in, fingers itching to press the remote.

Well-intentioned but philosophically modest, “For My Father” wants to conceive on the moral reshuffling that can accompany menacing death. But the director, Dror Zahavi, is ill served by a screenplay (by Ido Dror and Jonatan Dror) too attracted to accident and too repelled by the existential brink.

Source: New York Times

Simon Cowell's American Idol replacement: our nominations

13.01.10

Rod Blagojevich. The disgraced former Illinois governor has a bad way of putting his foot in his mouth, which is a jumbo part of why he's no longer the governor of the great pomp of Illinois. (You know who else has that same problem, and is also from Illinois? Kanye West! Skimpy world.) He's also a deal-making knave with ridiculous hair and a tenuous dig on reality, which means that he'd be a great escort-wreck of an Idol judge. For one reaction, Blago shares all of the qualities I legitimate mentioned with roughly 79% of Luminary auditionees. For another, the potential for malfeasance and muddle and rancor would be insane. Imagine this guy impartial, say, pretending that a favorite eliminated adversary of his - maybe her name could be "Amy" - hadn't been eliminated at all, addressing every extant female contestant as "Amy." Crazy! Or perchance he'd cut backroom deals to sway prehistoric votes potential hopefuls' way in market for movie tickets or iTunes facility cards or awkward pole dances

Source: Minneapolis City Pages (blog)