วันพุธที่ 30 มกราคม พ.ศ. 2556
Angels Lip Sync Maroon 5's 'Woman'
The world's hottest 5-piece meet the world's sexiest 2-pieces (our Very
Sexy bikinis) and the Supermodels that wear them in this video from the
Victoria's Secret Angels & Artists series. Featuring Candice
Swanepoel, Lindsay Ellingson, Barbara Palvin, Lais Ribeiro, Sara
Sampaio, Karlie Kloss, Erin Heatherton and Behati Prinsloo.
วันจันทร์ที่ 28 มกราคม พ.ศ. 2556
Bipartisan Group Of Senators To Introduce Immigration Plan, Preempt Obama
Bipartisan Group Of Senators To Introduce Immigration Plan, Preempt Obama |
Bipartisan Group Of Senators To Introduce Immigration Plan, Preempt Obama |
Bipartisan Group Of Senators To Introduce Immigration Plan, Preempt Obama |
Bipartisan Group Of Senators To Introduce Immigration Plan, Preempt Obama |
Bipartisan Group Of Senators To Introduce Immigration Plan, Preempt Obama |
Bipartisan Group Of Senators To Introduce Immigration Plan, Preempt Obama |
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) will join with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) to promote the plan. Senators will unveil their plan (read the full five-page memo below) at a Monday afternoon press conference in Washington.
The senators were expected to make an announcement this week, but after news broke last Thursday that Obama would speak Tuesday in Las Vegas about what he wants in immigration legislation, the lawmakers agreed quickly last Friday to hold the event at the beginning of this week. Both Democratic and Republican senators were eager to go before Obama to try to wrest control of the process from the White House, according to Senate aides.
The group is notable in that it includes leading Senate Democrats like Durbin and Schumer, veteran Republican senators like McCain and Graham, and then Rubio, who was reported to have first joined the bipartisan working group last week, but according to a Rubio aide, was first approached by the others in December and has worked with them since.
"He's met with them several times since then. Our staffs have shared a lot of paper," the aide said, describing the principles as "consistent with everything that Senator Rubio's been talking about."
Durbin and Menendez have been insistent that a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. is a core part of their approach.
"Very clearly, having a pathway to earned legalization is an essential element. And I think that we are largely moving in that direction as an agreement," Menendez said on ABC News' "This Week."
But the bipartisan group has also agreed that before a pathway to citizenship is made available, thresholds must be met on border security and workplace enforcement.
The draft agreement reads: "Once the enforcement measures have been completed, individuals with probationary legal status will be required to go to the back of the line of prospective immigrants, pass an additional background check, pay taxes, learn English and civics, demonstrate a history of work in the United States, and current employment, among other requirements, in order to earn the opportunity to apply for lawful permanent residency. Those individuals who successfully complete these requirements can eventually earn a green card."
The border component will include a commission to verify that the border is secure, made up of governors and attorneys general from border states.
In response to a report in The Hill last week that undocumented immigrants might become eligible for taxpayer-subsidized health care under immigration reform, the Rubio aide also said that the bipartisan group is agreed that undocumented immigrants who might be given a temporary work visa under a new legal framework will not be eligible to receive federal aid.
The draft language backs this up. "Current restrictions preventing non-immigrants from accessing federal public benefits will
also apply to lawful probationary immigrants," it says.
also apply to lawful probationary immigrants," it says.
McCain, also appearing on "This Week," said that the group's proposal is "not that much different from what we tried to do in 2007," when then-President George W. Bush tried to push a set of reforms through Congress.
Bush's initiative was met with hostility by the conservative wing of the Republican party, who howled about amnesty and brought the initiative down to defeat.
McCain said that Republican Mitt Romney's loss in the 2012 presidential election, and the fact that McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012 lost increasingly large numbers of Latino voters, has altered the politics of the immigration debate.
"What's changed is -- honestly, is that there is a new, I think, appreciation on both sides of the aisle -- including maybe more importantly on the Republican side of the aisle -- that we have to enact a comprehensive immigration reform bill," McCain said.
"Look at the last election. Look at the last election," McCain said. "We are losing dramatically the Hispanic vote, which we think should be ours, for a variety of reasons, and we've got to understand that."
In the past, figures like McCain -- who is viewed suspiciously by many conservatives –- have been unable to convince the GOP base or the media influencers like conservative talk radio that their approach to immigration is not "amnesty."
But Rubio –- who is the son of Cuban immigrants –- has had success in ways that other Republicans never have. Just last week he got high praise for his ideas on immigration from talk radio host Mark Levin and Fox News' Lou Dobbs, who both in the past have been outspoken opponents of legalizing undocumented immigrants.
"He's talking intelligently about a rational, effective, humane response to the issue, and the idea's going to be whether the Republican party has the ability, the capacity and the will to put him in a position so that he can represent the party on the issue,"Dobbs said.
Frenzied Scene as Toll Tops 200 in Brazil Blaze
Frenzied Scene as Toll Tops 200 in Brazil Blaze |
Frenzied Scene as Toll Tops 200 in Brazil Blaze |
Frenzied Scene as Toll Tops 200 in Brazil Blaze |
Frenzied Scene as Toll Tops 200 in Brazil Blaze |
Frenzied Scene as Toll Tops 200 in Brazil Blaze |
Frenzied Scene as Toll Tops 200 in Brazil Blaze |
Frenzied Scene as Toll Tops 200 in Brazil Blaze |
Frenzied Scene as Toll Tops 200 in Brazil Blaze |
Frenzied Scene as Toll Tops 200 in Brazil Blaze |
RIO DE JANEIRO — A fire ignited by a flare from a band’s pyrotechnics spectacle swept through a nightclub filled with hundreds of university students early on Sunday morning in Santa Maria, a city in southern Brazil, killing at least 233 people, officials said.Health workers hauled bodies from the club, called Kiss, to hospitals in Santa Maria all through Sunday morning. Some of the survivors were taken to the nearby city of Porto Alegre to be treated for burns. Valdeci Oliveira, a local legislator, told reporters that he saw piles of bodies in the nightclub’s bathrooms.Col. Guido Pedroso de Melo, the commander of the city’s Fire Department, said in televised remarks that security guards had blocked the exit, which intensified the panic as people in the club stampeded to the doors.urvivors described a frenzied and violent rush for the main exit. Murilo de Toledo Tiecher, 26, a medical student at the University of Caxias do Sul who was at the club, said he and his friends had to push through a crush of people to get around a metal barrier that was preventing the crowd from spilling out into the street. He said some people became trapped after they rushed into the bathroom near the exit, thinking it was a way out. Once he was outside, he said, he tried to pull others to safety.“If we saw a hand or a head, we’d start pulling the person out by the hair,” he said in a telephone interview. “People were burned; some didn’t even have clothes.”
The disaster ranks among the deadliest of nightclub fires, comparable to the 2003 blaze in Rhode Island that killed 100 people, one in 2004 in Buenos Aires in which 194 were killed, and a fire at a club in China in 2000 in which 309 people died.
The disaster in Santa Maria, which is in the relatively prosperous state of Rio Grande do Sul, shocked the country. President Dilma Rousseff canceled appointments at a summit meeting in Chile to travel to Santa Maria, a city of about 260,000 residents that is known for its cluster of universities.
The circumstances surrounding the blaze, including the use of pyrotechnics and the reports of the blocked exit, are expected to raise questions about whether the club’s owners had been negligent. While it was not clear why patrons were initially not allowed to escape, it is common across Brazil for nightclubs and bars to have customers pay their entire tab upon leaving, instead of on a per-drink basis.
More broadly, the blaze may focus attention on issues of accountability in Brazil and point to the relaxed enforcement of measures aimed at protecting citizens, even with the economy on solid footing.
The nation’s civil service has grown significantly over the past decade, tax revenues are soaring and there is no shortage of laws and regulations governing the minutiae of companies large and small. Yet preventable disasters still commonly claim lives in Brazil, as illustrated by Rio de Janeiro’s building collapses, manhole explosions and trolley mishaps.
“Bureaucracy and corruption also cause tragedies,” said André Barcinski, a columnist for Folha de São Paulo, one of Brazil’s largest newspapers.
Some of the survivors’ criticisms pointed to a heated argument over who was responsible. “Only after a multitude pushed down the security guards did they see” what they had done, Mr. Tiecher, the medical student, said in comments posted on Facebook.
In an interview, he said that security guards had blocked the club door and initially prevented people from escaping because they thought a fight had broken out inside, and that customers would use the opportunity to leave without paying their bar tabs. Only after they realized that a fire was raging inside did the security guards let the crowd go, Mr. Tiecher said.
Witnesses said the fire started about 2 a.m. after a rock band, Gurizada Fandangueira, began performing for an audience made up mostly of students in the agronomy and veterinary medicine programs at a local university. Mr. Tiecher said the band’s singer lighted a kind of flare and held it over his ahead, accidentally setting the ceiling on fire. Members of the band were seen trying to douse the flames.
At least one member of the five-person band, which is based in Santa Maria and had advertised its use of pyrotechnics, was said to have been killed. Many of the victims died of smoke inhalation, officials said.
“The smoke spread very quickly,” Aline Santos Silva, 29, one of the survivors, said in comments to the Globo News television network. “Those who were closest to the stage where the band was playing had the most difficulty getting out.”
Human rights officials focused Sunday on the grief in Santa Maria. “How many families are now searching for their young one?” asked Maria do Rosário Nunes, a cabinet minister who is Ms. Rousseff’s top human rights official.
Brazilian television stations broadcast images of trucks carrying corpses to hospitals where family members were gathering. Photographs taken shortly after the blaze and posted on the Web sites of local news organizations showed frantic scenes in which people on the street outside the nightclub pulled bodies from the charred debris.
Parents and other family members wandered through Santa Maria on Sunday searching for their loved ones. “I still think she hasn’t died,” Cibela Focco, 35, whose daughter was in the nightclub and still had not been heard from, told reporters Sunday evening.
The tragedy took place in a region of Brazil where Ms. Rousseff spent much of her early political career before rising to national prominence as a top aide to the former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and running for president herself. Before leaving the meeting in Chile, she appeared distraught, crying in front of reporters as she absorbed details of the blaze.
“This is a tragedy,” she said, “for all of us.”
Jill Langlois contributed reporting from São Paulo, Brazil, and Michael Schwirtz from New York.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:Correction: January 27, 2013
A picture of a hallway strewn with shoes that accompanied a previous version of this online article was used in error. It showed the aftermath of a fire in Buenos Aires in 2004, not Saturday night’s fire in Santa Maria, Brazil.
Also, a credit from Agence France-Presse for two photographs that appeared with earlier versions of this story misidentified the photographer. The photographs were taken by Ronald Mendes, not by Lauro Alves.
วันอาทิตย์ที่ 27 มกราคม พ.ศ. 2556
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Nissan Versa Note
ในที่สุด Nissan ก็สามารถแก้ปัญหาความสับสนด้านตำแหน่งการตลาดของผลิตภัณฑ์รถคอมแพคท์ของตนเอง
ได้ เสียที เพราะ Nissan เริ่มยอมรับความจริงแล้วว่าการนำรถ Tiida ที่เป็นรถคุณภาพระดับเดียวกับ C-Segment
ส่งไปขายในตลาดอเมริกาภายใต้ชื่อ Versa เป็นวิธีที่ไม่ถูกต้อง ถึงแม้ว่ายอดขายในสหรัฐอเมริกาจะดีมากมายแค่ไหน
แต่ลูกค้าที่ขับ Tiida ทั่วโลกก็สับสนในรถยนต์ มันเป็นรถระดับไหนกันแน่? อีกทั้ง Nissan
ก็ไม่สามารถทำกำไรกับ Versa ได้ดีเท่าไรที่ควรจะเป็น (เหมือนเอารถอีกระดับแต่มาขายในราคาต่ำกว่าที่ควรจะเป็น)
Nissan เริ่มแก้ปัญหาโดยการแนะนำรถรุ่นใหม่ที่สร้างขึ้นเพื่อให้เป็น B-Car แท้ ๆ มาสวมชื่อ Versa รุ่นใหม่เริ่มจาก
Almera/Sunny ที่จะกลายเป็น Versa Sedan รุ่นใหม่ และล่าสุดก็จัดการส่ง Nissan Note เข้าไปสวมชื่อเป็น Versa
Note เพื่อมาแทนที่ Versa Hatchback รุ่นเก่า
Nissan Versa Note มีดีไซน์ภายนอกเหมือนกับ Nissan Note รุ่นใหม่ที่เพิ่งเปิดตัวในญี่ปุ่นช่วงปลายปี 2012 มีจุด
ต่างกันเพียงแค่มุมไฟเลี้ยวหน้าสีส้ม ชูจุดเด่นด้วยดีไซน์ที่ออกแนวสปอร์ตแต่มีขนาดห้องโดยสารที่กว้างขวางมากกว่าที่ใคร
คิด
ส่วนภายในห้องโดยสารก็ยังคงความเป็น Nissan ที่เป็นเจ้าแห่งการลดต้นทุนแบบตัดแปะตัวจริง งานนี้ Nissan ยกแผง
แดชบอร์ดหน้าจาก Versa Sedan ทั้งหมดมายกใส่พร้อมทั้งแปลงชิ้นส่วนพลาสติกหน้าฝั่งผู้โดยสารให้แตกต่างกัน
เล็กน้อย และขอหยิบยืมพวงมาลัยจาก Nissan Sentra/Sylphy มาใช้ด้วย ส่วนอุปกรณ์มาตรฐานก็จะชูจุดเด่นด้วยกล้อง
ส่องรอบทิศทาง 360 องศาเป็นครั้งแรกในรถยนต์นั่งขนาดเล็ก
เครื่องยนต์กลไกก็ยกชุดมาจาก Nissan Versa Sedan ด้วยเครื่องยนต์ HR16DE 1.6 ลิตร หัวฉีดคู่ 109 แรงม้าที่ 6,000
รอบต่อนาที แรงบิดสูงสุด 107 ปอนด์ฟุตที่ 4,400 รอบต่อนาทีจับคู่เกียร์ XtronicCVT ลูกใหม่ มีอัตราสิ้นเปลืองในเมือง 31 MPG
นอกเมือง 40 MPG
Nissan Versa Note จะเริ่มส่งขึ้นโชว์รูมในอเมริกาตั้งแต่เดือนมิถุนายน 2013 เป็นต้นไป
ได้ เสียที เพราะ Nissan เริ่มยอมรับความจริงแล้วว่าการนำรถ Tiida ที่เป็นรถคุณภาพระดับเดียวกับ C-Segment
ส่งไปขายในตลาดอเมริกาภายใต้ชื่อ Versa เป็นวิธีที่ไม่ถูกต้อง ถึงแม้ว่ายอดขายในสหรัฐอเมริกาจะดีมากมายแค่ไหน
แต่ลูกค้าที่ขับ Tiida ทั่วโลกก็สับสนในรถยนต์ มันเป็นรถระดับไหนกันแน่? อีกทั้ง Nissan
ก็ไม่สามารถทำกำไรกับ Versa ได้ดีเท่าไรที่ควรจะเป็น (เหมือนเอารถอีกระดับแต่มาขายในราคาต่ำกว่าที่ควรจะเป็น)
Nissan เริ่มแก้ปัญหาโดยการแนะนำรถรุ่นใหม่ที่สร้างขึ้นเพื่อให้เป็น B-Car แท้ ๆ มาสวมชื่อ Versa รุ่นใหม่เริ่มจาก
Almera/Sunny ที่จะกลายเป็น Versa Sedan รุ่นใหม่ และล่าสุดก็จัดการส่ง Nissan Note เข้าไปสวมชื่อเป็น Versa
Note เพื่อมาแทนที่ Versa Hatchback รุ่นเก่า
Nissan Versa Note มีดีไซน์ภายนอกเหมือนกับ Nissan Note รุ่นใหม่ที่เพิ่งเปิดตัวในญี่ปุ่นช่วงปลายปี 2012 มีจุด
ต่างกันเพียงแค่มุมไฟเลี้ยวหน้าสีส้ม ชูจุดเด่นด้วยดีไซน์ที่ออกแนวสปอร์ตแต่มีขนาดห้องโดยสารที่กว้างขวางมากกว่าที่ใคร
คิด
ส่วนภายในห้องโดยสารก็ยังคงความเป็น Nissan ที่เป็นเจ้าแห่งการลดต้นทุนแบบตัดแปะตัวจริง งานนี้ Nissan ยกแผง
แดชบอร์ดหน้าจาก Versa Sedan ทั้งหมดมายกใส่พร้อมทั้งแปลงชิ้นส่วนพลาสติกหน้าฝั่งผู้โดยสารให้แตกต่างกัน
เล็กน้อย และขอหยิบยืมพวงมาลัยจาก Nissan Sentra/Sylphy มาใช้ด้วย ส่วนอุปกรณ์มาตรฐานก็จะชูจุดเด่นด้วยกล้อง
ส่องรอบทิศทาง 360 องศาเป็นครั้งแรกในรถยนต์นั่งขนาดเล็ก
เครื่องยนต์กลไกก็ยกชุดมาจาก Nissan Versa Sedan ด้วยเครื่องยนต์ HR16DE 1.6 ลิตร หัวฉีดคู่ 109 แรงม้าที่ 6,000
รอบต่อนาที แรงบิดสูงสุด 107 ปอนด์ฟุตที่ 4,400 รอบต่อนาทีจับคู่เกียร์ XtronicCVT ลูกใหม่ มีอัตราสิ้นเปลืองในเมือง 31 MPG
นอกเมือง 40 MPG
Nissan Versa Note จะเริ่มส่งขึ้นโชว์รูมในอเมริกาตั้งแต่เดือนมิถุนายน 2013 เป็นต้นไป
Helicopter crashes into Broadway Vauxhall tower
A low-flying helicopter crashed into a crane at Broadway Malyan’s Vauxhall tower in south London this morning.
One witness said the aircraft then struck the Berkeley Homes building, before hitting the ground in a ball of smoke.
Another told the Evening Standard: “I saw the helicopter hit the crane and it took up to 30 seconds to come down from the building because it hit the sides.
“The force of the impact was so much that it caused the crane to bend. There were a lot of people coming out of the station who were in shock.”
Eyewitness Craig Dunne, who was walking to work, told the BBC the crane was “obviously in pieces”. “There were cars – three cars on fire – people screaming, shouting and hollering, and the next thing I know there are police, ambulances and everything everywhere and people going crazy. It’s madness – absolute maddess,” he added.
Photographs show the wreckage burning on Wandsworth Road.
Vauxhall tube and train stations have now re-opened, but a number of surrounding streets remain closed.
Two people, including the helicopter pilot, have died and a further nine are seriously injured.
Helicopter Crashes In Central London
LONDON -- London's Fire Brigade says it is responding to
reports that a helicopter has crashed near the River Thames in London
during the early morning rush hour.
A photo shown on Sky News showed wreckage burning in a street.
Some witnesses reported that a helicopter had collided with a construction crane.
A large plume of black smoke was seen rising in the area, close to the Waterloo train station.
There were no immediate reports on casualties.
A photo shown on Sky News showed wreckage burning in a street.
Some witnesses reported that a helicopter had collided with a construction crane.
A large plume of black smoke was seen rising in the area, close to the Waterloo train station.
There were no immediate reports on casualties.
วันจันทร์ที่ 14 มกราคม พ.ศ. 2556
วันอาทิตย์ที่ 13 มกราคม พ.ศ. 2556
Beautiful Photography by Vilde Indrehus
Beautiful Photography by Vilde Indrehus, a young photographer from Norway. Vilde lives in a place near the ocean and the forest. Inspired by the forest and the nature, she took the emotional shots to express her extreme love of her homeland.
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