Friday, 30 November 2012

High Gear Media answers surging mobile audience with free ...

It?s not every content portal that can claim funding from two of the premier venture capital firms in the Valley. But?High Gear Media can do just that, having raised $12 million over multiple rounds from Accel Partners and Greylock Partners, among other investors. Earlier this week, the company that competes with Car and Driver, Road & Track, and Motor Trend launched an improved iOS mobile app that has the potential to dramatically disrupt the automotive media industry.

The traditional print incumbents in the category offer content via iOS, but do so in nearly all cases through the Newsstand and behind a paywall. Digital-only High Gear is now offering 100 percent of its content for free via a universal iPhone and iPad app. High Gear operates several Web properties including review and listing site TheCarConnection.com, green vehicle site GreenCarReports.com, and luxury and performance vehicle news destination MotorAuthority.com.

Each of these properties creates and publishes its own editorial and premium video content, as well as syndicate its content across partner sites such as Yahoo Autos, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Glam Media.?It?s the Motor Authority brand that?s getting the app treatment.

Across its entire ecosystem, the company sees more than 5 million monthly viewers and is ranked in the Top 10 by Comscore in the Automotive category. The app launch could not come at a better time for High Gear, as the company has seen mobile Web user growth of 150 percent over the last year and similarly increasing inbound consumer requests for a native app.

Showing that its audience is equally as active on social media as it is on mobile, Motor Authority recently crossed 100,000 Facebook friends amid 100 percent annual growth in that regard, while the entire High Gear ecosystem totals more than 200,000 followers on the social network.

These figures put Motor Authority on par with industry 800-pound industry gorilla Edmunds, which itself just crossed 100,000 followers, and suggests parent company High Gear is in a commanding position to address its target audience through the social channel. As social media becomes increasingly important in driving audience to digital content, this lead will become more and more valuable.

Interestingly, there?s no clear leader in the automotive?native mobile app category, with the most downloaded being Car and Driver Magazine, a paid app with approximately 164,000 downloads accodring to XYO data. High Gear could conceivable cross that threshold quite quickly given its free pricing model.

Collectively these social and mobile trends are not unique to High Gear but represent a theme across the content and commerce ecosystem. An increasing percentage of digital content is consumed on mobile devices ? 22 percent and rising ? and digital content is increasingly being used to drive commerce. As many ecommerce-first companies have found, mobile revenue is quickly catching up to mobile engagement.

High Gear CEO Matt Heist, who previously worked at Sidestep.com, and before that at Yahoo, recently discussed his observations and recommendations in a contributed post on PandoDaily. In it, he suggests blending traditional with promoted content, geo-targeting advertising, incorporating transactions into editorial content, and restructuring costs from print to mobile publishing ? the company will employ each of these strategies in one form or another within the MotorAuthority app. Like Heist, High Gear Founder and Chairman Hesky Kutscher is no digital slouch, having previously founded and ultimately sold ShopLocal to Gannett in 2004 for $75 million.

The takeaway seems to be that those media companies native to the digital realm are best equipped ??and most willing ??to adapt to its unique demands. High Gear?s decision to buck industry trends by giving away its content for free is one example of this progressive mindset. Its recent growth suggests that the initiatives are working and that those who have not yet embraced the mobile audience would be well served to adapt.

[Photo credit,?Joe Nuxoll, High Gear Media]

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Michael Carney has spent his career exploring the world of early stage technology as an investor and entrepreneur and has participated in building companies in multiple countries within North and South America and Asia. Ultimately, he is an enthusiast of all things shiny and electronic and is inspired by those who build businesses and regularly tackle difficult problems. You can follow Michael on Twitter @mcarney.

Source: http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/29/high-gear-media-answers-surging-mobile-audience-with-free-automotive-content-app/

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Syrians want to know: 'Are you okay after Superstorm Sandy?'

With the sound of mortars in the background, Syrians in Aleppo express concern for our American correspondent and his storm-battered homeland.

By Tom A. Peter,?Correspondent / November 18, 2012

Syrian women work on their field in the village of Tarafat, Syria in October. Many Syrians have expressed concern for Americans hit by hurricane Sandy.

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I had just sat down to interview a commander of the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo and we were exchanging the normal pre-meeting pleasantries as some distant gunfire cracked in the background. After 20 months of conflict here, most artillery and gunfire goes unnoticed unless people are close enough to be directly affected.

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Tom A. Peter is a journalist based in Kabul, Afghanistan where he covers news and features throughout the country. He has also reported for The Monitor from Iraq, Yemen, Jordan, and throughout the United States.

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With this as the backdrop for our interview, I was taken off guard when he asked if my friends and family were all right after Superstorm Sandy.

As a Californian living abroad, I was aware of Sandy. I had seen a few pictures of the aftermath, but I hadn?t even followed the Sandy news close enough to know that it had been classified as a ?superstorm,? as a opposed to a hurricane. Yet here was a man whose nation is being torn apart by a violent civil war that had claimed the lives of several friends and tens of thousands of Syrians, and he?d been following Sandy news.

I initially thought the comment was a one off, a lone hurricane watcher, perhaps he was a Syrian with an interest in meteorology. Yet it has happened again and again and everyone who asks knows that it was a superstorm, not a hurricane.

Working in the midst of a war like Syria, it?s easy to assume that for those involved the conflict, the situation is their entire life and there is little time for details, like a destructive storm thousands of miles away.But Superstorm Sandy is just one of the odd questions about America you might encounter in Syria as people try to take a mental break from the war.

One night, I found myself with a group of FSA fighters watching Jumanji on an Arabic movie station that gives Arabic subtitles. We got into a debate about whether the child actress in the film was a young Drew Barrymore or someone else. (It was a teenage Kirsten Dunst.)

A few days later, I sparked a heated discussion when I jokingly asked a Syrian activist wearing a glove on only one hand if it was a tribute to Michael Jackson. The person wearing the glove argued that while Michael?s music was impossible not to enjoy, it had been tainted by the scandals surrounding his personal life. His friend argued that art is not defined by the artist and Michael Jackson remains hands down one of the best singers ever, regardless of what happened off stage.

In all the conflicts I have ever covered, I find myself in these conversations.?Everyone tries to hold on to a normal world of news and pop culture to take them beyond their current hardships.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/csmonitor/globalnews/~3/WvLVWK1MHmY/Syrians-want-to-know-Are-you-okay-after-Superstorm-Sandy

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Thursday, 29 November 2012

U.N. upgrades Palestine to 'state,' U.S. objects

UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? The United Nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state, a long-sought victory for the Palestinians and an embarrassing diplomatic defeat for the United States.

The resolution upgrading the Palestinians' status to a nonmember observer state at the U.N. was approved by a vote of 138-9, with 41 abstentions, in the 193-member world body.

A Palestinian flag was quickly unfurled on the floor of the General Assembly, behind the Palestinian delegation. In the West Bank city of Ramallah, hundreds crowded into the main square waved Palestinian flags and chanted "God is great." Others who had watched the vote on outdoor screens and television sets hugged, honked and set off fireworks before dancing in the streets.

Real independence, however, remains an elusive dream until the Palestinians negotiate a peace deal with the Israelis, who warned that the General Assembly action will only delay a lasting solution. Israel still controls the West Bank, east Jerusalem and access to Gaza, and it accused the Palestinians of bypassing negotiations with the campaign to upgrade their U.N. status.

The United States immediately criticized the historic vote. "Today's unfortunate and counterproductive resolution places further obstacles in the path peace," U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice said. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the vote "unfortunate" and "counterproductive."

The United States and Israel voted against recognition, joined by Canada, the Czech Republic, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Panama.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the speech by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the General Assembly shortly before the vote "defamatory and venomous," saying it was "full of mendacious propaganda" against Israel. Netanyahu called the vote meaningless.

Abbas had told the General Assembly that it was "being asked today to issue the birth certificate of Palestine." Abbas said the vote is the last chance to save the two-state solution.

After the vote, Netanyahu said the U.N. move violated past agreements between Israel and the Palestinians and that Israel would act accordingly, without elaborating what steps it might take.

Thursday's vote came on the same day, Nov. 29, that the U.N. General Assembly in 1947 voted to recognize a state in Palestine, with the jubilant revelers then Jews. The Palestinians rejected that partition plan, and decades of tension and violence have followed.

The Palestinians still face enormous limitations. They don't control their borders, airspace or trade, they have separate and competing governments in Gaza and the West Bank and they have no unified army or police.

Just before Thursday's vote, Israel's U.N. ambassador, Ron Prosor, warned the General Assembly that "the Palestinians are turning their backs on peace" and that the U.N. can't break the 4,000-year-old bond between the people of Israel and the land of Israel.

The vote had been certain to succeed, with most member states sympathetic to the Palestinians. Several key countries, including France, this week announced they would support the move to elevate the Palestinians from the status of U.N. observer to nonmember observer state.

Unlike the more powerful U.N. Security Council, there are no vetoes in the General Assembly, and the resolution to raise the Palestinian status only required a majority vote for approval.

The vote grants Abbas an overwhelming international endorsement for his key position: establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, the territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. With Netanyahu opposed to a pullback to the 1967 lines, this should strengthen Abbas' hand if peace talks resume.

The overwhelming vote also could help Abbas restore some of his standing, which has been eroded by years of standstill in peace efforts. His rival, Hamas, deeply entrenched in Gaza, has seen its popularity rise after an Israeli offensive on targets linked to the Islamic militant group there earlier this month.

Israel has stepped back from initial threats of harsh retaliation for the Palestinians seeking U.N. recognition, but government officials warned that Israel would respond to any Palestinian attempts to use the upgraded status to confront Israel in international bodies.

The Palestinians now can gain access to U.N. agencies and international bodies, most significantly the International Criminal Court, which could become a springboard for going after Israel for alleged war crimes or its ongoing settlement building on war-won land.

However, in the run-up to the U.N. vote, Abbas signaled that he wants recognition to give him leverage in future talks with Israel, and not as a tool for confronting or delegitimizing Israel, as Israeli leaders have alleged.

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Associated Press writers Robert Burns and Bradley Klapper in Washington, Tia Goldenberg in Jerusalem and Mohammed Daraghmeh and Karin Laub in Ramallah contributed.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/un-vote-recognizes-state-palestine-us-objects-222714646.html

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Nashville ranked 6th for most attractive residents | Nashville Shopping

Travel and Leisure magazine ranks Nashville as one of the top ten cities with the most attractive residents for 2012.

Compiled from an online survey, Nashville placed sixth out of 35 cities across the United States with sunny Miami taking the top spot for attractive city dwellers.

Is pretty is as pretty does? Evidently, since we ranked number one on the list for friendliest city.

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Wednesday, 28 November 2012

FDA accepts Aveo kidney cancer pill application

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) ? Aveo Oncology said Wednesday that the Food and Drug Administration will complete a review of its cancer pill Tivopath by July 28.

Aveo and its partner Astellas Pharma Inc. want to market Tivopath as a treatment for advanced kidney cancer. The companies said the FDA accepted their application, and the agency will conduct a standard 10-month review. Astellas will pay Aveo $15 million now that the filing has been accepted.

Tivopath, or tivozanib, is a tablet intended to be taken once per day. The companies are also studying the drug as a treatment for other solid tumors, including cancers of the breast and colon.

Shares of Aveo Pharmaceuticals Inc., the official name of Aveo Oncology, lost 54 cents, or 7.6 percent, to $6.57 in midday trading. Its shares have traded in a 52-week range of $5.80 to $17.65.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fda-accepts-aveo-kidney-cancer-pill-application-175236197--finance.html

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Yes, You Have to Pay to Reach Some of Your Facebook Fans

understanding facebook edgerank Yes, You Have to Pay to Reach Some of Your Facebook FansI promised myself that I wouldn?t write another EdgeRank or Reach controversy article for a while, but I couldn?t resist?

Now that Facebook has tweaked EdgeRank, the common refrain is that brands are being forced ? blackmailed even ? to pay to reach their Fans.

My response: Well, yeah. Sorta.

And my follow-up: That makes Facebook a better place.

This deserves an explanation. First, let?s understand how Facebook EdgeRank works?

The People You Reach


Today, when you write your historically, insanely awesome Facebook post, you?re going to reach some people. Let?s try to break down how that is going to happen.

This historically, insanely awesome piece of content is going to reach?

  • Fans who regularly engage with you and who were online when you posted,
  • Fans who sometimes engage with you and were online when you posted, and
  • People who saw the engagement of friends with your awesome content.

The People You Don?t Reach

The following people will be extremely unlikely to see your content:

  • People who have hidden your content or marked it as spam,
  • Fans who have never clicked on or engaged with your content,
  • Fans who have rarely clicked on or engaged with your content, and
  • Fans who weren?t online within a couple of hours of your post.

The Other Reach Variables


This is if your content is historically, insanely awesome. If it?s average ? meaning that it doesn?t get a ton of clicks, comments, likes or shares ? expect to reach fewer people.

Who you reach then will be dependent upon a combination of?

  • How often they engage with you,
  • How often they engage with that type of content, and
  • How often others are engaging with that content.

Reaching the Rest


Is that unfair? Not really. It?s Facebook surfacing your content to the people most likely to want to see it.

Think that?s BS? Not according to the results I?ve seen ? both on my Page and globally. Reach does seem to be down a bit, but engagement remains steady. That can only be the case if Facebook has made the News Feed more relevant and efficient.

Let?s use an elementary example. Before, I reached 100 people to get 20 forms of engagement. Now I?m reaching 90 people to get the same 20 forms of engagement.

Should I feel wronged for not reaching the 10 invisible people?

There?s something that needs to be said here that brands do not want to admit: Some of your Fans simply do not care if they hear from you. Even stronger, some don?t want to hear from you at all.

Don?t assume that the ?Like? is an implied subscription to see all of your content. People ?Like? for different reasons. Sometimes they want to see your stuff. Sometimes it?s just as an expression.

But don?t think it?s not perfectly clear how they feel about you. If they wanted to see your content, they would be engaging with it. And when Facebook sees they don?t care about your content, Facebook stops showing it to them.

Maybe they don?t want to hear from you in general. Maybe the tepid response to your post is a cue to Facebook that most won?t want to hear from you. But it?s something you need to understand and accept.

The ?Blackmail?


So, you need to pay a few bucks to reach those people? Gotta shell out some green to invade the News Feeds of people even though your content was crap? Forced to pony up to get in front of someone who hasn?t once engaged with your content?

It actually makes sense to me. And I think it makes Facebook a better place.

If you aren?t reaching the number of people you think you should reach ? if the engagement is also low ? you have two choices: 1) Learn and adjust, or 2) Pay to reach those less willing to be reached.

You could yell and scream that Facebook is screwing you. But I don?t think that will get you very far.

Personally, I wouldn?t pay to promote a post that isn?t getting engagement. That?s your sign that it?s a waste of money.

I often have people tell me that a Facebook ad ?failed? because they spent $100 and didn?t get much of anything in terms of engagement or conversions. But they?re missing the point.

You paid to reach more people. Those people may not have wanted to be reached. You can?t pay to force them to engage. If they don?t engage, it?s a sign that your content was a failure. Not your ad.

So, is it blackmail to force you to reach people who weren?t online, don?t engage with your content or likely wouldn?t be interested based on initial response?

No way. It?s understanding what users want. It?s controlling the flow of stuff they don?t want. And it?s profiting if you want to override that control.

What do you think?

Source: http://www.jonloomer.com/2012/11/28/pay-to-reach-facebook-fans-edgerank/

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The $400 million buyout hoax that fooled many

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The "pump and dump" lives, apparently.?

Shares of ICOA Wireless?soared earlier Monday on news that Internet behemoth Google had acquired the wireless hotspot company for $400 million. The problem? The buyout never happened.?

The CEO of ICOA told Reuters in an email Monday that it never had buyout talks with Google and that it has contacted authorities to look into what it called a hoax press release.

"Someone, I guess a stock promoter with a dubious interest, is disseminating wrong, false and misleading info in the PR circles,"?ICOA CEO and Chairman George Strouthopoulos told Reuters.

According to the Wall Street Journal's "All Things D" blog, the fake press release was disseminated on PRWeb, which is a free service operated by the PR firm Vocus. The Wall Street Journal called PRWeb to ask it about the press release, but has not heard back from anyone yet.

"We are investigating the source, so far it originated from Aruba," Strouthopoulos told Reuters. He did not ?elaborate.?

In the meantime, shares of ICOA retreated to .0001 cent in later afternoon trading?after rising to .0005 cent when the two paragraph press release got investors excited and fooled some news organizations and blogs.

That quick rise and fall could have spelled swift profits for some unscrupulous?investor or investors in the type of scheme that pumps up a stock price with false information. The investor(s) then dump the shares quickly before others in the market get wind of the misinformation. Hence the "pump and dump" moniker.

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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/400-million-buyout-hoax-fooled-many-1C7208011

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Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Sales Manager Jobs in Kenya Security Firm | Career Point Kenya

Sales Marketing Jobs in Kenya
Our client in the Security Industry is looking for a Sales Manager who will be responsible for the development and performance of all sales activities in assigned market.

Establishes plans and strategies to expand the customer base in the marketing area and contributes to the development of training and educational programs for clients and Sales Representatives.

Duties and Responsibilities:
Develops a business plan and sales strategy for the market that ensures attainment of company sales goals and profitability.
??? Responsible for the performance and development of the Sales Representatives.
Initiates and coordinates development of action plans to penetrate new markets.
Conducts one-on-one review with all Sales Representatives to build more effective communications, to understand training and development needs, and to provide insight for the improvement of a Sales Representatives sales and activity performance of individual sales Representative.
Provides timely feedback to senior management regarding performance.
Creates, assists Sales Representatives and conducts project proposal presentations and responses.
Controls expenses to meet budget guidelines.
Establish and enforce customer service standards
Ensure achievement of annual Sales Budget
Adheres to all company policies, procedures and business ethics codes and ensures that they are communicated and implemented within the team.
Prepares action plans by individuals as well as by team for effective search of sales leads and prospects.
Provides timely, accurate, competitive pricing on all completed prospect applications submitted for pricing and approval, while striving to maintain maximum profit margin.
Reports and gives weekly/ monthly sales analysis to the management.

Desired Skills & Qualifications
3-5 years of experience in sales management with a demonstrated high level of achievement.
Must be a self-starter and Team Leader
Bachelor?s Degree in business, marketing and sales or related field of study
Analytical skill set, strong IT presentation skills, ability to interact with any level within an organization
Strong understanding of customer and market dynamics and requirements.
Proven track record in managing and directing a highly skilled, motivated, successful and results-oriented sales force
Strong leadership qualities with good communication and interpersonal skills
Sales/Technical experience in Fire Services/ Security Industry will be an added advantage

If you believe you qualify for this position, please send your CV and details of your current and expected remuneration to recruit@humantalentrecruit.com

Only qualified candidates shall be contacted.? All applicants must send scanned copies of their pay slips and testimonials as part of the application.

Note that TalentRecruit uses third party entities to verify all relevant documents that include academic and police certificates, pay-slips among others

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Anna Nicole Smith’s Daughter Dannielynn Birkhead Modeling For Guess Kids

Dannielynn Birkhead, who is now six-years-old, has landed her first modeling gig with Guess Kids. The daughter of the late Anna Nicole Smith and Larry Birkhead is following in her mother’s footsteps as the new face for the brand. The beautiful little girl, who bears a strong resemblance to her late mother, fronts the spring ...

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Becoming an electrician starts with getting the right schooling. One can start quite early, even in High School. Many vocational programs in secondary schools have an electrical program. Following High School graduation, one can enter a program at a college to further their learning. Community colleges often have excellent trades program, including electrical. In addition to their typical general education courses like math and English, students will take practical courses where they learn both the science behind the trade and also get to apply and learn new skills in hands-on work. If one desires to learn more about the scientific end of things, they can attend a four year college that offers advanced programs like electrical engineering or similar majors. Community colleges are great because they offer students practical experience.

One can also do some extra work on their own to increase their skills and education. It is a great idea to find an experienced individual who works in the field and get close to them. An experienced worker can offer electrician training in the form of an apprenticeship or might be able to hire a student to work for them. They can also share the pros and cons of the industry, as well as stories from on the job. This will give the young student a better idea of what daily life is like as an electrical worker, and help them decide if this is really the field that they want to devote their life to. Working with a professional can help one meet others in the field and perhaps potential future customers. The pro may also have some suggestions for training programs or courses that the aspiring electrician can take advantage of. They can serve as a reference for the student's resume.

Before one can be successful in industry, they must have to proper education and training. Fortunately, budding electrical workers have many options to help them reach their goals and better themselves.

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Monday, 26 November 2012

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Holiday shopping season off to record start

NEW YORK (AP) ? If you make holiday shopping convenient, Americans will come in droves.

It's estimated that U.S. shoppers hit stores and websites at record numbers over the Thanksgiving weekend, according to a survey released by the National Retail Federation on Sunday. They were attracted by retailers' efforts to make shopping easier, including opening stores on Thanksgiving evening, updating mobile shopping applications for smartphones and tablets, and expanding shipping and layaway options.

All told, a record 247 million shoppers visited stores and websites over the four-day weekend starting on Thanksgiving, up 9.2 percent of last year, according to a survey of 4,000 shoppers that was conducted by research firm BIGinsight for the trade group. Americans spent more too: The average holiday shopper spent $423 over the entire weekend, up from $398 last year. Total spending over the four-day weekend totaled $59.1 billion, up 12.8 percent from 2011.

Caitlyn Maguire, 21, was one of the shoppers that took advantage of all the new conveniences of shopping this year. Maguire, who lives in New York, began buying on Thanksgiving night at Target's East Harlem store. During the two-hour wait in line, she also bought items on her iPhone on Amazon.com. On Friday, she picked up a few toys at Toys R Us. And on Saturday she was out at the stores again.

"I'm basically done," said Maguire, who spent about $400 over the weekend.

The results for the weekend appear to show that retailers' efforts to make shopping effortless for U.S. consumers during the holiday shopping season worked. Retailers upped the ante in order to give Americans more reasons to shop. Stores feared that consumers might not spend because of the weak job market and worries that tax increases and budget cuts will take effect if Congress fails to reach a budget deal by January.

Retailers, which can make up to 40 percent of their annual revenue in November and December, were hoping Thanksgiving openings and other incentives would help boost what's expected to be a difficult holiday shopping season. The National Retail Federation estimates that overall sales in November and December will rise 4.1 percent this year to $586.1 billion. That's more than a percentage point lower than the growth in each of the past two years, and the smallest increase since 2009, when sales were nearly flat.

Matthew Shay, president and CEO of the National Retail Federation, said retailers can be encouraged by the first weekend of the holiday shopping season.

"Retailers and consumers both won this weekend, especially on Thanksgiving," he said.

Here were the trends that emerged over the weekend:

? Online wave: According to comScore, which tracks online spending, online sales rose 26 percent to $1.04 billion on Black Friday compared with a year ago. On Thanksgiving, online sales rose 32 percent from last year to $633 million. And online sales on Black Friday were up 26 percent from the same day last year to $1.042 billion. It was the first time online sales on Black Friday surpassed $1 billion.

? Thanksgiving shopping: Many stores, including Toys R Us and Target, opened on Thanksgiving evening this year. No data is out yet about how much shoppers spent on that day, but it appears that consumers took advantage of the earlier start: According to the National Retail Federation's survey, the number of people who shopped on Thanksgiving rose 23.1 percent. That compares with a 3.1 percent increase for Black Friday.

Linda and James Michaels of Portland, Ore., were among those shopping on Thanksgiving. They hit up the big sales on the day and got everything they were hoping for that night.

They picked up remote control cars and some Mickey Mouse items on sale at Toys R Us. Then they went a few doors down to Target and scored the last Operation game on sale for $7. They were even able to pick up some pajamas and shoes along the way for the kids. In total they spent about $300.

"I felt lucky that I caught the deals and there was no craziness, no fighting," said Linda Michaels. "I was nervous."

ShopperTrak, which analyzes customer traffic at 40,000 U.S. stores, plans to release sales data for Thanksgiving later this week, but the firm is estimating that retailers generated $700 million in sales on the holiday.

? Black Friday flop: It appears that the Thanksgiving openings may have hurt sales on the day after.

Black Friday is still expected to be the biggest shopping day of the year, but sales on that day slipped to $11.2 billion, down 1.8 percent from last year, according to ShopperTrak. That's below ShopperTrak's estimate that Black Friday sales would rise 3.8 percent to $11.4 billion.

Karen MacDonald, a spokeswoman at Taubman Centers, which operates 28 malls across the country, said that Thanksgiving openings hurt business. Based on a sampling of 10 malls, sales growth was unchanged up to mid-single digits on Friday, and unchanged up to low single digit on Saturday.

"It was a different feeling," she said. "It was a good Black Friday, but I don't think it was great."

The disappointing sales on Black Friday may have been the result of shoppers like Miguel Garcia, a 40-year-old office coordinator.

"I can't deal with all that craziness," said Garcia, who was at a Target in the Bronx borough of New York City on Saturday. "Compared to what I saw on TV yesterday, this is so much more comfortable and relaxed. I can actually think straight and compare prices."

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AP writers Rodrigue Ngowi in Watertown, Mass., Juan Carolos Llorca in El Paso, Texas, and Candice Choi in New York contributed to this report

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/holiday-shopping-season-off-record-start-215624082--finance.html

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Game of Thrones Season Two Blu-ray set arrives February 19th

Game of Thrones Season Two Bluray set arrives February 19th

While waiting for season three of Game of Thrones to start airing March 31st, fans of HBO's series will be able to snag the second season on Blu-ray February 19th. Even if you've already seen it (whether on TV, via a borrowed HBO login or...other sources) there should be some new elements with Blu-ray exclusive "HBO Select" features including an interactive "War of the 5 Kings" guide to keep track of who is doing what / where / when, animated histories, in-episode guides with more information on characters (like the iPad companion app did) as they appear and "dragon egg" surprises. Check the press release after the break for a full account of features, or hit Amazon to preorder the 7-disc set (w/ digital copies) for $55.99.

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Sunday, 25 November 2012

Automotive History: 1960 Chevrolet Corvair ... - Curbside Classic

Every silver lining has a cloud, and the Corvair?s is a deadly thunderhead. We?ve reveled in our love for the Corvair on these pages repeatedly, (here, here, and here), and shown how the 1960 Corvair sparked a global design revolution. But for all of our silver-tongued love sonnets for the most unique and refreshing car to escape Fortress Detroit in decades, we?ve so far avoided its very controversial shadow side. No longer; get out your umbrellas, for a hard rain?s gonna? fall.

The most fundamental question has to do with the decision to make the Corvair a rear-engined car, as all of its issues ultimately stem from that. According to the oft-repeated story, in 1955 Chevrolet Chief Engineer Ed Cole asked Maurice Olley, the division?s Director of Research, to analyze the various engine-drive train variations for a small car, including conventional front engine-rear wheel drive, FWD, and rear engine variations. A number of small European cars were tested and examined, and the rear-engine configuration as used by VW and the smallest Renaults and Fiats was determined to be the most advantageous for a number of reasons.

Those were its light steering (power assist not necessary), a flat floor, a relatively quiet and comfortable ride, and excellent traction. It?s important to keep in mind that at this stage, the Corvair was envisioned as a more compact and cheaper alternative to the full-sized Chevrolet, not the sporty car that it eventually evolved to be.

Specifically, the Corvair project was to take up where the 1947 Chevrolet Cadet had failed: to be a profitable compact car. And the way that ?compact? was defined then was for the car to be shorter and lighter, but still be able to accommodate six. That presented inherent challenges in packaging the drive train.

The solution then was Cadet Engineer Earl MacPherson?s use of his eponymous struts at both front and rear, combined with an independent rear suspension and the transmission under the front seat. A rather brilliant solution from a brilliant engineer, but this was not France or Germany where such an advanced car could be priced accordingly. The Cadet suffered from a recurring GM malady: technical overkill, given the cost structure of the US market. Wouldn?t a more conventional car seating perhaps merely five have been adequate?

The also-brilliant Ed Cole fell for similar trap, although in terms of construction costs, the Corvair probably was presumably profitable to build, despite the huge investment in unique facilities to build its engine. By trap, I mean the hubris of being convinced that he could find a low-cost solution to the problems that had long stood in the way of building a six-passenger rear-engine car.

The rear engine was the hot new thing in the early thirties, along with aerodynamics. Tatra epitomized and popularized both of those, and others quickly took them up too, at their peril. The first large V8 Tatra streamliner, the 77 (above) suffered from very severe handling problems, and was built in only limited numbers.

Its successor, the 87? (above) was shorter and lighter and had a smaller 3.0 L air cooled V8 in its tail, but its snap oversteer at the limit?thanks to its rear-weight bias and swing axles?was still deadly. So much so, that Hitler banned his top officers from driving it, after a number were killed in high speed accidents. It was dubbed ?The Czech Secret Weapon?.

Mercedes, that paragon of engineering prowess, also took up the rear engine, but more cautiously. Its 130H, 150H and 170H (above) were built alongside conventional models. They sold poorly, in part due to a smaller luggage area, noisy engine, and bad handling vices. The positive rear camber clearly visible in this picture is a tip-off to that.

Mercedes dropped the rear engine, but did adopt swing axles, and eventually made them work quite successfully thanks to the better weight distribution of front engines and constant improvements in their geometry. By the late fifties, Mercedes had tamed it almost completely, with its exclusive ?low-pivot? variation, but that was not suitable for a rear-engine car.

Of course it was the Volkswagen that popularized the rear engine, and the even-smaller Renault 4CV and Fiat 600 followed in its swing-axle tracks. But these were all small cars, with low power outputs. Even then, they were still susceptible to the dreaded effects of snap-oversteer and rear-wheel jacking. Needless to say, the early Porsche 356s were famous for their oversteer, but that was tamed to various degrees by initial negative camber, and in 1959, a revised rear end with softer torsion bars and a camber compensating spring.

When the rear end of a swing-axle car approaches or exceeds its limits, the centrifugal forces acting on the rear of the car causes the outside wheel to tuck it under the body, which results in the rear rising and drastically exacerbating the intrinsic oversteer of a rear-engined car. This picture shows a front-engined Triumph Spitfire; rear engined cars can respond even more violently because of the high percentage of weight in the back. It?s very easy to lose control, unless one can anticipate the event, or forestall it with deft counter-steering. But that isn?t always possible, even in the hands of experienced drivers.

Maurice Olley, who was charged by Ed Cole to evaluate the various configurations, had written about the intrinsic limitations of the rear-engine format. From Ralph Nader?s ?Unsafe At Any Speed?:

(Olley?s) field of specialization was automobile handling behavior. In 1953 Olley delivered a technical paper, ?European Postwar Cars,? containing a sharp critique of rear-engined automobiles with swing-axle suspension systems. He called such vehicles ?a poor bargain, at least in the form in which they are at present built,? adding that they could not handle safely in a wind even at moderate speeds, despite tire pressure differential between front and rear. Olley went further, depicting the forward fuel tank as ?a collision risk, as is the mass of the engine in the rear.? Unmistakably, he had notified colleagues of the hurdles which had to be overcome.

So why did Cole go for the rear engine anyway? Despite the rep engineers have for being objective, it seems quite likely he wasn?t in this particular case. Cole had been intrigued with both rear-engines for some time, having been involved with an experimental rear engined Cadillac that had dual rear wheels to help deal with its severe intrinsic challenges. He also was involved with the M41 Light Tank that used an air-cooled flat six. Undoubtedly, he was prejudiced to some degree, and convinced himself of the rear-engine?s assets.

Seeing that this was the mid-late fifties?and GM?there was another important factor: trendy good looks. Which meant a very low car, among other things.

In January 1960, (Corvair project head) Kai Hansen told a meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers: ?Our first objective, once the decision was made to design a smaller, lighter ear, was to attain good styling proportions. Merely shortening the wheel base and front and rear overhang was not acceptable. To permit lower overall height and to accommodate six adult passengers, the floor hump for the drive shaft had to go. Eliminating the conventional drive shaft made it essential then that the car have either rear-engine, rear-drive or front-engine, front-drive. Before making a decision, all types of European cars were studied, including front-engine, front-drive designs. None measured up to our standards of road performance.?

?The result was a total height of 51.3 inches?extremely low for a six-passenger sedan?and lower than a current Porsche 911 Carrera. It?s quite clear that the rear engine configuration ultimately was selected for the sake of stylistic vanity, or in their words ?the most aesthetically pleasant? way to achieve the desired space. And once that? ill-advised decision was made, GM was not prepared to spend the money to make it work properly.

All of the European rear-engined sedans GM had evaluated were much smaller four-passenger cars, with very small and light four-cylinder engines. A four-cylinder was originally considered for the Corvair, but abandoned for a six because of its greater smoothness. A boxer four is intrinsically a balanced design, but is prone to some exhaust growl due to its firing order. But that can be mitigated by exhaust system tuning.

Ed Cole?s initial plans and calculations were for the Corvair to use aluminum cylinders with a high-silicon alloy, similar to that later used in the Vega. Perhaps from a durability point of view, it was for the best that it was not feasible then, and individual finned cast iron cylinders were ultimately used. This contributed to the production Corvair engine weighing 78 lbs more than initial projections. Needles to say, in a rear engine car the greater the weight in the back, the greater the challenges and risks, due to the intrinsic influence of centrifugal force in a curve. Production Corvairs had up to 64% of their weight on the rear wheels, a problem only exacerbated when the spare was moved from the front trunk to the engine compartment in 1961. Complaints about trunk space trumped handling considerations.

Without going into all the technicalities of the specific choices made by the Chevrolet engineers, it is apparent that one over-riding criteria was predominant: cost control. David Rubly, a Corvair engineer, made the following comment at an SAE meeting in April 1960:

Another question that no doubt can be asked is why did we choose an independent rear suspension of this particular type? There are other swing-axle rear suspensions, of course, that permit transferring more of the roll couple to the front end. Our selection of this particular type of a swing-axle rear suspension is based on: (1) lower cost, (2) ease of assembly, (3) ease of service, and (4) simplicity of design. We also wished to take advantage of coil springs ?? in order to obtain a more pleasing ride ??

Having made their decision on the basic configuration, there were several ways available to mitigate the intrinsic tendencies of the Corvair?s suspension design. A front roll bar (estimated to cost $4) was originally intended to be used, for its (debatable) effect? in compensating to some degree.

More critically, a rear camber-compensating spring was not used, despite the adoption of one by Porsche, and a large aftermarket for that developed for VWs, Renaults and older Porsches. This device had come to be seen as the most critical element in taming the vices of rear-engined swing-axle suspensions.

Given the $19.95 retail price of the EMPI Camber Compensator, it probably would have cost Chevrolet some $15 or less in mass volumes. A whole industry grew around Corvair chassis improvements, as serious Corvair driver were all-too aware of its limitations:

By 1963, sports car racer and writer Denise McCluggage could begin an article on Corvair handling idiosyncrasies with words that assumed a knowing familiarity by her auto buff readers: ?Seen any Corvairs lately with the back end smashed in? Chances are they weren?t run into, but rather ran into something while going backwards. And not in reverse gear, either.?

Then Miss McCluggage went on to describe a phenomenon she termed a ?sashay through the boonies, back-end first.? ?The classic Corvair accident is a quick spin in a turn and swoosh! ? off the road backwards. Or, perhaps, if half- corrective measures are applied, the backward motion is arrested, the tires claw at the pavement and the car is sent darting across the road to the other side. In this case there might be some front end damage instead.?

And noted race driver and Corvair-tuner John Fitch had this to say: ?I didn?t want a race car,? he said: ?if I did, I?d buy something for that purpose. But I did want to feel more confident when behind the wheel that the car would go where I pointed it.?

Instead, Chevrolet jiggered with the tire pressure differential, arriving at a somewhat ludicrous 15 lbs front, 26 lbs rear recommendation. The benefits of the differential were known, as the lower front pressure increased understeer to counteract the oversteer. But there were several fatal flaws in these numbers, which were obviously arrived at in a desperate attempt to maintain the vaunted GM soft ride.

To start with, 15 lbs in the small 6.50 x 13? front tires reduced their load capacity precariously low, again considering the six-passenger seating and luggage capacity. But the more critical issue was the 24lbs in the rear, as they were also technically overloaded with just two passengers. And 24lbs was not enough to ensure that the tubeless tires would resist deflection to the point of popping off the rims under the extreme pressures in a critical handling situation; specifically an oversteer/jacking up incident.

Shortly after the 1960 Corvair was released, a number of tragic accidents occurred, and it was noted that the pavement often showed severe gouging. This was the result of the rear tire popping off the rim, which then contacted the pavement and had the effect of drastically escalating the incident into a severe or deadly accident.

Popular entertainer Ernie Kovacs was killed in his 1961 Corvair Lakewood wagon (which had an even more exaggerated rear-weight bias) when he lost control on a rainy evening in Los Angeles (picture at top of article). Note the right rear tire that is off the rim; it?s possible that happened from the curb, but it is typical of numerous similar incidents where the rear tire rolled off the rim during an emergency maneuver and caused the Corvair to be essentially uncontrollable.

Corvair engineers knew about this problem and considered raising the recommended rear tire pressures. Once again, however, they succumbed to the great imperative-a soft ride. Rubly recounts it plainly enough: ?The twenty-eight psi would reduce the rear-tire deflection enough but we did not feel that we should compromise ride and add harshness because under hot conditions tire pressures will increase three to four psi.?

Even if the recommended inflation numbers had been increased with a similar differential, say 19/28, there was still another huge obstacle: essentially no one in America was used to the concept of a differential tire pressure. When I was a gasoline station attendant in 1968-1970, we inflated all tires to 24-26 lbs, unless told otherwise.? Which we never were, except the occasional sports car fanatic who knew and cared about such things.

Chevrolet made no effort to educate its dealers and the public on the importance of these differential tire inflation recommendations. As well, there was no reference to ?oversteer? and how to identify it and compensate for it by counter-steering in the Corvair Owner?s Manual or elsewhere. This was an innately counter-intuitive thing to do for Americans that had grown up with understeering cars, and were repeatedly told in Driver?s Ed to ?steer into the skid?, not against it.

The question of undersized tires has been a recurring one (and one we?ve covered here). VW, Porsche and Renault used 15? tires on their rear-engine cars. And interestingly enough, the 1961-1963 Pontiac Tempest, which used a modified version of the Corvair?s swing axle rear suspension (but with a front engine), bucked the trend and was the only GM car during that era to use 15? tires exclusively. That looked rather odd at the time, but undoubtedly was a conscious decision at Pontiac based on the belief that larger diameter tires would mitigate the swing axle?s tendencies.

Pontiac had been on track to have its own version of the Corvair for 1961, dubbed Polaris (above, and which also looks to have substantially larger tires that the Corvair). The division had already spent some $1.3 million in adapting the Corvair, before John DeLorean pulled the plug. He was convinced by his top engineers, including Advanced Engineering Chief Albert Roller, who had come from Mercedes-Benz: ?(he) tested the car (Corvair) and pleaded with me not to use it at Pontiac?he said that Mercedes had tested similarly-designed rear-engine swing-axle cars and had found them too unsafe to build?.

DeLorean got approval to dump the Polaris project, and instead adapted the front engine Buick-Olds compact, but not without some creative engineering, including the swing axle rear suspension. And as it turned out, even the Tempest came in for criticism due to its turning nasty in extreme situations. It was a short-lived experiment.

DeLorean also alleges in his book ?On A Clear Day You Can See GM? that the problems with the Corvair?s handling were all-too well known inside GM. He says that Frank Winchell, then a Chevy engineer, flipped one of the first prototypes, and others followed. A huge internal fight ensued, with Ed Cole and his camp on one side, and a number of top engineers on the other, including Charles Chayne VP of Engineering, and Von D. Polhemus, GM Chassis Development head. Their efforts to keep the Corvair from production, or change its suspension was a lost cause, as ?Cole?s mind was made up?.

A number of GM executives were directly affected by the Corvair, including the death of the son of Cadillac General Manager Cal Werner, and the critically-injured son of Exec. VP Cy Osborne. Of course these represent just a small sampling of the accidents that the public was experiencing, and which soon led to a spate of lawsuits against GM, most of which were quickly settled.

Undoubtedly, driver negligence was involved in some of these cases, but there?s also no doubt that the Corvair?s unique response to sudden steering, brakes or other inputs created a situation the general public was unfamiliar with.And one that could be exacerbated by incorrect tire pressure.

In a partial response, for 1961 Chevrolet made available an optional RPO 696 sports suspension, which included stiffer springs and shocks, the previously-missing front anti-roll bar, a negative initial camber setting for the rear wheels, and rear-axle rebound straps to reduce tuck under, all for some $10 or so. My 1962 Monza four-speed had it, and it performed admirably enough under lots of spirited cornering. But then I also knew of the ultimate danger and respected the Corvair?s limits. Nevertheless, the camber-compensating spring was still not installed or available.

And the sports suspension had its limitations too, reducing rear wheel travel due to the negative camber and stiffer springs. This made it less than ideal for the kind of use a family sedan might typically get, with heavy loading and such. Chevrolet had put themselves between a rock and a hard place with the Corvair?s suspension design.

DeLorean says that after Bunkie Knudsen took over at Chevrolet in 1961, he was so concerned about the Corvair?s handling issues that he demanded that the camber-compenstor be made standard. The roughly $15 cost to make and install it was deemed too expensive by the ?Fourteenth Floor?, and he was turned down. Eventually he gave the top brass an ultimatum: either he would be allowed to improve the Corvair?s suspension, or he would very publicly resign from GM over it. They relented, and that led to the camber compensating spring in 1964, and the complete redesign of the rear suspension for 1965, which essentially eliminated the issues altogether.

Ralph Nader?s ?Unsafe At Any Speed? is commonly blamed for the Corvair?s demise, but that already happened years before its publication in 1965. By that time, the Corvair was already on artificial life support. Within two months of its introduction in the fall of 1959, Ed Cole realized that the Corvair was not really the right formula for what America was looking for in a compact sedan. The Falcon instantly outsold it two-to-one, and Cole ordered a crash program to develop the very pragmatic Chevy II.

From that point forward, the Corvair?s future was in its new role as a sporty coupe, and the bucket-seat Monza immediately became the best selling version after it was introduced in the spring of 1960. The Monza pioneered a whole new market segment that would be taken over by the Mustang in 1964.

Given how obviousness that was by mid-1960 makes it even odder that GM resisted the efforts to adopt wholesale the suspension improvements readily available. One thing is clear: Ed Cole did not set out to design a sporty car. The up-scale Monza coupe was shown as a show-car concept in January of 1960 to generate some interest in the coupe version due shortly (in 500 and 700 trim levels), but the public response to the Monza was so favorable, it was rushed into production.

The Monza inadvertently created and opened a huge market segment (we covered that here) which led to bucket seat versions of its competitors, as well as the Mustang. But a flat floor and seating for six was certainly not in the brief for a sporty coupe or convertible, as the Mustang proved convincingly. Unless you like your passenger to squeeze left.

The Monza may have pulled some of the Corvair?s fat out of the fire, but that doesn?t negate the fact that Ed Cole?s Corvair was a fatally flawed design for its intended role.? In fact it?s tempting (and fairly easy) to speculate that if Chevy?s 1960 compact had arrived in more conventional front-engine form, like the related B-O-P 1961 compacts, that it would have just as readily (and likely) spawned a sporty coupe variant with V8 power, one that would have largely usurped or dampened the Mustang?s huge success.

The Corvair was the product of GM?s repeated tendencies to go off in directions that were an engineer?s dream, but were either flawed from the initial concept, or diminished by the bean counters. In the case of the Corvair, it was both. But for us lovers of the Corvair, like the lovers of the 1966 Toronado, the Vega, and other GM Deadly Sins, it was a huge boon. Suspension mods are easy to effect, and Corvairs are now safely in the hands of those that understand and respect its limitations (and tire pressures). But that was not the case in 1960 or so, and too many paid the price, unnecessarily so.

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Want to look into your future or get intuitive advice before making an important decision? Count on clairvoyant psychic readings. The question is, how do you know they?re real?

If you search on the Internet alone, you will find an endless roster of ?psychics? who claim to be authentic, and maybe they are. But how do you really spot them in a sea of cons? When looking for authentic, reliable clairvoyant psychic readings, there are three main issues you?d like to focus on.

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First, remember that real psychics work on energy, and real psychic energy does not come within one second after you tell your story. Real psychic energy takes a while for the psychic to find and receive so that he or she is able to give you the reading you want. Thus, if somebody starts making clairvoyant psychic readings without even thinking hard and deep into what you have just told them, be wary. A real psychic has to work at elevating their consciousness so as to reach a level that enables them to see beyond what is not visible to non-clairvoyants.

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Second, when a ?psychic? is asking you one too many questions about your life or a part of it that is directly related to the clairvoyant psychic readings you seek, you know they?re just gathering information on which to base their ?reading? which, most often than not, turns out to be nothing but logical advice. It may be good advice, but it?s not psychic. Your mother can probably even give you a better version. Real psychic advice is one that nobody but another real psychic can give with the least details supplied by you. If

Too Much at Once

The third sign of real Clairvoyant Psychic Readings is the manner itself that they are given. For example, if you are talking to a psychic on the phone who starts giving you all these ?readings? while you hear them typing or even having a side conversation with someone, then you can be absolutely sure you?re wasting your time. For a psychic to be able to make all of these readings, they have to focus their energies into reaching that consciousness level that allows them to look into what others can?t. Working on the computer at the same time or talking to someone else while giving you a psychic reading is clearly deception.

Most importantly, always work with a psychic that you have good rapport with, or both of you could end up having difficulty trying to perform your roles in your psychic-client relationship. When this happens, it is likely that the person, even if they were a real psychic, will not be able to give you accurate readings.

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