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Two years ago, Artezine reviewed two related Stuart Sherman shows here in New York; see Stuart Sherman Reappears.
The book is not exactly a plain catalog of the show — 'here is this, there is that, it is 78.3 centimeters wide' — rather, it is another partial view of Stuart Sherman's work which in its entirety would require the physical dimensions of the Encyclopedia Britannica along with a video monitor and a set of tapes or DVDs. A number of people familiar with him or his work have written appreciative and explanatory essays, and there are numerous photographs of the material that was displayed on the walls of the exhibition. In addition, there are what we might call 'plates', full-page reproductions of some of Sherman's drawings and collages.
Interspersed with the regular sheets of the text and the plates are somewhat narrower yellow pages on which notes of Sherman's have been printed. Many are rather epigrammatic; one might say they have the same flavor as certain koans. For instance, 'Bright as the light is, it is not as bright as it was before this sentence diminished it.' Others are more Kabbalistic. They pop up as one goes through the work and comment obliquely on one's search.
It is good to have this book because Sherman was a mysterious person who produced superficially simple items and events that can evoke great depths which reveal themselves to study and meditation.
The book is available from, at least, Printed Matter and Karma.


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Today on the show, we will look at the collapse of that huge European aerospace and defense merger between EADS and the UK's BAE Systems. The $45 billion deal was designed to create a giant to rival U.S. plane maker Boeing. Jim Boulden joins us from London with more on what led to the collapse.
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Later, an update on the condition of Malala Youssufzai, the brave 14 year old Pakistani activist shot and critically wounded by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education. The assault on Youssufzai had shocked many people, including ordinary Pakistanis. We're hearing from one of her doctors that her condition is slowly improving after a three-hour operation to remove a bullet from her neck. Reza Sayah will have our report from Islamabad.
We also have new video of a clash between rebels and regime forces in a key town Syria's Idlib province. Nick Paton Walsh will be live with us from Beirut.
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We will be looking at continuing demonstrations in some part of the Muslim world on this Friday. Arwa Damon will join us from Benghazi, where four Americans, including the US ambassador to Libya, were killed on September 11th.
Reza Sayah will report from the heart of an anti-Western demonstration in Islamabad, Pakistan. Angry demonstrators burned down two movie theaters to protest that anti-Islam film produced in the United States.
Also today, a CNN exclusive: our chief medical correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta has interviewed researchers from Houston's MD Anderson Cancer Center. They are announcing a new program to reduce deaths from 8 types of cancer within the next decade. We'll break this down for you and tell you if this is something we should all be optimistic about.
As always, we will have the latest on the conflict in Syria and the toll it is taking on tens of thousands of civilian Syrian refugees now forced to live in Turkey to escape the violence in their home country.
Plus all your sports, weather and financial news. Join us at the International Desk for your daily news roundup!
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Hey there, everyone...
Hala is on holiday all week. Isha is filling-in most of the week. When she's not in, we'll have a guest appearance from BackStory's Michael Holmes.
No matter who's at the helm of the I-Desk, we'll continue bringing you the latest stories with live reports from around the world. And, from what we can tell from this weekend, Pakistan and Iran will most likely be among our biggest stories this week - with a suicide attack in southern Iran, and the military offensive in Pakistan.
Starting with Iran, dozens of people were killed. Some leaders in the government are blaming the United States, for having some kind of hand in the attack. What do you think?
And, in Pakistan, the military offensive is in full swing in South Waziristan. Is that going to be enough, to stop the Taliban?
Let us know your thoughts... We'll share some of them throughout the week. See you then, at the I-Desk!
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Today at the I-Desk: Typhoon and a Taliban Leader
Hello again, everyone...
First and foremost, we have an encore appearance by BackStory's Michael Holmes today, as he fills in for Hala. And, for those of you wondering, the very-well-rested Ms. Gorani returns on Monday.
Now, down to business:
Today, we're following Typhoon Morakot, which is slamming into Taiwan, as I'm writing this update. We have a journalist on the island, who is monitoring the situation. And, he'll join us live at the I-Desk. Of course, we'll also have the latest forecast, and a look at what's next for the strengthening storm.
Also, we're taking you Pakistan, where there are reports that Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is dead. Pakistani officials say he was killed by a U.S. drone attack; while, the United States military has not confirmed the death. We're getting the latest from Islamabad, as well as The Pentagon.
Over in Iran, just 2 days into Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's second term, a scathing report is released by Amnesty International. The human rights group claims that Iran has executed 115 people, just between the June 12th election and Wednesday's inauguration... compare that to 196 people executed between January 1st of this year and the election. An unbelievable jump! But, how does Amnesty know for sure? We're asking an official from the group, who is joining us live at the I-Desk.
Next door in Iraq, our Arwa Damon is tracking two stories. Both extremely sad. One of them is sure to make you cringe. It's a report, you just can't miss.
And, finally, a light-hearted end to the show... What do Pope Benedict and famous rapper, Snoop Doggy Dogg, have in common? We'll show you.
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Today at the I-Desk: Clinton's Return
Please forgive the delay on our updates from the I-Desk. It's been quite a busy few days, while Hala continues her holiday. And, since that's the case, Isha Sesay is on double-duty as the presenter for BOTH editions of the International Desk.
As you've probably already heard, former U.S. President Bill Clinton is back on the world stage, with a seemingly historic visit to North Korea. The mission of his trip is to bring two American journalists, who have been in North Korean custody for months, back home. But, of course, the nuclear issue could always come up. Already, Mr. Clinton has met with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Il.
As usual, we are covering this story from every angle... First off, our World Affairs Correspondent, Jill Dougherty, is monitoring the latest from Washington. She will bring us up-to-date. Then, our Chief International Correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, will join us to put this visit into perspective. Christiane is one of the few western journalists, who has reported from inside North Korea. And, we'll delve into her expertise. And, over at the White House, our correspondents are closely watching the Obama Administration's reaction. Did they send a message with Bill Clinton, for Pyongyang? Find out... at the IDesk.
Other news we're watching... A disagreement between top leaders of the U.S. military, regarding the future of troops in Iraq. Our Pentagon team is working that story. Also, a suspected terror plot foiled in Australia, kids recruited to become suicide bombers in Pakistan, and an ambitious diplomatic mission in South America by Colombia's president.
We'll explore all of those stories, plus the latest breaking news... tonight at the I-Desk.
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Hello readers and viewers,
Topping the rundown today, we will be looking at U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown's visit to Washington, D.C. American President Barack Obama chose to make Mister Brown the first European leader to visit his White House.
The men will be discussing the economic meltdown, of course, and ways to help stop the hemorrhaging money and jobs. Gordon Brown, who was U.K. finance minister during Britain's boom years, wants a global "New Deal," a holistic worldwide rescue plan.
So far, it's an ambitious talking point. Will it work?
But our big debate topic today is the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan. This is not just an attack against a team, it's an assault against Pakistian, Sri Lanka and the sport of cricket itself.
We will be looking at how cricket is more than a pastime, but an obession in many parts of South Asia and how targetting the game is about inflicting psychological terror on an entire region.
Stan Grant will be live with us from Pakistan, Paula Newton from Afghanistan, Justin Armsden is covering the International Cricket Council reaction from London and Marc Mckay is on the set with me discussing the future of the sport.
We are also planning on talking the former Pakistani cricket captain and star Rameez Raja from Lahore.
Check out the poll below. We are asking viewers whether Pakistan should continue to host cricket tournaments. We will be reading out poll results at the end of the hour so please weigh in!
Back to work, see you on the air.
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La révision constitutionnelle algérienne de 2016, adoptée par la loi du , est une révision constitutionnelle qui a introduit de nombreux amendements à la constitution adoptée en 1996.

La loi a été présentée le  par le Premier ministre Abdelmalek Sellal. En gestation depuis 2011 pour répondre aux attentes suscitées par le printemps arabe, son contenu fait suite à un projet présenté en  mai 2014.

Le , elle est soumise à l'approbation des deux chambres du Parlement puis adoptée par 499 voix pour, 2 contre et 16 abstentions. L'opposition a boycotté le vote.

Certaines lois organiques doivent encore être révisées.

Le texte est promulgué le .

Modifications
Le tamazigh devient langue officielle, tandis que l'arabe demeure la langue officielle de l'État. Notons que la révision de 2002 avait déjà pour unique objet la reconnaissance du tamazigh en tant que langue nationale.

Le texte rétablit la limite à deux mandats présidentiels, qui avait été supprimée au profit du président Bouteflika lors de la révision de 2008 et rend inconstitutionnel l'allongement de ce nombre de mandats.

Le texte, par le biais de l'article 51, empêche les binationaux d'occuper certaines hautes fonctions politiques.

La modification de  l'article 73 devenu l'article 87 alourdir les conditions d'éligibilité à la présidence de la République qui précise que le candidat devra en plus « ne pas avoir acquis une nationalité étrangère », « attester de la nationalité algérienne d'origine du père et de la mère », « attester de la nationalité algérienne d'origine unique du conjoint » et « justifier d'une résidence permanente exclusive en Algérie durant un minimum de dix années précédant le dépôt de la candidature ».

La constitution s'enrichit par ailleurs de nouveaux articles. Dans le projet adopté, la nomination du Premier ministre est désormais soumise à une consultation préalable du Parlement. Les conditions d'éligibilité des membres du Conseil constitutionnel et ses conditions de saisine sont révisées. L'article nouveau 41ter définit la liberté de la presse.

Bien que les médias parlent de nouvelle constitution, il ne s'agit en fait que d'une simple révision.

Entrée en vigueur
La révision constitutionnelle entre en vigueur le , avec la promulgation de la loi  du 26 joumada al oula 1437 correspondant au 6 mars 2016 portant révision constitutionnelle.

ٍVoir aussi
 Haute instance indépendante de surveillance des élections

Notes et références

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2016 en droit
2016 en Algérie
Politique en mars 2016

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Q: Browser-based UML-tool with SVG-support I am looking for a tool for creating and hosting UML-diagrams, with the following requirements (in order of priority):

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Gliffy sounds like a good candidate, but it does not fulfill the first criterion.
I am not necessarily looking for a single-product solution. If anyone has patched together a working solution using different tools, I would like to hear about it. It does not have to be for free.

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Wanted Lyons man ducks, but can not hide from police (Local News ~ 07/27/09)
A wanted man who tried to duck and hide when a policeman spotted him in the back seat of a car was arrested after the car made several quick turns to avoid being stopped. Levi E. Butt, 19, Lyons, was wanted on two active warrants for his arrest, both out of Greene County...
WRV boys tennis open court Thursday (High School Sports ~ 07/27/09)
White River Valley High School athletic director J.B. Neill and new tennis coach Roger Maryfield would like to invite any high school boy who is interested in playing tennis this fall to "open court" Thursday, July 30th from 4 to 7 p.m. at the newly painted and resurfaced courts at WRV High School...
George Sly easing into retirement (High School Sports ~ 07/27/09)
SULLIVAN -- For George Sly, it just seems like he is on another summer vacation. But for the adventurous and naturally curious 1964 Union (Dugger) High School graduate, there will be no lesson plans or projects to prepare this fall or football practices to attend...
BHS girls cross country practice starts Monday (High School Sports ~ 07/27/09)
Coach Loren Hadley would like to remind girls in incoming grades 9-12 that practice for the Bloomfield High School girls cross country team will start at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 3. Runners should meet at the media center in front of the school. Girls must have physicals on file to be able to practice...
Edrie C. Griffith (Obituary ~ 07/27/09)
Edrie C. Griffith, 82, of Linton, passed away at 5:45 p.m. Sunday, July 26, 2009, at Linton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. She was born June 29, 1927, in Lorain, Ohio, the daughter of Thomas A. & Minnie (Roeder) Stone. She worked at General Electric in Linton for 34 years. She was a member of the First Church of God in Linton and a past member of the Salvation Army...
NSWC Crane FEW chapter nationally honored (Local News ~ 07/27/09)
CRANE -- Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) was honored with the Federal Department/Agency Award at a national gathering for Federally Employed Women (FEW) July 20, 2009. NSWC Crane was chosen for its significant contribution of resources and services critical to the success of FEW program activities. ...
Courthouse lawsuit tops $1 million in legal fees and counting (Local News ~ 07/27/09)
If the Greene County Courthouse renovation project has had any common elements it has been delay and unexpected costs. The project was nearly five years going from the drawing board stage to completion. There were a number of delays when several structural flaws surfaced...
Friends recall time spent with fallen pilot during Monday's funeral (Local News ~ 07/27/09)
Sonny Hinchman's life is a story of hometown boy who shared his inspiration with the world. CW5 Ret. Hinchman was killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq on July 17 but his legacy will live on. He flew protection for the U.S. President. He also received the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star among several other awards...
Hinchman laid to rest: Worthington copter pilot remembered as hometown hero (Local News ~ 07/27/09)
The life of CW5 Ret. U.S. Army William F. "Sonny" Hinchman was celebrated in a moving funeral held at the Folsom United Methodist Church in Worthington on Monday. Hinchman, 42, was killed July 17 near Baghdad, Iraq in a helicopter crash. Hinchman left his hometown of Worthington after graduating mid-term in 1984 and joined the Army at the age of 17...
GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Friday through Sunday included one request for information only, four assists to the utility department after hours, one vandalism, two protective order violations, two incidents of criminal mischief, one utility repair, one public intoxication, one accident with personal injury, four accidents with property damage, two medical/illness, four alarms, three animal complaints, two suspicious vehicles/persons, four assists to other agencies, two harassment complaints, two thefts-other, one disabled/stranded vehicle, one welfare check/concern, one motor vehicle theft, one fingerprint for a gun permit, three domestic disputes, one ordinance violation, one battery and 14 traffic stops.. ...
GREENE SUPERIOR COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. Travis Glenn St. John, driving while suspended State v. Phillip D. Mock, operating a vehicle while intoxicated in a manner which endangered a person, operating a vehicle while intoxicated, operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration of at least .15 grams or more of alcohol in blood or breath...
Basket bingo The Greene County Stingrays Swim Team will sponsor a basket bingo Aug. 4 at the Lyons Community Building Aug. 4. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and bingo starts at 6:30 p.m. Proceeds benefit the swim team. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance at Hearing Aid Services in Linton, Cathy's Beauty Salon in Switz City, Bloomfield State Bank in Bloomfield or from any Stingray swimmer. Tickets will also be available at the door...
A bridge too far? County Council balks, then passes $1.2 million repair plan (Local News ~ 07/27/09)
The Greene County Council wouldn't initially cross those bridges when they came to them. Members initially lacked the notion to make a motion Monday regarding a $1.2 million allocation to repair two bridges described as "dangerous" by Greene County Commissioner's Attorney Marilyn Hartman...
The Shakamak Youth League along with 180 Energy Drink will have a coed softball tournament at Hanna Field in Jasonville on Aug. 15. Entry fee will be $150 per team. Deadline will be Thursday, Aug. 13. For more information contact Greg Landry at (812) 201-6788 or Travis at (812) 512-2079...


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Who is this 'Julie' you keep referring to? I know her not.
Some cool chick I know that wrote a book.
Who is Dusty Gozongas? I know it not.
Not bothering to copy and paste into the google search bar because it's a tiresome chore is the new sloth.
You're not crushing my head because I'm blocking you out.
I believe that the correct terminology is "There's nobody Home!"
I love the Kids in the Hall...got to meet Mark McKinney on the SNL set about 10 years ago and he's a really nice guy.


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carious
adj. (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay
adj. having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness; "dead and rotten in his grave"
dead, stagnant
adj. not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water"
adj. severely inflamed and painful; "an angry sore"
rheumy, rheumatoid, rheumatic, creaky, arthritic
adj. of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints"; "rheumy with age and grief"
wheezy, wheezing, asthmatic
adj. relating to breathing with a whistling sound
blebby, blistery
adj. covered with small blisters
tumid, turgid, tumescent, intumescent, puffy
adj. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
adj. characterized or caused by inflammation; "an inflammatory process"; "an inflammatory response"
ulcerated, ulcerous, cankerous
adj. having an ulcer or canker
carbuncular, carbuncled
adj. afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle
caseous
adj. of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike
chilblained
adj. having chilblains; "her poor chilblained hands"
gassy, flatulent, colicky
adj. suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal
seedy, infirm, enfeebled, debilitated
adj. full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig"
pathological, pathologic, morbid, diseased
adj. caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes"
dropsical, edematous
adj. swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid
enlarged
adj. larger than normal; "enlarged joints"
mortified, gangrenous
adj. suffering from tissue death
ingrowing, ingrown
adj. growing abnormally into the flesh; "an ingrown toenail"
membrane-forming, membranous
adj. characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane); "membranous gastritis"
sickly, sallow
adj. unhealthy looking
sunburnt, sunburned
adj. suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight
varicose
adj. abnormally swollen or knotty; "varicose veins"
A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation. Most definitions of car say they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four tires, and mainly transport people rather than goods.[2][3] Cars came into global use during the 20th century, and developed economies depend on them. The year 1886 is regarded as the birth year of the modern car when German inventor Karl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Cars became widely available in the early 20th century. One of the first cars that were accessible to the masses was the 1908 Model T, an American car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. Cars were rapidly adopted in the US, where they replaced animal-drawn carriages and carts, but took much longer to be accepted in Western Europe and other parts of the world.
Cars have controls for driving, parking, passenger comfort and safety, and controlling a variety of lights. Over the decades, additional features and controls have been added to vehicles, making them progressively more complex. Examples include rear reversing cameras, air conditioning, navigation systems, and in car entertainment. Most cars in use in the 2010s are propelled by an internal combustion engine, fueled by the combustion of fossil fuels. This causes air pollution and also contributes to climate change and global warming.[4] Vehicles using alternative fuels such as ethanol flexible-fuel vehicles and natural gas vehicles are also gaining popularity in some countries. Electric cars, which were invented early in the history of the car, began to become commercially available in 2008.
There are costs and benefits to car use. The costs include acquiring the vehicle, interest payments (if the car is financed), repairs and maintenance, fuel, depreciation, driving time, parking fees, taxes, and insurance.[5] The costs to society include maintaining roads, land use, road congestion, air pollution, public health, health care, and disposing of the vehicle at the end of its life. Road traffic accidents are the largest cause of injury-related deaths worldwide.[6]
The benefits include on-demand transportation, mobility, independence, and convenience.[7] The societal benefits include economic benefits, such as job and wealth creation from the automotive industry, transportation provision, societal well-being from leisure and travel opportunities, and revenue generation from the taxes. The ability for people to move flexibly from place to place has far-reaching implications for the nature of societies.[8] It was estimated in 2014 that the number of cars was over 1.25 billion vehicles,[9] up from the 500 million of 1986.[10] The numbers are increasing rapidly, especially in China, India and other newly industrialized countries.[11]
The word car is believed to originate from the Latin word carrus or carrum ("wheeled vehicle"), or the Middle English word carre (meaning "two-wheel cart", from Old North French). In turn, these originated from the Gaulish word karros (a Gallic chariot).[12][13] It originally referred to any wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, such as a cart, carriage, or wagon.[14][15] "Motor car" is attested from 1895, and is the usual formal name for cars in British English.[3] "Autocar" is a variant that is also attested from 1895, but that is now considered archaic. It literally means "self-propelled car".[16] The term "horseless carriage" was used by some to refer to the first cars at the time that they were being built, and is attested from 1895.[17]
The word "automobile" is a classical compound derived from the Ancient Greek word autós (αὐτός), meaning "self", and the Latin word mobilis, meaning "movable". It entered the English language from French, and was first adopted by the Automobile Club of Great Britain in 1897.[18] Over time, the word "automobile" fell out of favour in Britain, and was replaced by "motor car". "Automobile" remains chiefly North American, particularly as a formal or commercial term.[19] An abbreviated form, "auto", was formerly a common way to refer to cars in English, but is now considered old-fashioned. The word is still very common as an adjective in American English, usually in compound formations like "auto industry" and "auto mechanic".[20][21] In Dutch and German, two languages historically related to English, the abbreviated form "auto" (Dutch) / "Auto" (German), as well as the formal full version "automobiel" (Dutch) / "Automobil" (German) are still used — in either the short form is the most regular word for "car".
The first working steam-powered vehicle was designed — and quite possibly built — by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish member of a Jesuit mission in China around 1672. It was a 65-cm-long scale-model toy for the Chinese Emperor that was unable to carry a driver or a passenger.[7][22][23] It is not known with certainty if Verbiest's model was successfully built or ran.[23]
Cugnot's 1771 fardier à vapeur, as preserved at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot is widely credited with building the first full-scale, self-propelled mechanical vehicle or car in about 1769; he created a steam-powered tricycle.[24] He also constructed two steam tractors for the French Army, one of which is preserved in the French National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts.[25] His inventions were, however, handicapped by problems with water supply and maintaining steam pressure.[25] In 1801, Richard Trevithick built and demonstrated his Puffing Devil road locomotive, believed by many to be the first demonstration of a steam-powered road vehicle. It was unable to maintain sufficient steam pressure for long periods, and was of little practical use.
The development of external combustion engines is detailed as part of the history of the car, but often treated separately from the development of true cars. A variety of steam-powered road vehicles were used during the first part of the 19th century, including steam cars, steam buses, phaetons, and steam rollers. Sentiment against them led to the Locomotive Acts of 1865.
In 1807, Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude created what was probably the world's first internal combustion engine (which they called a Pyréolophore), but they chose to install it in a boat on the river Saone in France.[26] Coincidentally, in 1807 the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed his own 'de Rivaz internal combustion engine' and used it to develop the world's first vehicle to be powered by such an engine. The Niépces' Pyréolophore was fuelled by a mixture of Lycopodium powder (dried spores of the Lycopodium plant), finely crushed coal dust and resin that were mixed with oil, whereas de Rivaz used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen.[26] Neither design was very successful, as was the case with others, such as Samuel Brown, Samuel Morey, and Etienne Lenoir with his hippomobile, who each produced vehicles (usually adapted carriages or carts) powered by internal combustion engines.[1]
Gustave Trouvé's tricycle, the first ever electric automobile to be shown in public
Karl Benz, the inventor of the modern car
In November 1881, French inventor Gustave Trouvé demonstrated the first working (three-wheeled) car powered by electricity at the International Exposition of Electricity, Paris.[27] Although several other German engineers (including Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach, and Siegfried Marcus) were working on the problem at about the same time, Karl Benz generally is acknowledged as the inventor of the modern car.[1]
The original Benz Patent-Motorwagen, first built in 1885 and awarded the patent for the concept
In 1879, Benz was granted a patent for his first engine, which had been designed in 1878. Many of his other inventions made the use of the internal combustion engine feasible for powering a vehicle. His first Motorwagen was built in 1885 in Mannheim, Germany. He was awarded the patent for its invention as of his application on 29 January 1886 (under the auspices of his major company, Benz & Cie., which was founded in 1883). Benz began promotion of the vehicle on 3 July 1886, and about 25 Benz vehicles were sold between 1888 and 1893, when his first four-wheeler was introduced along with a model intended for affordability. They also were powered with four-stroke engines of his own design. Emile Roger of France, already producing Benz engines under license, now added the Benz car to his line of products. Because France was more open to the early cars, initially more were built and sold in France through Roger than Benz sold in Germany. In August 1888 Bertha Benz, the wife of Karl Benz, undertook the first road trip by car, to prove the road-worthiness of her husband's invention.
Bertha Benz, the first long distance driver
In 1896, Benz designed and patented the first internal-combustion flat engine, called boxermotor. During the last years of the nineteenth century, Benz was the largest car company in the world with 572 units produced in 1899 and, because of its size, Benz & Cie., became a joint-stock company. The first motor car in central Europe and one of the first factory-made cars in the world, was produced by Czech company Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau (later renamed to Tatra) in 1897, the Präsident automobil.
Daimler and Maybach founded Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG) in Cannstatt in 1890, and sold their first car in 1892 under the brand name Daimler. It was a horse-drawn stagecoach built by another manufacturer, which they retrofitted with an engine of their design. By 1895 about 30 vehicles had been built by Daimler and Maybach, either at the Daimler works or in the Hotel Hermann, where they set up shop after disputes with their backers. Benz, Maybach and the Daimler team seem to have been unaware of each other's early work. They never worked together; by the time of the merger of the two companies, Daimler and Maybach were no longer part of DMG. Daimler died in 1900 and later that year, Maybach designed an engine named Daimler-Mercedes that was placed in a specially ordered model built to specifications set by Emil Jellinek. This was a production of a small number of vehicles for Jellinek to race and market in his country. Two years later, in 1902, a new model DMG car was produced and the model was named Mercedes after the Maybach engine, which generated 35 hp. Maybach quit DMG shortly thereafter and opened a business of his own. Rights to the Daimler brand name were sold to other manufacturers.
Karl Benz proposed co-operation between DMG and Benz & Cie. when economic conditions began to deteriorate in Germany following the First World War, but the directors of DMG refused to consider it initially. Negotiations between the two companies resumed several years later when these conditions worsened and, in 1924 they signed an Agreement of Mutual Interest, valid until the year 2000. Both enterprises standardized design, production, purchasing, and sales and they advertised or marketed their car models jointly, although keeping their respective brands. On 28 June 1926, Benz & Cie. and DMG finally merged as the Daimler-Benz company, baptizing all of its cars Mercedes Benz, as a brand honoring the most important model of the DMG cars, the Maybach design later referred to as the 1902 Mercedes-35 hp, along with the Benz name. Karl Benz remained a member of the board of directors of Daimler-Benz until his death in 1929, and at times his two sons also participated in the management of the company.
Émile Levassor
Armand Peugeot
In 1890, Émile Levassor and Armand Peugeot of France began producing vehicles with Daimler engines, and so laid the foundation of the automotive industry in France. In 1891, Auguste Doriot and his Peugeot colleague Louis Rigoulot completed the longest trip by a gasoline-powered vehicle when their self-designed and built Daimler powered Peugeot Type 3 completed 2,100 km (1,300 miles) from Valentigney to Paris and Brest and back again. They were attached to the first Paris–Brest–Paris bicycle race, but finished 6 days after the winning cyclist, Charles Terront.
The first design for an American car with a gasoline internal combustion engine was made in 1877 by George Selden of Rochester, New York. Selden applied for a patent for a car in 1879, but the patent application expired because the vehicle was never built. After a delay of sixteen years and a series of attachments to his application, on 5 November 1895, Selden was granted a United States patent (U.S. Patent 549,160) for a two-stroke car engine, which hindered, more than encouraged, development of cars in the United States. His patent was challenged by Henry Ford and others, and overturned in 1911.
In 1893, the first running, gasoline-powered American car was built and road-tested by the Duryea brothers of Springfield, Massachusetts. The first public run of the Duryea Motor Wagon took place on 21 September 1893, on Taylor Street in Metro Center Springfield.[28][29] The Studebaker Automobile Company, subsidiary of a long-established wagon and coach manufacturer, started to build cars in 1897[30]:p.66 and commenced sales of electric vehicles in 1902 and gasoline vehicles in 1904.[31]
In Britain, there had been several attempts to build steam cars with varying degrees of success, with Thomas Rickett even attempting a production run in 1860.[32] Santler from Malvern is recognized by the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain as having made the first gasoline-powered car in the country in 1894,[33] followed by Frederick William Lanchester in 1895, but these were both one-offs.[33] The first production vehicles in Great Britain came from the Daimler Company, a company founded by Harry J. Lawson in 1896, after purchasing the right to use the name of the engines. Lawson's company made its first car in 1897, and they bore the name Daimler.[33]
In 1892, German engineer Rudolf Diesel was granted a patent for a "New Rational Combustion Engine". In 1897, he built the first diesel engine.[1]Steam-, electric-, and gasoline-powered vehicles competed for decades, with gasoline internal combustion engines achieving dominance in the 1910s. Although various pistonless rotary engine designs have attempted to compete with the conventional piston and crankshaft design, only Mazda's version of the Wankel engine has had more than very limited success.
All in all, it is estimated that over 100,000 patents created the modern automobile and motorcycle.[34]
Ransom E. Olds founded Olds Motor Vehicle Company (Oldsmobile) in 1897
Henry Ford founded Ford Motor Company in 1903
1927 Ford Model T
Kiichiro Toyoda, president of the Toyota Motor Corporation 1941–1950
Mass production at a Toyota plant in the 1950s
Large-scale, production-line manufacturing of affordable cars was started by Ransom Olds in 1901 at his Oldsmobile factory in Lansing, Michigan and based upon stationary assembly line techniques pioneered by Marc Isambard Brunel at the Portsmouth Block Mills, England, in 1802. The assembly line style of mass production and interchangeable parts had been pioneered in the U.S. by Thomas Blanchard in 1821, at the Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts.[35] This concept was greatly expanded by Henry Ford, beginning in 1913 with the world's first moving assembly line for cars at the Highland Park Ford Plant.
As a result, Ford's cars came off the line in fifteen-minute intervals, much faster than previous methods, increasing productivity eightfold, while using less manpower (from 12.5-man-hours to 1 hour 33 minutes).[36] It was so successful, paint became a bottleneck. Only Japan blackwould dry fast enough, forcing the company to drop the variety of colors available before 1913, until fast-drying Duco lacquer was developed in 1926. This is the source of Ford's apocryphal remark, "any color as long as it's black".[36] In 1914, an assembly line worker could buy a Model T with four months' pay.[36]
Ford's complex safety procedures—especially assigning each worker to a specific location instead of allowing them to roam about—dramatically reduced the rate of injury. The combination of high wages and high efficiency is called "Fordism," and was copied by most major industries. The efficiency gains from the assembly line also coincided with the economic rise of the United States. The assembly line forced workers to work at a certain pace with very repetitive motions which led to more output per worker while other countries were using less productive methods.
In the automotive industry, its success was dominating, and quickly spread worldwide seeing the founding of Ford France and Ford Britain in 1911, Ford Denmark 1923, Ford Germany 1925; in 1921, Citroen was the first native European manufacturer to adopt the production method. Soon, companies had to have assembly lines, or risk going broke; by 1930, 250 companies which did not, had disappeared.[36]
Development of automotive technology was rapid, due in part to the hundreds of small manufacturers competing to gain the world's attention. Key developments included electric ignition and the electric self-starter (both by Charles Kettering, for the Cadillac Motor Company in 1910–1911), independent suspension, and four-wheel brakes.
Since the 1920s, nearly all cars have been mass-produced to meet market needs, so marketing plans often have heavily influenced car design. It was Alfred P. Sloan who established the idea of different makes of cars produced by one company, called the General Motors Companion Make Program, so that buyers could "move up" as their fortunes improved.
Reflecting the rapid pace of change, makes shared parts with one another so larger production volume resulted in lower costs for each price range. For example, in the 1930s, LaSalles, sold by Cadillac, used cheaper mechanical parts made by Oldsmobile; in the 1950s, Chevrolet shared hood, doors, roof, and windows with Pontiac; by the 1990s, corporate powertrains and shared platforms (with interchangeable brakes, suspension, and other parts) were common. Even so, only major makers could afford high costs, and even companies with decades of production, such as Apperson, Cole, Dorris, Haynes, or Premier, could not manage: of some two hundred American car makers in existence in 1920, only 43 survived in 1930, and with the Great Depression, by 1940, only 17 of those were left.[36]
In Europe, much the same would happen. Morris set up its production line at Cowley in 1924, and soon outsold Ford, while beginning in 1923 to follow Ford's practice of vertical integration, buying Hotchkiss (engines), Wrigley (gearboxes), and Osberton (radiators), for instance, as well as competitors, such as Wolseley: in 1925, Morris had 41% of total British car production. Most British small-car assemblers, from Abbey to Xtra, had gone under. Citroen did the same in France, coming to cars in 1919; between them and other cheap cars in reply such as Renault's 10CV and Peugeot's 5CV, they produced 550,000 cars in 1925, and Mors, Hurtu, and others could not compete.[36] Germany's first mass-manufactured car, the Opel 4PS Laubfrosch (Tree Frog), came off the line at Russelsheim in 1924, soon making Opel the top car builder in Germany, with 37.5% of the market.[36]
In Japan, car production was very limited before World War II. Only a handful of companies were producing vehicles in limited numbers, and these were small, three-wheeled for commercial uses, like Daihatsu, or were the result of partnering with European companies, like Isuzu building the Wolseley A-9 in 1922. Mitsubishi was also partnered with Fiat and built the Mitsubishi Model A based on a Fiat vehicle. Toyota, Nissan, Suzuki, Mazda, and Honda began as companies producing non-automotive products before the war, switching to car production during the 1950s. Kiichiro Toyoda's decision to take Toyoda Loom Works into automobile manufacturing would create what would eventually become Toyota Motor Corporation, the largest automobile manufacturer in the world. Subaru, meanwhile, was formed from a conglomerate of six companies who banded together as Fuji Heavy Industries, as a result of having been broken up under keiretsu legislation.
Fuel and propulsion technologies
The Nissan Leaf is an all-electric car launched in December 2010
See also: Alternative fuel vehicle
Most cars in use in the 2010s are propelled by an internal combustion engine, fueled by the deflagration (rather than detonation) combustion of hydrocarbon fossil fuels, mostly gasoline (petrol) and diesel, as well as some Autogas and CNG. Hydrocarbon fuels cause air pollution and contribute to climate change and global warming.[4] Rapidly increasing oil prices, concerns about oil dependence, tightening environmental laws and restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions are propelling work on alternative power systems for cars. Efforts to improve or replace existing technologies include the development of hybrid vehicles, plug-in electric vehicles and hydrogen vehicles. Vehicles using alternative fuels such as ethanol flexible-fuel vehicles and natural gas vehicles are also gaining popularity in some countries. Cars for racing or speed records have sometimes employed jet or rocket engines, but these are impractical for common use.
Oil consumption in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has been abundantly pushed by car growth; the 1985–2003 oil glut even fuelled the sales of low-economy vehicles in OECD countries. The BRIC countries are adding to this consumption; in December 2009 China was briefly the largest car market.[37]
In the Ford Model T the left-side hand lever sets the rear wheel parking brakes and puts the transmission in neutral. The lever to the right controls the throttle. The lever on the left of the steering column is for ignition timing. The left foot pedal changes the two forward gears while the centre pedal controls reverse. The right pedal is the brake.
Cars are equipped with controls used for driving, passenger comfort and safety, normally operated by a combination of the use of feet and hands, and occasionally by voice on 2000s-era cars. These controls include a steering wheel, pedals for operating the brakes and controlling the car's speed (and, in a manual transmission car, a clutch pedal), a shift lever or stick for changing gears, and a number of buttons and dials for turning on lights, ventilation and other functions. Modern cars' controls are now standardised, such as the location for the accelerator and brake, but this was not always the case. Controls are evolving in response to new technologies, for example the electric car and the integration of mobile communications.
Since the car was first invented, its controls have become fewer and simpler through automation. For example, all cars once had a manual controls for the choke valve, clutch, ignition timing, and a crank instead of an electric starter. However new controls have also been added to vehicles, making them more complex. Examples include air conditioning, navigation systems, and in car entertainment. Another trend is the replacement of physical knob and switches for secondary controls with touchscreen controls such as BMW's iDrive and Ford's MyFord Touch. Another change is that while early cars' pedals were physically linked to the brake mechanism and throttle, in the 2010s, cars have increasingly replaced these physical linkages with electronic controls.
LED daytime running lights on an Audi A4
Cars are typically fitted with multiple types of lights. These include headlights, which are used to illuminate the way ahead and make the car visible to other users, so that the vehicle can be used at night; in some jurisdictions, daytime running lights; red brake lights to indicate when the brakes are applied; amber turn signal lights to indicate the turn intentions of the driver; white-coloured reverse lights to illuminate the area behind the car (and indicate that the driver will be or is reversing); and on some vehicles, additional lights (e.g., side marker lights) to increase the visibility of the car. Interior lights on the ceiling of the car are usually fitted for the driver and passengers. Some vehicles also have a trunk light and, more rarely, an engine compartment light.
The Smart Fortwo car from 1998-2002, weighing 730 kg (1,610 lb)
A Chevrolet Suburban extended-length SUV weighs 3,300 kg (7,200 lb) (gross weight)[38]
In the United States, "from 1975 to 1980, average [car] weight dropped from 1,842 to 1,464 kg (4,060 to 3,228 lb), likely in response to rising gasoline prices" and new fuel efficiency standards.[39] The average new car weighed 1,461 kg (3,221 lb) in 1987 but 1,818 kg (4,009 lb) in 2010, due to modern steel safety cages, anti-lock brakes, airbags, and "more-powerful—if more-efficient—engines."[40] Heavier cars are safer for the driver, from an accident perspective, but more dangerous for other vehicles and road users.[40] The weight of a car influences fuel consumption and performance, with more weight resulting in increased fuel consumption and decreased performance. The SmartFortwo, a small city car, weighs 750–795 kg (1,655–1,755 lb). Heavier cars include full-size cars, SUVs and extended-length SUVs like the Suburban.
According to research conducted by Julian Allwood of the University of Cambridge, global energy use could be heavily reduced by using lighter cars, and an average weight of 500 kg (1,100 lb) has been said to be well achievable.[41] In some competitions such as the Shell Eco Marathon, average car weights of 45 kg (99 lb) have also been achieved.[42][43] These cars are only single-seaters (still falling within the definition of a car, although 4-seater cars are more common), but they nevertheless demonstrate the amount by which car weights could still be reduced, and the subsequent lower fuel use (i.e. up to a fuel use of 2560 km/l).[44]
Seating and body style
Most cars are designed to carry multiple occupants, often with four or five seats. Cars with five seats typically seat two passengers in the front and three in the rear. Full-size cars and large sport utility vehicles can often carry six, seven, or more occupants depending on the arrangement of the seats. On the other hand, sports cars are most often designed with only two seats. The differing needs for passenger capacity and their luggage or cargo space has resulted in the availability of a large variety of body styles to meet individual consumer requirements that include, among others, the sedan/saloon, hatchback, station wagon/estate, and minivan.
Result of a serious car accident
Road traffic accidents are the largest cause of injury-related deaths worldwide.[6] Mary Ward became one of the first documented car fatalities in 1869 in Parsonstown, Ireland,[45] and Henry Bliss one of the United States' first pedestrian car casualties in 1899 in New York City.[46] There are now standard tests for safety in new cars, such as the EuroNCAP and the US NCAP tests,[47] and insurance-industry-backed tests by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).[48]
Worldwide, road traffic is becoming ever safer, in part due to efforts by the government to implement safety features in cars (e.g., seat belts, air bags, etc.), reduce unsafe driving practices (e.g., speeding, drinking and driving and texting and driving) and make road design more safe by adding features such as speed bumps, which reduce vehicle speed, and roundabouts, which reduce the likelihood of a head-on-collision (as compared with an intersection).
Costs and benefits
Road congestion is an issue in many major cities. (pictured is Chang'an Avenue in Beijing)[49]
The costs of car usage, which may include the cost of: acquiring the vehicle, repairs and auto maintenance, fuel, depreciation, driving time, parking fees, taxes, and insurance,[5] are weighed against the cost of the alternatives, and the value of the benefits – perceived and real – of vehicle usage. The benefits may include on-demand transportation, mobility, independence and convenience.[7] During the 1920s, cars had another benefit: "[c]ouples finally had a way to head off on unchaperoned dates, plus they had a private space to snuggle up close at the end of the night."[50]
Similarly the costs to society of encompassing car use, which may include those of: maintaining roads, land use, air pollution, road congestion, public health, health care, and of disposing of the vehicle at the end of its life, can be balanced against the value of the benefits to society that car use generates. The societal benefits may include: economy benefits, such as job and wealth creation, of car production and maintenance, transportation provision, society wellbeing derived from leisure and travel opportunities, and revenue generation from the tax opportunities. The ability for humans to move flexibly from place to place has far-reaching implications for the nature of societies.[8]
Vehicles in use per country from 2001 to 2007. It shows the significant growth in BRIC.
World map of passenger cars per 1000 people
While there are different types of fuel that may power cars, most rely on gasoline or diesel. The United States Environmental Protection Agency states that the average vehicle emits 8,887 grams of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) per gallon of gasoline. The average vehicle running on diesel fuel will emit 10,180 grams of carbon dioxide.[51] Many governments are using fiscal policies (such as road tax or the US gas guzzler tax) to influence vehicle purchase decisions, with a low CO2 figure often resulting in reduced taxation.[52] Fuel taxes may act as an incentive for the production of more efficient, hence less polluting, car designs (e.g. hybrid vehicles) and the development of alternative fuels. High fuel taxes may provide a strong incentive for consumers to purchase lighter, smaller, more fuel-efficient cars, or to not drive. On average, today's cars are about 75 percent recyclable, and using recycled steel helps reduce energy use and pollution.[53] In the United States Congress, federally mandated fuel efficiency standards have been debated regularly, passenger car standards have not risen above the 27.5 miles per US gallon (8.6 L/100 km; 33.0 mpg‑imp) standard set in 1985. Light truck standards have changed more frequently, and were set at 22.2 miles per US gallon (10.6 L/100 km; 26.7 mpg‑imp) in 2007.[54]
The manufacture of vehicles is resource intensive, and many manufacturers now report on the environmental performance of their factories, including energy usage, waste and water consumption.[55]
The growth in popularity of the car allowed cities to sprawl, therefore encouraging more travel by car resulting in inactivity and obesity, which in turn can lead to increased risk of a variety of diseases.[56]
Transportation (of all types including trucks, buses and cars) is a major contributor to air pollution in most industrialised nations. According to the American Surface Transportation Policy Project nearly half of all Americans are breathing unhealthy air. Their study showed air quality in dozens of metropolitan areas has worsened over the last decade.[57]
Animals and plants are often negatively impacted by cars via habitat destruction and pollution. Over the lifetime of the average car the "loss of habitat potential" may be over 50,000 m2 (540,000 sq ft) based on primary production correlations.[58] Animals are also killed every year on roads by cars, referred to as roadkill. More recent road developments are including significant environmental mitigations in their designs such as green bridges to allow wildlife crossings, and creating wildlife corridors.
Growth in the popularity of vehicles and commuting has led to traffic congestion. Brussels was considered Europe's most congested city in 2011 according to TomTom.[59]
Emerging car technologies
Car propulsion technologies that are under development include gasoline/electric and plug-in hybrids, battery electric vehicles, hydrogen cars, biofuels, and various alternative fuels. Research into future alternative forms of power include the development of fuel cells, Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI), stirling engines,[60] and even using the stored energy of compressed air or liquid nitrogen.
New materials which may replace steel car bodies include duralumin, fiberglass, carbon fiber, biocomposites, and carbon nanotubes. Telematics technology is allowing more and more people to share cars, on a pay-as-you-go basis, through car share and carpool schemes. Communication is also evolving due to connected car systems.[61]
A robotic Volkswagen Passatshown at Stanford University is a driverless car
Fully autonomous vehicles, also known as driverless cars, already exist in prototype (such as the Google driverless car), and are expected to be commercially available around 2020. According to urban designer and futurist Michael E. Arth, driverless electric vehicles—in conjunction with the increased use of virtual reality for work, travel, and pleasure—could reduce the world's 800 million vehicles to a fraction of that number within a few decades.[62] This would be possible if almost all private cars requiring drivers, which are not in use and parked 90% of the time, would be traded for public self-driving taxis that would be in near constant use. This would also allow for getting the appropriate vehicle for the particular need—a bus could come for a group of people, a limousine could come for a special night out, and a Segway could come for a short trip down the street for one person. Children could be chauffeured in supervised safety, DUIs would no longer exist, and 41,000 lives could be saved each year in the US alone.[63][64]
Open source development
Main article: Open source car
There have been several projects aiming to develop a car on the principles of open design, an approach to designing in which the plans for the machinery and systems are publicly shared, often without monetary compensation. The projects include OScar, Riversimple (through 40fires.org)[65] and c,mm,n.[66] None of the projects have reached significant success in terms of developing a car as a whole both from hardware and software perspective and no mass production ready open-source based design have been introduced as of late 2009. Some car hacking through on-board diagnostics (OBD) has been done so far.[67]
Car-share arrangements and carpooling are also increasingly popular, in the US and Europe.[68] For example, in the US, some car-sharing services have experienced double-digit growth in revenue and membership growth between 2006 and 2007. Services like car sharing offering a residents to "share" a vehicle rather than own a car in already congested neighborhoods.[69]
A car being assembled in a factory
The automotive industry designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells the world's motor vehicles. In 2008, more than 70 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide.[70]
In 2007, a total of 71.9 million new cars were sold worldwide: 22.9 million in Europe, 21.4 million in the Asia-Pacific Region, 19.4 million in the USA and Canada, 4.4 million in Latin America, 2.4 million in the Middle East and 1.4 million in Africa.[71] The markets in North America and Japan were stagnant, while those in South America and other parts of Asia grew strongly. Of the major markets, China, Russia, Brazil and India saw the most rapid growth.
About 250 million vehicles are in use in the United States. Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 260 billion US gallons (980,000,000 m3) of gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The numbers are increasing rapidly, especially in China and India.[11] In the opinion of some, urban transport systems based around the car have proved unsustainable, consuming excessive energy, affecting the health of populations, and delivering a declining level of service despite increasing investments. Many of these negative impacts fall disproportionately on those social groups who are also least likely to own and drive cars.[72][73][74] The sustainable transport movement focuses on solutions to these problems.
In 2008, with rapidly rising oil prices, industries such as the automotive industry, are experiencing a combination of pricing pressures from raw material costs and changes in consumer buying habits. The industry is also facing increasing external competition from the public transport sector, as consumers re-evaluate their private vehicle usage.[75] Roughly half of the US's fifty-one light vehicle plants are projected to permanently close in the coming years, with the loss of another 200,000 jobs in the sector, on top of the 560,000 jobs lost this decade.[76] Combined with robust growth in China, in 2009, this resulted in China becoming the largest car producer and market in the world. China 2009 sales had increased to 13.6 million, a significant increase from one million of domestic car sales in 2000.[77] Since then however, even in China and other BRIC countries, the automotive production is again falling.[78]
The Vélib' in Paris is the largest bikesharing system outside of China[79]
Established alternatives for some aspects of car use include public transit such as buses, trolleybuses, trains, subways, tramways light rail, cycling, and walking. Bike-share systems have been tried in some European cities, including Copenhagen and Amsterdam. Similar programs have been experimented with in a number of US Cities.[80] Additional individual modes of transport, such as personal rapid transit could serve as an alternative to cars if they prove to be socially accepted.[81]
Other meanings
The term motorcar has formerly also been used in the context of electrified rail systems to denote a car which functions as a small locomotive but also provides space for passengers and baggage. These locomotive cars were often used on suburban routes by both interurban and intercity railroad systems.[82]
Main article: Outline of automobiles
Car costs
Car classification
Carfree city
List of countries by automobile production
List of countries by vehicles per capita
Lists of automobiles
Peak car
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Q: Logitech MX Ergo Scroll wheel doesn't work Whether or not I have scroll direction "natural" checked or not, when I use my mouse wheel to scroll nothing happens. I can scroll with two fingers on the trackpack but turning of the mouse wheel of the MX Ergo that I linked via bluetooth gets ignored.
I have installed Logitech Options and can successfully map actions to mouse buttons with it.
Is there anyway to get mousewheel scrolling on my MacBook Pro 2018?

A: I needed to give the Logitech Option Dameon the ability to control my computer in System Preferences -> Security&Privacy -> Accessibility -> Privacy

A: Needed to give System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Accessibility > Privacy access to "Logi Options Daemon" and "Logi Options".


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Q: how to respond back to main thread? am creating a simple application. Application has to display dialog box, run a timer at the background. When the timer elapses, beep should be played. however if the dialog box is clicked before timer, the timer should be cancelled. I am posting what I have done so far, with this code, am getting the beep first and then dialog box, how to say to main thread that the timer has finished?
public class main extends Activity
{
static final int DIALOG_ADDPLAYERS = 0;

Thread backgroundThread;
TextView myText;
myCounter counter;
MediaPlayer mp;

Handler handler = new Handler(){

    @Override
    public void handleMessage(Message msg)
    {
            playAudio();
    }

};

 protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id)
    {
        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);

        switch(id)
        {
        case 0:

                builder.setTitle("Restart Game");
                builder.setMessage("Are you sure to restart the game?");
                builder.setPositiveButton("YES", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which)
                    {
                        counter.cancel();
                    }});
                builder.setNegativeButton("NO", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which)
                    {
                        counter.cancel();
                    }
                });

            break;

        default:
        }
        return builder.create();
    }

void playAudio()
{
    mp = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.beep);
    mp.setLooping(false);
    mp.start();
    mp.setOnCompletionListener(new OnCompletionListener(){
        public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer arg0)
        {
            finish();
        }
    });
    mp.setOnCompletionListener(new OnCompletionListener(){
        public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer arg0)
        {
            finish();
        }});

}

@Override
protected void onDestroy()
{
    super.onDestroy();
    if (mp!=null)
    {
        mp.release();
        mp=null;
    }
}

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    myText = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.mytext);

    //Toast.makeText(this, "onCreate()", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    showDialog(0);
    startMyTimer();
}

protected void startMyTimer()
{
    counter = new myCounter((long)10000,(long)1000);
    backgroundThread = new Thread(new Runnable(){

        @Override
        public void run()
        {
                try
                {
                    //Thread.sleep(10000);

                    counter.startTimer();

                }
                catch (Exception e) {

                    e.printStackTrace();
                }

        }

    });
    backgroundThread.start();
}

}
This is my MyCounter class:
package com.androidbook.bgthread;

import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.media.MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener;
import android.os.CountDownTimer;

public class myCounter extends CountDownTimer
{
    public myCounter(long millisInFuture, long countDownInterval)
    {
        super(millisInFuture, countDownInterval);
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
    }

    @Override
    public void onFinish()
    {

    }

    @Override
    public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished)
    {

    }

    public void startTimer()
    {
        start();
    }

}

Is this the right way to do it? Please help.

A: Use a Handler: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Handler.html. This lets you send a message to the main thread from any other thread.
A helpful reference is at http://www.tutorialforandroid.com/2009/01/using-handler-in-android.html


DANIEL, WILLIAM CLIFTON, 92, of Louisville, passed away Monday, April 12, 2010.
He was retired from E.I. Dupont after 32 years. Member of Jackson Masonic Lodge.
Preceded in death by parents, George and Louverna Daniel; brothers, Raymond and George Daniel; grandson, Clify.
He is survived by loving wife of 74 years, Hazel Goff Daniel; sister, Geneva Tirey; three daughters, Carolyn Sue Campbell (Lowell), Mary Lou Daniel Crocker, Marsha Lynn Smith (Thomas); seven grandchildren, Lowell Campbell, Jr. (Sherry), Barbara Hatting, Teresa Hofmann (Richard), Jason Campbell (Dee), Timothy Smith (Jennifer), Kristin Pepper and Julia Yates (Gregory); nine great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at noon on Thursday, April 15 at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel, Jackson, KY with Rev. Tammy Smith officiating. Interment in Jackson Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hosparus, 3532 Ephraim McDowell Rd. Louisville, KY 40205-3224.


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STUDYING MEMORY, LANGUAGE,
AND LONG-TERM OUTCOMES
OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
Melissa C. Duff, PhD, CCC-SLP
We combine neuropsychological, neuroimaging, and eye-tracking methods with behavioral methods to study memory and language processing, how it breaks down in patients with memory disorders, and the factors that facilitate recovery and functional outcome following different forms of brain injury.
We study the role of memory in language use and social interaction and the consequences of memory disorders on language and communication. We also study long-term outcomes in individuals with traumatic brain injury and other forms of cognitive or memory impairment.
BRAIN INJURY PATIENT REGISTRY
Our lab houses and directs the Brain Injury Patient Registry. The Registry is a repository of demographic information, and state of the art neuropsychological, neuroanatomical, and outcome data from individuals with focal lesions and traumatic brain injury, which serves as a unique resource for conducting large-scale basic and translational research in the area of acquired brain injury.
MELISSA C. DUFF, Ph.D, CCC-SLP
Dr. Melissa C. Duff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Her research focuses on the role of memory in language and social interaction. Her work pays special attention to the role of the hippocampal-dependent memory system in language use and processing and in flexible cognition more broadly. Dr. Duff also conducts work in the area of acquired brain injury and is interested in factors that influence long-term outcome. She is the founder and director of the Brain Injury Registry.
Dr. Duff has an established record of research funding from the National Institutes of Health, and is the author of more than 100 research publications. She was named Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 2018 and was named Deans Scholar in 2015 at the University of Iowa, where she was a faculty member until 2016.
VOLUNTEER FOR OUR RESEARCH
INTERESTED IN JOINING THE LAB?
dufflab@vumc.org
Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center
Vanderbilt University Medical Center East
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Professor Carlin has an international reputation in the field of biostatistics, which is the discipline underpinning the use of statistical methods for designing and analysing quantitative studies in health and medical research. His experience spans a wide range of application areas, especially relating to child and adolescent health research (including allergy and asthma, cystic fibrosis, cardiac disease, neonatology, rotavirus disease, vaccines, and adolescent mental health and behaviour) while his methodological research has focussed on methods for longitudinal data analysis and for handling incompleteness in data. He has strong interests in public and scientific uses and misuses of statistical methods and concepts (such as "statistical significance") and also has long-standing interests in Bayesian statistical methods. Prof. Carlin has been based mainly at the Royal Children's Hospital (Melbourne) campus since 1991, with a primary appointment as Director of the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit within the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (also supported by the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics), along with a conjoint appointment in the University of Melbourne's School of Population & Global Health since 2002. In the latter role he established the first Master of Biostatistics program at the University of Melbourne, in conjunction with the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia, which he co-founded. Since 2012 he has also led the Victorian Centre for Biostatistics (ViCBiostat), a collaboration between the MCRI, University of Melbourne and Monash University, which is funded by a Centre of Research Excellence grant from the National Health & Medical Research Council to conduct research and provide advanced training in biostatistics.
I am interested in supervising students who have formal training in statistics or biostatistics and are interested in and motivated by practical problems in health and medical research.