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But it’s the Ram’s top versions that are especially impressive with well-finished, roomy and comfortable interiors and some truly top-shelf amenities. The Limited model we drove came elegantly trimmed in leather (even the grab handles were leather covered) with a herringbone pattern on the steering wheel, doors and dashboard trim. Included on this trim level are both heated and ventilated front and rear seats, along with an enormous center console with cupholders and storage cubbies between the front buckets. The back seat is roomy enough to accommodate three large adults – wearing cowboy hats, no less – in limousine-like comfort. Rear in-floor bins with removable liners provide additional out-of-sight storage. A panoramic dual-pane power sunroof is optional.
Highlighting the Ram 1500 Limited’s interior is a large 12-inch vertically-mounted tablet-computer-like display at the center of the dashboard. It’s both configurable and responds to gesture and touch control. Running the latest version of FCA’s excellent Uconnect multimedia system, it looks complex but is surprisingly intuitive to operate.(Other versions feature less spectacular 8.4 and 5.0-inch displays.) Full smartphone connectivity includes Bluetooth, Apple CarPlay, and Android Auto interfaces. A mobile app enables owners to remotely lock, unlock or start their vehicle, locate the truck in a crowded parking lot, and send destination entries directly to the available navigation system. SiriusXM satellite radio is included, and it comes with a new streaming music feature.
An available surround camera gives a 360-degree view around the truck for easier and safer parking; a basic rear-view monitor is standard. A new Active Noise Cancellation system helps create in-cabin serenity, while an optional 19-speaker Harmon Kardon premium audio array with an ear-splitting 900 watts can be leveraged for the opposite effect.
Needless to say, all this poshness in a pickup doesn’t come cheap. The Ram 1500 Limited we drove came to a whopping $68,785 equipped with nearly $11,000 worth of options (and including the $1,695 destination charge). That’s within striking range of the top Ford F-150 Limited version that starts at over $62,000 and can break the $70,000 barrier with a heavy hand on the options list.
And that, we’ll remind you, is for a pickup truck.
Temperatures far from typical for summer will cover a lot of the country next week.
The Upper Midwest could see lows as cold as the 40s Tuesday morning.
Highs will be 10° to 20° below what is average for July.
The pattern has an interesting connection with Typhoon Neoguri that impacted Japan this past week.
Indra Petersons explains the "why" behind the deep chill.
Oct 08, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s finance minister has signed an extraordinary gazette to change the basis on which customs calculates the value of certain motor vehicles, and prices of some vehicles may increase by almost 50 percent, car dealers said.
With this order the actual transacted FOB value of the vehicle has been excluded from the new valuation criteria and Sri Lanka Customs will use a predetermined value in order to apply relevant customs duties.
As per the above gazette notification, issued on September 22, customs value of certain motor vehicles imported should be the aggregate of the following four items.
(1) Customs value, determined by the Director General of Customs based on the price furnished by the manufacturer of such vehicle.
(2) Cost of transport to the port of Sri Lanka.
(3) Loading, unloading and handling charges associated with the transport to the port of Sri Lanka.
(4) Cost of insurance to the port of Sri Lanka.
When compared to the early gazette notification published on 10 February 2015, there is only one major difference which affected the first item above.
(ii) Actual Transacted Free On Board (F.O.B.) value of the vehicle. Transacted value shall include local charges of every description incurred until the vehicle reaches the port in Sri Lanka.
It is clear that the actual transacted FOB value of the vehicle has now been excluded from the new criteria.
Sri Lanka Customs will use a predetermined value in order to apply relevant customs duties, back dated to 17 September 2015. The effective date was then verbally postponed to 30 September 2015.
For instance as per Sri Lanka Customs data, 1800 cc 4 Cylinder PRIUS has a FOB value of 3,497,237 Japanese yen and that figure will be used as the base for their valuation.
2400 cc 4 cylinder RAV 4 has a value of 2,591,714 Japanese yen, while 2700 cc 4 Cylinder PRADO has a value of 3,956,727 Japanese yen.
According to the provisions of the gazette, these numbers are based on the prices furnished by the manufacturers of these vehicles. But the exact way as to how these predetermined values are obtained is undisclosed.
Kokila Deekiriwewa, a lawyer by profession and Co-President of Lanka Vehicle Importers Association told LBO that these values are arbitrary.
“These are baseless figures with just high values. These should be ‘based’ on the prices of manufacturers not ‘beyond’ their prices,” he said.
As per the new gazette same value will be applied for older vehicles and newer vehicles of the same model.
“Whether it is manufactured in 2012 or 2015, same duty will be applied.” he said.
In terms of Article 10 of the Customs (Amendment) Act No. 2 of 2003, the minister has the power to set minimum values on goods in order to charge custom duties on such minimum values.
“So, the DG of Customs or any other official has no power to set values; it should be done by the minister himself through a gazette and it’s not transferable,” he said.
“It is unfair to decide arbitrary values using several customs officials,” he further stressed.
The relevant gazette notification and the customs value of Japanese Motor Vehicles determined in terms of this gazette is reproduced below.
Newswire PhotoOutfielder Elmer Flick was one of baseball's best players in the first decade of the 20th Century.
Cleveland, Ohio -- Minnesota center fielder Denard Span tied a modern-era record with three triples in the Twins' 11-4 rout of the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night. He becomes the 49th player in the modern era (since 1900) to accomplish the feat.
in 1912, all when the team was called the Naps in honor of player-manager Lajoie.
Flick, an outfielder elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1963, was born in Bedford on Jan. 11, 1876, and he died there on Jan. 9, 1971, two days short of his 95th birthday. Some relatives of Flick still live in the Greater Cleveland area.
Flick's three-triple game for Cleveland was during an 8-5 win over the Washington Senators at the Bronchos League Park home on July 6, 1902. He had also drilled three triples in a game during his 1898 rookie season, when he helped the Philadelphia Phillies club the St. Louis Browns, 14-2.
Flick led his league in triples three times, stolen bases twice and RBI and runs once each. He was held in such high regard that the Detroit Tigers offered to trade future great Ty Cobb, then 21, to Cleveland for Flick following the 1907 season.
Beginning in 1908, though, Flick was hampered by stomach ailments, and he played his last major league game on July 4, 1910. He finished with a .313 batting average, and his 164 career triples rank 30th on the all-time leaders list.
Span becomes the first player to hit three triples in a game since Rafael Furcal did it for the Atlanta Braves in 2002. He tied for the American League lead with 10 three-baggers last season and his seven currently lead the league.
Span joked after the game that he was inspired by teammate Jim Thome's triple on Monday. Thome, 39 and the Indians' all-time home run leader, had not tripled since 2004. He has 25 in 7,820 big league at bats, compared to his 572 career homers, which rank 11th on baseball's all-time list.
Triples were more commonplace in the first 30 years of the 20th Century in part because of bigger ballparks. From 1900 through 1929, there were 31 three-triple games by individual players.
Marc-Antoine Fortune might stop short of calling himself an uncle figure for Gozie Ugwu, but he’s happy to pass on his wisdom.
When the Frenchman kicked his first ball in senior football, Ugwu was six.
Chesterfield FC v Barnet FC.'second half substitute, Chigozi Ugwu makes his presence known in the Barnet six yard box.
There’s a 12-year age gap between the two Chesterfield strikers and Fortune has been there and done it in the Premier League and Champions League.
Ugwu, yet to play higher than League One, hasn’t scored as a Spireite.
But his struggles in front of goal are hardly unique.
“I think every striker is the same,” said Fortune.
“When we don’t score we think everything is against us, like a post or a pass.
“Just one and maybe he won’t score 10 behind it, but it will build his confidence and he will have more chances. More chances will bring more goals.
The 37-year-old is competing with Ugwu for a place in the starting line-up, but because he’s the elder statesman, he’s hoping he can assist his rival.
“I talk with him, because obviously I’m older,” he said.
“I’m not like an uncle, but I try to help him.
“I’m not only here to fight against him for a position, I’m here to help him.
Fortune is keen to ensure all of Town’s frontmen stay on track during what has been a lean spell: “We have to focus on the same things.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim (left) speaks next to Afghan Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah during a press conference at Sapedar palace in Kabul on April 8.
On April 8, 227 Afghan migrants boarded a charter flight from the northeastern city of Erzurum to Kabul, Turkish news agencies reported.
They said an additional more than 400 Afghans were set for deportation in the coming days.
Migration officials in Erzurum were quoted as saying that the authorities planned to deport all 3,000 Afghan migrants who are currently in the city.
In Kabul, a spokesman for the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations insisted that they were coming back home of their own will.
"They are the ones who wanted to use Turkey as a transit route to other countries, but when they failed they decided to come back," Islamuddin Jurat said.
During a visit to Kabul for talks with Afghan leaders, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on April 8 that Ankara was grateful for Afghanistan's cooperation over the matter.
"There is no problem here," Turkish state media quoted Yildirim as saying at a news conference with Afghan Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah.
Turkey is a key transit route for migrants from Afghanistan and other countries in Asia and the Middle East seeking to reach Europe in search of better lives and work.
Turkish media have reported that several thousand migrants from war-plagued Afghanistan had crossed into Turkey in recent weeks. They were believed to have crossed from Iran into Turkey and then walked for days from the border to reach Erzurum.
Rights groups have criticized Ankara for deporting migrants back to conflict-torn countries such as Afghanistan, saying it was putting their lives at risk.
Iridium has secured a launch for five more of its next-generation communications craft in a rideshare arrangement with two U.S.-German research satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket by early 2018.
The announcement Jan. 31 came two-and-a-half weeks after the first 10 Iridium Next satellites lifted off on a Falcon 9 booster from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Another 10 spacecraft are scheduled for launch on a Falcon 9 flight in April.
Iridium will share the Falcon 9’s lift and volume capacities on the newly-announced mission — also due to launch from Vandenberg — with two gravity research probes jointly developed by NASA and the German Research Center for Geosciences, or GFZ, of Potsdam, Germany.
The twin research satellites will replace the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment — GRACE — spacecraft in orbit since March 2002. The GRACE-Follow On, or GRACE-FO, satellites are being built and tested in Germany by Airbus Defense and Space.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is responsible for the overall mission — valued at nearly $400 million — and pays for the construction of the two GRACE-FO spacecraft and a microwave instrument, the centerpiece of the satellites’ science payload.
The German government and GFZ are in charge of part of the science payload and arranging launch services for the GRACE-FO mission, roughly one-quarter of the project’s overall cost.
The identical GRACE-FO satellites will launch into a polar orbit around 300 miles (500 kilometers) above Earth, and fly around the planet in formation separated by 137 miles (220 kilometers). The microwave ranging instrument will track the distance between the two spacecraft with a precision of 0.002 millimeters, a fraction of the width of a human hair.
Changes in the range between the satellites will tell scientists about the strength and lumpiness of Earth’s gravity field, allowing the ground team to produce a global gravity map every 30 days through the mission’s expected five-year lifetime.
GRACE’s data archive aids studies of earthquakes and other seismic activity, ocean currents and glaciers, and the structure of Earth’s interior.
The original GRACE satellites are low on fuel, and could run out of propellant as soon as this summer, around the time the follow-on craft were originally scheduled for liftoff, according to GFZ.
GFZ and NASA agreed in 2013 to launch the satellites on a Russian-Ukrainian Dnepr rocket provided by Kosmotras in August 2017, but that program’s future is in doubt after relations between the two partner countries deteriorated following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Iridium also booked two satellites to launch on a separate Dnepr rocket, but the Virginia-based communications company is no longer counting on the converted Soviet-era missile’s availability for the mission.
The indefinite grounding of Dnepr left Iridium and GFZ looking for an alternate ride.
Iridium said the rideshare launch with SpaceX offered a “particularly compelling economical solution” through cost-sharing with GFZ.
“This is a very smart way to get additional Iridium Next satellites into orbit,” said Matt Desch, CEO at Iridium. “This launch provides added resiliency to our network for not much more than we had planned originally to launch 72 satellites, including two with Kosmotras.
“We are pleased to be sharing a rocket with NASA and GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences for this additional SpaceX launch, and GFZ has been a great business partner throughout this process,” Desch said in a statement.
Financial terms of the rideshare SpaceX launch contract were not disclosed.
GFZ said the agreement with SpaceX calls for a launch between December 2017 and February 2018.
Iridium’s satellite contractors — Thales Alenia Space and Orbital ATK — are building 81 spacecraft for the new-generation fleet, which replaces the company’s aging satellites in orbit since the late 1990s. Iridium booked seven Falcon 9 launches with SpaceX in 2010 — enough to put 70 satellites into orbit — and the latest contract adds five more to that number.
Launch arrangements for the remaining six satellites, considered ground spares, will be announced at a later date. Desch has said previously that Iridium intends to eventually launch all 81 of the satellites.
Iridium’s network requires 66 satellites in space spread out in six orbital planes. The rest of the satellites launched will be stored in orbit.
Airbus Defense and Space is building a multi-satellite adapter to accommodate the dual-launch, according to GFZ. SpaceX builds the dispenser for the Iridium satellites.
Subject: Re: How long will you live?
Who the heck knows Tinker? God knows.
I take care of what I have by exercising regularly with weights and cardio, eating healthy foods in moderation, keeping weight down, not smoking, or doing drugs, or drinking alcohol(been sober for 30 yrs). But I don’t ignore the fact that genes play a factor in longevity.
This is a fatuous question IMHO. It’s like asking an atheist how they know there is no God. One would get a lot of responses but still the solid answer is they don’t know, they think they know, but they don’t, none of us do, believers have faith in a power greater than themselves and that gives me hope for a better future.
DETROIT – A 19-year-old man was critically wounded after suspected gang members fired into a crowd of students following an evening event at a Detroit high school.
Darryl Smith was in the East English Village Preparatory Academy parking lot Friday night when he was caught in the line of fire, Detroit Police Chief James Craig told reporters Saturday outside the east-side school.
“These cowardly individuals, these violent predators yelled out some gang affiliation — the local street gang in this area — and following that they fired several shots, one certainly striking this young man,” Craig said.
Craig said Smith is not involved in any gangs.
“My grandson is a good boy. He didn’t deserve any of this,” Smith’s grandmother, Elaine Redus, said.
Redus said Smith graduated from high school last year and was there to visit an uncle following the school’s annual Grammy Night for high school seniors and families.
About 800 people attended the event, according to school district spokesman Steve Wasko.