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Murphy bases his predictions not on tea leaves or crystal balls, but rather the rate at which automakers launch new products. Ford will replace 26 percent of its product line over the next four years, a number that represents 46 percent of its volume, while General Motors will replace 25 percent and Toyota 24 percent. On account of these new product launches, Murphy says Ford can expect to add 0.8 percentage points of market share, General Motors will recover 0.5 points and Toyota will add another 0.3 points.

Other automakers that won’t be so aggressive in turning over their lineups with new models include Chrysler, Honda, Nissan and the European brands, which Murphy surmises will all remain flat in terms of market share.

Hyundai and Kia, meanwhile, will be introducing fewer new models than the rest and therefore, Murphy predicts, will see a 0.5 decline in U.S. market share.

Of course, these are

Car Wars Report Predicts Hyundai, Kia Will Lose Market Share

A United Nations document on “climate change” that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.
 The Obama administration has said it supports the treaty process if, in the words of a U.S. State Department spokesman, it can come up with an “effective framework” for dealing with global warming.

Here’s the article from Fox
Those and other results are blandly discussed in a discretely worded United Nations “information note” on potential consequences of the measures that industrialized countries will likely have to take to implement the Copenhagen Accord, the successor to the Kyoto Treaty, after it is negotiated and signed by December 2009. The Obama administration has said it supports the treaty process if, in the words of a U.S. State Department spokesman, it can come up with an “effective framework” for dealing with global warming.
The 16-page note, obtained by FOX News, will be distributed to participants at a mammoth negotiating session that starts on March 29 in Bonn, Germany, the first of three sessions intended to hammer out the actual commitments involved in the new deal.
In the stultifying language that is normal for important U.N. conclaves, the negotiators are known as the “Ad Hoc Working Group On Further Commitments For Annex I Parties Under the Kyoto Protocol.” Yet the consequences of their negotiations, if enacted, would be nothing short of world-changing.
Getting that deal done has become the United Nations’ highest priority, and the Bonn meeting is seen as a critical step along the path to what the U.N. calls an “ambitious and effective international response to climate change,” which is intended to culminate at the later gathering in Copenhagen.
Just how ambitious the U.N.’s goals are can be seen, but only dimly, in the note obtained by FOX News, which offers in sparse detail both positive and negative consequences of the tools that industrial nations will most likely use to enforce the greenhouse gas reduction targets.
The paper makes no effort to calculate the magnitude of the costs and disruption involved, but despite the discreet presentation, makes clear that they will reverberate across the entire global economic system.
Click here for the information note.
Among the tools that are considered are the cap-and-trade system for controlling carbon emissions that has been espoused by the Obama administration; “carbon taxes” on imported fuels and energy-intensive goods and industries, including airline transportation; and lower subsidies for those same goods, as well as new or higher subsidies for goods that are considered “environmentally sound.”
Other tools are referred to only vaguely, including “energy policy reform,” which the report indicates could affect “large-scale transportation infrastructure such as roads, rail and airports.” When it comes to the results of such reform, the note says only that it could have “positive consequences for alternative transportation providers and producers of alternative fuels.”
In the same bland manner, the note informs negotiators without going into details that cap-and-trade schemes “may induce some industrial relocation” to “less regulated host countries.” Cap-and-trade functions by creating decreasing numbers of pollution-emission permits to be traded by industrial users, and thus pay more for each unit of carbon-based pollution, a market-driven system that aims to drive manufacturers toward less polluting technologies.
The note adds only that industrial relocation “would involve negative consequences for the implementing country, which loses employment and investment.” But at the same time it “would involve indeterminate consequences for the countries that would

Obama Wants US Energy Policy To Be Under UN Supervision…

Israeli developer Danny Lisiansky is working on a project named SiriPrefs, which addresses some of these shortcomings and lets you launch apps and control settings via Siri.

The tweak appears to make clever use of the URL schemes (that were used in the custom home screen shortcuts) to toggle the settings as well as launch apps. While the developer has used Bing in his demo, the developer has clarified in iDB’s comments section that it can work with Google and Yahoo as well.

We had initially thought that Lisiansky had created a custom plugin for Siri Proxy, but he has clarified that though SiriPrefs is

SiriPrefs Will Help You Toggle Settings And Also Launch Apps Using Siri

“I’m just looking forward to touring and performing for everyone because I put out the first album and I didn’t really tour the world,” the female rapper shares her thoughts in an interview with Capital FM. “And I feel like now I have to get out and do it now or never.”

Aside from touring, Minaj also wants to work on a movie about Roman Zolanski so that her fans can get acquainted with her alter ego better. “Well I’ve been working on this character Roman and I’ve been just doing some things – writing like a story and hopefully I’ll make it into an actual movie,” she says.

“I did a little snippet on the Grammys so that people could get to know the character Roman a little bit more and see how in depth he is,” she continues. “I’m hoping next year I’ll be able to focus on the movie stuff and the acting and the books and all that.”

Minaj is going to release “Roman Reloaded” across the country on April 2. In her relatively young career, she has put female rap back on the map by breaking record on the charts and grabbing

Nicki Minaj Looking To ‘Make Roman’ Zolanski Movie

There are no more than 3,000 around the world, mostly concentrated in west African countries such as Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau or Liberia, said Juliane Villenain, a biologist at the zoo in the Bois de Vincennes, a park on Paris’ eastern edge. According to the Convention on

Pygmy Hippo Is Usually Native At Paris Zoo

The 41-year-old actress also met up with Californication‘s Natascha McElhone at the after party.

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Jennifer Connelly: Tribeca Film Fest With Paul Bettany!

It’s certainly not the norm! Most multicultural teams are dominated by one cultural group, sad to say. But some work I’ve done with colleagues suggests that it is possible — and worthwhile — to build a fusion team.

Here’s a story about how

Turn Multicultural Teams Into Fusion Teams