NERO

P ZERO NERO

An asymmetric tyre for tuners and the most demanding sports performance drivers: the ideal choice when personalising your car. Ensures driving pleasure and high performance without compromising on comfort.

Available in a wide range of sizes, it not only improves the aesthetics of the most fashionable city cars but also the needs of extreme tuning professionals, with sizes up to 23”.  The attractive tread design has been developed to offer excellent levels of grip and road-holding whilst cornering, as well as reducing the risk of aquaplaning. Excellent handling, maximum braking efficiency and constant performance at high speed complete the characteristics of this Ultra High Performance tyre.

NFC

 

What Is NFC?

NFC is a short range wireless technology that allows enabled devices to share information in close proximity. It’s similar to Bluetooth, but instead of programming devices to work together, all you need to establish a connection is to hold the devices close to each other or touch them together. Once within range (usually 4 cm or less) NFC allows the transfer of data or power in just seconds.

How Does NFC Help?

NFC takes a step towards digitally enhancing your world and making it rich with information and interactivity. Equipped with an NFC smart tag, simple things like posters, stickers and glass become digital data interfaces.

Imagine you pass a poster for a movie you’ve wanted to see. If the poster has an NFC smart tag, you could hold your phone next to the poster and instantly get trailers, clips, show times and links to buy movie tickets online. Or maybe you’re shopping and notice a sticker advertising a 30% discount at your favorite store. Just hold your phone to the sticker and the coupon will be sent directly to your phone. It’s also a great way to quickly copy contact information from a business or friend, and you can transfer data between NFC-enabled phones too.

LME

About a month ago we reported on an inquiry launched into JPM's "anti-competitive" and "monopolistic" practices on the LME which have resulted in artificially high prices for a series of commodities which had been hoarded by the Too Big To Fail bank. Today, the WSJ continues this investigation into a practice that is not insular to JPM but also includes Goldman Sachs and "other owners of large metals warehouses" which can simplistically be characterized as a De Beers-like attempt to artificially keep prices high for commodities such as aluminum, courtesy of warehousing massive excess supply, artificially low market distribution of the final product, while collecting exorbitant rents in the process. Specifically, "Goldman, through its Metro International Trade Services unit, owns the biggest warehouse complex in the LME system, a series of 19 buildings in Detroit that house about a quarter of the aluminum stored in LME facilities. Coca-Cola and other consumers say that Metro in particular is allowing the minimum amount of aluminum allowed by the LME—1,500 metric tons a day—to leave its facilities, and that Metro could remove much more, erasing supply bottlenecks and lowering premiums for physical delivery in the process. Coca-Cola, which has complained to the LME, says it can take months to get the metal the company needs, even though warehouses are allowing aluminum to come in much more quickly. Warehouses, meantime, collect rent and other fees." It is not only Goldman's Metro operations, but includes JP Morgan's Henry Bath division, and naturally commodities behemoth Glencore, all of which are taking advantage of the LME's guidelines and rules which make the imposition of a pseudo-monopoly an easy task. The primary driver of this anti-competitive behavior is the fact that GS, JPM and Glencore now control virtually the entire inventory bottlenecking pathways: "In recent years, major investment banks like Goldman and J.P. Morgan and commodities houses like Glencore have been snapping up warehouses around the world, turning the industry from a disperse grouping of independent operators into another arm of Wall Street. The LME has licensed about 600 warehouses around the world. The transformation has raised questions about whether the investment banks, which also have big commodity-trading arms, are able to use their position as owners of warehouses to manipulate prices to their advantage."And since the outcome of this anti-competitive delayed tolling collusion ends up having quite an inflationary impact on end prices, the respective administrations are more than happy to turn a blind eye to this market dominant behavior which buffers the impact of deflation on input costs. We may have seen the end of the OPEC cartel. Alas, it has been replaced with a far more vicious one - this one having Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan as its two key members.
 

4x4 Diamaris®

Our original equipment tire for high performance SUVs/Crossovers offers sport performance capabilities, handling and grip for vehicles like Mercedes-Benz and BMW.

Benefits of This Tire:

• High-Speed Confidence
• Excellent Wet Grip, Outstanding Dry Grip
• Chosen by Some of the World's Best Vehicle Manufacturers

25,000 Mile Manufacturer's Treadwear Limited Warranty
4x4 Diamaris® tires carry an das additional 25,000 mile limited warranty for treadwear or mileage.

PRIUS C

Toyota den Hybridantrieb erstmals im größten europäischen Volumensegment einführen wird – der Kleinwagen-Klasse.

Einen Kleinwagen mit Vollhybrid-Antrieb auszustatten stellte Toyota vor mehrere konstruktive Herausforderungen. Die Konstrukteure mussten den neuen Antrieb ohne Einbußen bei seiner Qualität und bei den Fahrleistungen in das kompakte, extrem effiziente Raumnutzungs-Konzept eines modernen Kleinwagens integrieren, ohne die Geräumigkeit seines Innen- und Gepäckraums zu beeinträchtigen. Sie entwickelten dazu ein umfassendes neues Raumkonzept für die Hybridtechnik.

Die Serienversion der Konzeptstudie Yaris HSD kommt europaweit in der zweiten Hälfte des Jahres 2012 auf den Markt. Der neue Vollhybrid wird im Werk von Valenciennes bei Toyota Motor Manufacturing France vom Band laufen, das den höchsten Standards in Sachen Verarbeitungsqualität verpflichtet ist.

LION

「それぞれの個性をみがいて、

自分にしかない花を咲かせよう」

という桜梅桃李の言葉をテーマにした、

個性豊かな4つ味のフルーツキャンディーです。

桜んぼ、梅、桃、李（すもも）の特徴をいかして、

おいしさを最大限ひきだしました。 

●内容量：80g

FEA

What is Finite Element Analysis?
FEA consists of a computer model of a material or design that is stressed and analyzed for specific results. It is used in new product design, and existing product refinement. A company is able to verify a proposed design will be able to perform to the client's specifications prior to manufacturing or construction. Modifying an existing product or structure is utilized to qualify the product or structure for a new service condition. In case of structural failure, FEA may be used to help determine the design modifications to meet the new condition.
There are generally two types of analysis that are used in industry: 2-D modeling, and 3-D modeling. While 2-D modeling conserves simplicity and allows the analysis to be run on a relatively normal computer, it tends to yield less accurate results. 3-D modeling, however, produces more accurate results while sacrificing the ability to run on all but the fastest computers effectively. Within each of these modeling schemes, the programmer can insert numerous algorithms (functions) which may make the system behave linearly or non-linearly. Linear systems are far less complex and generally do not take into account plastic deformation. Non-linear systems do account for plastic deformation, and many also are capable of testing a material all the way to fracture.