To Celebrate 35 Years of Golf GTIs, Volkswagen, Have Released the Golf GTI Edition 35

Shear English - Volkswagen says happy 35th birthday to its ever-popular hot-hatch with a more powerful special edition. Volkswagen has marked 35 years since the debut of its Golf GTI by releasing a more powerful edition of the popular hot-hatch. The Edition 35 produces 173kW from the same 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder, giving the anniversary model a small power advantage over the regular, 155kW GTI. The German car maker hasn't revealed whether the GTI 35’s performance and fuel economy figures are affected. (The standard model flaunts a 6.9 second 0-100km/h time and economy numbers of 7.7L/100km for the manual model and 7.6L for...

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Indonesia Drops Death Sentence for Australian Drug Smuggler

Shear English - Indonesia’s Supreme Court has overturned a death sentence for convicted Australian heroin smuggler Scott Anthony Rush, giving him life imprisonment instead, a defence lawyer said on Wednesday. The decision on 25-year-old Rush, after a final legal appeal to Indonesia’s courts, was a rare one as drug smugglers normally get capital punishment under Indonesian law. “Our next move is to seek ways so that (Rush) can serve the rest of his sentence in Australia,” lawyer Frans Hendra Winata said. Rush was caught in his teens in 2005 with heroin draped around his body in an airport on the resort island of Bali. Rush was one of the...

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SingTel's Mobile Customer Base Tops 400 Million

Shear English - Asian telecommunications giant Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) said Wednesday it had more than 400 million customers by the end of March, a figure lifted by its Indian associate. SingTel said its mobile customer base of 403 million was up 37 percent from a year ago. Indian associate Bharti registered the largest rise in customers, up 66 percent on the year, or 84.3 million new clients, to 212 million in March. Increases were also reported in SingTel’s wholly-owned subsidiary in Australia and its associates in Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Pakistan but a decline was reported in Bangladesh. In the Singapore...

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Spray Drying is a Method of Producing a Dry Powder From a Liquid or Slurry by Rapidly Drying with a Hot Gas

Shear English - Spray drying is a method of producing a dry powder from a liquid or slurry by rapidly drying with a hot gas. This is the preferred method of drying of many thermally-sensitive materials such as foods and pharmaceuticals. A consistent particle size distribution is a reason for spray drying some industrial products such as catalysts. Air is the heated drying media; however, if the liquid is a flammable solvent such as ethanol or the product is oxygen-sensitive then nitrogen is used. All spray dryers use some type of atomizer or spray nozzle to disperse the liquid or slurry into a controlled drop size spray. The most common...

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Outrage at Screening of Dying Princess Diana Photo

Shear English - A shocking paparazzi photograph of a dying Princess Diana is to be screened for the first time in a documentary about her fatal crash. Unlawful Killing, which will be shown at Cannes this week, is backed by the actor Keith Allen and Mohammed Al Fayed, whose son Dodi died with Diana. The 90-minute film will include a graphic black and white close-up of Diana taken moments after the Mercedes carrying the couple crashed in a Paris underpass. The distressing image, Diana’s blonde hair and features clearly visible, has never been publicly seen in this country. It will be shown around the world but not in the UK, prompting...

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Jaguar C-X75 Hybrid Supercar (Jet-powered Jaguar Gets Green Light)

Shear English - Stunning C-X75 hybrid supercar concept confirmed for production. 322km/h. 0-100km/h in 3 seconds. Emissions below 100g/km. Jaguar will build one of the fastest cars in the world after announcing its stunning C-X75 hybrid supercar concept will become a new halo model for the brand. The British brand will make the star of the 2010 Paris motor show an exclusive proposition with just 250 C-X75s to be produced between 2013 and 2015, with a price tag for Australian buyers set to be as high as $2 million. Jaguar is partnering with Formula One team Williams to create the supercar, which it says will be capable of speeds in excess...

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Storm of Protest, A Coffee Shop with Topless Waitresses

Shear English - A coffee shop with topless waitresses, which has caused a storm of protest in a small town, has been forced to close after it put up a 'boobies wanted' sign. Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in Vassalboro, Maine, hit the headlines when it opened in 2009, offering to serve customers semi-nude. And despite a wave of protest from local campaigners in its home town of fewer than 5,000 people - and one high profile arson attack - the shop had until now, managed to keep business going. But the controversial store's topless waitresses will finally have to get dressed and leave after town officials ruled that it has been putting...

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