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		<title>Cirrus SR22</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ninja.affiliates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cirrus SR22, this is the plane that was used in the Austin, TX crash that took place on Thursday 18th of February 2010. The huge incident raised a lot of queries and questions and the Cirrus SR22 is one of them. So if you want to know more about the Cirrus SR22 then here is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.optimusnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Cirrus-SR22.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1033" src="http://www.optimusnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Cirrus-SR22-300x240.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="240" /></a>Cirrus SR22, this is the plane that was used in the Austin, TX crash that took place on Thursday 18<sup>th</sup> of February 2010. The huge incident raised a lot of queries and questions and the Cirrus SR22 is one of them. So if you want to know more about the Cirrus SR22 then here is all that you need to know about the Cirrus SR22.</p>
<p>The SR22 basically by Cirrus Design is a four-seat, single-engine, composite aircraft.  It is slightly more powerful and improved version of Cirrus SR20, in terms of betterment it has got larger wings, powerful 310 horsepower engine and even higher fuel capacity. Cirrus SR22 is largely popular among worlds, aircraft purchasers and has been one of the best selling single engine four-seat planes for several years. Unlike the other aircrafts of its own class the SR22 has a fixed or non-retractable landing gear just as the Cessna 400.</p>
<p>The Cirrus SR22 primarily or largely is known for being equipped with the Cirrus Aircraft Parachute System (CAPS), which is an urgent situation parachute capable of lowering the whole aircraft and occupants to the ground safely in any sort of an emergency. So this is Cirrus SR22 for you.</p>
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		<title>Three Tesla Employees Died in East Palo Alto Plane Crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ninja.affiliates</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palo Alto Plane Crash]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent news from Alto, three employees of Tesla have been reported dead in a plane crash in East Palo Alto.
All the three dead were three executives for Tesla, says Jalopnik. According to an insider, the three dead included two engineers and a senior manager.
As per the company officials, the former co-founder of PayPal and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.optimusnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/tesla.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-943" src="http://www.optimusnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/tesla.jpg" alt="" width="337" height="253" /></a>In recent news from Alto, three employees of Tesla have been reported dead in a plane crash in East Palo Alto.</p>
<p>All the three dead were three executives for Tesla, says Jalopnik. According to an insider, the three dead included two engineers and a senior manager.</p>
<p>As per the company officials, the former co-founder of PayPal and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, wasn’t on the plane.</p>
<p>In his statement concerning the crash, Elon Musk said, &#8220;Three Tesla workers were on the plane that crashed East Palo Alto early on this morning. We are preserving their individualities as we work with the germane authorities to inform the families. Our prayers and condolences are with their families and relatives. Tesla is a petite, tightly-knit corporation, and this is a sad day for us.&#8221;</p>
<p>The reports suggests that the plane belonged to Doug Bourn, who is an electrical engineer for the electric car startup, though it hasn’t been known that whether he was flying the plane or even was the plane.</p>
<p>Tesla is a renowned company and deals with Roadster, an all-electric sports car, and freshly filed for an IPO.</p>
<p>Any loss is a major loss, and if it’s of your workers it’s really heavy to bear. Our prayers are with the families who have lost their loved one.</p>
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		<title>‘Oath Keepers’ &#8211; An organization of meticulous army men</title>
		<link>http://www.optimusnews.com/09937/%e2%80%98oath-keepers%e2%80%99-an-organization-of-meticulous-army-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ninja.affiliates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Oath Keepers’ is a non-profit association, encompassing present and veteran American army men, coffers, Peace Officers, Fire Fighters and National Guard, that seeks to live up to the tall doctrine and principles of the American Constitution, on oath.
Titled ‘Oath Keepers’, this is fundamentally a non –profit association which supports that its affiliates sustain their oath [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>‘Oath Keepers’ is a non-profit association, encompassing present and veteran American army men, coffers, Peace Officers, Fire Fighters and National Guard, that seeks to live up to the tall doctrine and principles of the American Constitution, on oath.</p>
<p>Titled ‘Oath Keepers’, this is fundamentally a non –profit association which supports that its affiliates sustain their oath of recruitment to the US Constitution. They assert to be unbiased, but are functioning with the conventional 9-12 Project to endorse the National Liberty Unity Summit.</p>
<p>‘Not on our watch!’ is the motto of the Oath Keepers and their affirmed subjective is to oppose, non-violently, those proceedings taken by the US Government that it considers transgresses constitutional boundaries.</p>
<p>And just to put down an additional sagacity of the origin of this non –profit association and the principles and viewpoint that it seeks to adopt and extend, The Oath Keepers were initially founded on March 2009 by Stewart Rhodes in Lexington, Massachusetts, but integrated in Las Vegas, Nevada as a Non-Profit Corporation.</p>
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		<title>The Bizarre AC Transit Bus Fight Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abhi2554</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of most happening news that is doing the doing the rounds of late in the internet and seems to be the talk of the town apart from the Winter Olympics. As it is called, it is a video featuring a bizarre incident of a bus fight between an old white man and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is one of most happening news that is doing the doing the rounds of late in the internet and seems to be the talk of the town apart from the Winter Olympics. As it is called, it is a video featuring a bizarre incident of a bus fight between an old white man and a young black man. Of course it doesn’t seem to be a racism incident.<span id="more-885"></span></p>
<p>Are you still wondering about the video! Well you can check out yourself in YouTube as most people have been hovering around the internet for this video in the last hour or so. A sudden urge of inquisitiveness and that’s all it takes to have a look at this inexplicable video. Yes, the AC Transit Bus Fight Video has been the most sought after video of late which was actually snapped by a co-passenger in the same bus. The video shows a scuffle between a 67 year old white man and a young black man. The reason of this incident is not yet clear and it happens to be quite fast and all of a sudden.</p>
<p>The AC Transit Bus Fight Video shows a heated conversation between the old man and the younger one and after few chit chats, the white old man goes away being irritated. The white old man lost control and kicked the younger one at his back after the black man had shouted at him. This incident left the latter bleeding profusely in the face and thus withdrew. For more information about this video, stay tuned to the news and updates coming in.</p>
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		<title>Latest Revelation of Microsoft</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abhi2554</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know the latest sensational revelation of Microsoft? Well those that are unaware please check out all the latest news and photos about Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone 7 series. You can get sufficient photos by typing “Microsoft Windows Phone 7 series” at Google. The latest from this front brings the news that there have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.optimusnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Microsoft-Windows-Phone-7-series.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-879" src="http://www.optimusnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Microsoft-Windows-Phone-7-series-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="230" height="230" /></a>Do you know the latest sensational revelation of Microsoft? Well those that are unaware please check out all the latest news and photos about Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone 7 series. You can get sufficient photos by typing “Microsoft Windows Phone 7 series” at Google. The latest from this front brings the news that there have been photos all over the internet about this innovative product. This has been launched as a possible reply to nexus one of Google.<span id="more-878"></span></p>
<p>This new piece of product seems to be an incredible blend of technology and transition. Microsoft did officially declare a statement regarding the launch of the Windows Phone 7 at the World Mobile Conference. There has been scores of views in numerous tech oriented communities where a positive insight has been thrown upon this innovative gadget. The home screen presents unique features that is said to even beat the official apple screen. This gadget is said to be a new rejuvenation in the world of smartphones and will bring a lot of changes.</p>
<p>Microsoft has also declared a lot of newly developed features that would come into the forefront through this product. The most happening gadget news of the hour without any doubt happens to be the Windows Phone 7 revealed. You might check out few of the video promos revealed by Microsoft here and anywhere over the internet. All the latest news and software updates upon this product will arrive shortly and it would be enlisted here as soon as it reaches out.</p>
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		<title>University at Buffalo Relinquished</title>
		<link>http://www.optimusnews.com/09801/university-at-buffalo-relinquished/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ninja.affiliates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The library on the suburban Amherst campus of University at Buffalo was relinquished Tuesday night, in response to a call that campus police got reporting a mistrustful person in the building, probably with a gun.
Spokesman for the University at Buffalo said, “Right now all we have is report of seeing a distrustful person. The campus [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.optimusnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/University-at-buffalo.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-802" src="http://www.optimusnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/University-at-buffalo.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="378" /></a>The library on the suburban Amherst campus of University at Buffalo was relinquished Tuesday night, in response to a call that campus police got reporting a mistrustful person in the building, probably with a gun.</p>
<p>Spokesman for the University at Buffalo said, “Right now all we have is report of seeing a distrustful person. The campus police is taking it gravely and is performing a thorough search. Though, no shots have been fired and no suspicious activity has been reported in the building and campus.”</p>
<p>An e-mail alert regarding the Lockwood Memorial Library reporting cancellation of evening classes has been issued by University police at about 4:40 p.m.</p>
<p>Claire Kerstein, a freshman, was attending his English class in the ground floor of the building when the librarian came in and, devoid of explanation, ordered everybody out.</p>
<p>The 18 year old freshman said, “I ran as fast as I could, and just thought and made sure that I reach a safe place. There was police all over the building”</p>
<p>The library of University at Buffalo is the biggest library in the State University of New York system and is kept open for public. There were ambulances and Police cars all over at campus entrances on Tuesday evening.</p>
<p>The news of evacuating the library has been confirmed, but any confirmation on the call is yet to be received.</p>
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		<title>Use Special Promos and Food Coupons to Make Your Valentines Day Dinner Affordable</title>
		<link>http://www.optimusnews.com/09451/use-special-promos-and-food-coupons-to-make-your-valentines-day-dinner-affordable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abhi2554</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you unable to make a decision on the place where you wish to take your valentine on this Valentines Day? You want a dinner with your Valentine in a top restaurant, but that would mean bidding adieu to a huge sum. For the Valentines Day Dinner, you generally order a cup of soup, a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you unable to make a decision on the place where you wish to take your valentine on this Valentines Day? You want a dinner with your Valentine in a top restaurant, but that would mean bidding adieu to a huge sum. For the Valentines Day Dinner, you generally order a cup of soup, a salad course, desert and a quality bottle of Champagne. This may lead to you parting with your savings of the past few months. Thus, this decision may take you in the world of confusion, as we are still recovering from the recession and actually cannot afford a lavish expenditure. <a href="http://www.optimusnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Valentines-Day-Dinner.gif"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-452" title="Valentines Day Dinner" src="http://www.optimusnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Valentines-Day-Dinner-300x270.gif" alt="" width="230" height="210" /></a><span id="more-451"></span></p>
<p>Worry no more! This Valentines Day is coming up with a deal, which will surely take away all the pressure from your pocket and help you in having the best time with your valentine.<br />
This time around, there are Special Promos and Food Coupons up for grabs, which will actually help us in affording the expenses of the entire day. What you need to do is make a booking ahead of your schedule in the restaurant, where you have planned the dinner with your valentine. Prior to booking, do inquire of these Special Promos there. There are possibilities that you get huge discounts with those coupons. Let us check out few ideas to get some of the best Special Promos and Food Coupons for this Valentines Day.</p>
<p>•    As already mentioned, you can inquire from the hotel itself about the presence of such Promos<br />
•    Newspapers have announcements from the best hotels in the country giving away these promos<br />
•    You can check out the area, where the hotel is located and inquire about the coupons<br />
•    You can even have a search on the web. This will filter your search and help you in getting the exact details of the promos</p>
<p>Remember to make your research thorough and find out what are the things that can be availed with the Special Promos and Food Coupons. This move is going to make a huge difference on the amount that you will invest on this Valentines Day.</p>
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		<title>Chinese New Year 2010: Get Ready to Welcome the Metal Tiger</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abhi2554</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese New Year generally takes place on the day, when there is a new moon, which alters tracks. If you move to the rural parts of the country, you would find that the population living there also refers the New Year as the Spring Festival. This name is also used by the countries that are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chinese New Year generally takes place on the day, when there is a new moon, which alters tracks. If you move to the rural parts of the country, you would find that the population living there also refers the New Year as the Spring Festival. This name is also used by the countries that are associated to Mandarin.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.optimusnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/tigerchinese1.gif"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-448" title="tigerchinese" src="http://www.optimusnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/tigerchinese1-293x300.gif" alt="" width="230" height="240" /></a></p>
<p><span id="more-446"></span>The uniqueness about the Chinese calendar is that there is a group of twelve years, where every year has association to a specific animal. The coming 2010 has association to the ‘Tiger’. Tiger is the Earthly Branch Symbol. Again, this year it has been clubbed to the element metal. Thus, Chinese are referring 2010 as the Metal Tiger. If anyone is born in the year 2010, it is believed that they will have the attributes of both the tiger and the metal.</p>
<p>Tiger is amongst the ferocious ones in the animal kingdom. At the same time, it has numerous noble features. People, who are born during the Year of Tigers, have such noble features. If they have the support of metal, they get the yin quality having a contracting power in itself. This gives the person, the right attitude to take on the challenges, he or she faces. Again, the presence of metal may make the person (born in Metal Tiger), materialistic and they can enjoy all the best aspects of this life.</p>
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		<title>Picasso is the star at Christie&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.optimusnews.com/09220/picasso-is-the-star-at-christies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>writer1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pablo Picasso still holds great appeal to wealthy collectors. When the artist’s portrait of his second wife, Jacqueline, was the top lot at Christie’s impressionist and modern art sale in London on Tuesday, it fetched 8.1 million pounds ($13 million).
&#8220;Tete de femme (Jacqueline),&#8221; painted in 1963 just about doubled its presale estimate of 3-4 million [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pablo Picasso still holds great appeal to wealthy collectors. When the artist’s portrait of his second wife, Jacqueline, was the top lot at Christie’s impressionist and modern art sale in London on Tuesday, it fetched 8.1 million pounds ($13 million).</p>
<p>&#8220;Tete de femme (Jacqueline),&#8221; painted in 1963 just about doubled its presale estimate of 3-4 million pounds. The sale price includes buyer&#8217;s premium whereas the estimate does not.</p>
<p>The painting has not been seen in public since 1967 and has been in the same collection for nearly 30 years.</p>
<p>Jacqueline had an unusually short neck and it is said that Picasso would jokingly exaggerate its size in his portraits &#8212; as in this elongated example.</p>
<p>The result helped the world&#8217;s leading auctioneer raise 66.7 million pounds from the sale overall, according to provisional results on Christie&#8217;s website, towards the top end of expectations of between 48.3-69.1 million pounds.</p>
<p>The total is further evidence of a relatively robust art market that has been less affected by the economic crisis than many experts had predicted.</p>
<p>The second highest price on the night was 7.1 million pounds paid for Dutch artist Kees van Dongen&#8217;s &#8220;La Gitane&#8221; versus a pre-sale estimate of 5.5-7.5 million pounds.</p>
<p>Russian painter Natalia Goncharova&#8217;s &#8220;Espagnole,&#8221; offered at auction for the first time, was sold for 6.4 million pounds, above the high estimate of six million.</p>
<p>Christie&#8217;s also held a surreal art sale on Tuesday which raised around 10.1 million pounds, within expectations of 8.2-11.7 million.</p>
<p>Rival auction house Sotheby&#8217;s holds its impressionist and modern art sale in London on Wednesday.</p>
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		<title>Artist Chris Ofili leaves elephant dung behind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Best known for working with elephant dung, British artist Chris Ofili is now taking a more painterly turn since he moved from London to Trinidad five years ago.
A mid-career retrospective at Tate Britain in London covers the first two decades of the 41-year-old, Turner Prize-winning artist&#8217;s work, and one third of the 45 or so [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Best known for working with elephant dung, British artist Chris Ofili is now taking a more painterly turn since he moved from London to Trinidad five years ago.</p>
<p>A mid-career retrospective at Tate Britain in London covers the first two decades of the 41-year-old, Turner Prize-winning artist&#8217;s work, and one third of the 45 or so paintings on display have not been seen in Britain before.</p>
<p>The earliest paintings date from 1993, a year after he travelled to Zimbabwe where he first thought of applying elephant dung to the canvas.</p>
<p>&#8220;He was struck at this disconnect between what he was painting and what he was seeing all around him,&#8221; said Judith Nesbitt, chief curator of Tate Britain.</p>
<p>So the first room of the seven-room show, which opens on January 27 until May 16, is dominated by titles such as &#8220;Shithead,&#8221; &#8220;Painting with Shit on it&#8221; and &#8220;Spaceshit.&#8221;</p>
<p>Also instrumental to his artistic style were ancient cave paintings he saw on the same trip to Zimbabwe which helped to inspire his trademark dot technique.</p>
<p>Dung and dots dominate the art in the first part of the exhibition, although Ofili also uses glitter, resin and magazine cut-outs to decorate his works.</p>
<p>Included in the show is &#8220;The Holy Virgin Mary,&#8221; executed in 1996, which portrays a black Madonna figure with an exposed breast made of elephant dung and cut-outs from pornographic magazines decorating the surrounding canvas.</p>
<p>The work gained Ofili the kind of notoriety which contemporary art embraces when the then mayor of New York took umbrage at the painting when it was shown at an exhibition in the city, and took his case to court.</p>
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