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In addition to wearing sneakers and collection, also can be done? The hands of the artist Federico Uribe in Colombia, which has become reconstruction of the natural expression of human nature (Human Nature) design elements.

Uribe’s masterpiece “Human Nature” to spend 10 thousand pairs of PUMA sneakers out a realistic way to restore “Nature”: golden, “Sun”, Lvyin Yin’s “forest”, climbing the branches of the “monkey” to drink ” giraffe, “gentle softly,” Zebra “… … The real animals with similar size sculptures, each by more than 700 pairs of PUMA shoes and pieces of wood, wire and shoelaces made of thousands of roots. Which a blood red “Tiger” in particular wonderful: it look sharp, as if about to from the “grass” in the leap out of the front to attack prey.

Federico Uribe was born in 1962 in Colombia, and many years living in Miami brightly under the sun bathing. Early in the painting work on the sculpture of his interest in the following, we often bottle mouth, coins, screws, and from the stall at Amoy to the fingertips of small objects, as material, bonding to the sculpture together. With color, shape, texture, line, symbol and other aspects of the creative application of sensitivity and unique ability, Uribe quickly become the contemporary concept of the outstanding creative artists, his works also have exhibitors around the world.

Uribe’s talent was soon discovered PUMA company, as the world’s leading sports brands and sports lifestyle advocates, PUMA companies are very willing to work with talented artists and designers around the world have to cooperate, and the obligation to provide support and assistance. PUMA’s product philosophy is that through technological innovation and revolutionary design to bring unexpected surprises of life - a design style with Uribe had a strong resonance. Uribe more opportunities and Mihara Yasuhiro, Alexander McQueen, Alexander von Slobbe PUMA Queen’s top designers such cooperation.

Uribe began his 2006’s PUMA sneakers art. “When I began dealing with Chaussures Puma, I naturally start thinking: they come from? Oh, nature! Nature has given us everything needed for life, so, I have praised her wishes, and shoes produced using natural materials to reconstruct the idea. “raccoons, lizards, rabbits, swans, parrots … … Uribe shoes of different styles according to the production of inspiration, to restore them into lifelike sculpture, named” Human Nature “. The series of works received recognition PUMA, was made into a series of ads in billboards around the world and magazines.

“I think all animals are human. My hope is that every pair of shoes have brought back to its original environment, that is, a vivid, vibrant animals. Although I can not give their real life, but can still give them a kind of echo of life - which is where I think the art. “Uribe said.

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Langston’s Used Auto Parts is waiting on a huge new machine – an auto crusher that can compact up to four vehicles at a time, reducing gas guzzlers to scrap in minutes.

The company, located in unincorporated Hillsborough County, is setting itself up to take advantage of the government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program. Jason Langston is a fourth-generation dealer in used auto parts and said the program will help his business and people who still need to keep their older cars on the road.

Langston’s will harvest parts from some of the older clunkers that come in and sell them to people who hope to keep their own clunkers on the road.

“We can help them save money, their vehicles can stay on the road and with times the way they are right now, at least they can fix what they have and keep ‘em going”, said Langston. Many others are taking advantage of the government program by trading in their old cars and buying new vehicles.

Dealerships are required to keep vehicles they purchase under the program off the road, and destroy the engines.

David Gonzalez, general sales manager of Jerry Ulm Dodge in Tampa, said they will do that by pouring a solution into the engine, then running it at 2,000 RPMs until the engine blows up. “Apparently some of the mechanics are looking forward to that”, said Gonzalez. After the vehicles engines are destroyed, they’ll go on to approved vendors under the government program like Langston’s Auto Parts. Some auto parts will be salvaged before the remainder of the vehicle is crushed, then sold for scrap, and the cycle will begin again for the melted metal.

“We’ve done 39 deals since the 24th,” said Gonzalez. “Our biggest concern now is, is the program going to continue, is it not going to continue. So, we’re waiting to hear on that.”

Jerry Ulm Dodge is seeing the volume of business regularly expected two years ago.

“It really gets back to the way we were doing business before the economy doing what it’s doing”

Some of the vehicles coming in to the Dodge dealership look like clunkers. Old vans with bad paint and body damage, cars that look like they had a hard time passing a gas station and some trucks that have seen better days.

Other vehicles on the back part of the lot look like they could run for many more miles.

A Mercedes, and several SUV’s that until recently would have been a great ride for a high school grad.

“It almost make you a little bit sick to have to destroy some of the, but you’ve got the true clunkers and the ones that you’re saying, I can’t believe we actually have to destroy the motor on this car,” said Gonzalez.

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Thieves broke into a box truck at George’s Auto parts yard in St. Ignace early Friday morning, July 31, and took with them 40 to 50 catalytic converters, worth about $2,500, St. Ignace Police report. St. Ignace Police Chief Tim Matelski said they have not yet identified any suspects and the case remains under investigation.

Two suspects were captured on video by a security camera walking around the yard and taking some of the boxes of converters.

According to police, Lance De- Keyser from George’s said the padlock on the box truck had been cut and the majority of the converters inside had been stolen, as well as a few that had been sitting on the ground, which is what the video shows the two men taking.

Mr. DeKeyser said he would assist the St. Ignace Police by reviewing more of the security tapes and attempting to find out who may have been involved, since he reported to police that only a few people knew where the converters were stored.

Mr. DeKeyser said the parts are valuable because of the precious metals, particularly platinum, that are contained inside the catalytic converters.

This isn’t the first time converters have been stolen from George’s. Mr. DeKeyser said a similar incident occurred a few years ago, and since then security cameras and the locked storage truck have been added as theft deterrents.

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Press reports late Thursday said the government’s Cash Allowance Rebate System could already be out of money, hitting a major speed bump and possibly causing dealers some drama.

Congressional sources told the Detroit Free Press Thursday night that the U.S. government likely will suspend the program for that very reason. New-car dealers, of course, are hoping the White House and lawmakers work quickly to extend the program, allocating even more money for it. Let’s hope CARS’ stall is followed by a complete break down.

CARS works this way: Owners of a 1984 or newer vehicle getting 18 mpg or less in combined highway/city ratings can trade in their so-called “clunkers” for more fuel-efficient new cars (in some cases only a few extra miles are required). For their trouble, owners get $3,500 to $4,500 of taxpayer money and their old vehicles’ engines are destroyed so they won’t end up back on the road.

That last part, the destruction of engines, is causing heartburn for more than a dozen already hurting Auto parts suppliers who have had to file for bankruptcy this year. As Michael Wilson, executive vice president of the Automotive Recyclers Association, told a reporter, “Why throw away good parts when the supply chain is in jeopardy? It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.” Catherine Tsai, in a story she wrote for Associated Press, reports that engines and drive trains account for 60 percent of recyclers’ revenue from a used vehicle.

Tsai quotes various auto recyclers who prove the point that the government program benefits those who have enough money to pour into a brand new vehicle while hurting people who need help the most. Norm Wright, the CEO of Stadium Auto and Truck Parts Inc. in Denver, said of the program to destroy perfectly good vehicles, “Now you’re removing cars people could afford, and they’re not available anymore.” He added, “There will be less cars to pull from, so the price of parts will go up.”

It’s unbelievable that the government has set aside $1 billion of taxpayer money to remove roughly 250,000 drivable vehicles from the road. And the situation is getting messy as thousands of people who didn’t need a tax break went out to get one to accompany their new vehicles.

Hoping to boost new car sales, the government sold “cash for clunkers” playing on environmental sensibilities. But the waste this program brings is irresponsible and the fuel-standard improvements required are a joke. These working-condition vehicles could have gone on used car lots, available to people who can’t afford new cars. Or they might have found their way to charitable organizations or relatives in need.

But this is better, right? President Barack Obama and Congress created an artificial rush for new cars while destroying working vehicles, giving people who can afford new cars a big tax break and leaving auto recyclers and lower-income car buyers in the dust. What a wreck.

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For the past 11 years, Charlotte Motor Speedway has ceased to exist, while Lowe’s Motor Speedway has become one of the most popular track names in auto racing.

Sure, the name doesn’t hold the same weight as Daytona or Indy, but Lowe’s is right up there from the fan and driver perspective, and it has been one of those constants in a sport where it seems that just about everything changes on a daily basis.

Apparently, not any more.

According to reports on www.autoracingdaily.com, Lowe’s owner Speedway Motorports, Inc. and Lowe’s Home Improvement Center have reached a stalemate on the contractual terms for the naming rights of the former Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Lowe’s, which paid about $35 million over 10 years for the naming rights, is unwilling to meet Speedway chief Bruton Smith’s demand for a new $9 million-per-year contract with the track, and it seems as though the partnership may be coming to an end, according to the report, which also states that the $9 million figure was just a starting point in the negotiations.

Corporate sponsorships have ruined professional sports to some extend, with naming rights on everything from stadiums and actual team names — see New York/New Jersey Red Bulls — to event names and uniform sponsorships. (Has anyone ever watched a South American soccer match? You can’t even see the numbers on the jerseys sometimes with all the logos pasted on them.)

But for NASCAR, the world of corporate sponsorships has worked, worked well and helped NASCAR survive and thrive.

Daytona International, Talladega Superspeedway and Richmond International all have a nice ring to them, but Lowe’s Motor Speedway, or Lowe’s, had a special ring to it.

It just wouldn’t be the same seeing a race at Charlotte anymore

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