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Modeling and Simulation of MEMS Based 3D Vibrating Gyroscope for Mobile Robotics Applications
In this study, a biomimetic vibrating 3D MEMS Gyroscope is designed, consisting of two circular diaphragms with a club shaped structure placed over one of them. This MEMS based vibrating gyroscope was modeled and simulated using COMSOL Multiphysics 4.1 - MEMS module.
The purpose of the research was to develop an effective gyroscope for guidance and control of mobile robots. The simulated results show that the displacement due to Coriolis effect, used for restoring the body back to its initial position, was greater when compared to that of the electrostatic force. These results have let us to conclude that this gyroscope would provide valuable orientation information for robotics applications. MEMS gyroscope technology provides cost-effective methods for improving directional estimation and overall accuracy in their navigation systems.


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Items like patio furniture, winter tires, storage bins, and sporting equipment can be placed in overhead storage racks to maximize your underutilized garage ceiling space.
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Would you give your Facebook account and password to get a job or get into your first-choice college? Several government agencies and colleges are now asking applicants to do just that.
We first wrote about the trend last year, when the Maryland Department of Corrections and Public Safety made it mandatory for new hires to give Facebook accounts and passwords to check for gang ties. An employee tipped off the ACLU and the state suspended the practice. However, the state is still getting the information because although the information is only voluntary, virtually all applicants agree to it out of a desire to score well in the interview, MSNBC reported.
Increasingly at colleges, student athletes must "friend" a coach or administration compliance officer so their social media messages and photos can be monitored.
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Is this a violation of First Amendment rights? At least one lawyer said so, calling the new policies OK for totalitarian regime but not one protected by the U.S. Constitution.
Of course, the new policies ignore one simple fact: that sharing one's password is against Facebook's terms of service. No word yet on what that means (and Facebook had no comment), but until people are willing to protest giving up privacy to government agencies or colleges and support laws to halt the practice, it will continue. These groups have gotten away with it so far, so why stop now?


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Sorry for the lack of blogs lately. I have been dealing with the aftermath of the church fire, extra people in my house, and a barrage of other stuff that has had me a bit distracted. Through it all, God has been in touch with me, mainly through Twitter and Facebook, but sometimes right in my face. I thought that I could share a few things that He showed me.
He is in the stuff that I find irritating. I know that this may sound as if I am saying that God is irritating, and I am not. I do get rather flustered with Him from time to time because He refuses to let me be in charge or He lets me and everything gets all messed up. But, God is in the stuff that has been irritating me in some really cool ways.
I love my grandkids and I love the kids in my church. But kids irritate me. Unlike my wife who is a kid addict, I can only tolerate kids in small amounts and in short bursts. So with the fire at our church rendering our children's area unusable, the kids have been coming into the adult worship area while I am preaching. The result; several of them have accepted Jesus as their Savior and I got to baptize 5 of them in the last two weeks. Many of them have come up to me and told me with all the excitement of a little child about how cool it was and thanked me for it. WOW! God is all in that irritation.
Lately I have been trying to do more with my grandkids, especially my oldest grandson who is 7. He lives with his dad and mom and a bunch of girls, and girls are trouble, we all know that. His dad works rotating shifts and does not get to take part in things like scouts and a lot of weekend stuff, so I am trying to fill in. In the past few months I have been to three camping events with him and slept in a tent and gone without a shower and fed him more junk food than he should have ever been allowed to eat.
I also took him to a Gamecock football game this weekend. There is about an hour drive to the stadium from my house and to help keep him entertained, I took the wife's tablet so he could play games. I find it hard to have meaningful conversation with a 7-year-old for more than a couple of minutes, much less for an hour. Guess what? The tablet was not charged. So for an hour, we talked. Did you know that a 7-year-old can talk continuously for 15 minutes without stopping or even breathing? And I learned that I could throw a Chees-it and hit him in the mouth while I was driving but can't catch one when he throws it. I also learned that if you slowed down beside the semi truck while he pumped his fist, that after several miles, even the toughest truck driver will eventually blow his horn.
I love to watch the Gamecocks play. Having a 7-year-old with you limits that ability. But when it is really cold and the wind is blowing hard and you told the kid to leave his jacket in the truck because you were not taking yours, kids can be an excellent heat source. So he sat in my lap most of the game and that was a great way to talk about the game, and eat pizza at the same time. And because it was military appreciation day, I got to tell him how God allowed us to be free to do what we are doing because of their service. Then to hear him say, " God wanted us to be here today" was the icing on the cake.
I came home that night to find my 1-year-old grandson there. He will be staying with us for a few days. I don't get to see him that often because his parents live a couple of hours away. But when I walked in, he ran to me. I tried to run away, but God wanted him to hug me and kiss me. I get really irritated when slobbery little kids try to kiss me, especially when I am not ready and they kiss me in the mouth. (gag). I am not sure why I felt the overwhelming presence of God at that time, but I did.
And finally, the fire at the church. What a pain. But I have met some really awesome people who are working to clean up the mess. I have talked to them about our church, invited them to attend, and had several tell me that they will come. My church folks have been amazingly understanding about the inconvenience and have stepped up in more ways than I can count to make this really irritating circumstance more than bearable.
God has really been in the middle of this most irritating time. He has been the peace when things are hectic. He has been the wisdom when things are crazy. He has been the love when I felt like I did not want to love or be loved. But I don't know why I am surprised. He promised that He would never leave me or forsake me. He never lies and never disappoints. He gives me so many reasons to be thankful and just in time for Thanksgiving. What an awesome God I serve!
God In The Irritations Of My Life
Sorry for the lack of blogs lately. I have been dealing with the aftermath of the church fire, extra people in my house, and a barrage of other stuff that has had me a bit distracted. Through it all, God has been in touch with me, mainly through Twitter and Facebook, but sometimes right in my face. I thought that I could share a few things that He showed me.


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Mānoa's academic program review process includes a self-review conducted by the academic department housing the program, as well as an executive summary from the dean of the college. These self-studies follow established guidelines set forth by Executive Policies E5.201: "Approval of New Academic Programs and Review of Provisional Academic Programs", and E5.202: "Review of Established Programs."
Program review at Mānoa reveals strengths and challenges, and ensures program effectiveness with respect to the discipline, university policy, and external accreditation standards. In order to evaluate each program within its context, Mānoa now reviews all academic programs in a college concurrently, taking into consideration the overarching administrative and support structure of the college.
A review team composed of external evaluators considers the self-study reports of the departments and the executive summary of the dean, reviews the academic programs with regard to conformance with the disciplines and academic rigor, examines annual assessment reports for each program over the last three to five years, analyzes results of the student and alumni survey, and reviews faculty research and service, and departmental and college governance.
The review team presents its findings to the Chancellor, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Dean of Graduate Education, Dean of the college, and department chairs, faculty, and staff of the units reviewed. The Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs then holds and exit interview with the dean and chairs to discuss the recommendations and to develop a plan of implementation. These reviews and recommendations form the basis for administrative decisions affecting the program and the college. One year and three years after the review, the dean and department chairs report to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs on progress made in implementing the recommendations.


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Jones Lang LaSalle's survey also shows that India, China and Vietnam remained the top destinations for company growth plans in the region in 2008.The report highlights that there are some key evolutionary changes occurring in the region's economies, as individual nations continue to mature and attract higher value operations. These changes have a long-term impact on demand in the local property markets. For instance, in India, China and Vietnam, rising middle class incomes are driving growth for more banking retail outlets. Furthermore, China and India, once known for their low cost workforces, are, in some cases, losing factory jobs to other countries, but still enjoying significant net growth, as their increasing per capita incomes and advancing skills are attracting increasingly sophisticated activities.Jones Lang LaSalle's CEO of Regional Business Lines and Corporate Solutions, John Forrest, says that the survey shows how business in Asia remains less affected by the sub-prime crisis. "As the leading supplier of real estate services to corporations in Asia Pacific, we are still seeing strong demand for space. However, an uncertain economic environment is forcing corporations to find smarter ways to manage their growth. For example, many are outsourcing the management of their real estate or re-designing current office space to be more efficient."Jones Lang LaSalle, a professional services firm specializing in real estate, conducted a survey of 30 senior corporate real estate executives from leading multinational companies active in Asia Pacific in the second quarter of 2008. Findings from the survey are presented in the firm's research paper, Gauging Demand, which focuses on how occupier demand for office and industrial space in Asia Pacific is being affected by global economic turmoil.Strategies Differ by Industry SectorThree sectors were surveyed, Financial Services, Technology and Manufacturing/Consumer Goods. Of the three, Financial Services predicts the most aggressive growth in 2008, with 44 per cent having added more growth to their original plans in the first quarter of the year, and 33 per cent predicting further growth by the end of the year. Even though this sector is showing the most aggressive growth of the three sectors some companies remain cautious with 44 per cent expecting to scale back in 2008. This is, in part, a reflection of the differing degree of exposure to sub-prime suffered by the banks – some emerged unscathed while others faced huge write-downs.Where 44 per cent of Financial Services companies are expecting to scale back during the year, it is Manufacturing/Consumer Goods companies that are showing the most mixed response. The companies polled were split evenly, with a third looking to further expand their growth plans, a third to scale back and a third expects no change to current plans. Companies in this sector are also more likely to shift operations into or within the region, as they look for fresh markets and lower-cost destinations.The most consistent of the three sectors is Technology. On average the majority, 83 per cent, are ramping up or maintaining current growth plans in the region in 2008 in response to the current economic climate. The reason cited by those surveyed lies in the search for greater revenues driven by the migration of their client base to Asia Pacific. Even though there are growth plans, cost containment remains a key driver for their real estate strategy.Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj India CEO,Vincent Lottefier, says "Different industry sectors are responding to the economic environment in markedly different ways, with traits that have significant implications for the markets in which they are major players. India still remains overwhelmingly the focal points of most new growth, easily outpacing the rest of the field."Forrest comments that, "Even the financial sector, which has been the hardest hit in other regions, is not contracting on an overall basis. Emerging markets in Asia really are the world's bright spot for growth at the moment."
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Aberfelin is a quiet and quaint little cove near the village of Trefin on the north Pembrokeshire Coast.
Aberfelin beach, when the tide is out, is a little sand and shingle beach which has safe bathing for families and a large number of rock pools which make a happy hunting ground for children with nets and buckets. They can catch the shrimps and small fish and crabs or just look in awe at the colourful sea anemones and the occasional starfish to be found there.
Surrounded by high cliffs the beach is sheltered from the prevailing winds and, in calm, summer weather, is a perfect sun trap and a pleasant bathing beach with its clear, blue waters and gentle waves. However, caution is required if the sea is rough as there are strong currents further out. It has its own little island, an imposing stone arch and a cave tunnel to walk through, and an ambiance that suggests smugglers and pirates in olden days.
You won't always find Aberfelin marked on the maps, but it is sometimes called Aberdraw, and is so close to the mill at Trefin that it cannot be missed.
The name means Mill Estuary or estuary of the millstream and the mill at Trefin is celebrated in Welsh poetry. The Archdruid Crwys, a Bard of the Royal National Eisteddfod Gorsedd, wrote a prize-winning poem about the mill and its old miller.
Entitled Felin Trefin (Trefin Mill) it is an allegorical work painting parallels between the centuries-long life of the mill and the short human lifetime of the miller. With cleverly-wrought alliteration, rhythm and rhyme, it is not only recited but has been put to music to be sung by soloists and choirs. It was notably part of the repertoire of a close harmony group of young men from the district, including three brothers, who called themselves Bois-y-Felin (Boys of the Mill). The mill buildings are ruined, but in good repair and the millstones are still there.
Fulmars nest on the cliffs to the south and a short walk along the footpath to the north-east takes the visitor to the site of an Iron Age fort, with signs of a third defensive bank inside the outer two and an outer ditch seemingly hewn out of the rock, but possibly just the intelligent use of the local geological formations by the builders 3,000 years ago.
Trefin, its name for many years anglicized to Trevine, is a perfect resting spot, midway between Strumble Head and St Davids Head, for people walking the 170-mile long National Park Coastal Footpath, which passes through Aberfelin, for the village has excellent facilities. It has a friendly pub/restaurant providing a children's room and garden, toilets, a shop selling ice cream and a weaving centre of Welsh crafts where souvenirs can be obtained. There is limited parking not far from the beach and in the village and pleasant walks on and off the coastal footpath.


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This story was first published in The Gazette on Nov. 10, 1990.
The first thing you notice is a rectangular fur-covered electric guitar, standing in one corner of Kate McGarrigle's jumbled but comfortable Westmount apartment. It doesn't even look out of place.
"It was a present from a boyfriend I had in high school in the '60s," she explains of the whimsical instrument. Her sister Anna smiles.
"He made it himself: `For the girl who has everything.' "
The place certainly looks like it has everything. Guitar cases lean in the hallway. A piano dominates a living room strewn with microphones and songbooks. The furniture is weathered but not exactly antique, like something from a student pad.
The cumulative effect is relaxed confusion, with that carpeted Bo Diddley guitar standing out as the ultimate statement of eccentricity in an apartment that lives and breathes it.
Likewise, Montreal's McGarrigle sisters write music that lives and breathes outside the strictures of pop careerism.
Over 15 years and six albums they have created an offbeat, intensely personal body of work in a business better known for conservative, bottom-line choices and throwaway sentiment.
The McGarrigles have made music and made families, and made that impossible combination look all too easy.
Go figure. In the greed-is-good '80s, Kate and Anna McGarrigle spent seven years away from the recording studio. That's seven lifetimes in a musician's quicksilver career. Then they returned, last month, with a new album called Heartbeats Accelerating.
Out of sight, out of mind, right?
But if 1990 is like 1983 and 1976 before it, that doesn't mean the McGarrigles have been standing still. Heartbeats Accelerating updates their homespun Franco-Irish fiddle-accordion-piano instrumentation with the subtlest synthesized underpinning. If anything, the soft synth pulse has made the music even more moving, even more unsettling.
"Everybody finds it very dark," Kate agreed, speaking of the album and especially the lovelorn melancholy of I Eat Dinner.
In the song a woman sits at her kitchen table, staring into the void and quietly dreading a future of loneliness. While the song was written about somebody else (the painter Frida Kahlo), it is rendered with such stark emotional detail that people take it personally.
"We had a letter from this fan of ours in England," Anna said.
"We've met him many times and he writes and he sends us shawls, he's a really sweet guy. He had heard the record and he said, `I love it, but it sounded very, very sad.' And at the end he said, `I do hope Kate is feeling better.' "
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They both are.
In their mid-40s, Kate and Anna McGarrigle have found a way to co- exist at a long arm's length from the nastier aspects of the music business.
Kate has that apartment base in Westmount, but both prefer the country. Each has raised two children. Neither planned a career in music; they were busy not making other plans.
"When we started our so-called career in '73-'74-'75 we'd never worked together," Kate said. "We didn't have a career in mind, we were just writing songs and having fun writing songs."
She puts together two stories of a life in music, the first about an unnamed 79-year-old Canadian folk songwriter whose life's work consists of 16 finished pieces. "He would get an idea, write it down on a piece of paper, put it in a drawer - he wasn't at it all the time."
Then, one night in New York, Kate and her ex-husband Loudon Wainwright III (also a folk songwriter of some repute) had dinner with Bernie Taupin, Elton John's partner.
"Bernie said, `Elton and I have just written 23 songs in 10 days.' I said, `Wow!' " That was Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973). I have to say I was impressed."
But not impressed enough to turn an avocation into a business.
This music is thicker than water. Born of an Irish-Canadian father and a Quebecoise mother, the McGarrigles assimilated both folk traditions. For want of a better label, their eponymous 1976 debut was slotted in with the established singer-songwriter movement.
"In the mid-'70s, singer-songwriters were pretty much straight- ahead bass-guitar and drums, not even piano," Kate said.
By comparison, McGarrigle shows had the feel of a kitchen jam session. They translated rocker Bob Seger's You Will Accompany Me into Tu Va M'Accompagner, set it to fiddle and accordion, and added a Cajun flavor.
Kate remembered: "When we first started recording, (people asked) `What are accordions? What are these doing on record?'
"Somebody said, `God, you were doing world music before anybody else was doing world music.' "
Since then, fiddles and accordions and folk music of every stripe have become a minor industry, with gusts up to megabuck sales. Ask for John Cougar Mellencamp's bank statements someday.
The McGarrigles were content to live it the way they wrote it, unwilling to sacrifice life for work.
The seven-year recording layoff that followed the Love Over and Over album in '83 (they did perform live, and occasionally did TV and radio specials) was precipitated by Anna's decision to leave Montreal for rural Ontario.
"We (she and husband Dane Lanken) decided that the kids should benefit from a couple of years in the country," she said. And that was that.
But what goes around comes around.
Last summer, while recording Heartbeats Accelerating, the McGarrigles and producer Pierre Marchand had to abandon their original studio on Jean Talon, when the machinery in the ice-cream parlor below began adding its own off-key harmonies.
So they packed up and headed home, to Mom and her house in St. Sauveur.
"Pierre just took over completely and filled the living room with his gear," Anna said. "And then we were doing vocals in our old bedroom."
"The bedroom from when we were kids," Kate continued, "and meanwhile we'd have an ashtray full of cigarettes beside us."
That's real life for you. In 1984, Kate McGarrigle just happened to be staying at a Los Angeles hotel and had her most revealing encounter with big-time pop stardom.
Unbenownst to her, it was Grammy week.
"We were staying in the same hotel with Annie Lennox, the Thompson Twins... . Everybody was walking around in their finery, and it was great, 'cause they were all kind of strutting.
"And I went into the hot tub and Cyndi Lauper was in the hot tub, and she was a nervous wreck.
"She was covered in pimples, her nails were chewed down to the quick. She looked thin and drawn and pale.
"She finally left, and her hairdresser or publicist said, `God, she's nervous. She knows she's not gonna get anything, cause it's Tina Turner's year.'
"And she (Lauper) had had five major hits off that album. She worked hard, the songs were good, the record was incredibly successful.
"And I said, `What an awful business!"
But not a bad life, as long as you know the difference.
Sister act's 15 years - A McGarrigles discography:


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Directions: To obtain this endorsement required to drive a vehicle with air brakes, applicants must pass a 20-question test. And to pass the test, applicants must score at least 80%. Test questions are from the Florida Commercial Driver Handbook. The School Bus endorsement can be used with the Class A, B, or C CDL. If you need additional information, please contact your local DMV office. You can find your nearest DMV office at Florida DMV locations.
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I'm a beginner and actually, only a few weeks ago I still knew nothing about C++. Now I find myself in trouble installing LAPACK.
First I wanna use VC++ 2010 to do some matrix calculation, so I installed Armadillo. Then I find that Armadillo uses LAPACK and BLAS to do some matrix inverse work, and that's why I'm here in trouble.
I have several questions about running LAPACK. Yes, I already read the instructions on http://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack-for-windows/lapack ; I downloaded all kinds of .dll and .lib file and changed their locations several time to try to compile in VC++2010; I changed the 'Additional Library Directories' on 'Propertire/linker/general' and added liblapack.lib in 'Additional Dependencies' at 'Propertire/linker/input.
I don't understand these:
1. many websites say, LAPACK should be installed somewhere. But all I could do is to download a file(folder) either named 'lapack' or 'lapack-3.4.1'. I couldn't find any install.exe file in the folder. So what does it mean "download"??
2. on the website above, the .dll and .lib files should be downloaded. But where should I put them? Suppose my VC++ 2010 is installed on P:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\, should I put them in this directory? Where should I put or install the 'downloaded' LAPACK package?
3. What does a Reference BLAS mean? If I don't use CMAKE and Mingw to biuld and compile, can I still follow the download steps provided on that website??
This is kind of long. I search every forum and tried every possible method but am still confused. I appreciate it if any1 can help explain at lease a part of my question. Thanks!!


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That's because it's about penises, how they work, and what we don't know about them. "Now you know why I'm fun at parties," she said, early in the talk.
A senior research fellow at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Kelly gave what might be the most-talked-about talk at this year's TEDMED conference, and it was a merry mashup of science, real-life questions, and her curiosity about the questions that didn't have answers. That curiosity led her to her current research focus, even though it was "a socially embarrassing question with an answer [my adviser] didn't think would be that interesting." In her summing up, she noted, "He couldn't have been more wrong…We still have a lot to learn about the normal structure and function of our bodies."
For this talk, Kelly--a mom who had just explained how penises work to her nine-year-old the week before the talk--used the same kind of fun, relaxed and easy-to-understand language she has put to use in card games and children's books she's written about science. Her explanations included lines like "Most animals don't support their tissues by draping them over bones, but they're more like reinforced water balloons" or "when they're functioning, penises don't wiggle. So there had to be something going on."
On her blog Science Made Cool, Kelly wrote about how she prepared for the TEDMED talk:
[W] hat's it like to give one of these big public talks? It's certainly different from a university classroom. First off, the audience is bigger. A lot bigger. Average size of my audience when I teach? About 50. TEDMED was held at the Kennedy Center's Opera House, and every seat on the main floor was filled. And that's not counting all the medical schools who were livestreaming the event. Intimidating? You bet. Add in the knowledge that the video was going to be on the internet, maybe forever, and you can understand why I was motivated to put a lot of time into writing and rehearsals The talks are also shorter than a class or a seminar. Classes and department seminars usually take about 45 minutes. The TEDMED limit? 12 minutes....So when I planned my talk, I had to pick exactly one result from my research and build the talk around it. No graphs, no statistics, just the story leading up to that result and the reason it was meaningful.What can you learn from this famous speech?
- Make it clear why your odd or unusual topic is relevant to this audience: Early on, Kelly clearly states her belief that studying anatomical and tissue similarities and differences across species can yield important insights for human health. She studies animals, but her findings have broader application, and she wants to make sure they won't be overlooked as a source of insight. For the assembled audience of health care professionals and policymakers at TEDMED, this answered the "so what?" question that's usually on the minds of the audience. And her deadpan delivery allows for the fact that the audience is thinking in double entendres--but it doesn't slow her down.
- Be a three-dimensional expert: Without effort, Kelly lets you know by the end of her talk that she's a mom who just had to explain this to her nine-year-old, that she's fun at parties (and has heard all the obvious jokes), and that she's not afraid to stick up for her research when she's been told it's all been done before. For scientists and other subject-matter experts, it's important to show us all the sides of your personality and those parts of your life to which we non-experts can relate.
- Enthusiasm carries the crowd with you: Public audiences and audiences of non-scientists may not know every nuance of your research, but boy, can we go along with someone who's clearly enthused about her explorations and willing to take us along for the ride. It's impossible to watch this talk without understanding Kelly's passion--and seeing how it drove her to a major advance in a field once considered to be a closed topic. That makes us wonder what else there is left to learn, and helps us understand the scientist's quest a bit better. No slides, charts or graphs were needed to put that across, just Kelly's expressive vocals and energetic delivery.
This talk is not-quite-but-almost-safe-for-work, but it is a must-see. I had the chance to see this one up close at TEDMED, and it's a personal favorite of mine. What do you think of this famous speech?


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As a Texan is walking through his field, he sees a man drinking water from a stock tank with one of his hands.
The Texan shouts," Hey don't drink that water, It has cow manure in it!!!
The Man shouts back "Soy mexicano, yo no entiendo inglés. Hábleme español.". (I'm Mexican, I don't speak English. speak Spanish to me)
The Texan shouts back, "Utilice ambas manos, usted conseguirá más para beber." (Use both hands, you'll get more to drink)
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
¿Se habla español?
As a Texan is walking through his field, he sees a man drinking water from a stock tank with one of his hands.
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6 comments:
- Eugenio said...
English Jokes are very strange
- 6:39 PM, October 03, 2007
Can this blog be more racist?
- 6:56 PM, October 03, 2007
- aldodager said...
honestly... i didnt find it funny... BUT in USA you can find IMMIGRANTS and immigrants...
the one's who are willing to cooperate, pay taxes, bla bla yadda yadda.. and the ones who exploits the system
if someone comes to my country, exploits all the benefits without investing and/or paying for them, i will hate them for sure...
- 12:43 AM, October 04, 2007
Not only lame, *but* racist too?
- 1:44 PM, October 05, 2007
Come on people where is your sense of humor. I laughed my ass off. :)
- 4:24 PM, October 05, 2007
No es una broma muy divertido...
Bebo agua con la manura toda la hora!
Creo que necesidaiz beber este tambian!
Es muy bueno para la salud!!!!
Gracia todos y adios!
- 9:58 PM, October 06, 2007


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- 1/2 pound good bittersweet chocolate
- 1/2 pound good semisweet chocolate
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons orange flavored liqueur, optional (i don't use them)
- 1 tablespoon prepared coffee
- 1/2 teaspoon good vanilla extract
- Confectioners' sugar
- Cocoa powder
Chop the chocolates finely with a sharp knife. Place them in a heat-proof mixing bowl.
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RICHMOND, Va. – Exasperated Richmond Head Coach Chris Mooney sat before a throng of reporters shoehorned into the unremarkable media room in the bowels of VCU's Siegel Center. He sighed as he before he sought to explain what he'd just witnessed. We were obligated to ask, but it didn't take a perfect SAT score to figure out that VCU's "Havoc" wreaking defense had just systematically beat the Spiders into submission.
By the time it was over, a close game had dissolved into a 73-51 punchline. Mooney watched helplessly as his normally steady team, which carried a three-game winning streak into Friday's anticipated matchup, became unhinged in the face of constant VCU pressure.
"I don't want to think that…but I also know that's what the pressure's designed to do," Mooney said. "It's designed to wear you down during the course of the game and of course our guards were in there for such a long time. Maybe it was more indicative of the missed shots. I don't like to think that's the case, but it very well could have been."
VCU's victory Friday came via the best defensive performance to date from a Rams team that's earning a rep for chaos creation. The evidence was in every corner of the box score.
The previously sure-handed Spiders entered the game averaging just over 11 turnovers a game, but they had 10 in the first half alone and finished the game with 17. Forward Darrius Garrett committed seven turnovers, as many as the entire VCU team combined. Go-Kart guard Kendall Anthony, Richmond's leading scorer, was 5-of-18 from the field, including 3-of-11 from 3-point range.
The Spiders' strength was in their trio of guards, Brothers, Anthony and Cendrick Lindsay, but only Lindsay (22 points) enjoyed any kind of real success, and he was scoreless over the final 7:03. By then, "Havoc" had a vice grip on the outcome.
It took VCU Head Coach Smart just minutes into his introductory press conference to announce, "We want to wreak havoc on our opponents." It's becoming exceedingly clear of late that the 2011-12 VCU Rams are what he had in mind.
Smart believes in "Havoc" so completely that it's stitched into his travel suit bag and his newborn daughter Zora's onesie. It's more than a brand of basketball. It's a frame of mind. He eats and sleeps Havoc. He wants his players to feel the same way. This season, particularly in the last five games, it appears this group of players does.
A couple of weeks ago, junior Troy Daniels hinted at this team's potential, referring to the Rams as "junkyard dogs." They're starting to look just like that. Impetuous, fierce, fearless, hungry.
During his first two seasons, the Rams played the style admirably with a number of players who recruited by the previous coaching staff, guys who were overwhelmingly offensive-minded guys. That's not a slight on that team. They went to the Final Four. They could play. However, this group of players was born for Smart's aggressive style of on-court unrest. Quick, athletic guards like Briante Weber, Rob Brandenberg and Darius Theus, not to mention lean,mean big men who can run the floor like Juvonte Reddic.
"No double about it. We're a little bit taller than last year, little bit longer, little bit more athletic," Smart said. "When you add [Briante Weber] out there, it gives you a different dimension defensively.
"Last year's team had much more experience and wisdom on defense. A guy like Ed Nixon was always in the right place at the right time, but I think as we continue to learn and gain some wisdom with our young guys we could be a better defensive team than we were last year."
On Friday, Richmond looked primed to stun a rabid, sellout crowd of 7,617 when they drew within 47-45 with 11:03 remaining. Anthony and Lindsay were burying shots and the Spiders were holding the line on the defensive end. Then, in a blink, it all collapsed under the collective weight of 30 minutes of non-stop pressure. VCU was swarming Richmond, forcing bad decisions.
The turnovers piled up, Anthony and Lindsay's shots stopped falling and VCU moved in for the kill. The Rams went on a 22-4 run over the next seven minutes. Turn out the lights. In the second half alone, the Rams outscored Richmond 14-0 off turnovers. It wasn't just turnovers that won Friday's game for VCU. It was the Rams' ability to cut out the legs of the opposition through defensive pressure.
"I thought our style of play had a cumulative effect on Richmond," Smart said. "Their guards did a nice job all game, but I do think that they got a little tired because of the way that we play and the way that we pressed and I think as the game wore on, a big part of that run was because they were missing some of those outside shots."
It's a second half formula that's bordering on habitual for this squad. In the Rams' last four victories, each has seen VCU blitz for 30 minutes until the opposition broke like a crumbling dam.
"We wouldn't say we're in a good spot," said senior Bradford Burgess of the Rams' recent play. "But we're starting to see the light as far as how good this team could be, especially on the defensive end."


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R&B star Lauryn Hill has been released from prison after serving three months for tax evasion.
The former Fugees singer walked free from the minimum security Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., on Friday morning.
She was jailed on July 8 for failing to file her tax returns between 2005 and 2007.
The Grammy winner has marked her release by releasing new track "Consumerism," which is set to feature on her next album Letters From Exile.


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The very first Borders in Ann Arbor, Mich., was officially closed at press time, and further closures of the bankrupt chain are gaining pace. It seems like not so long ago that these large well-stocked bookstores proliferated everywhere, offering quality, selection and price benefits — even coffee and pastries. Sure, critics complained they killed the independent mom-and-pop shop but consumers weren't complaining. Now it is Amazon that has consumed Borders, as consumers acquire their books online while drinking their Green Mountain coffee at home.
The shuttered storefront has become a symbol of our times, and probably does more to discourage consumers than all the grim macroeconomic news relating to employment, debt and economic stagnation. That is because signs we see or experience ourselves — whether for-sale or for-lease signs that never seem to come down or potholes that never seem to get filled — make a more powerful impression on us than mere data.
Currently, the data borders on apocalyptic. Worries about European financial institutions are particularly frightening because the sovereign debt they own could take them and their economies down, and swap agreements tie their large banks to ours. So the tenor of much of the news remains negative, with eminences such as economist Nouriel Roubini and DoubleLine bond manager Jeffrey Gundlach urging investors to get out of stocks. Short interest is at a two-year high.
Amid the chorus of negativity, it was refreshing to see a recent Wall Street Journal report on a positive forecast from New York University's Professor Richard Sylla. Not because Sylla is as famous as his NYU colleague Roubini; indeed, few have heard of him. And not because there aren't others making positive predictions — there's always someone taking the long side of the bet. And not even because Prof. Sylla accurately predicted in 2000 the coming lost decade in stocks, though that does make what he has to say now all the more interesting. Most impressive is the modesty of this forecast that is not specific about how stocks will fare right now or by year end, but rather discerns long-term patterns over more than 200 years of stock market history.
In effect, Sylla is taking the financial-advisor approach to investing rather than that of the big-shot manager or consultant making specific calls. "There is a lot of excessive short-term thinking about the stock market: 'What did [Federal Reserve Chairman Ben] Bernanke say today?'" he told the Journal. Sylla says average annual returns of 6.5% over the coming decade would fit the historical pattern he has observed, though he puts the chance of a second decade of equity market malaise, as Japan experienced, at 25%.
The powerful forces of change that did in Borders will likely catch up with Amazon one day. But as Sylla's forecast hints, the seeds are already in place for the blossoming of the next big thing that will gain consumer allegiance and perhaps trigger a broader economic revival. Since we don't know when that will be or where it will come from, we have no recourse but to do as advisors have always counseled their clients: Look with hope to the future and have courage. These are the essential preconditions for working, saving and investing.


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Washington, D.C. -- In a decisive move, the U.S. House of Representatives today approved a measure to restore basic protections for America's wild horses and burros.
Led by Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall, Jr. (D-WV), Representative Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Chairman Raúl Grijalva (D-NM) the Restore Our American Mustang Act, or ROAM Act (H.R. 1018), passed by a vote of 239 to 185.
"At a time when nearly as many wild horses are in captivity as are on the range – a situation which is unacceptable in terms of both animal welfare and fiscal responsibility – the Animal Welfare Institute welcomes this action, and we are grateful to the bill's champions and supporters," says Chris Heyde, Deputy Director of Government and Legal Affairs for the Animal Welfare Institute.
In FY08, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the agency responsible for the animals in question, spent nearly 75 percent of its $36 million budget warehousing horses removed from the range. The new legislation, which must now pass the U.S. Senate, would encourage the reopening of certain public lands to the mustangs, thus potentially decreasing the number in captivity. The bill also restores a crucial protection to keep wild horses from going to slaughter, which was stripped away several years ago. Although Congressional intent and public sentiment are clearly against sending wild horses and burros to slaughter the BLM has recently threatened to kill more than 30,000 horses in holding areas as a cost-saving measure.
"The BLM's wild horse program and policies are broken. The ROAM Act offers an opportunity for the agency to restore its credibility when it comes to managing America's mustangs," says Heyde."We urge the Senate to act swiftly before the BLM takes further actions of detriment to the horses."
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I remember Bre saying in a past Twisted Nether Blogcast that you should really do yourself a favor and take a turtle ride from the Borean Tundra. Larisa recently reinforced this.
So, I decided I would take the trip.
Now, what's that old saying….
Curiosity killed the Gnome!
Well, I didn't die, but I got a completely different turtle ride than the one I was expecting.
It started out innocently enough… but I just wasn't close enough to the Turtle, I really wanted to look in it's eyes as it traversed the frozen wastes.
Yep, one step too many, and rather than sharing the ride with the captain, I was sharing the ride with the fish.
Strangely I didn't need my deep dive helmet
I guess I was just sharing the turtles air…
Unbelieveably, I made it to the other end in one piece, at which point the turtle gave a big shrug…
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Well it seems all the nasty letters I've written to como's office had an effect,,,
As may of you already know I'd convinced several people that had campers and camps in NY to leave the state in a protest move to the restrictive laws being put forth by NY state. As well as convincing several others to not buy licenses , or support that state in any way. And I mentioned in some of the letters the fact that I'd canceled the purchase of a large piece of land there that several of us had planed on purchasing together and putting up a camp on. Many of us in this group and the ones that left have all written and expressed our,,displeasure over these new laws.
I guess it made an impression!!!
It finally prompted a response to 6 of us that had written,, with the responder,no doubt being a dem sheeple intern, asking us to reconsider our decisions in leaving the state and not to hunt, snowmobile and ATV ride, and camp there anymore. And what a wonderful state it was and how these new laws were going to protect everyone's safety,,,Ya Right!!!!! It came from his office so it seems,, Someone,, noticed and is starting to worry about it!!!!
The response was basically a laundry list of just plain dribble expounding the virtues of the "safe act" , it's for the children, and just a bunch of other BS yada ya that isn't even close to true. 5 of us in that group have already written back in response with other quite harshly worded letters to them and I'll bet it will leave even more of an impression when they read them!!
We'll see if it garners any further responses from them.
But,,,So far 5 of us have written back and pretty much told them to "GO POUND SAND"!!!! We won't be back!!!! PERIOD!!!!:bye2:
Soooooo,,,we'll see what kind of ,,, impression,, That Will Leave!!!!
Take That !!!! I think when they realize it's hurting there bottom line, they just MAY realize this shit hasn't been a very well thought out plan!!
YEA,,,ONE FOR THE HOME TEAM!!!!:thumbup1:
Keep those cards and letters rolling in guys, just don't bitch about it here!!!! I actually think they,, Do Notice,,,


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Robocalls from a Florida elections office mistakenly told voters that the election was on Wednesday, Michael Van Sickler of The Tampa Bay Times reports.
Election officials from Pinellas County—location of St. Petersburg and Tampa Bay—now say that 12,525 people were told this morning that they had until 7 p.m. "tomorrow" to turn in their absentee ballots.
Polls close at 7 p.m. tonight so any ballots turned in after that time won't count.
A voter who received the message told the Times that she called the elections offices and informed them of the error, but was told that such a mistake was "impossible" and there was no way the erroneous calls were made.
After realizing the error, officials robocalled the misinformed voters again to tell them to disregard the earlier call because today is, in fact, Election Day.
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By now, you've probably read quite a bit about the proposal before the board of the Chestnut Hill Community Association to fund a start-up community-wide Web portal. And you're probably wondering: What the heck is a Web portal, anyway?
The concept behind the Web portal proposal – which was first floated approximately 10 months ago by board member Rob Remus and Hill resident and Web expert Gerald Tracy – is simple: Create a one-stop shop for Chestnut Hill news, information and services. If you're looking for the Chestnut Hill Local's news, a volunteer opportunity, to find local theater productions, to check real estate ads or to start a group for local preschool moms, a robust, community-owned Web portal will theoretically provide it all.
So what's the problem?
Everyone agrees that more needs to be done online, but disagreements persist on the best way to do it. Options on the table range from investing the money in the Local to transform it into a portal to the proposal before the board that would establish an independent online entity that works with the Local and other stakeholders. Organizations that have had a chat about involvement range from the Chestnut Hill Business Association to Weavers Way Co-op, which publishes the monthly Shuttle newspaper.
The portal proposal by Remus and Tracy, which resulted as well from input from a summer-long portal task force that held weekly meetings last summer, has been criticized for its lack of specifics. And the price tag – a $5,000 monthly buy in from the CHCA with another $7,000 monthly from other organizations – has been called too high. Despite several public meetings and subsequent discussions at board meetings, skepticism has largely not been allayed.
Why is the decision so big?
News about the board's ongoing debate about the portal has been followed closely by this paper's closest online competitors, the Chestnut Hill Patch and WHYY's Newsworks, though the public has shown only marginal interest evident in sparsely attended public meetings. Yet, the decision may be one of the biggest the CHCA has made since it decided to establish the Local more than 50 years ago.
Everyone knows now, that as communications habits are changing – and they are changing rapidly – every organization needs to find new ways to reach and interact with its constituencies. For the CHCA and Local, the same is true. If you're not looking to develop the best ways to communicate and interact with people online, you're going to cede the space to someone who can come along and do it better.
With the aforementioned competition in our neighborhood, the need is pressing.
So should the community do it?
Given the fact that the reality of outside competition and the need to develop the best product online in order to stay relevant are not debatable, the CHCA and other community organizations should get onboard and get the portal started.
Critics have a right to be skeptical of a price tag, which is at least $144,000 (based on a ballpark figure of $12,000 a month used by Remus recently) without accounting for potential revenue. But the community has spent nearly $100,000 several times on retail studies in the last decade. Can't it spend something similar on a project that will produce something tangible?
It's a lot of money to ask, but there are many potential upsides if that money can be found: the best website we can get – one that brings together a bunch of disparate and not terribly successful web enterprises under one roof.
There's always a risk that the revenue and page views promised by the portal proposal won't materialize. But that doesn't mean that the money will be wasted. The worst case scenario is simply that the portal doesn't work. But at least under those circumstances, the CHCA can say that it failed with its best efforts, not failing because it simply didn't do enough.


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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has acquired Webster's New World Dictionary and CliffsNotes from John Wiley & Sons, also buying a collection of cookbook titles from the publisher. Here's more about the long list culinary purchases, from the release:
Wiley's celebrated cookbook collection includes the flagship Betty Crocker series, in addition to other General Mills-branded lines, the Better Homes and Gardens line licensed from Meredith Corporation, Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything franchise – including the bestselling culinary app for iOS, and high-profile authors such as Rose Levy Beranbaum, Marcus Samuelsson and Ellie Krieger. This acquisition will complement HMH's premier authors and cookbooks, including Jacques Pepin, Dorie Greenspan, The Gourmet Cookbook and the Hello, Cupcake! franchise.
Along with the CliffsNotes titles, Houghton will assume control of the study guide website associated with the series–it currently counts two million visitors a month.


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Allen Jones, who worked as an investigator in the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General (OIG), gained widespread attention as a 'whistleblower' after voicing concerns about attempts by the pharmaceutical industry to implement a mental health screening plan, based on the controversial Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), in Pennsylvania. Subsequently, TMAP has been recommended as a model for use throughout the United States by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, a panel whose members were hand picked by George W. Bush.
In 2002, Jones discovered evidence of payments, primarily from Pfizer and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, into an off-the-books account, earmarked for educational grants to be doled out in Pennsylvania. Jones' investigation revealed Janssen paid government officials who influenced decisions over which drugs were prescribed in prisons and mental hospitals. Pennsylvania is now among about a dozen States using medical algorithm formularies modeled after TMAP.
In May, 2004 the British Medical Journal reported Jones had uncovered evidence major drug companies sought to influence government officials. Jones was escorted out of his workplace on April 28, 2004, after OIG officials accused him of talking to the press. Jones was relieved of his duties because he breached OIG guidelines that no worker may report confidential data. Jones indicates he chose to disclose his findings to the press precisely because of corrupt behavior by OIG officials themselves, alleging the OIG's policy was "unconstitutional."
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- ZMag.org - 'Eli Lilly, Zyprexa & the Bush Family: The Diseasing of our Malaise' Bruce Levine (May, 2004)
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- PsychRights.org (pdf) - Bush Plans To Screen Whole US Population for Mental Illness', Jeanne Lenzer, British Medical Journal, Vol 328, pp1458, June 19, 2004
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The August 2008 NewsLeaf is here! It was delivered last week to my mailbox and it looks good.
The NewsLeaf is the Ontario Genealogical Society's (OGS) four times a year publication of news about the society which one receives if a member of the society <www.ogs.on.ca>.
The OGS has a new president this year, Don Hinchley from the Durham Branch, and a new vice-president, Nancy Trimble, also from the Durham Branch.
In this issue are articles on the Irish Palatines, Finding Cousins, and Ontario Vital Records.
As well as the articles, there are the usual, as in Branch addresses and Branch meetings and what is going on in the Halton-Peel Branch for next year's conference to be held in Oakville (near Toronto) next year from May 29-31, 2009 <www.ogs.on.ca/conference>.
My opinion is rather biased because I am editor of it, as well as being the editor of its electronic sister publication, e-NewsLeaf, also only available to the members of the OGS.
The e-NewsLeaf is sent out by email, or is available onsite, eight times a year (January, March, April, June, July, September, October, December).
Meanwhile, the print NewsLeaf is available February, May, August and November.
Both are full of news about what is happening at the OGS. If you want to know when the next meeting is, or what plans the society has for an upcoming event, be sure to check the NewsLeaf or the e-NewsLeaf.
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We have many aftermarket partners here at Dragzine, and we invite the opportunity to find out how things are done on the inside by having a chance to tour a partner's facility. As QA1 Precision Products, Inc. is one of the leading manufacturers of shocks, struts, and suspension products along with many other racecar components, when the offer was extended to take a look at how they develop their extensive product line, we took the bait and made plans to find out the skinny on QA1's facility in Lakeville, Minnesota.
Founded in 1993, QA1 Precision Products entered the performance business with an extensive line of rod ends, spherical bearings, and custom linkages for the motorsports industry. The company subsequently purchased Hal Shocks in 1998 and started manufacturing shock absorbers for the drag racing market before moving into street and circle track shock absorber applications, all the while instituting running changes in the product as research and development dictated the need.
Acquiring Carrera Shocks in 2004 accelerated the development process, and today, the company produces shock absorbers for dozens of different applications across a wide range of markets, along with many other performance parts like subframe connectors, control arms, K-members, ball joints, rod ends, and more.
The Facility
As part of our tour, we sat down with QA1's President, Melissa Scoles, and Production Manager, Tyler Uilk, to talk about all things QA1. The massive QA1 facility in Minnesota consists of two buildings, housing approximately 83,000 square feet of space. In the main building, you'll find the CNC department, most of the office space, the shock and strut assembly division, shipping and receiving, some of the warehouse space, the research and development portion of the company, and QA1's brand-new Advanced Materials division.
Immediately inside the front door is a bit of office space that includes a conference room, but once you walk through the next door into the shop, that's where the magic happens. Customer service, tech support, and sales and engineering departments are located in offices to the right, but the majority of the building is warehousing space and manufacturing.
Scoles runs the company with an open-door policy – she's done many of the jobs in the building, and thus can assist each of the employees with their individual responsibilities. "Everyone has an opportunity to voice their opinion and change anything in their work environment," says Uilk.
Also in this space is the quality department, rack space, robotic welder, and the CNC department. There are two separate shock assembly areas with a clean room where the smaller components are assembled and washed prior to the shock heading to the final assembly area. The R&D area, which QA1 is in the process of expanding, is at the back of this area. There will be three vehicle hoists here, along with an alignment system so that the engineering and development teams can test the fitment and performance of their product line. They also have a dedicated area to film install videos, which will all be available on their YouTube channel.
The newest addition to QA1, their Advanced Materials Division, is also housed in this building. This has the latest and greatest equipment for filament winding custom made carbon fiber driveshafts. They have a filament winding machine, curing oven, torsional tester and balancing equipment here to ensure that each driveshaft is made with the utmost quality. These products aren't available yet, but will be later in 2014.
The secondary building, just across the parking lot, includes the fabrication division where all of the company's suspension parts are made.
This area is where the tube benders, laser-cutter, press-brake, and saw reside, along with the pair of AWS-certified welders that burn wire all day creating QA1's suspension parts.
The company boasts 55 full-time employees on staff; eight of them are engineers. That's an impressive percentage of mind-power that's dedicated to building products that perform both on the street and at the track.
Design And Development
Identification of market needs comes from customer feedback and requests. The company maintains a database with those requests and uses that in conjunction with their own market research to analyze trends and popular applications in the marketplace; this is where new products are born.
We'll never sacrifice quality, and we'll always make a part that's as affordable for the racer as we can make it. – Melissa Scoles, President, QA1 Precision Products
"A lot of our employees compete themselves, in a number of different types of racing, and that drives a lot of our product development as well. They tell us what they need and we're then able to make and test new products that way," says Uilk.
Development is also driven by a data-acquisition system the company uses to determine operating conditions of their shock absorbers out in the field. The system measures shock speed and forces and other parameters that then are taken back to the research department for further review.
On The Dyno
Each shock and strut manufactured by the company is tested prior to shipment on one of their in-house shock dynos, which records the shock curve to ensure that valving is appropriate for the application. Each shock and strut is also serialized for tracking and warranty purposes.
If a customer has an issue, the company can trace it back all the way to the day it was built and which technician assembled the product. It permits them a higher level of service due to the ability to monitor fitment and build quality of each individual component.
The company places a great emphasis on U.S. Manufacturing. For the drag racing and street performance markets, QA1's aluminum shocks, steel struts and all suspension components are made in-house.
Undercar Improvements
QA1 produces a large number of different suspension products at their facility, geared towards the street enthusiast and drag racing marketplace. From control arms to k-members to subframe connectors, the company is always looking to make a part that's as versatile as possible for the end-user.
Each of the suspension pieces are interchangeable with stock components, which gives the end-user the ability to upgrade in steps, rather than having to lay out a large amount of money at one time.
Other Products
QA1 also offers an extensive line of other products, including rebuildable ball joints, rod ends, spherical bearings, clevises, rod eyes, and even coil springs. The company actually began in the rod end business and has since expanded to its current form. Rod ends are a large part of the business, and their Industrial Division is actually larger than the motorsports division. Like other companies in the performance industry, many of the products they build are applicable for many industrial uses.
Quality Checks
Product design starts with computer-aided design simulation in SolidWorks. Fatigue testing is performed on a dyno, and test-fitting is done on each particular vehicle to ensure proper fitment. Road time, race time, and the aforementioned data acquisition are also helpful in determining whether a product is designed properly.
"We're ISO 9001 certified, so everything has to be run through a quality system as well. The quality checks run through each element of production from machining the components to testing parts that are delivered by an outside supplier," says Scoles.
There is a full quality room with all of the checking and measuring equipment required to test the product. The company also uses an outside source to test product that's larger than what their internal machinery can handle.
Advanced Materials
"We just introduced the Advanced Materials division last year. We haven't introduced any product there yet but will be in operation by the April/May timeframe of 2014. The first product to come out of that division will be carbon-fiber driveshafts. We see that the market is evolving with more interest in carbon-fiber and different composite materials, and as our company is very focused on engineering, we're always looking for ways to expand and offer a quality product to the market at the right price," says Scoles.
To that end, they've invested in a filament-winder, material curing, balancing equipment, and torsional testing equipment to be able to produce the product in-house.
In order to produce driveshafts that equal the rest of QA1's high-quality product line, the company has been investigating different procedures. "We've been testing all sorts of materials, making sure that everything from the wind angles to the type of resins and adhesives we use are maximized for the applications we plan to build. We want them to be high-performing, cost-effective, and safe," she says. Initially, driveshaft production will be targeted at the Dirt Late Model market, and later this year they'll be introducing driveshaft products for the drag racing and street performance markets.
Our Overall Impression
By the end of our tour, we realized one thing – Scoles and her team are on the hunt for constant improvement in their product line. Their constant need for innovation requires them to build their own machines to perform a function if such a machine doesn't exist, as they've done with the machinery to fill the shocks with oil. That's a dirty job that no employee was happy about performing – so they went out and built a machine to do it, and morale has greatly improved as a result.


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When you hear the word "cover" what comes to mind? Is it a wedding band singing crowd favorites to fill a dance floor? Is it bad karaoke? One of the more unique ways to cover a song is, of course, to recreate it in a different genre. Think Johnny Cash's gorgeous rendition of the NIN classic "Hurt", the tongue-in-cheek folk-rock cover of "Boyz in da Hood" by Dynamite Hack, or even The Fray's cover of Kanye West's "Heartless" (or American Idol winner Kris Allen's version for that matter.) Sometimes, the cover song ends up being better or more popular than the original. Just look at this list of greatest cover songs and you'll probably be surprised at how many of the covers you thought were the originals!
Well, what if you take not just one song, but rather an entire album and recreate it in a different genre? That is precisely what Easy Star Records has been up to. Take a look:
As mentioned above, in 2003 the Easy Star All-Stars released Dub Side of the Moon, a reggae tribute to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. It went on to become one of the most successful reggae albums of the 21st century and spent over 5 years on Billboard's Top Reggae Chart. As if that wasn't enough, they then tackled Radiohead's OK Computer, putting out RadioDread, which spent 18 months on that same chart (and apparently earned some accolades from Radiohead themselves.) Notice anything that those two classic albums have in common? They are both considered (by some) to be concept albums.
Producer Michael Goldwasser, the musical wizard behind much of the All-Star magic says "We've focused on re-envisioning concept albums as reggae and it's really important that the source material works as a whole and is not just a collection of songs. So, what better to take on next than the mother of all concept albums?" He was referring to the one and only Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. If it's been a while, here's an interesting breakdown of the songs. And for the real fanatics among you, a little album art history.
Obviously it takes balls to cover the Beatles, let alone the album considered to be one of the most influential and greatest albums of all time. And yet, in April of 2009, the All-Star's put out Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band. The album features a number of reggae and dub greats including Steel Pulse, Matisyahu, Luciano, and Steel Pulse, along with the usual suspects – the usual suspects being a collection of some of the finest reggae musicians in the New York area.
What immediately stands out about this album, upon first listen, is how accurately they were able to preserve the vibe of each song. Though each song has been deftly crafted into a vibrant new reggae interpretation of its original, you can almost picture the Beatles nodding their heads in approval in the background because the emotion is the same.
Noteworthy tracks:
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – Frankie Paul's haunting vocals and the psychedelic guitar and effects stand out, deliciously juxtaposed against the mellow dubbed out percussion and keys, giving this track a certain irresistible je ne sais quoi.
She's Leaving Home – Singer Kirsty Rock's mellifluous voice soars delicately above the more upbeat ska-infused high hat and brass section. The reggae style keys come and go, a couple of interesting instrumental breakdowns happen unexpectedly and overall the listener is left constantly wondering what's next.
This album is unique to say the least. Check it out. And while you're at it, follow the All-Stars on Twitter.


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Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition lets you create worlds from the comfort of your sofa. Play alone or play with your friends. To experience split-screen functionality, a high-definition TV is required. With free regular game updates, creating with Minecraft is always fresh and exciting every time you play. Updates may include new mobs, items, blocks, status effects, and more. Create and explore your very own world where the only limit is what you can imagine, just be sure to build a shelter before night comes to keep yourself safe from monsters.
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Minecraft is a game using textured building blocks mostly in he form of cubes. The game is not restricted to just construction but also involves combat, exploration, crafting and so on. There are three main modes and a secondary mode. These are Survival, Creative and Adventure with the Secondary or Hardcore mode as a variation on Survival.
Stripped to their basics Survival requires players to get hold of natural resources from their environment and maintain a degree of Health and Hunger. In Creative players do not need to acquire resources as there is an unlimited supply available and there is no Health or Hunger or unfriendly beings to worry about. In this mode the player also has the ability to fly. Adventure Mode is like Survival but with some restrictions. The Secondary Mode, Hardcore, is the same as Survival but set to the greatest difficulty setting. In this mode there is only one life and all that the player has done is lost upon loss of this one life.
Described as Open World there is no particular predetermined objective, resulting in a large amount of freedom and scope for creativity, although the creativity is somewhat limited inasmuch as the blocks can only be placed on a fixed grid but can be moved from place to place. The game is normally played from a first person perspective by default with the option of a third person view.
Now, you may have got the idea that this is just a glorified Lego type game, but it is much more. The building blocks represent natural resources such as stone, rocks wood water etc. The world the players traverse contains mountains, caves, seas, lakes and more and these terrains may be covered in forest, jungle and even snow. The world is also populated by living things such as animals and humans, some friendly some not. The friendly creatures such as pigs and cows appear in daylight hours as determined by the game's internal clock which runs on a day cycle of twenty real minutes. As the friendly animals appear in daytime so do the unfriendly things appear at night, zombies, skeletons and others prowl in the darkness. Some of these have unexpected abilities.
Items that can be fashioned are not restricted to world construction but include weaponry and armor needed in hostile environments especially after dark and which may prove useful in the other worlds that the game presents. As well as the so called Overworld there is also the Nether World which is a sort of Hell like place and the End which is a desolate world where a Dragon lives.
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So the game is Room 101, based on the BBC TV show. You have to nominate something you would like to banish from the world, on the given topic. To vote for that person's topic to be put into Room 101 (you can vote on several, but not all of them!!!) you use the little green "Vote this post up" arrow. After a certain time - hard to say how long till we know if people are contributing so play it by ear for a while - we count up the votes and the winner picks a new topic.
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- Topic relevant - if you pick "The Victorians" under "modern life" that's not a match.
- Specific - something that a person can really get a handle on whether or not they agree with you, so "travel" is too broad, "buses" is a little broad unless you hate something specific about every bus in the world and clearly explain what it is. "Buses that come 3 at a time" is a specific hate
- Humorous. It's important to embrace the levity here. Of course it would be nice to consign things like war, land mines and famine to Room 101, but this is a game.
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Topic: TV and radio.
I hate about TV and Radio "Coming up". This used to be a tiny hint of what might be to come in a TV show, but it has become overwhelming. A show which runs for an hour loses 15 minutes to advert breaks but then loses a further 6 minutes at each commercial while the tell us what is to come, then tell us when we come back that "Before the break, this happened..." And when they're telling us what's coming up, they remove all the suspense from the show. "Coming up after the break in Animal Clinic, the one that we were unsure whether or not it would die makes a great recovery and finds a new home, and the cat up a tree is rescued." So I would like to consign "Coming up" to Room 101.


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"How is the government balancing the budget? Is it credible? And will it withstand scrutiny?"
Those are indeed the right questions to be asking about the B.C. Liberal government's 2013 budget and fiscal plan. Things begin to go off course for de Jong and his colleagues once one gets to the answers.
For to achieve a balanced budget in these challenging times, the Liberals resorted to a combination of stopgap measures, some unprecedented, others merely unusual, all highly debatable.
The most controversial saw the inclusion of $800 million worth of scheduled asset sales, mostly government-owned land that has been declared surplus, marketable, or both.
Previous governments have sold off assets from time to time as well. I don't recall them doing it to this extent nor as a route to a balanced budget.
But without the projected returns of the government's ambitious venture into the real estate market, de Jong's purported $200-million surplus would have had to be reported as running more than half a billion dollars into the red.
Another fiscal trick saw the government bring forward into the outgoing financial year (meaning the one ending this March 31), about $150 million worth of program spending that would have otherwise been booked to the incoming year, meaning the one beginning April 1.
Re-profiling is the fancy word given to the practice by the Finance Ministry. The practical political significance is what it does to the bottom line.
The outgoing financial year was already in the red so the $150 million was simply tacked on to an existing deficit. But the shift put the government that much closer to bringing the next budget into balance.
Then came a cute political trick. Opposition leader Adrian Dix has been promising to hike the corporate income tax and has also speculated about raising income taxes on folks making more than $150,000 a year.
The Liberals poached on his turf, raising the corporate tax by a point to 11 per cent (Dix has suggested 12 per cent) and doing their own version of tax-the-rich, at the same $150k threshold of income.
The move had Liberals chortling about how they were pre-empting the tax room that Dix needs to make his own fully costed budget work. But they also, in effect, validated Dix's argument that there was some room to move on taxation.
That sent a discouraging signal to the business community, already facing an estimated $1.5-billion hit from the phase-out of the harmonized sales tax.
Combined with the inevitable-for-the-Liberals annual increase in medicare premiums, and a hike in the tobacco tax, de Jong's tax grab will contribute an additional $300 million to the incoming budget.
Still for all that, the Liberals were able to offer next to nothing in the way of new programs, nor even much in the way of improvements in existing ones. Making lemonade out of the lemon, de Jong tried to frame the dearth of new giveaways as a commendable accomplishment in an election year.
"Being realistic about what we can afford today," he characterized it, recalling his mother teaching his first lesson in fiscal restraint at the kitchen table: "No, son, we can't afford it right now."
Too bad he didn't communicate mom's restraint message to the premier. Her throne speech, delivered a week ago, famously oversold the windfall (retire the provincial debt! eliminate the sales tax!) from a $100-billion fund that wouldn't begin accumulating until four years from now, if ever.
But for all the assets put on the auction block, grants re-profiled, taxes grabbed, and election goodies forgone, de Jong still had to resort to a severe degree of spending restraint on government programs.
He imagines holding the spending increase to a mere $300 million in the budget year beginning April 1, not much more than a rounding error on a $44-billion budget. Over the three years in his fiscal plan, the increase will supposedly be held to an average of 1.5 per cent a year.
This from a government that before the 2008 financial crisis was celebrating increases of six per cent a year. Climbing down from those heady years has already entailed major reductions in staffing, spending and service levels.
Yet the Liberals plan to impose still greater discipline. The budget documents call for the elimination of a further 1,200 positions in the public service, atop the 4,500 positions already eliminated.
There's no sign of funding for a promised 2,000 nursing positions over the next three years. Nor is there money in the budget for next year's fee negotiations with doctors, a group not used to accepting offers of "nothing."
So to revisit the questions posed by de Jong at the outset, the Liberals propose to balance the budget through a combination of asset sales, tax increases and severe restraint on spending.
Whether any of this is likely to withstand scrutiny, is up to the voters. The election, coming just six weeks into the financial year, will determine the credibility of this supposedly balanced budget no less than the government that created it.