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Did you know Trivia - THESE pictures are not for the faint-hearted.
Our slideshow, right, shows fearless Pamela Spector and pal Peggy Ellis warming-up for a bizarre "stress-relieving" performance of "art".
The pair, of the Traumatic Stress Discipline Suspension Club, carried out the shocking performance with other members of the group at the Grand Opening of the all new San Antonio Odditorium, in Texas, yesterday.
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Friday 9 May, 2008 12:00 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - He doesn't plan on using it anytime soon, but beer lover Bill Bramanti has a custom-made casket in the shape of a beer can that is decked out in the colors -- red, white and blue -- and logo of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
"I actually fit, because I got in here," said the 67-year-old South Chicago Heights resident.
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Friday 9 May, 2008 09:02 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - While I was in Nagoya last month, I was walking to my temporary home for the night (an internet cafe) when I encountered a vision out of Japan's past -- a Buddhist priest playing a Japanese flute known as a shakuhachi.
The shakuhachi player was dressed as a komuso, a type of Zen Buddhist priest who once wandered throughout old Japan playing their flutes for alms and meditation. Like some kind of ghost, the komuso just stood there playing his flute while people walked around him practically ignoring him as he ignored them. It seemed a thing unreal.
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Friday 9 May, 2008 08:07 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - LONDON: French scientists have reported the successful development of an artificial mouth that chews apples like humans.
Researchers led by Gaelle Arvisenet at ENITIAA in Nantes, France, have designed an artificial mouth that mimics the first vital steps of human digestion ie chewing, saliva release and the initial breakdown of food.
The team says that the development could form part of a robotic taste-tester designed to improve food quality and our understanding of flavour.
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Friday 9 May, 2008 05:00 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - In what is reportedly a world first, Brampton, Ontario, Canada-based Brampton Engineering says it has shipped an 11-layer blown-film line from its plant to a proprietary customer.
Thirteen years ago, during the 1995 TAPPI Polymers, Laminations and Coatings Conference, BE presented a paper that provided theoretical justification for the possibility that one day the market would request an 11-layer blown-film line.
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Friday 9 May, 2008 04:05 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - To make candles burn slowly and evenly with only a small amount of dripping wax, put them in the freezer for an hour before use
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Friday 9 May, 2008 03:02 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - KARACHI: The local engineering industry is feeling the heat in the wake of soaring steel prices, driving up its cost of production and lowering profit margins.
The industries, which use steel as a basic raw material, are now fast becoming unable to compete with international competitors, especially India, due to high input cost. However, India is still getting raw material on lower rates.
Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI) Chairman Shaikh Fazl-e-Jalil told The News over phone due to high steel and cement prices, the construction industry was facing difficulties, which in turn put many industries producing construction-related steel products in trouble and some were on the verge of closing their operations.
China and Taiwan are selling their products in Pakistan at competitive rates while the local industry is not in a position to control the rising cost of production. Spare-parts’ manufacturing industries are facing problems with rising steel prices in the country.
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Friday 9 May, 2008 12:03 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - The U.S. Army Research Office (USARO) will support a series of pre-college engineering summer camps held at nine universities across the country to foster an interest in engineering among high school students.
The program, UNITE, serves historically underrepresented and disadvantaged populations by helping students prepare for engineering careers. While each UNITE site’s program is unique to its local area, all consist of 4- to 8-week summer camps that are structured around academic courses and hands-on activities.
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Thursday 8 May, 2008 08:02 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - “Should inventors step up or step down from leading emerging technology start-ups?” The Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) is hosting a special entrepreneurial debate on the subject on Wednesday 14th May at the Cambridge Union Society Debating Chamber.
PhD students from Science and Engineering are joining MBAs from Judge Business School on the Emerging Technologies Entrepreneurship programme developed by the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning to work on ‘real technologies’ which have come from within the University of Cambridge. It promises to be a really exciting programme with students from Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Physics and Pathology joining the MBAs for the course.
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Thursday 8 May, 2008 12:07 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany - BASF SE said it will set up a new engineering plastics factory in the city of Thane and that it plans to expand its coatings facilities in Mangalore, both in India, to cater to the booming car industry in Asia.
In Thane, where BASF operates a plastics engineering lab, it will build an engineering plastics compounding plant that will enter service in the second half of 2009, the German chemical giant said.
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Thursday 8 May, 2008 09:00 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Eskom’s claims that load shedding was not damaging substations and power infrastructure may actually be true, say experts.
They say that Eskom’s equipment is able to withstand the load shedding — as long as it is adequately maintained.
Jan Reynders, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Wits University, said: “Load shedding should not be regarded as an abnormal operation.
“When you shed load all you do is operate a switch in a substation. All equipment in the substations is intended to operate under these conditions.
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Thursday 8 May, 2008 08:05 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Purdue University officials planned to build the Big Ten's largest campus supercomputer in one day. It ends up they completed the task by lunch. Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Gerry McCartney says many workers arrived early to help build the computer made up of more than 800 servers and capable of performing 60 trillion operations per second. Indiana University surprised Purdue officials by sending a crew of technicians to help build the machine.
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Thursday 8 May, 2008 04:03 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - One of the Middle East’s most spectacular new resort hotels, the Atlantis on The Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, will need a 130-strong team to maintain its facilities at an annual cost of AED11 million when it opens later this year.
Having secured the facilities management contract for the 1,539-room resort property, UAE-based facilities management specialists BK Gulf FM has began operations at the $1.5 billion hotel this summer ahead of its scheduled launch in September.
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Thursday 8 May, 2008 12:02 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Not that long ago, model makers took about a week to turn Timberland 2D CAD drawings of shoes into 3D representations in wood or foam. Now they can 3D print them in 90 minutes, at a cost of around $35 each, instead of a staggering $1,200 (£600).
“Time and money aside, the problem with the old approach is that a 2D CAD drawing left too much to the imagination,” says Toby Ringdahl, computer-aided design manager in the company’s footwear product development and engineering group.
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Wednesday 7 May, 2008 08:00 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - There's a silly season under way in US dealmaking. Takeovers with multibillion-dollar price tags are being talked up and reported on regardless of whether they make much business sense.
These potential offers have a key element in common: they have at least some potential to reshape an industry. Microsoft Corp.'s $US44.6 billion acquisition of Yahoo, scuttled over the weekend, would have done the same.
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Wednesday 7 May, 2008 04:09 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Scientists of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Natalya Kozirovska and Irina Zayec proved it possible to plant herbs on the Moon. During the experiment they managed to plant marigold on the soil, identical to the Moon regolite.
Scientists imitated the Moon soil scientists took grind mineral anorthosite. This magmetic rock is nothing like fertile soil. In this rock flowers couldn’t survive for a long time. But as soon as certain bacteria were added, the plants revived and started blooming.
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Wednesday 7 May, 2008 12:46 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - While the pressure on biofuels increases globally over concerns that the alternative energy source contributes to global warming and the food crisis, European and American biodiesel producers are caught in their own internecine dispute over subsidies.
Over the weekend, the European Biodiesel Board – the European biodiesel producers trade association, whose members manufacture some 80 percent of the union's biofuels – registered a complaint with the European Commission over "unfairly subsidised" US biodiesel exports.
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Wednesday 7 May, 2008 08:45 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - ST. MARIES, Idaho — She has been named Beauty, though this eagle is anything but. Part of Beauty's beak was shot off several years ago, leaving her with a stump that is useless for hunting food. A team of volunteers is working to attach an artificial beak to the disfigured bird, in an effort to keep her alive.
"For Beauty it's like using only one chopstick to eat. It can't be done" said biologist Jane Fink Cantwell, who operates a raptor recovery center in this Idaho Panhandle town. "She has trouble drinking. She can't preen her feathers. That's all about to change."
Cantwell has spent the past two years assembling a team to design and build an artificial beak. They plan to attach it to Beauty this month. With the beak, the 7-year-old bald eagle could live to the age of 50, although not in the wild.
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Wednesday 7 May, 2008 05:08 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Jay Cooper considers himself a conservative businessman, yet he has blackened the roof of his Auburn Honda dealership with one of the priciest green energy technologies: solar panels.
Hundreds of them.
"Obviously, it came down to dollars and cents," Cooper said.
After decades as a small-is-beautiful technology aimed largely at virtuous homeowners and off-the-grid types, solar is suddenly going large and at a price that makes business owners salivate.
Cooper's Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bill used to average about $8,000 a month. With the solar panels, which began generating electricity last fall, his power costs dropped instantly to $5,000.
That bargain is made possible by federal and utility subsidies, the sale of green energy "credits" and, critically, the recent development of financing schemes backed by big institutional investors. Together, those can drive down the effective price of solar-generated electricity more than 70 percent, developers say.
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Wednesday 7 May, 2008 04:43 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - ABS has been selected by Teekay Corporation to provide its technical evaluation to the basic design concept of a floating offshore gas liquefaction unit. The contract calls for review through to front end engineering and design (FEED) with the award of ABS classification to the facilities once a suitable project has been confirmed.
The LNG/LPG liquefaction facility's topsides process is being designed by Mustang Engineering of Houston, TX. Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) of Korea will design and construct the hull for the floating LNG vessel. Initial design concepts call for the unit to have a combined storage capacity for LNG and LPG in excess of 200,000m3. The containment system has not yet been selected and will be greatly determined by the site specific conditions.
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Wednesday 7 May, 2008 12:42 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Honda, the Japanese car manufacturer, established a pre-delivery car inspection facility in Swindon in 1985. At the time Rover built Honda models at Longbridge in the West Midlands and at Cowley, Oxford. Honda used the Swindon facility to verify the cars’ quality.
The company was attracted to the town for several reasons. As the manufacturing home of the Great Western Railway, Swindon had a tradition of engineering excellence. The railway works, however, were closing, so skilled labour was available.
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