Refinement is a word that best describes the 2008 BMW M3. Turn on the ignition and the engine is quiet, almost too quiet. Sure it delivers a lot more power than the previous version but it comes in a package that makes for a great daily driver.Push this car hard through a turn and you’ll feel safe knowing where the wheels are going. The car is a beast but unlike your average sports car, it’s a beast with manners. And should you get yourself in trouble, you can mash on the brakes and those massive rotors will get you out of it.
Instead of just raw power, the people at BMW decided to add precision, feedback and response. Approximately 80 percent of the parts in the new M3 are new. Highlights include a carbon fiber roof (a first for a production car), a suspension largely constructed of aluminum, and an aluminum hood/plastic front fenders.
The engine is a V-8 that weighs 33 pounds less than the previous generation’s straight six. It’s also a much higher revving engine. The experience is somewhat similar to the VTEC Honda sports coupe but with a lot more oomph.
The power-plant is constructed from aluminum silicon. In using this method, heavy steel liners can be discarded. The crankshaft weighs in at a feathery 44 pounds. Peak power comes once you hit the 8,000+ RPM range. The designers claim that a high revving engine makes for better control of the rear wheels.
Like its bigger sibling, the M3 can be tuned by the driver. The throttle sensitivity, shock rates, and stability control can be modified from the dashboard.
During a casual test, I found the normal mode to provide the best lap times. Control was neutral and easy to manage even during tight situations. The steering felt a bit disconnected at times. That’s due to a bit of electronic over engineering on the engineers part and the thick design of the steering wheel. There was also a tendency for a bit of understeer when the car was pushed to its limits on during private track time.
During extended testing, the brakes had a tendency to fade even when competition grade pads were installed. The manual transmission felt precise but the shift throws were a bit longer than I’d like.
In everyday use, the new M3 offers practicality. The M3 has great everyday road manners and the trunk space is plenty adequate. An energy recovery system is used to help power the electrics. The power comes from the energy released during braking.
This machine has evolved into something that’s approaching the performance of a 911 class car. It might look mild mannered but it delivers world class results. If you want a car that truly challenges your race driving skills, this is not the car for you. This is the kind of car that gives controlled feedback to the driver and even makes less skilled drivers look good.
But if I had to split hairs, this car doesn’t have the overall refinement of a true 911. The performance numbers are great but the overall driver feedback can feel a bit dead at times. People used to driving a Honda Accord will love this. More experienced drivers will expect a more tactile experience.
Source: Internet
Aviation mishaps are the most devastating yet most costly among all kind of accidents. Every year many people die and become injured due to airplane accidents.
Many factors could affect or cause an airplane accident. The common aspects of an airplane accident are:
1. Pilot’s negligence – when pilots operate aircrafts while under the influence of liquor, incompetence and inexperience and possibly operating of aircrafts beyond the standard capability;
2. Product liability – when parts of the airplane’s equipment are defective or malfunctions causing the accident;
3. Poor maintenance – when airplane engines and equipments are not properly maintained causing malfunctions and leading to accidents; and
4. Weather conditions - wherein poor visibility or other forces of nature result in airplane mishaps.
If you happen to be involved in an airplane accident, you can definitely file for damages against the pilot and the airlines for the injuries you sustained because of the accident.
Some of the injuries, taking aside death, which people sustain during airplane accidents, are:
1. Scrapes and bruises;
2. Head or brain injury;
3. Spinal cord injury;
4. Bone fractures; and,
5. Short term or long term disability
If you sustain any of the listed injuries, you are entitled to claim for damages against the negligent party, including economic and non-economic damages.
However, how are you going to claim damages if the cause of accident are birds?
It is believed that most birds avoid collision with airplanes because birds can change their flight course in time. Unfortunately, aircrafts that move at high speed are especially at risk in colliding with birds. The speed level of such aircrafts makes it impossible for birds to change their course in time to avoid a collision.
Bird collision occurs mostly during take off or landing of planes when the altitude is low. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, wild life hazard management manual of 2005, less than 8% of bird collision occurs above 3,000 feet and 61% occurs at less than 100 feet.
The specie of birds that could cause airplane accidents varies depending on the area an airport is located and the birds’ migration pattern. However, geese and gulls are said to cause the most serious disasters in airplane accidents arising from collisions with birds.
If you have been injured in an aviation accident due to a bird collision, you can still claim damages against the airlines. However, you have to prove that the airlines have been negligent and have not taken into consideration the possibility of bird collision in relation to the migration pattern in the area where the airport or flight path is located.
Source: Internet
It has always been deemed as a fashion-conscious world for females, but the same is also increasingly becoming the case for men. There is now a genuine interest from a male perspective in fashion, and equally there is no shame in admitting this, particularly as men also have an interest in looking their best. The world of men’s fashion is changing, and is now adding more diversity to men’s appearance through the use of jewellery. For many years it was deemed ‘cool’ to wear a slap bracelet, particularly if you were a male during those school days. However, as time has progressed, the type of jewellery men have added to their appearance has also changed.
There are now a growing number of men wearing earrings of all types, for example. There are a few main types of jewellery that are particularly popular with men; including wrist-wear such as bead and studded bracelets and bangles. There are also many types of fashionable rings available, ensuring that there are other purposes for wearing a ring other than being spoken for. Cuff-links are becoming ever more popular, and such are normally available in a wide array of various shapes and patterns, whilst the style of cuff-links you choose will normally complement your personal fashion sense and are no longer reserved for the ’smart’ look. Earrings are perhaps still quite common and have been for many years, being available in various styles such as studs and also plugs, with the latter considered intriguing for those individuals who would like to achieve a punk image.
Other accessories of jewelleries include charm pins and badges, which act as great additions to clothing and bags whilst chain wallets can combine a bit of fashion with security. There are also many forms of necklaces to choose from; from simple, handcrafted pendants to elaborate designer-branded necklaces, which can look very stylish particularly when wearing an open shirt or polo t-shirt. Men’s jewellery is not there only for the purpose of making a fashion statement, but can act as the perfect present for any individual.
While it might have began in an old fashion style in the form of pocket watches, men’s jewellery has since evolved to become more fashionable, both for the young and old generations. For both sexes, this fashion-conscious world is forever evolving, but the type of jewellery you choose should complement the style you aim to achieve and the clothes you wear to achieve it. Whether it is a casual look, a smart, business attire or formal dress wear, there is a diverse range of men’s jewellery to choose from which will complement every style.
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Barack Obama pushed close to victory in the marathon Democratic presidential race Monday on the eve of a final pair of primaries amid signs that Hillary Rodham Clinton was preparing to acknowledge defeat.
Said a confident-sounding Obama: “I told her that once the dust settled I’m looking forward to meeting with her at a time and place of her choosing.” That was from a conversation the two rivals had on Sunday night. He did not describe her response.
He also said he would begin thinking about a vice presidential running mate “the day after I have gotten that last delegate needed to officially claim the nomination.”
The former first lady gave no public hint of quitting the race, and she has said repeatedly she might continue her candidacy even beyond the end of the primaries.
But her husband, former President Clinton, strongly suggested otherwise. “This may be the last day I’m ever involved in a campaign of this kind,” he said as he worked for his wife in South Dakota.
Obama, bidding to become the first black major party nominee in history, was 41.5 delegates shy of the 2,118, needed to clinch the nomination at the party’s convention in Denver, according to The Associated Press count. He gained 5.5 delegates during the day Monday, including Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, a member of the House leadership who scheduled a formal announcement for Tuesday.
Obama’s aides prodded uncommitted lawmakers and other “superdelegates” to climb on board quickly — as Clinton struggled to hold back the tide.
Rep. Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania, who is uncommitted, said Obama’s goal was to be in position to seal the nomination Tuesday night, once the votes are tallied and delegates awarded from primaries in Montana and South Dakota. The first-term congressman, whose district voted for Clinton in the state’s April primary, said he would not be immediately joining the endorsers. “I’m not going to do anything before the results tomorrow night,” he said.
Clinton, the long-ago front-runner, was not far behind Obama in delegates. She had 1917.5 after adding two during the day.
But there was no doubt that the historic nominating campaign, pitting a black man against a woman, was nearing an end.
If nothing else, the candidates’ itineraries said as much.
The former first lady campaigned into the night in South Dakota, scratching for a primary triumph that could somehow persuade uncommitted superdelegates to back her, before heading home to New York for a post-primary appearance Tuesday night.
“I’m just very grateful we kept this campaign going until South Dakota would have the last word,” she said at a restaurant in Rapid City.
Obama looked ahead to the general election by campaigning in Michigan, a likely battleground state in the fall campaign.
He said that when he called Clinton on Sunday to congratulate her on her Puerto Rico primary victory, he broached the topic of a meeting.
“The sooner we can bring the party together, the sooner we can focus on John McCain and taking back the White House,” he said.
Obama stopped short of a flat prediction that he would be able to claim victory Tuesday night when the delegates were allocated after the day’s primaries. But he said, “It is my sense that between Tuesday and Wednesday we have a good chance of getting that number of delegates” needed for victory.
Obama arranged a Tuesday night speech in Minnesota, at the site of the Republican National Convention that will nominate Arizona Sen. McCain in September.
Democratic Party leaders watched impatiently from the sidelines, eager for a quick end to a race that drew record millions to voting booths but also exposed racial and other divisions.
Officials said that if Obama failed to gain 2,118 delegates by Tuesday night, one possibility under discussion was for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, who is head of the Democratic Governors’ Association, to issue a statement on Wednesday urging superdelegates — members of Congress and other party leaders — to state their preferences as soon as possible.
Clyburn, the senior black member of Congress, has long been presumed to support Obama. Confirming plans for a formal announcement, he said was lobbying other uncommitted lawmakers to endorse the Illinois senator.
Two Democrats also said Rep. John Spratt of South Carolina would join Clyburn in making an endorsement.
Additionally, a handful of uncommitted senators conferred to plan their next move in the nominating campaign. “A lot of us just feel that the sooner this is sort of put to bed, the sooner we have a nominee, the better off everyone’s going to be,” said Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, one of the participants.
Clinton has had a strong run through the late primaries, including a lopsided victory on Sunday in the Puerto Rico primary, and she has repeatedly declined to say she would concede defeat if her rival appeared to gain the delegates he needs.
A top aide, Harold Ickes, stressed over the weekend that the campaign reserved the right to challenge a ruling by the convention rules and bylaws committee that he said improperly gave a handful of Michigan delegates to Obama.
But in a conference call during the day with top donors, Ickes said that would probably not happen, according to one participant who described the conversation on condition of anonymity.
Even some of her strongest supporters counseled against it.
“If one candidate has the requisite number of delegates, both pledged and super, it makes it far more difficult to make the credible argument that she stay on in the chance that some superdelegates might change their mind and endorse her later,” said Hassan Nemazee, a national co-chairman of Clinton’s finance committee.
Ickes also conceded that Obama was likely to reach the delegate threshold by Wednesday, and that Clinton would need some time to consider her next step.
He said there was no political significance to a decision to invite staff aides who have worked for Clinton in primary states to either attend her rally on Tuesday night or return home for further instructions. But officials said the aides had been told they would no longer be paid.
“There are no more primaries so there is nowhere to send them,” Ickes said.
The former first lady arranged a private meeting with her donors on Tuesday, and was scheduled to address the national conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington on Wednesday.
Source: Associated Press
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Pahela Boishakh is the first day of the Bangla year. Pahela Baishakh is celebrated in a festive manner in both Bangladesh and West Bengal. In Bangladesh Pahela Baishakh is a national holiday which falls on April 14 or 15.
Pahela Boishakh (Bengali: পহেলা বৈশাখ Pôhela Boishakh or পয়লা বৈশাখ Pôela Boishakh) is the first day of the Bangla Calendar. Poila Boishakh is celebrated in a festive manner in both Bangladesh and West Bengal, as well as by Bengali people in Tripura. Hence, Poila Boishakh connects all ethnic Bengalis irrespective of religious and regional differences. In Bangladesh, Poila Boishakh is a national holiday and in West Bengal it is a public holiday. It falls on April 14 or April 15 of the Gregorian calendar depending on the use of the new amended or the old Bangla calendar respectively. In Bangladesh, it is celebrated on April 14 according to the official amended calendar designed by the Bangla Academy.
Poila Boishakh is also known as Nôbobôrsho (নববর্ষ), or Bengali New Year, as it is the first day of the first month of Boishakh in the Bengali calendar. This day is a very festive time for Bengalis.
Source: http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/P_0023.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohela_Baishakh
April Fool’s Day or All Fool’s Day, holiday of uncertain origin, known for practical joking and celebrated on the first of April. Prior to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1564, the date was observed as New Year’s Day by cultures as varied as the Roman and the Hindu. The holiday is considered to be related to the festival of the vernal equinox, which occurs on Mar. 21. The English gave April Fool’s Day its first widespread celebration during the 18th cent.
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