Driverless cars can now do doughnuts and drift like stunt drivers, skidding sideways around corners while maintaining control, which might help the cars recover from dangerous situations

California drifter Tyler Wolfson is entering his second year competing on GT Radial ultra high performance tires and is getting some attention after five podium finishes in 2012. His car is on the cover of this month's Wrecked Magazine.

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In Second Spring Bowling Bowling League action at the Warwick Lanes, the Last Pin went down 3 – 1 to the Drifters, the Pinsplitters defeated the Star Lites 4 – 0, and the match between the Islanders and Blue Angels ended 2 – 2. Men Handicap Game: Elvin Thomas 234 McNeil Simmons 225 Nathan Stevens 221 […]

Second Spring Senior Bowling League action at the Warwick Lanes saw the game between the Last Pin and Star Lites end 2 – 2, the Drifters defeated the Blue Angels 4 – 0, and the Pinsplitters defeat the New Comers 3 – 1. Men Handicap Game: Alfred Wright 230 Elvin Thomas 222 Gladwin Daniels 222 […]

Second spring senior bowling league action at the Warwick Lanes saw the Drifters​​​ defeat the ​​Islanders​​ 3 – 1​​, the Star Lites​​​ defeat the ​​New Comers 4 – ​0, and the Last Pin defeated the ​​​Pinsplitters 3 – ​1. ​​​​Men Handicap Game: Bubba Daniels ​273 Llewellyn Jones​​ 233 Teddy Swainson​ 212 ​​​​​Handicap Series: Llewellyn Jones​ […]

Second spring senior bowling league action at the Warwick Lanes saw seventh place Star Lites fall 3 – 1 to the league leaders Drifters, third placed New Comers defeat the sixth placed team Islanders 3 – 1, while second placed Blue Angels defeated the fifth placed Last Pin 3 – 1. Men Handicap Game: Michael […]

The second spring senior bowling league at Warwick Lanes saw league leaders, the Drifters, solidify their position with a 2.5 – 1.5 victory over the third-placed Blue Angels. In other matches, the second-placed New Comers delivered a decisive 4 – 0 win against the seventh-placed Pinsplitters. The Star Lites, currently in fifth place, secured a […]

The airflow from an indoor badminton court's HVAC system and cross ventilation can affect the path of a birdie and have a significant role in play, but research published in Physics of Fluids proposes that different roof configurations could help mitigate wind drift. The authors recommend that important badminton games be played on courts with a barrel roof and a ventilation opening. The team modeled the airflow in a barrel roof stadium with different ventilation opening directions and tested this against a simulation of a flat roof to understand the roof effects.

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Can you believe I found myself in Amsterdam, Holland at the age of 20 years old in 1982? Who would have ever thought that the girl from Richmond, California would find herself in Holland?

This was a big time party place. At times, Holland was a little frightening. Thank goodness we always were in a group of six or more people whenever we traveled abroad.

We went to a place called the Flora Palace and danced like we had lost our minds. This is one place we had to be very careful. Drugs were legal and used in public places.

Can you imagine dancing in a night club and finding yourself around drugs? This wasn't cool. We ran out of a night club when we discovered that there were drugs around us. You won't believe what type of club we ended up in that evening.

For the first time in Europe, we heard Reggae music coming out of this spectacular night club. We walked in and discovered that it was a Rastafarian Night Club. Would you believe that this was the one club where we didn't see or smell drugs? The people were extremely friendly and gave us free drinks when they found out we were Americans. We danced to Reggae music until almost daylight. We had a ball.

The next day, we took the traditional trip on our tour bus to downtown Amsterdam. We saw the Red Light District and visited every shop we could find.

We stopped by one store and everything in it was red and black. Black pants, red pants, black tops, red tops, you get the message. The store next door only had black and white clothes. We so much fun and we all left looking like the bopsie twins. Madonna was really big during this time (1982) and everything we bought was made out of lace.

Holland was a beautiful place. The canals and tulips is what I enjoyed the most. For some reason, I can't remember all of the attractions I saw there. Too much time has passed and we were only there for a short period of time. The below pictures will give you an idea of the type of sights I saw while I was there. Just remember, we had a great time and the Dutch really knew how to party.








Illuminated Canal And Houses., Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

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Canal At Night, Amsterdam, Holland

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Exterior Of Royal Palace, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Tulips, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Isn't this a beautiful picture of Germany? I couldn't resist.

Neuschwanstein Castle
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It's been a while since I've been able to post to this great blog of memoirs. When I first saw the web site for Bitburb Air Base Germany (previous post), I realized how much I used to really love Germany.

Being stationed in Germany was like living in a fairy tale. There was so much to do and see. I've never played so much spades, dominoes, backgammon, or shot pool in my life. Can you believe there was beer in the vending machines in the dormitory?? For $1 you could by a can of Heineken!!

Living in the dormitories over there was a blast. My first week there I think I went to a Toga Party in the Security Police Dorm lol. I made sure I was fully clothed under the Toga because I had heard so many rumors about Toga Parties lol.

Dormitory life was really fun. I remember being introduced to Milk and Apple Schnapps. Milk Schnapps was an unsual drink and I remember it looked like watered down milk and it was really good.

Well, hope I can run across the great people I knew at Bitburg. We had a really great time.

On the previous post, one of the sites has pictures of how Bitburg looks now. The whole base has been transformed. The church is now a club if my memory serves me right. The gate is gone yet, many of the buildings are still there. Oh how I wish the base didn't close. Great Place. Great Times.


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Wow, let me tell you about my adventures in New York City.
I wouldn't advise anyone to go to New York like I did. Yet,
I can say I had a bonified blast.

I had been online for a short period of time and had spent a
great deal of time in several AOL Chat Rooms. I lucked
across this one chat room where everyone would chat for
hours. We laughed so much in this chat room that
we all became like family.

After several months talking in this chat room, someone
decided to get together and go clubbing. At the time,
I was living in Delaware. The plan was to meet in
Manhattan at a night club.

There were several men in the group and the women
were really close. So it was on! I was going to ride the
train from Delaware to New York City.

I rode a four hour train ride and as I arrived at the
Penn Station, my palms became really sweaty. I realized
I was going on a blind date. I was going to meet at least
50 people that I had spoken to online and didn't have a
clue about New York City (Manhattan).

Needless to say, I arrived at the hotel and stood in the
middle of the room and asked myself, "What the heck
are you doing?" I got dressed and rode the cab to this
booming night club that had an upstairs and downstairs.
It had at least four rooms with different types of music.

I wish I could remember the name of the this off the
hook club. It was awesome.

I remember walking downstairs to meet everyone. The
music was jammin and there were a lot of people dancing
and talking everywhere in the room.

The first thing I did was walk to the bar and order a
drink. When I turned around, someone asked, "Is that
you *&)*&(%?" I said, "Yes". And that's basically how the
whole night went. We all would walk up to each other
and ask if the other person was a certain screen name.
We danced, partied, laughed, and had an awesome time.

We went out to breakfast and eventually said good night.
I really miss the people from the chat room. We had such
a great time. This all occurred in 1998.

The next morning, I figured out how to ride the train
to Times Square. I went to a restaurant on Times Square
and had the best Chili I have ever had. I think it was called
the Chili Factory. I'm really not sure.

I saw the Empire State Building, went to Tower Records
and fell in love with a group called Alabina, and basically
drifted along Times Square. Be sure to click on the Alabina link,
it's an awesome Flamenco, Arabic sound. The Megamix is off
the chart if you like this type of music.

When I was in Manhattan, I was captivated how it could
be peaceful in such a large city.

Manhattan, you will forever be the apple of my eye.

I highly recommend seeing Manhattan and Times Square.

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The meanings of words and brands can change over time. The terms can drift to different meanings. Term drift happens, although it is rare amongst words and less rare with rebrands - but still, it happens.

When it comes to SEO, managing term drift on your older content can prove to be an important task.

The phrase "term drift" seems to have been created by Darth Autocrat (Lyndon NA) over here on X and it was in response to a brief case study shared by Glenn Gabe on X that explained and showed the importance of handling term drift within your content.

Glenn showed an example of where the core query for a page changed based on how people are now referencing the main topic. He said, "The original content referenced the old way it was being referenced. It was high quality content, but just didn't reference the correct/current wording anymore."

So what changed was to update the content based on how the world was referencing the new meaning of the word. He said, "the content was updated to reflect the new wording in the title tag, in the on-page title (h1), and then when it was referenced throughout the content. Basically just making sure the content wasn't referencing the old wording."

What was the outcome? The ranking stability of that page of content in Google Search became stable, whereas before it was all over the place. Glenn shared this chart to show the before and after impact of this outcome.

Glenn explained, "Look how stable ranking became for that query as soon as the page was updated. Literally the same day it was updated. Just a reminder to keep an eye on things like this. Quality was totally fine. The page just needed to reference the correct and current wording. Again, simple but powerful."

Then Darth Autocrat (Lyndon NA) replied with the phrase, "term drift."

Here are those posts:

Uncovered this cool example recently. It's so simple and obvious, but powerful. The core query for this page changed based on how people are NOW referencing the main topic covered. The original content referenced the old way it was being referenced. It was high quality content,'... pic.twitter.com/XzkEE492hI

'" Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) November 8, 2024

"Term drift". I like that. :)

'" Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) November 8, 2024

Other people have noticed this as well:

100%

'" Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) November 8, 2024

No, I would never update the url for something like that. Overall, the actual url used isn't really a strong ranking factor at all. Google has explained that many times and it's what I've seen as well. And I wouldn't risk changing urls in case something goes wrong there and'...

'" Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) November 8, 2024

What would be examples of this for some phrases? I am guessing maybe some of the following:

• Google AdWords to Google Ads
• Google My Business to Google Business Profiles
• Link building to content marketing
• Public relations maybe to Growth marketing

I mean, there are probably hundreds of examples of this over the years.

There is also "query drift":

Believe @darth_na is referring to Query Drift as cited in IR documents like https://t.co/z5noOy16dE

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Activism: As the Pirate Party slowly veered to the left in politics, I got to experience Sullivan’s Law, which states that organizations that don’t outright declare themselves otherwise will inevitably drift off to the political left. The law doesn’t explain this phenomenon, but I think I can.

The Pirate Party was unique in its composition of activists. Whereas most political organizations can plot the political attitudes of their activists to a bell curve on the political left-to-right scale, that is, the organization can identify a clear peak and center mass where they lie politically, the Pirate Party instead had a complete empty trough in the middle, with waves crashing into the left and right wall on the left-to-right spectrum plot.

We had the most fervent anarchocapitalists and the most fervent anarchocommunists. At the same time. Cooperating. That was probably something of a political first. It also allowed me to see differences between these two groups that weren’t clear from the outset, and which might explain why organizations drift left over time.

O’Sullivans Law states that any organization that is not expressly right-leaning in politics will change over time to become left-leaning. There are some hypotheses as to why, including the observation that right-wing people will tolerate and even welcome left-wing people in an otherwise unpolitical organization, but that left-wing people will generally not tolerate right-wing people. While this observation can be made, I believe it is not enough for an entire organization to shift politically.

The explanation is far simpler, and it’s been hiding in plain sight for everyone.

Left-wing people are collectivists. They believe that the greater good shall have precedence over the wishes and desires over the individual, and organize to achieve this. Conversely, they do not feel at home when somebody tells them to promote a cause in whatever way they themselves think is best in their individual situation.

Right-wing people are individualists. They believe that the greatest good, even for the worst-off people, is best achieved by giving individuals as free reign as possible so that innovation and creativity can take place. Conversely, they do not feel at home when somebody is trying to dictate to them what to do and not to do.

This is almost painfully clear when working with both groups at the same time in a political organization. Ah yes, that’s the magic word, right there. Organization. A Non-profit organization, specifically. Do you know how these are run?

Basically without exception, they are run as a general assembly, where people are elected to positions and decisions are taken with a majority vote.

…decisions are taken with a majority vote.

It became painfully clear to me, that the form of a neutral association — the form we have, or had, accepted as neutral — is actually nothing of the sort. It turns out, that an organization that takes collective decisions promotes people who like collective decision-making, and turns away people who prefer individual initiatives.

The association with its board, its general assembly, and its majority votes isn’t neutral. It is pushing its membership left, through its very nature, by selecting for those who enjoy collective decision-making and procedural trickery, and marginalizing those who prefer individual initiatives.

This is why, if I were to found a new political organization today, I would never use the traditional Non-profit Association format, for it is not neutral and it will ruin whatever original vision you had.

For this same reason, I have come to be sceptical of center-right political parties who are run by this majority vote. They’ll never be as powerful as they can be, had they instead organized by individual initiatives — because they are competing against left-wing political parties who feel right at home in this form of organization, which they usually mandated to be the norm for everyone.

U.S. stocks are drifting Tuesday as some momentum comes out of the torrid "Trump trade" that swept Wall Street following Donald Trump's presidential victory.

Washington – A new voluntary program from the Environmental Protection Agency aims to protect agricultural workers from pesticide drift.

Washington — Assessment of a pesticide’s potential to drift from areas of application and expose people will now happen earlier in the chemical review process, the Environmental Protection Agency says.

To capture the unique character in Fuji Apple, the team sourced a blend of apple varietals grown in US orchards to complement and balance the bright, ripe flavor of Fuji Apple.

A Russian man who had been drifting for two months in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk with the bodies of his relatives was rescued. His boat was discovered by the crew of the fishing vessel "Angel". When the fishermen found the boat, the man was conscious and was even able to shout a few words. The first phrase spoken by the survivor was: "Not enough strength." In response, the crew of the vessel that found the man, a Sakhalin resident, said that they had taken this information into account and promised to save him quickly.

Spindrift Beverage Co. announced a new flavor just in time for fall: Spindrift Fuji Apple. 

Modern business uses marketing to influence the customer's decision. To add a touch of digitization Flymedia Technology sets the right tone for online business.

Plant engineers and quality departments often struggle with zero point drift during air leak testing, where the initial zero reading shifts over time, leading to frequent adjustments of the leak test instrument. This article addresses the causes of zero drift, commonly attributed to changes in shop floor temperature, and provides strategies to minimize or eliminate this issue for improved efficiency in quality control processes.

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A cruise ship “sighted a suspected oil barrel adrift in Murrays Anchorage” and it was safely recovered from the water. A Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre spokesperson said, “Monday 17th July, 11:40am – Bermuda Radio was notified by the inbound cruise ship Vision of the Seas, that they had sighted a suspected oil barrel adrift in […]

This week, Beat's Bizarre Adventure covers ICHI THE WITCH, IMA KOI: NOW I'M IN LOVE, and THE DRIFTING CLASSROOM.

Kelley wonders how you fight a pillow. Chris adopts a sentient Sephiroth noodle. Ryan plays XCOM with a bear. Now everyone, go finish your Turkish Star Wars homework.

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Earth's North Magnetic Pole Keeps Drifting towards Siberia, Latest World Magnetic Model Shows | Geophysics, Geoscience  Sci-News.com

Scientists Explain Why Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Is Drifting Away From Canada Towards Siberia  Mashable India

Plastic debris floating in the ocean has become a powerful new passport to far-away destinations for a wide variety of invasive species, according to new […]

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Several mitigation techniques can greatly reduce spray drift pollution from pesticide spraying in agricultural systems, shows a new study. Researchers tested the effectiveness of several strategies; results ranged from a 38% reduction in spray drift using low-drift equipment to a 98% reduction when hedgerows are present alongside fields.

The American Wind Energy Association's Peter Kelley tells MNN how a Southern breeze could lift the region and the industry.

Dutch designer Dan Roosegaarde's Space Waste Lab visualizes 'the smog of our universe.'

Some trees embark on an epic — and important — journey after they die.

Steven G. Mandis of Columbia Business School discusses his book, "What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences."

A method and system provides for execution of calibration cycles from time to time during normal operation of the communication channel. A calibration cycle includes de-coupling the normal data source from the transmitter and supplying a calibration pattern in its place. The calibration pattern is received from the communication link using the receiver on the second component. A calibrated value of a parameter of the communication channel is determined in response to the received calibration pattern. The steps involved in calibration cycles can be reordered to account for utilization patterns of the communication channel. For bidirectional links, calibration cycles are executed which include the step of storing received calibration patterns on the second component, and retransmitting such calibration patterns back to the first component for use in adjusting parameters of the channel at first component.

A method directed to reducing mineral buildup on drift eliminators of a cooling tower by allowing irrigation of the drift eliminators of the cooling tower with fluid in the basin of the cooling tower to reduce mineral buildup.

A turbocharger for an internal combustion engine includes a bearing housing with a bearing bore and a thrust wall. The bearing housing includes a journal bearing disposed within the bore. The turbocharger also includes a shaft supported by the journal bearing for rotation about an axis within the bore. The turbocharger also includes a turbine wheel fixed to the shaft and configured to be rotated about the axis by the engine's post-combustion gasses. The turbocharger additionally includes a compressor wheel fixed to the shaft and configured to pressurize an ambient airflow. Furthermore, the turbocharger includes a thrust bearing assembly pressed onto the shaft and configured to transmit thrust forces developed by the turbine wheel to the thrust wall. Pressing the thrust bearing assembly onto the shaft minimizes radial motion between the thrust bearing assembly and the shaft. An internal combustion engine employing such a turbocharger is also disclosed.

Addrift, advice and support for families and sufferers of Attention Deficit (Hyperactive) Disorder. Fiona Hill, 023 8049 6718.

New from Drift Deeper and Sean Walsh. Download: Sean Walsh – The Resilience EP (Drift Deeper Recordings 012) Tracklist 01. I Thought I Lost Myself 02. Repitition Culture 03. The Grass is Always Greener Label: Drift Deeper Recordings (www.driftdeeper.com) – [ddr012] Format: 3 × File, .wav, LP, 1,411 kbps Released: 08 May 2015 Genre: Electronic [...]

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Drift Deeper Recordings 013 is here, This one has been years in the pipeline, thankfully Andreiclv eventually got back to me to give the approval for release. The tracks were beautifully mastered by our friend Evaldas at Cold Tear Records. Some serious chilled people watching tracks on this release. Enjoy and share with your friends. [...]

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Drift Deeper Recordings 014 is here, and things have changed a bit since our last release. You now will have to buy our music. Yes that’s right this is our first commercial release and we hope you all support the move from creative commons. BMinor Soundcloud Mastering by Cold Tear Records Buy: BMinor – Deep [...]

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Dub Like Air Vol. 1 is a multi-artist project built around a simple concept – collaboratively creating sounds culminating in a complimentary but unique track. We started the project by deciding on a key and tempo (100 bpm and Dm), then each artist created a set of loops and sounds (drums, synths, bass, pads etc) [...]

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2 new tracks from Liquid Delay. Buy: Liquid Delay – AMFH (Drift Deeper Recordings 016) Tracklist 1.Liquid Delay – am5-UN 05:00 2.Liquid Delay – FH78i 05:46 Photography by Bailey Heredge Label: Drift Deeper Recordings (www.driftdeeper.com) – [ddr016] Format: 2 × File, .wav, LP, 1,411 kbps Released: 29 August 2016 Genre: Electronic Style: Dub Techno

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