A team of Italian engineers is gearing up for a high-tech road rally that should impress even the outside-the-box dreamers over at DARPA: an 8,000-mile journey from Italy to China, with nobody behind the wheel. More »
You probably have a can of it somewhere. Save the time searching, pick up one of their limited edition twin packs, and finally fix that squeaky door that's driving everyone crazy. More »
The Japanese are great at coming up with things you had no idea you had a need for, like these AC Adapter Rangers. Keep the cords on your desk organized and untangled with these little… Firemen? Astronauts? Hazmat guys? More »
Zen Bound 2, previously exclusive to the iPad, is now available for the iPhone. It takes advantage of the iPhone 4's retina display and gyroscope to bring butter-like smoothness to the beautiful game. More »
Ping! Pong! These ping pong paddles have integrated LEDs that display PING or PONG in mid-air when a player hits the ball. It's like a futuristic version of those unforgettable Adam West Batman fight scenes. Kapow! More »
Apparently a Mr. Jeff Williams has earned a new position at Apple. He is now the Senior Vice President of Operations and dedicated to making sure that Apple's products meet "the highest standards of quality." More »
I am late learning this apparently but a colleague recently told me if you were a resident between 1995 to 2005 you did not need to pay FICA. It was withheld in all cases, but most residencies/graduate medical education departments filed application for a refund based upon your status as a student.
Here is the IRS information on the issue:
http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=219731,00.html
The Internal Revenue Service has made an administrative determination to accept the position that medical residents are excepted from FICA taxes based on the student exception for tax periods ending before April 1, 2005, when new IRS regulations went into effect.
The IRS has begun contacting hospitals and universities who filed FICA (social security and Medicare tax) refund claims for these periods with more information and procedures.
Medical residents with pending claims do not need to take any action at this time. The IRS will send letters to medical residents after it it sends letters to all employers that filed claims.
Taxpayers with currently pending suits should contact the Department of Justice attorney assigned to the case.
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While its name suggests that it helps you send SMS while driving, the Text'n Drive iPhone app actually reads your email out loud and allows you to send out voice messages without touching your iPhone very much. Clever, but peculiar. More »
I have studied that Slip ring motor are used for high sarting torque on crane hosit also it has low starting current then Squirrel cage Induction motor now one of my friend told me that they are use a Squireel Cage induction with DTC(Direct torque control ).
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When you can't keep your computer functioning anymore, this is one way to deal with it: taking it apart and turning it into a piece of furniture. Much more sentimental (and creative) than tossing it in a landfill. More »
Motorola is accusing rival Huawei Technologies of conspiring with former employees to steal trade secrets, and it sounds like they've got a pretty good case. More »
Want everyone's attention? Then listen to Lifehacker and take advantage of the fact that most email clients preview about 50-75 characters of a message in the inbox view by making your opening line sound like a tweet. More »
The “doctor game” revisited: doctor’s treatment of their own children.
“Although it is generally believed that doctors do not treat their own children, the practice is commonplace. This paper presents the unconscious reasons for the discrepancy between this popular belief and actual practice. The effects of this intrusion on the usual parent-child relationship are discussed. Except in emergency, the doctor’s decision to take his own child as a patient is explained as a partial reenactment of the doctor’s childhood “doctor game,” now shared and acted out in cooperation with his spouse. This special treatment arrangement, which serves to displace reactivated or unresolved unconscious conflict onto the child appears to have far-reaching effects on the child’s developing ego and character structure. Attention should be paid to it as a transference phenomenon in the treatment of doctor’s children. Relevant literature is reviewed, Freud’s personal involvement with the matter is traced, and clinical examples are provided.”
Photo: flickr/terren in Virginia
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Hi, there !!
I am just wondering if there is a proper word for representing the leg consisting of Mass-Spring-Damper... (I am not a English native speaker, so need a help!).
in biomechanics (walking),
Mass-Spring Leg ==> Compliant leg, then,
Mass-Spring-Damper leg ==&g
It looks and acts like an ordinary eraser until you open it and discover it is also a USB memory stick (and part of a campaign for Alzheimer's awareness). [Ads of the World via Likecool] More »
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I want to know how can I make a clibration for the items of asphalt station ( Mixture , Tanks , Heaters , control room, etc..) and what is the codes I can follow for this Inspection and the asphalt station type is DIANOVA D2000
Rahul Sood, Voodoo PC founder and current CTO of gaming at HP, spins an interesting yarn about an aborted Microsoft project that would've let PC and Xbox gamers face-off. The only problem? During testing, the PC gamers cleaned Xboxers' clocks. More »
I am trying to retrieve junkmail from my outlook express emails-not receiving all my emails and thinking they are being sent to junkmail-but for the life of me cannot find how to pull the junkmail up
Piratpartiet, Sweden's copyright-fighting political party, apparently plans to launch and fund an anonymized pirate-friendly ISP. And their sneaky ploy is actually quite clever: More »
Notice anything weird in this picture from a BP website of Gulf relief photos? We’ll give you a hint: Look at the the upper left. That’s right; there’s a control tower in the window of a flying helicopter.
As directed by the blog Gizmodo, take a closer look at the high-res version. A screen on the cockpit clearly indicates “Check Status / door open / parking brake / ramp open.” Meanwhile, the photo’s caption on the BP site reads: “View of the MC 252 site from the cockpit of a PHI S-92 helicopter 26 June 2010.” If not this relief helicopter, something sure is up.
In a story that has since gone viral, John Aravosis at AMERICAblog appears to have first spotted the traces of poorly executed Photoshop jobs in several BP pictures from the Gulf oil spill. The blog also shows inserted screens and pasted-in images of the busted oil well on Houston command center monitors. Follow those links for all the damning visuals.
As reported by The Washington Post, BP spokesperson Scott Dean said that a photographer working for the company had used Photoshop to insert the Houston command center photos and that it was not normal company use of the program, usually reserved for photo correction and cropping.
“We will replace the Photoshopped version currently on bp.com with the original image tonight…. We’ve instructed our post-production team to refrain from doing this in the future.”
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