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This stylish Italian designed steering wheel, manufactured under license from TVR, offers the most comfortable, intuitive and responsive driving controller on the Xbox 360.

Featuring a full size 10 inch wheel with added grip and fully functioning gearshift paddles, the wheel is also loaded with 2 independent motors to offer realistic rumble force feedback the responds to actual gameplay.

The wheel comes complete with detachable gearshift panel as well as a sturdy pedal plate. The wheel also features a massive 250 degree rotation with incredible analogue accuracy to offer players full control of their racing cars.

* Plug and play, hot-swappable racing steering wheel compatible with Microsoft XBoX™ 360 and with official TVR license.

* Detached gear shift control unit + gear paddles on the back of the rim

* 250° steering rotation.

* 10 inches (25 cm) steering wheel rim with rubber wheel rim design for a more comfortable grip.

* Twin motors vibration-effect for most realistic gameplay.

* Spring-loaded acceleration and brake control pedals.

* Analog buttons and 8 way digital directional control

* Realistic life style steering system, with adjustable steering angle and position.

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Published on September 14, 2009 by admin

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PASADENA – A popular new traveling ice cream sandwich business paid a visit to Pasadena on Thursday, leaving ice cream lovers of all ages with sticky fingers and satisfied smiles.

Los Angeles Based Coolhaus Ice Cream Sandwiches is a company founded by two architecture students, Natasha Case and Freya Estreller. Its renovated postal vans fitted with chrome rims bring unique and unusual ice cream flavors, sandwiched between various types of cookies, throughout the Southland.

More than 50 eager customers lined Green Street on Thursday in anticipation of the Coolhaus truck, which arrived more than an hour late for a 5 p.m. appearance. Most had never before tried the ice cream.

“It’s fantastic,” said Karen Lukanic,

40, of Pasadena, who enjoyed a frozen treat with her 3-year-old daughter, Riley.

“An hour and a half wait… yeah, probably worth it,” she said in between bites of sea salt caramel ice cream wedged between two oatmeal cookies.

The truck’s delay caused only a handful of customers to give up their place in line.

In keeping with the architectural roots of the company founders, most Coolhaus ice cream flavors are named for famous architects.

“They wanted to combine their knowledge of architecture with food,” Coolhaus server Michael Alan said.

“Everyone seems to love it,” he added. “It’s honestly the funnest job I’ve ever had.”

Flavors include Frank Behry, Mies Richard Meyer Lemon Ginger and

Vanilla Rohe, as well as red velvet, brown butter with bacon, and foie gras.

“Bacon’s really popular,” Alan said, adding that Coolhaus now offers a new flavor based on a popular alcoholic beverage: Guinness Chip.

Less adventurous ice-cream aficionados can order more traditional flavors like “sea salt caramel” or “dirty mint chip.”

Most sandwiches sell for $4.

The company debuted its ice cream sandwiches last year during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio.

Debbie Mitchell, 45, of Pasadena and her 11-year-old daughter Kaley said they’re always up to try new ice cream.

“We love ice cream,” Debbie said. “We like to make ice cream, we like to eat ice cream, we like to buy ice cream.”

She added she also liked the trend of mobile food vendors now circulating through Pasadena.

Kaley said she thought Coolhaus had “a cute idea.”

“You like cookies and you like ice cream, and they mix them together,” she said.

As an employee of a Pasadena architecture firm, Phillip Olive, 36, of Los Angeles, said he was drawn to check out the Coolhaus truck.

“It’s been on my list of things to try for quite some time,” he said. “They have some interesting flavors. I want to try them out.”

626-962-8811, ext. 4586

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You’ve seen some of my ab and core workouts in the past, but wait until you check out the moves I have for you today!

I’ve taken core training to the next level in this advanced workout.

We’re going to trim, tone, and tighten every inch of your waist line and core through 4 fantastic movements. Each move is specifically chosen to work the entire core without having to do a single crunch or sit up.

Plus, as you now know traditional crunches aren’t going to get you the tight stomach you’re looking for… and may even lead to lower back problems.

Now let’s move on to the movements that make up this great workout and how you add them into your own exercise sessions.

Here is the Advanced Core Exercise Workout I shot a couple of years back inside my private training studio in Boston:

1A. Combat Twists – 20-30 reps1B. Ball Pikes – 20-30 reps1C. Dumbbell Axe Chops – 2×15 reps1D. Mountain Climbers – 30 seconds (60+ reps)

Try to complete the above advanced core exercises as a circuit workout without any rest in between exercises (except for the transition).

Rest 60-90 seconds between sets (rounds).

Also, aim to complete 1-2 sets the first time you try this workout before progressing to 3-4 rounds during your peak training weeks. This will allow your nervous system and muscles to begin to adapt to the new exercises safely and naturally.

Keep in mind that this is an advanced core exercise workout so you shouldn’t be too hard on yourself if you can’t complete the rep range that is listed above… take your time and progress up to those numbers and when you do you’ll know your abs, obliques, lower back, and entire core have gotten a lot stronger and tighter!

Enjoy the advanced core exercise workout and check out the video below to see a demonstration of all the moves:stephencabral.com/advanced-core-exercise-workout

Committed to your success,

Stephen Cabral, CSCS, CPT, NSAuthor of Fatlossity, Lose5in7 Weight Loss SystemHealth Consultant for MTV, NutritionData, Diet.com, Gather, EDGEStephenCabral.com

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It’s rare for drivers to start the races on anything other than the softest tyre

Before the season began I argued the new-for-2010 ‘top ten tyre rule’ was an unnecessary change to the rules that would do little if anything to improve the quality of racing in F1.

The first six races have shown that not only has it failed to promote better racing it has done the opposite – encouraging teams to stick to identical, conservative strategies.

As the FIA is already fixing one fault in the rule book it should get rid of this one as well.

Why the rule has failed

The idea behind the ‘top ten tyre rule’ was to force the drivers in Q3 to start the race on the same set of tyres they qualified on. In theory, some drivers would pick harder tyres, start behind those on softer tyres, but potentially get ahead of them by running longer in the race.

In practice, that has not happened at all. Almost every driver in every Q3 session this year has opted for the softer tyre.

This is most likely because of the ‘mandatory pit stop’ rule, introduced in 2007, which requires each driver to use both types of tyre compound during a race.

These two rules lead almost every team to use the same tyre strategy – start on the softer tyres, then switch to the harder tyres at around one quarter distance.

One F1 tactician I spoke to reckoned there were few – if any – likely scenarios where it would make sense for a car in Q3 to qualify on the harder tyres.

What should be done

It’s possible that if Bridgestone reversed its policy of bringing tyres two ’steps’ apart – e.g. soft and medium instead of soft and hard – it would make the choice of which tyre compound to start on a little trickier. But I’m not convinced.

One solution would be to get rid of the ‘top ten tyre rule’. That would at least make it more likely that we would see cars starting the race on different tyres and trying different strategies.

Alternatively, the ‘mandatory pit stop’ could be dropped. This would allow teams to pursue even more varied strategies – going the entire race with anything from no tyre stops to two or more.

But I believe the best option would be to drop both rules.

For every extra rule of this kind the FIA adds to the sporting regulations, the fewer strategic options the teams have, and the less likely we are to see the kind of variety that promotes good racing.

Let’s be clear – changing the tyre rules in this way would not suddenly transform some of predictable dry races we’ve seen this year into Suzuka 2005-style thrillers.

As we discussed in the recent Making F1 Better series, technical changes such as reducing grip and increasing power are where significant progress on improving the quality of racing will be made.

But scrapping these restrictive tyre rules would be a step in the right direction and one which could be introduced as soon as the next race.

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By Stuart Birch
Published: 7:15AM BST 13 Apr 2010

As all drivers know, the term “potholing” has taken on a whole new meaning since winter. It used to refer to an underground activity you did occasionally, for fun.

Now, potholing is a daily challenge as Britain’s roads crumble: spotting craters in the tarmac, dodging them, avoiding other traffic and hopefully surviving. It all makes the subterranean version seem a bit of a doddle.

Last year, 1.4 million potholes were filled in England and Wales alone. This year’s ALARM (Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance) survey says it cost £103m to repair them; highways departments received only half the budget they needed to mend the roads and £30m was paid out in compensation claims. This year, with potholes proliferating and enlarging due to the harsh winter, the figures will be much higher.

Last week, I discovered a pothole that deserves an Asbo. Lying in wait for me at the side of a country lane on a wet night was a 4in deep, sharp-edged devil, almost submerged under rainwater. It was the final member of a pothole enclave that had created a slalom course for me.

Another car was approaching, the road was narrow – and I just clipped the edge of the pothole while travelling at about 25mph. In less than two seconds, a front and rear low-profile tyre of my Mercedes-Benz C-class Sport had punctured, warning lights illuminated and mobility ceased.

The good news was that within 45 minutes a low-loader arrived to take my car away for treatment by a Mercedes dealer. The bad news was that I needed new tyres, a wheel alignment and suspension check. The real shock was the bill: £1,718.

Most comprehensive insurances will cover such “no fault” damage, but according to Paul Rayner, spokesman for www.potholes.co.uk, set up by Warranty Direct, many people don’t claim because the cost is below their insurance excess.

“The average figure is £240 but last year there were individual claims up to £2,700,” he said. The cost of pothole damage can be reimbursed by a local council’s highways department and potholes.co.uk advises how to proceed down this path.

“Take photographs of the pothole, report it to the council and then, if necessary, submit a Freedom of Information request to find out if the pothole had been reported and when the last regular inspection of the road was carried out,” Rayner said.

The cost of repairing an “average” pothole is £109 according to Essex County Council (it was an Essex pothole that ate my tyres and wheels), but estimates vary. In Lancashire, Dave Cross from DP Road Patching puts the figure as low as £15 for a dry one measuring 12inx12in and 1 to 2in deep – provided there are enough potholes to keep a shift fully busy during the day. Not likely to be a problem at present.

DP uses an automated system that puts down a coat of bitumen, a stone aggregate with a mix of bitumen and drystone topping. It can all take as little as a few minutes. Traffic then compacts it. Such rapid work could greatly reduce compensation claims.

The Carbon Trust has announced pilot projects with industrial partners for resurfacing stretches of potholed roads – but not individual potholes – using low-temperature asphalt that requires less energy in production and speeds repairs, cutting traffic congestion and disruption.

Meanwhile, full details are still emerging of how the Government’s promised £100m pothole-plugging payout will be divvied up to offset local councils’ costs.

But a spokesman for Essex County Council’s Highways Dept said that in response to the recent extreme weather, a rapid-response pothole-filling programme had been launched.

An extra £486,977 has apparently been committed to fix 4,457 potholes. This is in addition to £5.6m from the council’s 2009/10 budget for patching and potholes. Another £1m is being made available from existing budgets for major surface overhaul projects.

Meanwhile, in line with most other counties’ policies, Essex residents who wish to claim compensation are asked to provide as much information as possible, according to the council spokesman, “including two photographs of the defect, a sketch map of the area and a detailed description of the incident. Claims will then be fully assessed by our legal department before a decision is taken on whether the council is liable for compensation.”

But all this will take time. So for now, avoiding a pothole, being reimbursed by a local authority for any damage it may cause, or getting a pothole repaired some time soon, could all be down to pot luck.

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