1935 Duesenberg SJ LaGrande Dual-Cowl Phaeto

1935 Duesenberg Convertible SJ LA Grand Dual-Cowl Phaeton

Created and produced by Duesenberg from 1932 to 1937, Duesenberg SJ LaGrande Dual-Cowl Phaeto was one of the most luxurious and powerful automobile of its era. Powered by a 7 L (420 cu in) supercharged engine, this luxury and mighty produces 320 hp (239 kW), a 0 to 60 mph sprint at about 8 seconds and a top speed of 135–140 mph. Remember we are talking about a car in 1930s when even the best cars of the time were not likely to reach 100 mph. The SJ LaGrande Dual-Cowl Phaeto was a rare version of Model J with only 36 units ever built.

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Jason Porshe Unveils ‘Chronos & Kairos’ Resort 2016 Collection (Full Lookbook)

Menswear designer Jason Porshe unveiled his latest collection ‘Chronos & Kairos’ Resort 2016 collection – a collection for men & women.

The ‘Chronos’ womenswear collection campaign features model & actress Makida Moka and Jennifer Oseh while the the menswear collection ‘Kairos’ features musician Praiz Adejo and model Chinko.

Speaking on the collection creative director Jason Samuel says, ‘For Every time I unveil a new collection to the world, a part of my dream comes true, a part of me comes alive. I create these pieces with great passion & find a way to connect with my soul’.

The collection is made of bright coloured suits for men – lime, peach, blue, brown tuxedos and suits perfect for special occasions. For the womenswear collection,  its all red and black jackets – sleeveless and double breasted as well as trench coats.

Check out both collections below

Credits: Make up – @beautybybellamere | Creative Direction – Jason Samuel| Photography- Mr Laah

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VIDEO: Watch T.B. Joshua’s Prophecy Of Indian Bridge Tragedy

T.B. Joshua’s Prophecy Of Indian Bridge Tragedy – As with the case with most global tragedies these days, Pastor T.B. Joshua reportedly prophesied the collapse of a bridge in India.

T.B. Joshua’s Prophecy Of Indian Bridge Tragedy

The bridge, which was under construction in Kolkata, had collapsed on Thursday, March 31st, killing scores of people and injuring hundreds more.

T.B Joshua Claims First Positive Prophecy; Says He Foretold on #EgyptAir

In a video posted online, the pastor can be seen talking to members of his congregation at the Synagogue Church of All Nations, telling them to pray for India.

“Pray for this country, India,” he said, “I am seeing a very huge bridge broken and when a bridge divides into two, what do you think will happen to everybody?”

“I am seeing this happen; they should take care of Thursday, Wednesday,” he added. “Please, pray for this nation… Innocent people going.” Watch the video below!

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April Fool Special – One Minute Man [VIDEO]

April Fool Special – One Minute Man – This April, one fool is going to piss people off!

April Fool Special – One Minute Man: Mazi Ebuka

‘One Minute Man’ has absolutely nothing to do with sex. Every week, screenwriter and content creator, Mazi Chukwuebuka (@EbukaSID) addresses controversial trending topics, pop culture phenomena and whatever else he damn well pleases in just one minute.

7 Ways To Remain Sane In A World Obsessed With Social Media

Finally, a YouTube series even data-broke-@$$es can stream. How much fun can you have in one minute.  SUBSCRIBE NOW to watch new episodes every Friday from April 8, 2016. Check out the hilarious series trailer below.

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Nurse Kills Thirteen Patients With Blood-Thinning Drug

Italian Nurse Kills 13 Elderly Patients With Blood-thinning drug, Heparin

A 55 year-old nurse whom police has called “hospital ward killer” has been arrested, Thursday, for the murder of thirteen elderly patients at a hospital in Piombino, a city on the Tuscan coast.

The aged woman had worked in the hospital for decades before she began killing her victims in 2014 and 2015 by “administering lethal doses of a blood-thinning drug into her victims’ intravenous drips”.

Police said her ministrations caused twelve to die of internal bleeding and one of cardiac arrest.

The woman whose identity wasn’t disclosed killed men and women aged between 61 and 88. Her victims’ autopsies showed their bloodstream to have “10 times the normal dose of the drug Heparin”. They all weren’t on prescription for the blood-thinning drug, Heparin.

Carabinieri police commander, Gennero Riccardi, told reporters: “The suspect was the only member of hospital staff working when all 13 of the suspicious deaths occurred”. 

Read: Bobbi Kristina’s Deathbed Nurse (Who Is Nigerian), Arrested By Police

Riccardi said when the hospital spotted the woman as the suspect of the alarming murders last October, “she was transferred out of intensive care in October of last year, the mortality rate of the ward fell from 20 percent to 12 percent”. 

He also added the suspect “‘suffers from depression’ and had been receiving ‘psychological treatment for many years'”.

The nurse was detained, Wednesday, after she returned from a holiday with her husband.

Police said:  “The families of the victims have not yet been informed that their relatives may have been murdered”.

In a statement by Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin, she called the case “chilling and hideous”.

Read: It’s Fake! Don’t Get Admission Form From This Nursing School

She said: “It isn’t the first time that nurses have been found to be serial killers”.

In a similar situation, the city of Ravena witnessed a nurse in one of her hospitals receive a “life sentence for murdering a patient with lethal injection of potassium”. 

The Ravena nurse who appealed her conviction is also under investigation for ten more suspicious deaths.

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Watch The Trailer For Boxing Day, Starring Richard Mofe-Damijo & Yvonne Okoro

The Trailer For Boxing Day – A trailer has been released for Robert Peters’ highly anticipated upcoming movie, Boxing Day.

The Trailer For Boxing Day

Boxing Day tells the story of Michael Ademuyiwa, a success-hungry young man whose greed makes him lose everything. The movie’s plot reads:

Money is not necessarily the key to happiness. It can easily be considered man’s worst downfall. Michael Adeyemiwas destined to be a billionaire by the age of 35 and with money comes access to the fine things of life. Find out how Michael’s desperate quest for fortune and success would cost him the number one thing money cannot buy – Family. Blinded by selfish ambitions, pride and appetite for greed leads him down a path of self-destruction, blinding him to the only thing that is worth saving. It all comes crashing down on “Boxing Day” where Michael is swept under a sea of adversities caused by none other than himself. Watch this downpour of self-inflicted wave of adversities with rippling effects that triggers thought provoking questions, of love, pain, pride and ultimate redemption – what if you never get that second chance?

Boxing Day stars Richard Mofe-Damijo, Yvonne Okoro, Joseph Benjamin, Tangi Miller and more. Watch the trailer below!

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Usain Bolt Berlin 2009 - World's Fastest Man is now even Faster

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Running 100m

Remember back to high school Physics?

Recalling back that speed = distance / time, we can work out Usain’s speed during this race, right?

If he covered the 100m in 9.58 seconds, that’s a speed of 100/9.58 = 10.44 m/s (which is 23.35 mph), right?

Well, sort of …

23.35 mph is certainly Usain’s average speed over the race, but as you can appreciate, he does not run at this rate for the entire race.

Usain starts at rest, so he has to accelerate to build up his speed. He does not instantly start to run at 23.35 mph out of the blocks! Also, there is his reaction time. After the gun fires, even the most alert, focused and dynamic individual needs time to hear, process, and react. Even with fighter pilot reflexes there is a delay from when the race starts until the body can respond.

Both these above facts mean that Usain will need to run, at times, faster than 23.35 mph to create this average speed.

Just what does a top sprinter's speed profile look like …

Distribution of Speed

Segment (m) Time (s) 0-10 1.85 10-20 1.02 20-30 0.91 30-40 0.87 40-50 0.85 50-60 0.82 60-70 0.82 70-80 0.82 80-90 0.83 90-100 0.90

To the left is a table of split times for Usain’s Olympic Gold Medal race in the 2008 Beijing Olympics [Data courtesy SpeedEndurance.com]. The time required to travel each 10m section is shown (in seconds). This data was obtained from analysis, frame-by-frame, of high speed video recorded at the event.

Here is the data plotted as a histogram:

As you can see, the first 10m of the race takes over twice as long as a 10m segment in the middle of the race. It is in this first section that Usain is reacting to the starting gun and then accelerating his body to warp speed.

Each subsequent 10m section (up until 80% of the race) is covered at a faster and faster pace as Usain really gets into his stride.

Finally, in the last 20m, there is a slight reduction in speed (the segments taking a little longer). This is Usain backing off slightly once he is assured of the victory. If you look at the video of his victory you can see that he even slows down enough to give a slight victory celebration.

Segment Time (s) Speed (ms-1) Speed (mph) 0-10 1.85 5.41 12.09 10-20 1.02 9.80 21.93 20-30 0.91 10.99 24.58 30-40 0.87 11.49 25.71 40-50 0.85 11.76 26.32 50-60 0.82 12.20 27.28 60-70 0.82 12.20 27.28 70-80 0.82 12.20 27.28 80-90 0.83 12.05 26.95 90-100 0.90 11.11 24.85

The table on the left shows the average speed calculated over each 10m segment. The speed is show in both m/s (for my Metric friends), and in MPH (for everyone else). You can see in the middle of the race how Usain achieved a speed of over 27 mph!

Below is a graph of this speed data. You can see the acceleration, the build up of speed to a plateau, followed by the slight fall-off at the end of the race.

Theoretical Max

What is the theoretical shortest time that Usain could cover a 100m course? As we can see, the things that drag his transit time down are the start of the race (reaction time and acceleration region), and at the end of the race, during his (well deserved) showboating! What if we removed these restrictions and started the timing based on a rolling start? Just like NASCAR; we let Usain start running, get up to speed, and only then pass the start line. If we encouraged him to carry on running through the finish line without slowing down (like running through First Base in baseball), what would the time be? Looking at the above speed curve, if we say that Usain as 'at speed' when he reaches a velocity of 11.5 m/s, we can give him a lead-in acceleration lane of about 30m. Assuming he had a good breakfast and can keep this speed up over the entire course, (maybe we trick him and put a 'fake' finish line 20m beyond where we really stop timing him to encourage him to keep on running!) He could, theoretcally, cover 100m in approx 8.7 seconds!

(This running start idea is not quite as contrived as it sounds. This is what happens in the relay race.)

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The Power of Movement

On March 4th 2012, Lori Weisbrod became the first pilates instructor for a nationwide event called The Power Of Movement. Money raised through this yearly fundraiser goes directly to The Arthritis Research Foundation in the hopes that one day a cure will be found.

Below are some photos of Lori teaching on that day

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Disclaimer: Please note that all Arthro-Pilates™ exercises are to be executed only with the supervision and in the presence of an Arthro-Pilates™ instructor.  DO NOT ATTEMPT ON YOUR OWN.

Please Note: Content of this page is sole intellectual property of Lori Weisbrod; duplication and/or redistribution in whole and/or any parts thereof is strictly prohibited without prior written consent.

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25 Tips to lose weight

"If you exercise and eat for health and fitness you will end up looking and feeling great for the rest of your life. If you exercise and diet to look good you will eventually gain more weight and you will never be fit. Always ask yourself, what is my motivation?" Lori Weisbrod

Lori's abdominals at age 55 and after following the Arthro-Pilates™ method and weight loss program

1. First thing in the morning drink 1 cup of warm water with lemon
   Drink lots of water throughout the day and with all meals
   
2. Drink lots of green Tea (in morning: has natural caffeine) and eliminate all juice (except natural pomegranate juice), diet and regular soft drinks. Drink only 1 cup  of coffee a day)
                           
3. Never ever eat sugar, this also means nothing white (no white Pasta, bread or potatoes (nothing processed, also known as “eating clean”)
    
4. Eat whole foods (includes whole wheat pasta, whole wheat bread. Read labels, companies put white flour in and call it whole wheat)
    
5. Eat all the vegetables you want (limit carrot sticks)
   
6. Eat 5 small meals a day (This includes snacks) 
7. Do not eat anything after 7PM
   
8. Eat mostly lean protein & limit bad carbohydrates (absolutely no chips, popcorn, cookies, cake etc. no junk food) 
9. Eat only 1 fruit a day, and before 12 noon. (Eat fruit from berry family: Blueberries, strawberries, cranberries)
   
10. Do ½ hour to 45 minutes of cardio, preferably walking on an incline every day and 2 one hour Arthro-Pilates™ classes a week. (Consult a doctor before beginning any exercise program)
     
11. Do light weight training 3-5lbs for upper body 3times a week
    
12. Drink 1 protein drink a day (skim milk with whey protein isolate powder with greens + powder in morning) 
    
13. Eat the good fat (olive oil, fish oil, flax seed oil or seed)
    
14. With doctors permission only, take CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid) as per body weight to reduce abdominal fat. Note: This is not for everyone!
    
15.  Get 8 hours sleep
    
16. Minimize stress to minimize stress hormones (and reduce abdominal fat)
    
17. Snack on a small amount of almonds (5 at a time) throughout the day (4 times a day maximum)
    
18. Never weigh yourself (judge progress by clothing size, inch loss, only)
     
19. Write a food diary every day to stay on track
    
20. Eat low fat dairy products such as plain yogurt, cottage cheese, skim milk. (No solid cheeses)
    
21. Read labels. Look for no or low sugar grams, no trans fat and only whole wheat.
    
22. Take a good quality multi vitamin/mineral a day
    
23. Eat tofu, Beans, and Legumes
    
24. Never go on a restrictive diet or on a program diet (They only  serve to mess with your metabolism and eventually make you gain more weight, in the long run.) To maintain a good weight and toned body requires a lifestyle change, not a fad diet or program. 
25. Feel good about who you are, as you are. Acceptance is key

Note: Lori Weisbrod is not a dietician or a doctor but has put together these 25 essential tips from years of personal experience, through reading material and research…This is a lifestyle change and if followed will reduce your weight, tone your body and make you feel great.

Use at your own risk and discretion, and only with a doctor’s permission.

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Torque Equation of Three Phase Induction Motor

The torque produced by three phase induction motor depends upon the following three factors:

Firstly the magnitude of rotor current, secondly the flux which interact with the rotor of three phase induction motor and is responsible for producing emf in the rotor part of induction motor, lastly the power factor of rotor of the three phase induction motor. Combining all these factors together we get the equation of torque as- Where, T is the torque produced by induction motor, φ is flux responsible of producing induced emf, I₂ is rotor current, cosθ₂ is the power factor of rotor circuit. The flux φ produced by the stator is proportional to stator emf E₁. i.e φ ∝ E₁ We know that transformation ratio K is defined as the ratio of secondary voltage (rotor voltage) to that of primary voltage (stator voltage). Rotor current I₂ is defined as the ratio of rotor induced emf under running condition , sE₂ to total impedance, Z₂ of rotor side, and total impedance Z₂ on rotor side is given by , Putting this value in above equation we get, We know that power factor is defined as ratio of resistance to that of impedance. The power factor of the rotor circuit is Putting the value of flux φ, rotor current I₂, power factor cosθ₂ in the equation of torque we get, Combining similar term we get, Removing proportionality constant we get, Where n_s is synchronous speed in r. p. s, n_s = N_s / 60. So, finally the equation of torque becomes, Derivation of K in torque equation. In case of three phase induction motor, there occur copper losses in rotor. These rotor copper losses are expressed as P_c = 3I₂²R² We know that rotor current, Substitute this value of I₂ in the equation of rotor copper losses, P_c. So, we get The ratio of P₂ : P_c : P_m = 1 : s : (1 - s) Where P₂ is the rotor input, P_c is the rotor copper losses, P_m is the mechanical power developed. Substitute the value of Pc in above equation we get, On simplifying we get, The mechanical power developed P_m = Tω, Substituting the value of P_m We know that the rotor speed N = N_s(1 - s) Substituting this value of rotor speed in above equation we get, N_s is speed in revolution per minute (rpm) and n_s is speed in revolution per sec (rps) and the relation between the two is Substitute this value of N_s in above equation and simplifying it we get Comparing both the equations, we get, constant K = 3 / 2πn_s

Equation of Starting Torque of Three Phase Induction Motor

Starting torque is the torque produced by induction motor when it is started. We know that at start the rotor speed, N is zero. So, the equation of starting torque is easily obtained by simply putting the value of s = 1 in the equation of torque of the three phase induction motor,

Maximum Torque Condition for Three Phase Induction Motor

In the equation of torque, The rotor resistance, rotor inductive reactance and synchronous speed of induction motor remains constant . The supply voltage to the three phase induction motor is usually rated and remains constant so the stator emf also remains the constant. The transformation ratio is defined as the ratio of rotor emf to that of stator emf. So if stator emf remains constant then rotor emf also remains constant.

If we want to find the maximum value of some quantity then we have to differentiate that quantity with respect to some variable parameter and then put it equal to zero. In this case we have to find the condition for maximum torque so we have to differentiate torque with respect to some variable quantity which is slip, s in this case as all other parameters in the equation of torque remains constant.

So, for torque to be maximum

Now differentiate the above equation by using division rule of differentiation. On differentiating and after putting the terms equal to zero we get,

Neglecting the negative value of slip we get

So, when slip s = R₂ / X₂, the torque will be maximum and this slip is called maximum slip Sm and it is defined as the ratio of rotor resistance to that of rotor reactance.

NOTE : At starting S = 1, so the maximum starting torque occur when rotor resistance is equal to rotor reactance.

Equation of Maximum Torque

The equation of torque is

The torque will be maximum when slip s = R₂ / X₂

Substituting the value of this slip in above equation we get the maximum value of torque as,

CONCLUSION : From the above equation it is concluded that

1. The maximum torque is directly proportional to square of rotor induced emf at the standstill.
2. The maximum torque is inversely proportional to rotor reactance.
3. The maximum torque is independent of rotor resistance.
4. The slip at which maximum torque occur depends upon rotor resistance, R₂. So, by varying the rotor resistance, maximum torque can be obtained at any required slip.

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