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In March 1962, Chrysler replaced the American 1961-model R Valiant with the American 1962 SV1 (S Series) Valiant. The SV1 used the same body shell as the RV1, with cosmetic changes including the deletion of the simulated spare wheel on the bootlid, and round tail lamps replacing the R-model's cat-eye shaped ones. There was a revised radiator grille and new exterior trim.
Mechanical changes included relocation of the manual transmission shifter to the steering column, new ball joints, and a new gear-reduction starter motor.
10,009 SV1 Valiants were sold, of which 5,496 were automatics and 4,513 were manuals.
Camden, New South Wales, Australia,
An evening shot after a busy day. My torque wrench was in use at the weekend, as I tinkered with the Subaru. I've decided that the misfire is due it running lean - all the spark plugs were more white than "biscuit" coloured. Reason unknown, but possibly something failing in the fuel system (pump/filter/pressure regulator)
Glauberg, Germany.
About 400 BC
The torque was found in a grave beside which stood the statue of the warrior.
Figural and ornamental elements are suspended from the right, which also shows ten masks. The particularly striking feature is the three conical studs similar to those worn by the statue. They might all depict the same deceased.
Kunst der Kelten, Historisches Museum Bern.
Art of the Celts, Historic Museum of Bern.
Flipped and destroyed 1962 Ford Fairlane, abandoned under Lenticular clouds at Dunmovin, a wide spot on on California's remote Highway 395.
Night, 2 minute exposure, full moon, lime and red-gelled strobe flash, red-gelled LED flashlight.
Reprocessed and replaced, January 2024.
The meanest thing you could buy in 1999, the Dodge Viper GTS, for sure had alot of power, torque, and mean mean looks :)
A small part of an old, rusted train, where a rod has been snapped by time and torque. Based on how the rod works, I suspect it snapped from rotational movement of the rod around it's axis.
I like the texture of the metal, and the rusted paint in the background. Even metal eventually decays and breaks.
A cast bronze beaded torc, collar or necklet, found in an inhumation burial on Lambay Island (see 'Silumnus? Ins.' on Pleiades) just off the east coast of Ireland near Dublin.
2nd half of the 1st c. CE.
Hunter Type A beaded torc. Romano-British manufacture.
National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology, Inv. L 1947.195
A Sauber F1 car approaches the start-finish straight with the Singapore Flyer looming overhead, at the Singapore Grand Prix 2014, Singapore.
16 years in the making, Everspin just unveiled the first spin-torque MRAM, a contender for a new generation of memory chip technology.
Our original investment thesis for novel memory technologies (like Coatue/AMD, Nantero and Everspin) was a sense that Moore’s Law would begin to bifurcate, where technical advances in memory precede logic by several years. In the next few years, radical advances in memory density and performance will be needed to relieve the performance bottleneck in corporate computing.
These new technologies are non-volatile rad-hard memories that should be faster, smaller, cooler, cheaper and more reliable than the SRAM and DRAM kludge.
Background: Memory advances are becoming increasingly important to further advances in computing and computation. The mention of Moore’s Law conjures up images of speedy Intel microprocessors. Logic chips used to be mostly made of logic gates, but today’s microprocessors, network processors, FPGAs, DSPs and other “systems on a chip” are mostly memory. But they are still built in fabs that were optimized for logic, not memory.
The IC market can be broadly segmented into memory and logic chips. The ITRS estimates that 90% of all logic chip area is actually memory. Coupled with the standalone memory business, we are entering an era for complex chips where almost all transistors manufactured are memory, not logic.
Back in 2005 I was truck by the details of Intel’s Montecito processor. They had to add more error-correction-code memory bits (now over 2 bits per byte) to deal with the growing problem of soft errors (alpha particles from radioactive decay and cosmic rays from space flipping a bit as the transistors get very small). According to Intel, of the 1.72 billion transistors on the chip, 1.66 billion are memory and 0.06 billion are logic.
Why the trend to memory-saturated designs? Intel’s primary design enhancement from the prior Itanium processor was to “relieve the memory bottleneck.” For enterprise workloads, Itanium executes 15% of the time and stalls 85% of the time waiting for main memory. When the processor lacks the needed data in the on-chip cache, it has to take a long time penalty to access the off-chip DRAM. Power and cost are also improved to the extent that more can be integrated on chip.
Who should care about this? A large and growing set of industries depends on continued exponential cost declines in computational power and storage density. Moore’s Law drives electronics, communications and computers and has become a primary driver in drug discovery and bioinformatics, medical imaging and diagnostics. Over time, the lab sciences become information sciences, and then the speed of iterative simulations accelerates the pace of progress.
Intel is right: "Compute must evolve"
More on the big picture version of Moore's Law.
News on Spin-Torque MRAM: VentureBeat and Electronic Design.
P.S. we have a conference room at work dedicated to MRAM 1.0, aka core memory.
On the left is the torque setup with a 1:1 gear ratio. On the right is the speed setup with a 5:3 gear ratio.
Looking towards Cathedral Square October 27, 2013, New Zealand.
Cathedral Square, locally known simply as the Square, is the geographical centre and heart of Christchurch, New Zealand, where the city's Anglican cathedral, ChristChurch Cathedral is located. The square stands at the theoretical crossing of the city's two main orthogonal streets, Colombo Street and Worcester Street, though in practice both have been either blocked off or detoured around the square itself. The Cathedral has been badly damaged in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
he square is the city's main meeting place for people taking a break from their work, or just visiting the city, and is a regular site of street performers and speakers of all varieties. Until recent years, the most well-known of these was The Wizard of New Zealand.
Since the year 2000, The Chalice, a large piece of modern sculpture in the form of an inverted cone, has stood in the square subverting the shape of the spire that rises above the cathedral. The Chalice, designed by prominent New Zealand artist Neil Dawson, is made up of forty-two leaf patterns featuring different native plants.
Taken from and for more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_Square,_Christchurch
Frank O. Gehry, b. 1929 Torque, 2006 Resin on wood base. Height: 72 inches. Collection of: Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art. Gift of Tiffany & Co. PC2009.4.2
A very nicely restored pair of ERF 'B' series tractor units with Gardner 240 and Rolls Royce 265L engines.
2025 Bill Richardson HWR Truck Rally Ascot Pak Hotel Car Park, Friday 17 October.
Photographer: Leighton Smith.
A variation to my original L-motor frame that has been lengthened in order to: 1) accommodate a 16t/24t gear ratio for more pulling power, 2) allow 6 xL wheels with 1 stud spacing, and 3) allow 6 L wheels with 2 stud spacing.
EDIT: 10/2016
The frame itself works well despite the overall length of 11 studs between axles. The major change to this has been the removal of the 16t and 24t gears in favor of the smaller 12t & 20t gears. Please reference my newer photo flic.kr/p/Lq6y8e
Symboles celtes. (Reconstitution)
"Le torque est un collier connu pour avoir été porté par les Celtes au cours de l'Âge du Fer puis, à titre honorifique, par les soldats romains.
Le mot vient du latin torques, dérivé de torqueo (tordre), en raison de la forme du collier.
Le torque est formé d'une épaisse tige métallique ronde, généralement terminée en boule à ses deux extrémités et plus ou moins travaillée ou ornée. Le corps du collier est généralement en fer mais n'est pas toujours entortillé. Les torques étaient faits à partir de brins de métal entrelacés, généralement en or ou en bronze, moins souvent en argent ou même entièrement en fer."