WHAT MAKES A GREAT DRIVER

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What makes a great driver?

Richard N. Ornelas
Le Cordon Bleu Online

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Abstract

The author that wrote this article works for onedirt.com. He discusses what makes a great driver in this article. He writes about three different drivers that all hail from Orange, CA. and the things that they have accomplished to tag them as great drivers. I am writing about one of the drivers in his article. "Robby Gordon"

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The target audience in this article is the race fan, by giving only headline news on the appointed driver chosen for this article (Robby Gordon). I think the writer could have dipped in a slightly different direction, maybe go into the past a little bit more. Dietzsch, C. onedirt.com (Robby grew up in Orange, CA. By age 8, he was racing motorbikes, and as soon as he turned 16, he jumped behind the wheel of a car. He has won in almost everything he has driven.) However, I understand why he did not when you are writing about two other drivers the information needs to be to the point. All he mentioned was all the wins; he never really touched on the names of the tracks at which he spent most of his time. In my opinion, this would have changed the direction to appease his hometown friends and family only. The author in the beginning of the story lost me for about five sentences, but picked me back up and I was entertained for the rest of the article. The author was a little bias, in the area of choosing drivers from his hometown, which in my opinion does not lay out the true great drivers. There are many great drivers in the US and abroad, that would better fit the mold of the greatest driver. There was information I would have liked to see that was not in the article. I know that this particular driver had some real bad accidents and I would have liked to read about those as well. I do not feel the author left this information out intentionally, because it was a very well written story, with the content he shared.

 

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The language was very understandable, and it has to be because of the target audience. His sentence structure was fine. However, he did miss a few commas and semi colons.

Overall, it was a great read. He did not compare drivers much he did mention Dale Earnhardt in one paragraph; (Every race fan remembers Earnhardt's "pass in the grass.) However if he really wanted to make a great story he would have researched allot more similarities between the driver

he chose and other great drivers of the same caliber, however, the author did depict the drivers he chose very well. There was no real cause and effect, however one could say the cause is all the press those particular diver gained over the years, and the effect would be the article I'm-reading right now, because if the drivers never had all the press they have had over the years this writer would be writing about someone else.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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References

Curtis Dietzsch

What Makes A Great Driver

Pictures in this project were from the article I have written about onedirt.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KEEPING UP WITH TRENDS IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY

Running head: KEEPING UP WITH TRENDS IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY 1




The hospitality industry’s past trends, current trends,


and why? It is important to keep up with the needs of the


modern consumer.


Richard N. Ornelas


Le Cordon Bleu Online








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Abstract

* In the paper, Why it is important, to keep up with the

* current trends in tourism?

* What the current trends are in the lodging industry?

* In addition, how has it affected the tourism industry?

* I will be discussing a change in the hospitality

* industry that I have seen in the past 2 years, that

* has improved the lodging experience for a specific

* group of travelers, and explain what the change was

and how it benefited these travelers.



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Keeping up with the current trends is of the utmost importance, when

dealing with the current consumer. I have found that the modern traveler wants to

have experiences built around their personal needs. Several trends have changed

over the years but the currents trends are more of an electronic and social media

age of trends. What I mean by this, you might ask? There a many social networking

websites out today like, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and many others. Without

utilizing these resources, the hospitality and tourism industry would fail in their

attempts to succeed in attracting the current traveler. If the hospitality and

tourism industry uses the social networks properly by communicating with the

consumer on a personal platform, they will be more likely to use that particular

company for their next travel experience.

Looking at some of them on these sites, it looks as if they just make the account

and walk away, that will not work; in the current market to attract the modern

consumer. The industry has to keep a close relationship with the traveler to gain

their business. On these social networks the hospitality and tourism industry has

to keep their dealing with the consumer on the positive side or the traveler will

effect there business buy posting on these social networks the negative things that

they experienced when staying at that particular establishment. Too many of these,

will drastically affect the bottom line for that business. There was a massive

change in the way travelers booked their vacations in the start of (2007) and

(2008). Today’s traveler is very impatient they do not want to dig through tons of

brochures and search a million websites. What they want is someone or something to

provide them with easy information for the dining lodging fun things to do ECT.

According to TIA’s (Ideal American Vacation Report) released in (February of 2007)

(the ideal vacation destinations for American vacation travelers are those that

offer an easy travel experience,)






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References


Here are a couple websites I have found to set up

everything you could want to do,

while on vacation.

·         Easy Travel Experience:

·         Easy Escapes Travel:

·         Luxury Cruises, All Inclusive Vacations,:

·         All Inclusive Vacation Deals | Expedia.com:

·         All Inclusive Vacations,:

Author Note


Here are a few different types of vacation made easy websites, as well as a couple

different types of vacation sites.

Since 2007, many of these websites have popped up all over the internet to make

your life a lot easier when making your travel plans.

This concludes my paper on Keeping up with trends in the hospitality industry

Dirt Track Racing/Online Gaming

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Dirt Track Racing and Online Gamin

Richard N. Ornelas
Le Cordon Bleu Online

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Abstract

I will be talking about Dirt track racing from a driver's point of view,

In addition, I will be talking about online gaming from a gamers' point of view.

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Dirt track racing is the adrenaline junkies dream, as well as the ultimate test of courage.

People across the United States and abroad enjoy the sport of Dirt track racing.

As a driver of a race car there is many things to do before race day, so it stays together on the track.

When driving one of these cars you will experience many emotions.

One of those emotions is fear, but not the kind of fear you would think.

When you are sitting on the front strait waiting for the officials to let you on the track,

your stomach is in knots. When the green flag drops, every driver knows if you make it first through turn one,

you will most likely win the race. When you go into a turn, you are so close to the car next to you,

that your door if on the outside lane, is rubbing the cars door on the inside lane,

and at that time you are so close to that car; you could reach out and give him a high five.

When you enter a turn your going about sixty five to seventy miles per hour,

and on a dirt track if your tires don't have the right amount of air, your car will push,

which means it won't turn, or it could be very loose, and you will slide off the track.

When you are flying around turn four to the finish line, the feelings you get are indescribable.

I believe it would compare to waking up Christmas morning as a child.

I would have to say that I have had more fun driving a racecar, more than anything else I have ever done.





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The online gaming market is worth over 15 Billion dollars. With this kind of

money who buys these games? I have found that the income demographic is around 27,000 –

70,000 average income of the gamer. How much time does the average gamer spend playing

video games? According to the online MBA, gamers spend more than 17

Billion hours playing Xbox live, and as much or more on the pc; this is more than 2 hours for

every person on the planet. The average age of an online gamer is, 25-44 years of age, equally

split between genders. Fantasy RPG's (Roll Playing Games) rank highest for the most

players snagging over 92% of all gamers.

Combat arms has been said to be the biggest free online FPS

(First Person Shooter) game by far. To date call of duty modern warfare 2 has had over 4.1

Million down loads since its inception on November 10 2009 with the Sims falling in second

at, 3.2 million since its release date on June 2 2009. The resources I have found, show

that aggressive behavior in children can be attributed to the repeated violence in the games they

play. With all this information, I have found that more Americans play video games, more than

any other entertainment.

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Once upon a time there was an Island, where all the feelings lived; Happiness, Sadness and all the others including love.

One day it was announced to the feelings that the Island would sink, so all repaired their boats and left. Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to persevere till the last possible moment. When the Island was sinking, Love decided to ask for help.

Richness was passing by Love, in a grand boat, Love said "Richness can you take me with you?"

Richness answered "no I can't." There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat and there is no place for you here.

Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel, "Vanity please help me?"

I can't help you love. You are all wet and might damage my boat," Vanity answered.

Sadness was close by so Love asked for help, "Sadness let me go with you?"

"Oh......Love I am so sad I need to be by myself!" Happiness passed by Love too, but she was so happy she did not even hear when Love called her!

Suddenly there was a voice "Come Love, I will take you." It was an elder. Love felt so pleased and overjoyed that he even forgot to ask the elder her name.

When they arrived on dry land, the elder went her own way Love realizing how much he owed the elder asked Knowledge, another elder "Who helped me?"

"It was Time” Knowledge answered. "Time?" asked Love. But why did Time help me?" Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding How Great Love Is.

4TH GRADE TEACHER LETS OBAMA HAVE IT

4TH GRADE TEACHER LETS OBAMA HAVE IT

 

 

 

 

IF SHE GETS FIRED THEN THEY NEED

TO REPLACE THE SCHOOL BOARD.

 

 

 

 

A TEACHER FROM THE  GREAT  STATE OF  MISSOURI WILL LOSE HER JOB FOR STANDING UP FOR ALL OF US.  Give this teacher and true American a standing ovation.
This 4th grade teacher has said it all, and she was brave enough to attach her name to it.         April  17, 2009   The  White House     1600  Pennsylvania Avenue     Washington ,   DC     20500
     
    
      Mr. Obama:     
      I have had it with you and your administration, sir.  Your  conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the  United States of America collectively or of me personally.

You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the  United States of America  .  You are responsible to the citizens of the  United States .  You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth.

I personally resent  that you go around the world apologizing for the  United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their  status in the world.  Sir, what do you think the First World  War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples of   Europe ?  Are you brain dead?   What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about?  Do you not understand or know the history of the 20th century?      
     Where  do you get off telling a Muslim country that the  United States does not consider itself a Christian country?  Have you not  read the Declaration of  Independence or the Constitution of the  United States ?  This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this country, at least until you came along, come directly from this heritage.   Do you not understand this?

Your bowing to the king of  Saudi Arabia is an affront to all Americans.  Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king of  Saudi Arabia .... You didn't show  Great Britain , our best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the king of  Saudi Arabia ..  How dare you, sir! How dare you!

You can't find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation because you don't want to offend the Germans but make time to visit a mosque in    Turkey ......  You offended our dead and every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German people from themselves.  What's the matter with you? I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of  you.

You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about them? Anything? I seriously doubt it.

What about the  U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves?  I understand the average House aide got a 17% bonus.  I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with my employer.  You haven't said anything about that.  Who authorized that?  I surely didn't!

Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210 million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that's $45 million more than the AIG bonuses.  In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already been awarded $51 million not a bad take.  Who authorized that and why haven't you expressed your outrage at this group who are largely responsible for the economic mess we have right now?

I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not caring about what you idiots do.  We are watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you.

I also want you to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities.  I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country.      Sincerely,

Every real American      P.S.  I rarely ask that emails be 'passed around'.................PLEASE SEND THIS TO YOUR EMAIL LIST......it's past time for all Americans to wake up!

Ms Kathleen Lyday
Fourth Grade TeacherGrandview
11470  Hwy . CHillsboro ,  MO     63050  Elementary School

(636)  944-3291 Phon e
(636) 944-3870  Fax      
This woman may lose her job for this letter..  I believe we owe it to her for expressing the outrage that we feel but fail to address.   Please pass this on.

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Released from her pain « RASBOA

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STORIES BY THE REMOVAL GUY

Ok this one is a very sad one but I think I came to terms with, it when I seen the end result.

It was about 2 or 3 in the morning it was a cool night about 65 degrees when this call came in it was a freeway call so I knew it was going to be a messy one.

I rolled on to the scene I had to drive about three quarters of a mile to get to where the deceased was.

I get there and of course, she’s covered with a blanket so I do not know what she looks like yet but I ask what happened.

The officer said she and her friends were running across the freeway to get to their house because it was a short cut. Well they all made it but her. She was 15 years of age. A waste of life I said to myself at that time. At that part of the freeway, cars are going in access of 80 to 85 miles an hour. I do not need to explain what she looked like. The reason for this story is I think it was blessing to her to get out of this life she was in.

I uncovered her because I had to put her in a bag and seal it, then take it to the medical examiner’s office. She was, messed up. Well anyway, I drop the body at the ME. Then a couple days later I get a call to go pick her up from the ME. When I get there, I have to open the bag, and make sure it is the rite body.

When I did that, I seen the most disturbing thing.

That is when my feelings of sorrow changed to feelings of comfort.

This poor girl must have been in a lot of mental pain.

She had cuts on her body from her toes to the base of her neck I mean she had thousands of cuts all over her body. These were self-inflicted wounds.

That is why I say she is in a better place. No longer in the pain, she was going through here on earth.

This in my opinion, was God’s way of releasing here from the horrible feelings she was going through here on earth.

God bless you little lady, and rest in peace.

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The science of optical illusions

In the left image, the black and white spaces in the central pin-wheel seem to blend more than in the right image - though the two are the same

Optical illusions are more than just a bit of fun. Scientist Beau Lotto is finding out what tricking the brain reveals about how our minds work. Here he explains his findings.

Sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell. We believe what our senses tell us but most of all we trust our eyes.
But our brains are extraordinarily powerful organs.
Without us realising it, they are instantly processing the information they receive to make sense of the world around us.
And that has been crucial to our evolution.

Jungle scene

Take colour. Why do we need to see in colour? The next two images will show you why.
Here you see a black-and-white version of a jungle scene. Try to find the predator that's about to jump out at you. If it takes you more than a second, you are dead. Why is it so difficult to find? Because you are only seeing the surfaces according to the amount of light they reflect. Now click to the next image...

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... this time in colour. Now you'll probably see the panther immediately (in the lower right corner).

Why is it so easy this time? The reason is because the image shows the surfaces according to the quality of light they reflect (not just their intensity).
In other words, your brain has a lot more information to go on in making its decisions.
So colour enables us to see a greater number of similarities and differences between objects, which is necessary for survival.
What is amazing about what you have just done (finding the panther in the coloured image) is that it is so easy for you.
But while it seems so easy, our best computers are hopeless at doing what you have just done.
Understanding how we see is one of the main aims of brain science (called neuroscience). And illusions hold the key to answering this question.

Brightness illusion

Below we have two physically identical squares. Not surprisingly, they also look the same. Explaining vision would be easy if all we had to do is see the image that falls onto the back of the eye (called the retinal image). But we don't.
In fact we never see what our eyes see. That's because the eyes have very little to do with what we see. This is good news: an image of the world is very different from the world itself.
For instance, the retinal image has only two dimensions, whereas the world of course has three. The retinal image is upside-down, but we see the world right-side-up. So what happens if I change the context surrounding the squares, but not the two squares themselves?
 

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Toggle the image and the two identical squares now look different.

And yet all we've done is put them on different backgrounds. As a result, the small square on the dark background looks lighter than the one on the light background.
This is called the "brightness contrast illusion", which proves that context is everything when it comes to what we see, even when seeing the simplest qualities of the world, namely lightness.
But why is context everything?

Table and shadow illusion

Here we have two, smaller versions of an identical brightness contrast illusion - one on the right and the other on the left.
In both cases the tiles on the dark backgrounds look lighter than the tiles on the light backgrounds. So far so good. Now let's see if we can change the strength of these two illusions by changing the overall scene.
 

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Notice that the illusion on the left is now much stronger. In other words, the tile in shadow under the table looks much brighter because the brain thinks it is in shade. The tile to the right looks as if it is under bright light so the brain assumes it is darker and tells us so.

On the other hand the illusion on the right is now much weaker. In other words, the two tiles, one on a black stripe the other on a light stripe, look nearly identical because the brain is interpreting them as two similarly reflective tiles under a shared light source.
This shows that we see illusions because the brain doesn't actually want to see the image on your eye, but to see the meaning of that image and here it finds that in the context of the table and the light from the window. And that meaning - and this is really important - is created from experience.

Cube illusion

Here we have two tiles that are identical in their colour. But what happens if we change their context in a specific way? Now if we're right that what we see is the meaning of an image, then it we should be able to create a really strong illusion by making the meaning of the two tiles very different indeed.
 

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In their new context, the two physically identical tiles do indeed now look very different.

Why? The information in the image strongly suggests that the dark brown tile on the top now means a poorly reflective surface under bright light, whereas the bright orange one at the side means a highly reflective surface in shadow.
So you see them differently because your brain thinks they have a different meaning - given the rest of the information in the scene.

Table illusion

What's true for seeing colour is also true for seeing form and shape. In fact it's true about everything we see. When you look at this image, you are aware of two very differently sized tables.
The one of the left seems a lot longer and thinner than the one on the right. What if I tell you that the red table is simply the green table on its side, in other words that the dimensions of the two table tops is identical.
It is actually true. The only real difference between the tables is the angles at their corners (other than their colour, which is irrelevant in this case).
 

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The two red and green lines are the same length. The length of the red table is the same as the width of the green table and vice versa.

So why do they look so different? Because your brain takes the image on the retina and creates what it sees according to what the information would have meant in the brain's past experience of interacting with the world.
In this case the angles suggest depth and perspective and the brain believes the green table is longer than it is while the red table appears squarer.
The beautiful thing about illusions is they make us realise things are never what they seem, and that our experiences of the world shape our understanding of it.

I am truly amazed! 'Seeing is believing' is (or was) my foremost mantra. Now I am confused, not to say somewhat worried. Am I only seeing what my brain tells me is there - and not what is actually there?!

Chris Ferguson, Wisbech, England

I found the article very iintersting. About 50 years ago - I'm now 80 - I did an entire exibit on opital illussions at the library in Wilton, Connecticut inclcuding a wire cube that the viewer thougt was a square. There were also depth perception pieces which where flat but seen as 3-dimensianal. In all there were about 49 exhibits and lots of delighted visitors.

Prof Haji Rudin Salinger, Putrajaya, Malaysia

This suggests to me that a large part of the percieved world and therefore constructed from experience - I wonder what the world really looks like? I suppose we have all seen the world in this way when we were babies - but is it possible to recreate this? How do we achieve "real seeing" as adults?

David Nixon, Hebden Bridge

Very interesting and informative - if you are colour blind how much would this affect what you see

Barbara, Bamako, Mali

I actually Photoshopped the image of the cubes because I didn't believe it, but yeah, same colour!

Michael , Belfast

There's a painting on my wall. Even though I know it's a flat canvas splodged with pigment, it looks like a wonderful sea view with sand, water, birds and the rest of it. Is this an optical illusion? No, because I'm not misjudging anything! I'm correctly judging the image be a representation of the sea. I'm inclined to say exactly the same thing about the "optical illusions" in this article. For instance, we're not making a mistake when we judge the squares on the Rubik's cube to be differently coloured. We are correctly taking the flat image to represent a 3D cube on which the squares really are different colours.

Jonathan Birch, Cambridge, UK

A truly beautiful presentation, and lucidly explained. I admit that in a few cases I took measurements to check if the images in the sets weren't "enhanced" to magnify the illusions: they weren't.

Jaroslaw, Cairo, Egypt

Very interesting article but the last example with the two tables is a bad drawing which is why the brain gets the wrong idea rather than being due to the brains intrepretation of perspective. Assuming it's a table and therefore has right angles at the legs then using the legs and the square floor tiles as a measure, the green table is 5 tiles along it's longest side between the legs and the red table is less than 4. The same kind of difference applies to the widths. I agree that the table tops are the same width and length give or take a bit but the brains interpretation is confused by where we see the distance between the legs on the floor which are not drawn as they should be so it's a trick drawing rather than the brains interpretation of perspective.