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Ryan Tuerck Takes on New York City [VIDEO]

The new NetworkA episode of Tuerck’d shows Ryan taking on New York City with bike riding, motorcycles, tattoo’s, parties, and a little bit of Long Island drifting. Who ever said car culture was dead in the Big Apple?

 

 

Wrecked Magazine Issue 28 On Our Virtual Newsstand [READ IT]

Issue 28 is here for viewing just before the big main event at Irwindale Speedway. The issue breaks down Ryan Tuerck’s Scion FR-S 2JZ engine build and we sit down with Pro Am driver Matt Coffman who has a great story to tell and is focused on Formula Drift in the future. We examine seven tracks that Formula Drift should consider for expansion in the future and our Mustang RTR gets a differential and gears. Read the issue with the link below.
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Maxxis Tires and Ryan Tuerck Take You Through Texas Motor Speedway [VIDEO]

Here is a look at the track tour of Texas Motor Speedway presented by Maxxis Tires with their driver Ryan Tuerck. The video shows off the newest track to the Formula Drift which unfortunately Ryan Tuerck failed to qualify overall for Saturday’s main event.

  

2013 Formula Drift Irwindale Speedway – Tentative Drivers List

Here are the people who have paid and registered to drift next weekend at the House of Drift. The real strong title contenders are Mike Essa and Chris Forsberg and unless they drop the ball big time one of them is taking home a championship. If they both fail to advance a win could be taken by another driver to advance and win a championship as well. All eyes on Irwindale next weekend! Here is who is driving:
1 Essa, Mike 101
2 Forsberg, Chris 64
3 Aasbo, Fredric 151
4 Gittin, Vaughn Jr. 25
5 Saito, Daigo 1
6 Pawlak, Justin 13
7 Field, Matt 777
8 McNamara, Darren 8
9 Bakchis, Odi 723
10 Nishida, Robbie 31
11 Yoshihara, Daijiro 9
12 Grunewald, Conrad 79
13 Denofa, Chelsea 88
14 Moen, Kenneth 22
15 Powers, Matt 665
16 Tuerck, Ryan 62
17 George, Danny 7
18 McQuarrie, Tyler 17
19 Wang, Forrest 808
20 Kado, Ryan 614
21 Mordaunt, Patrick 90
22 Gushi, Ken 21
23 Yoshioka, Toshiki 104
24 Maeng, Joon 51
25 Aono, Taka 86
26 Ovcharik, Miroslav 235
27 Goodin, Patrick 46
28 Mohan, Kyle 99
29 Jones, Jeff 29
30 Angelo, Tony 96
31 Briggs, Dave 24
32 Baribeau, Mats* 30
33 Mertzanis, Dennis 323
34 Castro, Jhonnattan 717
35 Ward, Chris 23
36 Kearney, Dean 43
38 Wicknick, Brandon* 801
39 Parsons, Will* 48
40 Hamilton, Nate* 144
41 Hosford, Corey 232
42 Rydquist, Carl 300
44 Jeanneret, Chris* 111
45 Primozich, Rob* 3
46 Stone, Gabe 15
47 Mendoza Jr., Enrique 16
48 Wilkerson, Walker 95
49 Steele, Josh* 72
50 Moore, Victor 360
52 Hildebrand, J.R. 6
53 Pakula, Luke* 714
55 Lee, Alex 81
57 Osaki, Karl* 14
61 Cano Estrella, Carlos 10

Ryan Tuerck Drifting a Ford GT Supercar [SNAPSHOT]

In case you haven’t watched the new Tuerck’d we pumped up yesterday here is a freeze frame of him in drift with a Ford GT at Miller Motorsports Park. Just in case you needed another excuse to check out the latest episode of Tuerck’d. According to Ryan Tuerck this was the first time he drove a supercar in his life much less drifted one. Pretty awesome!
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Ryan Tuerck Visits Hoonigan HQ in Utah [VIDEO]

The new episode of Tuerck’d takes him to Utah to hang out at Hoonigan Racing HQ, Miller Motorsports Park, and the Utah Jazz practice facility to have some fun with Ken Block and gang. Ryan looks like he had a blast taking a tour around the state of Utah with cliff diving and bike riding. Now if we can only get Tuerck to play Game of Drift with Ken Block next season.

Formula Drift’s Return to Texas with KW Suspension [VIDEO]

Check out this video highlighting the return to Texas by Formula Drift with KW Suspension. Chris Forsberg drove to a podium to come one step closer to a championship in 2013. The video takes a fun twist on Texas with EZup tumbleweeds and creepy spiders to boot. Round 6 under the lights was awesome and we are less than one month away now from the finals at Irwindale Speedway.

Ryan Tuerck Tours the UK on Tuerck’d [VIDEO]

Here is the new Ryan Tuerck video showing his UK tour which includes a round of BDC at Lydden Hill and then a journey up to Driftland in Scotland to wrap up his trip smashing around in missile cars. It looked like quite a UK tour with his performance in the Japspeed IS pretty on point. Enjoy the latest episode of Tuerck’d.

2013 Formula D Championship Standings after Texas [STANDINGS]

After taking his second career win by eliminating fellow championship contender Chris Forsberg in the Final 4, Mike Essa slides into first place in the Formula D championship standings. With a maximum of 112 points up for grabs in Irwindale, 6 drivers still have a statistical shot at winning the championship. Here’s a look at how the points stack up after six of seven rounds of competition.
1. Michael Essa                   489.5 points
2. Chris Forsberg                 474 points
3. Fredric Aasbo                  425.5 points
4. Vaughn Gittin Jr          410 points
5. Daigo Saito                      409.5 points
6. Justin Pawlak                400.5 points
7. Matt Field                       350 points
8. Darren McNamara       332.5 points
9. Odi Bakchis                    322 points
10. Robbie Nishida             314.25 points
11. Dai Yoshihara              309.25 points
12. Conrad Grunewald     285 points
13.Chelsea Denofa              266.5 points
14. Kenny Moen                  258.75 points
15. Matt Powers                  257.5 points
16. Ryan Tuerck               229 points

 

 

Slide Ride at Englishtown for new Tuerck’d Episode [VIDEO]

An all new Tuerck’d episode shows off the four Drift Alliance drivers flying around Englishtown with missile cars in a “Slide Ride” show off. A Ford Crown Victoria has some highway bumpers on it and is driven around Englishtown while the Drift Alliance guys slide past the guardrail at speed over and over again sometimes even hitting it harder than expected. Check it out in the installment of Tuerck’d.

assignment 7: new york times.

1. What problems does the article mention that children run into when they use search engines?

 

When considering children, search engines had long focused on filtering out explicit material from results. But now, because increasing numbers of children are using search as a starting point for homework, exploration or entertainment, more engineers are looking to children for guidance on how to improve their tools.

2. What suggestions have been offered for how search engines can improve their product to lessen children’s problems searching?

 

Search engines are typically developed to be easy for everyone to use. Google, for example, uses the Arial typeface because it considers it more legible than other typefaces. But advocates for children and researchers say that more can be done technologically to make it easier for young people to retrieve information. What is at stake, they say, are the means to succeed in a new digital age.

3. Do you search using keywords or questions? How does the article characterize these two types of searching?

 

yes, I search information using keywords and key sentences. it characterizes them by using different information types and genres.

 

4. Have you tried using images or videos to search? How does the article characterize this type of searching?

 

yes, this article makes them categorize as if they make you find information faster and easier.

5. What advice would you give to Internet search engine developers (like Google or Bing) for how they should improve their product? Do you think any of the improvements mentioned in the article are particularly promising? Why?

 

Future trends in search may also be helpful to children. The move toward voice-activated search like the Google voice search on iPhones and Android phones and audio and video search will prove beneficial to children with limited abilities, experts say.

1. Do you think the results are 100% accurate? Why or why not?

 

no my results are not accurate because the class dident take my polls seriously.

1. How much of an impact do you think the wording of the questions has on the answers you recieved?

 

I don't think that there was a very big impact on the questions based on the words.

1. Did you get the results you expected from your online polls? Why?

 

yess I did. the polls were mostly correct because they were very simple questions.

1. If you wanted to do an online poll with the students of Technologico de Montorrey asking them how much time and effort they spent doing homework this year, what are the steps you would take to complete that online poll?

 

I would follow all instructions and properly answer any or all questions asked about school related work.

1. Do you think online polling could help the administration of Tech de Montorrey find out more about their students? Or do you think that the results would not be accurate? Why or why not?

 

I don't the results or polls would help because there are too many dishonest kids here at tech de monterrey.

1. How do you think the results of your polls would be different if you asked your classmates the questions in person?

 

because they would be under pressure soo they would be more honest and direct.

 

1. In what ways do you think online polling using Google Spreadsheets can be improved? Or was it easier to create an online poll than you originally thought? Explain.

it was a lot easier to make these polls and they were also very easy to reach and answer

 

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assignment 5

1. In your own words describe how the workplace culture at Google encourages innovation and unique creations for the company? How does working at Google and the environment there affect its workers?

the google company encourages people to get better because of all the funn things and creative things to do. the google company not only allows you to be a better innovater but it allows you to create things and make things better.


2. How does employee freedom, like the 20% of free time Google encourages its employees to spend on any project they want, deliver better business?

it allows you to better ypour ideas and make them bigger and brighter. it also allows them to do it while they have fun and when you do someething that you lave and is fun you always do a better job.

  

3. What are the requirements to work for Google? And what is different about the way they hire employees at Google?

they require top innovater and creative thinkers. the google company hires and allows people to work for them by giving them different and weird tasks to do., for example they give people rubix cubes and who ever solves it fastest gets the job.



4. How many search queries does Google handle a day?

google handels about 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 quieries a day.


5. In your own words discuss how Google's constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information.


There are many components to the search process and the results page, and we’re constantly updating our technologies and systems to deliver better results. Many of these changes involve exciting new innovations, such as the Knowledge Graph or Google Instant. There are other important systems that we constantly tune and refine. This list of projects provides a glimpse into the many different aspects of search.


6. Take a look at the following story about Google's top secret data center. Now why would Google want to keep its server room as a secret?

Engineering prowess famously catapulted the 14-year-old search giant into its place as one of the world’s most successful, influential, and frighteningly powerful companies. Its constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information. Its equally complex ad-auction platform is a perpetual money-minting machine. But other, less well-known engineering and strategic breakthroughs are arguably just as crucial to Google’s success: its ability to build, organize, and operate a huge network of servers and fiber-optic cables with an efficiency and speed that rocks physics on its heels. Google has spread its infrastructure across a global archipelago of massive buildings—a dozen or so information palaces in locales as diverse as Council Bluffs, Iowa; St. Ghislain, Belgium; and soon Hong Kong and Singapore—where an unspecified but huge number of machines process and deliver the continuing chronicle of human experience.

This is what makes Google Google: its physical network, its thousands of fiber miles, and those many thousands of servers that, in aggregate, add up to the mother of all clouds. This multibillion-dollar infrastructure allows the company to index 20 billion web pages a day. To handle more than 3 billion daily search queries. To conduct millions of ad auctions in real time. To offer free email storage to 425 million Gmail users. To zip millions of YouTube videos to users every day. To deliver search results before the user has finished typing the query. In the near future, when Google releases the wearable computing platform called Glass, this infrastructure will power its visual search results.

The problem for would-be bards attempting to sing of these data centers has been that, because Google sees its network as the ultimate competitive advantage, only critical employees have been permitted even a peek inside, a prohibition that has most certainly included bards. Until now.

7. What are the benefits of working as a Google employee? 

While providing free food and drinks is getting more "normal" for start-ups these days, it was definitely my favorite and most-used perk at Google. I would start my morning at one building that had a coffee bar with full-time barista who would make whatever drink requested, for free. I would then head over to the building I worked in for free breakfast and take it to my desk. Lunchtime would come around and I'd head to one of Googles 25+ cafes for food. At Google you're never further than 150 ft. (or so) away from food, so micro kitchens with coffee, drinks and snacks are close by. If you stay to work late, you can grab dinner at Google too. Because Google's campus is not close to many restaurants, having food saves their employees lots of time while still providing plenty of variety and options.

8. Name at least 5 different positions at Google (ex: software engineer, Google tester, interaction designer) and describe what they do?

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  • Engineering & Design

    Take on technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on millions.
    
    

  • Operations & Support

    Work on the cutting-edge of Internet technology at unprecedented speed and scale.
    
    

  • Product Management

    Drive product development - from conception to launch - while working at Google speed.
    
    

  • Developer Relations & Technical Solutions

    Be the bridge between our business and technology.Sell cool stuff

• • Sales & Account Management

    Transform the way companies interact with customers and help businesses grow.
    
    

9. Talk about at least 3 projects that Google is currently working on. What do they want to accomplish? How long will they take to complete?

RE<C

We developed the Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE<C) initiative to drive down the cost of renewable energy. We’ve published our results to help others in the field continue to advance the state of concentrating solar technologies.

Google Earth Engine

Google Earth Engine, now part of Google Geo, makes decades of satellite imagery archives, data and tools available to scientists and governments around the world so they can monitor and measure changes in the Earth’s environment.

RechargeIT

RechargeIT was launched to demonstrate plug-in electric vehicle (EV) technology and accelerate its adoption. With several new EVs now available in the marketplace, we have transitioned our employee car sharing fleet to include 30 of the newest plug-in vehicles, with over 200 EV chargers currently in place.

PowerMeter

We developed Google PowerMeter as a free energy monitoring tool to raise awareness about the importance of giving people access to their energy information.

Investments and grants

Google.org has invested $45 million in a range of renewable energy research and emerging technologies including solar, wind, and geothermal to help determine which ones can scale to meet the world’s energy needs. Several of our early investments have proven so successful that renewable energy investing is now managed within our corporate investment portfolio, which continues to seek out technologies with breakthrough potential.

10. Look at the following story about why recent college graduates should not work for Google. Why does the writer argue recent graduates should not work at Google?

he argues because they dont need cocky preppy kids with degrees. they need kids with inovative and new thoughts.


11. How is Google the same or different than other search engines, like Yahoo or Bing?

Despite having worked within online marketing for quite some time now, I struggle immensely to come to grips with other search engines– most importantly, Bing. Now don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with Bing, it is a perfectly viable search engine. Unfortunately, I have become a creature of habit and prefer to “Google it” rather than “Bing it”… that doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, does it?

There is no doubt that the average user will wonder what the differences are between the two. After all, they are both search engines. Google is the senior of the lot, holds a stronger market share and effectively offers more results, but Bing isn’t all that bad.

I think it might be time to start being fair. I’ll take off my Team Google t-shirt (I’m not getting paid commission for this, whatever you think!) and look at this practically because when they’re compared side by side, Bing stands in a relatively strong position.

assignment 4

In at least 3-5 sentences answer the following questions.
1. Discuss what the main idea of the video is?

the main idea of this video was to determine weather or not people were present or past or future oriented. this would altar by were you live and were you were born. the idea was that by being one of these 3 characteristics you would act or plan things differently than other people in the world.

 2. Do you see yourself as past oriented or future oriented? Why?
I see myself as a future oriented person. why? because I always plan ahead of time and always have to determine what I will have to de for the next day. I think this is the most common or the most appropriate because you need to plan for the future.

 3. Do you agree or disagree with the speaker in the video? Explain why?
I agree, because all the facts that he was talking about were all true.  I also agree because all people need to have some sort attitude in a sense to wear they have to go and what they have to do.

 4. Do you agree with the speaker's view that young adults' minds are being "digitally rewired"? Explain your answer.
yes I agree. why? well all teens and young kids play videogames and interact in a wireless world. this means that they learn and focus on inter dimensional worlds and social media.


 5. Why does the narrator in the video argue that young people dislike a single-function device such as a wristwatch? 

young kids don't like single function devices because they like doing more than one thing at once. they like to have things to do with they're minds in challenging and dimensional objects.


de Web free when he created it at CERN?
Tim Berners lee decided too create the www because he wanted computers to interact with each other through an inter dimensional world or fictional universe of information.

 2. What are the benefits of having "web addresses," an idea that Sir Tim Berner's Lee created?
the benefit was that you could receive and send information. this meant that you could access the cyber world and interact with other computers and people.

 3. How does the World Wide Web allow people from all over the world to communicate?
the world wide web allows people to communicate through codes and algorithms through a parallel universe with computers. this meant that you would communicate through your computer to another computer meaning another human.

 4. Why is it important to link information? What are the benefits of having instant access to information?

it is important to link information because you could be led to another useful pieces f information regarding the subject of choice. the benefits of having this information at your fingertips is immense because you could access the world and all the information in the world.

assignment 3

information processing cycle