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Samick is the name of a Korea-based musical instrument manufacturer, one of the largest in the world.

The name refers to the entire Samick Music Corporation, which owns several manufacturers of pianos, guitars, and other instruments. The company started as ‘Samick Pianos’ in 1958, manufacturing pianos sold under the Samick name.

In 1992, Samick built its P.T. Samick factory in Cilesungi, near Bogor, Indonesia. This factory produces the majority of instruments that Samick makes.

In factories in various Asian countries, Samick manufactures a large share of all electric guitars on today’s market, mostly for other brands.

Samick Musical Instruments have always made a wide range of guitars, from starter models to professional instruments. The Samick Artist series, for example, are known as high-quality guitars; they were made under the Samick name from the mid-1980s till the late-’90s. Since 1999 the electric guitars made by Samick no longer carry the Samick name; they are now called Greg Bennett Guitars. Some other brands Samick builds guitars for include Epiphone, Gibson, Washburn, and Hohner. Recently have signed their first signature to Michael Graham of East Coast Ambitions with a signature Samick F100

External links

• Samick Musical Instruments Company Homepage

• Samick Guitars US

• SMC music

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To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10^-17 m and 10^-16 m (10 fm and 100 fm).

Distances shorter than 10 am

• 10 am till 100 attometres range

Distances longer than 100 am

See also

• Attometre
• Orders of magnitude (length)

References

• http://www.webelements.com

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For the submarine type also known as a U-boot, see U-boat. For the boot loader, see Das U-Boot

A U-boot is a Polish<ref>Info about the Polish national football team, see the “Perfect Night watching, What to drink…” section</ref> beer mix made from beer and vodka.<ref>Recipe for an U-boot/U-boat drink (in Polish)</ref> It consists of one bottle of beer and one shot of vodka. This is a strong counterculture cocktail created with a simple goal in mind: to get drunk as fast as possible.

It is called a U-boot (German for unterseeboot or “submarine”, also known as a U-boat), because a small 40 ml glass of vodka is dropped into the larger half-litre (500 ml) beer glass, and later the vodka glass “surfaces” while the cocktail is drunk and the angle at which the large glass is held decreases from 90° to 0° or less.

A version of this drink is the “Atom U-boat” (atomic submarine), which switches the ingredients (a small glass of beer is dropped into a half litre of vodka).

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The instep borer was a mediaeval German instrument of torture that externally resembled an iron boot.

Description

It was hinged to permit the free insertion and removal of the bare foot. A crank projected from a housing over the instep, which concealed a long, thick, serrated iron blade, grooved so as to inflict maximum damage and promote liberal blood flow.

Turning the crank slowly advanced the blade into the boot, punching a generous hole through the center of the instep. The resultant wound was so large and nasty that it was not at all unusual for the prisoner to die of toxaemia not many days thence.

It seems that the instep borer was used only in Nuremberg.

Reference

Only in Richard Sair’s The Book of Torture and Executions (Arnold Hirsch, M.D., ed.; L of C cat #HV8593 .S3) does one find mention of this quaint device.

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Nichole Cheza is professional flat track motorcycle racer. She has raced at Springfield, Illinois and DuQuoin, Illinois. She hails from Michigan.

External links

• homepage
• More about flat track racing

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• Means of production are the productive assets which are inputs in a production process
• Means of Production is an album by the British Grand Central Records musician, Aim.

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Kick start refers to a method of starting an internal combustion engine (usually that of a motorcycle) by pushing a ratcheting lever with one’s foot. Kick start mechanisms were almost universally a part of motorcycle engines before the mid-1970s, and were phased out of production over the next five years or so as electric starters became standard equipment for engine starting. There were some motorcycles produced that had both a kick starter and an electric starter.

Many mopeds and scooters still carry both a kickstart and an electric start, the former being useful in case the latter fails, as scooter and moped batteries tend to be smaller and, as a result, run down much faster than other forms of automotive batteries.

Today, dedicated off-road motorcycles and many ATVs use kick start systems due to the increased weight of electric starters. The majority of the cheap two-wheelers in developing countries also utilize kick start levers.

Serious race replica bikes such as the Suzuki RGV250 and Aprilia RS250 use aluminium kickstart levers to reduce weight.

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The Yamaha Virago was the first V-Twin-powered cruiser-style motorcycle produced by a Japanese manufacturer, as well as one of the earliest mass-produced motorcycles with a single shock rear suspension. Originally sold with a 750 cc engine in 1981, Yamaha soon added 500 cc and 920 cc versions.

The bike was redesigned in 1984, switching from a rear mono-shock to a dual-shock design, and adding a tear-drop shaped gas tank. That year, Harley-Davidson, fearful of the inroads the Virago and other new Japanese cruiser-style motorcycles, pushed for a tariff on imported bikes over 700 cc. Yamaha replaced the 750 cc motor with 699 cc version to avoid the tariff, while the 920 cc engine grew to 1000 cc, and later 1100 cc. In the late 1980s a 250 cc Virago was added. A short production of 125 cc was also manufactured. [Yamaha made a XV125, XV250, XV400, XV500, XV535, XV700, XV750, XV1000/TR1, XV1100. The XV400 being the rarest of the breed.]

The larger-displacement Viragos have since been phased out of production, replaced by the V-Star and Road Star series of motorbikes. The only remaining Virago being produced is the 250 cc model.

Starter problems

According to Motorcyclist magazine <ref>Joe Minton, Motorcyclist/ January 1988, p. 68.</ref>, the early Virago has a design flaw in the starter system. This magazine states that the starter’s defect exists in early Viragos models (1982 and 1983). However, the same flawed starter system was installed in the XV700, which was produced until 1988. The XV1000 had an improved system since it began production in 1984, which doesn’t present the flaws. Also the XV1100 and the XV750 (1989 and up) do not present the starter system flaws found in the earlier Viragos.
Motorcyclist Magazine<ref>Joe Minton, Motorcyclist/ January 1988, p. 68.</ref> suggested to weld the ring gear to its backing plate to solve the problem. Other solutions commonly used are the use of shims, which was Yamaha’s proposed solution, then also the use of a new designed idler gear. None of this solutions are considered or proved to be permanent, and applying only one of them will not address other existing flaws in the system; however, great improvements have been reported by Virago owners that have applied them.

Yamaha Virago 250

The Virago 250 is designed to be an entry-level cruiser bike, and as of 2006 retails at $3499. It’s considered by most publications and motorcycle enthusiasts to be a capable road bike with good handling characteristics and a top speed of 85 mph.

See also

• Yamaha Virago 535
• Yamaha Virago 750
• Yamaha Virago 1100
• Yamaha DragStar

References

External links

• Viragotech - Yamaha Virago technical page
• ViragoTechForum - Yamaha Virago support forum
• Belgian/Dutch Virago Club - Europe
• Yamaha Virago 250
• Yorkies - Virago Star Owners Club - The Yorkshire region of the VSOC
• Virago Owners Club

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Swedish county road 229 (Länsväg 229) is a primary county road in Sweden from the Örbyleden/Huddingevägen intersection in Stockholm to the Tyresövägen/Bollmoravägen intersection in Tyresö.

In the Stockholm end it begins as a regular road which after a while it crosses national road 73 at the Gubbängen junction. West of Skarpnäck junction the road turns into a motorway. At Älta junction the county road 260 has a short common segment until the Skrubba junction. The road continues then to the Bollmora junction shortly after which the motorway comes to an end, and länsväg 229 ends there as well.

For the regular road portion the speed limits found are 50 km/h (31 mph) and 70 km/h (43 mph), and for the whole motorway portion the speed limit is 90 km/h (56 mph). The road has separated road halves for almost the entire stretch, with an exception for a 0.7 km (0.4 mile) portion in Hökarängen.

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Margaret Thom is the current Deputy Commissioner of the Northwest Territories Canada.
She was appointed June 2 2005.

External links

• Deputy Commissioner Margaret Thom Biography

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