Presidential Election Results

USA held its presidential polls to elect the 47th president on 24/11/2008.  Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain ran for president  As was expected, the polls generated huge interest among the US public.  The World Wide Web was a busy place with the websites showing interest in updates of the polls from the inception.  Webs on the US presidential election results mushroomed, some performing live updates.

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The interest shown by the public of the US in the presidential polls 2008 was overwhelming because they needed a change very badly after the incompetency and unpopularity of the incumbent president George W Bush mounted following the Iraq war and the economic crisis that plagued the US towards the end of the polls.   Hence, everyone was all agog at all times to keep abreast with the latest updates on 2008 US presidential election results.

Websites made use of all the latest technology to present the viewers with as vivid a picture of the results as possible.  In one website, a dialog box with options for selecting the states was available, and once your preference was given a composite map of the particular state, and its results were projected at the click of the mouse.  Not only the 2008 US presidential election results but also the US House and US Senate results were added.  One more click would get you the overall results along with the full map of the USA.

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Several webs exclusively showed presidential election results by maps.  These websites are complete with all the statistics under various categories such as age and demographic data, county results, electoral maps, county maps, winners by county, cartograms, and election maps, etc..  Not only the results of the 2008 election, but also the results and other comprehensive data connected with the previous presidential elections are available on some websites

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Any researcher on US polls will find it quite easy to gather information on the presidential election results by making searches on popular search engines on the Internet.  Exclusive search criteria will result in specific data on electoral votes, popular votes and other sundry items which may look not significant to the average viewer.  Not only the data but also maps and other graphs done on the results are stored on these websites for the reserachers’ benefit.

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Toy Parrot Shouts Expletives at Child

Tina Banks, a 44 year old lady from Brighton, England has spoken of her outrage at an abusive toy parrot that she brought for her young daughter Roxy.

Tina brought the parrot from a toy shop when her daughter was throwing a paddy and hoped that it would help keep her quite. But when she handed the toy to Roxy and pulled the cord, the first thing that came out of the toy parrot’s mouth was “Oi! What are you looking at a***hole.” rightly shocked, but not knowing if she has imaged what had just happened, Tina decided to pull the cord for a second time. The words “Sod off, sod off” came out of the parrots mouth, followed by a little giggle. This caused everyone in close proximity to turn to face the foul-mouthed parrot and caused Tina to turn bright red with embarrassment. To save her self any more embarrassment she rushed off down the street and took shelter in another shop.

Tina later tested the toy to see what other profanities the parrot would come out with.Some of the most offensive were “I’m going to rip your head off and s**t down your neck.” and “Oi! B****r off.Tina, who is also mother to two other children has suggested that toys like these be removed so that parents do not accidentally pick them up for their young ones. She also mentioned that she will be sticking to dolls house toys from now on.

Apologies have been made by the commercial director of the shop who as agreed that the toy should never have been on sale in the section it was. How this event came about will be well looked into he has assured. Also wanting to look into the details of the incident and Brighton and Hove council’s trading standards department.They have already said that such events should not be happening and although their are still details of the incident that have yet to be established they have already started look into ways to prevent its recurrence.

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Horizontal Directional Drilling

Horizontal directional drilling , a type of slant drilling, is employed when oil or natural gas are hard to reach.  It’s an important method to help people exploit the natural resources beneath the ground.

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Until the oil industry lost the perception that deposits were only vertical there could be no horizontal directional drilling.  People finally realized this when some lawsuits in the 20′s held that there was drilling going on across property lines.  Many well surveys were conducted.  In fact new tools for surveying had to be designed to survey while a well was being drilled.

One critical step in horizontal directional drilling is determining how far of vertical a well runs.  This is generally done with a pendulum.  But another measurement is needed.  That is the direction of the well (or oil reservoir) from the vertical shaft.  This was first done by measuring magnetic fields, but the metal drilling equipment could influence the fields.  The oil industry turned to the aeronautical navigation field and their gyroscopic compasses.

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It took other advances to make horizontal directional drilling possible.  Experience was gained in vertical drilling for drilling away from the vertical .  That practice had formerly been avoided, but now could come in handy.  Directional drillers eventually learned techniques to bring drilling back towards the vertical.  These were both important for steering in directional drilling.

In the 1970′s a major advance made horizontal directional drilling more of a reality.  Drills were designed that were mostly stationary, but had rotating drill bits driven by circulating mud down the drill shaft (or drill string.)  The drill could be sent in a new direction without having to stop the drilling.  

But horizontal directional drilling required knowing the direction the drill was traveling.  This information was eventually provided by new MWD (measure while drilling) methods.  

Current tools to steer the drill bit like a remote control vehicle are costly and little used.  Now drilling can be automated.  It will take a few years of research to make these cheap enough to be useful.

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So the quest for oil continues.  Now, more and more, oil companies can get the oil wherever it is.  That’s the whole point of horizontal directional drilling.

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