Sentences with phrase «figure eight course»

Host Carlos Lago takes the car for a spin around MotorTrend's famed figure eight course where the Z06 laid down the best performance numbers they've ever tested for a production car, coming sort of only the Porsche 918.

2013 Nissan GT - R Black Edition on the Motor Trend Figure Eight Course Motor Trend Magazine took their long term Nissan GT - R Black Editi...

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The figure of course depends on the number of diaper changes a day and the age at toilet training, but assuming an average two and a half - year diapering period, and an average of eight to ten diaper changes a day this translates to 7,000 to 9,000 diapers over the diapering period.

In 1959 British magnate Henry Kremer had offered # 50,000 to the first team to achieve human - powered flight on a figure - eight course around two poles half a mile apart.

In it, she tackled eight tumultuous decades of U.S. political and social history — and changing fashions — filled with dozens of national figures (including LBJ, JFK and Jackie O) and had to factor in an equally daunting number of celebrities in the cast: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Oprah Winfrey and, of course, Forest Whitaker in the lead role, among them.

On the figure eight, the Bentley wins out by just under a second, but it's hard to care at all when all you can do is laugh as the two monsters heave around the course with massive body roll and almost comical nose diving.

Next time, I get the timing down, helping me flick around the figure - eight course faster and faster.

The next challenge is to turn that oval into a figure - eight course, tightening the turn at the end to cross over in the center of our coned - off area.

The hefty 3,926 - pound coupe was able to stop from 60 mph in 96 feet and completed the figure - eight handling course in 23.1 seconds, which puts the ZL1 in some lofty high - performance company.

More enjoyable was a course of figure eights, chicanes and corners of varying radii tackled in second gear.

There, Ferrari paired us up with seasoned racecar drivers for a day, who coached a few journalists around completely ice and snow - packed figure eights and closed road courses with steep banks, just to prove how well the system works.

We've watched people run agility courses and figured it was pretty easy, but it has taken about eight months for Mom and Madison to even start to get the hang of it all!

Another North County dog handler, 68 - year - old Jean Rowe of Solana Beach, smiled and nodded toward the latest winded trainer to exit the course after running figure - eights beside her dog, pointing and shouting directional commands.

2011 - Present Workshop Instructor, Classical Drawing, Ellensburg, WA, Taught Classical Figure Drawing, Golden Mean and Visual Gravity (Spring 2011), Sight - Sizing / Classical Alterier (Summer 2011), Portraiture and Halftones (Fall 2011), Composition Visual Gravity & Asymmetric Balance (Fall 2011) 2006 - Present Affiliate Faculty, Drawing and Painting Program, Central Washington University 2009 - Present Affiliate Faculty, Art History Program, Central Washington University 2006 - Present Workshop Instructor, Eight Week Professional Practices, Foundational Drawing and Figure Drawing Workshops, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA 2008 - Present Private Instructor, Drawing, Painting and Professional Practices for post graduate students, Ellensburg, WA 2008 - 2009 One Year replacement, Art Education Program, Central Washington University 2004 - 2005 Affiliate Faculty Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN, Taught Independent Study art students, Curatorial responsibilities in art gallery and Gallery / Museum Course 2000 - 2002 Affiliate Faculty, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN, Foundational Drawing Class and Senior Thesis Committee 1998 - 1999 Affiliate Faculty, University of Minnesota, Undergraduate Beginning Drawing and Beginning Painting 1996 - 1997 Teaching Graduate Fellow University of Minnesota, Sole responsibility for class organization, lectures, demonstrations, discussions, and grading for Beginning Drawing (Fall 1996, Fall 1997 and Winter 1997), Advanced Drawing (Spring 1997), and Color (Winter 1997.

Figure 2: Eight records of local temperature variability on multi-centennial scales throughout the course of the Holocene, and an average of these (thick dark line) over the past 12,000 years, plotted with respect to the mid 20th century average temperature.

There, Ferrari paired us up with seasoned racecar drivers for a day, who coached a few journalists around completely ice and snow - packed figure eights and closed road courses with steep banks, just to prove how well the system works.