Quality assurance

Quality assurance, or QA for short, refers to planned and systematic production processes that provide confidence in a product's suitability for its intended purpose. Refer to the definition by Merriam-Webster for further information [1]. It is a set of activities intended to ensure that products (goods and/or services) satisfy customer requirements in a systematic, reliable fashion. QA cannot absolutely guarantee the production of quality products, unfortunately, but makes this more likely.

Two key principles characterise QA: "fit for purpose" (the product should be suitable for the intended purpose) and "right first time" (mistakes should be eliminated). QA includes regulation of the quality of raw materials, assemblies, products and components; services related to production; and management, production and inspection processes.

It is important to realize also that quality is determined by the intended users, clients or customers, not by society in general: it is not the same as 'expensive' or 'high quality'. Even goods with low prices can be considered quality items if they meet a market need.
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Gucci Goes Radioactive in Surface Magazine

 

The Avant Guardian November 2009 issue of Surface magazine goes Radioactive with Gucci and Herring & Herring. The illuminated editorial features models Sean Harju and Valeryia Melnik with styling by Katie Collins.

  

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War Stories by Lee Whitman

 

War Stories is a new GLBT Sci-Fi/Mystery/Thriller from Uncheckable Films premiering November 13 at the Asheville Film Festival. The film was written by Emmy® Award Winning young gay writer/producer Lee Whitman when he was 22, and directed at 23.

 

 

 

“After months of writing, shooting, and post-production, we are very excited to be premiering WAR STORIES at the Asheville Film Festival,” explains Lee Whitman, “Asheville is known for its independent art and film scene;  We couldn’t be more honored to be in the festival!”

 

 

Shot in DC/Kansas/Oklahoma City,  the film’s press release explains the plot, “Michael Brenton Gordon stars as Tim Curtright, a teen who discovers, after living his entire life believing that his father died in the Gulf War, that his father may in fact still be alive.  With the help of his gay best-friend, Austin (Mark Ayesh), and girlfriend, Laura (Sara Hammond), Tim seeks to break through a generation of lies and secrets and discover what really happened to his dad.” Enjoy the official trailer below.

 

Minotaur by Colin Davis

 

Chicago-based TV producer and photographer Colin Davis shares with Homotography a new shoot inspired by Minotaur, a Greek myth creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull.

 

 

“I have always been a fan of rear screen projection and wanted to utilize that for the backdrop,”  Colin explained to us of the shoot’s striking background image by Erin Egeberg. “I like the fact that it is clearly "fake" but photoreal at the same time, and adds a physicality to the photograph that typical greenscreen doesn’t do.”

 

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more then 80000 tata nano will be produced on 2009-2010

The cheapest car in the world, Tata Nano, will be available next February. Tata motor corp plan to produced 80.000 units during 2009-2010. 70 thousands unit will be finished on March, while the next 80 thousands unit will be done in the next year. Hope this car will also available for Indonesian market, just like other auto corps like Bajaj which has succeed bring Pulsar, and TVS Motor which has bring Apache RTR160. Just wait … (Ref. Kompas)

Daihatsu Motor

Daihatsu Motor announce that they will release a new MPV at the end of February. The new MPV will have 120 until 130 million rupiahs. Offcourse it will be a new alternative in the range, besides Xenia, Grand Max and Avanza which has already proven loved by Indonesian customers.

The new MPV is not a Grand Max any more, it completely new, and the name for the new MPV is Luxio, that’s it! It also known by baby Alphard by many offline publisher. What will the New MPV be?,… let’s wait ..

International sport manufacturer

International sport manufacturer, Porsche, will introduce it’s Panamera to Indonesian market tomorrow. It’s a art of their program to penetrate south east asia market. The Porsche Panamera (Type number 970) is a four-door, four-seat luxury sedan, which was launched in 2009. It is front-engined with rear wheel drive, with a four-wheel drive version also available.

The Porsche Panamera production model was unveiled at the 13th Auto Shanghai International Automobile Show in Shanghai, China on April 2009. The V8 normal-aspiration versions of the Panamera have rear-wheel drive as standard, while the Turbo version includes standard all-wheel drive with PTM (Porsche Traction Management). Currently, trim levels include the base model Panamera S, Panamera 4S and Panamera Turbo. US models include an engine start/stop system, and the Turbo version uses active aerodynamics with a multi-stage, adjustable rear spoiler.

toyota crown majesta indonesian cabinet new cars

As we know that SBY, the president of Indonesia, just announced his new cabinet. Several days after, local media reporting that this new cabinet will be facilitated with new car, names Toyota Crown Majesta. Well, we may difficult to find this car at local dealers. But, let see the details of this car from it’s home country, Japan.
The Toyota Crown comes in different models including a hybrid and the high-end Century and Majesta, and in its home market it is considered on par with cars the likes of the BMW 7-Series or the Mercedes-Benz S-Class in terms of technology at least.

This year, Toyota has introduced a modified Majesta, the first repeat of the car and considered the safest and most comfortable ever. Power under the hood for the Majesta is provided by a 4.6-liter V8 unit coupled to an 8-speed automatic transmission. The AWD variant that is available comes with the 6-speed automatic transmission only. The main revisions on the retiring model is a wheelbase that is 75mm longer and a number of safety elements including the latest Front-side Pre-crash safety system, Pre-crash seatbacks and a rear-seat center airbag.

Standard addition on the car is an electronically controlled air suspension which currently works in combination with Toyota’s Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Management (VDIM) stability system. Also coming with the car is a pedestrian detection system that is equipped with night vision setting. In the interior, the car is fitted with wood trim on the steering wheel, shift knob and ornament panel, together with multiple LCD display panels in the front dashboard and a hard drive satellite navigation system. At the rear compartment passengers are treated with a large 9 inch roof-mounted LCD panel and audio is supplied by a 19-channel amplifier and a 20 speaker stereo system.

Honda ATV Technical Illustration by Khulsey.Com

This Honda ATV concept technical illustration come from Jim Hatch Illustration - in Khulsey.Com. Khulsey.com is a site which serve you with high quality Cutaway, Ghosting, Section View & Exploded View Technical Illustration, Infographics, Automotive Stock Images. You can see the detail of each component layout from this clear illustration.

Google's New Navigation Features in Motorola Droid

NEW YORK - Motorola again shows kemesraannya with Google in presenting phone presented by technology from Google. After Cliq, Motorola presents Droid pinned with brand-new navigation features besutan Google.

In addition, the Droid is also certain to use Google's operating system that most newer, which is Android 2.0. With the launch on November 6, through its partners certainly Verizon's Android OS, which has another name Donut, the first time present in Droid Motorola.

Chief Marketing Officer John Stratton Verizon Wireless revealed that the presence Droid will add new maps to tackle competition iPhone, which is known by his revolutionary innovation through the development of Apple. Thus the reported Reuters on Thursday (29/10/2009).

"Droid are already using Android 2.0 will include the Google Maps Naivigation with accuracy levels of more real-time," explained a Google spokesperson.

Physically, Droid adopted the technology with a sliding Qwerty keyboard, including touch screen technology. Another additional feature is the camera with a resolution of 5 megapixels. "This is a very dynamic evolution of the Android," said Nokia Chief Executive Sanjay Jha.

Just as Cliq, Droid expected to enhance Motorola's profits plummeted in the past two years, and as they promise to be faithful to Android. (tyo)

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Can Listen Live Songs from Google Search

A new music features has been issued by Google Inc.. Wednesday (28/10), which will bring searcher from the U.S., with just one click can listen to full songs. A simple design of Google Search with 4 track to the top of search results. Once the song is clicked, the songs will be played in a pop-up player from MySpace or Lala. The search results are also equipped with the album and links to music sites like Pandora, imeem, and Rhapsody.

Internet users can search by artist, album, or song titles, and even access to a song by typing in the lyrics. Appear also other results, such as the home page of the artist and fan sites, is also Google Inc. while reducing. call the so-called 'search time', which in this case how many clicks does it take to listen to a song.

Meanwhile, according to Google, for music recording companies have to support Google's efforts to put the legitimacy of the source music, before this feature was made.

Book :: Dennis Hopper - Photographs 1961-1967

A must have for any photography and pop culture aficionado, Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967, is a limited edition boxed set of Hopper’s iconic images of the 60s era. 

 

 

Having been encouraged to pursue photography by his friend James Dean, Dennis Hopper explains the motivation of his photography in this 60s era, “I was doing something that I thought could have some impact someday. In many ways, it’s really these photographs that kept me going creatively."

 

 

 

The special moments featured in this extensive (530 pages!) book include Andy Warhol at his first West Coast show, Paul Newman on set, Tina Turner in the studio, and Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery. 

 

 

A third of the featured images have never been published before, and come from Hopper’s own personal archive. The book also features interviews with the photographed personalities, with Hopper himself, his family and friends.

  

 

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Bernhard Willhelm by Christian Anwander :: 10 Men

  

I’m really digging the cover of the new 10 Men Winter 2009 issue with fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm sporting a big balloon head. The photography is by Christian Anwander.

 

 

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Photography Spotlight :: Mitchell Nguyen McCormack

 

Let’s have a sexy break with the talented Mitchell Nguyen McCormack, a photographer who started out as a Ford model. Mitchell was born in Vietnam and grew up in NYC.

 

 

Mitchell’s client list includes V, VMan, WallPaper, Levis, Rayban, and Lacoste. His celebrity portfolio features Mary J. Blige, Channing Tatum, Tony Ward,  Paris Hilton. He recently lensed heartthrobs Penn Badgley and Kellan Lutz. 

 

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Looking Dead Gorgeous With Sarti Tailors

 

Australians must be dead serious about looking good! These ads for Sarti Tailors show that if you happened to die wearing their suits, you would still look damn good. The ads were photographed by Christopher Tovo for JWT, Melbourne.

 

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Getting Steamy With Dean Isidro

 

The new A|X ads reminded me of this sultry shoot by Dean Isidro. Now this is how its done, you’re supposed to be into the hot girl you’re embracing, not giving the camera a Blue Steel!

 

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A|X 2009 Holiday Ads :: Say Cheese!

 

Ah, Armani Exchange, what’s going on these days? I didn’t really like the A|X Fall/Winter ads, and I dislike their just unveiled holiday ads even more, thanks to a series of awkward poses by Kerry Degman and a rather cheesy overall direction. What a waste of the talent of Tom Munro and the beauty of Rianne ten Haken...

 

(UPDATE: These ads turned out to be by Matthew Scrivens, not Munro. Sorry Tom!)

 

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A Lonesome Jakob Wiechmann by Steeve Beckouet

 

The unstoppable Jakob Wiechmann stars in ‘Lonesome’ in the recent Summer 2009 ‘Numbers’ issue of fashion & art magazine Stimulus Respond. The sexy editorial was lensed by Steeve Beckouet with styling by Bodo Ernle.

 

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André Ziehe by Hunter & Gatti, Blanco Winter 2009 Ads

 

Brazilian supermodel André Ziehe is quite the dapper gentleman in the new Blanco Winter 2009 ad campaign. Hunter & Gatti lensed the ads, which co-star Siri Tollerød.

 

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