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Hargroves Cycles are pleased to be continuing Cannondale Bikes into 2016.
- Cannondale has proved to be a serious contender in the world of road racing & mountain biking and have shown dominance in the professional world of both disciplines.
- Cannondale have always been at the forefront of pushing the envelope in bicycle design, whether its Headshox or Lefty suspension forks or BB30 bottom bracket standards.
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LEFTY - Superior performance through unconventional design. The lighter-stiffer-stronger-smoother front suspension - now with sealed hybrid needle bearing technology.
- Lighter - Lefty's minimalist single-leg design lets it be ligher than most competitors' lightest XC race forks.
- Stronger - Lefty's dual crowns and oversize inverted structure give it such strength that even the lightest Lefty can out-perform burly all-mountain forks in destructive testing.
- Stiffer - Lefty's stout structure, combined with its "square-in-a-square" stanchion design and lower glide bearing make it torsionally stiffer than any fork in the world, for pinpoint steering precision.
- Smoother - The heart of the Lefty, Cannondale's patented hybrid needle-bearing technolgy keeps the suspension moving freely, regardless of load. Even under the hardest braking, impact, and steering forces, the wheels is able to track the ground fluidly for maximum control.
- Worry-Free - The new hybrid design allows the entire fork structure to be completely sealed against the elements for long service life and features auto-resetting needle bearing to eliminate the need for regular manual resets.
BALLISTEC CARBON - The resins we use are High Strength, High Impact resins similar to what is used in the construction of carbon baseball bats; light, stiff and designed to endure thousands of deformation cycles. We combine these fibers and this resin in a lay-up designed to maximise the anisotropic (direction-specific) qualities of the fibers, providing a carbon structure that is extremely light, extremely stiff and capable of absorbing tremendous impact without damage or loss of structural integrity.
ZERO PIVOT TECHNOLOGY - Zero Pivot technology does just what the name implies – it eliminates traditional bearing pivots, and replaces them with flexing carbon fiber structures, which is actually not as crazy as it sounds. Done correctly, a flexing carbon structure can be designed to last a virtually infinite number of cycles, while eliminating the weight, play and wear of bearing connections. We have developed proprietary carbon construction techniques that enable the Zero Pivot stays flex freely in one direction only, while actually resisting side-to-side and twisting loads better than a bearing pivot can. Zero Pivot is what allows the Scalpel to be not only the lightest dual suspension frame in the world, but to also have the best stiffness-to-weight ever recorded.
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We've done it again. As the rest of the industry was trying to figure out how to make aluminium race bike as good as the CAAD10, we've taken a quantum leap all the way to the CAAD12, a road bike so light, so stiff and so smooth that it's going to fundamentally change the way people think of aluminium performance. It is simply the world's finest aluminium road racing machine.
The Cannondale CAAD X 105 is a complete carry over from the 2015 range. If it is't broke then why fix it. The Shimano 105 11 speed groupset is as reliable as to be excepted from a Shimano product. The smoother shifter and greater range of gears are a bonus to any rider whether they are a novice is a professional. The Cannondale CAAD X frame has a race like feel but is forgiving should you feel a slight wobble. The addition of disc brakes to a aready well equipped bike should be admired.
Slate is the bike you never knew you always wanted. It seems like a fever dream. It ain't no dull gravel grinder, it's a full-tilt road bike with legit off-road chops. It's a drop-bar bike bike with a Lefty front fork. It's got massive tyres, yet still boasts road bike quickness. It's like nothing you've seen before, and yet somehow, it's everything you hoped it would be. Float over potholes, boost of of curbs, stick impossible lean angle, rail down trails or just bring a little excitement to the next group ride. On Slate, fun is the only mission.
Crush Meets Plush. The Synapse is the perfect balance of raw power and all-day ridability. Its race-proven combination of endurance geometry, light weight and dialed vertical compliance has won it everything from Spring Classics to Bike of the Year accolades. It might just be the best all-round road bike we've ever made.
The Comfortable, Light, "Just Right" Road Bike. From first road rides to all-day adventures to fender-equipped commutes, the alloy Women's Synapse will be your perfect partner.


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Destination: Mexican Riviera
Embarkation: Los Angeles
We were very impressed with the food as a whole on the boat. Only did two nights in the main dining room, food was average there. But that is to be expected, massive crowd all trying to eat at once. The buffet variety and quality kept us coming back. From the outstanding omelettes in the morning to burgers, pizza, stirfry and many other options in the evening. We went up to Davids Supper Club one night for the most delicious meal we have had in a long time. The service was beyond fabulous, the meal would rival some of the best restaurants you can find on land. A must do.
In Puerto Vallarta we booked our own shore excursion through the internet. The Los Veranos canopy zip line. We had to take a taxi from the pier, but that was very easy as they are waiting for you. 20 minutes later we were at their office for a short wait and then a 30 minute bus ride into the jungle. The tour took about three hours and was a blast. They are very safe. Everyone had a great time, including a young boy of about 7 years. The bus takes you back to Puerto Vallarta and will drop you off anywhere you want. We had him drop us off at the cruise terminal, save a taxi fare.
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Mazatlan was the next stop. You dock in the business end of the harbor. So if you are like us and do not do any excursions you will just need to walk outside the terminal and there are groups of taxis waiting to take you anywhere you want. We just went to the beach, rented jet skis and relaxed for the day. The vendors on the beach can get a little annoying here. There is a constant flow of people trying to sell just about everything.
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|The Dark Side Of The Moon
|March 24, 1973
|June 1972-January 1973 Abbey Road Studios
|Progressive Rock, Electronic Music, Musique Concrète
|Harvest, EMI
|Pink Floyd
It is considered by many fans to be the band's magnum opus (surpassing even The Wall). It was a landmark in rock music, featuring radio-suitable songs such as "Money", "Time", "Us and Them", and "Brain Damage/Eclipse" that also incorporate ethereal concrete sound techniques. Some critics use the album as a point of reference between "classic" blues rock and the then-new genre of electronic music. However, the work's softer touches of lyrical and musical nuance are what make Dark Side stand apart from its peers. All four of the band members participated in the writing and production. It is also important to note that this is the first Pink Floyd album with all lyrics credited to Roger Waters.
The Dark Side Of The Moon deals conceptually with the pressures of modern life that can drive normal human beings to insanity: materialism, the increased pace of life and travel, the encroachment of old age and death, the inhumanities of society and armed conflict. These themes are not just delivered with words, but are suggested with sounds and lyrics. For example, the sound of an airplane crash in the track "On the Run" represents a fear of flight. "Time" discusses how quickly life can slip by those who are unaware of it, using actual alarm bells to wake the listener. "The Great Gig in the Sky", which had a working title of "The Mortality Sequence", comments on the nature of death. The lyrics and sound effects of "Money" flippantly endorse greed for ironic effect, and states that it is "the root of all evil today". "Us and Them" deals with interpersonal conflict and the insanity of warfare. The meaning of "Any Colour You Like" is not as clear as the other songs, but it is thought to represent the fear of taking risks when taking choices - the song title came from an answer frequently given by a studio technician to questions put to him: "You can have it any colour you like", which was a reference to Henry Ford's description of the Model T: "You can have it any color you like, as long as it's black". "Brain Damage" reaches out to the outsiders ("lunatics") who may be the only people that recognise society's faults. It also is about their former member Syd Barrett. Finally, "Eclipse" describes the true essence of a person through the impact they have left on others.
Precursors to the Dark Side concept can be found in many of Pink Floyd's earlier works. The band had previously performed a conceptual piece, The Man and the Journey, based on the everyday life of a man during their 1969 European tour. Roger Waters' lyrical obsession with insanity was in part precipitated by the departure of Syd Barrett (a founding member of Pink Floyd) following his mental collapse. Perhaps most important to the gestation of Dark Side is the song "Echoes" from Meddle, which also deals with interpersonal relationships using progressive ambient music. However, the decision to tackle individual parts of life in an album-length concept work is said to have been conceived during a band meeting in Nick Mason's kitchen circa late 1971.
Roger Waters wrote all of the lyrics (a first for Pink Floyd), and created the early demo tracks in a small garden shed-turned-recording studio near his house.
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios between June 1972 and January 1973, the album sessions made use of the most advanced techniques available for recording instruments and sound effects in rock music at that time. Along with the conventional rock band instrumentation, Pink Floyd added prominent synthesizers to their sound, as well as some unconventional noises: an assistant engineer running around the studio's echo chamber (during "On the Run"), myriad antique clocks chiming simultaneously (as the intro to "Time"), and a specially-treated bass drum made to sound like a human heartbeat (at the beginning and end of the album).
Another novelty found on Dark Side is the metronomic sequence of sound effects played during "Speak to Me" and "Money". This was achieved by laboriously splicing together recordings of ringing cash registers, clinking coins, tearing paper, and buzzing counting machines onto a two-track tape loop (later adapted to four tracks in order to create a unique "walk around the room" effect in quadrophonic presentations of the album). Pink Floyd also perfected the use of other studio techniques such as the doubletracking of vocals and guitars (allowing David Gilmour to harmonise flawlessly with himself), flanging effects, odd trickery with reverb and the panning of sounds between channels. To this day, audiophiles use The Dark Side of the Moon as a reference standard to test the fidelity of audio equipment, despite the fact that it was originally mixed from third-generation tape with Dolby noise reduction.
Snippets of dialogue between and over the top of the songs are also featured on the recording. Roger Waters devised a method of interviewing people, whereby questions were printed on flashcards in sequential order and the subject's responses were recorded uninterrupted. The questions related to central themes of the album, such as madness, violence and death. Participants were commandeered from around Abbey Road, placed in the darkened studio in front of a microphone, and told to answer the questions in the order which they were presented. This provoked some surprising responses to subsequent questions; for example, the question "When was the last time you were violent?" was immediately followed by "Were you in the right?"
Recordings of road manager Roger "The Hat" Manifold were the only ones obtained through a conventional sit-down interview, as the band members couldn't find him at the time and his responses (including "give 'em a quick, short, sharp shock..." and "live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me...") had to be taped later, when the flashcards had been lost. Another roadie, Chris Adamson, was on tour with Pink Floyd at the time and recorded his explicit diatribe that opens the album ("I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years, over the edge for yonks...").
Pink Floyd's executive road manager Peter 'Puddie' Watts (father of actress Naomi Watts) contributed the repeated laughter during "Brain Damage" and "Speak to Me"; the monologue about "geezers" who were "cruisin' for a brusin" and the often-misheard "I never said I was afraid of dying" (during the middle of "The Great Gig in the Sky") came from Peter's wife, Myfanwy 'Miv' Watts.
The responses "there's no reason for it, you've got to go some time" (during "The Great Gig in the Sky") and closing words "there is no dark side of the Moon really... matter of fact it's all dark" (over the "Eclipse" heartbeats) came from the Abbey Road Studios' Irish doorman at the time, Gerry Driscoll. Paul and Linda McCartney were also interviewed, but their answers were considered too cautious for inclusion. McCartney's bandmate Henry McCullough contributed the famous line "I don't know, I was really drunk at the time".
Alan Parsons engineered the album while on staff at Abbey Road. He once said in an interview that he swapped shifts with colleagues in order to work on the whole project.
The Dark Side of the Moon is one of the best-selling albums of all time worldwide, and the 20th-best-selling album in the United States. It peaked at #1 on The Billboard 200. Though it held the #1 spot for only one week, it spent a record total of 741 consecutive weeks (over 14 years) on that list. It was on the chart from its release until leaving the chart on April 23rd 1988. To this day, it occupies a prominent spot on Billboard's Pop Catalog Chart, reaching #1 when the 2003 Hybrid SACD edition was released and sold 800,000 copies in the U.S. alone. On the week of May 5, 2006, Dark Side of the Moon achieved a combined total of 1500 weeks on the Billboard 200 and Pop Catalog charts.
Sales of the album worldwide total over 40 million as of 2004, with an average of 8,000 copies sold per week and a total of 400,000 in the year of 2002 — making it the 200th-best-selling album of that year nearly three decades after its initial release. It is estimated that one in every 14 people in the U.S. under the age of 50 owns or owned a copy of this album. According to an August 2, 2006 Wall Street Journal article, although the album was released in 1973, it has sold 7.7 million copies since 1991 in the U.S. alone and continues to log 9600 sales per week domestically.
The LP was released before platinum awards were introduced by the RIAA on January 1, 1976, and it initially only received a gold disc. However, after the introduction of the album on CD, Dark Side would eventually be certified Platinum in 1990 and then Diamond by 1999 in America. It is now at 15x Platinum and counting. "Time", "Money" and "Us and Them" remain radio call-in request favourites, with "Money" having sold well as a single in its own right.
The Dark Side of the Moon was re-released as a 30th anniversary Hybrid SACD with a 5.1 channel DSD surround sound version remixed from the original 16-track studio tapes. Some surprise was expressed when longtime producer James Guthrie was called in to make the SACD rather than the original LP engineer, Alan Parsons. This 30th anniversary edition won four Surround Music Awards in 2003, the same year that Rolling Stone magazine named Dark Side of the Moon the 43rd greatest album of all time. The Dark Side of the Moon was also re-released in 2003 on 180-gram virgin vinyl and included reprints of the original posters and stickers that came with the original vinyl release, along with a new 30th anniversary poster.
In 1997, The Dark Side of the Moon was named the 6th greatest album of all time in a 'Music of the Millennium' poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998, Q magazine readers placed it at number 10, while in 2001 the United States cable television channel VH1 placed it at number 51.
In 2006, The Dark Side of the Moon was voted the ultimate life changing track (despite being the only full album in the shortlist) in a Music Club poll conducted by the Jeremy Vine radio show on BBC Radio 2.
Track Listing
- "Speak To Me" (Mason) - 1:00
- "Breathe" (Gilmour/Waters/Wright) - 2:59
- "On The Run" (Gilmour/Waters) - 3:35
- "Time / Breathe (Reprise)" (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright) - 7:04
- "The Great Gig In The Sky" (Wright/Claire Torry) - 4:48
- "Money" (Waters) - 6:24
- "Us And Them" (Waters/Wright) - 7:49
- "Any Colour You Like" (Gilmour/Mason/Wright) - 3:26
- "Brain Damage" (Waters) - 3:50
- "Eclipse" (Waters) - 2:04
The credits to Clare Torry for "The Great Gig in the Sky" were added for the first time in P*U*L*S*E DVD release, due to legal battle won by Torry against Pink Floyd.
- The title The Dark Side of the Moon had already been used for an unrelated album from the band Medicine Head, so this piece was retitled "Eclipse: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics" when it was played live during Pink Floyd's 1972 tour. However, Medicine Head's album flopped, and so the original title was once again used.
- Some more recent editions of the album (including those in the Shine On box set and the live version on initial pressings of P*U*L*S*E) have slightly different songwriting credits: they add Roger Waters' name to "Speak to Me" and "The Great Gig in the Sky", and Richard Wright's name to "On the Run". These credits reverted to their original form by the time of the SACD release in 2003. Subsequent releases may include Clare Torry's name next to Wright's, in recognition of her contributions to "The Great Gig in the Sky" (the aftermath of a court settlement).
- Although now, with the advent of computers, the song "On the Run" could feasibly be played by one person or with one touch of the play button, in the 1970s the song actually required every member of the band on the equipment, adjusting specific knobs at specific times.
- Because the original LP record had two sides, there was a break between "The Great Gig in the Sky" and "Money", which did not exist in live performances. Alan Parsons added a small crossfade between these two tracks for the digitally remastered CD. The remastering was supervised by James Guthrie and Doug Sax.
- Before the album was officially released, the band had been playing a more traditional version of the song "On the Run" (without the use of synthesizers and other electronic instruments) called "The Travel Section." A short clip of this is played on the DVD "Classic Albums: The Making of Dark Side of the Moon" and can also be found on all downloadable versions of Pink Floyd playing the album live in 1972.
- On most CD pressings, a barely-audible orchestral version of The Beatles' "Ticket to Ride" is audible after "Eclipse", playing very faintly over the heartbeats that close the album. It is unknown why this was included, but it was probably the consequence of a mastering error. The bootleg recording A Tree Full of Secrets includes an amplified, re-processed version of this oddity, which allows it to be heard clearly.
- In 2003, VH1 named the album cover of Dark Side of the Moon the 4th greatest of all time. The network's "Classic Albums" series presented an in-depth programme on The Dark Side of the Moon; it was later released on DVD and included interviews with Gilmour, Mason, Waters, Wright, Alan Parsons, Storm Thorgerson and Chris Thomas about the making of the album.
- Dark Side of the Moon was the first Pink Floyd album to have a custom picture label depicting a blue prism with black background with the credits in grey lettering but the US edition's lettering was in white.
- Although many artists have performed individual songs on Dark Side in cover versions, several have chosen to pay tribute to the album by performing it in its entirely. On November 2, 1998, legendary jam-band Phish covered the entire album at one of their smaller concerts before a very pleased crowd of 4,000 in Utah. Likewise jam-band moe. covered the entire album in 2000 at their halloween show in Philadelphia
- In 2000, The Squirrels released The Not So Bright Side of the Moon, their cover of the album. New York reggae label Easy Star All-Stars commissioned a reggae version of the album, entitled Dub Side of the Moon, which closely copied the original Dark Side but added additional material.
- Dream Theater went so far as to release a live DVD containing their cover; although it was not released officially, it is available through the web site YtseJam Records. They performed the show at the Hammersmith Apollo in London during 2005. Guest musicians appearing with the band for this performance included Norbert Satchel from Roger Waters' band and Theresa Thomason on vocals. A previous performance took place in Amsterdam, Holland, but this was not released.
- Humorous tributes to Pink Floyd's work are also common. In 2006, Richard Cheese released his greatest hits album, The Sunny Side of the Moon, which contained a cover version of "Another Brick in the Wall" (originally from the album The Wall). In the "Fairly OddParents" animated television program, Timmy Turner goes to his hippie teacher's yard sale, where he finds an album called Dark Side of the Smoof.
- In 2006, Alan Parsons' original quadrophonic mix of Dark Side appeared online as a download from the master tapes. Despite Parsons' misgivings about this version, which was made in much less time than the stereo mix and without input from the band, it has proved popular with fans.
- Roger Waters' 2006 tour, The Dark Side Of The Moon Live, consists of performances divided into two sets, the second of which constitutes The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety. Nick Mason has agreed to join him and play drums on Dark Side during the shows at Reykjavík, Iceland on June 12; at Cork, Ireland on June 29; at London, England on July 1; at Lucca, Italy on July 12, and at the Magny-Cours F1 Race Circuit in France on July 14.
- At the end of track 5 (or 4, depending on the edition), "The Great Gig in the Sky", with about 13 seconds left the track speeds up to save time. When this is done it puts the music slightly out of tune.
- In 1990, Australian radio listeners voted it the best album to make love to.
- At the Canadian Music Week conference in Toronto, Canada on March 3, 2006, during a Q&A with the audience, engineer Alan Parsons revealed that first-efforts to get a heartbeat sound on the track Eclipse involved Parsons, followed by various members of the band, holding a microphone up to their chests. Not having any success, they found a solution in recording a bass drum with some effects.
- David Gilmour — Vocals, Guitar, VCS 3 Synthesizer, Keyboards
- Roger Waters — Bass Guitar, Vocals, VCS 3 Synthesizer, Tape Effects
- Rick Wright — Keyboards, Vocals, VCS 3 Synthesizer
- Nick Mason — Drums, Percussion, Tape Effects
- Lesley Duncan — Vocals (background)
- Doris Troy — Vocals (background)
- Barry St. John — Vocals (background)
- Liza Strike — Vocals (background)
- Clare Torry — Vocals (on "The Great Gig in the Sky")
- Dick Parry — Saxophone
- Alan Parsons — Engineer
- Peter James — Assistant Engineer
- Chris Thomas — Mixing consultant
- Hipgnosis — Design, Photography
- Storm Thorgerson — 20th and 30th Anniversary Edition Designs
- George Hardie — Illustrations, Sleeve Art
- Jill Furmanosky — Photography
- David Sinclair — Liner Notes in CD re-release
"It's very well-balanced and well-constructed, dynamically and musically, and I think the humanity of its approach is appealing. It's satisfying. I think also that it was the first album of that kind. People often quote S.F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things as being from a similar mould — they were both done in the same studio at about the same time — but I think it was probably the first completely cohesive album that was made. A concept album, mate! I always thought it would be hugely successful. I had the same feelings about The Wall. […] But of course, The Dark Side of the Moon finished The Pink Floyd off once and for all. To be that successful is the aim of every group. And once you've cracked it, it's all over. In hindsight, I think The Pink Floyd was finished as long ago as that." - Roger Waters in June 1987, with Chris Salewicz.
In some countries, notably the UK, Pink Floyd did not release any singles between 1968's "Point Me at the Sky" and 1979's "Another Brick in the Wall (Part Two)". However, the following were released in the U.S. and many other countries:
- "Money"/"Any Colour You Like" — Harvest/Capitol 3609; released June, 1973
- "Time"/"Us and Them" — Harvest/Capitol 45373; released February 4, 1974
The latter is sometimes considered a double A side.
Synchronity With The Wizard Of Oz
When the album is played simultaneously with the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, numerous images from the film appear to synchronize with the music and lyrics. For example, the line "balanced on the biggest wave" from "Breathe" is sung as Dorothy balances on the rail of a pig pen, "who knows which is which" from "Us and Them" is sung as the good and evil witches confront each other, and the closing heartbeats sound as Dorothy listens to the Tin Woodsman's empty chest. Band members say the phenomenon, dubbed "Dark Side of the Rainbow" by fans, is a coincidence, but it has achieved a measure of cultural fame.


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The hotel is within walking distance from the fishing village of Negombo along a stretch of public beach. The hotel is located on a spectacular golden sand beach, fringed by the tropical turquoise sea. It nestles amidst the palm groves of the quaint nearby fishing village. The hotel, with its unspoiled private beach, is the most popular seaside resort in the immediate vicinity of the Bandaranaike International Airport. It is situated 40 km north of Colombo, approximately 30 minutes from Bandaranaike International Airport which is just 7 km away.
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>> Monday, July 28, 2008
Entering is now closed!
"Paisley Pearl & Labradorite Earrings" by Lagaz Designs (Melissa Muir). July 2008. A beautiful pair of earrings that can totally dress up a casual outfit or take you out on a night on the town. All sterling silver wire, with peacock grey freshwater pearls, and faceted labradorite rondelles that have a flash of blue fire.
I'm participating in the Bloggy Giveaways Carnival, and I'm hosting my first giveaway! YAY!
This week I am giving away this pair of gorgeous earrings made by me!
You don't have to be a blogger to participate, although you must leave your name and e-mail in your comment so that I can contact you. Leave it like this if you don't want to be spammed (eg. lagazdesigns AT mts DOT net ). I will ship anywhere, as I want everyone to participate. The draw will be made Aug 1, 2008 @ 6pm CDT. I will give 2 days for the winner to acknowledge, otherwise I will draw again.
- One entry per person (make sure to have valid e-mail address and name in your comment)
- Take a look around my blog, and leave a comment here on which piece of artwork or jewelry you like the most.


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1) Give the land an abandoned house is on to the homeowner next door if they are willing to tear down the other house. This will reduce the number of blighted homes and increase the value of the homes which are remaining.
2) Make Detroit a city of parks, if 1/4th of your land is unoccupied see if you cant get some key owners to shuffle around and build open space, low maintenance parks.
3) just give away the land, and petition the state for grants and low interest loans for people willing to dvelop it..
None of this will work if your city is not being governed well and they need a mayor like Rudy to come along and make sure no more windows get broken..
Re #1 - are most abandoned homes still owned by someone, or have they been seized by the city? If they're bankowned ain't a-gonna be much happening there.
However, I saw a slew of bank-owned homes for under $10k in Detroit. Perhaps offering the homeowner next door that if they buy the bank-owned sh*thole next to them they'll get a break on their taxes a couple years.
There are entire blocks in Youngstown, Ohio's south side where there is one home surrounded by 20 vacant lots where old abandoned homes once were.


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2014-15 PCMR/Canyons season ticket prices
September 12, 2014
Shortly after Vail acquired Park City Mountain Resort for $182.5 million on Thursday morning, it announced that PCMR would be included on the Epic Pass for the 2014-15 ski season.
The Epic Local Pass is currently selling for $569 for adults, $439 for teens and $289 for children. The Epic Local Pass features "unlimited, unrestricted skiing or riding at Breckenridge, Keystone, Afton Alps, Mt. Brighton and Arapahoe Basin with limited restrictions at Canyons, Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood," according to the Vail website. It also includes a total of 10 days at both Vail and Beaver Creek, with holiday restrictions applying to both of those resorts.
According to the website on Thursday afternoon, details of "Epic Local Pass access to Park City [Mountain Resort] will be announced in the coming weeks."
The restricted dates at Canyons are: Nov. 28-29, Dec. 26-31, Jan. 17 and Feb. 14-15.
The normal Epic Pass, with no limits and no restrictions, is currently selling for $749 for adults and $389 for children.
According to an email sent to PCMR season-pass holders on Thursday, existing PCMR season passes will be honored through the season. However, getting a refund is still an option. To inquire about a refund, call 435-649-8111.
PCMR pass holders can also exchange their passes for an Epic Passes, but details about the exchanges weren't available.
To buy an Epic Pass or an Epic Local Pass, visit http://www.snow.com/epic-pass.
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Lookbook: Blair Waldorf-ish9:00 AM
I wore this to celebrate my husband's birthday and what a better present for him to get than me with a bow on top? ;)
I think this is the last item of clothing that I bought at Bebe. I have to say that the store has become, well, not my style. I do still love this dress though and I always get lots of compliments on it.
Dress: Bebe
Cardigan: Rag and Bone
Tights: DKNY
Shoes: Christian Dior
These shoes are a step closer to my bright shoe resolution but I am still on the hunt for a pink or red shoe. I do love the color and the style but the only thing is they are probably one of my most uncomfortable pair of shoes. I have deemed them my office shoes only. I went shopping in them on this day and I was barely able to walk that night!
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A note on my false lashes: I use very full lashes on purpose. I used to get the ones that were shorter and less full but they were no fun to me. I figure if I'm going to with fakes, might as well make them look glam! My husband actually loves my fake lashes and he encourages me to wear them. It's just something fun to add to my look. My girlfriends that wear false lashes wear ones that are much fuller than mine. If we wanted to make them look more "natural" it would be possible but it's all about personal taste and what you are comfortable with. I know that at first you can be pretty self-conscious about them thinking that everyone is staring at your lashes but once you get used to it, you don't even think about it.
It's also a reason why so many celebrities wear false lashes, it's just something that adds glamour to an outfit. Kim Kardashian is a perfect example of really fake lashes but I think it looks good on her as it goes with her personality and the rest of her look.
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adorable. I love the ribbon ....so much better than a store bought version. Loving the falsies too ...I've been tempted to try lash extensions that are semi-permanent but you can't wear mascara with them and my natural eyelashes are blonde ...I don't think it would work. Too bad about the shoes because the are hot!ReplyDelete
I love the ribbon in your hair; so cute!ReplyDelete
I have long lashes but have been wanting to try fake ones...I just have no idea how to put them on! How was your NY Trip?
I love that you paired the rag and bone cardigan with the Bebe dress. It looks fabulous! The ribbon is just too cute. Your lashes always look great!ReplyDelete
what a great dress!! love it and happy birthday to your hubby!!ReplyDelete
i'm jealous of you and everyone else who can do really good makeup - I can't =(. It takes me forever to do mine. Love the shoes btw!ReplyDelete
Luving those shoes!!!! ^_^ReplyDelete
That cardigan is great! I love rag and bone.ReplyDelete
you look adorable with the bow. happy b-day to your hubby! it takes me forever to put on false lashes. i tried the single ones, takes forever to get them on.ReplyDelete
Those lashes look really great! I did try falsies once and looked really freaky so ever since I've been to scared to try them again :( MAC looks like they have some good ones though?ReplyDelete
I love the ribbon in your hair. I will have to try fake eyelashes again some time, I tried it but it kept bothering me when I had them on.ReplyDelete
You look great as always.
This is cute, I really love that dress! I am going to get eyelash extensions before a wedding that I am in this coming August...will keep you posted on how they turn out!ReplyDelete
I think I might give the fake lashes a try on a more daily basis. I have a pair of MAC eyelashes, but I only wore them once, because they felt very heavy. What brand do you suggest?ReplyDelete
I bought a pair of fake lashes a few weeks ago... and have been too nervous to put them on... this post might have just given me that little bit of confidence I need!ReplyDelete
You look so cute with the ribbon. Definitely chanelling Ms. Waldorf. So I gave up on lash extensions but am going to try fakes. I love the way they look but hate how crusty feeling they can get.ReplyDelete
I agree, I don't remember the last time I purchased something from Bebe.ReplyDelete
I love wearing falsies, but save them only for the weekend bc during the week I wear my glasses. Sonia Kushak has some natural looking ones. I usually purchase my falsies from Sally's Beauty Supply.
i think your lashes look great! they look long and full but don't scream 'fake' to me. which is the key...ReplyDelete
i love your shoes! too bad they're not comfortable.ReplyDelete
The ribbon is soo Blair-ishly cute. Love your look.ReplyDelete
you look fabulosReplyDelete
What brand lashes are these?! I want :-)ReplyDelete


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Ahhh, if I had only known October 29th was National Oatmeal Day my whole life, I would have enjoyed this wondrous bowl of goodness so much sooner.
Today, I tried out a bowl of oats I've never had before: Mexican Hot Chocolate Protein Oats a la Janetha!
1/2 cup oats
1 cup water + 1/2 cup skim milk
pinch of salt
1 packet Tera's Whey Fair Trade Dark Chocolate Protein Powder
Lots of cinnamon
drizzle of agave
Dark Chocolate Dreams PB
Chocolate + cinnamon = GLORIOUSLY DELICIOUS.
Look at these beautiful stats + facts…
That would be about 30 grams total of filling protein. Not to mention, 90% of the bowl is organic, locally-made and natural.
Lunch was a yog mess made with homemade Greek yog. If you haven't been keeping up with the joneses – yes, you CAN make your own Greek yog for cheap!
1 cup nonfat organic homemade Greek yog
3/4 cup Kashi Heart2Heart
apple pie spice
1 sliced naner
glob o' Bees Knees PB
That would be another 30 grams of protein in mi estomago (ahem, stomach).
Instead of snacking on the carrots I brought, I instead turned to a big ol' handful of trail mix. Watch out all you female bodybuilders, The Healthy Everythingtarian is on a protein binge!
Eight more grams. Just not enough if I am going to win the Ms. Universe title!
After work, I snarfed down some PB+J toast (12 more grams) before hitting up Target Pharmacy before their 7pm closing time. Now, I am home sipping on Pumpkin Spice Tea, making carrot fries a la mi maestra de espanol (carrots have protein, right? ;)) and getting down to business.
And by business, I mean turning myself into this…
"I'll be back…"
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All NSFW content is hidden. Click here if you want to unhide it.Sudden obsession with Unicorns! and whoa.. O_O;; I have not much to say, really, I'm just in awe how it suddenly turned out so good O_o *shame shame for saying that about own art* but oh well ^.^
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Weather on the Juice?
A common analogy to explain the link between climate change and extreme weather is gambling with "loaded dice." For people who aren't the gambling type but love America's pastime, perhaps Barry Bonds' homerun statistics would be more enlightening, or at least more entertaining. A new video from the National Center for Atmospheric Research draws an analogy between a batter on steroids and the "doping" of the atmosphere with manmade CO2.
January 2012 Newsletter
Click here to view our January 2012 newsletter.
Learn about the Climate Leadership Conference, Australia's new carbon pricing mechanism, the Make an Impact energy conservation challenge, and more in C2ES's January 2012 newsletter.
Global Survey Names C2ES the World's Top Environmental Think Tank
The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) was named the world's top environmental think tank in a global survey of top public policy research institutes.
The University of Pennsylvania's 2011 Global Go-To Think Tank Rankings are based on a survey of more than 1,500 policymakers, scholars, journalists, think-tank executives and others worldwide. The survey assessed more than 5,300 organizations nominated in 30 categories to create a global list of top think tanks by region and policy area.
C2ES's predecessor organization, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, was named the world's top environmental think tank in the same survey in 2009. The center began operating as C2ES in November 2011, and is listed in the new survey under its former name.
"While our name has changed, we remain as committed as ever to fact-based analysis and common-sense solutions to our climate and energy challenges," said C2ES President Eileen Claussen. "We are thrilled to again be recognized as the world's top environmental think tank. I'd like to commend the C2ES staff and thank all of our partners and supporters in the United States and abroad for helping to make this possible."
The independent, nonpartisan center provides impartial information and analysis on energy and climate challenges; convenes policymakers and stakeholders to work toward consensus solutions; works with members of its Business Environmental Leadership Council and others to promote on-the-ground action; and promotes pragmatic, effective climate and energy policies at the state, national and international levels.
The annual survey, first published in 2007, is directed by James G. McGann, assistant director of the University of Pennsylvania's International Relations Program and director of the Think Tanks and Civil Society Program.
The World Resources Institute and Chatham House ranked second and third, respectively, among the study's top 30 environmental groups. Brookings Institution was named the top overall think tank. Additional categories in which the report ranks organizations include health policy, international development, and security and international affairs, among others.
The complete study, released in January 2012, is available online here.
More about C2ES's work to advance climate and energy solutions can be found here.
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Understanding the Link, Managing the Risk
Updated December 2011
by Daniel G. Huber and Jay Gulledge, Ph.D.
Executive Summary:
Thousands of record-breaking weather events worldwide bolster long-term trends of increasing heat waves, heavy precipitation, droughts and wildfires. A combination of observed trends, theoretical understanding of the climate system, and numerical modeling demonstrates that global warming is increasing the risk of these types of events today. Debates about whether single events are "caused" by climate change are illogical, but individual events offer important lessons about society's vulnerabilities to climate change. Reducing the future risk of extreme weather requires reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to changes that are already unavoidable.
Typically, climate change is described in terms of average changes in temperature or precipitation, but most of the social and economic costs associated with climate change will result from shifts in the frequency and severity of extreme events.[1] This fact is illustrated by a large number of costly weather disasters in 2010, which tied 2005 as the warmest year globally since 1880.[2] Incidentally, both years were noted for exceptionally damaging weather events, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the deadly Russian heat wave in 2010. Other remarkable events of 2010 include Pakistan's biggest flood, Canada's warmest year, and Southwest Australia's driest year. 2011 continued in similar form, with "biblical" flooding in Australia, the second hottest summer in U.S. history, devastating drought and wildfires in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona as well as historic flooding in North Dakota, the Lower Mississippi and in the Northeast.[3]
Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurance company, has compiled global disaster for 1980-2010. In its analysis, 2010 had the second-largest (after 2007) number of recorded natural disasters and the fifth-greatest economic losses.[4] Although there were far more deaths from geological disasters—almost entirely from the Haiti earthquake—more than 90 percent of all disasters and 65 percent of associated economic damages were weather and climate related (i.e. high winds, flooding, heavy snowfall, heat waves, droughts, wildfires). In all, 874 weather and climate-related disasters resulted in 68,000 deaths and $99 billion in damages worldwide in 2010.
The fact that 2010 was one of the warmest years on record as well as one of the most disastrous, begs the question: Is global warming causing more extreme weather? The short and simple answer is yes, at least for heat waves and heavy precipitation.[5] But much of the public discussion of this relationship obscures the link behind a misplaced focus on causation of individual weather events. The questions we ask of science are critical: When we ask whether climate change "caused" a particular event, we pose a fundamentally unanswerable question (see Box 1). This fallacy assures that we will often fail to draw connections between individual weather events and climate change, leading us to disregard the real risks of more extreme weather due to global warming.
Climate change is defined by changes in mean climate conditions—that is, the average of hundreds or thousands events over the span of decades. Over the past 30 years, for example, any single weather event could be omitted or added to the record without altering the long-term trend in weather extremes and the statistical relationship between that trend and the rise in global temperatures. Hence, it is illogical to debate the direct climatological link between a single event and the long-term rise in the global average surface temperature.
Nonetheless, individual weather events offer important lessons about social and economic vulnerabilities to climate change. Dismissing an individual event as happenstance because scientists did not link it individually to climate change fosters a dangerously passive attitude toward rising climate risk. The uncertainty about future weather conditions and the illogic of attributing single events to global warming need not stand in the way of action to manage the rising risks associated with extreme weather. Indeed, such uncertainty is why risk managers exist – insurance companies, for example – and risk management is the correct framework for examining the link between global climate change and extreme weather.
An effective risk management framework accommodates uncertainty, takes advantage of learning opportunities to update understanding of risk, and probes today's rare extreme events for useful information about how we should respond to rising risk. Risk management eschews futile attempts to forecast individual chaotic events and focuses on establishing long-term risk certainty; that is, an understanding of what types of risks are increasing and what can be done to minimize future damages. An understanding of the meaning of risk and how it relates to changes in the climate system is crucial to assessing vulnerability and planning for a future characterized by rising risk.
For more on the relationship between extreme weather and climate change, visit our Extreme Weather web page, where you'll find our extreme weather events map, along with other reports and C2ES resources.
[1] Karl, T. R., Meehl, G. A., Miller, C. D., Hassol, S. J., Waple, A. M., & Murray, W. L. (2008). Weather and Cliamte Extremes in a Changing Climate; Regions of Focus: North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific Islands. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. Washington, D.C., USA: Department of Commerce, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.
[2] National Climatic Data Center. (2010, December). State of the Climate Global Analysis: Annual 2010. Retrieved May 19, 2011, from http://1.usa.gov/fxdFai
[3] BBC News. (2011, January 1). Australia's Queensland faces 'biblical' flood. Retrieved May 19, 2011, from http://bbc.in/fNzGgK; Associated Press. (2011, May 1). Federal fire crews bring expertist to huge TX fire. Retrieved May 19, 2011, from http://bit.ly/iz6JRs; Associated Press. (2011, June 16). Concern over human-caused blazes grows as wind-driven wildfires promp more evacuations. Retrieved June 22, 2011, from Washington Post: http://wapo.st/iWxirz; Sulzberger, A.G. (2011, June 26). In Minot, N.D., Flood Waters Stop Rising. Retrieved November 22, 2011, from New York Times: http://nyti.ms/ufT9jY; Doyle, R. (2011, September 8) U.S. sweltered through hottest summer in 75 years. Retrieved November 22, 2011, from USA Today: http://usat.ly/o73h4o; Robertson, C. (2011, May 15). Record Water for a Mississippi River City. Retrieved November 22, 2011, from New York Times: http://nyti.ms/lp0cTA; Freedman, A. (2011, September 12). Historic Flooding Recedes in Pennsylvania, New York; at least 15 dead. Retrieved November 22, 2011, From Washington Post: http://wapo.st/qvywOo
[4] Munich Re. (2011, February). Topics Geo Natural catastrophes 2010: Analyses, assessments, positions. Retrieved May 19, 2011, from http://bit.ly/i5zbut
[5] Karl et al., Weather and Cliamte Extremes in a Changing Climate, Op. cit.
Extreme Weather in 2011
For the second year in a row, unprecedented numbers of extreme weather events have occurred across the globe. However, more of 2011's impacts occurred in the United States. From the drought in Texas to the floods in the Midwest and Northeast, this past year underscored the huge economic costs associated with extreme weather. While specific weather events are not solely caused by climate change, the risks of droughts, floods, extreme precipitation events, and heat waves are already climbing as a result of climate change. This year reminded us of our vulnerability to those events.
December 2011 Newsletter
Click here to view our December 2011 newsletter.
C2ES's December 2011 features updates from the 17th annual Conference of the Parties (COP17) in Durban, South Africa, policy options for a clean energy standard, a blog post on the landmark new fuel economy standards, and more.
Drowning and Drought: Extreme Weather Impacts on our Economy and Society
Friday, December 2, 2011
12:30 -2:00 pm
B-339 Rayburn House Office Building
2011 has been a record year for weather disasters. From historic drought in Texas to record-breaking flooding in North Dakota, to an unprecedented number (> 5600) of record high temperatures across the United States, much of the country has seen severe damage from extreme weather. The year is not yet over, and economic losses already exceed $45 billion.
This lunch briefing with leading experts examines extreme weather hazards, with a case study on the Texas drought, their relationship to changes in our climate, and how the country can better prepare for such events. Speakers at this lunch briefing include:
- Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University; Coordinating Lead Author, IPCC Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
- John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas State Climatologist and Regents Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
- Frank Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of America
Moderated by Jay Gulledge, Senior Scientist and Director for Science and Impacts, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES).
That's One Small Step for the IPCC; One Giant Leap for Understanding Our Climate Risk
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a "special report" (that's what they call topical reports they publish in between their better known comprehensive assessments) today that is worth a close look for anyone who wants to start getting ready for a future with weirder and often harsher weather.
About a year ago I published an opinion editorial taking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to task for neglecting risk-based information to help decision makers cope with inevitable uncertainties about the future impacts of climate change:
Since uncertainty is endemic to the future, when the second IPCC assessment concluded in 1995 that 'The balance of evidence suggests a discernable human influence on the global climate', the IPCC should have reconvened around the risk implications of this probable human influence. Instead, it redoubled its effort to reduce physical science uncertainties [which will not be resolved before action is required].
Yes, You've Come to the Right Place
For those of you who came to our website today expecting to find information and resources from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, please don't click away. Today we announced an exciting transition. We are now C2ES — the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. In addition to changing our name, we've refreshed our mission and strategic approach, updated our website, and made other changes to ensure that we can continue to craft real solutions to the energy and climate challenges we face today.
Yes, a great deal has changed in the last 24 hours. But what hasn't changed is the need for straight talk, common sense and common ground. Today's climate and energy issues present us with real challenges — and real opportunities as well. This is about protecting the environment, our communities and our economy. And it is about building the foundation for a prosperous and sustainable future.
GHG Intensity
Greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity is a measure of the amount of emissions relative to GDP. it is highest in Russia and China with the United States below the world average.
Sources: International Energy Agency, Key World Energy Statistics (2015)
International Energy Agency, CO2 Highlights (2015)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, International Non CO2 Projections (2015)


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ANAHEIM, Calif. – The preference, of course, is not to be 5½ games out of first place with 26 games to play, and not to be only two games clear of the playoffs, and not to have an offense that shut down about the time the school buses started to roll.
That would be the first choice.
Were all that to be true, however, if indeed the Boston Red Sox were running off with the AL East and the Baltimore Orioles were a bit too close and Evan Longoria was hitting .170 over the past two weeks, you'd want the man out in front to quote Sister Suzanne from seventh grade as often as he did Winston Churchill from "The Great War." You'd want him to wear a T-shirt that ordered, "Be Yorselv", exactly like that, the way it sounds when his shortstop gleefully shouts it out, and to admit he doesn't read the papers when he's losing, explaining, "I'm not a masochist."
You'd want him to have rehabbed half the men on the roster, or so it sometimes seems, taken them off other rosters and shined 'em up and told them to go out and have fun and just, yeah, be yorselv and it'll all work out.
That's the guy you'd want. Not some mope who'd squeeze the life out of a lineup card and rub your nose in the screw-ups that come with the game whether you're 5½ up and pulling away or 5½ back and losing ground.
So Joe Maddon is sitting in the visitor's dugout an hour before game time Tuesday night here, his Tampa Bay Rays having lost eight of nine, his boys struggling to score two runs a game, his bullpen the night before consisting of four pitchers and one situational outfielder. The Rays had had themselves a good week-and-a-half of free fall, the sort of thing other teams do in September, but generally not the Rays.
[Related: 2013 MLB postseason schedule]
And there is, he's saying, only one way to slow it down, to get it turned, to push this all out of their heads.
"This has happened before, is my point," he says, meaning it happens plenty, but it happened significantly two years ago, when the Red Sox were way ahead and the Rays famously made them pay for that. "You just keep going, keep going through it. You just don't stop. If you do, then eventually you're speaking German."
That's where Churchill comes in, actually, a reference to the quote, "If you're going through hell, just keep on going." This, as Maddon points out, is not intended to lay baseball beside war, not at all, not ever. He's a Churchill guy, is all. Named his English Bulldog Winston. When he gets a female bulldog, he's going to name her Clementine, after Sir Winston's wife of 56 years. Until then ol' Winston's on his own.
So, keep going. And point no fingers. This is where Sister Suzanne appears in the story, as she taught young Joey back in Hazleton, Pa. that a finger directed at a culprit meant three pointed back at oneself.
"She was outstanding," Maddon says.
These are the rules of the Rays' clubhouse in the best of times, and so they of course apply today, when the whole thing might be going to pieces. And they lead to Maddon summoning outfielder Sam Fuld – part Tony Fossas, part Craig Breslow – for the final out Monday night, when the deficit was 11-2 and, given the results of the previous 10 days, seemed worse.
Fuld had gone to the bullpen to warm up thinking there was no way he would pitch and then the phone rang and, he said, "My heart raced."
As he covered the ground from the left-field warning track to the mound with all those people staring, he said, "For the first time in my life I was concerned with how I looked running."
With his grinning teammates looking on, Fuld threw five pitches, enough of them for strikes, the last of which was popped into center field for an out. Given now that his career ERA after one career batter was 0.00, he was asked if he was tempted to offer tips to the real pitchers, and Fuld said, "No. Because I don't want pitchers giving me advice if they happen to run into one."
He laughed, just like everyone had at the end of a brutal day, even if it's against the baseball code to do anything but eat and brood after a loss. Because alongside what Maddon does on the top step, where he's had a lead role in turning a pathetic franchise into something far more dignified, he's also brought wonderful perspective. The game is important. It does not define you.
"It's easy to fall into that trap," Fuld said. "We all understand how much it means to people and it means to us to win. In baseball, though, you do better when you try easier."
Maddon would love that, undoubtedly. Try easier.
It's worked before, and in this very clubhouse. He expects it will again.
"I mean, you never know," he says. "You're just looking for that thing that does turn things around."


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Nissan announced today their intention to showcase their unique prototype at the American Le Mans Series season finale. One of the two crown jewels in the Georgia-based sportscar series always has a sold out audience for the 1,000 miles or 10 hour race, whichever comes first. This will mark the second race that the DeltaWing will contest. The first of course was the 24 Hours of Le Mans race that was also an FIA World Endurance Championship event.
The first race for the DeltaWing was the 24 Hours of Le Mans under "experimental" with the number zero and had it finish the challenging event on the La Sarthe circuit, the team and drivers could not score points. After being forced out of the Le Mans race due to a crash, Nissan is pleased to announce the news that the DeltaWing will participate in the Petit Le Mans event on the Road Atlanta road course.
We will get the chance to show the US fans just how cool this car is ...
"Le Mans was a huge success for us - the car did everything we wanted it to do and more, proving that the pioneering technology we were testing in the world's most public laboratory works and is a viable option for the future sustainability of motorsport," said Darren Cox, General Manager, Nissan in Europe.
Nissan DeltaWing's visionary creator, Ben Bowlby, said: "At Petit Le Mans, we will get the chance to show the US fans just how cool this car is but also the chance to prove that it works on a much tighter, twistier road course, rather than the flat-out, 300kmh, Le Mans-style racetrack. It's important for us to gain in lap experience, testing and driver feedback and really validate the whole concept."
In Nashville, Tennessee, Nissan Americas Vice Chairman Bill Krueger was pleased to announce the news of the DeltaWing's new adventure. Per Nissan, they have 'unfinished business'.
Indeed they do! No one will forget the scene of their Japanese driver, Satoshi Motoyama, working valiantly to repair the car and drive it back to the pits. Team members could only stay behind the fence and had him the tools and walk him through the procedure. For at least, if not more, than 90 minutes, the Nismo driver finally had to admit defeat.
Speaking about the team's withdrawal in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Cox said, "The only thing that didn't go our way was the way the race ended for us, which was entirely out of our control. Because we'd proven the technology worked, it was hard to be too disappointed, but we were blown away by the level of support and goodwill that came our way from the fans so now we feel we owe it to them to race again."
Unfortunately the three drivers who took on the first race challenge have previous commitments; therefore Motoyama, Marino Franchitti, and Michael Krumm will not contest the Petit Le Mans event. Lucas Ordonez and Gunnar Jeannette have been confirmed as two of their drivers.
ALMS founder Dr. Don Panoz was behind the DeltaWing aka 'Project 56' from the start, and he commented: "Petit Le Mans has built up a reputation as one of the largest sportscar races in the world. Every section of the Nissan organisation has supported this car and I think the fans will love getting to see what Racer magazine called a 'gamechanger'."
The recent merger between the Grand-Am Road Racing Rolex Series and the ALMS may open more doors for unique prototypes. It was noted at the time the two top American-based sportscar series that indeed the DeltaWing would be classified to contest the new future series in 2014. Today's news gave the full picture that the radical car will race in 2013 – the final year of separation between the two series.
Besides Panoz and Bowlby, the key partners for the DeltaWing include Chip Ganassi who is the owner of teams in both the Rolex series and IndyCar, Highcroft Racing team owner Duncan Dayton, and Dan Gurney's All-American Racers organisation. The official tire partner is Michelin.
Panoz confirmed the future by saying, "The DeltaWing can race in the 2013 American Le Mans Series and it is part of the merger agreement for ALMS and GRAND-AM. Safety and performance standards have to be achieved, but it needs to be reviewed. For 2014, the new series would incorporate Daytona prototypes, Le Mans prototypes, and maybe even a DeltaWing."


text: Simoco appoints Gary Correia as VP for Americas region08 Sep 2014 02:39 PM Two-way mobile radio specialist boosts management team to drive next growth phase across North and South AmericaSimoco Group has announced a senior staff appointment as part of its plans to drive international growth in the radio communications sector. Gary Correia joins the group as vice president, Americas with the remit to develop the radio system designer and manufacturer's presence in North and South America.Simoco, an established global player in the radio communications industry, has set out a strategy for further international expansion with the Americas region forming a key part of its immediate plans.Correia, who has over 20 years' experience with roles at EF Johnson, Harris and Tait, will drive further growth in this region with his initial responsibilities involving strengthening the local team with a number of new hires and demonstrating Simoco's experience across sectors including public safety, utilities and transportation."It's the right time to be joining Simoco – we are seeing the results of two years' worth of significant investment in R&D and have a rich pipeline of new products and applications," said Correia. "This means that we have a strong proposition to take to the market. I know what this region wants from its radio systems and I'm confident that we can deliver innovative and cost effective options to partners and end customers."Simoco Group CEO Ian Carr, commented: "We are committed to expanding our presence in the Americas region and will continue to invest resource to develop our team and brand and ensure that we continue to grow our market share. Gary's experience and knowledge means that we can make sure that our offer is regionalized and relevant to this market and that we can deliver local support to our partners and customers."Simoco's current range of products incorporates DMR, P25 and proprietary Xfin technologies with the company's deployments including radio systems for Sedona Fire District, Bahrain Airport and the Government of Malaysia.James Atkinson EditorLinkedIn |Google + |Email Leave a CommentPlease write code to prove you're humanMore on... DMRPennine delivers Hytera radio solution at Etihad Stadium in ManchesterHytera Mobilfunk to provide DMR radio coverage for Metro Barcelona Birds Eye chooses Hytera IP-linked DMR system to aid pea harvestMore on... Critical CommunicationsFinland and Norway sign cross-border TETRA communication dealCC Europe 2017: Hytera showcasing new base station and handheld radioMore on... SimocoSimoco roll outs 80 site DMR Tier III network in CanadaSimoco launches Xd 700 Series of DMR portable and mobile radiosLatest in PMRPennine delivers Hytera radio solution at Etihad Stadium in ManchesterTCCA pinpoints key focus areas for LTE-based critical communicationsTait appoints Andrew Gill as managing director of EMEA region


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Taylor Swift Performs With Ed Sheeran, B.o.B. at NYC Jingle Ball
Taylor Swift capped off her busy week – hosting the Grammy nominations concert and holding hands with One Direction's Harry Styles- by performing at the Z100 Jingle Ball in NYC last night (Dec. 7.) She performed with collaborators Ed Sheeran and B.o.B.


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