Amazing-moments

Every year, there are thousands of car accidents on New York highways, and a high percentage of those accidents result in personal injuriess In 2005, there were more than 225,000 motor vehicle accidents resulting in more than 1,300 traffic fatalities in the state of New York. At David Resnick & Associates, PC, our New York-based attorneys, serving the New York City area including Brooklyn and the Bronx, have an impressive track record representing people who have suffered significant injuries in car accidents across the state.

Some Remembering 01

Swimming for recreation and competition is popular the world over. Whether it be in a pool, lake or ocean, people enjoy spending time in the water. Holding your breath underwater is an element of swimming that some are better at than others. There is a certain state of mind that enables some people to stay under for long periods of time. There are also exercises that can help you hold your breath underwater longer.

Some Remembering Pics

Visitors walk through an ice cavern in the Rhone glacier, near Belvedere, Canton of Valais, Switzerland. The glacier has lost an estimated 1,300 m in length during the last 120 years
Picture: EPA

Clouds Formation

Nature has always been a source of inspiration for designers to look at things differently.

We all know that a tree doesn’t always have green leaves, water is not blue and clouds are certainly not always white and puffy. As designers, we need to know to look beyond the obvious when looking at things.

Cloud formations such as mammatus or lenticular among others, are perfect examples of how intricate and different nature can be. There are even so called ‘ufo clouds’, which truly resemble the shape of a UFO.

In this post, we take a look at some amazing photographs of the weirdest cloud formations that you’ll ever see, that are destined to inspire your design work and surely blow your mind.

The Weirdest Clouds Formation

Amazing Cloud Formations!
Filed under: Travels — Randel at 8:00 am on Wednesday, July 15, 2009

As we were preparing to leave Puppet Fest MidWest at the North Central Missouri College, a storm front blew in with some of the strangest cloud formations I have ever seen. The following photos capture some of the awesome nature of these clouds, but cannot convey the panorama and drama that we saw.

Sand fun artists

Sand fun artists True grit: US artist Jim Denevan walked in circles for more than 100 miles to make the massive piece of sand art in the Nevada Desert Making three trips to Nevada's scorching Black Rock salt plain and taking a total of nine days, the Californian artist walked more than 100 miles scraping his designs onto the desert floor. Denevan discovered his talent for sand art more than ten years ago when he idly picked up a stick and drew a 12ft long fish. Since then he has created more than 600 sand drawings and walked at least 1,800 miles.

The Second World War (WWII) Motorcycles

BMW Motorcycles in World War II: The R12/R75
The heavy "Kriegselefanten" (war elephants) BMW R 75 with its powered side car is now presented in full detail. In over 220 photographs, most unpublished, this book shows the history of the R75 in actino from the deserts of North Africa to the wintry steppes of Russia.
Almost every situation in which the R 75 was used in combat is shown in these exceptional photographs - much interesting and new information is presented. Also, the Wehrmacht service which used the middle and heavy BMW motocycles such as the R 16 or R 12, which were the precursors of the R 75, are shown. A former German sereant of a motorcycle company gives his combat experiences with the R 75, while German army documents give a view into the technical details of motorcycle combat operations. Exact technical drawings and photographs, along with detailed descriptions, intorduce the reader to the technical aspects of the R 75. The technical section presents the complete data on the R 75 and gives a listing of all middle and heavy BMW 2 cylinder production motorcycles and their variants.

Pre-War Cars

The pre-war cars part of the classic era began with the Great Depression in 1930, and ended with the recovery after World War II, commonly placed at 1948. It was in this period that integrated fenders and fully-closed bodies began to dominate sales, with the new saloon/sedan body style even incorporating a trunk or boot at the rear for storage. The old open-top runabouts, phaetons, and touring cars were phased out by the end of the classic era as wings, running boards, and headlights were gradually integrated with the body of the car.
By the 1930s, most of the mechanical technology used in today's automobiles had been invented, although some things were later "re-invented", and credited to someone else. For example, front-wheel drive was re-introduced by André Citroën with the launch of the Traction Avant in 1934, though it had appeared several years earlier in road cars made by Alvis and Cord, and in racing cars by Miller (and may have appeared as early as 1897). In the same vein, independent suspension was originally conceived by Amédée Bollée in 1873, but not put in production until appearing on the low-volume Mercedes-Benz 380 in 1933, which prodded American makers to use it more widely.[23] In 1930, the number of auto manufacturers declined sharply as the industry consolidated and matured, thanks in part to the effects of the Great Depression.