Delahaye USA Provides Elegance Styling with Modern Drivability
There’s a company in Long Valley, New Jersey that has taken restoration to a whole new level. Delahaye USA, a division of Appleton Productions, Inc, is the only company that specializes in recreating the most beautiful classic coachbuilt cars ever built with hand-crafted aluminum bodies, but with modern goodies.
Arguably some of the best looking cars were built in the thirty’s, and Delahaya USA is taking advantage of some of the European cars built in that era.
Delahaye USA combines classic flowing design with contemporary functional excellence. Conveniences such as power windows, power convertible top, six-way driver’s seat, power rumble seats, symphonic sound systems, cruise control, hidden GPS systems, automatic transmissions, air conditioning, power brakes, and power steering are just some of the standard equipment. Retractable windshields are even available on some models.
They’re taking the old, beautiful cars of way back when, and making them drivable by today’s standards.
Thank you to shotaku@Flickr of Missouri, USA for sharing today”s photograph (via Flickr BPotD Pool | original image). Appreciated, as always!
Not all horticultural success stories turn out well in the end. Voted by the US National Landscape Association in 1982 as the second-most popular tree in the USA, ”Bradford” pear has fallen into disrepute. It has prompted such article titles as, “The Pros & Cons of Bradford Pears”, ” Who Let the Pears Out?”, and perhaps most ominously, “The Coming Plague of Pears” (thanks to Michael F for suggesting the latter two links on the UBC forums recently). Long story short: near-ideal street-tree planting due to disease resistance, lack of fruit production, fast-growth and adaptability turns out to have a weak growth structure for resisting ice and wind as well as fruit production when other related cultivars are introduced and cross-pollination can take place. The latter quality, combined with its adaptibility, is now revealing the invasive potential of the plant. It is now recommended in some areas to avoid planting new trees, as well as removing established ones.
“The problem with Roman de Gare,” writes David Denby in the New Yorker, “is that the tale grabs you more than the telling….. By the end – which, true to form, feels cheerful but insubstantial – the film is relying on the charms of its cast.”
“Claude Lelouch”s A Man and a Woman may be one of the silliest love songs in the canon of French fluff, but 42 years on, it gets a beguiling makeover in this new souffle from the director, who seizes the day both to trade on and shake off his enduring reputation as France”s reigning romantic airhead,” writes Ella Taylor in the Voice. “[T]his goofy tale of self-emancipation, a love story made by a mature man wise to the possibilities of the improbable, is also a thriller with an unexpectedly dark edge.”
Money itself isn’t lost or made, it’s simply transferred from one perception to another. – Gordon Gekko
In the past nine months, Wall Street banks have laid off 34,463 people. Bloomberg.com has the statistics posted today from each of the big firms. The article compares the most recent downturn to the Internet bubble burst in 2001 – with predictions that over 100,000 will lose jobs in the next few years. If you are one of those people, take a look at this advice from getrichslow.com.
What does 34,463 people look like? It is larger than a U.S. Army division, it is the capacity of Tampa Bay Ray’s new ball park, and is greater than the number of people living in Seneca County, New York. It is as if the entire city of Prescott, Arizona was fired. 34,463 is a lot of people.
If you could give advice to these people, what would it be?
Do you feel safe when dating online? My personal experience is that online dating was no more dangerous than other types of dating. Any time you meet someone new (a stranger, for all intents and purposes) you’ve GOT to be careful. This is the same whether you’re meeting a friend of a friend, someone you chat with online, or contact through a profile.
While you shouldn’t let fear paralyze you when meeting new people, you do have to be careful. This is especially true with meeting people online. No matter how many times we talk about safety, there is always a story lurking in the paper about someone who got duped by a guy or girl they met online. And it doesn’t have to be that way.
To that end, the experts at Looking For Love have posted “ten safety tips to make your online dating experience secure, user-friendly, and safe.” These are great, common sense tips to help remind you to keep your wits about you. The first one listed is key: use a reputable site. But I like the fifth one the best: use caution.
I’ll add one to this list: just because you email someone doesn’t mean you know him or her. It takes time to see them in different situations before you begin to get to know them. Until then, go slowly and cautiously.
I came for the winters and stayed for the summers. That’s what Summit County locals say when they explain why they moved to this area. If you’re looking for a summer vacation destination that combines the great outdoors, the arts and culture, look no further than this scenic and exciting area of Colorado.
Summit County is comprised of Breckenridge, Keystone, Dillon, Frisco, Copper Mountain and Silverthorne. The fact that most people consider this a ski and snowboard destination is good news for the budget traveler. Come summer, prices on lodging drop dramatically. But that’s not the only good news. Summer temperatures in Summit County average 70 degrees, and there is no such thing as humidity. Popular activities include hiking, fishing, camping and cultural events.
The Breckenridge Heritage Alliance features free museum tours, and walking and mining tours for a nominal fee. Visit during June 14 and 15, and participate in the historic Kingdom of Breckenridge event.
Admission is free!
The Backstage Theatre has an exciting summer repertoire. There are free concerts at the Lake Dillon Marina, and orchestral performances at the Riverwalk Theatre.
As if this was not enough, a look at the exciting activities in Keystone!
James Van Maanen offers his take on a last couple of films screening in the Spanish Cinema Now series before his final wrap-up.
Foolishly, as it turns out, I was putting off watching Septembers (Septiembres), the new documentary by Carlos Bosch, because I had been unimpressed with his Academy Award-nominated Balseros of a few years back. That fleeing-from-Cuba film was so disjointed and all-over-the-place that I could not keep up with who was who, where we were, or just about anything else I saw through the miasma of crummy photography and editing. Granted, that whole documentary must have needed to be filmed on the sly, since everyone involved, including Bosch, was breaking Cuban law.
No worries this time out, as Bosch appears to have gained legal entry into several Spanish prisons to tell his story of various inmates who compete in and hope to win the yearly Festival of Song contest, in which they karaoke to wonderful songs, some known here in the US, most not. As fine as a few of the performers are (particularly the woman who has won these contests for several years running – by the finale when she sings “Fly Me to the Moon,” never one of my favorites, I was a convert), Septembers is not really about the songs or the contest but is instead about the performers.
What characteristics does it take to be an entrepreneur?
The Start Up Blog has a list of 5 characteristics that are present in entrepreneurs.
There is one thing I would add to list and that is having a thick skin. Most entrepreneurs are told over and over again that they are going to be failures. Other people will ask them when they are going to get a real job. There is many reasons why people say negative things to entrepreneurs. Some are just jealous that someone else is able to make the jump and they do not have the courage to do it. Others are like my father who had one primary job most of his life and until he passed away in 2004 thought that the concept of having one job and retiring from that job still existed.
Entrepreneurs have to willing to let this negativity to pass them without letting it affect them. The best way to put those naysayers behind you is to become the success you are capable of.
When the Roxy girls light up the best surf spots on the globe, the SHIMMER is blinding…Join superstars Megan Abubo, Chelsea Geor When the Roxy girls light up the best surf spots on the globe, the SHIMMER is blinding…Join superstars Megan Abubo, Chelsea Georgeson, and Sofia Mulanovich as they create sparks in Indonesia, Fiji, Australia, and Hawaii.
See rising stars Caroline Sarran, Veronica Kay, Rosie Hodge, and Carly Smith blaze trails at home and abroad. Watch longboarding’s leading ladies Kassia Meador, Kula Barbieto and Crystal Dzigas charge glassy peaks from Waikiki to the Mentawais, their every ride infused with power, beauty and grace. And Roxy’s own leading legend, four-time world champion Lisa Anderson, lights the way for an international team of gifted youngsters led by Hawaii’s Carissa Moore, who shows us just how bright their future will be. As an added bonus, witness exclusive footage of the Roxy Pro Fiji – some of the best professional women’s contest surfing to date.
Lured from the shores of the world to shimmering seas, the Roxy team shines. A film by Roxy Executive Producers Randy Hild and Bruce Raymond Directed by Jason Muir and Lowen Taylore Producers Blake Copland and Mark Warren Supervising Producers Danielle Beck and George Opadchy Director of Photography Sonny Miller Creative Field Director and Photography Jeff Hornbaker Music Supervisor Andrew Valder Art Direction Jim Poore www.roxy.com
“Shotgun Stories is broadly in the category of what we sniggering urbanites used to call ”deadbeat regionalism” (before the indie movement was kicked into the mainstream by Quentin Tarantino and Harvey Weinstein),” writes New York”s David Edelstein. “But the sensibility here is more subversive, more attuned to the South”s subliminal violence. Adam Stone”s wide-screen cinematography captures the heat and the corrosive moisture, the lush green of the cotton fields and the rust of the pickup trucks, the natural beauty juxtaposed with the unnatural human debris….. Shotgun Stories has a flawless cast, but it”s the peculiarity of Michael Shannon that keeps it from becoming too obvious.”
April 28th, 2008 
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