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Flightradar24.com - Live flight tracker! Retronaut - See the past like you wouldn't believe. Powder Highway Road Trip – Stop #6 – Golden Alpine Holidays, BC (Photos + Video) Skier Lynsey Dyer touring with Golden Alpine Holidays, British Columbia; Photograph by Will Wissman See previous dispatches from the Powder Highway Road Trip >> A remote lodge trip may be the signature experience of the Powder Highway. Enough of my friends have returned home, minds blown, from a weeklong trip to interior B.C. Few regions in the world are blessed with so much cold, dry snow; and when you’re sequestered for a week surrounded by fine, mountain-loving people who want to shred pow, it’s likely gonna be a REAL good time! Powder Highway dispatch #6 / Golden Alpine Holidays from Stellar Media on Vimeo. A ten-day mission to the Vista Lodge in the Esplanade Range proved no different. Golden Alpine Holidays, British Columbia; Photograph by Will Wissman Golden Alpine Holidays‘ Vista Lodge is part of a system of huts in the area. Every good hut trip has a ring leader to bring all people together. Golden Alpine Holiday Local Vitals Gourmet casual: It’s a special treat to bring in a chef.

Map Dive Plain A landscape from the Pannonian Plain - Farm on the Hortobágy, Hungary In geography, a plain is a large area of land with no hills or mountains. Plains mostly are more suitable for farming than plateaus or mountains. Plongez sous les pôles ! - Sport et aventure Votre participation nous permettra de préparer le voilier qui nous accompagnera pendant ces 22 mois. Avant de partir pour les régions polaires, celui qui va devenir le camp de base de nos plongées arctiques nécessite des adaptations. Elles devront être terminées avant l'été afin d'effectuer une première série d'essais en mer. A l'automne aura lieu un dernier chantier afin de préparer le départ en janvier 2014. La préparation du voilier s'élève à 30 000 € : c'est donc notre objectif pour cette campagne ! Les 20 000 premiers euros récoltés sur My Major Company nous permettront d'installer le chauffage à bord ainsi qu'une cuve de gasoil supplémentaire. Pendant l'été, nous effectuerons de nombreux essais en mer dans la Baie de Concarneau et au large de l'Archipel des Glénan où se trouve le centre de plongée qui nous a formé. En décembre, nous baptiserons le voilier à Concarneau.

MapsTD Again But Slower Dot Com I saw this xkcd comic recently, and it made me want to be able to see Wikipedia articles side-by-side with their "simple" counterparts. "Simple English Wikipedia is a version of the Wikipedia encyclopedia, written in Simple English and started in 2004. The encyclopedia is supposed to be used by children, who might not understand the complicated articles in the English Wikipedia, and other people who are still learning English." To see articles side-by-side, type an article name in the box (for example, War, or Peace, or Chocolate). Or, paste the article's URL directly from wikipedia (for example, Then click the "Again, but slower" button. You can also try some examples by choosing one from the pulldown list above. Feel free to email me with any questions, comments, suggestions, etc.!

Video: Everest-Bound Speed Climber Ueli Steck Learns to Fly for an Alps Triple Link-Up Ueli Steck is hard to please. The man, known as “the Swiss Machine,” seems insatiable in his quest to push the limits of speed climbing. His latest vision led him to learn to paraglide in his home country of Switzerland. The goal was to climb three peaks—the Alps’ iconic Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau—in one day, connecting from summit to the base of the next mountain by paraglider. Adventure: You are fastidious in the design of your gear to be extra light. Ueli Steck: No, I just used a regular glider from Ozone. A: How much weight does your paraglider add to your pack? U.S.: The glider and the harness together weigh around 2.6 kilograms. A: Is it hard to control the paraglider in the strong winds at the summit? U.S.: You need the perfect conditions, otherwise you can not take off. The difficult part is to start and fly off the mountain. A: You climbed Everest without supplemental oxygen last year. U.S.: This would be really hard. A: It would be more safe to fly down Everest, right? U.S.

Matthew B Crawford, Eloge du carburateur. Essai sur le sens et la valeur du travail 1Voici un livre profondément original et terriblement dérangeant. Terriblement dérangeant : il s'agit d'un plaidoyer en faveur du travail manuel, qui déroule une critique implacable des politiques systématiques d'allongement de la scolarité et des visions optimistes qui conçoivent l'avenir du travail sous la forme radieuse de la « société de la connaissance », et de son armée de « manipulateurs de symboles » et de travailleurs intellectuels. Profondément original : l'auteur expose avec un mode d'argumentation extrêmement intéressant et totalement approprié à son objet - le plus éloigné que l'on puisse imaginer du jargon et de l'abstraction - les raisons pour lesquelles nos sociétés ont oublié non seulement les conditions de ce qu'est un bon travail mais également le fait que celui-ci est un élément constitutif d'une vie bonne. 3Que s'est-il passé ? 1 Jürgen Habermas, La crise de l'Etat-Providence, Ecrits politiques, Cerf, 1990, p. 113 11Pourquoi ? 3 Dominique Méda, Travail.

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