Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: battlements, castles, France, French architecture, Tour de France
French architecture
ramparts, strongholds and castles
memories of war
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bakken, Keystone, Lac-Megantic, oil transportation, shale oil, tight oil
Investigators say they’ve recovered the “black box” that should help determine what happened before a Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd. train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in a Quebec town, killing at least five people.
The train with 72 carloads of crude oil crashed and burst into flames early Saturday near the center of Lac-Megantic, in the southeastern part of the province, forcing the evacuation of 2,000 people, police said. Forty people remain unaccounted for and a criminal investigation is under way.
via Black Box Recovered in Fatal Quebec Oil Train Explosion – Bloomberg.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Greipel, Kittel, Mark Cavendish, new era, pro cycling, Scientology, Tom Cruise, Top Gun, totally clean now, Tour de France
He left his leadout
Like Mav’rick left the Iceman
Then took a hard left
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Dan Martin, doping, EPO, Garmin-Sharp, Tom Danielson, Tour de France, Vaughters
Two thousand seven
After which nobody doped
Before which all did
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bakken, Lac-Megantic, oil transportation, Quebec, train derailment
Okay, this makes a lot more sense. Sorry about the confusion. Still a mystery however.
The cause of the accident was believed to be a runaway train, the railway’s operator said. The president and CEO of Rail World Inc., the parent company of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, said the train had been parked uphill of Lac-Megantic. The tanker cars then sped downhill into the town before derailing.
“If brakes aren’t properly applied on a train, it’s going to run away,” said Edward Burkhardt. “But we think the brakes were properly applied on this train.”
Burkhardt, who was mystified by the disaster, said the train was parked because the engineer had finished his run.
“We’ve had a very good safety record for these 10 years,” he said of the decade-old railroad. “Well, I think we’ve blown it here.”
via Quebec police: 5 dead in oil train derailment – SFGate.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Cadel Evans, Contador, Froome, Team Skye, Tour de France
the sky opened up
competition disappeared
the race died today
Anybody ever heard of a driverless train being used, loaded with hazardous materials? Several obvious problems with that scheme.
Rail company spokesman Christophe Journet said the train had been immobilised in a neighbouring village before a scheduled crew change, but for an unknown reason had then started rolling downhill into Lac-Megantic.
Eye witnesses said that by the time the driverless train reached the town it was travelling at considerable speed.
Local media reported 60 people missing, although police officials have not confirmed this.
via BBC News – Canada train blast: At least one dead in Lac-Megantic.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Daryl Funk, Lusaka West, micro-financing, Zambia, Zambikes, Zambulance
Today, as director of research and development for Zambikes, he has helped build and distribute more than 8,000 bikes throughout Zambia since 2007. Zambikes employs 42 locals at its 20-acre facility in Zambia’s Lusaka West, which serves as a warehouse, workplace and community center. Workers there make trailers, affordable bikes and pricier bamboo bikes that sell elsewhere. The durable Zambikes, which can be purchased through innovative micro-financing programs, are gateways to health and prosperity, enabling local villagers to get their kids to school, their sick to clinics and their farm produce and handmade goods to market.
“We think we have found the answer to poverty,” says Funk, who spends half his year in Zambia and more recently at Zambikes’ newest operation in Uganda. “We are not trying to make money, but we are not giving away our bikes. We didn’t go there because the margins are great. We went there primarily to create jobs.”
Plus, the Zambulance saves lives.
via Denver bike maker Daryl Funk designs affordable Zambikes for Zambians – The Denver Post.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: camera of shame, Cannondale, Cavendish, Sagan, shame, Tour de France
Camera of Shame
Following Mark Cavendish
Sagan sweeps the points
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2013 Tour de France, Greipel, Montpellier, Saving Private Ryan, Speilberg, Spielberg, Tour de France
Andre Greipel played
the soldier who pushed the knife
in Spielberg’s movie
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, Community Office for Resource Energy Efficiency, Mark Udall, Randy Udall, Wind River
A big loss for his family and everyone else.
Randy Udall had hiked the Wind River Range in Wyoming for more than 30 years, often going up once a month to fish and climb. His climbing exploits, along with many others, were chronicled in the book “Climb: Tales of Man Versus Boulder, Crag, Wall and Peak.” He always left his route details with family, and early indications are that he stuck to the plan on this hike as well.
A long-time advocate for renewable energy, Udall helped found the nonprofit Community Office for Resource Energy Efficiency, which promotes the use of renewable energy in western Colorado. He also was the co-founder of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas and was one of the oil experts interviewed by the National Petroleum Council when they researched their 2007 report called the “Hard Truths about Energy.”
via Body of Sen. Mark Udall's brother, Randy, recovered in Wyoming – The Denver Post.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, bike rides, biking around Boulder, biking around Denbver, cycling, Denver and Boulder bicycling, Flagstaff Mountain, Front Range bicycling, road rides Front Range, Robert Hurst
In stores now!!!!!!!! Amazon
Includes almost all the off-road rides in the vicinity and a lot of really cool road rides, mostly on the easy side.
On the cover: coasting down Flagstaff Mountain.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 100th Tour de France, 2013 Tour de France, Contador, peloton, pro cycling, Saxo Bank, Tour de France
I just now found out
Contador’s on Saxo Bank
Loading his finger
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2013 Tour de France, Corsica, Gerrents, Orica, Peter Sagan, Tour de France
Hilly Corsica
Sagan peers into the crowd
Second but still proud
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycle racing, Biopace, Boasson Hagen, elliptical chainring, Froome, Tour de France
Elliptical ring?
That’s total Boasson Hagen.
Sprinters left behind.
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 