New Cayenne Explored

Porsche have always developed vehicles that can cover different types of terrain quickly. This is no more apparent than with the new Porsche Cayenne. Watch the latest Cayenne S and 500 bhp Cayenne Turbo put through their paces both on track and through a variety of extreme terrain courses at the Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone.

Find out more at http://www.porsche.co.uk/experience

Monument to 1300 Years of Bulgaria

The Monument to 1300 Years of Bulgaria, also known as the Founders of the Bulgarian State Monument, is a large monument built on a plateau above the city of Shumen, Bulgaria. It was built in 1981 to commemorate the 1300th anniversary of the First Bulgarian Empire.

The monument is built in concrete in a Cubist style. It is reached by a processional concrete stairway from Shumen, or by road. It stands at a height of 450 m above sea level and can be seen from 30 km away.

Mahler Symphony No. 5, 4th Movement: Adagietto

Symphony No. 5 4th Movement:  "Adagietto. F major"

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Conducted by Leonard Bernstein
Vienna Philharmonic






"I only wish this video could have been put in a single partition".


[Source] YouTube

YouTube Users Comments:

billyguns2 (2 weeks ago)
I think this is one of the greatest things ever conceived by the mind of man.

katalindre (2 months ago)
Wow.

cutebirdies (3 months ago)
I wonder if the people there knew how special was the concert they were hearing.

CkRo (3 months ago)
Can't listen to this beauty enough, especially with the beloved Lenny.

cutebirdies (3 months ago)
Extraordinary.... Agreed that the orchestral sound is bar none. And Bernstein has the orchestra following every gesture he makes as he crafts this sculpture of sound.

janainaclemon (3 months ago)
Talvez a mais conhecida sinfonia Mahleriana... sempre que escuto lembro do Luchino Visconti em Morte em Veneza.

SEMPRELISZT (4 months ago)
Such a pleasure to see this! This orchestra is out of this world, It's so inspiring to see how Bernstein lives the music at its fullest.

rhumbagirl0912 (5 months ago)
I love this piece of music. Thank You for posting. Simply Beautiful!!!!

berto41 (6 months ago)
Simply sublime. Bravo, Lenny.

FungoBoy (6 months ago)
3:38 lenny filling in for the missing bass drum part =D

MingusDisciple (7 months ago)
how about that cello tone! WOWOWOWOW

learningtobreathe94 (8 months ago)
this piece is amazingly beautiful and it brings tears to my eyes everytime i hear it. thanks so much for posting =)

MUST-HAVE Gadgets for Frequent Flyers

If you're a frequent flyer who spends substantial amounts of time at 35,000 feet above mean sea level. it's easy to justify few luxuries to make the experience more bearable.

These are some of my favorite gadgets that have eased the travel burden of my numerous hours in flight.

Noise Cancelling Headphones

Until I tried a set, I deemed noise-cancelling headphones a waste of money. Once you have actually listened to your favorite collection of MP3 music free of unwanted ambient sounds from the engine noise or inside of the aircraft cabine, you will change your mind. Engine noise is reduced to a mere background hum, making sleep on those long haul or red-eye flights seem possible. This is the gadget that separates frequent flyers from the in-frequent flyers.

My favorite is the Bose QuietComfort 3 Noise Canceling Headphones. They run on two AAA batteries, folds into a small pouch for storage, and sells for approximately $350 on the retailer.

Dual time watch 

If you travel across time zones, keep your home and away time on your wrist with a dual time wristwatch. Watches retail from $20 to thousands. I personally own a Jaeger le Coultre's Reverso Grande GMT and cherish it. You can flip its case front and back. On the front it features a small seconds hand, a large date and a day/night display. The hours and minutes of a second time zone are displayed on the back, along with a 24-hour indication, an 8-day power-reserve and the GMT time difference. (Picture shown the back of the watch)

Unlocked GSM Cell Phone

An unlocked GSM cell phone is gold for the international frequent flyer. Most cell phones sold by US carriers
are locked to their networks, which means you need to activate global roaming with that carrier to make phone
calls overseas. Global roaming rates are expensive. For the frequent international traveler, it may be prudent to purchase an unlocked handset and use a local SIM at your destination, avoiding global roaming charges altogether.

The advantage is clear—cheaper calls—many international countries charge only for calls you make, not incoming calls, but there is also one big disadvantage.

iPhone / iPodTouch

If you can purchase a unlocked iPhone you can find it absolutely versatile for your travels, which you can not only use a local SIM at your destionation as a local communication device but can you do a lot of things as well. Apple's venerable i Phone comes with tons of goodies and fun applications that will make your in-flight travels rather enjoyable. Oh, by the way, with a unlocked iPhone, you can easily keep up with your Twit friends real time anywhere you are. Needless to speak, i Phone / i Pod offers the best MP3 player features in the market. Coupling with the Noise Cancelling Headphone, you will find it inseparable for your in-flight travels.

Netbook / iPad

In the close confines of the coach cabin, you will want a small laptop if you intend to work on your flight. if you're concerned about prying eyes invest in a privacy screen. Even if you chose not to work on your flight, nothing passes time more quickly at 35,000 feet than your own entertainment options.

Every frequent flyer can not avoid travel connection flight especially when you are a frequent international flyer.
Unless you have a way to call out for chartered private jets, it is inevitable to spend sometime at the terminal waiting for your connecting flight to get ready to board you. Any one of the items above will make a frequent flyers life more pleasant. Newly released iPad  and Kindle offer eBook feature, which adds reading as a new option for your in-flight entertainment, unless you want to abide by your conventional paper back.

So next time the connection flight lay-over incurres or dreaded "canceled" or "delayed" flashes against your flight number, take your noise cancelling headphones, plug them into your iPhone, iPod, iPad or wifi enabled netbook, then watch the delayed hours pass quickly by (in two time zones) while catching up on your favorite movies, reading your choice of book among wide variety of e-book titles or listening to your iTune collection of MP3.



Followings are additional items I would like to add to the set of Frequent Flyers' Gadgets.

- Skype Headset or VoIP handset (Some place it is the "MUST")
- Extended Battery Pack for your iPhone/iPod Touch : Richard Solo offers a pocket-sized solution to top up your iPhone/iPod Touch, BlackBerry or Palm under $100.
- Your Beloved Laptop Computer (with the photo of your loved ones set as desktop background)

The worst crash ever: 24 Hours of Le Mans 1955

In the early days of racing, safety wasn't a top concern. The technology protecting both the spectator and the driver was minimal, and was considered part of the exhilarating experience of racing. Today things have changed, and we understand the proper way to build safety barriers and tracks so the audience isn't in harms way. The following footage is considered the worst crash ever, and took place during the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1955. Driver Pierre Levegh lost control of his car into the crowd, killing himself and 84 spectators. One hundred additional injuries were reported, making this the worst accident ever reported in motorsports history.



The 1955 Le Mans disaster all started with the typical manufacturer battle. Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Aston Martin, and Maserati were all battling for the poll position for a total of two hours before the accident occurred. Levegh's Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR was following the leading Jaguar D-type along the pit straights. The Jaguar had just passed a much slower Austin-Healey 100 and decided to slow down for a pit stop. Due to the Jaguar's superb disc braking system, it stopped much quicker than the competition's drum brakes. The recently passed Austin-Healey was forced to swerve to center track without paying attention to the location and trajectory of opposing vehicles. This is when disaster struck.

Pierre's Mercedes-Benz simply was not equipped to react quick enough to the proverbial circumstance presented. Hitting the sloped rear of the Austin-Healey, the Mercedes-Benz went airborne. Flying towards the left side of the track, it struck the earth barrier that is supposed to protect the audience. However, this barrier was not properly built to handle the speed and angle presented by the flying Mercedes-Benz. The barrier then became a ramp, of which sent the flying mass of rubble into the audience creating the worst accident crash ever recorded in motorsports history.

Loose parts were sent flying towards the audience like shrapnel from a IED. The hood, axle, and engine block flew into the crowd killing dozens and injuring many. Pierre was also thrown from the car and died upon impact. But wait, it's not over yet! Next the fuel tank exploded and the heat created turned the magnesium body panels into bursting white hot metal particles into the crowd. Because of the burning magnesium, water was not capable of putting out the fire and only encouraged the inferno for several hours thereafter. The result of this chaos was the withdrawal of Mercedes-Benz from such events until the 1980's.

This horrible catastrophe could have been prevented by Le Mans imposing more strict vehicle and safety requirements. To start with, all vehicles should require the use of the same braking system. Had all vehicles been disc or drum, this would have never occurred. Second, they should have known magnesium's properties and banned the use of this light weight metal despite it's speedy properties. Finally, the audience should have been situated in such a place as to avoid disaster, no matter the trajectory or speed. The barriers used should have been more wall like instead of just a pile of dirt. These were the days of early racing, and just like everything else we only learn from mistakes.

[Source] March 16, 8:50 PMTampa Sports Car ExaminerMichael Berenis