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Light Painting - Abandoned Michigan
Grand Rapids, Michigan
It's all Vince's fault that I break the law!
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The 8bar Crit 2021 is a fixed gear bike race, which takes place on a fast course of about 1km length. All participants must ride a fixed gear bike without brakes.
Photo: Pino Moreno
Original is here, from Catcher & Co.
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FOR THE GROUPS:
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fixed on calculator. Please feel free to use this image that I've created on your website or blog. If you do, I'd greatly appreciate a link back to my blog as the source: CreditDebitPro.com
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Mike Lawrence
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The 8bar Crit 2021 is a fixed gear bike race, which takes place on a fast course of about 1km length. All participants must ride a fixed gear bike without brakes.
Photo: Pino Moreno
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The 8bar Crit 2021 is a fixed gear bike race, which takes place on a fast course of about 1km length. All participants must ride a fixed gear bike without brakes.
Photo: Pino Moreno
8bar-bikes.com/blog/8bar-crit-is-back-in-2021/
The 8bar Crit 2021 is a fixed gear bike race, which takes place on a fast course of about 1km length. All participants must ride a fixed gear bike without brakes.
Photo: Pino Moreno
Original is here, from nm63uk
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Just one of the many fascinating displays at the Cycle Museum, Camleford, Devon UK
Lovely curly stay Hetchins
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The 8bar Crit 2021 is a fixed gear bike race, which takes place on a fast course of about 1km length. All participants must ride a fixed gear bike without brakes.
Photo: Pino Moreno
8bar-bikes.com/blog/8bar-crit-is-back-in-2021/
The 8bar Crit 2021 is a fixed gear bike race, which takes place on a fast course of about 1km length. All participants must ride a fixed gear bike without brakes.
Photo: Pino Moreno
I'm on the way to the Active Transportation Aliiance's Bike Town Bash.
Despite the crappy weather, you just have to bike at least part of the
way to an event with a name like that. My headlight is broken, but I
"fixed" it for the occasion.
8bar-bikes.com/blog/8bar-crit-is-back-in-2021/
The 8bar Crit 2021 is a fixed gear bike race, which takes place on a fast course of about 1km length. All participants must ride a fixed gear bike without brakes.
Photo: Pino Moreno
8bar-bikes.com/blog/8bar-crit-is-back-in-2021/
The 8bar Crit 2021 is a fixed gear bike race, which takes place on a fast course of about 1km length. All participants must ride a fixed gear bike without brakes.
Photo: Pino Moreno
8bar-bikes.com/blog/8bar-crit-is-back-in-2021/
The 8bar Crit 2021 is a fixed gear bike race, which takes place on a fast course of about 1km length. All participants must ride a fixed gear bike without brakes.
Photo: Pino Moreno
SantaPark is a Christmas theme park and visitor attraction in Rovaniemi in the Lapland region of Finland. SantaPark was opened 28 November 1998.
Theme
The park is designed to emulate the cavern residence of Santa Claus on the Arctic circle. Popular culture often depicts Santa Claus (or joulupukki in Finnish) coming from Lapland. Therefore, tourists come every year to Rovaniemi to meet Santa Claus.
SantaPark is a Christmassy theme park known as Santa Claus’s own home cavern. During summertime, it is open from the middle of June to the first weeks of August. In winter season the park is open from the late November to the beginning of January. There is an entrance fee for the park.
In SantaPark visitors can meet Santa Claus in his office and take pictures free-of-charge with him. In addition, it is possible to visit in Mrs. Gingerbread’s Gingerbread Bakery, see Ice Princess in her Icy kingdom called "Ice Gallery" and send postcards from the Post Office. Also, Candybar, Magic Train, Kota Café, Shopping area, Elf School and Handicraft’s area are included in the entrance ticket's price. On the main stage acrobatics show – Magic Christmas, is performed 3 times a day.
SantaPark is a part of SantaPark Arctic World – brand, which also includes Santa Claus Secret Forest – Joulukka, Arctic Forest Spa – Metsäkyly, Lapland Luxury, Arctic TreeHouse Hotel, and Rakas Restaurant & Bar.
History and the business concept
SantaPark was opened on 28 November 1998 as an amusement park.[1] The concept was created by Santaworld Ltd. (UK) and the cost of construction was 6.7 million Euros. The ownership consisted of Finnish companies such as Finnair, MTV, Sampo, Lasten Päivän Säätiö, Posti. Ministry of Trade and Industry was also involved. As an amusement park Santa Park did not reach its economical goals. Renewal of the concept was attempted in 2002 with a new ownership structure where the municipality of Rovaniemi was involved. The new concept featured Santa Claus, Christmas and Lappish culture and nature. On 24 March 2009 ownership was transferred to Santa's Holding Ltd. where the majority is held by Mr. Ilkka Länkinen and Mrs. Katja Ikäheimo-Länkinen.
Currently another owner with shares of SantaPark is Lappset Group Oy. Former owners are Eero Sarin, Lasten Päivän Säätiö, Sampo Oyj, Tapsan Tapuli Oy, TeliaSonera Finland Oyj, MTV Oy and Lappish newspaper Lapin Kansa Oy. New owners Ilkka Länkinen and Katja-Ikäheimo Länkinen have announced that they will focus more in the sales and marketing of SantaPark.
Attractions
The attractions of SantaPark include
Christmas Magic Show
Santa's Office
Post Office
Mrs. Gingerbread Bakery
Magic Train
Elf School
Elf Workshop
Post Office
Ice Gallery
Undercrossing of the Arctic Circle
Arktikum museum
Toy Factory Shopping Area and Kota Hut Cafe also serve customers.
Architecture
The themepark is located in a cavern inside bedrock where visitors descend via a large portal. The space was originally designed as air-raid shelter.
Location and transportation
SantaPark can be reached by car along the national highway 4. It is located about 9 km northeast of Rovaniemi and about 2 km from Rovaniemi Airport. Frequent flights from Helsinki and other cities to Rovaniemi are offered throughout the year. The majority of international tourists switch their plane at Helsinki-Vantaa airport. Also in the Christmas time there are many charter flights from Sweden, the United Kingdom and other countries that fly directly to Rovaniemi. Additionally there are Ryanair flights to Tampere which has regular connection to Rovaniemi as well. Finally there are regular bus and train connections to most major cities in Finland. Local transportation is provided by Santa's Express (bus line number 8) from the centre of Rovaniemi to SantaPark and Santa Claus Village. The bus trip to SantaPark takes about 15 minutes.
The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.
The Arctic Circle marks the southernmost latitude at which, on the Northern Hemisphere's winter solstice (which is the shortest day of the year), the Sun will not rise all day, and on the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice (which is the longest day of the year), the Sun will not set. These phenomena are referred to as polar night and midnight sun respectively, and the further north one progresses, the more pronounced these effects become. For example, in the Russian port city of Murmansk, three degrees above the Arctic Circle, the Sun does not rise above the horizon for 40 successive days in midwinter.
The position of the Arctic Circle is not fixed and currently runs 66°33′49.8″ north of the Equator. Its latitude depends on the Earth's axial tilt, which fluctuates within a margin of more than 2° over a 41,000-year period, owing to tidal forces resulting from the orbit of the Moon. Consequently, the Arctic Circle is currently drifting northwards at a speed of about 14.5 m (48 ft) per year.
Etymology
The word arctic comes from the Greek word ἀρκτικός (arktikos: "near the Bear, northern") and that from the word ἄρκτος (arktos: "bear").
Midnight sun and polar night
The Arctic Circle is the southernmost latitude in the Northern Hemisphere at which the center of the Sun can remain continuously above or below the horizon for twenty-four hours; as a result, at least once each year at any location within the Arctic Circle the center of the Sun is visible at local midnight, and at least once the center is not visible at local noon.
Directly on the Arctic Circle these events occur, in principle, exactly once per year: at the June and December solstices, respectively. However, because of atmospheric refraction and mirages, and also because the sun appears as a disk and not a point, part of the midnight sun is visible, on the night of the northern summer solstice, at a latitude of about 50 minutes of arc (′) (90 km (56 mi)) south of the Arctic Circle. Similarly, on the day of the northern winter solstice, part of the sun may be seen up to about 50′ north of the Arctic Circle. That is true at sea level; those limits increase with elevation above sea level, although in mountainous regions there is often no direct view of the true horizon.
The largest communities north of the Arctic Circle are situated in Russia, Norway, and Sweden: Murmansk (population 295,374) and Norilsk (178,018) in Russia; Tromsø (75,638) in Norway, Vorkuta (58,133) in Russia, Bodø (52,357), and Harstad (24,703) in Norway; and Kiruna, Sweden (22,841). Rovaniemi (62,667) in Finland is the largest settlement in the immediate vicinity of the Arctic Circle, lying 6 km (4 mi) south of the line. Salekhard (51,186) in Russia is the only city in the world located directly on the Arctic Circle.
In contrast, the largest North American community north of the Arctic Circle, Sisimiut (Greenland), has approximately 5,600 inhabitants. In the United States, Utqiaġvik, Alaska (formerly known as Barrow), is the largest settlement north of the Arctic Circle with about 5,000 inhabitants. The largest such community in Canada is Inuvik in the Northwest Territories, with 3,137 inhabitants.
Geography
The Arctic Circle is roughly 16,000 km (9,900 mi) in circumference. The area north of the Circle is about 20,000,000 km2 (7,700,000 sq mi) and covers roughly 4% of Earth's surface.
The Arctic Circle passes through the Arctic Ocean, the Scandinavian Peninsula, North Asia, Northern America, and Greenland. The land within the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States (Alaska), Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut), Denmark (Greenland), and Iceland (where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey).
Climate
Further information: Climate of the Arctic
The climate north of the Arctic Circle is generally cold, but the coastal areas of Norway have a generally mild climate as a result of the Gulf Stream, which makes the ports of northern Norway and northwest Russia ice-free all year long. In the interior, summers can be quite warm, while winters are extremely cold. For example, summer temperatures in Norilsk, Russia will sometimes reach as high as 30 °C (86 °F), while the winter temperatures frequently fall below −50 °C (−58 °F).
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The 8bar Crit 2021 is a fixed gear bike race, which takes place on a fast course of about 1km length. All participants must ride a fixed gear bike without brakes.
Photo: Pino Moreno
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The 8bar Crit 2021 is a fixed gear bike race, which takes place on a fast course of about 1km length. All participants must ride a fixed gear bike without brakes.
Photo: Pino Moreno
Because of the recent temperature and weather fluctuations, Virginia Beach Public Utilities has repaired over a hundred water main breaks in the last week. Nights, weekends, being wet, and below freezing temperatures are all routine parts of their job.
Photography - Craig McClure
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went out for a mega long with, joe, dan, chris & dave.
sweet night, sweet ride!!(all part of a editorial piece on fixie riders for uni)
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The 8bar Crit 2021 is a fixed gear bike race, which takes place on a fast course of about 1km length. All participants must ride a fixed gear bike without brakes.
Photo: Pino Moreno