5/29/2023 0 Comments Chopper motorcycle![]() This bike is custom-built by Hawke Lawshe of Vintage Technologies in Montana. 2019 Custom Long Fork Harley-Davidson Chopper (1981 Shovelhead)Īuto Evolution features another interesting custom HD chopper. This bike would make a nice addition to any collection of vintage Harleys.ħ. It’s classic to the bone featuring a coffin tank, King and Queen seat with a twist sissy bar, twist Z-bars, and a 5-spoke rear wheel. It’s an XLCH chopper with a magneto ignition, raked and molded frame, and extended Springer forks. The orange 1960 HD Sportster Chopper is from the Legends Motorcycle Collection and is being offered without a reserve. They go heavy on the CNC and build their own heavy-duty Springer front forks, crafting each component to achieve the ultimate chopper design while maintaining the integrity of the original design.Ĩ. One of their best efforts is the 35th Anniversary Thunderbike Chopper. Thunderbike Customs excels at fabricating choppers out of vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The team gives us a look into their processes for fabricating the old vintage Thunderbike and converting it into a gem of a chopper under the HD banner. You can find it on Thunderbike Customs website. This may be one of the most interesting of all vintage conversions. Thunderbike 35th Anniversary Edition Harley-Davidson Chopper It’s got plenty of power across the range with a fuel economy of 43 mpg at a cost just below $20,000ĩ. In testing, it jumped from 40 to 70 mph in 4 seconds flat. The bike accelerates from a standstill to 60 mph in 4.73 seconds. The transmission gear display is lighted which we thought was a nice luxury feature. It comes with the complete package with a 96 cubic inch Twin engine mated with a six-speed transmission and a tall sixth gear. This bike is made for highway cruising with the creature comforts one would expect from HD. Popular Mechanic highlights their pick for the best factory chopper as the Softail Rocker C. Captain America Easy Rider HD Chopper 10. Also, all these usually come with a price tag to match the dedication and toil invested in every machine.10 1. Their products have always held a high standard, both in terms of design and quality, and are suitable for riders who want a luxurious, high-end machine, that encompasses the essence of an American custom cruiser. They have reached international sales levels, and now distribute their unassembled motorcycles all over the world. In addition, they have started work on their first two models, the Venom and the Reaper, which have been officially launched in 2002, and were offered as unassembled kits.Īfter that moment, the firm has received countless awards from specialized magazines and their custom machines started appearing on the front pages of magazines all over the world. In 2001, the BBC have obtained a manufacturing licence to provide DMV registered motorcycles with full VIN numbers and Kelly Blue Book listing. Kevin Alsop stayed in the firm as head designer after that. The firm was later bought by Simon Scott, owner and CEO at Rage Hard Choppers, in 2011. The Big Bear Choppers brand, based in San Bernardino, California, United States of America, was founded in 1998 as a custom bike shop by Kevin Alsop and his wife, Mona Alsop.
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Lazarus echo reznor![]() “You start to morph into the guy you railed against when you were younger. “I don’t hear tons of that going on right now. He added: “What I try to straddle is paying attention to what is happening in the outside world to some degree and at the same time becoming insular and really trusting my own voice and my own sense of what is right and appropriate. “If you have something to say, then say it. “I get the sense that a lot of bands today are designing themselves to get a good review in the hip blogs and that is probably the safest and most cowardly thing you can do as an artist. “A pretty conservative nature has crept into music and I don’t mean sonically. ![]() “When you see a lot more excitement generated from the dance tent, I do think a staleness has permeated. ![]() “Having seen a lot of bands on the current festival runs that we are on, I would agree with that,” Trent said. His artistic integrity is a rare commodity in today’s music business and he agrees. “It felt fresh and it felt interesting and I thought I could do something that warranted doing – not for nostalgia purposes, but to push ahead and try new things.” “I thought about it and did a bit of rehearsing. Trent Reznor at the Vanity Fair Oscar party “So I tried a couple of things with no expectations or pressure that lead to the Hesitation Marks album. “I started wondering what it would feel like to write some Nine Inch Nails material,” Trent said. Soon he was ready to return to Nine Inch Nails, leading to the release of last year’s Hesitation Marks album. “The reinvention of working with people really ignited me.” “I got involved in the films, had a family and I started a new band throughout that process and it sparked creativity and I felt inspired by working with David Fincher. “I jumped into some avenues that were unexpected,” Trent said. They also won a Grammy last year for the soundtrack to Fincher’s American adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Ross and he collaborated on the soundtrack to David Fincher’s 2010 film The Social Network, which won the pair a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Original Score. He also formed the band How to Destroy Angels with Mariqueen and Atticus Ross. He got married to Mariqueen in 2009 and had two sons called Lazarus Echo and Balthazar, now two and three respectively. ![]() While many of today’s corporate rockers would have carried on regardless, Trent put Nine Inch Nails on ice – it may have been the best decision of his career. “It was starting to get comfortable and routine for me. “Around that time in my life I just felt ‘I've done this, I know how to do this, it doesn’t feel broken, but at the same time the list of creative things I’d like to do is growing and I never get to them because I’m constantly in a Nine Inch Nails tour schedule’. Relaxing at the home he shares in Los Angeles with his wife, Mariqueen Maandig and their two young sons, Trent said: “I was thinking that same thing actually. Trent’s Glasgow gig is taking place almost five years after what many considered to be a farewell show at T in the Park. “Any stereotype of a violent and rough bar fight in Scotland came to life. Trent said: “You know what I remember most of all is playing in a dingy low-ceilinged club and my security guy, who was an a**hole, got the sh** beaten out of him by some other, bigger roughnecks. Trent is bringing NIN to play a show at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro on May 20, one of just six UK dates for the band.Īnd he hasn’t forgotten an early show that sparked into violence. NINE Inch Nails rocker Trent Reznor can’t wait to return for a show in Scotland this month because he expects the fans in Glasgow to be as hard as nails. You should slow down and Signal 100 feet before turning You are driving on a freeway posted for 65 mph. You must notify the DMV in 5 days To avoid last minute moves,you should be looking down the road to where your vehicle will be in about 10-15 seconds You may not park your vehicle Next to a red painted curb You must notify the dmv in 5 days after You sold or transferred your vehicle Two sets of solid double, yellow lines that are two or more feet apart May not be crossed for any reason You want to make a right turn at an upcoming intersection. You should: Stop as long as the red lights are flashing California's basic speed law you should never drive faster than is safe for current conditions You just sold your vehicle. The speed limit is 15 mph When parking your vehicle parallel to the curb on a level street Your wheels must be within 18 inches of the curb When you are merging onto the freeway, you should be driving at or near the same speed as the traffic When driving in fog you should use your low beams A white painted curb means Loading zone for passengers or mail only a school bus ahead of you in your lane is stopped with red lights flashing. You are approaching a railroad crossing with no warning devices and are unable to see 400 feet down the tracks. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Serious sam 2 fov![]() It is also the first cross-study for global cities. Our work enriches subjectively measured urban perception studies. These perception qualities have been identified as important in affecting pedestrian behaviors, residence move choices, and home buyer willingness to pay. To bridge the gap between AI based urban analytics and classical urban design theory, we took Shanghai as an example and applied CV and Machine Learning (ML) to subjectively measure four perceptual qualities, namely the enclosure, human scale, complexity, and imageability. Therefore, the effectiveness of subjective measures in capturing more subtle human perceptions on various urban scenes using SVI data have not been adequately addressed. In other words, their prediction of perception is a black box providing limited actionable urban design policy implications. provided an artificial intelligence (AI) based method, it was not rooted in urban design theory: the perceived safety was made based on generic image features such as color histograms or stacked HSV color channels that had been extracted from SVIs. It took raters an hour to rate a single video clip. Although the study from Ewing and Handy was well designed and based on urban design theory, their approach had low-throughput. Several studies have correlated subjective scores from raters with the objective visual elements that appeared in video clips or SVIs to successfully operationalize seemly subjective but indeed objective measures of urban perception. ![]() Despite these drawbacks in costly labor and a lack of comparability for cross-studies, subjective measures can also be effectively integrated with objectively measured indicators. There is no standard procedure to handle the involved error margin to ensure the comparability and reliability from different raters. It is more user centered although the definitions of perceptual qualities are inconsistent across studies. ![]() Ĭonversely, the “subjective measure”, which refers to evaluative scores collected from survey questions, can capture more subtle relationships. Human perceptions have subtle relationships that cannot be fully represented by individual view indices nor a simple combination of them. Only the view index of individual features such as trees and buildings are analyzed, while the overall perceptions of viewers are ignored. However, these emerging studies are still limited to objective measures. Recently, with prevalence of street view imagery (SVI) data in environmental auditing, computer vision (CV) has been widely applied to extract streetscape features, making the understanding of large-scale urban scenes possible. Conventional investigations on the quality of street design have largely relied on objective metrics, ranging from the height-to-width ratio to pedestrians counts, which require extensive spatial data and human labor for observations. Urban design qualities such as enclosure, human scale, transparency, complexity, and imageability directly affect a person’s appreciation of a street space. Streets are important public spaces for residents to thrive. Therefore, the results provide more interpretable and actionable implications for policymakers and city planners. Rather than predicting perceptual scores directly from generic image features using a convolution neural network, our approach follows what urban design theory has suggested and confirmed as various streetscape features affecting multi-dimensional human perceptions. In addition, to test the generalizability of the proposed framework as well as to inform urban renewal strategies, we compared the measured qualities in Pudong to other five urban cores that are renowned worldwide. We found a strong correlation between the predicted complexity score and the density of urban amenities and services points of interest (POI), which validates the effectiveness of subjective measures. We then trained ML models and achieved high accuracy in predicting scores. CV segmentation was applied to SVI samples extracting streetscape view indices as the explanatory variables. We first collected ratings from experts on sample SVIs regarding these four qualities, which became the training labels. To address this, we integrated crowdsourcing, CV, and machine learning (ML) to subjectively measure four important perceptions suggested by classical urban design theory. However, the effectiveness of integrating subjective measures with SVI datasets has been less discussed. Conversely, subjective measures using survey and interview data explain human behaviors more. However, human perception (e.g., imageability) have a subtle relationship to visual elements that cannot be fully captured using view indices. Recently, many new studies applying computer vision (CV) to street view imagery (SVI) datasets to objectively extract the view indices of various streetscape features such as trees to proxy urban scene qualities have emerged. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Tinymce jotspotMost of the time when a juvenile white shark encounters a person off the California coast, it may check out the swimmer or surfer but just swim right on by. Researchers at the shark lab and Wu have emphasized that sharks and humans can coexist. There were 16 attacks in Florida, making up 39% of the US total, while California had four. The US leads the world in shark attacks, with 41 recorded last year, one of which was fatal. There were 57 unprovoked shark attacks on humans worldwide in 2022, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History's International Shark Attack File. Still, getting attacked by a shark is extremely rare, anywhere. The discrepancy may be due to Florida's warmer water, and thus more swimmers, as well as the types of sharks that are present, such as bull sharks, which are more aggressive than white sharks. Stingrays in particular are important to manage, as a beachgoer in Southern California is much more likely to be stung by one than to be attacked by a shark.Īnd despite the increase in white sharks, there has not been an increase in shark attacks in CaliforniaĬalifornia remains low in terms of the number of shark attacks, especially compared to Florida. ![]() They help maintain fish and stingray populations, as well as other shark and even marine mammal populations. Wu said the sharks are incredibly important to the local ecosystem. Populations of the sharks' preferred food sources, including marine mammals like whales, seals, and sea lions, have also rebounded, providing an additional boon to white sharks. We're starting to see the populations come back, and those sharks are starting to appear more and more off our shores."Ĭalifornia banned actively targeting white sharks in 1994, as well as certain fishing nets that often entrapped the sharks. "Because those have been more regulated recently to help conserve populations of sharks in our local waters, we're starting to see that benefit. "There has been shark overfishing," Wu said, adding that there have been concerted efforts to enforce laws related to fishing practices. ![]() The Roundhouse Aquarium, located on the Manhattan Beach pier, focuses on native species in the local Southern California waters, including sharks. ![]() Marissa Wu, the aquarium programs and operations director for the Roundhouse Aquarium, said the return of the sharks correlated with conservation efforts. A great white shark swims near the beach in Monterey Bay, California.Ĭhase Dekker Wild-Life Images/Getty Images 5/29/2023 0 Comments Gabriella wilde endless love dress“She’s had a lot of up and down storylines and as much as it’s nice to have the really dramatic stuff, with Caroline I like it when she’s not so heavy because that when she really comes to life.”Īll clothing, jewellery and accessories DIOR “I think she is different to me but there’s a real joy to playing her, so it didn’t feel like a huge amount of work to get into character with her,” Wilde says. Despite being pregnant, she took on the challenge and quickly became a fan favourite in her role as the feisty and headstrong Caroline Penvenen. “It was a bit of curveball,” she giggles. Just as she was offered the part in the period drama, the socialite found out that she was pregnant with her second child. I was already kind of interested in the fact that it would work with my life, and that’s hugely important to me because I’m a mother first and an actress second.” “And then Poldark came up, which films around where I live. “I was thinking about going back to work and how that was going to work with having a young child, and the film industry can be difficult with that,” she reflects. Her role in the indie Brit-flick put her on the map, and she enjoyed success in The Three Musketeers, Carrie and Endless Love, starring alongside Hollywood elites like Chloe Grace Moretz, Christoph Waltz and Alex Pettyfer.Īfter giving birth to her first child at the age of 24, she moved out of London to the West Country, ready to take on her new role as a mother. She took on the persona of Saffy for the role, one of the notorious “posh totties”, a natural casting given her family blood-line is one of aristocracy (she’s even a descendent of the first native born mayor of New York). Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold. “I didn’t actually get that film but I really enjoyed the process.” It wasn’t long before she signed with an agent and booked her first big gig: St. “I didn’t really go into acting until I was in my twenties, which I guess is quite late! While I was studying I was asked to audition for a film,” she explains. “It’s kind of a mad story that doesn’t actually bare any reference to my life.” After signing with Campbell’s agency at the age of 14, she did her first few shoots with the esteemed stylist Isabella Blow, whom she calls “a true British eccentric.” What followed was a modelling career that spanned the entirety of her teen years, ending when she decided to try her hand at something new and went to university to study Fine Art.ĭress, choker and ring DIOR, bracelet DIOR JOAILLERIEĭress and hat DIOR and watch OMEGA Trésor “I was introduced to at a party and she took me to her agent and they did some polaroids of me in the bathroom,” the 29-year-old actor tells me when we speak on the phone following her Wonderland cover shoot with photographic icon, Ellen von Unwerth. ![]() What might you see in the girls’ bathroom on a night out? A gaggle of worse-for-wear teens posing together for an #OOTD selfie? Someone passed out in the cubicle after one too many Cherry VKs (aka the deadliest in the VK family)? Or perhaps model-turned-actress Gabriella Wilde having her polaroid taken by modelling supreme, Naomi Campbell? Despite the latter seeming like the unlikeliest option for a Saturday sesh in Spoons, it’s not unheard of, and it was actually under these circumstances that Wilde first kick-started her career in the public eye. I don’t really register it.ĥ.Dress, choker and ring DIOR and watch OMEGA Trésor Obviously it goes hand in hand with acting, but it’s something that’s kind of abstract. She dished to neverunderdressed,įame is a slightly bizarre thing to me. I think on some level it is different to any other type of fame.Īlthough her half sister is in the limelight, Wilde prefers to live an understated life. It’s not something that is easy for anyone dating a royal or marrying into the family or anyone in the royal family themselves. Wilde’s brother, Jacobi, told London Evening Standard about their half sister, Cressida’s, royal relationship. PRINCE HARRY'S NEW FLAME is blonde stunner Cressida Bonas, 24. I was sort of terrified to meet her, but as soon as I got introduced to her, she’s just so sweet, not frightening, and down to earth. As far as meeting Moore, Wilde confessed, “It was amazing, Chloë’s so wonderful,” she said. ![]() In an interview with Elle, Wilde dished on her costars, Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore. When else am I going to fly around on a wire “But I definitely enjoy the physical side. I never thought of myself as an ‘action girl’,” she says. She told GQ that she actually enjoyed taking part in an action film. ![]() ![]() Wilde had the all-American look to play high-school student Sue Snell in the horror remake. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Beolingus german
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