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Superb designs for the Beijing 2008 Olympics
Ever since I was a kid I remember the superb opening festivities at the Olympic Games. The dancers, the dances, the costumes, the olympic torch, all came together to create a great and impressive opening show. And judging by the superb arrangements below, I think this year, at Beijing will be quite a spectacle.
These are some of the awesome designs the chinese authorities have prepared for the upcoming guests.
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be celebrated from August 8, 2008, to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony beginning at 08:08:08 pm CST (12:08:08 UTC) at the Beijing National Stadium in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
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Graphic Design on cars … do it with style
The demand for customized cars is in a continuous rising and has been for a couple of years now. But this “need” for owning an “unique car” made some people transform their car into a complete kitsch. That’s why we say if you’re going to “pimp out” your car, do it with style.
If you’re wondering what’s graphic design got to do with all of this, here it is. If you really want to make your car shine, give it a cool painting, more accurately get a graphic artist to make you a cool aerographic design. Here are some superb examples of airbrush work :
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The history of police motorcycle designs
We wanted to write a post like this, combining our two greatest passions, motors and design, for quite some time now. We’ll be presenting a brief history of motorcycles used by police forces and examples of motorcycles used by the police forces of various countries. We hope this will be an enjoyable read.
It seems the first time motorcycles were used by police forces was ate the beginning of the 20th century. Chief August Vollmer of the Berkeley, California Police Department is credited with organizing the first official police motorcycle patrol in the United States in 1911. However a few police departments used motorcycles before 1911. It’s documented that the first Harley-Davidson police motorcycle was delivered to the Detroit Police Department in 1908. Also, the police department in Evanston, Illinois purchased a belt-driven motorcycle for its first motorcycle police officer in 1908, and the Portland, Oregon Police Bureau had a police officer who used his personal motorcycle to patrol the city as early as 1909.
Back on the home front in the 1920s, state police forces were being formed in several states of the US to protect rural areas from lawlessness and to enforce Prohibition. The motorized vehicle of choice on rutted rural roads was the motorcycle.
Police motorcycles in the United States typically use purpose-built motorcycles marketed by Harley-Davidson, Kawasaki, Honda, or BMW. Kawasaki Police Motorcycles, which were built for the US market in Lincoln, Nebraska, ceased production in September 2005.
In Germany, BMW is by far the largest provider of motorcycles for authority use.
In the United Kingdom the most common police motorcycles are the BMW RT series, the Honda ST series and the Yamaha FJR1300, although most forces have withdrawn the ST1300 Pan European since the death of an officer was blamed on the machine. Some police forces also use scooters within towns.
In 2004, BMW claimed to be the largest seller of motorcycles for authority use, as more than 80,000 BMW motorcycles were in official use in over 150 countries on five continents. BMW produce police-specific models such as the R1200RT and R900RT, the latter not available to the general public. More than 140 U.S. law enforcement agencies, including the California Highway Patrol, had BMW authority motorcycles in their fleets of patrol vehicles.
Harley-Davidson has maintained a long relationship with police departments and law-enforcement agencies. As of 2007, Harley-Davidson offered the FLHTP Electra Glide, the FLHP Road King and the XL883 Sportster in police and fire/rescue editions.
Police Motorcycle Designs old and new organized by countries :
Austria
Australia
Belgium
China
Czech Republic
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14 funny church signs
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zaBox.net - Social Networking with style
We believe that the future of the Internet will be focused on social interaction between users. Social communities are just starting to come into our lives, entertain us, “un-bore” us and connect us with people half-way around the world. We believe there’s still much to be said in the field of social networking. That’s why we launched zaBox.
It’s an online social networking website built around the individual. The main focus is you, the member, what you like to do, what you like to listen to, what events you like to go to, what defines you.
Here’s a list of some of the features :
- Audio / Video Messenger with text formatting, smilesets and file sharing
- Audio Video Chat
- Music Player
- Internet Radio organized by music genre
- Video Player
- zaBox Boards, a new way to express yourself
- Web Presence
- phpBB community forum
- Customizable profile view
- Invite / tell a friend with Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, MSN and Hotmail automated import funtion.
- New members (auto-displaying of photos of latest registered users on the main page)
- “Online/Offline” user status
- Personal Media Gallery (audio, video and pictures albums and categories)
- Personal Blog
- Friends List
- Guestbook
- Events
- Classifieds
- Gmail Like Mailbox Conversations Archive
- Speed dating events subscription
- Top-rated profiles lookup
- Newsletter
- Automatic photos upload system
- Password-protected members’ photos
- Messenger with storing system
- Media (video and audio support for profiles)
- Configurable Flash-based online live-chat system
- HotList (buddies, favorites)
- Block members (members can block all correspondence from certain members)
- Support of A/V Instant Messenger and A/V Chat by Ray Web Multimedia Software
Probably the most important feature is that is spam-free, and 100% safe (a member doesn’t have direct access to your email address).
We hope to see you on zaBox.
