2010年12月28日星期二

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If your digital watch automatically adjusts for daylight-savings, congress may be about to make it obsolete. According to this CNN story, lawmakers recently approved legislation that will extend daylight-savings by a total of two months: Lawmakers crafting energy legislation approved an amendment Wednesday to extend daylight-saving time by two months, having it start on the first Sunday in March and end on the last Sunday in November. The amendment was approved by the House Energy and Commerce Replica Omega 951476.71 Constellation Watch Committee that is putting together major parts of energy legislation likely to come up for a vote in the full House in the coming weeks.Yes, more daylight might save us 10,000 barrels of oil a day, but what about all the watches that will no longer adjust themselves properly?

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Features of the Luminox Blackbird 9032 include:Black PVD coated stainless steel case.Internal rotating bezel.4-year lithium battery.Scratch-resistant domed sapphire crystal.Chronograph with three sub-dials.Auxiliary quartz module for tracking an additional time zone.Date function.Luminox 25-year Replica Omega 2541.80 Seamaster 300m Watch tritium illumination system (guaranteed for 10).Shock and water-resistant (not sure of the depth).The Luminox Blackbird 9032 is a high-end Luminox, and retails for about $1,500. If thats too rich for your blood, Luminox sells dozens of other very affordable watches with the same illumination system (check out the catalog linked below).

The TAG Heuer 2000 series is being re-released as the new Aquaracer series with an interesting new addition: the Calibre S. The Calibre S is probably a little too sailing-specific for me to justify actually purchasing, but I can definitely appreciate what TAG has done with the Calibre S.The most striking feature of the Replica Omega 4633.81.33 Co-Axial GMT Watch Aquaracer Calibre S is the sub-dials. Rather than placing them at the traditional 3, 6, 9 or 2, 6, 10 positions, the Calibre S actually uses semi-circular sub-dials. at the 5 and 7 oclock positions, inspired by sports cars tachometers.

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Features of the Seiko Ignition Takuma Sato include:Solar powered, with a 6-month power reserve.Radio controlled atomic time calibration. Again, this is the only Seiko watch that I know of with this type of functionality. (I should note that I dont think the watch is compatible with our atomic clock in Fort Replica Omega 2504.50 Aqua Terra Automatic Watch Collins, Colorado, but I dont know for certain.)Titanium case and bracelet.Domed sapphire crystal.Water resistant to 100 meters, or 330 feet.The Seiko Ignition Takuma Sato will be available June 7th, and will sell for 73,500 yen, or about $680. If you read Japanese, check out the press release.

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2010年12月20日星期一

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The pair cherrypicked from standard outdoorsindustry items, including a DeLorme PN40 GPS unit and, from their sponsor, the Victorinox Swiss Tool Spirit Plus Rachet, a $145 multitool that served as their repair kit.But they also brought unexpected things like a teapot. "We called it the Fat Lady," Huston said. They bought the bulbous stainless swiss replica watches steel pot in the village of Iqaluit, Nunavut, before departure. It is a $40 item Huston said was essential on the trip.The teapot is big and moderately heavy at about 26 ounces. But Hustonwho stored it during transit each day wrapped in his sleeping bag with a satellite phone insideswears by the sevenliter pot for melting snow blocks and boiling water in some of the worst conditions on the planet.

Esoteric polar gear made in Norway comprised a bulk of Huston and Fish's haul. The Alfa M?rdre Extreme Boots, sold only at the Sportsnett outdoor store in Oslo, according to Huston, are a simulacrum to footwear worn a century ago by explorers like Roald Amundsen. But the Alfa M?rdre Extremes, which are handmade and cost $1,000 a Ebel replica watches pair, employ modern materials alongside leather and wool.Huston and Fish bought their boots a couple sizes too large. They added three insoles and wore three pairs of socks. In more than 3,000 miles of use, in training and on expeditions, Huston said the boots have resulted in just one tiny blister and zero frostbite.

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By Stephen RegenoldFrom a starting point on Canada’s Ellesmere Island, it took two long months of skiing, hauling, cooking, camping, scouting lines, and meandering steadily north on fractured ice. But on April 25, 2009, John Huston and Tyler Fish reached the North Pole by skithe first Americans to pull off the unsupported feat, which at 475 miles has been Replica A Lange&Sohne watches dubbed “the hardest trek on the planet.”Indeed, to cross the arctic void, Huston and Fish, from Chicago and Ely, Minnesota, had to haul 650 pounds of food, fuel, and gear. Each man pulled two sleds and trudged for hours a day,

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Over the coming months, Outside will be posting interviews with adventurers, environmentalists, filmmakers, and others conducted by Mountainfilm. Many of the icons appearing at this year's festival have been featured in the pages of Outside. For more information on this year's festival, which begins on May 28, please check out Mountainfilm's Web Site.A Replica Rolex watches former corporate lawyer, Jordan is dedicated to raising consciousness, through his art, of the far-reaching and destructive consequences of our everyday habits. His Running the Numbers – a series of carefully rendered photographic images – takes hard statistics and turns them into art that both dazzles and provokes.His project, Intolerable Beauty, is a looking glass into the prevailing culture of consumption.

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Were here. Everything arrived but the rigs and Dave Penneys gear, which should arrive tomorrow evening on the next flight from Amsterdam. Not having the rigs will make things more challenging, but thats why we built in a couple of days before the climb.It was really nice to get on the plane after the frenetic pace of getting ready, but the inactivity Replica Tag Heuer watches was difficult, too. Movies, books, and sleep were not quite enough to rest my fitful mind, which is continually working out mountain scenarios. I know that part of my personal goal is to quiet my mind, but its more difficult when theres no physical action. Ah, the lessons begin before the mountain.

The team is tremendous, as always. Director Amanda Stoddard, director of photography Patrick Reddish, cinematographer Mike Stoner, and multiple media manager Ryan Gass are excited, prepared, and capturing footage along the way. For security reasons, they werent able to catch Bob More in flip flops giving me a piggyback down the stairs from the Replica Bell&Ross watches plane to the tarmac. Bob, who was a fraternity brother and is the president of the One Revolution board, and Nate Bryan, who ski raced with me at Middlebury and is our doctor, are new additions to the team. Along with expedition manager Dave Penney, its a great group that has weathered the day and a half of travel from the U.S. Mountain West to slightly subequatorial Tanzania.

2010年12月15日星期三

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The fabled giant catfish of the Mekong River will soon be driven to extinction if hydropower dams planned for the Mekong River go ahead, ENN reports. The giant catfish is one of the largest freshwater fish on the planet.Current scientific replica IWC watch research shows that the Mekong catfish migrate from the Tonle Sap Lake up in Cambodia to spawn in Northern Thailand and Laos. However, the dam will present an unsurmountable barrier for the giant fish.At half the length of a bus and weighing up to 600kgs, the Mekong Rivers giant freshwater catfish is already critically endangered.Above, check out an up close and personal video with an adolescent giant catfish.--Shauna Sweeney

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