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Not racing in Valencia, MotoGP will instead race for Valencia!

MotoGP stands with the Community of Valencia following the devastating floods that have affected the area. Our hearts are with all those who have been lost and those who have lost so much.

We have been in constant contact with the local authorities and the circuit to best assess how we can help and how we should proceed. We have a responsibility to every region where we race that goes far beyond the sport and the events.

After carefully weighing up the potential positive impact of MotoGP racing in Valencia on delayed dates versus ensuring no single resource is diverted from the recovery efforts by the presence of MotoGP , the championship and local authorities have been obliged to cancel the 2024 Valencia GP.

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Seven Distinctive Models, One Iconic Collection 

The Triumph Icon Editions add unique styling and detail to some of the most loved Modern Classics. Featuring striking new paint schemes, bespoke graphics, and custom logos, the special editions are for riders who appreciate classic style. With hand-painted coach lining, gold script logos, and a combination of rich colors, every detail was crafted to elevate each model’s presence on the road. 

Triumph Icon

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is used to save energy and make better use of daylight. It was first used in 1908 in Thunder Bay, Canada.

While Germany and Austria were the first countries to use DST in 1916, it is a little-known fact that a few hundred Canadians beat the German Empire by eight years. On July 1, 1908, the residents of Port Arthur, Ontario—today's Thunder Bay—turned their clocks forward by one hour to start the world's first DST period.

Other locations in Canada soon followed suit. On April 23, 1914, Regina in Saskatchewan implemented DST. The cities of Winnipeg and Brandon in Manitoba did so on April 24, 1916. According to the April 3, 1916, edition of the Manitoba Free Press, Daylight Saving Time in Regina “proved so popular that bylaw now brings it into effect automatically.”

Time

New Jersey’s Own Geologic Hotspot

Miles beneath Earth’s surface, chambers of magma sloshed and bubbled. As gases built up within them, these chambers expanded, cracking and fracturing the ground above. As magma migrated upward to the surface through these passages, it made contact with cooler pockets of water. The temperature differential between these two fluids caused rapid cooling and a subsequently cataclysmic release of pressure. Within seconds, hell was unleashed. A massive explosion annihilated the surface, emitting clouds of gas and shards of rock that rained down on the land below. When the smoke cleared, all that remained of the armageddon was a hole in the ground. This all occurred over 440 million years ago, and it’s how Beemerville Volcano in New Jersey was formed. 


 

Jersey's Volcano

Rigg Gear

These 10 trees played a part in shaping world events

On August 14, 1765, a defiant group of American colonists rallied beneath the mighty boughs of a century-old elm tree to protest the enactment of the highly unpopular Stamp Act. The young rebels, who called themselves the Sons of Liberty, decorated the tree with banners, lanterns and effigies of the British stamp master and prime minister.

Over the next decade, patriots regularly gathered around the tree for meetings, speeches and celebrations until British soldiers and Loyalists under siege in Boston chopped it into firewood during the summer of 1775. The Liberty Tree became such a powerful patriotic symbol that towns throughout the colonies followed Boston’s lead in designating their own versions.

Famous Trees

Atoms!

Our atoms are no different to those in rocks and air, and yet here we are.

Those uncertain days, lit by the golden glow of summer’s late dwindling, had a charged intensity. To my surprise, I found solace in what writing How Life Works had led me to conclude about the nature of life itself. I am now more amazed by life than ever. Like my late friend Oliver Sacks, my predominant feeling was one of gratitude. Like Oliver, I realized that “being a sentient being on this beautiful planet”—for however long that might continue—“has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
 

Nautilus

Backroads Magazine Current Edition

Progressive

Bluebird of Bitterness

Harriman State Park

New York

Harriman State Park

Moondance

Van Morrison - LIVE

We could not let October end without playing one of the best Autumn songs around - Moondance by Van Morrison.

This is a rare live cut from Montreux in 1970...

Nice to listen to, under the cover of October skies...

Moondance