Topic: 2009
Bugatti-Galibier four door concept for 2009
Bugatti-Galibier might be the sexiest four door car I have ever seen. I like the chrome work and the interior, it's a great mixture giving a combination of old elegance and new style. I don't know a lot about cars but even I can see this is an amazing car. Here are the finer details that I mostly do not understand I'll leave that to the experts.
According to Bugatti:
As the climax of its centenary celebration ceremonies, Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. presented customers and opinion-makers with the Bugatti 16 C Galibier concept, intended to be the most exclusive, elegant, and powerful four door automobile in the world last weekend in Molsheim. At the historic site where Ettore Bugatti once laid the cornerstone of his company, Bugatti’s current president, Dr. Ing. Franz-Josef Paefgen emphasised that the Galibier is one of several concept studies with which the company is considering for the future of the Bugatti marque.
Art - Forme - Technique: those are the brand values to which Ettore Bugatti and his son Jean oriented themselves in order to develop even more powerful engines and even more noble body designs for each new model, which were without equal in quality, handling, speed and elegance. In the process, they experimented again and again without compromise with new materials; thus was Bugatti one of the first manufacturers to use aluminium parts for bodies, engine blocks and wheels.
Art - Forme - Technique are also the brand values to which the design and engineering team of Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. oriented themselves in the development of the Galibier. With this new four-door concept car, Bugatti assumes anew a leading role in the use of new material combinations. Thus the body is constructed of handmade carbon fibre parts coloured dark blue so that, when illuminated, the woven structure shimmers through strikingly. Carbon fibre not only possesses unusually great rigidity but is also especially light. The wings and doors are out of polished aluminium.
The Galibier’s design masters the challenge of uniting sportiness with the comfort and elegance of a modern four-door saloon. The basic architecture picks up on the torpedo-like character of the Type 35, which was already revived in the Veyron, and reinterprets it. With the typical Bugatti radiator grille, big round LED headlights and the clamshell running the length of the vehicle which became synonymous with the brand identity under Jean Bugatti in the Type 57, this car transports the Bugatti genes into the modern world.
Beneath the bonnet, which folds back from both sides, there resides a 16-cylinder, 8-litre engine with twostage supercharging. What makes this engine special is that it was developed as a flex-fuel engine and can optional be run on ethanol. Four-wheel drive, specially developed ceramic brakes and a new suspension design enable the agile, always-sure handling of a saloon of this size.
The interior reflects the elemental design of the exterior. The dash panel has been reduced to the essential; two centrally located main instruments keep even the rear passengers constantly informed of the actual speed and previous performance. Parmigiani, the Swiss maker of fine watches, created the removable Reverso Tourbillon clock for the Galibier, which may be worn on the wrist thanks to a cleverly designed leather strap.
Susan Boyle performs at America's got Talent 2009 finale
Susan Boyle - WILD HORSES * America's Got Talent 2009 HD
I like her new song and know she will do well. I am surprised though that she was technically not the winner of the British version of Britain's got Talent but she is treated as the winner.
Kevin Skinner wins America's got Talent 2009
Kevin Skinner has stole the heart of many American viewers with his first live audition of America's got Talent. I am so glad he won it is not often to see such an honest and friendly man on these shows. The men who are brave enough to go on live television to sing are most of the time very cocky, Kevin is very refreshing.
Kevin Skinner, 35 * Unemployed Farmer * in Local News from Local WPSD 6 KY
I found two video's of Kevin singing the first is his first audition the second is the live audition. Even though I was unable to post the original audition before the judges because the embedding has been disabled but I found this video with just the vocal of Kevin's voice and pictures. I does not really matter you still can hear the honesty in his voice.
Kevin Skinner, 35 * Unemployed Farmer *-- first audition
Kevin Skinner full song America's Got Talent
Runner up was Barbara Padilla, she is a wife, mother and a cancer survivor. After she fought the decease she went on the get her degree in the art of music which is an achievement in itself. But she is an Opera singer which is well and all but not everyone likes opera so I am not surprised that she did not win. Still she is very talented but going up against Skinner who by then has become a celebrity, she just did not make enough of an impact and I think people new that Kevin needed the win more than Barbara did, a well educated beautiful woman she would make something of herself, where this was a lifeline to Kevin who is a unemployed chicken catcher. I am so happy for them both to have reached this level.
BARBARA PADILLA AMERICA'S GOT TALENT 2009 SINGING AVE MARIA
Kelly Brook in figure hugging dress at GQ Men of the Year award 2009, London
I had no idea Kelly Brook has such an awesome body, wow! That dress looks feminine and sexy at the same time now I know what men see in her.
Nine different people capture UFO siting during eclipse
On 22 July 2009, 22 schoolchildren watched the Solar Eclipse from a rooftop in Deging region of Guandong province in China. Trying to get the best possible view what they saw made the news. All 22 students had a unobstructed view of an UFO what they said changed shaped and moved erratically before disappearing. Nine of the students took out their camera phones trying to capture the UFO. I am not sure who but someone was able to get the whole thing on video. The university have not released the original video yet what I have been able to find was the pictures taken from students camera phones and a video of a Chinese news broadcast.
Observatory director Ji Hai-sheng says they need to study it:
Purple Mountain Observatory and Chinese Academy of Sciences said that during the July 22 total solar eclipse observation, China had discovered near the sun, by observing staff, an unidentified object, it's physical nature remains to be further studied. Currently manpower is being organized to deal with this data, complete the data analysis and reveal the scientific results and this will take at least one year's time to finalize.
Chinese authorities though is still speculating as to what this could have been:
Chinese experts: bright spot is likely to be a star
You can go read the whole article at Dailynew.sina the article is in Chinese you would have to use a translator.
Alessandra Ambrosio in black lace for Fashion Fest 2009
Is it just me or is Alessandra Ambrosio skinnier than usual? Like normally she has this body built for the runway but her legs look rather 'bony' as if she really need to eat something. The one thing that I like about the Victoria Secret Angel models they not stick objects on the runway, they look like women, magnificent super women but still women. Here her face and her upper body still looks very good but she looks rather skinny in the legs department. Maybe it's because she is a mom now and her body is changing?
New Miss Universe is Stefania Fernandez Miss Venezuela
This years Miss Universe is a stunner. Normally the winner is Beautiful but Miss Venezuela, Stefania Fernandez has something extra: she is very sexy. Stefania rather looks like a Victoria Secret model than a beauty queen. Correction there has been one before last year if you can remember Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza won Miss Universe as well and I think I thought the same thing then than I do now. Venezuela woman are so sexy. Here is a comment that Stefania made:
"What do we Venezuelans have? That we are ourselves."
Caster Semenya won gold in the women's 800 meters at the World Athletics Championships gender question
There is no doubt in the physical fact the Caster Semenya is a woman. They have phrased the whole thing wrong. If it was just a fact of her gender they could just do an scan to check if she has all the right 'parts'. The whole investigation is into her biological composition.
Let me explain, woman are identified by the their chromosomes in the athletic world. Female chromosomes are naturally XX while male is XY. What they are questioning is if she is born with XXY chromosomes which would make her a hermaphrodite. This means her muscle build would be more male than female. According to the IAAF and scientist that this would give her a major advantage to other competitors. 
But to me that is not gender fraud it's just a quirk of nature. So what if it gives her some advantage? She has trained most of her life to get into the physical conditions she is in. It's not like she would be able to compete with the men. So what do they expect? That this strong girl should give up all she has worked for and dream of and not compete? I do not see the point in doing this. In the long run it would only harm her if they found that her chromosomes is different. To label her as a man because of a chromosome difference is just cruel and insensitive.
Caster's father pleaded for people to leave his daughter alone. Jacob Semenya said: 'She is my little girl. I have never doubted her gender. She is a woman, and I can repeat that a million times.' dailymail.co.uk
This will not break Caster Semenya she has so many supporters standing by her. Caster earned her gold medal. I found the video of her race on youtube and I can see why some would think something is up because the huge lead she had on the rest of them.
800m Womens Final Berlin Winner Caster Semenya - 2009 IAAF
