Cancer Research UK has been confirmed as the Official Charity Partner for The National Running Show, which makes its debut on 20th and 21st January 2018 at Birmingham’s NEC. The charity is the perfect partner for what will be the UK’s first dedicated non-race affiliated event solely for runners. Well known amongst runners through its…
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The Legend of What Could Have Been
On June 25, the trail-running world was rocked by one of the most compelling performances in its history. For 90-plus miles, Jim Walmsley ran the 2016 Western States 100 Mile with a ferocious intensity that left spectators shocked and awed. He was 20 minutes ahead of the course record and nearly an hour in front…
Alex Flynn: My Fight Against Parkinson’s Disease
Alex Flynn, 46 from Wallingford, Oxfordshire has taken part in the Vodaphone Lost Island (220 kilometres) Ultra Marathon. Not only was the five day course brutal; battling humidity, hills, mountains, two cyclones and technical trail making this the hardest race on the planet. Added to this mix is the fact Alex did this with Parkinson’s…
Lotos Trefl Gdansk against Asseco Resovia Rzeszow in the big final of the Polish Cup
Lotos Trefl Gdansk and Asseco Resovia Rzeszow will fight for the Cup of Poland in a clash of the giants on Sunday afternoon. Both teams secured their place in the final defeating PGE Skra Belchatow and Jastrzebski Wegiel. The first semifinal played between the hosts Lotos Trefl Gdansk and PGE Skra Belchatow was already the…
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Aston Martin confirms AMG’s Moers as new CEO
Aston Martin Lagonda has confirmed the appointment of Mercedes-AMG boss Tobias Moers as the luxury automaker’s new top man. Moers, 54, will take assume his new role at Aston’s headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire as of August 1 while former CEO Andy Palmer has stood down with immediate affect. Palmer’s days were numbered following Aston Martin’s…
Analog vs Digital: Home-Brew Science at the Edge of the Art
Publisher’s note: The following article, from the early days of Compact Disc, is presented with no claim for absoluteness. (In fact, just as we go to press in the spring of 1986, we received a manuscript from Philip Greenspun, Product Review Editor of Computer Music Journal (Cambridge, MA), who had precisely the opposite result when…
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Click Here: cheap nrl jerseys In his review in the November 2015 issue, Herb Reichert wrote that Parasound’s Halo Integrated amplifier “has a recognizable sonic personality: easy flowing, mostly smooth, and decidedly mellow. . . . But don’t worry—it’s not milquetoast mellow or unwashed-hippy-stoner mellow. It is, instead, an everything’s-under-control, don’t-worry-now mellow.” I hoped to…
Paul McGowan: High-End Survivor
“I don’t believe it!” I had just unplugged my preamplifier from the PS Audio Power Plant P300 and powered it from the wall socket, and was reacting to the resultant “grayness” that had been reimposed on my music. We seem to be more sensitive to hearing subtle but ultimately important sonic effects when they are…
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High fidelity took a giant step forward in 1956 with Peter Walker’s introduction of the Quad ESL. Walker’s research efforts had been motivated by his firm belief in the superiority of the electrostatic dipole over the box loudspeaker, but actually to take the economic plunge and market such a speaker was surely an act of…