Pacific Wheel – Santa Monica Pier

The West Coast skyline is set to go dark for 17 days starting May 5 as the removal process of the Pacific Wheel Ferris wheel begins in preparation for the installation of an all-new Pacific Wheel Ferris wheel at Pacific Park® on the Santa Monica Pier. The world-famous solar-powered Ferris wheel will receive a larger-than-life makeover as the superstar, nine-story attraction is replaced with a contemporary state-of-the-art Ferris wheel at the two-acre seaside amusement park. The reveal, scheduled to kick-off the Memorial Day weekend, will dazzle onlookers with an all-new lighting package illuminating the Southern California coastline with 160,000 energy-efficient LED lights replacing the 5,392 red, white and blue traditional light bulbs that now flicker on the wheel’s spokes and hub. The enhanced LED lighting will provide higher energy savings while complementing the solar-power application. Featuerd as a backdrop in countless feature films, nightly newscasts and more, the new illumination package will also display dynamic, eye-popping computer-generated lighting entertainment in the evenings. “Forever in the celebrity spotlight, the Pacific Wheel has a very impressive list of credits with appearances in more than 105 photo shoots, 71 television commercials, 69 television shows, 28 feature films and 13 music videos,” says Jeff Klocke, director of marketing and sales at Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier. “The all-new Ferris wheel will continue to be seen by millions and generate the type of Hollywood buzz it’s enjoyed over the years including top billing in the opening shots for NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno and appearing in television’s number one program, American Idol, on FOX.” The Pacific Wheel, which has provided more than 3 million rides in its 12 years of operation, stands 130 feet above the Pacific Ocean, features 20 gondolas with a maximum six riders per car and can accommodate up to 800 riders per hour. The all-new $1.5 million Ferris wheel is being manufactured by Chance Morgan Rides Manufacturing Inc. in Wichita Kan., and will have comparable rider capacity and mechanical specifications. Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier, LA’s only admission-free amusement park, offers 12 amusement rides, 21 midway games and an oceanfront food plaza. For information and hours of operation, call (310) 260-8744 or visit pacpark.com.

 

for more information goto : http://www.pacpark.com/pacificwheel.php?location=pacificwheel

As…

as the semester comes to an end, the only thing i can say is, that i actually stayed to the end, unlike my English class last semester, which i dropped (withdrew) right before the midterm, because i am not the kind of person who likes English. so all i can imagine is that even if i don’t pass this semester, i tried my hardest well slightly under my hardest, and i stuck to going to English class even-though i missed a few days, roughly 5, and even-though i left early or came late sometimes.

I TRIED.. I AM ONLY HUMAN AND MY FLAW IS ANYTHING RELATED TO ENGLISH

I Am

I Am

I am who I am
I wonder if I will ever do well in English
I hear music in the distance
I see things that nobody else can
I want to be a successful person
I am who I am

I pretend to be a person that everyone is happy with
I feel tired
I touched the fire within
I worry about who I am
I am who I am

I understand high school is over with
I say life is about always about looking for the good
I dream to be at peace with my enemies
I try the best I can
I hope to be rich and famous
I am who I am.

what i can do about….

Littering…

problem: littering is a big problem in the world today. littering in the beach has caused many people  to get injured because they step on a can and cut their feet open, they get hurt by stepping on trash left behind by the people that were on the beach earlier.

solutions/long term solutions:
 

beach clean-ups

more trash cans

more recycling cans

Let My People Go Surfing… The breakdown…

The book has three parts. The first is the story of Chouinard (the person). The second is the story of the companies (Chouinard, Black Diamond, and, primarily, Patagonia). The third part is a series of eight company Philosophies — actual Patagonia documents describing who they strive to be as company, and why. These eight chapters cover product design, production, distribution, image, financial, HR, management, and environmentalism.

a summary about “Let My People Go Surfing”

Let My People Go Surfing : The Education Of A Reluctant Businessman

Summary ratings: 3 stars (xx voters)

Author : Yvon Chouinard

Summary by : Amazon Review

Published: February 22, 2006

Website: http://www.shvoong.com/f/books/127782-let-people-surfing-education-reluctant/

Whether you care about adventure sports, the fate of the natural world, or pure brand maintenance and business success, Patagonia, Inc. is one of the earth”s most interesting and inspiring companies. For almost forty years, its reputation for unsurpassed high quality, maverick innovation, and long-term environmental responsibility has put it in a class by itself. And everything flows from Patagonia”s founder, Yvon Chouinard.Chouinard”s creation myth is now an American business legend. As a child, he moved with his father, a French Canadian blacksmith, and the rest of his family to Southern California in the 1950s with little English and less money. He escaped into mountain climbing as a teenager and by his early twenties was among the best climbers in America, making famous first ascents of a number of notorious faces. When he decided he could make better climbing tools himself for less money and when his fellow climbers agreed and clamored for more, a way of life became a business. Some forty years later, Yvon Chouinard still summits peaks around the world (though he now spends more time surfing). Patagonia still makes exceptionally high-quality things, only it now earns more than $250 million a year from worldwide sales, and Chouinard is able to leverage his concern for the natural settings he”s spent a lifetime enjoying. His resolve to minimize Patagonia”s impact on the environment has led the company to make its famous fleeces out of recycled soda bottles and to donate at least 1 percent of its revenue each year to environmental causes, among many other things.In Let My People Go Surfing, Yvon Chouinard relates his and his company”s story and the core philosophies that have sustained Patagonia, Inc. year in and year out. This is not another story of a successful businessman who manages on the side to do great good and have grand adventures; it”s the story of a man who brought doing good and having grand adventures into the heart of his business model–and who enjoyed even more business success as a result. Let My People Go surfing gives ample evidence as to why there have been few more influential companies in American business in the last forty years than Patagonia, Inc.The long-awaited memoir/manifesto from legendary climber, businessman, and environmentalist Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of one of the world”s most inspiring companies, Patagonia, Inc.

SprinG BreaK 2oo8

This year for spring break, I went to the east coast with my parents. We left California Wednesday, March 12th, in the afternoon, and did not come back until yesturday, Sunday, March 23rd. During this east coast vacation my parents and I visited Charlotte, North Carolina, The District of Columbia, Washington D.C., Virginia, New Jersey, and Manhattan, New York. In Washington D.C. and Manhattan, we took a bus tour which took us around the areas and talked a little bit about it. From Los Angeles to Charlotte, we flew, but from Charlotte to D.C. and D.C. to Manhattan and Manhattan to Charlotte, we drove. The driving was long and boring, but it was well worth it, to see the things you would never see by flying from place to place.