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November 14th, 2007 #1
SamIce Focus & motion thread starting from Zero to.. ?
Well i'm trying to start making a bit more better pics with my cam ( It's a digital one but pretty nice (Sony DSC-P150))
Comments are allowed of course
1.Wind effect
2. Major Wind effect
3. Focus coke bottle (screen unfocused)
4. Focus screen (coke bottle unfocused)
5. Totally unfocused
6. Mobile Phone (Sony Ericsson W200i)
7. Dust on Wood
Soon will come later on.
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Hi there,
instead of delving into giving critiques on the image ideas I would like to hint on a few technical aspects:
With nearly all of these you have focus problems. You played with selective sharpness alright, but you missed getting something in focus in those shots, too.
you should not have taken the wind effect pics on that day.
I guess it was like this:
- dull light (=long exposure or very small f-stop, which in turn means large aperture and shallow depth of field/DOF)... in both cases focusing is getting hard. the rule is that you can properly hold your camera still during exposure times which correspond to the reciprocal of your lense (e.g.: with a 28mm lense you can hold up to 1/30, with a 50mm lense only up to 1/60, with a 135mm lense up to 1/125 or better 1/250)
If you opened the aperture to get shorter exposure times you narrowed the area with sharp focus down.
Now add wind to the whole thing.
So, I think you missed the focus there because of severe camera shake.
- use a tripod. Will allow for securely held longer exposures, but will introduce another kind of unsharpness: movement of your subject.
Opening the aperture to catch the flags without apparent movement costs DOF. Either you bring your own light to a shot like this or you wait for a better day.
With the bottle and the cell phone pics you went too close to your subject. Every lense has a minimum distance it has to keep to an object to allow for it to be included in its DOF. If you want to get that close you are shooting in macro range which you can do with a wide range of technical gear. Search for a thread with the keywords "macro workshop" and you will find more info.
- move away a bit til you get the nearest object sharply in focus.
- or get macro gear.
Keep shooting. And posting...
November 15th, 2007 #3
Thx for the information. I did the shots with a digital cam and as you told every lens has his nearest point i'm going to find that out.
I'm looking around for a canon eos 10D or 20D what should help me out already a bit better with lenses but i'm going to shoot my first pics with the otherone until i find one..
Oh, btw since i had to work the night this week i took another pic not really on focus or motion but i found that one pretty nice however ^^
Greetz and thx!!
Sam Thielemans
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November 16th, 2007 #4
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By Clay Angelly - June 29, 2005
Also, all benchmarks were performed
with a single NX6800-TD128E as well as two of them in an SLI configuration.
You can use this percentage calculator to play around with the various
differences between any combination of single, SLI, default, or overclocked
speed settings.
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was of course changed per different resolution and AA settings.
I made use of the standard Doom 3 timedemo demo1. I also used the very
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Is the Magic Still there?
At first, when this game was announced, I thought 3 would mean Kingdom Hearts 3. Nope.
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (KH 3D) takes place right after KH II and Re:coded. Sora and Riku, in order to prepare for the eventual Master Xehanort (voiced by Leonard Nimoy of Spock fame) take the Mark of Mastery Exam to become Keyblade Masters. To do this, Wizard Yen Sid tasks the duo by transporting them back in time to when Destiny Islands were taken over by darkness in KH to unlock 7 sleeping keyholes of worlds that "fell asleep" at the time, which protected them from the Heartless, but trapped them in a never-ending slumber.
The best way I can describe KH 3D is a culmination of literally everything that happened in the KH series up to this point to lead to KH 3 (one hopes). This involves tying almost all the loose threads from KH to Re:coded, showing that indeed this is one narrative, not simply disparate stories. It's an interesting and good idea to be sure, and one I've seen implemented in many literary works. But KH 3D doesn't truly deliver.
When the story starts to make sense, it's not a bad one. It's actually pretty decent. Until you realize that they don't answer several questions again (of stuff that's semi-important, but characters just accept it) and are confused. Not in the manner of "I can't wait for more!" but rather in the way of "...What?"
As per games in the KH series these days, if you do not play every game in the series, expect not to understand a lot of things going on. Yes, that includes 358/2 Days and Re:coded. Square-Enix does try to rectify this, though, adding "Chronicles" periodically to your game, titled "Birth By Sleep," "Kingdom Hearts II," and so on that give you a lengthy, but very good, summary of the games. So, more so than other games in the series, you can buy KH 3D with little to no prior knowledge of the series and understand the story somewhat.
Now that the story portion is out of the way, we can look at other presentation aspects of KH 3D. Like other KH games, you romp around several "Worlds," mostly of Disney origin (although some are KH original) sealing the Keyhole of said world while interacting with Disney characters. To be honest, this is one of the main reasons I like playing KH games, for it feels like I'm reliving my childhood. Some previous KH games re-hash old worlds many times over, but I'm pleased to say that KH 3D delivers pretty well on this front.
Save for Traverse Town and another world, KH 3D's worlds pulled from the Disney World are brand new, such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Tron Legacy. These worlds, as well as the rest of the game, are brilliantly rendered and look fantastic in 3D, sporting pretty high-level graphics. New worlds leads to new music as well, and Yoko Shimomura delivers with a phenomenal soundtrack that truly fits these new areas. Lastly, the voice acting is absolutely great. No, Jeff Bridges is not Kevin Flynn, and that's a major disappointment. But Leonard Nimoy is there, and Haley Osment and David Gallagher deliver good performances as Sora and Riku.
Before I get into the huge aspect of KH 3D's gameplay, the combat, let's first talk about the Drop system, referenced in the title. This game stars both Sora and Riku, and it makes use of a Drop meter that, when it depletes, switches you between the two characters. 3 times in the game you are forcibly Dropped, but really, the game gives you great freedom with this mechanic so you don't neglect one story in favor of the other. You get the option to Drop at any time, plus you can control the rate of your Drop or refill the gauge with the use of Drop Bonuses (using in-game "Drop Points" to spend on different boosts like Attack Boost or Drop Decelerator when you switch between Sora and Riku) and Drop-Me-Nots, an item. A common complaint is that it cuts in bosses (thereby resetting the battle), but to be honest, the game gives you fair warning if your Drop gauge is in danger of depleting, so really save for one scenario where you have to fight 3 bosses in succession, such a Drop would be your own fault.
The main gameplay in KH is your action adventure combat. After a little snag of button-mashing in KH 2, most KH games try to give a balanced experience, and KH 3D is no exception. Combat in 3D is dynamic, and by no means simplistic to the point where bosses are pushovers. Of course, mashing A is not the only thing to do in battle. Like BBS and Re:coded, 3D makes use of the Command Deck system, several commands you stack in a deck that you can scroll through with the D-Pad and execute with the X Button, which then undergo a cooldown time, depending on the command. This certainly is a fun system, but has the flaw of the D-Pad's positioning with regard to the Circle Pad. It's hard for you to scroll through the commands at times to get to the Cure spell you need, so you need to do some weird hand maneuvering to run around like a headless chicken so you can heal. Combat is further hindered by a jerky camera. Despite the amount of freedom you have with controlling it, there are times you have no idea what is going on and you wish you had even more freedom (the Circle Pad Pro allows you to tilt the camera up and down, which provides only menial help).
3D introduces 3 new gameplay elements: Flowmotion, Reality Shift, and Dream Eaters. Flowmotion allows you to interact with your environment with the Y Button to dart around different parts of the battlefield, allowing for quick escape or easy transportation. Flowmotion can be used in combat as well, allowing for some extra quick and flashy attacks. While this mechanic is overpowered throughout the first 60% of the game or so, it's a great addition to your repertoire and is invaluable against tough bosses.
Reality Shift utilizes the Touch Screen, and changes depending on which world you're in. This can be activated either with items in the environment or on your foes after dealing a constant stream of damage. These are QTE's that use the Touch Screen, such as slingshotting your foe in Traverse Town or hacking into him in Tron Legacy's The Grid. It's sometimes tough to tear yourself away from battle to activate Reality Shift by sliding down the screen or pressing A and X, but it's a welcome addition nonetheless.
Finally, there are the Dream Eaters, and I will use the trite but accurate description of them being a cross between Pokémon and Nintendogs. Initially, I was skeptical of these cutesy-looking creatures, thinking of a shoehorned monster-capture process or something. I was pleasantly surprised that the addition of Dream Eater companions is actually a well-thought-out and deep process, and a welcome addition to the game. You literally synthesize these Dream Eaters using items you find after beating enemies (or in chests or in shops). If you have the corresponding recipe, you can whip up the little critter (provided you have the proper ingredients) or you can mix and match 2 ingredients and see what's possible.
These spirits have multiple purposes, and the most obvious one is combat. You can have up to 3 Dream Eaters in your party at any given time. 2 will be out helping you, whereas the 3rd one is in a standby-type position. These spirits help you somewhat, by doing some damage or giving stat boosts/healing you, but their main purpose in-battle is their links. All Dream Eaters have a link gauge that fills up under certain conditions, and by touching their icon on the touch screen, you can execute various effects. For Sora, he teams up with his Dream Eaters to perform devastating combo attacks. Riku, on the other hand, literally absorbs his partner(s) to power his own attacks up for a brief period of time. If 2 spirits have a full link gauge, you can unleash an even more powerful Dual Link attack. Admittedly, having Donald and Goofy is better ('cause they're way more fun), but these Dream Eaters do a decent job.
The second purpose is for abilities. Spirits earn Link Points (LP) from battles or mini-games (see below) that can be expended in a Crystarium-like system to gain Dream Eater boosts (abilities that are stackable and are only active when the corresponding Dream Eaters are in the active party), actual new abilities or Link abilities, or even new commands (all of which stay with you forever), resulting in a deep system to customize your character.
KH 3D is also laden with mini-games, with semi-pleasing distractions (my favorite is Flick Rush, a game reminiscent of Chain of Memories, but better) that result in Medals for you to spend on better items, or more LP for your Dream Eaters. It also has some Challenge Portals, where you can take on a type of a side-quest, where you kill a bunch of monsters (and maybe get a bonus by blocking or something).
With all that being said, KH's magic isn't really there anymore. 3D's story is really silly, and the overall story is changing from pretty good to inconsequential fast. I'm interested in what happens next, but not as much as I used to be. The camera, poor story, and overall lack of this magic prevents KH 3D from truly shining. But it's still a great game, don't get me wrong there.


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Yet for all his defiance, the 56-year-old Lukashenko has been plagued by a key weakness: Belarus depends on below-market Russian oil and gas to keep its economy alive. But in 2006, Russia began raising its prices and forced Belarus to cede a 50-percent share in its pipeline network.
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Our journey to Arequipa was another one we won´t forget in a long while....
We had opted for the cheapest bus we could find and we suppose that we should have guessed that you always get what you pay for! The bus stopped at every opportunity along the way to get more and more people on until it was full to bursting point. It also didn´t have a toilet for the 6 hour journey which wasn´t great when it was boiling hot inside and we didn´t dare drink any water in case we needed to go!
A few hours into the journey the bus stopped at a police checkpoint and a group of men got on to inspect the passengers and it´s contents then a really strange thing happened... the police found a lot of bags that belonged to the woman behind us and they prompty threw them all our the window with her pleading for them to stop. They continued to find more bags and thew them all off with her rushing out to follow.. then the bus just left without her! What we think happened is that people try to smuggle various goods through the country and
Dale on the Canyon
it´s luck if they get caught or not.. we still don´t know what was in the bags but we don´t think it was drugs or anything too exciting as the bags were HUGE and we can´t think they would be stupid enough to move that amount on a bus!
So in the end we got to Arequipa in good time and on entering the city centre immediately knew we were going to like it here. Arequipa has the 2nd largest amount of colonial buildings outside of Cuzco and many of it´s buildings are made from sillar, a white volcanic rock which is where the name ´The White City´comes from. The views from the city are amazing because it is surrounded by 3 volcanoes; El Misti at 5822m, Chachani at 6075m and Pichu Pichu at 5571m. The only active volcano is Misti and we found out that they have daily tests to record the activity so they can evacuate the city in the event of a future eruption.
We had arranged to meet up with Joe & Anna here too and it was nice to yet again have some company to share our experience with. We had all learnt
A young Condor
about the mummy Juanita from Fredy while on the Inca Trail and were all keen to see her in real life. To give you a bit of history Juanita is one of the world´s best preserved mummies and was found on the local volcano Ampato in 1995 after being sacrified to the Inca Gods over 500 years ago. In the museum we learnt all about her story and that of the other mummies found in the local area and it gave us all a huge insight into what the Inca people went though in order to please their gods. There were lots of other artifacts that were found as ceremonial sacrifices like cute little gold lamas and sun and moon dolls that would have made perfect souveniers! The final room contains Juanita herself still frozen to keep her perfectly in tact, it´s a little hard to think that she was the most beautiful girl of her time but you can see each feature so well it´s quite scary to see! Unfortunately for you people at home there are no photos allowed so you will need to google her if you want to have a look!
With Joe & Anna
Colca Canyon
This is twice as deep as the Grand Canyon
leaving us the following day the evening was spent making the most of the happy hours around the town.. the best we found was a little local pub with 2 mojitos for only 10soles (£1.70) bargain. With an emotional goodbye we went our separate ways... What a great couple and we can´t wait to see these guys again on our return to the UK.
After some discussion on the activity we wanted to do here we both decided that a 3 day trek to Colca Canyon was the top of our list so we booked a trek leaving on Wednesday. The Colca Canyon is the world´s second deepest canyon alongside it´s sister canyon the Cotahuasi Canyon (the 1st deepest). Both of us had imagined that this trek would not be too strenuous when compared to the Inca Trail but we could not have been more wrong....
This trek was very different from our previous Inca Trail experience, mainly because we were the only 2 people on it so it provided a much more intimate experience.. well it would have been if our guide hadn´t been constantly about an hour ahead of us each time we were walking!
Anna, Joe, Dale & Sophie
yummy mojitos and s**thead!
The first day is relatively easy because you are going down into the Canyon and although this is hard on your knees it´s quite a nice walk along the local path. Most of the path is large rocks that have eroded from the cliff face above you so we were glad of sturdy walking shoes although as per usual the locals do this in sandals!
The real treat for this day was our first sighting of the famous condor and it could not have been better. Eagle eyed (get it!) Sophie spotted this huge bird sitting on a rock just in front of the path after both Dale and our guide had missed it. Stupidly she asked ´what´s that huge bird´ and the guide (who was with us at this point only!) confirmed that it was a condor and that never in his experience had he witnessed one so close up. It was apparently only a baby one at 1 or 2 years old so we dreaded to think how big the adult ones were. It stayed in place for so long and only started to swoop around once we´d continued on our way. Up in the air you
Condor in Flight
can really appreciate how big it is, particularly when it´s shadow goes over you and it´s double the size!
We made it to the bottom of the canyon in about 4 hours and this is where we were to stay for the evening. There are 3 small villages with about 200 inhabitants in the bottom of the canyon which is amazing as their only way to get in and out is to walk or ride a mule or donkey to the top! Our ´hostel´was a group of small mud huts in the heart of the canyon and the views that this village gets to appreciate is amazing. We were also quite excited about our first mud hut sleeping experience which was very pleasant despite the bed feeling like it was made of bags of feathers and the floor was just mud!
We set off again the next morning for our most difficult day of trekking and boy was it a hard one. We began by walking round the canyon though the other 2 villages, one of which had a 300 year old mud brick church, with our lunch stop off being the oasis we´d seen from way up
Can you see the Condor
above the day before. The oasis is made up of a few hostels all complete with their own swimming pools built into the rocks at the base of the canyon, it´s a fantastic place to chill out for a few hours before the long trek back up the canyon. We wished that we had been able to have a night there but after lunch we had to make our final ascent to the top of the canyon and back to the village for the night.
Sophie had not been looking forward to the walk back up, especially as it felt like it was 50 degrees in the pure sunshine. Dale had not been too worried but this soon changed as soon as we started walking! It is a 10km walk (or 1500m vertically) but it felt like the neverending path because as soon as you got to one ridge and thought you were near the top you saw another ascent and it felt like we´d never make it! We had to stop at every shady part to rest and with Dale not feeling great we soon wished we´d cheated and hired a mule to get us there! We had
Sofe on the Canyon
also underestimated the heat and having only took 2 bottles of water with us these were soon run dry and we were only 1/2 way up, at this point we got seriously worried... but never fear... there was a random lady selling water just round the corner and we could not have been more grateful to see her even if the water was 4 times the normal price!
Eventually after many rest stops and nearly on our knees we made it to the top and it had only taken us the 3 hours we were told it would take... it seemed like a lifetime though! What we also found out is that they hold a marathon each year for the local people with 5,000soles as the prize. The marathon takes the same path we´d taken the last few days and the current record is.... 3.5 hours! How on earth he did that we just don´t know, especially when they do it in sandals and in the heat of the morning. We wondered how the olympic marathon runners we all hold in such esteem would cope with that!
After a stop over in the village we set off for
The Rio Colca
the famous condor spotting point the following morning. This is main tourist point overlooking the canyon and many condors can be spotted from here.. and people flood in to see them. We had´t seen so many minibuses, buses and cars in a long while... we only had 1/2 hour to wait there and as we were due to leave at 08.45 the huge birds decided to make their entrance. In total there were about 6 of them and they are quite something to see as they glide though the canyon.
After a quick stop in Chivay for some lunch and to witness yet more school parades we made out way back to Arequipa with another trek under our belts.
We were glad to get back to Arequipa and have a rest for the next few days just chilling in the town, doing a spot of shopping and even making a stop to the cinema! We did venture out the centre on one occasion though to the mirador on the edge of town, from this you get fantastic views of the 3 volcanos.
From Arequipa we decided on an alternative route to Bolivia, first taking in Moquegua, a
300 year old mud church
very small town a bit off the tourist trail. This town enjoyed sub tropical temperatures so we thoroughly enjoyed the heat of the sun for a few days before we had to venture back into the cold! Dale enjoyed a trek to a table top mountain called Cerro Baul and Sophie caught up on her book in the sunshine.
We were a little unsure about our passage into Bolivia because Footprints was very vague so we just hoped for the best that our bus ticket would get us there. Luckily the bus company gave us some good advice to get off at Chacachaca (we think that´s where it was anyway!) and from here you could get a taxi to the border and then over to Copacabana. Unfortuantely for us we´d timed using up our soles really badly and this combined with completely mis-understanding the taxi driver meant we had no money to pay him when we got to the border! After a few minutes of panic Sophie remembered the Australian Dollars we´d been given as a present so managed to change a small amount into to Soles and pay him! Thank you Robert Horne for saving our skin with
Mud hut
It was better than some hostels we have stayed in...
this present from Dale´s work!
We were quite sad to be leaving Peru after enjoying every place we visited but are looking forward to our Bolivian adventure and what may lie ahead.....
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According to study done by Mumbai base fitnesssmith organization, instructor must understand psychological status of exerciser; it can mean all the difference in the world.
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Stacy Ward, fitness expert, was recently seen on NBC and other network affiliates across the country as an expert guest on "Meet The Experts With Arielle Ford."
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Devin Lewis former NFL player, Personal Trainer and NXG Brand Ambassador presents workout equipment to new Treme Center. Devin Lewis is a native of New Orleans and graduate of Southern University.
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Kirkland Personal Trainer Rommel Ryan Acda has a special mother's day fitness gift offering "21-Days for $21" to his results driven workouts at Element 5 Fitness
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FitNews.TV now offers new email newsletter services for anyone in the fitness industry. The site provides the latest online and mobile marketing services for personal trainers and fitness pros.
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Tai Chi is more than just beautiful movements; Tai Chi is a life style. It is often described as meditation in motion.
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Northeast Building Products Corporation, a window and door manufacturer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is preparing to host another Extreme Corporate Wellness Program to its employees facilitated by one of the Nation's Top Fitness Organizations.
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How can one diet and fitness program work for everyone? It probably cant. The good news is there is a new internet program that is customized for your needs. The program is easy, fun and fully guaranteed.
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Higher industry demand for increased standards for personal fitness trainers has created a shift in the fitness industry. The National Exercise and Sports Trainers Association is determined to be the association and certification that can do it all.
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An investigative report by Inside Edition revealed a vast difference between qualified personal trainers and those merely certified with credentials that took only hours to obtain. With no state regulations, it is up to the consumer to beware.
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There was a time in the not-too-distant past when bringing a cellphone or other hand-held digital device to school could earn a kid detention or a visit to the principal's office.
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New laptops with extended battery life are hitting store shelves. The laptops are made with microprocessors that belong to the new Haswell family of Intel chips, which consume less power than previous generations do and promise a 50 percent boost in battery life for watching video.
Mothers who write the Cool Mom Tech blog have lots of experience picking out laptops for their kids. Here, they blog about the best laptops to consider for your student.
Students in the Washington Unified School District (West Sacramento, Calif.) can expect to see shiny new Chromebooks in their classrooms when they begin the new school year. The district's schools spent $150,000 to pilot 450 Chromebooks this year to help prepare students for the Common Core State Standards.
School officials wondering what to do for students who lack their own notebook computers, smartphones, or tablets can acquire extra devices with a little bit of ingenuity.
Each of Miami-Dade's 350,000 public school students will have access to a digital device by 2015, according to a plan approved by the Miami-Dade School Board. Board members unanimously endorsed the proposal by Superintendent Alberto Carvalho to lease more than 100,000 devices, which will be paid off over a period of up to six years.
With rapid, relentless and continuous advancement in technology, the requirements of students and teachers are also undergoing a tremendous change. The report "Education Technology and Smart Classroom Market: Worldwide Market Forecasts and Analysis (2013-2018)," defines and segments the global ed tech market.
Liberty will pay about $900,000 a year for four years to lease about 3,200 MacBook Air laptops for all high school students. Thousands more will be spent to upgrade software and pay for product licenses, computer bags, expanded wireless connections, and teacher training. Teachers will get laptops over the summer to begin their work, and students will get theirs in the fall.
With constantly evolving technology, most school districts in Glenview, Northbrook, and other communities are in some stage of implementing a one-to-one initiative to provide each student with a technological device.
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"This Machine Keeps Portland Weird!"
In honor of The 4th of July, here's The Unipiper playing Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" and Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" with flaming bagpipes while riding a tall unicycle in Portland, Oregon.
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"This Machine Keeps Portland Weird!"
In honor of The 4th of July, here's The Unipiper playing Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" and Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" with flaming bagpipes while riding a tall unicycle in Portland, Oregon.
by Rollin Bishop at on
It's Okay To Be Smart host Joe Hanson explains whether flowers or bees came first in a recent episode. According to Hanson, bees essentially exist because of flowers.
Bees and flowers have an amazingly close relationship. Flowers need bees in order to reproduce, and bees need flowers to feed their colonies. Take away one, and the other would disappear too. It begs the question: When it comes to evolution, which came first, the bees or the flowers?
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Italian comedian Carmine Migliaccio demonstrates how his beloved tabby cat plays dead with just a single "shot" from a finger gun.
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In 2007, Snowball the Dancing Cockatoo kept perfect time as he danced on the back of the couch, banged his head, and generally stomped to the fabulous beat of the classic Queen song "Another One Bites the Dust".
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A recent episode of The New York Times series Robitica–titled "The Family Dog"–profiles the life and inevitable death of AIBO, a robotic dog no longer produced by Sony. Now that Sony finally closed the last of its AIBO repair centers in March 2014, it is only a matter of time before there are no more parts to repair the critters.
They didn't shed, chew the sofa or bite the postman, but for thousands of people Sony's Aibo robotic dog was the closest thing to a real canine companion. So when the Japanese company stopped servicing the robots last year, eight years after it ended production, owners faced a wrenching prospect: that their aging "pets" would break down for good.
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Rock Feast is a series of photos taken recently at the San Diego County Fair that show rocks that resemble food arranged with dishes and silverware.
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Darren Pearson, a Los Angeles based light-art photographer who creates amazing light-paintings, has made a video showing how to light-paint a skeleton using long-exposure photography. The entire process takes around two minutes.
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"piggy", the latest surreal video by animator Cyriak Harris, features a mother pig blowing up her piglets one-by-one as if they were balloons, while the other porcine youngsters dance around waiting for their turns.
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On the Dot hits the perfect brain spot. You know the one—where brain building and ridiculous amounts of fun meet. Play solitaire or against others as you try to arrange four transparent squares so they perfectly match the patterns shown on the dots card. Playing On the Dot will sharpen your problem solving skills and crank up your hand-eye coordination, which research shows actually helps kids learn to read. Don't look now, but you just might have the world's next reading whiz and table tennis champ on your hands.
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PARIS: Featherstone's touch is part of SDSU's golf success
SAN DIEGO ---- Colin Featherstone is a San Diego State golfer, so he gets a mulligan.
Boy does he need one.
Not for his game, as he's among the Aztecs who will compete in next week's NCAA championships at the historic Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades.
Instead, the former Fallbrook High star requires a do-over with his mother.
"She wasn't mad,'' Featherstone said, "but she was bummed.''
One can't blame Mary Featherstone for being miffed upon learning that her son would skip last weekend's graduation ceremony to play golf.
"I wasn't able to do it because we were at the regionals at Stanford,'' Featherstone said. "But I forgot to tell my mom, and when she texted me about my graduation walk I told her I couldn't do it.''
So instead of reaching for Kleenex while eyeing Colin in cap-and-gown, his parents watched him walk toward the 18th hole at Stanford Golf Course wearing black and red.
"That's a good way of putting it,'' SDSU coach Ryan Donovan said.
Good is what the No. 14-ranked Aztecs are, led by two stellar players in J.J. Spaun and Alex Kang. But any squad with title hopes is proficient from top to bottom, and that's where Featherstone fits, manning the No. 5 spot in a sport where the top five players score.
"You're only as good as your fifth man, with him not having a real high score,'' Donovan said.
"And Colin is just such a team player that the chemistry around him is phenomenal. He has that San Diego laid-back attitude but is very confident in his own game. He's just a pleasure to be around.''
But last fall golf fell on Featherstone's priority list. Faced with a heavy senior-year academic load and an infusion of skill on SDSU's squad, Featherstone didn't play in the team's early tournaments.
"I think he got a little sidetracked and took that laid-back attitude a little too far and didn't work as hard over the summer,'' Donovan said. "Then we got some new players and the team was a little better.
"It stunk at the time for Colin, but it lit a fire under him where he realized, 'Wow, we got a pretty good team here, and this is my senior year and if I want to contribute, I really need to put the time and work in,' and he did."
Added Featherstone: "I definitely was reinvigorated and got the drive to get back at it.''
Featherstone, 23, promised to make his last season worth remembering, and he's done it with five top 20 finishes. Although his play has been uneven of late, his iron play is usually solid and if he gets his putting down, he can attack Hogan's Alley and produce some low numbers.
That's been his goal since he started golf at age 9. By the time Featherstone reached Fallbrook High, golf was his exclusive sport.
For years Colin's father, Jay, traveled with him to baseball games with his golf clubs in the car, always seeking a nearby course. Soon there were two sets of clubs in the trunk, with Colin switch-hitting from a bat to a driver after leaving the diamond.


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Epistemologies of African Conflicts
Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone
This book offers a bold, ground-breaking epistemological critique of the dominant discourses on contemporary African conflicts. Based on a detailed and painstaking examination of the dominant ways in which the Sierra Leone civil war has been interpreted, theorized, and understood, author Zubairu Wai considers how Africa is constructed as a site of knowledge and the power political implications that this construction has for the continent and its people. Wai situates the current discourses on contemporary African conflicts within the centuries-long Eurocentric conceptions of Africa conceived of and conveyed through various systems of knowledge, socio-historical and political processes, and practices of representation. He also investigates the historical linkages between Africanism and a Western will to power that since the fifteenth century has also perfectly espoused and necessitated an Africanist will to truth. Identifying evolutionism as a major condition of Africanist knowledge linked to systems of power, this book ultimately argues that the scripts of these conflicts are always already written long before the first shots are fired. Thus, the predicament of Africanist discourses emanates not only from the conceptual limitations of the "colonial library" and evolutionist epistemology, but also these discourses' devotion to the power and knowledge regimes of the Western will to power that makes them possible.less
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Anthem joins March of Dimes and Indiana Fever for an evening of celebration
INDIANAPOLIS, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Indiana will be honored by the March of Dimes on June 7 at the Indiana Fever game for their ongoing support and collaboration to help families with critically ill babies throughout the state and to celebrate Anthem's participation in the successful "March for Babies" walk.
For several years, Anthem has teamed up with the March of Dimes by providing education and support for health care providers and parents to help ensure a healthy future for Indiana's tiniest residents. According to the March of Dimes, one in eight babies in Indiana is born prematurely which can often lead to long-term disabilities with these infants. Prematurity is the number one reason babies are born tiny (low birth weight), sick and struggling to survive. Moreover, with Anthem's State Health Index citing the rate of low birth weight babies as a major public health issue, teaming with the March of Dimes is increasingly important to help reverse this growing trend.
Through its unique Community Resource Centers, Anthem's State Sponsored Business is in an ideal position to help identify local issues affecting Hoosier Healthwise and Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) members and form meaningful community relationships to help improve the health of families and the communities where they live. By collaborating with the March of Dimes, local staff is able to provide expectant mothers with vital resources to help them ensure a healthy pregnancy and avoid premature birth.
"To improve the lives of the members and communities we serve, we need
to look at avenues for collaboration that will yield the greatest results,"
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collaborating with the March of Dimes we know we are teaming with an
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Happy new year! Joyetech would like to share a good news to you with an exited mood. We opened Spanish area on Joyetech France platform. The official website is http://es.joyetech.com.
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From here, you can achieve more convenient, efficient and thoughtful service. Also, here enable you to purchase any product you want, whatever in the form of retail or wholesale. Besides, you can contact our Spanish local after-sale service in the first time.
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'Unity' and other Installations by Bohyun YoonJuxtapoz // Tuesday, June 17, 2014
We are enjoying the work of Virginia-based artist Bohyun Yoon this morning. In his installation entitled, Unity, Yoon suspends fragmented pieces of dolls, somehow creating shadows of a line of people in suggestive poses. See more of his work after the jump...
Henrique Olivei's Largest Installation YetJuxtapoz // Wednesday, June 04, 2014
Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira is occupying the expansive Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo with his largest installation to date with Transarquitetônica. This beautiful immersive exhibit used recycled materials from Oliveira's home city.
Scott Hove "Master of Rapacity" @ Hashimoto ContemporaryJuxtapoz // Friday, May 30, 2014
This Saturday, May 31st, Hashimoto Contemporary is opening "Master of Rapacity" the latest solo show by gallery artist Scott Hove. Featuring several new wall mounted taxidermy works, two free standing assault weapon sculptures, and an interactive installation element, "Master of Rapacity" is one of the artist's most ambitious undertakings yet...
Yinka Shonibare @ MCA ChicagoJuxtapoz // Wednesday, May 28, 2014
This summer, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents the London-based artist Yinka Shonibare MBE, the next artist for the annual plaza series. Shonibare's installation premieres three sculptures from his new Wind Series. Roughly twenty feet high, each monumental sculpture captures the movement of a billowing bolt of fabric, with designs inspired by the sails of ships, and patterns derived from Dutch wax fabric, or "African" batik...
Mike Shine & The Hell Brewers @ Art Works, San Rafael, CaliforniaJuxtapoz // Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Our good friend and March 2013 cover artist Mike Shine has been busy in Northern California over the past year, culminating in a full-on performance and exhibition of the Hell Brewers at Art Works in San Rafael, California this past March. Shine passed along a few images to us last week, and because he and the Hell Brewers will be performing and curating a special artzone at Outside Lands 2014 this August with Juxtapoz in San Francisco, we are getting ourselves in the mood today.
Group Show: "Palabra" @ Succulent Studios, BrooklynJuxtapoz // Tuesday, May 27, 2014
We went to check out the second group show of Succulent Studios, a new and unique 3,000 square foot gallery space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Palabra is an installation based exhibit that features 7 New York based artists: Rubin, Beau Stanton, Sek3, El Sol 25, Michael Alan, Katie Balloons and Iena Cruz.
Rebecca Louise Law's Suspended Flower InstallationsJuxtapoz // Thursday, May 01, 2014
Rebecca is an Installation Artist who works with natural materials. She is best known for her interactive large-scale installations of hanging flowers within site-specific spaces. As well as exhibiting in Public Spaces, Galleries and Museums, Rebecca has made installations for fashion brands...
Ai Weiwei: According to What? @ Brooklyn MuseumJuxtapoz // Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Ai Weiwei is one of China's most prolific and provocative contemporary artists. Featuring over thirty works spanning more than twenty years, Ai Weiwei: According to What? explores universal topics of culture, history, politics, and tradition, showcasing the artist's remarkably interdisciplinary career as a photographer, sculptor, architect, and activist...
112-Meter High Gas Tank Becomes A Massive Light InstallationJuxtapoz // Tuesday, April 22, 2014
The Gasometer Oberhausen in Germany is a former 20,000 square meter former gas tank that has been converted into an exhibition space. Last year it housed the Big Air Package, the world's largest inflatable structure without a skeleton (also the largest indoor sculpture). More recently, German creative studio Urbanscreen has taken it over with a light installation taking over 320 degrees of wall and the ceiling! Watch a video after the jump...
"Magic Carpets" in Morocco by Miguel ChevalierJuxtapoz // Wednesday, April 16, 2014
French artist Miguel Chevalier took over the former Sacré Coeur church in Casablanca, Morocco with an interactive light display spread out across the floor in a piece title "Magic Carpets." The result is a transforming pool of light and color, and psychedelic and mesmerizing biology science experiment. Watch the video.


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New anti-censorship scheme could make it impossible to block individual sites
A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites.
Google search detects infected computers
Google on Tuesday began warning some users of its popular Internet search service that their computers may be infected with a virus.
Dotcom celebrates 25th birthday
Recognize Symbolics.com? Probably not. But 25 years ago this week the Massachusetts computer maker played a bit role in history -- it was the first company to register a .com address on what would eventually ...
Cisco shines light on dark corners of the Web
Cisco launched software that shines light on potentially troublesome websites hidden in what the US computer security firm dubbed the "Dark Web."
Company alleges Chinese software has stolen code
(AP) -- A California company claims that the Internet-filtering software China has mandated for all new personal computers sold there contains stolen programming code.
Gov't won't classify proxies as 'sophisticated' (Update)
(AP) -- The U.S. government has dropped - for now - a plan to classify the use of "proxy" servers as evidence of sophistication in committing a crime.
US mulls stiffer sentences for common Net proxies
(AP) -- "Proxy" servers are an everyday part of Internet surfing. But using one in a crime could soon lead to more time in the clink.
Internet blocks return in Iran after brief opening (Update)
Word of the opening of Iran's blocked social media sites was spread, of course, by social media itself: in celebratory tweets and breathless Facebook posts. Hours later, the same sites Tuesday chewed over ...
Cyber war on Iran has only just begun
A US cyber war against Iran's nuclear program may have only just begun and could escalate with explosions triggered by digital sabotage, experts say.
Chinese site bans Web tools used to evade filters
(AP) -- A major Chinese online commerce site has banned sales of software used to bypass Internet censorship amid Beijing's efforts to block the development of a Middle East-style protest movement.
Google accuses China of blocking Gmail
Google accused the Chinese government on Monday of interfering with its Gmail service, after weeks of online disruptions that have coincided with calls for protests emulating those in the Middle East.
Unlocking the geoblock with VPNs
In recent months there have been many reports of Australians covertly signing up for the US streaming service Netflix, using fake postcodes and software workarounds to fool its geo-blocking system.
First Manhattan sues Vivus over shareholder vote
Vivus Inc.'s biggest shareholder said Tuesday it is suing the obesity drug maker as it continues to fight for greater control of the company.
North Korea seeks social network publicity
North Korea's main government website has begun adding icons for users to post its statements fiercely criticising the United States and South Korea on popular social networks including Facebook.