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Our planet is full of life. Besides all the creatures that can be seen with the naked eye, there are millions of microscopic creatures with amazing features.
Several scientific disciplines study and classify all of these creatures, but there is still much to do and learn.
Some organisms have developed wonderful camouflage mechanisms that make them invisible to conventional microscopes. However, a random series of events has transformed your Nintendo DSi camera into a very special Microscope that allows you to find them.
Capture all of these organisms and show the world your fantastic discoveries!.
AfterZoom takes place in a Lab where there are 3 main areas: the Microscope, the Sample Bank and the Chemical Lab.
- The Microscope is useful to search for organisms and other elements on the player's surroundings, which may be found in different places and at different zoom levels.
- The organisms collected are stored in the Sample Bank. Here, one can also feed them so they are healthy. The healthier they are, the faster they'll grow and the less one will have to check on them.
- The elements found with the Microscope are stored in the Chemical Lab, which is also where one mixes up new elements for the colonies, based on actual chemistry formulas.
Almost all the organisms are in too wild a state to allow a capture. So, before one can store them, it is necessary to weaken them using other organisms from the Sample Bank in a role fight that only lasts 30 seconds.
Not all of the organisms have the same stamina nor strike force, which means that strategy is necessary to ensure a win when choosing the right organism to send into a fight.
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Best European Educational Serious Game "Winner" Fun & Serious Game Festival
Best Game for Portable Consoles "Finalist" V National Awards + Gamelab
Best Technology "Finalist " V National Awards + Gamelab
Original Award "Finalist " European Indie Game Days
Selected Project "Finalist" Game Connection Europe
7.5/10 Good "There have been a few other game designs in the past that have had you doing real world legwork to catalog creatures, like scanning UPC codes or spinning music CDs to generate monster data. AfterZoom captures that same addictive sense of fun as you look for "just one more," and its unique hook could keep monster-collecting gamers busy for a while." IGN
8.0/10 "It is a rare game that can captivate a a variety of ages equally, but AfterZoom seems to have hit that high note quite well. I give AfterZoom an 8 out of 10, and recommend it for your little budding scientists." Brutal Gamer
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Modifying K2 Climbing Skins
I was at REI a week ago and I spotted a set of K2 skins for $82 . They normally retail for $200 but this one was previously opened and returned back to the store. $118 savings, their loss; my gain.
K2 uses a unique system for the attachment of climbing skins to their splitboards and skis. There is a hole at the tip and tail of each board where a "z-clip" hooks into.
As a result, there is over a dozen set of K2 skins. One for each size and model of ski or splitboard. K2 also makes a "trim to fit" skin that comes in several different lengths.
For $82, I thought I would see if could get the 125mm wide, 167cm long skins to fit on my 162cm K2 Panoramic. There was two problems. The first, these were 167cm and my board is a 162. They were meant to be trimmed to the correct width BUT the length is not meant to be modified. The second problem is the skins didn't line up correctly. These skins were meant to be used with K2 skis and the holes in the splitboard are offset from center
The solutions were easy enough. The z-clips were sewn on to the tips and tail. They came off pretty easily. I inserted a knife between the z-clip and the skin to cut it loose. I cut about 6cm off the tip in the same shape that it came from the factory. After cutting one skin I tested to make sure it was the correct length. The scrap piece of skin that I just cut off was used as a template to mark and cut the second skin.
The hooks on these skins were centered on the skins but the holes on the snowboard were offset by 0.75cm. The skins, as is, were barely wide enough so the offset left the skin laying crooked and the base exposed. The tips of the skins were tapered. I wanted to keep the same shape of the taper so I shifted the triangular taper over 0.75cm. The scrap from the first skin was flipped over and used and a template for the second skin.
After test fitting, I found that the skin laid pretty straight and it wasn't necessary shift over the tail hook.
I didn't have any means of sewing the rubber z-clip to the skin so I took them to the local cobbler across the street where I knew they had a heavy-duty sewing machine. I had him sew the clips back on for a nominal fee. Brought them back home from the cobbler's a couple of days later and trimmed them to the correct width with the tool that K2 provides with the skins.
Here is the final product:
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And for reference, this is what the skin made specifically for the K2 Panoramic looks like:
Sorry about the SUPER LONG post. Before I did this I tried to do some research on the internet to see if this is even possible or how well it would fit but I wasn't finding a whole lot of information. If anyone comes across the same problem, I hope this is at least a little bit useful.
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Nice mod! I scored ski skins (G3) last year for like 60 bucks off steep and cheap. But all I did was cut off the tail attachment. Haven't had a problem yet in 60-70 tours. I don't know if it would work the same for the K2 system but IMO, the tail attachment is unnecessary since the act of gliding reapplies pressure to the skins in the direction you want.
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I've splitboarded for more than a dozen years now, and I can tell you it sucks when you blow a skin. Tail clips can save your day, maybe even your life.
A Spark, BD, or G3 tail kit is very easy to mod on your skins too. Took me all of 30 minutes, maybe not even that long to add tail clips to my Ascension skins.
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Oh yeah, I've used Voile straps for the same thing. For myself and pulled them out for friends. If you have tail clips, you probably won't every have to do that.
Voile straps only work if you catch it soon enough too. Otherwise you got to warm up your skins before re-applying them. Which sucks out in the field.
I guess my point was that it is super easy to add a tail kit. Not hard at all.
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Nice score acrophile.
while tail clips are not necessary, i couldn't image not using them.
I've had days where the adhesive was frozen/pow caked/waterlogged and the nose/tail clips were all that keep my skins in place.
The price of G3 or Spark tail clips is negated by the benefits of having said tail clips. And to reiterate what KC said, adding/installing tale clips is a VERY easy process.
BTW, I only have experience using the G3 tail clips.
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Top 5 Blogging Mistakes by Photographers
Last Updated on Monday, 29 August 2011 02:14 Written by Theresa Monday, 29 August 2011 01:48
I've been meaning to post about this for a while, and as you know I work with a lot of photographers in creating/updating their blogs, so I've seen all sorts of blogging mistakes. Most of them pertain to the use of images, and that's what I'll be concentrating on for now, but I may add more later.
In order of least to most important:
- Not blogging enough. I have the same issue myself, but like you I'm sometimes too busy to blog on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. But one of the most common questions I get asked is "how can I improve my SEO and Google rankings?". Well, the simple answer is, you're not blogging enough! And by blogging, I don't mean just posting photos, but TALKING about the photos, photo shoot location, etc.. that help with generating more content that the search engines LOVE to read. The quantity and frequency of the content is what will send search engines crawling on your site. If you take a look at your stats, often you'll find the search engine bots crawling, and that's a GOOD THING! This is just one way to increase SEO, but the rest is for another post.
- Having too many blog posts on the each page. This might be something you're unaware of, but the default for WordPress is to show 10 posts per page. That's fine if your blog posts are only full of text, but photographers (especially you wedding photographers!!!) are notorious for an over-abundance of image-filled posts. I have one client (I will not name names) literally had at least 100 images on their front page, and that was only with 3 posts!!! And they were wondering why their blog was loading so slow… Ok, so to set the number of posts per page, go to Settings—>Reading in your blog admin and set the "blog pages show at most" to something like 5, but it all depends on how many images per post you average. I would suggest 5 if you post no more than 3 or 4 per post. Make it less if you post more.
- Forcing large image files to fit your blog width. Some of you may not even know you're doing this! But if you're uploading full size image files (i.e. full res, larger than 1000 pixels wide most likely), but you see that they fit just nicely in your blog, it could be because your themes style sheet is FORCING your images to fit. That's all nice and dandy except of course, your image file sizes are larger than they need to be and will therefore slow down the loading of your blog pages. The BEST thing to do is to figure out the width of your blog post and set the medium or large image size to THAT. So say your post width is 900 pixels wide, then go to your blog admin under Settings–>Media. These are the settings where you tell WordPress what sizes you want your image to be resized to after uploading a full res image file. Now set the medium or large size to that width. I also suggest using that same number for the height so that your files stay the same file size regardless of orientation. Lastly, you then use that size (medium or large) for the size you insert into your posts. Of course, you can set this number to be less than your post width, but DON'T set it larger or you'll have unnecessarily large file sizes.
- NOT watermarking your images. This is the #1 way to safeguard your images. I know, some people think they're ugly and intrusive, but some may be done discretely yet can be difficult to remove. I highly recommend doing it, either using a batch process in Photoshop or Lightroom, or using a plugin like Scissors that will automatically watermark your images after upload. Regardless if you have a right-click disable script in place or if you make sure not to do #5 on this list, there are still going to be tech-savvy people out there using the print-screen key stroke on their computer to take a screenshot of your blog. There is NO script out there that you can install on your blog that will prevent people from doing that. The kind of watermark I suggest is similar to the one I use on my photography blog, a low opacity strip across the lower section that doesn't cover faces and would be difficult to remove without cropping off a good part of the image.
- Hyperlinking images to the full sized (full resolution) version. This has got to be my biggest pet peeve. I've seen photographers' blogs that have copyright messages and right-click disable scripts installed everywhere on their blog, but then they don't realize that they're linking the images to FULL RESOLUTION versions of their web-sized images. That's basically telling anyone, "hey click here and download this image for free!" There may still be a few photographers out there that "give" away their images on CD for cheap, so maybe they don't care that the images are then accessible on the web, but most photographers I know who want to protect their product wouldn't want this situation to occur. So here's the simple fix: before you insert your images into your post, make sure where it says "Link URL" in the image dialog box, it's set to "none" and not "file URL" or "post URL". Post URL isn't what it sounds like. It will actually add the URL for the attachment page, which uses a page template you may or may not have, but it's basically a page that shows just that image. I don't recommend using it unless you aware that you have an attachment page template in your theme files.
I hope this list helps you in your quest to blog effectively, efficiently, and most importantly, creatively for your photography business.
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Home prices in Hawaii are down from a few years ago, but a survey suggests that the fees for buying a home aren't.
A Bankrate.com survey said the average closing cost in Hawaii this year for a $200,000 home loan is $3,442 based on lender estimates, a 26 percent jump from $2,739 last year.
The relatively large increase, the survey noted, may be the result of more accurate fee estimates by lenders.
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The big 3-0 has heft: Most 20-somethings fear it, 40-somethings miss it, and 60-somethings realize that they're way wiser than they ever were back then.
We don't think you're defined by your age on a calendar, but this turning point in our adult lives sure seems to hold mystique; at the very least, you had a lot to say about our roundup of 30 bad habits to ditch by 30.
By the time we embark on our fourth decade, there are a few things we should all know: life skills to help us manage our money, maximize our talent, and make the most of where we are. Whether you're looking ahead to your 30th birthday or are smirking from a place of divine wisdom, check out these 10 things everyone should know by 30 — and tell us what you think.
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It goes without saying that LearnVest prizes the power of budgeting. After all, a budget isn't intended to limit you, but free you: Once you know how much you need to set aside for certain goals, you learn how much you have at your disposal to spend on the things you want. To get started with your budget, check out the LearnVest Money Center, where you can see exactly how much you're spending and saving each month.
2. How To Cook (At Least) One Signature Dish
Living off nothing but pasta and canned tuna is all well and good when you're fresh out of college or still embracing your inner bachelor. But, at a certain point, your palate should mature — without your wallet picking up the slack.
We know not everyone is born a culinary wonder, nor wants to become one, but with at least ten cable channels devoted to food, you can pick a culinary idol to emulate and a signature dish or three that will do more than simply sustain you.
Why? Cooking at home is healthier for your waistline and your budget, not to mention for family bonding time.
Sure, you speak and write English, but when occasion calls, can you draft a cover letter, résumé, or email that commands attention? Your career could depend on it.
Writing professionally applies not just to official memos to your department head. It also comes in handy when you want to negotiate a bill with customer service, or even write a thank you note. Even in less formal contexts, you'll be remembered by the emails you send — and they form a permanent, written record of your work.
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4. How Not To Part With Your Hard-Earned Cash
Sure, your 20s may be the decade of impulse buys, but with age should come fewer occasions for buyer's remorse.
Here's an easy rule of thumb anyone who's spent three decades on Earth should consider before plunking down a wallet: Ask yourself whether you'll be glad in a month that you own this purchase. Then think about what else you could do with that money. Would you rather have this thing, or that lump sum?
To help you figure out whether the purchase is the right one for you, we built The Purchase Appraiser, an interactive tool to help you nip bad spending decisions in the bud once and for all.
Changing a tire in the cold by yourself sounds way less than fun, but this adult skill can save you in a bind, both in terms of money and safety. Read: You don't have to pay for a tow truck, and you don't have to sit by a sketchy roadside for hours waiting for AAA.
6. How To Look Up Your Credit Report
Your credit is one of the most fundamental building blocks of your financial life. Solid credit enables you to do everything from getting a mortgage to taking out an auto loan. Good credit also means you'll be eligible for credit cards with better perks and lower interest rates.
Certainly, a big part of maintaining good credit is paying all your bills on time, but there's another component people often forget: checking your credit report to make sure there are no errors. Credit reporting agencies screw up surprisingly often, and no one is going to make sure they're doing right by you, except you.
So, by 30 (really, well before), everyone should know how to check her credit report. And hey, what do you know: LearnVest even has a step-by-step checklist to help you do just that.
7. How To Manage Your Money Digitally
You shop online, have made the transition to going paperless (after all, seven years of bank statements eat up a lot of filing space!) and, if you're a responsible money manager, by now you ought to have made the leap to knowing where your money goes while you're on the go.
That's why LearnVest created our new iPhone app. These days apps can help us do everything from save on groceries to organize our desktops, but there's nothing more useful than seeing where every cent you earn or spend goes, in real time. Of course, this isn't just for people over 30, but we know it's the future, so it's best to get on board now!
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Although swimming may not feel like a core life skill when you're living and working a day job, we think it's something everyone should know. On the most basic level, it will keep you safe whether you're ever caught in rough waters or ice skating on a frozen pond.
This becomes even more important if you're ever around kids. Whether you have children, plan to have them in the future, or occasionally hang out with people who do, you'll surely want to feel empowered as a trusted adult by the pool when little ones are playing.
Don't know how to swim? No shame! Taking classes doesn't have to be pricey, either. Try the local YMCA or community center.
9. How To Move On
We mean this in the broadest sense possible, whether it's moving on after you didn't get the job you wanted, after learning that the mortgage for the home you loved is way out of your price range, and, okay, sure, getting over old relationships.
The sting of disappointment is no less sharp, whether you're 13, 30, or 300. But, wisdom means having the tools to recognize which battles are fight-able, and when you need to get on with your life. (In other words, don't keep harassing the hiring manager weeks after you've been turned down from a job.)
Healthy approaches to moving on: talking to your friends, doing a little yoga to relax, looking for the new chapter to follow. Unhealthy approaches: drinking away your pain, or taking your credit card to the mall to buy your way out.
10. How To Strike A Balance Between Work And Life
How much time do you spend thinking about how you spend your time? One of the hottest conversations in America is the perennial one about work-life balance: From moms too busy to take maternity leave to more women than ever burning out in the workplace by age 30. Some experts have argued that the key is less about work-life balance than work-life purpose, or prioritizing what's important to you and fitting it into a composite of who you are, and what you do with your time.
Whatever this means for you, don't wait until you're decades into a career you don't love, before making changes. Start now, by thinking about what makes you tick, and what your long-term goals are. Not sure where to start? Here's eight of the best ways you can use your time to lead a richer life.
Sure, we'd all like to be earning more. But, even if that bonus check is nothing but a dream, LearnVest is here to help you make the most of what you've got — read their stories, use their tools, and talk to a pro planner about getting a financial plan custom-designed for you.


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Main Gallery is a virtual art "gallery" and mobile group of well-known local artists who exhibit their work together, provide wonderful, unique art as gifts and additions to art collections, and help organizations with art activities to promote their mission and events.
Consider the arts to promote your organization or business.
Find unique artwork as a gift for your office, home, or special someone.
Studies have shown that support and development of the arts not only raises the spirit and health of the community and its individuals, but significantly enhances and promotes the local economy. Main Gallery artists will be happy to meet with you or chat over the phone to explore inspiring ways to work with you.
Thank you in advance for your consideration. We look forward to talking with you and sharing our talent and creativity.
Jeri Burzin, Director
Visalia, California


text: Brett Weston...which is actually quite interesting to me in that my first impression of his work was that I could not understand why anyone would print some areas of the print with such low value. Today I find his work quite compelling in the fact that he was able to abstract the image in such a compelling way. He was apparently able to get past the egotistical way of thinking that something had to be represented in a conventionally acceptable way. This seems to have been a quality of his work from his earliest years.


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|The μ(3) Model of Acids and Bases: Extending the Lewis Theory to Intermetallics.
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|A central challenge in the design of new metallic materials is the elucidation of the chemical factors underlying the structures of intermetallic compounds. Analogies to molecular bonding phenomena, such as the Zintl concept, have proven very productive in approaching this goal. In this Article, we extend a foundational concept of molecular chemistry to intermetallics: the Lewis theory of acids and bases. The connection is developed through the method of moments, as applied to DFT-calibrated Hückel calculations. We begin by illustrating that the third and fourth moments (μ(3) and μ(4)) of the electronic density of states (DOS) distribution tune the properties of a pseudogap. μ(3) controls the balance of states above and below the DOS minimum, with μ(4) then determining the minimum's depth. In this way, μ(3) predicts an ideal occupancy for the DOS distribution. The μ(3)-ideal electron count is used to forge a link between the reactivity of transition metals toward intermetallic phase formation, and that of Lewis acids and bases toward adduct formation. This is accomplished through a moments-based definition of acidity which classifies systems that are electron-poor relative to the μ(3)-ideal as μ(3)-acidic, and those that are electron-rich as μ(3)-basic. The reaction of μ(3) acids and bases, whether in the formation of a Lewis acid/base adduct or an intermetallic phase, tends to neutralize the μ(3) acidity or basicity of the reactants. This μ(3)-neutralization is traced to the influence of electronegativity differences at heteroatomic contacts on the projected DOS curves of the atoms involved. The role of μ(3)-acid/base interactions in intermetallic phases is demonstrated through the examination of 23 binary phases forming between 3d metals, the stability range of the CsCl type, and structural trends within the Ti-Ni system.
|Timothy E Stacey; Daniel C Fredrickson
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Even today in the year 2011, nudity in India is a taboo and sex is a topic that people don't want to talk about in our society. So how does one expect Indian actresses in India, well the conservative ones expect them to be clad in sari and run behind the bushes and sing songs. But today that surely is changing and with changing times, the youth basically is dominant generation and they surely can understand what nudity is and what cheap nudity is. So how does one differentiate nudity with cheap nudity? Well it has to do with how aesthetically the scene or the photograph has been shot.
Well Hollywood has been liberal towards nudity from the beginning and for them full frontal nudity was common since the early times. Even in India we had cases of frontal nudity and women going topless for scenes back in the olden days. And the man who brought this to our movie was the Showman of India, the legendary actor-director Raj Kapoor. He was a man who made many actresses shoot topless scenes and he even made Madakini and Zeenat Aman go a step ahead and create a stir back in India. He was criticized and appreciated but I guess he might have been criticized a lot as even today when an actress goes topless and that is justified with the script of the movie. Our Indian audiences, especially the fake Mahila sanghathans come up lashing at the producers and the actresses and create such a massacre as if these artists have committed a sin.
But still many Indian actresses and that too many leading actresses have gone topless and we bring you the list of top ten Bollywood actress from this generation who has gone topless for movies or photo shoots.
Bollywood's Bong dusky beauty, who has body to die for has gone topless for a popular men's magazine and also for the movie named Race. The beautiful Bipasha just sizzled on the cover page and when she did a topless scene in Race with Saif Ali Khan, she just created a huge uproar in the Indian small town as well as the metros. And recently a video of Bipasha surfaced where she was scene completely naked in advertisement that she had done with Vivek Oberoi several ages ago. So Bipasha Basu is surely one of the top ten Bollywood babes who have gone topless and she has been appreciated for her sexiness right from her first movie Raaz and then in movies like Jism. The beautiful Bipasha has always sizzled on the screen even when she has not gone topless.
The original pin-up actress of Bollwyood. When she arrived to the Indian scene. I still remember I was in my 8th grade and she created uproar by wearing a bikini and smooching Himanshu Malik 17 times in a movie that became a hit just because of the reasons listed just above.
She had recently gone nude for her very ambitious project Hiss. Well she looked awesome but the movie was a dud but she still received a lot of compliments as well as lot of flak. Mallika Sherawat is a Dabangg actress and she knows no fear of being critized, she will do whatever she wants to and she makes it look good. Recently this actress posted a nude picture of her on her social networking site and this too created a huge uproar. And after Hiss was declared a dud, she went nude for a magazine saying that she is doing this to compensate to the fans who went to see Hiss and were disappointed. Now this way of compensating will be loved by men all over the world for sure. She is also one actress who has faced a lot of criticism for her boldness.
This young lass created such- a huge uproar with her very first movie. Yes this beautiful Bengali girl went topless for her very first movie. And I remember this very vividly because when Tanushree Dutta went topless for the movie Aashiq Banaya Aapne in the song with the same name. The video was a rage and Multimedia phones had just arrived in India and this video became one of the most circulated videos ever. Where Tanushree did went after this sizzling debut of hers, no one knows but she really came with a bang to the Hindi Film Industry.
Well let me clear that she has done a movie, so technically she is an actress and she is one of the few actress who have done frontal nudity in recent times for a movie. Okay first about Sherlyn Chopra, she looks hot, there is no doubt about that, but all this figure of hers is a boon from the plastic surgery that she has undergone and' Sherlyn makes no qualms about going under the knife, she very interestingly puts it this way: what god didn't gave her, she just bought it.
Sherlyn has been in the news for her saucy comments and sexy photo shoots, giving nude poses for magazines and shooting raunchy item songs. If Mallika is the original pin-up actress from Bollwyood . Sherlyn is the one who became the pin-up for the common man. She is hated by the society but it's the hidden society where she is famous and that is the reason she is making so much money today. And she is also a regularly featured model who poses topless and partial nude for a daily newspaper like Times of India.
Surprised to see this name, well Ameesha Patel has not gone topless for any movie but then the actress showed that she is just not a bubbly cute actress she has a seductive and sensuous side too. she went topless for a photo shoot for a magazine and created waves around.
Kareena Kapoor was recently seen in a very steamy hot scene with her beau Saif Ali Khan in a movie named Kurbaan which came and went by. But that scene where Kareena was seen topless, that became a rage. People were talking about this scene for a long time. But people who consider this scene as the first scene where Kareena has gone topless then that is wrong. Kareena was seen backless for a movie with Anil Kapoor and Akshay Kumar in the movie named Bewaafa. And in that movie too, Kareena sizzled and made the audiences drool all over her.
Well she is not a typical Bollwyood actress and she has not gone topless for a Bollwyood movie. Mandira Bedi was one of the first actresses on TV and her daily soap Shanti did very well. She did three movies and beame famous for her backles sari's that she had worn at the Worl Cup Extra Innings. But lately Mandira Bedi went topless and was looking hot for a men's magazine. She definetly looked very hot in the magazine.
The very homely looking actress who was considered a fashion disaster after she did movies like Hey Baby and Kismat Connection. She shut everyone's mouth by going topless for a movie called Ishqiya where her going topless was not the highlight, her acting was but that scene also was appreciated by critics as well as the audiences and Vidya was also seen posing topless for a Daboo Ratnani calendar shoot. And now she is doing a movie based on the life of the Indian porn star Silk Smitha and we hear that she has done some scenes that have never been scene on the Indian celluloid before.
She may not have been born and brought up in India but she is of Indian Origin and from her first movie. Aruna Shields showed that she has a hot body and she has no problems flaunting it in front of the world. In her second Bollywood movie which was named Mr. Singh/Mrs. Mehta, Aruna went an extra step ahead and was seen doing a complete nude scene. The movie tanked but that scene is still talked about.
Aruna Sheild's co-star from her first movie Nandana Sen and more over the daughter of the Noble Prize winner Amartya Sen has done many controversial things. But the most controversial is yet to ome. She has done one of the first full nudes for the Ketan Mehta movie Rang Rasiya. Nandana makes no qualms about this and this is what she has to say about her nude scene: I'm the first Indian actress to do a complete Nude scene... and proud of it. She looks very hot nude or not nude and she is one of the only Indian actresses who is not scared to face the wrath of the very hypocritical Indian society.
So these are the top ten Bollwyood actresses who have gone topless for a movie or a magazine and mind you every time an actress even dons a bikini in India, or even if gives a peck on the mouth of an actor. The thing is criticized to the core. So going nude and topless is a very courageous thing and these actresses should be complimented. But a rather word of advice, just because you can get publicity if you go nude is completely wrong morally as well as professionally. So the one's thinking that going nude can get them work, well you can see the fate of many actresses who have tried this and have failed miserably, some of them have been named here in this list too.
So what do you think of this list, so you think all these actresses looked hot when they went topless for their respective movies and magazines. And what do you feel, is nudity an exaggerated taboo in India or nudity should be banned, whatever your views may be, give them in the comments sections below.
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Rihanna Just Delivered A Beauty Mic-Drop
It wasn't just the insane metallic emerald (similar to this Dolce & Gabbana version) that we dug, but the fact that Rihanna kept licking it off her lips — giving her a green tongue. (Tinted-tongue syndrome is a condition we've suffered before as well.) All this leads to the obvious: Rihanna is a beauty badass. She's completely fearless when it comes to her hair and makeup. Those twists could look somewhat dated on someone else, but by pairing them with an of-the-moment (and totally out-of-the-box) lip color, she manages to stay modern — and so damn cool.
Call it a mic-drop or a slam dunk — call it whatever. Rihanna, you and your green tongue win the beauty game today.
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One of the unique features of the upcoming squad-based third-person shooter Binary Domain will be the advanced team relationship system. It is called the Consequence System, and it will judge you for pretty much everything you do. Depending on your behaviour towards the team members, you can either receive help from them in a tight spot, or be ignored. Maybe even shot in the back.
Sega have mentioned Consequence System more than once, so this information is not new for those who have been following the fate of the project. So what's so newsworthy in this article?
The trailer, ladies and gentelmen:
Rather than interacting in the cutscenes sandwiched between the action sequences, like in Alpha Protocol or Mass Effect, the characters in Binary Domain demand player's attention non-stop. Developers Yakuza Studio aspire to create drama through the action. I hope it works, the concept sounds amazing. This is a role-playing game without any skillpoints or inventory slots. And you can even talk to your partners through a headset.
Now, maybe I'm crazy, but at times Binary Domain gameplay looks surprisingly similar to that of Mass Effect series. And the release date? February 14, 2012, three weeks before Mass Effect 3. Just enough time to finish one game before starting another, for a non-stop third-person role-playing action ride.


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Many types of women have inspired Ted Noten in making his new series of work. Assemblages, rings, necklaces, bracelets and brooches in many different colors, materials and sizes are the result of a one year survey through the world of women. Featuring: the Fashionista, the Icecream Girl and the Femme Fatale. These assemblages are translated into jewels by 3d printing technique.
What is 3D printing?
3D printing is the process of combining a 3D CAD file with, a Laser Sintering machine and as a result, a virtual electronic file is rendered into a solid object built by the layers. Any material is possible and on "Design Miami", Atelier Ted Noten is going to present the first 3d printed jewellery in 24 krt. gold in a live show where the buyer can decide himself at what point in the designproces he wants his design. Due to a computer-program socalled Morfing the buyer himself becomes part of the designproces.
The Japanese artist Hokusai immortalized the most enchanting landscape he knew in a group of woodprints: '36 views of Mount Fuji'. These images inspired Ted Noten to develop 36 jewels for just as many types of women. Noten also made images: each woman was portrayed in a three dimensional collage. The shoes, car tyres and other 'objects trouvés' he used, seem a far cry from regular jewellery.
The artist became a jewellerymaker at the moment he reworked the scale and details of these collages in a computer. State-of-the-art technology allowed him to produce objects in any material and seize: fit for a finger, arm or neck. Out of each collage just one golden jewel will be developed. In addition to these unique pieces, the designer Noten manufactured small editions in innovative plastics, titanium or steel.
Ted Noten's work is a radically contemporary approach of the age-old craft of the goldsmith. With it he manages to seduce not only his 36 women: wether you are a lover of sculpture, of exclusive gold or wearable jewellery, his work will be hard to resist. ( author: Ward Schrijver)
Miss Piggy
Collection of rings, 3D printed nylon with glass fibre, 2009
A democratised ring for everyone, available for a low price and manufactured in an unlimited series. With this rapid prototyped ring the artist tries to conquer the world: a genuine Ted Noten ring for every woman on earth is his ideal.
When Ted Noten started using cad-cam to realise his most recent collection 'Haunted by 36 Women' (2009), he initially used the 3D printing technique in a rather slow way. It started by making sculptures from assembled found objects(HAUTE COUTURE). These sculptures, assemblages of shoes, chairs, tyres and other found objects, were 3d scanned and then computer manipulated and rapid prototyped to become pieces of jewellery in either gold(COLLECTORS ITEM), titanium, steel etc.etc. and coloured nylon. The sculpture Night Bird was the model for two gold rings and a limited series of 25 titanium rings. To find out later that this ring was a perfect prototype for an unlimited series, now with a new and independent name and identity, 'Miss Piggy'.(PRET A PORTER)
Rapid prototyping can be used in a slow way by making a one-off or a limited series. But the challenge is in the fact that rapid prototyping enables you to make large quantities of work – which only pays if the maker is a celebrity. Exclusively for Skitsch, the Italian internet seller, Noten designed a new collection of 3D printed jewellery 'Yo Sunshine'. The artist starts copying himself as an act of mercy and merchandising. 3D printing is a very fast manufacturing process: within few days after ordering you receive either hundred, hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of copies.
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Roundup: Dick's to open Field & Stream store in Cranberry; Greenhouse invested $315,000 in seven companies in first half; more
Field & Stream store to open Aug. 16
Dick's Sporting Goods said its first specialty Field & Stream retail store will open on Aug. 16 in Cranberry. The outdoor and camping focused store is Dick's latest spinoff idea. The Findlay-based retailer, which ventured into golf- and running-themed stores in recent years, converted its former Dick's location in Cranberry Square at 1000 Cranberry Square Drive to a store based on the classic outdoors brand that will offer equipment, accessories and services in hunting, fishing, archery and camping. Dick's moved its Cranberry store in October to a larger, two-story space at Cranberry Crossroads on Route 228. A similar, bigger-format store opened about that time at South Hills Village in Upper St. Clair. Field & Stream Licenses announced in September it would sell intellectual property rights to trademarks for its hunting, fishing, camping and paddle categories to Dick's. It did not disclose financial terms.
Greenhouse invests $315K in 7 companies
The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse said it closed seven investments totaling $315,000 during the first half of the year. Three companies, Wellbridge Health, PHRQL Inc. and NewCare Solutions, all in the growing health care information technology segment, are first-time investments by the South Side-based Greenhouse, which focuses on life-science investments. It is funded by the state. Continuing investments by the Greenhouse are in ALung Technologies Inc., ATRP Solutions, MS2 Array LLC and Quantum Ops."These modest but important investments were very timely for the companies and were carefully chosen as the PLSG keeps its focus on organizations that offer the best chance for success and investment returns," said CEO John Manzetti. Since 2002, the Greenhouse has invested nearly $19 million in 76 companies in the region.
Intel cuts outlook as PC sales slump
Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of chips for PCs, put a brave face on the decline of the global PC sales earlier this year, saying it expected its own sales to grow. Now, it's backtracking, saying sales will be flat. Intel is hoping that sales of chips for servers, tablets and smartphones will compensate for the drop-off in PC sales. The downward revision of the company's outlook is an admission that Intel chips haven't made it into many mobile devices. The Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker says revenue for the April-to-March period was $12.8 billion, just below analyst expectations at $12.9 billion and down 5 percent from last year.
Camry's No. 1 ranking in jeopardy
America's top-selling car is in danger of losing its title. Toyota's Camry has been No. 1 for more than a decade, but the company is being forced to cut prices to keep it there. Camry sales fell 2 percent from January through June. Meanwhile its main rivals in the midsize car market — the Honda Accord, Nissan Altima and Ford Fusion — posted big gains. The hot-selling Accord cut the Camry's lead to just below 21,000 at the end of June. At the same time last year, the gap was 59,000. Toyota is lowering prices to boost Camry sales. In early July, the Camry's average sales price was the lowest of the nine top-selling midsize cars, according to data from J.D. Power and Associates obtained by The Associated Press.
Higher expenses weigh on eBay's 2Q profit
EBay's revenue increased in the second quarter as its PayPal business and namesake online marketplace continued to grow. But its net income fell amid higher expenses. Shares of the e-commerce bellwether declined nearly 6 percent, to $54.25, in after-hours trading on Wednesday. EBay Inc. said it earned $640 million, or 49 cents per share, in the April-June period. That's down from $692 million, or 53 cents per share, in the same months a year earlier. Adjusted to exclude one-time items, per-share earnings rose to 63 cents from 56 cents and matched Wall Street's expectations. Revenue grew 14 percent, to $3.88 billion from $3.4 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet were expecting $3.89 billion. The midpoint of San Jose, Calif.-based eBay's earnings outlook for the year is below analysts' average estimate.
Other business news
• Some of Western Pennsylvania's largest electric companies finished at the top of consumer ratings reported Wednesday by J.D. Power and Associates. Duquesne Light and West Penn Power finished third and fourth among large companies in the East Region. That included 17 utilities from several states. Duquesne Light gained 25 points, on a 1,000-point scale, from customers who thought service had improved, according to the company. Penn Power, which, like West Penn, is owned by FirstEnergy Corp., finished second among midsize companies in the region.
• Norfolk Southern said on Wednesday that it completed $22.6 million in track, bridge, and signal improvements along its coal line through the Monongahela Valley. The "Mon Line" extends 85 miles south from Pittsburgh to serve five coal mines in Washington and Greene counties in Pennsylvania and Marion and Monongalia counties in West Virgina. In 2012, 36.4 million tons of coal moved over the line, delivered to electric plants and East Coast export terminals, the railroad said.
• North Side graphic design firm Vance Wright Adams has merged with Pipitone Group, a Perry North marketing and communications company, the companies said. The merged company will be based at Pipitone Group's office on Perrysville Avenue.
— Staff and wire reports
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The Tax Claim Bureau collects delinquent real estate taxes, gives receipts and therefore makes distribution to the local municipalities and school districts of the monies received. The Bureau also conducts annual sales of all properties returned to the Bureau for unpaid taxes for which a claim has become absolute and the discharge of tax claim period has expired. Properties may be sold either at upset sale, or from repository.


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Followup: New slide in place & in play at Myrtle Reservoir ParkNovember 8, 2012 at 2:10 pm | In Safety, West Seattle news, West Seattle parks | 6 Comments
Thanks to Amy for sharing the photo from the Myrtle Reservoir Park playground and this report:
Eleanore and Mimi (were the) first kids to use the new slide after they removed the yellow tape about 12:45 pm today.
Checking the WSB archives, we are reminded that the Myrtle slide was taken out nine months ago after a nationwide recall following at least 16 injuries involving that particular type of slide.
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This is good to hear. I'm not sure how the previous slide could even be called a slide.
Comment by OP — 2:48 pm November 8, 2012 #
i wished my kids were able to enjoy the slide…oh wait!! that's right…at noon they are in school & i am at work.
Comment by Working Mom — 7:17 pm November 8, 2012 #
Working Mom, ummmm….is there a reason your kids can't use the slide at a different time? Those kids seem to be a little young for school. Maybe preschool. And you do realize there are those of us who work alternate schedules like service industry, entertainment, law enforcement, and on and on and on.
Comment by Working Dad — 8:12 pm November 8, 2012 #
Wow, "working mom" should change her name to "angry mom"…………………..
Comment by Harry Reems — 8:16 pm November 8, 2012 #
Or "Bitter Mom"
Everything isn't black and white, ya know?
Comment by John Holmes — 9:28 pm November 8, 2012 #
It always brightens my day when I see cute snippets of west seattle pop up in between the development stories, bus stories, and octopus stories. this photo is a fun piece of the day!
and working mom, did you ever stop to think that maybe other working moms work irregular hours, like, I don't know, nights or weekends? jeez, please calm down
Comment by sally — 6:56 am November 9, 2012 #
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A Cottonwood man has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for the alcohol-related traffic deaths of his wife, his son and another child.
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