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Your Favourite Photo of 2008
Posted 20 December 2008 - 09:39 AM
Posted 20 December 2008 - 10:55 AM
Olympus E-520, TLC arms, Inon Z-240s, 50mm, 14-42mm woody's diopter
Posted 20 December 2008 - 11:00 AM
Seasons Greetings to all on a great web site,
Tim Digger
Ikelite housing and DS125 and TTL converted DS50.
Posted 20 December 2008 - 11:37 AM
Here is mine: Skeleton shrimp taken of a dusk dive at Barren Island in the Andaman Islands taken in April. I think it looks like a salsa dancer complete with Carmen Miranda hat.
Taken with Nikon D80 with 60mm lens with Woody diopter in S&S housing with 2x Ike 125 strobes.
Happy Holidays everyone!
Edited by secretsea18, 20 December 2008 - 11:38 AM.
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Nikon D5 (Subal housing). Nikon D850 (Subal housing). Olympus EM10-Mk3 (Nauticam housing).
Posted 20 December 2008 - 03:10 PM
Nikon D800, Nauticam Housing, Sigma 15 FE, Nikkor 17-35,105 VR Micro, 2x YS-350, ULCS arms, LMI Sola 800 Photo, Macromate
Posted 20 December 2008 - 03:42 PM
Your pool shots take my breath away.
Well done you!!
And a merry christmas.
Nige Wade
There's no dignity in diving. Especially as you get older.
Nikon D800 Subal ND800 housing Nikkor 16-35, 60, 105 and a Sigma 15 FE. Inon Z240's. ULCS arms.
Posted 20 December 2008 - 05:46 PM
Here's my favorite behavior shot from 2008, a Bobbit worm capturing a goatfish, in Anilao. This action happened in less than a second, when the fish swam over the worm, the worm struck with lighting speed, and immediately the fish and worm disappeared into the sand, all that was left was a cloud of smoke. Nikon D300, 60mm lens, f8, cropped photo.
Edited by sgietler, 20 December 2008 - 07:20 PM.
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Posted 20 December 2008 - 06:57 PM
We were doing the (now infamous) "Dive 4 wrecks on one scooter dive and be back on the boat before breakfast" dive (Marcus, Carnatic, Ghanis D. + 1 more ?)
The shot is noisy and not really in focus, but is easily my favorite that I shot this year, as I am always blown away when I look more closely and see that the white "smudge" in the middle is a diver, which I think really shows off the scale of the wreck, & the vis.
Posted 20 December 2008 - 11:37 PM
This is my favorite shot of the year. At the time this photo was taken, I was kicking as hard as I could to get into position and my mask was filling with sweat. This was our third dive that we had actually spotted "Big Senor", but prior to this pass I didn't have any great shots and I was not going home empty handed. Many thanks to the diver in the foreground for organizing and inviting my wife Jill and I along on a spectacular trip. It's been a struggle to get a decent print, but apparently I think it's worth the time investment to keep on trying.
I'll stick with the rules and just post this one (maybe someday I'll post some others from what's been a good year).
Taken at Darwin's Arch, Darwin Island, Galapagos. Female whale shark at 105 fsw. Canon 20D, Tokina 10-17mm
Edited by Sagen, 20 December 2008 - 11:43 PM.
Posted 21 December 2008 - 02:12 AM
This was the best one. It was taken during a dawn dive (about 7am, I think) on the last day of the workshop. The lionfish were pretty calm and moving more slowly than usual. I managed to get a big lionfish to completely block the sun. The shot was taken at the Nuweiba Hilton Hotel House reef and won me a Sport Diver UK Readers pic of the month. It's the first time I actually won something!!
I used an Olympus SP350, Inon Fisheye conversion lens and Inon Z240 strobe (type 3). The fisheye lens were very very close to the lionfish....
Here's my image
Posted 21 December 2008 - 02:57 AM
Here is one of my favorites underwater photos this year (my first year of diving). It was taken in October, the second day after getting my PADI Adv Open water ticket. It was my first wreck dive and also the first time I had strapped the dome on the front of the camera. I would have preferred it if the Videographer was not hanging on the back of the Anit-Aircraft gun, but there you go.
Thanks .... and
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.
Thanks Stew
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Posted 21 December 2008 - 03:15 AM
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.
PM sent Tristan
Canon 5D MK2 - Sea and Sea housed - 17-40L 100mm - Sigma 15mm FE - twin YS250 pro's and gadgets galore
Posted 21 December 2008 - 04:08 AM
I hope it is OK to have more than one! There are such fantasic images on here-I love this thread!
I got married to the woman of my dreams on Kuredu Island in the Maldives in May. This is my gorgeous bride!
While we were there we did some diving! Whilst cruising between dive sites, we were surrounded by a massive school of Mantas. There were easilly a hundred of them, feeding in the plankton bloom, moving up and around the graceful arcs that they do while feeding. Some were even breaching! We got in with skin diving gear and this one particular ray moved in close as I dived down and these pictures were the result. It was actually brushing on my dome port! We spent a good hour or so in the water with them-these weren't the best of the series of images, but being that close to such a magnificent animal was very special.
Wishing you all the very best for Christmas and great safe diving for 2009
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Let me be the first to say what Mike Veitch was thinking, "nice beaver shot"
Anyway, my favorite non-contest worthy shot. I just thought it captured the soulful serenity of the underwater photographer as he waits to exit the water. Trying to capture it was difficult as the boat kept bobbing up and down quite significantly.
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This is a shot of my wonderful wife swimming through a huge school of yellow tail snapper at Snapper Ledge in the Florida Keys on our honeymoon. Maybe not my best shot of the year but it was by far the best dive of the year. We're mainly wreck divers who see very little fish where we dive so this was a treat.
Posted 21 December 2008 - 11:41 AM
Many thanks to all the Wetpixelers that have shared their knowledge on this site, it has been an invaluable source of information and inspiration.
Here is one of my favorites underwater photos this year (my first year of diving). It was taken in October, the second day after getting my PADI Adv Open water ticket. It was my first wreck dive and also the first time I had strapped the dome on the front of the camera. I would have preferred it if the Videographer was not hanging on the back of the Anit-Aircraft gun, but there you go.
Thanks .... and
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.
Thanks Stew


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'Fermilab Today' Features Augustana Physics
The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), the only U.S. laboratory dedicated to high-energy physics, recently featured Augustana among the worldwide universities it collaborates with, in Fermilab Today, its online publication.
The mission of Fermilab is to "advance the understanding of the fundamental nature of matter and energy by providing leadership and resources for qualified researchers to conduct basic research at the frontiers of high energy physics and related disciplines."
The Lab says it conducts basic research into particle physics.
"We investigate the smallest building blocks of matter separated by the smallest distances that science has ever explored. We're constantly trying to learn more about these fundamental particles, and understand the forces that hold them together or force them apart. We conduct our investigations by making these particles collide-which might sound unusual, but remember that we see things in the world around us because photons bounce off them and make an impression on our retina, which is then transmitted by the optic nerve to the brain for processing. We're following a similar path to 'see' what happens in these subatomic collisions-sort of like a giant microscope, using a different form of 'light.'"
Locally, Fermilab is developing a relationship with the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, S.D. The collaboration includes future plans to send a beam of neutrinos from Fermilab to the Sanford Lab.
Augustana has collaborated with Fermilab since 2006. In describing what sets particle physics at Augustana apart, Fermilab says:
"The Augustana College particle physics group is one of only a few groups in which undergraduate education is the primary focus. Our goal is to give our exceptional students a balanced education that not only prepares them for graduate coursework but also introduces them to research so they are ready to participate in research activities when they arrive at graduate school. We are proud that, since the group started in 2006, we have sent students to graduate programs at Arizona State University, Iowa State University, Kansas State University, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the University of Minnesota."

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What is APRS?Excerpt from APRS.TXT by Bob Bruninga
APRS is a real-time tactical digital communicatons protocol for exchanging information between a large number of stations covering a large (local) area. As a multi-user data network, it is quite different from conventional packet radio.
APRS is different from regular packet in four ways. First by the integration of maps and other data displays to organize and display data, second, by using a one-to-many protocol to update everyone in real time, third, by using generic digipeating so that prior knowledge of the network is not required, AND FORTH, since 1997, a worldwide transparent internet backbone, linking everyone worldwide. APRS turns packet radio into a real-time tactical communications and display system for emergencies and public service applications (and global communications). Normal packet radio has only shown usefulness in passing bulk message traffic (Email) from point to point. It has been difficult to apply conventional packet to real time events where information has a very short life time and needs to get to everyone.
Although the recent interfaces to the Internet make APRS a global communications system for live real-time traffic, this is not the primary objective. But like all of our other radios, how we use APRS in an emergency of special event is what drives the design of the APRS protocol. Although APRS is used 99% of the time over great distances, and benign conditions, the protocol is designed to be optimized for short distance real-time crisis operations.
APRS provides universal connectivity to all stations by avoiding the complexity and limitations of a connected network. It permits any number of stations to exchange data just like voice users would on a voice net. Any station that has information to contribute simply sends it, and all stations receive it and log it. Secondly, APRS recognizes that one of the greatest real-time needs at any special event or emergency is the tracking of key assets. Where is the Event Leader? Where are the emergency vehicles? Whats the Weather at various points in the County? To answer these questions, APRS is a full featured automatic vehicle location and status reporting system too. It can be used over any 2-way radio system including HAM, CB, Marine Band, and Cellular Phone.
TAPR APRS Special Interest GroupJoin the SIG
Additional Links
Listen to an interview of Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, Author of APRS.
- Bob Bruninga's APRS web page
- Steve Dimse's javAPRS web page
- APRS/HAM RADIO Standard Connectors
- Kansas City APRS Working Group
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- Lesson Learned by the Hartford Marathon APRS Group
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Jarrod Wyatt, a former mixed-martial artist, was sentenced Thursday for brutally mutilating and murdering his friend after drinking psychedelic mushroom tea.
The 27-year-old pleaded guilty last month to first degree murder involving mayhem, with a special enhancement for using a weapon in the death of Taylor Powell. Wyatt had previously entered dual pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity, leading to multiple psychiatric examinations. A Del Norte County judge ruled in May 2012 that Wyatt was competent to stand trial.
After reading the charges against him, Superior Court Judge William Follett sentenced Wyatt to 47 years in state prison.
"The murders I see are so often senseless, but the brutality and horror involved in this case exceed all of the bounds I have seen," Follett said, addressing the packed courtroom. "The depths of grief imposed upon the victim's family are depths I pray no one else will ever suffer. Nothing we do today will bring back this young man."
Wyatt was arrested March 21, 2010, after Del Norte County Sheriff's deputies and Yurok Tribal Police arrived at a Requa home near the mouth of the Klamath River, finding him naked and covered in blood from head to toe, according to court documents. When officers approached Wyatt, the documents state he told the officers, "I killed him," and said he had cut out the heart and tongue of his friend.
Upon searching the residence, officers found Powell dead on the couch with his chest cut open and his heart, tongue and the skin on his face removed, court documents said. An autopsy determined that the organs had been removed while Powell was still alive. What was later determined to be Powell's heart was found charred in a wood-burning stove in the residence, according to Dr. Neil Kushner, who performed the autopsy.
Wyatt, Powell and two other acquaintances had reportedly ingested psychedelic mushroom tea earlier in the night, and Wyatt allegedly attacked his friend, killing and mutilating him.
Friends and family of both Wyatt and Powell gathered in the courtroom Thursday to watch the proceedings, which included a video slideshow of the victim's life.
Tears flowed freely as images of Powell blowing out birthday candles, sporting a six-inch Mohawk, and throwing a football played across the screen.
Following the video memorial, six different family members — including the victim's mother, Kathy Powell — stood up to tell the court how their lives had been impacted by the 21-year-old's death.
"Of our three children, he was the one who needed us the most," Kathy Powell said, her hands trembling and her voice breaking as she read from a sheet of paper. "It is so hard to accept that he no longer needs us. There will be no more phone calls asking for advice, no more stories. Never again will I hear my son say, 'I love you, Mom,' in his deep voice. As a mother, you always try to protect your children from harm. I was not able to protect Taylor."
Kathy Powell said she will always remember the son that was taken away from her as a generous, free spirit with a quick, loving smile.
"He tried to look tough, but deep down he was like a big teddy bear," she said. "Never did I imagine that his life would end this way."
In reading his statement, Taylor Powell's uncle, David Powell, addressed the Wyatt family.
"We both lost a boy that night," he said. "But whereas our nightmare ends today, their nightmare continues. Moving on will eventually be possible for us. But I don't know if it will ever be possible for the Wyatt family."
Del Norte County District Attorney Jon Alexander said he was pleased with the sentence, saying that Wyatt will not be eligible to see a parole board until he is in his 70s.
"By reaching a plea agreement, we also saved the family the ordeal of undergoing the visible presentation of the most horrific dismemberment of a body that I have seen in my 27 years of practice," Alexander said. "It was always absolutely non-negotiable that Wyatt would have to admit to first degree murder — that he admit that he had committed this brutal murder, without hiding behind the veil of drugs. It is sad that we have taken this long to get to this day, but I think justice was delivered."


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|2011-05-29, 21:01
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|2011-05-29, 21:42
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''Shes actually such an interesting character?!? ARGGHHH!!!"
|2011-05-29, 22:02
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Else, it would have already happened
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|2011-05-29, 22:40
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Wait, is Accelerator a female or a shemale? Is Touma a crossdresser? Why is Mugino Shizuri in my house? OH GOD I'M HAMAZURA SHIAGEEEEE!!!
[Runs naked in the streets in an adult diaper]
|2011-05-29, 23:11
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Right, while we wait for Kyon to recover here's a change of topic...
What if... instead of a season 2 of Railgun, we get a movie solely on the Sisters Arc? i mean, every other series is getting a movie, why not us? plus it would solve any filler issue people have with Railgun.
|2011-05-29, 23:18
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It sure is a nice change of pace. JC staff are the ones who did shana movie right?
Plus in pure terms of sales. No one beats railgun in JC staff arsenals. But the sister arc is kinda different from the usual railgun girly stuff so it probably wouldn't sale to the usual fans of the anime. But the fans of index and railgun manga will love it. Or some of the railgun anime fans that like it even it's kinda different from what they expect (that includes me)
|2011-05-29, 23:39
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Well actually Azumanga is still their highest, but Railgun came close.
I dont think the darker story would affect the number of viewers too much. I think most Railgun fans want their slice of Mikoto action as much as any girly moe stuff.
For everybody else, bring on Touma vs Accelerator redux!
|2011-05-29, 23:39
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Location: All ghillied up spying on someone ~2,000 yards away using telescope sights.
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The Railgun anime was doing fine with me until the end of the Level Upper arc. And I still have a hard time swallowing the screentime Saten got which got me seriously thinking whether the series should drop its title.
|2011-05-30, 01:28
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hey what's the problem with saten? she is my only reason for watching through the second part!
But true enough. I want a movie of the battle between Touma and Accel. But I want it with no censorship or no bloody stuff. it's a useless remake of sister arc if it's the same way they show in index anime.
|2011-05-30, 03:42
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If you liked 1st or 2nd part of railgun, that depends on your tastes, I personaly liked both of them, though second could put character developments in a plot line, not standalone, but overall very good.
About Saten's screen time - I seriously dislike animes with just one character there all the time, doing everything from begining to end. There is need for some sort of variety, otherwise the watchers would be bored from that one character (except hardcore fans of that one character). Without Saten, 90% time would belong to Misaka, which would make me drop the show (well maybe not if they would put more screen time for Uiharu/Kuroko to balance it, but that would't stop the people from complaining about screen time, just shifted the rage on diferent characters). Overall I am fine with how the JCStaff balanced out the screen time.
Though in the manga it looks like Saten, Uiharu, Kuroko are completly kicked out from the story, with 90% "screen time" belonging to Misaka, it makes me wonder what will JCStaff do, when they will make season 2. Because if they will want to include them, they will have to rewrite the story a lot, but that would make hardcore-manga-fans rage. If they would kick them out and completly replace them with some new characters (Misaka's classmates), then this would be my first anime ever watched that would do something like that (I mean those 3 characters were there "24 episodes doing something" and now they would shift into "a cameo every 4 episodes"). And if they would want to include them without changing the original story, they would have to have Misaka-only sister arc (12ep) and later Saten/Uiharu/Kuroko-only fillers during the uncovered parts (12ep without Misaka to balance it). Or mix those fillers during sister arc, but that would break the pacing.
|2011-05-30, 04:00
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They could make the other 3 girls cameo or shows up a bit on judgment stuff. There are lots of to do. It's JC staff we're talking about. They already did that in the 1st season. What's stopping them on doing it again. Remember the first half is not pure level upper arc. It's been filled too with other mini filler arcs. Like an episode or a part in an episode centered in Misaka doing her stuff. While the other girls do their stuff. Like Kuroko worries about her onee-sama and Saten flipping Uiharu's skirt. Lots of filler stuff to do.
Azumanga daioh is a thign of the past. They can't make another season of it because it already ended. Unless they do the next work of that mangaka which is yotsuba, I think though not sure on the title. And that would make me happy if they do so.
Railgun is considered their current best seller. So a 2nd season is sure to be launch. And it's ongoing giving it more reason to have a 2nd season.
|2011-05-30, 07:50
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Senior Member
Ch. 1 preview is out!
The first English volume should be released around June 7th:
|2011-06-01, 14:48
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Senior Member
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Had a lot of time recently, so I used it to count probability of apearance for characters in railgun manga (normal chapters (up to 41) + special chapters, but without crossline at the end because it was missing for some chapters). I wanted it in more detail, so I didn't counted number of pages, but number of frames (typical page has 3-8 frames), with rule that one character can get max 1 apearance per frame (even if there are multiple of them in a single frame - mostly for misaka clones). I am not a robot, so I might have mistyped few times when i was counting it, but the general idea is accurate.
|2011-06-01, 15:29
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1 - How fucking bored were you?
2 - How the Hell did Touma and Accelerator beat one of the 4 main girls?
3 - How the Hell did Touma come in number 3?
4 - Well, I suppose that should be expected from the main's love interest.
|2011-06-01, 15:40
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The Faceless One
SISTER's Arc was quite long and neither Kuroko nor Uiharu nor Saten got a lot of screentime in it while Touma appeared both during LU and SISTER's Arc, with him appearing quite a bit in second one. However, while position is high, 8% ain't THAT much.
|2011-06-01, 20:46
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2 - Touma apeared during level upper and sister arc, and had an entire chapters with just him. Accelerator had a lot of apearance during sister arc
3 - biribiri vision
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Lil Wayne is known to be a busy body, but the Grammy Award-winning rapper had to take some time off after he suffered multiple seizures on the set of his latest music video on Tuesday.
MUST READ: President Obama Compares Michelle To Beyonce: 'She Upgraded Me.'
TMZ reports the 30-year-old was rushed to nearby Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, where he was treated and held overnight.
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It's our pleasure to introduce guest blogger DIY Maven as a contributor this week to Charles and Hudson. She is an active member of the Curbly community and has written many great posts that cover design, decorating, and diy. This week she is tackling a number of different home improvement challenges for us starting with what to do with the ubiquitous brass doorknob.
Three words: Shiny Brass Doorknobs. For many of us, they are the decor pimples we try to ignore. Oh, sure, they're easy enough to replace, but most homes have a lot of these things. For instance, my house has 14 doors, and an average non-lock-able doorknob set is about $25, meaning I'd have to shell out 350 bucks to replace perfectly good-albeit shiny brass-doorknobs.
I decided there must be a less wasteful and less costly alternative. A bit of investigation was needed. My inquiry first led me to Architectural Classics's guide on aging brass. This particular tutorial is for those of us lucky enough to have real brass-of which I am not one. Their guide includes a great breakdown of solutions that result in various 'looks'. For instance 5.8g Barium to 500 ml water will result in a general aged patina. Good to know, but how many of us have real brass fixtures? I'm guess not many.
So, my next thought was metal paint. I'm leaning toward two alternatives, first, Modern Master's Metallic Paint Collection, which, they say, will adhere to any paintable surface. The other is Liquid Stainless Steel. The later is billed as a ready-to-apply product with no preparation needed. I don't buy this, considering shiny brass-fake or real-doorknobs generally have a laquer finish on them. If I try either the Metallic Paint or the Liquid Stainless, I would opt to brush on Wil-Bond to soften the original finish and then paint away. If it doesn't work, I'm only out a few bucks. And if it does work, I'll have saved myself hundreds!


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On Nov. 7, House Speaker John Boehner announced that Republicans in the lower chamber would accept a deal to solve the fiscal cliff that included new revenue, castor oil for conservatives by another name. Four weeks hence, Boehner is still waiting, hand extended, for President Obama to meet him in the middle of the road.
Obama has been unwilling to even hint that he'll ask the same compromise from his liberal base as he expects Boehner to extract from conservatives. Boehner says his negotiations with the White House are at "stalemate" - an indication the president has no intention of cutting a deal that could win the votes of the conservatives who voters put in charge of the federal purse.
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( Also on POLITICO: Options narrow to avert fiscal cliff)
The president, according to a front-page New York Times piece on Dec. 2 by Peter Baker "is trying to leverage what he claims as an election mandate." In doing, Obama seems intent on ignoring the other clear election outcome - the fiscal chaperones the voters have shackled to him in two straight elections for the U.S. House.
If Obama won't accept the mandate that he negotiate a compromise with the voters' preferred House majority, perhaps Boehner should let him try to negotiate a deal with the House minority. That might be the Republicans' best gambit on this chessboard.
Why not find out what kind of fiscal cliff legislation Obama could craft that could earn the votes of every single one of the lower chamber's incoming 201 Democrats? Once the president has 201 votes, he'd need to find just 17 Republicans to go along with him.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama: Cliff jump would sink economy)
During the Bush administration, Democrats forced Republicans to muster party unity on the president's toughest legislative sells before they gave any real help. Partisan-minded Democrats, like then-Senator Obama, were thus free to cast showy votes against "must-pass" legislation like raising the debt ceiling while a small number of pragmatic Democrats helped Bush keep the government running.
Why should Obama be spared quarter he, himself, would not give George Bush?
The reason Obama has no taste for a Democrats-first solution is that he tried that route before and it yielded the 2010 mid-term election boomerang. Obama negotiated his 2009 stimulus and his health care law with an eye toward uniting congressional Democrats and the result both times were left-wing overreach that the public soundly rejected.
Perhaps Republicans should seek that same exposure again. The Obama who had to outsource his policy to wacky liberals in the Progressive Caucus was an Obama who enraged swing voters. That same Obama is still in the White House as evidenced by his desire for yet another $50 billion in short term stimulus spending in the midst of a conversation ostensibly about spending cuts.


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===Interfacing to Java===
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Interfacing to Java
Importing classes from the Java API
We can import a class from the underlying Java virtual machine with the import statement, and speak to the Java object much as we would speak to an E object: replace vector as example
# E sample #create a single vector with a direct call to Java def myVector := <unsafe:java.util.makeVector>() myVector.addElement("abc") #create a makeVector function which can be called repeatedly to make more vectors def makeVector := <unsafe:java.util.makeVector> def vector2 := makeVector() # create a shorthand for the java.util package, that gives quick access to all the # classes in java.util def <util> := <unsafe:java.util.*> def vector3 := <util:makeVector>()
In the example, we showed 3 ways of getting a Java object, which are roughly comparable to the different styles of using "import" in Java. If you just want one vector, you can get it by directly calling the vector constructor. If you plan to make many vectors, you can import the class into a variable. And if you plan to use many classes in a particular package, you can create your own representative for the package that you can use instead of "unsafe:". fixNote the suffix "__uriGetter" on the util variable. This is a special suffix that allows the variable to be used in statements of the form <uri:name>.
We have now seen 3 of these uriGetters, file:, unsafe:, and the programmer-defined util:. Four other uriGetters are also predefined, swing: (for accessing javax.swing) and awt: (for accessing java.awt), resource: (for read-only access to resource files such as images, sounds, and static texts), and import:, described next.
The import: uriGetter is similar to unsafe:, except it only imports those parts of the Java API that have been audited for capability security and found to convey no authority (see the Appendix for a definition of "authority").put in link, think of better example. Remove vector from the book Since the Vector class conveys no authority, you could also get a vector with import:
def vector4 := <unsafe:java.util.makeVector>()
As discussed later with Library Packages and Secure Mobile Code, emakers cannot use unsafe: unless the unsafe__uriGetter is explicitly handed to them. So import: is often useful in these security-aware situations. A complete list of safe versus unsafe classes, and the small percentage of Java API methods which are suppressed for security reasons, are listed in the Appendix.link
resource: mention it is safe, can be used in emakers
getting static public constants from Java: must put parens after the name as if it was a method returning a value, not a variable.
As noted earlier, E does not have an expression to directly represent public static final variables. To use such static finals from a Java class, put parentheses at the end of the variable name, making it syntactically look like a function call, prefix it with "get", uppercase the first letter, and E will get the value for you:
# E sample <unsafe:java.util.makeCalendar>.getYEAR()
Speaking to Java objects with superclass/subclass overloaded methods
Speaking to Java objects is usually as easy as shown above, where we simply sent myVector an addElement(object) message as if it were an E object. A problem arises with some Java objects if they have overloaded methods for which the only distinguishing mark is the static typing of the parameters in which one of the methods specifies a type that is a superclass of the type in the other method--a rare but not unheard-of situation. coercion causes same problemIn that case, we need to revert to a more descriptive messaging convention.
We introduced the E.call() function earlier for communicating with E objects. It can also be used to call Java objects and to specify the signature of an overloaded method with the types of the parameters. In this example, we see that the print function for the System.out object is overloaded for both String and Object, with String being a subclass of Object, so the full signature is required:
? def out := <unsafe:java.lang.makeSystem>.getOut() # value: <a PrintStream> ? out.print("abc") # example problem: <IllegalArgumentException: ...> ? E.call(out, "print(String)", ["abc"]) ? def myLabel := E.call(<swing:makeJLabel>, "run(String)",["label text"])
If you encounter one of these special cases that requires multiple parameters, the signatures must be laid out with exact spelling and exact spacing, notably with exactly one space between the comma and the next signature:
E.call(javaObject, "method(String, int)", ["abc", 23])
Arrays and primitive types
It is possible to make Java arrays of Java primitive types, as in this example:
# E sample def makeFlexList := <elib:tables.makeFlexList> def byteArray := makeFlexList.fromType(<type:byte>, 300) byteArray.setSize(300) byteArray[0] := 3
Here we have created a 300-element editable array of bytes. The individual elements can be accessed with square bracket notation.
XXX Now that this example has been corrected, does it still serve its purpose? Also, it's not technically correct to say this makes a Java array. It makes an E FlexList, which, on E-on-Java, currently happens to be implemented by wrapping a Java array. However, if your program depends on this fact, it is probably broken.
Java Adapters and Interfaces
As described earlier, you can use the match[verb,args] construct to aid in writing adapters and other objects that must meet a Java interface specification. E will automatically manipulate the resulting E objects and the java virtual machine so that Java understands that the E object meets the interface specification. It is not possible to make subclasses of Java classes in E. However, because the developers of the Java API have wisely moved aggressively to make sure that interfaces, rather than subclasses, are core to Java object interoperability, there is virtually no Java interfacing goal that cannot be achieved with this machinery.
The Java API versus capability security
A final note: almost all of the objects and methods in the Java API are available in E for version 1.0 through the unsafe_uriGetter; unfortunately very few have been audited sufficiently to be included with the import__uriGetter. In the future, more of the API will be accessible through the import__uriGetter; however, some parts of the Java API will be altered and/or suppressed even in unsafe__uriGetter to achieve a more secure yet easier to use computing framework. This is discussed further in the chapter on Mobile Code. You can see the list of suppressed methods and unsafe classes in the Javadoc.


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Although a purchased certificate is generally of more utility, you do have to purchase it, and the certificate will have to be formatted in a way that your server software understand. The certificate encoding required by your web server may not be acceptable to Google, however. (But it might be. It can't hurt to try using an existing certificate, if you have one.) Let's look at a slightly different approach.
The service that you're actually purchasing from the Certificate Authority (CA) is the "trusted third party" aspect of what a certificate does. That is, the CA is certifying that you're actually who you say you are, and that you own the domain that you say you own. In the case of Google, you can prove that you are who you claim to be simply by logging in. You'll also, typically, have to prove that you own the domain, which in Google's case involves uploading a magic file to the website or modifying your DNS zone file. Google guides you through this process when you set up your Google Apps account.
Since Google is taking on the authentication part of the CA function, it's a bit more lax about the sorts of certificates it will accept from you. In particular, Google is happy with a a "self-signed" certificate — one that you sign yourself using your own private key. A self-signed cert is utterly worthless for use for supporting HTTPS in Apache, since no browser will trust it, but it's actually fine for OAuth purposes. Google has provided instructions for creating a "self-signed" certificate here, but the basic request is:
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -sha1 \ -subj '/C=US/ST=CA/L=Berkeley/CN=www.myDomain.com' \ -keyout myrsakey.pem -out myrsacert.pem
This single command both creates the key (in the file myrsakey.pem) and a cert (in the file myrsacert.pem) that conforms's to the X.509 standard. This particular certificate is valid for 365 days, uses a 1024-bit RSA public-key algorithm, and contains the information about you that's listed in the -subj argument. (This information is the same information you would have specified when creating CSR, as I described earlier.) As before, save the key file in at least two safe places.
Once you've created the certificate file, you need to register it with Google. Google provides instructions here, but if you have Google Apps set up, you can register the domain on your Manage Your Domains page.
The OAuth Dance
That's all the advance prep we have to do, so let's move on to OAuth itself. Figure 1 shows the basic flow through the process. (You can watch this flow by going through the process manually using the OAuth Playground app).
- Starting at the top left of Figure 1, a Web Application (running on the browser) decides that it needs authorization (probably because the OAuth User clicked on a button during the account-creation process). The application sends off an AJAX request-authorization message to the server side (the OAuth Consumer application).
- The Consumer asks the Service Provider for a "Request Token." The request specifies exactly what information you want to access. (In Google's case, this specification typically takes the form of a URL. For example, you can request access to all of a User's calendars with https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/, and other URLS can request access to specific calendars or other services entirely. The request is digitally signed, by the way, using the private key I discussed earlier. The returned token is considered "unauthorized," which is to say, you won't be able to do anything with it until after the user has granted access permission to the Consumer. To grant permission:
- The Consumer creates an authorization URL, concatenating information in the returned Request Token with arbitrary arguments of its own and sends that URL back down to the web app, which displays the URL as a link or a button of some sort.
- The User clicks the button to get to an authorization page on the Service Provider's website. Figure 2 shows what Google's authorization page looks like. Note that the OAuth request token is right there in the URL).
It's important to realize that your User is now interacting with Google, not with your application. If necessary, Google will force the User to log in to get to this page. Because the Consumer is not involved, it has no access to the User's login information. Once the User has authorized access, Google will remember that fact internally and associate the authorization with the Request Token issued in Step 2.
- The Service Provider (Google) now sends an HTTP POST to the Consumer to tell it that the User is done. You provided the URL for that POST back in Step 2, and the Request Token is included as the Payload.
- The Consumer now coverts the Request Token to an Access Token that can actually be used to grant access to the data. It passes the Request Token back up to the Service Provider, which looks it up to see if authorization was granted back in step 4. If so, the Service Provider returns an Access Token, which the Consumer squirrels away in the Database. That Access Token is good indefinitely — until the User logs on to Google and deauthorizes it.
- Thereafter, a user accesses the data by making a request to Google using a service-specific API. Only requests that contain a valid Access Token will be honored.
We'll look at the actual code that implements this process next month.
Security Issues
Before leaving the subject of OAuth entirely, I do want to point out a few security issues.
Preventing this attack is relatively easy: You have to examine all input from all users and remove any <script> elements. Unfortunately, the odds of that "scrubbing" being done correctly everywhere in the application are not great in most programming shops, where most programmers know little or nothing about security. Not putting the cookie onto the client provides an extra measure of safety — one that's not necessary if the user input is scrubbed properly, but that provides some insurance in case the data isn't scrubbed.
The second issue is really beyond the scope of this article, but there is a security flaw in OAuth itself, documented in the article: Explaining the OAuth Session Fixation Attack. This attack is a social-engineering attack, but it's still important to know about so that you can put defensive measures in place.
As I mentioned previously, in the next installment, we'll step through code implementations. If you want to race ahead and explore this yourself in the interim, some useful resources are listed below.
Useful Links
Explaining the OAuth Session Fixation Attack.
Google Documentation:
- Main documentation, with examples in Java, PHP, and Python.
- Raw protocol without reference to client libraries.
- REST API reference.
- Registering a WebApp (required by some APIs).
- Federated Login (and OAuth+OpenID).
- The OAuth Playground application provides a useful test environment.
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This roundtable discussion sheds light on issues and trends in a variety of outdoor-advertising applications.
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Ryan Westfall Graphics are getting bolder, and they're changing more often. Vinyl technologies are becoming more conducive to several different applications that weren't possible 10 years ago. Adhesives and vinyls are more conformable than ever. Advertisers, whether vehicle graphics or just an outside signage campaign, have the flexibility right now to do so many more creative things than they used to do just because of different adhesives. Everyone is fighting for the mind of the consumers, and advertisers are more aware than they've ever been that they have to continue to update their brands to get noticed. We're getting more and more signs from them, and they're changing their campaigns more often. Digital is not really a new thing anymore, but digital printing continues to grow because of its ease of use and versatility. It has helped us grow as a business, and our screen-printing business is still growing and is strong because we can print on so many different substrates.
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Winston Churchill began one of his most memorable speeches by saying: "The news from France is very bad." The news these days is not great; not on a par with the fall of France, admittedly, but not great. Multiple suicide bombings in Iraq with no respite in sight and the terrorists seemingly gaining momentum; Democratic presidential candidates flanking one another to the left, oblivious to the war–a war to the death, I believe–that we are engaged in; wildfires raging in California, rumored by some to have been started by al Qaeda (I don't believe this simply because they haven't claimed credit, and news coverage is their first priority); Saddam Hussein and bin Laden apparently still on the loose and, perhaps, gaining strength.
This morning the Trunk and I were talking about the strain of keeping up with largely-bad news on a daily basis. We wondered whether we should declare a moratorium on news for a while and maybe become a music criticism site. Or the Trunk could cover music while Deacon keeps us up to date on soccer and I look for photos of girls in bikinis to post.
Nah. We aren't going anywhere. Our contribution is of course small; but we have no doubt that through this site and our other efforts we do contribute. And the instinct to fight is strong. I find myself reading transcripts of Churchill's speeches; our era, I think, has some parallels to his, as the war rumbles into high gear amid widespread wishes that it would simply go away and craven hopes that through appeasement we can bribe our enemies to leave us alone. Tonight I came across these words of Churchill's from his first radio broadcast as prime minister:
"Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of Truth and Justice: 'Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be.'"
It is not clear to me that the war against Islamofascism can be won. Our enemy is the most brutal and implacable, perhaps, that we have ever faced. But won the war must be. So let us screw our courage to the sticking point, and fight in the fields and on the beaches. But forgive me if I find a bikini-clad girl here and there to lighten the moment.
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Maze Cartoon of Roman Colosseum dark as night as the lights are turned off in solidarity with Gilad Shalit, prisoner in Gaza.
Cartoon maze of The Roman Colosseum dark as night as the lights are shut off at midnight in solidarity with Gilad Shalit. One of the characters remarks, "They should shut off the lights in Gaza at midnight for solidarity. Created by Yonatan Frimer
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Rome to switch off lights of Colosseum at midnight for Gilad
On Thursday evening the lights of the Colosseum in Rome will be turned off in solidarity with kidnapped soldier Gilad Schalit. Noam Schalit, Gilad's father, will be in attendance along with the Roman citizens and the representatives of local and national Italian institutions.
According to organizers, the gathering is meant to send a message to the world: "Free Gilad now". Speeches will be given by Noam Schalit and the mayor of Rome, and pictures of Gilad will be screened. At 11 pm (midnight in Israel) the lights of the Colosseum will be turned off.
"We immediately launched the campaign for Shalit because we feel the burden of anxiety", the President of the Jewish Community of Rome, Riccardo Pacifici, says.
Last summer Rome's Mayor Gianni Alemanno bestowed honorary citizenship on Gilad. The City of Rome has strongly supported the initiative in the Colosseum. Other cities in Italy have joined, and some of the municipalities will turn off the lights at some of their monuments.
"We want to sensitize public opinion and strongly assert our values, which belong to civil society as a whole, first of all the value of freedom. This event is first and foremost an expression of our strong support of the State of Israel," Pacifici said.
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A new force in metal combines the talents of Drowning Pool and Nonpoint. The new supergroup, Voodoo Corps, consists of Drowning Pool guitarist C.J. Pierce and drummer Mike Luce along with former Nonpoint members Zach Broderick on guitar and Ken MacMillan on bass.
Voodoo Corps offers the experience accumulated by two of the genre's most successful bands as well as their own nu-metal and groove metal sensibilities, which the band describes on their Facebook page as, "Motorcycle Metal meets your mom's homemade meatloaf!!!"
The band's official mission statement reads, "From the collective bowels of the South rides forth the culmination of what can only be deemed as the kick in the ass that rock so desperately needs. Forged in the fires of what makes life truly great: friends, family, and a deep seeded love and appreciation for those who support rock music, Voodoo Corps is here to stomp your ass and then take you out for snow cones!!!"
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Center console from Tesla - available this summer!
Center console from Tesla - available this summer!
Notable that PayPal is accepted. Of course.
Cool, but the pictures make it hard to see exactly how it works. Needs a video!
I like!
Actually looks like it'd work for a lot of people, and it's nice that the materials are matched to the factory finishes.
Now who can guess the price?
I'm going to guess $495.
What do you think?
I say $400. Say what say the folks who paid $900 for the other guys. If Tesla's does go for $500. You will need to lower his to $400.
So how exactly does it open? The leather part slides to the back it seems... but what about the non-leather stuff - does that go backwards or flip up or????
My guess (it's only a guess) is $1200 - remember that the simple car mats are $250 (plus $75 for shipping).
it appears to flip up toward the current cupholders.
@crow - yeah, that's sort of what I was thinking.
Pricing? Sure would love it if it's a $500ish item. Seriously doubt it. Tesla don't roll that way :-) Bet it'll be over $1k...
I really like it, very stylish with the removable inserts. I guess black leather is the only option and that's too bad. I hope Tesla doesn't charge a fortune on this which should be part of the car to begin with. We spent so much time to argue, debate, complain and design the Center Console (or the lack of) in this forum and I think we are wasting a lot of valuable time here. Tesla finally understands what customers want, WOW! Hope this is not another parcel shelf that we have to wait for months to get it (I'm still waiting). Hoping they can hire some good logistics folks to handle the Tesla options or summer availability will become winter opportunity and we'll continue talk about the CCI to death.
Nice they are going to charge us extra for what is standard in every other production car in the world.
Absolutely will be over $1K and all the CCI price snarks will have to think long and hard then.
@jandkw - I agree, it looks very nice and I like the adjustable partitions. Here's hoping its even remotely affordable!
@rroonnbb, this is purely my guesses by reviewing the 5 pics...I think this is one big storage box with 2 doors. The front door/panel with the metallic pull can be pushed forward and the door/panel with obeche gloss can be slide to the driver's side (see pic #3) unless the panel is sitting against the back which we cannot see from the pics. I think the insert is a neat design which one can size things up whether it is a cell phone, a small cup or big bottle. Very smart thinking.
Seems to me that those guessing over $1K have had their internal value scales skewed by Tesla's high option prices aimed at early adopters that will pay anything to be the first kid on the block to own something new. I should know, I'm one of them. But c'mon people...let's keep this in perspective. $1K is what you would pay for a new piece of consumer tech. The latest iphone cost less than that. A storage bin with a cup holder should cost a third (or less) of that. It's just a few pieces of molded plastic and half a yard of leather covering. If this were any other car, no one would pay more than $300 for this. Really?
As long as we continue to show that we are OK with paying these grossly inflated prices, Tesla, and everyone else, will continue to charge them. Let's lower those expectations a little.
Looks like you posted while I was typing. Seems we essentially are saying some of the same things.
Individually hand-stitched by Elon's mother. Very pricey.
Only available in black leather?
Hope you guys are right but floor mats should have been included in the 100k car yet they still got many of us to pay $325 (including shipping and tax) for something that clearly did not cost then more than $25.
Two words: woo hoo.
Now, please Tesla, keep it under $500!!!
$2495 seems fair. When I look at all the effort that went into threads about CC then that price looks like a steal.
So you need to reach into the well to extract your hot cup o' Joe? Seems awkward at best. One color? Lost or jammed inserts?. Edge to soflauthor on beauty, refinement, and apparent build quality. Price? What the market will bear of course, and precedent that it will bear a lot. The CCI may be more competitive than we think. Time will tell.
But I think the color choices match available interiors.
I disagree that virtually everyone will get one if the price is right. There is quite a few people that prefer the open space. Personally I won't be getting one even if the price is $9.95 and I'm happy that it is not standard.
Hopefully it won't be too expensive so the people who want one doesn't have to pay through the nose. I'm guessing $495 though.
avaliable in the 5 interior colours
Closer to triple that.
The floor carpeting is black, so it would blend with that. Every time I go for a little drive and put my pocketbook between the seats...because there is space there, I smile. I picked up a friend yesterday, and she put her purse down there as well. We both smiled! For women, our purses are our concealed storage space! It has my phone, and pens and tissues and ....
@bsimoes: You've nailed it. Instead of whining about needing concealed storage, we should have just embraced the "man-purse" trend and everything would've been perfect. Now where can I find a purse with cupholders?
My SO sits and rest her purse in that space in one continuos motion. She smiles every time she enters the car and that makes me happy as f$&K!
@ vouteb
Where did you see that other colors were available?
I think that stevenmaifert@a.. is correct, at least from what is stated at the Tesla Gear site:
"Wrapped in black leather and available in five décor accents to match your car's interior, this console..."
Apparently it is black leather with either the Lacewood, Carbon Fiber, Obeche Wood Gloss or Matte, and Piano Black.
On No! Now, lack of central console cannot be used as a reason not to by this amazing car. Now time to focus on the tiny visors.
@DC@Tesla: Lack on central console was not an issue for me when I first inspected the car, the tiny visor was. After having the car for a month, I have no issues w/ the visors, except maybe the lack of lighted mirror. However, while I like the openness of the center console, I do not like the position of the cup holder.
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"For women, our purses are our concealed storage space!"
I like that ;) Doesn't help me one bit, but I like it anyway. Maybe it's time to see a rebirth of the murse/manbag, from the 70's...
(Or, maybe not!)
@sagebrushnw - Yes, that's how I read it too! How is this thing going to look in a Sig red with white interior?
Don't all Model S cars have a black console/black carpet so this new "closeable" addition would just blend in with what is already there.
Tesla should also sell a logo Man Purse, too.
I told my wife that I would carry a wurse if she would buy clothes with wockets.
Excuse me, murse. I never could tell a joke.
Really nice:-)) i want this!
I read it wrong
@sagebrushnw - I think the signature editions are different from what I've read. But my gray leather interior does indeed have a black pseduo-leather on both the dash and the center console area.
While I would not be interested at anything over 450- I would think tesla will price it around 899.
Pretty in-your-face to have to pay for a center console after spending 100k on a car...not something the ICE competition (in all cars above, let's see, maybe 15k!) is doing, for sure. I love the car, but feel the extreme-spartan interior detracts from an otherwise flawless execution. Guess I'll stick with my simpleton's console for now - http://EVTripPlanner.com/console.php
I think it's a shame to charge for a Center Console after people spent $ 100K and it's a shame to have a "nice' look that being offered by Cliff for $ 40. Of course it's a matter of taste but I think this "nice" look could be in 1984 Oldsmobile but not in 2013 Tesla S. I could be wrong but this is how I feel.
The MS comes with a clean modern interiour and I would not have it any different. Finally a car that doesn't force last century crap on us. If you want to have your clutter box - pay for it. I hope it will always be an option only.
I'm reading "wrapped in black leather". To me that means you can have any color leather you want as long as it's black. The decor refers to the wood accents which is the only variable component. Is their a more comprehensive color description somewhere that I'm missing?
The glovebox, cubby, and seat pocket are sufficient storage for me. Cup holders are a nightmare and the velcro'd on OEM Audi retractable one isn't much better.
On price, I suspect there will be a pretty significant design-pollution premium. If you really want to clutter up your otherwise perfect Model S you're going to have to pay for it.


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LAMPRIMA, inspired by the Lamprima aurata beetle. From the Insectarium collection, inspired by the vibrant beauty of the insect world! Scroll down for video swatches/reviews.
This premium eyeshadow collection features truly unique, color traveling pigments that display a strong and vibrant color shift under artificial light sources. When they are in between two different light sources, you will be able to see the strongest multiple color transmission. Under direct sunlight or diffused artificial light, the effects are muted or washed out, and you will only see a slight and subtle color shift. They have a highly reflective/chrome finish, and they show the most saturated color effects and color travel when exposed to artificial lighting and especially mixed lighting of different color temperatures, much like the beautiful Alexandrite gemstone exhibits trichroism, reflecting and absorbing light differently in different directions and color temperatures.
As the pigments used in this collection are extremely costly and used as the highest percentage in the formulas (they are six times the cost of the typical duochrome/interference pigment), I have adjusted prices/sizing accordingly. Basically, you will find that these are twice the cost of other Aromaleigh eyeshadows. Example: a regular Aromaleigh sample is 1/8 tsp in a baggie for $1.25. With Insectarium, you get 1/16th tsp in a baggie for the same price of $1.25)
Recommended application for these is over a cream eyeshadow base (NYX cream eyeshadow base is my go-to!). Sticky or glue bases may work well for you, but I personally don't use these or test/swatch my products with them. With all color shifting/duochrome shades, I urge you to use a flat taklon brush or other suitable tool to flatten and align the color shifting component of the eyeshadow. This will create a more uniform and reflective surface.
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