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Insights and ideas from Jeff Rueppel, Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® user
Adventure photographerVisit this innovator's website
Documenting daring expeditions
Whether he's hanging off the edge of an ice cliff; extreme skiing; or trekking in Nepal, India, across the Mediterranean, or in U.S. National Parks such as Joshua Tree and Yosemite, Jeff Rueppel has an unparalleled zeal for adventure. He's a self-taught photographer who constantly strives to hone his craft and who's passionate about documenting his memories and sharing his images with fellow adventurers. Here, Rueppel shares how photography helps him capture and remember the precarious, precious moments he and his companions treasure.
Photoshop.com: When did you become interested in photography?
Jeff Rueppel: I'm very passionate about exploration and adventure, everything from full-bore trekking expeditions, to ice climbing in Ouray, to rock climbing in remote areas of the Mediterranean. In my 20s, I went with a friend to one of my favorite climbing spots in Kalymnos in Greece. I didn't have a camera because I just wanted to be there in the moment and not worry about taking photographs. When I saw my friend's photos afterward, I noticed how they affected and shaped my memories. Through his photos, I had a new and reinvigorated experience of our trip together. I then realized that I had to carry and use a camera to really capture each moment and relive it once I'm home again. My photography is a visual diary of my trips and all the experiences along the way.
Photoshop.com: How did you learn photography?
Jeff Rueppel: I took one photography class in college but didn't do very well. The teacher didn't like my work, and I was discouraged to say the least. Since then, I have been self taught. I've learned what I know about photography from just being present in many different environments. The camera helps me define space, and it empowers me to see scenes from different perspectives and uncover beauty that I didn't initially even know was there. I also document the people who are on expeditions with me. As a photographer, you have the freedom to bring a new view to every interaction, to help everyone see things in new ways. I'm always learning, practicing, and refining my craft.
Photoshop.com: What else has helped you grow and develop as a photographer?
Jeff Rueppel: I work with a variety of cameras to help develop my photography skills. I typically take several cameras with me when I'm on an adventure. I have a Nikon D700 Digital SLR, a Nikon COOLPIX P7700, a GoPro HERO3 camcorder for video—and my simple cell phone camera. I use one of those depending on what the situation demands. I probably wouldn't pull out my big Nikon in a smaller, more intimate setting, because it can be intrusive and makes people uncomfortable. But if I'm taking action shots when climbing, skiing, or capturing other fast motion, then the high-quality DSLR camera is the way to go. And shooting in raw allows me to easily recover highlights and shadows, apply tone curve, and basically rework images for better results.
Photoshop.com: After you've captured your photos, what's next in your process?
Jeff Rueppel: I use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software for all of my processing. Cropping is natural and seamless. However, my favorite feature is the Gradient filter because—with climbing and mountain photos—I often end up with extremes of light and dark in the same image and must even them out so the photo is more balanced. The Gradient filter lets me rebalance the dynamic range and adjust both extremes for an overall better effect. I also really like the Tone Curve, so I can adjust the highlights and blacks directly. I regularly use Noise Reduction to create creamy blacks in noisy images, without degrading sharpness. Collections also make handling thousands of images from a particular shoot a no-brainer. The new Radial filter in Lightroom 5 is great for being able to sculpt with light on a digital negative. It's a great complement to the Gradient filter and gives a completely new way to illuminate and darken specific areas of the image.
Photoshop.com: How do you share your images?
Jeff Rueppel: I'm just now learning to use the Book module and web galleries in Lightroom. But currently, I share images with friends and colleagues at Adobe—where I work in translation services—in a variety of ways. I share high-end images on Flickr; I use Adobe Creative Cloud for sharing personal image galleries; I use Adobe Revel software for photo stories; and I use Instagram, Facebook, or personal blogs for sharing quick photos and narratives about experiences with friends.
Photoshop.com: What's the most challenging shoot you've done and why?
Jeff Rueppel: Shooting climbing photography requires you to get off the ground and into the same space that other climbers are in. That's the perspective that really makes for great climbing photos, but it makes getting good shots a lot harder—from balancing for shoots to working with so many other factors out of your control when you're literally suspended off the ground.
On my last climbing trip to China, I spent the first half of the day climbing with friends. Once I felt comfortable with the physical environment, I was easily able to determine how elements would align for a shot. Then I broke off and let my friends climb while I went into photographer mode. I grabbed 20 to 30 pounds of camera gear and headed back up the same line. It's already a lot of work just to get myself in a place where I can hang for 30 minutes and photograph the climber coming up next to me. I anchored myself in once I found the best spot.
When I'm only shooting with one camera, I usually change lenses a couple times during a shoot. I start off with the 70-200mm Nikon to grab top-down shots as the climber is working their way up the rock toward me. At some point, I shift from the 70-200 to a wide-angle or super wide-angle lens to get the richly varied climbing-scapes—my name for them—where I have both climbing action and a landscape in the background. With the super wide, I can just barely get myself out of the frame and still get great images of the climber from above as his hands reach out searching for the next good hold.
It's actually fun to shoot, because you're also in the climb and end up enjoying a perspective that you otherwise wouldn't likely have noticed.
Photoshop.com: What's one of your favorite images and how did you create it?
Jeff Rueppel: One of my favorites is from ice bouldering in Ouray Ice Park in Colorado in February. I liked the shape of the climber against the ice and how they both turned into elemental set pieces. I used Lightroom and the Curve tool to make the snow behind the climber very white and pull down the blacks on the climber's profile to make her profile pop. I used the Sharpening brush to highlight the fine teeth on the ice axe. I also used the Neutral Gradient filter to achieve an even exposure value across the entire image. The Clone tool in Photoshop helped me clean up extraneous gear and post-crop vignetting in Lightroom let me darken the edges of the image a bit to draw the viewer's attention toward the climber.
Photoshop.com: You provided a Lightroom preset to share with our readers. Can you tell us more about that?
Jeff Rueppel: Sure. The preset offers a simple mix for making a silhouette pop against a white background, which is great for my images of ice climbers. The preset pushes the exposure up to give just a hint of detail to the human form. At the same time, it increases contrast and pushes the highlights up to add whiteness to the ice and a clean separation from the blacks of the silhouette.
Photoshop.com: What's next for you?
Jeff Rueppel: I'm increasingly interested in and working on time-lapse videos and photos, and I use Adobe Premiere Pro software to edit them. I think starting with compelling, large images and shooting in full raw with DSLR and then compressing the images into a 15-second video is an incredibly powerful technique. I work by editing images in Lightroom and then exporting them as sets into Adobe Premiere Pro to transform them into short movies. And, as always, I'm learning as I go.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic was at his enigmatic best as champions Paris Saint-Germain continued their inexorable march toward retaining the Ligue 1 title with a 3-0 win at SC Bastia on Saturday.
The towering Swedish forward scored the opening goal before setting up Ezequiel Lavezzi for the second with an outrageous back-flick and then teeing up the diminutive Argentine for the killer third two minutes from time with a headed flick-on.
The result briefly sent PSG 11 points clear of their only remaining potential title rivals AS Monaco, who then brought the gap back to eight points with a 2-1 home win over lowly Sochaux-Montbeliard later on Saturday.
This was the fifth straight win for Laurent Blanc's PSG since drawing Monaco 1-1 in the league early last month and the team have racked up 16 goals over that period.
"Our aim is to win matches, if that allows us to stretch out the gap, we'd be delighted," Blanc said.
"There is one team hanging on, Monaco, and if they win they'll come back to eight points [behind]. That's a lot, but they're also having a good campaign. We have to take heed, everyone can go through a sticky patch," he said.
Deprived of record-signing Edinson Cavani after he was held over in Uruguay for personal reasons, the capital club could still afford the luxury of keeping center-back Thiago Silva on the bench throughout the game ahead of Wednesday's Champions League last-16 second-leg tie with Bayer 04 Leverkusen, a tie that looks to be a formality since PSG already won the away leg 4-0.
"Winning matches is always the best preparation," Blanc said. "This week was a little complicated to prepare the trip [to Bastia] with internationals all over the place, but we can be sure that whatever team we pick, mentally they will be ready."
Ibrahimovic opened the scoring on six minutes after a bright opening from the visitors in Corsica.
Brazilian Lucas Moura made the most of the start Cavani's absence afforded him to cross from the right for Ibrahimovic to leap high above his marker and use the strength to direct a bullet header into the top corner despite stretching for the ball.
On 19 minutes, Ibrahimovic turned provider with the kind of genius campaign, picking out Lavezzi with a back-heeled, volleyed pass while looking the other way.
The Argentine outpaced the defense and nonchalantly prodded the ball past goalkeeper Jean-Louis Leca before again being the beneficiary of Ibrahimovic's instinctive vision.
In Monaco, former Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov opened his club account following his January transfer to the principality club after just six minutes when he slotted home Layvin Kurzawa's cross.
The Bulgarian then won a penalty from which Colombian James Rodriguez doubled Monaco's advantage on 55 minutes.
Edouard Butin headed home a consolation seven minutes from time for Sochaux, for whom Jordan Ayew was shown a red card for a wild lunge late on.
Despite the win, Monaco coach Claudio Ranieri continued to insist his side are no match for PSG.
"I see you [the press] saying that we're another PSG, but that's not true. For us, it's very difficult to win [matches]," he said.
In other Ligue 1 play, Corsican side AC Ajaccio remain bottom after a 2-2 draw at Nantes and are now 15 points from safety following Evian Thonon Gaillard's 1-0 win at En Avant de Guingamp.

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Suomen nuorisokirjailijat, the Finnish union of authors writing for children, youngsters and young adults, awards the Topelius prize annually for best Finnish youth novel. If this year's nominees are anything to go by, the "culture was" has truly been won where it counts, in the minds of young readers.
Grafomania reports on the nominees, and four out of the five nominees are described as being fantastic fiction. There is ecological sf, dystopic fiction, paranormal romance, and magical realism. When the one remaining nominee is explicitly mentioned to be realistic fiction, that tells me that different forms of the fantastic are becoming the norm, at least among the youth books.


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The word Heights reminds me of the high ceiling of this piano bar, it is also reminds me the scale of it. it is a 11 X 19" paper cut illustration done by me. I hand cut and glue every pieces and it was a fun process :) hope you will like it.
It is not a very good photograph of it. I will definitely re-upload the photo of it again in the future.This piece is not completely done yet, some areas are still needed to fix. =)
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I am a music fanatic in a big way. It is rare that you will come into my home and music will not be playing and my car is never silent. I love my iPod, I am a huge fan of Pandora, and I blip my little heart out on Twitter.
Here is my other confession…I hate downloading music or anything that requires a lot of work. I wish songs would magically appear on my iPod so I didn't have to put them on. That is why I was very excited to try the new slotRadio player and see what it was all about.
The slotRadio player is a little thicker than the iPod, but shorter. It has a screen that tells you what type of station you are on and comes with a little earbud set that is (gasp) actually comfortable. With the player is a teeny tiny memory card that is about the size of a baby's pinky nail. On that little memory card is 1,000 songs arranged into different playlists that you can play depending on your mood and musical taste.
That is it. You slip in the card and you listen to music. It is quite mind-blowing!
The pitfall with this system is that you may not actually like all of the music that is on your card. The player comes bundled with basically a sampler of music from all genres and when I first stuck it in and Lynrd Skynrd stared playing I was like, "Oh, heck no!" We soon realized that the player gives you the option to switch to different stations and I was jamming to Fatboy Slim before you could say Funk Soul Brother.
The other pitfall for parents purchasing this player is that not all the songs come in radio edit version so that might be something to keep in mind if you don't want your kid dropping some bombs around the dinner table.
The great thing about these players though is that this is a fabulously affordable way to listen to music without any downloading. You can buy a memory card with 1,000 songs on it for $40. That means you will pay $.04 per download and can choose the genre you absolutely love to listen to. The player itself is only $99 and comes with the 1,000 music sampler which is a great start to your collection.
Charging it can be done with a USB cable or even a little charger for your wall which makes even the charging easy for those who are not tech-savvy.
I would highly recommend this as an affordable option for parents who can't afford the iPod prices or for your own parents who might be struggling with the downloading process.
Where will you see me rocking this player? It has become my new favorite thing to mow the lawn this year! I can't wait to listen to the Workout Mix while tackling the yard!
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©2012 drkate
Let me count the ways that we, the American people, are expendable.
- Andrew Breitbart RIP March 1, 2012
- The truth about Barrack Hussein Obama
- Dead American soldiers at Ft. Hood, Texas
- 3,000 American citizens on 911
- Theft of trillions of dollars from United States citizens and America since 1913, but most recently 1980's, 1990's, 2001-2012
- 4,800 American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq
- 312 Americans including children in Oklahoma City
- 50 Americans in Waco, Texas
- How many dead in Serbia and Kosovo at whose hands?
- Dozens of individuals inexplicably 'suicided' or victims of unsolved and uninvestigated murders
- 48,600 American soldiers in Vietnam
- Thousands due to improper actions of our own government resulting in American deaths in WWII
Just when you think you've got a handle or perspective on these historical events, you are confronted with something that shakes you to the foundation, and reminds you again of how much danger we are in right now. The big lie is harder to believe than a little lie.
"The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." – J. Edgar Hoover, quote found here
Data-Mining Enterprises
For the love of money and power, the mockingbird has been effectively deployed to dupe Americans into looking the other way while our finances and very existence are 'data-mined' for absolute control. Wirelessly… enter the Inslaw Affair
PROMIS/TECH software could be as simple as just a keystroke program. On all corporate and government systems, the first thing that anybody enters on the machine is their ID and password. All the program on the chip would have to do is to record the first 25 keystrokes after any period of inactivity on the machine. With the capability of getting the ID and password of key people in an organization – the DBA, the RACF security person, the payroll person, the Key men in a corporations, an intruder could do anything….
If you control the U.S. government – by controlling the people in key government positions and most importantly – controlling the investigative arms of the government, then you are well on your way to controlling the world – right?
Enter Systematics
In case you aren't familiar with Systematics, Inc., they are pioneers in core banking technology. The company was founded, in Little Rock, and is at the core of some of the biggest controversies and conspiracies in American political history. With regard to his disinformative theory on Vince Foster's death – which is not without some value – J. Orlin Grabbe wrote the following on Systematics:
"Systematics has had close ties to the NSA and CIA ever since its founding, sources say, as a money-shuffler for covert operations. It is no secret that there were billions of dollars moving around in 'black' accounts–from buying and selling arms to the Contras, Iran, Iraq, Angola and other countries to paying CIA operatives and laundering money from clandestine CIA drug dealing. Having taken over the complete computer rooms in scores of small U.S. banks as an 'outsource' supplier of data processing, Systematics was in a unique position to manage that covert money flow. Sources say the money was moved at the end of every day disguised as a routine bank-to-bank balancing transaction…"
Vince Foster oversaw the covert money-laundering operations of Systematics…who were represented by Hillary Clinton at the Arkansas-based Rose Law Firm.
According to this report,
"Systematics' money-laundering role for the intelligence community might help explain why Jackson Stephens tried to take over Washington-based Financial General Bankshares in 1978 on behalf of Arab backers of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. BCCI's links to global corruption and intelligence operations has been well documented, though many mysteries remain.
Of course, there are also the Saudi Arabian ambassador guards that didn't hear a gunshot, on the night that Vince Foster was shot in the head, in the park across the street from the ambassador's residence.
But, in terms of vetting Barrack Obama, my interest is in the new found connection to the man once reported to have helped Obama get into Harvard: Khalid al-Mansour. As Mr. Percy Sutton reported, Khalid al-Mansour was advisor to Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, pictured here along with Barrack Obama's cousin-in-law, Abdullah Al Ahmadi:
Abdullah Al Ahmadi installed the systematics computer system into Saudi Arabia's central bank.
The Tip of the Iceberg
String a series of seemingly unconnected events and articles together lands us in a place where we can now understand why there is no action on the part of republicans or democrats to expose the fraud of Barrack Hussein Obama.
- There is the game plan to isolate, demonize, and destroy anyone who wants to find his true identity, OCTPAW, the "Obama Conspiracy Psychological Assault Weapon". We have all been affected by this and most have been driven away from discussing this issue.
- Then there is the Congressional Research Service's doubling down on linguistic torts, an excellent series by the Post-Email on the obfuscation of Obama's lack of eligibility and the excuses used by the judiciary, Congress, the media and so many others to thwart the efforts of Americans to find the truth.
- And then there are the databases that exist…the promises that are kept among the elite to control the world.
Sometime ago I wrote a post that drove several readers away from this blog…it was about a conspiracy of silence related to all things about the truth for Americans about Obama, but also major events that have occurred in our lifetimes. I still miss those readers, and thought that perhaps I had gone too far in connecting dots going back to Bush I all the way up to the other monster Obama. Occasionally my posts discuss candidly the Federal Reserve, the Sixteenth Amendment, and the New World Order.
And then I find out that investigations were underway regarding this financial theft from America, when the Twin Towers fell on the accountants who were involved in the investigation, the fraudulent treasury notes and palates of gold bars in the basement, and that the Office of Naval Intelligence –which was also investigating the theft of monies– was targeted by the
'plane' missile at the Pentagon. And I am back to square one.
We are in more danger than we think right now, and it looks like we may never find the truth about Obama. It is because the lie is so big and involves so many..and TPTB are accelerating their time table because we are connecting the dots. It is hard to believe that our own government–bought off by the banksters in 1913–would stoop so low as to make its citizens lives and the truth expendable, truly expendable.
Take it Seriously–Before its Too Late
No one should be paying income taxes now, perhaps a national strike–or more– is in our future. Work hard for Ron Paul, expose election fraud, and work harder to expose the fraud that is the republican-democrat paradigm sham. But your eyes should be wide open with the Good Book and scripture in your hands.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus ~Rev 22:20


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5 takeaways from the Hagel hearing
Senate confirmation hearings are often about the performances. Chuck Hagel delivered a particularly mediocre one.
The former Nebraska senator struggled through answers, changed responses and seemed at points at a loss to describe why he wanted the job — or why President Barack Obama wanted him for it.
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But Hagel's critics — and there were many — didn't seem to land any blows devastating enough to throw his confirmation off track. Most rehashed issues that polls show feel old to many Americans, like the Iraq surge and nuclear disarmament — though even on those the former Nebraska senator sometimes stumbled in his response.
Here are POLITICO's five takeaways from the Senate Armed Services Committee's daylong grilling of Hagel:
Not quite ready for prime time
Given the weeks of acrimonious back-and-forth over his nomination as secretary of defense, former Sen. Chuck Hagel couldn't — or shouldn't — have been taken by surprise by the fusillade of questions he faced Thursday about Israel, Iran and other national security issues.
( Also on POLITICO: Is Hagel up to the job?)
Yet, again and again, Hagel found himself on his heels, offering awkward retractions of his prior statements and repeatedly using garbled phrases that underscored pre-existing doubts about his positions. He seemed like a politician more suited for the revise-and-extend tradition of the Senate than for the YouTube age.
"I support the president's strong position on containment" of Iran, Hagel said early in the session, appearing to endorse a policy President Barack Obama has rejected in favor of declaring that the U.S. will not tolerate Iran getting nuclear weapons.
A short time later, Hagel said he'd been handed a note and wanted to correct his answer. "If I said that, I meant to say that obviously — his position on containment — we don't have a position on containment."
Sensing that even Hagel's clarification fell short of fully clarifying the point, Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) jumped in.
"Just to make sure your correction is clear, we do have a position on containment — which is we do not favor containment," Levin noted.
Hagel made another unforced error while discussing his opposition in 2007 to a Senate resolution calling for the U.S. to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group. While explaining that he was concerned that the vote could have been a green light to war with Iran, he referred to the regime there as "the elected, legitimate government."
This time, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) rode to Hagel's rescue, asking him later in the hearing if he wanted to explain what he meant.
"What I meant to say — should have said — it's recognizable," Hagel said. "It's been recognized, is recognized at the United Nations. Most of our allies have embassies there. That's what I should have said, and … thank you."
As Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) pressed Hagel about remarks he made during the 2006 fighting between Israel and Lebanon, Hagel again mangled his words. "I've never voted against anything but Israel's interests," he declared.
At times, despite his dozen years in the Senate, Hagel seemed bewildered with the way his quotes were being picked apart. "I've had more attention paid to my words in the last eight weeks than I ever thought possible," he said.


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Hagel committee vote delayed
The Senate Armed Services Committee will not vote this week on whether to confirm Chuck Hagel as the next secretary of Defense amid unrelenting pressure from Republicans over his financial disclosures.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and at least two dozen other Republicans signed a letter Wednesday criticizing what they called Hagel's reluctance to fully disclose his financial records. In light of what they said was incomplete information, they called for more time to consider his nomination.
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One key sticking point was whether the former Republican senator from Nebraska has taken payments from "foreign sources," either for speeches or consulting work, and until lawmakers are satisfied they said he should not be confirmed.
"The committee and the American people have a right to know if a nominee for secretary of Defense has received compensation, directly or indirectly, from foreign sources," the senators wrote. "Until the committee receives full and complete answers, it cannot in good faith determine whether you should be confirmed as secretary of Defense."
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said that the committee had delayed a vote, in a separate announcement on Wednesday that did not allude to the Republicans' objections.
"I had hoped to hold a vote on the nomination this week, but the committee's review of the nomination is not yet complete," Levin said. "I intend to schedule a vote on the nomination as soon as possible."
Democrats on the committee could have established a quorum without Republicans and forced a vote, but Levin has little appetite for that. "Sen. Levin isn't interested in pushing it through against their will," a committee staffer said.
Conservatives opposing Hagel's nomination were buoyed by the delay, pointing out the Senate is scheduled to be in recess the week of Feb. 17 for the President's Day holiday.
"It's important to delay the vote out of committee next week while the outstanding issues are investigated," said a staffer for a conservative organization opposing the nomination. "Meanwhile, he ends up hanging out in the breeze for two weeks. We're in extra innings now — it's anybody's game."
Several Republican senators asked Hagel over a week ago for additional financial disclosure information, in particular about "entities" that Hagel had been involved with. One senior Senate aide also said that members were curious about whether Chuck Hagel had received foreign funds.
Hagel responded to their request with a letter, obtained by POLITICO, which argued that he could not provide the additional requested information.
"Your request for financial information regarding certain private corporate and non-profit entities … is not mine to provide. … I do not believe I have any of the information requested," Hagel wrote in the letter, which also provided a list of his speaking engagements dating back to 2009.
"I have been forthright in disclosing all required information about my personal interests and holdings," Hagel added.
An aide to Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), to whom Hagel's letter was addressed, said the response was insufficient.
"As part of the advise and consent role that the Senate plays, we need to take a look," the aide said.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the Senate minority whip, said that the "chief obstacle" to a Thursday vote is Hagel's decision not to respond adequately to Republicans' request for additional financial details.
"So far Sen. Hagel has refused to provide information requested by the committee. That's the chief obstacle right now. I don't know any justification for his refusal," Cornyn told reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday before a lunch meeting with his Republican colleagues.


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Lion in the WindAbout this photograph
This photograph is part of the Land of lions series, an extract from the best by photographer Laurent Baheux. Whoever has had the opportunity to observe the great African fauna in its natural surroundings knows about this indefinable feeling, a mix of respect, fascination and incredulity faced with so much beauty and strength. As one of his photos alone is worth a thousand words, here is the translation of this feeling... The day that you wake up in Africa, will be when this is revealed to you. With all its strength and brutality, the wild life impregnates, possesses and transforms you for ever. Laurent did not escape its hold, and this was beyond all his imagination before setting foot on the continent. From now on in danger, because the fragile balance which has always governed the harmony of the living has been upset, this "terra incognita ubi sunt leones" (unknown land where lions live, as named by the geographers before its exploration), prey to the destruction of the wild species and natural spaces today only offers the remains of its past splendour. This is what Laurent intends to show us, the remaining parts of this Africa, one that existed before the arrival of white men, the last traces of a life-size world, entirely dedicated to the animal kingdom, sometimes gentle, often cruel, just as strong as it is vulnerable. His quest immortalises ephemeral moments that Nature wants to offer him, like many precious marvels. Laurent provides a vision of animal beauty which resounds in each of us. Which he refuses to allow to disappear...Read more Read less
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Laurent Baheux was attracted to journalism and editing at first, rapidly discovering a passion for wildlife photography. He has always been fascinated by Africa. From 2002, during a visit to Tanzania, he began personal work on the wild fauna. From then on, he chose black and white, with its play of shadows, to immortalise rare and ephemeral natural scenes, constantly seeking to sublimate the animals, to capture the magnificence of their attitudes and the emotion of their gaze. His artistic career in black and white reached a turning point when he was nominated for the international Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2007 in the ?Creative Vision of Nature? category. Through a stylised aesthetic approach that stands out from traditional photography, Laurent Baheux magnifies the nature and wildlife he encounters, whether it be tigers, lions, giraffes, elephants, or migrating birds.


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This blog used to be mostly about SamePlace. If you've been reading it long enough to remember that, you're probably one of the early adopters, so please virtually celebrate with me this little bit of news.
SamePlace won a grand prize together with Shareaholic and Minimap (the announcement lists them in alphabetic order with a numeric bullet and they look like first/second/third prize—they're actually co-winners, just like the twelve runners up.)
And it seems it's been a productive time for Italy: my friend Davide is there too with Table2Clipboard. Not bad for this old little country.


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13 April, 2013
Metrodome = EchosThe show was definitely POP and a great song set. I remember Smash Mouth opening the show and no one was very impressed. They cut their set short and the lead singer was like, "I thought this was the F-ing Metrodome man!" or something like that. The Metrodome acoustics were horrible as usual, but that didn't completely spoil the gigantic video screen or the lemon shaped disco ball.
15 September, 2010
U2 POPs the MetrodomeU2 barely fits in our stadium, but then again they barely fit in this universe. U2 is so big the biggest tv ever is their back drop. A huge stadium tour and they can make it feel intimate when they play songs like 'please'. The band shows of their genius when bono's lyrics soar and the bands notes bleed between please and streets. Just cant get enuff of that lovie dovie stuff. . .U2 the soundtrack of my life.


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European Parliament Declares Its Independence From The European Commission With A Massive Rejection Of ACTA. Now What?
from the power-to-the-people dept
In a plenary vote today, the European Parliament has rejected ACTA by 478 votes to 39, with 165 abstentions. That followed a failed attempt by the right-of-center EPP Group to call for a postponement. Although the final result was not totally unexpected, since the signs had been pointing this way for a time, it nonetheless represents a huge victory for campaigners who had more or less given up hope of stopping ACTA in Europe even a few months ago. So the question now becomes: what are the ramifications?
In its closing speech, the European Commission repeated its statement that it would wait for the European Court of Justice's opinion on the compatibility of ACTA with the EU's laws, even if the vote went against it. It also hinted that it might then call for another vote on ACTA in the European Parliament. Whether that was simply a bluff, or whether it will go ahead with this seemingly pointless exercise, is unclear.
David Martin, the EU parliamentarian charged with handling the ACTA vote, said afterwards in a press conference that he did not believe the Commission could simply re-submit ACTA in its present form. Changing ACTA would require agreement from the other ACTA signatories, which is likely to be hard to obtain, but even then Martin was skeptical that ACTA was the right way to address the problem of counterfeit goods. Moreover, the sheer size of the majority against ACTA today means that the Commission can't realistically hope that next time things will go much better. Instead, Martin suggested splitting ACTA into two new and quite distinct treaties -- one dealing with physical counterfeits, the other with online infringement.
Martin also said that he believed that ACTA is dead, and not only in the European Union. For example, he noted that Australia's politicians were having second thoughts even before the EU vote. If, in the wake of today's resounding rejection, Australia also refuses to ratify the treaty, it will leave ACTA looking tattered and hardly the exemplary globe-spanning agreement its supporters have been pushing for. And that's assuming that the US administration can resolve the issues surrounding its own approval of the treaty, and can muster enough ratifications among other signatories so that ACTA comes into force. And as people are already pointing out, if ACTA does collapse, TPP might be next.
The true measure of the effect of the European Parliament's rejection of ACTA remains to be seen; but two things are already clear. The first is a new recognition that European citizens not only care deeply about key issues like freedom and privacy, but that they are keen to engage with politicians on these and related subjects, as the President of the European Parliament acknowledged in a statement after the ACTA vote:
The debate on ACTA demonstrated the existence of European public opinion that transcends national borders. All over Europe, people were engaged in protests and debates. The mobilisation of public opinion was unprecedented. As the President of the European Parliament, I am committed to dialogue with citizens and to make Europe more democratic and understandable.
The second point was noted by David Martin in a blog post published shortly after ACTA's defeat:
This is a historic day in terms of European politics. For the first time the European Parliament has used the powers granted by the Lisbon Treaty to reject an International Trade Agreement. The Commission and the Council will now be aware that they cannot overrun the Parliament, which represents and defends citizens' rights. This vote represents true democracy in action and the coming of age of the European Parliament.
In other words, the rejection of ACTA by the EU is not just a victory for the activists who took to the streets of Europe earlier this year, and the huge numbers of people who contacted their politicians to express their concern: this is also a victory for the European Parliament, which hitherto has been little more than a rubber stamp for the European Commission's proposals.
That has important consequences for the future, since it means that the Commission will need to be more circumspect when dealing with the Parliament. That, in its turn, is likely to lead to more transparency and participation by European citizens in the process of crafting new laws and treaties. In particular, it means that whatever the European Commission comes up with as a response to this major defeat over ACTA, it will not be able to assume that it can always get what it wants. Today's subtle but important shift in power within European politics will also be felt at the international level, since the Commission's negotiators will no longer be able to conduct meetings behind closed doors that fail to take into account what the European Parliament -- and ultimately the people of Europe -- are willing to accept.
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I live in Adelaide (Australia) with my husband, my two adorable Norwegian cats ( Zeus and Zena ), a chicken, and a pigeon who now also thinks that he is a chicken! My ancestry is French so it goes without saying that my favourite place is Paris. The food, culture and atmosphere of Paris is nothing short of amazing.
I am a self taught home cook who loves big flavours in food. My passion for food surfaced when I was 10 years old, watching TV chef Ian Hewitson and learning different techniques. Since then, the food of Adrian Richardson and Jamie Oliver has been my inspiration. I love how one can create a healthy full flavoured meal from just the simplest of ingredients. I especially love chilli and garlic and use them in most of my food.
I enjoy hosting dinner parties for friends and family. Curries and rustic style dishes are my firm favorites and I know that my family and friends all agree! Just place it all in the middle of the table and let everyone help themselves enjoying great food with good company.
I create flavoursome low calorie recipes which are featured on the internationally known website Weigh Yourself Slim.
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In a nice "Whew!" moment, TMZ reports that Heather Locklear's DUI case has been dismissed, and she's pled no contest to reckless driving instead, a lesser offense that will probably only lead to probation and a $700 fine.
The Melrose Place star was arrested in September after a witness saw her driving erratically and called the police. Cops thought she might have been operating her vehicle under theinfluence of prescription drugs, which showed up in her blood tests later.
The lucky actress was represented by popular celebrity lawyer Blair Berk in court this morning, but Heather herself was not to be found in the courtroom. Berk has also fought the DUI battle for celebs like Mel Gibson, Kiefer Sutherland and even Heather's ex, Richie Sambora.


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By joe8750s - Wed Jun 13, 2018 7:46 pm
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Hi - I have a chinese knock off car, that I (at first) successfully upgraded from 12v to 18v, using 3 6v batteries in a series. It worked great at first! Then a gearbox melted, so I replaced those, and it worked great! Now all of a sudden it doesn't work. The radio/lights work fine, but when trying to move, it just makes a beeping sound. I suspect I fried the circuit board. I am a complete newbie at this, and know nothing about circuit boards. My question is, how do I "upgrade" the circuit board, as in, what would need to be replaced on it to handle 18v? It doesn't seem like there is a general/universal 18v circuit board replacement. It is a "wellye" circuit board, so I would need it to have all the same connectors, but the only replacement I see is for just 12v. I think I over my head... Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!


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COLUMBUS -- In the Meyer household in the 1960s and '70s in Ashtabula, Ohio, it was a virtual holiday when the Michigan-Ohio State game came along each November.
Now Urban Meyer, removed from the rivalry for so long, is back home and an integral part of "The Game."
"This is all I knew growing up; it's all anybody knew," Meyer said Monday as he spoke for the first time about his No. 4-ranked and unbeaten Buckeyes game on Saturday at Ohio Stadium against the 20th-ranked Wolverines.
"In the era when I grew up, there really wasn't much other than three channels on your television," said the 48-year-old Meyer. "There was this game. It was Bo Schembechler, Woody Hayes, Pete Johnson, Archie Griffin. That's all."
Those memories still burn brightly for Meyer, in his first year coaching at Ohio State (11-0, 7-0 Big Ten).
When he ended a year-long hiatus from coaching (he wasn't far away, working as an ESPN analyst) to take over an Ohio State program coming off a loss to Michigan, he made a point of hiring coaches who knew how ingrained The Game is in the culture and consciousness of Michigan, Ohio and the Midwest.
"When I put the staff together, I wanted to make sure that I didn't have to sit there and teach people about (the rivalry)," Meyer said. "I wanted this to be close to home. And it is."
Suddenly, The Game has taken on a new tenor. When Brady Hoke -- himself an Ohio native -- took the Michigan job two years ago, he slammed his fist down repeatedly on the podium as he emphasized that the annual showdown with the Buckeyes would no longer be an afterthought to the games against Notre Dame and Michigan State.
"Growing up in (Ohio) you knew Bo and Woody and the great fights they had," Hoke said on the day he was introduced. "It is the most important game on that schedule. Not that the others aren't important, but it is the most important game on that schedule. It's almost personal."
Perhaps the ascension of Meyer and Hoke will reinvigorate the rivalry, much like Schembechler's hiring did. Ohio State was coming off a 50-14 victory in 1968 on the way to winning the national championship. Schembechler, yet another Ohio native with deep roots in the rivalry, came on the leafy Ann Arbor, Mich., campus and reminded his players daily of the shellacking they had taken the year before.
The Wolverines stunned the top-ranked Buckeyes 24-12 in '69, touching off what is commonly called "The Ten-Year War" of games contested between the mercurial Hayes and his former Ohio State assistant.
Meyer took the opportunity to take a not-so-subtle shot at Hoke on Monday.
"He was born in the state of Ohio -- which I still don't get," Meyer said of Hoke. "That's another story. But I guess it adds to the intensity."
So the battle lines are already being drawn in a new, updated version of those clashes from 1969-78.
Both sides play silly yet serious word games. Meyer makes it clear that he doesn't want any of his Buckeyes to even utter the word "Michigan" -- if they do he sends an icy stare their way. His prefers the phrase, just like Woody did, of "That Team Up North."
Hoke refuses to call Ohio State by its rightful name. He, along with all his players and coaches, instead call it simply "Ohio."
Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner was asked Monday what happens to freshmen who slip up and accidentally say Ohio State instead of just Ohio.
"They don't," he said.
Hoke implemented the rule when he arrived on campus.
"And, that's just how it is," Gardner said.
Meyer has ordered guests wearing a blue shirt at practice to leave and put on something scarlet. Hoke doesn't allow anyone wearing the Buckeyes' colors inside Schembechler Hall.
Both have placed reminders about the rivalry throughout their training facilities.
"It's not just like another week. The intensity is even higher than it normally is," Ohio State defensive lineman Garrett Goebel said. "There are signs all around the weight room saying 'Beat That Team Up North.'"
Two coaches of the same generation, from the same state, Meyer and Hoke were steeped in the legends and lore of the series, of playing for bragging rights in November and despising your rival the other 51 weeks of the year, too.
They know that winter seems colder and longer for the loser, while the winner's season is looked upon fondly no matter its record.
"UCLA-USC or Alabama-Auburn or Florida-Georgia, everybody has their rivalry," said Meyer, who was the coach at Florida from 2005-2010. "This is home. If you ask me what makes (The Game) unique, it's the fact that I grew up in this state, and this is all you know growing up."


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There are two stories to the Cursed Cup of Immortality, the one that was fabricated and sold to adventurers upon return, and the real story.
As the PCs travel the road, right after a bend they hear a sharp whistle and call: "Heeey, not so lazy, move your asses!" It is a large man that calls, and there are unwilling workers that listen. A small company, 10-15 men work on the road, push boulders aside, dig up roots from under the road, etc. The large man that shouted turns to you, smiles fast and mutters something under his breath, sounds like cursing some lazy worker. "Where does the road bring you from, travellers?" And does a little small-talk.
And what is really happening? A group of bandits is 'adapting' the road for shady purposes. The road will not be wider, but tighter, with enough cover around (and a few traps perhaps), and will become an ideal spot for ambushing travellers or entire caravans. The bandit leader wants them all to appear harmless. The 'lazy worker' he cursed was actually a guard that should give warning before any travellers come around (fallen asleep). Not surprisingly, the boss may decide for an ambush even now.


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Barter Theatre hosts bestselling author Lee Smith and Grammy-nominated songwriter Matraca Berg for "Writers Night: An Evening of Song and Story" Aug. 19 at 7:30 p.m. on Barter's main stage.
Joining Smith and Berg for a live onstage appearance will be writer Jill McCorkle, songwriter Marshall Chapman, and playwright Paul Ferguson.
These five artists collaborated to create "Good Ol' Girls," the musical that will be performed by Barter Theatre artists for a limited run, August 17-September 7.
Adapted by Paul Ferguson, "Good Ol' Girls" is based on the stories of two acclaimed Southern authors: Lee Smith and Jill McCorkle, with songs by Nashville hit-makers Matraca Berg (who has written for Reba McEntire, Dixie Chicks, Kenny Chesney) and Marshall Chapman (who has written for Jimmy Buffett, Wynonna).
"Writers Night: An Evening of Song and Story" is a special one-night-only event that will be presented like an informal cabaret with the five collaborators singing original songs and telling their stories onstage.
Learn how Matraca Berg, Marshall Chapman, Jill MCorkle and Lee Smith are good ol' girls in their own right and hear what that means to them. They will also talk about how they, along with the collaboration of Paul Ferguson, brought "Good Ol Girls" to the stage. Smith and McCorkle will alternate readings from their novels with the songs of Chapman and Berg.
"The show was Matraca's idea—she wrote a song named 'Good Ol Girls' and thought it might be the basis for a musical. Once we got together with the other girls to talk about the possibilities of a show, it became clear that a lot of our songs and stories have a real resonance," said Smith. Ferguson took all their material and adapted it for the stage.
Any woman can be a good ol' girl, believes McCorkle. Good ol' girls are not just found in the South. "She might live in Durham, North Carolina, or Akron, Ohio, or Denver, Colorado, or, well, anywhere, " says McCorkle. She describes a good ol' girl as "women of all types and ages in all different places coming to terms with some big issues in life."
"Our characters don't shy away from these issues, either, such as love, marriage, pregnancy, work, abuse, faith, family and aging. These are not Southern issues. These are universal," add Smith.
Tickets to "An Evening of Song and Story." Tickets are $30. All proceeds will go to Barter's Annual Fund for Artistic Excellence. Barter recommends both shows for mature teens and adults. Call 628-3991 or visit BarterTheatre.com for more information.


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Fundamental Building Blocks of an Android Application
Posted by Deepthi Girija Thampi in Android on December 9, 2011
Application components are the essential building blocks of an android application.
They are of four types:
1) Activities
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3) Content Providers
4) Broadcast Receivers
An activity is a component of an application which provides UI.It represents a screen with a UI.An application may contains a number of activities bound to eachother.Still, each activity is an independent entity.
A service doesn't provide UI, user can't see it .It is an application component that works in the background.
Content Providers:
It handles a specific set of application data. Application data can be queried or even modified by other applications through Content Providers if it permits. Also, any application, with proper permission, can query part of the content provider even.
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Beautiful dogwood and magnolia blossoms take center stage as Maggie Austin shares her signature sugar flower techniques.
Trendsetting cake artist Maggie Austin returns to Craftsy to teach two of the American South's most iconic and beautiful blossoms. You'll learn how to create a sophisticated white-on-white design featuring delicate dogwood flowers and branches or the magnificent magnolia. Maggie shows you her signature techniques for cutting, veining, assembling and dusting gum paste flowers with subtle, yet realistic shading.gCreate an elegant floral presentation that will be the highlight of any event, no matter where you live.
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20-Feb-2008 -- International Confluence Day 2008, commemorating the 12th anniversary of the Degree Confluence Project
I initially was planning an ambitious multi-confluence point effort in New England to mark this year's observance of International Confluence Day. Perhaps even a trek to the point that started it all! However, this five-state attempt had to be postponed when my boss, obviously not grasping the full import of this international holiday, scheduled a meeting for 2/20/08 in Chattanooga, TN.
Although my observance had to be significantly down-sized, I was able to continue a now five-year tradition of visiting a cp in a different state each February 20th, as at the end of my meeting, I found myself less than ten miles away from 35N 85W. This was the first point in Tennessee to be recorded on the DCP, shortly after the turn of the century; and, like seven other points in the state, had not been updated since. Not that an update was particularly needed, as Roger Rockwell would find the current view of the immediate area remarkably unchanged since his initial report in 2000. However, this visit did allow me to bring the picture documentation for 35N 85W up to current DCP standards.
I turned east off of Interstate Highway 75 onto East Brainerd Road, heading toward the Apison community. Urban sprawl is clearly affecting the area, and the afternoon traffic was heavier than I expected. At the intersection of McGhee and Alabama Roads, the road made a sharp turn and short climb up to a T-intersection with Red Clay Road, and an overlook of the cp. A driveway off Howardsville Road brought me to a barbwire fence within 200 meters of the point. As I walked in the mild weather (62 degrees F.), I can't say I regretted not being in VT, NH, or MA on the day.
After spending less than a half hour at the point, I retraced my route back to I-75. Along the way I experienced delays with two automobile accidents. The second, to which five fire engines had responded, involved a burning car upside down in a drainage ditch. If there'd been some place for me to pull over on the road shoulder, I might have been able to submit some rather dramatic photos. Unfortunately, I couldn't, and the result is a pretty bland report for this cp. Chattanooga is quite the tourist destination with many things to see and
do. The closest historic site to 35N 85W is Red Clay State Park, an important site for the Cherokee Nation's "Trail of Tears."
This was my eighth visit to a cp on International Confluence Day, and while once again I failed to encounter any fellow confluence hunters, I was able to reach a few cohorts by cell phone while on the site, and their shared excitement helped make my day a success…