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The Harry Lovell Award has been presented for the third time since 2006, to Misbah Khan, Packaging Technologist at PZ Cussons in Melbourne.
The Harry Lovell Award was developed by the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) in recognition of outstanding achievement by a student in their final examinations leading to their Diploma in Packaging Technology.
Pierre Pienaar, National President of the AIP spoke of the benefits of technical training, "It is our responsibility to provide people with educational opportunities today, to meet the demands of the workplaces of tomorrow. Education is for life, it is an investment that cannot be lost, spent or taken away."
Khan thanked his mentor and manager, John Simon for the motivation and packaging insight he gave while Khan was completing his technical training.
"It is a great honour to be the recipient of the 2010 Harry Lovell Award," Khan said.
"I would like to express thanks to PZ Cussons for giving me the opportunity to undertake this Diploma, in particular to my mentor and manager, John Simon for all the motivation and packaging insight provided."
Khan went on to also thank his tutor for offering valuable guidance and feedback.
The distance education course was like an extension of his packaging technologist role as opposed to an intensive technical training course requiring strict self discipline, he said.
"Working across a variety of packaging formats I have always found strong relevance with the course material to my daily packaging work, making it easy to reinforce and implement new learnings. My final dissertation topic allowed me to go beyond my technical knowledge and challenge my commercial skills. I find the dynamic and technically challenging nature of the packaging industry very motivating. I would highly recommend the Diploma degree and other AIP educational programmes to packaging professionals seeking to challenge and broaden themselves." Khan said.
"Packaging Technologists play such an important role in the current environmental debate and having young, smart, passionate and informed persons such as Misbah can play a key role in tackling those important issues and maybe doing something about them in his current place of employment," Pienaar said.


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Discussion in 'Clickbank' started by wasted, Aug 10, 2012.
Hey Guys,
What does this mean to you? Is there something wrong with the product?
Are those your stats as an affiliate or vendor?
My stats as an affiliate
That IS very strange... I'm no expert, but almost every Clickbank product I ever promoted had at least 1 sale for about 50 hops. If it didn't, I dumped it.
That's strange. I would think there's something wrong with the referral process. But that wouldn't explain why you are still getting credit for the hops. I would try emailing Clickbank and see if something is wrong. Either that, or that product just converts terribly.
Even if the product is not selling, you will not see that much Order Pages submits. 150 is just too much all of them not to be legit. As a vendor I have never seen 150 submits without sale. I think you should maybe also contact the Vendor. Also it can be important to tell us what type of visitors are you bringing to the site?
Someone is toying with you. Best way to deal with it is to report it to Clickbank.
I contacted Clickbank with the matter, I'm really surprised that I haven't converted any of this traffic being that is it a fairly high gravity product and has a pretty good CB rep.
Word of caution for the future.
Gravity does not necessarily mean conversions. Gravity tells you by weighted average how many people are promoting it.
Rep on the other hand, is difficult to measure.
Best idea when choosing products is to go for mid gravity products which will give you some room to market it without too much competition or too many already marketed to viewers visiting your link, and to give you the security that the product is not going to disappear due to lack of sales for the vendor.
However, I do not think the stats you have shown have anything to do with the product, just looks far too unrealistic to be real people creating those stats and CB stats are quite accurate and reliable in most cases.
Your order form submits are way too high compared to hops. More than half your visitors go to the order form?
That's nigh on impossible, even with heavily warmed up traffic.
With regards to high hop count but no sales -- what kind of traffic is this? Is it targeted?
With regards to high order form views but no sales -- does the sales page happen to have an exit splash message that redirects the viewers directly to the order form with a discount?
150 order sever calls without any order?? You gotta be kidding.... my stats are that ~70% from order server calls are real sales, order server call means customer entered credit card data and press submit 150 people tried to pay with fake card??? Or paypal account????
Sounds to me like person/people are using a bad/fraudulent credit card info and clickbank is not approving sale.
this is my stats. don't get shock. see the hops and sales
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this time since I was there a duty to practice exams art oil painting, we will discuss a little bit. While here I also still learning, there's no harm in it we learn together?
What are the materials needed to paint?
Actually, to be studied painting we do need to spend the inside. Examples of painting tools like the picture above. Figure itupun his tools is cheap you know of friends (yes because of my purchase). The knife just not the original painting. So, basically we have to be smart to choose and utilize TSB goods.
Let's take apart one of the ...
1. Brush
Definitely my friends already know dong painting tools on this one? Brush painting is a must-have tool, yes if not with a brush, with what ya dong?
Brush here there is an assortment of large, small, very small, pointed tip, flat tip, the tip of a fan and others. I think a suitable brush to brush it a great background with thick fur like the first image above, because if a small brush and the color takes a long time to be too thick.
If a large brush so we can adjust the colors muted.
Brush the pointy end nan slim fitting to draw a tree, especially for the branch. Brush painting is suitable for small or distant objects.
2. Palette
Huh palette? that for girls memelet it? Eitt .. pellets were friends. Different again the case. This tool is very important you know the painting, especially oil paint. Because if you do not use hard pellets eh palette dong, willing to put where trying to paint? In the paper? O can not ... due to oil paint, oil paint his name there can be translucent like if you put oil on paper.
Sure, the palette is hard to find in stores unless the paint shop / gallery. Generally difficult, as I've muter-muter looking pallet can not find it, knowing a small town. Well, the idea of my mom be a palette-paletan:
Iih ... hell yes it? It was the embodiment of LJK base for the test. Kereatip're friends? Actually the palette besilah okay but what may make for not meet the original palette, palette palsupun so.
A must try! Hahaha
3. Palette Knife
Well, this one is my friends who are just learning the art of painting must be confused. Why no knife painting everything huh? Emangnya want to cook? Not not! This particular knife to smooth the paint as the picture (right) on top of ya. Usually to make iceberg nah we averaged ice mountain with a knife. Well, this time I did not see the original palette knife then I use a knife-pisauan like the first picture above. Such a tool is mortar yah?
4. Canvas
Still the most important tool, is suitable for painting canvas oil paints. Due to the nature of the fabric-canvas-that does not absorb the oil. If paper-is-my practice later so transparent and the results are not optimal. Good canvas is usually expensive. Uh, you know the quality of the canvas needs to be considered. Because results are ugly canvas usually bad.
5. Oil paint
In general, the required color to paint the color of the primary, secondary, tertiary, as well as black and white
Primary Color: basic color that stands alone, not the result of a mixture, namely blue, red, and yellow.
Secondary Color: Color That mixed results two primary colors, eg orange (red + yellow) green (blue + yellow) Violet (red + blue)
Tertiary colors: the color of the resulting mixture of three colors (can be mixed primary / secondary)
But, if my friends feel bothered thinking how to mix colors better buy oil paint with full color yes. Different oil paint with watercolors you know, ya look of his name. If it does not fit watercolor mixed with oil, should with water (yaiyalah).
6. Oil Paint / Diluent
Oil paints use to thin oil paint itself. I was also confused as to why oil should be mixed his paints when it was paint 'oil'? Ya might be more watery and not rigid and more easily mixed. Although oil paint itself contains oil but we should continue to use this oil.
7. Standing / Easel
If your friends do not have no daddy really well, as long as the canvas can stand and shake. Because it is the function of the tool is that the canvas upright and do not shake.
8. Thinner / kerosene
Confused, after painting? Difficult to wash the brush with water? It's easy really, oil wash with oil. the negative (-) and negative (-) be positive! Uh, yeah anyway that will not be washed thoroughly with water paint. Another way is by Thinner.
Well why even discuss his tools anyway? Though the title How To Paint with Oil Paints?
Yes, I give you a video on how to paint:
Video tutorials please follow these vibrantly 1-4. As concrete evidence I've tried the way the father of Michael and the results are 99% fail. T_T
Results renovation please see above yourself yah!
Originally the water so the sewage, the original fir so???
Plus the colors are not desirable (red and white) negligence I could be there.
There is another video that might be easier:
Well it seems easy huh? But after my practice.
It was better than the spectacle of the above.


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Camera phone
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A camera phone is a mobile phone which is able to capture photographs (and usually video). Since early in the 21st century the majority of mobile phones in use are camera phones.[1]
Most camera phones are simpler than separate digital cameras. Their usual fixed-focus lenses and smaller sensors limit their performance in poor lighting. Lacking a physical shutter, most have a long shutter lag. Flash, where present, is usually weak. Optical zoom[2] and tripod screws are rare. Some also lack a USB connection, removable memory card, or other way of transferring their pictures more quickly than by the phone's inherent communication feature.
The first camera phone was sold in 2000 in Japan, a J-Phone model, about a decade after the first digital camera was sold in Japan in December 1989.[3]
Some of the more expensive camera phones have only a few of these technical disadvantages, which apply most acutely in low light conditions and in any case have not inhibited their widespread use. Most model lines improve in these regards every year or two. Some, such as the Droid Incredible only have a menu choice to start an application program to activate the camera.[4] Others, such as the BlackBerry Storm 2, Droid X, Motorola V980 and Nokia 5800 also have a separate camera button for quickness and convenience. Windows Phones can be configured to operate as a camera even if the phone is asleep. Some camera phones are designed to resemble separate low-end digital compact cameras in appearance and to some extent in features and picture quality, and are branded as both mobile phones and cameras, including certain Sony phones.
The principal advantages of camera phones are cost and compactness; indeed for a user who carries a mobile phone anyway, the additional size and cost are negligible. Smartphones that are camera phones may run mobile applications to add capabilities such as geotagging and image stitching. A few high end phones can use their touch screen to direct their camera to focus on a particular object in the field of view, giving even an inexperienced user a degree of focus control exceeded only by seasoned photographers using manual focus.
Some camera phones use CMOS image sensors, due to largely reduced power consumption compared to CCD type cameras, which are also used.
Images are usually saved in the JPEG file format, and the wireless infrastructure manages the sharing. The lower power consumption prevents the camera from quickly depleting the phone's battery.
The camera phone, like many complex systems, is the result of converging and enabling technologies. There are dozens of relevant patents dating back as far as 1956. Compared to digital cameras of the 1990s, a consumer-viable camera in a mobile phone would require far less power and a higher level of camera electronics integration to permit the miniaturization.
The CMOS active pixel sensor "camera-on-a-chip" developed by Dr. Eric Fossum and his team in the early 1990s achieved the first step of realizing the modern camera phone as described in a March 1995 Business Week article. While the first camera phones, as successfully marketed by J-Phone in Japan, used CCD sensors and not CMOS sensors, more than 90% of camera phones sold today use CMOS image sensor technology.
Over the years there have been many videophones and cameras that have included communication capability. Some devices experimented with integration of the device to communicate wirelessly with Internet, which would allow instant media sharing with anyone anywhere. For example, in 1995 Apple experimented with the Apple Videophone/PDA.[5] There were several digital cameras with cellular phone transmission capability shown by companies such as Kodak, Olympus in the early 1990s.[6] There was also a digital camera with cellular phone designed by Shosaku Kawashima of Canon in Japan in May 1997.[7]
On June 11, 1997, Philippe Kahn shared instantly the first pictures from the maternity ward where his daughter Sophie was born. He wirelessly transmitted his cell phone pictures to more than 2,000 family, friends and associates around the world. Kahn's wireless sharing software and camera integrated into his cell phone augured the birth of instant visual communications.[8][9] Kahn's cell phone transmission is the first known publicly shared picture via a cell phone.[10]
In Japan, two competing projects were run by Sharp and Kyocera in 1997. Both had cell phones with integrated cameras. However, the Kyocera system was designed as a peer-to-peer video-phone as opposed to the Sharp project which was initially focused on sharing instant pictures. That was made possible when the Sharp devices was coupled to the Sha-mail infrastructure designed in collaboration with American technologist, Kahn. The Kyocera team was led by Mr. Kazumi Saburi.[11]
In 1995, work by James Greenwold of Bureau Of Technical Services, in Chippewa Falls, WI, was developing a pocket video camera for surveillance purposes. By 1999, the Tardis recorder was in prototype and being used by the government. Bureau Of Technical Services, advanced further by the patent # 6,845,215,B1 on Body-Carryable, digital Storage medium, Audio/Video recording Assembly.
Cameras on cell phones proved popular right from the start, as indicated that the J-Phone in Japan had more than half of its subscribers using cell phone cameras in two years. The world soon followed. By 2003, more camera phones were sold worldwide than stand-alone digital cameras. In 2005, Nokia became the world's most sold digital camera brand. In 2006, half of the world's mobile phones had a built-in camera.[citation needed]
In 2006, Thuraya released the first satellite phone with an integrated camera. The Thuraya SG-2520 was manufactured by a Korean company called APSI and ran Windows CE.
By 2007, the first cell phones and other consumer products appeared using the Tardis technology to make the move from still cameras to full motion video.[citation needed]
In 2008, Nokia sold more camera phones than Kodak sold film based simple cameras, thus becoming the biggest manufacturer of any kind of camera.
In 2010, the worldwide number of camera phones totaled more than a billion.[12] Most mobile phones, even inexpensive ones, were being sold with a camera. High end camera phones usually had a relatively good lens and high resolution, but a small sensor.
Twelve-megapixel camera phones have been produced by at least two companies.[13][14] To highlight the capabilities of the Nokia N8 (Big CMOS Sensor) camera, Nokia created a short film, The Commuter, in October 2010. The seven-minute film was shot entirely on the phone's 720p camera. A 14-megapixel smartphone with 3x optical zoom was announced in 2010.[15]
In 2012, Nokia announced Nokia 808 PureView. It features a 41-megapixel 1/1.2-inch sensor and a high-resolution f/2.4 Zeiss all-aspherical 1-group lens. It also features Nokia's PureView Pro technology, a pixel oversampling technique that reduces an image taken at full resolution into a lower resolution picture, thus achieving higher definition and light sensitivity, and enables lossless zoom.
In mid-2013, Nokia announced the Nokia Lumia 1020. It had an improved version of the 41-megapixel sensor and ran Windows Phone 8 unlike the 808 PureView which was the last phone to run Nokia's Symbian OS.
Multimedia Messaging Service
Camera phones can share pictures almost instantly and automatically via a sharing infrastructure integrated with the carrier network. Early developers including Philippe Kahn envisioned a technology that would enable service providers to "collect a fee every time anyone snaps a photo."[8] The resulting technologies, Multimedia Messaging Service and Sha-Mail were developed parallel to and in competition to open Internet based mobile communication provided by GPRS and later 3G networks.
The closed sharing infrastructure was critical and explains the early successes of J-Phone, DoCoMo in Japan, Sprint, and other carriers worldwide.
The first commercial camera phone complete with infrastructure was the J-SH04, made by Sharp Corporation, had an integrated CCD sensor, with the Sha-Mail (Picture-Mail in Japanese) infrastructure developed in collaboration with Kahn's LightSurf venture, and marketed from 2001 by J-Phone in Japan today owned by Softbank.
The first commercial deployment in North America of camera phones was in 2004. The Sprint wireless carriers deployed over one million camera phone manufactured by Sanyo and launched by the PictureMail infrastructure (Sha-Mail in English) developed and managed by LightSurf.
Users of early camera phones were held captive by the MMS business model. While phones had internet connectivity, working web browsers and email-programs, the phone menu offered no way of including a photo in an email or uploading it to a web site. Connecting cables or removable media that would enable the local transfer of pictures were also usually missing.
Modern smartphones have more connectivity and transfer options with photograph attachment features.
Major manufacturers include Toshiba, Sharp, Nokia, Sanyo, Samsung, Motorola, Siemens, Sony Mobile, and LG Electronics. Resolution is typically in the range of one tenth to one half as many megapixels as contemporary low end compact digital cameras.[citation needed]
Major manufacturers of cameras for phones include Toshiba, ST Micro, Sharp, Omnivision, and Aptina.[citation needed]
External camera
During 2003 as camera phones were gaining popularity in Europe some phones without cameras had support for MMS and external cameras that could be connected with a small cable or directly to the data port at the base of the phone. The external cameras were comparable in quality to those fitted on regular camera phones at the time, typically offering VGA resolution.
Social impact
Personal photography allows people to capture and construct personal and group memory, maintain social relationships as well as expressing their identity.[16] The hundreds of millions[17] of camera phones sold every year provide the same opportunities, yet these functions are altered and allow for a different user experience. As mobile phones are constantly carried, camera phones allow for capturing moments at any time. Mobile communication also allows for immediate transmission of content (for example via Multimedia Messaging Services), which cannot be reversed or regulated.
While phones have been found useful by tourists and for other common civilian purposes, as they are cheap, convenient, and portable; they have also posed controversy, as they enable secret photography. A user may pretend to be simply talking on the phone or browsing the internet, drawing no suspicion while photographing a person or place in non-public areas where photography is restricted, or perform photography against that person's wishes. At the same time, camera phones have enabled every citizen to exercise her or his freedom of speech by being able to quickly communicate to others what she or he has seen with their own eyes. In most democratic free countries, there are no restrictions against photography in public and thus camera phones enable new forms of citizen journalism, fine art photography, and recording one's life experiences for facebooking or blogging.
Camera phones have also been very useful to street photographers and social documentary photographers as they enable them to take pictures of strangers in the street without them noticing, thus allowing the artist/photographer to get close to her or his subjects and take more liveful photos.[18] While most people are suspect of secret photography, artists who do street photography (like Henri Cartier-Bresson did), photojournalists and photographers documenting people in public (like the photographers who documented the Great Depression in 1930s America) must often work unnoticed as ther subjects are often unwilling to be photographed or are not aware of legitimate uses of secret photography like those photos that end up in fine art galleries and journalism.
As a network-connected device, megapixel camera phones are playing significant roles in crime prevention, journalism and business applications as well as individual uses. They can also be used for activities such as voyeurism, invasion of privacy (even though in most countries there are no laws granting a right to privacy in public spaces), and copyright infringement (even though in America and most other free democratic countries just snapping a pic of a copyrighted work with a camera phone and facebooking it for criticism would be classified as fair use and therefore fully legal). Because they can be used to share media almost immediately, they are a potent personal content creation tool. On January 17, 2007, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a plan to encourage people to use their camera-phones to capture crimes happening in progress or dangerous situations and send them to emergency responders. Through the program, people will be able to send their images or video directly to 911.[19]
Enforcing bans on camera phones has proven nearly impossible. They are small and numerous and their use is easy to hide or disguise, making it hard for law enforcement and security personnel to detect or stop use. Total bans on camera phones would also raise questions about freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, since camera phone ban would prevent a citizen or a journalist (or a citizen journalist) from communicating to others a newsworthy event that could be captured with a camera phone.
From time to time, organizations and places have prohibited or restricted the use of camera phones and other cameras because of the privacy, security, and copyright issues they pose. Such places include the Pentagon, federal and state courts,[20] museums, schools, theaters, and local fitness clubs. Saudi Arabia, in April 2004, banned the sale of camera phones nationwide for a time before reallowing their sale in December 2004 (although pilgrims on the Hajj were allowed to bring in camera phones). There is the occasional anecdote of camera phones linked to industrial espionage and the activities of paparazzi (which are legal but often controversial), as well as some hacking into wireless operators' network.
Camera phones have also been used to discreetly take photographs in museums, performance halls, and other places where photography is prohibited. However, as sharing can be instantaneous, even if the action is discovered, it is too late, as the image is already out of reach, unlike a photo taken by a digital camera that only stores images locally for later transfer (however, as the newer digital cameras support Wi-Fi, a photographer can perform photography with a DSLR and instantly post the photo on the internet through the mobile phone's Wi-Fi and 3G capabilities).
In Ireland the annual "RTE 60 second short award" was won by 15-year-old Laura Gaynor, who made her winning cartoon,"Piece of Cake" on her Sony Ericsson C510 camera phone.
In 2012, Director/writer Eddie Brown Jr, made the reality thriller "Camera Phone" which is one of the first commercial produced movies using camera phones as the story's prospective. The film is a reenactment of an actual case and they changed the names to protect those involved.
Some modern camera phones (in 2013-2014) have big sensors, thus allowing a street photographer or any other kind of photographer to take photos of similar quality to a semi-pro camera.
Apart from street photographers and social documentary photographers or cinematographers, camera phones have also been used successfully by war photographers.[21] The small size of the camera phone allows a war photographer to secretly film the men and women who fight in a war, without them realizing that they have been photographed, thus the camera phone allows the war photographer to document wars while maintaining her or his safety.
Notable events involving camera phones
- The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was the first global news event where the majority of the first day news footage was no longer provided by professional news crews, but rather by citizen journalists, using primarily camera phones.
- On November 17, 2006, during a performance at the Laugh Factory comedy club, comedian Michael Richards was recorded responding to hecklers with racial slurs by a member of the audience using a camera phone. The video was widely circulated in television and internet news broadcasts.
- On December 30, 2006, the execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was recorded by a video camera phone, and made widely available on the Internet. A guard was arrested a few days later.[22]
- Camera phone video and photographs taken in the immediate aftermath of the 7 July 2005 London bombings were featured worldwide. CNN executive Jonathan Klein predicts camera phone footage will be increasingly used by news organizations.
- Camera phone digital images helped to spread the 2009 Iranian election protests.
- Camera phones recorded the BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant.
Camera as an interaction device
The cameras of smartphones are used as input devices in numerous research projects and commercial applications. A commercially successful example is the use of QR Codes attached to physical objects. QR Codes can be sensed by the phone using its camera and provide an according link to related digital content, usually a URL. Another approach is using camera images to recognize objects. Content-based image analysis is used to recognize physical objects such as advertisement posters[23] to provide information about the object. Hybrid approaches use a combination of unobstrusive visual markers and image analysis. An example is to estimate the pose of the camera phone to create a real-time overlay for a 3D paper globe.[24] On recent camera phones it is even feasible to provide an augmented reality overlay for 2D objects[25] and to recognize multiple objects on the phone using a stripped down object recognition algorithm[26] as well as using GPS and compass. Auto-geotagging can show where a picture is taken, promoting interactions and allowing a photo to be mapped with others for comparison.
Besides the usual back camera, some phones have a front camera facing the user for purposes including videoconferencing and self-portraiture.[27]
Camera phones, or more specifically, widespread use of such phones as cameras by the general public, has increased exposure to laws relating to public and private photography. The laws that relate to other types of cameras also apply to camera phones. There are no special laws for camera phones.
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What is a Bachelor's Program in Hospitality Management?
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- They focus on the real-world needs of the hospitality industry, including standards for food service and quality control.
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- They prepare students by enriching their communication skills, making them more effective at both management and customer service.
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What Kind of Career Can You Expect With a Bachelor's in Hospitality Management?
Hospitality management graduates typically expect to work in either food service or the hotel industry. The degree is ultimately useful in any role in the industry up to general management of an entire hotel. For those interested in moving beyond the management of a single location, it leads easily to a Master's in Business Administration, which rounds out the skills needed to run larger-scale operations, and for many graduates, the eventual pursuit of that degree is a goal.
On their own, Bachelor's degree programs in Hospitality Management often lead students directly to supervisory jobs in the industry. Their understanding of the business's process and needs makes them an ideal fit for that kind of direct placement in any department, from overall hotel management to guest services or even the kitchen.
Many graduates also view this degree as an entrepreneurial opportunity, using the skills acquired during their course of study to start their own ventures. In addition to hotel and motel management, graduates find themselves well-positioned to run bed and breakfast operations, pubs, taverns and bars, and restaurants. Bachelor's degree programs in Hospitality Management are designed to give their students the edge they need to compete, even as owner of an independent company.
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Piece of the Whole/
One of the creative techniques I use is to only show a portion of the whole subject. Sometimes when you show the entire subject a photo can come across as too representative, or documentary. Going for a tighter shot can produce a more creatively pleasing image. This concept works with all types of subjects. Showing just a piece of the subject can add a sense of mystery, as well as make a particular element pop out and grab the viewer's attention. I frequently take this approach with flower photography. The composition above pushes your attention into the center, making the stamen the subject and flower petals the backdrop.
What if I had just shot the entire flower? Well it would look something like this:
Keep in mind this is just a test shot, so if was really shooting a whole subject composition, I suppose it would have come out a bit better! But you get the idea. There is a very different reaction to the whole flower vs. the tight shot.
Oh, and one more tip - watch your focusing with close-ups like these. A little shift in the placement of the focus can really help or hurt your image. Take a look at this next photo - same composition as the first image, but with the focus on the back stamen the photo is not a keeper (but does make a great teaching example).


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The crowd at America's airports has only begun to form. By 1993, it will have mushroomed into a formidable problem for transportation planners. ''Just close your eyes and imagine an airport you've used as a private citizen and think about twice as many people trying to use the facility,'' says Bill Parsons, chief program engineer in airport-aircraft compatibility for McDonnell Douglas. By 1995, ''I think you're going to find that we're looking at operating up to capacity (in many airports).''
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) estimates the number of passengers traveling each year will rise from the current 253 million to 465.3 million by 1993. The main reason, says Gene Mercer, chief of the FAA forecasting branch, is that more people, already accustomed to flying longer distances, prefer air travel over other forms of transportation for shorter trips as well.
The anticipated increase continues a historical growth trend at a slightly slower rate. However, it comes at a time when many observers say few, if any, new airports will be built.
''I would be surprised as a general rule if we are going to see any new airports in the next 10 to 20 years,'' says Ted McCagg, director of airport services for TRA, a Seattle-based design firm. Environmental constraints and higher costs make the building of new airports difficult, he says. ''If the traffic is going to increase in the next 10-year time frame, that increase is going to have to be handled at the airports of the present time.''
Already facing crowded facilities at some major airports, airlines have little option but to speed the pace at which passengers move through terminals. But in the airlines' quest for greater efficiency, a combination of competition and airport overcrowding could force them to slash some types of passenger services to a minimum. One possible result: passengers doing for themselves what the airlines currently do for them, such as carrying their luggage onto the airplane.
''There are a lot of ways you can reduce passenger handling,'' Mr. Mercer says. ''But you're stuck physically with a lot more people using the terminals.''
Not surprisingly, many airlines say they can handle the expected increase - and they offer various solutions to the crowding problem. But while these measures may ease the overcrowded situation for the airlines, they may be inconvenient for passengers, experts suggest.
Among suggested solutions:
* Adding new facilities to existing airports.
This is already being done at many airports, such as Chicago's O'Hare Field. There, an additional terminal building and a people-mover system are planned. The people-mover system (a moving sidewalk), experts say, will become more popular at large airports as a way to link satellite terminals. The satellite concept, which spreads terminal buildings farther apart and places them closer to the runways, has been used with apparent success at Atlanta International Airport. The less distance an airplane has to taxi, the less fuel it consumes.
But many airports, hemmed in by surrounding suburbs, cannot expand. And those that can expand may reduce airline fuel costs at the expense of passengers, who have to travel farther within the airport to board their plane.
''The airlines are so concerned about the short-term improvement of fuel conservation and (are) beginning to forget about passenger convenience,'' says James A. Meehan, associate vice-president of airport planning for Reynolds, Smith, and Hills, an architectural firm in Jacksonville, Fla.
* Increasing the use in major hubs of smaller surrounding airports.
This solution has been tried in several major hubs, such as New York, Chicago , Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., with varying degrees of success. The system seems to work relatively well if the airport is the point of origin or the final destination. Critics point out, however, that transfer passengers forced to change airports as well as airplanes face a major inconvenience.
* Spreading airline schedules.
Scheduling more flights in the morning and late at night could alleviate pressure on the peak period of the day, suggests Walter Ericksen, a Lockheed staff engineer in airport compatibility. But passengers, who seem to prefer flying from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., may have to change their ways.
The spreading schedules already are beginning, says Bruce Cunningham, vice-president of planning for New York Air. ''You notice a lot more flights scheduled at 7 o'clock in the morning.''
And the time may come when passengers flying during daily peak periods will have to pay a premium, suggests Mr. McCagg of TRA.
* Speeding up airline ticketing.
At Cleveland's Hopkins International Airport, United Airlines is experimenting with an automatic ticket vendor that sells the airline's Friendship Express. The express service is one way the airline is trying to cut costs by loading and unloading the aircraft as quickly as possible in order to reduce the time it spends on the ground.
New York Air, meanwhile, is using preprinted tickets to reduce costs and employee time spent writing out each ticket by hand. ''Our transaction time is a matter of seconds,'' Mr. Cunningham says. To further reduce costs, the tickets are collected on board the airplane by a flight attendant.
* Reducing baggage handling.
New York Air is also cutting corners by having passengers carry their own baggage onto the airplane. Other cut-rate airlines have gone further by charging passengers for each piece of luggage they bring on. ''Charging for them would make people far more conscious of what they bring,'' Mr. Cunningham says, an incentive that could reduce the total amount of luggage on each flight.
As yet, on-board ticketing and passenger-handled baggage are only being used by the cut-rate airlines. But Cunningham sees the day when all airlines will cut as many corners as possible to keep up with the competition. ''I think they will have to at some point,'' he says.
However, experts say air travel will remain essentially the same at least until 1995. And airline passengers until then may have to put up with what one observer calls ''an acceptable level of inconvenience.'' It may not be Cloud Nine, but these short-term adjustments by airlines may at least keep airline passengers in the air.


text: If you missed the Forsyth County Drug Summit in February, you really missed an informative event. Our Sheriff's Department did a fantastic job describing what to look for in a child that may be experimenting with drugs, and had drugs on hand for parents to view as well as paraphernalia. There was additional information on signs for parents to look for, which kids may be more likely to use and a great testimonial from Ryan Stringfield, who is in recovery and now works on prevention programs in schools throughout North Atlanta. You can view the entire event on you tube. Stay tuned for what the Forsyth County Drug Awareness Council is working on next!


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AARON PANONE IS A DESIGNER AND ENGINEER specializing in mechanical design and creative solutions. Aaron is big on quality, local, and small. All of his products are proudly manufactured in the USA. This site contains select featured works.
Aaron is a co-founder and member of Fringe in Somerville, Massachusetts.
A simple flat pattern sheetmetal chainguard design that can be adapted to a variety of different bicycle geometries. Milled from aluminum sheet stock and formed by hand. First appeared on the 2011 Geekhouse Bikes Oregon Manifest entry. Shown here on a 2012 NAHBS bike. Available on select models from Geekhouse Bikes.
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NOTD: Thanksgiving ACORNing to A Craft & A Half
Hope everyone has a wonderful and festive thanksgiving holiday!
I created these acorn inspired nails today using all acrylic paints and the trending bare nail.
Products used:
Tan/White/Chestnut acrylic paint
Dotting tools
Small thin nail art brush (DIY)
Thanks for the lookie loos


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Every Sunday I share a little about making money by doing something you love. This week Matt writes that he and his wife both earn money from their hobbies. He likes to build websites, but his wife does something more original:
We realized that nearly anything we do for fun — because we're the kind of people that like making stuff — can be used to earn a little extra income.
My wife's current project is The Novel Novel, a side business where she sells totally unique, one-of-a-kind buttons using found materials. She also makes handbound blank journals from discarded library books.
She bought the machine for fun, because she loves making small gifts for friends, family, and herself. But she's used the proceeds from The Novel Novel to pay for the purchase of a really nice, high-quality button making machine, as well as funding all her other crafty endeavors.
This is exactly the sort of thing I mean when I talk about learning to make money from your hobbies. As I've said before, it's unlikely that your hobby will make you rich, but it can provide a way to earn some spare cash while enjoying a pleasant pastime.
Do you have a money-making hobby? Write it up and drop me a line! Tell me what you do and how you learned to do it.


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Gyprock has launched its new website in a contemporary and colourful new design. Boasting increased content, improved functionality and a brand new look and feel gyprock.com.au provides the most up to date information available to the Australian plasterboard industry.
Product categories have been optimised and include live datasheet functionality. These are maintained by the Gyprock product managers and are the most current and comprehensive guides in the industry.
Gyprock Design & Installation Guides can be accessed online, offering design and system advice for hospital, aged care and multi-res projects from its vast portfolio of proven solutions.
Key features include:
Materialised with expertise, the improved user-friendly experience and streamlined navigation of gyprock.com.au provides users with an efficient and thorough gateway to their entire Gyprock world.


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Hillary Supporters: People Have to Die "There Will Be Casualties on Both Sides" (VIDEO)
Leftists, Communists, Hillary Supporters, #BlackLivesMatter and illegal aliens marched in several US cities last night after Donald Trump won the 2016 election on Tuesday.
The protesters were carrying Mexican flags in Chicago.
Via Andrew Marcus
One Hillary supporter in California said people will die in the upcoming revolution against Trump.
"There will be casualties on both sides."
Will the corrupt media condemn Hillary and Obama for this violent rhetoric?
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At a friend's tanning room Violet Starr gets more than a nice tan. Since noone is around she takes advantage to tan naked and even masturbate while doing it. Ramon takes out his big dick while staring at this sexy brunette masturbating. Violet could use some big dick for her wet pussy while Ramon needs bribing to not tell anyone about what she was doing.


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This is available for Pre-Order and has free shipping to home.
Cars 2 is available at Walmart for $31.96 in the Blu-ray and DVD bundle.
The Holidays will be here before we know it. Getting all your shopping done early is a great way to relieve some of the stress the Holidays can cause. One great gift that does not cost an arm and a leg is a movie. A great rated G movie the entire family can enjoy together is Cars 2. A fun filled movie with action at every turn.
Starring your old favorites Larry the Cable Guy, Owen Wilson, Michael Caine and more Cars 2 is a great follow up to Cars the original box office sensation. From the creators of "Cars" "Up" and "Toy Story 3" comes a new Pixar classic for the entire family. Star racecar Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and the incomparable tow truck Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) take their friendship to exciting new places when they head overseas to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix to determine the world's fastest car. But the road to the championship is filled with plenty of potholes, detours, and hilarious surprises when Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage! Experience all the fast-paced fun with an "all-car" cast - plus enjoy the hilarious, never-before-seen short film "Air Mater." It's pedal-to-the-metal excitement from start to finish! This is a great gift idea for the holidays. It will save you time and money to get your shopping done early so pre-order yours today for someone special in your life.
Cars 2 is available at Walmart for $31.96 as Blu-ray and DVD bundle. Other Cars 2 packages are on sale as well.
Find more Holiday 2011 Gift ideas in our huge Holiday Gift Guide for 2011. We will continuously add new hot gift tips until Christmas in our Holiday Gift Guide hub. Make sure to also check out our Black Friday 2011 Hub for the best deals during the Holiday Shopping Season.


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Featured Game for December 2017
Pinball Construction Set is a game/development kit which allows users to build their own pinball games for the Apple II. This was the first in a line of various "construction sets" and "arcade machines" to be released for the platform. To build a pinball machine the user is given a blank table and a set of fairly simple tools and a set of objects found in a pinball machine. While creating a table is easy, creating a good one could be rather hard, but with a little patience and a fair amount of creativity you could create a cool machine. Some people did... me.. meh not so much.
Read the rest here ---> Pinball Construction Set
== Looking for the ASIMOV Incoming Folder Watch or ASIMOV Archive Uploads
June 10, 2017 - Lordy Lordy the Apple // is 40. Happy 40th Birthday Apple //
Apple ][ games is a wiki dedicated to old school 8 bit Apple ][ computers games. The Apple 2 series of computers dominated the American home computing market during the 1980's and early 1990's. From it's initial launch in 1977 to it's final manufacturing run, Apple computer sold millions of these machines. Practically every school in the country had an Apple 2 and it was the one with a ton of games, too.
A vast majority of the videos (except for the Castle Wolfenstein walk through which I did the first time I sat down with the video screen cap and AppleWin) you'll find on this site come from "Old Classic Retro Gaming" a YouTube user you should subscribe to. This is his channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/oldclassicgame and "Retro games history museum" here's their channel http://www.youtube.com/user/Highretrogamelord89
It wasn't until the Macintosh & Windows appeared on the market that the Apple 2 started to drop in popularity. Today, there's still thousands of Apple 2 computers out there in the wild and, on any given day, several can be found on eBay or Craigs List. There is still a very strong and thriving programming community and several great emulators available. Heck someone even created a video for the rock band Granddaddy using an Apple 2e
== January 2, 2016... Asimov archive up again... Spent a few hours remuxing the API code for the scripts to post back & froth only to find that the USER name that I had created to replace the one I had deleted a few months ago (I guess back in July) had a TYPO in it. Yeah.. so it's back up and running.
First new write up will be for the Wizard and the Princess since the kids have been playing this again.
== December 31, 2016... Asimov archive down again...
After upgrading Wikimedia (the software behind Apple II Games) the API broke. Then in a total stupid WTF did I do that I deleted the API user account used for posting. Basically I had over 80,000 spam accounts that have been created and trying to post crap on the site so I just said "delete from users where ID >1" well API user was #2 doh! Anyhow... Wikimedia has once again changed some of the API calls and I've got to spend some time redoing it. I'm writing this on a Chromebook so have no editing ability (that i know of)
So resolutions for 2017...
- Write up and post at least one new game a week. If 4am can recrack three to 70 a week I can take the time to run & write up one a week.
- Find a new power supply for the Apple IIe that died on me.
- Find a new work space for the machine since my son moved a Wii to it's old location (once said computer died)
- Use 4am's Passport to crack all the originals that I have.
- Restart a userforum
Site Updates 2014-06-08 Woot Woot! We're Mobile now with our new Mobile Aware WikiMedia Skin. :) We're mobile now if you care to browse the web with your cell phone or table. Hopefully the site is looking better now with this update :)
== Holy Crap I've let this site go for the past year!!! AND so much has happened!!! == Two words... Gumball 4AM
== ASIMOV Archive Updates ==
2014-05-31 Having as much data as Asimov does it was a real temptation to slice & dice it and generate a few stats & charts. So what better thing to do on a beautiful sunny day in Cleveland than parse some data. Asimov Apple 2 Archive Stats Favorite chart out of this little project is the word cloud... CRACK
2014-05-30 Was able to carve out enough time to totally rewrite the Asimov archive watch. It is now based of FTP code rather than pulling & parsing the daily index. As such I have been able to parse the whole archive and get a historical view of all uploads... plus as new things come online they'll first show up in the incoming folder & incoming page (ASIMOV Incoming Folder Watch) and then when they're moved to the final path they'll show up here ASIMOV Archive Uploads
2014-05-26 (Last couple hours of memorial day) I've been able to rewrite the code to get past the firewall issue. Also have created a new ASIMOV Incoming Folder Watch page which doesn't have links to download but watches what is being uploading. Hope to have the old Asimov Update page back up ... but with a bit more detail in dates & without all the duplicates.
2014-05-25 Came to my attention today that outgoing connects from our server are being fire walled so Asimov updates haven't been updated since mid April. I'm working on a new solution now.
I've created a bot which will parse the ASIMOV archive index file and post any changes that it finds on this page ASIMOV Updates Currently the bot does it's magic every few hours and creates a section for each day. In this section will be the direct links to the new files that have been uploaded OR changed. The bot spotted a huge number of files on ASIMOV that had been changed. Looks like someone Gunzipped 800+ files.
Apple // in Javascript http://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2/ Awesome emulator done all in JavaScript with a bunch of games and other assorted images. Runs much better than the one on archive.org
cAndy Apple Attention: Do NOT download if you are not interested in 1985-era emulation.
An Apple //e emulator. Release 1.64 (Mar 7, 2012 5:07 AM)
Relive the early Eighties with a shiny Apple //e and a stack of diskettes! Attention: Do NOT download if you are not interested in 1985-era emulation. An Apple //e emulator. Release 1.65 Note: Soft keyboard for devices with no hardware keyboard. Draw an 'S' on the main screen for soft keyboard. Suggestions: firstname.lastname@example.com For support, visit the cAndy Apple Users Group on Google Groups
cAndy Apple is an Apple 2e emulator for your Droid phone. Currently it's the best one in the Droid market place and uses the same source code as AppleWin does. It's been able to faithly emulate pretty much all DSKs that I've downloaded from Asimov including the Sierra graphic adventures which I've taken to playing again. One set of games that it has trouble with due to disk speed issues is the Ultima series. I've tried several times to build a character in Ultima 1 enhanced only to have it fail (Ultima that is) due to disk speed issues. I have the same problem with AppleWin with disk read access set to high. I was able to create a character disk on my PC and copy it over and have been playing since. Saving is another issue.... but if you're simply playing Hard Hat Mac or Sneakers then that won't really be an issue.
More info about cAndy apple can be found here.
http://groups.google.com/group/candy-apple-user-group Load it onto your Droid device by going to Google Play & searching for Candy Apple or directly to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zerohoh.candyapple&hl=en
October 6,2016 :: AppleWin v126.96.36.199 has been released. New releases are now being tracked on GitHub (https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin)
If you simply want to download the executable files for Windows (note it works on Linux with Wine which I'm using) Visit https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin/releases to download the newest version.
If you're here, you are more than likely familiar with the Apple 2 computer. Apple hasn't produced this machine in over 20 years, but there is still a large user community supporting the machine. However, if the Apple 2 is all new to you and the only thing Apple has produced that you know of is an iPod, then check out the Apple 2 Emulators page. With one of these fine emulators you can bring the Apple 2 experience to your modern day machine.
From there, check out the games pages. See why some old-time gamers still think this was one of the best computers for gaming. I can play Apple Panic or Hard Hat Mack for a few days; yet can't play any of the new cutting edge 3d shooters for more than a few minutes without getting bored.
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- Board Games
- Fantasy & Role Playing
- Gambling & Card Games
- Miscellaneous
- Personal Entertainment
- Puzzle & Strategy
- Shoot-em-up
- Category:Sports Games
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Coming up next on 3 May is Deployment with the Microsoft Desktop Optimisaton Pack (MDOP). We will help you understand how MDOP helps Windows 7 deployment and management with practical uses. Sign up here.
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humanism, philosophical and literary movement in which man and his capabilities are the central concern. The term was originally restricted to a point of view prevalent among thinkers in the Renaissance. The distinctive characteristics of Renaissance humanism were its emphasis on classical studies, or the humanities, and a conscious return to classical ideals and forms. The movement led to a restudy of the Scriptures and gave impetus to the Reformation. The term humanist is applied to such diverse men as Giovanni Boccaccio, Petrarch, Lorenzo Valla, Lorenzo de' Medici, Erasmus, and Thomas More. In the 20th cent., F. C. S. Schiller and Irving Babbitt applied the term to their own thought. Modern usage of the term has had diverse meanings, but some contemporary emphases are on lasting human values, cultivation of the classics, and respect for scientific knowledge.
See M. Hadas, Humanism: The Greek Ideal and Its Survival (1960, repr. 1972) and The Living Tradition (1966) J. Maritain, Integral Humanism (tr. 1968, repr. 1973) R. W. Southern, Medieval Humanism (1971).
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Give your tree a little touch of handmade so it's one of a kind! The Snowflake Ornament is hand painted. The under layer is a three tier of plum, lavender and white with silver snowflakes! It's appx. 4.5″ in diameter! Different colors are available to you! Each ornament is custom made, so please allow time for creation!


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Biomass for Renewable Energy, Fuels, and Chemicals
1st Edition
Biomass for Renewable Energy, Fuels, and Chemicals serves as a comprehensive introduction to the subject for the student and educator, and is useful for researchers who are interested in the technical details of biomass energy production. The coverage and discussion are multidisciplinary, reflecting the many scientific and engineering disciplines involved. The book will appeal to a broad range of energy professionals and specialists, farmers and foresters who are searching for methods of selecting, growing, and converting energy crops, entrepreneurs who are commercializing biomass energy projects, and those involved in designing solid and liquid waste disposal-energy recovery systems.
Key Features
- Presents a graduated treatment from basic principles to the details of specific technologies
- Includes a critical analysis of many biomass energy research and commercialization activities
- Proposes several new technical approaches to improve efficiencies, net energy production, and economics
- Reviews failed projects, as well as successes, and methods for overcoming barriers to commercialization
- Written by a leader in the field with 40 years of educational, research, and commercialization experience
Upper-division undergraduate and graduate students in chemical engineering and environmental science, energy professionals such as utility engineers and forestry personnel, business persons, government staffers, and policy-makers
Table of Contents
Preface. Energy Consumption, Reserves, Depletion, Environmental Issues. Biomass as an Energy Resource: Concept and Markets. Photosynthesis of Biomass and Its Conversion-Related Properties. Virgin Biomass Production. Waste Biomass Abundance, Energy Potential, and Availability. Physical Conversion Processes. Thermal Coversion: Combustion. Thermal Conversion: Pyrolysis and Liquefaction. Thermal Converstion: Gasification. Natural Biochemical Liquefaction. Synthetic Oxygenated Liquid Fuels. Microbial Conversion: Gasification. Organic Commodity Chemicals from Biomass. Integrated Biomass ProductionConversion Systems and Net Energy Production. Epilogue. Appendices. Subject Index.
- No. of pages:
- 651
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Academic Press 1998
- Published:
- 25th June 1998
- Imprint:
- Academic Press
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780080528052
- Hardcover ISBN:
- 9780124109506
About the Author
Donald Klass
Dr. Donald L. Klass is the author or co-author of over 300 papers and patents and the editor of 27 books in the field of energy and the environment. He received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of Illinois, and his A.M. and Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Harvard University. Dr. Klass has managed research and educational programs for the Institute of Gas Technology and the petroleum industry. Currently, he is the Research Director for Entech International, Inc., President of the Biomass Energy Research Association, a member of several research advisory boards and business development committees, and a consultant to industry and government, both U.S. and foreign.
Affiliations and Expertise
Entech International, Inc., Barrington, Illinois, U.S.A.
"It is extremely thorough, detailed, and well documented. Topics are explained in great detail. The book stands as one of the best published on the subject in recent times. It can be used by the professional or student alike, since the in-depth treatment of principles and practices allow information retrieval at different levels of complexity. It is a good techincal reference and will serve as an important textbook for many years." --JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, March-April 2000
"This book provides an excellent and worthwhile text for anyone with an interest in practical ways to secure our future energy supplies." --BIOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE
"This book will be useful to a wide range of teachers and lecturers. Those working in schools and colleges will find it a treasure store of useful information to enliven their teaching, especially as there are very useful figures and tables. Those working at a higher level will appreciate the rigorous nature of the work along with the extensive list of references." --CHEMISTRY IN BRITAIN, May 1999
"Klass offers a very thotough analysis of the need for biomass fuels, their production and use. It is a superb resource with an impressive review of the potential of many crops and resources to serve energy needs....a resource to be widely used and appreciated. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals; two-year technical program students." --CHOICE, 1999
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1. iPod and friends: MP3 players line shelves in U.S.
2. Bloggers bop CBS: Pajama-clad news hounds pound big networks.
3. Google s here: Google makes initial public offering in August.
4. Big game sequels: Halo 2, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
5. XP SP 2 arrives: Long-awaited patch for Microsoft s XP operating system arrived.
6. Big Blue: IBM sells its Personal Computer Division to Chinese group.
7. Browser battles: The rise of Firefox.
8. Spyware: New applications log keystrokes, steal screen grabs.
9. RFID, biometrics, ID chips: Chips are in everything.
10. Phishing: Rise in sophisticated e-mails designed to steal personal data.
With impressive 3D rendered graphics, Nintendo DS delivers cutting-edge portable gaming for all your favorite Game Boy Advance titles in single-player mode. Nintendo continues to supply stores with the dual-screened Nintendo DS, which features a touch screen, voice recognition and wireless capabilities. Nintendo DS was described by The Wall Street Journal as this year s must-buy item. Holiday shoppers snapped up 1 million Nintendo DS systems in North America in a month. The half dozen DS that trickled into the Monroe Street GameStop on Monday were gone by the end of the day. Why is DS cool? Wireless communication for real-time multiplayer gameplay, PictoChat software to draw, write and send messages wirelessly, two LCD screens, and built-in microphone port await Super Mario 64 DS or Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt.
You can play games, shop and find love on the Internet. So why not sniff your favorite fragrance as well? A new service being tested by Japan s NTT Communications sends data that trigger the release of one of 36 scents blends of natural oils, such as eucalyptus, sandalwood and basil. A test version functions as a horoscope reading. Punch your birthday into the computer, and different data for the scents are relayed over the Net to an attached device that resembles a crystal ball with a strawlike nozzle. Depending on your horoscope sign you might get a waft of chamomile, lavender, clary sage or lemongrass. The machines and software were developed by Mirapro.
The Razer Diamondback ($60), declared the house mouse for the 2004 World Cyber Games, tracks 1,600 dots per inch, helping plot points with twice the accuracy of most others. The mouse also processes information quickly, with a 16-bit transfer rate, compared with common 8- and 12-bit controllers. A gold-plated USB connector aids in carrying data between mouse and computer smoothly. Included software can tone down the highly sensitive mouse and customize the seven buttons. Playing a first-person shooter like Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the side buttons helped speed weapons switches instead of going to the keyboard, and a non-stick coating helps grip during long sessions. The mouse comes in Salamander red and Chameleon green with an illuminated scroll button.
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Variety notes that scorching hot actress Sanaa Lathan has been cast as "explorer-adventuress Lex Kline who leads an expedition to Antarctica to uncover warring alien races."
First off, Action-Figure.com has the first look at Hellboy 18″ figures (in order to commemorate their 10,000th article, gratz guys). Second, Countingdown.com checked in on the Hellsite Message Boards for more updates from web-savvy director Guillermo del Toro, who noted that the first trailer of the still-being-edited film will likely be attached to Tom Cruise's "The Last Samurai," opening December 5th. Teaser posters will be in theatres in November, character banners in December, and the long-awaited Drew Struzan poster will hit the eyeballs of fans everywhere in January. The Hellsite will also get all decked out for Halloween (and del Toro advises checking it on Friday). Hellboy's fighting still will allegedly evolve through the movie, and he won't win every battle. Finally, the DVD is planned to be 2.5 disks chock full of goodies.
Thanks to reader "Egon," who emailed in to say "a friend of mine who's close with the James Cameron camp told me that production on the Battle Angel movie is going to go into production early next year. Probably January."
Brendan Fraser told USA Weekend that he's debating taking on the role of the Last Son of Krypton, but worries that he'll forever be locked into being perceived as that character. Also, Moviehole dug through the morass at About.com for this nugget from proposed director McG: "I'm a big fan of Superman, and you know, I'm discussing it with Warner Brothers, but it's still very uncertain. It's a big project and they're being very cautious, and I'm being very cautious and it's yet to be seen if it's in the cards." When asked why so many false starts, he replied, "I have no idea. I think they want to be very respectful of the crown jewel of all their franchises. It's a great character. And I think everybody who would ever be a part of that type of picture wants to get it done properly. So I don't think they're in any rush to make that picture, and I think their focus is on doing it right and, you know, maybe it'll be in the cards, maybe it won't." Grammar aside, everybody near this project is playing their cards close to the vest.
Wake the kids, call the neighbors — Ain't It Cool News reports that Revolution Studios are picking up Alan Moore's superhero opus, adapted by David Hayter. Even more interesting is the rumor that John Cusack ("Identity," "Gross Pointe Blank") is slated to play Dan/Nite-Owl.
The prolific TV and comic book scribe will be at the LA Comic Book Sci-Fi Con in December, according to Countingdown.com. He'll be hawking the new Firefly DVD, but chances are he'll be willing to talk about his other TV and comic book projects as well. In Whedon-related news, Comics Continuum reports that "Tick" creator Ben Edlund writes the "Angel" episode for this week, "Life of the Party," and has a brief description of episodes for the next two weeks.
Yahoo! Movies tells us that John Michael Higgins ("Best in Show"), James Remar ("2 Fast 2 Furious") and Natasha Lyonne ("American Pie") have been confirmed as cast members for the blood-drenched sequel.
Of course our dear friends at Kryptonsite are keeping busy. They have a spoiler-laden description of this season's seventh episode "Magnetic," an interview with writer Mark Verheiden, and five new photos from the episode "Extinction" are available.
Filmrot.com cribbed an image from Wizard Magazine, a proposed sketch of the cinematic Lord of Latveria, everybody's favorite guy, Victor Von Doom. It's … different …
Superherohype.com chimes in with rumors about the web-spinning sequel, including a song by Dolores O'Riordan for the soundtrack (the Comic Reel is often written to the sounds of the Cranberries, FYI) and some idea of the backdrop for Spidey and Doc Ock's final battle.
Superherohype also takes note of a somewhat questionable and wholly unconfirmed rumor that there is a MOTU movie in the works and that hottie du jour Jennifer Garner ("Alias," "Catch Me If You Can") is up for the role of She-Ra (whereas many would believe she looks much more like Teela). Superherohype goes on to partially debunk the rumor, by noting Garner's full development slate with the "Elektra" film due during her hiatus from her ABC thriller.
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