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4 Awesome Visual Search Engines To Transform Your Search
Microsoft's Bing recently introduced visual search as a different approach to search. I always use regular Google or Bing search for my needs, but sometimes I like to check out other search engines. Variety is the spice of life, and eye-candy is always a refreshing break!
In this article, let us look at 4 Visual Search Engines that provide a unique and enjoyable search experience.
Bing Visual Search Engine
Bing has introduced a new approach to its visual search by letting you browse topic-specific galleries and narrow the field of your search by selecting filters.
In this approach, you do not need to type anything to start searching. To use the Bing Visual Search Engine, you should have installed Silverlight and set your country to US. From the home page, you can see a set of featured galleries, or choose from different categories like Entertainment, Famous People, Reference, Shopping and Sports.
When you select a gallery, you get an eye-popping display of choices, which you can filter using categories on the left. For example, if I choose Popular Books, I get a nice array of books like in a real bookstore. I can sort books by Title, Author, Sales, or even Length. On the left, I can narrow the results by choosing a sub-category or filter. In this case, subcategories for books are Newest, or the Top pre-order/fiction/non-fiction/paperback lists.
I can also use filters to narrow the results for what I might find suitable for my taste: the subject, author, format (hardcover, etc.), and length in pages. Some of the galleries, like the top iPhone apps gallery for example, are especially useful and offer a unique experience. Once you use it for a while, you might think that this new feature distinguishes Bing from Google to a limited extent, as a decision-making engine.
After using Spezify, I felt we do injustice to the web by using an exclusive textual interface to search the rich multimedia of the web. Spezify works like a generic search engine, except that the results are a visual collage of media drawn from different kinds of media sources – textual links from web pages, informative links from Wikipedia, pictures from across the web, tweets with the search term, videos from YouTube, books from Amazon, and so on. You need Flash to use Spezify.
You can browse through the results matrix in both vertical and horizontal directions, and look at the pictures as well as the videos from within the search results page. The links within the tweets will take you directly to the page about that topic. Articles from the web are displayed along with the number of Diggs, which show that Spezify uses Digg to show you popular content. Terms related to the topic are displayed at the top if you wish to explore or narrow your search.
Viewzi, which runs using Flash, is the most customizable and multi-faceted visual search engine. For any search term, it offers up to 19 different ways to view the search results, and you can make any one of them your default. The types of views cover everything under the sun – web screenshots, simple text, photos, music, news, celebrity gossip, recipes, weather, etc.
Videos are fetched from Joost, YouTube, and Viddler, but cannot be played back within the results page. However, the best view is the photo tag view, in which you can explore Flickr photos of related tags just by clicking on them. You can drag the tags around whichever way you want, and the interface is quite remarkable.
We had covered SpaceTime on MakeUseOf back when it was a 3D browser. SpaceTime is now a visual search engine using Flash, which shows search results in cover-flow style. You can choose results from Google or Wikipedia, or search Images, or videos from YouTube. Again, the videos can't be played back within the search results, however the image search does look very pretty.
While you may not use these visual search engines for routine search queries, they do offer an attractive, unique experience. They can be a great way to introduce children to the richness of the web, or to encourage their curiosity in a certain topic. Even for us, they are a refreshing way to explore the web in a different way.
Last year, we also profiled TinEye which is another possibility – but this one is termed by the site as "reverse search". You upload an image to them and they will search for similarities.
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Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (WI-5) and Congressman Sean Duffy (WI-7), along with several other members of the Wisconsin delegation, sent a letter today to the House Committee on Agriculture Chairman Frank Lucas and Ranking Member Collin Peterson. The letter expresses opposition to the Dairy Market Stabilization Program (DMSP), which is included in the Dairy Security Act – part of the farm bill scheduled to be marked-up by the Committee later this month.
Congressman Sensenbrenner: "Wisconsin has more dairy farmers than any other state and milk policies have a direct effect on our state's economy and its ability to create and sustain jobs. While I support better risk management tools to hedge against losses in the dairy industry, market stabilization could negatively impact Wisconsin's ability to export milk due to the threat of an inconsistent supply. DMSP would create additional government intrusion – keeping prices artificially high, wasting government funds and stifling job growth. "We should not deter dairy farmers from producing additional milk in order to manage over-production in other areas. It is important to ensure the Agriculture Committee is aware of dairy's importance to Wisconsin and our milk producers are not unintentionally hurt by a bill intended to help American farmers." Congressman Duffy: "I have always supported passing a long term farm bill in order to give farmers the certainty they need for planning and making business decisions. Additionally, the Wisconsin dairy industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years driven primarily from exports. The controversial supply management program included in last year's farm bill would threaten that growth and Wisconsin jobs. Removing this provision will make it easier to get a farm bill passed as soon as possible, giving Wisconsin's dairy industry the best opportunity to flourish in the future." Letter to Chairman Lucas and Ranking Member Peterson |


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A number of the world's most accomplished dogs went head-to-head on Monday, competing in the most prestigious and acclaimed competition that the canine world has to offer.
That was the 136th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York City.
Across the country, meanwhile, another group of dogs competed in the first Golden Collar Awards, a newer and sillier event with, shall we say, a less illustrious pedigree. The showbiz version of a dog show may have lacked the prestige and history, but it had a lot more real housewives, of both Beverly Hills and New York.
And while we won't know Westminster's Best in Show until Tuesday night, the Golden Collar Awards announced its top dogs on Monday – and the big prize, the one for which the event seems to have been created, went to Uggie from "The Artist," to the surprise of nobody who'd been paying any kind of attention.
The Golden Collar Awards were launched, after all, by the Dog News Daily digital media and marketing company only a couple of months ago, after the canine star of "The Artist" started getting lots of attention on the awards circuit.
When the nominations were announced on Jan. 18, Uggie himself was present, along with his human costar Penelope Ann Miller.
And in those noms, the 10-year-old Jack Russell terrier nabbed two of the five nominations for Best Dog in a Theatrical Film, both for his performance as the Dog in "The Artist" and for his less-heralded role as Queenie in "Water for Elephants."
Take that, Glenn Close and Janet McTeer: Uggie can do the cross-gender thing, too!
At any rate, Uggie was named Best Dog in a Theatrical Film, and it should go without saying that he didn't win for "Water for Elephants."
Best Dog in a Foreign Film went to Koko from the Australian film "Red Dog," which may have added injury to insult for fellow nominee Laika from "Le Havre," which many Golden Collar materials insisted on calling "Le Harve."
The Best Dog in a Television Series category was won by Brigitte from the television series that always wins awards, "Modern Family."
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Best Dog in a Reality Television Series was a tie, with Hercules from "Pit Boss" and Giggy from "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" sharing the award.
(Given that the other nominees included two other "Real Housewives" dogs, one from Beverly Hills and one from New York, there may be another kind of dogfight going on in those environs before long.)
In the Best Dog in a Direct-to-DVD Film category, the two nominees from "Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2" must have split their vote, allowing Rody from "Marley & Me: The Puppy Years" to walk away with the prize.
One imagines that Blackie, Cosmo, Denver, Hummer, Ichico, Chunk, Lambchop, Millou, Jackpot, Gaston, Jason Gann and all the other losers will find a way to drown their sorrows.
The Golden Collar Awards took place at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, which used to host a lot of awards shows before its union troubles sent a few Hollywood guilds fleeing elsewhere.
Participants in the ramshackle show included Pauley Perrette from "NCIS," James Cromwell from "The Artist" and Wendy Malick from "Hot in Cleveland," who insisted upon mispronouncing Uggie's name "You-gie."
And although it raised money for rescue shelters and gave out serious awards to the absent Charlize Theron (the Golden Collar Humanitarian Award) and producer/director Michael Vance (the Golden Collar Legends Award), it mostly gave rise to a lot of tongue-in-cheek coverage that demonstrated just how silly awards season can be.
For instance, this Hollywood Reporter description of the Golden Collar trophy – "a spectacular gold and Swarovski crystal collar on a stunning paw-shaped Plexiglass [sic] holder" – is certainly the only time stunning and Plexiglas have been used in this kind of adjacency.
And the fact that protests were lodged by both Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, a hand puppet, and Antonio Banderas on behalf Puss in Boots, an animated cat, means that everybody is treating the show as somewhere between a joke and a publicity stunt.
The most amusing part of the whole Golden Collar experience was when Martin Scorsese waded into the fray with a thoroughly facetious Los Angeles Times op-ed piece lobbying for a nomination for Blackie, the dog from "Hugo."
"I have been cautioned against speaking out on this issue lest I create the appearance of churlishness," wrote Scorsese. "Well, I'm going to have to risk it … Uggie plays a nice little mascot who does tricks and saves his master's life in one of the films, while Blackie gives an uncompromising performance as a ferocious guard dog who terrorizes children …
"We have learned to accept the human antihero, but when it comes to dogs, I guess we still have a long way to go,"
The appeal worked – at least according to the Times, who reported (exclusively!) that after Scorsese's appeal and a Facebook-based petition, the Golden Collar Awards granted Blackie "a late-breaking nomination."
Well, maybe. But as a judge, I can report (exclusively!) that I never got a new ballot with Blackie's name on it, or indeed any communication from the Golden Collar people telling me that I could vote for Scorsese's Doberman antihero.
But for the record, and because I figure my vow of secrecy has lifted now that the awards have been announced: I voted for Cosmo from "Beginners," and would have done the same if Blackie had been on my ballot.
And because I follow all vital awards-season news, I was aware that Blackie was eligible.
The Golden Collar folks, by the way, made kind of a big deal out of the tie between Hercules and Giggy, with a banner headline on the Dog News Daily website and an all-caps elaboration: "FIRST TIME IN GOLDEN COLLAR HISTORY THAT THERE HAS BEEN A TIE."
The fact that this is also the first time in Golden Collar history that there has been a Golden Collar might diminish the historic nature of that tie somewhat.
But who cares about history, or churlish hair-splitting, or even that other dog show on the other side of the country?
The Westminster Kennel Club might have Martha Stewart's chow chow Ghenghis Khan, but the Golden Collar Awards had Uggie.
The top dogs:
Best Dog in a Theatrical Film: Uggie as the Dog in "The Artist"
Best Dog in a Foreign Film: Koko as Red Dog in "Red Dog"
Best Dog in a Television Series: Brigitte as Stella in "Modern Family"
Best Dog in a Reality Television Series: (tie) Hercules in "Pit Boss" and Giggy in "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills"
Best Dog in a Direct-to-DVD Film: Rody as Marley in "Marley & Me: The Puppy Years"


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However, where concern surrounds the apparent pain he appeared to be in and the fact it is the same knee he tore ligaments in just under a year ago, his Coach believes it is not a bad injury this time.
"With Viviano there seems to be nothing serious, but the doctor will surely be more accurate than me about that," briefly offered the former Roma striker on Radio Blu, before turning his attention to the game.
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One in four student homes are infested with vermin, a shocking new NUS study has revealed.
Almost two thirds (61 per cent), meanwhile, were forced to live with damp, mould or condensation in their home according to the survey, which asked nearly 3,000 students about their experiences in privately rented accommodation.
These housing issues were aggravated by financial problems, with 39 per cent reporting that they struggled with energy bills. To cope with this, two thirds resorted to wearing extra layer of clothing to bed, and 40 per cent chose to spend more time in university buildings to stay warm. And those renting from a letting agent paid an average of £400 to set up their tenancy.
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These findings come as part of an NUS campaign for proper regulation of letting agents, as well as proposing an end to letting fees.
The NUS' vice president for welfare, Colum McGuire, believes students put up with poor housing unreasonably.
He said: "Although there's a commonly held perception that poor quality student housing is a rite of passage, it is both disgusting and unacceptable that students should live in vermin infested housing in this day and age."
Morẹnikẹ Adebayo, 23, and studying at the University of York, said: "We started having issues with appliances that were advertised as part of the house. The dishwasher overflowed and shorted the house several times, causing the lightbulbs to break spontaneously at any moment.
"After repetitively trying to notify the landlady of this – she fobbed us off with excuses for five months - she has now said that the part that would need to be replaced is too costly to get so we'll just have to do without."
The NUS has created a list of recommendations for the Government to safeguard students from housing problems like these, which include banning letting agent fees and undertaking research to see whether more can be done to protect deposits.
The report suggests also that the government fund councils more to prevent and end infestations.
Housing Minister Kris Hopkins told the BBC "We have given councils £4 million to tackle the small minority of rogue landlords, and will be requiring letting agents to belong to redress schemes, so students will have somewhere to complain if they get a poor deal."
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Low temp fugus We were without heat for five days and heated the fish room with tubs filled with hot water. A multifaciatus has a very bad "cotton tuft" fungus infection on several areas. He was in a 55 gallon Tanganyikan tank with other shellies, calvus and julies. We were able to keep the tank at 65 F. A clown killie from a species ten gallon has a single bump of cotton like fungus. I don't know how low the temperature became; it is under a thirty that got down to 66 F. The shellie is in a two gallon being treated with paraguard. The ten gallon tank is being treated as well. What caused the fungus? The multifaciatus had become top guy; he may have picked a fight with the Julies who are larger than he. There are only clown killies in the ten, and they are very non aggressive. Does the temperature change contribute to fungus growth? Thanks, Wayne |
Hey CW , Fungus will attack regions where the mucus / slime coating on the fish has worn off due to damage by injury or parasites . Once the slime coat is damaged , the fish is way more susceptible to all types of other disease . The only treatment I could find for you is to spot treat with gentian violet , methylene blue , or use aquarium fungicide in the more extreme cases . I would recomend Methylene blue to treat with its really good for bad cases of fungus ,ich , and velvet . You can achieve the correct dose by adding enough so that the water is difficult to see through , usually about 5 drops per gallon . The blueish cast in the water disaooers with proper filtration , but stains decorations and gravel and cannot be used with many live plants . It will also stain everything it touches out of the water to like you and your clothes and carpet and everything else lol so be carefull . ;-) And I know that a temp change real sudden like the one you had does play a role in the fungus . I hope this helps . god bless |
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* Breakaway Georgian region struggles despite Moscow's aid
* President toppled in bloodless protest
* Hopes pinned on tourism, but war reminders linger
By Maria Tsvetkova
CHUBURKHINJI, Abkhazia, June 6 (Reuters) - Trudging over a bridge hundreds of metres long, English teacher Natia Ablotia struggles home in the blazing heat, laden with goods that are cheaper to buy across the river in Georgia than in Abkhazia, where she lives.
After nearly six years as effectively a protectorate of Russia, life is still tough for many in the breakaway Georgian region. Last week, in a spasm of frustration over corruption and poor living conditions, protesters stormed the president's headquarters, forcing him to flee and then resign.
Abkhazia's story - how a once popular and affluent resort area broke away from a former Soviet republic, sought protection under Moscow's wing but has struggled to make ends meet - has resonance for another Black Sea region, Crimea, which split from Ukraine to be annexed by much wealthier Russia in March.
Ablotia, 39, is one of hundreds who cross the bridge from Chuburkhinji in Abkhazia each day to buy cheaper food and goods, enabling them to stretch their modest monthly wages further.
"It's hard over here," she said, resting her purchases - three bags of shopping and a green plastic watering can - at the Abkhazia end of the two-lane road bridge over the broad, green valley of the Inguri river.
"Everything is cheaper over there," she added, pointing back at the Georgian side of the de facto border, which is still closed to cars by military posts. "The road is hard. You have to walk 800 metres, over the bridge."
Turning its back on Georgia, as Crimea has to Kiev, disrupted Abkhazia's trade and transport and hitched its economy to the oil-fueled rouble, importing heavily from Russia, where wages and prices are much higher than in Georgia - or Ukraine.
Abkhazia first threw off Georgia's control in a bloody conflict in the early 1990s, when ethnic Abkhaz were unwilling to be ruled by independent Georgians in post-Soviet Tbilisi rather than from Moscow. The scars of war and ethnic cleansing are still evident in the ruins of pock-marked buildings.
But the break became definitive only in 2008. When Russia defeated Georgia in a brief war over another rebel region, South Ossetia, Moscow recognised both separatist governments as independent in a move followed by scarcely any other state.
While Russia's critics saw a strategy by Vladimir Putin to secure military and territorial advantage and to undermine former Soviet republics set on breaking with Moscow and drawing closer to the West, the Kremlin has framed its help for Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Crimea in humanitarian terms.
But Abkhazia's struggles with poverty may give some Crimeans pause to worry about Moscow's commitment to their prosperity.
Abkhazia, with just 240,000 people from a cocktail of ethnic groups, is no Crimea: the latter has three times the territory and a population of more than 2 million, a majority of them ethnic Russians.
Russia has said it could spend up to $7 billion this year alone to integrate Crimea's economy into its own - no simple matter when they share no land border.
In Abkhazia, by contrast, Russia invested just a tenth of that in five years, from 2009 to 2013. Just over half went on construction projects, including kindergartens, two theatres and a stadium, and the rest on pensions and state workers' wages.
But last week's protesters complained the local government had wasted much of the money - allegations of corruption are widespread - and had failed to use the aid to boost employment.
"We cannot deny that something was done. But they act like foremen for the bosses. Great Russia gave them the money and they just report back on the expenses: 'This is done, that is done'. But the problem is nothing was built where people could get jobs," said opposition activist Beslan Avidzba.
There are no official unemployment data. According to the local government, the average monthly wage last year was 9,580 roubles ($273), about a third of that in Russia.
"Twenty years have passed. We could have lived in clover for 20 years," said Dmitry, a unemployed man in his 30s, sitting on a fence overlooking the sea in the regional capital Sukhumi and contemplating Abkhazia's post-Soviet decline.
"If people survive, fight for life and for money and only wake up to earn some money and feed their families, they become hardened and rough, like a cactus."
Discontent burst into the open last week when the opposition took over the office of President Alexander Ankvab and forced him to flee to a Russian military base in Abkhazia. Ankvab resigned on Sunday, saying he wanted to avoid violence.
At the height of the crisis, Vladislav Surkov, a close aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, visited Abkhazia and held several meetings with Ankvab and the opposition, urging them - successfully, as it turned out - to avoid bloodshed.
Although the Kremlin insisted he did not take sides, there are indications that Moscow was not happy with Ankvab. An official who oversees Russian-Abkhazian ties, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that Ankvab had taken a "socialist" approach, whereas Moscow was more interested in stimulating the economy than merely providing welfare handouts.
"The disagreement between Moscow and Ankvab over the investment plan was that Ankvab wanted to restore the social infrastructure and Moscow's policy is to give fishing rods instead of fish," the official said.
After Ankvab's resignation, Surkov praised his decision and said Russia would keep supporting Abkhazia financially and militarily. A new presidential election will be held in August.
Economically, the region's best hope is attracting more tourists from Russia.
Famed for its subtropical climate, clean sea and snow-capped mountains, Abkhazia was a favourite retreat for Georgian-born Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and a sought-after holiday destination for generations of workers from across the USSR.
Today, a broad new coastal highway covers the few miles to the Abkhazian border from the lavish Olympic Park built for this year's Sochi winter games. But after the checkpoint, the road narrows. The picturesque mountain landscape is dotted with abandoned apartment blocks with empty windows and bullet holes.
Abkhazia won the 1992-93 war against Georgia but, like its population, which was virtually halved by an exodus of refugees, tourism has never fully recovered. It is hard to find a place on the shore without a view of battle-scarred hotels. The charred hulk of a public building dominates the centre of Sukhumi.
"The war did us tremendous harm. In fact all the resorts were plundered," said Tourism Minister Tengiz Lakerbai. "Now we use only 30 percent of what we had before the war."
Crimea's resorts, too, face challenges, despite the largely bloodless break with Ukraine, which had provided the bulk of its tourists, most arriving overland. Now, to attract Russians and others travelling by air, it must compete with modern facilities in Turkey, Bulgaria and further afield.
According to the Abkhazian tourism ministry, the number of visitor-days spent at its resort hotels peaked at 1.3 million in 2007, the year before the Russia-Georgia war. The latest figure, for 2012, was just 1.1 million.
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Li-ion Battery Discharge Calculation
I am attempting to power a small circuit drawing around 100mA max with 6, 3100mA li-ion batteries in series providing 22.2v. The batteries will be connected to a pcm (protection circuit board) through which the circuit will draw the supply. The PCM board can be adjusted for max discharge current.
Should I set the PCM board for 0.1C or 0.05C max. discharge? ( 310mA & 155mA respectively) Is there any significant advantage of setting it at 0.1C over 0.05C? Is there anyone out there who could confirm or give me some advice Please? Last edited by teleman; 16th January 2013 at 01:22 PM. |
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In normal operation, your circuit will only draw as much current as it needs. The only reason I can see for the protection circuit is so that when the battery voltage does eventually fall, any constant-power type circuit, such as a switch-mode power supply, would start to increase the current draw, to compensate for the lower voltage. It's sometimes amazing what can get melted, or ignited, under those conditions.
Anyway, about the protection circuit's max current setting: if your circuit never needs to draw peaks of over 155 mA then you should be able to limit it to that. I would tend to want to use the lowest limit that would not adversely affect operation. But check whether or not it needs more during transient events, such as at startup. Your lithium ion battery voltage should stay relatively constant until the batteries are almost depleted and then the voltage will go down relatively suddenly. |
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Thank you indeed for your very precise explanation! There's no smps involved, besides the PSM has full over current,battery drain & short circuit protection,so I am well covered I think.
My only dilemma is whether to choose the discharge current fixed for a 3100mA battery pack or leave a higher margin in case a lower capacity battery such as 2200,2600or a 2800mA cell pack is used. Considering transients taken into account as you've rightly pointed out, won't it be then safer to go instead for 0.1C max discharge current? So don't you think that 0.1C perhaps would be the safest limit Ishould have? Any thoughts on that? |
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0.1C would be what I would set, no point in having over current settings dialled in too close to the line.
Note that the major function of that circuit (Apart from preventing many hundreds of amps of short circuit current from flowing (Yes, really some lithium has that low an internal resistance), is to stop you excessively discharging the pack which can cause the pack to catch fire. Lithium chemistrys have a fairly narrow range of voltage that they must be maintained within, going outside that range in either direction will usually cause trouble, including smoke. Regards, Dan. |
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Many thanks Dmills,
Exactly my thoughts too! 0.1C seems the most sensible limit. Thanks gootee for pointing me in the right direction. |
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Are Lithium of the type that each cell must be monitored to ensure each cell never falls below minimum voltage?
6 cells each with a voltage monitor gets quite complicated ! Nicads just used a diode to reduce the reverse voltage applied to the first cell (in a series connected set) that became discharged.
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Not really imho; with a PCM (Protection Circuit module) board, all one needs to do is, pre adjust the max.discharge current on the pcm & solder all the battery terminals to the board. Charging too is done through the pcm. Most of these pcms even have individual "Cell balancing" to control charge & discharge currents among other parameters. PCM also controls minum/max charge & min/max threshold voltages. Very smart Unprotected cells through a PCM have a distinct advantage over individually protected cells...as you very well know what would happen if one of the cells should die or malfunction in a protected series pack! |
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Celebrity and Fashion - Fashion Forum Fortnight
No, wait a second we need to get this photo of Madonna out of the way.
Firstly, after years of looking a bit 'off', 'irrelevant' and way too photo shopped in those Louis Vuitton ads, Madonna actually looks great. Love the dress, really love the dress. Good hair and make up and a modicum of graceful intent suggests she's on form again. I don't know Madonna, we once shared the same toilets and I found out that I was taller than her. But apart from that, all I have ever gleamed about her is from magazines and newspapers plus her interviews. Oh yes and the Sex book. After years of journalistic analysis what is your take on this photo?
Mine is 'Hello Guy, yes I'm here in London. I've just dropped the kids of with you. It's my birthday. Remember how you messed up and neglected me, well look I'm hot again. Don't worry the Jesus thing is a fling. You either want me back and you'd better go for it or I will be sporting Mr Madonna number three quite soon and you'll be very jealous as he'll be a man's man.'
Anyway, back to the categories of celebrity. There are three acknowledge academic classifications. This is important to note because it explains why we potentially accept or admire some more than others.
1. Ascribed - this is lineage. Itis handed down. Think Prince William, Caroline Kennedy and Sofia Coppola, too name a few.
2. Achieved - personal accomplishment gets you this status. Think Madonna, Brad Pitt, David Beckham and Serena Williams, you get the picture.
3. Attributed - this category is when ordinary people get given a lot of media attention often due to sensationalism. Think of anyone who has had a lot of media attention for no particular reason other than say being the mother of Mick Jagger's illegitimate child or having an affair with a well know person either or any other such example.
For a full read on celebrity then Chris Rojek's Celebrity is a fascinating read.
So, we know Madonna achieved her celebrity status and we know how. The rest of the week will be spent examining the impact of the cult of celebrity upon fashion and our consumption. Oh er!
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She looks great and I would like to know what that glove/jewellery thing is on her hand.
I do not understand celebrity and how people react to it - as in wanting autographs, crying when they meet someone etc. It peeves me greatly that the highest paid and most revered people in society are those that entertain (some of) us.She looks 32 not 52 so all that working out, surgery and quality time with her 20 year old boyfriend is working wonders.
I love look forward to reading more about celebrity because my PR people have told me that if you don't get your product on celebrities, you will never extend your brand. I hope that isn't true but I fear that it is.i love madonnna for what he stands for..."BE YOURSELF!!" ..its a very important point that people seems to not rememeber about her personality...
part from that i love her look always...just coz a lot of times shes not perfect and i like that... too pretty is too boring for me
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Blog surfing tonight and i like the definition of Attibuted! Seems most "stars" are of this category lately!
Where has all the talent gone?
I'll say,probably bloggers!
I have found more true creative talent in blogs i read than anywhere else lately and in a very long time!
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Sweden's new prime minister said Friday that his government will recognize a Palestinian state, a move that drew praise from Palestinian officials.
In a declaration listing his government's priorities, Social Democratic leader Stefan Lofven told lawmakers that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be resolved through a two-state solution requiring "mutual recognition" and a will from both sides to co-exist peacefully.
"Therefore Sweden will recognize the state of Palestine," Lofven said.
He didn't say when or how that would happen.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki welcomed Lofven's announcement and called on other European Union countries to follow suit.
"In the name of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian leadership, we thank and salute the Swedish position," Malki said in a statement.
He said the only other Western European countries that have recognized a Palestinian state are Malta and Cyprus. Some Eastern European countries did so during the Cold War.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psakia said the U.S. looks forward to working with the new government of Sweden - a close partner - but called international recognition of a Palestinian state "premature."
"We believe that the process is one that has to be worked out through the parties to agree on the terms of how they'll live in the future of two states living side-by-side," she said.
Lofven has built a left-leaning minority government of Social Democrats and Greens after winning Parliamentary elections last month.
He tapped former European Commissioner Margot Wallstrom to be foreign minister, while Magdalena Andersson becomes finance minister and Peter Hultqvist will head the Defense Ministry. All are Social Democrats.
Asa Romson, leader of the Greens, the junior coalition partner, became vice-prime minister and minister for climate and environment.
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This is the story of a fearless girl and her encounter with the wicked cold wind god
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I have a LOT to say about this.
I believe just like johnLeprechun said, that the black monsters were so to speak, death. and that the clock symbolises "your time is up". At first our hero runs away from death. But after a while he realises. Why not embrace death with open arms?
his life is so boring he might as well...
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And of course the monsters aren't real.
And one last thing. Remember the picture with a hole in the brain? i believe its a x-ray picture of our heroes head. after HE HIMSELF had shot himself in the head. I'm honestly not so sure about the gun because it never appeared in the film.
And i don't know why he dies three times in the story either. Who knows? i might be completely wrong about EVERYTHING!
ANYWAY. congratulations barfQuestion for making one of the best movies on newgrounds! it makes me sad that there are only 70 rewivs on this movie...
p.s oh yes! and this is a summary of both parts so hope you have seen all of the movies before you have read this... anyway, Bye for now!
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The weird dude with the markings on his face was supposed to be death, right? In which case, when he held out his hand peacefully with the watch on his wrist was very symbolic. I liked how he ended up going peacefully. Besides the awesome meaning, your animation style and sound choices are fantastic. Did you actually draw each of those out, frame by frame?


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It is difficult to judge who has the harder task this week, between the Welsh Rugby Union hoping to avert the All Blacks' eyes from their head coach or Warren Gatland attempting to keep a lid on the expectation building around his young team.
Wales are already in uncharted territor – on Saturday, they will play France in their first World Cup semi-final appearance since 1987, following their comprehensive 22-10 victory over their much-heralded Irish opponents. Plans are already in the pipeline to screen that game inside Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, such is the fever gripping a country starved of World Cup success. Wales may have so far snuck under the radar in New Zealand, quietly going about their business with ruthless efficiency, but there is little chance of keeping anything quiet after their impressive win over Ireland.
Yesterday's headlines in the New Zealand papers pushed Gatland, a Waikato native, as the frontrunner to succeed Graham Henry, who is expected to stand down as head coach of the All Blacks after the World Cup. Should New Zealand lift the Webb Ellis Cup, Henry's assistant, Steve Hansen, who coached Wales at the 2003 World Cup, would be the favourite to take the reins but there are many who believe Gatland is stealing the inside running with this audition in his homeland.
New Zealand great Graham Mourie, a member of the NZRFU board, has already hinted the All Blacks may be willing to bend the rules to accommodate a coach, such as Gatland, who is not currently working in New Zealand. That prompted WRU chief executive, Roger Lewis, to warn others to keep away, insisting he had a "watertight" contract with the former New Zealand hooker until 2015, but even the most stubborn obstacles can collapse under the right kind of pressure.
Gatland's Wales have managed to find a silken touch to wrap around their brute force front. His young charges executed Gatland's gameplan to the letter, dissecting Ireland's piece by piece until there was little left but a green rabble that were ripe for the picking.
The rest of the world may have finally sat up and taken notice but the coach believes these performances were born from a summer of hard graft that included 5am training sessions, vomit-inducing fitness drills and -140-degree cryotherapy chambers.
"I felt during the warm-up games that we were going to have a good tournament. As an international coach, you are relying on the players avoiding injury, you get no preparation time," Gatland said. "Then you can lose a couple of games when you are criticised and you get the sack. I don't think you should be judged on that.
"You judge yourself on having the opportunity to prepare the team properly as you will with a club side.
"I think I've demonstrated that in the past, whether it was with Wasps or Waikato, and now with Wales. Give me a chance to prepare for a few months and I think I can make a bit of a difference."
Gatland has been brave with his selection, clearing the decks of any baggage and showing a willingness to stake his reputation on kids who play with unashamed confidence and are untainted by previous failures. Welsh players past have shuddered at the mere mention of Fiji and Samoa, but reputations mean nothing to these youngsters at this World Cup, including those of the likes of Brian O'Driscoll and Paul O'Connell, who were left flailing to find an answer as Ireland unravelled.
The British Lions back row of Ryan Jones, Andy Powell and Martyn Williams have been ousted and James Hook was left on the bench, while Stephen Jones and Lee Byrne were left out altogether. In their places, players unknown outside of domestic rugby – Dan Lydiate, Toby Faletau, Sam Warburton, Rhys Priestland and George North – none of whom were born when Wales last reached the semi-finals.
There has been a slice of luck on the way. Six foot 4in wings, such as North, come along very rarely and Priestland was thrown into the deep end, five minutes before kick-off at Twickenham in August after Jones pulled up with a calf strain, and duly swam. An injection of youth has galvanised those older heads around, veterans of Grand Slam campaigns and Lions tours, now playing with renewed enthusiasm.
"We have experienced heads like Shane Williams, Mike Phillips and Gethin Jenkins, who have played a lot of places in world rugby but are taking their game to another level," attack coach Rob Howley said.
Wales would likely have preferred to face the known quantity of England in Auckland, having beaten them four times in the past four years, rather than the unpredictable French, who have won their last three encounters. However, the underlying message from the management will be to keep faith with the style of rugby that has served the side so well.
"We have youth and exuberance and this side wants to express themselves. These boys have worked particularly hard and there's no fear there," Howley said. "We now have an opportunity and a dream which we want to continue. It's about seizing upon the opportunity that is in front of them."
Howley knows only too well the hysteria back home that will accompany these results, given the way Welsh rugby has mirrored the peaks and troughs of the country's geology.
"I'm sure Wales is going mad at this moment in time," he said. "The fans have been through some tough times with us and I'm sure they, like us, are looking forward to Saturday.
"We haven't won anything, so our feet are firmly on the ground. We're under no illusion as to how good this French side are but we have confidence and momentum."
Scorers: Ireland: Try Earls. Penalty O'Gara. Conversion O'Gara. Wales: Tries Williams, Phillips, Davies. Penalty Halfpenny. Conversions Priestland 2.
Ireland R Kearney; T Bowe, B O'Driscoll (capt), G D'Arcy, K Earls (A Trimble, 70); R O'Gara (J Sexton, 55), C Murray (E Reddan, 55); C Healy, R Best, M Ross, D O'Callaghan, P O'Connell, S Ferris (D Ryan, 75), J Heaslip (D Leamy, 75), S O'Brien.
Wales L Halfpenny; G North, J Davies, J Roberts, Shane Williams; R Priestland (J Hook, 77), M Phillips; G Jenkins, H Bennett, A Jones, L Charteris (B Davies, 40), A W Jones, D Lydiate, T Faletau, S Warburton (capt).
Referee C Joubert (South Africa).
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Mike Phillips, Wales
Enjoyed perhaps his finest match in a red shirt. Phillips' try came at a vital moment and reminded many of Gareth Edwards, because of the degree of difficulty, strength and opportunism. His presence is like having another back-rower in defence and in offence Phillips chose his option perfectly. Looked as good as he thinks he is.
Imanol Harinordoquy, France
What went through Marc Lièvremont's mind when he dropped the mighty No 8? Whatever it was, it wasn't anything resembling rugby sense. As good as Louis Picamoles might be, Harinordoquy was born for the big occasion, doing to England exactly what they intended to do to the French. Strong powerful running, immense in the tackle, a total handful.
David Pocock, Australia
Australia had no right to beat the world champions and wouldn't have come close but for Pocock producing his finest magpie impression. No doubt benefited from Heinrich Brussow's early exit, but the manner in which the young Wallaby openside commanded the breakdown thereafter verged on the ridiculous, if not the illegal. Needs his fellow forwards to step up.
Piri Weepu, New Zealand
No Dan Carter, so it fell on the scrum-half's shoulders to take over the kicking duties and what a job he did. Seven successful penalties pulled the All Blacks out of a nervy corner and afforded them the freedom to run in their late tries. Maybe there are better No 9s around but the host country is relying on Weepu now. Yesterday he proved he can carry the burden.
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A good plan is essential to getting into your top choice graduate school.
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A good plan is essential when applying to graduate school. Use FastWeb's timeline to help you find out what you should be doing and when you should be doing it.
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- Freelance Cinematography and Film Production. Although qualified for any type of production, for the past few years I have mainly been shooting projects within the action sports community.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Hucker, DGAF Dan, and Joey Cordova @ Woodward West
During a trip to Woodward this summer, these three homies wanted to throwdown on the courses and try to shoot an edit and I was more than happy to accept the offer. Unfortunately, with bad luck haunting the trip, Dan Norvell broke his foot in the process so he had to cut his shooting short but he still produced a couple massive clips for this video.
Friday, July 30, 2010
2011 Haro Bikes Line w/ Allan Cooke
While in town for the X Games, Allan Cooke had a couple of the industry media guys come over to the Haro warehouse where we were introduced to the new Haro line, fed, and given a chance to ride their awesome ramp setup. It was great times and I can't thank Allan and Haro enough.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Backyard Ramps w/ Dan Norvell
I came down to Murrieta California to stay with Dan Norvell for a few days during X Games. While out riding his yard we decided to do a quick feature on the ramps.
Friday, July 16, 2010
R.I.P. Adam Stokes
Here's a piece from last April when I got word that Vegas shredder Adam Stokes had passed. Like many in the Vegas BMX scene, he was one of my childhood heros who helped keep me involved in BMX. I still have much respect for this man. Shine on.
The SkateCity Hot Pocket BMX Jam
In March I organized a contest at the local indoor skatepark in Vegas, Skatecity. This is the promo video I filmed a few weeks before to draw attention to our efforts. It's basically just a lights out edit with Mark Rubio, Mike Payne, Dan Quinn, and Justin Stapleton.
Huntington Beach Session w/ DGAF Dan
Huntington Beach Session w/ DGAF Dan - More BMX Videos
I vacationed in Laguna Beach this summer and while out there I took a day to head up to Huntington Beach to spend the day with Dan Norvell. This guy is crazy good and also one of the nicest people I've ever met. Good times.
Adam Banton Bike Check
I went to Woodward for a few days and met up with Salt-Lake-based-world-traveler Adam Banton. He got hurt filming for an edit but we managed to pump out this sweet bike check before hand.
Cult Premiere + Jam @ Fox Headquarters
Cult Premiere + Jam @ Fox Headquarters - More BMX Videos
I stopped by the Fox Headquarters in Irvine, California, to cover a jam they were having and get the 411 on the new Cult video "Let EM' Talk"DGAF Dan in Las Vegas
DGAF Dan in Las Vegas - More BMX Videos
Dan Norvell had a Team Soil show in Las Vegas and while he was here we went out to film this edit. It was amazing on the park day, however the street day was rather rainy and windy. We battled through and he produced this dope edit.Mike Payne @ Pro Park
Mike Payne @ Pro Park - More BMX Videos
Mike Payne took a pretty bad fall on a double backflip at this years Extreme Thing. He made a strong recover and is back to shredding. I headed out to Pro Park with him for the afternoon to film this return edit. Thanks to Josh Metz for the DSLR work.Daniel Dhers in Las Vegas
Venezuelan Greenville transplant Daniel Dhers took a trip to Vegas for Kyle Carlson's wedding and while in town filmed this short piece.
Vans Then and Now - Dennis McCoy
Took a day trip to Woodward to film the legendary DMC. Dennis is an awesome guy with a mouth that could spew great stories all day long. This edit was for a series Vans is doing on Vital where the team discusses the brand from its humble beginnings, their involvment, and where they see the brand going in the future.
Bryant Shepherd @ Skatecity
Bryant is from Pocatello, Idaho, but he traveled out to Las Vegas, Nevada to shred Skatecity. This dude is coming up fast and has an incredibly variety of technical and burly tricks.
Skatecity Hot Pocket Jam
All of the radness from Skatecity's Hot Pocket Jam that went down on 3/14. Highlights include a brakeless double backflip on a small box jump and a 720 barspin to My video camera's death.
Southwest Winter Mix
Southwest Winter Mix - More BMX Videos
Riding highlights from this past winter in the Southwest featuring Josh Betley, Joey Cordova, Nick Happel, and more.Life to a Dead End
Life to a Dead End from Ryan Galvan on Vimeo.
Short film I worked on with some students from UNLV. It was a good time and we certainly learned a lot.
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Established in 1965, HAWS assists over 6,000 animals and welcomes more than 31,000 human visitors annually. As an "open admissions" shelter we lead the community in animal welfare and assure sanctuary for all animals in need, regardless of age, health or temperament. HAWS is a non-profit, entirely donor-fund organization with an active humane education program, and both wildlife and companion animal rescue services for Waukesha County.
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Recently a great number of HAWS pets found homes after lengthy stays at our shelter - thanks in no small part to the dedication of our staff and volunteers. We are THRILLED they have landed in their new, loving homes and wanted to share the news. (There is no time limit for a pet's length of stay at our facility.)
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- Zeus-Lionhead rabbit-found as stray-8/20/11-adopted 10/25/11
- Marvin-Guinea Pig-found as stray 8/22/11-adopted 11/6/11
We celebrate not only because of the length of time of each pet's stay, but because of the diversity of the animals and their new families! Looking for a GREAT pet? Adopt 4 paws from HAWS.
By the way - this weekend is HOLIDAY PET PHOTOS weekend - call today to reserve your sitting (262-542-8851) and be all set for holiday cards featuring your Best Friend!
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