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sâmbătă, 5 februarie 2011

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Twilight Landing At LAX (Cockpit View)
Aerial Photos of Stadiums Around the World
Chicken Hotel
World’s Biggest Cave Discovered in Vietnam
Star Wars Photoshoot by Robin Cook
Is Your Computer a Boy or a Girl?

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 10:41 PM PST

Landing at LAX International Airport via the SADDE Six Arrival.

The song is "Los Angeles" by Sugarcult. If you like the song please use one of the links below to buy it so maybe progressive bands like Sugarcult will let us continue to use their music on our homemade non-commercial videos. Mahalo!

Aerial Photos of Stadiums Around the World

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 10:12 PM PST

These are aerial photos of stadiums from all around the world. It is absolutely amazing what man has built just to play some games. However, the photos are incredible and beautiful. The stadium's seating capacity is also amazing.

Cape Town stadium, South Africa

PETCO Park - San Diego, California

Penn State's Beaver Stadium

Estadio Cicero Pompeu De Toledo - Sao Paulo, Brazil

Three Rivers Stadium - Pittsburgh

Shea Stadium 1986 World Series

Duke vs UNC @ Duke Stadium 1943

Raymond James Stadium, Tampa Bay

Mackay Stadium - Nevada

California Memorial Stadium

Gillette Stadium - Foxborough, Mass

Soccer Stadium - Port au Prince, Haiti

Memorial Stadium - Minnesota

Doyt Perry Stadium - Bowling Green, Ohio

Neyland Stadium - Tennessee

Minute Maid Park - Houston, Texas

Bank of America Stadium - Charlotte, North Carolina

PITT Stadium - Pittsburgh

Qualcomm Stadium - San Diego

Michigan Stadium - Ann Arbor, Michigan

Sun Life Stadium - Miami, Florida

Kenan Stadium - North Carolina

Estadio de Maracana - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Old Yankee Stadium - New York City

Olympic Stadium (under construction) - London, England

Chicken Hotel

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 09:56 PM PST

It's a hotel - but with a major difference. Instead of booking in guests in human form, Cornwall's newest hotel only takes chickens. The aptly-named Chicken Hotel recently opened for business at Boskenwyn, Helston. The venture was set up to give chicken owners a place to check-in their birds while away from home.

David Roberts, a maths teacher who keeps his own chickens as a hobby, runs the hotel. He said: With more people looking to escape the rat race and move out in the country with a little bit of land, keeping chickens is becoming more and more popular.

World’s Biggest Cave Discovered in Vietnam

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 09:24 PM PST

The world's largest cave passage was discovered deep within a remote Vietnamese jungle. The Son Doong cave measures 262 feet by 262 feet (80 meters by 80 meters) and at least 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers) deep, making it the largest single cave passage ever discovered, according to National Geographic News, where the discovery was announced. The previous record holder, Deer Cave in Malaysia, is 300 feet by 300 feet (91 m by 91 m) in parts, but is only about a mile (1.6 km) long.

By contrast, explorers walked 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers) into Son Doong, in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, before being blocked by seasonal floodwaters—and they think that the passage is even longer.
In addition, for a couple of miles Son Doong reaches more than 460-by-460 feet (140-by-140 meters), said Adam Spillane, a member of the British Cave Research Association expedition that explored the massive cavern. Spillane was in the first of two groups to enter the cave. His team followed the passage as far as a 46-foot-high (14-meter-high) wall.

"The second team that went in got flooded out," he said. "We're going back next year to climb that wall and explore the cave further."

Source: nationalgeographic

Star Wars Photoshoot by Robin Cook

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 09:05 PM PST

Photographer Robin Cook put together an epic Star Wars Photoshoot with a bunch of fellow Star Wars geeks.

Is Your Computer a Boy or a Girl?

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 09:02 PM PST

It's pretty easy to find out what gender your computer is.

Follow the instructions inside the post and you'll see.

1) Open your notepad
2) Type or copy paste: CreateObject("SAPI.SpVoice").Speak"I love you"
3) Save as computer_sex.vbs
4) Run the file.

If you hear a male voice, congratulations, you have a boy if woman's, well, it's a girl.

I have a baby girl :)

What about you?

Your Weekly Address: Winning the Future through American Innovation

Your Daily Snapshot for
Saturday, February 5, 2011

Your Weekly Address: Winning the Future through American Innovation

The President discusses the labs at Penn State as an example of how American innovation, particularly in infrastructure and energy, can create jobs and win the future for America.

Watch the video.

Weekly Wrap Up

Quote: "To support American innovation, what my administration is trying to do is not just hand out money. What we’re doing is we’re issuing a challenge. Because right now, some of the most promising innovation is happening in the area of clean energy technology -- technology that is creating jobs, reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and -- something that every young person here cares about -- making sure our planet is a healthier place to live that we can pass on to future generations." --President Obama, speaking at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, about the future of American innovation. Watch the speech here.

Better Buildings: President Obama announces a program to increase energy efficiency in commercial buildings, and save businesses billions of dollars a year. Check out the fact sheet here, and see what business leaders are saying about the program.

Egypt: The President and his advisers continued to closely monitor the situation in Egypt. President Obama spoke on America's commitment to democracy and universal human rights for all people, and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs reiterated the United States' strong condemnation of violence against journalists and members of the media.

Faces of Distracted Driving: Continuing a video series, the Department of Transportation shares the story of Alex Brown in this moving video.

American Innovation Abroad: U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk meets with members of the President's Technology CEO Council to discuss how the Administration is promoting high-tech American products in foreign trade.

West Wing Week: "Enter The Hub", and a special report, "Dispatches from Sudan"

Start-Up America: Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers explains the Start-Up America Initiative on the White Board.

Race to the Top: This week marks the launch of the second annual Race to the Top Commencement Challenge. Melody Barnes, the Director of the Domestic Policy Council, invites high schools around the country to apply.

Women's Online Summit: The White House hosts the first-ever Women's Online Summit, which brought together editors of 26 websites with a special focus on women. Learn about the meeting, and the surprise guest.

It's Black History Month: All month we're featuring African Americans from throughout the Administration who are contributing to President Obama's vision of winning the future through their work. Read their stories.

National Prayer Breakfast: President Obama continued an annual tradition that dates back to President Eisenhower, speaking at the meeting of faith leaders in Washington, D.C.

Ready for Winter Weather: With serious winter storms hitting the Midwest and Atlantic coast, WhiteHouse.gov made sure people knew how to stay safe in winter weather. The USDA shared food safety tips in case of power outages.

New Dietary Guidelines: Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, along with Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, announced new dietary guidelines to help improve American health.

Attorney General Visits Poland: Attorney General Eric Holder met with counterterrorism and national security leaders from European partners during the G6 Conference.

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Seth's Blog : Protecting the work

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Protecting the work

In describing the role her brother played in producing one of her movies, Sofia Coppola said, "he protected the film."

As a producer, Roman saw his role as keeping the crew small, the project moving, the choices open so that Sofia could do her work. He protected the movie so that she could make it.

Too often, artists and marketers and designers forget to protect their work from those that might try to improve it.