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Giant Drawing for Shiseido
Posted March 31, 2007 Comments(1)
I’m not sure if this is a production advertisement or perhaps a viral marketing video -
whatever it is, it is really cool! While I’ve seen Chinese peasants practicing calligraphy
with a mop and water, the scale of this is definitely much larger. Watch as the guy paints
a picture many times his size - and when others join in the fun as well! I really wonder
how he maintains a sense of proportion and perspective over such a large canvas though.

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Famous Pairs (or, Famous Pears)
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Conceptual Art & Concept Photography: forming pairs

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HAND GUN BAN DICK HELLER CHALLENGES THE DC LAW RE GUN RIGHTS
NYC CONSTUTITIONAL RIGHT TO BEAR ARMES

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How the Eye Works
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How the Eye Works
It's a simple sphere, about 1" in diameter, yet its power is awesome. It discerns colors
and shapes in bright or dim light from near or far. It helps you read books, and situations,
and people. It is a vital link to the world around you. And it succeeds through a complex
ballet of muscles and nerves.

The eye is the organ of sight, a nearly spherical hollow globe filled with fluids (humors).
The outer layer or tunic (sclera, or white, and cornea) is fibrous and protective. The
middle tunic layer (choroid, ciliary body and the iris) is vascular. The innermost layer
(the retina) is nervous or sensory. The fluids in the eye are divided by the lens into the
vitreous humor (behind the lens) and the aqueous humor (in front of the lens). The lens
itself is flexible and suspended by ligaments which allow it to change shape to focus light
on the retina, which is composed of sensory neurons.

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Pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) & Floater Only Vitrectomy
Pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) is a procedure usually reserved for complicated posterior
segment disease. It has a well-known risk profile and justifiably there is reluctance
to offer this surgery to treat floaters. However the post-operative complication rate
following PPV has been assessed in the setting of retinal detachment surgery or in the
presence of complicated vitreo-retinal disease.

It may be argued that pars plana vitrectomy for floaters, in eyes that have an established
posterior vitreous detachment (PVD), may be associated with a lower incidence of both
intraoperative and post-operative complications. The three main postoperative complications
that one must worry about in vitrectomy are: development or progression of nuclear sclerosis
cataract, retinal detachment and choroidal or vitreous hemorrhage (bleeding) in the eye.

Treating Eye Floaters http://www.eye-floaters.com/treatingfloaters.php
The standard vision tests performed by opticians, which quantify your vision as 20/20 etc.,
are unable to truly quantify many aspects of the visual disability incurred by floaters and
how these floaters in the eye can interfere with general day-to-day tasks and overall quality
of life. For some, visual tasks such as reading, driving or general observations may become
stressful or laborious.

It is always advised to wait at least a year to determine if the floaters may decrease or
become less prominent naturally. If they do not, then one can consider laser surgery or
vitrectomy. However, we must caution that surgical or laser treatment of floaters is not
considered a standard management strategy for reducing floaters and is only recommended
by a handful of physicians, even then, under exceptional circumstances. For more
conventional advice on learning to live with floaters please do read our open article
entitled living with floaters.
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Eye in the sky
posted by Chet at 11:36 AM UTC

"Knowledge has killed the sun, making it a ball of gas with spots," wrote D. H. Lawrence in one of his
crankier moments. "The world of reason and science...this is the dry and sterile world the abstract
mind inhabits."

Well, David, whatever you say. But before you fold on science, take a look at the pics from the TRACE
satellite telescope.

What you'll see is not a god, not Helios's golden chariot, not the yellow circle with smiling face we
see in a child's drawing. Here in the TRACE photographs is the seething hearth of life, the roiling,
boiling dynamo of creation. Not merely a ball of gas with spots, but a dancing, flickering furnace of
unquenchable energy.

Loops of blazing gas -- plasma is the technical term -- soaring tens of thousands of miles out from the
surface of the Sun. On the scale of these firestorms, the planet Earth shrinks to physical insignificance --
like a pea flicked into the flames of a roaring campfire.

The TRACE satellite orbits the Earth a few hundred miles above the surface, north to south, staying pretty
much above the dawn-dusk line between day and night, with its eye fixed permanently on the Sun. The telescope
is about as tall as a man, with mirrors the size of dinner plates. Forty million bucks worth of human
ingenuity. An extension of human scientific curiosity, it catches knowledge by the bucketful.

"The power of the visible is the invisible," wrote the poet Marianne Moore. The TRACE satellite makes the
invisible visible, reveals the Sun's power to the mind's eye, lets us feel the fire.

Dancing loops of roiling gas, hurled outward by powerful magnetic fields. Millions of tons of the sun's
substance hurled into space like a wet dog shaking off sheets of water, sweeping the Earth with the energy
that lights the green fuse of life.

A gassy ball with spots, indeed! Knowledge may threaten our human-centered sense of self-importance.
Knowledge may shatter our consoling myths. But take my word for it, David: Knowledge is better than ignorance.
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Transition Region and Coronal Explorer is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) mission to image the solar corona
and transition region at high angular and temporal resolution. The TRACE project maintains an Open Data
Policy: all data are available from our data archives (see below) to the science community as soon as the
spacecraft data have been processed.

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11410-mathematicians-finally-map-248dimension-structure.html
Mathematicians finally map 248-dimension structure
16:41 19 March 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Hazel Muir

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The E8 root system consists of 240 vectors in an eight-dimensional space. These vectors are the corners
of an eight-dimensional object called the Gosset polytope 4 21 represented here in two dimensions
(Image: John Stembridge, based on a drawing by Peter McMullen)A fiendishly complicated mathematical
challenge has finally been conquered by mathematicians.

The team has exhaustively explored an esoteric 248-dimension structure called E8 and the results take
up 60 gigabytes of data. If written out in tiny print, the results would cover an area the size of Manhattan.

“E8 was discovered over a century ago, in 1887, and until now, no one thought the structure could ever be
understood,” says the team leader Jeffrey Adams from the University of Maryland in College Park, US.

E8 (pronounced E-eight) is an example of a so-called Lie group. A Norwegian mathematician invented Lie
groups in the 19th century to study symmetry. A Lie group underlies objects like balls, cylinders or cones
that are symmetrical when rotated by small amounts.

Tough unpacking
Mathematicians take these descriptions to wild extremes by imagining the 3D objects in myriad dimensions.
The group E8 encapsulates the symmetries of a geometric object like a sphere, cylinder or cone, but in 57
dimensions. E8 itself has 248 dimensions.

The tough job for mathematicians was to explore this structure, effectively unpacking all the information
about E8 – the catalogue of objects it can act on and how it acts.

“It’s a mathematical entity that we know exists, but we had to explore its inner structure,” says Hermann
Nicolai, a mathematical physicist at the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam, Germany, who was not
involved in the work. “It’s a bit like making a plan of a complicated building, or exploring an ancient
pyramid to see how it was built.”

Unified theory
Adams and 17 other researchers solved the problem in a four-year project using a supercomputer at the
University of Washington in Seattle. Their resulting map of E8 contains 60 gigabytes of information
(see more on their website).

“This is an impressive achievement,” said Nicolai. He adds that the unique structure of E8 might help in
the quest for a unified theory of gravity and the other forces in nature. This is because the underlying
symmetries of the unified theory, if it really exists, will have to be complicated and unique.

“It will require an extremely special structure, mathematically speaking,” says Nicolai, “and E8 is an
example of a symmetry that might fit the bill.”

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Port Wine Stain Birthmark
Do you or someone you love have a
Port Wine Stain Birthmark?

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Do you have a port wine stain, or are you a parent of a child with a port wine stain?
If so, you may have sought treatment and been told by a doctor that there is nothing
that can be done. If that is the case, then you will want to hear what I have to say.

Corrective Surgery Is Available
Let me start off by saying I am coming from the perspective of knowing what it is
like to live with a Port Wine Stain. Since Port Wine Stains appear at birth, treating
people in the early stages of life is what people say is best. If you would like to
see what that looks like through this family's example click here. If you would like
to investigate places for being treated yourself or treating your child that is what
the list below is for. Keep in mind though the links I have below are people who though
they treat PWS I don't know how knowledgable they are in their craft. The only doctor
I would recommend, even though going through these surgerys have been extremely
difficult for me is on one of my links. That person would be would be Dr. Waner of
Beth Israel Laser ans Skin Surgery Center. He appears to be really knowledgeable about
his craft. My experience with him has been far better than with my last doctor.
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Title:System and method for sharing television program information between entertainment devices
Document Type and Number:United States Patent 20030018977 Kind Code:A1
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are represented by program interface objects (PIOs) within an interactive television system.
The PIOs provide at least one visual indicator for quick identification of the represented
television program, attributes providing information concerning the represented television program,
and actions that may be performed on or in connection with the represented television program.
The PIOs may be sorted, filtered, and/or managed based on user-provided criteria. The PIOs may
be transmitted between a variety of electronic devices and software applications.
Document Type and Number:United States Patent 20030018977 Kind Code:A1
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Title:System and method for providing television program information to an entertainment device Document
Type and Number:United States Patent 20030018748 Kind Code:A1
Link to this page:http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20030018748.html Abstract:Television programs are
represented by program interface objects (PIOs) within an interactive television system. The PIOs provide
a visual indicator for quick identification of the represented television program, attributes providing
information concerning the represented television program, and actions that may be performed on or in
connection with the represented television program. The PIOs may be sorted, filtered, and/or managed based
on user-provided criteria. The PIOs may be transmitted between a variety of electronic devices and
software applications.
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CLASSY TV CLOWN
Jon Stewart, winner Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series for "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"
at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. August 27, 2006
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Episode 26 - d3o: hardest stuff on the planet?
Testing d3o - a product its makers claim can protect people from pain and injury in
high speed collisions. Stuart Miles gets armed with a shovel to found out!19 Nov 2007
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Mobile internet use rises
5.7m people in the UK used a mobile device to access the internet during January 2007,
according to new figures.

The study by comScore and Telephia compared mobile internet usage in the UK with that in
the US and found similar levels of mobile web browsing in both countries.
Read full story »
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Filed under: Online Surveys & Research, Entertainment, BBC, Mobile, TV, comScore, Mobile
internet usePocket-lint launches gadget IPTV channel
Gadgets news and review website Pocket-lint has teamed up with Flawless media to produce
Megawhat.tv, an online IPTV channel dedicated to gadgets.
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Filed under: General / Other, Web 2.0, Consumer Goods, Video, Gadgets, IPTV, TV,
Pocket-lint, Megawhat.tv
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reports that the oil-exporting countries are winning this race by $ 700 billion annually. And the US
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Between rising oil prices and global warming impacts, continued reliance
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It also guarantees that some of the most vicious regimes will have plenty of money to buy, creat,
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billion to $5 billion more for crude oil every day than they did just five years ago, pumping more than $2
trillion into the coffers of oil companies and oil-producing nations this year alone.

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in the Kremlin; new weapons in Chad and new petrochemical plants in Saudi Arabia; no-driving campaigns in
South Korea and bigger sales for Toyota hybrid cars; a fiscal burden in Senegal and a bonanza in Brazil.
In Burma, recent demonstrations were triggered by a government decision to raise fuel prices.

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Federal Reserve to balance its competing goals of fighting inflation and sustaining growth.

High prices have given a boost to oil-rich Alaska, which in September raised the annual oil dividend paid
to every man, woman and child living there for a year to $1,654, an increase of $547 from last year. In
other states, high prices create greater incentives for pursuing non-oil energy projects that once might
have looked too expensive and hurt earnings at energy-intensive companies like airlines and chemical makers.
Even Kellogg's cited higher energy costs as a drag on its third-quarter earnings.

With crude oil prices nearing $100 a barrel, there is no end in sight to the redistribution of more than
1 percent of the world's gross domestic product. Earlier oil shocks generated giant shifts in wealth and
pools of petrodollars, but they eventually faded and economies adjusted. This new high point in petroleum
prices has arrived over four years, and many believe it will represent a new plateau even if prices drop
back somewhat in coming months.

"There's never been anything like this on a sustained basis the way we've seen the last couple of years,"
said Kenneth Rogoff, a Harvard University economics professor and former chief economist at the International
Monetary Fund. Oil prices "are not spiking; they're just rising," he added.

The benefits, to the tune of $700 billion a year, are flowing to the world's oil-exporting countries"
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