Monday, June 18, 2012
Parental love in animals - 4
Paternal love is one the most powerful in our world, as you may see before even animals love their children very much. Although paternal love in animals is different from humans but both of them are powerful and beautiful.
Sony Develops Film-Thin Display
In the race for ever thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all.
According to a video of the new display, it is being held up by a hand that"s squeezing the 0.3 millimeter, or 0.01 inch, display, while showing color video of a bicyclist stuntman, picturesque lake and other images.
The display combines an organic thin film transistor, or TFT, technology, which is required to make flexible displays, with another kind of technology called organic electroluminescent display.
The latter technology is not as widespread for gadgets as the two main display technologies now on the market--liquid crystal displays and plasma display panels.
Although flat-panel TVs are getting slimmer, a display that"s so thin it bends in a human hand marks a breakthrough.
The company will present the research and video at an academic symposium in Long Beach, California, for the Society for Information Display this week.
Sony said plans for a commercial product using the technology were still undecided.
Some analysts have said Sony had fallen behind rivals in flat-panel technology, including Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea and Sharp Corp. of Japan.
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WHO: Mobile health goes global
More than 80 percent of countries across the globe are using mobile phone technology in different ways to improve their health services, WHO says.
A survey conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) showed that only 19 of the 114 studied countries have no mobile health initiative, known as “mHealth.” Many of the government adoptions, however, are at the pilot stage.
While eighty-three percent of the studied countries were involved in a minimum of one mHealth project, most of them had several projects running, said Misha Kay, Manager at the Global Observatory for mHealth at WHO.
The report showed that mHealth has become a point of interest in not only rich and developed countries but also nations with the lowest incomes. Reportedly, 77 percent of the less affluent countries reported mHealth programs compared with 87 percent of high-income nations.
Southeast Asia, the Americas and Europe were benefiting from the related services and programs while about 75 percent of the studied African nations were also among the technology users.
The most popular mHealth programs globally were mobile technology call centers, cited by 59 percent; emergency services management, 54 percent; and telemedicine, 49 percent, the report says.
The most common services used in the low-income countries were the use of mobile networks for conducting health surveys; these programs, however, were the least common programs globally.
mHealth call centers, toll-free numbers and mobile communications for emergencies are among the programs most easily incorporated into the health systems.
There are more than five billion cell phone subscribers in the world and 85 percent of the planet is covered by a commercial wireless signal, noted WHO urging further approach toward using the technology for health improvement.
Speaking at a conference on mobile health in Cape Town, Kay called for a "more strategic approach to planning, development and evaluation to increase the impact of mHealth, and also prove that mHealth does work."
"So what we’re seeing is a fairly healthy groundswell of activity, also considering that we believe that a lot of the reports were understated," he added.
The UN health body cited competing health system priorities as the greatest barriers to mHealth adoption.
"Health systems worldwide are under increasing pressure to perform under multiple health challenges, chronic staff shortages, and limited budgets, all of which makes choosing interventions difficult. In order to be considered among other priorities, mHealth programs require evaluation," the report concluded.
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Surrealism
As World War I came to an end, the Dada movement evolved into a new movement called Surrealism. This medium of art created a palette of purity and hope though automatism and use of dreams. The Surrealists strove for simplicity and spontaneity or as some called it, automatism. They wanted to answer the question "how shall I be free?" and to express thought without any tainted preconceptions. They believed automatism "would reveal the true and individual nature of anyone who practiced it, far more completely than could any of his conscious creations. For automatism was the most perfect means for reaching and tapping the unconscious." (Stangos 125) This free style of expression, first used in literary circles headed by Andre Breton and then by painters like Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali and René Magritte, upheld the Dadaist rejection of traditional forms of art. However, by portraying a field of unconscious thought and thereby, following an uncontaminated reality, the surrealists avoided the horrors of premeditated warfare and political, social and economic lies and injustices. Surrealist theorists found Surrealism to be:
"a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the communicable and the incommunicable, the heights and the depths, cease to be perceived contradictably.
Now it is in vain that one would seek any other motive for Surrealist activity than determining this point. (Stangos 134)"
By using one"s unconscious mind, "the imagination in a primitive state," (Stangos 126) Surrealism found a place where contradictory thoughts might not serve as dichotomies. Free of a socially constructed point of view or "raison", a writer or artist travels to a place of thinking that is both irrational and rational at the same time. Through the unconscious or a highly sensitized state of mind, the surrealist brought forth a new manner of seeing and feeling the world as it was understood and negotiated by Western peoples.
Joan Miro
In its development, Surrealism celebrated the art of children, mad people and primitive art. The Surrealists believed in the innocent eye. They found that art produced by young children was more real than that produced by adults-- since the art of adults was usually repressed and contaminated. The Surrealists often played children"s games like the one where each player draws a head, body or legs then folds the paper after his turn so that his contribution is not seen. The strange images resulted (Joan Miro) and others with inspiration for works, such as “The Harlequin"s Carnival”. (Stangos 127)
Max Ernst
In addition to this technique, Max Ernst, in 1925, began using a child"s technique which led him in his direction of art for the next two decades. The technique was termed frottage, or "rubbing". It involved placing a piece of paper over a textured surface and then rubbing it with a pencil to record the texture. Afterwards, the images produced would be rearranged and the results were new images and associations from these initial rubbings. These images would then go on to become inspiration and the groundwork for paintings and sculptures.
Ordinary forms and objects were used to create art. The Surrealists saw an object and created art out of it because of the feelings that object inspired or what that object lent itself to be transformed into. As Miro said, "I begin painting, and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work." As a result of these ideas, flea markets boomed because they were the homes of inspiration and otherwise useless objects, perfect for the art of the Surrealists.
Miro was an artist that took advantage and used to full potential the opportunities simple forms offered him.
Miro would often start his canvases with random washes and then build upon the forms generated by the sponges, rags or burlap he used. After he had something down on the canvas, the forms would inspire Miro to carefully work to a full production. As he states, "the first stage is free, unconscious, but the second stage is carefully calculated." (Stangos 130) Miro was not really a product of Surrealism but was rather a necessity for its beginning. Surrealism needed his work in order to define itself as an art movement. Breton said "by his "pure psychic automatism" Miro might "pass as the most Surrealist of us all."" (Stangos 130)
In addition to the childlike innocence the Surrealist sought, Miro looked into his dreams and into his childhood for ideas for his art. The Surrealists looked towards dreams because they believed dreams were thoughts and imaginations in the primitive state. Dreams were part of the unconscious, and the unconscious was untainted. In the beginning of the Surrealist period, artists used hypnotism and drugs to venture into the unconscious state to extract images, word and ideas. Andre Breton said that these images and feelings could not be had in the conscious state. Quite often, the Surrealists would create dream-like scenes and scenarios which would otherwise be impossible in the natural world.
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali once said the only difference between himself and a madman was that he was not mad. His paintings were often a bizarre and erotic dream world influenced by dreams and his fear of sex. Dali painted with a photographic like accuracy and used bright intense colors that made his works look alive. However, his subjects were obviously static because of the dream like scenes surrounding them. He described the theoretical basis of his paintings as "paranoiac-critical": the creation of visionary reality from elements of visions, dreams, memories and psychological or pathological distortions through the use of familiar objects such as watches, insects and telephone and the primary images of blood decay and excrement. (Wheeler 291) Dali’s images gradually transformed into visual nightmares such as melting watches in “The Persistence of Memory”.
Like the impossibilities of Dali"s scenes, René Magritte painted reality with an illusionistic twist. In The Human Condition and other works, Magritte uses illusion to fool the eye into thinking something is what it really is not.
In The Human Condition, the eye is fooled into believing that the painting is of a landscape being viewed through a window. In reality, the painting is of a painting on an easel in front of a window containing the view outside that window. Magritte also demonstrates this illusionistic quality in The False Mirror where the iris of the painted eye is filled with a sky scene.
"As beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella" (Stangos 126) is a quote that basically sums up the principles surrounding Surrealism. It is this type of dream like scene that the Surrealists were seeking-- pure, untainted and spontaneous.
artworks:
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| Leonora Carrington: Selvportræt, 1938 |
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| Max Ernst (1891-1976): "Temptation of St. Anthony", 1945 |
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| Salvador Dali (1904-1989): Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937 |
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Sunday, June 17, 2012
The Fat Ishwarya Rai
Do you believe that this fat lady was some times most beautiful lady of the world!!! Yes Ishwarya Rai the most famous actress of Bollywood changed to it. If you are not fan of Indian movies "Bollywood" you may see her in some movies of Hollywood like: The Pink Panther 2, The Last Legion, ... I don't know why but she doesn't reduce her weight after her pregnancy.
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Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris
In this post I put one the most popular music videos of Justin Bieber named Baby ft. Ludacris. He is a real artist.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Asian markets tumble over EU debt crisis
Asian shares have sharply tumbled following reports of a gloomy US employment situation as well as concerns over the possibility of a eurozone breakup.
Japan’s market lost over two percent on Monday morning, reaching a level not seen since late 1983, while Hong Kong plummeted over 2.3 percent.
Shanghai was 1.24 percent lower, Sydney skidded 1.84 percent and Seoul lost 2.60 percent.
The falls come as Washington has put the number of jobs created in May at 69,000 - the slowest rise in 12 months. Meanwhile, leaders across the eurozone are facing a political and economic challenge in Greece.
New data released late last week showed more signs that growth is slowing in both China and India, which have until now been relatively bright spots for the global economy.
On top of the alarming jobs outlook in the United States, investors are deeply worried about the eurozone debt crisis. Unemployment in the eurozone has hit a record high of 11 percent.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 2.22 percent on Friday, wiping out its gains for the year, and the main index of the German stock market closed down 3.4 percent.
Greece's political and economic turmoil led to mounting concerns among eurozone members that Athens would not comply with the austerity measures it agreed to with its European neighbors in exchange for the endorsement of the second financial bailout, and would finally leave the 17-nation bloc.
The head of the European Central Bank earlier this week told European Union leaders that the single currency union is unsustainable in its current form.
Gold pauses after rally triggered by weak US data
Gold pauses after rally triggered by weak US data
Singapore, June 4, Gold edged lower on Monday after posting its biggest rally in more than three years in the previous session.
The surprisingly weak US employment data added to the gloom over the global economy, just as the euro zone appears to be sinking deeper into the debt crisis and China's growth slows, Reuters reported.
Gold broke ranks with riskier assets on Friday and rose 4 percent, propped up by rekindled expectations of further monetary easing by the US Federal Reserve.
Asian investors, however, were less than convinced that the Fed would implement monetary easing soon, and were selling at the higher prices to lock in profits.
"People are still not sure where things may go and have been selling after prices jumped," said a Singapore-based dealer.
Spot gold edged down 0.3 percent to $1,621.40 an ounce by 23:21 EDT (0321 GMT). It had fallen to as low as $1,614.59 earlier in the session.
US gold futures contract for August delivery was little changed at $1,623.
The London financial markets are closed on Monday and Tuesday for a public holiday.
Bullion fell more than 6 percent in May, under the weight of a dollar that rallied more than 5 percent as investors piled into the greenback, US Treasuries and German Bund during a deepening euro zone crisis.
But if the US recovery falters as well, gold will have a chance to shine once again as a safe haven as investors look for alternatives.
Spot silver lost 0.8 percent to $28.41, after rallying 3.6 percent on Friday - its biggest one-day rise in more than three months.
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Asian markets tumble over EU debt crisis
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Asian markets tumble over EU debt crisis
S&P warning on eurozone about Greece
The main ATHEX (Athens Stock Exchange) index fell by 6.1 percent to 471.35 points just an hour before the official close time at 5:20 pm (1420 GMT) on Tuesday.
This comes after Standard & Poor's issued a statement on Monday warning of “at least a one-in-three chance” that the country will leave the eurozone after the June 17 elections.
Greece’s likely rejection of the austerity measures and reforms in return for EU-IMF bailouts, following the mid-June parliamentary elections, would lead to the “suspension of external financial support,” said the international agency.
It added that Greece’s proposed circumstances would seriously damage its economy and most likely lead to another Greek sovereign default.
However, the agency said the Greek exit from the eurozone would not affect other weaker eurozone states.
Earlier this week, rating agency Moody's lowered Greece’s domestic rating ceiling due to escalating concerns over the debt-ridden country’s exit from the eurozone.
Greece is the epicenter of the eurozone debt crisis. It is headed for the second parliamentary elections, expected on June 17, following a political impasse since the May 6 elections when no party gained enough seats in the elections.
There are worries that more delays in resolving the eurozone debt crisis, which began in Greece in late 2009 and infected Italy, Spain and France last year, could push not only Europe but also much of the rest of the developed world back into recession.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Top pictures of 2011
These pictures are most popular and most visited pictures of 2011, as you can see most of them are about nature.
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| The biggest crocodile in Philippines |
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| A shark with one eye |
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| A smoke column from shuttle |
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| Boiling lake |
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| Lightening strikes to Eiffel tower |
a big whale swallows a poor diver
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