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Friday, October 28, 2011

Dead Alligator Sculpture in Newyork

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

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Digimo Camera: The New Edge Of Photography

I think I have mentioned it many times before that I have a few friends who, when it comes to Photography, are in the elite layer of the amateurs. It sounds good yet horrible, I know, but I mean that in the very best way possible. The professional ones usually follow the mainstream and their photographs are more times than not quite boring and, for lack of a better word, plain. It’s when you are an amateur and just following your dreams that the best results are achieved. By that I mean it’s when we are unaware of the proper ways that we invent the new. You don’t want to use the camera the way it is really meant meant to be used because if you use it the way it’s not supposed to be used, people will start noticing your portfolio.

Sangik Lee knows exactly what this whole approach means because the innovation that has come from this brilliant mind is more than creative. If you have grown tired of listening to that shutter on your camera and are ready for some real adventures, then the Digimo Camera is definitely something for you. It will have you exploring new angles and new ways to portray the world. Digimo is basically a Technics Lego simulation package that offers great creativity.

Of course it has nothing to do with Lego, but it reminds me a little of it because of the way you are able to build your own camera setup using the many parts, cameras and remote control touch screens available. It looks like great fun, and I am sure that with this camera you can thrill, mesmerize and impress even the most seasoned photographer beyond the adventures of an ordinary life. All you have to do is be on the edge and build something that will enable you to explore the unexplored. Let your creativity run free and don’t be limited by the fancy functions of system cameras. Unfortunately, so far this is only on the concept design; however, with a bit of funding and a thriving fan club, this could be the next cool thing within photography, no doubt.

Top 10 Most Pollution Places

1/Vapi, India

Vapi is a region overwhelmed by industrial pollution. More than 50 industries poison the local soil and groundwater with pesticides, PCBs, chlorine, chromium, mercury, cadmium, dyes, and lead. Industrial pollution is a severe problem in all of India. The Blacksmith Institute have reported the pollution levels based on the Gujarat Pollution Control Board of 1998. But since then not much has changed and the pollution is getting worse day after day. The Common Effluent treatment plant does not meet all the parameters set by both state and central pollution control boards.

2/Tianying, China

Tianying, population 140,000, is one of the largest lead production bases in China, with an output accounting for half of the country’s total production. Low-level technologies, illegal operation and the lack of any serious pollution control measures have caused several severe lead poisoning cases in the region. Numerous small scale recycling plants, notorious for polluting, are based in the area. The average lead concentrations in Tianying’s air and soils are 8.5 and 10 times higher than national health standards, respectively. Eighty-five per cent of air samples have lead concentrations higher than the national standards. Residents, particularly children, suffer from lead poisoning and its related effects: lead encephalopathy, lower IQs, short attention spans, learning disabilities, hyperactivity, impaired physical growth, hearing and visual problems, stomach aches, irritation of the colon, kidney malfunction, anaemia and brain damage.

3/Sukinda, India

Sukinda has an abundance of chromite deposits, which is around 97% of India’s total deposits. This makes it among the world’s 10 most polluted places. Around 12 mines operate in the area without proper environmental controls. Pollution caused by the mines is a major health hazard. This area is also flood-prone, resulting in further contamination of the waterways. Approximately 70% of the surface water and 60% of the drinking water contains hexavalent chromium at more than double national and international standards and levels of over 20 times the standard have been recorded. An Indian health group estimated that 84.75% of deaths in the mining areas — where regulations are nonexistent —are due to chromite-related diseases. There has been virtually no attempt to clean up the contamination.

4/Port Harcourt, Nigeria

The area lacks strategies for preventing oil spills and contamination, and the clean-up methods after disasters require significant improvement. Wastewater in these drains, especially in high density areas, are dark in appearance with high levels of turbidity, total solids, BOD, chloride and hardness. The rivers into which these drains discharge are always contaminated with refuse items, with the result that aquatic life is endangered.

5/Linfen, China

Linfen’s pollution problems began with the economic boom of the late 1990s and sped up after 2002, when domestic energy demand spiked, coal prices jumped, and the reins on private mine owners were loosened. Despite recent green policies, cleanup efforts, and the launch of a green building program, economic growth usually crushes environmental concerns in China. In Bejing, the curtain of smog over the city was only recently labeled haze–previously, it was called fog.

6/La Oroya, Peru

The years 2006 and 2007 the Blacksmith Institute have accomplished a research about the cities more contaminated to the world and arrived to the conclusion that the Oroya city was between the 10 cities more polluted of the world and, the environment Graffiti 2008 said that is between five more pollute too to the world.In La Oroya, a mining town in the Peruvian Andes, 99% of children have blood levels that exceed acceptable limits, thanks to an American-owned smelter that has been polluting the city since 1922. The average lead level, according to a 1999 survey, was triple the WHO limit.

7/Dzerzhinsk, Russia

According to September 12, 2007, study by Blacksmith Institute (United States), Dzerzhinsk is one of the worst polluted cities of the world and has a life expectancy of 42 years for men and 47 for women, with the 2003 death rate exceeding its birth rate by 260%. Environmental action groups such as Greenpeace attribute such low life expectancy to high levels of persistent organic chemicals, particularly dioxins. Much of the toxic waste dumped over the years has gone directly into the water. This has lead to local waters becoming a white sludge waste, with toxin levels millions of times higher than is safe. Because many of the factories in the area are also shut down, less water is being used than before.

8/Norilsk, Russia

Norilsk has an extremely high level of air pollution from the mining that has occurred there throughout the past decades, leading to major problems with smog and acid rain.Home to the world’s largest heavy metal smelting complex, more than 4 million tons of cadmium, copper, lead, nickel, arsenic, selenium and zinc are released into the air every year. Heavy metal pollution near Norilsk is so severe that it is now economically feasible to mine the soil, as a result of acquiring high concentrations of platinum and palladium through pollution.

9/Chernobyl, Ukraine

Air pollution in major cities may be more damaging to health than the radiation exposure suffered by survivors of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, according to a report published today.Two explosions at the Chernobyl reactor killed three people immediately and more than 30 died from acute radiation poisoning, but the radioactive plume released from the reactor spread over most of Europe and is estimated to have caused up to 16,000 deaths.The scientists grew flax seeds in radiation-contaminated soil in the Chernobyl region and compared the resulting plants with plants grown from seeds planted in non-radioactive soil. They discovered that radiation exposure had relatively little effect on the protein levels in the plants, with only about five percent of the protein levels altered. Among these were certain proteins that are involved in cell signalling, or chemical communication.

10/Sumgayit, Azerbaijan

Sumgayit is not just notorious for its pollution. In 1988, as nationalist sentiments rose in the ailing Soviet Union, violence flared up between ethnic Azeris and ethnic Armenians in the city. As a result, the Armenian population fled the city. Untreated sewage and mercury-contaminated sludge (from chlor-alkali industries) continue to be dumped haphazardly. A continuing lack of pollution controls, dated technologies and the improper disposal and treatment of accumulated industrial waste are just some of the issues that plague the city.

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Top 10 Most Populated Countries in the World

1.China(1,345,751,000)

China is the world’s largest and most populous country. As the world’s population is approximately 6.7 billion, China represents a full 20% of the world’s population so one in every five people on the planet is a resident of China. The government’s goal is one child per family, with exceptions for ethnic minorities and a degree of flexibility in rural areas. It is hoped that population growth in China will stabilize in the early decades of the 21st century.

2.india (1,198,003,000)

India is the 2nd most populated country in the world. The ratio of girls to boys is 914 girls per 1,000 boys. India has more than 50% of its population below the age of 25 and more than 65% hovers below the age of 35. It is expected that, in 2020, the average age of an Indian will be 29 years. Religion, caste, and language are major determinants of social and political organization in India today. The government has recognized 18 languages as official; Hindi is the most widely spoken.

3. United States of America (314,659,000)

The United States of America is the country with the 3rd largest population in the world. The United States is a vast country, with the 3rd largest land area of all the world’s countries. The United States’ total fertility rate is 2.1, which means that, on average, each woman gives birth to 2.1 children throughout her life. The total fertility rate of 2.1. means a stable no-growth population overall. However, immigration plays a huge impact on the growing U.S. population. Overall the United States population is growing at 0.9% a year as of 2007.

4. Indonesia (229,965,00)

Java and Madura are the most densely populated areas and the largest cities are Jakarta (9.1 million), Surabaya (2.7 million), Bandung (2.3 million) and Medan (2.0 million). Indonesia’s people are extremely diverse in culture, language, ethnicity and religion. Around 300 distinct language and ethnic groups populate the archipelago. Most communities belong to the Malay family, but most people in Papua and the nearby islands are Melanesian, while there are also significant communities descended from immigrants including Chinese, Arabs, Indians and Europeans.

5. Brazil (193,734,000)

Brazil is the most populous country in Latin America, as well as one of the most populous in the world. The southeast of the country is the most populated area. The majority of people live near the coastal regions. The vast interior of the country is sparsely populated, with the indigenous population somewhat concentrated near the Amazon River Basin. With a population of in excess of 190 million, Brazil is the country with the fifth largest population.

6. Pakistan (180,808,000)

Pakistan has a large population that can be categorized as falling within the UN’s definition of youth. An estimated 103 million Pakistanis, or 63% of the population, fall under the age of 25 years. Economic conditions force many Pakistani youth to take up employment in their childhood years. Children’s contribution to work in rural areas is about eight times greater than in urban areas. In Pakistan rural areas children work in the agricultural sector (74 per cent), whereas in urban areas, most working children are engaged in the manufacturing sector.

7. Bangladesh (162,221,000)

Bangladesh is a small country but is population is the 7th largest in the world. It is most densely populated country in the world. Bangladesh is also very poor and most of its people (89%) live in villages. Dhaka is the capital. Bangladesh is on the delta formed by 3 main rivers: the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Meghna. It is very low lying. Fewer places are higher then 10m above sea level. Bangladesh has the highest incidence of poverty in South Asia and the third highest number of poor people living in asingle country after India and China. Bangladeshcannot achieve sustainable development withoutcontinued efforts to curb population growth.

8. Nigeria (154,729,000)

Nigeria is the 8th most populous nation in the world, and the only African nation to make it into the top 10. With the growth of Population in Nigeria, health hazards are a major issue. Though the percentage of the affected population accounts for a tenth of Nigerians affected by AIDS/HIV is comparatively less, the those suffering from AIDS in Africa and 8% of the total world population.

9. Russia (140,874,000)

Russia has the largest Muslim population in absolute numbers in all of Europe. The number of Muslims in Russia is projected to increase from about 16.4 million in 2010 to about 18.6 million in 2030. The growth rate for the Muslim population in the Russian Federation is projected to be 0.6% annually over the next two decades. By contrast, Russia’s non-Muslim population is expected to shrink by an average of 0.6% annually over the same 20-year period.

10. Japan (127,156,000)

Japan has the world’s tenth-largest population, with over 127 million people. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents. However, Japan’s population growth has slowed in more recent years, with the annual pace of population growth averaging about one percent from the 1960s through the 1970s. Since the 1980s, it has declined sharply.

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