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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
The Vuvuzela
The vuvuzela (English pronunciation: /vuːvuːˈzeɪlə/ voo-voo-ZAY-lə), also known as lepatata (its Tswana name) and stadium horn, is a typical 65 cm (2 ft) plastic blowing horn that produces a loud, distinctive monotone (B♭3) note. A similar instrument, known as the corneta, is used in Brazil
The vuvuzela is most used at football matches in South Africa. It has become a symbol of South African football as the stadiums are filled with its loud and raucous sound that reflects the exhilaration of supporters. The intensity of the sound caught the attention of the global football community during the 2009 Confederation Cup in anticipation of South Africa hosting the 2010 World Cup, though its frequent usage during sporting events raised health and safety concerns.
The vuvuzela has been the subject of controversy. Its high sound pressure levels at close range can lead to permanent hearing loss for unprotected ears after extensive exposure. In one test, the maximum sound output varied between 113 and 131 dBA. In response to the controversy, a new model has a modified mouthpiece that reduces the volume by 20 dB. However, international commentators, players and audiences call to ban vuvuzelas at football matches.
Origin
This type of plastic horn or trumpet has been used in Mexican stadiums since the 1970s.[8] Originally made out of tin, the vuvuzela became popular in South Africa France
Plastic trumpets similar to the South African vuvuzelas became popular as early as 1978 in Argentina , during the FIFA World Cup that took place that year in Argentina
In 2001, South Africa-based company Masincedane Sport began to mass-produce a plastic version. Neil van Schalkwyk, the co-owner of Masincedane Sport, won the SAB KickStart Award in 2001.
Origin of the term
The origin of the name vuvuzela is disputed. It may have originated from Zulu for "making a vuvu noise," directly translated "vuvu-ing" because of the "vuvu" sound it makes, or from township slang related to the word for "shower".
Legal challenge
In early 2010 members of the Nazareth Baptist Church
Bans
In the wake of the 2010 World Cup the vuvuzela has been banned from a number of stadiums and events, including tennis matches at Wimbledon the Cardiff City
OFFICIAL WORLDCUP SONG....Wavin Flag
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"Wavin' Flag" is a song by Somali-Canadian artist K'naan from his album Troubadour, reaching #2 on the Canadian Hot 100. A remake by a supergroup of Canadian artists, credited as Young Artists for Haiti, became a charity single, with this new version going straight to #1 on the Canadian charts. A version of the song featuring will.i.am and David Guetta is targeted for international release. The song also appears on the soundtrack for the video game NBA 2K10.
The song was chosen as Coca-Cola's promotional anthem for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, to be held in South Africa. The English version was released as "Wavin' Flag (The Celebration Mix)" by K'naan and many other bilingual and country-specific versions have been released. After the release of the Celebration Mix prior to the World Cup, "Wavin' Flag" reached number one in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria as well as number two in the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy and Ireland.
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Karate Kid
12-year-old Dre Parker could’ve been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother’s latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying – and the feeling is mutual – but cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre’s feelings make an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. In the land of kung fu, Dre knows only a little karate, and Cheng puts “the karate kid” on the floor with ease. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is secretly a master of kung fu.
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
toy story 3
6 reasons it took 11 years for you to see Toy Story 3
6 reasons it took 11 years for you to see \Toy Story 3\<\/i\>
11 years ago, Toy Story 2 made grown men cry when Jessie the cowgirl sang that Sarah McLachlan song about getting left behind. It even ended on the most bittersweet note possible. The toys would stay with Andy and accept that he'd outgrow them, but it would be fun while it lasted. Thanks, Pixar, for 11 years of abandonment issues.
This week, they finally deliver. Woody the cowboy, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie and the whole toy box will get abandoned by Andy, who goes off to college. They find themselves at a preschool with a slew of new toys, and a new adventure. Director Lee Unkrich spoke with us and explained why Toy Story 3 is worth the wait. The movie opens June 18.
They had to start from scratch
ToyStory3-4.jpg
Since the last Toy Story was made 11 years ago, the characters are no longer compatible with the operating system that produced Up. So you're seeing brand-new Buzzes and Woodys in Toy Story 3.
"It's kind of like when you try to open an old file on your computer from 10 years ago. Good luck being able to do it," Unkrich said. "Our software has advanced to the point now where all those old files cannot be opened and used anymore. So we had to completely reinvent every one of the characters and remodel them from scratch. It was interesting, because we wanted to keep them very much the same. We didn't want them to look noticeably different, but it gave us the opportunity to correct a lot of little things that we wished we had done better way back when and kind of put more detail into Woody and Buzz and all the characters. We had to do it carefully, because I didn't want the audience to feel like they were looking at characters that had had bad plastic surgery done on them."
There's more moving parts in a Buzz Lightyear now.
ToyStory3-3.jpg
The upgrades make the characters more complex. Unkrich walked us through the new Buzz Lightyear model. It sounds like something out of Transformers.
"He's always meant to be a toy, so even though he looks the same now as he used to, if you really look at the details, you can see that we've made him look like he's made up of lots of little different pieces of plastic that have been screwed together," Unkrich said. "Whereas the original Buzz, just the way he was modeled in the computer, it was a lot of pieces just kind of intersecting into each other. It was kind of more crudely done. Even though he looks good back then, he looks much better now. He looks much more like a realistic toy. We covered him with little microscratches and dirt scuffs and try to give him the look of a toy that's been thrown into a toy box for a lot of years and has been played with a lot over the years."
They had a bigger cast to manage.
ToyStory1.jpg
Toy Story 2 introduced a bunch of new characters who stayed in Andy's room. There's even more who join the gang in 3. It took the Pixar team time to come up with a story that fit them all in.
"It's not tough to give everyone something to do," Unkrich explained. "It's more tough to keep the focus on kind of the main characters. With so many characters, you can imagine the story could get really watered down and we'd have a hard time paying attention to the right characters. At the end of the day, we know that Woody's the main character in the film and Buzz and Jessie close behind him. So they get the lion's share of the lines and the moments in the film and then everybody else tapers off from there."
Jessie had issues.
ToyStory3-5.jpg
See above about Jessie's abandonment song. You thought she was sad the first time a kid gave her away to charity. Now she's got to go through it all again.
"We needed to stay true to her character and make sure we respected the fact that she had gone through that experience and had been abandoned by a kid before," Unkrich said. "So when they get into this situation at the beginning of the film, when Andy seemingly throws them away, it only made sense to have Jessie get really angry at herself for allowing herself to be put in the same kind of situation twice in her life."
They had to have a good idea.
ToyStory32.jpg
Pixar's not in the sequel business. They didn't even want to make Toy Story 2, but they had too good an idea to pass up. Then they didn't want to make Toy Story 3, but they finally had a good idea: Andy goes off to college.
"When we made the first Toy Story, a lot of people wanted to know when we were going to make a second one," Unkrich recalled. "At the time we said we had no interest in doing that. We just wanted to continue to make new films and tell new stories. But, I think it's a testament to these characters and how much people like them that they've stayed around so long and people have wanted to see new stories with them. We've done the heavy lifting of telling stories worthy of bringing out to the world."
BTW: Cars 2 is coming next year.
It had to have everything.
ToyStory3Andy.jpg
It's not enough to have an adventure. It's not enough to have lots of jokes. Toy Story 3 had to be the total package: funny, exciting, heartbreaking. That takes time.
"You have to find the right story," Unkrich said. "We had a story that we thought had a lot of potential to be emotional, but we have to do the work. We never set out with the goal of trying to make people feel strong emotions or cry or anything. It's just kind of where the story took us. We try to stay true to the characters and send them off on an interesting journey that's going to be challenging for them. I think it's just a testament to the fact that people care about the characters that we've created that they feel emotion along with them in the film. When I hear that people cry during the film, that just tells me that they are emotionally invested again and care. I think that there are too few films these days where people truly care about the characters that they're seeing up on screen. When I hear that people cried at the end, that just tells me that we've succeeded in giving people a really strong experience at the movies."
6 reasons it took 11 years for you to see \
11 years ago, Toy Story 2 made grown men cry when Jessie the cowgirl sang that Sarah McLachlan song about getting left behind. It even ended on the most bittersweet note possible. The toys would stay with Andy and accept that he'd outgrow them, but it would be fun while it lasted. Thanks, Pixar, for 11 years of abandonment issues.
This week, they finally deliver. Woody the cowboy, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie and the whole toy box will get abandoned by Andy, who goes off to college. They find themselves at a preschool with a slew of new toys, and a new adventure. Director Lee Unkrich spoke with us and explained why Toy Story 3 is worth the wait. The movie opens June 18.
They had to start from scratch
ToyStory3-4.jpg
Since the last Toy Story was made 11 years ago, the characters are no longer compatible with the operating system that produced Up. So you're seeing brand-new Buzzes and Woodys in Toy Story 3.
"It's kind of like when you try to open an old file on your computer from 10 years ago. Good luck being able to do it," Unkrich said. "Our software has advanced to the point now where all those old files cannot be opened and used anymore. So we had to completely reinvent every one of the characters and remodel them from scratch. It was interesting, because we wanted to keep them very much the same. We didn't want them to look noticeably different, but it gave us the opportunity to correct a lot of little things that we wished we had done better way back when and kind of put more detail into Woody and Buzz and all the characters. We had to do it carefully, because I didn't want the audience to feel like they were looking at characters that had had bad plastic surgery done on them."
There's more moving parts in a Buzz Lightyear now.
ToyStory3-3.jpg
The upgrades make the characters more complex. Unkrich walked us through the new Buzz Lightyear model. It sounds like something out of Transformers.
"He's always meant to be a toy, so even though he looks the same now as he used to, if you really look at the details, you can see that we've made him look like he's made up of lots of little different pieces of plastic that have been screwed together," Unkrich said. "Whereas the original Buzz, just the way he was modeled in the computer, it was a lot of pieces just kind of intersecting into each other. It was kind of more crudely done. Even though he looks good back then, he looks much better now. He looks much more like a realistic toy. We covered him with little microscratches and dirt scuffs and try to give him the look of a toy that's been thrown into a toy box for a lot of years and has been played with a lot over the years."
They had a bigger cast to manage.
ToyStory1.jpg
Toy Story 2 introduced a bunch of new characters who stayed in Andy's room. There's even more who join the gang in 3. It took the Pixar team time to come up with a story that fit them all in.
"It's not tough to give everyone something to do," Unkrich explained. "It's more tough to keep the focus on kind of the main characters. With so many characters, you can imagine the story could get really watered down and we'd have a hard time paying attention to the right characters. At the end of the day, we know that Woody's the main character in the film and Buzz and Jessie close behind him. So they get the lion's share of the lines and the moments in the film and then everybody else tapers off from there."
Jessie had issues.
ToyStory3-5.jpg
See above about Jessie's abandonment song. You thought she was sad the first time a kid gave her away to charity. Now she's got to go through it all again.
"We needed to stay true to her character and make sure we respected the fact that she had gone through that experience and had been abandoned by a kid before," Unkrich said. "So when they get into this situation at the beginning of the film, when Andy seemingly throws them away, it only made sense to have Jessie get really angry at herself for allowing herself to be put in the same kind of situation twice in her life."
They had to have a good idea.
ToyStory32.jpg
Pixar's not in the sequel business. They didn't even want to make Toy Story 2, but they had too good an idea to pass up. Then they didn't want to make Toy Story 3, but they finally had a good idea: Andy goes off to college.
"When we made the first Toy Story, a lot of people wanted to know when we were going to make a second one," Unkrich recalled. "At the time we said we had no interest in doing that. We just wanted to continue to make new films and tell new stories. But, I think it's a testament to these characters and how much people like them that they've stayed around so long and people have wanted to see new stories with them. We've done the heavy lifting of telling stories worthy of bringing out to the world."
BTW: Cars 2 is coming next year.
It had to have everything.
ToyStory3Andy.jpg
It's not enough to have an adventure. It's not enough to have lots of jokes. Toy Story 3 had to be the total package: funny, exciting, heartbreaking. That takes time.
"You have to find the right story," Unkrich said. "We had a story that we thought had a lot of potential to be emotional, but we have to do the work. We never set out with the goal of trying to make people feel strong emotions or cry or anything. It's just kind of where the story took us. We try to stay true to the characters and send them off on an interesting journey that's going to be challenging for them. I think it's just a testament to the fact that people care about the characters that we've created that they feel emotion along with them in the film. When I hear that people cry during the film, that just tells me that they are emotionally invested again and care. I think that there are too few films these days where people truly care about the characters that they're seeing up on screen. When I hear that people cried at the end, that just tells me that we've succeeded in giving people a really strong experience at the movies."
toy story 3
6 reasons it took 11 years for you to see Toy Story 3
6 reasons it took 11 years for you to see \Toy Story 3\<\/i\>
11 years ago, Toy Story 2 made grown men cry when Jessie the cowgirl sang that Sarah McLachlan song about getting left behind. It even ended on the most bittersweet note possible. The toys would stay with Andy and accept that he'd outgrow them, but it would be fun while it lasted. Thanks, Pixar, for 11 years of abandonment issues.
This week, they finally deliver. Woody the cowboy, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie and the whole toy box will get abandoned by Andy, who goes off to college. They find themselves at a preschool with a slew of new toys, and a new adventure. Director Lee Unkrich spoke with us and explained why Toy Story 3 is worth the wait. The movie opens June 18.
They had to start from scratch
ToyStory3-4.jpg
Since the last Toy Story was made 11 years ago, the characters are no longer compatible with the operating system that produced Up. So you're seeing brand-new Buzzes and Woodys in Toy Story 3.
"It's kind of like when you try to open an old file on your computer from 10 years ago. Good luck being able to do it," Unkrich said. "Our software has advanced to the point now where all those old files cannot be opened and used anymore. So we had to completely reinvent every one of the characters and remodel them from scratch. It was interesting, because we wanted to keep them very much the same. We didn't want them to look noticeably different, but it gave us the opportunity to correct a lot of little things that we wished we had done better way back when and kind of put more detail into Woody and Buzz and all the characters. We had to do it carefully, because I didn't want the audience to feel like they were looking at characters that had had bad plastic surgery done on them."
There's more moving parts in a Buzz Lightyear now.
ToyStory3-3.jpg
The upgrades make the characters more complex. Unkrich walked us through the new Buzz Lightyear model. It sounds like something out of Transformers.
"He's always meant to be a toy, so even though he looks the same now as he used to, if you really look at the details, you can see that we've made him look like he's made up of lots of little different pieces of plastic that have been screwed together," Unkrich said. "Whereas the original Buzz, just the way he was modeled in the computer, it was a lot of pieces just kind of intersecting into each other. It was kind of more crudely done. Even though he looks good back then, he looks much better now. He looks much more like a realistic toy. We covered him with little microscratches and dirt scuffs and try to give him the look of a toy that's been thrown into a toy box for a lot of years and has been played with a lot over the years."
They had a bigger cast to manage.
ToyStory1.jpg
Toy Story 2 introduced a bunch of new characters who stayed in Andy's room. There's even more who join the gang in 3. It took the Pixar team time to come up with a story that fit them all in.
"It's not tough to give everyone something to do," Unkrich explained. "It's more tough to keep the focus on kind of the main characters. With so many characters, you can imagine the story could get really watered down and we'd have a hard time paying attention to the right characters. At the end of the day, we know that Woody's the main character in the film and Buzz and Jessie close behind him. So they get the lion's share of the lines and the moments in the film and then everybody else tapers off from there."
Jessie had issues.
ToyStory3-5.jpg
See above about Jessie's abandonment song. You thought she was sad the first time a kid gave her away to charity. Now she's got to go through it all again.
"We needed to stay true to her character and make sure we respected the fact that she had gone through that experience and had been abandoned by a kid before," Unkrich said. "So when they get into this situation at the beginning of the film, when Andy seemingly throws them away, it only made sense to have Jessie get really angry at herself for allowing herself to be put in the same kind of situation twice in her life."
They had to have a good idea.
ToyStory32.jpg
Pixar's not in the sequel business. They didn't even want to make Toy Story 2, but they had too good an idea to pass up. Then they didn't want to make Toy Story 3, but they finally had a good idea: Andy goes off to college.
"When we made the first Toy Story, a lot of people wanted to know when we were going to make a second one," Unkrich recalled. "At the time we said we had no interest in doing that. We just wanted to continue to make new films and tell new stories. But, I think it's a testament to these characters and how much people like them that they've stayed around so long and people have wanted to see new stories with them. We've done the heavy lifting of telling stories worthy of bringing out to the world."
BTW: Cars 2 is coming next year.
It had to have everything.
ToyStory3Andy.jpg
It's not enough to have an adventure. It's not enough to have lots of jokes. Toy Story 3 had to be the total package: funny, exciting, heartbreaking. That takes time.
"You have to find the right story," Unkrich said. "We had a story that we thought had a lot of potential to be emotional, but we have to do the work. We never set out with the goal of trying to make people feel strong emotions or cry or anything. It's just kind of where the story took us. We try to stay true to the characters and send them off on an interesting journey that's going to be challenging for them. I think it's just a testament to the fact that people care about the characters that we've created that they feel emotion along with them in the film. When I hear that people cry during the film, that just tells me that they are emotionally invested again and care. I think that there are too few films these days where people truly care about the characters that they're seeing up on screen. When I hear that people cried at the end, that just tells me that we've succeeded in giving people a really strong experience at the movies."
6 reasons it took 11 years for you to see \
11 years ago, Toy Story 2 made grown men cry when Jessie the cowgirl sang that Sarah McLachlan song about getting left behind. It even ended on the most bittersweet note possible. The toys would stay with Andy and accept that he'd outgrow them, but it would be fun while it lasted. Thanks, Pixar, for 11 years of abandonment issues.
This week, they finally deliver. Woody the cowboy, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie and the whole toy box will get abandoned by Andy, who goes off to college. They find themselves at a preschool with a slew of new toys, and a new adventure. Director Lee Unkrich spoke with us and explained why Toy Story 3 is worth the wait. The movie opens June 18.
They had to start from scratch
ToyStory3-4.jpg
Since the last Toy Story was made 11 years ago, the characters are no longer compatible with the operating system that produced Up. So you're seeing brand-new Buzzes and Woodys in Toy Story 3.
"It's kind of like when you try to open an old file on your computer from 10 years ago. Good luck being able to do it," Unkrich said. "Our software has advanced to the point now where all those old files cannot be opened and used anymore. So we had to completely reinvent every one of the characters and remodel them from scratch. It was interesting, because we wanted to keep them very much the same. We didn't want them to look noticeably different, but it gave us the opportunity to correct a lot of little things that we wished we had done better way back when and kind of put more detail into Woody and Buzz and all the characters. We had to do it carefully, because I didn't want the audience to feel like they were looking at characters that had had bad plastic surgery done on them."
There's more moving parts in a Buzz Lightyear now.
ToyStory3-3.jpg
The upgrades make the characters more complex. Unkrich walked us through the new Buzz Lightyear model. It sounds like something out of Transformers.
"He's always meant to be a toy, so even though he looks the same now as he used to, if you really look at the details, you can see that we've made him look like he's made up of lots of little different pieces of plastic that have been screwed together," Unkrich said. "Whereas the original Buzz, just the way he was modeled in the computer, it was a lot of pieces just kind of intersecting into each other. It was kind of more crudely done. Even though he looks good back then, he looks much better now. He looks much more like a realistic toy. We covered him with little microscratches and dirt scuffs and try to give him the look of a toy that's been thrown into a toy box for a lot of years and has been played with a lot over the years."
They had a bigger cast to manage.
ToyStory1.jpg
Toy Story 2 introduced a bunch of new characters who stayed in Andy's room. There's even more who join the gang in 3. It took the Pixar team time to come up with a story that fit them all in.
"It's not tough to give everyone something to do," Unkrich explained. "It's more tough to keep the focus on kind of the main characters. With so many characters, you can imagine the story could get really watered down and we'd have a hard time paying attention to the right characters. At the end of the day, we know that Woody's the main character in the film and Buzz and Jessie close behind him. So they get the lion's share of the lines and the moments in the film and then everybody else tapers off from there."
Jessie had issues.
ToyStory3-5.jpg
See above about Jessie's abandonment song. You thought she was sad the first time a kid gave her away to charity. Now she's got to go through it all again.
"We needed to stay true to her character and make sure we respected the fact that she had gone through that experience and had been abandoned by a kid before," Unkrich said. "So when they get into this situation at the beginning of the film, when Andy seemingly throws them away, it only made sense to have Jessie get really angry at herself for allowing herself to be put in the same kind of situation twice in her life."
They had to have a good idea.
ToyStory32.jpg
Pixar's not in the sequel business. They didn't even want to make Toy Story 2, but they had too good an idea to pass up. Then they didn't want to make Toy Story 3, but they finally had a good idea: Andy goes off to college.
"When we made the first Toy Story, a lot of people wanted to know when we were going to make a second one," Unkrich recalled. "At the time we said we had no interest in doing that. We just wanted to continue to make new films and tell new stories. But, I think it's a testament to these characters and how much people like them that they've stayed around so long and people have wanted to see new stories with them. We've done the heavy lifting of telling stories worthy of bringing out to the world."
BTW: Cars 2 is coming next year.
It had to have everything.
ToyStory3Andy.jpg
It's not enough to have an adventure. It's not enough to have lots of jokes. Toy Story 3 had to be the total package: funny, exciting, heartbreaking. That takes time.
"You have to find the right story," Unkrich said. "We had a story that we thought had a lot of potential to be emotional, but we have to do the work. We never set out with the goal of trying to make people feel strong emotions or cry or anything. It's just kind of where the story took us. We try to stay true to the characters and send them off on an interesting journey that's going to be challenging for them. I think it's just a testament to the fact that people care about the characters that we've created that they feel emotion along with them in the film. When I hear that people cry during the film, that just tells me that they are emotionally invested again and care. I think that there are too few films these days where people truly care about the characters that they're seeing up on screen. When I hear that people cried at the end, that just tells me that we've succeeded in giving people a really strong experience at the movies."
Snoop Dogg seduces Sookie in NSFW True Blood music video
We're not sure how Bon Temps' telepath will respond—but we do know that Sookie's beloved vampire Bill had better watch out. Sings Snoop: "We'll do it in the daytime/Bill won't know a thing."
Friday, June 18, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
free Gameloft Games here....just click
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- The official mobile game of Ubisoft’s new next generation console game
- New powers to perform and master: Restore life to plants, stop time and more
- Thrilling chase levels where you have to run and avoid obstacles to escape your enemy
- New fighting skills: Cast spectacular spells, throw enemies, steal their weapons and more
- 9 varied and detailed locations including the Palace, Fortress, Ruins and Catacombs
- Interactive environments: Climb columns, discover secret rooms & destroy objects
- 4 Gameplay Styles: Explore, fight, race and fly through this action-packed platformer!
- 3 Playable Characters: Play as Shrek, Donkey and Fiona.
- 11 Levels of Epic Adventure: Venture through the film’s storyline and extra scenes.
- Old Friends & New Enemies: Encounter your favorite characters as never before, from Shrek as a “real ogre” to Fiona as leader of the Ogre Resistance to the down-and-out Donkey (and there’s even more of Puss in Boots to love)!
- Authentic Movie Environments: Travel throughout the dark alternate world of evil Rumpel’s Far Far Away!
- Ogre-sized Laughs: Enjoy the unique humor you expect from Shrek & friends, from gameplay antics and dialogue to unique cut-scenes and special character animations!
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