Thursday, December 22, 2011

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Truth about Chrismas

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The Truth About Christmas

In this series:

The Christmas Spirit Is Spreading—Why?
The Truth About Christmas
“The Truth Will Set You Free”!

The Christmas Spirit Is SpreadingWHY?

DO YOU look forward to Christmas? Or does its approach fill you with nervous apprehension? Millions of people ask: ‘Whom will I get gifts for? What should I buy? Can I afford it? For how long will I be paying off my debt?’
Despite such concerns, Christmas remains very popular. In fact, the celebration has even spread to non-Christian lands. In Japan most families now celebrate Christmas, not because of its religious significance, but purely as a festive occasion. In China “Santa Claus’s cheery red face is plastered in shop windows in major cities,” says The Wall Street Journal, adding: “Christmas fever is gripping China’s newly rising urban middle class as an excuse to shop, eat and party.”

In many parts of the world, Christmas has been a great boost for local economies. That is especially true of China, which is now “an export powerhouse of plastic trees, tinsel, twinkling lights and other yuletide trinkets,” says the Journal.
Predominantly Muslim lands also promote Christmaslike festivities, although not necessarily on December 25. In Ankara, Turkey, and Beirut, Lebanon, it is not unusual to see shop windows dressed with tinsel-covered evergreens and gift-wrapped packages. In Indonesia, hotels and malls sponsor festive events, and children can dine with Santa or have their picture taken with him.
In Western lands, Christmas is now largely secular and commercial, with many ads “blatantly pitched at children,” said Canada’s Royal Bank Letter. Granted, some people still attend Christmas services at a church. But it is the shopping malls, resonating with carols, that have become the new temples. Why the change? Could the reason be connected with the origin of Christmas? What are its roots?
Before discussing such questions, it would be good to read the Bible accounts on which Christmas Nativity scenes are supposedly based.

WHAT THE GOSPEL WRITERS SAY

The apostle Matthew: “After Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, look! astrologers from eastern parts came to Jerusalem, saying: ‘Where is the one born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when we were in the east, and we have come to do him obeisance.’ At hearing this King Herod was agitated.” So Herod asked “the chief priests . . . where the Christ was to be born.” On learning that it was “in Bethlehem,” Herod told the astrologers: “Go make a careful search for the young child, and when you have found it report back to me.”
Astrologers visiting Jesus

“They went their way; and, look! the star they had seen when they were in the east went ahead of them, until it came to a stop above where the young child was. . . . When they went into the house they saw the young child with Mary its mother.” After presenting Jesus with gifts, “they were given divine warning in a dream not to return to Herod, [so] they withdrew to their country by another way.”
“After they had withdrawn, look! Jehovah’s angel appeared in a dream to Joseph, saying: ‘Get up, take the young child and its mother and flee into Egypt . . .’ So he got up and took along the young child and its mother by night and withdrew . . . Then Herod, seeing he had been outwitted by the astrologers, fell into a great rage, and he sent out and had all the boys in Bethlehem and in all its districts done away with, from two years of age and under.”—Matthew 2:1-16.
The disciple Luke: Joseph “went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem, . . . to get registered with Mary . . . While they were there, . . . she gave birth to her son, the firstborn, and she bound him with cloth bands and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the lodging room.”
“There were also in that same country shepherds living out of doors and keeping watches in the night over their flocks. And suddenly Jehovah’s angel stood by them, . . . and they became very fearful. But the angel said to them: ‘Have no fear, for, look! I am declaring to you good news of a great joy that all the people will have, because there was born to you today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, in David’s city.’” At that the shepherds “went with haste and found Mary as well as Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger.”—Luke 2:4-16.

Appeared in Awake! December 2010

Inside My Mental.

Thought

There's so many ventures and wonderful places in the world....i wonder if there's a special place that i may gain for my own actions and choices.....would i reside and a Utopia....or a dark place...someplace hidden and unwelcome ..a nightmare of some sort...i sat in the sun and did my daily bible reading ..placing myself into the thoughts and mind of Solomon the wise....There's ways i could've ended up up on my venture of life but reflecting back on my past choices i wouldn't stress on changing any passionate decisions I've made-never! I'm forwarding into my maturity and progress of life and coming out well i would say.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

State of the Art

REEM-C Humanoid Robot

When it comes to designing humanoid robot, your robot should look consistent from head to bottom. There are some dos and don’ts rules as well as various styles and approaches. Plasticpals tried to apply those rules for PAL Robotics’ contest to design their forthcoming humanoid robot, REEM-C.

REEM-C has a beautiful helmet that can be used to conceal the microphones. The face has been designed to be minimalist since not any of PAL Robotics’ earlier robot designs have integrated eyelids, brows or lips. The REEM-C logo serves as the chief indicator light and aids to brand the robot; however, it can change color in order to signify the robot’s internal status. Its shoulder joints are capable of rolling 90 degrees into this position even without the upper arm stabbing on the shoulder. Since the fingers are covered in semi-translucent rubber, they appear to be in lighter color.

Designer : Plasticpals

REEM-C’s elbow joint takes its inspiration from the SONY ORIO and is capable of bending even further. Its upper back is a concave oval from where the back-facing camera goes, whose main purpose is to track things going on behind it. In order to hide internal mechanisms, the back of the legs fold inside the calve just like the folding elbow. The legs are capable of rolling and twisting up to 90 degrees at the hip that would allow it to revolve 90 degrees to either right or left in just 2 steps.

Tuvie has received this project from our ‘Submit A Design‘ feature, where we welcome our readers to submit their design/concept for publication.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Final Fantasy Legacy

http://www.gamespot.com/final-fantasy-versus-xiii

Final Fantasy Versus XIII Story Finalized

Final Fantasy Versus XIII was first made public in 2006. Square Enix has shown screenshots and trailers. And now, Versus XIII's designer is happy to report, the game's story is finished.
In an interview in the recent issue of Dengeki magazine, it was revealed that the scenario for the game is apparently fleshed out and finalized. This actually shouldn't come as a surprise as the details of the story aren't the heavy lifting, but rather, the actual game programming.
The character designs have also been finalized, and the clothing designs are finished.
Keep in mind that the development of Final Fantasy XIII redirected resources from Versus XIII. So while Square Enix revealed Final Fantasy Versus XIII, the company still had to get Final Fantasy XIII out the door first.
Last year, Nomura said that development on the title was going "well", and the developers were working on various lighting tests for the game.
New Final Fantasy Versus XIII News [FFXIII.net via Nova Crystallis via CVG]

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Monday, November 28, 2011

What is Typography

1) Typography: The Essential Guide

What is typography? And why is it so important to graphic designers? As long as you spell everything correctly and make sure the message is what the client wants to see, why does the font style make any difference? Because everything you touch, see and create is impacted by the use of writing styles and techniques. There are a lot of reasons why designers need to have a solid foundation when it comes to the use of typography.

2) What is typography?

Typography refers to the arrangement of text on a page, and appears in some form or another in all instances of written communication. Depending on the purpose, typography can be used for optimum readability, impact, or an artistic statement. Some graphic designers work totally in text, and study typography extensively while they perfect their art. Quality typography can make a big difference in communications, because it can impact the way the reader sees and feels about the topic being discussed.

3)Typography Wiki

Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), letter-spacing (tracking) and kerning.

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"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.": - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.": - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.": - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.": - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great.": - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"His ignorance is encyclopedic": - Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"If a man does his best, what else is there?": - General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners.": - Charlton Heston (1924-2008)
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.": - Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.": - Robert Pirsig (1948-)
"Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.": - Saint Thomas Moore (1478-1535)
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.": - A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.": - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.": - Saint Augustine (354-430)
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.": - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.": - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.": - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.": - Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.": - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.": - Richard Dawkins (1941-)
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.": - Emile Zola (1840-1902)
"This book fills a much-needed gap.": - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review
"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.": - definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.": - e e cummings (1894-1962)
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it.": - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"Assassins!": - Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra
"I'll moider da bum.": - Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.": - Yogi Berra
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.": - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.": - Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.": - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.": - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.": - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.": - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.": - George Burns (1896-1996)
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.": - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
"There are no facts, only interpretations.": - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.": - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.": - Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.": - Bjarne Stroustrup
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.": - Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.": - Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.": - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
"Dancing is silent poetry.": - Simonides (556-468bc)
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.": - Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.": - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.": - Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.": - Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.": - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.": - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.": - Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)
"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.": - Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
"We have art to save ourselves from the truth.": - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.": - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.": - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite song
"I have nothing to declare except my genius.": - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.": - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.": - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.": - unknown
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship.": - Sharon Stone

Ordinary,Normal..Simple People

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
- Jimi Hendrix

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me !

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
- Confucius

Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.

Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.

Violence won’t solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.

I don’t know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.

The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.

The best mind-altering drug is truth.

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
- Henry Ward Beecher

A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk.

Guns don’t kill people — people do.

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I am what people would call a PlayStation "Fan Boy".I say this because of people have there views on what Next-Gen is to them and what they found special about there consoles that they own,I've had a Xbox didn't feel that they actually cared about the games as much,And that's what matters to me and to every REAL gamer out there is - It's about the games! Not flashy features that I can get from another device,Or money hungry companies that just want to sell you with flashy services. I've been playing games on SONY PlayStation since I was 5,Never have I felt right at home with people who share the same vision and love for games such as myself,With Sony's PlayStation 4 system on official release next month,I can only guess how perfect and innovative this will be to experience the power of PlayStation on the new PlayStation 4 console.

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