my first 3DS max learning.. :p

This is my first 3ds max learning.. but I save it in jpg and the low quality.. :p lol

with 3 object.. the first one is I made 2 tube.. and then I made mose and connected it for two tubes..

Australia TV host announces wrong winner for Top Model

Murdoch, the daughter-in-law of media baron Rupert Murdoch, was close to tears after realising she had mistakenly announced 19-year old Kelsey Martinovich as the winner of the Foxtel TV series during the live finale.

Sydney: Producers of Australia’s Next Top Model have been left red faced after supermodel host Sarah Murdoch announced the wrong winner in what newspapers said was the country’s most awkward TV moment.

Murdoch, the daughter-in-law of media baron Rupert Murdoch, was close to tears after realising she had mistakenly announced 19-year old Kelsey Martinovich as the winner of the Foxtel TV series during the live finale.

Martinovich had completed her acceptance speech before Murdoch backtracked on stage to reveal the real winner from a public vote was 18-year-old Gold Coast rival Amanda Ware.

"I don't know what to say right now. I'm feeling a bit sick about this," Murdoch told a 2,000-strong live audience.

"I'm so sorry. Oh my God, I don't know what to say. This is what happens when you have live TV folks, this is insane, insane, insane."

Foxtel is owned by Australian phone company Telstra, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and Consolidated Media Holdings.

Foxtel publicity director Jamie Campbell on Wednesday blamed a miscommunication between series directors in a broadcasting truck control room and Murdoch on stage.

Series judge and fashion designer Alex Perry told Sydney radio that Murdoch had made a genuine mistake, denying accusations in media reports that the bizarre mix-up was a publicity stunt.

"Everybody wants to tag something sinister on it and say it was done for ratings. I know Sarah and I know the executive producer. It's just not their style," Perry said.

Martinovich may have had a short-lived reign as Australia's Next Top Model, but it wasn't all bad news as Foxtel said she would receive a A$20,000 ($19,360) cash prize and trip to New York as consolation, almost matching Ware's series spoils.

Ware won an appearance in Harpers Bazaar magazine, a modelling contract, A$20,000, a trip to New York and a car.

'No confirmed deaths' after massive Mexican landslide

MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities say there are no confirmed deaths and only 11 missing in a landslide in the southern state of Oaxaca, backing off earlier estimates of possibly hundreds buried or dead.

Interior Minister Francisco Blake and Oaxaca Gov Ulises Ruiz say three adults and eight children are missing following the mudslide early Tuesday.

The officials spoke to Mexico's Televisa television network.

Oaxaca state Civil Protection operations coordinator Luis Marin EARLIERsaid 100 people were confirmed missing, but Oaxaca Governor Ulises Ruiz told the Televisa television network 500 to 1,000 people could be buried.

At least 100 homes were buried, and residents who made it out have had no success in digging out their neighbours, said Donato Vargas, an official in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec reached by a satellite telephone.

"We have been using a backhoe but there is a lot of mud. We can't even see the homes, we can't hear shouts, we can't hear anything," he said.

The landslide reportedly struck at about 4am on Tuesday local time (10pm Tuesday NZT).

An eighth person was killed in another mudslide in the state of Oaxaca. Weeks of heavy rains, including those brought by Hurricane Karl and Tropical Storm Matthew, have caused havoc and dozens of other deaths in southern Mexico, Central America and parts of South America.

Vargas said the slide dragged houses packed with sleeping families some 400 metres downhill, along with cars, livestock and light poles.

"We were all sleeping and all I heard was a loud noise and when I left the house I saw that the hill had fallen," Vargas said. "We were left without electricity, without telephone and we couldn't help them. There was no way to move the mud."

Vargas said he contacted the governor on the town's satellite phone but that eight hours after the slide no rescue crews had reached the area.

"There is no way to communicate, the roads are shut down. All we have is this satellite phone," Vargas said.

Meanwhile, Vargas said there is another hill about to give way in another area of the community of 9,000 people.

"We are in a serious risk situation," Vargas said. "In all of our neighbourhoods there are houses and roads cracked and about to fall."

Rescuers were flying in from Mexico City and emergency personnel have been sent to the town about 80 kilometres east of Oaxaca, the closest large city.

"There has been lots of rain, rivers have overflowed and we're having a hard time reaching the area because there are landslides on the roads," Ruiz said.

The federal Interior Department issued a statement that rescue workers from the army, navy and federal police were being flown to the area with rescue dogs and heavy machinery. Marin, the Oaxaca emergency official, said rescue crews had yet to reach the area.

President Felipe Calderon offered his condolences in a statement and said Interior Minister Francisco Blake would be in charge of coordinating federal rescue efforts.

Marin said on Tuesday that another slide, in the community of Villa Hidalgo, killed at least one person.

Huge swaths of riverside communities in southern Mexico were still under water on Tuesday - flooding exacerbated by the passage of Karl and Matthew. Before the landslide, at least 15 deaths in Mexico were blamed on the hurricane.

In Colombia, about 30 people were buried on Monday by a landslide northwest of Bogota, the capital. Many were changing from one bus to another because a mountain road was blocked.

In Honduras, authorities said four people, including a child, drowned in rivers and creeks swollen by Tropical Storm Matthew. The National Emergencies Commission said Tuesday that three adults died in the town of El Oregano and a 10-year-old child in the Caribbean coast town of La Lima.

Scientists still concerned about dying honey bees

For the better part of a decade, honey bees have been disappearing in many areas of the world and scientists are still trying to discover why.

In the face of global warming, economic recovery, unemployment, and the instability of our current political system, people may ask: What’s the big deal about a few missing bees?

It is a very big deal.

European honey bees, act as nature’s propagator’s of 75% of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and most everything that is fresh-harvested for human consumption. Approximately 100 crops are dependent upon pollination by bees or else they would fail to produce anything more than foliage.

According to beekeepers in the Western regions, there has been a gradual reduction of bee hive populations for years, but in 2007 a massive die-off got the world’s attention. It was reported to be a loss of 30-70% of hives of European honey bee colonies in the U.S. and parts of Canada.

The phenomenon was labeled Colony Collapse Disorder.

According to a recent PBS report, CCD has now spread to China, South America, and India.
Scientists now believe that CCD is a syndrome, rather than a disease and it may be caused by a combination of environmental and physiological factors.

Furthermore, in 2009, scientists discovered that an indicator for an impaired protein production is a common denominator in bees affected by CCD. It is still undetermined what may cure the problem.
Empty hives not only bode poorly for agriculture, but an entire industry of beekeepers, who make their living with contracts to transfer their hives to fields and orchards for the pollination services the worker-bees provide--have been economically devastated.

In some areas of England, stealing hives for the black market has begun to take hold. In Staffordshire a theft of 18 hives—about 800,000 bees, was stolen, depriving the owner of income from pollinating services and honey sales.

In addition, on September 15, 2010, about $10,000 worth of honey was stolen from David Neel of Freeland, Washington, depriving him and his family of that income. All of his bees were left, but trays full of honey were taken and empty trays were left in their place, leaving authorities to believe that another experienced bee keeper stole the honey. The honey will most likely be sold under another label, making it difficult to track the thief.

The loss of honey bees could have an enormous horticultural and economic affect on the world’s food supply.

In a related situation, bats have been disappearing, with a similar mysterious type of colony collapse. Bats eat tons of insects that can cause extensive damage to agricultural crops.

According to a 2010 study by the British Beekeepers Association, 80% of the bee population in their region made it through the severe winter, which offers some good news, but many experts agree that if the bees and bats were to disappear--the impact on the human race would be catastrophic.

September 23th, 2010

About My Life

This is the first time I got entrepreneur subject at my university, my lecturer was very excited to teach us.. His sound made us listen to him carefuly.
I like the way he teach us, different with other lecturer... Actualy he didn't teach us like the others but he share to us about his life experience in mean to motivate us..

at the first he dare us to answer his question in 10 seconds. if anybody who couldn't answer his question, that people must go out from class and may not come back to the class.. the question is simple "What are your goal?"..

I took computer science subject at my university, it means all my classmate is also took the same subject like me.. one of my classmate answered the lecturer's question
"I want to be doctor"..
lol I thought that he must get a wrong subject if he want to be a doctor.. hahaha...
but afterall, this is the second lecturer that I admire..
very full of motivation for recharge our spirit..

Facebook is spreading like the plague

Pass the penicillin.

Facebook is a social disease, not a social network.

It’s a soul-sapping time-suck that’s turning users into self-absorbed, online zombies, obsessed with “friends,” status updates and Farmville.

That’s when it isn’t ruining your marriage, setting you up for a robbery or breeding bullies.

No wonder the theme song to “The Social Network” movie is Radiohead’s “Creep.”

The flick, based on the non-fiction book by Ben Mezrich, and opening in theaters Oct.1, is a scathing inside look at the birth of e-voyeurism.

Hatched by Harvard alum Mark Zuckerberg (well, maybe - the film says he stole the idea), the viral hot zone spawned an online revolution that changed the way we communicate, work and play.

But before they erect a statue of billionaire Zuckerberg hunched over a laptop in Harvard Yard, let’s remember one thing: Facebook is killing us.

We don’t live - we friend, poke, post and link. We think in status updates, share way too much personal information and stalk high school crushes.

And like a virulent social disease, Facebook is spreading across the planet - there are 500 million users. And counting.

The Ivy Leaguers at Harvard were Patient Zero, who used it as a way to look up co-eds online.

Then, the infection spread. Suddenly, your Dad was poking you and your crazy cousin was posting Glenn Beck clips. You learned that your friend Jen didn’t really do a whole lot at work and your buddy Steve has a drinking problem. Meanwhile, your kids were posting half-naked photos of themselves.

Your colleague got robbed because she spent a week posting pictures while vacationing in Capri. And you can’t stop being jealous of the high school friend with the perfect job, family and recently renovated kitchen.

It gets worse, of course. Most recently, a group of boys gang-raped a girl and posted the photos on Facebook, and a string of burglaries in New Hampshire were linked to the site.

And does anyone really need to know that their friends “like” a certain brand of doughnut?

Our only hope is that a Facebook backlash will cleanse the landscape, like a crop-duster full of Purell. I’ve broached this idea with some friends. And guess what? They “liked” it.

My holiday Photograph

Holiday at cisarua, behind Safari zoo.. lol :p

Wanna see all the pic?

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It will redirect you into my photography page...

East Jerusalem clash turns deadly

A Palestinian has been killed after a Jewish settlement guard opened fire at a group of men in an Arab neighbourhood of East Jerusalem.

The incident occurred after clashes broke out between Jewish settlers and a number of local Palestinians in the Silwan neighbourhood, Al Jazeera's Dan Nolan reported from Jerusalem.

Israeli policemen fired rubber-coated bullets and teargas at stone-throwing Palestinian protesters after the shooting, leaving several Palestinians wounded.

"Early this morning a private security guard drove in his car when the road was blocked with garbage. Cans and stones were throne at him from an upper level by tens of people," Mickey Rosenfeld, an Israeli police spokesman, said.

"The security guard pulled his gun and shot dead a 32 year-old local citizen. The man who was killed is known to the police. His body was taken for examination. The security guard was arrested. The investigation is still in process," he said.

Silwan, a crowded Arab neighbourhood of roughly 45,000 Arabs, is one of the most volatile areas of East Jerusalem, which Israel occupied in 1967 and later annexed in a move not recognised by the international community.

Demolition plans

Plans to demolish Palestinian homes to make way for an archaeological park have triggered violent protests in the past.

The Jerusalem city council gave the green light in June for the controversial project which would be under the control of Elad, a group dedicated to expanding Jewish ownership in east Jerusalem.

Under the plan, 22 homes would be razed, while another 66 would be legalised.

The park is planned on what is believed to be the site of ancient Jerusalem during the reigns of the biblical kings David and Solomon.

Wednesday's shooting highlighted the challenges Israeli and Palestinian negotiators face in peace talks which resumed on September 2 after a 20-month hiatus.

The issue of settlements has been one of the thorniest in peace efforts.

The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, to be illegal.

The Palestinians want a freeze on all settlement construction but are also pushing for a renewal of a partial moratorium on settlement building that will end within days, even though the curbs do not cover east Jerusalem.

The Israeli government does not consider Jewish residents of East Jerusalem to be settlers as it views the whole of the Holy City as its "eternal and indivisible capital".

Source:

Al Jazeera

Bridge collapses near Delhi Games stadium

New Delhi: A footbridge under construction near the Commonwealth Games main stadium in India's capital collapsed on Tuesday, injuring at least 23 construction workers and throwing further doubt on the viability of next month's multination games.
The injured people, five of them in serious condition, were taken to hospitals, police officer H.G.S. Dhaliwal said.
The overhead bridge was to connect a parking lot with the main Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, which is to host opening and closing ceremonies as well as showpiece athletic events for the October 3-14 games.

Delays


Alarming delays in completion of the athletes' village has prompted fresh fears about the viability of the Commonwealth Games, with a New Zealand delegate saying on Tuesday that next month's event "may not happen."
Even before New Zealand said it may be impossible to make the full village habitable in the two days before it officially opens to the first of 7,000 athletes and officials, Commonwealth Games Federation chief Michael Fennell had contacted the Indian government urging immediate action to finish "seriously compromised" accommodation that had shocked foreign visitors.
New Zealand team manager Dave Currie told radio network newstalkZB on Tuesday that New Delhi organisers "are in severe difficulties".
"In the time frame that is left, unless there is tremendous effort and energy and problem-solving ability to get it done, it's going to be extremely hard to get across the line," he said.
Currie said New Zealand would consult with other countries before making a final decision on whether it can take part in the October 3-14 games.
"That's not a decision that we'll make (alone) but there are some realities," he said. "If the village is not ready and athletes can't come, obviously the implications of that are that it's not going to happen."
His fears were echoed by Australia's chef de mission, retired marathon runner Steve Moneghetti, after he had talks with Australian Commonwealth Games Association chief executive Perry Crosswhite, who had checked into the village.
Moneghetti told reporters in Melbourne that Indian organisers "have got two days to do what's probably going to take about two weeks."
"When I spoke to Perry on Monday he said there were some furnishings, some problems with the information technology that he was concerned about ... but he didn't seem that concerned about the overall condition of the village," Moneghetti was quoted as saying. "It's probably not up to western standards ... but hopefully it will be suitable for the athletes."
New Zealand, along with Canada, Scotland and Ireland, described the accommodation as "unlivable" and the 300-strong New Zealand contingent of athletes and officials had been allocated new quarters.
Fennell said advance parties from the international Commonwealth Games Associations had been impressed with the international zone and main dining area within the village, "however, the condition of the residential zone has shocked the majority of CGAs that are in Delhi."
"Despite (the CGAs) attempts to work with the organising committee in a constructive manner since arriving on Sept. 15, significant operational matters remain unaddressed," Fennell said in a statement. "The problems are arising because deadlines for the completion of the village have been consistently pushed out. Now, the high security around the site, while vital, is slowing progress and complicating solutions."
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was hopeful games organisers would be able to remedy the outstanding issues but did not rule out a withdrawal from the event.
Key said it was "unlikely that New Zealand would make a call that other countries weren't prepared to make."
"The areas (of concern) aren't insurmountable although there are real concerns about whether they can be achieved in the timeframe," Key said.
"They're really malfunctioning buildings and the like, so whether those things can be fixed up is what the New Zealand (officials) will look at."
The buildup to the games has been plagued by problems with construction of venues and infrastructure falling well behind schedule, causing concern over the safety and quality of the buildings and speculation of corruption in the awarding of contracts and structural compliance certificates.
But the delays in construction have been overshadowed more recently by safety concerns, heightened on the weekend after two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle shot and wounded two tourists near the Jama Masjid, one of India's biggest mosques.
Police patrols have been increased and a massive hunt for the gunmen launched. The two injured tourists were recovering from their injuries and were expected to leave the hospital later this week.

Yahoo Going Green Technology in Upstate NY.

Yahoo is going green with Server warehouses in Upstate New York. Located near Niagra Falls in Lockport New York. The buildings use efficient ways to cool the up to 50,000 servers that will be stored there. They received a 9.9 million dollar grant from the government for using green technologies.

The buildings will use three green techniques to make the job of cooling the servers more efficient, making them up to 40 percent more efficient than other data centers.

The design of the buildings are built in a way to catch the wind as it passes over the roof. This gives the buildings a ‘chicken coop’ design. Solar panels are going to be installed to provide electricity for the IT gear. The most used part of cooling a data center is water. The buildings structural design will eliminate the water cooling needs. Also a refrigerant is being developed for use in server buildings.

Classic American Food: Macaroni & Cheese

Who doesn't dream of a big bowl of Macaroni & Cheese from time to time? This classic American food is a favorite of children, teens, and adults. It can be a side dish or a main dish, paired alongside fried chicken or just a tall glass of white frothy milk. The foundation of Macaroni & Cheese is made up of two ingredients: the curved, tubular pasta known as macaroni and gooey cheddar cheese. According to food historians, macaroni was invented in China and brought to Italy by Marco Polo, who cooked and served it with cheese in Italian homes and restaurants for over 500 years. By the eighteenth century, the dish became popular throughout...

Who Invented the Macintosh?

As invention has shifted from the singular genius to the corporate R&D lab, the notion of the true creator has become more slippery. For instance, who invented the Macintosh?

Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original Macintosh team members essentially asks that same question in his first-hand account of the origin of the Mac. Was it Jef Raskin, who came up with the basic idea, the soul of the project? (But as Andy notes, "Jef did not want to incorporate what became the two most definitive aspects of Macintosh technology - the Motorola 68000 microprocessor and the mouse pointing device.") Steve Jobs, who took over and led the project? Burrell Smith, whose brilliant digital board design made it possible? Bill Atkinson, who designed the original interface?

It's a complicated issue, as we have a tendency to want to ascribe genius or credit to a single person. Alexander Graham Bell didn't invent the telephone in a solitary vacuum—Thomas Watson was crucial to the process, beyond receiving the first phone call. You might be surprised who Andy thinks deserves the most credit for the Mac, though.

Guinness World Record 2010

Most spoons balanced on a face

On May 4, 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, went on a shooting party in North Slob in County Wexford, Ireland. He became involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe, then later realized it was impossible to confirm in reference books. He then thought that a book supplying answers to such questions could be popular.

The first 197-page edition of the "Guinness Book of Records" was bound on Aug. 27, 1955, and went on to the top of the British best-seller list by Christmas. Over 400 million copies have sold since the first edition. The most recent one to hit the shelves is the "Guinness World Records 2010."

Most spoons balanced on a face The highest number is 17 and was achieved by Aaron Caissie (Canada) on the set of Lo Show Dei Record, in Milan, Italy, on April 18, 2009.


Heaviest limousine

The heaviest limousine is "Midnight Rider" weighing 22,933 kg (50,560 lb). It is 21.3 meters (70 feet) long and 4.1 meters (13 feet 8 inches) high. It was designed by Michael Machado and Pamela Bartholemew (both USA) in California and began operating on Sept. 3, 2004.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Federal Reserve Bank of New York terletak di 33 Liberty Steet, Manhattan, New York, Amerika Serikat. Di buka pada tanggal 16 November 1914. Disinilah terdapat vault ( ruang penyimpanan) emas terbesar di dunia. Di vault tersebut diestimasi terdapat 10 % dari cadangan emas di dunia atau sekitar 5000 metric tons emas deposit, yang bernilai USD 270 Milyar atau setara dengan Rp. 2.430 Triliun !!

Cadangan emas selain berasal dari Amerika Serikat sendiri juga merupakan titipan simpanan dari 36 negara lainnya, yang mempercayakan penyimpanannya di The Fed Bank of New York.
Tidak sembarangan orang dapat memasukinya apalagi mendokumentasikan tentang apa yang ada di dalam vault tersebut.