Bali : Island of Paradise

Getting great shots with a GoPro Camera is just the beginning. With the free GoPro App and GoPro Studio video editing software, it's easier than ever to capture incredible footage, create pro-quality content and share it with the world.
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The Situation at Fukushima

A major earthquake on 11 March 2011 caused a 15-metre tsunami to strike the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Japan's Tohoku coast, disabling the power supply and heat sinks, thereby triggering a nuclear accident. The reactors involved were boiling water units of a 1960s design owned and operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company and supplied by GE, Toshiba and Hitachi. Reactors 1-4 came into commercial operation 1971-78. Without cooling water, the cores of units 1, 2 and 3 overheated and largely melted in the first three days. Hydrogen generated by this high-temperature process caused explosions in the upper service floors of reactor buildings at units 1 and 3. Unit 4 had not been operating, but was affected by a hydrogen explosion due to gas back-flow from unit 3. All four reactors are written off. Two other reactors at the plant were not involved in the accident. The major accident was rated at Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale due to high radioactive releases to air in the first few days. The bulk of releases occurred with the explosions, while a leak of contaminated water to sea continued for two months. Further releases of radioactivity to the air were brought to insignificant levels before the end of 2011, although much radioactivity remains dispersed on the ground in the surrounding area.
  Effects on people
Significant amounts of radioactivity were released, but prompt evacuation from the immediate area made sure that no member of the public received enough exposure to cause harm. Some 160,000 people were evacuated from their homes and only in 2012 were some allowed limited return. Certain areas are still off limits but the Japanese government has announced it is ready to lift the evacuation order on the first nearby town in April. Radiation was never expected to have any measureable effect on the health of the population and this was confirmed in 2013 by an estimation from the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) that no person in Fukushima prefecture would be exposed, through the environment or their food, to more than 10 mSv in their entire lifetime. This is one tenth of the level at which health effects are known to become more likely, and therefore no measureable increase in cancer rates is expected. The government continues to monitor the health of all Fukushima residents. Stress, worry and the social problems of relocation have been repeatedly identified as the only likely causes of ill health.
  Effects on the sea, fishing and food
Groundwater travels naturally from the land to the sea and, in doing so is believed to mingle with heavily contaminated water in the basements of the power plant buildings. This continues to sea and a major effort is underway to identify the routes it is taking and manage groundwater to reduce this to the maximum extent possible. A silt fence has long been in place to prevent contamination reaching the open sea and the diluting effects of ocean currents mean that radioactivity cannot be detected in seawater beyond the plant harbour. Radioactive material continues to run off from the land through rivers to the sea and can be found in certain species of fish. However, all food from affected areas has been strictly monitored since the accident and prevented from sale if in excess of highly conservative standards.
  Current situation

It is presumed that the remains of the reactor cores (molten corium or fuel debris) are within the buildings and stably cooled by water circulation. A large water treatment plant was built to cope with the fact that this water becomes contaminated by the core materials in the destroyed reactors. Also there is considerable storage capacity built at the site to hold decontaminated water and avoid its release. Management of extensive water storage at various levels of radioactivity is becoming a challenge that has been given much media attention. Nitrogen is being injected into all three reactors to ensure inert atmosphere there and prevent any chance of further hydrogen explosions. Nuclear fuel in storage pools is being stably cooled and is believed not to have been significantly damaged. Removal of fuel from the storage pool in unit 4 began in November 2013.
  Main activity
The priority is removal of used fuel from the four storage pools at the top of the reactor buildings and this is well underway at unit 4. In about ten years Japanese technicians expect to be ready to begin removal of the melted core material from inside units 1-3. The four reactors will be decommissioned in 30-40 years, which is typical for any nuclear facility.

 Source : World Nuclear News

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Indonesian Totebag Design

This Indonesian totebag design has been created by Meilina Utomo. 
Should you have any question or suggestion, please leave comments here. 
Really appreciate your inspiring comments.

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Simple Tutorial to 3D Drawing of a Fruit

While I am doing exercises to make Animation designs as usual, you can also try to 3D drawing as I describe below.
Step 1
In Adobe InDesign CS3 create New Document. Then click Window>Object & Layout>Pathfinder
Step 2
Draw a circle with Pen Tool. From Pathfinder box select Elliptical icon to fix the circle.
Step 3
Fill the circle with Red color. Then save it in your computer Document., for example Fruit.jpg
Step 4
In Adobe Illustrator CS3 open Fruit.jpg from your Document File . Then draw a smaller circle in it and select Yellow color to fill in.
Step 5
Still in Adobe Illustrator CS3 click Effect>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Then type 50.0 for Radius.
Step 6.
 Draw another more smaller circle for putting the fruit stalk and fill with Green color. Click Effect>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Then type 10.0 for Radius.
Step 7.
 Draw the fruit stalk with Pen Tool and fill with Brown color. Click again Effect>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Then type 2.0 for Radius.
Step 8.
Done.Save your Fruit drawing in your Computer.

Happy Drawing !

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Ancient Park

Exercising to drawing animation, I have tried to combine two video clips. I am still waiting for encouraging comments. Thank you so much.

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Bat Cave

There are several caves around the Bat Cave which located in Purbalingga region, Central Jawa, Indonesia. A short walk turn right onto Chest Lawa Cave , the cave looks like of bat spread its wings , then called Dada Lawa Cave . Out of the Dada Lawa Cave we will turn right through the shower and Spring . According to folklore if you want to keep youthful face then wash here. Believe it or not.
Through the narrow hallway leading towards the bridge kept out , then we reach the Cave Cepet , why so named , because supposedly the cave entrance is often lost and difficult to get out . Then we exit through the narrow hallway leading to the cave Ratu Ayu . As long as we entered the cave , we will still feel fresh because of the large cave vents always blow air like air cooler . We feel as if it reduces fatigue of the visitors. So we did not feel tired through the about 1.300 m of cave long.
Rancid smell of bat droppings stung our noses down the mouth of the cave . We had to use a ladder to get into the cave mouth . Looking ahead , we saw only darkness around us. I immediately lit a torch that had been prepared while Surip burn incense . Bleber .. beleberrr ... The sound of flapping wings of hundreds of bats hanging around above our heads . Maybe the fire torch and flashlight disturb the peace of their sleep . We continue the journey . Because the room we had to walk a narrow ducking . If you encounter a place that is somewhat relieved , time to stand up and take a breath . It's nothing to walk while crouching turns make us sore waist and thighs all . The farther to get into, the more bat droppings on the floor of the cave . So many, dirt that may have accumulated decades and mixed with water to form slurry flow . Some parts even have it up to our waist .
Unlike Goa Lawa , Goa Lorong Kereta relatively smooth . Such as made by humans . However, the allegations were immediately vanished when we saw the form of a layer of earth in the form of a line along the right side of the cave .
 " There was no man be able to make this kind of artwork ," said Surip and Muhtadi . From the Muhtadi’s search results Muhtadi ,
 Lorong Kereta Cave has a length of about 1500 meters . It takes approximately 1 hour for the way to the finish . It's just that we have not worked out at the end of the cave . In the early part of the quarter , there was a section of the cave covered with mud up to chest height . And unfortunately we do not quite carry the equipment and preparation to pass . We were forced to turn around after resting for a moment to take a picture .
Bringing a powerful flashlight would be more likely to help you when through these caves . Because the smoke torch will only make our eyes sore and attract the attention of the sleeping bats . Find a Golden Doll cave located in the lower layers of the last cave corridor . Ir’s about five meters deeper . The most interesting object in this cave is the presence of golden doll statue in it . 

Source : http://purbalinggapariwisata-wisata.blogspot.com/2010/05/wisata-gua-lawa.html

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Paperclay Recipe

The models of stop motion animation can be made from paper clay. So you can create several models easily.

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