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Danish design firm <a href="http://www.monstrum.dk/#/projekter/hgans-coaster" style="color: red;">Monstrum</a>, founded by Ole B. Nielsen and Christian Jensen, has dedicated itself to creating safe, stimulating, and beautifully designed playgrounds for children. They say, "playground design should be a reflection of the world surrounding us. We see the world as a place full of colour...Why only play on a monky frame and a sandbox, when you can play in a moon crater or a submarine or a giant spider or an enormous snail or a Trojans horse or a rocket or an ant or a princess castle. The fantasy is infinite."<br />
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The GoVinci Backpack features a clear frame that lets kids display their artwork. To add drawings simply undo the two top corners of the frame and slide in your tot’s colorful creation. Love it. This is quite the conversation starter on the way to school!</div>
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One of the most famous surfaces in mathematics, <a href="http://www.math.hmc.edu/%7Egu/curves_and_surfaces/surfaces/moebius.html" style="color: red;" target="_blank">The Mobius Strip</a>
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Steel beams form an eclectic grid interwoven with an elaborate system of 18 roadways, including one 6 lane freeway, and HO scale train tracks… According to Burden, “The noise, the continuous flow of the trains, and the speeding toy cars, produces in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st Century city.”</div>
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- The trains are out of the box electric train sets that run on electricity.</div>The Tiny Thumbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161360248040474330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079255977248168147.post-27768380621914831572012-03-16T00:57:00.000+08:002012-03-16T00:57:11.469+08:00Lego Millennium Falcon Assembly<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="256" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/36768371" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="455"></iframe><br />
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Francisco Prieto animates the assembly of a Lego Millennium Falcon, Lego set 10179 from Star Wars Ultimate collector series. He writes: “Created using 3ds max and V-ray. A very long work over 3 years, modeling all the pieces by myself. and rendered frame by frame.”</div>
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Wow..what an effort~!!! </div>The Tiny Thumbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161360248040474330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079255977248168147.post-10862621457983484782012-03-15T01:01:00.000+08:002012-03-16T01:01:11.833+08:00The Science Of Glow Sticks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The first 3/4 of the video are a chemistry experiment breakdown of what goes into a glow stick and what each of those ingredients is meant to do. But at the end, all of this coalesces into a fine explanation of the difference between light-absorbing dyes and fluorescent dyes. Come for the glow-stick “how to”, stay for the better understanding of how light works and how it influences what you see!</div>
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I really like this cartoon because today's cartoons lack things that old cartoons have so that's why I wanted to share this with you guys. Hope you & your kids enjoy it <span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: yellow;">^__^</span></div>The Tiny Thumbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161360248040474330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079255977248168147.post-85510187536305868862011-12-15T21:26:00.000+08:002011-12-15T21:26:26.869+08:00Cockroaches Infographic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Typography meets illustration. Letters introduced to characters.
Creative Typography by Vesa Sammalisto. Vesa is a Finnish illustrator
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I saw this animation on Imagina Trip Animation dvd like six years ago when I'm still studying at Limkokwing, and I didn't remember the title, I wished could see this one more time. Yesterday...One of my friend email me this clip. Oh Finally I can watch it again and again and again..</span></div>The Tiny Thumbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161360248040474330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079255977248168147.post-66936642099656310192011-12-03T01:30:00.000+08:002011-12-03T01:30:00.946+08:00Stream School Animation<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="256" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/30376094?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="455"></iframe>The Tiny Thumbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161360248040474330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079255977248168147.post-80404777963217125902011-12-02T14:09:00.001+08:002011-12-02T14:24:13.087+08:00From Happiness to Hell<div style="text-align: justify;">
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But three weeks after his third birthday everything changed in Ngati's life. His birth mother Maine Ngati decided she wanted him back from her cousin
Kura so Ngati was plucked from the only home he'd ever known. The South Auckland toddler was thrown into a completely unfamiliar
environment. A new home in Otara where there were four other children,
including a newborn baby. A home where there was a mattress on the floor but no blankets, and no Winnie the Pooh on the door. Ngati's new family spoke English. He had grown up speaking only Tongan
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The toilet-trained toddler suddenly started regularly wetting his pants
and developed a weeping ulcer the size of a man's hand on his bottom.
His birth mother sought no medical treatment, instead covering it with a
sanitary pad. Ngati was quickly transformed from a happy and confident boy to a
terrified child who would mess his pants then try to throw the evidence
out of the window to avoid the beating that would always follow. </div>
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Three short months after he moved in with his birth mother he was dead. </div>
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Pathologists have argued in court over the exact cause of his death, but there was no dispute he was covered in injuries. Graphic photographs taken during Ngati's post-mortem showed a body that
had suffered from repeated beatings. He had so many bruises that the
officer investigating his death stopped counting after 50. This week, Ngati's birth mother Maine Ngati and stepfather Teusila
Fa'asisila were found guilty of inflicting those injuries. Guilty of
Ngati's manslaughter. </div>
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A jury at the High Court in Auckland heard how Maine, 32, would punch
Ngati in the face, strike him with a stick and whack him around the head
when he was naughty. His 27-year-old stepfather beat him with whatever
weapon was lying nearby. Being naughty wasn't hard. Sometimes it was messing his pants. Other
times Ngati did not move fast enough or play a game the right way. Once
he didn't say "yes Mum". Another time he didn't jump like a frog. </div>
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On January 30 last year, the first of what would be the last series of
beatings in Ngati's short life occurred at 10am after he did a "kaka"
(faeces) in his pants. Maine later told police she was so angry she picked up a stick and beat
Ngati all over his body - except his head. There she used her hand. </div>
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After the beating Maine put her son in the bath. </div>
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Police say it would have been obvious at this point that Ngati was
injured and in pain. His left arm was so badly damaged that it had
swollen to twice its normal size. But instead of seeking help for her
son, Maine put him to bed. </div>
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Later in the day, Ngati awoke on his mattress on the floor needing to go
to the toilet. He tried to get up but was unable to due to his
injuries, in particular his arm which had no strength. Unable to hold on Ngati wet his pants - triggering yet another beating from his mother when she found him. By that night, when his stepfather showered him, police say it would
have been impossible not to have seen all of Ngati's injuries. </div>
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"He was beaten black and blue all over," said investigating officer Detective Senior Sergeant Richard Middleton. </div>
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"This is as bad as anything I have seen on a child or any human. The
only thing that was keeping him alive [at that stage] was his young
heart." </div>
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But Ngati's young heart could only take so much and the following
morning he received his final beatings - one from his mother and later
one from his stepfather. </div>
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Fa'asisila told police that Ngati had "kaka'ed" himself that morning. </div>
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To discipline him he picked up a stick, made the boy stand with his
hands on the wall and lift up his feet. He then he beat the soles of his
feet. </div>
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Police didn't believe this version of events, saying Ngati's soles were the only part of his body that weren't bruised. They, and the jury, believed the account other children gave them - the
one in which Fa'asisila picked up a baseball bat and beat him with it
all over his body, except his head. Physical evidence also supported this view. When police searched the
Otara home they found a bat tucked out of site. It was covered in
Ngati's blood. The child's blood was also found throughout the house. </div>
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In two rooms - the living area and Ngati's bedroom - the blood had
splattered so high it hit the ceiling. That was impact splatter,
splatter caused by an object hitting Ngati while he was already
bleeding. On the floors and walls the blood had been diluted - a sign police say that the parents had tried to wash the evidence away. </div>
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The baseball bat beating occurred in the morning while Maine was out at a job interview. </div>
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During the afternoon, after Maine had returned, Ngati's condition
deteriorated to the point that he was drifting in and out of
consciousness. At times he stopped breathing. At one point, while Maine performed CPR, Fa'asisila suggested calling
for an ambulance, but she said no because "then they will find out". At 5pm Fa'asisila went to get his uncle who lived nearby. The uncle
arrived and told the couple to call an ambulance immediately. On the phone, Maine told the St John operator she had beaten Ngati with a
stick but showed more concern for herself than her dying son. </div>
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"She said, 'are you going to call the police?'," said Mr Middleton.
"Even at that stage she was still more worried about what was going to
happen to her than what happened to Ngati." </div>
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Ngati was rushed to Middlemore Hospital, then transferred to Starship
where his adoptive mother Kura Kaufusi stayed with him till he died.
Before he took his final breath Kura leaned over his swollen and
distorted body and whispered in his ear for him to "go in peace". Kura and her husband Finau are still struggling with his violent death. </div>
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"I feel like my heart's gone. My heart's been ripped out of my body
because he was our heart," said Kura. "I thought I would get over it by
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Finau spends a lot of time at Ngati's tiny grave, keeping it clean and
tidy; Kura often watches videos the couple took of his first steps, his
birthdays, all his important milestones.The couple were unable to have children and didn't hesitate to take
Ngati in when Maine Ngati asked them to have him when he was a baby. </div>
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Then in November 2005 Maine wanted Ngati back despite having very little to do with him for three years. Police were told Maine Ngati was claiming a benefit for more children
than were living with her and it was the threat of being caught out -
and revenge against her cousin with whom she'd fought - that led to her
seeking custody. </div>
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"There's nothing that I have seen that showed she wanted Ngati back for reasons of love," said Mr Middleton. </div>
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A distraught Kura fought for custody of Ngati. She now regrets doing it
the "right way" through lawyers and wishes she had instead whisked Ngati
away to a place her cousin would have never found him. </div>
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Maybe, she says, he would have still be alive that way."I was trying to
do it the right way but as a result he was dead within nine weeks." </div>
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Kura said she tried to visit Ngati at his new home but no one would ever
answer the door. She worries he never knew why he suddenly had to
change houses and had no contact with the only people he'd ever known as
Mum and Dad. </div>
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"I will always feel guilty because in his mind when he was getting
bashed he was probably saying 'where's my mum, where's my dad?'." </div>
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Mr Middleton said it was not clear how often Ngati was beaten but it "certainly escalated" in the last two days of his life. </div>
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He believes the toileting problem was evidence of the boy's state of mind while in Maine and Fa'asisila's care. </div>
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"My thoughts on that are that they beat him so much that he lost
confidence and he wet and pooed himself because he got so many
beatings." </div>
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Mr Middleton said Ngati's final hours would have been excruciating. </div>
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When the pathologist cut open his swollen arm they found all the tissue
had died from the beating he had suffered. There was a subdural
haematoma which was 5-10 days old as well as fresher trauma to the head
from the recent beatings. There was also an unusual patterning with bits of skin missing from his
arm, wrist and inside thigh - those injuries are from a weapon police
have been unable to find. They say Maine Ngati and Fa'asisila got rid of
the weapon - more evidence that the couple knew what they were doing
was wrong. </div>
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Kura and her husband did not see Ngati after he moved and it is not
clear if other relatives were aware of the abuse the little boy suffered
- they certainly denied any knowledge of it while giving evidence in
court. Ngati's siblings testified and are now being cared for by others. Mr Middleton said it was possible the beatings never occurred in the
presence of other adults, but it was hard to believe no one noticed
anything wrong. On the morning of Ngati's death one of Maine's relative said she gave
him a high-five during breakfast and everything seemed fine. This would
have been after he suffered two serious beatings the day before, one so
bad that he was unable to use his arm. </div>
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"It's impossible to think he was 'quite happy' the morning he died." </div>
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Mr Middleton believes it may have been a case of other relatives
"wilfully ignoring" what was going on. "The other family members at best
didn't want to know. </div>
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"In some families abuse of this nature is commonplace and every now and
then it turns to tragedy as it has in this case. The answer is never hit
your kids." </div>
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Kura agrees and says it sickens her to see what happened to Ngati. She
no longer considers Maine a relative and says the only blessing in
Ngati's death is that he is now "away from the devils."
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"I'm glad they got guilty ... That will be justice for my little man." </div>
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* Maine and Fa'asisila were charged with murder. They were found not
guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter. They were also found guilty
of a separate charge of manslaughter for failing to provide medical
care which could have saved Ngati's life and for wilful ill-treatment of
a child. They will be sentenced next month.</div>
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<i>source :</i> <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10439204" style="color: red;">nzherald.co.nz</a></div>The Tiny Thumbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161360248040474330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079255977248168147.post-26412994415958959822011-11-30T00:00:00.000+08:002011-11-30T00:00:07.396+08:00Field Candy Tents<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.fieldcandy.com/" target="_blank">FieldCandy</a> tents do not give you camouflage protection in the natural setting, nor do they help you blend in with the rest of the crowd at the campsite. FieldCandy tents are designed to stand out. When I saw the first images of these limited-edition designer tents with their cool flysheets, I had to really stop and think. Is it true that <b>no-one else</b> has manufactured these types of tents for sale before? We have seen individual pieces displayed as art, but we had not seen anything quite like this.<br />
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It was one of those moments when you think: Why have all tents always
looked pretty much the same? We customize everything else, why not
tents? And even more remarkably: Why have we been satisfied with those
boring, standard tent colors for so long? </div>The Tiny Thumbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161360248040474330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079255977248168147.post-58426293234128965022011-11-29T22:12:00.001+08:002011-11-29T22:15:58.021+08:00Stuttgart City Library - Germany<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Korean architect Eun Young Yi’s
proposal was selected in 1999 from 235 competition entries as the plan
for the new central library of the City of Stuttgart. The building of
the 80-million Euro (about $108 mil. US) Stadtbibliothek am Mailänder
Platz began three years ago and the opening ceremonies took place last
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Yi
has created a monolithic cube with two floors underground and nine
above. Essentially all of the building, both inside and out is white.
The main library floors circle an open-plan with the levels connected by
open staircases. Books line the outer walls of each floor.</div>
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As a cool nod to the fact that the building is a storehouse of words, the word “library” is installed in four languages on the outside walls. On the North wall in German (the local language), West in English (lingua franca), South in Arabic (the language of ancient knowledge and of Stuttgart’s sister city, Cairo) and East in Korean (Yi’s native language). </div>
<br />The Tiny Thumbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161360248040474330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079255977248168147.post-73088133136179293872011-11-28T14:13:00.001+08:002011-11-28T14:14:02.893+08:00Melvin the Machine by HeyHeyHey<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="256" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/30487071?title=0&byline=0&color=57597f" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="455"></iframe><br />
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Dutch design studio HeyHeyHey originally constructed the machine, named Melvin, during Dutch Design Week 2010 but reassembled this improved version a year later. Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine (or just Melvin the Machine) is best described as a Rube Goldberg machine with a twist. Besides doing what Rube Goldberg machines do best – performing a simple task as inefficiently as possible, often in the form of a chain reaction – Melvin has an identity. Actually, the only purpose of this machine is promoting its own identity!</div>The Tiny Thumbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161360248040474330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079255977248168147.post-23736077483566501992011-11-27T11:44:00.001+08:002011-11-27T11:48:52.371+08:00Hexbut Larva - Autonomous Squirming Bug Robot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Hexbug Larva is the latest addition to the line. Though quite small, the robot has infrared sensors that allow it to detect obstacles in its wriggly path. The robot is then capable of steering clear of those obstacles. All of this is pretty good for a robot this size, but not earth-shattering. The thing that sets the Larva apart is the bio-mimetic motion. It's both fascinating and -- if you are not into creepy-crawly things -- perhaps a bit unnerving. Personally, I think it is fantastic!</div>
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Here's where you can get the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LJ06FO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=dugnorth-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B005LJ06FO" style="color: red;" target="_blank">Hexbug Larva</a> in a variety of colors.</div>The Tiny Thumbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161360248040474330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079255977248168147.post-14189773719636641822011-11-22T16:22:00.001+08:002011-11-22T16:24:02.552+08:00Adorable Eco-friendly SkipHop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The new Octopus Ring Toss from <a href="http://www.skiphop.com/" style="color: red;">SkipHop</a>
is sure to add a lot of safe fun to your child’s bath-time routine.
This cute green octopus features 2-stage play for twice the bathtime
fun. Your little one can toss rings onto waiting octopus arms or enjoy
how the arms gently sprinkle water down. The Octopus suctions to your
bathtub wall, but can be turned upside down to drain, meaning less icky
mildew issues. This cute tub toy is made with soft BPA-free,
phthalate-free, zero-bump materials so it’s safe for your baby and comes
with three brightly colored tossable rings.</div>The Tiny Thumbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161360248040474330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079255977248168147.post-64045759135164239802011-11-20T00:00:00.000+08:002011-11-20T13:48:58.961+08:00Earth - View from Space<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="256" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/32001208?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="455"></iframe><br />
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Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km. All credit goes to them.<br />
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Shooting locations in order of appearance :<br />
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01. Aurora Borealis Pass over the United States at Night<br />
02. Aurora Borealis and eastern United States at Night<br />
03. Aurora Australis from Madagascar to southwest of Australia<br />
04. Aurora Australis south of Australia<br />
05. Northwest coast of United States to Central South America at Night<br />
06. Aurora Australis from the Southern to the Northern Pacific Ocean<br />
07. Halfway around the World<br />
08. Night Pass over Central Africa and the Middle East<br />
09. Evening Pass over the Sahara Desert and the Middle East<br />
10. Pass over Canada and Central United States at Night<br />
11. Pass over Southern California to Hudson Bay<br />
12. Islands in the Philippine Sea at Night<br />
13. Pass over Eastern Asia to Philippine Sea and Guam<br />
14. Views of the Mideast at Night<br />
15. Night Pass over Mediterranean Sea<br />
16. Aurora Borealis and the United States at Night<br />
17. Aurora Australis over Indian Ocean<br />
18. Eastern Europe to Southeastern Asia at Night </div>The Tiny Thumbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161360248040474330noreply@blogger.com0