The 1.8m long fish called Huangchunyu in the picture was caught in south east of China. It weighs 42 KG and worth 980,000 RMB aka 143,900 USD in the Chinese market. The fish’s swim bladder is an expensive traditional Chinese medicine. It is said that the swim bladder of the fish is more valuable than gold, 0.05 KG of the swim bladder is worth 30,000RMB (4405USD) in the market.
A New Zealand man like to catch big fish by just hands. Sometimes he even jumps from helicopter to hunt the fish when he is seeing big fish close to the surface. It is really an amazing skill!
Catch a marlin from the boat.
It is a big marlin fish!
Fight with the marlin fish
Jump from helicopter after saw a fish.
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The following pictures are showing a unique fishing way at Ahangama, South of Sri Lanka. Many people sitting on the pole are enjoying sea fishing there. What bait are they using? No bait, just hooks but works!
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Recently, I have seen many old colored photos from the internet which obviously should be black and white in terms of the time when they were taken. Although the first color photo came up in 1861, most of photos taken in early 20 century are black and white. I am interested in how these black and white photos were turned into color pictures. After a detail research, I found we could do this in the following methods:
Firstly we need to scan black& white photos into our PC. Then next things would be use some tools to colorize pictures. So far I know there are three ways to do that.
1: Photoshop is the most well known option, but it is too complicated for amateurs like me, it is a big headache for me to colorize a picture with it.
2: Use a software named “Recolored”, it said that only few steps can turn black& white photos into color ones. The official site is: www.recolored.com .
3: Use a software named “BlackMagic”. It not only can be used to colorize Black & White photos, but also Sepia, IR (infrared) photos. Like “Recolored”, it is also simple to use and can make the colored photos looks pretty natural. The official site is: www.blackmagic-color.com.
After colorizing a photo with these tools, you can print out the photo if you want to show them in a frame. It is cool!
If you know some other ways or software, please put them into the comments box below.
The followings are some oldest color photos in the world(From the wikipedia):
“Tartan ribbon“, the first permanent color photograph, taken by James Clerk Maxwell in 1861.
An 1877 color photo by Louis Ducos du Hauron, a French pioneer of color photography.
Early color photograph from Russia, created by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire from 1909 to 1915
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It is said that it is the birthday of the God of Wealth on the fifth day of Chinese New Year. About 300,000 people went to the God of wealth on that day in Wu Han, China. People certainly hope to get some help from the God of Wealth in the current economy circumstance.
I graduated from University College Cork, Ireland with Msc degree in 2006. Since then, I have never touched my thesis again. It is useless to only keep it in my hard drivers. I would like to take it out and hope it can help some one who may need. The thesis is put on the following page: http://www.joehe.com/my-thesis/. Some simple introductions are as follows:
A Multimedia Ordering System for Restaurant
Hu He, Department of Computer Science, University College Cork, Ireland, December 2005
Abstract:
This thesis is about a project which is developed as a multimedia ordering system for restaurant. The project includes two parts: Website Ordering System and In-restaurant Ordering System. In the Website Ordering System, customers can check the dishes, make their orders, and pay their orders through a website which has rich information (pictures, text etc) about dishes. In restaurants, PDA can be used to present the multimedia information of dishes to customers, as well as deal with the orders which can be transferred to kitchen and be recorded into database through the mobile devices and server. Also, this system provides a PC client which also can deal with orders and present the multimedia information to staff for training purpose.
Technology involved:
1: JVM on PocketPC
I use the PDA with Pocket PC system as the wireless mobile device for the ordering system, There are many JVMs which can run on the Pocket PC. Such as IBM’s J9 JVM [1] or NSICOM’s CrEme JVM [2]. There are several other JVMs on the market, but they all suffer from these problems: not supported anymore (Sun’s PersonalJava), not fully Java compatible (SuperWaba), not fully Java compatible (EWE), on sale to OEMs only (Esmertec JBed, formerly Insignia Jeode), or out of date (Insignia Jeode). Because the price for IBM’s J9 JVM is very good at $5.99/each., so I choose the J9 JVM at first.
Other technology used:
2: JVM and JDK on PC
3: RMI server-client mechanism
4: MySQL Database
Please go to this page for the details.
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Overview of the castle and River Shannon
The entrance of the castle, some people are sitting on the cannon.
The weapon made by wood. It looks like a little bit fragile, doesn’t it?
Oven and stools
The shooting hole. Soldiers can fire arrows from there.
Bird’s-eye views of the castle and Limerick city.
River Shannon
Formidable watchtower
The man making coins
Gun and power
Some introduction about the castle from Wikipedia.
The Viking sea-king, Thormodr Helgason, built the first permanent Viking stronghold on Inis Sibhtonn (King’s Island) in 922. He used the base to raid the length of the River Shannon from Lough Derg to Lough Ree, pillaging ecclesiastical settlements. In 937 the Limerick Vikings clashed with those of Dublin on Lough Ree and were defeated. In 943 they were defeated again when the chief of the local Dalcassian clan joined with Ceallachan, king of Munster and the Limerick Vikings were forced to pay tribute to the clans. The power of the Vikings never recovered, and they reduced to the level of a minor clan, however often playing pivotal parts in the endless power struggles of the next few centuries.
The arrival of the Anglo-Normans to the area in 1172 changed everything. Domhnall Mor O’Brien burned the city to the ground in 1174 in a bid to keep it from the hands of the new invaders. The Anglo-Normans finally captured the area in 1195, under John, Lord of Ireland. In 1197 local legend claims Limerick was given its first charter and its first Mayor, Adam Sarvant. A castle, built on the orders of King John and bearing his name, was completed around 1200.
More introduction please see the link: Wikipedia.
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