Grenada's Carnival or Spicey Massas the locals would call it is the biggest festival on the island. It kicks off on August 6th and ends on the 12th with many activities.
Wednesday 6th- Preeday at the National Stadium
Thursday 7th- Majestic Thursday; Queenshow at the National Stadium
Friday 8th- Fantastic Friday; Power & Groovy Soca Monarch Competition (Finals) at the National Stadium
Saturday 9th- Pantastic Saturday; Panorama at the National Stadium.
White in the Moonlight Soca
Show at Moonlight city, St. Andrew's and Pure White Soca Show at
Progress Park, St. Andrew's. Honestly, they're basically the same type
of shows, within very close proximity of each other on the same
night...HOW CONFUSING..Which shall I attend??????
Sunday 10th- Dimanche Gras Calypso Competition (Finals) at the National Stadium.
Monday 11th- !Morning! Jouvert @ 4 am in the towns of St. Georges, Grenville and Gouyave. OLD OIL AND PAINTTTT
- !After 1pm! Parade of the Bands, Streets of St. George's or National Stadium (venue might be changed). Both Kiddies and Adult bands Parade.
- !After 7pm! Monday Night Mas. NB!! We are the only islands to play Massssss in d night....alll night!!!!! Digicel, Lime and Carib are the Big bands!! Glow Sticks, Flutes, Whistles, Mugs and Lighters all over!!!
Tuesday 12th- !Morning! Jouvert AGAIN!!!@4am in the towns of Sauteurs(come to Sauteurs Tuesday morning!!),Gouyave and in the Parish of St. David's.
- !After 3pm! Parade of the Bands(Fancy Mass Affair)through from Lagoon Road/ Kerani James Boulevard to the Carenage in the Parish of St. George. The town of Grenville St. Andrew's also displays their Bands. Both Kiddies and Adult bands Parade.
Doh talk bout d shortknee bands!!!! They REL NICE!
- !After 6pm! LAST LAP Jamming behind the last band in the Parade!!! ABSOLUTELY No costume required!!!
Everyday, our feeds on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are flooded with
the same old crap. Girls are going crazy taking pictures of EVERYTHING
throughout their days, and subjecting their friends to this garbage on
all the social media sites. These following 20 pictures are the most
commonly posted, and the reason Zuckerberg gave us an 'unfriend' button, bless his heart!
20. Sunset
Thank you. I have never seen one before. Unless you live in Alaska or Siberia, leave it off my feed.
19. Legs at the beach
Your glistening legs look so hot… oh wait that's only because you did the
Lo-Fi filter. Thanks for keeping it to just your kneecaps though
because if that was all you were willing to show, we probably didn't
want to see the rest.
18. Alcohol
LOOK HOW MUCH FUN IM HAVING AND IM SO COOL BECAUSE IM DRINKING ALCOHOL!"
I'm going to assume your stupid hashtags underneath are #beerthirty
#fiveoclocksomewhere #sexonthebeach.
17. Pet
Basically what you're admitting to the world with your hundreds of
pictures of your cats and dogs, is that, you're single…. or you're jealous of
your friends with children and this is the only way you know how to
compete. A couple now and then is fine, but 3 a day? Bet you're watching Young & the Restless too.
P.S. your pet doesn't like it!! so Stop the animal cruelty.
16.Off-spring
Congratulations, you can reproduce. I'm not interested in the cake your
child smashed, their first bowel movement, or their first steps, because
you know why…. it's not my child. With everything being documented on
the internet these days, leave your child off of it. There are enough
people looking into our business, don't voluntarily give it to them.
15. Outfit for the day or morning or afternoon or evening...whatever
I just don't know if I would get any sleep if Alison didn't post her
"outfit of the day" EVERYDAY! It is comical to make fun of all the
fashion mistakes you're making though.
14. Selfies
The worst of the worst of the worst. Stop. Stop now. Isn't this what
your profile picture is for? I don't need to see you throwing up a peace
sign, a smoochy face, or pushing your boobs together (even though you
didn't really mean to, it just happened!) You know how to criticize when
you see someone else's selfie? Ya, thats what we're doing to yours.
13. Text Conversation
If it's not a picture, don't post it. You're either trying to prove how
happy your relationship is (which means it's probably pretty shitty)
when we see your text from him that says "I love you baby you're
gorgeous!", or you're trying to show us the hilarious conversation you
just had with your bestie. Haha, so funny.
12. Plane wings
Ohhhh so when you checked in at JFK an hour ago, I thought that
meant you were running to Miami. Thank god the plane wings cleared
that confusion right up.
11. Clouds
What are these giant cotton balls? Am I dreaming? Oh wait, its those
things I see every day of my life. They may never appear again, thanks
for documenting it. Oh and that double rainbow too.
10. Mirror Selfie
Where to begin. I'm so cute holding up my Hello Kitty iPhone case and
looking at the phone instead of into the mirror because I'm actually
embarrassed I'm doing this in the first place. More often than not, the
subject in the picture is looking at themselves on the phone. What the Frankenweenie?
9. Nail art
Fresh mani! Don't my Minions from Despicable Me look ravishing in nail
lacquer? I'm also 30 years old, maybe not mentally though.
8. Feet in the sand
What a pensive shot. My friends and I make a friendship circle. with our feet. Maybe this truly replicates the meaning of our friendship, something to trample on.
I am super jealous of you guys.
7. Fortune Cookie
Unless it says "You are an attention whore", I'm not interested in your cracked cookie.
6. Coffee Art
Someone spent an intricate amount of time making this design, which is
going to be ruined in 5 seconds. Thanks for capturing it. By the way, The barista is
laughing at you while your holding your camera up to the
mug.
5. Fireworks
Celebrate! Celebrate your complete lack for creativity and skills in photography.
4. Holding hands
Please believe how happy we are! Is that a promise ring? That's probably all it'll ever be.
3. Attempt at applying Make up
Why? To see your pathetic attempt at doing your eye shadow and eyeliner?
What a turn on for a guy, seeing this girl he knows having a striking
resemblance to that creepy dead girl from the Grudge.
2. Driving Selfie
Let's start a new campaign to join "It can wait", and we'll call it "It
should never happen". It's terrifying to know girls are taking these
pictures while their driving. I'd prefer a text message then you
fumbling trying to make sure you hit the camera button.
1. Food: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Midnight snack or snack
Oh wow! you eat food too...what a shocker! I really thought I was the only being who used my digestive system. Word of advice the junk you're about to eat is contributing to your unknown failing health and lack of intelligence. #justsaying
The concept of 3D printing has finally gone big time!
3D printing by Swarovski and Victoria's Secret
The concept of 3D printing is by no means new, however. Chuck Hull
invented and patented stereo-lithography (also known as solid imaging) in
the mid-1980s, when he founded 3D Systems, Inc.
Since then, advances in the technology have been (and continue to be)
made, including the size of the printers themselves, the materials they
can use and more.
But how do 3D printers actually work? How can something that looks
like our household printer or office photocopier create complex, solid
objects in a matter of hours?
It all starts with a concept. The first stage of 3D printing is
laying out an original idea with digital modeling — that is, with
computer aided design (CAD) or animation modeling software.
Whichever program you choose, you're able to create a virtual
blueprint of the object you want to print. The program then divides the
object into digital cross-sections so the printer is able to build it
layer by layer. The cross-sections essentially act as guides for the
printer, so that the object is the exact size and shape you want. Both
CAD and animation modeling software are WYSIWYG graphics editors — "what
you see is what you get."
If you're not particularly design-inclined, you can purchase, download or request ready-made designs from sites like Shapeways, Sculpteo or Thingiverse.
Once you have a completed design, you send it to the 3D printer with
the standard file extension .STL (for "stereo-lithography" or "Standard
Tessellation Language"). STL files contain three-dimensional polygons
that are sliced up so the printer can easily digest its information.
The 3D Printing Process
Now for the fun part. The first thing to note is that 3D printing is
characterized as "additive" manufacturing, which means that a solid,
three-dimensional object is constructed by adding material in layers.
This is in contrast to regular "subtractive" manufacturing, through
which an object is constructed by cutting (or "machining") raw material
into a desired shape.
After the finished design file is sent to the 3D printer, you choose a
specific material. This, depending on the printer, can be rubber,
plastics, paper, polyurethane-like materials, metals and more.
Printer processes vary, but the material is usually sprayed, squeezed
or otherwise transferred from the printer onto a platform. One printer
in particular, the Makerbot Replicator 2,
has a renewable bioplastic spooled in the back of the device (almost
like string). When the printer is told to print something, it pulls the
bioplastic filament through a tube and into an extruder, which heats it
up and deposits it through a small hole and onto the build plate.
Then, a 3D printer makes passes (much like an inkjet printer) over
the platform, depositing layer on top of layer of material to create the
finished product (look closely — you can see the layers). This can take
several hours or days depending on the size and complexity of the
object. The average 3D-printed layer is approximately 100 microns (or
micrometers), which is equivalent to 0.1 millimeters. Some printers,
like the Objet Connex, can even deposit layers as thin as 16 microns.
Throughout the process, the different layers are automatically fused
to create a single three-dimensional object in a dots per inch (DPI)
resolution.
It's clear that 3D printing has the potential to transform several
industries. Take the health field — medical professionals have used 3D
printing to create hearing aids, custom leg braces and even a titanium jaw.
Last year, a team of researchers, engineers and dentists created the world's first prosthetic beak for a wounded bald eagle. NASA has tested 3D printers that will let Mars-bound astronauts print what they need as they travel.
Creating 3D-printed meat could fill the human need for protein while having less of an impact on the environment. The KamerMaker (pictured above) is a 3D printer large enough to print entire rooms.
These innovations could have a profound effect on the world, but the
3D printing industry does have at least one drawback — price. Smaller
printers, designed for printing toys and other small gadgets, can be as
little as $1,000, but the larger, more professional models can cost
anywhere from $14,900 to $59,000. And the really advanced, heavy duty models? Those can set you back more than $600,000.
Other cons include the controversies of 3D-printed guns and the threat of copyright infringement.
Nonetheless, there's currently a huge market for 3D printing — $1.7 billion to be exact. And that number is expected to reach $3.7 billion by 2015.
Could 3D printing eventually change the world and even make mass manufacturing obsolete? We'll have to wait and see.
One of the biggest companies to use this technology is Victoria’s Secret.
The lingerie line will be teaming up with Swarovski (Austrian producer of luxury cut lead glass). They will be using the 3D printing process to create angel wings and other outfits for this year’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
In a recent video uploaded to YouTube, the outfits shown look very delicate and complex, featuring snowflake shapes.
The first Victoria’s Secret angel to sport the new technology is Lindsay Ellingson.
Check out the video below. The process is pretty amazing!
Futurescape explores event horizons that will critically alter life as we know it.
Robots who have the same rights as humans?
The ability to stop the
aging process?
The power to read minds?
The ideas -- born of science
fiction -- aren't all that unimaginable, according to Science
Channel's new series Futurescape With James Woods.
The six-part series, which airs at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Tomorrow (Tuesday), aims
to reveal "the advances that will redefine humanity" by examining the
next breakthroughs in science and technology, focusing on such topics as
telepathy, colonizing space, achieving eternal youth and the
integration of robots in our world. They're subjects that fascinate
Woods, who not only serves as host and executive producer but also was
involved with the show's development.
For Woods' part, he says he was especially interested in exploring
not the questions of "can we" create something but "should we" do it
just because we can."There's that awful, dreadful moment when you realize what you can do
with science, where this fresh sort of creature emerges from the
chrysalis and you don't know whether it's going to be something evil or
great," says Woods.
The first episode, titled "Robot Revolution," examines a world in
which "cutting-edge experiments have transformed machines into creatures
with consciousness, while elsewhere, scientists are enhancing the human
body with synthetic parts that work better than the real thing,"
according to the network description. The result is a "not-too-distant
world where man and machine are not only equal, but indistinguishable."
The episode creates a scenario in which a robot goes into a voting
booth while humans outside stage a protest. Woods says the situation
isn't unlike those from America's past.
"If someone said to you that one day robots could vote, everybody
would laugh," Woods says. "But people felt the same way about black
people voting and women voting. Now we look back in astonishment, and we
know that's absurd."
He also points out that scientific advances such as pacemakers and
the like have made some humans "bionic," blurring the lines between man
and machine even further.
Future episodes include "Cheating Time," which takes a look at
advances in medical technology that could rid the world of illness and
old age; "Replacing God," which examines the ability to create life from
scratch; "Galactic Pioneers," centering on recent advances in
propulsion technology, warp drive and solar energy; "How to Be a
Superhuman," focusing on advances in genetic engineering and
neuroscience; and "I Know What You're Thinking," which shows how
scientists can "read minds" with telepathy helmets and scan hidden
memories in ways that could threaten privacy.
Woods notes that he also injects his own humor into what's going on
around him. For example, when filming a segment about the possibility of
cheating the aging process -- and death -- he made a quip about someone
who was "only" 150 but had been married 11 times and looked 20: "kind
of like some of my friends in Hollywood."
In success, Woods says this is a show he'd like to continue doing as
long as he could. There are very
important social, scientific, moral and ethical issues that we address
in the show."
Asked to make predictions on what he thinks the future holds, Woods is cautious but hopeful.
"It's possible that extraordinary advances in technology and science
could help the human race [move toward] curing the most heinous of
diseases and limit the ability to age, to live longer and more
gracefully," he says. "By the same token, if these potential advances
are not managed, we very well could be in worse shape.
Watch a clip from the show, which is exclusive to THR, below.
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