2011 Winter Classic

This year the 2011 NHL winter classic will be held in Pittsburgh. The event will take place at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, which is where their football team plays. The game will take place on January 1st, 2011 and will feature the Pittsburgh Penguins vs. The Washington Capitals. This years winter classic has two of the top players in the NHL in this game, Alexander Ovechkin and Sydney Crosby.

MSNBC #6

This picture is a birds eye view of a hallway. The lights that appear in the middle of the picture appear to be the main focus in the image.

MSNBC #5

This picture is taken face on and the main view of the picture is the mountains in the background, but your eyes are attracted to the hockey player and net. 

MSNBC #4

This is picture of someone breaking through the snow, uses a camera angle looking up at the person and the main focus of this picture is the snow blasting all over the place.

MSNBC #3

This picture shows the Giants players rushing to the mound after they won the world series in 2010. This picture shows movement as the players are all jumping and you can tell they are running towards the pitcher. There is also lots of simplicity in this picture because the players are the main focus of the picture, meanwhile there is lots going on in the background.

MSNBC #2

This is a picture of a Texas Rangers player in the MLB playoffs. In this picture the camera man uses a face-on view and its slightly looking down at the player. Also in this picture it appears that the player is moving towards the camera

MSNBC #1

In this picture there is two players one from NJ and one from Buffalo fighting. The camera man used a viewpoint from the side of fight so you can see the whole fight. This picture also produces a frame, because it shows where they are in the fight.

Time Person of the Year: Mark Zuckerberg

Yesterday, the times person of the year was announced, the time person of the year, is Mark Zuckerberg the founder and creator of Facebook. Mark is only 26 years old and is the youngest person to win the award since 1927. Since Mark invented Facebook, he is the world youngest billionaire and currently has over 500 million users on his Facebook website.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/15/time-person-of-the-year-2010-mark-zuckerberg_n_796907.html

Zeitgeist 2010: Year in Review

In this video Zeitgeist 2010: Year in Review, they showed a lot of major events that happened in 2010, such as Sidney Crosby scoring the winning goal in the gold medal game at the Vancouver Olympics, Graeme McDowell winning the U.S. Open, the San Francisco Giants winning the 2010 World Series, Spain winning the World Cup, In South Africa, Justin Bieber helping out under privileged children any many more events.

The Year 2010 Flew by; hope 2011 goes the same way, and has more good things in store for us in the up coming year!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QXB5pw2qE&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

Prezi - Graphic Design

This is the link to my prezi presintation about graphic design.

http://prezi.com/d3x7u7i4pqyb/edit/#2_4227594

Rims tablet to cost under $500

Jim Balsillie, the president of the blackberry, announced in the middle of November that the tablet that RIM is coming out with will be less then $500 and will be released in the first quarter of 2011. RIMS shares went up $3.15 when they announced the Blackberry Playbook and the price of the item.

http://www.moneyville.ca/article/888816--rim-s-tablet-to-cost-under-500

2011 Sony open in 3D

The 2011 Sony open in Hawaii at the beginning of January will be aired in 3D. There will be 4 holes during the tournament aired in 3D, two of these holes are 17 and 18 the two finishing holes. Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman, CEO and President, Sony Corporation said,"We are very excited to be able to capture the 2011 Sony Open in Hawaii using Sony's state-of-the-art 3D professional cameras, and to deliver these images into viewers' living rooms in live 3D," "By offering the unprecedented experience of immersive, live 3D images conveying the excitement and beauty of the Sony Open in Hawaii, we aim to further enhance the enjoyment of 3D entertainment in the home."


http://www.cybergolf.com/golf_news/2011_sony_open_to_be_aired_in_live_3d

Tim Hortans accept debit

As of November 23rd, 2010, the Tim Hortans franchise will now accept debit cards at most locations. In the article they mentioned that tims now accepting debit will not cause any slow downs, when they are purchasing their products and it will also not effect customer security.  The interac president and CEO Mark O'Connell said, "With Tim Hortons' expansion of Interac debit acceptance, customers will no longer need to worry if they have cash in-pocket when they buy their morning coffee, breakfast wraps for the kids after hockey practice or doughnuts for the office," Interac president and CEO Mark O'Connell.

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/23/ns-tim-hortons-debit-cards-payment.html

1 million kinects in 10 days

Microsoft reported that they have sold 1 million kinect systems in 10 days, and they are on pace to sell 5 million, by the end of the year. Kinect is only available for xbox 360, this device allows consumers to play xbox without using any controllers, this also allows them to be active. The Kinect was released on Nov. 4th and retails for about $150 Canadian.

Toronto wins 2 straight

The Toronto Maple leafs have won 2 games straight, they won their first game vs, The Boston bruins in a shootout, and then they won their second game in a row Monday vs the Washington capitals once again in a shootout.... the leafs a couple more tough games coming up, vs Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh penguins. there second tough game is again the Philadelphia flyers at home in Toronto.

Rickie Fowler: PGA Tour Rookie of the year

Rickie Fowler was elected as the PGA tour rookie of the year over, Northern Ireland's, Rory Mcilroy. Rickie, did not win on the PGA tour in 2010, but he had several, top 10's and a couple runner up finishes. Rory who won on the pga tour in 2010, had 2 top 3 finishes in the major and was apart of the winning Ryder cup team. Rory had been a pro on the European tour since he was 18 years old, now 21. Rory said that he thinks Rickie is more deserving then him, because Rickie is a true Rookie on tour as he was in College this time last year at OSU.

Tiger Looses in Playoff

On Sunday, Tiger Woods has playing his final event of the year at the Chevron World challenge in California. Tiger had 3 solid rounds in the 60's during the first three rounds and had a four shot lead going into the final round. Tiger was in the final group on Sunday paired up with Graeme McDowell from Northern Ireland. Tiger ended up having a very poor say and it seemed that the golf gods had covered the hole because none of his putts were falling. On the other had Graeme had a great round, making a clutch 30ft putt on the 18th hole to force a playoff. In the playoff, Tiger hit his approach to 15ft and Graeme hit is approach to the exact same place as he did on the final hole of regulation. Graeme putted first and made the 30 footer for birdie, Tiger putted next and once again lipped out on his 15ft putt for birdie.

This was Tigers final event of the year, and went all season without a victory on tour.

Flash - Morphing

This is my Link for my morphing flash video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRXPPVaKhOs&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

Flash- Running Stick Man

This is my link for my running stick man flash video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reQJTBRFX3U&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

Flash - Bouncing Balls

This is a link for my Bouncing balls flash video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC5kIlSBt3M&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

Dont Follow Your Dreams

An English prof from a university stated that following your dreams actually means waiting there for your dream to come to you. The prof mentioned that most kids are used to being given everything they ask for, so why can't their dreams be given. He said it's stupid how lazy the children are these days, a story he gave was a kid handed in a two page fully plagiarized right off the site essay, and he gave him a zero, but the university policy was that he wasn't allowed to give a zero, instead the English department got together and marked all the things that he didn't plagiarized, he related this to a criminal coming into your house and stealing all you jewelry and valuables, but in court the judge giving him credit for not stealing the television or computer. I agree with what this professor is saying because to many kids are not trying   for things, they are just being given to them with out any effort. Kids these days need to start working for what they want in life.

Teacher Tried ban pencils in school

A teacher in Massachusetts by the name of Wendy Scott, a teacher at North Brookfield Elementary school tried to ban pencils and pens in her classroom, to me this absolute nonsense, students need pencils/pens to do their classwork. The Massachusetts school board is distancing itself from this teacher because she never got permission from the board to enforce this rule and the school board thinks this is a ridiculous demand as well. The teacher mentioned to the reporter that as a kid she used to respect her pencils, pens and pencil cases, but her students are using these items to make weapons. 

The teacher sent the following memo to all the parents of students in her class; Students would no longer be allowed to bring writing implements to school. It said pencils would be provided for students in class and any students caught with pencils or pens after Nov. 15 would face disciplinary action for having materials "to build weapons."

Als repeat as Grey Cup Champs

Yesterday, The 98th grey cup took place at commonwealth stadium in Edmonton, Alberta. The Montreal alouettes played the Saskatchewan roughriders for the grey cup last night. The alouettes won the game 21-18 in front of 63,317 fans and in freezing cold conditions. The Als are the first team to win the grey cup back to back since the Argos went back to back in 1996-97. This is the alouettes third grey cup since 2000.

Harry Potter #7

The seventh movie in the Harry Potter movie was released on friday November 19th, 2010. This movie, Harry Potter and the deathly hallows will be shown in two parts, the first part was the one released friday. Part one made a massive $24 million dollars from the north american midnight screening alone. HP7 made another $2 million then HP6 (the half blood prince) in the midnight screenings. observers say that movies total first weekend could make a total of as much as $135 million. The second part of the deathly hollows is due out sometime in July.

Are we Digital Dummies?

In the video are we digital dummies?, it explained everything about us humans today, how we are addicted to technology, how technology is taking over our lives, and can not live with out our cell phones. It is true just about every person has a cell phone now a days, and a lot of people even have smart phones (Blackberry, iPhones). These phones have been causing a lot problems, people dyeing in car accidents from people texting or calling someone. There is even cases of people who drive busses and trains texting while they are on the job, causing them to get into accidents, with passengers onboard. Since these cases Canada has released a law that you can't be on your phone while your driving, you must either have a cell phone feature built into the car, or use a bluetooth headphone. 

They has also been a case where a lady was walking down the street and the city had left a man hole cover off, she was texting not paying attention to where she was walking or what was in front of her, and she fell down the man hole. In washington, USA, two people have set a rehab centre for people who are addicted to their cell phones. Although people might think this is a good idea, it comes at a high price, $27,000 for a 90 day period.

Tiger Woods is on Twitter

As of Wednesday Tiger Woods is now on Twitter. Tigers First Tweet came at 11:08am on Wednesday and  it said "Whats up everyone. Finally decided to try out Twitter!" Tiger already has over 130,000 Followers and he's only had twitter for a day! Tiger joining Twitter is an attempt to move forward in a new direction, and getting closer to his fans. Woods said he spends some evenings alone with his two children, and it’s helping him appreciate what he had overlooked.“Giving my son, Charlie, a bath, for example, beats chipping another bucket of balls. Making mac and cheese for him and his sister, Sam, is better than dining in any restaurant,” he wrote.


Tiger Woods returns to Golf Action a Week after the US Thanksgiving at his World Chevron Challenge, This will be his final event of the 2010 season. 

Adobe Flash Tutorial #5

This is my Youtube link for my Adobe Flash Tutorial #5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyLFN2LGPc

Adobe Flash Tutorial #4

This is my Youtube link for Adobe Flash Tutorial #4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xvf93VF5vI

Adobe Flash Tutorial #3

This is my link for my Adobe Flash Tutorial #3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXY6RDcoyKA

Adobe Flash Tutorial #2

This is the link to YouTube for my Adobe Flash Tutorial #2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohQZrUnUvTI

Flash Tutorial #1

This is the link to YouTube for my Flash Tutorial #1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1PCPtY97k0

Leafs Go 0-for-Florida

Last Night the Toronto Maple leafs played there second game in the state of Florida. After loosing 4-0 to Tampa Bay Tuesday Night, the leafs followed that up with another loose in Ft.Lauderdale, FL against the Florida Panthers. They lost 4-1 scoring their first goal after 142 minutes and 44 Seconds, about 3 games....

The Leafs have now lost 7 games in a row (0-5-2)... making their record in the last 11 games 1-7-3. After the game in Ft.Lauderdale, head coach Ron Wilson said; " We are trying to stay positive, and battle through it" The Leafs had scored 16 goals in 11 games, 3 of those they didn't score. After an Explosive start, with powering offence, the leafs top scorers in the first four games, have not been successful as of late. Phil Kessel hasn't scored in seven games, and Clark MacArthur hasn't scored in four games. The Leafs will try to turn this loosing skid around when the powerful Vancouver Canucks come to town on Saturday November 13th.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/nhl/mapleleafs/article/888961--punchless-leafs-go-0-for-florida

Stop Motion Animation Video

This is a URL for our Stop Motion Animation Video on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSCaBjI0rbQ

New World #1

Early last week it was announced, there is a new world number 1 in golf. After the 1999 PGA Championship, Tiger Woods had been the world #1.... not any more. The new world #1 is Englishman Lee Westwood. People have been complaining that Westwood should not be world #1 as he mainly plays on the european tour, and has never won a major title. In this years Majors, Lee Westwood finished in the top 5 in 3/4 events, and has had several other top 10's on both the European Tour and the PGA tour. After much speculation, Westwood entered his first Tournament as world #1 at the HSBC WGC event in Asia last week. He ended up finishing 2nd with a four day total of 270 (18 under par) one shot back of Italian Francesco Molinari, proving to most golf fans, that he is worthy of the world #1 position.

http://www.thegolfchannel.com/tour-insider/westwood-no-1-but-for-how-long-40221/

Stop Animation Story Board

This is the story board for our stop animation video of a hockey penalty shot.

Lil wayne free from jail

Lil Wayne was released from jail today after being behind bars for 8 months for having a loaded semi automatic .40 calibre gun on his bus after a Manhattan concert. When Lil Wayne was released from jail, his long time manager tweeted FREE AT LAST!!!!!. Lil Wayne's last album released was I am not a human being which was released while he was in jail, on September 27th, 2010. This album, much like is other albums reached #1 on the billboard 200 chart last month.

Lil Wayne is on his way back to his Miami home, were they have planned a welcome home party for him on Sunday.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/article/885646--lil-wayne-released-from-jail-after-serving-8-months

Microsoft Kinect

Yesterday, Microsoft released Kinect. Kinect is much the same as the Nintendo Wii except you don't have to use a controller, you can do everything with your hands. The Kinect is available to Canadians for $150. There has been some speculation that there will be lost of lag and unresponsiveness with the Kinect because there is no controllers and it is all motion sensored. The Kinect has only been out for a day, and i haven't used it, but i am sure we will hear lots about it in the near future weather it being good things or bad things.

10 Things about me

This is my 10 things about me picture, the picture consists of 10 smaller pictures of things about me, and what i like to do. the pictures are: me golfing x2, me wake boarding, me playing pond hockey, a picture of the clubhouse at my golf course, a picture of my boat at my cottage, the Town of Oakville logo because that's were Ive lived my whole life. The Toronto Maple Leafs logo, because they are my favorite hockey team and i enjoy watching and going to their games. Finally there is a picture of the Canadian Golf Team logo, because that's who my golf coach is the coach of.

HT Portfolio

Blackberry Still Top Smartphone

As of late, Blackberry is still the top smartphone on the market, but possibly not for long even with the release of the latest blackberry the "Torch". On wednesday, RIM's stock dropped 4% because of phones using the google andriod system. Apples IPhone followed RIM in popularity the US smartphone subscribers.

The Social Network - Top Film

Once again, The Social Network tops the box office in both USA and Canada taking in a wamping $15.5 million just this week. Sony said they spent less then 40 million dollars and they have already had $46 million in ticket sales since the October 1st release. If you don't already know, "The Social Network" is about the making of Facebook.

Coming in second in the box office last week was " Life as we know it" bringing in an impressive 14.5 million dollars in ticket sales, in the USA and Canada.

If you have not already seen The Social Network, even though I have not yet seen it, I highly suggest you go, I know ill be seeing it in the near future!

Brad Pitt - Airbrush

This is my picture of Brad Pitt for our Airbrush assignment. To make brad the way he looks in the final version, I followed all the steps in the tutorial provided to us.

I Was there - 2010 British Open

This is me in the Final Round at the 2010 British Open at St.Andrews Golf Club in Scotland. This Picture started out with Louis Oousthuizen (Winner of 2010 British Open) teeing off on the 18th hole in the final round. What i did to make the picture the way it is, was used the magnetic lasso to get Louis out of the picture, then took a picture of me from Facebook, and used the magnetic lasso to get me into the picture, i used the airbrush tool to edit the pieces from where Louis was. I also had to add the golf club to the picture, to do this, i used the line tool for the shaft, and then shrunk a picture of a club head, and used the magnetic lasso to make the club head by its self

Spaghetti Dinner Poster

This is my Poster for DR. Hope Spaghetti Dinner. For the background of the poster i used a picture of a bowl of spaghetti. The words on the poster all describe the events and activities that will be taking place at the dinner. For each of the words on the poster I used different warp text functions. Also for the Prizes and Happy face picture I used the magnetic lasso to crop the picture to the way it is.

NHL Today Magazine

This is my Magazine cover for the NHL Today. For my magazine cover, i used the NHL logo as the background, used the magnetic lasso to cut out the NHL players ( Alexander Ovechkin, Taylor Hall, and Martin Brodeur. The Captions on the left and right hand side above the players are articles that are inside this months version of NHL Today.

Rim Creates new tablet

On Monday, RIM announced that it will release its competitor to Apples Ipad. This product is called the blackberry Playbook. RIM has announced that the new playbook will be available to the general public in early 2011 for the USA, but did not mention when it will be available in Canada. The Playbook will be able to use flash and adobe systems which the Apple Ipad currently cannot do. This new Playbook from RIM, can be expected to be a major competitor with the Apple Ipad.

http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/rim/article/866982--rim-confirms-release-of-new-tablet-to-rival-ipad

New Apple Products

Early this month, Apple introduced a new line of ipods. This line included a new Ipod touch, nano and shuffle. All of these products will be a little bit more expensive for us Canadians north of the border. The new ipod nano features a touch screen only 37.5mm tall by 40.9mm wide. This ipod is available in 8 and 16gb. The new ipod touch, comes in 8,32 and 64 gigabytes of memory, and much like the iPhone 4 the ipod touch will have a camera equipped on it. Ffinally there is the new Ipod shuffle only is available in 2gb of memory at a very low price of only 59$ Canadian.

http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/apple/article/858016--new-ipods-deliver-the-goods

Candian Blackberry Torch Release Delayed

Rim's(Research In Motion) latest blackberry that was recently released in the USA, called the Blackberry Torch, has been delayed for the release of the Blackberry in Canada. The release date has been pushed back to this Friday, September 30th, 2010 for Rogers customers, and October 1st, 2010 for Bell customers. Finally Telus plans to push back the release with the other service providers, but have not said when their release date will be.

The Blackberry Torch will feature a touch screen, and a Slide out QWERTY keyboard. Below is a Picture of what the new smart phone will look like.

http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/rim/article/865511--blackberry-torch-s-canadian-release-delayed-until-sept-30

Magazine Cover #1

This is the Cover for my first magazine cover for golf digest. For me to make this I made the golfer the background(base). Then I added images such as the Ryder cup, the tour championship and a picture of tiger woods with a circle and a cross, symbolizing that he still hasn't been the same since the incident on American thanksgiving, and that for the incident with the cocktail waitresses he has lost a lot of respect from many golf fans.All these images will have an article about them inside of the magazine. Finally, I put phrases on the right hand side of different articles that will be inside the magazine as well, such as; who will win the fed ex cup, A Ryder Cup preview between the USA and EUROPE, also an article on the captains picks for both teams and weather or not they were good choices.

Memories - David Guetta

This is the music video for the song memories by David Guetta. In this video, they use alot of different camera angles such as face-on, Side angles, they also tend to do 180 degree views of the people in the video. This video is film in the streets of a city, in a barbarshop and in an elevator. They did not do anything fancy to make this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gLkOfzIYcU&ob=av3e

Lesson 14 - Just My Type

These is my different styles of type for lesson 14

Lesson 13 - Give Me a Sign

These are my signs i made for lesson 13 using the shape button

Lesson 12 - Adding Copyright

This is a picture of the #17 hole at TPC Sawgrass which I made in lesson 6. All I did to make this picture the way it is in the final product is, made a text box and typed "2010 Matt Capern", and changed the front style so that it would sort of blend in with the background

Lesson 11 - Putting a Picture in Your Text

This image started out as a picture of the ocean and is for lesson 11.

Lesson 10 - Meld Layers to create motion

This is a picture of neon bulls for lesson 10. The picture originally started out as one set of bulls, and says "running of the bulls" under them. To make the picture look like it does in the final product, I used the magnetic lasso feature to to copy the bull, then pasted it several times.

Lesson 9 - Gaussian Blur filter

This is a picture of the sky with clouds for lesson 9. The picture originally started out as a blue sky and i used the Gaussian Blur filter feature to make it look the way it does.

Lesson 8 - Creating a Sketch

This is a picture of a palm tree on a beach for lesson 8. The picture originally started out in full colour, and I made it into black and white and made it a sketch.

Lesson 7 - Creating Art Photos Through Symmetry

This is a Picture of the leaning tower of pisa for lesson 7. For this picture i magnetic lassoed the tower of pisa, pasted it, and did a horizontal flip.

Lesson 6 - Black and White Meets Colour

This Picture is of the #17 hole at TPC Sawgrass and is for lesson 6. The picture started out as full colour, I used the magnetic lasso to select just the Island Green and made every thing in the back ground black and white.

Lesson 5 - Creating an art poster

This picture is of Amen Corner at Augusta National Golf Club. The picture orginally started out as just the hole and I added a white border and put the title Amen Corner- Augusta National at the bottom of the picture.

Microphones: The Proximity Effect

In this video, the man talks about different microphones, what they are use full for, and how to get the best sound out of them. First he talks about the microphone on a video camera, he mentioned that this microphone sounded OK from a far distance, but the closer you got to the subject with the camera, the better the quality of the sound, sounded. Secondly they spoke about a handheld microphone which would give you the best sound, but was the most expensive and would get the best sound result from a few inches away from your mouth. Third was the lavalier microphone which is a microphone that attaches to someones shirt,  this is a good option for people who are not doing very much movement and did not want to spend too much money. Finally was the shotgun microphone which was mainly for the person who could not have a microphone on the set. The way this microphone works is it attaches onto the top of the video camera you are you using for the filming.

Oscars: Main Stream Genres

In this Article Titled Oscars: Main Stream Genres Get a Little Breathing room, was published on October 29th, 2009. In they talk about the leading Oscar nominees before last years Oscars. Some of the categories they talk about in the article are, Documentaries, Animated Feature, Tech-loaded Blockbuster, forgein language film, action thriller, and adult comedy. In each categories there is 10 different nominees.

The next oscars will be coming up sometime in 2011, if you are interested in watching the awards for movies throughout the year.

Dragging - Lesson 4

This is my Image for lesson 4 - Dragging. My image started out as a Beach and an Airplane. I copyed the plane over onto the beach. And the final image looks like the Plane has crashed into the beach

Black and White - Lesson 3

This is my picture for Lesson 3 - Black & White. The image is of a hockey rink, in the original photo the ice in the rink looks like it is a yellow ish green colour. I changed the Picture to black and white by using the monochrome function in adobe photoshop.

Sky Effects - Lesson 2

This is my Sky effects photo for lesson #2. The Sky was Originally all blue, and I changed the left hand peice of the sky to red, as seen in the First Photo. I did this by playing around with the blue, red and green along with the contrast tool.

Saw Franchise Creates Major "Buzz"

The ever so famous horror film series "saw", once started as a seven minute film that took place in a disgusting washroom. However the series has now become one of the most well known and popular horror film series' thats made over one billion dollars in both the worldwide box office and and DVD sales. Ever since the very first Saw film came out, the audience's have loved it and continued watching and buying each and every Saw series film to be released. I am not much of a horror film fan myself, but based on the reviews and the amount of money its made over the years, if you are a fan of horror films and have not seen any of the saw series, I highly suggest going out and renting the movie!

Photoshop Mobile App for iPhone

Just under a year ago, Apple and Adobe released an Adobe Photoshop application available on the Apple ITunes Store. This Application allows users to edit photos on their IPhone on-the-go. In the Application the user can Crop, Rotate and Flip any photo they choose to edit. Other editing options users have in Adobe Photoshop Application are; the colour of the image, the tint, and users can also change the photo to black and white instantly. Once the user has finished editing their selected photo, they can easily send the photo to any Friends or family members through email.
Since this application is free of charge on the Apple Itunes Store, It makes it very practical and financially smart for a wide variety of users worldwide.