Congratulation to all competitors for their performances.

Nike Lowers Pro Final Results:
1 – Gabriel Medina (BRA) 15.67
2 – Glenn Hall (IRL) 10.87

Nike Lowers Pro Semifinals Results:
SF 1: Glenn Hall (IRL) 12.60 def. Gabriel Medina (BRA) 12.17
SF 2: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 19.80 def. Adrian Buchan (AUS) 8.43

Nike Lowers Pro Quarterfinals Results:
QF 1: Glenn Hall (IRL) 13.30 def. Jeremy Flores (FRA) 12.67
QF 2: John John Florence (HAW) 13.20 def. Tanner Gudauskas (USA) 13.00
QF 3: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 18.20 def. Dane Reynolds (USA) 11.03
QF 4: Gabriel Medina (AUS) 13.83 def. Patrick Gudauskas (USA) 13.53

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Nikon DSLRs

Nikon’s professional line of DSLRs offers some great options for landscape photography, including the current king-of-the-hill, the Nikon D3s. I shoot with the D3 and D700 in tandem for all my live work, which make an excellent pair since the image quality of the two is essentially identical.

On top of excellent image quality, top-notch AF on both the D3 and D700 offer best-in-class low light performance to boot – an essential in night  photography. If you’re looking for a more economical DSLR to start with, the Nikon D7000 offers very good high ISO performance for an APS camera.

Nikon D3s/D3	Nikon D700	Nikon D300s
The D3 is my go-to camera for music photography – exceptional low light imaging abilities with the ergonomics and build to match. The new D3s takes all that juice and takes it to 11.	The D700 features the same, low-light loving 12mp sensor as the Nikon D3 but weighs in in a more compact form factor and a considerably nicer price point. Perfect as a second body.	The D300s is Nikon’s top-tier cropped-sensor DSLR and features a 1.5x crop factor. This DSLR is a great option for soundboard shoots and festivals with high stages.

Nikon f/2.8 Lenses

I use three zooms as my main lenses for  photography: the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8, Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8, and Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8. These lenses cover 14-200mm in a highly effective manner, all in a fast f/2.8 aperture. For concert photography, the constant aperture is a tremendous boom.

With all of these three zooms, I never hesitate to shoot wide open if the situations calls for it; they offer excellent image quality at f/2.8 with no exception.

Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8	Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8	Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR
The 14-24mm is a lens that makes other photographers cry. Ultra-wide perspective, ridiculously sharp even wide open at f/2.8. I love using this lens up-close and personal for maximum effect.	Nikon’s standard zoom, this 24-70mm features exceptional image quality at wide apertures – perfect for concerts. I shoot this lens wide open without hesitation. For most gigs, the 24-70mm is my go-to lens.	Right after a midrange zoom, I consider a good 70-200mm an essential piece of kit for live music photography. A must-have for close-ups and drummer shots at larger arena & amphitheater shows.

For a portable location lighting solution, speedlights have long been a staple due to their small size. However, speedlights often leave photographers wanting in power, especially when shooting in bright sunlight. The solution of battery-powered strobes have traditionally been much larger and tremendously more heavy than speedlights.

Enter the Elinchrom Quadra Ranger series.

The Quadra system is one of the first ventures by a major lighting manufacturer that starts to bring real power in a groundbreaking small package. With flash heads smaller than Nikon SB-900 and a power pack light enough to carry with a shoulder strap, the Quadras are a kit that are the perfect fit for frequent flyers and any photographer who want to keep their location kit as light as powerful without sacrificing sun-combating power.

Heir To The Thrown

The Elinchrom Quadra Ranger RX are the baby brothers to the Elinchrom Ranger RX series, and essentially take a similar form factor, but at about 1/3 the weight, half the size, and overall much more portable.

The advantages of a sold state drive (SSD) are many. With no platters to spin up or other mechanical parts, read, write and random seek times are extremely fast – much faster than conventional hard disk drives (HDD). In addition, SSDs run cooler and silently – another bonus over HDDs.

What all these benefits mean for you are increased computing performance, particularly with application speed, reading data and boot times.

I’ve been interested in acquiring a solid state drive for some time now, and after doing my research, I settled on the Other World Computing (OWC) Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD in the 240GB flavor. While there are plenty of benchmarks around to show you just how fast this top-tier SSD is, this is my user’s sharing my real-world experience with the 240GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G.

OWC – The Logical Choice

OWC has been around for over 20 years and are one of the leaders in developing professional solutions for Apple products, including RAID storage, RAM and their own line of SSD storage.

I personally own a ton of OWC drives, including two of their Mercury Elite 4-bay RAID enclosures, which act as my main storage setup, as well as a handful of their Mercury Elite Pro Firewire 800 drives.

In short, if you’re not familiar with OWC, they make serious products for serious use. I highly recommend them if you’re in the market for any sort of storage solution or upgrade (RAM, etc) for your Mac.

Shopping for SSD

I went with OWC and their drives not only because I trust their products due to past experience, but because they’re simply the best-in-class performance. In my research, the top-dog SSD drives came down to the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro and the OCZ Vertex 3 SSD.

Both of these top-tier drives use the same blazingly fast SandForce SF-2281 controller and go pretty much toe-to-toe in all the benchmarks. If you’re deciding between the Vertex and Mercury Extreme, you can probably flip a coin, they’re both great drives.

In terms of storage capacity, 120GB is the smallest version of the OWC drive currently available. I choose the 240gb model because it seemed like the best balance between storage and price. Not so light in capacity that I would have to trim my existing system files, but with enough overhead to grow with future software.

Design

The Mercury Extreme Pro 6G comes in a flashy blue chassis – not that it matters once the drive is installed in your computer, but it’s a nice touch. Of course, it’s really on the inside that counts, including the fastest 6G SandForce controller.

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Kalani David and Dax McGill win Gold for 16 and under….

Congratulation Hawaii team…

Verizion Hawaii World Junior Team captures the GOLD in a an event no one will forget. It was DAKINE…the ISA World Junior Surfing Championship Presented by Billabong competed midday Sunday HI time April 22, 2012 at
Playa Venao, Panama. The full scoops coming tonight.

Dax McGill took home the Gold in the Girls Under 18 and Kalani David took Gold in the the Boys Under 16 thus clinching the overal team Gold for Hawaii Photo: ISA/Rommel Gonzalez

The Verizon Hawaii surf team entered the final day of competition in the lead and surfed their way to victory with a Gold Medal finish today!  Thanks to individual Gold medal finishes by Dax Mcgill and Kalani David is pushed team Hawaii over the edge.

Along with Dax and Kalani’s performances their teammates Mahina Maeda, Tatiana WestonWebb and Josh Moniz also made podium finishes in their respective divisions.

Team Hawaii wrapped the final tally with an amazing 5 finalist representation out of 12 finalist in which 31 countries were represented.

Please check the official ISA World Junior Surfing Championships website for the full update of photos, videos, results and official news of Team Hawaii’s success!!!

A sincere MAHALO goes out to all of our sponsors, family, friends, fans and supporters that went into giving us the “MANA” that we needed to end the event on top of the World!!! Gracias!

ISA World Juniors Team Points Final Standings:
1- Hawaii
2- Australia
3- Brazil
4- USA

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• Quad-core processors available starting today in powerful, high-end desktop, laptop, and sleek and beautiful all-in-one designs.
• Accelerates Intel’s “Tick-Tock” cadence for first time to simultaneously bring to market the world’s first processors developed on 22nm manufacturing process using innovative 3-D tri-gate transistor technology and a new graphics architecture.
• Up to twice the HD media and 3-D graphics performance, as well as significant processor performance, deliver stunning visual experiences from mainstream gaming to HD video editing.
• Ultrabook™ devices, all-in-one (AIO) platforms, business PCs and Intelligent systems in retail, healthcare and other industries will benefit from Intel’s newest processors, with formal announcements in the coming months.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 23, 2012 – Intel Corporation today introduced the quad-core 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processor family, delivering dramatic visual and performance computing gains for gamers, media enthusiasts and mainstream users alike. Available now in powerful, high-end desktop, laptop and sleek all-in-one (AIO) designs, the new processors are the first chips in the world made using Intel’s 22-nanometer (nm) 3-D tri-Gate transistor technology.

The combination of Intel’s cutting-edge 3-D tri-gate transistor technology and architectural enhancements help make possible up to double the 3-D graphics and HD media processing performance compared with Intel’s previous generation of chips. As a result of the stunning, built-in visual performance, all the things people love to do on their PCs — from creating and editing videos and photos, surfing the Web, watching HD movies or playing mainstream games — are quicker, crisper and more life-like. With as much as 20 percent microprocessor performance improvements and new technologies to speed the flow of data to and from the chips, the new processors further extend Intel’s overall performance leadership.

In the coming months, additional versions of the 3rd generation Intel Core processors will be available to power a new wave of systems ranging from Ultrabook™ devices, to servers and intelligent systems in retail, healthcare and other industries.

“The 3^rd generation Intel Core processors were created from the ground up to generate exciting new experiences,” said Kirk Skaugen, Intel vice president and general manager of the PC Client Group. “Our engineers have exceeded our expectations by doubling the performance of media and graphics versus the best processors we’ve built until today, which means incredible new visual experiences are here for new all-in-one PCs and upcoming Ultrabook devices. What makes all this possible is the combination of Intel’s leading manufacturing and processor architecture, and our unwavering commitment to drive computing innovations forward.”

“Tick-Plus” – The Intel Advantage
The performance gains found in the new processors are due in part to the groundbreaking, three-dimensional structure of the new Intel transistors. Until today, computers, servers and other devices have used only two-dimensional planar transistors. Adding a third dimension to transistors allows Intel to increase transistor density and put more capabilities into every square millimeter of these new processors. Intel has once again re-invented the transistor and delivered an unprecedented combination of performance and energy efficiency, thus sustaining the pace of technology advancement and fueling Moore’s Law for years to come.

Intel engineers also reworked the graphics architecture of the 3rd generation Intel Core processors, helping to deliver dramatic improvements in the overall visual experience. Changing the chips’ architecture while at the same time shrinking the size of the underlying transistors is an acceleration of Intel’s “tick-tock” model. Previously, the company adhered to a strict “tick-tock” model in which a new manufacturing process was introduced in 1 year (the “tick”), and the architecture of the chip (the “tock”) was altered the next. The ability to accelerate the roadmap and change both the chips’ architecture and the manufacturing process at the same time was made possible because Intel is one of the few companies that both designs and manufactures its chips, a method called Integrated Device Manufacturing.

Get Visual and Get Your Game On
The 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processor with Intel® HD Graphics 4000 delivers up to two times better 3-D graphics performance compared to the previous-generation processor, bringing more gaming fun with richer detail at higher resolutions. Intel HD Graphics 4000 supports Microsoft* DirectX 11, OpenGL 3.1 and OpenCL 1.1.

“The 3-D graphics capabilities in 3rd generation Intel Core processors represent a major step forward for PC gaming,” said Gabe Newell, co-founder and managing director of Valve Software, a leading online game provider. “Mainstream gamers are going to have a blast playing titles like our upcoming DOTA 2 on Intel HD Graphics 4000.”

Great visual experience is about more than just gaming. Online video continues to grow dramatically, and is expected to comprise half of all Internet traffic this year.** The key to making video fun is the ability to quickly convert it for online sharing with friends and family. With Intel^® Quick Sync Video 2.0 technology built into the new processors, people can convert their videos up to two times faster than even last year’s processors and up to 23 times faster than PCs just three years old.

Experiences, Secured. Platform, Enhanced.
The 3rd generation Intel Core processor also adds security features, including Intel^® Secure Key and Intel® OS Guard to safeguard personal data and identity. Intel Secure Key consists of a digital random number generator that creates truly random numbers to strengthen encryption algorithms. Intel OS Guard helps defend against privilege escalation attacks where a hacker remotely takes over another person’s system. These two features join existing platform security features such as Intel^® Identity Protection Technology (Intel® IPT) and Intel^® Anti-Theft technology (Intel® AT) to help make Intel platforms some of the most secure in the industry. When paired with the Intel^® Series 7 Chipset, the new processors with Intel IPT can make a portion of the screen unreadable to spyware with the “protected transaction display” feature, helping prevent a hacker from obtaining login credentials that could lead to identity theft.

Platforms based on 3^rd generation Intel Core processors also deliver faster data transfer capabilities made possible by USB 3.0 integrated into the Series 7 Platform Controller Hub (PCH) and PCI Express 3.0 integrated into the processor. These next-generation I/O technologies bring bigger data pipes to the platform to keep data moving, minimizing any interruption to the PC experience.

Processor and System Availability
Systems based on quad-core 3rd generation Intel Core processor products will be available beginning this month from leading system makers. Boxed versions of these processors will also be available this month from online, retail and channel resellers. Additional versions of the 3^rd generation Intel Core processor products for servers, intelligent systems in retail, healthcare and other industries, Ultrabook devices and laptops and more will be available later this year.

And the Canon 5D Mark III stock are delayed as well and some model already sold are recalled.