2015-16 NBA Standings Thru Feb. 5

Another amazing season is shaping up - in case you haven't been paying attention!

Here are the NBA standings through Feb. 5, 2016:

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Amazing Video of May 20th's Tornado in Moore, OK

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Monolation

by Jess Dunlap

Monolation from Jess Dunlap on Vimeo.

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Absolutely incredible! This is not a video. It's time lapse photography. Yeah, that's a lot of pictures!! Well done!

> Jess's website..

Lots more information in the source thread listed up above (my "via"), such as a set-up pictures, and locations of what you're viewing.

Zach Johnson's Amazing Golf Shot

...in case you haven't seen it yet.

This is one of the most difficult shots in the game of golf - the fairway bunker shot.

Here's the reason it's so tough: Over time, most golfers become fairly capable of getting out of a green-side sand trap, in which you hit behind the ball with the face open, and slide under the ball, allowing the sand to "blast" the ball out. You never touch the ball. But the fairway bunker shot requires you to hit the ball as if it were a regular fairway shot, but you must make perfectly clean contact, taking no divot. You have to "pick it clean".

I always tell people to put the ball a little back in their stance, use one club longer than you might think, close the face a tiny bit, aim about 10 yards right of where you normally would, and swing at a steeper angle, so that you pick it clean, and then get out - without risking any type of divot. Hit this type of shot a little fat, and it's gonna go about 30 yards. Hit it a little thin, and if it doesn't re-bury itself, it might go 10 feet.

So this is already one of the toughest shots there is. Magnify it by the fact that this is during a tournament.. a PGA Tour event.. on Sunday.. in a sudden death playoff for the title:


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The shot won him the tournament. Well done, Zach!

Amazing Austin, TX Lightning Photo

Sunday night, May 6, 2012 - Looking south over the Hwy 360 (Pennybacker) bridge, and overlooking Austin Country Club.

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Google Maps location..

Amazing Swedish Sunset

('shopped a bit)


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Here's the splendid original:




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Superstition Mountains, Tonto National Forest, Arizona

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Wikipedia link..

Google Maps link..

More images of this gorgeous area..

James Galea's Amazing Card Trick on "Ellen"

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One of the top magicians in Australia, James Galea made his US television debut with some unbelievable magic. He impressed everyone with this amazing card trick that will leave you speechless! (Source)

On the Streets of Buenos Aires: Damian Salazar

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More from Damian Salazar..

"Amazing Grace" Can Be Played With All Black Keys

Source - Thanks Mom!

Some Amazing Eye Pictures

from Suren Manvelyan Photography



And he also has other wonderful stuff, as you'll see if you click on the link under the title.

For the eye gallery, click the image above.

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An Amazing Auditory Illusion

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Valentina Lisitsa - An Amazing Pianist

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The Amazing Golf Ball

A golfer, playing a round by himself, is about to tee off, and a greasy little salesman runs up to him, and yells, "Wait! Before you tee off, I have something really amazing to show you!"

The golfer, annoyed, says, "What is it?"

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"It's a special golf ball," says the salesman. "You can never lose it!"

"Whattaya mean," scoffs the golfer, "you can never lose it? What if you hit it into the water?"

"No problem," says the salesman. "It floats, and it detects where the shore is, and then it spins towards it."

"Well, what if you hit it into the woods?"

"Easy," says the salesman. "It emits a beeping sound, and you can find it with your
eyes closed."

"Okay," says the golfer, impressed. "But what if your round goes late and it gets
dark?"

"No problem, sir, this golf ball glows in the dark! I'm telling you, you can never lose this golf ball!"

The golfer buys it at once. "Just one question," he says to the salesman. "Where did
you get it?"

"I found it."

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What A Pool!

The pool on the 57th floor of the Marina Bay Sands Casino in Singapore.

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The Music Shop Boy With An Amazing Voice

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His name is Brendan MacFarlane. Pay attention, he'll be on Ellen some day..

Brendan's Youtube page / Facebook page

Amazing Earth Views From Orbit

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An Amazing Saltwater Close-up

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Breathtaking

Must enlarge this one!

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Some incredible lightning captured in front of what is apparently Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. Amazing!!

Canone Inverso di Bach

Enigmatic canon 1 to 2 of the "Musical Offering" by J. S. Bach (1747), the manuscript shows a pentagram only the beginning of which is connected to the end. This space is topologically equivalent to a bundle on the circumference of the segment, known as a Möbius strip. The simultaneous execution of two simple paths and retrograde gives rise to two entries, whose symmetry leads to a reversible evolution. A musical universe is built and then "deconstructed" into silence again.

Source - Thanks Barbara!