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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Activist investor Ackman buys into P&G, shares rise

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Bizarre prehistoric giant turtle was almost perfectly round

A huge turtle that lived some 60 million years ago in what is now South America had a circular shell, say paleontologists.

By Jeanna Bryner,?LiveScience Managing Editor / July 12, 2012

The round shape of a new species of fossil turtle, reported July 11, 2012, and found in Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia, would have meant more surface area to be warmed by the sun.

Liz Bradford

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A newfound giant turtle that lived 60 million years ago in what is now northwestern South America would have been more than a mouthful for a neighboring predator, the world's largest snake Titanoboa.

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The turtle's huge carapace, or shell, was nearly circular, like a tire, the researchers said.

The fossil turtle was discovered in Colombia's La Puente pit in the Cerrej?n Coal Mine, made famous for its other treasures, including the extinct?Titanoboa cerrejonensis, two crocodile species,?Cerrejonisuchus improcerus?andAcherontisuchus guajiraensis, as well as two turtle species, the?small-car-size Carbonemys cofrinii?and the?thick-shelledCerrejonemys wayuunaiki. (C. improcerus?would have been an easy meal for the 45-foot, or nearly 14 meters, Titanoboa snake, said researchers who discovered the 6- to 7-foot-long snake.)

Named?Puentemys mushaisaensis?after the pit where it was found, the turtle, whose shell would have extended 5 feet (1.5 m) across, adds to growing evidence that tropical reptiles ballooned after the dinosaurs were wiped out.

Even with its mouth wide open, Titanoboa wouldn't have been able to down this turtle, not whole at least. And its round, low-domed shape would have increased the surface area exposed to the sun to keep the cold-blooded turtle warm, said study researcher Carlos Jaramillo of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

"The shell was far more rounded than a typical turtle," Jaramillo told LiveScience.

Various factors, including plentiful food, fewer predators, large habitat and climate change, would have worked together to allow turtles and other animals to reach such relatively gargantuan sizes, scientists have suggested.

For instance, the warm weather where would've been beneficial for?P.?mushaisaensis?and other ectotherms that rely on their surroundings to regulate their body temperature.

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Mushtaq salutes Alimuddin as ex-opener dies at 81

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Kate Middleton Cover Depicts Duchess With Rotting, Yellow Teeth

A new magazine cover featuring Kate Middleton is causing quite a stir.

Because the Duchess rarely (okay, never) poses for magazines, they're forced to snag and edit images on their own for the celebrity gossip, etc., that they're teasing.

The New Republic has gone further than ever before, however, marring the lovely face of Kate Middleton with Photoshop and giving her rotting yellow teeth.

See the cringe-worthy image below. Why would they go there?

The cover story is not about Catherine nor royals in general, but rather the decaying state of the British economy and government ... hence the metaphor.

As for why Kate Middleton, and not a figure of the actual government (or the actual monarch Queen Elizabeth II), was chosen for the cover, we can't say.

Okay, we can ... it was done because Kate, for better or worse, has become the symbolic face of the country, and so we'd discuss the image above.

Political commentary aside, that's a little rough. Follow the link for actual Kate Middleton photos, in which her smile (and everything else) looks flawless.

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/07/kate-middleton-cover-depicts-duchess-with-rotting-yellow-teeth/

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Dane-Elec Marvel Avengers USB Drive

Combine a detailed Marvel collectible with 8GB of storage and what do you get? A flash drive that will have you shouting "Avengers Assemble!" Dane-Elec Memory, the same company behind the Duracell Rugged USB Drive, has released a set of four 8GB flash drives, each featuring one of the Avengers: Captain America, Iron Man, The Hulk, and Thor ($14.99 list each). Although the drives don't offer fantastic performance or S.H.I.E.L.D.-level security features, they are reasonably priced, and make an eye-catching addition to the desk of any Avengers fan.

Design and Features
Each drive is constructed entirely from plastic?including the USB plug?with one Marvel hero on top and a sliding USB connector built into the base. The base of each measures 0.8 by 1.2 by 1.8 inches (HWD), with each Avenger adding between 2.4 and 3 inches more to the drives' height. As collectible figurines go, these are on par with better-looking action figures, but they lack joint articulation or moving parts. Captain America has his updated 21st-century uniform and iconic shield, Iron Man has his Mark 7 armor, Thor is in full battle dress with Mjolnir raised high, and the Hulk is in all his Mark Ruffalo?modeled green-ness. Obviously, these drives aren't as pocketable as sleeker keychain drives, and you may have trouble fitting them into recessed or cramped USB ports, but to be fair, other drives don't let you stage mock battles against Loki and Thanos on your desk at work. (I'm not the only one who does that, right?)

The drive itself is basic, with USB 2.0 connectivity and 8GB of storage space (7.2GB in actual testing). The slider mechanism is a bit stiff, but not so much as to be unusable. With FAT32 formatting, the Avengers drives are compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. Dane-Elec covers the drives with a five-year warranty.

Selling for $14.99, or $1.87 per gigabyte, the Avengers USB drives are fairly priced for USB 2.0 storage. The Verbatim Store 'n' Go Clip-it USB Drive ($22 street, 3.5 stars) sells for $1.83 per gigabyte; our Editors' Choice, the encryptedKingston DataTraveler Locker+ (8GB) ($14 street, 4 stars), sells for $1.75 per gigabyte. Premium drives with special features or stylish looks are more expensive, like the pint-size Verbatim Tuff 'n' Tiny at $4.47 per gigabyte or the Victorinox Swiss Army Slim Flight (4GB) ($40 street, 4 stars) at $10 per gigabyte. As with groceries, the best prices in storage come when you buy in bulk?the 128GB Kingston DataTraveler R500 ($200 street, 3.5 stars) costs a mere $1.56 per gigabyte.

Performance
We weren't expecting these novelty drives to provide superior performance?that's not their main selling point?but what we saw was still in line with similarly priced drives. In our timed data transfer tests, the Avengers USB drives produced speeds of 4.4MBps (write) and 16.3MBps (read). Although they're nothing to boast about, they don't lag too far behind other drives, like the Victorinox Swiss Army Slim Flight (6MBps write, 24MBps read), the Verbatim Store N' Go Clip-it (6MBps write, 15MBps read), or the Kingston DataTraveler Locker+ (9.6MBps write, 24MBps read).

Even if the Marvel Avengers USB Drives aren't super-powered, they offer affordable storage with moderate performance. For faster speeds you'd want something like the Editors' Choice Kingston DataTraveler Locker+; if you buy these drives, it won't be for their prowess transferring data. Serious collectors may not even open the packaging, preferring to keep these collectibles in mint condition. The only real disappointment we had while testing these drives was that there isn't also a companion set containing Hawkeye, Black Widow, Nick Fury, and Loki.

COMPARISON TABLE
Compare the Dane-Elec Marvel Avengers USB Drives with several other flash drives side by side.

More flash drive reviews:
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Woman On Street Attacked By Giant Snail, It Seems

Here's what got Nagai Hideyuki excited. Hideyuki lives in Tokyo. He's now 21. This photo was taken on the other side of the world, somewhere in Europe. What you see here is a street and a plain stone bench, both partially covered by a chalk drawing. The drawing disappears in places and at one point seems to bump into a metal pole.

What Julian Beever does is a form of anamporphosis, which is a very careful exercise in distorted perception. His drawings make no sense until you happen onto a particular ? and it's a very particular ? angle. Once you step into that spot ? the only place where you can see what the artist intended ? suddenly, boom! ? the drawing leaps into three dimensions ... and you see, well, this:

It's uncanny. But it's all in the planning. Beever has a camera or a viewfinder posted at the very spot he wants his viewers to occupy, and he draws from that perspective. So here in Glasgow, Scotland, is a Marilyn Monroe-type bathing in what looks like a 3-D pool of real water.

Notice the very real looking Coca-Cola bottle and can in the corner (you're supposed to notice, because Coke probably paid for this drawing) and ask yourself, are those real?

They're not. Viewed from the "wrong" perspective, Marilyn's leg becomes a long, dangling tentacle and the soda pop goes, you should excuse the expression, flat.

Beever can achieve dramatic, spectacular effects, with this technique. Here's a street ad he did on 44th Street in New York for Levi's. The little girl is real.

When Nagai Hideyuki saw some of Beever's chalkings in the paper, he thought, "I've got to do that!" but he's not a street-artist type. "I realized it would be against the law," he writes on his website. Instead, he's taken Beever's work indoors, to the quiet of his desk, where he creates 3-D effects using two notepads and a bunch of pencils. That way, he doesn't have to deal with strangers, with cops or with weather. But the effect, if anything, is even more startling.

This man thrusting his hand at us is, in actuality, a combination of two perfectly flat drawings (I kid you not), with a real eraser dropped onto his palm.

It's done the same way Beever (and a few other commercial artists like Kurt Wenner) do it: by drawing a precisely distorted image that the human brain, viewing from a precise angle, will see as a three-dimensional illusion. I imagine this is a trial-and-error procedure, but the result is so flawless, it's hard to believe this image is constructed from two flat planes.

But it is. Hideyuki is shy about how he does it, but in one of his videos, I found a moment where he lets the illusion show. Here's the drawing: It's a factory, glimpsed through a surface that has been ripped apart by two hands, to let part of the building slide through. The building seems to poke in our direction. As usual, the two pictures look like they are occupying real space ...

But then, at 27 seconds into the video, he separates the two pads, and for just a second or two, you can almost see the illusion.

I love looking at things knowing they aren't there, but seeing them anyway.

People used to take drugs to do this, but as Nagai Hideyuki would no doubt tell you, "That's [also] against the law." Three-D drawings are the perfectly legal alternative. Instead of popping a pill, you pop into a precise space, look down and gape. And no one can arrest you.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/07/09/156495126/woman-on-street-attacked-by-giant-snail-it-seems?ft=1&f=1007

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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Wall St slips on global economic worries

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wall-st-slips-global-economic-worries-063117193--sector.html

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