Basecamp is everyone’s favorite project management app. researchers build Quad HD TV chip It took only a few years for high-definition televisions to make the transition from high-priced novelty to ubiquitous commodity — and they now seem to be heading for obsolescence just as quickly. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, several manufacturers debuted new ultrahigh-definition, or UHD, models (also known as 4K or Quad HD) with four times the resolution of today’s HD TVs. In addition to screens with four times the pixels, however, UHD also requires a new video-coding standard, known as high-efficiency video coding, or HEVC. Also at CES, Broadcom announced the first commercial HEVC chip, which it said will go into volume production in mid-2014. At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week, MIT researchers unveiled their own HEVC chip. The researchers’ design was executed by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, through its University Shuttle Program, and Texas Instruments (TI) funded the chip's development. In the pipeline Fine-tuning
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What to eat before, during and after the London Marathon - Women's Health © Shutterstock It has finally arrived; the London marathon is back for another year! You've been training hard and eating right for weeks, so now is the time to ensure that all your hard work doesn't go to waste. Before your run The days before the marathon is the time to focus more on your carbohydrate intake, increasing it by about 10% to ensure you have a productive and successful run at an endurance-testing event like the London marathon. A few hours before your run, have a balanced but light meal that includes some, but not too many, fibres (fibres could cause stomach problems during your race, so be careful with that) such as oatmeal, a chicken sandwich or whole-grain cereal. During your run During the run, you want to stay focused on drinking fluids with a good percentage of carbohydrates, glucose and sodium to keep your blood sugar levels up. After your run You did it - congratulations! Lovisa Nilsson is an experienced runner who runs 10km in an impressive 44 minutes.
You are one? You are alone? You are by yourself? - The scenic route back to Kathmandu with my imaginary friends.... Advertisement "Yes, yes, yes I know, I'm a billy no mates and have no friends", is what I felt like saying after the 6th person in two hours spoke or gestured, combined usually with a look of concern or confusion, to ask whether I was on my own. I was beginning to get the feeling that in everyday Nepal, ie. outside of the tourist bubble I'd been living in, perhaps women didn't travel on their own.... I was staying in Bandipur, some three hours from Pokhara, having decided to take the scenic route back to Kathmandu. The next morning I was in a taxi to the local bus station (again less 'station', more random roadside... The guide book described Bandipur as a quiet hillside town so I was quite perturbed walking along the main street looking for somewhere to stay to find that almost every building was a hotel, guest house or had rooms. a sweet older couple and actually despite my initial reservations I loved it here. The next day I went on a wall out to the small There are more photos below
Kieron Donoghue’s blog – here.org.uk | Kieron Donoghue's Blog Music Thing Microsiervos Oddity Central - Weird Places, Odd Events, Bizarre News, Strange People and A Lot More The Hilarious Adventures Of Vladimir Putin 1. Forumla 1 Putin 2. Sporting Pro Putin 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 45,000M Butterfly Stroke Putin 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. You really do have to hand it to Russian Prime Minister (and former KGB Member) Vladimir Putin & his insatiable thirst for adventure. He is literally everywhere! If he's not driving a formula one car, he's feeding deer, if he's not doing that he'll be whizzing around via snowmobile and if the weather permits he might do a bit of topless hunting in the bush. Thanks to these candid photos taken by Yana Lapikova (the new personal photographer of the man himself) you're about to see another side to one of the most revered, respected and divisive characters in global politics today. Say what you like about his policies, you have to give the man credit - at least he's not like 99% of politicians delivering 30 second sound bytes on the local evening news dressed in a dour soulless suit.
The Tattoos Of Russia's Brutal Prisoners & Criminals Custom Tattoos Of Russia **_Warning some of the imagery you're about to see is NSFW_** Here's a tale of struggle, individuality, brutality, creativity and all set against the bleak background of cold Soviet Russia. Danzig Baldaev (who's father was imprisoned as any enemy of the people) would regularly visit his father behind bars at the controversial prison Kresty Prison in St. Petersburg. Over the next 30 years he started to study, document and capture the tattoos that adored the other inmates at the time. Each tattoo, had a story (not least in the way that it came into being - inmates would make DIY sharped syringes and use ink made from a mixture of melted paper, human fluids & other unknown ingredients. All of Danzig's illustrations & stories were preserved and archived in the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume II - there's now 3 volumes in total. But after seeing and reading about Baldaev's work, photographer Sergei Vasiliev served as the missing piece of the puzzle.