It's Hard to Believe These Impossible Buildings Aren't Real [Architecture]

Architectural photographer Victor Enrich makes these impossible buildings using a combination of photography, digital retouching and 3D graphics. The results are so amazing that I can actually believe some of them are real. [Victor Enrich] More »

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Study finds way more emperor penguins than previously thought

New satellite data reveals that emperor penguins are far more abundant in Antarctica than previously estimated.?

Emperor penguins in Antarctica are far more plentiful than previously thought, a study that used extremely high-resolution imagery snapped by satellites has revealed.

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"It surprised us that we approximately doubled the population estimate," said Peter Fretwell, a scientist with the British Antarctic Survey and lead author of a paper published today in the journal PLoS One.

Fretwell said that in contrast to previous estimates, which put?emperor penguin?numbers somewhere between 270,000 and 350,000 birds, the new research counted 595,000 birds.

Antarctic research is challenging, since humans can essentially only work on the frigid continent for three months out of the year, and nailing down hard numbers for the iconic birds has proved difficult.

Bird census

The last overall population estimate, done in 1992, found that approximately 135,000 to 175,000 emperor penguins lived around the continent.?[See Antarctica's iconic emperor penguins in action.]

Fretwell and a team of researchers melded several kinds of high-definition imagery captured by satellites to arrive at their new number. They sharpened the images to allow them to differentiate between penguins, shadows on the ground, and the penguins' poop, which is plentiful enough to show up in satellite pictures.

The team also used actual ground counts of penguins in their analysis. "The ground counts told us the density of penguin clusters, and we used this to multiply the area of penguins calculated by our satellite image analysis into penguin numbers," Fretwell told OurAmazingPlanet in an email.

The analysis not only doubled the previous estimate of emperor penguins, but also uncovered seven previously undiscovered colonies.

Fretwell said this kind of research is important, particularly in the face of a changing climate.

Penguin future

There are concerns that changes to Antarctica's ice heralds a difficult future for emperor penguins. The birds breed on the Antarctic sea ice during the brutal winter months, but earlier spring melts may pose threats to the more northern colonies, according to a statement from the British Antarctic Survey.

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New iPhone Unlock Should Work With Any Model

iPhone unlocks are usually a tetchy experience - you have to have the right firmware on the right model iPhone at the right time. Now, however, thanks to a method that spoofs the activation server, you can unlock almost any iPhone semi-permanently. The system, called Subscriber Artificial Module or SAM, requires a jailbroken iPhone and Cydia. To run it, you de-activate your phone, insert a new SIM, and then activate SAM. SAM spoofs the activation process, convincing the phone that it has been unlocked properly and without issues.

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Ask Engadget: best sub-$150 mechanical keyboard?

We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is coming to us from Andrew, who wants to get a proper keyboard, for doing serious business on. If you're looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.

"Hi, I'm thinking about getting a mechanical keyboard for my desktop. I'm a student so I'll need to do a bunch of word-processing and also moderate FPS gaming in the downtime. I've got a budget of $150 and prefer Cherry MX Blue and Brown switches, do you have any suggestions?"

No "thank you?" Man, the kids of today. Anyway, it's a weird coincidence because we've also been pondering swapping out our chiclet daily-driver for something more serious. We played with Matias' One at CES, while Andrew himself has one eye on the Razer Blackwidow or the Das Model S Pro / Stealth. But that's us, what we want to know is what y'all out there are using when it comes to properly made keyboards -- stick your comments below and let's get this doing done.

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Get the Latest Updates on IPL News through Online Sites

IPL 2012 is right round the corner, with the first exciting match to be held on 4th April 2012. There have already been a lot of speculations and anticipations for win-loss situation of all the nine participating teams, and it is expected that IPL will be a mega event this season. There have already been much hype about IPL 5 on television and over Internet as well, and the latest IPL 5 news have already started popping up in several sources. However, with technology advancement, today, you do not need to sit in front of television for hours or wait for the newspaper to get IPL 2012 news. Simply by searching online, you can get latest updates on IPL 5 season, IPL 5 news in Hindi and other exciting information, right on your computer or mobile phone.

Owing to the fast pace busy life of today, people hardly get time to sit in front of television and enjoy their favorite IPL matches.

But that does not mean that you will have to remain aloof from the pulsating vibes of these phenomenal cricket matches. You can stay in tune with the latest IPL updates with IPL 2012 news page online. No matter where you are located, whatever time, you can get all exciting news and other information, right at your fingertips, with online news services. There are many websites that are currently providing the latest news and other exciting information, match schedule, team squad, auction price of players, etc. absolutely free online. With these website links, you can now enjoy IPL 5 News conveniently while on the go or stuck busy in some meeting.

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The 2?4 Interview: Creativity | Business 2 Community

Towards the end of last year, my friend Michael Schechter was kind enough to invite me to chat on his 2?4 series.

The idea behind 2?4 is simple: one series that examines two topics, creativity and productivity, by asking those who make things on the web the same four questions on both subjects.

I had a blast answering Mike?s questions, and thought it?d be cool to share the answers here. In this first part, we talk Creativity ? make sure you drop by on Wednesday for the Productivity answers.

Have you always considered yourself to be a creative person?

I?m not sure. I think it depends on how you?re defining creativity. If a kid makes a mess, is that creativity? Because it wasn?t there before, and the kid had to take actions and bring them to the fore to make the mess, so is that a creative process? I?ve always been passionate about writing and storytelling, and how that can impact on someone?s mindset. But then, that just kinda came natural, so I?m not sure if that counts. Sorry for the lame answer!

What mediums and inspirations do you gravitate towards to realize your creative goals?

Well, blogging is probably my number one medium, both from a writing angle and a reading angle. Some of the best, most outright and questioning content today is coming from blogs. People like Gini Dietrich, Adam Singer, Geoff Livingston, Olivier Blanchard and others like them are writing stuff that everyone should read. I?m also a big TED fan ? if you can?t find inspiration from their channel on YouTube, you?re probably a zombie.

If you had to point to one thing, what specific posts or creation are you most proud of and why?

From a creation, it?d have to be the12for12k project. To see what started out as a simple idea to use social media to raise funds and awareness for charities turn into the community it did, has been pretty inspiring. I love the fact that people truly wanted to be involved ? it was a real team effort, and the fact that everyone donated their time for free was just amazing. From a blog post angle, I?d say the one where I talk about my attempted suicide is the one I?m most proud of, because it helped others open up about their demons and understand they?re not alone. To me, that?s what blogging is all about ? the human connection and the potential to change lives.

Any suggestions for those who feel they may not be creative take to unlock their inner artist?

Practice doing it. It doesn?t matter if that?s blogging, painting, making movies, taking picture or whatever. Make time every day ? even if it?s just five minutes ? and take a picture, or write a blog post, or shoot something on your video camera. You don?t have to publish it ? just get into the habit of doing it, and learning your trade. You?ll be surprised at how you grow, both in creativity and the strength to actually make your creation public.

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Xtex's My Tablet gets you 7 inches of tasty ICS for just 150 bones (update)

Tablets are are great and all, but they sure can be expensive -- especially if you want one running a newer version of Android. Step in Xtex's $150 My Tablet, a 7-inch device loaded with Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3, a 16GB HDD (expandable to 48 GB via its TF card slot) and a 1.5Ghz CPU complimented by 1GB of RAM. That's not all, though, as the device also packs a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, an HDMI output and mini and standard USB ports. That low price does mean you'll be making do with a screen resolution of 800 x 480 and only WiFi connectivity, but you'll get to choose from its very neapolitan-esque black, white and pink colorways. Considering the My Tablet is nearly half the price of an Andy Pad Pro, it sure does looks appetizing on paper -- as long as you keep your expectations reasonable, that is. Satisfy your sweet tooth with more images in the gallery below and the press release after the break.

Update: Apparently, this tablet isn't as new as it seems. As it would turn out, it looks to be a re-badge of the Zync Z990 that's sold in India.

Update 2: Xtex has contacted us to clarify the My Tablet's relationship to the Zync Z990 stating "...although we do have the same outer shell (chose from an already created mold to cut down pricing to end consumer) all the parts and etc are completely different from the Zync."

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Ceton's Echo Extender for Media Center will be the first to support DTS surround sound

What's the Echo Extender for Media Center got that no other Extender for Media Center has? Support for DTS surround sound, that's what. The catch of course is that the Echo is still just on track for "later in 2012," but the press release after the break is a welcome reminder that the first new Extender for Media Center since 2008 is actually going to happen. Unfortunately, there's still no new updates on price, availability or really anything other than the fact that you'll be able to enjoy your favorite content in surround sound that is encoded with DTS -- hopefully that's enough for now.

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How would you change Motorola's Xoom 2?

Motorola's Xoom 2 is, undeniably a strong tablet. It was able to beat a Galaxy Tab 10.1 and a Transformer Prime in some of our performance tests, battery life is around nine hours and it's nearly running a pure version of Honeycomb. We're a big fan of that display, but less so its unnatural attraction to fingerprints. As we sit anxiously waiting for Ice Cream Sandwich to make its belated way onto the slate, we want to know: what do you think works, what did Motorola scrimp on and what would you change to make it a better device?

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Louvre goes visual with Nintendo 3Ds guide

PARIS (AP) ? The Louvre Museum is used to dealing with antiquities: Nearly all of its thousands of works of art date to 1848 or earlier. Now, it wants to create a relic of its own ? the old museum audio guide.

The famed Paris museum, whose origins date to the 18th century, is pressing on toward modernity and going visual with new electronic guides in a deal with Japan's Nintendo. The guide provides 3DS game consoles that offer touch-screen, visual-and-audio guidance for visitors who teem the museum's labyrinthine halls by the millions each year.

Billed as an unprecedented innovation at a museum, the game consoles launched this week offer 700 recordings on famed works like the Venus de Milo, Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Mona Lisa ? only a tiny sliver of the 35,000-odd works displayed in the museum.

The electronic guides, both navigational and informative, offer virtual glimpses of the artistic touches that are tough for the naked eye to see, like tiny details on towering tableaux on the museum's wood-paneled walls. They'll use much of the same information in the Louvre's now-shelved audio guides.

Pairing France's highest-of-high-brow museums with a Japanese technology company behind games like Donkey Kong, Mario Brothers and Zelda might not seem like a natural fit. And some may view the electronic guide as a shop window for Nintendo. But Louvre officials say the museum must change with the times, and try to access as wide a public possible.

Over the years, the Louvre has drawn controversy with some of its innovations, including the glass-pyramid entrance by Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei or its sharing parts of its massive collection with wealthy countries like the United Arab Emirates ? which is to open a Louvre affiliate in 2015.

Above all, the console is meant to reach out to the Louvre's customer base: the museum welcomed 8.9 million visitors last year ? more than half of them under age 30, and about two-thirds foreign.

The guides, for now available in seven languages, cost ?5 ($6.50) on top of the museum's ?10 ($13) standard admission price. And coming soon: French sign language.

Press a button, and the viewer virtually floats over, say, statues by Michelangelo, or zooms up close on the tiny cracks in the face of the Mona Lisa ? all but impossible to see from behind a crowded rope line.

The console comes in handy peering high up at Veronese's 60-square-meter (645-square-foot) painting "The Wedding at Cana," across from the Mona Lisa. Details of the giant tableau easily seen on screen can be checked against the real thing.

The biggest benefit may be helping art lovers get around: Visitors see their location, which blinks inside a diagram of exhibit rooms on one of the console's two screens. A menu allows for a specific search for one of 50 of the museum's most popular works and can plot a path to get there. Another feature is a "masterpieces" walk.

Because of the Louvre's thick walls, and because some of its exhibit spaces are underground, 3G mobile phone networks don't reach everywhere inside. The positioning system relies on beacons posted around the museum.

Nintendo's director-general for France, Stephan Bole, insisted the console isn't aimed as a substitute for a live, in-person visit: Virtual isn't the same thing as seeing the works themselves.

"The 3DS is to assist a visit that remains live ? you have to see the paintings to appreciate them," he said by phone. "We want to complement the real live visit."

Many visitors were spotted wandering around with the new 3DS guides Thursday afternoon. But some, asked about how they liked them, complained of a steep learning curve.

"The classic, usual audio guide works better. I would have to search for the information that's on this, instead of just pressing the number" next to a work of art, said Naoyuki Tomizawa, a 41-year-old IT manager from Tokyo.

Then a Louvre staffer showed how the console can do that, too.

"Oh, I didn't notice that," Tomizawa replied. "I haven't played around with it enough. The navigation part's good, when you get lost and don't know where you are."

Meera Bickley, a 45-year-old yoga teacher from Byron Bay, Australia, said she arrived too late in the day ? shortly before closing ? and could have used more time to figure out the console.

"Once I figured out how to use it, it was definitely helpful. The imagery was great, the maps ... but actually finding my way in and being able to use it, was quite complex," she said. "I was born in the wrong decade!"

Indeed, her 14-year-old daughter, Matilda Dods, said it was easy.

"I figured it out immediately. It gives you instructions on the screen. It says: press 'A' to get this and press 'B' to get this ... it's easy to figure out," said Dods. "Mom is challenged."

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Promoting Your Promotions | MyDealCompass Blog | Business ...

As a business, it is key to constantly be raising your sales. Of course the best way to draw in a crowd and raise the sales is by offering a special promotion. You can not simply put a promotion in place without getting the word out. You must instead focus on promoting your promotion.

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Chevy Volt comeback: gas prices spur best-ever monthly sales

GM had temporarily closed a Chevy Volt plant because of slack demand. But that changed in March with a record 2,289 units sold. GM's new target: 3,000 a month.?

Driven by $4 a gallon gasoline, new car buyers snapped up 2,289 copies of GM's new electricity-and-gasoline powered Chevrolet Volt last month, a record monthly high that more than doubled its February sales.

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As a result, officials at the big automaker last week announced production would resume a week sooner than expected at its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant after an announced five-week shutdown due to slack demand.

Last year, the Volt morphed from "technological wonder" to "political punching bag," GM CEO Daniel Akerson told a Senate committee last month. Conservatives have questioned whether GM produced the Volt to curry favor with green-tech-loving President Obama, who was a champion of the auto bailout.

?Now, however, the March sales boost has brought a measure of relief ? and Mr. Akerson is expecting more.

?It seems like we?ve sustained ourselves through this difficult period,? Akerson told Bloomberg Radio recently. ?We hope to get up to 3,000-plus in the coming months, and are certainly positioning it.?

Some owners are offering rave reviews of the hybrid, which?includes a tiny gasoline engine that, if needed, recharges its big battery on the fly. In online reviews, however, the key issue is that the car can travel about 40 miles just on electricity ? and for a large number of Americans that's usually enough.?

On the website of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group that touts environmental solutions,?one Volt owner, Jeff, noted that he has used just 23 gallons of gas in 13 months since purchasing his Volt. In that time, he's driven 13,500 miles ? about 566 miles per gallon.

"Just terrific," adds Danny Parker on a Good Housekeeping.com web page focusing on the electric car experience. "Two thousand miles driven and less than a gallon of gas. Go figure. Sporty, fun to drive. It is getting weird not going to gas stations though... Oh never mind."

Despite the new sales figures, critics say questions about the Volt remain. They have pointed to federal crash tests that resulted in fires, though the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has concluded its investigations, saying that there is no known safety defect in the Volt.??Obama-mandated death traps,? opined the American Tradition Partnership, an anti-environmental group, on its website.

It's also an election year, so conservative pundits could use the Volt, like bankrupt solar-panel maker Solyndra, to hammer the greener aspects of Mr. Obama's energy policy.

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Study shows adaptive capacity of reef corals to climate change may be widespread

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

A new study by scientists at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science suggests that many species of reef-building corals may be able to adapt to warming waters by relying on their closest aquatic partners - algae. The corals' ability to host a variety of algal types, each with different sensitivities to environmental stress, could offer a much-needed lifeline in the face of global climate change.

Using a highly sensitive genetic technique, Ph.D. student Rachel Silverstein analyzed 39 coral species from DNA collected in the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean collected over the last 15 years. Most of these species had not previously been thought capable of hosting more than one type of the single-celled symbiotic algae, called zooxanthellae, which live inside the coral and help to supply them with energy. Silverstein's results revealed that at least one colony of all 39 species tested had at least two varieties of algae, including one thought to be heat tolerant. Over half of the species were found to associate with all four of the major types of algae found in corals.

"This study shows that more coral species are able to host multiple algal symbionts than we previously thought," said Andrew Baker, associate professor at UM's Rosenstiel School and co-author of the study. "The fact that they all seem to be capable of hosting symbionts that might help them survive warmer temperatures suggests they have hidden potential that was once thought to be confined to just a few special species."

More than 10 years ago, Baker was one of the first scientists to suggest that the ability of corals to associate with diverse algal symbionts may be one mechanism by which they are able to rapidly respond to environmental changes, such as increased ocean temperatures due to climate change.

"Although our study shows that different coral species do tend to have preferences in their algal partners, the fact that these preferences are not absolutely rigid means that we cannot ignore the possibility that most corals might change partners in response to environmental changes in the future," said Silverstein.

Globally, reefs have lost more than 70 percent of their corals as a result of pollution, disease, overfishing, and climate change. Increased temperatures cause coral "bleaching," in which corals expel their algal partners, turn pale, and often die. However, some symbionts can resist bleaching in warmer waters and may help the corals survive during stress. The ability to host multiple symbionts may help save coral reefs from future losses during expected ocean temperatures increases of 2-4 degrees Celsius (3-7 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100.

"These new findings should encourage us to find better ways to protect coral reef ecosystems from overfishing, pollution and habitat destruction, and buy us some time to avoid the worst climate change scenarios," said Baker, who is also a research associate of the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York.

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"Specificity is rarely absolute in coral-algal symbiosis: implications for coral response to climate change," was published in the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B

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Study shows forest insects and diseases arrive in US via imported plants

Monday, April 9, 2012

The trade in live plants from around the world has become a major industry in the United States, with new imports now valued at more than $500 billion annually. According to a study conducted by researchers at UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, however, what has proved to be a boon for the economy has also been shown to have devastating effects on the environment.

The multidisciplinary working group found that almost 70 percent of the most damaging non-native forest insects and diseases currently afflicting U.S. forests arrived via imported live plants. The group's findings appear in the current issue of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

The study, led by Andrew Liebhold, a Forest Service researcher with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, shows that in the last 43 years, the quantity of plant imports to the U.S. has risen by more than 500 percent, peaking at 3.15 billion plants in 2007. Nearly half of the imported live plants entering the U.S. are destined for either California or Florida.

Once introduced, some of these imported insects and disease organisms become established, and a fraction of those become major economic pests. For example, Sudden Oak Death, which is caused by the plant pathogen Phytophthora ramorum, was introduced into the Bay Area and Big Sur regions of California via nursery plants. The disease has now spread through 14 counties in California, as well as southern Oregon, where it has caused large-scale die-off of tanoaks, live oaks, and black oaks.

The authors studied 82 high-impact invasive insects and diseases in detail. Of these, 95 percent of sap-feeding insects and 89 percent of foliage-feeding insects probably arrived on live plants. In contrast, roughly 85 percent of wood- and phloem-boring insects likely entered the country on wood packaging materials, logs, lumber, or other wood sources.

"The demand for live plants from outside the United States is not likely to diminish," said Liebhold. "As global trade expands, our knowledge of pest pathways must be improved to ensure trade is accomplished with minimal environmental degradation."

According to Liebhold, the working group's current research provides specific information that is critical to the development of policies to reduce the risk of pest species associated with the trade in live plants. Current policies are based on outdated assumptions about the size and number of shipments, and do not address the very large number of plants now grown abroad for direct resale in the U.S., he said.

The authors describe several possible means to increase bio-security, including intensified efforts at plant inspection stations; precautionary measures that restrict plants from entering the U.S. until they have been assessed as posing very little risk; expanding the post-entry quarantine currently applied mainly to some crop plants to include ornamental plants; developing better advance knowledge about pest insects and pathogens; and developing integrated systems approaches that depend on expanded partnerships between researchers and industry.

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Warm and fuzzy T. rex? New evidence surprises

This artist concept provided by the Beijing Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology shows Y. huali and other smaller dinosaurs roaming 125 million years ago. A new study published in the journal Nature found that Y. huali, an earlier relative of T. rex, had a feathery coat, suggesting that the king of dinosaurs may have also been fuzzy. (AP Photo/Beijing Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Brian Choo)

This artist concept provided by the Beijing Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology shows Y. huali and other smaller dinosaurs roaming 125 million years ago. A new study published in the journal Nature found that Y. huali, an earlier relative of T. rex, had a feathery coat, suggesting that the king of dinosaurs may have also been fuzzy. (AP Photo/Beijing Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Brian Choo)

This artist concept provided by the Beijing Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology shows a new species of tyrannosaur, Y. huali, discovered in China. A new study published in the journal Nature found that Y. huali, an earlier relative of T. rex had a feathery coat, suggesting that the king of dinosaurs may have also been fuzzy. (AP Photo/Beijing Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Brian Choo)

This undated photo of a fossil provided by the Beijing Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of a new species of tyrannosaur, Y. huali, shows it had feathers on its tail. A new study published in the journal Nature found that Y. huali, an earlier relative of T. rex had a feathery coat, suggesting that the king of dinosaurs may have also been fuzzy. (AP Photo/Beijing Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Zang Hailong) ?

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The discovery of a giant meat-eating dinosaur sporting a downy coat has some scientists reimagining the look of Tyrannosaurus rex.

With a killer jaw and sharp claws, T. rex has long been depicted in movies and popular culture as having scaly skin. But the discovery of an earlier relative suggests the king of dinosaurs may have had a softer side.

The evidence comes from the unearthing of a new tyrannosaur species in northeastern China that lived 60 million years before T. rex. The fossil record preserved remains of fluffy down, making it the largest feathered dinosaur ever found.

If a T. rex relative had feathers, why not T. rex? Scientists said the evidence is trending in that direction.

"People need to start changing their image of T. rex," said Luis Chiappe, director of the Dinosaur Institute at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, who was not part of the discovery team.

Much smaller dinosaurs with primitive feathers have been excavated in recent years, but this is the first direct sign of a huge, shaggy dinosaur. Scientists have long debated whether gigantic dinosaurs lost their feathers the bigger they got or were just not as extensively covered.

The new tyrannosaur species, Yutyrannus huali, is described in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. Its name is a blend of Latin and Mandarin, which translates to "beautiful feathered tyrant."

A team of Chinese and Canadian scientists analyzed three well-preserved fossil skeletons ? an adult and two juveniles ? recovered from a quarry in China's Liaoning province by a private fossil dealer. Most striking were the remains of down-like feathers on the neck and arm. Though coverage was patchy, scientists suspected the species had feathers over much of its body.

It would have felt like touching "long, thick fur," co-author Corwin Sullivan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said in an email. Another scientist, Thomas Holtz Jr. at the University of Maryland, compared it to the feathers of an emu.

The creature lived about 125 million years ago. At 30 feet long and weighing a ton, Y. huali would have reached T. rex's chest.

The dino-fuzz likely provided insulation, though camouflage or showing it off like a peacock could not be ruled out.

Since T. rex is related to this newfound feathery species, chances are good that T. rex was feathered as well, scientists said. Just don't mistake fuzzy for cuddly. The predatory dinosaur would have been just as menacing.

Having feathers "doesn't make it less threatening or less fearsome," said Holtz, who had no role in the research.

Matthew Lamanna, assistant curator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, said T. rex most likely was covered in both feathers and scales.

Whatever the coverage of feathers, the latest fossil finds "force us to conceive of tyrannosauroids in a new way," said Julia Clarke at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Open doors... Open Minds.... at Manovikas IGNOU Community College

The right support in early years settings, school, college and university can make the world of difference to children and young people with autism and Asperger syndrome. Manovikas-IGNOU Community College, where the educationally marginalised get a chance to move towards mainstream education. It?s a one-of-its-kind initiative in the country for persons with developmental disabilities including autism offering recognised degree programme to its students.

Students with Asperger syndrome will often need more support or preparation than other people before entering vocational and higher education linked to university credit system. They may need to be offered the chance to get admission into College outside term-time to familiarise themselves before it is filled with people. They may need clear guidance about what to do and when, e.g. attending counselling session, Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), diagnostic visit for Functional Behaviour Analysis (FBA) and Cognitive Process Inventory (CPI), joining the students peer group interaction etc.

They may need support with daily living skills or specialist equipment. They will therefore need input from personal advisers, course counsellor and mentor to help to ensure this support is in place before the course starts. Manovikas Community College (MCC) provides the opportunities to such individuals to have step by step process for admission in college education system. The curricula has designed to develop foundation of such students in workplace readiness and independent living skills and giving practical and theoretical inputs of core and applied courses along with project works.

The most useful point of contact for accessing support is usually the course co-ordinator at MCC. Each higher education programmes have a programme module, where specialist programme faculty help students to access the support they need.Students with developmental disability including Autism and Asperger syndrome who comes to admissions in Certificate Programme of MCC, ideally through the Multiple Intelligence (MI) test College Admission Team help the parents and students to choose the programme and RPL, according to enabling intelligence areas.

A 19yrs old energetic boy Ravi having Autism and their parents now desired to provide him the higher education at MCC in six months Certificate in Hospitality Training Programme where the linguistic and interpersonal skills are required. According to Ravi?s multiple intelligence tests, he scored above average grading in Bodily Kinaesthetic and Interpersonal Intelligence and he has been suggested to get the admission in Certificate in Office Attendant Training Programme. He is doing well in this programme.

In spite of some of the common language, each year specialists are teaching more about the cognitive strengths of the autism spectrum. In the 1960s, it was a common view that, except for a few high functioning condition, most autistic people were intellectually disabled ("mentally retarded" was the less than felicitous term), and to some extent this stereotype persists today. But a growing body of work pinpoints areas where autistics outperform non-autistics.

A partial list notes that autistics have, on average, superior pitch perception and other musical abilities, they are better at noticing details in patterns, they have better visual acuity, they are less likely to be fooled by optical illusions, they are more likely to fit some canons of economic rationality, they solve many puzzles at a much faster rate, and they are less likely to have false memories of particular kinds. Autistics also have, to varying degrees, strong or even extreme abilities to memorize, perform operations with codes and ciphers, perform calculations in their head, or excel in many other specialized cognitive tasks. The high functioning individuals with Autism, while they are outliers, also reflect cognitive strengths found in autistics more generally. A recent investigation found, with conservative methods, that about one-third of autistics may have exceptional skills or high function like abilities.

In MCC a 17yrs old girl ?Shreya?, is having strength in memorizing, symbolic performance (cipher), and excels in many cognitive areas. Significantly to channelizing the strength areas the Non-Credit Customized Programme in Personal Management and open basic education has helped her to learn the personal presentation, environmental awareness, sex education, safety skills, choice making, team work and self management. Thereafter she is now prepared for the admission in Certificate programme of MCC.

Autistic people usually have a superior desire and talent for assembling and ordering information. Especially when they are given appropriate access to opportunities and materials, autistics live the ideal of self-education, often to an extreme. It turns out that the Manovikas Community College is an environment especially conducive to persons with developmental disabilities including autistics. Many autistics are disadvantaged or overwhelmed by processing particular stimuli from the outside world and thus are subject to perceptual overload as a result. For some autistics, that is debilitating, but for many others it is either manageable or a problem they can work around. The result is that many autistics prefer stable environments, the ability to choose their own hours and work at home, and the ability to work on focused projects for long periods of time.

19 yrs old Sonu is living in Manovikas Independent Living Center (residential care) and attending MCC programme, his time schedule and stimuli provided during training now his hyperactivity and repetitive behaviours has channelized into manageable communication activities. He expresses his choice and communicates the needs.

Does that sound familiar? The Manovikas Community College is often ideal or at least relatively good at providing those kinds of environments. While there is plenty of discrimination against autistics, most people in Indian education process are so blind to the notion of high-achieving autistics that one prejudice cancels out the other, to the benefit of many of the autistics in higher education programme.

MCC programme don't push too much in the direction of stereotypes. Some people fitting that profile may well be on the autism spectrum, but the spectrum also includes beautiful women with charming smiles, enthusiastic extroverts, people who cannot produce meaningful speech, and people who make very clear and effective public speeches from memory alone. The service delivery system and evaluation of the skills with extensive analytical experience of Manovikas Community College, believes that any single profile of autistics or to replace the old stereotypes with new ones in the students. Rather, we keep on learning that the diversity of autistics is greater than we used to think.

There is no doubt that many autistic people have very troubled lives and are unable to move into positions of high achievement or even contend for them. Problems, such as very obvious social atypicalities, acquired social anxiety or various perceptual hypersensitivities ?found among many but by no means all autistics ?may hamper their ability to obtain ordinary jobs or rise in social status.

20yrs old Josef having desire to work in corporate sector and after completing the Certificate in Hospitality Training Programme, he received the Marks sheet, and Certificate under the seal of IGNOU, one of the prestigious People?s University. He attended the interviews at various corporate sectors and got the job in Barista (International Coffee shop) and earning the mainstream salary with all the paerks alike mainstream employee. The confidence and commitment has proved that yes ?they can? so ?can you?.

Current prejudices are based on at least two mistakes. First, too often autism is defined as a series of impairments or life failures, thereby ruling out high achievers. It is more scientific and also more ethical to have a broader definition of autism, based on differing and atypical methods for processing information and other cognitive and biologically defined markers. That way we do not label autistics as necessary failures, but rather we recognize a great diversity of outcomes including successes.

Second, diagnosed autistics are very often those people who encounter major problems in life. Most higher-status autistics don't ever show up for diagnosis or intervention, and many of them have no great need for it or no real awareness of it, or, even if they are having difficulties, they fear the stigma of a diagnosis.

Manovikas-IGNOU Community College also learning that a lot of the stereotypes about autistics are false or at least misleading. It's been suggested, for instance, that autistics don't care much about other people, or that autistics lack genuine emotions or are incapable of empathy. The relevance of the autism spectrum for higher education isn't just about particular individuals on the autistic spectrum. The very nature of higher education shows how much we, often without knowing it, hold up autistic cognitive profiles as a partial educational ideal. In "special needs" education, there is plenty of effort to teach the skills of the nonautistic to the autistic, but in the regular classroom we are often doing the opposite. I view higher (and lower) education as teaching people to be more autistic in many of their basic cognitive skills. Again, some key cognitive features of autism are the ability, and desire, to process lots of information across widely different scales, from tiny details to overarching structures; focus and the mental ordering of that information; a relatively high degree of scientific objectivity; and the presence of some highly specialized cognitive strengths, even if they are accompanied by some areas of poor performance. To an educator a lot of that list ought to sound pretty good.

Another way of putting it is to note that all students are special-needs students requiring lots of help. The nonautistic students do not represent some ideal point that everyone is striving to attain, but rather both autistic and nonautistic students are trying to learn the specialized skills of the other group, as well as perfecting their own skills.

When it comes to public and academic discourse of condition of developmental disabilities including autism, while getting admission at Manovikas IGNOU Community College, we look at the strength and needs alike mainstream students. Manovikas Family believes in evolving skills of the persons not in the label of persons as a disabled.

Name of Individuals are changed to respect the person and celebrate the diversity as a role model.

Dr. Alok Kumar ?Bhuwan?
Specialized in Rehabilitation Science and Special Education
Managing Secretary, Manovikas Charitable Society

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