Over-Dramatic Mannequin Promises To Make Computer Animation Easy [Video]

Source: Gizmodo

If you reached the limits of your artistic capabilities with crude flipbooks in your high school textbooks, but dream of being an animator, the Qumarion will make up for at least a little lack of talent. I ...
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Post petrol-price hike, auto unions want increase in fares

Source: Times of India

PUNE: Autorickshaw unions in the city have demanded an increase of at least Rs 3 in the existing fare structure, after the recent hike pushed petrol prices up to Rs 79 per litre in Pune. The unions are also seeking an immediate reduction in value ...
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Princeton’s Latin Salutatorian

Source: Rogue Classicism

Earlier today we highlighted Harvard’s Latin Salutatorian (Harvard Latin Commencement Oration 2012) … Princeton is also preparing to have theirs delivered, but it’s not for a couple of weeks. Just to build up the anticipation, thoug ...
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Mamata leads protest march against petrol price hike

Source: GulfToday.ae

KOLKATA: After slamming the Centre for the steep hike in petrol price, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday hit the streets in metropolis leading a massive protest march to put pressure on the UPA gove ...
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Stock Market Downtrend May Have Bottomed

Source: The Market Oracle

Markets rebounded this week after last week’s nasty selloff. Last week’s decline of SPX/DOW 3.9% was the largest weekly decline in six months. The previous one was the week of November 21, 2011: a 4.75% decline that marked the end of Major wave 2. Thus f ...
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Saudi shares advance on US confidence

Source: GulfToday.ae

RIYADH: Saudi Arabian shares climbed, led by petrochemical companies and banks, on reports that US consumer confidence gained and as China pledged to bolster growth. Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, known as Sabic, the world’s lar ...
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I went a touch too far, and now my boss won’t stop flirting. What to do?

Source: Bangor Daily News

I’ve worked for the past five years as a night security guard at a large indoor facility. Typically there are three of us on the overnight shift: the supervisor, “Charles,” with whom I’ve always had a cordial rel ...
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‘Not raising prices of petrol & diesel is not helping the poor’

Source: Deccan Chronicle

Kirit Parikh, a former member of the Planning Commission, headed the expert group appointed by the petroleum ministry to examine oil prices. In this interview, he tells Olga Tellis that not raising the price ...
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Silicon Valley's new diamond farm grows synthetic supermaterials

Source: Boston Herald

It is the hardest substance known to man, and because it takes more than a billion years for nature to conjure up each one, a diamond is also one of the hardest gems to come by. Every natural diamond is unique as a sn ...
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