Who knew bison loved carrots so much? Emily Patrick found out that they indeed do adore the vegetable in a hilarious photo of pure culinary joy.
The photo was posted to Reddit by Mitchell Tyson, who snapped the photo while driving with his girlfriend through the African Safari Wildlife Park in Ohio.
Wild animals like this bison may be adorable, but the National Park Service advises leaving creatures you encounter alone as they can become accustomed to being fed and dependent on humans.
NEW YORK, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Oil futures fell on Friday as U.S. jobs data came in below expectations, tempering economic optimism that had pushed Brent crude during the session to its highest level in four months, and prompting some investors to take profits.
U.S. employers slowed hiring in July, with the number of jobs outside the farming sector increasing by 162,000, the Labor Department said, below the median forecast of 184,000 in a Reuters poll.
The disappointing number led many oil investors to sell out of positions after sharp gains in the previous two days.
"We've got a pullback from the jobs data, but I suspect we are also seeing some profit-taking before the weekend," said Bob Yawger, director of energy futures at Mizuho Securities in New York.
"That said, we are still trading at historically high levels. I wouldn't be surprised if we tested $110, although that won't happen today."
U.S. crude oil futures fell 95 cents to settle at $106.94 a barrel. Despite Friday's decline, the U.S. benchmark ended the week with a 2.1 percent gain.
Brent futures fell 59 cents to settle at $108.95 a barrel, after reaching an intraday peak of $110.09, the highest level since April 3. Brent ended the week up 1.66 percent, snapping two weeks of declines.
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TAGI-UNI will market the British Council's Online English Test- APTIS in Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE?
According to the agreement signed by TAGI-UNI President HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh and Director of the British Council Mr. Marc Jessel, the British Council shall give TAGI-UNI the permission to market and deliver Aptis on behalf of the British Council via its affiliates in Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE TAGI-UNI will retain the right to promote and deliver Aptis in all countries mentioned, work closely with the British Council - Jordan and ensure to set up an Aptis centre.
Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh said: "We welcome this partnership with the British Council which will result in developing the English language especially among youths in addition to other languages which we teach such as Chinese through TAG-Confucius Institution and French, German, Spanish and Italian in addition to Arabic. We will make sure to market and develop these services in all countries."
Mr. Jessel expressed his happiness of the signing saying: "This partnership with an elite university such as TAGI-UNI will assist us in increasing our contribution in the professional development of youth in Jordan and the region and we believe that Aptis will be one of the main tests of English language in evaluating global organizations in the academic and business sectors.
Meanwhile, Ms. Ameera Manna, the British Council Exams manager, said:"Aptis forms a leap in how to assess the level of English language, as Aptis flexibility will be instrumental in the accurate assessment."
The British Council creates international opportunities for the people of the UK and other countries and builds trust between them worldwide. It is on the ground in six continents and over 100 countries bringing international opportunity to life, every day. Each year, the Council works with millions of people, connecting them with the United Kingdom, sharing its cultures and the UK?s most attractive assets: English, the Arts, Education and its ways of living and organizing society.
About Talal Abu-Ghazaleh University
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh University (TAGI-UNI) is the cloud-based gateway to the world?s best education. TAGIUNI partners with leading international education institutions around to deliver accredited, world-class education to a global student body. TAGIUNI began securing partnerships in mid-2012 and has since then signed agreements with Thunderbird School of Global Management, Canisius College, Walden University, the University of Liverpool, Marconi University, Bowling Green State University, the British Council, the International Training and Development Group, Open Thinking, inlingua Cheltenham, Genashtim Innovative Learning, and Pearson-Edexcel.
When you think of Mercedes-Benz, you think of a company that makes high-end luxury vehicles. But with those vehicles come a lot of high-tech hardware and gadgets and the engineers there are working with Google Glass to add more conveniences.
In an interview with the Silicon Valley Business Journal, the President and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America, stated that the company's ultimate goal with Google Glass is to create a seemless door-to-door transition involving both in-car navigation and pedestrian walking directions.
The goal is to allow a person to set a destination at home, hop in their car and drive to that destination and then be able to get the remaining walking instructions on their Google Glass. The Google Glass would have to be able to integrate with the vehicles navigation system to get current location, but would eliminate the need for entering information into multiple devices when both walking and driving destinations were required.
The project is still in the works, and they estimate it will be awhile before it hits the market as the cost of Glass is still a factor and most consumers cannot get their hands on one.
Don't look now, but Walmart may have just sold out temporarily of Microsoft's recently discounted Surface RT devices.
Yes, those same Surface RTs that Microsoft repriced and are now $350 (plus $100-plus for a keyboard/cover). The Surface RTs that were responsible for Microsoft's $900 million write-down which it took in Q4 FY 2013.
Robert McLaws, Chief Technology of AdvancedREI, tweeted me about what looks to be an "out of stock" situation for 32 GB and 64 GB Surface RTs purchased from Walmart online. Some U.S. stores are still showing availability in-store, however, of one or both Surface RT models.
On its Web site, Walmart is advising customers that they may not have their Surface RT orders filled in stores for another week or so.
Does Walmart's Surface RT stock status prove $350 was the magic price point at which Microsoft initially should have used as its Surface RT entry point a year ago in October, instead of going with $500? Maybe...
It also could be the case that after Microsoft's various Surface discounts -- at its own and others' recent shows and conferences -- more people have had a chance to kick the tires of Surface RT devices. Microsoft officials now believe that Surfaces aren't products that users will shell out to buy online without having at least some, quality hands-on time with them.?
Surface RT: It's about both demand and supply
The bigger and still unanswered questions are how many Surface RT devices Microsoft made and how many it has sold to date. In an internal town hall meeting at Microsoft last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted to employees that Microsoft made too many Surfaces. (Duh.) But no Softie has said publicly how many Surface RTs were too many -- or how and why Microsoft over-ordered.
Simply taking the two known numbers -- the total write-down and the discount on each Surface RT -- to calculate the number of Surface RTs manufactured is overly simplistic, said Directions on Microsoft analyst Michael Cherry.
The $900 million write-down also included parts and accessories, Cherry noted. And many forget that Apple is the master of tying up critical elements of components the company needs in order to build an adequate supply of consumer electronics.
"When Microsoft decided to step into the world of building tablets I wondered how this differed from what they already built (mice, keyboards, and Xboxes)," said Cherry. "I assumed that a lot of money went into: a) buying parts; b) buying time in a plant; and c) building sub-components such as milling the metal chassis that they were going on about so much."
Because Microsoft was intent on keeping its Surface RT plans secret, Cherry said he assumed a lot of the company's component/part purchasing was done at the last minute, and therefore, "had to cost a lot." In some cases, Surface parts might have been shipped by air rather than container ship, for example, in order to meet last-minute deadlines.
"They also likely had to pay a lot to hold capacity open in case it really took off, which now, there may not be a need for," Cherry added.
We also know that Microsoft is working on what officials called at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference "updates" to the Surface RT and the Surface Pro -- both of which are due to launch some time during Microsoft's fiscal 2014 (which runs from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014). Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner publicly stated these dates and the existence of these updates during his keynote remarks in Houston.
If Microsoft is planning to use any of the same components and parts in its second-generation Surface RT and Surface Pro devices as it does in its generation one models, the $900 million write-down also may include depreciation on those parts.
Once Microsoft goes public with specifics about the next Surface RT and Surface Pro devices, further/new discounts on the current models also will be likely. I'd think Microsoft officials would have figured any future discounts into this $900 million figure, rather than have to do another write-down during a future quarter.
Microsoft officials aren't saying anything more about Surface RT's past or futures. They are insisting that positioning the Surface RT more clearly as an iPad competitor, but one that's more focused as a productivity tablet, will help it gain market momentum. ?
Google?s Chromecast media-streaming device is just a few days old, so developers are just beginning to figure out what the device is capable of. In the next few weeks, it?s likely that curious hackers are going to begin doing things that not even Google imagined was capable.
Google didn?t say anything about games when it introduced the device and instead focused on Chromecast?s video-playing features, but that didn?t prevent?Reddit user Brraaains?from immediately getting a Game Boy emulator running on his Chromecast.
Brraains posted a video of him playing a Game Boy game on his TV using the tiny Google media dongle. It?s just a proof of concept, but it works and opens up the possibility of other gaming-related functionality through the tiny HDMI stick.
The developer hosted a basic Game Boy emulator on a website and booted it up using his Chromecast extension for his PC?s Chrome browser. The code automatically began streaming to his television. He released the code on Github along with instructions on how to get the Game Boy emulator running on Chromecast.
It?s hard to see in the video ? especially with the cat in the way ? but the frame rate apparently dips in spots, but the developer claims he didn?t notice any lag between when he pushed the button and when he saw the corresponding action on the screen.
?From what I remember ? it was 2 a.m. ? it?s pretty instantaneous,? Brraaains wrote in a Reddit post. ?I?was surprised by how well it performed.?
This experiment also proves that it is a misnomer to call the Chromecast a ?streaming device? because it is capable of running code natively.
?The emulator is running on the Chromecast,? the developer wrote. ?The Chromecast executes the Javascript and HTML required to run the emulator. The client running on the PC just tells the emulator running on the Chromecast what to do. Go right, press A, or press B.?
It?s unlikely that anyone would want to play Game Boy games like this, but it just shows what is possible. A Chromecast only costs $35, so tons of developers are gonna have them and want to see what they are capable of. It?s interesting to see what is possible after only a few days.
The goal is to allow a person to set a destination at home, hop in their car and drive to that destination and then be able to get the remaining walking instructions on their Google Glass. The Google Glass would have to be able to integrate with the vehicles navigation system to get current location, but would eliminate the need for entering information into multiple devices when both walking and driving destinations were required.