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A página Alan Moore BR divulgou que vários trabalhos importantes do mago Alan More serão publicados no Brasil em 2014. Há tempos não havia tantos lançamentos importantes do roteirista em solo brasileiro. Entre as novidades, Miracleman, que ficou fora do mercado durante duas décadas por conta de uma disputa judicial. Confira todos os lançamentos:

LIGA EXTRAORDINÁRIA: O DOSSIÊ NEGRO. Certamente o livro mais aguardado da Liga Extraordinária no Brasil. É um volume escrito por Alan Moore e ilustrado por Kevin O'Neill. Foi proibido de ser lançado fora dos EUA devido a questões relacionadas a direitos autorais. A edição ficará a cargo da Devir e está entre as primeiras edições internacionais do DOSSIÊ NEGRO.

MIRACLEMAN. Uma das primeiras obras-primas de Alan Moore. Um lançamento da Panini que ainda não foi oficialmente divulgado. A obra chegará aos leitores ainda neste ano, provavelmente em edições trimestrais. A edição não conterá censuras, mas apresentará também uma seleção de histórias do Marvelman clássico, de Mick Anglo e Don Lawrence. A obra já foi publicada anteriormente no Brasil pela Editora Tannos.

FASHION BEAST: A FERA DA MODA. Será publicado pela Panini em único volume de 272 páginas, formato americano, capa cartonada e ao preço de R$ 29,90. A previsão é para o primeiro semestre. É uma obra inédita no Brasil.

A SAGA DO MONSTRO DO PÂNTANO. Outro lançamento da Panini no Brasil. A enorme expectativa justifica um tratamento de luxo, mas ainda não há preço, formato ou número de páginas definidos. Se a Panini seguir o modelo adotado nos EUA, a obra será publicada em 6 edições em capa dura. A obra em breve chegará às bancas e livrarias, e provavelmente serão editados dois ou três volumes este ano. Monstro do Pântano, de Alan Moore, já foi publicado anteriormente no Brasil.

A BIOGRAFIA DE ALAN MOORE, escrita por Lance Parkin. Trata-se de um livro de mais de 400 páginas a respeito da vida de Alan Moore. Será publicado no Brasil, mas não é possível confirmar que será lançado ainda neste ano. Obra inédita.

CAPITÃO BRETANHA: MUNDO DISTORCIDO. É um dos volumes da Coleção Marvel da Editora Salvat, ainda sem data para publicação, mas reúne todo o material que Alan Moore escreveu em parceria com Alan Davis para o personagem. Trata-se de uma obra conceituada que faz parte da primera safra de histórias de super-heróis de Alan Moore. Foi publicado em quatro volumes pela Pandora Books em 2003.

DO INFERNO. Uma obra a respeito de Jack, o Estripador, por Alan Moore e Eddie Campbell. Ainda não há formato definido, mas será publicado pela Editora Veneta. É uma das primeiras obras independentes de Alan Moore, depois de seu rompimento com as grandes editoras do mercado e uma das obras mais significativas de sua carreira. Via Lettera foi responsável pela edição anterior, em 4 volumes.

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Developed by a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the device consists of a 1.5-mm-wide disc-shaped head, from which trails 13 tiny joined cables. The idea is that it will be inserted into a patient's coronary blood vessels or heart, snaking its way through while being pushed or pulled from outside the body via an integrated 430-micron-wide guide wire, all the while using the cables to transmit ultrasound imagery.


Its head is built around a single silicon chip, which is equipped with a dual-ring array of 56 ultrasound transmit elements and 48 receive elements. Much of the processing of the ultrasound data is performed onboard the chip itself, meaning that less information has to carried outside the body – this is why it requires no more than 13 cables, allowing its consolidated "umbilical cord" to stay skinny and flexible enough to easily move through blood vessels. (more)

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According to the box, “Everything tastes better in a bacon bowl.” The Perfect Bacon Bowl is a tool which you use, if you hate your body, to microwave strips of bacon into a bowl shape. Believe it or not, it’s frequently bought with the StufZ Burger Press, which has to be neck-and-neck with eating every meal out of a bacon bowl in terms of culinary horror.

Make sure you read the dozens of reviews paying tribute to a life made more complete with the addition of Perfect Bacon Bowl.

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The X introduces a new “forked” version of Android that’s akin to what Amazon does with its Kindle Fire line. Nokia is effectively taking the open-source elements of Android and then bolting on its own services, a Windows Phone-like UI, and yet another Android app store. The downside to this is that the Nokia X devices won’t have access to Google’s Play store or Google-specific apps like Gmail, Chrome, Maps, and others. However, Android apps will run on the devices with only limited changes required by developers.

There’s a good chance this will get nixed shortly by Microsoft or simply be a market flop at launch. But there’s a small chance that this might become the most interesting mobile story of the year.

This kind of approach won’t be easy, and its success is anything but a sure thing. But I think it’s Microsoft’s only chance to break into the mobile platform business, if they still want to be in it. Windows Phone 7 and 8 have been complete failures with no hope in sight, and the sooner Microsoft can admit that to themselves, the sooner they can try another strategy — if it’s not too late.

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New pweidema writes "Michael Teitelbaum, a senior research associate in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School who has been writing a book on the subject of the current state of employment in science and technology fields, recently spoke at an Education Writers Association Conference about the 'STEM Worker Shortage: Does It Exist and Is Education to Blame?' The National Science Board's biennial book, Science and Engineering Indicators , consistently finds that the U.S. produces many more STEM graduates than the workforce can absorb. Meanwhile, employers say managers are struggling to find qualified workers in STEM fields. What explains these apparently contradictory trends? And as the shortage debate rages, what do we know about the pipeline of STEM-talented students from kindergarten to college, and what happens to them in the job market? An article LA Times summarizes his findings of his findings on the STEM hype: '...some of it comes from the country’s longtime cycle of waxing and waning interest in science; attention seems to focus on science every 10 to 15 years before slacking off. The only forces pushing the idea of STEM doom, he said, are those that have something to gain from it. Mostly those are STEM employers ... that want to pack the labor force with people to suppress wages ... Joining the chorus are universities that want more funding for science programs...'"

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At the Olympics if you want to protest a decision, you must have cash:

The reason that Mathieu — and many other coaches across most Olympic sports — make certain they always have a specific amount of cash on hand is that if they want to protest an official decision during competition, they need more than just a strong opinion and an angry yell.

They also need money.

…Depending on the sport, the fee varies: for luge, it is 50 euros (about $67). Cross-country skiing, like snowboard and Alpine skiing, demands 100 Swiss francs (about $112) but stipulates that all protests must be submitted in English. Bobsled and skeleton are among the most expensive: they require a deposit of 100 euros before any protest will even be considered. If multiple countries want to make a similar protest, sharing the tab is allowed.

Hat tip to the excellent PriorProbability who also points out that if your protest is successful you get your money back so these payments are also protest bets.

When the Obama White House requested that I serve on the National Council on the Humanities, I agreed to have my name put forward. I went through the lengthy FBI check, including repeated probing of friends about my nonexistent drug use.

But in the end the White House decided not to move my nomination forward. There were two reasons. First, taxes. In 2009 and 2010, the years of my divorce, I filed my taxes late — four weeks and 10 days, respectively. Second, I was not willing to commit to never criticizing the administration, nor to restricting my publishing agenda to topics that were unlikely to be controversial. There is just no point trying to be a public intellectual if you can’t speak your mind. This requirement was conveyed and discussed through phone calls; I have no written record to prove it. But that was how it went.

Why did the White House want such restrictions? Lawyers told me that the administration didn’t want to have to deal with even one news cycle being overtaken by media frenzy about something some low-level official had said. The administration was trying to survive in our 21st-century media environment.

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Luiz Moan, presidente da Anfavea, rebate as críticas sobre preços altos e lucratividade elevada no país, dizendo que “lucro não é vergonha”. Ele afirmou que a lucro médio das montadoras no Brasil em 2011 foi de 2,7%, enquanto a média mundial foi de 3%.

Moan também afirmou que com 62 marcas e cerca de 2.500 versões de modelo, fica difícil lucrar mais, que é o desejo dos fabricantes. O executivo enfatiza que o setor responde por 21% do PIB industrial e 5% do PIB nacional, abrangendo produção e pós-venda.

Já a Fenabrave, que também participou do encontro em Brasília para discussão dos preços dos automóveis junto com a Anfavea, diz que os concessionários só estão “vivos” por causa da diversificação do negócio, tal como pós-venda e venda de usados. A entidade diz que a margem de lucro do setor é baixa.

A Fenabrave deu um exemplo do que ocorre com o comércio de automóveis no Brasil. Um carro de R$ 43.000 gera receita de R$ 25.000 para o fabricante. Outros R$ 12.000 são impostos. Com todos os encargos pagos, o concessionário tem lucro entre R$ 200 e R$ 300.

[Fonte: Estadão]

A noticia Anfavea diz que carros não são caros e lucratividade é menor do que o divulgado foi publicada no site Notícias Automotivas - Carros.

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Apple has confirmed that it will issue a software update "very soon" to patch the security flaw found in OS X that allows attackers to capture or modify data protected by the SSL/TLS protocols in Safari, reports Reuters. The vulnerability of OS X to the bug was detailed by security firm CrowdStrike and a Google engineer last Friday, and came right after Apple released iOS 7.0.6 to fix the SSL-related issues on iOS.

However, the security flaw, which has been termed "GoToFail" by security specialists due to the improperly used "goto" command that triggers it, may be affecting more than just Safari. Independent privacy researcher Ashkan Soltani has pointed out on his Twitter (via Forbes) that Apple's vulnerable SSL library is also used by apps including FaceTime, iMessage, Twitter, Calendar, Keynote, Mail, iBooks, Software Update, and more.

A list of apps deemed vulnerable to the SSL bug found in OS X and iOS by security researcher Ashkan Soltani
Soltani does point out that apps such as iMessage and FaceTime have addded security measures that weaken the effects of the security flaw, but also added that the initial iCloud login used to authenticate such apps may also be compromised. The researcher states that other parts of the protocol such as the handshake between a service and a device are vulnerable to an attack as well, and will need to be secured by Apple.

Currently, users can check whether or not their computers are affected by the vulnerability by visiting gotofail.com in Safari. As users wait for a fix to the flaw, CrowdStrike recommends avoiding untrusted and unsecured WiFi networks while traveling. The site also recommends that users update to iOS 7.0.6 if they have not yet installed it on their iOS devices.

Estacionar nos grandes centros está cada vez mais difícil, não é mesmo? Ainda mais quando muitos param seus carros de forma irregular e, ao invés de preservar as vagas existentes, acabam por reduzi-las. Nessas horas, colocar um carro grande (e ainda mais se não tiver assistência eletrônica) se torna uma tarefa hercúlea.

No entanto, quando o carro é menor, as chances da operação dar certo são maiores. Aí, fica mais fácil vencer a briga por espaço. No mercado nacional, temos algumas opções com menos de 4 metros, apesar de termos perdido pelo menos três em 2013, embora ganhando uma no início de 2014.

Então, decidimos fazer uma lista TOP 10 com os menores carros do Brasil com ênfase na facilidade de estacionamento nas poucas vagas que conseguimos encontrar no dia a dia das nossas cidades, que nem precisam ser grandes para apresentar dificuldades para muitos na hora de deixar o carro na rua. Na lista abaixo, colocamos o tamanho em metros e também o preço de cada modelo.

Abaixo, os 10 menores carros do Brasil:

1) Smart Fortwo – 2,69 – R$ 51.900
2) JAC J2 – 3,53 – R$ 32.990
3) Fiat 500 – 3,54 – R$ 44.390
4) Chery QQ – 3,55 – R$ 19.990
5) Effa M100 – 3,56 – R$ 24.980
6) Kia Picanto – 3,59 – R$ 34.900
7) Volkswagen up! – 3,60 – R$ 28.900
8) Suzuki Jimny – 3,65 – R$ 62.990
9) Chery Face – 3,70 – R$ 29.990
10) MINI Cooper – 3,73 – R$ 76.950

Galeria de fotos dos 10 menores carros do Brasil:

A noticia TOP 10 – Os menores carros do Brasil foi publicada no site Notícias Automotivas - Carros.

The awesome, realistic art of Alex Ross moves from comic book covers to the Justice by Alex Ross T-Shirt, letting you keep the Justice League with you all the time… or at least as long as you wear the shirt. Based on the cover of DC Comics’ Justice, Volume 1, this 100% cotton shirt features […]

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Both OS X and iOS are affected. iOS has been patched already, but OS X hasn’t — see for yourself.

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Entre as novidades está a possibilidade de realizar o cancelamento dos contratos de telefonia, banda larga e internet sem a necessidade de falar com u...