Custom MoriMoto based on the Moto Guzzi Bellagio 940

 

In recent years there has been a nice trend of cooperation between large companies and customizers. Multimillion-dollar companies support creative people, sponsoring extremely interesting projects: BMW R90S Ninety - Roland Sands, Yamaha Yard Built - Wrenchmonkees and Deus Ex Machine, and many other projects. However, the Barbican Filippo (Filippo Barbacane) from the workshop of “ Officine Rossopuro “was one of the first. Italian customizer has been reworking motorcycles Moto Guzzi, and is probably the leading authority on Italian motorcycles with longitudinal V-shaped engine. 

MoriMoto - one of the latest projects Filippo. This time, the Italian artist used as a basis for an interesting motorcycle Moto Guzzi Bellagio 940. It is worth noting that in the past the Barbican collaborated with Moto Guzzi, when the Italian brand reborn after years of neglect. Then, at the request of the Italian Guzzi guru developed a prototype based on the Moto Guzzi California III, making a bike in the style of the original V7, but with Öhlins suspension and kafereyserskim body. 

Unfortunately, in those years, the concept proved to be unsustainable, because the Italian manufacturer was not ready for such radical solutions. Since then, Filippo had only to wait a moment to once again put their ideas on the concept of V7 Sport, although it is now used more modern Italian chassis and suspension. 

Filippo believes that the frame Moto Guzzi Bellagio is perfect for the new Moto Guzzi V7. Of course, the company Moto Guzzi has no relation to the project, but the Italian master considers it a continuation of past cooperation, which had loigcheskogo completion. By the way, ordered the French motorcycle rider, which is important for not only the appearance but also the motorcycle ride quality and fit and comfort. 

Project details MoriMoto: 

·  Engine: 935 cm3, Bellagio V-twin, by two candles on each cylinder

·  simplified electronics

·  redone frame

·  Customise kit

·  native 45mm Marzocchi fork

·  320-mm disc brakes Brembo Serie Oro

·  new exhaust system

·  spoke wheels, tubeless tires

·  lightweight lithium-ion battery

The new Nexus 7 and the future of iPad mini

At last Wednesday's press conference, Google , where among other things, the company also unveiled an updated Nexus 7, the atmosphere was permeated with the spirit of Apple. In each action, the speakers in each slide on the screen could be seen sending to the previous actions of Apple or an attempt to predict its next steps.

One such attempt was updated tablet Nexus 7. Obviously, working on the second version of the device, the guys were trying to overtake ASUS has not released iPad mini. And I dare say that they succeeded.

But despite the fact that these races always benefit the end user, this race features preclude participation by Apple. With one exception. The new Nexus 7 has received a full HD-display. In a seven-inch display tablet developers could fit almost 2.5 million pixels. Its display resolution is 1920 x 1280 pixels, and it means that the density is so high that the human eye can not distinguish fine dots on the screen at a normal distance. Just like my grandfather bequeathed Jobs.

Other superpowers tablet, such as a series of powerful quad-core processor Snapdragon, 2 gigabytes of RAM is set aside, as the ever-growing characteristics have with you is hard to impress. However, there is one "but" which will make tremble all customers who have stayed with a choice between the new Nexus 7 and the same iPad mini. The price tag of the tablet from ASUS starts with a mark of $ 230. For this amount the buyer receives shestnadtsatigigabaytnuyu version of the tablet with Wi-Fi, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, and other amenities. LTE-only version is provided with 32 gigabytes of memory and will cost $ 349.

The youngest "Minikit" today will cost you $ 329 - a little less top-end Nexus 7 of the second generation. But it will take another 2-3 months and Apple will show us a new version of the iPad mini. With an eye to the same Nexus 7 can confidently say that if Apple really does not go for a price reduction tablet, then equip it with a new display company just is not right. First, the yard is 2013, which at the time of the announcement of iPad mini will go on the last lap before the finish line, and second, if the second version of the iPad mini will not Retina-display, no one will buy - I almost sure. I assume that Apple is well aware of this fact, and outstanding engineers who so often applauded by guests WWDC conferences and other Apple, will make it impossible for us to contact you can enjoy high quality image in a new version of the tablet.

10 most dangerous invasive species that destroy entire ecosystems

In nature, there are many types of animals that are a danger to others, feed on them or act as dominant. It's not as scary as it seems at first glance - usually in nature everything is balanced in such a way that all kinds, despite the death of individual animals, survive. However, unimpeded invasion of predators on the habitat where they should not lead to catastrophic consequences - are disappearing species and entire ecosystems, and sometimes even human dwellings are inadequate protection.

1. Starfish 

Similar to the alien invader, starfish represents the nightmare of sharp needles covered with skin. Usually starfish reach 33 cm in diameter and have a five-rays protruding from the body that are covered with razor-sharp, thorns that protect them from most predators. The stars are powered by coral polyps. 

Sea stars have become a problem in its native ecosystem in relation to environmental changes. Thanks to the insatiable appetite and a rapid rate of reproduction, every star in the "herd" can consume up to six m2 of coral reefs in the year, destroying massive portions.

Scientists believe that too rapid increase in the number of starfish called the man provoked changes in the ocean ecosystem, associated primarily with increased nutrient pollution. As a result, some areas have been implemented programs for the destruction of sea stars with the use of lethal toxins. 

 2. European starling 

Starlings were brought to North America by settlers who are nostalgic, apparently under the influence of Shakespeare, which is one of the plays of Eugene Sheffelina described the hero, the self-styled messiah who called each left their homeland to lead a foreign land bird. 60 starlings so really were brought to America, however, much later, and released to the wild in Central Park in Manhattan.

Starlings quickly spread across the continent from Central America to Alaska: they invaded the city and on the field, destroyed crops and partially or completely destroyed many native birds, including woodpeckers, tits and swallows. 

Flocks of starlings threaten aircraft - once killed 62 people because the aircraft was sucked into the engine starling. Despite the large-scale programs to combat them, the number of European starlings in North America is currently about 150 million individuals.

3. Giant Canada Goose

Although Canada does not have a bird, a symbol of serving the country, the vast majority of wildlife enthusiasts have attributed to this role, the Canada Goose, as birds of this species in Canada, more than all the rest. Nevertheless, Canada - quite a big country, it was enough to place several subspecies of geese with different habitats and lifestyles.

Canadian Geese are the originators of the progressive destruction of the shoreline along the mouth of the Gulf of Georgia. This area is of great importance because staying here many species of migratory birds, in addition, this is the main habitat of salmon - food fish, endangered. 

Neil K. Doe, who studies wildlife, conducted field research to study the state of the mouth of the bay, and the published results showing that the geese are destroying the natural habitat of many animals and are the cause of human food chain.

 4. Dark tiger python 

The majority of invasive species are small animals, but dark tiger pythons - huge and potentially deadly giants. They first appeared in the Everglades National Park (Florida), the world-famous swamp region. This monster, brought to America by the conquistadors - one of the largest snakes on the planet, he grows up to five meters in length and weighs about 90 kg.

Now the number of snakes in the Everglades several thousand individuals, and it is more than their original habitat in South Asia. Giant pythons, which have powerful jaws and sharp teeth, threatening to destroy the ecosystem of the wetland area as quickly decimating native species, including the usually invincible American alligators. 

State authorities say the destruction of nature protection of snakes in this region a priority, but so far all precautions have been ineffective.

 5. Aga (cane toad) 

Yeah, or cane toad, is living proof that the introduction of a second invasive species to control the strength of one of the existing invader could lead to even worse disasters. Huge toxic amphibian (some individuals can weigh about two pounds and grow up to 23 cm in length) from Central and South America, was introduced to the islands in order to reduce the number of beetles feeding on sugar cane plantations.

Instead, to exterminate the bugs and leave it at that, AGI bred in the vast territory, leading to the decline of the native fauna. They are hunted, including prey on lizards, mammals, marsupials and singing birds, and even ruin the laying of eggs of sea-eating crocodiles. 

As is the case with other invasive species, the number of cane toads remain artificially high in the new conditions in the absence of predators that could eat them and are resistant to toxins. 

The proposal to reduce the population of toads by viruses has raised fears - in the future, this measure may cause a chain reaction and cause irreparable damage to the local wildlife. By coincidence, a natural toxin toad is currently being used to kill tadpoles. 

 

 6. Brown boyga

If predatory invasive species is on the island, local species, as a rule, do not have the ability to cope with the threat that had never before encountered. Coupled with the lack of predators higher up the food chain, it can cause the disappearance of native species. 

When brown boygi arrived on the island of Guam after World War II, probably as stowaways in cargo holds of ships, it caused the biggest environmental disaster caused by the introduction. 

Poisonous snakes destroyed most vertebrates, originally found in the forests of the island, they also bite humans, and their bites are very painful. In addition, boygi caused frequent interruptions of electricity, since invaded the human settlements. 

In a secure environment boygi grow to three meters in length due to abnormally high amount of food. To control the number of reptiles used the introduction of toxins in the dead mice that snakes like to eat.

 7. Plague Rat and Mouse 

Swim across oceans in ships not only people but also their mortal enemies - rats and mice. Sometimes are vectors of disease, rodents become a death sentence for all the populations of sea birds when planted together with people on the coast: they eat the eggs and young, and sometimes even adult petrels, puffins and other wetland birds, unable to defend their nests from mammalian predators.

The presence of invasive rats contributes to global extinction of marine birds, for example, rats consume up to 25 thousand petrel chicks per year. No less dangerous invasive house mouse, harming species, and so endangered, for example, tristanskim albatross: mice are not only ruining their clutches, but also eat chicks alive.

 8. Domestic cat 

Cats are considered second man's best friends, but they also have a reputation for dangerous invasive predators as intensively destroy local wildlife when they are in a foreign environment. Through direct and indirect assistance to people stray cats have caused the deaths of millions of continental songbirds, poorly adapted to reflect the growing number of attacks hidden predators.

The catastrophic consequences is the presence of cats on the islands known unprecedented case when the cat one person has caused extinction of a species of bird in New Zealand - Stephan bush wren. 

On many islands and continents invasive cats have caused population declines of birds and small mammals. But there's a downside: some scientists believe that cats can help the people in the control populations of small predators such as rats.

 9. Cynomolgus 

Most often, the main invasive species on the planet environmentalists call people, but we rarely present in the role of monkeys. However, cynomolgus included the International Union for Conservation of Nature's list of 100 most dangerous invasive species. Cynomolgus monkeys - is carnivorous primates, invading a number of islands in an unnatural environment for them thanks to the assistance of man.

Like many terrestrial predators, cynomolgus monkeys, which have, in addition, the rudiments of intelligence, threatened breeding bird and, according to some experts, may be responsible for the rapid extinction of the already endangered species.

Macaques can be hazardous to people because they are the carriers of the deadly strain of the herpes virus: herpes simplex symptoms resemble, but without proper treatment lead to brain damage and death.

 10. Cow trupial

The invasion of invasive species can stop people effectively use land resources and provide other types, local, additional conditions to hunt their prey, or, as in the case of cow's trupialami for parasitism on other people's nests.

Originally cow trupialy lived on the plains of North America, where side by side with the buffalo and fed curly around these large herbivorous insects. However, the increase in the population of buffalo has been disturbed the birds build their nests and raise offspring - then cow trupialy began tossing their eggs in the nests of other birds, making their own baby birds of these species may not develop normally. 

In addition, the loss of forests in some areas habitat trupialov led to their distribution to thousands of km2 of forests, where they caused the reduction in the number of forest songbirds, whose own chicks were doomed to starvation. 

However, environmentalists are sometimes called cow trupialov naturally invasive species, as their home was the same area where they live now, no one there did not deliver. However, cow's trupialam managed to reduce even the rare Kirtland warbler.

Nokia produces the largest Windows-smartphone in the line of Lumia

Nokia Lumia 625 - the largest smartphone from the Finnish manufacturer with a display of 4.7 inches, thanks to which it dubbed "the hero of the big screen."

 

From the title, we can conclude that the model - the budget. And this is confirmed by its characteristics: the screen resolution of 800x480 pix, ie 201 ppi, and the amount of RAM of 512 MB. Iron "stuffing" as follows: a dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor with a clock speed of 1.2 GHz, 8 GB of internal memory, expandable via microSD, a 5-megapixel camera modules, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.0 + LE and GPS / GLONASS receivers. It should be noted that a modem 625 Lumia LTE supports HSDPA 42,2 Mb / s.

Dimensions "hero big screen" - 133,25 x72, 25x9, 15 mm, and weight - 159 g smartphone powered by the battery capacity of 2000 mAh, ensuring operation for 23.9 hours of talk time, up to 90 hours of listening to audio songs and up to 6.8 hours when watching video.

Lumia 625 has a Super Sensitive display, execute commands, which can be even with gloves on. The brightness of the smartphone can be set so that the image can be considered in detail even in the sunny weather. On top of the screen is covered with a protective glass Corning Gorilla Glass 2.

Google has announced a new generation of tablet Nexus 7

 

On Wednesday, July 24, the giant Google has shown the public a new generation of its tablet Nexus - the first gadget-based operating systemAndroid 4.3, which the company announced on the same day. In the latest generation of tablet screen size remains the same - 7 inches, but it has increased the resolution - 1920x1080 pix. Thus, every inch of the screen hits the 333 point, which makes the Nexus 7 tablet with the highest resolution of a 7-inch device, according to Hugo Barra - President Google.

The gadget is "lost" by 3 mm in thickness and 50 grams in weight and got a 5-megapixel camera on the back.

In the tablet now in a more powerful "hardware": quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro and 2GB of RAM, 16 GB and 32 GB of internal memory (depending on configuration), and the battery lasts for 9 hours of video playback and 10 hours of Internet use .

Cost version of the Nexus 7 with 16 GB will be $ 230, and the 32GB version will cost $ 270 price of the tablet with 32 GB of internal memory and a cellular module will reach $ 350 Sales will begin on July 30, however, when the tablet gets to the Russian market, is still unknown.

Nexus 7 - is a joint project of ASUS and Google. The first version of the Nexus was very popular and Statistics developers occupied 10% of the total demand for tablets running Android.

7 curious facts about cats

If you are a cat lover or your house lives a pet, then you probably know about the many features of these quadrupeds. Cats can be fun, intuitive and loving. They have their own schedule and they can be very demanding, temperamental and unpredictable. Here are some interesting facts that will help you better understand cats.

1. Cats can reach great heights  

In 1963, France was the first cat sent into space. A spokeswoman cat, whose name was Felisett (Felicette), also called koshkonavtom, poisoned at an altitude of 200 km and successfully returned to Earth. During the flight, the electrodes are attached to the cat, were constantly monitoring her condition. And although the idea to release a cat on a rocket is not the best, do not underestimate the strength of the cats, as they are often easy to jump from high cabinets, refrigerators and branches of trees without compromising their health.

2. Cats almost human emotions  

In the gray matter of cats have some similarities with the human brain. While the experts argue about the depth and range of emotions, they confirm that cats often have the same emotions as humans, such as happiness, excitement, playfulness, depression and anger. Any cat lover can confirm the presence of all these emotions, if not more, in their four-legged friends. Be careful with angry cats. Unhappy cat can write in your favorite chair, throw a roll of toilet paper and even break the dishes. Also, cats urchat not only when happy, but when they feel pain or feel stressed.

3. Cat bites can be dangerous  

Cat bite can be toxic and dangerous. According to available data about the cats and their owners, hundreds of thousands of people become victims of cat bites each year. Cat bite can cause serious bacterial infection pasteurellosis caused by pathogen Pasteurella multocida. The infection is easily treated with penicillin, but if you do not start treatment, especially in the elderly and those with weakened immune systems, the infection can grow under the skin, spread through the lymphatic system, and in rare cases, lead to death. That is why you should visit a doctor after being bitten by a cat.

4. Cats can jump very high  

Did you know that some cats can jump to a height of five times his height in just one leap? This is indeed the case and if you have a cat in the house, make sure that all the fragile things in a safe place, such as a cabinet with lockable doors that protect valuable items from the acrobatics of your pet.

5. Cats can be cloned  

You have an exceptional cat and lots of money? Clone it. Such technology does exist for those who have money to burn chicken. Little Nicky was born in 2004 and was the first commercially cloned cat. Clone was derived from DNA dead cat owner, who paid $ 50,000 to make a copy of his best friend and said the two cats are remarkably similar in nature.

6. Vision and cats better and worse of human  

Cats better vision of man, because cats can see better in the dark and in the dim light and have a much wider peripheral vision. It is worse because the cats do not distinguish colors as well as people. Some scientists believe that cats can see the grass red.

7. Cats are not a sweet tooth  

Unlike dogs, cats do not eat sweet lovers. Scientists believe that the reason is the mutation in the gene for a key taste receptor. Products that do not give cats include onions, garlic, green or raw tomatoes, chocolate, grapes and raisins. Although milk is not toxic, it can cause indigestion in cats and bloating. If you feed your cat dog food or canned tuna, it can lead to nutritional deficiencies.

Profile in social networks can reveal mental disorders owner

Profile of a person in a social network can detect mental disorders that do not necessarily show up in a conversation with the therapist.

Such a conclusion reached by researchers from the University of Missouri. They asked 200 students to complete a questionnaire - to evaluate their level of extraversion, paranoia, implementation of social interaction and tolerance for other people's eccentricities.

In addition, students were asked to provide the same to review their profiles on Facebook, but before it was given the opportunity to replace the page at all that students see fit.

Participants who showed high levels of social anhedonia - a condition characterized by the absence of pleasure from social interactions - as a rule, had fewer friends in the social network, laid fewer photos and leave fewer messages.

Those who hid most of his profile, before showing his researchers were more suggestible, showed signs of abnormalities and were often inconsistent in their feelings and decisions. They also showed a high level of paranoia.

Note, however, that participants with a high level of paranoia does not differ from the participants with low levels of the number of information-sharing network. This means that the internet these people to share their thoughts is easier than in person.

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Adidas SLVR collection spring-summer 2013

Brand Adidas SLVR is at the intersection of innovation, tradition and functionality. It reflects the simplicity and refined minimalism combined with bright designs and elegance. In the season of spring-summer 2013 Adidas SLVR draws inspiration from classic silhouettes and restrained is a collection of clothing and footwear in basic and pure saturated colors.

Adidas SLVR - an elegant, casual clothing for residents of the metropolis, things that skillfully combines innovation and cutting edge design. Creative director of Adidas SLVR supports German designer Dirk Schoenberg (Dirk Schonberger).