Bizarre, see-through sea creature baffles angler

Sea creature called a Salpa maggiore; photo from Caters News Agency and used with permission A fisherman in waters north of New Zealand came across an odd-looking, translucent sea creature swimming on the surface. Curious, he caught the creature—presumably scooping it up with a net—to get a closer look. It was described as a see-through, shrimp-like creature by the U.K. MailOnline. “It felt scaly and was quite firm, almost jelly like, and you couldn’t see anything inside aside from this orange little blob inside it,” fisherman Stewart Fraser told MailOnline. Fraser, who had been fishing with sons Conaugh and Finn 43 miles north of the Karikari Peninsula, took photos and shared them with his fishing buddies, none of whom could identify the sea creature. “We have no idea what it could have been, but it was quite something, and I’d never seen anything like it before,” he said. Fortunately, the folks at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth, U.K., had an idea, identifying it as a Salpa maggiore (Salpa maxima). Paul Cox, director of conservation and communication at the aquarium, told MailOnline that a salp is barrel-shaped, moves by pumping water through its gelatinous body, and that the life-cycle includes alternate generations of existing as solitary individuals or as a group forming long chains. “In common with other defenseless animals that occupy open water—jellies and hydroids, for example—the translucence presumably provides some protection from predation,” Cox told MailOnline. “Being see-through is a pretty good camouflage in water.” The report doesn’t say, but it is presumed Fraser threw the bizarre sea creature back into the ocean.

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This Famous Google Exec Quit His Job To Work In China — And He's Been Totally Blown Away By What He Found

For years, Hugo Barra was one of the most visible executives at Google. He was a product manager for its Android team. Every year at Google's biggest conference, Google I/O, Barra would show off Android's latest new features for the whole world. Then, in August of this year, Barra quit Google to work for a Chinese company. In December, he gave a talk in Paris about how utterly blown away he's been by that place.

 This is Hugo Barra.

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Barra used to be a top executive in Google's Android division.

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In August he quit to go work for the "Steve Jobs of China," Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun.

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After just two months in China, Barra spoke at the Le Web tech conference in Paris in December.

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Barra told his interviewer that he's totally blown away by the place. He said he had some charts to show why…

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He said the Chinese are incredibly educated with 8 million college grads per year — more than the US.

Hugo Barra

He said Chinese disposable income is growing like crazy. It tripled over the last 8 years. 

Hugo Barra

He said China has at least 122 billionaires, second only to the US.

Hugo Barra

Barra said China has 600 million Internet users - with 50% growth in 3 years. 

Hugo Barra

Barra talked about some of the huge recent huge IPOs on the Chinese stock market.

Hugo Barra

Barra talked about how Chinese Internet companies have massive user numbers. MAU stands for "monthly active users." QZone has 600 million!

Hugo Barra

Then Barra talked some specific Chinese companies. First he mentioned Alibaba, which owns Taobao, a shopping site he said is twice the size of eBay and Amazon combined.

Hugo Barra

Barra said that during a Chinese holiday called "Singles Day" Taobao did more than twice the sales all US e-commerce companies did on Cyber Monday.

Hugo Barra

He talked about JD, which does 3-hour delivery.

Hugo Barra

JD has an app you can use to see where your delivery guy is.

Hugo Barra

Alipay is like Paypal in the US, except it's much bigger and more useful. Barra says he uses to pay for his cabs.

Hugo Barra

Weibo is like Twitter, except bigger. Barra only ever had 6,000 Twitter followers. In two months, he has 200,000 Weibo followers.

Hugo Barra

Barra says he runs his entire social life through an app called WeChat. He uses it instead of the phone, email, or text messaging. WeChat also has an Instagram-like feature.

Hugo Barra

The "Uber of China" is an app called Didi. Except with it, you leave a voice message for the driver telling him where to pick you up and how much you'll pay.

Hugo Barra

Barra said MoMo is an app you use to talk to strangers who are nearby you. It's kind of a dating app. It has 100 million users.

Hugo Barra

There's no Google Play store in China (it's banned), so there are a bunch of third-party app stores instead. 

Hugo Barra

One is called "91." It's a desktop app like iTunes. Big Chinese search engine Baidu bought it for $1 billion last year.

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Barra says he loves China, and is trying to learn to speak the language. Here he is at his favorite dumplings place.

Hugo Barra

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-the-chinese-tech-industry-is-like-2014-1#ixzz2qCVjP7rs

A Google Programmer 'Blew Off' A $500,000 Salary At A Startup — Because He's Already Making $3 Million Every Year

flickr/blmurch This is not the programmer in question
Thanks to all its money, Google is a big winner in the war for talent in Silicon Valley. The latest evidence is a story we just heard from the founder of a large, successful enterprise startup. This founder told us that his startup tried to poach a "programmer" currently working at Google. The startup made the programmer what it thought was a big offer: a $500,000 salary. "He blew us off," said the founder. The programmer told the startup thanks for the offer, but Google was currently paying him $3 million per year in cash and restricted stock units. (Restricted stock units, or "RSUs," are as good as stock in that the programmer won't have to buy them to get them.) A compensation of $3 million per year, or even $500,000 per year, is well above the Silicon Valley average for an engineer. Recruiter Scott Purcell says the software engineers he's placing typically make a base salary of $165,000. The average base salary for a Google engineer is $128,000. But there are outliers besides our $3 million engineer. Twitter's senior vice president of engineer, Christopher Fry, earned $10.3 million last year. Google has an industry-wide reputation for getting — and keeping — the people it wants. It's pretty impressive, for example, that Google was able to remove Andy Rubin from the top of Android and still manage to keep him inside the company, working on robots. This is a credit to CEO Larry Page. He's made Google into a place where really bright people get to work on extremely ambitious, large-scale problems. Before he took over Google as CEO in 2011, the company was losing a lot of people to startups like Facebook and Twitter. Now, not so much. It is also a credit to the power of money, which Google has a lot of. Update: On Twitter, ex-Googler Hunter Walk (now a VC) warns other startups: "The *worst* way to recruit from Google is with money. For anyone really good, Google will outbid you. So you're left with the ones they don't want to retain." Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/a-google-programmer-blew-off-a-500000-salary-at-startup--because-hes-already-making-3-million-every-year-2014-1#ixzz2qCOZPMoP PS. For the best in computer storage try Livedrive to backup all our inportant files and access them from anywhere in the world using any device.

Chevy Camaro ZL1 owner fights dealership that totaled his car Justin Hyde

 By Justin Hyde 20 hours ago Motoramic

 At 580 hp and a starting price of $55,000, the Chevy Camaro ZL1 ranks as the top dog of the Camaro lineup (at least until the Z/28 hits the track.) For Camaro enthusiasts like John Hooper, author of six books on the history of Camaros, it's a dream car — or at least was a dream car, until an employee at a Chevy dealership totaled his ZL1 on an unauthorized joyride. Nearly a month later, Hooper and the dealership have yet to agree on how much that particular top dog was worth. Something about Camaros seems to bring out the dark side of the dealer service department; recall the man who hid a voice recorder in the door pocket of his Camaro SS and caught mechanics doing burn-outs. According to Hooper's posts on the Camaro5 forum, he had taken his 2012 Camaro ZL1 to First State Chevy in Georgetown, Del., for warranty work on a paint issue. On Dec. 15, a Sunday, one of the dealer's employees took the keys from the closed dealership and went for a spin — that ended when the ZL1 sheared off a telephone pole. The next day, the dealership told Hooper about the incident, and by the end of that week, the car had been declared a total loss. Since then, Hooper and First State have been unable to reach an accord over how to replace the ZL1. To First State's credit, it immediately fired the employee who took the car and tried to pursue charges against him — but local officials said since the car was in the dealership's legal possession at the time of the crash, no crime was committed. Hooper's ZL1 had about 10,000 miles on it, and while First State has offered other used ZL1s as replacements, Hooper has said those cars were not worth as much as his example was pre-crash. Hooper told the Cape Gazette of Lewes, Del., today that while the dealership has given them a loaner to drive, they are still making payments on the ZL1 while it sits in a salvage yard. “We're losing sleep over this, time off from work, and this still isn't resolved,” Hooper told the paper. “This is so ethically and morally wrong it isn't funny.”

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Job Growth

2013 ends with weakest job growth in years

By Annalyn Kurtz  @AnnalynKurtz January 10, 2014: 8:46 AM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney)

Job growth slumped sharply in December, falling far short of expectations. The economy added only 74,000 jobs in December, according to the Department of Labor.

 

This was the weakest month for job growth since January 2011 and came as a huge surprise to economists, who were expecting an addition of 193,000 jobs.

For all of 2013, the economy added 2.2 million jobs -- on par with 2012's gains.

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate fell to 6.7% in December, but the drop came mainly from workers leaving the labor force.

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Only 62.8% of the adult population is participating in the labor market -- meaning they either have a job or are looking for one. That matches the lowest level since 1978.

In the job market's 2007 heyday, unemployment was under 5%, but in the two years that followed, the recession wiped out 8.7 million jobs. To this day, not all those jobs have returned.  
 

- CNN's Ted Barrett and CNNMoney's Jen Liberto contributed reporting from Washington, D.C.

First Published: January 10, 2014: 8:46 AM ET 

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