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This Week's "Where in the Universe?" Challenge

Here's your image for this week's "Where in the Universe?" challenge. Take a look at the image and before proceeding to the end of this post, make your guess as to what location in the universe is represented here. It could be anywhere — nothing is off limits for this challenge! Near or distant, far and wide, Universe Today spares no expense when it comes to searching for unique and unusual images to test your visual knowledge of our universe! Give yourself an extra point for guessing (or knowing) the feature shown here, and another point for naming the spacecraft that took this image. Just a couple more ticks on the timer here before revealing the awesome power of this week's image….

Where In The Universe Challenge #11

Blue is my favorite color. Especially the shade of blue in the image for this week's "Where In The Universe" challenge. It's just such an uplifting color. But back to the challenge. The goal of this challenge is to test your skills and knowledge of our solar system. Guess where this image is from, and give yourself extra points if you can guess which spacecraft is responsible for the image. As always, don't peek below before you make your guess. Comments on how you did are welcome.

Barr confirms patent challenge of Prevacid SoluTab tablets

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Barr confirms Entocort patent challenge

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Biopure Corporation wins European patent challenge

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Test Your Knowledge With Another "Where In The Universe" Challenge

It's Wednesday, so that means its time for another "Where In The Universe" challenge to test your visual knowledge of the cosmos. We've been busy searching hither and yon for unusual and unique astronomical images to see how well our readers are acquainted with the various locals across the universe. This week's image is an unusual looking object. Just what is this thing? Could it be an asteroid, a wierd moon, or something you can find on Earth? Hmmm…… Ponder the image for awhile, and no peeking below before you make a guess. If only I could insert some music here, like the "Think!" theme song from the Jeopardy game show. I'll have to talk to Fraser about that…

Stop Me If Youve Heard This One Before: Yahoo-Google Ad Pact Could Come Next Week

This is beginning to feel a bit like Groundhog Day, but someone is putting out these leaks for a reason. Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) could announce an ad outsourcing deal early next week according to a Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) Newswires report at WSJ. Of course, this deal was said to be coming ‘next week’ last week and a couple of weeks before that.

Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before: Yahoo-Google Ad Pact Could Come 'Next Week'

This is beginning to feel a bit like Groundhog Day, but someone is putting out these leaks for a reason. Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) could announce an ad outsourcing deal early next week according to a Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) Newswires report at WSJ. Of course, this deal was said to be coming ‘next week’ last week and a couple of weeks before that.

Lawmakers want to regulate violent video games

After the record-breaking $500 million first-week sales of Grand Theft Auto IV, the business of video games is under the microscope again this week. This time, however, it’s not outraged parents doing the scrutinizing. It’s lawmakers. Congress introduced a bill this week pushing for government regulation of the gaming industry, just as the Federal Trade Commission released a report that found some stores are selling violent video games to kids despite a drive to have them observe the industry’s rating system. The Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act, introduced to the House floor this week by Reps. Lee Terry, R-Neb., and Jim Matheson, D-Utah, would force stores to check the identification of anyone purchasing games rated M and AO. Stores that violate the rule would be fined $5,000 by the FTC.

This Week on XBLA: Penny Arcade

May 19, 2008 - Microsoft has sent out word that Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One will be this week's sole Xbox Live Arcade release. The game will be available to download Wednesday, May 21 at 1:00 AM Pacific for 1600 Microsoft Points ($20 US). The first episode of this RPG adventure lets players team up with the comic's stars Tycho and Gabe in a "deranged 1920s comic-book-meets-pulp-horror universe." In it players will create their own character who can be transferred to future episodes of the series.

"Where In The Universe" Challenge #7

With all the excitement of Phoenix's successful landing and subsequent activities, I almost forgot that its time for another "Where In The Universe" challenge. So, I've been blazing across the internet, trying to shoot off another version of this challenge without causing a conflagration or bursting into spontaneous human combustion (OK, I know that doesn't really happen, but it fits here.)

SlingPlayer Mobile on the iPhone will be demoed at Apple's WWDC this week

One of the applications I always knew would be a wonderful addition to the iPhone with its large beautiful display is SlingPlayer Mobile and tonight I received an email from their new Beta Manager that a proof of concept version will be shown at the WWDC this week. They will show a version running on a jailbroken iPhone and unfortunately this version is not available to anyone, even if you you a jailbroken iPhone. Sling Media is still waiting for the final release of the SDK and will then attempt to get SlingPlayer Mobile out and available through the Apple store for everyone to purchase. Check out more photos and a video of this in action at Dave Zatz’s site.

American Solar Challenge Racers Head For Canada

coondoggie writes "Solar race cars this week began their nine-day, 2,400 mile chase from Dallas to Calgary, Alberta using only the sun for fuel. The 24 teams in the American Solar Challenge race are mainly US college teams including entries from MIT, Ohio State and Northwestern. The University of Michigan's Continuum car is the defending champ, having won the Challenge in Australia last year. The University of Michigan has won four out of the eight North American Solar Challenges it has entered with its team of more than 100 engineering students, who have vowed to defend their title this year."

This Week in WTF?! May 11, 2008

Welcome to This Week in WTF?! Remember those insane Japanese Arnold Schwarzenegger commercials for some sort of crazy energy drink? Imagine that madness distilled into videogame news form, and you'll have some idea of what I have to deal with every week.

Jamie Lynn Spears More Popular Than Big Sister Britney on This Week's Lycos Top Search...

Jamie Lynn Spears More Popular Than Big Sister Britney on This Week's Lycos Top Search List Comedian George Carlin, ABC's 'Wipeout' and Singer Tim McGraw Among Big Search Gainers on Lycos WALTHAM, Mass., July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Lycos, Inc. (http://www.lycos.com), a leading provider of social publishing, media and search services, today announced the following information from The Lycos 50(TM), the 50 most popular Internet search results for the week ending June 28, 2008. For a complete list of The Lycos 50 and for in-depth text of The Lycos 50 Daily Report, go to 50.lycos.com. Readers of The Lycos 50 can also share their thoughts on Internet trends and pop culture on The Lycos 50 Blog located at lycos50.tripod.com/blog/ and the all new Under the Red Carpet Blog at redcarpet.

Space station astronauts take second spacewalk in under a week, job tame this time around

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) _ The space station's two Russian astronauts stepped outside for the second time in less than a week Tuesday, taking a spacewalk that proved to be tame compared to last week's work with explosives.Although Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko had a lengthy to-do list, none of the chores were notably complicated or dangerous this time around.

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) PriceWatch Alert At $69.28 Break Even

Amazon.com, Inc. (NasdaqNM: AMZN) closed yesterday at $77.28. So far the stock has hit a 52-week low of $61.20 and 52-week high of $101.09. Amazon stock has been showing support around 75.13 and resistance in the 81.07 range. Technical indicators for the stock are Bullish and S&P gives AMZN a neutral 3 STAR (out of 5) hold rating. AMZN appears on the Investors Observer Momentum Plays list. For a hedged play on this stock, look at an Oct '08 80 covered call (ZQN JP) for a net debit in the $69.28 area. That is also the break even stock price for this trade. This covered call has a 128 day duration, provides 10.35% downside protection and a 15.47% assigned return rate for a 44.12% annualized return rate (comparison purposes only). A lower cost hedged play for this stock would use a longer term call option in place of the covered call stock p

Gilead Sciences (GILD) NewsBite : Gilead Continues to Move Higher on Patent Decision

Gilead Sciences Inc (GILD) opened at 52.79. So far today, the stock has hit a low of 52.72 and a high of 53.87. GILD is now trading at 53.63, up 1.15 (2.18%). The stock hit its 52 week high of 54.59 earlier this month and set its 52 week low of 35.22 in August. The stock has been rising steadily since last August. Gilead has been moving higher after the company announced this week that the U.S. patents office has upheld one of the four challenged patents regarding the company's AIDS medicine, Viread. Technical indicators for GILD are bullish but deteriorating slightly, while S&P gives the stock a positive 4 STARS (out of 5) buy rating. If you’re looking for a hedged play on this stock, consider a July bull-put credit spread below the $47.50 range.

Study Hints At Time Before Big Bang

canadian_right informs us that scientists from Caltech have found hints of a time before the Big Bang while studying the cosmic microwave background. Not only does the study hint at something pre-existing our universe, the researchers also postulate that everything we see was created as a bubble pinched off from a previously existing universe. This conjecture turns out to shed light on the mystery of the arrow of time. Quoting the BBC's account: "Their model suggests that new universes could be created spontaneously from apparently empty space. From inside the parent universe, the event would be surprisingly unspectacular. Describing the team's work at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in St Louis, Missouri, co-author Professor Sean Carroll explained that 'a universe could form inside this room and we'd never know.

This Week on SundayArts: Il Trittico, Ballet Biarritz and More

This week's edition of SundayArts - the weekly arts showcase on New York's public television station Thirteen (WNET) - features the Metropolitan Opera's production of the beloved triple bill, Il Trittico, directed by Broadway's Jack O'Brien (The Coast of Utopia) and conducted by James Levine.

The week in blogs: the great public sector pension debate

The Money Blog this week asked a simple but important question: how do you feel about paying for the pension privileges of public sector workers? The response we got was extraordinary, highlighting how deep emotions run on this hot political issue. Anyone wanting to understand the pensions dilemma now facing the UK would do well to read Steve Bee’s original article and even a handful of the eighty or so responses received by the Money Blog on the same topic by the end of the week.

Google's Trends for Websites - Challenge to Comscore and Alexa?

I need to start this post with an important disclosure. I was on the Board of ComScore for nine years from the summer of 1999 until earlier this month. And I am still a shareholder in ComScore through the Flatiron partnerships. In no way is this post intended as a plug for ComScore. And I cannot and will not disclose any confidential information about ComScore in this post.

If Microsoft sold the iPhone through this program ...

That could be the killer ploy to get this program to work. :-) Besides this "killer" Google ploy, several other interesting developments with Google this week ... Google plays me-too with healthcare records and Google is being scrutinized over privacy issues READ MORE on the Microsoft Subent blog.

The New Salomon Challenge: a German Blogger Runs a Hidden Message Into the Berlin Cityscape

A Sportive German Blogger has Decided to Leave a Mysterious Message by Running its Letters Into the Berlin Cityscape. Will he Succeed in Overcoming his Challenge? And why Does he do it? Running a Message: a Creative and Sportive Challenge LUXEMBOURG, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- He has set himself seven days of running in the course of six or seven weeks. The idea is both simple and original: by running a certain route through Berlin letters will appear to form words and finally a whole sentence. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080522/305880 ) To keep up the suspense until the very end he will not run the words in the right order, so that web users can try to fill in the gaps. His challenge began on a rainy May 1st this year. Will he be able to run his sentence and to keep his self-imposed deadline? To find out check out http://ww

There's A lot of Dust Out There in the Universe

The whole point of putting telescopes in orbit is to avoid distortions caused by our murky atmosphere. But now astronomers say they have calculated only half the light of our universe reaches telescopes – even those in orbit – because of the amount of dust that permeates the universe. In essence, they say, the universe is twice as bright as previously thought. The lead author of a new paper detailing this discovery, Dr. Simon Driver from the University of St Andrews said, “For nearly two decades we’ve argued about whether the light that we see from distant galaxies tells the whole story or not. It doesn’t; in fact only half the energy produced by stars actually reaches our telescopes directly, the rest is blocked by dust grains.�

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