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Friday, March 29, 2013
Insect pests more plentiful in hotter parts of city than in cooler areas
Mar. 27, 2013 ? Higher temperatures in cities can be a key driver of insect pest outbreaks on trees in urban areas, according to research published March 27 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Emily Meineke from North Carolina State University and colleagues from other institutions.
The researchers found that a scale insect that exclusively feeds on oak trees was 13 times more abundant on willow oaks in the hottest parts of the city of Raleigh, North Carolina than in cooler areas of the same city, even when other factors, like natural enemies that would kill the insects, were similar in both areas. In a second experiment, they found scale insects collected from trees in hot areas had higher survival rates in hot greenhouses than in cool ones. However, insects originally from cooler urban areas remained low in number in both hot and cool greenhouses. The researchers found no differences in the rates of reproduction of insects in any of these groups. Thus, they suggest that the differences in abundance may be a result of differences in survival rather than a higher reproductive capacity.
Urbanization of an area changes the species that dwell in it. Previous studies have analyzed these effects in terms of loss of resources or changes to habitat, but this is the first research to focus on the effects of "heat islands" created in cities. Meineke explains that, "Urban warming can lead to higher insect pest abundance, a result of pest acclimation or adaptation to higher temperatures."
The study concludes that since current urban warming is similar in magnitude to the higher temperatures predicted by global warming in the next fifty years, their results may indicate potential changes in pest abundance as natural forests also grow warmer.
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- Emily K. Meineke, Robert R. Dunn, Joseph O. Sexton, Steven D. Frank. Urban Warming Drives Insect Pest Abundance on Street Trees. PLoS ONE, 2013; 8 (3): e59687 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059687
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Springpad note-taking service gets interface overhaul, now an even worthier rival to Evernote
Springpad may lack Evernote's commercial clout, but it makes up for it in a number of ways -- not least with free-of-charge features like offline access from its mobile apps (which certain rivals charge for) and Pinterest-style sharing options. The interface hasn't been a particular strong point, but that could be about to change as version 4.0 has just gone live for at least some users of the web interface. The new UI centers everything on three key buttons along the top:
- Springs -- which gives you immediate access to your latest notes, regardless of which device you made them on
- Notebooks -- for organizing your notes into projects
- Search & Do -- which, needless to say, lets you search your notes, but also suggests activities based to-do tasks you've created.
The same, simplified philosophy is due to hit Springpad's iOS and Android apps soon, although there's no sign of that happening just yet. In meantime, check out the web interface for yourself at the source link.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Internet, Mobile
Source: Springpad
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/27/springpad-notetaking-platform-gets-interface-overhaul/
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Android apps make up 20% of all BlackBerry 10 apps
BlackBerry Z10BlackBerry (BBRY) included an Android emulator in its BlackBerry 10 operating system that allows developers to easily port their applications from Android to BlackBerry. The decision to include such a tool paid off for the company, which launched its new platform with more than 70,000 apps. BlackBerry recently announced that?its app store is now home to more than 100,000 BlackBerry 10 applications, and it has been revealed that only 20% are ported from Android. While the operating system is still missing key apps such as Instagram and Netflix (NFLX), for the most part BlackBerry has been able to attract developers to its still unproven platform.
[More from BGR: Apple takes heat over ?nightmare? iCloud syncing problems]
?We give them a very nice on-ramp to get onto the platform,? Martyn Mallick, BlackBerry?s vice president for global alliances and business development, said in an interview with AllThingsD. ?Our users deserve to have great content. If that is the fastest way we can get some of that content, that?s great.?
[More from BGR: BlackBerry?s best hope said to be as a ?niche player? going forward]
Following strong sales of BlackBerry 10 devices across the globe, many developers have abandoned initial plans to simply port their old Android apps and are now committed to building natively for the platform. Mallick notes that others are sticking with their Android apps but adapting them to take advantage of a number of BlackBerry 10-specific features like push support and the BlackBerry Hub.
?There are still some partners that are not in a position where their schedules line up with our schedules,? he said. ?There are some partners where their priorities are elsewhere, not even necessarily in mobile.?
The executive wasn?t worried about early reports of BlackBerry Z10?s lackluster launch in the U.S., suggesting it will see a better response from T-Mobile and Verizon (VZ).
?Take a look over the next couple of weeks,? he said. ?I expect we will see a stronger response.?
This article was originally published on BGR.com
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/android-apps-20-blackberry-10-apps-150109875.html
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Time to travel: Long way home
Written 6th March 2023
Soundtrack: Alt-j -Matilda
The date has arrived: March 6th. It's crazy how much your life can change in a day, to go from baking in the hot Melbourne sun, to arriving in white skyed London... 4?. Going home is so much more than just getting on a plane and seeing family again, it's the smell of England that once went unnoticed, the blue road signs, the familiar accents, the quaint pubs ( we do pubs best), the cups of tea and toast with lurpack, and adjusting to life without your trusty backpack. I'm excited about the simplest of things, like cardigan shopping, cuddling up with my cat, hugging mum, and being greeted by the neighbours. As you may tell I'm feeling quite nostalgic at the moment, with 14 hours thinking time before my next flight, to dwell on the amazing 5 months I just had, and how I may never be back to this country. But leaving somewhere is always difficult, and makes you think about your life and how, really, you can take it and live it anywhere in the world you wish.?
Highlights of Australia
Fraser Island, our 4 wheel drive family, card games at the campsite, white sands and blue waters.?
Magnums night club, Airlie beach
Whitsundays snorkelling, discovering a new world under sea level
Skydiving mission beach
End of the world party fun with Damien, Kelly and Pappinbarra locals
Christmas Eve BBQ and Christmas Day, sooo much cheeeeese!
Sydney- New Year's Eve all day?in the park
Body boarding at Byron Bay
Australia Day, and stumbling into an Elvis gig
Melbourne city exploring; buskers, markets, street art and salsa
Climbing Kings Canyon, and Uluru
Sunset and sunrise in the Outback, with beer and champagne and new friends
Exploring the underground world of Cooper Pedi
Les Miserables at the moonlight cinema, Melbourne Botanical Gardens.?
Now I'm ready to go home, I just wish Clare, Laura, Hannah and Ray were coming with me!
?No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.? ? Lin Yutang?
Goodbye Australia. You did me proud
Source: http://nattydownunder.blogspot.com/2013/03/long-way-home.html
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Xbox Music update adds volume control, cloud syncing and performance boost
Several Windows 8 apps, including Calendar, Mail and People, received updates just yesterday, and today Microsoft's Xbox Music is getting a refresh of its own. The music app's update brings both performance improvements to Windows RT devices and some new functionality. Among the new features is a volume control that sets the app's volume independent of the system's volume. The update also brings the ability to automatically sync your music collection to the cloud and add songs from your collection to other devices running Xbox music. Finally, as you can see in the screen grab above, there's a new playing UI that displays all tracks from an album in addition to the song currently playing. You can check out the update yourself by clicking through to the Windows Store via the source link.
Filed under: Software, Microsoft
Via: The Verge
Source: Windows Store
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/26/xbox-music-update-volume-control-cloud-sync/
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Monday, March 25, 2013
St. Peter's Episcopal Church offers Holy Week services
St. Peter's Episcopal Church offers Holy Week Services beginning with a Palm Sunday Service on Sunday, March 24, and concluding with a traditional Easter Service on Sunday, March 31.
Holy Week will begin with a Palm Sunday service at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 24. Congregants will gather in the Parish Hall for the Litany of the Palms and process to the Sanctuary for worship and Holy Eucharist service. Palm Sunday commemorates the celebration of Jesus Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the week before his death and resurrection.
For many Christian churches, Palm Sunday, often referred to as "Passion Sunday", marks the beginning of Holy Week, which concludes on Easter Sunday. Biblical texts reveal that when Jesus entered Jerusalem, the crowds greeted him by waving palm branches and covering his path with palm branches. Immediately following this great time of celebration in the ministry of Jesus, he begins his journey to the cross.
On Thursday, March 28, a Maundy Thursday Service will take place at 7:00 p.m. This service will include a foot washing and the stripping of the altar. Maundy Thursday or "Holy Thursday" is the day Christians commemorate the Last Supper when Jesus shared the Passover meal with his disciples on the night before he was crucified. During the Maundy Thursday Service foot-washing ceremonies are often a part of service. In contrast to joyful Easter celebrations when Christians worship their resurrected Savior, Maundy
Thursday services are typically more solemn occasions, marked by the shadow of Jesus' betrayal. The two important biblical events which are the primary focus of Maundy Thursday services are Jesus washing the feet of his disciples and Jesus instituting the practice of communion. The Gospel text from John 13:34-35, associated with this day, is of Jesus' saying to his disciples, "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." The word Maundy is a shortened form either of the word commandment in its early spelling commaundement or of the Latin words mandatum novum, which means "new commandment". The altars are stripped at the end of the Eucharist on Maundy Thursday and any immovable crosses are shrouded.St. Peter's Sanctuary will be open for prayer and meditation from 12:00-3:00 p.m. on Good Friday, March 29. Good Friday is the day in which Christians remember the crucifixion of Jesus with a day of fasting, abstinence, penance and special devotion
. The biblical account of Jesus' death on the cross, or crucifixion, his burial and his resurrection, or rising from the dead, can be found in the following passages of Scripture: Matthew 27:27-28:8; Mark 15:16-16:19; Luke 23:26-24:35; and John 19:16-20:30. The Rev. Maryly Adair will also lead a Stations of the Cross devotional service at 2 p.m.
The Stations of the Cross are a series of 14 pictures or carvings depicting incidents in the narrative of Christ's passion, from Pilate's house to the entombment, which are found arranged around the walls of some churches. These depictions are used in conjunction with the devotional service which includes readings, prayers and a time for meditation.
The week will conclude with Holy Eucharist and Flowering of the Cross on Easter at 9:30 a.m., Sunday, March 31. On Easter Sunday, Christians celebrate the resurrection of the Lord, Jesus Christ. Christians believe, according to Scripture, that Jesus came back to life, or was raised from the dead, three days after his death on the cross.
Through his death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus paid the penalty for sin, thus purchasing for all who believe in him, eternal life in Christ Jesus.
Easter is the oldest and greatest feast in the church year and the central day on the church calendar. Easter Day is the culmination of Holy Week, with its special services recalling the last week of Jesus' earthly ministry. The tradition of "flowering the cross" is found in Christian art as early as the sixth century. On Easter morning, flowers are used to decorate a cross in honor of the risen Lord. The cross is often set up outside the church following the Easter service as a witness to those who pass by.
All are welcome to attend any of the Holy Week services. St. Peter's Episcopal Church is located at 510 Jefferson St., on the corner of Jefferson and Elm, in Red Bluff. For more information contact 527-5205 or stpeters@sbcglobal.net. Visit our website at saintpetersepiscopal.org.
The Episcopal Church welcomes all who worship Jesus Christ in 109 dioceses and three regional areas in 16 nations. The Episcopal Church is a member province of the worldwide Anglican Communion. For more information, please visit: www.edsd.org.
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Marines ID gunman, 2 victims in Va. base shooting
QUANTICO, Va. (AP) ? A Marine who shot two of his colleagues to death and then killed himself was a tactics instructor at a school that tests Marines who want to become officers, military officials said Saturday.
Sgt. Eusebio Lopez, 25, gunned down 19-year-old Lance Cpl. Sara Castromata and Cpl. Jacob Wooley, 23, on Thursday night inside barracks at the Marine Corps Base Quantico in northern Virginia. Other than to say the three Marines worked together at the school, military officials have not described their relationship or released a motive for the shooting.
Lopez, of Pacifica, Calif., was a teacher whose specialty was machine gunner. He joined the corps in May 2006 and deployed in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Castromata, of Oakley, Calif., was a warehouse clerk who had been in the Marines since December 2011. Wooley, of Guntown, Miss., was a field radio operator. He joined the Marines in February 2010.
Lopez was an instructor at officer candidates school, known for its grueling 10-week program that evaluates Marines on physical stamina, intelligence and leadership. The candidates must complete obstacle courses, hikes of up to 12 miles in full combat gear and take classes on navigation and tactics that help them in the field, according to the school's website.
Lopez's great-grandfather, also Eusebio Lopez, said the Marines contacted their family on Friday night.
"They told us they were investigating more, and they'd let us know. He wasn't the type to do stuff like that," said Lopez, 81.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/marines-id-gunman-2-victims-va-shooting-023203158.html
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
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Monday, March 11, 2013
New music review: The Next Day, David Bowie (ISO/ Columbia ...
Photo courtesy of Sony Music Canada
When David Bowie?s pal John Lennon ended his reclusive five-year hiatus from the music business in 1980, it was with joyful celebrations of domesticity.
Here?s what Bowie comes back with, after 10 years out of the public eye: ?I can see you as a corpse/ Hanging from a beam,? and ?Here am I/ Not quite dying/ My body left to rot on a hollow tree.?
The Next Day is Bowie?s first studio album since Reality in 2003 (Forgettable? Quick, with no Web searching: which George Harrison song did he cover on that one?). As some of the lyrics on this often-thrilling comeback disc suggest, it?s not the warm, nostalgic reaffirmation portended by its first single, the leisurely ballad Where Are We Now?
Not only are the words and images often challenging and sometimes unsettling, the music is mostly dense, dissonant and difficult ? which is all to the good. If the overall sound evokes any specific Bowie period, it might be the febrile era covering Low, ?Heroes?, Lodger and Scary Monsters. And this disc is certainly Bowie?s best work since those years.
Longtime producer Tony Visconti has loaded the album with claustrophobic, buried-treasure detail that occasionally has the listener gasping for air. The layers can be penetrated only through repeated listens, with quality headphones a most useful tool. The chords in the menacing Love Is Lost, for example, are so dirty that they are more a presence than actual notes, while the greasy cabaret baritone sax in Dirty Boys is strictly subterranean. The compelling, but impenetrable rhythm of If You Can See Me dares you to find the groove. And then there?s the ominous closer Heat, which is reminiscent of the pre-Tilt Scott Walker who shocked listeners with the likes of The Electrician.
But as interesting as the chances taken might be, the disc shows even greater dimension by including stately and accessible tracks like the psychedelic I?d Rather Be HIgh, the downright catchy Dancing Out In Space and Valentine?s Day, which almost belies its grim setting ? a murderous university rampage ? ?with a sweet melody that would sound at home on a Jeff Lynne album. You Feel So Lonely You Could Die is reminiscent of Rock n? Roll Suicide (the Ziggy Stardust connection is underlined when the drum intro of Five Years is evoked near the end).
And how about that unnerving packaging, which is simply the front and back covers of the 36-year-old Bowie classic ?Heroes?, with the original title crossed out and a white square obscuring both sides, filled by the new title and song listing?
The defacing could be a bold, forward-thinking statement or it might be a nod to the past. Most likely, it illustrates that time is elastic for great artists. The Next Day could have been made in 1977, in the same way that ??Heroes? would sound contemporary in 2013. Lke a sizeable chunk of Bowie?s oeuvre, The Next Day stands outside of time.
Rating: ****
Podworthy: I?d Rather Be High
The Next Day will be available March 12. Check out the video for The Stars (Are Out Tonight):
And click here to listen to the entire album free on iTunes.
Bernard Perusse
Twitter: @bernieperusse
Source: http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2013/03/10/new-music-review-the-next-day-david-bowie-iso-columbia/
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China issues plan to streamline government
Ma Kai, secretary-general of the State Council, speaks during a plenary session of the National People's Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Sunday, March 10, 2013. Ma read out the report on the Cabinet's plan to streamline government ministries, doing away with the powerful Railways Ministry and creating a super-agency to regulate the media and realigning other bureaucracies in a bid to boost efficiency. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Ma Kai, secretary-general of the State Council, speaks during a plenary session of the National People's Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Sunday, March 10, 2013. Ma read out the report on the Cabinet's plan to streamline government ministries, doing away with the powerful Railways Ministry and creating a super-agency to regulate the media and realigning other bureaucracies in a bid to boost efficiency. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and incoming-President Xi Jinping, right, walks ahead of Chinese premier-in-waiting, Li Keqiang during a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Sunday, March 10, 2013. China announced plans Sunday to streamline government ministries, doing away with the powerful Railways Ministry and creating a super-agency to regulate the media and realigning other bureaucracies in a bid to boost efficiency. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and incoming-President Xi Jinping reads a report during a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Sunday, March 10, 2013. During the session, the Cabinet unveiled its plan to streamline government ministries, doing away with the powerful Railways Ministry and creating a super-agency to regulate the media and realigning other bureaucracies in a bid to boost efficiency. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
BEIJING (AP) ? China announced plans Sunday to streamline government ministries, doing away with the powerful Railways Ministry and creating a super-agency to regulate the media and realigning other bureaucracies in a bid to boost efficiency.
The plan introduced to the rubber-stamp national legislature is being pushed by the newly installed Communist Party leadership and reflects its priorities to reduce waste and address quality of life issues for a more prosperous, demanding society.
Among the changes, the corruption-plagued Railways Ministry will be split, its regulatory responsibilities going to the Transport Ministry and its operations to a commercial entity. The food and drug agency will see a boost in authority to try to end the safety scandals that have been a source of public anger, and two censorship arms, one for broadcasters and one for print media, will be merged.
The restructuring, the seventh since China began market reforms 30 years ago, marks the latest periodic attempt to reduce government meddling in the economy and society. Despite the effort, the government's role in the economy and the power of state companies have grown over the past decade, often to the detriment of private and foreign companies, which face a welter of industrial and other policies that have raised barriers to success.
This time, the streamlining plan includes guidelines to restrict and better define the central government's responsibilities, limiting its issuing of permits for projects, the setting of standards and other policies that have slowed decision-making.
"Departments of the State Council are now focusing too much on micro issues. We should attend to our duties and must not meddle in what is not in our business," Ma Kai, secretary-general of the State Council, or Cabinet, told the legislators. He said that overlapping government functions has often led to buck-passing.
Overall the realignment would do away with four agencies and reduce the number of ministry-level bodies by two to 25.
The public has been complaining about government inefficiency and for that reason "we should dare to push ahead with cracking the tough nut of structural reform," the state-run Jinghua Daily quoted Wang Feng, an official in the Communist Party office involved in drafting the reform program.
Underscoring the government's determination is the abolishing of the Railways Ministry. With deep ties to the military, the ministry has resisted previous rounds of reform and has continued to serve as both regulator and operator. Under the new plan, operations will be spun off into a newly created China Railway Corp., responsible for building railways and managing freight and passenger services. Safety, quality and other regulatory standards will be the purview of a state railway administration under the Ministry of Transport.
Another influential bureaucracy, the family planning commission, which oversees enforcement of the much disliked policies that limit most families to one child, will be merged with the Health Ministry in a sign the government may be rethinking its approach to family planning. The proposal called for "maintaining and perfecting family planning policies" and said the party would continue to set policy. Meanwhile, population research is being transferred to the economic planning agency, highlighting government concern about the effect an aging population and shrinking labor force may have on the economy.
In another bureaucratic boost, the government will pull together separate agencies involved in fisheries and other maritime law enforcement into one administration. The move appears aimed at better asserting China's claims in disputed stretches of the East and South China seas and, if energetically pressed, could aggravate already high tensions with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines.
The National Energy Administration, created five years ago to help oversee a pressing need for the fast-growing but resource-strapped economy, would be expanded to absorb a regulatory body that sets electric rates.
The food and drug administration is being elevated in status to ministry level to give it added powers in hopes of improving enforcement and ending the lax enforcement that has led to repeated scandals over toxic medicines and tainted foods from milk to meat.
In a separate report to the legislature, the head of the supreme court, Wang Shengjun, said Chinese courts had sentenced more than 20,000 people for making and selling adulterated milk powder, recycled cooking oil known as "gutter oil" and the steroid clenbuterol, which makes pigs produce leaner meat.
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Genealogy Helps and Lookups: Family Tree Picture Frame
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Officials alarmed by increasing superbug reports
NEW YORK (AP) ? Health officials are reporting an alarming increase in some dangerous superbugs at U.S. hospitals.
These superbugs from a common germ family have become extremely resistant to treatment with antibiotics. Only 10 years ago, such resistance was hardly ever seen in this group.
Infections from these superbugs are still uncommon. But in the first six months of last year, nearly 200 U.S. hospitals ? about 4 percent ? saw at least one case, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent reported Tuesday.
"I would call them a major threat emerging in our hospitals," said Dr. Arjun Srinivasan, an infectious disease expert at the CDC.
Health officials call them "nightmare bacteria" that have now been seen in 42 states and threaten to spread their resistance to more and more of their bacterial brethren.
"We only have a limited window of opportunity to stop spread" of these superbugs, said CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden. At a press conference Tuesday, he said he was "sounding an alarm."
The CDC urged hospital workers to watch for the infections and take steps to prevent passing the germs to other patients.
The report did not include better-known superbugs like the staph infection MRSA or the intestinal bug known as C-diff, which have plagued hospitals.
It focused on the superbugs that have emerged from one specific bacteria group. At least five of the 70 kinds in that family have developed resistance to a class of antibiotic called carbapenems ? considered one of the last lines of defense against hard-to-treat bugs.
Some of those bacteria seem to have terrifying potential. Among them: Klebsiella pneumoniae, a bug that killed at least seven patients at a federal research hospital in Bethesda, Md.; and those made resistant by a gene called NDM-1, named for New Delhi.
The bacteria usually live harmlessly in the gut but can cause pneumonia, and urinary tract and bloodstream infections if they get into other parts of the bodies of patients with weakened immune systems. As many as half the patients who get the bloodstream infections die, Srinivasan said.
However, CDC did not provide figures on deaths attributed to these superbugs.
In 2001, U.S. hospitals reported that only 1 percent of samples from the bacterial family were resistant to the antibiotic carbapenems. By 2011, it had risen to 4 percent.
It was more of an issue in the nation's 400 specialized, long-term hospitals ? 18 percent of them reported seeing such a superbug. The Northeast had the most, followed by the South.
U.S. health officials are keeping a close eye on the NDM-1 superbugs, which first showed up in India in 2010 and have been seen as more of a concern in other parts of the world. Of the 30 cases in the U.S., about half have been reported since July, including eight patients at a Denver hospital.
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