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Saturday, December 24, 2011
iMame arcade emulator yanked from the App Store
iMame has been taken out of the App Store by Apple as fast and stealthily as it originally appeared. The app first made its official appearance earlier this week and we thought then that it could be leading a bit of a charmed life. Mame is...
Monday, December 19, 2011
Controversial Vanity Fair Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies at 62 (omg!)
Controversial writer Christopher Hitchens, whose works slammed religion as well as such public figures as Mother Teresa and Henry Kissinger, has died, according to the Vanity Fair. He was 62.
Hitchens, who was a contributing editor to the magazine for nearly two decades, died of pneumonia at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston after a long battle with esophageal cancer.
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"Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from, dare I say it, God," Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter wrote. "You'd be hard-pressed to find a writer who could match the volume of exquisitely crafted columns, essays, articles, and books he produced over the past four decades."
Born in Portsmouth, England, Hitchens studied at Oxford before writing for the left-wing magazine The New Statesman. He eventually moved to the U.S. and in the 1990s began appearing on cable television where he famously criticized then-president Bill Clinton. In 1992, he joined Vanity Fair, where he wrote controversial essays about such high-profile people as Michael Moore, Mel Gibson, George W. Bush and Mother Teresa. In a 2004 piece for Slate about Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, Hitchens wrote, "Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of 'dissenting' bravery."
Hitchens also wrote many books, including the 2007 bestseller, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. The author published his final collection, Arguably, this past September.
Hitchens, who was married twice, is survived by his three children.
Watch a recent interview with Hitchens:
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Apple's A5 Processors Are Made on a $3.6 Billion Samsung Production Line—in Texas [Apple]
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Cement plant near Mojave to pay EPA fine
A CalPortland cement plant near the high desert community of Mojave has agreed to pay a fine of $1.4 million and spend $1.3 million on equipment needed to reduce emissions of pollutants that cause asthma and generate smog, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday.
The penalties were part of a settlement that capped an investigation by the EPA and the U.S. Department of Justice into the CalPortland Co. facility, one of the largest emitters of nitrogen oxide pollution in California.
"This is one of the biggest fines against a cement facility," said Jared Blumenfeld, the EPA's regional administrator for the Pacific Southwest. "It comes at a time when the EPA is focusing on cement production as a sector which can make significant improvements in air quality nationwide."CalPortland Vice President Scott Isaacson said, "We've chosen to settle this matter and we are not going to quarrel with EPA. Our focus will be implementation and resolution of the settlement, a process that will unfold over the next few years."
The 58-year-old plant employs 130 people and is one of the largest businesses in the unincorporated community of about 4,000 people best known as home to the Mojave Air and Space Port, a campus of more than 60 companies engaged in aerospace development, manufacturing and flight testing.
The EPA probe revealed that CalPortland made significant modifications at the plant that increased emissions of nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide without first obtaining a pre-construction permit and installing pollution control equipment required by the Clean Air Act. The company also failed to submit accurate and complete permit applications, the EPA said.
The settlement ensures that the proper equipment will be installed to reduce annual pollution by at least 1,200 tons of nitrogen oxide and 360 tons of sulfur dioxide, said Ignacio S. Moreno, assistant attorney general for the environmental and natural resources division of the Department of Justice.
The plant, about 95 miles northeast of Los Angeles in Kern County, now emits about 3,200 tons of nitrogen oxides and 1,200 tons of sulfur dioxide per year, the EPA said.
CalPortland has one year to install and operate emission controls for nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide, the EPA said.
Nitrogen oxides are linked to health problems, visual impairment and asthma. Sulfur dioxide, in high concentrations, can affect breathing and aggravate existing respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
louis.sahagun@latimes.com
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Rapid rise in wildfires in large parts of Canada? Ecologists find threshold values for natural wildfires
ScienceDaily (Dec. 16, 2011) ? Large forest regions in Canada are apparently about to experience rapid change. Based on models, scientists can now show that there are threshold values for wildfires just like there are for epidemics. Large areas of Canada are apparently approaching this threshold value and may in future exceed it due to climate change.
As a result both the area burnt down annually and the average size of the fires would increase, write the researchers of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the University of Michigan in the December issue of the journal The American Naturalist. The strategies for combating wildfires in large parts of Canada should therefore be reconsidered.
According to media reports, after weeks of drought around 1,000 hectares of forest and scrubland were burnt down in the West Canadian province British Columbia in the summer of 2009 alone. 11,000 people had to be evacuated. Are such events on the rise as a result of climate change? This question is being hotly debated by ecologists all over the world. In July a group of US researchers led by Anthony Westerling of the University of California forecasted similar changes in the journal PNAS. They believe that climate change might result in a dramatic increase in the threat of wildfires in Yellowstone National Park and that the forests might disappear here in the 21st century.
Fires are an important factor in many terrestrial ecosystems. They are a result of the interaction of the weather, vegetation and land use, which makes them very sensitive to global change. "Changes in the wildfire regime have a significant impact on a local and global scale and therefore on the climate as well. It is therefore important to understand how the mechanisms which shape these wildfires work in order to be able to make predictions on what will change in future," explains PD Dr. Volker Grimm of the UFZ.
For their model, the scientists evaluated data from the Canadian Forest Service, which had recorded fires greater than 200 hectares between 1959 and 1999, and sorted these by ecozone. This showed that three of these ecozones in Canada are close to a turning point: the Hudson Plains south of the Hudson Bay, the Boreale Plains in the Mid-West the Boreale Shield, which stretches from the Mid-West to the East coast and is therefore the largest ecozone in Canada. The closest to a turning point is apparently the Boreale Shield. In order to check their model and the theory of a threshold value for wildfires, the scientists looked at the fires in this region more closely. Around 1980 the average size of the fires in this part of the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba tripled rapidly. "In our opinion this is a sign that there are also threshold values for forests above which the wildfire regime drastically changes," reports Volker Grimm. "It is likely that the Boreale Plains have in recent decades, particularly around 1980, experienced a change to a system characterised by wildfires. This has fundamental repercussions for the environment and the combating of wildfires. Small changes in the fire propagation parameters have a great impact on the size of the fires." Gradual changes, such as those which can be expected due to climate change, can therefore result in an abrupt and sharp increase in the size of the fires.
The scientists were also interested in the parallels with disease propagation. Prevention strategies, which reduce combustible material, are in a way similar to the vaccinations which are used against the spread of diseases such as the measles. Here too there is a threshold value above which a disease spreads and below which it falls. Other modellers from the UFZ were therefore able to turn this theoretical threshold value into a practical value. With foxes it was shown that only 60 per cent had to be vaccinated against rabies in order to successfully combat the disease. The scientists therefore hope to find out more in future studies which cover both disciplines.
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- Richard D. Zinck, Mercedes Pascual, Volker Grimm. Understanding Shifts in Wildfire Regimes as Emergent Threshold Phenomena. The American Naturalist, 2011; 178 (6): E149 DOI: 10.1086/662675
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Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111216084215.htm
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Unroll.me Kills Unwanted Email Subscriptions with the Click of a Button (and We've Got Invites) [Video]
Currently in beta, Unroll.me works with Gmail, Aol Mail, Windows Live Mail, and Yahoo! Mail. It crawls through your email inbox then presents you with a list of all your subscriptions. Select the ones you don't want to receive anymore, click Unsubscribe, and Unroll.me handles the rest.
In my test, Unroll.me found what seemed like a hundred subscriptions?some of which I don't even remember signing up for and others I've just been too lazy to unsubscribe to. (Hitting the unsubscribe link is better than hitting the spam button, by the way, if you actually did at some point allow that sender into your inbox; the spam button blacklists the email sender.) The service worked as promised: After checking off the ones I no longer wanted, I got email confirmations from those newsletters that I was unsubscribed. A few required further action (the sites, awfully, required a login for unsubscribing), so for those Unroll.me provided the link to take care of it.
One thing to note is that after clicking the fifth subscription you want to unsubscribe from, you'll be prompted to refer friends to unsubscribe to the rest in bulk. You can do the referral via email (5 friends), send a tweet, or post a Facebook message.
Lifehacker readers who use the link below will get priority for the beta invites. Unroll.me will be sending them out in batches, though, so please be patient. You'll be rewarded with a tidier inbox as a result.
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