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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
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Cushion plants help other plants survive
Feb. 18, 2013 ? Alpine cushion plants help other plants in harsh mountain environments to survive. This is shown by new research involving researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, the results of which are now being publishing in the journal Ecology Letters.
Cushion plants are a type of plant found in areas such as Arctic environments, and are characterised by their distinctive, round, cushion-like shape.
A new study highlights the strong interaction between cushion plants and other plants in the most severe of mountain environments.
"Cushion plants create additional viable living environments for other species, and are therefore important keystone species that provide the fundamental conditions required for greater biodiversity in the most extreme alpine environments," explains Robert Bj?rk, ecologist and researcher at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Earth Sciences.
The studies show that these cushion plants create protective environments in the most inhospitable places for plants on earth for those species that are less tolerant to stress.
"We have shown that the more severe an environment is, the more cushion plants do to counteract the reduction in phylogenetic diversity. This relationship would not have been discovered if we not succeeded in discerning the interaction between plants."
The researchers have studied 77 alpine plant communities on five continents. The cushion-like plant form has evolved more than 50 independent occasions in the higher plants' evolutionary history, and can now be found in all major alpine, sub-Antarctic and Arctic regions around the world.
"If you compare the relationship between the species in the studied global species pool, cushion plants create even more phylogenetically unique plant communities the harsher the environments become, compared to the plant communities found in the adjacent open ground."
The research has been partly financed through Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate (BECC), a strategic research area initiated by the Swedish Government.
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- B. J. Butterfield, L. A. Cavieres, R. M. Callaway, B. J. Cook, Z. Kikvidze, C. J. Lortie, R. Michalet, F. I. Pugnaire, C. Sch?b, S. Xiao, B. Zaitchek, F. Anthelme, R. G. Bj?rk, K. Dickinson, R. Gavil?n, R. Kanka, J.-P. Maalouf, J. Noroozi, R. Parajuli, G. K. Phoenix, A. Reid, W. Ridenour, C. Rixen, S. Wipf, L. Zhao, R. W. Brooker. Alpine cushion plants inhibit the loss of phylogenetic diversity in severe environments. Ecology Letters, 2013; DOI: 10.1111/ele.12070
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Monday, February 18, 2013
Man charged in killings of 2 women in Missouri
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ? A Kansas City-area man was arrested Saturday in the killings of two prostitutes whose bodies were found posed on the side of rural Missouri roads nearly a year apart.
At a news conference Saturday night, authorities said Derek Richardson, 27, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of abandonment of a corpse. His bail is set at $2 million. It wasn't immediately known whether he has an attorney.
"We absolutely stopped a person who was going to kill again," said Kansas City police Sgt. Doug Niemeier, adding that authorities will search across the United States to ensure there weren't other victims.
"We do know that he had travels elsewhere," Niemeier said, "so we will be contacting those states just to make sure."
Police announced earlier this month that the deaths of Tamara Sparks and Nicoleone Reed were linked and asked the public for help. Police said they believed whoever was responsible for the deaths also was the person who lost a size 11, canvas, Crocs-brand shoe at the site where Sparks' body was found.
Niemeier said a tipster contacted police Thursday night because of the description of the shoe.
"Basically the tip was to say he was the one and the shoe was what really matched it," Niemeier said.
Police began trailing Richardson and arrested him late Saturday morning. Niemeier said Richardson confessed to the "intimate details of the crime" and that he didn't know the victims beforehand.
Sparks, 40, was found dead Oct. 4, 2011, on the far northeast side of Kansas City, and Reed, 24, was found Aug. 21 in rural Kearney, northeast of Kansas City. Both bodies were in spots where they could easily be seen, with their pants pulled down and shirts pulled up.
Both women were last seen on St. John Avenue near Independence Avenue in northeast Kansas City, where they worked as prostitutes, police said.
Earlier this month, police said a third woman, who lived on the same street where Sparks and Reed were last seen, was found dumped in late 2011 along the side of a road in Caldwell County, southeast of Cameron. She survived. But authorities didn't say Saturday if her case was connected.
"We have a tremendous amount of follow-up to do now that we have answered some of our own questions," Niemeier said, adding that it "feels good when you can tell a victim's family that their case has been resolved."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/man-charged-killings-2-women-missouri-024711289.html
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Pirate Bay Proxy Crowdfunds Legal Fight Against Hollywood Group ...
Pirate Bay Proxy Crowdfunds Legal Fight Against Hollywood Group
Hollywood?s war against The Pirate Bay website continues in Europe with yet another legal battle. Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN is taking the operator of the popular proxy site Kuiken.co to court, demanding the shutdown of the service as well as a ban on encouraging others to circumvent court-ordered blockades. Tristan, the operator of the proxy, is prepared to fight in court and is running a crowdfunding project to support his legal battle.
In the Netherlands and several other countries these blockades are supposed prevent the majority of the public from accessing the infamous BitTorrent site.
However, thus far the blockades haven?t been very effective. Instead, they caused a traffic shift from the main Pirate Bay site to the many proxies out there.
These proxies render the court orders useless.
In an attempt to take these proxies offline, Hollywood backed anti-piracy group BREIN asked the court to declare them unlawful. Over the past month the group obtained injunctions against several proxy sites, and have used these to convince dozens of others to shut down.
Facing thousands of euros in penalties most Dutch proxy owners, including the local Pirate Party, were quick to throw in the towel. But not all have done so. Tristan, the owner of several proxies including Kuiken.co sails on for now, despite two preliminary injunctions.
?I ran a proxy long before BREIN got the court rulings against the major ISPs,? Tristan tells TorrentFreak. However, when the court order was handed down BREIN wanted Tristan to stop.
?After the court order they started to harass me with their minor successes in censoring the Dutch Internet. They wanted me to cooperate since they had some court rulings in their favor.?
These demands were soon followed by an ex-parte injunction against the operator, who has now been sued as he continues to allow people to bypass the ISP blockades.
In their complaint BREIN wants the proxy operator to shut down his site Kuiken.co. In addition, they want the court to prevent him from linking to other proxies or encouraging the public to access The Pirate Bay in any other way.
The anti-piracy group argues that The Pirate Bay is willingly facilitating copyright infringement, and profiting from it. Since the Kuiken.co proxy is a one-on-one copy of The Pirate Bay is has to be stopped as well.
On the other hand, Tristan believes that access to information should be free. He is therefore prepared to go to court and has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to support this effort.
The crowdfunding campaign
?In the short run I hope to win this court case since it could create a precedent for similar sites, and defend people?s right to access information. It would most definitely prevent further censorship by private organizations,? Tristan tells us.
?I won?t step back for copyright monopolies who want to stay in the stone age forever, as long as it?s good for them. I believe we have the right to protect ourselves against tyranny, and as a pacifist information is my weapon of choice,? he adds.
Thus far the campaign has already raised nearly 5,000 euros thanks to a feature on the popular Dutch blog Geenstijl. This should be nearly enough to start building a defense, but more donations are welcomed by the proxy owner.
Tristan has chosen lawyer Mark Krul of Wisemen Solicitors to represent him in court. Krul is also working on the appeal of the Dutch Pirate Party, who were previously ordered to stop hosting or linking to Pirate Bay proxies.
Thus far the Dutch courts haven?t been very receptive of the arguments of those who say the Pirate Bay should remain accessible, but that won?t prevent Tristan from fighting.
?We shouldn?t condone censorship in any way. In the long run I hope we will have real freedom of communication,? Tristan says.
Source: http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-proxy-crowdfunds-legal-fight-against-hollywood-group-130217/
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
Fire breaks out at new grounds of football club
Fire breaks out at new grounds of football club
8:50am Sunday 17th February 2013 in Basildon
A FIRE broke out at the new grounds of a football club where several fuel drums exploded.
The blaze started in a tearoom and metal storage container belonging to Wickford Football Club.
Fire crews were called to the scene at about 10.42pm and spent an hour tackling the blaze.
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'Nation' Editor: Rubio 'Not Ready for Prime Time'
This week, we asked editor and publisher of The Nation and frequent "This Week" roundtable guest Katrina vanden Heuvel to answer five questions.
1) What was your reaction to seeing Sen. Marco Rubio grab a bottle of water as he was giving the Republican response to the State of the Union? He must have known how that would appear, no?
What I saw on Tuesday night was yet another Republican "savior" who is not ready for prime time. Doing TV isn't easy - in some ways you have to feel for him over the water bottle. But really he's lucky, because what we all should have been talking about was Rubio's vote Tuesday to oppose the Violence Against Women Act. The idea, in 2013, that anyone could vote against the Violence Against Women Act and still be considered a serious national political figure is ridiculous and should be the headline. Instead we're talking about water bottles.
2) Should bipartisan legislation actually pass to overhaul the nation's immigration system, does that help shift Latino votes away from Democrats and toward the GOP at the polls in 2014?
It could win some votes in the short term, but long-term the Republican Party will need to go much further, particularly on economic issues, to capture Latino voters long term. I'm more concerned about the legislation itself, and whether it goes far enough to meet the needs of guest workers and other groups whose fate is muddled in the current legislation. President Obama can also draw distinctions with the GOP by taking action by executive order on issues that would never pass congress, like ending the deportation of undocumented parents immediately.
3) What do you make of all the talk about Gov. Chris Christie's size? Is his weight a legitimate concern for voters if he decides to make a run for the White House in 2016?
Like Gail Collins, I welcome Chris Christie's candidacy as a possible renaissance for William Howard Taft biographies. But seriously, Chris Christie should be far more concerned about the foreclosure rate in New Jersey and the impacts of his austerity cuts. His policies will prove far more damaging to his candidacy than his weight.
4) Former vice president and environmental activist Al Gore has received has received some flack for selling Current TV to Al Jazeera. Does the sale bother you?
I think we need more good journalism and investigative reporting on our airwaves, period. Al Jazeera English has played host to some intelligent discussions, which we need more of. If they can use this as an opportunity to bring more investigative reporting, long-form journalism and informed debate to the airwaves, then we should all welcome them to the arena. (By the way, I thought Time-Warner cable showed political and journalistic cowardice by dropping Current because of the Al Jazeera deal.)
5) The last few years have been tough for many print publications. In December, Newsweek stopped producing a print edition. Do you expect that "The Nation" will reach a point when it will follow suit?
Never! The Nation turns 150 in 2015. We've survived I think, for 150 years by staying truly independent, and by filling our pages with unfiltered takes on politics and culture. Magazines of opinion like The Nation continue to matter because they are a critical counterforce against the tabloidization, consolidation, dumbing-down and fact-challenged "debate" that dominates our political culture.
Today The Nation is now available weekly on more than a dozen digital platforms with more than 1.1 million readers. We have more print subscribers today than we did a decade ago, and we firmly believe - as our readers do - that the printed word is an essential part of the mix.
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