Endangered South African Penguins Find Safety at California Academy of Sciences
October 8, 2010 No Comment
Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch The South African penguin is a much less well known species than the penguins adapted to cold climates like those of March of the Penguins status, the Emperor penguins. But for a rather unfortunate reasons, they’re hopefully about to get much more well known. The South African penguin species is now on the endangered species list. Their numbers have dipped down to just 52,000 left in the wild, and while the exact cause is still unknown, it is primarily thought that… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Inhabitat Even though California wasn’t able to pass its statewide tax on plastic bags, plenty of its municipalities have gone ahead and imposed bans or taxes anyways. They’re outlawed in cities like San Francisco and Fairfax, and many other cities — Los Angeles, San Jose, etc — are already forging their own bans. And that’s just California: Plastic bag bans are slated to take effect in just a few months in cities in Texas, Alaska, and Hawaii. It looks like the plastic shopping bag is on its way out — unless one group has its way. Yes, the for… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Well, it looks like Pantech may not be dropping AMOLED screens just yet after all — the company has just rolled out its new Laser slider on AT&T complete with, you guessed it, a 3.1-inch AMOLED display. Set to be available on October 17th, the phone is also the thinnest QWERTY slider available on AT&T at just 9.95 millimeters thick, but things unfortunately get decidedly less interesting from there. The Laser is simply a “quick messaging phone,” for starters, and you’ll only get AT&T’s own apps for navigation, social networking, and other basic tasks — though it does have a somewhat unique “Drawing Commander” feature that lets you draw shapes to make phone calls or launch apps. That doesn’t mean the Laser comes with quick messaging phone price, however — it’ll set you back $100 after a $50 mail-in rebate on a two-year contract (placing it right in line with some of AT&T’s newest mid-range Android phones ). Hit up the gallery below for a closer look, and head on past the break for the full press release. Gallery: Pantech Laser for AT&T Continue reading AT&T debuts slim, AMOLED-equipped Pantech Laser slider AT&T debuts slim, AMOLED-equipped Pantech Laser slider originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo via Amazon.com Perhaps this little insect is really perfect timing for Halloween, but it falls into our weird solar device category nonetheless. The black back of the cockroach sports a solar panel so it can wriggle around a surface, and easily freak out unsuspecting people who glance in its direction. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Chelsea Bay Wills It wouldn’t be the first time that researchers have claimed to solve the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) mystery . In fact, everything from CO2 confusing bees’ social structure to cell phone towers messing with bees’ navigation systems has been cited as a possible cause of CCD and mysterious honeybee declin… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Ca. Gov.: A Jerry Brown associate called Meg Whitman a whore . Brown seems to go along with the assessment; he definitely does not challenge the comment. … Months earlier, Whitman had agreed to exempt public safety officials from key parts of her pension reform plan. “Do we want to put an ad out? … That I have been warned if I crack down on pensions, I will be – that they’ll go to Whitman, and that’s where they’ll go because they know Whitman will give ‘em, will cut them …
Continue reading …g5man@rock.com on InlandPolitics: Derry not seeking Lewis seat; Iknownothing! on LATimes: An associate of Jerry Brown calls Meg Whitman a “whore ” over pension reform (AUDIO); Iknownothing! on InlandPolitics: A resemblance? …
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Oslo, Oct 8, (AP): Friday, October 08, 2010 –> Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for ”his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China” – a prize likely to enrage the Chinese government, which warned the Nobel committee not to honour him. The Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said Liu Xiaobo (LEE-o SHAo-boh) was…
Continue reading …Goodbye jobs and goodbye Democrats: The U.S. economy unexpectedly shed jobs in September for a fourth straight month as government payrolls fell and private hiring was less than expected, hardening expectations of further Federal Reserve action to spur the recovery. Nonfarm payrolls dropped 95,000, the Labor Department said on Friday. Private employment, a better gauge of labor market health, increased 64,000 after rising 93,000 in August. A total of 77,000 temporary jobs for the decennial census were terminated last month. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected overall payrolls would be unchanged, with private-sector hiring gaining 75,000. The government revised data for July and August to show 15,000 more jobs lost that previously reported. It also said its preliminary benchmark revision estimate indicated employment in the 12 months to March had been overstated by 366,000. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.6 percent in August. Why is it that every piece of economic news that comes out is “unexpected”?
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At Cisco’s CTIA press conference this week we got a chance to “experience” the Umi consumer video conferencing system , and it’s pretty much what you’d expect: FaceTime for your living room. Just bigger, wider, and with, well… more living room. The hardware consists of 3 parts: a camera unit, a set-top box, and an infrared remote. The camera is able to pan and zoom, and connects to the set-top box via two cables. The set-top box features connections for power, Ethernet, and both HDMI in and out (for passthrough) as well as optical audio out We also got a video demo of Umi Connect by Steve Sullivan, product manager at Cisco — it’s the online portal which handles your messages, videos, call history, and contacts. There’s also a “share” feature, for posting videos to Facebook and YouTube. Take a look at some video of Umi in action after the break, and please: remember to keep your pants on. Gallery: Cisco Umi hands-on Continue reading Cisco Umi hands-on Cisco Umi hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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