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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

FeedaMail: AP Top Science News At 5:38 p.m. EDT

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Israel researcher: Elusive Biblical blue found

JERUSALEM (AP) -- An Israeli researcher says she has identified a nearly 2,000-year old textile that may contain a mysterious blue dye described in the Bible, one of the few remnants of the ancient color ever found....

California marks 2013 as historically dry year

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- In a large swath of California, 2013 is closing out as the driest year on record, marked by above-normal temperatures and thirsty reservoirs....

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Monday, December 30, 2013

FeedaMail: Animal of the day

Animal of the day

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Afghan Pika - Living High Off The Land

The Afghan pika (Ochotona rufescens), a terrestrial animal, is known for its adaptability to high altitudes. Native to the mountains of the Middle East, this mammal can be found specifically in Pakistan, Iran and its namesake, Afghanistan. The mammal is also indigenous to Armenia and Turkmenistan. Its habitat is rocky desert but is also found in temperate forests and burrowed in dry fields without stones.

These lagomorphs are small and oval-shaped, with males and females similar in size and weight. Its body is generally grey and brown, with tinges of cream coloring during summer months and heavy brown fur in winter. Eyes are widely set to offer a broad field of vision. The average weight is less than 500 grams (17.6 ounces) while average length ranges from 120 to 300 millimeters (4.7 to 11.8 inches.) Ears are round and large for its body, growing as long as 1.4 inches (36 millimeters). In contrast, both its head and legs are short and its tail barely visible. Because of poor heat dissipation and high body temperatures, the pika easily adapts to cold environments.

Unlike rodents, which have one pair of upper incisors, the Afghan pika has an additional set of upper teeth, but this extra pair is not sharp. Its diet consists of plants native to a dry habitat, including thistles. Pikas will also consume fresh feces to re-digest nutrients. The species has been known to damage orchards and agricultural crops in search of vegetation. Plants are stacked and dried in piles for future use. Although they tend to steal bedding and food from each other, pikas work in small groups to watch for predators, including birds of prey and other mammals. Warnings are emitted through sharp whistles.

Breeding season runs from mid-March to late September with a short gestation period. Newborn pikas are born blind and helpless and either hairless or slightly furred. Weaned after 22 days, pikas become adults within seven weeks of birth. Females can therefore become pregnant fairly young. The average litter ranges from five to seven, with as many as five litters per year. Rock dwellers live longer than their burrowing counterparts, up to seven years versus just two. With a stable population, the Afghan pika may have a population up to 70 per 10,000 square miles.

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Feds announces test sites for drone aircraft

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The Federal Aviation Administration has chosen six states to develop test sites for drones, a critical next step for the unmanned aircraft's march into U.S. skies....

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How to View Complete Message Headers in Mozilla Thunderbird

Some 30 years before she was elected prime minister, a chemist helped concoct particularly smooth ice cream (made by whipping in air) for the caterer J. Lyons & Co.
This kind of anecdote—about Margaret Thatcher in this case, possibly but not certainly true—is possibly not what you will find in the email headers normally hidden by Mozilla Thunderbird; certainly, though, it can whip up, say, an email's itinerary to you through air, land and sea (as seen in Received: lines):
›› An email's headers keep track and save information. They include the sender's email setup or the path the message has covered, for instance. Here's how to access all message headers in Mozilla Thunderbird.

How to Archive Messages in Zoho Mail

Some are more than 300, most around roughly 50 and all .1 million years old at least: whichever piece of amber you pick up, it has archived well a tree's resin for quite a while.
Let's see for what while Zoho Mail can keep mail fresh and whole; we can start archiving now at least:
›› Want to keep emails for the long haul in an organized fashion and move them out of your current ways easily and fast? In Zoho Mail, you can archive messages for reference and keep the inbox and folders you use daily operating speedily.

How to View A Message's Full Headers in Evolution

There's Ford hill, Sand beds and Ambler thorn; above all Scarlet heights.
Picturesque at day, the route from Old Dolphin inn just outside Queensbury to the Boothtown area of Halifax is perilous at night. At two left turns, the hill drops sharply to the right of Queensbury road. Fortunately, tramway tracks just by the road reflect headlights with their always wheel-polished metal and allow one to see the end of the road—if not much else in the oft-foggy dark of West-Yorkshire's height.
Yes, a story (at least one) does loom behind the road and headlights. For now, though, let us see if we cannot venture beyond the few header lines—sender, subject,...—usually visible in Evolution:
›› Desire (or need) to learn more about an email's details than Evolution normally shows? You need not consult the message sources. Instead, make Evolution display the full headers (including Received: lines, mailing list information and spam filters' output, for instance) in place of the usual assortment.

From the Archives: What is Backscatter?

The snow is white, but the night is dark. So you use your flash.
The pictures look great, of course; specks of blown-out white littered all over the place lend an aery touch to the wintery scene.
Often, backscatter—light from a strobe reflected right back into the camera's lens by particles such as snowflakes—is something shunned, though, and removed later with spot editing or maybe a noise filter.
With email, backscatter is usually unwanted—and hopefully filtered away—as well:
›› When a spammer masquerades as you, delivery failure messages—and spam—called backscatter can show up in your inbox.

Sunday, December 29, 2013

FeedaMail: BBC News - US

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US jobless to lose unemployment aid

One million Americans will lose their unemployment benefits, after US lawmakers failed to reach a deal on an extension of the federal aid plan.

The end of a Deep South way of life

The people saying goodbye to a Deep South way of life

Benghazi attack: 'No al-Qaeda role'

Al-Qaeda had no direct involvement in the September 2012 attack on the US mission in Benghazi that killed the US ambassador, the New York Times reports.

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Saturday, December 28, 2013

FeedaMail: BBC News - US

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Newtown shooting report 'painful'

US police release thousands of documents tied to their probe into a Connecticut school shooting, during which 26 people died last December.

The food co-op where shoppers are happy to work

The grocery store where university professors stock vegetables

Nine-year-old climbs Argentine peak

A nine-year-old boy from California, Tyler Armstrong, becomes the youngest person to reach the summit of Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Americas.

Libya detains US military personnel

The US says Libyan authorities have detained four American military personnel, adding that the reasons for the arrests are unclear.

VIDEO: Nine-year-old scales Argentine peak

A nine-year-old boy from the United States has become the youngest person to reach the summit of Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas.

India steps up US diplomatic row

India is checking the tax status of Americans working at schools in the country, amid ongoing row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York.

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