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You may not know about TestFlight if you're used to running apps rather than building them, but odds are that you know its effects when over 300,000 iOS apps have reached testers that hopefully caught bugs in advance. That makes the launch of a private Android beta something of an event, as it gives developers the same simple feedback and provisioning for pre-release apps. Coders who split their time between both Android and iOS also get a truly cross-platform management console as part of the expansion. There's no set date for when the beta expires, but TestFlight eventually plans to offer its utility directly through the Google Play Store -- and might just keep the Android app train rolling smoothly.
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FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2010 file photo, shark fin soup is displayed at a restaurant in Hong Kong. China's suppliers of shark fin, abalone, pricey liquor and other luxury items have been taking a beating since new leader Xi Jinping ordered officials to cut out lavish living. The Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, that business for high-end caterers in Beijing has plunged 35 percent since Xi's order two months ago. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2010 file photo, shark fin soup is displayed at a restaurant in Hong Kong. China's suppliers of shark fin, abalone, pricey liquor and other luxury items have been taking a beating since new leader Xi Jinping ordered officials to cut out lavish living. The Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, that business for high-end caterers in Beijing has plunged 35 percent since Xi's order two months ago. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
BEIJING (AP) ? China's suppliers of shark fin, abalone, pricey liquor and other luxury items have been taking a beating since new leader Xi Jinping ordered officials to cut out lavish living.
The Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday that business for high-end caterers in Beijing has plunged 35 percent since Xi's order two months ago.
Xi, who took power in November as Communist Party general secretary, ordered the elimination of banquets and other pomp that has alienated a public that is struggling with high living costs.
During last week's Lunar New Year holiday, sales of shark fin soup at Beijing hotels plunged 70 percent, the ministry said. Sales of abalone and bird's nest soup fell 40 percent.
Makers of expensive liquor have seen sales weaken, and some have cut prices by up to 30 percent.
At a December meeting of the all-powerful Politburo, Xi ordered that arrangements for leaders' visits and the trappings of power be drastically pared back. Under the orders, elaborate welcoming ceremonies are to be eliminated, traffic disruptions avoided, and staid, often worthless reporting on the doings of the leadership dispensed with.
He later called for people to be more frugal and avoid excess following a "Clear the Plate" campaign by netizens calling on restaurants to cut down food waste. His words sparked an anti-food waste campaign in state media and an order by the country's TV watchdog that all radio and television channels cut advertising promoting the culture of giving luxury watches, rare stamps and gold coins ? a practice often associated with corruption.
Bearing the brunt of Xi's austerity drive, government officials and state-owned companies reportedly canceled their Lunar New Year banquets at luxury hotels this year.
The anti-waste campaign also extends to the military. The Chinese People's Liberation Army issued an order this week that leftovers be better used, the official Xinhua News Agency said Wednesday.
The report cited the new measures as saying unfinished rice and other dishes should be re-cooked into fried rice with eggs, while leftover vegetables be pickled or made into appetizers.
The measures also forbid the ordering of luxury dishes at military receptions and ban hotels run by the army from imposing minimum spending requirements for their events, Xinhua said.
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Feb. 18, 2013 ? Sophisticated computer modelling has shown how sea-level rise over the coming century could affect some regions far more than others. The model shows that parts of the Pacific will see the highest rates of rise while some polar regions will actually experience falls in relative sea levels due to the ways sea, land and ice interact globally.
Reporting in the journal Geophysical Research Letters researchers have looked ahead to the year 2100 to show how ice loss will continue to add to rising sea levels. Scientists have known for some time that sea level rise around the globe will not be uniform, but in this study the team of ice2sea researchers show in great detail the global pattern of sea-level rise that would result from two scenarios of ice-loss from glaciers and ice sheets.
The team, from Italy's University of Urbino and the UK's University of Bristol, found that ice melt from glaciers, and the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, is likely to be of critical importance to regional sea-level change in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean where the sea level rise would be greater than the average increase across the globe. This will affect in particular, Western Australia, Oceania and the small atolls and islands in this region, including Hawaii.
The study focussed on three effects that lead to global mean sea-level rise being unequally distributed around the world. Firstly, land is subsiding and emerging due to a massive loss of ice at the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago when billions of tons of ice covering parts of North America and Europe melted. This caused a major redistribution of mass on Earth, but the crust responds to such changes so slowly that it is still deforming. Secondly, the warming of the oceans leads to a change in the distribution of water across the globe. Thirdly the sheer mass of water held in ice at the frozen continents like Antarctica and Greenland exerts a gravitational pull on the surrounding liquid water, pulling in enormous amounts of water and raising the sea-level close to those continents. As the ice melts its pull decreases and the water previously attracted rushes away to be redistributed around the globe.
Co-author Professor Giorgio Spada says, "In the paper we are successful in defining the patterns, known as sea level fingerprints, which affect sea levels.
"This is paramount for assessing the risk due to inundation in low-lying, densely populated areas. The most vulnerable areas are those where the effects combine to give the sea-level rise that is significantly higher than the global average."
He added that in Europe the sea level would rise but it would be slightly lower than the global average.
"We believe this is due to the effects of the melting polar ice relatively close to Europe -- particularly Greenland's ice. This will tend to slow sea-level rise in Europe a little, but at the expense of higher sea-level rise elsewhere."
The team considered two scenarios in its modelling. One was the "most likely" or "mid-range" and the other closer to the upper limit of what could happen.
Professor Spada said, "The total rise in some areas of the equatorial oceans worst affected by the terrestrial ice melting could be 60cm if a mid-range sea-level rise is projected, and the warming of the oceans is also taken into account." David Vaughan, ice2sea programme coordinator, says, "In the last couple of years programmes like ice2sea have made great strides in predicting global average sea-level rise. The urgent job now is to understand how global the sea-level rise will be shared out around the world's coastlines. Only by doing this can we really help people understand the risks and prepare for the future."
Co-author Jonathan Bamber, of Bristol University, says, "This is the first study to examine the regional pattern of sea level changes using sophisticated model predictions of the wastage of glaciers and ice sheets over the next century."
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DETROIT ? Imagine a city with open space larger than the size of Paris, where people are planting hardwood trees and vegetable gardens, and neighbours have plenty of room to spread out.
It would sound so idyllic, if only it weren?t Detroit.
The open space is largely abandoned land, the lack of neighbors the result of an inexorable exodus, the planting the work of residents striving to stop the blight from spreading.
America loves a big comeback, but Detroiters harbor few illusions. For many here, it?s about salvaging what remains of a once-great city.
At the Detroit Auto Show earlier this month, luxury was in the air. Pricey new Bentleys and Maseratis glittered ? including a Maserati 2014 Quattroporte with a $132,000 price tag; U.S. Cabinet Secretaries and dignitaries rubbed shoulders; and many of the well-heeled attendees ponied up for a $300-a-ticket black-tie charity ball.
But in a city that is slowly dying, the glitz didn?t extend much beyond the Cobo Center exhibition hall.
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Throughout its long decline, Detroit has sought ways to restore to its former glory a city that was home to 1.8 million people, pinning its hopes on grandiose plans for the automotive industry or casinos.
With just 700,000 people left, ambitions are now focused on making less populated neighborhoods viable and repurposing land, perhaps for urban farming. Where the cash-strapped city can?t provide, grassroots groups and investors help fill the gaps.
?What everyone wants is new neighbours,? said Khalil Ligon, project manager for the Lower East Side Action Plan (LEAP), a nonprofit focused on some 15 square miles of the city where 55,000 people live. ?But where are you going to get them??
The falling population is one of Detroit?s biggest problems. Detroit Future City, a planning blueprint, assumes just 600,000 residents. Launched by Mayor Dave Bing, the plan aims to revamp the economy and use empty space. The Kresge Foundation, started by the Detroit family behind retail giant Kmart, has promised US$150-million toward the project.
?It?s certainly the most realistic plan the city has ever had,? said Margaret Dewar, a University of Michigan planning professor in Ann Arbor.
Neighbourhood groups are also pitching in. Dave Szymanski, deputy treasurer for Wayne County, which includes Detroit, says ?we?ve never seen this much energy at the grassroots level.?
Though the lack of jobs remains the root cause of the city?s problems, Detroit?s downtown is enjoying something of a business revival led by mortgage lender Quicken Loans, whose owner and fellow business leaders are financing all but US$25-million of a US$140-million streetcar line.
Still, unemployment is stubbornly high at around 18%, more than twice the rate for the country as a whole.
HOMES, AND HOPES, FORECLOSED
Reinventing a struggling city is a tall order. Finances are so fragile that Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, a Republican, may soon appoint an emergency financial manager to take over Detroit?s accounts. Such a manager could in turn recommend that the city file for bankruptcy, which would be the largest ever Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy in the United States.
In a desperate effort to avoid that fate, the Bing administration has cut spending, laid off city employees, and cut wages and benefits for the rest. Bing says cash flow is now stable, but Detroit needs investment by the state to thrive.
?We cannot cut our way of this situation,? Bing told Reuters. ?We?ve got to talk about growth.?
Governor Snyder says Detroit?s main problem is its finances and stresses that he wants to focus investment on transportation and other projects that will help the local economy. ?I don?t want to forget the people in the neighbourhoods.?
Bing?s revival plan will end up in the hands of the emergency manager, should one be appointed. ?If the emergency manager buys into the long-term vision of the plan, it has a chance. But if their brief is just to cut costs and services, it doesn?t have a chance,? said Dewar, the University of Michigan professor.
We cannot cut our way of this situation. We?ve got to talk about growth
Already, police services have been cut back in the city, especially in less populated areas. Some precincts have been merged and are closed, or are in ?virtual mode? overnight ? there?s a number to call.
The number of murders per 100,000 people in Detroit in 2012 put the city?s murder rate at around 10 times the national average. Even so, says Bing, persuading people in mostly deserted areas to move to denser areas, where there is ?safety in numbers,? is a challenge.
The population continues in flux because of another acute problem for Detroit ? the foreclosure crisis. As many as 42,000 of Detroit?s estimated 380,000 homes could go to auction this fall.
The ongoing decline of poor neighbourhoods while downtown revives points to the sensitive subject of race, in a city that is 83% black and has lived through race riots in the 1940s and 1960s.
Poor services and the possibility that a state-appointed manager will take over the city have fuelled frustration among African Americans, community leaders say.
?It is one thing to feel ignored, it is another to feel betrayed,? said Pastor D. Alexander Bullock of Rev. Jesse Jackson?s Rainbow PUSH Coalition. ?Once people lose faith in the process, the only response will be to destroy it.?
PLANTING AGAINST POLLUTION
Driving around Detroit?s emptier areas, blocks with one house or a few homes left are a common sight. But they are often well maintained, with cut grass and potted plants out front: No matter how many people have left, for those that remain this is still home.
There are also an estimated 2,000 city gardens, which environmental activist Shea Howell says popped up years before the idea of urban farming surfaced. ?They are operated extra-legally or illegally, but the city has bigger things to worry about than going after someone raising a few chickens,? she said.
Kirk Mayes of the Brightmoor Alliance, in one of the city?s poorest areas, says there are 200 community gardens in Brightmoor alone.
As farming is imagined for Detroit?s future, abandoned land would provide fruit and vegetables to the city?s inhabitants, for whom fresh food is often not accessible because grocery stores are few and far between.
City and county officials have no hard figures on the number of empty plots and abandoned homes, and estimates vary wildly, going as high as 100,000. ?What?s clear is we have space for a million people who are no longer there,? Szymanski said.
Much of that land could revert to scrub land or, as part of Detroit Future City?s vision, become ?blue-green? corridors to reduce pollution and help drainage in a city with an inadequate, ancient sewer system that cannot handle storm water.
Hantz Farms is a recent addition to the cityscape. Backed by John Hantz, a local investor, the group won city approval to buy 140 acres of land, or 1,500 parcels, for $600,000. The group plans to plant 15,000 hardwood trees that will take 40 to 60 years to mature before harvest. The parcels where trees will be planted are in sparsely populated neighborhoods and will often not be contiguous. Hantz Farms originally wanted to plant fruit and vegetables, but local inhabitants worried about rodents.
Local activists opposed the deal, saying it was a land grab aimed at driving up property values by making land scarce, thus also driving up property taxes for the woodland?s poor neighbours and forcing people out.
?People have an accurate historical memory that every single development scheme here has benefited the wealthy and harmed the poor,? said Howell, the environmental activist.
Michael Score, president of Hantz Farms, argues the land the group will buy failed to sell at auction for a few hundred dollars, ?so it?s unclear how this is a land grab.?
Score said neighbours of the group?s test site have been delighted that they have cleaned up the trash (illegal dumping is a chronic problem in poor areas) and planted trees.
?Once people see we keep our promise to clean up and plant trees, they will push for more ambitious plans,? he said.
In January, Hantz knocked down a long-abandoned home on one of its parcels next to Ruth Mucha, 81, which had attracted squatters. ?It?s so peaceful now all that trash has gone,? she said.
?STOP THE BLEEDING?
For the city to have any hope of a viable future, it needs to stop the exodus of people. Ted Phillips is fighting that battle house to house.
At the United Community Housing Coalition (UCHC), a local nonprofit, Phillips works to get loans to people who are on the verge of losing their homes to foreclosures. He can do it often with just a few hundred dollars.
Unlike most of the rest of the country, foreclosures in Detroit are largely not related to mortgage delinquency but rather to nonpayment of property taxes. In 2011, Wayne County had to write off US$170-million in property taxes owed Detroit.
?It all adds up to a lost city, goddammit,? said Phillips. ?Setting aside the need for jobs, schools and services here, we just have to stop the bleeding.?
Phillips says this could be done relatively cheaply using federal aid, because instead of owing tens of thousands of dollars on a mortgage, most homeowners owe a few hundred or a few thousand dollars in property taxes.
Arthur Barnes, 72, ran out of money to pay property taxes on his small home in southwest Detroit last year. He borrowed US$600 from UCHC to help avoid foreclosure and has already paid it back.
Even with the blight, the rising crime and the loss of neighbors, Barnes is here to stay.
?I was all right until I got without money,? said Barnes, wiping tears from his eyes. ?I felt lost. I?m so happy I get to keep my home.?
? Thomson Reuters 2013
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