Tuesday, April 23, 2013

New calls to rename Higgs boson

One of the scientists who helped develop the theory of the Higgs boson says the particle should be renamed.

Carl Hagen believes the name should acknowledge the work of others - not just UK physicist Peter Higgs.

The long-running debate has been rekindled following speculation that this year's Nobel Prize for Physics will be awarded for the Higgs theory.

The detection of a particle thought to be the Higgs was announced at the Large Hadron Collider in June last year.

American Prof Hagen told BBC News: "I have always thought that the name was not a proper one.

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Peter Higgs was treated as something of a rock star and the rest of us were barely recognised. It was clear that Higgs was the dominant name because his name has become associated with the boson?

End Quote Prof Carl Hagen Rochester University, New York

"To single out one individual marginalises the contribution of others involved in the work. Although I did not start this campaign to change the name, I welcome it."

Prof Peter Higgs developed a theory of how other sub-atomic particles came to have substance, or mass, and published his work in 1964.

However, other researchers independently came up with similar ideas and they, along with Prof Higgs, have long argued for the name of the particle to be changed.

People have spoken of key contributions being made by Francois Englert, Peter Higgs, Gerald Guralnik, Tom Kibble, Robert Brout and Carl Hagen. Five spoke at a press conference last year to announce the discovery of a particle thought to be the Higgs, but it was only Prof Higgs who received a huge round of applause from the researchers present.

"Peter Higgs was treated as something of a rock star and the rest of us were barely recognised by most of the audience. It was clear that Higgs was the dominant name because of the fact his name has become associated with the boson," Prof Hagen told BBC World News.

A spokeswoman from Cern - which operates the Large Hadron Collider - told BBC News that it was not up to the laboratory to determine the name of newly discovered particles.

"Particles have generally been named by theorists who predict them, an example being the 'quark'; or by experimentalists who discover unpredicted particles such as the neutron," she said.

"In all cases, the name eventually takes on common usage and is accepted by the particle physics community, and nowadays by the Particle Data Group who refer to Higgs bosons."

At at a physics conference in March to discuss the discovery of the Higgs, researchers were encouraged to refer to the particle as the "SM Scalar Boson".

At the time, it was thought that this was because physicists wanted to be absolutely sure that the claimed particle really was the Higgs before naming it as such.

Although six theorists are connected with developing the theory of the Higgs, many scientists believe that naming the particle after all of these individuals would be too much of a mouthful. Even acronyms created from the names of all six are inelegant. An example would be "BEHGHK", which would be pronounced "berk".

Prof Hagen, who is affiliated to the University of Rochester, New York, suggests that it be called the Standard Model Scalar Meson, or SM Squared.

Nobel Prize

A maximum of just three individuals can be named as winners of a Nobel Prize.

Those winners also have to be alive, and the five scientists who developed the Higgs theory that are still eligible for the award are in their 70s and 80s. Prof Brout died in 2011.

There is therefore considerable pressure on the Nobel committee determining the physics prize to award it for the Higgs before potential winners die.

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Names are given to predicted particles, and eventually one name sticks. This shouldn't been seen as a slight on the others who also contributed to developing this theory?

End Quote Prof Jordan Nash Imperial College London

But which three? Prof Hagen believes all six credited with the theory should be recognised along with the huge team of scientists and engineers at the LHC.

"It is unfortunate that the Nobel committee's bylaws prevent this. I hope some way can be found around it. If not then we will have to live with whatever decision is made".

Prof Jordan Nash, also at Imperial College London and who is among those who helped detect and characterise the particle at the LHC last year, said it might be impractical to change the name at this stage.

"I think it is healthy that the scientific community is having a careful look at the really groundbreaking work that was done by this group of scientists, especially now that we know their work 50 years ago has led to predicting something we can see experimentally.

"That said, the name of the 'Higgs particle' has been in common scientific use for decades.

"Names are given to predicted particles, and eventually one name sticks. This shouldn't been seen as a slight on the others who also contributed to developing this theory."

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Facebook Home hits 500,000 installs, but what about active users?

Facebook Home

Sometimes a big number is just... a big number

The new "love it or hate it" app out there, Facebook Home, has surpassed a pretty notable milestone in the Play Store today: 500,000 installs. That's half a million installs of an app that many said would appeal to a very small section of people -- those who are presumably "all in" with Facebook. But what does that 500,000 number even mean? Not that much, actually. Any time that someone clicks "install" on the Google Play store, it counts as an install. It doesn't matter if the user never actually launches the app, whether they set it as a default launcher or even whether it stays installed on their phone for more than 10 minutes.

It's kind of like a hamburger restaurant saying "10 million customers served". Well, sure they were served, but did they actually enjoy the food? Lots of users may be taking one bite out of Facebook Home and throwing it in the trash, and the Google Play numbers simply don't reflect that.

The real number we'd love to take a look at is active installs. How many people have installed Facebook Home, then continued to use it. Given the current ratings it is receiving in the play store -- an average of 2.2 out of 5 -- we have to guess that number is well below 500,000. And without that "active installs" number, we don't believe there's any comment to be made about the success of Home this early in the game.

    


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Halliburton posts 1Q loss on litigation charges

(AP) ? Halliburton says it lost $18 million in the first quarter on litigation-related charges related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But it made money if the unusual items are excluded, and beat Wall Street expectations.

The oil services company's loss attributable to common shareholders amounted to 2 cents per share. That compares with net income of $627 million, or 68 cents per share, a year earlier.

Excluding one-time items, however, the company posted adjusted earnings of 67 cents per share. That beat the 57 cents that analysts expected.

Revenue rose slightly to $6.97 billion. Analysts expected $6.88 billion.

The Houston company, which provides a variety of services for the petroleum industry, is benefiting from a boom in U.S. oil production, which is at the highest level in more than two decades. At the same time, its natural gas business has slowed.

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Man Witnesses Boston Marathon Bombing and Texas Plant Explosion

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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Mangalorean Delight : Postnoon

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If you?re in the mood to explore the vast Mangalorean cuisine this summer, a visit to Seasonal Tastes at the Westin hotel is a great way to quiet your cravings.

In spite of being hidden away in the vast buffet at Seasonal Tastes, the authentic Mangalorean dishes on the menu have what it takes to pull you toward them. The two-week festival from April 15 to 30, which has already covered more than 30 authentic dishes from the coast is the best way to explore the cuisine almost to its entirety.

Coconut, spicy and curry are the three key words the hotel uses to lure its customers and the basic ingredients of most Mangalorean dishes. Apart from the starters and the main course, the Mangalorean food ?feastival? at the Westin also includes some refreshing drinks from the coastal land. I began my Mangalorean tryst with the very popular and flavourful Kokam Sherbat ? a must-have. However, if Kokam, ideal for the summer, isn?t your thing, you can always choose the good ol? butter milk or shikanji from the menu.

Coming back to the food spread, rich with the regular buffet at the hotel, is set up tastefully with a touch of Mangalorean culture. The brown rice that is stored in a basket for years in typical Mangalorean style to the rock salt famous in the region, the food spread gives the customers a true picture on how the cuisine is relished.

Among the variety of chutneys on display, the spicy tomato and the sweet tamarind chutneys are must-haves. Plus, they blend well with curd rice, another not-to-miss dish in the spread. Even the pickles ? the Mangalorean Kochala Lonche and the Mangalorean Lime pickle are a treat for those who don?t mind it spicy.

From the starters and main course section, Pork Bafat (pork cooked with fresh chilli, ginger and Mangalorean spices), Mutton Masala (lamb cooked with onion and tomato), Banana Fry, Kempu Gojju (lentil tempered with curry leaves and mustard), Sorekai gassi (Mangalorean style bottle gourd curry) with Kori Roti are essential to complete your flavourful indulgence. And, you can always end the treat on a sweet note with desserts like Semiya payasam.

You have time till April 30 to be treated in true Mangalorean style, we say ?Go for it!

Where: Seasonal Tastes, Westin
What: Mangalorean Food Festival

Tags: Mangalorean Food Festival, Mutton Masala, Seasonal Tastes, Westin

Category: Food & Drink

Source: http://postnoon.com/2013/04/21/mangalorean-delight/121079

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Switched On: How HP learned to stop worrying and love Android

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

DNP Switched On How HP learned to stop worrying and love android

Only those who were at the highest levels of HP at the time will likely ever know the full story of the spectacularly botched $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm and webOS. In the span of only eight months in 2010, the IT giant's plans for the operating system underwent a titanic turnabout -- from a foundation technology that would infiltrate every crevice of its device business to an orphaned open-source project ultimately sold to LG Electronics. Was the shift driven by core business softness that precluded further investment, the personal fiat of a short-tenured CEO or a justifiable reaction to disappointing sales? All three likely played some role.

HP purchased Palm because it was dissatisfied with the options it saw in the mobile operating system landscape. Beyond the deep relationship the company had with Microsoft for PCs, it had dabbled with Windows Mobile on a couple of smartphones such as the HP Glisten that never saw broad distribution. It had also produced an Android device, an obscure netbook called the Compaq AirLife 100 that lacked Android Market and was distributed exclusively via Spanish telecom giant Telefonica.

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Communications: Features Of GPS Vehicle Tracking

It takes more than being an industry standard in order to remain competitive in today's business. Sometimes, it's all about having a new technology that your company never did before.

While the change might be looked upon with disdain, it will bring in more long-term gains for your company. One such technology tailored by different companies is GPS vehicle tracking.

If your company deals with providing phone cables, construction materials, inventory, vehicle rentals, or comparable products directly to dealers, then fleet management solutions can provide your business an advantage over your competitors. Once you select a dependable fleet services company, your business will be able to receive the following advantages from that:

1 .More efficient use of fuel.

Taking ineffective routes, driving aggressively, or driving your vehicles for private use is a thing most drivers constantly do, but who is going to cover the lost fuel? Obviously, the owner of these vehicles has no other option. Nevertheless, adapting the use of fleet tracking services can help you lessen the fuel expenses associated with nonproductive driving.

2. Decrease in Labor Costs

If you've got more than a single vehicle used for performing various company operations, you certainly have to employ a worker to report the day-to-day driving schedule and activities. Nevertheless, this is time-consuming and also pricey. Instead of paying personnel a large amount of money, you can get a GPS tracker.

Reliable GPS tracking providers usually have much to offer you in terms of reducing your labor costs like, a detailed report on average weekly totals and daily hours your vehicles had been in use.

3. Increase in Safety and Security

Remember that cars are considered one of the most valuable as well as useful assets for your business. Because of this, you have to protect them by choosing the proven methods. GPS tracking will serve this purpose well as it will enable you to know exactly where your vehicles are. In addition, utilizing this tracking system will help you understand the functionality of your drivers.

4. Enhancement in Customer Service

Client care is itself a competitive benefit, so why wouldn't you achieve this with something your business already needs? By using a GPS tracker, you will be able to respond to customer demands in the fastest time possible. For instance, if it's about delivering an item to a client within a particular due date, you can do this quickly by using fleet management.

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Confronting Evil Conference - Program on Negotiation at Harvard ...

Live streaming is available online at http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/live-stream-confronting-evil#overlay-context=content/live-stream-confronting-evil

SATURDAY, April 20, 2013

9:00 a.m. ? 6 p.m.
Harvard University

A conference co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and the Volkswagen Foundation.

Free and open to the public. All are welcome. No registration is required.

Conference Schedule:

9:00 a.m.

Opening Remarks
Wilhelm Krull, Volkswagen Foundation
Homi Bhabha, Harvard University
Robert Mnookin, Harvard Law School


9:15 a.m.

Panel One: The Concept and Rhetoric of Evil
Peter-Andr? Alt, Freie Universit?t Berlin
Avishai Margalit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Susan Neiman, Einstein Forum
Elaine Pagels, Princeton University
Chair: Homi Bhabha, Harvard University

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11:15 a.m.

Panel Two: The Psychology of Evil: Cognitive, Behavioral, and Social Implications
Max Bazerman, Harvard Business School
Joshua Greene, Harvard University
Lee Ross, Stanford University
Chair: Mahzarin Banaji, Harvard University

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2:15 p.m

Panel Three: Witnessing Evil in World Affairs: From Everyday Evils to Extraordinary Crimes
Gazmend Kapllani, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Linn Normand, University of Oxford
Richard Shweder, University of Chicago
Chair: Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University

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4:00 p.m.

Panel Four: Responding to Evil: Should We Bargain with the Devil? -
Gabriella Blum, Harvard Law School
Charles Cogan, Harvard Kennedy School
Philip Heymann, Harvard Law School
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, New York University
Chair: Robert Mnookin, Harvard Law School

Source: http://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/conflict-resolution/today-confronting-evil-interdisciplinary-conference-underway/

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Want to work at Engadget? We're hiring a social media manager!

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We're searching for a very special social- and community-savvy individual to lead the charge setting social strategy for the top consumer tech blog on the planet. Your role would focus on bringing the Engadget voice to life on new channels, leveraging an arsenal of measurement and analysis tools to identify best practices and broadly develop new audiences while interacting more directly with our existing fanbase.

You will need to be highly detail-oriented, unflaggingly personable, have a passion for technology and a deep understanding of how to leverage learnings from metrics to drive brand growth. Preference will be given to candidates in the San Francisco Bay area, but location is not a strict requirement and we are willing to work with the right person anywhere you live.

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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Mine disaster: Hundreds of aftershocks

Apr. 19, 2013 ? A new University of Utah study has identified hundreds of previously unrecognized small aftershocks that happened after Utah's deadly Crandall Canyon mine collapse in 2007, and they suggest the collapse was as big -- and perhaps bigger -- than shown in another study by the university in 2008.

Mapping out the locations of the aftershocks "helps us better delineate the extent of the collapse at Crandall canyon. It's gotten bigger," says Tex Kubacki, a University of Utah master's student in mining engineering.

"We can see now that, prior to the collapse, the seismicity was occurring where the mining was taking place, and that after the collapse, the seismicity migrated to both ends of the collapse zone," including the mine's west end, he adds.

Kubacki was scheduled to present the findings Friday in Salt Lake City during the Seismological Society of America's 2013 annual meeting.

Six coal miners died in the Aug. 6, 2007 mine collapse, and three rescuers died 10 days later. The mine's owner initially blamed the collapse on an earthquake, but the University of Utah Seismograph Stations said it was the collapse itself, not an earthquake, that registered on seismometers.

A 2008 study by University of Utah seismologist Jim Pechmann found the epicenter of the collapse was near where the miners were working, and aftershocks showed the collapse area covered 50 acres, four times larger than originally thought, extending from crosscut 120 on the east to crosscut 143 on the west, where miners worked. A crosscut is a north-south tunnel intersecting the mine's main east-west tunnels.

In the new study, the collapse area "looks like it goes farther west -- to the full extent of the western end of the mine, Kubacki says.

Study co-author Michael "Kim" McCarter, a University of Utah professor of mining engineering, says the findings are tentative, but "might extend the collapse farther west." He is puzzled because "some of that is in an area where no mining had occurred."

Kubacki says one theory is that the seismic events at the west end and some of those at the eastern end of the mine may be caused by "faulting forming along a cone of collapse" centered over the mine.

Kubacki and McCarter conducted the new study with seismologists Keith Koper and Kris Pankow of the University of Utah Seismograph Stations. McCarter and Pankow also coauthored the 2008 study.

Before the new study, researchers knew of about 55 seismic events -- down to magnitude 1.6 -- near the mine before and after the collapse, which measured 3.9 on the local magnitude scale and 4.1 on the "moment" magnitude scale that better reflects energy release, Kubacki says.

The new study analyzed records of seismometers closest to the mine for evidence of tremors down to magnitudes minus-1, which Kubacki says is about one-tenth the energy released by a hand grenade. He found:

- Strong statistical evidence there were at least 759 seismic events before the mine collapse and 569 aftershocks.

- Weak evidence there were as many as 1,022 seismic events before the collapse and 1,167 aftershocks.

"We've discovered up to about 2,000 previously unknown events spanning from July 26 to Aug. 30, 2007," Kubacki says, although some of the weak-evidence events may turn out not to be real or to be unrelated to the collapse.

The seismic events found in the new study show tremors clustered in three areas: the east end of the collapse area, the area where miners were working toward the mine's west end, and -- new in this study -- at the mine's west end, beyond where miners worked.

"We have three clusters to look at and try to come up with an explanation of why there were three," McCarter says. "They are all related to the collapse."

Some of the tremors in the eastern cluster are related to rescue attempts and a second collapse that killed three rescuers, but some remain unexplained, he adds.

Kubacki says most of the seismic activity before the collapse was due to mining, although scientists want to investigate whether any of those small jolts might have been signs of the impending collapse. So far, however, "there is nothing measured that would have said, 'Here's an event [mine collapse] that's ready to happen," McCarter says.

Kubacki came up with the new numbers of seismic events by analyzing the records of seismometers closest to Crandall Canyon (about 12 miles away). "We took the known seismic events already in the catalog and searched for events that looked the same," he adds. "These new events kept popping up. There are tiny events that may show up on one station but not network-wide."

"Any understanding we can get toward learning how and why mine collapses happen is going to be of interest to the mining community," Kubacki says.

McCarter adds: "We are looking at the Crandall Canyon event because we have accurate logs and very extensive seismic data, and that provides a way of investigating the data to see if anything could be applied to other mines to improve safety."

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Picture this: A dramatic drop in wrong patient errors

Apr. 15, 2013 ? Adding a photo of a face to x-ray images can reduce "wrong-patient" errors five-fold, a new study finds.

"X-rays can look alike, and if one patient's images are confused with another before the radiologist sees them, it can be difficult for the radiologist to determine there is a mismatch," said Dr. Srini Tridandapani, of Emory University and an author of the study.

As part of the study, ten radiologists interpreted 20 pairs of radiographic images with and without photographs. Two to four mismatched pairs were included in each set of 20 pairs of images. When photographs were added, radiologists correctly identified the mismatch 64% of the time. The error detection rate was about 13% when photographs were not included, said Dr. Tridandapani.

The radiologists in the study did not know they could use the photographs as a means to identify mismatched x-ray images, and some said they purposely ignored the photographs because they thought the study was designed to determine if a photograph would distract them. "We did a second study of five radiologists, and we told them to use the photographs. The error detection rate went up to 94% in the second study," said Dr. Tridandapani.

Surprisingly, the interpretation time went down in the first study when the photographs were added to the images, said Dr. Tridandapani. "We're not sure why this happened, but it could be because the photograph provided clinical clues that assisted the radiologist in making the diagnosis," he said.

"I estimate that about 1 out of 10,000 examinations have wrong-patient errors," Dr. Tridandapani said. "It occurred to me that we should be adding a photograph to every medical imaging study as a means to correct this problem after I received a phone call, and a picture of the caller appeared on my phone. The picture immediately identified for me who the caller was," he said.

The study required additional personnel to take the pictures of the patients immediately after the patients' x-ray examination. However, Dr. Tridandapani and his colleagues have developed a prototype system where the camera can be attached to a portable x-ray machine; the picture is taken without additional personnel.

The study, jointly conducted at Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, will be presented at the ARRS annual meeting on April 15 in Washington, DC.

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Liverpool Bay sediment discovery could save millions

Liverpool Bay sediment discovery could save millions [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 16-Apr-2013
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National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK)

New research tracking the movement of dredged sediment around Liverpool Bay could save millions of pounds, according to scientists at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool.

Each year, sediment has to be dredged from the port and deposited elsewhere to maintain access for commercial vessels. But according to the new study, the dredged material appears back in the port again within just a few weeks of its removal, carried by sea currents.

"There are two competing sediments coming in; from the sea and from the river," says Dr Alex Souza of the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) National Oceanography Centre. "They meet in the estuary where they begin to fill up the channel.

"They need to be dredged so that ships can get through but it's a very expensive thing to do.

"At the moment, they move millions of tonnes every year, but some of it is carried back there by sea currents within a month."

The team used computer models to predict the movement of a particle of dredged material once it had been deposited in the bay.

"It's just like the computer models they use to predict the weather," says Dr Souza. "For the weather they track a balloon; here we are tracking a particle of sediment."

Previous models hadn't taken into account the differences in density between fresh water from the river and salty seawater.

Those differences drive currents which, in turn, affect the movement of the dredged sediment.

The costs of dredging are not just economic. Concern has also been expressed about the disturbance of contaminated materials and the damage they could cause to the environment.

Dr Souza and his team are working with the Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) to look for areas within the Mersey Estuary where the material could be safely disposed.

"The money saved could be in the millions of pounds," he says. "Obviously, repeatedly dredging the same material is costing a lot of money, but the savings in environmental costs could be even greater."

The Port of Liverpool, managed by the Mersey Dock and Harbour Company, is one of the most important for commercial goods in the UK, handling nearly 700,000 containers annually.

Plans are in place for a second terminal which, when completed, will almost double Liverpool's shipping capacity and accommodate some of world's largest container vessels.

In order to house those larger ships, the new development will require substantial dredging work to deepen the channel.

The study is published in the Journal of Operational Oceanography and forms part of the iCOAST project, helping to forecast the changing shape of the UK coastline.

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Notes for editors

1. Reference: Souza AJ, Lane A (2013) Effects of freshwater inflow on sediment transport. Journal of Operational Oceanography, Volume 6, Number 1, February 2013, pp. 27-31(5)

2. Link to story online: http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=1422

3. The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is the UK's leading institution for integrated coastal and deep ocean research. NOC operates the Royal Research Ships James Cook and Discovery and develops technology for coastal and deep ocean research. Working with its partners NOC provides long-term marine science capability including: sustained ocean observing, mapping and surveying, data management and scientific advice.

NOC operates at two sites, Southampton and Liverpool, with the headquarters based in Southampton.

Among the resources that NOC provides on behalf of the UK are the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC), the Marine Autonomous and Robotic Systems (MARS) facility, the National Tide and Sea Level Facility (NTSLF), the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) and British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility (BOSCORF).

The National Oceanography Centre is wholly owned by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

4. The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is the UK's main agency for funding and managing world-class research, training and knowledge exchange in the environmental sciences. It coordinates some of the world's most exciting research projects, tackling major issues such as climate change, food security, environmental influences on human health, the genetic make-up of life on earth, and much more. NERC receives around 300 million a year from the government's science budget, which it uses to fund research and training in universities and its own research centres. http://www.nerc.ac.uk

Contact information

Catherine Beswick, Communications and Public Engagement, National Oceanography Centre, catherine.beswick@noc.ac.uk, +44 238 059 8490.

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Contact: Catherine Beswick
catherine.beswick@noc.ac.uk
0238-059-8490
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK)

New research tracking the movement of dredged sediment around Liverpool Bay could save millions of pounds, according to scientists at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool.

Each year, sediment has to be dredged from the port and deposited elsewhere to maintain access for commercial vessels. But according to the new study, the dredged material appears back in the port again within just a few weeks of its removal, carried by sea currents.

"There are two competing sediments coming in; from the sea and from the river," says Dr Alex Souza of the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) National Oceanography Centre. "They meet in the estuary where they begin to fill up the channel.

"They need to be dredged so that ships can get through but it's a very expensive thing to do.

"At the moment, they move millions of tonnes every year, but some of it is carried back there by sea currents within a month."

The team used computer models to predict the movement of a particle of dredged material once it had been deposited in the bay.

"It's just like the computer models they use to predict the weather," says Dr Souza. "For the weather they track a balloon; here we are tracking a particle of sediment."

Previous models hadn't taken into account the differences in density between fresh water from the river and salty seawater.

Those differences drive currents which, in turn, affect the movement of the dredged sediment.

The costs of dredging are not just economic. Concern has also been expressed about the disturbance of contaminated materials and the damage they could cause to the environment.

Dr Souza and his team are working with the Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) to look for areas within the Mersey Estuary where the material could be safely disposed.

"The money saved could be in the millions of pounds," he says. "Obviously, repeatedly dredging the same material is costing a lot of money, but the savings in environmental costs could be even greater."

The Port of Liverpool, managed by the Mersey Dock and Harbour Company, is one of the most important for commercial goods in the UK, handling nearly 700,000 containers annually.

Plans are in place for a second terminal which, when completed, will almost double Liverpool's shipping capacity and accommodate some of world's largest container vessels.

In order to house those larger ships, the new development will require substantial dredging work to deepen the channel.

The study is published in the Journal of Operational Oceanography and forms part of the iCOAST project, helping to forecast the changing shape of the UK coastline.

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Notes for editors

1. Reference: Souza AJ, Lane A (2013) Effects of freshwater inflow on sediment transport. Journal of Operational Oceanography, Volume 6, Number 1, February 2013, pp. 27-31(5)

2. Link to story online: http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=1422

3. The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is the UK's leading institution for integrated coastal and deep ocean research. NOC operates the Royal Research Ships James Cook and Discovery and develops technology for coastal and deep ocean research. Working with its partners NOC provides long-term marine science capability including: sustained ocean observing, mapping and surveying, data management and scientific advice.

NOC operates at two sites, Southampton and Liverpool, with the headquarters based in Southampton.

Among the resources that NOC provides on behalf of the UK are the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC), the Marine Autonomous and Robotic Systems (MARS) facility, the National Tide and Sea Level Facility (NTSLF), the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) and British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility (BOSCORF).

The National Oceanography Centre is wholly owned by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

4. The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is the UK's main agency for funding and managing world-class research, training and knowledge exchange in the environmental sciences. It coordinates some of the world's most exciting research projects, tackling major issues such as climate change, food security, environmental influences on human health, the genetic make-up of life on earth, and much more. NERC receives around 300 million a year from the government's science budget, which it uses to fund research and training in universities and its own research centres. http://www.nerc.ac.uk

Contact information

Catherine Beswick, Communications and Public Engagement, National Oceanography Centre, catherine.beswick@noc.ac.uk, +44 238 059 8490.

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Aubrey Plaza Pulls A ?Kanye West? At MTV Movie Awards (Video)

MTV awards shows never seem to lack a little craziness and the Movie Awards last night were no exception. In a very bizarre moment Aubrey Plaza pulled a ‘Kanye West’ and interrupted Will Ferrell’s acceptance speech. Although not quite as controversial, it certainly has people talking and got her kicked out of show. If you missed the moment, never fear you can see it in the below video. It really is s must see video. No one really knows what got into the Parks & Recreations actress, who decided to literally get on stage and try to take Will’s award away while he was giving his acceptance speech for Comedic Genius. The brunette beauty for whatever reason decided to jump on stage, barefoot and attempt to grab the award from Ferrell. He being the true comedic that he is, never missed a beat and didn’t let go of his award. Plaza for her part didn’t speak at all while on stage, despite the actor asking her “What’s happening?” and ‘Are you okay?” Aubrey finally gave up and went back to her front row seat. Not long after that she was escorted out of the show. Although Will awkwardly joked that [...]

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Monday, April 15, 2013

To supporters, "Saint Chavez" watches over Venezuela vote

By Andrew Cawthorne

CARACAS (Reuters) - Fresh flowers were placed and new candles burning on Sunday at the "Saint Hugo Chavez" shrine in Caracas where devotees of the late socialist leader prayed for his last wishes to be fulfilled in the presidential vote.

Before succumbing to cancer last month, Chavez urged his millions of followers to vote for then-Vice President Nicolas Maduro as the flag bearer of socialism should he die.

For many, that became an almost sacred command.

"I came here to ask for my commander's blessing, so that the one he chose, Maduro, can take forward his legacy," said housewife Carmen Figueroa, 57, pressing her hand on a poster of Chavez in the makeshift altar on the side of a busy road.

The shrine sprang up spontaneously in the populous January 23 neighborhood near a military building that was turned into a museum and chapel where Chavez's remains are housed in a marble sarcophagus.

"They didn't accept flowers and candles there, but people wanted to leave things for the commander, so the community decided to make something here outside," said Elizabeth Torres, 48, who owns a kiosk next door and looks after the shrine.

A large banner juxtaposing Chavez's face with a picture of Jesus Christ carrying his crucifix dominates the middle of the hut turned into what some have dubbed "the people's shrine."

On the floor are numerous images of the late leader and Christian saints. Offerings include a glass of water and a cup of coffee - Chavez used to down black coffee all day before starting cancer treatment.

The "Saint Hugo Chavez" altar is one of numerous religious expressions all over Venezuela since he died on March 5.

CONTROVERSIAL LEGACY

His death, at 58, cemented his already cult-like status among supporters who adored his down-to-earth style, humble beginnings, aggressive "anti-imperialist" rhetoric, and channeling of oil revenue into social welfare projects.

To detractors, however, in a nation split broadly down the middle by his polarizing 14-year rule, Chavez should also be remembered for what they see as his bullying of opponents, autocratic style and squandering of an unprecedented bonanza of oil income through corruption and inefficient management.

Supporters of opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, who was running behind Maduro in polls before Sunday's vote, say the government's top brass has been cynically exploiting Chavez's memory to perpetuate their own hold on power.

Illustrating how the hatred of Chavez equaled the love in intensity, some Venezuelans cracked open champagne when he died.

Figueroa said those people had underestimated his impact.

"They'll never understand. Before Chavez, we were ignorant and humiliated. He brought dignity to the poor," she said, sticking a smaller picture of Maduro under a Chavez poster.

Though his legacy and image have dominated the campaign, with some in the opposition claiming they were forced to fight the "ghost of Chavez" instead of Maduro, many Venezuelans found it strange to be voting without him around on Sunday.

Nowhere was that truer than in the streets around the Manuel Palacios Fajardo school where Chavez cast his ballot over-and-over again during the multiple elections and referendums since his first presidential victory in 1998.

The garrulous Chavez would usually stop to greet crowds and give lengthy speeches about democracy after voting.

"You could feel the happiness and hope around him," said local resident Pedro Blanco, a 63-year-old lawyer, queuing to vote at the school.

"It's him I'm voting for again today, he's the one in my mind. Of course it's sad he's no longer here, but the world hasn't finished, has it? His spirit is with us. And his representative on earth is Maduro."

(Editing by Todd Benson and Jackie Frank)

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How to Get in Touch With Loved Ones During a Disaster
Disasters often strike without warning?and if you have family or friends who are in or near harm?s way, you?re going to want to get in touch. Unfortunately, that isn?t always so easy: Cell signals and land lines can be jammed ...

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After weeks of NKorean fury, calm on key holiday

A North Korean child covers the eyes of her father as she sits on his shoulders watching mass folk dancing in front of Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

A North Korean child covers the eyes of her father as she sits on his shoulders watching mass folk dancing in front of Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

A North Korean soldier guarding the entrance to Pyongyang's Kumsusan mausoleum, where the bodies of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie embalmed, looks back through the doors of the main gate Monday, April 15, 2013. North Koreans turned out on Monday to mark the 101st birthday of Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

North Korean women carry a bundle of brooms after the cleaning of the area around bronze statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang on Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

People visit statues of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il to celebrate the 101st birthday of Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

A man, center, supervises a dancing group during a mass folk dance in front of the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

(AP) ? North Koreans celebrated the birthday of their first leader Monday by dancing in plazas and snacking on peanuts, with little hint of the fiery language that has kept the international community fearful that a missile launch may be imminent.

Pyongyang fired off a rocket ahead of the last anniversary of Kim Il Sung's birth ? the centennial ? but this time the day was simply the start of a two-day holiday for Pyongyang residents who spilled into the streets.

Girls in red and pink jackets skipped along streets festooned with celebratory banners and flags and boys on inline skates took a break to slurp up bowls of shaved ice.

There was no sense of panic in the North Korean capital, where very few locals have access to international broadcasts and foreign newspapers speculating about an imminent missile launch and detailing the international diplomacy under way to try to rein Pyongyang in.

Elsewhere in the region, however, the focus remained on the threat of a launch as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry wrapped up a tour to coordinate Washington's response with Beijing, North Korea's most important ally, as well as with Seoul and Tokyo.

In Seoul, South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin told a parliamentary committee Monday that North Korea still appeared poised to launch a missile from its east coast, though he declined to disclose the source of his information.

Kerry warned North Korea not to conduct a missile test, saying it would be provocation that "will raise people's temperatures" and further isolate the country and its impoverished people. He said Sunday that the U.S. was "prepared to reach out," but that Pyongyang must first bring down tensions and honor previous agreements.

Foreign governments have been trying to assess how seriously to take North Korea's recent torrent of rhetoric warning of war if the U.S. and South Korea do not stop holding joint military maneuvers just across the border.

Officials in South Korea, the United States and Japan say intelligence indicates that North Korea, fresh off an underground nuclear test in February, appears ready to launch a medium-range missile. North Korea has already been slapped with strengthened U.N. sanctions for violating Security Council resolutions barring the regime from nuclear and missile activity.

North Korea has warned that the situation has grown so tense it cannot guarantee the safety of foreigners in the country and said embassies in Pyongyang should think about their evacuation plans. But British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday that although there is reason for concern over the "frenetic and bellicose" rhetoric, Britain believes there has been "no immediate increased risk or danger" to those living in or travelling to North Korea.

He said Britain does not see an immediate need to draw down embassy staff, but is keeping that under constant review. He added that, from discussions with other governments, the U.K. does not believe any foreign embassy in Pyongyang plans to close.

While concerns over North Korea continued to dominate headlines abroad, Pyongyang's own media gave little indication Monday of how high the tensions are.

The Rodong Sinmun, the Workers' Party newspaper, featured photos and coverage of current leader Kim Jong Un's overnight visit to the Kumsusan mausoleum to pay respects to his grandfather. There was only one line at the end of the article vowing to bring down the "robber-like U.S. imperialists."

Kim Jong Un's renovation of the memorial palace that once served as his grandfather's presidential offices opened to the public on Monday, the vast cement plaza replaced by fountains, park benches, trellises and tulips. Stretches of green lawn were marked by small signs indicating which businesses ? including the Foreign Trade Bank recently added to a U.S. Treasury blacklist ? and government agencies donated funds to help pay for the landscaping.

Starting from early in the morning, residents dressed in their finest clothing began walking from all parts of Pyongyang to lay flowers and bow before the bronze statues of Kim and his son, late leader Kim Jong Il, as the mournful "Song of Gen. Kim Il Sung" played over and over.

Their birthdays are considered the most important holidays of the year in North Korea, where reverence for the Kims is drummed into the people from the time they are toddlers. The largest basket of flowers at Mansu Hill was from Kim Jong Un, whose elaborate offering was cordoned off with ropes.

With that ritual out of the way, many stopped at food stalls set up at the base of Mansu Hill to warm up with tea and snacks. They queued at roadside snack stands for rations of peanuts, a holiday tradition.

"Although the situation is tense, people have got bright faces and are very happy," said Han Kyong Sim, who works at one of the beverage stands.

Later, as the day warmed up, scores of young women in a rainbow of sparkling traditional dresses thronged the parking lot outside Pyongyang Indoor Stadium for North Korea's version of square dancing.

Monday marked the official start of the new year according to North Korea's "juche" calendar, which begins with the day of Kim Il Sung's birth in 1912. But unlike last year, the centennial of his birthday, there are no big parades in store this week, and North Koreans were planning to use it as a day to catch up with friends and family.

North Korea is believed to be saving its parades and big parties for July 27, the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, and the 65th anniversary in September of the founding of the nation.

But while there was little sense of crisis in Pyongyang, North Korea's official posture toward the outside appeared to be as hardline as ever.

The North's military issued an ultimatum demanding an apology from South Korea for "hostile acts" and threatening that unspecified retaliatory actions would happen at any time. The military, through the KCNA state media agency, took issue with a protest in downtown Seoul, where a portrait of the North's late leader, Kim Jong-il, was reportedly burned. It said it would refuse any offers of talks with the South until it apologized for the "monstrous criminal act."

Seoul had pressed North Korea to discuss restarting operations at a joint factory park on the border and President Park Geun-hye has stressed peace opportunities after taking power from her more hard-line predecessor, Lee Myung-bak.

A top North Korean leader, Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, told officials Sunday that the North must bolster its nuclear arsenal further and "wage a stronger all-out action with the U.S. to cope with the prevailing wartime situation," according to state TV.

North Korea has also pulled workers from the Kaesong factory complex on its side of the Demilitarized Zone, the last remaining symbols of inter-Korean rapprochement, in a pointed jab at South Korea. South Korean-run factories provided more than 50,000 jobs for North Korea, where two-thirds of the population struggle with food shortages, according to the World Food Program.

On Sunday, Pyongyang rejected Seoul proposal to resolve tensions through dialogue. A Unification Ministry spokesman in Seoul, Kim Hyung-suk, called the response "very regrettable" on Monday.

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Associated Press writer Eric Talmadge in Pyongyang and Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report. Follow Lee, AP's bureau chief for Pyongyang and Seoul, at www.twitter.com/newsjean.

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Rebel Wilson prepares to open MTV Awards with song

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 file photo, actress, writer and comedienne Rebel Wilson, a cast member in the film "Bachelorette," poses for a portrait at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Wilson sings, dances and summons laughs _ and that's just in the opening moments of the upcoming MTV Movie Awards, on Sunday, April 14, 2013. The Australian actress is hosting the show, and she's set to start the ceremony by singing solo. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 file photo, actress, writer and comedienne Rebel Wilson, a cast member in the film "Bachelorette," poses for a portrait at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Wilson sings, dances and summons laughs _ and that's just in the opening moments of the upcoming MTV Movie Awards, on Sunday, April 14, 2013. The Australian actress is hosting the show, and she's set to start the ceremony by singing solo. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

(AP) ? Rebel Wilson sings, dances and summons laughs ? and that's just in the opening moments of this weekend's MTV Movie Awards.

The Australian actress is hosting the show, and she's set to start the ceremony by singing solo.

Wilson and her co-stars from "Pitch Perfect" rehearsed a multi-genre opening medley Friday that features Wilson spoofing last year's films and spinning nunchucks.

Brittany Snow, Anna Camp and Skylar Astin, along with a troupe of gymnastic dancers, joined the first-time host at Sony Pictures Studios to run through four songs not featured in the film. MTV insists on keeping the titles a surprise until Sunday's show.

When the group finished rehearsing, Wilson thrust her fist toward the sky and shouted, "'Pitch Perfect' two!"

A sequel to the musical comedy has not been announced.

Wilson will be joined at the MTV Movie Awards by presenters such as Brad Pitt, Melissa McCarthy, Seth Rogen and Kerry Washington and performers including Selena Gomez. Jamie Foxx, Will Ferrell and Emma Watson will receive special awards at the ceremony, which will be broadcast live Sunday on MTV from 9-11 p.m. EDT.

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Follow AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen on Twitter at www.twitter.com/APSandy.

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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Abuse of students doing anthropological fieldwork

Apr. 13, 2013 ? College athletes are not the only ones who sometimes suffer at the hands of higher ups. A new report brings to light a more hidden and pernicious problem -- the psychological, physical and sexual abuse of students in the field of biological anthropology working in field studies far from home.

The report is based on an online survey and telephone interviews that, in a period of less than two months, elicited accounts of abuse from dozens of women and men working in the field of biological anthropology.

This is a first attempt to systematically document the harassment, abuse or assaults young researchers sometimes face in the course of doing anthropological fieldwork at remote sites, said University of Illinois anthropology professor Kathryn Clancy, one of four researchers to present the new findings at the 2013 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropology.

Most students and postdoctoral researchers consider field research a stepping stone to a better career, Clancy said.

"This is something that most biological anthropologists, cultural anthropologists and archeologists see as a fairly necessary experience," she said. "Some people can do an entirely lab-based project or a computer modeling project or a local project, but most of us need to go into the field."

The team recruited subjects through outreach on social media and websites devoted to researchers in biological anthropology. They heard from 122 men and women, more than half of whom had experienced or witnessed sexual harassment, physical abuse or sexual assault at the hands of site managers, project directors or peers living and working at field research sites. The researchers defined sexual assault as "any kind of inappropriate physical contact, unwanted physical touching, assault, all the way up to rape," Clancy said.

"Overwhelmingly, we're seeing junior women being targeted by senior men," Clancy said. "59 percent of respondents have experienced sexual harassment. Women are 3 times more likely to experience harassment than men. And 19 percent of respondents have been sexually assaulted."

The perpetrators of the harassment and assaults were usually men, but some women also abused their students. One female site director, for example, refused to let women leave the work site to urinate.

The researchers did not directly ask the respondents if they had been raped, but some of the respondents volunteered that they had been raped by research leaders or peers at fieldwork sites. Others reported that they had witnessed the systematic targeting of junior members of the research team for harassment or assault.

Such working conditions can have devastating effects on the health and wellbeing of those who are targeted and those who witness the abuse, Clancy said. They also force students to choose between their career goals and their desire to speak up for themselves or others.

Clancy and her colleagues noticed that larger, more organized research sites tended to have fewer incidents of abuse, harassment or assault than smaller, less formal fieldwork sites. Those who worked on teams that included women in leadership positions also reported less harassment and abuse. Some respondents said they noticed an uptick in abusive behavior when female leaders were absent.

"The larger a field site, the more organized you have to be, so you're more likely to actually have ground rules or a code of conduct, or a chain of command that prevents people from feeling they can get away with bad behavior," Clancy said.

The researchers are proposing that funding agencies like the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health require the same kinds of protocols and oversight of researcher safety in the field that are routine in the laboratory.

"If we want to fund a postdoctoral researcher, we have to write a postdoc mentoring plan so that we prove that this postdoc isn't just going to be a lackey for us and that we're actually going to mentor them and train them and help them get a job," Clancy said. "I have to make sure my students have access to certain kinds of vaccines if they're working with blood. We have to go through Institutional Review Boards to protect our research subjects. We have to go through animal protocols to protect our animals. But we don't have to protect our researchers in the field."

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Cubs Lose To Giants: Chicago Falters, Clevenger Hurt As Cubs Drop To San Francisco 3-2

CHICAGO -- As he struck out and ended the Chicago Cubs' 3-2 loss to the San Francisco Giants on Saturday, Steve Clevenger fell to the ground in pain.

It was that type of day for Chicago.

Madison Bumgarner allowed two runs while pitching neatly into the seventh inning, Marco Scutaro had three hits and the Giants held on to win 3-2.

"Hopefully it's not bad, but in that kind of pain, something obviously happened in there. It could be pretty bad," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said of the injury. Clevenger will undergo an MRI for a possible left oblique injury.

"I've never seen somebody in that much pain," Sveum said.

Pinch-hitter Dioner Navarro hit a two-out, two-run homer off Bumgarner in the seventh, pulling the Cubs to 3-2. It was Navarro's second career pinch home run in two days, each hit from a different side of the plate. His tying homer in the ninth Friday was hit from the left side.

"I'm just getting myself mentally ready taking swings in the clubhouse," Navarro said. "Just go out there and swing.

Chicago put runners on second and third with no outs in the second but was unable to score. After Alfonso Soriano singled and advanced on an error, Scott Hairston was hit by a pitch. The pair then pulled off a double steal.

After two strikeouts, Bumgarner intentionally walked Alberto Gonzalez to bring up Cubs pitcher Jeff Samardzija, who grounded out.

The Cubs loaded the bases with one out in the eighth before Welington Castillo ground into a double play against Santiago Casilla, who finished for his first save.

"He got a great pitch to hit," Sveum said.

Bumgarner (3-0) struck out six and walked two, one intentional, in 6 2-3 innings.

"All the pitches felt pretty good today," he said.

Samardzija (1-2) allowed two runs and seven hits in six innings, struck out five and walked one. In his previous start, he struck out a career-high 13 and allowed four runs in 5 2-3 innings at Atlanta.

"You play a team like that, you've got to get ahead in the count," Samardzija said. "They work the count. They make you throw a lot of pitches."

A few snowflakes fell in the morning, and the temperature at first pitch was 38 degrees.

Gregor Blanco put the Giants ahead with an RBI single in the fifth after Andres Torres' leadoff double. Pablo Sandoval singled in a run in the sixth, and Marco Scutaro added an RBI single off Michael Bowden in the seventh. Bumgarner scored from second as Hairston's throw from right went into the middle of the infield.

"We threw the ball completely over two cutoff men's heads and not even in the zip code," Sveum said.

NOTES: The Cubs put closer Kyuji Fujikawa on the 15-day DL with a strained right forearm and recalled reliever Rafael Dolis from Triple-A Iowa. Shawn Camp and James Russell are possible closers. Sveum said he won't use Carlos Marmol, who has a 12.27 ERA. Fujikawa (1-0, 12.46 ERA) said he felt discomfort in his forearm the last couple of days, but considers it a short-term injury. ... Sandoval fell into the stands making a diving catch in the ninth. He had a bruised shin but said he expects to play Sunday. ... Giants CF Angel Pagan was scratched from Saturday's lineup because of a sore right wrist he jammed Thursday on a diving catch. He is day to day and entered as a defensive replacement in the eighth. He popped out in the ninth. ... Giants manager Bruce Bochy presented former Giant Nate Schierholtz, now a Cubs OF, with his 2012 World Series ring during batting practice. ... Cubs pitcher Scott Feldman has back tightness and will pitch next Saturday at Milwaukee, using the Cubs' off day Monday for extra rest. He had been slated to start Wednesday against Texas. ... Cubs 2B Darwin Barney (cut knee) was to begin his rehab assignment Saturday with Iowa. He is expected to rejoin the Cubs on Tuesday against Texas. ... Cubs 3B Ian Stewart (quadriceps) will begin his rehab assignment with Iowa on Sunday.

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