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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Venezuelans pour into Plaza Bolivar to honor Ch?vez's socialist revolution
As news of the death of President Hugo Ch?vez spread, Venezuelans rushed to downtown Caracas, many wearing red in honor of their socialist?commandante.
Supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez react to the announcement of his death in Caracas, March 5, 2013. Chavez has died after a two-year battle with cancer, ending the socialist leader's 14-year rule of the South American country, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech on Tuesday.
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Plaza Bolivar in downtown Caracas quickly filled with Venezuelans tonight, mourning the death of their president and commandante, Hugo Ch?vez. Many rushed directly from work to the spot named after Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America and?Ch?vez?s hero. The late president's signature red dotted the crowds. ?As car horns blasted, thousands waved campaign posters and cradled photos of the man who led a socialist revolution that has left both Venezuela and communities across Latin America markedly changed.
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A chant rose from among the crowd: ?The people united will never be defeated.?
Chavez stood at the helm of Venezuela for the past 14 years, winning his most recent reelection in October. Soon thereafter he announced that his cancer, which he had been battling for at least a year and a half, had returned. He flew to Cuba in December for treatment and surgery, and was not seen publicly again. Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced his passing on national TV this afternoon.
State television shared Twitter messages from people around the globe encouraging peace and expressing condolences to the Venezuelan people. Teary statements from neighboring leaders were aired, including words from Bolivia?s President Evo Morales.? ?Chavez will always be with us,? he said.
"It hurts, but we must stand united in this process of liberation, not only of Venezuela but of the whole region..." Mr. Morales said. "Chavez is now more alive than ever."
Chavez was a champion for the world?s underdogs and his country?s poor, missions bolstered by Venezuela?s vast petro-wealth. He created the Bolivarian Alliance, a bloc of leftist Latin American countries, to counter the might of international institutions like the World Bank, and poured his country?s oil wealth into neighboring nations like Bolivia, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
?Remember this is the first time within historical memory that a leftist revolution has had a big wad of dough to back it up,? says Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs.
But countries that have not always been closely allied with Ch?vez spoke out tonight as well. The Guardian reports:
Colombian President Jose Manuel Santos praised President Chavez's contribution to the peace process with the FARC [rebels] in Colombia. Chavez cherished the Bolivarian dream of regional unity, Santos said. He conveyed his condolences to Chavez's daughters.
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Tehran?s war on freakishly big rats
A young man holds up a dead rat in Tehran. (REUTERS)Tehran has a rodent problem. A big one. Rats not only easily outnumber the city's residents (an estimated 25 million versus 12 million, respectively), they're monstrously large. According to NPR, these vermin can weigh up to 11 pounds?more than some cats.
The city has always had a problem with rats; every spring, the water from snow melting off the Alborz mountains flushes the rats out of their underground lairs. Way back in 2000, NPR noted, the BBC reported that poisoning the rats, which makes them thirsty and forces them underground as they search for water, didn't work. If anything, it seemed to make the rats stronger.
An environmental adviser to the city council, Ismail Kahram, told the website Qudsonline.ir, "They are bigger now and look different. These are changes that normally take millions of years of evolution."
So now, in addition to chemicals, officials have deployed sniper teams equipped with infrared lights for nighttime hunting. So far, the teams have succeeded in taking down only some 2,000 of them.
"It's become a 24/7 war," Hadi Heydarzadeh, the head of Tehran municipality's environmental agency, said last month. "We use chemical poisons to kill the rats during the day and the snipers at night."
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Video: Town puts police officer in every school
>>> in the wake of the tragic school shooting in newtown, connecticut , administrators across the country are looking for ways to improve safety. one town has figured out how to put a police officer in a school and it doesn't cost them anything extra. katy tur is in simpsonville, south carolina , to explain this story. good morning to you.
>> reporter: good morning, savannah. a lot of new measures were put into place, including a new lockdown system. it's how they've managed to have a local police officer here every single day without any cost to the taxpayer that they're hoping could be a model to the country.
>> you're awesome.
>> you guys are awesome.
>> you are!
>> reporter: call him a local celebrity , big guy on campus sending a big message.
>> he's protecting the school and keeping us safe.
>> what's up, guys?
>> reporter: a full-time police officer , just iin chandler doesn't just patrol the halls on occasion. he is here every day. earlier this year he came up with the idea to do his office work here instead of the police station .
>> all i needed from the school was a desk and wi-fi.
>> they have desks at the school.
>> exactly. so we said it's a no brainer.
>> reporter: in the weeks after the tragedy at sandy hook elementary in connecticut , schools across the country re-evaluated their safety procedures. here in simpsonville, south carolina , the proposal to have an officer, like chandler, on site struck everyone as a perfect solution .
>> when we got down to the brass tax of it, it didn't cost a dime.
>> it didn't cost anything?
>> no.
>> feel safer i never thought that actually have an officer at elementary would be that valuable. now that he's here, i don't want him to leave.
>> reporter: schools in jordan, minnesota, are doing the same, calling it a proactive solution.
>> we're hoping this is a deterrent and that it will help build community and will help kids understand that police officers are helpful and are there to help us.
>> we love our officer.
>> reporter: administrators talk to parents and teachers about the concern over having an armed police officer walking the halls. so far, the reaction, though, has been positive.
>> he's here for their safety. he has made us feel safe, especially what happens over in connecticut .
>> i would rather be here and not be needed than be needed and not be here.
>> reporter: a small solution, easing big anxiety.
>> this is clearly not a job for you. you're just doing this because you're having fun here.
>> well, if you don't have fun in what you do, what's the point in doing it?
>> reporter: now, having an armed police officer is working here in south carolina . in upstate new york , armed police resource officer accidentally discharged his gun in a school hallway. nobody was around or injured in that situation but a lot of people are wondering why he needed to be there in the first place. guys?
>> katy tur with what's working in one town. we asked you to weigh in. do you want to see police officers in your community schools ? right now 69% of you said yes. 31%, no. it's been an interesting idea. not without controversy, but it's a simple solution.
>> if it doesn't cost communities anything extra, i think it's going to be something that spreads throughout the rest of
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Will ships sail through the North Pole by 2050?
Melting Arctic ice will create new sea routes, a new study says, including the potential for light ice-breakers to reach the North Pole. New Arctic shipping routes would still be seasonal rather than year-around. ??
A pair of German merchant ships are seen as they traverse the fabled Northeast Passage in 2009. Melting ice in the Arctic will open more shipping routes by mid-century but make land travel over the Arctic ice sheet much rarer, a new study finds.
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EnlargeThe quickest way to get goods from Asia to the U.S. East Coast in 2050 might well be straight across the Arctic, where a warming climate is expected to open new sea routes through what is now impenetrable ice, a study reported on Monday.
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Most shipping traffic between these two centers currently goes through the Suez or Panama canals, and that is likely to continue even as melting Arctic sea ice makes the far north more accessible.
But increasingly warm temperatures also could make the Northwest Passage north of Canada an economically viable shipping route. Now, it is passable only at the end of most summers. It could also open up a route directly over the North Pole by mid-century, according to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Plus.
The Northern Sea Route, which mostly hugs Russia's northern coastline and is now a primary Arctic shipping route, would continue to be viable, according to research by Laurence Smith, a geography professor at the University of California-Los Angeles.
The transit across the Arctic would remain highly seasonal, limited to parts of September when the ice has shrunk and thinned to its lowest level.
Last September, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center reported Arctic sea ice melted to its lowest recorded level. The Arctic is one of the fastest-warming places on Earth because of the so-called albeido effect, where sun-reflecting light-colored ice is frequently replaced by sun-absorbing dark-colored water. The more ice melts, the warmer things get.
Both the Northern Sea Route and the Northwest Passage would be accessible to ordinary ships in addition to light ice-breakers by 2050, Smith said in a telephone interview.
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"Last year, nearly 50 ships went through the Northern Sea Route, but this work shows that there will be other technically feasible options which will be available," he said.
The across-the-pole route, which had never before been considered, would be available only to light ice-breakers capable of plowing through ice 3.9 feet (1.2 metres) thick.
Melting ice could make these Arctic routes more viable, Smith said.
For example, right now it makes no sense for any ship traveling between eastern North America and Asia to go via the Northwest Passage. The islands in the Canadian archipelago slow navigation, and the ice lingers there in a way that it doesn't along the Northern Sea Route. Even though the Northern Sea Route is a greater distance, it takes less time.
However, by 2050, using projections of global warming and Arctic ice loss, Smith said the Northwest Passage will be sufficiently navigable to make the trip from the North American east coast to the Bering Strait in 15 days, compared to 23 days for the Northern Sea Route, about a 30 percent time savings.
This is never likely to be a year-round proposition, since winter sea ice will always recur, Smith said. And as Arctic shipping lanes open up, land transportation in the far north is expected to suffer, as winter ice roads deteriorate. These ice roads are the only economically viable way to do heavy construction and remove ore in the far north, he said.
"The distances are vast, the landscape is boggy and wet and covered with lakes," Smith said. "We've done modeling of this as well and what you see is a shutdown of human access on land and an increase of human access in the ocean."
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Renesas announces big.LITTLE mobile processor with next-gen PowerVR Series6 graphics
If Samsung likes an open playing field, it'll not be best pleased by this latest announcement from Japanese chip maker Renesas. Uncannily named the "APE6", it directly copies the same big.LITTLE design of ARM cores found in Sammy's Exynos Octa. The are four Cortex-A15s paired with the same number of Cortex-A7s, allowing a phone or tablet to switch between the two quad-core configurations depending on its workload. Interestingly, whereas the Exynos Octa's GPU has been rumored to contain a last-gen PowerVR Series5 GPU similar to that found in the iPad and PS Vita, the APE6 will come with a more future proof Series6 "Rogue" design. We've already spent some time with this GPU and it'll be a good day when we can finally try it out in a finished device and stack it up against a rival bearing Samsung internals.
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Long-Lost Continent Found under the Indian Ocean
The beaches of Mauritius contain fragments of a type of rock typical of ancient continental crust ? rock which could have been brought to the surface by volcanic eruptions. Image: http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.9116.1361551494!/image/HIRES%2042-32415022%20reduced.jpg
The drowned remnants of an ancient microcontinent may lie scattered beneath the waters between Madagascar and India, a new study suggests.
Evidence for the long-lost land comes from Mauritius, a volcanic island about 900 kilometers east of Madagascar. The oldest basalts on the island date to about 8.9 million years ago, says Bj?rn Jamtveit, a geologist at the University of Oslo. Yet grain-by-grain analyses of beach sand that Jamtveit and his colleagues collected at two sites on the Mauritian coast revealed around 20 zircons ? tiny crystals of zirconium silicate that are exceedingly resistant to erosion or chemical change ? that were far older.
The zircons had crystallized within granites or other igneous rocks at least 660 million years ago, says Jamtveit. One of these zircons was at least 1.97 billion years old.
Jamtveit and his colleagues suggest that rocks containing the wayfaring zircons originated in ancient fragments of continental crust located beneath Mauritius. They propose that geologically recent volcanic eruptions brought shards of the crust to Earth?s surface, where the zircons eroded from their parent rocks to pepper the island?s sands. The team's work is published today in Nature Geoscience.
Crustal remains
The paper also suggests that not just one but many fragments of continental crust lie beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean. Analyses of Earth?s gravitational field reveal several broad areas where sea-floor crust is much thicker than normal ? at least 25 to 30 kilometers thick, rather than the normal 5 to 10 kilometers.
Those crustal anomalies may be the remains of a landmass that the team has dubbed Mauritia, which they suggest split from Madagascar when tectonic rifting and sea-floor spreading sent the Indian subcontinent surging northeast millions of years ago. Subsequent stretching and thinning of the region?s crust sank the fragments of Mauritia, which together had comprised an island or archipelago about three times the size of Crete, the researchers estimate.
The team chose to collect sand, rather than pulverize local rocks, to ensure that zircons inadvertently trapped in rock-crushing equipment from previous studies did not contaminate their fresh samples. The nearest known outcrop of continental crust that could have produced the Mauritian zircons is on Madagascar, far across a deep sea, Jamtveit notes. Furthermore, the zircons came from Mauritian sites so remote that it is unlikely that humans carried them there.
?There?s no obvious local source for these zircons,? says Conall Mac Niocaill, a geologist at the University of Oxford, UK, who was not involved in the research.
Also, it does not seem as if the zircons rode to Mauritius on the wind, says Robert Duncan, a marine geologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis. ?There?s a remote possibility that they were wind blown, but they?re probably too large to have done so,? he adds.
Other ocean basins worldwide may well host similarly submerged remains of ?ghost continents?, Mac Niocaill notes in an accompanying News & Views article. Only detailed surveys of the ocean floor, including geochemical analyses of their rocks, will reveal whether the splintered and now submerged Mauritia has any long-lost cousins, he suggests.
This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on February 24, 2013.
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