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Monday, July 29, 2013
Cockatoos know what is going on behind barriers
[unable to retrieve full-text content]How do you know that the cookies are still there even though they have been placed in a cookie jar out-of-sight? Scientists show that "object permanence" abilities in a cockatoo rivals that of apes and four-year-old humans.
These Industries Are Actually On The Rise For 2013
Economic news has felt bleak for years now. And every time things seem to pick up there's something like Detroit's bankruptcy looming as a reminder that times are still tough. But we know that there is some recovery going on and this infographic shows the sectors that have momentum.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/these-industries-are-actually-on-the-rise-for-2013-940617928
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Massive Solar Plant A Stepping Stone For Future Projects
The Ivanpah solar project in California's Mojave Desert will be the largest solar power plant of its kind in the world.
Josh Cassidy/KQEDThe Ivanpah solar project in California's Mojave Desert will be the largest solar power plant of its kind in the world.
Josh Cassidy/KQEDThe largest solar power plant of its kind is about to turn on in California's Mojave Desert.
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System will power about 140,000 homes and will be a boon to the state's renewable energy goals, but it was no slam dunk. Now, California is trying to bring conservationists and energy companies together to create a smoother path for future projects.
To get the best view of the Ivanpah solar project, you have to go up to the top of a 400-foot concrete tower. Below, close to 200,000 mirrors shimmer across a dry, dusty valley.
"It's very exciting," says Dave Beaudoin, the construction manager for the $2 billion project located about an hour southwest of Las Vegas. Each mirror is about the size of a garage door, and it's mounted on a pole so it can be pointed at the tower.
"We can keep the sun's energy ? the rays of the sun ? targeted back to the solar tower," Beaudoin says.
All of those mirrors generate about a thousand degrees of heat. It isn't the solar technology most of us think of: dark panels on rooftops. These mirrors heat a giant boiler on top of the tower, where water turns into steam. Beaudoin says that steam powers a turbine that generates electricity.
"This is definitely cutting-edge. It's nothing I've ever done before," he says.
It's been a bumpy road, however, and it took years to get permits from almost a dozen state, federal and local agencies. The project became political fodder after getting a federal loan guarantee, like the bankrupt solar company Solyndra.
And then there's the desert tortoise.
In all, developers found nearly 200 tortoises onsite, many more than expected. Finding and relocating them has cost around $55,000 per tortoise. Critics like Ileene Anderson have watched closely.
"I'm not a big fan of the super large projects," Anderson says.
Anderson is with the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups concerned about the loss of desert habitat. She says after California set a goal of getting a third of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020, there was a rush to build big solar farms in the desert.
"Many of the projects, when they were first proposed and we would see the application, see where the map was, it was like: 'Oh no, this is going to be a nightmare project,'" she says.
But other environmental groups saw one reason to support big solar.
"If you care about desert tortoises, you better care about climate change," says Carl Zichella with the Natural Resources Defense Council. "Without some large-scale renewable energy projects, we do not hit our climate goals. We do not replace fossil fuels with clean energy in this country."
These differing views created an uncomfortable "green vs. green" debate, Zichella says. "I think it has been tough. It's been personally painful. We are very good at stopping things, [and] we aren't very good at building things," he says.
In the end, environmental groups negotiated with the Ivanpah project and others one by one to set aside nature preserves in the desert. Learning from this, the state is trying to head off future conflicts with a new plan. The idea is to divvy up the desert into renewable energy zones and zones that are off-limits.
Karen Douglas of the California Energy Commission says it's unusual to see all sides working together.
"There is never any perfect consensus," Douglas says. "But we've got an opportunity with this partnership to put in place what we really think of as the 'greenprint' that will help us conserve our desert resources."
Douglas says other western states like Arizona and Nevada are taking on similar efforts. The Ivanpah solar project will come fully online by the end of the year.
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Atlantic Media president Justin B. Smith is named Bloomberg Media CEO
Justin B. Smith, who has been with The Atlantic since 2007 and is credited with ?saving? the publication, joins Bloomberg Media Group as chief executive.
?Like Mary Poppins, if a little more euro, Justin came, changed the family and, when the work was done, moved on,? writes Atlantic Media owner David Bradley.
?In truth, Justin did hesitate before accepting the offer. He has loved his work with Atlantic Media. But, it?s hard to see how he reasons to ?no? [to Bloomberg]: global CEO, global brand and reach, television, radio, conferences, three magazines and burgeoning digital.?
Letter of Appreciation
My Atlantic Media Colleagues,
As I settle into this writing, I think some will have heard by now of Bloomberg Media Group?s recruitment of Justin Smith as chief executive officer. In truth, Justin did hesitate before accepting the offer; he has loved his work with Atlantic Media. But, it?s hard to see how he reasons to ?no?: global CEO, global brand and reach, television, radio, conferences, three magazines and burgeoning digital traffic.
Though this will tax your time, I decided I would rather write a letter of appreciation for Justin than the traditional corporate press release. I want you to know what I hope Justin knows already ? what a gift he has been to this enterprise./CONTINUES
Our First Meeting
On reflection, I suppose our first meeting was a bit staged: dinner in Manhattan?s Carlyle Hotel dining room, seated beside the fireplace, talking for three hours. An aging owner, in an old-world setting, pitching a mid?19th century long-form literary magazine to a next-generation leader. I decided on Justin in one meeting.
Still, I seem to have gotten a detail wrong. I just assumed we were welcoming Justin into our storied magazine and its storied past. Justin understood?or at least decided?that he would time-travel the whole lot of us to media?s future state. Looking around now, we?re not in Kansas anymore.
Correctly, Justin would give credit to Scott Havens, James Bennet, Scott Stossel, Bob Cohn, Jay Lauf, Elizabeth Baker Keffer, Zazie Lucke, Kevin Delaney and their many Atlantic colleagues. But, I also think it?s fair to name as ?the Justin era? what Justin and those of you at The Atlantic and Quartz have accomplished: reversal of fortune for a magazine in a 60-year decline; doubling of revenues; return to profits; constant original creation including The Atlantic Cities, The AtlanticWire and Atlantic-initiated Quartz; growing events business; growing website; 25 million monthly Atlantic readers and visitors; and, just now, two more National Magazine Awards. David Brooks once told me that, if I turned around The Atlantic, it would become the only thing for which I would be remembered. Now, Justin has gone ahead and done it already.
An Intense Instruction
Justin led The Atlantic for two years and then Atlantic Media for an additional four. In one sense, my time with Justin reminds me of the time I spent with the Atlantic?s late editor, Michael Kelly ? the everyday, dialed-up to intensity. After six years, and speechless, any of us might ask, ?Wow, what was that about??
In my frame, Atlantic Media was earning its doctoral degree in modern media from one of modern media?s master practitioners. What Justin believed, he taught, and, as with Michael again, Justin?s beliefs were fierce: That the revolution underway in media is more radical than we?the industry?appreciate. That the contest between legacy and insurgent players is mortal, with advantage to the insurgents. That surviving legacy properties will have had to learn the disciplines of the insurgents?and that they can. That velocity is first among the virtues. That the speed of change is unprecedented. That ideas have their season but not more. From search to social media to native advertising to the next advantage. And, that Atlantic Media could and would and has leapt to the frontier.
More personally, watching Justin taught me truths about media I?d failed to learn in my first decade in the sector: the centrality of brand; the importance of brand excitement; the very particular importance of New York and New York talent to creating excitement. Justin exhorted me to ?go for my inner Don Draper;? as I didn?t have the least idea what Justin was talking about, this never really caught on.
As to Atlantic Media
Justin will leave us a changed ? and much better ? media company. That begins with his ? and now my ? Atlantic Media leadership team. Scott, Bruce, Tim, Jean Ellen, Kat, Zazie, Michael, Tom, Emily. As with Justin, I have complete confidence in this group. More generally, and as to ?extreme talent? across the board, I think Atlantic Media is at its record high-water mark. After reflection, I?ve decided that, rather than appoint a Justin successor, we will let the current leadership continue independent of any reporting structure?save to me?and grow to fill the empty spaces Justin?s departure leaves behind. In fact, I found this an easy call.
As to Bloomberg
Here, I need to redouble my effort. I just can?t seem to find it in me to dislike the Bloomberg enterprise. I?ve always trusted and liked Justin?s new boss, Dan Doctoroff. Even now, I?m affecting a furious countenance. It just needs work.
As to Justin
Like Mary Poppins, if a little more euro, Justin came, changed the family and, when the work was done, moved on. I will miss him.
With my best wishes to all.
David
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
Judge questions train driver over crash in Spain
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (AP) ? The driver of a Spanish train that derailed at high speed was being questioned by a judge on Sunday as officials tried to determine if he was responsible for the accident, which killed 79 people.
Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, 52, has been held by police on suspicion of negligent homicide. He has not been formally charged by a magistrate or made any official statements.
However, minutes after the crash Garzon said that he had been going fast and couldn't brake, a local resident who rushed to the scene of the accident said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
The resident, Evaristo Iglesias, said he and another person accompanied the blood-soaked Garzon to flat ground where other injured people were being laid out, waiting for emergency services to arrive.
"He told us that he wanted to die," Iglesias told Antena 3 television. "He said he had needed to brake but couldn't," Iglesias said. He added that Garzon said "he had been going fast."
The train carrying 218 passenger in eight cars hurtled far over the 80-kph (50-mph) speed limit into a high-risk curve on Wednesday, tumbling off the tracks and slamming into a concrete wall, with some of the cars catching fire. The Spanish rail agency has said the brakes should have been applied four kilometers (2.5 miles) before the train hit the curve.
On Sunday, Garzon was moved from the police station in the northwestern Spanish town of Santiago de Compostela, near where the accident occurred, to its courthouse just as the deadline of his 72 hours of detention was to expire.
Luis Alaez, the investigative judge, was to question the driver in private and was not expected to comment about it afterward. The judge also was to have access to the information contained in the train's "black box," which is similar to those found on aircraft, officials said.
Investigators must determine if Garzon failed to apply the brakes or whether it was a technical failure.
Previously Garzon had exercised his right to remain silent when police tried to interview him, officials said. Spain's state-run train company has described him as an experience driver who knew the route well.
In its report about the accident, Antena 3 television showed a photograph of Iglesias in a pink shirt and cap helping to carry the driver after the train accident. The station also aired television footage of Iglesias working beside the wrecked train to help other survivors.
In the interview, Iglesias recalled Garzon's words, "'I don't want to see this, I want to die,' that's what he said repeatedly," said Iglesias. "'I had to brake down to 80 and couldn't,'" Iglesias quoted the driver as saying.
On Sunday the death toll from the train derailment rose to 79 after an injured passenger died in a hospital, a spokeswoman from the regional government of Galicia told The Associated Press.
A spokeswoman at the University Hospital complex in Santiago de Compostela confirmed the fatality of the unidentified victim.
Spanish national broadcaster RTVE said the person was an American woman but didn't provide her name. The U.S. Embassy said that it would not comment until it could confirm what happened and communicate with the family of the victim.
Officials said 70 people injured in the train accident remained hospitalized on Sunday, 22 in critical condition.
Iglesias was among survivors and witnesses who began to give evidence to police on Sunday.
Meanwhile, authorities said forensic experts have identified the last three bodies among the 79 dead.
Victims have been reported from France, Algeria, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, France, Italy, Mexico and the United States, but officials have not publicly identified each victim or his or her nationality.
Mourning continued throughout Spain, with Sunday church services being held in remembrance of the dead. A large funeral mass is planned for Monday afternoon in Santiago de Compostela, and the prime minister and royal family are expected to attend.
The crash has cast a pall over the town, a Catholic pilgrimage site. Santiago officials had been preparing for the religious feast of St. James of Compostela, Spain's patron saint, but canceled it after the crash and turned a local sporting arena into a morgue.
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Heckle contributed from Madrid
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/judge-questions-train-driver-over-crash-spain-175812900.html
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Provocative Argentine artist Leon Ferrari was 92
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ? Leon Ferrari, a conceptual artist and rights activist who clashed with Pope Francis when he led Argentina's church and relished provoking dictators, bishops and a world at war, has died at age 92.
Ferrari was buried Friday in his native Buenos Aires, where he created a vast array of artwork during a prolific career.
His most memorable piece may "Western Civilization and Christianity," a Christ figure crucified on the wings of a U.S. jet fighter he made during the Vietnam War. Later, his collages mixed images of Adolph Hitler and Argentina's military junta with sacred icons of the Roman Catholic Church.
Ferrari happened to die only hours before Francis invoked one of his more memorable phrases during his current tour of Brazil: Speaking to thousands of Argentines in Rio de Janeiro's central cathedral on Thursday, the pope exhorted the youth not to "put faith in a blender." He repeated this metaphor several times, saying faith shouldn't be mixed nor weakened, but taken whole.
Years before he became Pope Francis, Buenos Aires archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio called Ferrari a blasphemer for displaying statues of the Virgin Mary in a blender, little saints in baby bottles, and Christ figures in a toaster. Ferrari's idea for the 2004 exhibition, mounted next to the historic Recoleta church, was to criticize how he believes religion is force-fed to the masses.
Bergoglio called for the exhibit to be closed and it was, due to violent attacks. Ferrari responded with a missive criticizing the church for the "crimes it committed in Argentina and elsewhere," and years later, the artist was among a large group of Argentine intellectuals who opposed Bergoglio's election as pope, calling it "a horror."
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said he didn't know if Francis knew of Ferrari's death, but that regardless, his comments about the blender to Argentine pilgrims on Thursday had nothing to do with the artist.
"I spoke to Argentines familiar with the speech, the pope and Ferrari's art, and they are certain that his words yesterday had nothing to do with it," he said.
While Ferrari already had a high profile in Argentina and Brazil, his works drew worldwide attention in recent years, and when he died, he was working on a Guggenheim Fellowship to finish a study of sex and violence in Christian art. He also won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennial in 2007, and New York's Museum of Modern Art mounted a retrospective of his work in 2009.
Ferrari was eulogized in Argentine media and by leading figures Friday for the way he mixed politics and poetry, ethics and aesthetics, and managed to show good humor even as he pointed out injustice and horror.
"Leon Ferrari hasn't left, he'll stay with us," said Estela de Carlotto, president of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, remembering her good friend in an interview with the Pagina12 newspaper. "He's left so much with us that happily he'll never be forgotten."
Ferrari's life's work is, in fact, enormous. Over nearly seven decades, he created a constant flow of art in nearly all its forms.
Born in Buenos Aires on Sept. 3, 1920, Ferrari earned an engineering degree, but dedicated himself to art. He married Alicia Barros Castro, and they had three sons: Mariali, Pablo and Ariel. He illustrated books and signs for human rights campaigns, and used not only pencils and brushes, but risked his body and life in some very difficult episodes in Argentine history.
In 1975, even before the military coup that launched a cruel dictatorship, Ferrari was part of the Forum for Human Rights and the Movement against Repression and Torture. Forced into Brazilian exile the next year, he couldn't save his son Ariel, who disappeared in 1977, one of the thousands of Argentines kidnapped and killed by the military state.
When Ferrari returned in 1991, he renewed his focus on injustice, with a particular focus on how the powerful invoke divine support.
Ferrari reflected on his relationship with the public when he visited one of his exhibitions, "Heliographs" and "Never Again," in 2007.
"I had a period not so long ago when I wanted to be understood by everyone," he said, according to his web site. "Then I realized that the rational side, this kind of everyday craziness in which everything appears normal, was impossible," he added. "Man is very small, and within him, he's mostly subjective ? as with love, or a secret."
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Associated Press Writer Nicole Winfield contributed from Rio de Janeiro.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/provocative-argentine-artist-leon-ferrari-92-193108482.html
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