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Youth believe that Beethoven is a dog and a computer virus Michelangelo
Many young people who will graduate in American universities in 2014 believe that Beethoven is a dog and Michelangelo computer virus, according to a study released today by College Mindset of Beloit College (Wisconsin).
Students who are about to enter American universities also believe that email is “too slow”, used to type messages in modern mobile phones, and very few of them can write in cursive.
These findings come from a survey every year since 1998, teachers at the University of Beloit (Wisconsin) Tom McBride and Ron Nief make students who are about to enter their university, and which serves to develop a list of the 75 cultural landmarks that have defined that generation.
According to the survey, Americans have always had pre-university computers at home, though first they met, those of the early 90s, are now in museums.
“The digital language has always been part of their cultural DNA,” says the study, which stresses that these teenagers use their mobile as a watch and are used to having an offer of 500 channels of cable TV, but only see a few.
For them, Clint Eastwood is an Oscar-winning director and sensitive, far from the stereotypical tough guy from “Dirty Harry” (1971) was recorded in the minds of their parents.
They also believe that Czechoslovakia has never existed, that U.S. companies have always done business in Vietnam, the Korean cars have always traveled in their country and the U.S., Canada and Mexico have always been bound by a Free Trade Agreement.
The two million students who enter higher education in September not remember any kind of competition between Americans and Russians for the conquest of space, according to the survey.
College Mindset List, originally created “as a way to remember the cultural references of teachers every year,” has become, according to its creators, “a catalog of ways to see the world changing at tremendous speeds with each generation
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19 133 murders were recorded in 2009 in Venezuela, according to an official study
In Venezuela there were “19 133 murders” in 2009, placing the murder rate in the country “75 per 100,000 inhabitants,” according to a study by the National Statistics Institute (INE) revealed today by the local press.
The Caracas daily El Nacional published a synopsis of the report “National Survey on Victimization and Perception of Public Safety 2009″, conducted between August and November of that year by the INE at the request of the Executive Vice President, who received last May from According to the newspaper.
El Nacional published a report a day after a court in Caracas changed “somewhat” a preventive measure, adopted on Tuesday, prohibiting him from publishing “photos, information and publicity about violence.
The study of the INE, 279 pages, indicates that the homicide rate in Venezuela is 75 per 100,000 inhabitants.
The paper compares this data with that of Colombia, where he said, there is a conflict, and they recorded 32 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, and Mexico, with 8 per 100,000 inhabitants.
According to the study attributed to the INE, the total homicides in 2009, 79.48 percent (15 191) were committed with firearms, while the remaining 20.52 with any other weapons.
The 81.13 percent of those killed were men and 18.87 women, according to the official survey, which also discriminates against victims by age and states that 44.12 percent were between 25 and 44.
The 36.61 percent of those killed were between 15 and 24 years, 14.17 per cent between 45 and 64 years, the 2.82 per cent over 65 years and 1.74 percent between 0 and 14 years age, the study said.
The document adds that most of the victims belonged to the poorest sectors of society: 56.52 percent (10 802) to socioeconomic IV and 27.12 percent (5182) to V.
Some 2376 victims (12.43 percent) belonged to the stratum III, 365 (1.19 percent) to II and 387 killed (2.02 percent) to socioeconomic level I, according to the study published by the Caracas newspaper and attributed the INE.
The publication, first on Friday and then on Monday last, a picture of dead bodies at the morgue in Caracas newspaper El Nacional and Tal Cual, respectively, resulted in a court in the capital on Tuesday to ban them both play ” photos, information and publicity about violence.
12 The Court Mediation and Conduct, which also urged the rest of the country’s print media to “abstain” to post pictures and information on violence, that opinion changed last part, which is now limited only to prohibit the dissemination of photos of deaths or blood.
“The interim (which prohibits publishing information and images of violence) against Tal remains just that, and be in force until it is determined on its merits” of the lawsuit filed by the Ombudsman’s Office said last night his legal representative, Larry Davo.
For its part, the editor of El Nacional, Miguel Henrique Otero, said last night that “the court back, in part, by its decision” because “the whole country was” a ban on publishing photos of violence, which he said was “censorship prior.
The Ombudsman sued in court to El Nacional and Tal Cual for publishing a front-page pictures of corpses in the morgue in Caracas, saying that the image of “aggression against the rights” of minors “and especially against progressive development and comprehensive. ”
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said yesterday that the publication of the controversial photo would be part of the “conspiracy” against his government opposition sectors develop as part of their campaign ahead of parliamentary elections next September.
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Whisky waste could boost vehicles – biofuel for cars made from whiskey
LONDON (AP) – The Scottish scientists claim to have developed a biofuel for cars with the remains that produces the distillation of whiskey.
Researchers at Napier University in Edinburgh have produced a type of fuel called butanol using “pot ale” _ the liquid left over after distillation in copper stills _ and “Draffan” cereal grain used in the manufacturing process.
They argue that butanol can be used in ordinary vehicles without having to modify the engines. And unlike some biofuels is extracted from waste products and is not necessary to plant or harvest specific plants for it.
Researchers say they have applied for a patent for fuel and intend to establish a company for distribution at British service stations.
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Computer recreate the attack of a “terror bird” – bird five feet high
The Andalgalornis, a bird five feet high that could not fly and lived in the Miocene (23 to 5 million years ago), he resorted to the techniques of a fighter to attack their prey, according to an international team of scientists.
Munida a large and rigid skull topped by a curved beak and sharp, the agile creature attacked and repeatedly drew back after each blow must tip your victims, says a study published in the journal PLoS ONE.
The study was a result of a scan of the skull of the animal and engineering techniques that allowed their movements to reproduce in 3D on a computer, is the first to analyze the method of attack of a copy of a large group of extinct ratite birds (not flying) Phorusrhacidae family, popularly known as “terror birds” and skull for its imposing size.
These birds evolved about 60 million years in isolation in South America and were divided into 18 known species of different sizes, which could reach 2.1 meters in the case of bigger, Kelenken.
“Nobody had tried to conduct a very comprehensive biomechanical analysis of a terror bird,” said lead study author Frederick Degrange, the Museum of La Plata / CONICET in Argentina.
The sample studied lived in northwestern Argentina six million years ago, measuring 1.4 meters tall and weighed about 40 kilos.
His skull was 37 cm and was equipped with a beak curved like a hawk and surprisingly hollow inside.
The Andalgalornis was different from other birds by the rigidity of his skull, a feature apparently related to the inability to fly and its large size.
Scientists from Argentina, USA, Australia and France were able to determine their method of hunting by comparing 3D models of the terror bird and two extant species, the eagle and the seriema, considered his closest living relative.
The computer simulation confirmed the anatomical results achieved by analyzing the skull with the scanner.
The skull of the bird was robust enough to allow him to use his beak up and down but not side to side, and the bill was in danger of breaking hole whether to deal with a barrage being discussed.
The researchers also measured the bite force of the bird compared with the eagle and the seriema and determined that it was less than expected.
Therefore, the terror bird was forced to use a method similar to the boxers, consisting of a strategy of attack and retreat, with precise strokes like an ax.
The terror birds that fed on mammals are now extinct and were competing with saber-tooth marsupials, became the top predators in their environment.
At least one of them, Titanis, reached North America made between two and three million years, but the species disappeared from the face of the earth shortly after.
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Earthquake in Haiti caused by previously unknown fault
A previously unidentified fault was responsible for the earthquake of magnitude 7.0 on the Richter scale occurred in Haiti on January 12, no failure to originally blamed for the accident, scientists announced Tuesday.
The massive earthquake killed more than 200,000 deaths and left more than 1.5 million people homeless.
When the earthquake, scientists thought that there was not much doubt about the culprit, said geophysicist Eric Calais, Purdue University, the conference of the American Geophysical Union Meeting in the event of the Americas, held in Brazil.
The fault was quickly identified as Enriquillo guilty, but new data have revealed a more complicated picture.
“The responsibility of the earthquake fault was not to Enriquillo, but a new failure,” said Calais. “This was a big surprise that I thought that our calculations were wrong.”
Since the earthquake, teams of geoscientists have deployed instruments in the region to obtain a detailed and specific picture of how the ground moved during the quake. The researchers analyzed the readings of instruments, studied satellite images, researched evidence and made marine field assessments in the affected region.
Earthquakes usually occur along faults, which are fractures in rock plates of Earth’s crust. A segment of the fault 40 km long broke during the quake.
The plates forming the Earth’s crust move relative to each other, most of the time an imperceptibly slow pace, on average, the plates are moved between one and 10 centimeters per year, which is almost as fast as the growing nails. In the case of the earthquake in Haiti, the Caribbean Plate and the North American Plate sliding side by side to the west-east. This is known as transforming edge, ie a vertical fracture where the plates have moved mostly horizontally.
Preliminary reports suggested that the earthquake that devastated Haiti Fault occurred in Enriquillo, affecting Haiti and is located along the boundary between the Caribbean and North American plates. This was based on preliminary observations and previous studies suggest that such failure was about to break.
The research team discovered, however, that some of the faults in the area moved in unexpected directions. Enriquillo failure is what is known as a vertical fault, but new data suggest that the earthquake did not occur on a vertical fault, Calais said.
“Most of the edge, if not all, was not identified on the fault, not the Enriquillo” said Calais.
System Fault-Plantain Garden Enriquillo has not produced a major earthquake in recent decades. This failure is the likely source of historically devastating earthquakes occurred in 1860, 1770 and 1751, but has not been confirmed that none are associated with this fault.
Scientists are not sure exactly how dangerous is the failure not identified. One possibility is that is part of a system failure not known before and research is underway to find out more. “We need to know to assess the risk that” Calais said. “It’s crucial.”
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Member dies gay couples who married yesterday in Mar del Plata
A member of the first gay couple married in Mar del Plata yesterday died this morning after suffering a failure during the festivities of the wedding.
Berchot Nestor, 45, died around 5 am in the Interzone Hospital of the spa town, where he had been transferred from the party with an attack of pressure.
This was confirmed by Karina Telam Freire, head of the Association for the Rights Marplatense Equality (AMADI), who said he was in the festivities until 3 hours later and found out that “Nestor had decompensated having a peak pressure .
Berchot was married yesterday to Adrian Garcia, who also shared the hairdressing profession, after a year of living together and after the enactment of the law of equal marriage.
The man’s remains were veiled in the wake house San Pietro, located in Yrigoyen and Moreno, Mar del Plata. (Télam) .- nsd-mcl-lei13/08/2010 9:54
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Nelson Calderon has good health in the story
The genus of the story is in good health, because many authors are engaged in it, said last night the Colombian storyteller Nelson Calderon, who took part in the series ‘Story time’ in the Reading Centre Countess.
There are also international short story competitions and ‘I see now that I’m writing, a lot of story, but the novel is one that has much more strength and it sells more, but I think at the moment is taking more momentum (the story ), especially in Latin America ‘, said in an interview with Notimex.
He stressed that there are many writers who write stories or who started with this genre, then move on to the novel, citing as an example for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Gabriel García Márquez fellow, who has such production.
As for international competitions, the storyteller and author based in Spain said that is a motivation to participate in some of them, as he has done and has won a prize.
‘For me it is a motivation to participate, because still there prepare for a job, or if you have the polish and send it, and this motivates you to write and creates readership’ he said.
Calderon, who will participate in the XXI International Festival of Oral Narration AccountRead, to be held July 24 to August 6 in Havana, said that a story has finished and is in the process of a novel.
He added, has other ideas for three more novels, ‘we’re at it and it would be my first work in that genre, because I am an author of books of short stories, and, well, we’re on that path, and hopefully can be published in Spain ‘.
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Academic fraud may slow scientific progress in China
When teachers in China need to do a research paper written to earn a promotion, as many people use Keqian Lu.
In your laptop, in a bedroom, former teacher writes work for other teachers, students, government offices or anyone who is willing to pay their fee, usually around 300 yuan ($ 45).
“I think to write a paper for another sign it is not something wrong,” he said. “There is always a moment when you need help from others. Even our great leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, needed assistance to write.”
The drafting work for others, plagiarism and conduct of research are as common False in the academic world in China that some experts fear this may hamper the country’s efforts to become a world leader in science.
The communist government believes that science is crucial for the modernization of China and it is envisaged that public expenditure on science and technology this year to grow 8% to 24,000 million dollars (163,000 million yuan).
State media recently boasted to some reports, indicating that China publishes more papers in international scientific journals than any other country except the United States. But not all research would be verified as intended.
In December, a British publication 70 papers rejected a couple of scientists from Chinese universities, noting that his work was false.
“The economic fraud, misconduct and breaches of ethics are very common in China,” said Professor Yi Rao, Dean of the Faculty of Biosciences, University of Beijing, the capital. “It’s a big problem.”
Critics attribute the problem to the penalties too light and a system that decides on promotions and bonuses in the faculties based on the number of published papers rather than the quality of the data.
Israeli Professor Dan Ben-Canaan meets daily new cases of plagiarism.
Ben-Canaan has taught for nine years at Heilongjiang University in the northeastern city of Harbin. In 2008, a colleague approached him to consult on a document that the Israeli scholar had written about the kidnapping and murder of a Jewish musician in Harbin, in 1933, during the Japanese occupation.
“He had the gall to present their paper at a conference I organized,” said Ben-Canaan. “What impudence!”
In another case, Israel had written material presented to a researcher from the prestigious Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Later, she says, was shocked to receive an academic book was practically a copy and translation of the material he had given him, without being given any credit.
The pressure to publish material have led to a boom of the writers on request. More than 145 million dollars (nearly 1,000 billion yuan) was spent last year in academic papers in China, a fivefold increase over 2007, showed a study of Shen Yang, a professor at Wuhan University.
A company that provides this service in Liuzhou, an industrial city in southern Iraq, is Lu Keqian, former teacher. Ke Lu Their Academic Center boasts a network of between 20 and 30 students and teachers, whose specialties range from information technology to military affairs.
Lu, 58, Communist Party member, serving customers through instant messaging on the Internet. Most are university professors and students who seek promotions requesting help.
Once, ten students from the same college made him a collective request to write his research, he said.
“Do everything on their own, independently, should be something possible in theory but in practice it is very difficult and you can always need help,” said Lu. “This is how I see it. Do not know if it’s correct.”
Of course, the deception exist even in the business of selling research. Among the documents bought and sold in 2007, over 70% were plagiarism, found the study of Wuhan.
Early last year, Internet users found that the deputy director of Anhui University of Agriculture had plagiarized almost 20 papers. The university dismissed him from office but allowed him to continue teaching.
In June, the director of a college of traditional medicine in the city of Guangzhou was accused of plagiarizing at least 40% of his doctoral thesis, taking the contents of other documents.
And in March, the China Youth Daily, state media reported that a medical document written in 1997 was copied repeatedly over the last decade. At least 25 people from 16 organizations appropriated the work and more doctors are expected to be mentioned, as it continues to research by two students who used software to detect plagiarism, the report said.
Fang Shimin, independent fraud investigator, said he and his volunteers discover a hundred cases a year and published on a website.
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Guatemala wins first Everest
The Guatemalan Andrea Cardona conquered the summit of Mount Everest, becoming the first American woman to accomplish the feat.
The climber began climbing the March 26, 2010 and 58 days after reaching the summit of the highest mountain on Earth, with 8850 meters above sea level, located in the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and China, as reported Ansa agency.
Cardona has seven summits, including in Tibet Cho Oyu, Aconcagua in Argentina 6946 meters, the 6195 meters McKinley in Alaska, the 5642 meters Ebrus in Russia, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa 5895 meters and the Island Peak in Nepal , 6,200 meters.
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Arizona approves harsh anti-immigrant law
A severe initiative to combat illegal immigration in Arizona became law despite the president Barack Obama on Friday called it”irresponsible”and”misguided.”
Governor Jan Brewer, enacted the law with his signature at a ceremony on Friday broadcast live on television. The measure will take effect 90 days after the current legislative session, to be held in the coming weeks.
Brewer found that the”law protects all citizens of Arizona.”
The comprehensive legislation become the be a state crime in the country illegally. Also require police officers to question anyone about their immigration status, only suspected that this individual is illegally in the country.
Obama warned in Washington that the measure could violate people’s civil rights, and has instructed the Justice Department to examine the measure to determine if it is legal.
But the president’s comments did not convince the state’s Republican governor to veto what would be the most uncompromising law of the country against illegal immigration.
Obama said the federal government should reform the national immigration rules, otherwise leave the door open to others”irresponsible.”
”This includes, for example, recent efforts in Arizona that threaten to undermine the fundamental concepts of fairness so expensive for Americans, and the trust between police and communities is crucial to give us security,”Obama said.
Brewer had one more day to decide what to do with the bill. However, he decided not to wait.
The deadline of Saturday for the Republican governor was established on Monday when the bill came to his office. The state governor could sign it, veto it or let it become law without his signature.
The human rights advocates say the law would lead to racial individuation and deter Hispanics to report crimes. Hundreds of Hispanics protested on Thursday against the state Capitol.
The project sponsor, Sen. Russell Pearce, said police would release the political obstacles and leave the state would help illegal immigrants.
Arizona has about 460 000 illegal immigrants and is the busiest border crossing in the nation.
Other provisions of the bill would allow lawsuits against government agencies that hamper the implementation of immigration laws and would make it illegal to hire undocumented workers or knowingly transport.
Brewer faces a tough Republican primary on Aug. 24 and one of his opponents, state Treasurer Dean Martin, has called for signing the bill.
Obama made his remarks during a naturalization ceremony for 24 soldiers on active duty, who he said represent the true patriotism to serve a country that then they could call their own.
He said he will continue to work with Congress to develop a comprehensive reform of immigration law.
”If we continue without any action on the federal level, we will see other misguided efforts in the country,”Obama said. ”As a nation, as a people, we can choose a different future.”
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British soldier becomes blind to “see” through a device BrainPort
Craig Lundberg, 24, is the first person to participate in a pilot program of the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom to mitigate the effects of blindness through this device, called BrainPort and developed in the U.S., according to British media.
HOW DOES IT?
The BrainPort is a lens that captures a minicamera visual stimuli, which then are translated into electrical signals that the user perceives the language through a kind of “palette” in the mouth.
The recipient interprets these signals depending on its intensity and can get an idea of its environment, the shape of objects and even, in some ways, “read” letters.
Lundberg noted that the device is very helpful and, for example, you can locate objects, but not think getting rid of Hugo, his guide dog.
INNOVATIONS ARE EXPECTED
The British Defense Ministry will collaborate with the U.S. Army to continue developing the device and to increase from 400 to at least 4,000 points that send information to the language, improving the quality of the images.
One of the drawbacks of BrainPoint is that users can not speak or eat while using it, so that designers invent raised a smaller device can be installed permanently in the mouth.
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Whiskey bottles are 100 years in Antarctica
WELLINGTON (AP) – A group of restorers found a whiskey that happened 100 years in the rocks.
Five cases of whiskey and two of brandy were recovered by the team that restored a cottage Antarctic that was used over 100 years ago by the famous polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.
The ice made that will break some of the bottles that had been abandoned there in 1909 when the expedition had to leave, but the restaurant said Friday they are confident that the boxes contain some intact bottles “can be heard as a liquid when moved .
The group thought there were only two boxes and were surprised to find five, said the team leader of the Heritage Fund of New Zealand Antarctica Al Fasti.
The current owners of the distillery that made the bottles of whiskey, Whyte & Mackay group began a campaign to try to retrieve the bottles of drink to test them to decide whether to release this mix again especially since the recipe is lost .
Fasti said that restorers found the boxes with the bottles under the wooden floor of the cabin in 2006, but were too buried in the ice to recover.
New Zealanders accepted through the ice to retrieve a few bottles while the rest must remain under the rules of conservation of Antarctic treaty.
Richard Paterson, specialist in Whyte and Mackay mixtures, whose company supplied the whiskey Mackinlay for Shackleton’s expedition, described the discovery as “a godsend for whiskey lovers.
“If the contents can be extracted and analyzed to confirm and secure the original mixture could be replicated. Since the original recipe does not exist this is a way to open a door to history,” he said in a statement.
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Pilot dies in flight, but well plane lands in U.S.
NEWARK, New Jersey, USA (AP) – The pilot of a Continental Airlines plane that left Newark to Brussels on Thursday, died in mid-flight over the Atlantic Ocean, but the aircraft with 247 passengers aboard landed smoothly under the command of two passengers.
Passengers aboard Flight 61 were not informed of the death of the pilot and surcharges will continue to serve snacks, but the crew requested assistance from a doctor on board. Several passengers approached the cockpit, including a doctor who told The Associated Press that the pilot appeared to have suffered a heart attack.
It is believed that the pilot of 60 years of age and 32 years of service with the airline, died of natural causes, reported Crip Kelly, spokesman for the airline based in Houston.
A pilot was on board for support during the flight and took the place of deceased colleague, said Crip. The Boeing 777 landed on time shortly before noon at the Newark Liberty International Airport.
“The flight continued in safety, with two pilots in command,” Crip said in a statement.
The doctor Struyven Julien, 72, a cardiologist and radiologist from Brussels who was traveling on the flight, responded to the request for help, went to the cabin crew and the pilot considered.
“We no longer alive,” said Struyven. There was “no chance at all” to save him, he added.
Struyven said to believe that the pilot had a heart attack. He said he used a defibrillator to try to revive the driver, but it was too late.
Martha Love, a passenger from Greenwich, New Jersey, who was sitting in the front row of the plane, said he was never told the passengers what was happening exactly.
“Nobody knew,” he said. He said he was concerned that after the plane landed and saw several vehicles and fire emergency equipment to the aircraft along the runway.
In 2007, another pilot died Continental versus controls of an airplane after feeling unwell during a flight from Houston to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The aircraft landed without problems with a pilot in command after the plane was diverted to McAllen, in southern Texas
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