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Vladimir Putin Wins the Russian Presidential Vote

On March 5, 2012, In Society Natural, By Michelle

Vladimir Putin, prime minister and strongman of the country, won the first round of Russian presidential Vote Sunday, according to preliminary results released after the polls closed, while large police forces were concentrated in Moscow.

Putin was elected with 61.97% of the votes, the Communist Gennady Zyuganov would obtain 17.7%, the populist Vladimir Zhirinovsky 7.8%, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov 7.6%, the centrist Sergei Mironov 3.6%, according to official preliminary results published after counting 14% of offices.

These results were announced after the close of polls in the last zone of the country, at 20:00 local Kaliningrad (west) or 1700 GMT.

“This first round victory was obvious,” said the head of Putin’s campaign, Sergei Govorukhin. “There will be no second round,” he said, quoted by Interfax.

President from 2000 to 2008 (two terms of four years), then head of government because they could not bind a third consecutive term forbidden by the Constitution, Mr. Putin remained strong man of the country despite a net decrease of its popularity , will begin a new term, this time increased to 6 years.

The turnout was over 58% at 1400 GMT, according to preliminary figures from the Electoral Commission.

The former KGB agent could make an appearance at a mass meeting Sunday night Manege Square, next to the Kremlin, where 20,000 of his supporters are expected to celebrate his victory.

A scene with giant screens and speakers worthy of a rock concert was mounted in the day on this site adjacent to Red Square.

Very large police forces were mobilized in the center of the capital Sunday night to deter any attempt to challenge, by giving place to the city looks like a fortified camp.

Some 36,500 men, including soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Interior Ministry, were mobilized in the city, officials said.

Dozens of trucks of police were visible in the center, noted journalists from AFP.

The reason for this mobilization is “to ensure full enforcement and public safety,” said a spokesman for the Moscow police.

No opposition group has not officially called to protest Sunday night.

The opposition called for a rally Pushkin Square in downtown Monday night, which should make this day a crucial step for the future of the protest movement.

A coalition of liberal, nationalist and cultural figures and the media has mobilized the past three months tens of thousands of people during demonstrations in the capital, and thousands in other cities across the country with the slogan “Russia without Putin “.

At the polls Sunday, representatives of some candidates, opponents, election monitoring organizations such as Golos Association and the League of Voters and independent media have claimed to have identified amount to fraud.

Control2012.ru site, set up to account for offenses detected by the League of Voters, the Democratic Party Yabloko supporters of the candidate and billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, was recorded around 1630 GMT more than 4,500 violations of electoral legislation.

This site recensait including 327 cases of “massive transportation of voters” to vote as a group (or a hint of repeat voting in different offices through fraudulent authorizations) and 103 cases of ballot stuffing.

An AFP journalist saw on a central square in Moscow more than a hundred buses in Moscow that led thousands of young people from other regions.

These people did not want to say who organized their trip, but coming specifically be entrusted to vote for Vladimir Putin. The election law allows a person to vote in another office than his own, a rule which, according to the opposition, facilitates fraud.

The head of the electoral commission in Moscow, Valentin Gorbunov rejected the accusations, saying that the declarants were probably paid, resuming the discourse of power that determines that the opposition is in the pay of the West.

“All this is the realm of gossip. I feel they have been paid,” he said, Interfax reported.

The power was assured that the vote be free and democratic, while the falsifications denounced by the opposition and independent observers in parliamentary elections in December sparked a wave of protest not seen since 2000.

Mr Putin said the problem by ordering the installation of 180,000 webcams – two per polling station – so that everyone can follow the progress of the election live on the internet.

The system malfunctioned Sunday, as observed by AFP, the retransmission of the images was often interrupted for reasons apparently technical or location of the cameras did not control all the polls.

The effectiveness of such an initiative had the rest been questioned by the election observation mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which must give its findings on the ballot Monday.

Some 109 million voters were eligible to vote.

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Stay in a Carafe

On February 12, 2012, In Society Natural, By Michelle

“Staying in a carafe” is a popular phrase of 1896. It originated in the slang sense of the word carafe , ie “mouth”. This term thus defined is found in various slang dictionaries period as:

in 1880, in the New addition to the “Dictionary of Slang” of Loredan Larchey:

” Carafe : throat, jargon-thugs is poured into water and wine as in the decanter. ”

in 1907 Slang dictionary French- Hayard of Leon (1851-1903) Hayard said Napoleon, Emperor of hawkers:

” Jug , coconut, horn “: Throat throat.

Originally, this phrase was said in speaking of a person was left speechless in a speech after a lapse of memory, it was called in popular slang: it was “decanted” .

Later this meaning was extended to all situations where the person is “standing there” without recourse. Moreover, we find this meaning in the vocabulary of cyclists where “stay carafe” is said when a competitor is a puncture, the car’s sporting director did not troubleshoots and him only as the solution to the relief vehicle to reach the finish.

Read Michel Barbier and Michel said in Franc-Parler that the Littré gives a fuller expression:

“” It’s a real pitcher of barley water “. We know that the barley water (decoction of barley supplemented with an emulsion of almonds that are actually elongated and enriched water ice, a drink hygienic and refreshing Mediterranean) has a heavy appearance, somewhat viscous. Here, then, orgeat adds to the idea of ??yet carafe “

Swallow Snakes / Snakes Swallow

On February 6, 2012, In Society Natural, By Michelle

Inflict humiliation, inconvenience all the time someone / Suffer humiliation, insults or inconvenience without daring to protest.

To accept, a nobody, anything as a truth / Accept anything as a truth.

The term “snakes to swallow” , attested from 1667, is found in the correspondence of Bussy Rabutin and

Madame de Sevigne with sense, forgotten today, “inflicting discomfort to someone”; the word snake symbolizes something so torturous.

This explanation of the phrase is found later in A. Furetiere and V. Hautel of in these terms:

“Snake Snake sf which is the figure of an eel, and that reconnoist when he is in a pond, in that it has always tested out of water. [...] They say a man has swallowed snakes, when you said or did before him fascheuses several things that can be applied, however, having been obliged to conceal the displeasure he had. ”

Antoine Furetiere, “Universal Dictionary containing generally all words fran?ois”, 1695

“Snake. Do snakes swallow someone . Means wipe him great mortification, bitter sorrows. ”

V.d ‘Hautel, “Dictionary of low language”, 1808

However, how do we go from the idea of ??mortification or humiliation that lie now? There are two possible versions for the origin of this meaning:

Alain Rey supposes in his “Robert, Historical Dictionary of the French Language” that the word snake pointing in the sixteenth century, something crooked, would have crossed with the figurative sense of the word color existing in the period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, is: the false appearance, false appearance. Thus, this combination of words and meanings have tricked the snake attributes of lies and treachery, thus giving the sense of “deceiving someone” in the phrase “snakes to swallow” .

Claude Duneton, meanwhile, gives another explanation in his book “A Flea in Her Ear”

“I personally think that there is somewhere” fishy “. The eel, freshwater fish to a snake, was, when she abounded in our rivers clean, put a current and particularly appreciated. It is likely that it is opposed to it that the snake, considered abhorrent and even dangerous acts. Hosts pranksters would they have used snakes in place of eels to test the docility of their guests? … The shot of the cat to the rabbit sauce? After all the snake is edible, and fine flesh according to some. It is also called eel hedge. “

Magic, about the farm in the Pampas Sicilian

On September 23, 2011, In Society Natural, By Michelle

Since 1930 our grandfather, with determination and love of farming, has passed his knowledge and the opportunity today to continue with his imprint deal "Kibo" (his firm). Our approach pushes us to work with nature and not against it. Initially, the farm we used primarily to feed ourselves, today we deliver our extra virgin olive oil "Kibo" in the world. He always keep in mind the philosophy that we must take advantage of what offers us the earth. We grow our own wheat naturally, our fruits and vegetables.

Our fresh food we make our own pasta and bread, jam (etc) that we traditionally prepare at home, cooking our delicious healthy fruit. Our family loves nature and benefits; we just live and produce only what we need.

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Common Pond Algae Could Sequester High-Level Radioactive Waste

On September 21, 2011, In Society Natural, By Michelle

Closterium Moniliferum VS Radioactive Strontium-90

One of the problems of dealing with nuclear waste is that the more dangerous byproducts are often mixed in with low-level waste, and it can be very complex to separate them. But researchers at Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory have discovered that common freshwater algae can remove strontium-90 from water and sequester it inside solid barium-strontium-sulfate crystals. Nature is showing us the way, we just need to take notes…

Strontium 90 has a half-life of about 30 years, is chemically very similar to calcium and thus is drawn to bone. The cumulative cancer risk from strontium 90 exposure when strontium is bound in bones for many years is very high.

The crescent-shaped, single-celled organism studied by Joester and his colleagues naturally makes biominerals that include non-radioactive strontium, and it can differentiate strontium from calcium — a rare feat. The researchers want to learn more about this selectivity because calcium is present in far greater abundance than strontium in nuclear waste, but calcium is harmless. By concentrating the radioactive strontium (Sr-90) in the form of solid crystals with very low solubility, the dangerous high-level waste could be isolated from the rest and dealt with separately.

The algae could potentially be used for bioremediation, or the mechanism used by the algae could be isolated and improved separately to design an even more selective process. This is a good example of learning from the processes that have been designed by evolutionary trial-and-error over millions of years rather than try to re-invent the wheel from scratch.

This could be useful in Japan for the eventual decontamination of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. It’s not ready now, but the decontamination will very likely take many years, so maybe at some point it’ll be used.

Tagged with: Algae • High-Level Radioactive Waste

Climate: the resumption of negotiations in Bangkok

On September 15, 2011, In Society Natural, By Michelle

Four months after agreement Cancun, Delegations from over 190 countries gathered in Bangkok until April 8 to resume negotiations on the fight against global warming. A first transfer of discussions is to prepare for the summit to be held at the end of the year in Durban, South Africa.

On the menu for these negotiations, the economic crisis and nuclear themes very difficult for the future of Kyoto Protocol and the creation of a Green funds for developing countries. "We must address the political issues that have not received answers. This includes making operational the bodies in Cancun as the Green Fund to help countries most vulnerable to climate change", it has highlighted the climate responsible for the UN Christiana Figueres, whose statements were reported by Euronews.

While the Cancun Summit last December had reached agreement on the urgency of creating a fund to help weaker countries to fight and adapt to climate change, the Kyoto Protocol is to date the only treaty which imposes binding targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gas emissions. This treaty not ratified by the United States will end in 2012. "The most important is the level of ambition and the legal nature of commitments on emission reductions of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) emissions after 2012 ", then found Christiana Figueres.

Developing countries call for an extension of the commitments of countries that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol. A second period from 2013 to 2017, the poorest states hope to see adopted at the Durban summit. But some countries such as Japan firmly reject this request.

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Climate: global warming threatens archaeological sites

On September 9, 2011, In Society Natural, By Michelle

A team of British academics, who assessed three archaeological sites located in cold regions of the globe, the effects of global warming could worsen many historical relics, including human remains.

Members of the Business School, University of Edinburgh (Scotland) examined the fate of three sites in the northern hemisphere, a treasure trove of archaeological hitherto preserved in ice or permafrost, and found potential or actual damage due to thawing consecutive global warming.

In Alaska, coastal erosion caused by the withdrawal of the ice watching the remains of an ancient village Inuit Including a cemetery dating from the fourth century. The melting of glaciers in the Rocky Mountains threat of human remains of paleo-American populations, as well as artifacts such as tools and stone weapons or items of clothing. In Altai, finally, Central Asia, rising temperatures could impact the frozen tombs alone the world, those of former nomadic horsemen.

"Many of these sites are not yet documented and will begin to be studied as if they protrude above the ice, even as they begin to deteriorate"Says Katie Molyneaux, principal author of the study. "The long-term efforts are needed to locate the archaeological remains at risk, and seek the best way to take care of them. We must also consider the cultural and political implications related to the preservation of these relics", Says Dr Dave Reay, who oversaw the study.

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India has about 1.21 billion people in 2011

On August 27, 2011, In Society Natural, By Michelle

On 31 March, India had about 1.21 billion people. In ten years, the Indian population has increased by 181 million people. However, for the first time since Indian independence in 1947, growth is in sharp decline with an increase of 17.6% against 21.5% in 2001.

With 1.21 billion people, India now accounts for 17.5% of the population World. It is the second country in the ranking of most populous nations in the world, just after China with 19.4% of world population, reports the site Good Planet.

While population growth has dropped significantly from 21.15% in 2001 to 17.64% in 2011, this decrease in the rate of population growth "is a direct result of the rising number of literate women "Said Professor K. Nagaraj, professor at the Institute of Development Studies at Madras cited by Figaro. However, if India seems to be in demographic transition, the census shows a gender imbalance that has worsened over the past ten years. The country has indeed so far 914 girls per 1,000 boys. In 2001 it was 927 for 1000. An increase in the gender gap appears to be the sign of the failure of the fight against sex-selective abortion in India.

To achieve this census, launched a year ago, the country has mobilized some 2.5 million civil servants who have traveled 600,000 villages and 7,000 cities. The survey results are not yet finalized and should be in the coming months.

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African Elephants: the older and experienced leaders better manage threats

On August 19, 2011, In Society Natural, By Michelle

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society BA British study shows that, in herds of wild elephants in Africa, older matriarchs respond more effectively than young females to the threat posed by predators for the young group they manage.

Zoologists, led by Dr Karen McComb, a psychologist at the University of Sussex, broadcast over loudspeakers recordings of male lion roars to 39 family groups of elephants in Amboseli National Park (south of Kenya) With an average of 5 adult, student and filming their reactions.

They found that among the leaders of each group – females – aged individuals were more often able than younger people to take appropriate defensive measures – listening and after prolonged roar, turning toward the source of noise, and clustering around young adults to protect them.

"Sensitivity to this threat well known to increase with age and is higher among the oldest matriarchs, which have probably accumulated more experience. Our study provides the first empirical evidence that individuals within a social group, can benefit directly from the influence of a former, because of its increased capacity to make critical decisions (….). Capacity likely to be very relevant in other social species with large brains and long life, where older individuals play a key role in coordinating the activities of the group ", Say the researchers.

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Children in strollers are too exposed to pollution

On August 9, 2011, In Society Natural, By Michelle

The Association of Environmental Health of France has indicated through a recent study that children seated in strollers inhale fine particles of a rate high, which could be hazardous to health.

Association for Environmental Health of France (Asef), it would not be very healthy for children to be taken for a ride in stroller in town. Thus, the association warns that children would be at the level of exhaust pipes and would face a fine particle levels too high. The study of Asef says that while traveling in the city center, children in strollers inhale up to twice the dose limit for fine particles, set by the World Health Organization.

For purposes of this experiment, two buggies were equipped with pollution sensors, and have wandered into the center of Aix-en-Provence on March 10 last, reports The Express. The association explains: "Of the two courses, both morning evening rates are almost never below 20 micrograms per cubic meter", A figure consistent with the objective of air quality as determined by the European Union, but much too high compared to the recommendations of the World Health Organization. According to the Institute for Public Health, these micro particles are carcinogenic and cause many health problems in the child.

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