The latest message that pops up when you open Skype on your desktop could have dire consequences if you’re using third-party apps and accessories with the VoIP service. Come December, Microsoft is scrapping the current programming language in favor of something a little more mobile device-friendly. …
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A truck unloads construction waste material in a quarry near Akhshtyr village in Sochi, Russia, Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. Trucks rumble to the edge of a gigantic pit filled with spray cans, tires and foam sheets and dump a stream of concrete slabs that send up a cloud of limestone dust. Other trucks pile clay on top and a bulldozer mixes everything together in a rudimentary effort to hide the mess. This landfill outside Sochi, which will host the Winter Olympics in 100 days, is smack in the middle of a water protection zone where dumping industrial waste is banned. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
A truck unloads construction waste material in a quarry near Akhshtyr village in Sochi, Russia, Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. Trucks rumble to the edge of a gigantic pit filled with spray cans, tires and foam sheets and dump a stream of concrete slabs that send up a cloud of limestone dust. Other trucks pile clay on top and a bulldozer mixes everything together in a rudimentary effort to hide the mess. This landfill outside Sochi, which will host the Winter Olympics in 100 days, is smack in the middle of a water protection zone where dumping industrial waste is banned. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
Excavators move earth at a quarry near Akhshtyr village in Sochi, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. As a centerpiece of its Olympic bid, Russia trumpeted a “Zero Waste” program that promised the cleanest games ever, saying it would refrain from dumping construction waste and rely on reusable materials. But on a visit last week to Akhshtyr, just north of Sochi, The Associated Press found that Russia’s state-owned rail monopoly is dumping tons of construction waste into an illegal landfill, raising concerns of possible contamination in the water that directly supplies Sochi. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, exit a commuter train at the newly built Adler railway station at the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia, Monday, Oct. 28, 2013. Making his first trip to Sochi since being elected head of the IOC last month, Bach met Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin to inspect the host city. Bach told Putin he was deeply impressed with the amount of work Russia has done for the Feb. 7-23 games. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)
Village leader Alexander Koropov waves near a quarry containing construction waste near the village of Akhshtyr in Sochi, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. Trucks rumble to the edge of a gigantic pit filled with spray cans, tires and foam sheets and dump a stream of concrete slabs that send up a cloud of limestone dust. Other trucks pile clay on top and a bulldozer mixes everything together in a rudimentary effort to hide the mess. This landfill outside Sochi, which will host the Winter Olympics in 100 days, is smack in the middle of a water protection zone where dumping industrial waste is banned. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
A truck carrying construction waste drives through a quarry near Akhshtyr village in Sochi, Russia, Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. Trucks rumble to the edge of a gigantic pit filled with spray cans, tires and foam sheets and dump a stream of concrete slabs that send up a cloud of limestone dust. Other trucks pile clay on top and a bulldozer mixes everything together in a rudimentary effort to hide the mess. This landfill outside Sochi, which will host the Winter Olympics in 100 days, is smack in the middle of a water protection zone where dumping industrial waste is banned. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
AKHSHTYR, Russia (AP) — Trucks rumble to the edge of a gigantic pit filled with spray cans, tires and foam sheets and dump a stream of concrete slabs that send up a cloud of limestone dust. Other trucks pile clay on top and a bulldozer mixes everything together in a rudimentary effort to hide the mess. This landfill outside Sochi, which will host the Winter Olympics in 100 days, is smack in the middle of a water protection zone where dumping industrial waste is banned.
As a centerpiece of its Olympic bid, Russia trumpeted a “Zero Waste” program that promised the cleanest games ever, saying it would refrain from dumping construction waste and rely on reusable materials. But on a visit last week to Akhshtyr, just north of Sochi, The Associated Press found that Russia’s state-owned rail monopoly is dumping tons of construction waste into what authorities call an illegal landfill, raising concerns of possible contamination in the water that directly supplies Sochi.
The finding shows how little Russia has done to fulfill its ambitious green pledges. Its $51 billion budget for the Olympics contains no provisions for treating construction waste.
In a letter obtained by the AP, the Environmental Protection Agency in the area where Sochi is located told the Black Sea resort’s environment council in late August that it had inspected the Akhshtyr landfill and found “unauthorized dumping of construction waste as well as soil from excavation works.” The agency said it fined Russian Railways, whose Sochi project costs billions of dollars, $3,000 for the dumping. It didn’t order the dump closed.
The EPA’s Sochi representative visited the site earlier this month and insisted it was being cleaned up, villagers and activists who were present at that meeting said. The agency was unavailable for comment this week.
The main health concern surrounding the landfill is to the water supply.
Authorities confirm that Russian Railways operates the Akhshtyr dump without a license — but it wouldn’t be able to obtain one even if it tried. That’s because the village lies in an area where dumping construction waste and soil is forbidden under the Russian Water Code. Moisture from the landfill seeps through porous karst rocks into underground springs that feed the nearby Mzymta River, which provides up to half the water supply in Sochi.
“Water from here will be contaminating Sochi’s fresh water springs for the next 10 to 15 years,” said Vladimir Kimaev, a member of the Environmental Watch on North Caucasus.
Boris Golubov, a geologist with the Russian Academy of Sciences, said it is impossible to accurately judge the impact of the Akhshtyr dump without a chemical breakdown of the waste and a full geological survey of the rocks. He said, however, that the landfill’s location on karst is potentially hazardous.
“Whenever you start dumping something or dig, you’ve got to think twice,” Golubov said.
Russian Railways is building the most expensive piece of Sochi infrastructure, a 48-kilometer (30-mile) highway and railroad link between the airport and the Alpine venues that has already cost the government 270 billion rubles ($8.5 billion). President Vladimir Putin was in Sochi this week to inaugurate a train station that serves as a hub for the link ahead of celebrations Tuesday marking exactly 100 days before the opening ceremony.
The press office of Russian Railways’ construction unit, which is responsible for the road and manages the limestone quarry-turned-waste dump in Akhshtyr, told AP that it paid the $3,000 fine in August. The company blamed the dumping on a subcontractor, insisting that the waste management firm had “rectified the violations” — even after being told that AP had seen trucks dumping concrete and that the pit was still filled with construction waste.
Outside the crater the size of three football fields, villagers complain that trucks continue to bring in construction waste by night and soil by day — as they have been doing for at least three months. Russian Railways isn’t only dumping in the pit: Just outside the quarry’s fence, a plot of land it leases is strewn with broken helmets, plastic tubes, foam sheets and tires. Residents say they have been complaining to authorities about the dumping for months.
“Authorities are telling us that this quarry is illegal and that it has been closed, but you can see that it’s still here,” said village chief Alexander Koropov. “We don’t know what to do. We would like to petition God, but we haven’t got his address. He’s the only person we haven’t petitioned yet.”
To compound Akhshtyr’s problems, the village’s wells dried up as the road project got underway, depriving it of its own water source and forcing it to rely on weekly deliveries in large cisterns. Local officials concede that wells began to go dry as soon as construction started, but won’t place blame.
Dmitry Kozak, the deputy prime minister in charge of the preparations for the games, has persistently dismissed claims that Sochi is failing on its green commitments. Speaking to reporters this year, he admitted “certain violations,” but denied claims that trash still gets dumped in illegal landfills. The only thing being dumped in Sochi, he said, is soil, a by-product of tunnel works. Kozak said the soil “only improves the landscape of the Sochi National Park and does not harm it in any way.”
Kozak spokesman Ilya Dzhus told AP — after being confronted with evidence of last Friday’s dumping and the tons of waste that sit in the village pit — that “the situation in Akhshtyr is under control.” Environmental officials inspected the site this month and briefed the government on the results. “There are no significant violations of the law on storing hazardous waste to speak of,” Dzhus said.
Local officials said they have tried to clean up the dump, removing 300 tons of waste in all. But they would not address the evidence that it was still stuffed with waste on Friday.
Russian Railways is not alone in dumping illegal waste. Just a couple of kilometers down the road from the Akhshtyr quarry, a dirt path leads to a tiny village cemetery on a hill. Ten steps away from the cemetery is an improvised dump the size of a small cottage with builders’ helmets, plastic packaging and slabs of concrete. Other illegal dumps dot the Sochi area.
The International Olympic Committee told AP that “Sochi 2014 has given us every assurance of their commitment to games-time waste management.” The IOC said it receives “updates on Sochi’s work on its landfill remediation” during inspections, but that Olympstroi, the state-owned corporation that oversees all Olympic construction in Sochi, should be responsible for handling the waste situation in the pre-games period.
A spokeswoman for Olympstroi, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to comment, told the AP that it has no legal mechanisms to address complaints. She said law enforcement agencies and federal authorities should deal with them.
Despite the “Zero Waste” pledge, there are no provisions or programs in the budget for treating construction waste. A decree signed last May by then-Prime Minister Putin repealed a set of waste-related measures such as the construction of recycling facilities from the national Olympic preparations plan, leaving responsibility to the city administration. In January, Sochi officials issued an official strategy on waste treatment that cast aside plans for recycling waste and ruled that burning unsorted trash is the “most forward-looking” solution.
There’s only one small recycling plant for household waste in Sochi. It processes about 150 tons of glass a year — and no industrial waste. Waste treatment facilities elsewhere in Russia typically take in hundreds of thousands of tons of waste every year.
Rashid Alimov, coordinator of the toxic waste program at Greenpeace Russia, says “the Zero Waste program is not being implemented in Sochi.” He said Sochi authorities are interpreting “Zero Waste” to mean getting waste out of sight.
In Akhshtyr, the euphoria of clinching the Winter Games has long since turned to anger.
“We had high hopes for the games. We were all very happy, and we believed the president when he said that not a single village would be affected (by construction),” Koropov said. “But you can see for yourself what happened.”
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Tomi Ungerer’s 1967 book Moon Man follows its lonely protagonist as he visits Earth for the very first time.
Tomi Ungerer
This interview was originally broadcast on July 1, 2013. Far Out Isn’t Far Enough has just been released on DVD.
Children’s-book writer Maurice Sendak learned a lot from author and artist Tomi Ungerer. In Far Out Isn’t Far Enough, a documentary about Ungerer, Sendak says, “I learned to be braver than I was. I think that’s why [Where The Wild Things Are] was partly Tomi — his energy, his spirit. I’m proud of the fact that we helped change the scene in America so that children were dealt with like the intelligent little animals we know they are.”
With a champion in their shared editor, Ursula Nordstrom, Sendak and Ungerer broke the rules of American children’s literature in the 1950s and ’60s. They created stories and illustrations that many adults found too frightening and rebellious for children — but that kids themselves loved. Ungerer’s series of books about the Mellops, a family of adventurous and resourceful pigs who often found themselves in scary situations, was particularly popular.
Tomi Ungerer has published more than 140 books.
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Tomi Ungerer has published more than 140 books.
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Ungerer didn’t mind scaring kids, because he believed in their ability to cope with and adapt to life’s difficulties. He himself had witnessed terrifying things as a child growing up on the French-German border, in Alsace, during World War II. His work, he says, reflects his experience.
“Most of my children’s books have fear elements,” he tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross. “But I must say, too, to balance this fact, that the children in my books are never scared. … I think fear is an element which is instilled by the adults a lot of time. I remember even in the bombings and whatever, we were always joking away.”
Many Americans have never heard of Ungerer because, in the early 1970s, his books were virtually banished in the United States after he started doing erotic illustrations for books targeted at adults. Ungerer soon returned to Europe, where he lives today. He says Europeans are much more accepting of the fact that his work can plumb the imaginations of both children and adults.
“In Europe,” he says, “I have absolutely no problem. I did an erotic book which is based on the Kama Sutra, but instead of human beings, the positions are taken up by frogs. People come up to me and say, ‘I was brought up with you. I was 13 years old, and I saved money to buy your Kama Sutra.’ “
On fear versus anxiety
“To be scared is one thing; anxiety is another one. … If you are in a battle and you have bombs and bullets and shrapnel and everything is going up in the air, that’s why you can be scared. But it doesn’t really compare to the anxiety. You see, the anxiety … is something much deeper in a way, because it sticks to you all the time. Are we going to make another day? Are we going to be arrested? … It’s all the impending menace, you know, all the time, all the time. And that’s anxiety. I find anxiety worse than fear.”
On growing up in Hitler’s Germany
“I remember I had to do a portrait of the Fuhrer, you know, giving a speech, and put a stein of beer on this thing. Well, the Fuhrer didn’t drink, but still, you know, nobody ever objected. The thing is, no matter what tyranny, you can always get away, maybe not with murder, but with a few other things. And your mind is always free. Nobody can take away your mind.
“We were brought up to become soldiers. … [T]hey would say, ‘Don’t think. The Fuhrer thinks for you.’ But then it was reassuring, too, because I was not a good pupil, and then the teachers would say to me … ‘Don’t worry, the Fuhrer needs artists and all that.’ I mean, the whole thing was geared to win over the children away from their parents.”
On his early career in New York
“It was a land of opportunity. It was really incredible how everybody was so nice. In those days you could call any art director or editor just like this, and the secretary would give you an appointment and you could come there and show your work. I remember I arrived with $60 in my pocket, so I didn’t have a portfolio, and I was carrying just my drawings, you know, under my arms.
“And one day it started raining, and I went into a pharmacy — it was on 43rd Street and Broadway, and I think it’s still there. And I asked for a box, you see, for my drawings. So they gave me a box that created quite a sensation. because it was a wholesale box for condoms.
“[I]t was incredible how quickly I was able to settle down and work. And I would say I was enough of [a] success to be able to buy a house in New York three or four years later. … And I’m very grateful for that, really. New York — there’s no city in my life I’ve ever loved as much as New York.”
On his mother’s affection
“My answer for [Maurice Sendak and Else Holmelund Minarik’s] A Kiss for Little Bear was No Kiss for Mother, because … my mother loved me much too much, and she poured her affection in the most sloppy ways — I mean over my cheeks and everywhere. And I couldn’t stand to be kissed or even touched by my mother. She really overdid it.”
On being forced to learn German
“The Nazis arrived, and after three months it was forbidden to speak a word of French. You could be arrested for a bonjour or just a merci. Just any word in French, you could be immediately arrested. I had to learn German in three months — which shows you that with a knife on your neck, you can learn a language in three months.”
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands of protesters clogged the Greek capital’s streets Thursday to demonstrate against a new property tax. The anger was registered across society, with retirees, disabled groups, shipyard workers and high school teachers among those taking part in demonstrations.
Parliament is due to vote next week on proposals to replace an emergency property tax included on electricity bills with a permanent levy, breaking a pledge made last year by the conservative-led coalition government to abolish the tax. More than 50 conservative lawmakers are demanding changes to proposals, arguing they unfairly burden their rural constituents.
The government is also planning new cuts to state benefits and the public workforce, triggering another general strike planned by unions for Nov. 6.
Outside the Labor Ministry, more than a thousand disabled demonstrators who traveled from around Greece blocked traffic outside the building, before filing through the city center in wheelchairs, on crutches and using white canes for the blind.
Deaf protesters responded to speeches by shaking both hands in the air, sign language for applause.
Yannis Vardakastanis, a blind Greek who heads the European Disability Forum, said the protest was called after disabled people were denied an exemption from the new property tax.
“We are the poorest of the poor but we must not let them turn us into victims,” he said. “The financial crisis is turning into a humanitarian crisis for us.”
Michalis Kouklos, a 35-year-old blind and unemployed man, took a six-hour bus ride from the northern city of Thessaloniki to attend the demonstration.
“We’re here to defend the obvious things that everyone needs to live in dignity,” he told the AP.
“People with serious illnesses are losing their health insurance and have to go from hospital to hospital to try and get treated. I wish there had been more of us here today because things are getting really bad.”
The government has promised a six-year recession will end in 2014, but unemployment has continued to rise. By the latest measure, it was near 28 percent, with 31 percent of the country living in poverty or at risk of poverty, according to the EU statistics agency, Eurostat.
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Foes of Obamacare are excitedly citing a rash of new stories claiming untold Americans are “losing” their insurance, as CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell puts it. One of them is this NBC News story, which reports that “millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters for their health insurance under Obamacare, say experts, and the Obama administration has known that for at least three years.”
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ARM has released designs for two new Mali GPU cores, including a 16-core part that should help bring higher-end capabilities like video-editing and gesture control to smartphones and tablets.
The high-end chip, called the Mali-T760, is ARM’s most powerful GPU to date and will be aimed at devices priced at around US$350 and above, ARM said Tuesday.
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The processor design doubles the core count over its predecessor but is more energy efficient, according to ARM, thanks partly to a 50 percent reduction in the amount of bandwidth needed to move data in and out of memory. The upshot should be better graphics without reducing battery life.
ARM also released the lower-end Mali-T720, its first GPU for midrange devices that supports version 3.0 of the OpenGL ES graphics programming interface.
Version 3.0 is becoming a requirement for Android, and the T720 will allow makers of lower cost devices to use the latest releases of Google’s mobile OS, said Trina Watt, ARM vice president for solutions marketing. Currently, cheaper smartphones and tablets often use older versions of Android.
ARM doesn’t manufacture chips itself; it creates designs that it licenses to other companies. It’s best known for its Cortex CPU designs, used in most smartphones and tablets including Apple’s iPhone and iPads.
It’s less dominant in graphics, where it trails Qualcomm and Imagination Technologies. But ARM’s share of the mobile GPU market is growing and now stands at 18 percent, according to Jon Peddie Research.
Mali chips are used in about half the Android tablets sold today and about a fifth of the smartphones, according to Watt. They’re used in Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 and Google’s Nexus 10, for instance, though most Mali chips find their way into lower-cost products sold in China.
In that sense the T720 may be the more significant of the two products announced, because of its potentially wider reach. Along with the new Open GL standard, it brings graphics compute capabilities to the midrange of the Mali line, allowing devices to perform tasks like facial recognition and stitching photos together into a panorama.
GPUs tend to be more power efficient at those tasks than CPUs, so the T720 should help prolong battery life while freeing up the CPU to do other work.
Other priorities for manufacturers are a small chip size — ARM says the T720 is 30 percent smaller in area than its predecessor — and speed to market.
The extra cores on the higher-end T760 will help to enable features like video editing, gesture recognition and high resolution 4K displays on tablets, Watt said.
“We’re trying to stop people having to open their PCs,” she said.
Most devices probably won’t need all 16 cores today, but some tablet makers are already asking for 12 to 14 cores, said Andy Loats, ARM’s graphics product manager
If the T760 is still on the market by the time chip makers move to a more advanced manufacturing process — which will let them make smaller transistors — 16 cores will be a “no brainer,” he said.
To improve energy efficiency, the T760 introduces a technology called frame buffer compression, which reduces the amount of bandwidth needed to transfer data between different parts of a system on chip.
Each time the GPU has to access memory it consumes power, so compressing the data and reducing its back and forth movement prolongs battery life, Loats said.
The Mali-T760 is based on a new ARM GPU core called Skrymir, named after a giant in Norse mythology. ARM entered the GPU market when it bought the Norwegian chip firm Falanx, hence the Nordic theme.
The cores are both available for licensing now, Watt said. It used to take around 18 months for new designs to find their way into finished products, but Watt said competitive pressure on device makers is shortening that time to less than a year in some cases.
James Niccolai covers data centers and general technology news for IDG News Service. Follow James on Twitter at @jniccolai. James’s e-mail address is james_niccolai@idg.com.
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After my early morning race yesterday I spent the rest of the day in relaxation mode. I got a lot of reading done and I’m a bit sad that I’m nearing the end of the book that I’m currently reading. But, my reading list is long and I have quite a few books already lined up for reading next. I don’t think I’ll be getting much reading done tonight, tho, because I’ll be making my way to the Staples Center in downtown LA to see Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar in concert on West‘s Yeezus Tour. I’ve been staying away from tour spoilers (well, except for the Jesus thing) but from what I’ve inadvertently gathered, the show is really not to be missed.
I’ve seen Kanye West live a few times. From intimate, small club shows where he performed for party guests to his last major tour Watch the Throne with Jay Z. I’ve never seen one of his big budget solo shows so I’m really looking forward to tonight’s concert. He played a show at the Staples Center on Saturday night but I was otherwise occupied at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Tonight’s the night! I fell in love with Kendrick Lamar‘s live show when I saw him at Lollapalooza in August so I’ll deffo be getting to the Staples Center early enough to catch his opening set, too.
It’s a new week, the last days of October are quickly flying away. I hope you are having a great Monday and will enjoy a great week and Hallowe’en holiday head.
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Cars lie smashed by the collapsed Interstate 5 connector a few hours after the Northridge earthquake on Jan. 17, 1994, in California.
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In this weekend’s podcast of All Things Considered, host Arun Rath explores the power of Hollywood whisper campaigns, learns what some people are doing to prepare for “the big one,” and talks to first time composer Alexander Ebert.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Hardy will play Elton John in a biopic titled “Rocketman.”
Focus Features announced Hardy’s casting as the iconic piano man on Wednesday. The film is planned to begin shooting late next year.
The 36-year-old British actor is well respected for his wide-ranging talent, but his brawny, tattooed frame makes him an unconventional choice. Hardy is most famous for playing the terrorist Bane in “The Dark Knight Rises.” He has showcased a muscled masculinity in films like “Warrior,” ”Lawless” and “Bronson.”
“Rocketman” is being made with the cooperation of the 66-year-old John, who’s an executive producer on the film.
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