tv [untitled] October 28, 2011 1:30am-2:00am EDT
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you're watching r t the headlines for you now killed after his son reportedly agrees to hand himself over to the international criminal court but strangely his safety with some leaders in the west means there are links the regime could yet get a very public airing of. the french president says allowing greece into the euro was a mistake and comment came the e.u. leaders summit which hammered out a deal to stave off the debt crisis threatening to engulf the entire usa. and russia's legendary bolshoi theater reopens in its pre-sale glory with a grand dollar on friday six years of massive innovation advice countless today scandals and allegations of corruption. but next to naughty our technology update show which heads for the heart of innovation known as russia's silicon valley.
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hello and welcome just as the leaves here are starting to change color we on technology are changing things around as well in this episode will be highlighting some of the biggest developments and russian science and technology from just the past few weeks. our first stop this month takes us to the annual forum hosted by reuss nano russia's leading nanotechnology company and many of its partners are showing off all their latest developments both big and small i just gathering in moscow at the end of october there are new products ranging from a nano printer that can create images on water to the newest innovations in nano medicine and cutting edge energy production there's even
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a friendly robot to answer all the participants questions as well as the so-called futurist or who equipped with. bring us one step closer to a world free for long checkout lines there's plenty to please the eye here at the roof nanotech for us to the star of the show is this much hyped plastic logic one hundred company execs hope that this winter device will eventually replace traditional school textbooks this sixteen ounce device can replace the huge stacks of text as well as the entire libraries worth of books several regional governments have already started trials in schools around russia. as in this town we started this project with. original of the company was. from. building the. cranes for through and. right now we give it with. a new project in russia the purpose
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is to create the. regions. suitable for this. this will be the largest transfer in the world. because there was this reader. also some just production of other voices coming from this but until that plan to stop it running the new devices will be built here at plastic the largest existing production facility certainly the most important breakthrough this electronic reader is it's under breakable plastic backplane traditionally electronic books and tablets are fitted with a glass back screen which approach of breaking relatively easily the first generation of interval displays have been made from stainless steel oil or the company's so-called plastic paper technology this electronic book is lighter and
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more durable than ever. but one of the possibilities for using this in the classroom plus a quick reader has some great if it's. paper for example you can. get from. the whole set of books or you can buy more playing on the home web or if you knew this particular voice books for six and so on is great so this is the clear advantage other advantages of. of course there has been some criticism that a black and white display may not be the best to use for school textbooks you know for something like the history of art new black and white isn't and what do you think about that it's a very good question of course work and was criticism of the best option and in the case of some subjects like biology or brain it would be of course greenstone the book and was grim but this is different on the west and so on the question of that because if you commission we understood the. growth of the pows in this case the
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screen come complete. which means a much easier to read and so much more safer though as for school. boy or a school of your poor mr west the roots nano isn't the only russian company coming out with an innovative you just don't meter. given the fact that the country is home to one of the most literate and avid reading populations the market for more traditional a comic books is certainly an attractive one on the moscow metro you're sure to find one of your fellow passengers putting open piers or her trusty reader and in russia there's a good chance that one of them was made by wexler on a company offers traditional readers with cheaper but breakable glass backstreet kids adults who watches over the police but little with the latest plastic backplane technology and considering where the consumer markets heading this little reader could make a big splash what's the future of the e-books market in your opinion. first of all
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it's a growing market it's the fastest growing segments in the auto industry with a hundred percent annual increase over the last three years and this year alone we expect more than a million e-book devices to be sold in russia in terms of trends flexibility is definitely the one and will continue to produce flexible displays. will be used in educational institutions there for the displays launch not compact because it needs to comply with standards when you've got them we're all for a genuinely compact reader which has a flexible body as well as these play. our target audience is a broad one any kind of consumer can use it that it will be for sale for everyone. but it's. going to be. what the market seems to have spoken regarding general the readers there's no shortage of different approaches to integrating digital
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technology in the classroom the latest trend here seems to be high tech tablets was a raise from the expensive name brands to the remarkably cheap. in recent weeks there's been one piece of news in the world of science that has the potential to change how we understand just about everything around us it seems from our measurement that. even faster than light could this be the biggest development in physics since einstein's day well it's all relative. if you're into russian scientists are doing their part to find out if that little particle actually does go as fast as it appears but these tiny particles like in size they make up for it with their potential to explain things yet unknown. neutrinos play a crucial role in the theory of the evolution of the universe. because
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. certain stages this particle could become the main vehicle for transporting energy from an object. but here now they're still not completely understood but much of what we do know about neutrinos comes from this research center here of laboratory for nuclear problems back in the mid one nine hundred fifty s. . moved to do the research neutrinos during his life he was responsible for some of the biggest theoretical breakthroughs in the field of neutrino physics as a result of this matter has remained at the center of the discipline to this very day . our live oratory takes part in many international experiments that involve studying neutrino oscillations and the work on discovering and measuring new yet unknown characteristics. is the operative
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experiment oprah while a lot of heavy lifting is done at institutes in russia in france none of their work would be possible without the european organization for nuclear research from the facilities underground here billions and billions of particles are created several times a day using the super proton synchrotron the accelerated protons are sent along a tunnel where many turn into muonic neutrinos the pint sized particles are then focussed into a beam that since them through the earth directed at the detector seven hundred thirty kilometers away the thirteen hundred ton detector in grand sasso italy is made up of one hundred fifty thousand bricks of a motion film and plates the unexpected discovery about neutrino speed may have grabbed the headlines but it's actually just a side experiment under most circumstances move neutrinos travel in a straight line and when they break down we witnessed an observable move one lepton and a few other particles and crucial thing here is that the want to let child breaks
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off straight from the path of the neutrino in two thousand and ten however they finally saw what they were looking for they found what's called a decay kink that. to say that i'm the one left appears not directly from the path of the one of the tree no that little gap or kid the physicist that opera believe show that i'm the one that neutrino oscillated into a towel on it one which then gives rise to a towel lepton that vindicate into the moon one yclept on among other things this is important for understanding of the fundamental basis of our existence as fairly mysterious that the universe has evolved in this way i mean the reason mass and almost no answer you treat of physics could give us a clue and help to explain this fact so long as the neutrino remains so important and so mysterious business is like those here and to keep toiling away trying to peel back our ignorance sliver by sliver for the time being these scientists have more than enough on their plate whether it be trying to find further evidence of
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neutrino oscillation or checking and double checking the surprising results of the grand sasso if these neutrinos are found to be able to break the universal speed limit it could lead to a major rethinking of many aspects of modern physics. independent experiments proving that neutrinos speed is faster than the speed of light is called revolutionize our conception of the world actually now that everything was based on this with the speed of light is the talk the last see that nature has devised to communicate a signal that it's difficult to predict how signs will change. but the main thing to do now is to make sure initial results have been correct. prior. to leaving all that high minded particle physics stuff behind for now we've come back down to earth. and of focusing on an innovative russian solution to the
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problem of pesticide related pollution. they're more closely associated with industrial agriculture and big pesticides are just as much of a threat in cities and that's what a group of russian environmentalists got together to highlight here in gorky park in the middle of september. right here in russia these green advocates called brings new life into the ground in more ways than one. amongst other facts the substance cuts the level of toxic elements in the soil and at the same time plant growth it can be used for seize treatment of shoots emerging much earlier it produces a general wholesome effect that balances out the soil when we conduct our cleanup operations we take samples to identify contaminants and concentration levels and then make the right dose and application right. science behind this product didn't appear overnight. ten years the right bacteria that would attack
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a wide range of harmful pesticides the same time a against. the effort to come up with the right headed here at university those responsible for this breakthrough product called. the powder with water the destructor bacteria. attacks the remaining effects of harmful pesticides in a matter of weeks eight percent of the. poisons are gone. quite complicated. surprisingly simple. now where sprinkling a special solution over the contaminated plot of land it's a biological substance consisting of activated cells of strains of bacteria to structures it's been designed to destroy. this pesticide type. is not on the
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un list of toxic contaminants that are banned from use this year russia rectified the un sponsors the con convention on persistent organic pollutants under the treaty there's a list of twenty substances that are considered hazardous and now a genocide kills about eight hundred nine thousand of them in russia some two hundred thousand tons of pesticides are still stored especially refuse dumps almost the same amount is buried under the ground in many russian regions the roster friesian out-i region moscow region and of our own issue region. are people aware of the risks of using pesticides we see that people are not indifferent that they want to make a difference and i believe it will soon become more popular as interest in a greener planet grows by all russia will be there to help foster such beliefs at their office in moscow they're trying to raise awareness actually using social networking sites maybe even craze a comic to bring their message to a wider younger audience and this miniature graphic novel little really greed is
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one of the dangers of pesticides which leads her to a life of science to try and break their hold on earth of course her efforts run up against powerful forces determined to stop her and all her green activists dreaming of a planet free from dangerous pesticides the project for nothing is based on very simple things that every person can understand so only a joint at it will help us restore the environmental balance on the planet thanks to bio russia and phenolics places such as corky park and moscow state universities potential gardens are becoming cleaner and cleaner green awareness is on the rise in russia but lately there's been something else on a lot of people's minds. the top of the town lately here in moscow has been bad of the bolshoi theater is grand reopening the russian engineers responsible for this massive undertaking have leaned on the latest technology to make this world renowned performance hall bigger
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and better than ever. after six long years of waiting russia's most famous theater is opening its doors to the public again at the end of october despite some early setbacks both engineers and our deserves have been working around the clock to get moscow's iconic theatre ready in time for its much anticipated reopening crystal chandelier or glistening again the interior is more resplendent than it's ever been when visitors come in for their first look they're sure to be amazed by all the work that's gone into the renovation and those concerns the biggest of tasks down to the smallest detail who's behind all the changes are certain that thanks to both ancient methods and new technology seeing a show at the new polls showing would be like nothing you've ever experienced before the acoustics have been vastly improved and noble innovations in technology
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will allow directors to do things only dreamed of until now sure this place upgrade is what everyone's talking about now but it certainly hasn't been the bolshoi's first facelift the original theatre called the bolshoi imperial burned down in eighteen zero five twenty years later the bolshoi patrol state was built in its place the theater got its distinctive main facade and named after rid of asians ahead of the coronation of alexander the second the current restoration work is to correct damage done over the previous eighty years. were under way back in two thousand and five well the project was ambitious enough to start with nobody had any idea just how big of a job lay ahead once they got down to business it was discovered that the damage to the theater was much greater than previously thought. cracks were discovered through the walls and the building had been reduced to mere rubble engineers say the building was seventy five percent unstable. at the beginning none of the
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builders or restorers had an idea of the amount of work that eventually needed to be done because they got the opportunity to assess the state of the walls in the foundation only in two thousand and five after the theatre had been closed the walls were about to collapse and it was decided to put the building on a thousand piles of steel pillars that held it up in the air the builders had to remove the remaining foundation blocks piece by piece the cell structure wasn't capable of holding the building anymore it was in such a critical condition that the theater would have easily collapsed the replacement of the substructure took three years it was then apparent that the problems could have been solved only by implementing complex engineering projects. in two thousand and nine suman group became the largest shareholder in the firm responsible for the massive project soon as the main task was to sort through all the problems that had arisen they get work back on schedule based on the progress from the past few years it's clear the company was more than up to the task easy statues had been restored
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to their original chlorine the famous a polished quadriga that adorns the entrance was repaired for the first time in over one hundred years the fears historic bills were given new luster of thirty five of them including one dealing back to the early sixteen hundreds were posted back up to the theatres unparalleled belltower. massive amounts of gold was put in place by skilled russian artisans specially trained experts were brought in from all over the country to apply over three thousand square feet of gold leaf giving the interior a certain shimmer zero but last decades ago the building was late using a particularly russian tactic dating back to medieval times involving a white clay and get this vodka the bolshoi was made over from the potato with nothing left untouched the final project to lend it tons of metal stone rebar and concrete to put the whole building back on firm footing. but the renovations
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weren't just concrete and steel. after years of neglect the beautiful fabrics that were once the pride of the bolshoi had to be replaced the size the glimmering gold leaf through out the most noticeable update is the redone plush interior here in the renamed coral hall employer cloth panels have been badly damaged over the years major work was needed to give these textiles a new lease on life. however some fabric items had to be completely remade from scratch for the biggest of these jobs the bolshoi looked about four hundred miles southeast of moscow a historic russian textile company was tasked with the gargantuan feat of totally recreating one of the bolshoi's most prized possessions. textile mill in the kinzer region skilled workers but their know how and you need machinery to the test they might not employ the absolute latest technology they lose here are naturalised in their ability to produce large scale high quality bricks one hundred fifty years of
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the mills experience were needed to totally reconstruct one of the grandest objects of the theater because roy do segall occurring and that was a task only stores could you live or on. the a bring a couple of but initially the bush said the following requirements the pretention contract is the fabric had to be twenty two meters wide who should not contain any scenes we took part in attend the business of the german company among the competitors were offered a fabric native to pieces but stitched together by some hidden in conspicuous stained glass the bolshoi theater flatly refused saying it had to be a single fabric of top notch quality without any scenes the other reason the one that was that this is a unique type of aluminum there were six of them made in the world and only two is still up and running one here in sioux and and the other in the us. thanks to the know how and machinery here and source their fifteen hundred pound goal. well i
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give it proudly welcome spectators to the theater for the first time since eight hundred ninety six the original curtain which depicts the triumphant arrival of medieval military leaders meaning and pleasure still had to be taken down over a century ago due to wear and tear to artisans remaking the f a curtain had nothing more than two surviving documents of the original should go off well one was an archival photograph the other a hand painted etching dating back to the hundred fifty nine artist labors on the current only possible because of the skilled textile workers. have to be works by hand even the slightest mistake means that machines have to be shut down and work has to be done to correct the error of this beautifully redone curtain as one improvement that will be apparent to everyone in the audience while it may not be evident straight away out here on the back side of the theater actually interrupt
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part of what is easily the bolshoi's biggest new technological improvement the innovation starts out on the streets of the northern facade of the theater from here specially designed trucks can bring all the necessary stage equipment including seem decorations lifts are able to move the heavy loads back and forth between storage and a backstage area individually mechanize sections of the floor music every part of the stage can be adjusted to fit the director's needs movable force easily get the props and the paired sets to the front with the need to be and the orchestra pit can also be adapted to allow for new pieces like those from wagner to be performed for the very first time new lighting apparatus have been installed bringing the bolshoi to the forefront of theater production in terms of both technology and size . contemporary architecture standards it's just the theaters production
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space must be four times larger than the. and there are make up and storage rooms and other backstage facilities such proportions are required for a theatre to be able to stage twenty first century performances to stay at the cutting edge of the of the related technologies in fact before the bolshoi theater closed in two thousand and five this proportion had been one to one now the reconstructed theater will post a want to for proportion which made this possible first and foremost it's due to the unique engineering that's all the theater expand the detail around the square now when walking across to the square you should always keep in mind that you are treading on the roof of a six story building has twenty point five meters deep under your feet an orchestra is having a rehearsal or a chamber concert is under way. this hidden gym is a literally right under the noses of people on the square in front of the theater the now named beethoven hall this completely new space begins the bolshoi's
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performers not only an additional place to rehearse but a totally new states to host concerts thanks to new innovations and powerful motor driven jacks there's no limit to what this hall can allow for much the chain of the draw consists of linked plates it's a so-called leaf chain connected by axles. each plate is linked to the axles the third axle well you can have a look from this angle functions as the log for the plates. and when passing through the gear unit the leaf chain can change its position from vertical to horizontal there is a metal unit and side where it can collapse inserts a thin line. this is a great tool to be used for tiny spaces and you don't need to drill any holes. the platforms work starts actually here you turn the engines on the first one behind me
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and the second up front over there. they start to work similar tenuously and through a system of gearboxes and drive shafts the transferred the torch to all the chains which begin to go up all at the same time. in this unique space those deers in chains need power five separate or segments which can be raised and lowered is needed this newfound flexibility allows the bolshoi to accommodate a large orchestra a cold amphitheater or numerous rows of seats masterfully combining beauty and utility now with everything in place this and all the other stages are ready to host any number of events like never before the bolshoi has the ability to change things around to fit the exact requirements of each performance and that would give even the most seasoned theater fans a new reason to head to a show so see you next time and until then enjoy the ride.
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