Ivica Kostelić gets the Alta Badia

Croatian Ivica Kostelić got his second podium in the World Cup in two days to prevail in the disputed station in Alta Badia in Italy, where he excels at Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Grange and Austrian Benjamin Raich, Olympic champion in the field.

The French

Grange, winner of the first this season in Levi (Finland), came in second despite the best mark in the final time trial (50.24) to add 1:40.03, while enabling it to retain the leadership of the overall with 180 points, and Austrian Benjamin Raich, Olympic champion in , was third with 1:40.63.

American Bode Miller, who was second in Levi, was disqualified after shooting down a door, and the leader of the World Cup, Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal was left out of the second tour after finishing first in the post 34.

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Qualified for the second sleeve the world champion Mario Matt and also Austrian Reinfried Herbst and Manfred Prange, near the German Felix Neureuther, runner-up last year, and the American Jimmy Cochran.

Disputed scheduled to be held there earlier this month at the French Val d'Isere, but was postponed until this day by bad weather.

Moscow vacationers this year chose to foreign tours Moscow

Podmoskovnye boarding houses and hotels vip-class clients with overseas resorts, note tour operators.

According to experts, many fans holiday luxury " chose not to fly on long holidays overseas resorts, and found them far from home - in Moscow vip-class hotels.

As told Interfax director of sales department of the Russian company, rose winds Tatyana Rumyantsev, virtually all Podmoskovnye high-class hotels on New Year holidays booked very well.

"Today, if the actual New Year in some places can still be booked, the winter vacation offers to find it extremely difficult" - she said.

"Overall, the holiday program in expensive hotels in Moscow sold no worse than last year. This is a very good indicator, since middle-class hotels in the current environment suffer significant losses", - she said.

According to Rumyantsevoy, the demand for leisure median price category in the company fell, with very significantly - by 40-50%. In turn, general director of the company Orient Anatoliy Gusev, confirmed that the seats in the Moscow hotels, high-level, despite the economic conditions in the country, the book is very good.

"The small decline in sales there, but it does not compare with the decline of sales in outbound tourism," - he said. "Many people are secured, involved in the financial sphere, now really afraid to go on vacation far as to" keep a hand on the pulse "- explained the source agency.

"But renounced rest is just a small part - mostly those people are simply trying to choose a place near home, including good Podmoskovnye resorts" - he said.

Greek anarchists smashed the camera film crew of "Russia"

Another Russian film crew to remove coverage of student unrest in Athens, suffered at the hands of demonstrators. Greek anarchists damaged camera film crew "Russia". The incident today reaffirmed Itar-TASS in Russian Embassy in Athens.

Journalist and operator of "Russia" tried to negotiate with the anarchists in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday of shooting at the university, but those hit in the chamber, damaged lighting and took away the tape.

The journalists themselves are not affected and neither the Greek police, neither the embassy did. "We are informed about the incident, but is likely to help journalists" Russia "does not need, none of them was injured," - told press representative for the Russian Embassy in Athens, Vasily Gavrilov.

He also reiterated occurred on the night of Wednesday the incident with reporters and TV NTVVadimom Gluskerom Eugene Kovalev. They were beaten by a gang of Greek University of intoxicated teenagers who took their video and burned it on fire. Chamber managed to get back. Vadim Glusker was injured persons, and the operator Evgeny Kovalev - a strong blow to the head.

The Embassy asked the Greek authorities to investigate the incident.

The smart mill that protects the birds

A team of researchers at the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the Foundation Migros finalizing a device capable of detecting the presence of birds and its trajectory, with the aim of halting the blades of wind turbines to prevent her death.

The device in question, which has a television camera, promises to put an end to the carnage of wind farms around the world, which in some cases has emerged as the most negative impact of wind turbines, tireless producers renewable energy.

Researcher at the CSIC, Miguel Ferrer, told .es that in the initial laboratory tests carried out on the apparatus, it has been able to detect a bird about 750 meters from the mill. "This would give a margin of 67 seconds in the event of a vulture to stop the blades from 14 revolutions per minute without any risk at a speed of three revolutions," said biologist for the Biological Station of Doana.

Vultures belonging to the group of birds sailboats, the species are suffering the most from the impact of the wings of the wind turbines in our country. The Spanish experts have been developed in recent years on these censuses in various wind farms. In all studies, there is a mortality of 0.5 birds per year in each mill. However, the figure rises to nearly six dead birds have been found in the park Basque Elgea, according to a study by Onrubia.

It is precisely this

Mortality that has led to environmental authorities in Andalusia to slow down the production of electricity from 38 machines in La Janda, Cadiz. Since a few days ago and until late December wind turbines do not revolve the daytime to avoid the deaths of vultures.

While the prototype of the research group continues the first phase of testing in the field to "go back production in a few months, the team that carried out the project has published an investigation in which it is shown that there is no relationship between previous studies of real danger and mortality of birds in wind farms.

A griffon vulture lies dead at the foot of a wind turbine, after bumping against its blades. (Photo: The World)

In this way, wind farms whose estimated hazard was very low producing a high number of casualties among the birds. Preliminary studies of birds are required in most countries and in Spain as key information for the grant or not environmental authorization to install a wind farm. In Andalusia, this tool was adopted as a result of a pioneering study of the Spanish Ornithological Society (SEO / Birdlife). It recommended follow-up to a full year of birds in the area of the site of the wind farm and the evolution of the number of birds passing through the area at a height considered at risk. Similar recommendations were made by Birdlife International.

However, until now had not found what ever real relationship between the hazardous estimated a priori and a posteriori mortality recorded with the machines already in operation.

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Obtaining the records of mortality of birds in more than 20 sites that carry several years in operation, researchers have found that the mortality found did not match the prediction of dangerousness of the previous studies.

The assumptions made in previous studies of danger to birds and poses a direct linear relationship between the number of birds detected and mortality later. Therefore, a greater number of birds crossing, the higher mortality expected. But the relationship is not so simple.

Mortality in wind farms varies substantially depending on the characteristics of the species and according to the site, both as the park specifically for each turbine. In a study by the same authors published in 'Journal of Applied Ecology 2008' showed that the relative position of the turbine in relation to the topography was a key factor in explaining the deaths.

Currently, Spain ranks second worldwide, just behind Germany in installed wind power, with 11615.07 produced by 538 MW wind farms in operation throughout its geography. "It is evident that there needs to improve the predictive power of risk and if not, increase the criticism against some wind farms. The development of automated systems for detecting and stopping collision paths selective is a good way, "concludes Miguel Ferrer.

BNN: Making Wind Energy Green

Rossi: 'After my retirement, what I most like to race in F1 was'

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Italian Valentino Rossi would like to move to Formula 1 after leaving the motorcycles in 2011, an experience that has already been able to prove, because The team left him driving his Ferrari F2008 as a reward for having recently the title of world champion in MotoGP.

"In the scenario in which I could choose from all options, it is unrealistic today, in 2011 the thing that would encourage me to run in Formula 1," says Rossi in an interview published by the newspaper Italian sports' Corriere Sport '.

Explained why: "Een the Rallies could still have time to do so, could decide what to do: a career high. But with 35 years I'm afraid that for Formula 1 will not be able to more years," he added .

Despite the fact that Rossi thinks in 2011 as the date for his possible withdrawal of motorcycling, the Italian champions do not have all decided, because it is something that depends, he says, his state of form and so fast that then be on a motorcycle.

The motorcyclist

Defined as "CHULISIMA" the experience of having piloted a Ferrari in the rain, climatological phenomenon that, according to him, stop him from beating records at Mugello, the circuit deprived of the popular Italian team.

"I think the second day if there had been the same weather conditions would have made a second less. He arrived at 1:21 in the shooting," said Rossi, whom the dream of Formula 1 has lasted shortly, the moment.

"Go back, the Ferrari of motorcycles, I do not involve any hassle because the bike is more natural to me. One big difference is that in much of the bike is the work of monitoring the movements of the body. With the car without However, technique is everything. For this is more tired to go on a motorcycle in that car, "the motorcyclist.

Formula One: Rossi tastes a Ferrari F2008 F1 Car