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Station astronauts remotely control planetary rover from space
[unable to retrieve full-text content]On June 17 and July 26, NASA tested the Surface Telerobotics exploration concept, in which an astronaut in an orbiting spacecraft remotely operates a robot on a planetary surface.
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Police: Bomber kills 1 in Somali hospital attack
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) ? A bomber detonated a minivan laden with explosives outside a Turkish hospital in Somalia's capital on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding more than three others, a Somali police officer said.
The bomber also died in the attack at the Al-Shifa hospital in Mogadishu, said Mohammed Abdi.
Al-Shabab insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack on Twitter saying they were targeting a group of Turkish diplomats. The group said the operation was not a suicide attack and that those who carried out the attack had safely gone back to their bases.
Al-Shabab, which has links with al-Qaida, has been carrying out guerrilla attacks in Somalia since the group was expelled from the capital by African Union troops in August 2011. It has long been threatening Turkish workers and aid agencies in Somalia accusing them of spreading secularism in Somalia.
"The Turkish are part of a group of nations bolstering the apostate regime and attempting to suppress the establishment of Islamic Shari'ah," al-Shabab said on Twitter.
The expulsion of al-Shabab in the capital ended years of daily violence that had caused the rest of the world to shun the capital for two decades. After the ouster of al-Shabab the international community started trickling back into Mogadishu, and the United Nations began moving its personnel to Somalia from Kenya.
But al-Shabab still holds sway in some parts of rural southern Somalia and retains the ability to stage lethal attacks even in Mogadishu. Last month militants on a suicide mission invaded the U.N. compound in Mogadishu with a truck bomb and then poured inside, killing at least 13 people before dying in the assault.
Earlier this month a bomb exploded inside the largest market in the Somali capital, wounding at least five government soldiers aboard a military vehicle.
The bomb was concealed inside a Somali military pick-up truck in Mogadishu's sprawling Bakara market, Mogadishu police official Mohamed Hussein said.
The United Nations envoy in Somalia condemned the attack. Nicholas Kay, head of the U.N. Assistance Mission in Somalia that began operations last month, offered his condolences to the Turkish government, victims and their families.
"Turkey has been working tirelessly and bravely to help the Somali people over the last few years," he said in a statement.
The U.S. State Department made a similar statement.
"This cowardly act will not shake our commitment to continue working for the brighter, more democratic and prosperous future the people of Somalia deserve," spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/police-bomber-kills-1-somali-hospital-attack-145139770.html
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Beats President and COO Luke Wood on RIM's 850 pager and disconnecting-induced panic
Every week, a new and interesting human being tackles our decidedly geeky take on the Proustian Q&A. This is the Engadget Questionnaire.
In a brand spanking new edition of our weekly line of questioning, Beats President and COO Luke Wood discusses the dynamic mobile space and discovering your real-life soundtrack. As you might expect, the full collection of answers awaits just beyond the break.
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Obama: House GOP budget is 'bad bargain'
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla.?Casting House Republicans as stubborn deadbeats, President Barack Obama sought Thursday to discredit House Republicans in upcoming fiscal fights by painting them as roadblocks to a thriving middle class.
President Barack Obama, center, gets a tour of the Jacksonville, Fla. port with, from left, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx; Dennis Kelly, TracPac Regional Vice President and General Manager; Ray Schleicher, CEO of the Jacksonville Port Authority, and Fred Wakefield, International Longshoreman's Association Representative, during a tour, Thursday, July 25, 2013. A day after he kicked off the tour in Illinois and Missouri, Obama was traveling Thursday to a seaport in Jacksonville, Fla., to yet again deride the wide gulf between his vision for a new American prosperity driven by a burgeoning middle class and the intense gridlock snarling up Congress.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.?Casting House Republicans as stubborn deadbeats, President Barack Obama sought Thursday to discredit House Republicans in upcoming fiscal fights by painting them as roadblocks to a thriving middle class. With Obama and Congress approaching all-too-familiar showdowns over spending levels and the nation's borrowing limit, Obama used a visit to a seaside port in Florida to argue that the nation's economic agenda should be immune to the partisan backbiting he faulted Republicans for instigating.
"Shutting down the government just because I'm for keeping it open?that's not an economic plan," Obama said, wiping sweat from his face in a muggy port warehouse. "Threatening that you won't pay the bills in this country, when we've already racked up those bills, that's not an economic plan?that's just being a deadbeat."
In the last of three stops on a two-day tour to reframe his broad economic vision for the nation, Obama pitched the need for enhanced American infrastructure at this port and others across the country?and for better roads, bridges and power grids. But while he touted his efforts to streamline permitting, the president offered no new proposals for how Americans and their leaders could accelerate a lethargic economic recovery.
Obama warned that if Republicans continue with their "my way or the highway attitude," dire consequences could await for Americans. He encouraged voters to use next month's congressional recess to tell Republicans who'll be in their home districts that gridlock is unacceptable. "It could plunge us back into financial crisis," the president said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., questioned the point of Obama's big push in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday. "At some point, campaign season has to end and the working-with-others season has to begin," McConnell said. "At some point, you have to stop promising an 'ocean of tomorrows' and start actually working with the representatives of the people."
Obama praised Senate Republicans for being willing to compromise on issues like immigration, then drew a distinction with House Republicans, whom he repeatedly accused of bringing the economy to the brink. But Obama, too, at times has taken an uncompromising approach with ultimatums that force his opponents to give in or no deal. He's refused to consider any budget that includes the across-the-board, automatic spending cuts known as the sequester that went into effect in March.
The 2011 battle between Obama and House Republicans over raising the government's borrowing limit brought the nation close to default and resulted in a hard-fought budget deal. Obama says he won't be bullied on the debt ceiling again, but many in Washington believe the need to increase the borrowing cap later this year will prompt some kind of budget bargain.
A new poll by the Pew Research Center shows that pessimism about the economy remains widespread. The poll conducted last week found that 82 percent of Americans think the economy is in fair or poor condition and 67 percent are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the U.S. today. Forty-four percent think it will be a long time before the nation's economy recovers, while only 28 percent say it's currently recovering. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Even among Democrats, just 38 percent think the economy is recovering. But there are signs of slow improvement: The housing market is recovering, the stock market is booming, and unemployment is falling despite remaining uncomfortably high at 7.6 percent.
After a examining the port's giant cranes used to lift shipping containers onto ships, Obama spoke to a few hundred workers in the sweltering warehouse. He lamented that the U.S. was lagging behind China and Germany on fixing infrastructure and said that's why he's working to speed up the federal permitting process.
"The businesses of tomorrow are not going to locate near outdated roads and old ports," he said. Improvements to the port so more supertankers can come in would mean more workers spending more money at restaurants so that the waitress serving them, for example, can spend more money on an iPod, he said.
In making his plea for more spending on public works projects, the president is also relying on support from corporate leaders whose businesses either benefit from government financed construction or rely on up-to-date transportation systems to move their products. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been pressing Congress for greater spending on infrastructure and has allied itself with the president's effort, but in a statement Wednesday, chamber President Thomas Donohue also put some distance with Obama by saying such a public works initiative must be tied to less regulation, lower taxes and less overall government spending.
"The president correctly underscored the importance of infrastructure, education and immigration to our economic future," Donohue said. "But in order to grow and create lasting private sector jobs, we must have more economic freedom and while reining in government spending, taxes and debt."
The visit also marked Obama's first to the state since the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the man charged in the death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. The case has generated a painful, nationwide debate about racial prejudice, but Obama didn't mention the case in his public remarks.
The broad economic themes Obama illustrated Thursday will be followed up in the coming weeks by another series of speeches drilling down on key sectors such as manufacturing, education, housing, retirement security and health care. Advisers say some of those speeches will contain more specific policy proposals, both for legislation and executive action Obama can take without congressional approval.
The first of those addresses was to come Tuesday, when Obama will travel to Chattanooga, Tenn., to promote American competitiveness at an Amazon fulfillment center, which packs and ships products to online purchasers. The White House said some new policy ideas will be unveiled during that visit.
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Newly discovered marine viruses offer glimpse into untapped biodiversity
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Studying bacteria from the Baltic Sea, researchers have discovered an entire array of previously unknown viruses that use these bacteria as hosts. By impacting the life cycles of these bacteria, the viruses play indirect but crucial ecological roles in environments ranging from the oceans and sea ice to the human gut.
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China's Bo Xilai indicted for corruption, abuse of power
BEIJING: China's once high-flying communist politician Bo Xilai has been indicted for bribery and abuse of power, state media said Thursday, following a scandal that exposed deep divisions at the highest levels of government.
The former party chief of the southwestern city of Chongqing has not been seen in public for more than a year since the controversy surrounding him was exposed, triggering one of China's biggest political scandals in decades.
"The indictment paper was delivered" to a court in Jinan in the eastern province of Shandong, Xinhua said, citing prosecutors in the city.
Bo "took the advantage of his position to seek profits for others and accepted an 'extremely large amount' of money and properties," it said, quoting the indictment.
State media reports had said he would "face justice" for abuse of power, taking bribes and improper sexual relations following his wife Gu Kailai's conviction for murdering a British business associate.
A source with direct knowledge of the case, who requested anonymity, said the trial might begin in mid-August.
News of the proceedings comes at a time when the party's new leadership is trying to show it is cracking down on corruption and government waste.
The downfall of Bo, once one of 25 members of the Politburo of China's ruling Communist Party, exposed corruption allegations and deep divisions at the highest levels of government.
The scandal emerged last year ahead of a once-a-decade leadership transition, in which Bo had been considered a candidate for the Politburo Standing Committee, which currently has seven members and is China's most powerful body.
His downfall was triggered after his police chief and right-hand man Wang Lijun fled to a US consulate in Chengdu city near Chongqing, reportedly seeking asylum. Bo was detained a month later.
He had cultivated an unusually populist public image and led a high profile anti-mafia campaign, which resulted in scores of arrests but led to allegations of torture against suspects.
Bo also revived some elements of 1960s Communist Party culture as part of a "Sing Red" campaign involving massive rallies, which drew comparisons with China's tumultuous Cultural Revolution period.
His attention-drawing approach was controversial among the top communist leadership, but the decision to oust him would have required tough backroom negotiations among the country's top leaders ahead of the power handover, analysts have said.
Bo's wife was given a suspended death sentence last August for fatally poisoning businessman and family friend Neil Heywood. The penalty is normally commuted to a life sentence in China.
Wang was sentenced to 15 years in prison in September for defection and other crimes.
Official media said last year Bo had "borne major responsibility" for the murder of Heywood and had taken "massive" bribes and had indulged in inappropriate sexual relations with "multiple women".
Bo has appointed two lawyers for the trial, both of whom are members of a law firm which has close ties to the ruling party.
His fate has generated widespread speculation, and rumours in January that his trial would open in the southwestern city of Guiyang sent packs of reporters to what turned out to be a quiet courthouse.
The last former Politburo member to be tried for corruption, Chen Liangyu, received an 18-year prison term in 2008.
Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/china-s-bo-xilai-indicted/755626.html
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
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