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Russian envoy warns on U.S. human rights bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Proposed U.S. legislation to punish Russian officials involved in human rights abuses could have “a significant negative impact” on U.S.-Russian relations, Moscow’s envoy to the United States warned on Monday
Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak said the U.S. Congress should not tie the so-called Sergei Magnitsky bill to an expected vote this year on establishing “permanent normal trade relations” between the two countries.
“If that is taken to an extreme, it’ll be a significant negative impact on Russian-Americans relations,” Kislyak told reporters at a luncheon to tout Russia‘s hopes for closer trade ties with the United States.
“I cannot predict how we would react, but I’m certain it would undermine our ability to work together on a number of issues,” Kislyak said.
The 2009 death of the 37-year-old Magnitsky, who worked for equity fund Hermitage Capital and died after a year in Russian jails, spooked investors and tarnished Russia’s image.
Before his arrest, Magnitsky had testified against Russian interior ministry officials during a tax evasion case against Hermitage. The Kremlin human rights council says he was probably beaten to death.
The case has heightened concerns in Congress about human rights conditions in Russia and made it even harder for the White House to persuade lawmakers to lift a Cold War-era trade provision known as the Jackson-Vanik amendment.
However, if Congress refuses to remove the provision and establish permanent normal trade relations, Russia could legally deny U.S. companies the market-opening benefits of Moscow’s accession into the World Trade Organization, which is expected by late July or August.
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Congress passed the Jackson-Vanik amendment in 1974 to put pressure on the former Soviet Union to allow Jews to emigrate.
Nearly four decades later, it is at odds with WTO rules that require all members to provide normal trade relations with each other on an unconditional basis.
Various U.S. administrations have judged Russia to be in compliance with Jackson-Vanik since 1994.
However, Congress has kept Jackson-Vanik on the books for Russia while repealing it for many other former Soviet republics, such as Ukraine, and for China and Vietnam as those countries negotiated agreements to enter the WTO.
A number of lawmakers in both houses of Congress want the repeal of the Jackson-Vanik provision to include language that punishes human rights abusers in Russia, such as those who may be responsible for the Magnitsky’s death.
They have been pushing for legislation that includes asset freezes and visa bans on human rights violators in Russia.
Kislyak said the proposed bill was an unreasonable and unacceptable intrusion into Russian sovereignty.
“There is no country in the world that is perfect,” he said, noting that Moscow had concerns about what he described as the U.S. court system’s failure to investigate some cases of abuse or even the death of Russian children adopted by U.S. parents.
The countries should keep such issues separate, he said.
“As far as we are concerned, Magnitsky case has nothing to do with trade,” Kislyak said. “For us, the proposition to bring Magnitsky case, it’s almost an attempt to replace an anti-Soviet Jackson-Vanik (law) by an anti-Russian Magnitsky law.”
Passing a clean bill would benefit both countries, Kislyak argued. While U.S.-Russia trade has grown to about $42 billion annually over the past decade, that is only about one-tenth of the trade between the Russia and the European Union, he said.
A new U.S. Senate draft of the Magnitsky bill, which already has the bipartisan support of more than 30 senators, would extend the penalties to human rights violators “anywhere in the world” to avoid specifically targeting Russia.
A Senate aide said it may not come up for a vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee until late May, after Russia’s incoming president, Vladimir Putin, visits Washington.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus is pushing for a vote on permanent normal trade relations before Russia enters the WTO, but some observers believe action on the controversial issue could be delayed until after the November 6 U.S. elections.
If that happens, Russia will cut tariffs on goods from other WTO members but not from the United States since Washington would not be in compliance with its obligations, Kislyak said.
(Editing by Christopher Wilson)
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WSU astrobiologist proposes fleet of probes to seek life on Mars
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PULLMAN, Wash.A Washington State University astrobiologist is leading a group of 20 scientists in calling for a mission to Mars with “a strong and comprehensive life detection component.” At the heart of their proposal is a small fleet of sensor packages that can punch into the Martian soil and run a range of tests for signs of ancient or existing life.
They call the mission BOLD. It’s both an acronym for Biological Oxidant and Life Detection and a nod to the proposal’s chutzpah. The proposal, which comes as NASA is reevaluating its Mars exploration program, appears in the journal Planetary and Space Science.
“We really want to address the big questions on Mars and not fiddle around,” says Dirk Schulze-Makuch, whose earlier proposals have included an economical one-way trip to the red planet. “With the money for space exploration drying up, we finally have to get some exciting results that not only the experts and scientists in the field are interested in but that the public is interested too.”
The BOLD mission would feature six 130-pound probes that could be dropped to various locations. Shaped like inverted pyramids, they would parachute to the surface and thrust a soil sampler nearly a foot into the ground upon landing. On-board instrumentation would then conduct half a dozen experiments, transmitting data to an orbiter overhead.
The soil analyzer would moisten a sample and measure inorganic ions, pH and light characteristics that might get at the sample’s concentration of hydrogen peroxide. Schulze-Makuch has hypothesized that microbial organisms on Mars could be using a mixture of water and hydrogen peroxide as their internal fluid. The compound might also account for several of the findings of the Viking Mars landers in the late 1970s.
The probe’s microscopic imager would look for shapes similar to known terrestrial microfossils.
Another instrument would look for single long molecules similar to the long nucleic acids created by life on earth.
Some experiments would repeat work done by the Viking landers but with a greater precision that could detect previously overlooked organic material.
Each probe would have about a 50-50 chance of landing successfully. But with the redundancy of six probes, the chance of one succeeding is better than 98 percent.
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Washington State University
Sensors would punch into soil, run range of tests
PULLMAN, Wash.A Washington State University astrobiologist is leading a group of 20 scientists in calling for a mission to Mars with “a strong and comprehensive life detection component.” At the heart of their proposal is a small fleet of sensor packages that can punch into the Martian soil and run a range of tests for signs of ancient or existing life.
They call the mission BOLD. It’s both an acronym for Biological Oxidant and Life Detection and a nod to the proposal’s chutzpah. The proposal, which comes as NASA is reevaluating its Mars exploration program, appears in the journal Planetary and Space Science.
“We really want to address the big questions on Mars and not fiddle around,” says Dirk Schulze-Makuch, whose earlier proposals have included an economical one-way trip to the red planet. “With the money for space exploration drying up, we finally have to get some exciting results that not only the experts and scientists in the field are interested in but that the public is interested too.”
The BOLD mission would feature six 130-pound probes that could be dropped to various locations. Shaped like inverted pyramids, they would parachute to the surface and thrust a soil sampler nearly a foot into the ground upon landing. On-board instrumentation would then conduct half a dozen experiments, transmitting data to an orbiter overhead.
The soil analyzer would moisten a sample and measure inorganic ions, pH and light characteristics that might get at the sample’s concentration of hydrogen peroxide. Schulze-Makuch has hypothesized that microbial organisms on Mars could be using a mixture of water and hydrogen peroxide as their internal fluid. The compound might also account for several of the findings of the Viking Mars landers in the late 1970s.
The probe’s microscopic imager would look for shapes similar to known terrestrial microfossils.
Another instrument would look for single long molecules similar to the long nucleic acids created by life on earth.
Some experiments would repeat work done by the Viking landers but with a greater precision that could detect previously overlooked organic material.
Each probe would have about a 50-50 chance of landing successfully. But with the redundancy of six probes, the chance of one succeeding is better than 98 percent.
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Home improvement projects must be tackled every couple of years to ensure that your home is current. While you can contract this job out, it?s entirely possible to do this yourself. Apply the tips using this informative article regarding help.
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Hands-on with AT&T Labs prototypes: ShadowPuppets and haptic steering wheel
We’re not done with the AT&T prototypes yet. After putting our rears in the seat of a Porsche 911 and turning our questionable English into even more questionable Spanish, Ma Bell gave us a glimpse at some super rough devices fresh from the labs. The first one we got our hands on, really didn’t need us to put our hands on it. ShadowPuppets sticks a webcam to a pico projector (literally… with gaffers tape) to create a touchless “multitouch” interface for your phone. Rather than have friends gather around your tiny iPhone display or force a person to awkwardly reach across you and tap on your handset, this concept lets anyone simply cast shadows to control the interface. It’s not terribly dissimilar from a number of other projects out there, except it’s specifically geared at turning smartphone interaction into a social experience. The demo required the assistance of an Alienware laptop, and the pinch to zoom function was a little wonky to say the least. Still, it was pretty easy to see how this might prove useful in daily life.
Gallery: AT&T Labs prototype hands-on
The other concept on hand was the haptic feedback steering wheel the company dreamed up with help from Carnegie Mellon. While the research may sound compelling, the device it self couldn’t be any rougher around the edges… literally. The design consisted of roughly cut chunks of foam taped (this time with packing tape, we believe) haphazardly to a game controller. On each piece of foam was a tiny vibrating actuator connected to an Arduino that dangled below in a vaguely menacing tangle of cables. The sensation as the vibrations travel in circular patterns (clockwise to indicate a right turn, counter clockwise for left), was strange to say the least. But, as the cycles sped up and the turn approached we grew less uncomfortable with the feeling of a vibrating steering wheel. And we actually found the increasing tempo an easier way to discern when a turn was approaching than hearing a robotic voice shout out, “turn left in 500 feet.” Check out the gallery above for some not so glamorous shots of the future of tech.
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