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Sunday, July 28, 2013
Spanish train crash driver leaves hospital, remains in custody
By Tracy Rucinski and Teresa Medrano
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (Reuters) - The driver of a Spanish train that derailed at high speed killing 78 people was released from hospital on Saturday, but he remained in police custody ahead of an appearance before a judge to answer questions about what went wrong.
Francisco Garzon, 52, was treated for a head injury he sustained in Wednesday's crash. He declined to give a statement to police on Friday.
"He ... has been arrested by the police on charges of alleged reckless homicide," Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said at the police headquarters of Santiago de Compostela, the northwestern city where the crash occurred.
Police had already said Garzon, who has been under arrest since Thursday, was suspected of "recklessness" in driving the train much too fast through a curve on the outskirts of Santiago.
Survivors and families of victims from Spain's deadliest train crash in decades were desperate for answers three days after the eight-carriage, high-speed train derailed on a sharp bend, slamming into a concrete wall.
Several bodies were still unidentified and dozens of injured were in hospital in serious condition.
"We have to investigate what happened, because there are lots of versions," said Ricardo Jimenez, whose sister-in-law was killed in the crash and whose body was not identified until late on Friday.
"This can't go unpunished, because those were people on the train, not animals, and other people shouldn't have to pay because one person makes a mistake," he told Reuters.
Officials are looking into whether the accident was the result of human error or a problem with the train, the track or the security system that controls speed on the railway.
Esther Dominguez, a 23-year-old student from Madrid who survived the accident, told Reuters: "I have really mixed feelings. On the one hand I feel fortunate to have come out of it okay, it's a miracle, but I'm really sad about the people who didn't come out as well and are suffering now.
"After something so huge you want to know why, what happened, so that it doesn't happen again. They need to get to the bottom of it and find out who was responsible."
The government has said a clearer picture would emerge from two official investigations, one judicial and one governmental, but there was growing pressure for assurances that Spain's rail network was safe.
"It is essential that we get guarantees about what the public believed was a model railway system but which suddenly turns out to have worrying security flaws," left-leaning newspaper El Pais said in an editorial.
CITY OF PILGRIMS
Santiago was meant to be celebrating the yearly festival of St. James this week. Thousands of Christian pilgrims arrived after walking the famous Camino de Santiago trail over the Pyrenees, or from Portugal.
Festivities were canceled after the accident - which happened on the eve of St. James day. Although many were trying to return to normal life, the mood in the city was subdued.
"It's as though people have lost their strength. It touches you deep inside," said Ofelia Garcia, who arrived in Santiago on Monday with her partner after they walked the pilgrimage trail from Portugal.
Although each family will bury their dead separately, the region of Galicia - where Santiago is the capital - was preparing an official memorial for the victims on Monday.
Mourners placed candles at the entrance to the centuries-old cathedral and strung blue hydrangeas, picked from local gardens, through the bars of the gates.
Pilgrims left traditional walking sticks near the cathedral gates with hand-written notes in support of the victims and their families.
One read: "So that your journey does not end here."
"We were about to open a bottle of wine when we started to hear sirens," said 30-year-old American tourist Rebecca Elias.
"At first we thought it was fireworks for the festivities and then we found out about the accident, so we put the wine away and said a prayer."
(Writing by Elisabeth O'Leary; Editing by Fiona Ortiz and Mike Collett-White)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/spanish-train-crash-driver-leaves-hospital-remains-custody-130810042.html
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
Microsoft to allow developers to start self-publishing on Xbox 360 as early as August ? report
Sat, Jul 27, 2013 | 19:26 BST
The Pinball Arcade developer, FarSight Studios, has said Microsoft will allow developers to start self-publishing on Xbox 360 as early as August.
The studio dropped the information in a newsletter that Polygon was privy to.
?Microsoft has just announced that indie developers (like FarSight) can now self-publish on Xbox Live Arcade instead of being required to find publishers for their games,? the newsletter stated. ?This means we can bring The Pinball Arcade back to the 360 ourselves, and also opens the door to an Xbox One version of The Pinball Arcade in the future!?
FarSight further stated in the newsletter that the self-publishing program will open in August.
Microsoft said earlier this week it will announced further details on the initiative during gamescom.
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Obama: Reporters tell me I have 'all good ideas' | The Daily Caller
After calling for Republicans in Congress to set aside ?short-term politics,? President Barack Obama bragged that reporters support all of his economic plans in a speech given on Wednesday in Galensberg, Illinois.
?It?s interesting, in the run-up to this speech, a lot of reporters say that, well, Mr. President, these are all good ideas, but some them of you?ve said before; some of them sound great, but you can?t get those through Congress.? Republicans won?t agree with you,? Obama said.
Obama mentioned that several Republicans ?whom he failed to name ? told him they secretly agree with his economic plans but refuse to publicly support him.
?And I say, look, the fact is there are Republicans in Congress right now who privately agree with me on a lot of the ideas I?ll be proposing.? I know because they?ve said so,? Obama continued. ?But they worry they?ll face swift political retaliation for cooperating with me.?
The White House isn?t shy about reaching out to sympathetic members of the press. Earlier in July, the administration held an off-record meeting with progressive reporters, including MSNBC?s Benjy Sarlin and Slate blogger Matt Yglesias ? who posted a photo after the meeting on Instagram hashtagged #ThisTown.
In November 2011, Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein briefed a group of Senate Democratic Chiefs?on the ?super committee? meant to reach a deficit deal. The committee collapsed only a day later.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, hundreds of liberal and progressive activists and journalists collaborated on a listserv called Journolist?to bury the burgeoning Rev. Jeremiah Wright scandal that could possibly have sunk Obama?s campaign.
MSNBC?s Chris Hayes, who hosts a low-rated talk show and wrote for The Nation during the campaign, told fellow reporters ?There is no earthly reason to use our various platforms to discuss what about Wright we find objectionable.? He later lamented to The Daily Caller, ?No one listened to me.?
Media Matters, a George Soros-funded political media?operation, compiled an extensive ?enemies list??and appeared to work closely with the Obama administration, with high-level White House officials and lower-level representatives appearing frequently in the Media Matters office and attending progressive meetings.
Obama has now presided over the longest period of economic stagnation since at least the 1970s, and a period of job creation that is by far the weakest since the Great Depression.
Early reactions to the ideas the president laid out in his economic speech Wednesday include ?old ideas with little chance of making an impact,? ?repackaged ideas and empty promises? and ?fresh out of ideas on the economy.?
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Source: http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/25/obama-reporters-tell-me-i-have-all-good-ideas/
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Obama says GOP opposition to debt limit 'deadbeat'
By JOSH LEDERMAN
Associated Press
Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - 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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Source: http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/22927607/obama-economic-tour-buffeted-by-low-expectations
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Samsung, Apple reportedly in talks to settle patent war
Samsung Electronics is reportedly in negotiations with Apple for a cross-licensing deal to end their patent dispute.
The Korea Times reported on Monday, citing industry sources familiar with the matter, Samsung is trying to iron out differences over key issues ahead of a new trial in the U.S. federal circuit slated for November.?
One of the sources said talks had begun since late last year, and has "come down to the issue of fees for Apple".
The Cupertino-based company reportedly holds the key to whether both companies will reach a compromise or continue to fight as Apple's request to the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) for a stay of remedial orders such as an import ban or cease and desist was rejected.
"Both companies are now finding better conditions to bring the settlement talks on their sides. That?s why they are paying keen attention to two upcoming separate decisions by the USITC," one of the sources, said in the report.
The USITC in June had banned Apple from importing some of its devices including iPad 2 and iPhone 4 because it infringed some of Samsung's patents. The final decision will be announced on August 1, 2013 after a 60-day review, on whether Samsung infringed on Apple's patents.
Apple had taken Samsung to court in 2011, alleging Samsung infringed patents of its iPhones and iPads, and the jury's verdict was that Samsung should pay US$1 billion. Other than the U.S., both companies have also been engaged in patent wars in Germany, France, Japan and Italy.
Just earlier this month, Samsung entered another cross-licensing deal with SK Hynix for the next five years, to have full access to each other's memory chip patents.
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