2 Somalia sport officials among 10 killed in blast

Somalis stretcher away a man wounded in a blast at the Somali National Theater in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, April 4, 2012. A suicide blast during a ceremony at Somalia's newly reopened national theater on Wednesday killed at least 10 people, including two of the country's top sports officials, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

Somalis stretcher away a man wounded in a blast at the Somali National Theater in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, April 4, 2012. A suicide blast during a ceremony at Somalia's newly reopened national theater on Wednesday killed at least 10 people, including two of the country's top sports officials, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

Somalis move a man wounded in a blast at the Somali National Theater in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, April 4, 2012. A suicide blast during a ceremony at Somalia's newly reopened national theater on Wednesday killed at least 10 people, including two of the country's top sports officials, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

FILE - In this Monday, March 19, 2012 file photo, Somali singers perform at the Somali National Theater in Mogadishu, Somalia. An official says two of Somalia's top sports officials were killed Wednesday, April 4, 2012 in a suicide blast at Somalia's newly reopened national theater that left at least 10 dead. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

In this photo taken Monday, March 19, 2012, Somalis attend a concert by Somali singers at the Somali National Theater in Mogadishu, Somalia. An official says two of Somalia's top sports officials were killed in a suicide blast Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at Somalia's newly reopened national theater that left at least 10 dead. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) ? An explosion Wednesday at a ceremony at Somalia's national theater killed at least 10 people including two top sports officials in an attack by an Islamist group on a site that symbolized the city's attempt to rise from two decades of war.

The explosion at the newly reopened theater happened as Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali was standing at the podium to deliver a speech. The prime minister was unharmed, said Abdirahman Omar Osman, the government spokesman. The president of Somalia's Olympic committee and the president of its soccer federation were killed, according to Shafici Mohyadin, the federation's secretary.

The blast shattered a tentative peace that descended on Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after fighters belonging to the Islamist group al-Shabab were pushed out last August by government and African Union troops.

The government said a female suicide bomber carried out the attack, but al-Shabab, using its official Twitter feed to claim responsbility for the attack, said explosives had been planted in the theater before the event.

Sports leagues have blossomed and seaside restaurants have been setting up shop, marking a long-awaited a revival of the seaside capital.

Wednesday's ceremony ? two weeks after the theater reopened ? was held to mark the first anniversary of the start of a national TV station. The blast cut chairs in half, filled the room with smoke and splattered blood across the walls.

"It was a cowardly act and that will not deter the government from performing its national duties," Osman said. "The prime minister will energize the government to eliminate the terrorists out of the country."

Ali Muse, the head of Mogadishu's ambulance service, said at least 10 people were killed and dozens wounded. He said the wounded included the country's national planning minister.

"The blast happened as musicians were singing and spectators were clapping for them," said Salah Jimale, who was in attendance at the theater but received only light scratches. "Huge smoke made the whole scene go dark. People screamed and soldiers suddenly started opening fire at the gate. Some wounded people escaped and ran away."

Shoes and blood-splattered mobile phones lay on the floor. A man wounded in the head and chest tried to sit up but suddenly collapsed and died as a reporter looked on.

The International Olympic Committee issued a statement saying it was "shocked to hear of the terrorist attack that took the lives of the President of the Somali Olympic Committee Aden Yabarow Wiish and Somali Football Federation chief Said Mohamed Nur today in Mogadishu."

"Both men were engaged in improving the lives of Somalian people through sport and we strongly condemn such an act of barbarism. Our thoughts are with the Somalian sporting community who lost two great leaders and with the families of the victims," the IOC said.

The months of relative peace allowed sports leagues, restaurants and even a little night life to flourish. Despite those advances, al-Shabab has continued to carry out suicide and roadside bomb attacks, sometimes with devastating effect. Last October militants detonated a truck loaded with fuel drums at a government ministry gate, killing more than 100 people.

The revival of sports in Mogadishu is an important part of the city's recent transformation. Women ? who lived under harsh rules when al-Shabab held sway ? can watch sports and even play. Al-Shabab defectors have put down their guns and are participating in sports leagues.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter said he knew both sports leaders who died Wednesday personally and they would be "sorely missed."

African Football Confederation president Issa Hayatou sent condolences to the families of those killed "in this terrible blast."

"It is another black day for African football. It's a tragedy as Somali football lost a great leader ... who was actively committed to football development despite very challenging conditions."

After Wednesday's blast, nervous soldiers outside the theater fired into the air to disperse shocked crowds gathered around the theater.

An old woman in tears ran toward a policeman after Wednesday's blast, saying: "My son was in there."

The policeman stopped her. She sat down and cried, but later ran into the theater, where she learned her son had died.

At the hospital, ambulance brought in the wounded, including a parliamentarian. Nurses led stumbling patients into surgical rooms.

Associated Press

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• Patients did not have to adjust lifestyle or common drugs for this test.
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CHICAGO ? Research on an investigational DNA methylation test for colorectal cancer demonstrated that the only clinical variable that influenced test results was age, according to results presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012, held here March 31 ? April 4.

?There was a progressive increase in background methylation levels that varied widely between methylation markers tested as a patient aged,? said David Ahlquist, M.D., professor of medicine and a consultant in gastroenterology and hepatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. ?For example, median background methylation levels of the TFPI2 gene increased 49 percent in patients from age 50 to age 80, whereas levels for the BMP3 gene increased by only 0.2 percent across this age range.?

His group at the Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with Exact Sciences, developed the multimarker molecular stool test, which is highly sensitive to the critical cancer screening targets of early-stage cancers and precancerous adenomas, he said.

?This test, if broadly applied, should have a very important impact on reducing both the mortality and incidence of colorectal cancer,? Ahlquist said.

The researchers examined common patient variables, including age, sex, race, alcohol consumption, tobacco use, body mass and medication use in 500 patients undergoing screening colonoscopy or polyp follow-up. Patients had a normal colonoscopy in the last three years.

With the exception of age, none of the variables influenced test results, nor did family history of colorectal cancer or polyps or personal history of polyps. These results mean that ?patients don?t have to change their lifestyle to have this test,? Ahlquist said. ?That was important from a patient-friendly standpoint for a test like this and could benefit compliance.?
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Researchers have selected the two markers least affected by age for further test development and validation based on these study results.
?If we can minimize the false positives, that will reduce the cost of the whole screening program by avoiding unnecessary colonoscopies,? Ahlquist said.

The screening test is currently undergoing FDA validation in a multicenter study in the United States and Canada, which is expected to be completed in the fall. The Mayo Clinic and Ahlquist have a financial interest in the technology referenced in this announcement.

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Sanctions go into effect in post-coup Mali

Coup leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo, center, is accompanied by Burkina Faso Foreign Affairs Minister Djibril Bassole, left, as he addresses the media at junta headquarters in Kati, outside Bamako, Mali, on Sunday, April 1, 2012. The leader of Mali's recent coup says he is reinstating the nation's previous constitution amid international pressure to restore constitutional order. Sanogo said a national convention would be held to organize elections, but he did not announce a timeline for the elections. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Coup leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo, center, is accompanied by Burkina Faso Foreign Affairs Minister Djibril Bassole, left, as he addresses the media at junta headquarters in Kati, outside Bamako, Mali, on Sunday, April 1, 2012. The leader of Mali's recent coup says he is reinstating the nation's previous constitution amid international pressure to restore constitutional order. Sanogo said a national convention would be held to organize elections, but he did not announce a timeline for the elections. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A soldier wears a button bearing the image of coup leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo with the words 'President, CNRDRE,' the French acronym by which the ruling junta is known, as he stands guard at junta headquarters in Kati, outside Bamako, Mali Sunday, April 1, 2012. The leader of Mali's recent coup says he is reinstating the nation's previous constitution amid international pressure to restore constitutional order.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) ? Malians lined up outside gas stations holding jerrycans, water bottles and plastic jugs, as the landlocked West African nation braced itself Tuesday for sanctions imposed overnight as a consequence of a coup last month.

In an effort to force out the soldiers that seized control of Mali on March 21, Mali's neighbors decided at an emergency summit Monday to impose an embargo, shutting their borders with Mali and freezing its account at the regional central bank. The nation roughly twice the size of France imports all its fuel, which is trucked in overland from neighboring Ivory Coast and Senegal, both of which are located on Africa's Atlantic Coast.

The country's electricity grid is also expected to falter in coming weeks, or days. April is one of the hottest months of the year in Mali and the country's hydropower system is unable to carry the load because of low water levels. Fuel is used in the hot months to run diesel generators.

Mali's president was sent into hiding when a group of disgruntled soldiers started a mutiny at a military base located around 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the presidential palace. From the base, they decided to march on the palace. In a matter of hours, they succeeded in reversing more than two decades of democracy.

The Economic Community of West African States, representing 15 nations in the region, has been uncharacteristically harsh in their condemnation of the coup. They gave the putschists a 72-hour deadline to restore civilian rule, which expired Monday. When the junta failed to do so, they announced that sanctions would go into effect immediately.

Bathily Seye, the owner of a local chain of gas stations called Afrique Oil, said that if no new shipments are allowed in, his 15 pumps will run dry in days.

"We don't have our own gas. It's all imported," he said. "There is absolutely nothing here. We don't have any refining capacity. ... I don't have the stock. In two days, my pumps will run out of gas."

At a Total station at 9 p.m. Monday, the day the embargo was announced, a young engineer came to fill up his Renault Megane. After the car was full, he asked the attendant to also fill up a jerrycan and a flat, plastic container that looked like it was once used for paint thinner.

"I am trying to create a reserve," said Mohamed Lamine Dembele. "If they keep the border closed, it will be very hard for us to refuel. We risk running out of gasoline in the entire country."

The soldiers who grabbed power said they did so because of the former president's mishandling of an insurgency in the north by Tuareg rebels. Since the coup, however, the rebels have effectively seized control of the entire northern half of the nation, taking the three major towns of Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu over the weekend.

A former minister, Mohamed Ag Erlaf, identified himself as the chief negotiator for Mali's junta and said the main rebel group that seized the north is willing to hold talks on the future of the country. Reached by telephone, Erlaf said Tuesday that the rebel National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad is open to discussions.

However, an NMLA spokesman in Paris told France 24 TV late Monday that the rebels have had no direct contact with the junta which toppled Mali's government. Moussa Ag Attaher said they do not recognize coup leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo.

He said: "Neither the international community nor the population of Mali recognize him. If we are to negotiate, it needs to be with someone that is recognized."

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Associated Press Writer Michelle Faul contributed to this report from Niamey, Niger.

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Gold Miners Dig Deep ? To The Ocean Floor

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A robotic arm breaks off a chunk of mineral-rich rock deep underwater. Nautilus Minerals of Australia hopes to develop and expand undersea mining by extracting copper, gold, silver and zinc from the seafloor.

Filmmaker James Cameron recently reminded us of the wonders of the sea by diving solo in a submarine to the deepest spot in the ocean. Next year, if all goes as planned, a rather different expedition will take place 1,000 miles south of that dive: An Australian company will start mining for copper, gold, silver and zinc on the seafloor off the shore of Papua New Guinea.

People have thought about mining the seafloor's mineral wealth for many decades. But now, a combination of high metal prices and sophisticated technology is making that possible.

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This deep-sea rock is rich in copper. Minerals form in the seafloor because a natural hot spring has been laying them down for thousands of years.

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This deep-sea rock is rich in copper. Minerals form in the seafloor because a natural hot spring has been laying them down for thousands of years.

Nautilus Minerals of Australia has a license from Papua New Guinea to mine a site the size of 21 football fields for its rich deposits. The minerals are found there in very high concentrations, because a natural hot spring on the seafloor has been laying them down for thousands of years.

Samantha Smith, the vice president for corporate responsibility at the company, says it's an operation that involves remotely piloted vehicles prowling around a mile under the surface.

"You have two machines that cut, and they do different kinds of cuts," she says. These tools have large grinding wheels and other devices to break up the rock at the seafloor, which is similar in hardness to concrete. "And then you've got a third machine that goes along and effectively sucks the material up from the seafloor."

The material is drawn into a long pipe, similar to the kind used in deep-sea oil drilling. This riser pipe brings slurry to ships on the surface, and the mineral-rich material is hauled to shore. The mineral-rich wastewater that comes up the pipe is filtered and pumped back to the seafloor. That way, it won't harm tuna, which swim closer to the surface, and which commercial fishermen depend upon.

And if it seems like a hassle to do all this offshore, Smith says think of the alternative ? mining on land. "You've got to dig a big hole in the ground to get to the ore body. And you might even have to remove a mountain and then dig a big hole in the ground to the ore body," she says.

Mining the seafloor will require a suite of specialized tools to dig up and collect the mineral-rich ore. Two remotely controlled cutting tools will bite into the rock on the seafloor, which is about as hard as concrete.

One looks like a massive rototiller mounted on a hydraulic arm. This one will smooth the surface. A second machine, called a bulk cutter, will tear away at this smoothed surface with a large spiked drum. Both run on bulldozer-style treads.

"It's like cutting the grass," says Samantha Smith from Nautilus Minerals, the company planning this massive operation.

A third remotely controlled machine will follow behind and slurp up the rubble that the two cutting machines generate. The rubble gets drawn up a milelong "riser" pipe, which will carry it to the sea surface. This technology was developed for offshore oil development.

The slurry ends up on a custom-built ship on the surface. That ship will separate the mineral-rich ore from the water, filter the water, and pump it back to the seafloor. Smith says fishermen worried that tuna would be harmed if that mineral-laced water was discharged at the surface. The company realized it could mitigate that risk by pumping the water all the way back down to the seafloor ? and it turns out that decision makes it easier to run the entire pumping system.

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Offshore, you aren't forcing people off their land to dig mines, and you aren't contaminating rivers and streams.

"There's a potential environmental advantage, and really that's where the industry got a kick start," she says. Of course, the sharply rising value of metals like copper and gold has also made the big expense of this kind of operation worthwhile.

But the same natural hot springs that have deposited all that mineral wealth on the seafloor also support marine life like marine snails, says Cindy Van Dover, a marine biologist at Duke University.

"To a biologist, they're beautiful," she says. "They have symbiotic bacteria that live inside their gills, and those bacteria supply the food energy that drives the community of animals that lives there. So in an otherwise relatively depauperate deep sea, these habitats are generally pretty rich oases of life."

An Environmental Experiment

Van Dover is among the scientists that Nautilus Minerals has been consulting in its attempt to limit the environmental damage. She says you can think of mining as a very aggressive experiment: What happens when you carve away the natural chimneys made of these minerals and grind down the surrounding rock?

"We know these systems are often exposed to disturbances," she says. "The chimneys fall down and there are volcanic eruptions in some places. So the animals are adapted to recolonizing new spaces fairly quickly, we think."

It's possible the marine life will be back in a year, she says. But that could prove to be far too optimistic. The company will leave some parts of the area undisturbed so animals there can potentially recolonize the site after the 30-month mining period is over.

"I don't like the thought of messing up a pristine environment," Van Dover says. "I would rather see the deep sea stay unimpacted by human activities. But that's not a very rational view."

But George Woodwell, a scientist who founded the Woods Hole Research Center in Woods Hole, Mass., has a much more visceral reaction to destroying any deep-ocean hot spring.

"The organisms that have evolved to inhabit them are specially adapted to those places. And they are well worth examining, looking at them. They are one of the wonders of the Earth to be preserved, as far as I'm concerned," Woodwell says.

He argues it's time to stop degrading the Earth to sustain our consumptive lifestyles. "So I don't have any sympathy for the idea that we should be mining the seafloor in this late stage in the development of our industrial society. We've got to be more mature than that."

Smith, from Nautilus Minerals, says our hunger for metals keeps growing, so mining is bound to happen somewhere.

"What we're looking at here is more of a holistic view, that maybe going to the seafloor makes environmentally and socially a lot more sense," she says.

The mining activity is set to start toward the end of next year. And if it's successful, it could be the beginning of a whole new industry, operating far from public view and, so far, with very little in the way of international rules and regulations.

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Oracle and Google get a trial date, April 16th is the start of Android armageddon

As regular readers of this site are well aware, Google and Oracle have had an ongoing legal spat for nearly two years now. In the time since the lawsuit's filing, the legal claims have been narrowed, damages claims have been adjusted, reduced, and reduced again. All that activity, plus continuous settlement talks caused the trial to be delayed several times. But now it appears that the two sides have officially reached an impasse, and so the tech giants will go to trial on April 16th to determine if Android illicitly pulled code from Java. Will Oracle get paid? Will Google and its green bots be gloating in the end? Pop some popcorn and settle in, folks, we'll start getting some answers in a couple weeks.

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