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November 10, 2012

Optical Telescopes Benefit From Precision Hyperboloids
Surrey UK (SPX) Nov 05, 2012
Optical Surfaces Ltd. has established a worldwide reputation of being able to deal with the extremely tight tolerances and accuracy that hyperbolic optics demand. Hyperboloids are generally used in optical telescope systems where good off-axis performance is an important requirement. Optical Surfaces supplied hyperboloids have been at the heart of many deep space and earth observation satellites including BNSC's Top Sat, the NASA swift explorer as well as ESA's XMM and NigeriaSAT-2. Benefiti ... read more

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Israel enemy No 1, Sudan's Bashir says after surgery A tired but healthy-looking Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir appeared on television Thursday after a minor operation, calling Israel "enemy number one" in a return to his typical fiery rhetoric. ... more		West seeks to curb al-Qaida kidnappings The United States and France are backing moves to muster an African-led intervention force to smash the jihadist stronghold in northern Mali, and one of the main objectives is to eradicate the kidnapping of Westerners for ransom. ... more		Libya court condemns 5 army officers to death in absentia A Libyan military court on Wednesday ordered the execution of five army officers, who were being tried in absentia, on charges of indiscriminate shelling of civilians and of rape during the 2011 conflict. ... more		Amazon takes on iPad with new Kindle Fire tablet Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms
				Arabica coffee could be extinct in the wild within 70 years A study conducted by scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (UK), in collaboration with scientists in Ethiopia, reports that climate change alone could lead to the extinction of wild Arabica c ... more		W.African leaders prepare for Mali military intervention Preparations are accelerating for an intervention in Islamist-occupied northern Mali as West African leaders prepare to adopt a military blueprint this weekend before seeking UN approval. ... more

Sudan rebels 'shoot down' air force bomber Rebels in Sudan's war-torn South Kordofan state claimed on Thursday to have shot down an air force Antonov bomber, which they said crashed in flames along the undemarcated border near South Sudan. ... more		Piracy will swell again if seas not policed: S.African Navy South Africa will send anti-piracy patrols to the waters off Mozambique and Tanzania this month, a senior navy official said on Thursday, while warning of a resurgence in attacks if the continent's oceans are not policed. ... more		Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture Stable black carbon in mangrove soils boosts coastal climate role Low crystallinity iron minerals show promise for chromium cleanup and carbon storage		N. American Internet traffic doubles: report The amount of data sent online in North America has more than doubled over the past year, with Netflix shows accounting for a big chunk of Internet traffic, a report found Wednesday. ... more
				West Africa army chiefs adopt Mali intervention strategy West African army chiefs have adopted a military plan to expel Islamist rebels controlling northern Mali, as one extremist group pushes for a negotiated solution to the crisis. ... more		Somalia charcoal exports fuelling conflict flout UN ban Somalia's charcoal exports, which have fuelled Islamist insurgents, continue in defiance of a UN ban, including out of regions controlled by African Union forces, residents and officials said Tuesday. ... more

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Smallholder farmers need improved stake in Nile's development A new book finds that the Nile river, together with its associated tributaries and rainfall, could provide 11 countries - including a new country, South Sudan, and the drought-plagued countries of t ... more		Outside View: Mounting tension in Mali The beating drums of war seem to be growing louder in Mali especially after the realization that al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and its allies in the Sahel region have probably played a key role in the lethal attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, in September. ... more		DAMPE space telescope finds universal spectral feature that narrows field on cosmic ray origins ThinKom Develops Self-Funded Mobile HPM Weapon to Counter Drone Swarms Planet and Carbon Mapper Plan SWIR-Only Tanager Satellite for Wider Methane Detection		Gunmen kill two Chinese workers in Nigeria: company Gunmen shot dead two Chinese construction workers in a town in Nigeria's volatile northeast on Wednesday, police and company officials said, the latest such killing in the region in recent weeks. ... more
				Gabon to suspend new Megaupload site Gabon's government said Tuesday it was suspending the website www.me.ga, which Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom had planned to use to launch a new version of his defunct Megaupload file-sharing site. ... more		Mali Islamist rebels urge dialogue, halt to hostilities Ansar Dine, an Islamist group occupying northern Mali, called Tuesday for other fighters to join them in political dialogue, as military chiefs plot strategies to expel the extremists by force. ... more

Scientists Identify Insect-repelling Compounds in Jatropha

Arabica coffee could be extinct in the wild within 70 years

Brazil's top farmers group to open office in China

Work underway on contested mega-dam: Laos official

Boeing Begins Construction of Salmon Habitat at Plant 2 in Seattle

Laos breaks ground on Xayaburi Dam

Obama hints at new drive on climate change

Drifting word clouds may change perceptions of climate science

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Australia launches energy white paper

US military mobilizes to help restore power to New York

Anthrax kills 30 hippos in S. Africa's renowned Kruger park
An outbreak of anthrax has killed at least 30 hippopotamus in South Africa's famed Kruger National Park wildlife reserve, the country's parks authority said Tuesday. ... more

Uganda threat to quit Somalia poses danger
Uganda's threat to pull its troops out of Somalia in retaliation for allegations it backs rebel forces in war-ravaged Congo could dangerously weaken Somalia's fragile, Western-backed transitional federal government only weeks after it was installed. ... more

Nigeria floods kill 363, displace 2.1 million since July
Flooding in Nigeria since July has killed 363 people and displaced 2.1 million in what the president has called an unprecedented situation in Africa's most populous nation, officials said Monday. ... more

Nigeria military kills about 40 in northeast: residents
Nigerian soldiers shot dead dozens of young men during raids in a city seen as a stronghold of a radical Islamist group, residents and a morgue worker told AFP on Friday. ... more

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... the Space Station

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New habitable zone super-Earth found in exosolar system

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Physicists confirm first planet discovered in a quadruple star system

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Turkey discusses Patriot deployment with NATO

Israel 'success' in new missile defence test

Russia's space forces launch missile shield rocket

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Sonic boom rocks southwest England

Comet collisions every 6 seconds explain 17-year-old stellar mystery

Ball Aerospace/B612 Foundation Sign Contract for Sentinel Mission

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