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路透社:台湾动物园爆大熊猫产子画面
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Canada train deaths rise
加拿大火车脱轨 死亡人数还在上升
At least 13 people are now known to have perished in the small Canadian town of Lac-Megantic when a runaway oil tanker train derailed and exploded. Police are trying to account for dozens more still missing.
在加拿大Lac-Megantic小镇，一辆失控的油罐火车脱离轨道并发生爆炸，至少已造成13人遇难。警方正在试图说明几十名仍在失踪的人员。
POLICE SPOKESMAN BENOIT RICHARD SAYING: "We are still talking about around more or less 40 people who are reported missing that we don't know their whereabouts." The rail company which operated the train said airbrakes that would have stopped it rolling into the town had failed. A locomotive left running to power the brakes was switched off by fire crews called to an earlier engine fire. As the air brakes slowly disengaged the driverless train rolled downhill, followed by 72 tanks of crude oil and catastrophic consequences for Lac-Megantic. Few residents say they expect any of the missing to be found alive.
警方发言人理查德说：“我们仍在讨论失踪的约40名人员，我们不知道他们的下落。”运营此趟火车的铁路公司称，本该阻止火车撞进镇上的空气制动器失灵了，向刹车系统提供动力的机车被消防人员关闭，这被称作早期发动机起火。随着空气制动器慢慢被脱离，无人驾驶列车滚下了山坡，随后带来的是72罐的原油以及对Lac-Megantic镇的灾难性后果。居民表示失踪人员存活的希望渺茫。
Video shows panda giving birth
台湾动物园爆大熊猫产子画面
The sound of a bundle of joy - as Yuan Yuan just gave birth to Taiwan's first baby giant panda. This remarkable video was released by Taipei Zoo, and shows how nine-year-old Yuan Yuan cares for her newborn right after giving birth. After years of failed attempts, she finally got pregnant with her baby girl from artificial insemination as natural pregnancies are rare with the species in captivity. The zoo's spokesperson Chang Chih-hua.
随着圆圆在台湾产下第一只熊猫宝宝，到处洋溢着快乐之声。这段非凡的视频是台湾动物园公布的，画面显示了生下小宝宝后9岁的圆圆如何照顾她新生的孩子。经过多年失败的尝试后，圆圆终于在人工授精下怀上了女宝宝，选择人工授精是因为在圈养条件下这种物种自然怀孕的机会非常小。动物园发言人张志华。
Taipei Zoo Secretary Chang Chih-Hua Saying (Mandarin) "We know there are three major difficulties with panda's reproduction, but we've managed to overcome two things -- get them in heat and let them give birth. Now, the next difficult thing is to take care of the panda baby and let it grow up." The zoo said they will ask the public to name the female cub. Her mother's name Yuan Yuan together with her mate's name, Tuan Tuan, means "reunification". The pair was a gift to Taiwan from China in 2008 as a cross-Taiwan Strait gesture of goodwill.
台北动物园秘书张志华说：“因为大家都知道大熊猫繁殖有三大难题，但我们已经设法克服了其中两项——让发情和产子，现在接下来的难题就是照顾好熊猫宝宝让它们长大。”动物园表示他们将邀请公众为这只雌性宝宝取名。这只熊妈妈的名字叫团团，其配偶的名字叫圆圆，寓意团圆之意。这对熊猫是在2008年中国赠送给台湾的，象征着两岸间的友好关系。
Japan's neighbors angry over regional defense assessment
中韩就日本地区国防评估表示愤怒
Japan's elite forces parachute onto the slopes of Mount Fuji. The 1st Airborne Brigade is running military drills amid increased tensions with neighbours including China. Japanese paratroopers leap from planes or helicopters with 100-kilogram packs, and are expected to fight and live off the land after landing.
日本精英部队空降至富士山的山坡上。随着日本与包括中国在内的周边国家的紧张局势加剧，第一空降旅正在进行军事演习。日本伞兵携带者100公斤的包裹从飞机或直升机上跳下，登陆后将进行作战和生存演习。
COMMANDER OF 1ST AIRBORNE BRIGADE, JAPAN GROUND SELF DEFENSE FORCE (JGSDF), MAJOR GENERAL TADAO MAEDA, SAYING: "Our troops have a seriously high level of motivation - they all believe the reason they're here is to risk their lives in times of emergency. We make them jump out of planes to train for airborne assaults, or march with heavy backpacks without eating or drinking. That's just the way we do things here, it's our tradition." Meanwhile, China and South Korea lashed out at a defence report Japan released that same day warning of threats from territorial disputes in the East China Sea. The Chinese foreign ministry said Japan was exaggerating the threat to create regional tension as South Korea urged Tokyo to remove from the report its claim to disputed islands. The annual report is the first since hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power vowing to boost Japan's defence capabilities.
日本陆上自卫队(JGSDF),第一空降旅指挥官、少将 TADAO MAEDA说：“我们的军队有极高的积极性，他们都知道他们来这的原因是在紧急时刻冒着生命的危险，我们让他们从飞机上跳下来训练他们的空降突袭能力，不吃不喝带着沉重的背包行军。这就是我们在这里做的事情，这是我们的传统。”与此同时，日本发表国防报道警告来自东海领土争端的威胁，中韩两国就此对日本展开猛烈的抨击。中国外交部表示，日本故意夸大威胁论，并制造地区紧张，韩国敦促东京删除其报告中声称的有争议岛屿。自鹰派首相安培晋三上台以来，这是首次发表年度报告，誓言要推动日本的国防能力。
惊悚!空气污染夺命 北方人比南方少活5.5年
Air pollution cuts 5.5 years of life expectancy in N. China
惊悚!空气污染夺命 北方人比南方少活5.5年
A new study, published Tuesday, links heavy air pollution from coal burning to supposed shorter lifespans in northern China.
The study was carried out by researchers from China, Israel and the United States and published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study says that the half-billion people living in northern China in the 1990s will live an average of 5 years less than their southern counterparts because they breathed dirtier air.
During the 1950-1980 period of central planning, China provided free coal to fuel boilers to heat homes and offices in the north. The policy was discontinued after 1980, but has left a legacy of heavy coal burning in north China, which releases particulate pollutants into the air that can harm human health.
奥巴马演讲:奥巴马介绍美国新的管理议程
Remarks by the President Presenting New Management Agenda
奥巴马介绍美国新的管理议程
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very much. Everybody, please have a seat. Well, thank you so much.
Back in 2007, when I was first running for this office, I had the opportunity to visit Google headquarters in Mountain View, in Silicon Valley, to discuss ways we could use technology to allow more citizens to participate in their democracy, and bring a government built largely in the 20th century into the 21st century.
After all, we had already set out to build a new type of campaign -- one that used technology to bring people together, and then trusted them with that technology to organize on their own. And the idea was simple: Instead of bringing more people to the campaign, we wanted to bring the campaign to more people, and let them determine its course and its nature. If you wanted to make phone calls or knock on doors, you didn’t have to come into a field office first, you could just get the information you needed right on your phone and go out there and do it. If you wanted to get your friends involved, then we had the tools to help you connect.
And I very much felt that some of the things that we were doing to help us get elected could also be used once we were elected. If you wanted to share your story, we could help you get your story out. And throughout this process, we created one of the most inclusive and one of the most successful campaigns in American history.
Now, once we got to Washington, instead of an operation humming with the latest technology, I had to fight really hard just to keep my BlackBerry. (Laughter.) And as anyone knows, dealing with the federal government is not always high-technology and it’s not always user-friendly.
So over the past four and a half years, we’ve worked diligently to change that. Just like we did on that campaign, we started by recruiting some of the smartest people from the private sector to work side-by-side with some of the smartest people in the public sector to help get it done. So that day that I visited Google, I promised to appoint the nation’s first CTO -- Chief Technology Officer. And soon after I took office, I did. Today, our Chief Technology Officer, Todd Park, and our Chief Information Officer, Steve VanRoekel, are working with their teams to innovate and apply the best technology to help solve some of our biggest challenges -- from creating jobs to reducing health care costs to keeping our nation secure.
We are the first to confess that progress has not always come quick, and major challenges still remain. But we’ve made huge swaths of your government more efficient and more transparent, and more accountable than ever before. And we’ve done it by focusing on three areas.
First, we found ways to deliver the services that citizens expect in smarter, faster, and better ways. So, for example, until recently, when a natural disaster struck, teams from FEMA had to rely exclusively on in-person inspections to figure out which families needed help. Now they analyze satellite and aerial imagery and get housing assistance to areas that need it most, more quickly. After Hurricane Sandy, most folks were able to sign up for assistance using FEMA’s mobile and web apps -- updating and checking the status of their applications. And FEMA agents went door-to-door in some areas with iPads, helping residents who had lost power and Internet access sign up for disaster relief without leaving their homes. So making sure that we’re delivering services better, faster, more efficiently.
Second, we’ve identified new ways to reduce waste and save taxpayers money. So, for example, just by working to get rid of overlapping IT systems, we’ve identified more than $2.5 billion in savings across the federal government -- and that’s just the beginning. I’ve proposed and signed into law the elimination of dozens of federal programs and cut even more that were either duplicative, not working, or no longer needed, saving billions of dollars a year. And the basic principle is simple: Taxpayers deserve the biggest bang for their buck, especially at a time when budgets are tight and we’ve got to do a lot more with less. And now anyone can visit WhiteHouse.gov to see your “Taxpayer Receipt.” It’s a literal receipt that tells you just how and where your tax dollars are being spent.
Finally, for the first time in history, we’ve opened up huge amounts of government data to the American people, and put it on the Internet for free. At Data.gov, you can search through and download more than 75,000 data sets -- data on everything from what different hospitals charge for different procedures, to credit card complaints, to weather and climate measurements. And what’s happening is entrepreneurs and business owners are now using that data -- the people’s data --to create jobs and solve problems that government can’t solve by itself or can’t do as efficiently.
So there’s a company called Opower, for example, that’s used open government data on general energy trends and weather to help families save more than $300 million on their energy bills. There’s another company called iTriage -- founded by two emergency room doctors -- that is using freely downloadable data about health care providers from the Department of Health and Human Services to help more than 9 million people find the closest doctors and hospitals that meet their needs. And the list goes on. And these companies have now hired hundreds of people and they’re still hiring. And millions of people have already used these applications that were created as a consequence of releasing this data.
So we’ve made some good progress on all fronts, but now we need to do more. So today, I met with all my Cabinet, including a number of new Cabinet members, some of whom have extraordinary private sector experience, and I directed the Cabinet to develop an aggressive management agenda for my second term that delivers a smarter, more innovative, and more accountable government for its citizens. And we’re going to continue to adopt good ideas from the private sector.
I’ve asked Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to lead this effort. And Sylvia was part of a team at OMB that presided over three years of budget surpluses in the 1990s. After philanthropic work at the Gates Foundation and the Wal-Mart Foundation, she’s come back to help us move this effort forward.
She’s not the only one. We’ve also welcomed a new class of Presidential Innovation Fellows -- and I’d love for the press to meet some of these folks, because they’re extraordinary. These are Americans with vast private sector technology expertise who have volunteered to come serve their country in the private [public] sector. So, for example, Scott Wu helped found a company that helps recent graduates turn their good ideas into good businesses. And Claire Holroyd used to manage product design for everything from mobile phones to video games. Garren Givens founded an innovative shopping site that adapts to your tastes as you browse. And so they and 40 other Fellows are taking this private sector expertise and bringing it into the government -- making it smarter, making it more user-friendly.
Today, for example, many online shopping websites help fill in some of your information so you don’t have to enter it every time you log in. As a consequence, we’re working on a project called MyUSA that will save you time by doing the same thing with government forms. And if you’re applying for federal benefits, we think you should be able to track the status of your application in real time, just like you can follow location of a package all the way to your doorstep. These are things that are in the pipeline right now.
Currently, when our government asks for bids on a project, it’s usually written in complicated language with complicated requirements that most people don’t understand. We’re working to make things simpler so it’s easier for more small businesses across the country to bid on projects. And we’ll help businesses create more jobs doing work that needs to be done -- and by opening up more competition to government contracts, we’ll save taxpayers money in the process.
We recently re-launched an upgraded, easier HealthCare.gov. Beginning October 1st, Americans will be able to log on and comparison shop an array of private health insurance plans, side-by-side -- just like you go online and compare the best deal on cars or the best deal on computers. Because you’ll finally be part of a new pool with millions of other Americans, insurers will actually want to compete for your business. And we’ve worked really hard to make these marketplaces user-friendly. So, for example, when the prototype of an application to join the marketplace came in at 21 pages, we rejected it. We said let’s do better. It’s now three pages long. And, by the way, that’s a lot shorter than the application you have to fill out for private insurance currently.
Last year, I also asked Congress for the authority to reorganize and consolidate the federal bureaucracy. We’re doing a lot of this work administratively, but unfortunately there are still a bunch of rules, a lot of legislation that has poorly designed some of our agencies and forces folks to engage in bureaucratic jump-hoop -- hoop jumping instead of just going ahead and focusing on mission and delivering good service to our citizens. So what we’ve asked is let’s clean this up. Let’s consolidate it.
Almost every President from Herbert Hoover to Ronald Reagan had this authority to redesign the federal government, the executive branch, to deliver services better -- just like every business owner seeking to make sure that his or her company keep pace with the times. Currently, we do not have that capacity. And so I’m going to keep on doing what we can administratively, but we sure could use Congress’s help, particularly at a time when Congress is saying they want more efficient government -- they give a lot of lip service to it -- and we’re operating under severe fiscal constraints.
It makes sense for us to be able to redesign government so that it can deliver on the functions that the American people are looking for. We should all want a government that’s smarter, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the American people.
Now, the good news is America is full of talented, dedicated public servants who are working really hard every day to uphold the public trust. And those of us who believe that government has a responsibility to guarantee some level of basic security, and to make sure everybody gets a fair shot at success -- from the entrepreneur who wants to start a business, to the workers who will work in that business -- we also have a responsibility to make sure that government works. And that’s why I’m glad that we’ve got people like Scott and Claire and Garren and so many other talented, idealistic men and women who have signed up to help us tackle these challenges. That's why we’re so proud that Sylvia is going to be heading this up.
And I’m going to be asking more people around the country -- more inventors and entrepreneurs and visionaries -- to sign up to serve. We’ve got to have the brightest minds to help solve our biggest challenges. And it’s a reminder that in this democracy, we the people recognize that this government belongs to us, and it’s up to each of us and every one of us to make it work better. We can’t just stand on the sidelines. We can’t take comfort in just being cynical. We all have a stake in government success -- because the government is us.
And we’re doing things right when we’re tracking weather more effectively -- that saves lives for folks who are in the path of a tornado. When we’re delivering effectively data on improved health care choices, that’s going to save lives and reduce costs. And we've got the potential to do so much better than we're doing right now, but we're going to need the help of the private sector, the non-for-profits. Most of all, we want to make sure that we're empowering some of the folks who are sitting here today to make sure that they can deliver on the kind of 21st century government the American people want.
So thank you very much, everybody. Keep up the good work. (Applause.)
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