Source: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/29/after-fighting-mobile-trend-intel-now-embraces-it/
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Sunday, June 30, 2013
After Fighting Mobile Trend, Intel Now Embraces It - NYTimes.com
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Intel, which became a global behemoth by making the chips that drive most of the world's desktop computers and laptops, missed the mobile revolution. In tablets and ... That's hardly news to anyone who follows technology. But it was still a bit of shock to hear the company's new chief executive, Brian Krzanich, acknowledge that the company actively fought what everyone else could see was an inevitable shift toward smaller, more portable computing devices.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Ed Markey leads polls heading into Tuesday?s Massachusetts Senate election
Ed Markey and Barack Obama at a rally in Boston June 12 (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)Three years ago, Democrats lost their grip on one of Massachusetts' Senate seats when their candidate, Martha Coakley, imploded.
But it's quite a different scene for Massachusetts Democrats Tuesday as Rep. Ed Markey heads into a special election leading political newcomer Republican Gabriel Gomez in the polls by a comfortable margin.
"We're going into election day with the wind at our back," Markey press secretary Andrew Zucker told Yahoo News. The Markey campaign claims 15,000 active volunteers and planned to have close to 16,000 door-knocking shifts completed by the end of Monday.
Democrats say their get-out-the-vote campaign dwarfed Gomez's.? They also had more high-profile national and state support and, perhaps most importantly, they say Markey's message of continuing his record for Massachusetts resonated with voters.
A Suffolk University poll released Monday put Markey 10 percentage points ahead of Gomez, a businessman and veteran Navy SEAL -- 52 to 42 percent-- among likely voters. That poll, conducted June 19-June 22, had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
A Western New England University poll (pdf) showed Markey 8 points ahead of Gomez-- 49 to 41 percent-- among likely voters, and 9 percent undecided. That poll was conduced June 16-20 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.
Additional independent polls have shown varied margins, but all have shown Markey in the lead -- suggesting Republican hopes of replicating Scott Brown's surprise 2010 upset over Coakley are much less attainable.
Democrats began the 2013 race with a numbers advantage -- 36 percent of registered voters are Democrats, compared to 11 percent registered Republicans, according to October 2012 statistics from the Massachusetts Secretary of State.
And Democrats, including outgoing Sen. John Kerry -- who was confirmed as Secretary of State -- early on rallied around Markey as their favored Kerry successor. The party also assisted Markey financially, and Democrats used high-profile politicians such as President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who defeated Brown last November, to campaign for Markey.
Additionally, Democrats believe their strategy of turning voters off to Gomez by marking him as an extreme Republican has worked in the Democratic-leaning state.
"Gabriel Gomez has spent several months trying and failing to distract voters for his strong support for the national Republican Party agenda to block common-sense gun laws, protect tax breaks for millionaires, raise the retirement age for our seniors and restrict a woman's right to choose, and that's yet another reason why Ed's going to win on Tuesday," Zucker said.
Republicans have worked to position Gomez as a fresh, vibrant alternative to a man who has since 1976 spent his career in Congress. The Gomez campaign on Monday expressed optimism about their candidate's odds.
?Gabriel Gomez is optimistic about [Tuesday] and hustling at events across the state leading up to election day," Gomez press secretary Will Ritter wrote in an email to Yahoo News. "This campaign is about putting people before politics, getting jobs back to Massachusetts and reforming Washington D.C. Gabriel will be spreading that message across the Commonwealth until the polls close. We are confident that they?ll be more voters motivated to change Washington and get things done than those that want more of the same from Career Politician Ed Markey."
Both campaigns are fighting to increase turnout.
Voter participation for all special elections is typically low, but that trend was specifically confirmed in this race by the recent poll from Western New England University. That survey found only 42 percent of registered voters had "a lot" of interest in the Massachusetts special Senate race, compared to 82 percent of registered voters who had "a lot" of interest in the 2012 presidential contest, according to the poll.
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
NSC: US asks Hong Kong for Snowden's return
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The National Security Council says U.S. officials have contacted authorities in Hong Kong for the extradition of Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who says he leaked highly classified documents about two surveillance programs.
An NSC spokeswoman, Caitlin Hayden, confirmed comments that National Security Agency director Tom Donilon made to CBS that the request was made to Hong Kong authorities based on the criminal complaint against Snowden. The complaint was filed in the Eastern District of Virginia on June 14 and unsealed Friday.
The 30-year-old Snowden is charged with unauthorized communication of national defense information, willful communication of classified communications intelligence information under the Espionage Act and theft of government property. Each crime carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison on conviction.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nsc-us-asks-hong-kong-snowdens-return-203808913.html
Apparently Google is internally testing a service called "Google Mine" that lets you index all your
Apparently Google is internally testing a service called "Google Mine" that lets you index all your crap on Google+. Like, the physical items you own. You'll be able to share them on Google+ and set statuses for them like "given away," "gift recieved" or "had in the past." Of course Google would like to know that.
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
HTC Courts Bully #2 From Weird Science For A Much-Needed Marketing Boost
Look, there's no question that HTC's in a bit of trouble, and it's at least partially because of its marketing woes. While HTC just recently posted some weak quarterly financials, rivals like Samsung are flush with cash to pump into their marketing and ad budgets. That said, HTC is looking to make a big a splash as it can, and Bloomberg reports that the Taiwanese OEM has reportedly tapped none other than Robert Downey to shill for its HTC One smartphone.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/MnIxdXXBhyA/
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FAA investigating jets' close call over NYC
NEW YORK (AP) ? The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating why two airplanes came too close to each other over New York City last week.
A Delta Air Lines Boeing 747 arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport came close to a Shuttle America Embraer E170 departing from LaGuardia Airport at around 2:40 p.m. on June 13, the FAA said in a statement Friday.
The planes were about a half-mile apart horizontally and 200 feet vertically, the FAA said. The required separation is 3 miles horizontally or a thousand feet vertically.
The FAA said the aircraft were "turning away from each other at the point where they lost the required separation." Both aircraft landed safely.
Delta declined to give details, including the number of passengers on board, pending the FAA investigation. The Shuttle America jet was operating as a Delta Connection flight and is equipped for 69 people. The Delta 747 can hold 376 passengers.
Jason Rabinowitz, editor of the aviation news website NYC Aviation, reviewed air traffic control audio and radar tracking data and concluded the pilots and controllers acted professionally in an unusual sets of circumstances brought on by strong winds.
"The traffic controllers did a very good job," he told The Associated Press, noting that traffic is extremely heavy at the two airports. "It was handled very well. ... They did take immediate action to prevent anything from happening in very unusual circumstances."
The close call happened because the Delta jet and an American Airways flight preparing to land on a parallel runway broke off their approaches to JFK almost simultaneously, he said.
The American flight was instructed by the control tower to make a right turn and attempt another landing. When the Delta pilot seconds later said he needed to circle, the tower told him to make a left, Rabinowitz said.
That left turn put the Delta jet closer to departing traffic from LaGuardia. The Delta pilot then turned right hard, but 747s aren't "the most nimble aircraft in the sky," Rabinowitz wrote, and that allowed the Delta and Shuttle America airplanes to wind up too close to each other.
Rabinowitz said there was a moment the two aircraft were at nearly the same altitude and headed for each other, but the controllers and both pilots were aware of the conflicting traffic and both jets were turning away from each other.
The Delta flight originated in Narita, Japan; the Shuttle America was heading for Jacksonville, Fla.
Rabinowitz said he doubted passengers were aware of the situation.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/faa-investigating-jets-close-call-over-nyc-171640270.html
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Friday, June 21, 2013
Falco recalls Tony and Carmela's 'greatest' love
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Tony and Carmela Soprano were never going to be Mike and Carol Brady, and that was just fine with fans of "The Sopranos." But Edie Falco's Carmela was an indispensable asset in shaping who Tony was, and wanted to become -- and in the process helped Gandolfini humanize his mobster boss. They fought plenty, but underneath it all they loved each other, and never split up.
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Edie Falco portrays Carmela Soprano and James Gandolfini is Tony Soprano in a scene from one of the last episodes of the hit HBO dramatic series "The Sopranos."
Falco, who now stars on Showtime's "Nurse Jackie," released a statement Thursday morning on Gandolfini's untimely passing, saying: "I am shocked and devastated by Jim's passing. He was a man of tremendous depth and sensitivity, with a kindness and generosity beyond words. I consider myself very lucky to have spent 10 years as his close colleague.
"My heart goes out to his family," she added. "As those of us in his pretend one hold on to the memories of our intense and beautiful time together. The love between Tony and Carmela was one of the greatest I've ever known."
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Instagram announces new video service
Today at Facebook HQ, Instagram announced a new video service. The focus is on simplicity, beauty and community. You get 15 seconds of video to work with, though you can stitch together multiple clips. There are 13 different video-exclusive filters to apply, and you can pick which frame is the thumbnail. Sounds like a serious Vine competitor, though it doesn't loop in the same obnoxious way; just tap and hold to play videos. They're also going to be including some really great stabilization software called Cinema.
You can get downloading the update now at the link below, or you can tune into the live announcement event.
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Introducing Video on Instagram from Instagram on Vimeo.
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Reno Man Shot by Two Police Officers Outside a Home
RENO, Nevada (June 19, 2013) ? Layne Michael Campbell, 40, was killed last Friday at about 4:30 a.m. by two deputies outside a south-side home in Reno. The owner of the home had called the police to report a suspicious person that may have been trying t break in. The two deputies that responded found Campbell on the property and shot him. Campbell was taken to a Reno hospital where he was pronounced dead. The two deputies were unharmed and both were placed on administrative leave while a multi-agency investigation by the Reno police commences.
?Hopefully the two deputies had a justified reason under the law for ending this man?s life,? states West Seegmiller, owner of The Seegmiller Law Firm. Mr. Seegmiller has represented clients in police brutality cases over a 35 year career in wrongful death and personal injury law.
Nevada?Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Attorneys
For roughly 30 years, the legal experts at Seegmiller Law Firm have represented hundreds of clients injured in serious car accidents and other personal injury incidents. Our legal team has also handled hundreds of wrongful death claims for families of victims killed or injured in accidents. Indeed, the personal injury law firm has a proven track record with more than $100 million in settlements and verdicts.
There is no cost to clients until our experienced team of lawyers and legal professionals have won your case. Finding the best attorney can mean you will get the settlement you need to get your life back on track. Compensation for your injuries, loss of wages and pain and suffering can?t take away the trauma of the accident, but it can help you rebuild your life.
Leave the legal work to our experienced car accident attorneys by calling 1-855-275-9378 (1-855-ASK WEST). Seegmiller Law Firm has offices in California including its headquarters in Irvine. We also have offices outside of Orange County to serve you in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Fresno, San Diego, Sacramento and in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
NASA makes billion-pixel Mars panorama out of photos captured by Curiosity
Sure, they're mostly just pictures of sand and rocks, but we still have to thank the Curiosity rover for beaming back images of landscapes we'll never walk on. To give you a panoramic view of a Mars area called "Rocknest" with Mount Sharp visible on the horizon, NASA stitched together almost 900 exposure shots into a single 1.3-billion-pixel image. The photos were taken over the course of more than a month (from October 5th to November 16th last year) at different times of the day, so you can observe variations in illumination and thickness of dust in the atmosphere throughout the panorama. Head over to the source to access the whole interactive mosaic replete with pan and zoom controls, and if you're lucky, you might even see a rock the rover's laser zapped in the past.
[Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS]
Via: Wired
Source: NASA
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How to Offer Smarter Online Customer Support on ... - The Next Web
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This is part one of a two-part series looking at working smarter, remotely. Look out for part two tomorrow.
The dawn of social media changed the way that businesses do support for their customers for good. Businesses that have already transformed themselves in order to offer their wares 24/7 with the advent of e-commerce, but now they need to provide support and interaction with their customers all the time too.
Social media provides a fantastic opportunity for small and medium businesses to engage with their customers and build relationships like never before. For the first time ever, it allows a brand to have a friendly face that?s always there and they?re able to seek help from. Not only this, but it allows customers to become brand ambassadors that share promotional content for you.
It gets even better on the go, with smartphones offering the opportunity to interact with potential and existing customers wherever you are, no matter the time of day. This might be viewed as a negative thing for your personal life, but the benefits are much greater than you could imagine. Companies from a big bank like?Kiwibank?to?Chow,?a restaurant in Wellington, New Zealand, are using social media to interact with their customers and offer them help, information and sometimes to run promotions.
There are a bunch of great tools that allow you to manage your support channels on the go, so we?ve got a quick round-up of a few for you here:
Facebook Pages Manager
If your business has a Facebook presence, this is the app for you. Facebook Pages Manager allows you to manage your company profile on the go such as being able to respond to comments on your wall or to make a status update about an issue you?re having.
Not only that, but you can also quickly view statistics about your page interactions and how many likes you have, making it the ultimate tool to look after the Facebook side of things.
Facebook Pages Manager is available for Android and iPhone.
Hootsuite
Hopefully you?re already managing your business? Twitter accounts with a tool like Hootsuite. If you?re not, Hootsuite is an application for Twitter that allows you to manage a company account better. It offers team support, so you can have multiple members of your staff to tweet from the same account (with an identifier like ^OW) as well as managing tweets for follow-up.
The mobile application for Hootsuite does much the same but gives you and your staff the power to tweet from anywhere ? meaning they?re likely to help out with a quick tweet here and there when they?re not in the office.
Hootsuite is available for lots of mobile platforms, you can see if they support yours here.
Zendesk / Freshdesk
Lots of businesses ? particularly online ones ? provide some type of support desk service to their customers for in case they have an issue or question. This is usually where customers are referred after the social media team exhausts their ability to help.
Zendesk is one of these tools and they offer a fantastic mobile app that allows businesses to keep on top of their support ticket queues while on the go.
Another of these tools is Freshdesk, who also have a mobile application to help with support queues on the go. We?re not going to go into differences in this post, but if you?re not already using a support desk type service we would absolutely recommend checking out both Zendesk and Freshdesk.
Trello
In the late 40?s, engineers at Toyota pioneered a deceptively simple scheduling system called kanban which was based on index cards passed from one part of the plant to another. Trello brings this concept to the future, offering lists of tasks on a virtual signboard of what needs to be done and when, then allows you to assign them to people inside your organization.
You can make comments, flag jobs and color important items easily, making collaborative tasks easy to use and actually somewhat fun. It?s a great tool and works wonders for your personal life as well as your business one.
Trello?has fantastic mobile applications available for iPhone and Android so you can keep being productive on the go.
Buffer
We realize you can?t always be on Twitter, so we?ve got a solution for that too. Buffer allows you to schedule tweets for times in the future so you don?t have to be in front of your keyboard every time you want to update the social media account.
If you do it right, you can even configure your business account to tweet during different time zones to get very effective reach across your customer base. Buffer is free for a limited amount of tweets, but the pro edition offers team accounts and unlimited access. Yes, Hootsuite lets you schedule tweets, but Buffer handles the hassle of making sure that they?re spread out throughout the day at times when you?re not tweeting manually.
Buffer has great mobile apps available for iOS?and Android.
Tips to avoid drowning after hours
All these freedoms are great, but it?s important to make sure that you?re not stuck on your phone every time you?re out of the office, at the dinner table or trying to sleep. We recommend setting expectations with your customers, by doing things such as:
- Making a note in your Twitter bio that support requests will only be handled within certain hours of the day
- Telling your employees to only spend a certain amount of time dealing with queries during the day
- Signing out of the mobile applications after hours or even just disable audible alerts on applications such as Hootsuite
- Buffer tweets for the evening ahead of leaving the office so that it looks like the account is active when you?re off doing other things
- Refer customers to your support desk tool when out of hours so that nothing is missed
- If you?re a global business, having a roster to man the social media accounts and be ?on duty? allows the rest of the team to rest easier
- Configure auto-responders on tools like Zendesk and Freshdesk to inform customers who are logging tickets out of hours that they will be seen to in the morning
Moving your business into the always-on social world doesn?t have to be hard and mobile apps make it just a few steps easier. We definitely recommend jumping in head first, you won?t regret it!
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Source: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/19/business-on-the-go/
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Stern on new image: 'I'm like a Muppet,' 'Santa''
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After building a long career as controversy-courting shock jock, Howard Stern has finally found fans outside of his adults-only audience -- way outside. It seems children can't get enough of him now that he's a judge on a family-friendly talent show.
Stern stopped by "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" Monday and explained just how much "America's Got Talent" has changed his fan base.
"You know, it's unbelievable," he said. "I go into restaurants now and little 5-year-old kids, 6-year-old kids, they're like, 'There's Howard!' -- like I'm a Muppet."
Of course, at just 5 or 6, those kids wouldn't know about Stern's other claims to fame.
"They have no clue that I'm 'Butt Bongo' Howie; they don't remember Fartman at the MTV awards," he told Fallon. "They have no idea about the multiple spankings, and the things that I've done. I mean, I'm a monster, and these kids look at me and I'm like Santa Claus in the mall."
But the parents, well, Stern thinks they should know better, which is why he has a warning for the ones who want to put their kids in his lap
"I'll spank them!" he joked.
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/howard-stern-his-new-agt-image-im-muppet-santa-claus-6C10361934
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
No danger of cancer through gene therapy virus, study suggests
June 19, 2013 ? In fall 2012, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved the modified adeno-associated virus AAV-LPL S447X as the first ever gene therapy for clinical use in the Western world. uniQure, a Dutch biotech company, had developed AAV-LPL S447X for the treatment of a rare inherited metabolic disease called lipoprotein lipase deficiency (LPLD) which affects approximately one or two out of one million people. The disease causes severe, life-threatening inflammations of the pancreas. Afflicted individuals carry a defect in the gene coding for the lipoprotein lipase enzyme which is necessary for breakdown of fatty acids. AAV-LPLS447X shall be used as a viral vector to deliver an intact gene copy to affected cells.
The viruses modified for gene therapy cannot integrate their DNA into the host cell genome, because they lack a particular enzyme needed for this. Nevertheless, integration may happen occasionally. "We had to exclude that AAV-LPLS447X tends to integrate at sites in the genome where this integration might activate cancer-promoting genes. This is exactly what had been observed with a virus used for gene therapy," says Dr. Manfred Schmidt, a molecular biologist. Schmidt leads a research group at NCT Heidelberg and DKFZ that studies the safety of gene-therapeutic methods.
In collaboration with scientists from uniQure, the Heidelberg researchers analyzed the genome of five LPLD patients who had been treated with AAV-LPLS447X . In addition, they also studied mice following intramuscular or intravenous administration of the therapeutic virus.
The analysis of 15 million individual genomes of five treated patients showed, as expected, that AAV-LPLS447X rarely integrates into the genome of the host cells (fewer than 1 out of 1,000 AAV-LPLS447X particles). In most cases, the viral genome persists in the cytoplasm as a separate structure. If it is integrated, this happens at random sites. The researchers did not find any tendency for integration at particular sites in the genome.
Christine Kaeppel and Raffaele Fronza, first authors of the article, were very surprised to discover the AAV-LPLS447X genome in the so-called mitochondrial genome. Mitochondria are tiny membrane-enclosed structures that generate energy for the cell. They are the only cellular component aside from the nucleus containing DNA. "An adeno-associated virus has never before been observed to integrate into the mitochondrial genome on its own," reported the scientists.
"For the first time, we have thoroughly analyzed in AAV-treated patients whether and where the viral genome integrates. Now we can regard AAV-LPLS447X as safe. Those few cases where we have observed integration of viral DNA in muscle cells are barely relevant in view of all the reconstructions and rearrangements that are permanently taking place in our DNA anyway," says study director Schmidt.
AAV-LPLS447X is considered to be a prototype vector for gene therapy. "If AAV-LPLS447X stands the test, other gene therapies against more common diseases such as Huntington's disease or Parkinson's might also become possible," says Schmidt. In addition, a growing number of diseases have been found to be linked to alterations in mitochondrial genes. The newly discovered property of the AAV vector might also prove useful for correcting genetic defects in human mitochondrial DNA.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/genes/~3/j1nEfJHGTXw/130619122201.htm
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NSA director defends surveillance program
From left, Deputy Attorney General James Cole; National Security Agency (NSA) Deputy Director Chris Inglis; NSA Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander; Deputy FBI Director Sean Joyce; and Robert Litt, general counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing regarding NSA surveillance. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
From left, Deputy Attorney General James Cole; National Security Agency (NSA) Deputy Director Chris Inglis; NSA Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander; Deputy FBI Director Sean Joyce; and Robert Litt, general counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing regarding NSA surveillance. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, by National Security Agency (NSA) Gen. Keith B. Alexander during the committee's hearing regarding NSA surveillance. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander approaches the witness table on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, to testify before the House Intelligence Committee hearing regarding NSA surveillance. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The director of the National Security Agency insisted on Tuesday that the government's sweeping surveillance programs have foiled some 50 terrorist plots worldwide in a forceful defense echoed by the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee.
Army Gen. Keith Alexander said the two recently disclosed programs ? one that gathers U.S. phone records and another that is designed to track the use of U.S.-based Internet servers by foreigners with possible links to terrorism ? are critical in the terrorism fight.
Intelligence officials have disclosed some details on two thwarted attacks, and Alexander promised additional information to the panel on thwarted attacks that the programs helped stop. He provided few additional details.
The programs "assist the intelligence community to connect the dots," Alexander told the committee in a rare, open Capitol Hill hearing.
Alexander got no disagreement from the leaders of the panel, who have been outspoken in backing the programs since Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former contractor with Booz Allen Hamilton, disclosed information to The Washington Post and the Guardian newspapers.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., chairman of the committee, and Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the panel's top Democrat, said the programs were vital to the intelligence community and assailed Snowden's actions as criminal.
"It is at times like these where our enemies within become almost as damaging as our enemies on the outside," Rogers said.
Ruppersberger said the "brazen disclosures" put the United States and its allies at risk.
The general counsel for the intelligence community said the NSA cannot target phone conversations between callers inside the U.S. ? even if one of those callers was someone they were targeted for surveillance when outside the country.
The director of national intelligence's legal chief, Robert S. Litt, said that if the NSA finds it has accidentally gathered a phone call by a target who had traveled into the U.S. without their knowledge, they have to "purge" that from their system. The same goes for an accidental collection of any conversation because of an error.
Litt said those incidents are then reported to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which "pushes back" and asks how it happened, and what the NSA is doing to fix the problem so it doesn't happen again.
Rogers previewed the latest public airing of the NSA controversy the morning after President Barack Obama, who is attending the G-8 summit in Ireland, vigorously defended the surveillance programs in a lengthy interview Monday, calling them transparent ? even though they are authorized in secret.
"It is transparent," Obama told PBS' Charlie Rose in an interview. "That's why we set up the FISA court," the president added, referring to the secret court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that authorizes two recently disclosed programs: one that gathers U.S. phone records and another that is designed to track the use of U.S.-based Internet servers by foreigners with possible links to terrorism.
Obama said he has named representatives to a privacy and civil liberties oversight board to help in the debate over just how far government data gathering should be allowed to go ? a discussion that is complicated by the secrecy surrounding the FISA court, with hearings held at undisclosed locations and with only government lawyers present. The orders that result are all highly classified.
"We're going to have to find ways where the public has an assurance that there are checks and balances in place ... that their phone calls aren't being listened into; their text messages aren't being monitored, their emails are not being read by some big brother somewhere," the president said.
A senior administration official said Obama had asked Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to determine what more information about the two programs could be made public, to help better explain them. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly.
Snowden accused members of Congress and administration officials Monday of exaggerating their claims about the success of the data gathering programs, including pointing to the arrest of the would-be New York subway bomber, Najibullah Zazi, in 2009.
In an online interview with The Guardian in which he posted answers to questions Monday, Snowden said that Zazi could have been caught with narrower, targeted surveillance programs ? a point Obama conceded in his interview without mentioning Snowden.
"We might have caught him some other way," Obama said. "We might have disrupted it because a New York cop saw he was suspicious. Maybe he turned out to be incompetent and the bomb didn't go off. But, at the margins, we are increasing our chances of preventing a catastrophe like that through these programs," he said.
Obama repeated earlier assertions that the NSA programs were a legitimate counterterror tool and that they were completely noninvasive to people with no terror ties ? something he hoped to discuss with the privacy and civil liberties board he'd formed. The senior administration official said the president would be meeting with the new privacy board in the coming days.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Past megaquakes left mark on Canadian coast
NASA Earth Observatory
Effingham Inlet is on the Pacific coast of Vancouver Island, where scientists found evidence of past earthquakes.
By Becky Oskin
LiveScience
Thanks to decades of geologic detective work, scientists know that on Jan. 26, 1700, at 9 p.m., a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the Pacific Northwest.
Born from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the earthquake may have cleaved the 620-mile-long (1,000 kilometers) offshore fault from Northern California to Canada. Researchers don't yet know; they must play connect the dots with clues left behind in billowy layers of sand and mud.
A group of Canadian geologists is connecting some of these dots, with the first record of past earthquakes from the Pacific Coast of Vancouver Island. The team discovered evidence of 21 temblors in the past 11,000 years, including the 1700 quake and a 1946 shaker centered on the island. The new findings are detailed in the June 12 issue of the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
Earthquake archive
The history of Canadian earthquakes adds to an archive being assembled of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which marks the collision between the North American and Juan de Fuca tectonic plates. Subduction zones, where one plate slides beneath another, trigger the biggest earthquakes and tsunamis on the planet, such as the 2004 Sumatra and 2011 Japan disasters. The 1700 megathrust quake likely rivaled those two catastrophic quakes in size, researchers think. [The 10 Biggest Earthquakes in History]
The Vancouver Island records match up with16 past earthquakes discovered in disturbed seafloor sediments offshore of southern Vancouver Island, Washington and Oregon, the researchers said. But not all of the ancient quakes seen along the southern part of the subduction zone had a counterpart in the new record.
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A cross-section of a portion of the Cascadia subduction zone.
"Perhaps not every megathrust earthquake is equal to another," said Audrey Dallimore, study co-author and a marine geologist at Royal Roads University in Victoria, B.C. "Some may only rupture the southern part of the zone."
The new earthquake record is from Effingham Inlet, a former glacial fjord in Barclay Sound, on the southwestern coast of Vancouver Island. A crew shoehorned an ocean drilling ship into the narrow inlet and drilled down to bedrock, pulling up 138 feet (42 meters) of sediment in what is called a core. Because there's little oxygen in the inlet's bottom waters, no marine creatures mix up the sediments, leaving a nearly pristine archive of the past.
"The sediments are laid down year by year like tree rings," Dallimore said. "These millimeter-thick layers go back thousands and thousands of years."
Two clusters of quakes
The disturbed layers left by earthquakes aren't evenly distributed through time, but rather repeat about every 200 years and every 900 years (called recurrence intervals). Carbon dating of organic material, along with ash from Mount Mazama's eruption in 5,677 B.C., precisely dates the layers. (Mount Mazama is part of the Cascade Volcanic arc in Oregon.)
The bimodal pattern (of 200 and 900 years) could reflect the island's two earthquake sources ? the offshore subduction zone and local faults, such as the one that caused the 1946 earthquake, Dallimore said. But evidence elsewhere on the Cascadia Subduction Zone also suggests the giant fault rips apart at irregular intervals.
Audrey Dallimore / Royal Roads University
Royal Roads University marine geologist Audrey Dallimore with a seafloor core sample, which contains evidence of past earthquakes offshore of Canada's west coast.
"We know the longest time between earthquakes (in Effingham Inlet) is 1,000 years. The next earthquake could be tomorrow or it could be 700 years from now," Dallimore said.
Filling in gaps
To complete the picture, Dallimore and her colleagues have collected more samples from inlets further north on Vancouver Island. The researchers plan to compare those cores to Effingham Inlet and American sites to better understand how the Cascadia Subduction Zone ruptures along the coast.
Chris Goldfinger, a geologist at Oregon State University who was not involved in the research, said the study "was a very nice piece of work."
"It's becoming more and more clear that big (Cascadia) subduction earthquakes?are reliably recorded in many environments, something that will eventually allow us to combine all these data and estimate slip models and magnitudes for past earthquakes," Goldfinger said.
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G8 pledges action on tax evasion, few concrete measures
By William Schomberg and Jeff Mason
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - The world's rich economies said they would take a tougher stance on fighting money laundering and tax evasion but promised little in the way of specific new action at the end of a two-day summit on Tuesday.
Group of Eight leaders signed up for a list of aims including improving the transparency of who owns shell companies and deepening information-sharing between tax authorities. They also said they wanted companies to provide greater information to tax authorities on their profits.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has sought to clamp down on secret flows of money, making it a centerpiece of his presidency of the G8 this year.
But the communique did not contain a firm pledge to create registers of the so-called beneficial - or true - owners of companies. That was something which Britain committed to on Saturday and many campaigners had hoped other G8 countries would follow suit.
The G8 leaders, meeting in Northern Ireland, said their governments would draw up action plans on how to move towards collecting and sharing information on beneficial ownership "subject to our different constitutional circumstances".
The United States pledged to keep on pressing for legislation to cut down on the criminal use of shell companies but did not take firmer action for now.
A frequent critic of tax havens, the United States has come under fire from campaigners for the low transparency requirements around ownership of corporate entities registered in some U.S. states such as Delaware.
The White House is keen to tackle such criticism and said it would push for registers of the true ownership of American companies.
"The U.S. will continue to forcefully advocate for comprehensive legislation to require the disclosure of beneficial ownership information, including a requirement to identify and verify beneficial ownership information at the time a company is formed," it said in a statement.
Gavin Hayman, director of campaigns at anti-corruption group Global Witness, said the U.S. announcement fell short of Britain's pledge of Saturday although some of the details on the possible definition of beneficial ownership looked stronger than previous proposals by Washington.
"The U.S. has promised this kind of thing before ... and not a lot happened," said Hayman.
Under the new British rules, companies will be required to obtain and hold information on their ownership and control which will then be held in a central registry, available to police and revenue agencies.
The G8 called on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which advises rich nations on economic policies, to develop a template under which multinational corporations could be required to report profits and tax payments on a country-by-country basis, to tax authorities.
Tax campaigners had called for published country-by-country reporting to help shame companies into paying their fair share of taxes.
The G8 also said countries should change rules that let companies shift their profits across borders to avoid taxes.
Countries including Ireland and Luxembourg have come under criticism in the past year for allowing big international companies to shift profits from larger neighboring markets into tax havens.
(Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton; writing by Tom Bergin in London; editing by William Schomberg)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/g8-pledges-action-tax-evasion-few-concrete-measures-155014203.html
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When retailers strike out twice
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PULLMAN, Wash. Canceled flights, lost luggage, a product confirmed to be "in stock" that turns out to be on back order after you've driven 20 minutes to get itmost everyone has at some time experienced anger and frustration over similar service failures. These feelings can, in turn, lead customers to take their business elsewhere, leading the firm to lose a valued patron.
But when a firm strikes out a second time - for example, by failing to resolve the initial mistake - the insult added to injury can lead customers to seek revenge by aggressively confronting frontline employees, bad-mouthing the firm or complaining to third parties to generate negative publicity. Negative impacts can include significant employee stress and further loss of business.
A new research paper by Washington State University marketing experts Jeff Joireman, Yany Grgoire, Berna Devezer and Thomas Tripp offers insight into what firms can do following failed service recoveries to earn a "second chance" by increasing customer desire for reconciliation and reducing desire for revenge.
When things go wrong with a service provider, customers search for answers, said Joireman, associate professor of marketing in the WSU College of Business. They typically focus on three things: how inconvenient was the first mishap, who was to blame for the failures and how fair was the recovery process? When customers experience a severe service failure, blame it on the firm and feel they have been treated unfairly, they often seek revenge.
Revenge and reconciliation not necessarily opposites
Though seeking revenge is a common response, the researchers suggested that customers may also want to reconcile, under the right conditions.
"Desire for revenge and reconciliation are not necessarily opposites," said Joireman. "Our paper introduces the idea that people may want to reconcile with a firm despite a two-strike situation. Whether a customer desires revenge or reconciliation hinges on whether the customer believes a firm has positive or negative motives."
According to Joireman, following a double service failure, customers might first seek revenge - for example, by posting negative comments online - but then seek to reconcile when a firm, after seeing the posts, contacts the customer to resolve the complaint.
Similarly, a customer might desire revenge and reconciliation at the same time. In this situation, a customer may want to "teach a lesson," which is a common motive for revenge, but then want to "get on with business."
Studies confirm perception drives behavior
In two initial studies, the researchers confirmed that customers get angry and seek revenge because failed service recoveries seem to imply that the firm has a negative motive and is taking advantage of them. On the flip side, if customers believe a firm's motives are positive, they are more likely to engage in steps to repair the business relationship rather than retaliate.
In a third study, the researchers tested actions a firm can take to encourage customers to give the firm a second chance following a failed recovery. A key finding was that just saying "sorry" was not nearly as effective as when the apology was combined with compensation. The combination is viewed as a "sacrifice that benefits the victim" said Joireman, which communicates to the customer that the firm has a positive motive.
These results are important because they suggest, in contrast to what has been argued in earlier literature, that firms can have a second chance to repair relationships with customers following a double incident - under the right conditions.
"Explanations about the occurrence of the failure as well as apologies paired with compensation appear to be effective ways for firms to reduce negative customer response," said Joireman. "It is essential that firms find a way to convey their positive motives to customers."
Tools for managers
This work suggests several important implications for managers. If managers know that a customer has experienced a severe service failure and perceives the procedures used by the firm to be unfair, the manager can act quickly to help the customer perceive a positive motive and move toward reconciliation.
Additionally, managers may train frontline employees to recognize the importance of perceived motives and empower them with the skills to provide a clear explanation of the firm's positive intent or offer an apology paired with compensation, thus making customers less likely to engage in retaliatory behaviors.
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Public release date: 17-Jun-2013[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Jeff Joireman
joireman@wsu.edu
509-335-0191
Washington State University
How to turn customer revenge into reconciliation
PULLMAN, Wash. Canceled flights, lost luggage, a product confirmed to be "in stock" that turns out to be on back order after you've driven 20 minutes to get itmost everyone has at some time experienced anger and frustration over similar service failures. These feelings can, in turn, lead customers to take their business elsewhere, leading the firm to lose a valued patron.
But when a firm strikes out a second time - for example, by failing to resolve the initial mistake - the insult added to injury can lead customers to seek revenge by aggressively confronting frontline employees, bad-mouthing the firm or complaining to third parties to generate negative publicity. Negative impacts can include significant employee stress and further loss of business.
A new research paper by Washington State University marketing experts Jeff Joireman, Yany Grgoire, Berna Devezer and Thomas Tripp offers insight into what firms can do following failed service recoveries to earn a "second chance" by increasing customer desire for reconciliation and reducing desire for revenge.
When things go wrong with a service provider, customers search for answers, said Joireman, associate professor of marketing in the WSU College of Business. They typically focus on three things: how inconvenient was the first mishap, who was to blame for the failures and how fair was the recovery process? When customers experience a severe service failure, blame it on the firm and feel they have been treated unfairly, they often seek revenge.
Revenge and reconciliation not necessarily opposites
Though seeking revenge is a common response, the researchers suggested that customers may also want to reconcile, under the right conditions.
"Desire for revenge and reconciliation are not necessarily opposites," said Joireman. "Our paper introduces the idea that people may want to reconcile with a firm despite a two-strike situation. Whether a customer desires revenge or reconciliation hinges on whether the customer believes a firm has positive or negative motives."
According to Joireman, following a double service failure, customers might first seek revenge - for example, by posting negative comments online - but then seek to reconcile when a firm, after seeing the posts, contacts the customer to resolve the complaint.
Similarly, a customer might desire revenge and reconciliation at the same time. In this situation, a customer may want to "teach a lesson," which is a common motive for revenge, but then want to "get on with business."
Studies confirm perception drives behavior
In two initial studies, the researchers confirmed that customers get angry and seek revenge because failed service recoveries seem to imply that the firm has a negative motive and is taking advantage of them. On the flip side, if customers believe a firm's motives are positive, they are more likely to engage in steps to repair the business relationship rather than retaliate.
In a third study, the researchers tested actions a firm can take to encourage customers to give the firm a second chance following a failed recovery. A key finding was that just saying "sorry" was not nearly as effective as when the apology was combined with compensation. The combination is viewed as a "sacrifice that benefits the victim" said Joireman, which communicates to the customer that the firm has a positive motive.
These results are important because they suggest, in contrast to what has been argued in earlier literature, that firms can have a second chance to repair relationships with customers following a double incident - under the right conditions.
"Explanations about the occurrence of the failure as well as apologies paired with compensation appear to be effective ways for firms to reduce negative customer response," said Joireman. "It is essential that firms find a way to convey their positive motives to customers."
Tools for managers
This work suggests several important implications for managers. If managers know that a customer has experienced a severe service failure and perceives the procedures used by the firm to be unfair, the manager can act quickly to help the customer perceive a positive motive and move toward reconciliation.
Additionally, managers may train frontline employees to recognize the importance of perceived motives and empower them with the skills to provide a clear explanation of the firm's positive intent or offer an apology paired with compensation, thus making customers less likely to engage in retaliatory behaviors.
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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/wsu-wrs061313.php
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