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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Nick Jonas Collides With Player at Celebrity Baseball Game ? WATCH VIDEO
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Nick Jonas had a bit of a mishap while playing in the?Dirk Nowitzki Celebrity Baseball Game in Texas on Saturday, colliding with a fellow athlete on his run to third base.
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The boy bander was trying to get to third before the infielder caught a pop fly, but accidentally ran straight into the player.
Jonas reportedly got right up after the collision.
The singer tweeted after the game, ?Had such a great time playing today.,. And a great cause too. Had a little injury at the end of the game, but I?m all good not a big deal!?
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Whoops! Real phone sex numbers pop up in video game
Video games 
June 28, 2013 at 7:29 PM ET
The Last of Us / Sony
In what the developers are claiming is an "honest mistake," a number included in Naughty Dog and Sony's acclaimed zombie game "The Last of Us" lead players to a phone sex hotline.
Despite releasing one of the highest-rated video games ever made, developer Naughty Dog can't seem to catch a break for "The Last of Us." Already accused by actress Ellen Page and a Boston transit cartographer for borrowing some of their respective work without permission, this week the video game developer found itself in hot water once again for another hiccup in "The Last of Us": apparently, a phone number that players saw in the game advertising for pest control actually dialed up a real-world phone sex service.
I tested out the "quality pest control" number from "The Last of Us" on Friday and was met with a sultry female voice promising me that "we're smooth, wet, and ready for you right now!"
Naughty Dog didn't respond to a request for comment, but Sony provided NBC News with a statement explaining that the connection with a phone sex service was a mistake that will be rectified with a patch to be released Saturday:
We included some random phone numbers in the game starting with 555, which is a common practice in North American television shows, films and video games, as they are fictitious numbers. It has come to light that for certain 555 phone numbers that begin with an 800 area code, the same does not apply, so we are now creating a patch to address this issue, which we plan on deploying today.
Neil Druckmann, the game's creative director, told the video game site Kotaku that including the sex line in the game "was an artist's mistake" and was not intended as any sort of prank or Easter egg for players.
"What happened was, they put some phone numbers in the game and then they thought they could just change the area code to 555, then it's invalid because it's what they do in movies," Druckmann told Kotaku's Kirk Hamilton. "But I guess that doesn't work when you have a 1-800 in front of it.
"We're now working to take it out," Druckmann said. "It was just an honest mistake."
Earlier this week, Druckmann took to Twitter to stand behind the work of Ashley Johnson, who did the voice-over and motion-capture work for Ellie in the game, after Ellen Page suggested that Naughty Dog had unfairly "ripped off" her likeness for the zombie story.
This story was updated at 7:30 p.m. ET Friday.
Yannick LeJacq is a contributing writer for NBC News who has also covered technology and games for Kill Screen, The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic. You can follow him on Twitter at @YannickLeJacq and reach him by email at: ylejacq@gmail.com.
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Major changes needed for coral reef survival
June 28, 2013 ? To prevent coral reefs around the world from dying off, deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are required, says a new study from Carnegie's Katharine Ricke and Ken Caldeira. They find that all existing coral reefs will be engulfed in inhospitable ocean chemistry conditions by the end of the century if civilization continues along its current emissions trajectory.
Their work will be published July 3 by Environmental Research Letters.
Coral reefs are havens for marine biodiversity and underpin the economies of many coastal communities. But they are very sensitive to changes in ocean chemistry resulting from greenhouse gas emissions, as well as to coastal pollution, warming waters, overdevelopment, and overfishing.
Ricke and Caldeira, along with colleagues from Institut Pierre Simon Laplace and Stanford University, focused on the acidification of open ocean water surrounding coral reefs and how it affects a reef's ability to survive.
Coral reefs use a mineral called aragonite to make their skeletons. It is a naturally occurring form of calcium carbonate, CaCO3. When carbon dioxide, CO2, from the atmosphere is absorbed by the ocean, it forms carbonic acid (the same thing that makes soda fizz), making the ocean more acidic and decreasing the ocean's pH. This increase in acidity makes it more difficult for many marine organisms to grow their shells and skeletons, and threatens coral reefs the world over.
Using results from simulations conducted using an ensemble of sophisticated models, Ricke, Caldeira, and their co-authors calculated ocean chemical conditions that would occur under different future scenarios and determined whether these chemical conditions could sustain coral reef growth.
Ricke said: "Our results show that if we continue on our current emissions path, by the end of the century there will be no water left in the ocean with the chemical properties that have supported coral reef growth in the past. We can't say with 100% certainty that all shallow-water coral reefs will die, but it is a pretty good bet."
Deep cuts in emissions are necessary in order to save even a fraction of existing reefs, according to the team's results. Chemical conditions that can support coral reef growth can be sustained only with very aggressive cuts in carbon dioxide emissions.
"To save coral reefs, we need to transform our energy system into one that does not use the atmosphere and oceans as waste dumps for carbon dioxide pollution. The decisions we make in the next years and decades are likely to determine whether or not coral reefs survive the rest of this century," Caldeira said.
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How Gazprom's $1 trillion dream has fallen apart
By Vladimir Soldatkin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Zoya Danilina, who owns some 700 shares in Gazprom
Danilina remembers when her shares were worth over 300 roubles each. Now they fetch about 100 roubles.
"There have been much better days, when tables were served with black and red caviar," she said on the sidelines of Gazprom's annual general meeting in Moscow on Friday, looking at a plate of boiled buckwheat, a popular staple food in Russia.
In the caviar era, Gazprom head Alexei Miller, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, was overseeing a company with the world's third-largest market value at $360 billion. In 2007, he promised to boost it to $1 trillion.
Fast forward several years and Gazprom, still the world's largest gas producer and holder of 15 percent of global gas reserves, is worth $77 billion and could fall further as it faces a series of setbacks.
The biggest blow came from a shale gas revolution that has unlocked vast reserves in the United States.
U.S. prices have crashed, closing America as a prospective market for Gazprom, diverting cheaper liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes not needed in the United States to Europe, undermining Gazprom's position in its core market.
Europe, tied to Gazprom by a Soviet-built pipeline network, has balked at its contracts that tie gas prices to more expensive oil.
Last year, Miller was forced to offer billions of dollars in what Gazprom described as "rebates" to European buyers.
On Thursday, Germany's RWE
Gazprom expects its 2013 earnings to fall by 10 percent, marking a second yearly decline.
The stock market now values Gazprom - the world's third-biggest company by earnings behind ExxonMobil
LNG, HOME PRICE SETBACKS
Investors could possibly forgive those setbacks if they were confident Gazprom could expand in the fast growing global LNG markets, while charging rising prices at home.
"Our goal is to control around 15 percent of the global market for liquefied natural gas," Miller, 51, told the annual general meeting on Friday.
But such hopes were dealt heavy blows over the past month.
Putin signaled last week the gradual end of Gazprom's monopoly on exports of LNG and opened the way for rivals Novatek
"We offer to lower restrictions gradually on liquefied natural gas exports," Putin said in a speech at an economic forum in St Petersburg, both his and Miller's hometown.
Putin also said that monopolies would be able to raise prices only in line with inflation, reducing hopes for much higher returns on the domestic market.
Gazprom's domestic industrial customers pay $114 per 1,000 cubic meters - little more than half of the $201 it receives for exports after being adjusted for transportation and duties.
"Investors are structurally underweight Gazprom as they do not believe in significant change at the company," said Kingsmill Bond, chief strategist at Sberbank Investment Research in Moscow.
POLITICAL TOOL
Under Miller, hired by Putin in 2001, Gazprom often served as a Kremlin political tool, as described by EU officials.
"The Kremlin has decided that Gazprom is part of Russia's national security and geopolitics - not a commercial company," said Chris Weafer, founder of Macro Advisory, a Russia-focused consultancy.
"We are going back to Soviet days, when Gazprom was a government ministry. The market is valuing it like a ministry."
Using Gazprom as a weapon has proved to be a double-edged sword, poisoning relations with Ukraine, the transit route for most of Gazprom's Europe-bound gas, after several pricing disputes, which cut gas flows to Europe during several winters.
Gazprom is now investing billions of dollars in new export routes to circumvent is ex-Soviet neighbor - Nord Stream to Germany and the still-to-be built South Stream to Italy.
Investors fear those projects may never pay out.
Finally, Gazprom has failed to sign a supply deal with China, the world's largest energy market, despite first signing a memorandum of understanding as long ago as 2006.
Should the deal be signed before the end of the year, it may still not be enough to revive the appetite of investors, who have long criticized Gazprom's for overspending.
"The mega-projects will guarantee rapid growth in costs, while future revenues are absolutely uncertain," said Mikhail Korchemkin of consultancy East European Gas Analysis.
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(Additional reporting by Denis Pinchuk and Douglas Busvine; Editing by Dmitry Zhdannikov and Jane Baird)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gazproms-1-trillion-dream-fallen-apart-181422124.html
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This Is the Best Looking Reusable Grocery Sack You've Ever Seen
Storage, storage, storage. You can never have enough storage. Especially versatile, multipurpose storage, like the Pia canvas carryall. It doesn't scream the name of some grocery store and it has a nice design.
Plus, it doubles as a storage solution. I must admit I can be kind of messy sometimes. If I don't have a place to put things like books and magazines, they'll pile up in some unsightly manner in a corner of my apartment. So in addition to being good for hauling your groceries, this bag is a nice solution for your reading materials or DVDs or what-have-you. Plus it doubles as a reusable grocery sack. The small version is $23 and the larger is $35. You can't really lose here, because you're being environmentally conscious, and you're organizing your crap. [MilkDesign via BLTD]
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Friday, June 28, 2013
One Kings Lane CEO Management Secrets - Business Insider
One Kings Lane, the home decor flash sales site,?made $100 million in revenue?in 2011.
They were two years old.
In 2012, they?doubled it to $200 million.
And recently, CEO Doug Mack told us that they are on track to beat that this year.
From 29 employees when he first joined in 2010, Mack and co-founders Susan Feldman and Ali Pincus have built a company that employs around 450 people. And they are just getting started.
Watch below as Mack talks about building his team and other key management strategies that put the company on the fast track to success.
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Produced by Daniel Goodman and Alana?Kakoyiannis
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'Sopranos' star Gandolfini mourned as a great craftsman
By Chris Francescani
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fellow actors mourned James Gandolfini as a great craftsman and a warm and generous man at a his funeral on Thursday, a week after the 51-year-old star of the HBO television show "The Sopranos" died of a heart attack while visiting Rome.
"Sopranos" creator David Chase and the actor's wife Deborah Lin Gandolfini were among four speakers at a packed ceremony for the actor whose performance as a cigar-chomping New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano made him a household name.
Most of the cast of "The Sopranos," including Edie Falco, who played Tony Soprano's wife, and Michael Imperioli, who played his nephew Christopher Moltisanti, attended the 90-minute ceremony at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in upper Manhattan.
"It was heaven on earth. You could feel James' presence," actor George Loros, who played mobster and FBI informant Ray Curto in the series, said about the funeral.
GOD-GIVEN GIFT
Loros, who was visibly moved by the service, and other actors praised Gandolfini's generosity, dedication and talent.
"He could be talking like you and I are talking right now," Loros told Reuters, "and then he could be called to the set and be just brutal (as an actor). He had such a God-given gift."
New York actor Tommy Bayiokos, who worked on the fifth season of "The Sopranos," described Gandolfini as "a master of his craft."
Laila Robins, who played Soprano's mother as a young woman in the early seasons of the show, said Gandolfini had an acting coach on the set.
"That was so sweet, and I remember that about him the most - just how badly he wanted to do a good job. He worked so hard," she added.
Scores of fans waited in the sweltering heat to get a glimpse of actors Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, Chris Noth and Julianna Margulies, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as they entered the cathedral.
Other fans managed to get into the funeral service, which was led by the Very Reverend Dr. James A. Kowalski.
On Wednesday about 100 people attended a private wake for the actor in New Jersey. Gandolfini, who was raised in a working-class neighborhood, shared Tony Soprano's Italian-American heritage and New Jersey roots.
Broadway theaters dimmed their marquees on Wednesday night in memory of the actor, who also had a successful stage career.
Gandolfini collapsed in the bathroom of his hotel room in Rome while vacationing with his 13-year-old son, Michael. He had been scheduled to attend the closing of the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily. He body was flown to the United States on Sunday.
Gandolfini's portrayal of a gangster who ordered hits on his enemies and saw a therapist to talk about his insecurities, was the signature role of his career and won him three Emmy Awards as best actor in a drama series. The show ran for six seasons.
In 2009 Gandolfini was nominated for a Tony Award for his role in "God of Carnage." He also appeared in "On the Waterfront" in 1995 and "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1992.
The actor had been working on an upcoming HBO series, "Criminal Justice," and has two films due out next year. He also appeared in the crime drama "Killing Them Softly" and "Zero Dark Thirty," a film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
Apart from his son Michael with his first wife, who he divorced in 2002, Gandolfini is survived by his wife and daughter Liliana, who was born last year.
(Additional reporting by Victoria Cavaliere; writing by Patricia Reaney; Editing by David Storey)
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Cameron Diaz to play Miss Hannigan in Will Smith and Jay-Z's 'Annie' remake
By Jeff Sneider
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - After a successful collaboration on "Bad Teacher," Sony has turned to Cameron Diaz to play Miss Hannigan in a remake of "Annie" that the studio is producing with Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment banner, an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap.
Diaz joins the project after Sandra Bullock walked away from the role not once, but twice.
Hannigan, of course, is the meanie who runs the orphanage where Annie and her friends live. Carol Burnett memorably played the role in the original 1982 film, and Sony has sought to cast an actress with comedic chops and international appeal.
With hits like "There's Something About Mary" and "Charlie's Angels" under her belt, Diaz fits that bill, plus Sony is already invested in the actress, who is set to star opposite Jason Segel in the studio's comedy "Sex Tape."
Will Smith and Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter are among those producing Will Gluck's updated musical, which stars Quvenzhane Wallis ("Beasts of the Southern Wild") as the orphan and Jamie Foxx as a variation of the original's Daddy Warbucks character.
Foxx and Diaz previously worked together on Oliver Stone's "Any Given Sunday."
With production expected to start production this fall," Annie" is scheduled to hit theaters on Christmas Day 2014, the same day Disney will release its musical "Into the Woods."
Diaz, who's currently filming "The Other Woman" for Fox, will soon be seen in Ridley Scott's "The Counselor" alongside Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. She's repped by CAA and manager Rick Yorn.
Deadline broke the news.
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Mapping genes of a horse from 700,000 years ago
In this undated photo provided by Ludovic Orlando via Nature, two pieces of a 700,000-year-old horse metapodial bone, just before being extracted for ancient DNA, are shown. From a tiny fossil bone found in the frozen Yukon, scientists have deciphered the genetic code of an ancient horse about 700,000 years old _ nearly 10 times older than any other animal that has had its genome mapped. The work was published Wednesday, June 26, 2013, by the journal Nature and discussed at a science conference in Helsinki. (AP Photo/Ludovic Orlando via Nature)
In this undated photo provided by Ludovic Orlando via Nature, two pieces of a 700,000-year-old horse metapodial bone, just before being extracted for ancient DNA, are shown. From a tiny fossil bone found in the frozen Yukon, scientists have deciphered the genetic code of an ancient horse about 700,000 years old _ nearly 10 times older than any other animal that has had its genome mapped. The work was published Wednesday, June 26, 2013, by the journal Nature and discussed at a science conference in Helsinki. (AP Photo/Ludovic Orlando via Nature)
In this January 2010 photo provided by the journal Nature via Przewalski's Horse Association, a Przewalski's horse is shown in Khomyntal, western Mongolia, in one of three reintroduction sites. From a tiny fossil bone found in the frozen Yukon, scientists have deciphered the genetic code of an ancient horse about 700,000 years old _ nearly 10 times older than any other animal that has had its genome mapped. The researchers also found new evidence that the endangered Przewalski's horse, found in Mongolia and China, is the last surviving wild horse. It is genetically distinct from domestic horses. (AP Photo/Przewalski's Horse Association via Nature, Claudia Feh)
HELSINKI (AP) ? From a tiny fossil bone found in the frozen Yukon, scientists have deciphered the genetic code of an ancient horse about 700,000 years old ? nearly 10 times older than any other animal that has had its genome mapped.
Scientists used new techniques and computing to take DNA from a 5-inch fossil fragment ? most of which was contaminated with more modern bacteria ? and get a good genetic picture of an ancestral horse. The work was published Wednesday in the journal Nature and discussed at a science conference in Helsinki.
The research gives a better insight into the evolution of one of the most studied mammals. Perhaps more importantly, it opens up new possibilities for mapping the genetic blueprints of all sorts of ancient animals from early human ancestors to mastodons to mammoths to bison, said study lead authors Ludovic Orlando and Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen.
This "is breaking the time barrier," Willerslev said.
The previous oldest animal fossil genetically mapped had been an ancient relative of Neanderthals called the Denisovans, from about 75,000 years ago, found in a Siberian cave.
The ancient horse was probably about the size of current Arabian horses, the researchers said. It didn't have the same genes for large muscles that make today's breeds good for racing, and it was larger than researchers once thought, Orlando and Willerslev said.
The new mapping techniques, which involve all sorts of technical changes, could be used not just with fossils from frozen areas like Canada's Yukon and Russia's Siberia, but also from more temperate climates, and may eventually allow researchers to map animal genomes from 1 million years ago, Orlando said.
Ross MacPhee, curator of mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, who wasn't part of the research, said the accomplishment suggests "there's no reason in substance why we couldn't go back further."
"I think it's cool," said another outside expert, Edward Rubin, who heads the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute and has deciphered Neanderthal and cave bear DNA.
"We can always keep our fingers crossed that (DNA from) an ancient hominid will be found in one of those environments that have been cold," perhaps even the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans, he said.
Orlando and Willerslev said it doesn't have to be that cold, but much of the most ancient human development was in Africa where the hotter climate makes DNA disintegrate faster. Still, there were enough hominids in temperate climates to give hope for older genome sequencing of some of our ancestors, they said.
There was a lot of junk in the Yukon fossil that wasn't horse but bacteria, Orlando said. He said for every 200 DNA molecules they sequenced, only one was from the horse.
The research estimated that the evolutionary tree split that led to horses on one branch and donkeys on the other happened about 4 million years ago.
The analysis also found new evidence that an endangered animal called the Przewalski's horse, found in Mongolia and China, is the last surviving wild horse. It is genetically distinct from domestic horses.
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Ritter reported from New York.
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Ed Markey Beats Gabriel Gomez In ... - Business Insider
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Longtime Rep. Ed Markey (D) prevailed easily over ex-Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez (R) in a low-turnout special election to fill Massachusetts' vacant Senate seat.?With 99% of precincts reporting, Markey garnered?54.9% of the vote to Gomez's 44.7%, a result that nearly mirrored the average of pre-election polling.
"Thank you Massachusetts! I am deeply honored for the opportunity to serve you in the United States Senate," Markey said in a statement.
Turnout was low. The Boston Globe reported?that less than 20% of voters in Boston voted. The number of voters was half of what it was in the 2010 special election, when Republican Scott Brown pulled an upset over Martha Coakley.
Markey's win ensures the same Senate balance of 52 Democrats and 46 Republicans, plus 2 independents who caucus with the Democrats.?
President Barack Obama hailed Markey's win in a statement late Tuesday night.?
"During more than 36 years as a Congressman, Ed has distinguished himself as a leader on many of the key challenges of our time ? from fighting carbon pollution to protecting our children from gun violence to creating good, middle-class jobs," Obama said.
"He?s earned a reputation as an effective, creative legislator, willing to partner with colleagues across the aisle to make progress on the issues that matter most. The people of Massachusetts can be proud that they have another strong leader fighting for them in the Senate, and people across the country will benefit from Ed?s talent and integrity."
A Democratic National Committee official cited a few key reasons the party believed Markey had avoided a similar fate as Coakley.
From the official:
- Deployed 17 full-time staff, most of whom were veterans of the Obama 2012 campaign who worked on Communications, Rapid Response, Research, Field and GOTV;
- Spent or raised $300,000 directly for the campaign;
- Coordinated a surrogate operation that included DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz and a dozen other national surrogates participating in Markey Campaign activities;
- Built two predictive voter models to gauge support for Markey and turnout, applying the lessons learned from the Obama Campaign?s 2012 innovative modeling efforts;
- Sent an email from President Obama to his supporters in Massachusetts in support of Markey;
- Utilized DNC social media assets and the DNC email list to fundraise and recruit volunteers;
- Provided other GOTV expertise and assets, including an online call tool that allowed volunteers to call from home or from other states.
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Missing red panda from National Zoo found in DC
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Animal keepers from the National Zoo captured a red panda in a Washington neighborhood Monday after it went missing from its enclosure at the zoo.
The male named Rusty was captured in a bush in the Adams Morgan neighborhood on Monday afternoon, said National Zoo spokeswoman Pamela Baker-Masson. The animal was being taken to the zoo's animal hospital for a checkup.
Unlike giant pandas, red pandas are not members of the bear family. Red pandas are slightly bigger than a domestic cat and look similar to a raccoon. They are listed as vulnerable in the wild.
Rusty arrived at the zoo in April from a zoo in Lincoln, Neb., and was in quarantine for several weeks until he went on exhibit in early June. He will turn 1 year old in July.
Red pandas are highly territorial, so zoo officials did not believe he would have traveled far. Rusty, it seems, wanted to explore his new city.
Animal keepers discovered he was missing Monday morning and started searching the zoo at 8 a.m. Residents in the surrounding neighborhoods may have been on the lookout as well as photos were posted on Twitter just before the animal was caught.
The zoo began sending out messages about his disappearance Monday morning on Twitter in case someone saw him.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/missing-red-panda-national-zoo-found-dc-183238896.html
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Obama hit by Snowden setbacks with China, Russia
WASHINGTON (AP) ? For President Barack Obama, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden's globe-trotting evasion of U.S. authorities has dealt a startling setback to efforts to strengthen ties with China and raised the prospect of worsening tensions with Russia.
Relations with both China and Russia have been at the forefront of Obama's foreign policy agenda this month, underscoring the intertwined interests among these uneasy partners. Obama met just last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland and held an unusual two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in California earlier this month.
Obama has made no known phone calls to Xi since Snowden surfaced in Hong Kong earlier this month, nor has he talked to Putin since Snowden arrived in Russia.
Former Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., said it wasn't clear that Obama's "charm offensive" with Xi and Putin would matter much on this issue. The U.S. has "very little leverage," she said, given the broad array of issues on which the Obama administration needs Chinese and Russian cooperation.
"This isn't happening in a vacuum, and obviously China and Russia know that," said Harman, who now runs the Woodrow Wilson International Center.
Both the U.S. and China had hailed the Obama-Xi summit as a fresh start to a complex relationship, with the leaders building personal bonds during an hour-long walk through the grounds of the Sunnylands estate. But any easing of tensions appeared to vanish Monday following China's apparent flouting of U.S. demands that Snowden be returned from semi-autonomous Hong Kong to face espionage charges.
White House spokesman Jay Carney, in unusually harsh language, said China had "unquestionably" damaged its relationship with Washington.
"The Chinese have emphasized the importance of building mutual trust," Carney said. "We think that they have dealt that effort a serious setback. If we cannot count on them to honor their legal extradition obligations, then there is a problem."
A similar problem may be looming with Russia, where Snowden arrived Sunday. He had been expected to leave Moscow for a third country, but the White House said Monday it believed the former government contractor was still in Russia.
While the U.S. does not have an extradition treaty with Russia, the White House publicly prodded the Kremlin to send Snowden back to the U.S., while officials privately negotiated with their Russian counterparts.
"We are expecting the Russians to examine the options available to them to expel Mr. Snowden for his return to the United States," Carney said.
The U.S. has deep economic ties with China and needs the Asian power's help in persuading North Korea to end its nuclear provocations. The Obama administration also needs Russia's cooperation in ending the bloodshed in Syria and reducing nuclear stockpiles held by the former Cold War foes.
Members of Congress so far have focused their anger on China and Russia, not on Obama's inability to get either country to abide by U.S. demands. However, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said in an interview with CNN on Monday that he was starting to wonder why the president hasn't been "more forceful in dealing with foreign leaders."
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton echoed the White House's frustration with China. "That kind of action is not only detrimental to the U.S.-China relationship but it sets a bad precedent that could unravel the intricate international agreements about how countries respect the laws ? and particularly the extradition treaties," the possible 2016 presidential contender told an audience in Los Angeles.
Snowden fled to Hong Kong after seizing highly classified documents disclosing U.S. surveillance programs that collect vast amounts of U.S. phone and Internet records. He shared the information with The Guardian and Washington Post newspapers. He also told the South China Morning Post that "the NSA does all kinds of things like hack Chinese cellphone companies to steal all of your SMS data." SMS, or short messaging service, generally means text messaging.
Snowden still has perhaps more than 200 sensitive documents, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said over the weekend.
Hong Kong, a former British colony with a degree of autonomy from mainland China, has an extradition treaty with the U.S. Officials in Hong Kong said a formal U.S. extradition request did not fully comply with its laws, a claim the Justice Department disputes.
The White House made clear it believes the final decision to let Snowden leave for Russia was made by Chinese officials in Beijing.
Russia's ultimate response to U.S. pressure remains unclear. Putin could still agree to return Snowden to the U.S. But he may also let him stay in Russia or head elsewhere, perhaps to Ecuador or Venezuela ? both options certain to earn the ire of the White House.
Fiona Hill, a Russia expert at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, said she expected Putin to take advantage of a "golden opportunity" to publicly defy the White House.
"This is one of those opportunities to score points against the United States that I would be surprised if Russia passed up," Hill said.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-hit-snowden-setbacks-china-russia-070516653.html
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Sunday, June 16, 2013
NSA Leaker Had Legal Means to Reveal Information | Washington ...
Edward Snowden
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Edward Snowden, who illegally leaked classified information about a National Security Agency intelligence gathering program to a British newspaper last week, had ample legal channels to report what he felt were illegal or improper activities.
The inspector general for the Defense Department runs a hotline for military and intelligence officials to report such conduct in ways that do not disclose classified information to the public.
Experts on national security whistleblower laws say Snowden could also have disclosed the information to members of Congress.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Tuesday that Snowden?s leak did ?huge, grave damage? to the country?s intelligence-gathering capabilities.
The Pentagon provides avenues for whistleblowers to disclose alleged wrongdoing in ways that avoid disclosures that could have that affect.
The foremost law providing such an avenue is the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA).
The law provides means for the disclosure of classified information to members of Congress in a way that protects the information from public disclosure and protects the identity of whistleblowers who do not believe that their direct superiors will act on allegations of wrongdoing.
?The whistleblower passing [classified information] through the ICWPA process knows they?re protected against giving it out impermissibly,? explained Dan Meyer, the DOD inspector general office?s director of whistleblowing and transparency, in a recent webinar on journalism involving military and intelligence whistleblowers.
?Whistleblowing and leaking are two fundamentally different activities,? Meyer said. ?A leak is an unlawful communication, it?s one that is prohibited by law. Whistleblowing is one that is not only required by regulation, but protected by law.?
Exposing wrongdoing or illegal activity by military and intelligence officials, Meyer said, is a ?patriotic duty.? However, there are channels that should be used to do so to avoid the illegal release of classified information, he said.
Meyer said he ?even offered ? to courier it up [to Congress] and pass the clearances to make sure the committee members were the right ones to pass it to,? in cases where whistleblowers did not feel comfortable going through the ICWPA process.
Mark Zaid, a national security attorney who has represented numerous military and intelligence whistleblowers, said Snowden had numerous formal and informal avenues to disclose the information in legal ways that did not compromise intelligence programs.
?At the very least, he should?ve started off at the different inspector general offices,? Zaid told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview.
Zaid noted that the ICWPA only applies to whistleblowers disclosing illegal information, and that the NSA program exposed by Snowden appears to have been approved by Congress and judicial authorities. However, he noted that Bush administration whistleblowers reported activities, such as enhanced interrogations, that had likewise been approved.
Even absent the ICWPA process, Zaid says Snowden could have personally disclosed the information to Congress.
?There are quite a number of members of Congress who he could?ve gone to who would have embraced him. Clearly [Sen.] Rand Paul [(R., Ky.)] would have been very interested in this, and Sen. [Ron] Wyden [(D., Ore.)]. On both sides of the aisle, there are members of Congress ? who clearly would have embraced what he would have told them,? Zaid said.
If Snowden had come to his office, Zaid said, he would have brought him directly to Congress. ?The way I handle it will give that person as much if not greater protection? than the ICWPA, he insisted.
?He could have revealed everything directly to Sen. Rand Paul, directly to Sen. Wyden,? Zaid said. ?Any member of Congress has the appropriate security clearances for what he knew.?
Going to Congress could also be a more effective means of spurring policy changes, which was one of Snowden?s apparent motivations for the leak.
?When whistleblowers work with the media, media coverage in and of itself does not solve the problem that whistleblowers have brought to the disclosure process,? Meyer explained.
?Many whistleblowers believe that if there?s just exposure through the press, that somehow it stops,? Meyer said, but policy changes require that a congressman or federal or law enforcement official follow up on that disclosure.
?I?ll never say, ?I could have made all the difference in the world,?? Zaid said. ?I?d never say that, because I have no idea, and I?m sure we would?ve hit roadblock after roadblock. But the fact is we?ll never know if anything I could have done would have worked, because he went straight to the media.?
?And look at how that turned out,? Zaid said. ?Mr. Snowden, are you having fun??
Source: http://freebeacon.com/nsa-leaker-had-legal-means-to-reveal-information/
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
Authorities probe deck collapse at Fla. sports bar
NORTH BAY VILLAGE, Fla. (AP) ? Investigators began examining a twisted pile of concrete, metal and wood on Friday to determine why a waterfront deck at a popular sports bar collapsed into shallow Biscayne Bay, injuring two dozen people gathered to cheer the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals.
Authorities estimated about 100 people were on the deck at Shuckers Bar & Grill when a support on one end apparently gave way, causing the deck to buckle in the middle and drop about 8 feet into the bay. The scene Friday was a tangle of partly submerged green plastic chairs, tables, umbrellas, and even flip-flops and cell phones lost in the chaos of the night before.
"It was a shock," said Martin Torres, 42, who was in South Florida from Los Angeles to board a cruise. "People were yelling. Nobody knew. People came out all wet. They were crying. For a while, nobody knows what's going on."
Miami-Dade Fire Chief David Downey said 24 people were taken to hospitals. Many had cuts and bruises, though one person suffered a fracture. By midday Friday, only one person remained hospitalized with unknown injuries.
Structural engineer Morgan Villanueva, whose firm contracts with various cities for engineering services, said when he arrived to inspect the debris that it appeared a main support at one end gave way for unknown reasons. It wasn't immediately clear Friday how old the deck was and when it was last inspected or renovated. Shuckers bills itself as a "locals favorite for over 20 years."
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra told reporters in San Antonio ? where his team is preparing for Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Spurs ? that he had been there many times.
"It's a great venue. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around it and how it happened. But all of our thoughts are with those people, and we hope everybody's OK," Spoelstra said. "That's really scary and I hope it doesn't change people's thoughts on going to those type of venues because they can be fun as long as they're safe."
Villanueva said fans cheering the game could have had an impact on the deck's structural integrity, particularly if it was already weakened.
"If people were excited and jumping, it's going to be an additional load," he said.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue spokesman Griselle Marino said the main restaurant has a safe capacity of 74 people, but rules for the deck would be enforced separately by North Bay Village officials. They said they were still gathering information Friday about any inspections.
"Our building department is actively reviewing the incident, to include review and inspection of the structural damage," the city said in a statement.
Marino said Shuckers passed a fire safety inspection in January. She said it's largely up to restaurant and bar operators to enforce capacity limits.
"We can't be policing every restaurant," Marino said.
North Bay Village is a small series of islands in Biscayne Bay with a strip of restaurants, hotels, houses and condos that is attached by causeways to the mainland and also to Miami Beach.
North Bay Village Mayor Connie Leon Kreps went to the scene afterward and said she was grateful that no one had died.
"This is a real tragedy," she said. "Shuckers has been here for many, many years. People come from all around to enjoy the view and the food. This is really unfortunate."
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AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds in San Antonio contributed to this story.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/authorities-probe-deck-collapse-fla-sports-bar-172928461.html
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AP Source: Tebow to sign with Patriots
FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2012, file photo, then-New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow warms up before an NFL football game in Nashville, Tenn. Tim Tebow is joining the New England Patriots, according to a report by ESPN on Monday, June 10, 2013. The high-profile quarterback who spent one season mostly on the sidelines with the New York Jets is expected to attend the start of the Patriots three-day minicamp on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)
FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2012, file photo, then-New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow warms up before an NFL football game in Nashville, Tenn. Tim Tebow is joining the New England Patriots, according to a report by ESPN on Monday, June 10, 2013. The high-profile quarterback who spent one season mostly on the sidelines with the New York Jets is expected to attend the start of the Patriots three-day minicamp on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)
A person familiar with the situation says quarterback Tim Tebow will be signing with the New England Patriots and joining their minicamp Tuesday.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no official announcement had been made.
ESPN first reported that Tebow would sign with New England.
One of the NFL's most polarizing players, Tebow spent a lost season in 2012 with the New York Jets, playing sparingly behind struggling starter Mark Sanchez. Tebow was released in April.
Tebow won two national titles at Florida and was a first-round draft pick in 2010 by Denver. He helped the Broncos win the AFC West in 2011, even beating Pittsburgh in a wild-card game before losing to, yes, the Patriots.
But he was traded to New York the following offseason when Denver signed Peyton Manning. Tebow threw only eight passes for the Jets, completing six, ran 32 times for 102 yards and was used mostly to protect the punter.
The Patriots, of course, have Tom Brady as their starting quarterback, and Ryan Mallett as the backup. They released QB Mike Kafka on Monday.
Asked if Tebow had signed, Patriots spokesman Stacey James said, "I do not anticipate any additional transactions to announce tonight."
Tebow's NFL career appeared over when the Jets couldn't trade him at draft time and wound up cutting the left-handed quarterback, who won the 2007 Heisman Trophy at Florida. There even was speculation he couldn't get an offer from any Canadian Football League teams.
But now he is headed to New England, where the man who drafted him as coach of the Broncos, Josh McDaniels, is an offensive assistant under head coach Bill Belichick.
And other than winning Super Bowls, Belichick likes nothing better than sticking it to the Jets. Revitalizing Tebow's career would do exactly that.
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AP Sports Writers Dennis Waszak Jr., and Howard Ulman contributed to this story.
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