Samsung has just kicked off its Premiere event at Earls Court in London, and decided to lead with one particularly curious device -- in addition to the ability to transform from a tablet to a notebook, the company's shape-shifting Ativ Q convertible also gives users a taste of the Android ecosystem.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/b6hqoqod4oE/
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Additional stone or bronze carvings depicting Dwight D. Eisenhower's accomplishments as Army general and president mark the latest creative changes architect Frank Gehry has made to his design for a planned memorial park honoring Ike near the National Mall.
Gehry's design early last year featured an image of Eisenhower in the Oval Office with his hand on a globe, as well as an image of Gen. Eisenhower addressing his troops before D-Day. He planned to use bas reliefs carved on stone blocks. Gehry added 9-foot-tall bronze sculptures in May 2012 after members of Eisenhower's family said the memorial park needed stronger sculptural elements to show the 34th president's achievements more prominently.
Now Gehry is returning to his original concept of bas reliefs in stone or bronze to serve as backdrops for the heroic-sized sculptures. The sculptural pieces will further depict Ike's work as general leading the D-Day landings at Normandy and as president signing the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to advance equal rights for African Americans.
A sculpture of a young Eisenhower sits on a wall nearby, looking out at his future accomplishments.
The Associated Press got an early look at the design changes, which were to be reviewed Wednesday by the Eisenhower Memorial Commission.
Gehry is still proposing that the memorial park be framed with large metal tapestries showing Eisenhower's boyhood home on the Kansas plains. But Eisenhower's family objects to the tapestry concept, saying last year that the metal material won't last forever and is "impractical and unnecessary."
Adding more images of D-Day and from a key moment of Eisenhower's presidency make the president's story more complete, said Daniel Feil, the project's executive architect.
"There's more of a dynamic going on because you have two different points in time depicted within one sculptural composition," Feil said of Gehry's revisions. "He's making it stronger. It's more powerful."
During his presidency, Eisenhower took a lead in desegregating public schools in Little Rock, Ark., and in Washington, D.C. So the imagery of him signing the Civil Rights Act, in particular, adds a new element of history to the memorial.
Above the presidential imagery, historians have proposed a quotation to be carved in stone to capture some of Eisenhower's values.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed," Eisenhower said in a 1953 speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, speaking about the rising cost of Cold War-level military spending and the nation's priorities.
For the imagery of Eisenhower as World War II hero, historians proposed an inscription with this quotation from D-Day: "The tide has turned," Eisenhower said in an address to his troops. "The free men of the world are marching together to victory!"
The 12-member, presidentially appointed memorial commission has kept Gehry's metal tapestries concept as part of the design, despite objections from some critics who called it an "avant-garde approach" to memorial architecture. Eisenhower's family has called for a simpler design. Others have praised Gehry's concept for its innovation.
Retired Air Force Gen. Carl Reddel, the executive director of the memorial commission, said the combination of imagery from Eisenhower's Kansas roots, his achievements as supreme Allied commander in Europe and his two-term presidency capture Ike's unique role in history.
"What you have here is the Eisenhower story as the American story. It's a great way to provide a narrative," Reddel said. "Eisenhower was the last president born in the 19th century and the first one to look at reconnaissance photographs taken from satellites in space."
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Eisenhower Memorial Commission: http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gehry-refines-design-eisenhower-memorial-dc-170658614.html
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Quanto mais colaboramos com um projeto open source mais mudamos nossa rotina e visualizamos novas ferramentas que maximizam nossa intera??o com a comunidade como um todo. Uma das principais ferramentas ? o XChat, pois ela permite que tenhamos acesso a diversos servidores irc e canais dos projetos, este tipo de contato ? important?ssimo, pois ? nestes canais que ocorrem as principais reuni?es e discuss?es sobre cada projeto, logo n?o utilizar uma ferramenta como o XChat ? como ficar de fora destes debates, sendo assim?vou apresentar algumas dicas que podem ser ?teis para voc? que esta iniciando.
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Servidores IRC:
Existem dezenas de servidores irc espalhados pelo mundo, logo vou citar apenas dois dos que considero os mais relevantes:
? ?FreeNode
O FreeNode ? um dos principais servidores e nele voc? ir? encontrar centenas de canais de in?meros projetos e comunidades open source, principalmente do Projeto Fedora, onde eu participo diariamente do #fedora-latam, ?#fedora-ambassadors, #fedora-devel, entre outros.
Ao contr?rio do que alguns acreditam o ?#? dos canais n?o copiou o conceito do hastag, utilizado em redes sociais pela internet, mas sim o conceito de hastag venho justamente do irc, pois ao querermos conversar sobre um determinado assunto entramos no canal com o seu respectivo nome, exemplo: #ovirt, neste canal os assuntos relacionados ao projeto open source oVirt s?o tratados.
Se voc? j? tem o XChat instalado vou passar o procedimento correto de uso e inscri??o no FreeNode, caso n?o tenha o XChat instalado simplesmente instale-o em seu Fedora:
# yum install xchat
Ao abrirmos o XChat vou mostrar como automatizar o seu dia-a-dia, logo vamos come?ar ignorando a tela inicial de ?Network list?:
Marcando a op??o ?Skip network list on startup?. Ap?s vamos aos comandos para o irc da FreeNode:
/server chat.freenode.net
Todos os comandos em um irc server devem iniciar com o ?/?, o comando acima nos permite entrar no irc server da FreeNode.
Agora que entramos precisamos registrar nosso nickname(apelido) para que outros usu?rios n?o utilizem nosso nickname, sendo assim vamos ao processo de registro:
/nick meu_apelido
/msg nickserv register minha_senha meu_e_mail
Como podemos ver acima escolhemos um apelido no primeiro comando e no segundo comando enviamos uma mensagem ao nickserv(servidor de irc) solicitando o registro do apelido a pouco escolhido juntamente com nosso e-mail, pois a FreeNode envia um e-mail solicitando a sua confirma??o.
/msg nickserv verify register meu_apelido token_recebio_no_e_mail
Ao recebermos o e-mail de verifica??o de registro ele nos informa exatamente o comando que temos que inserir no XChat, assim ele cont?m um importante tocken que ir? validar meu registro. Lembrando que se escolhermos um nome j? registrado as mensagens do nickserv ir?o nos mostrar que nosso apelido j? esta registrado, logo devemos escolher um apelido livre/n?o utilizado e seguir o processo.
Com o registro realizado devemos nos identificar sempre que entrarmos na FreeNode ou em outro irc server:
/msg nickserv identify minha_senha
Assim completamos o processo de registro na FreeNode.
? OFTC
Outro irc server que costumo utilizar ? o OFTC, logo seguimos o mesmo processo, por?m o OFTC n?o envia e-mail de confirma??o, ele apenas solicita o registro sem a informa??o de seu e-mail.
Automatizando o XChat:
Imagine diariamente voc? ter que entrar no XChat, entrar em dois ou mais servidores irc diferentes, identificar-se em cada um dos servidores e ainda entrar em diversos canais, em cada um dos servidores irc que voc? costuma entrar, inevitavelmente voc? poder? esquecer o nome de um canal, ou mesmo desistir de usar essa forma de comunica??o, pensando nisso o XChat permite que voc? crie scripts de automa??o, sendo assim vamos criar o nosso script, mas n?o se preocupe, voc? n?o precisa saber programar ? simplesmente unir os seus comando di?rios em um ?nico arquivo:
$ vim ~./meu_script_xchat.txt
Dentro deste arquivo vamos inserir o que fariamos manualmente em nosso dia-a-dia, exemplo:
server chat.freenode.net
msg nickserv identify minha_senha
join #fedora-latam
join #fedora-devel
join #fedora-ambassadors
?..
Como podemos ver colocamos TODOS nossos comandos em um ?nico arquivo que ao abrirmos nosso XChat ser? carregado com um ?nico comando:
/load -e ~/meu_script_xchat.txt
Somente temos que cuidar o local(path) onde guardamos nosso arquivo, pois acredito que ele deve estar em um local de seu f?cil acesso para voc? e tamb?m seguro, tamb?m devemos observar que no arquivo de automa??o n?o precisamos usar a ?/? nos comandos e podemos inserir quantos servidores irc, se assim desejarmos, e tamb?m quantos canais quisermos.
Bom proveito e seja bem vindo em nossos canais do projeto Fedora.
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Based on his own story, popular Islamic blogger Amir Ahmad Nasr argues that the Internet will be for Islam what the printing press was for Christianity ? a driving force for reform.
My Isl@m: How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind ? and Doubt Freed My Soul, by Amir Ahmad Nasr, St. Martin's Press, 336 pages
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Typically considered by Western audiences a source of radicalization in Islamic circles ? think terrorist forums, online calls to jihad, recipes for homemade explosives ? the Internet takes a star turn here as liberator, as both a personal agent of awakening for Afro-Arab blogger Nasr, and an incubator of change in a Muslim world roiled by revolution. Nasr?s journey in ?My Isl@m? is a testament to his prediction: that the Internet will be for Islam what the printing press was for Christianity ? a driving force for reform.
Born in Khartoum, Sudan, and raised in Qatar and Malaysia, Nasr enjoys a relatively orthodox upbringing: praying five times a day, shunning the lewd programming of MTV, and in school, listening to his teachers rail against the infidel twin enemies, the USA and Israel. Bored by his IT classes in a sleepy Malaysian university town, Nasr stumbles upon the work of liberal Egyptian blogger ?The Big Pharoah.?
?It was through him that I fell down the rabbit hole and landed in a virtual wonderland,? writes Nasr of the Arab blogosphere, a realm where nothing was taboo and the self-described ?third culture kid? straddling multiple cultural identities finally felt he belonged.
Finding no other Sudanese bloggers, Nasr begins his own blog in 2006, ?The Sudanese Thinker,? and joins a community of like-minded Arab bloggers plumbing the issues churning the Muslim world, from the Danish cartoon controversy and the Israel-Palestine conflict to Wahhabism, suicide bombings, and the US abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Known in his family as the child who ?thinks too much,? Nasr rejoices in the intellectual freedom and the way the blogosphere unites Arabs and Muslims from disparate geographic regions and religious persuasions.
As he blogs and interacts with others in the Arab blogosphere however, Nasr begins to question the teachings of his orthodox upbringing, dissecting Islam as he knows it until his doubts about religion gradually grow into disbelief and Nasr divorces himself from ?the suffocating, dark, stinking dungeons of subordinating dogmatism.?
His personal journey from the comforts of orthodox faith to doubt and disbelief are among the strengths of ?My Isl@m.? His struggle to hold on to his faith is real and his pain at leaving is palpable, a bitter passage Nasr himself labors to understand and share with his readers, quoting Sudanese-born Emory University law professor Abdullahi An-Na?im, who said ?If I don?t have freedom to disbelieve, I cannot believe.?
Yet his story falls flat, and Nasr loses readers ? at least this one ? when he delves into tedious philosophy lessons, explaining his explorations with metaphysics, mythology, and ?the empirical claims of contemplatives.?
More disappointingly, the revolutions roiling the Arab world, which get top billing in the book?s promotional materials, are relegated to a single section toward the end of the book and read as mere regurgitations of media accounts. Most readers would surely prefer more of Nasr?s insight and analysis, especially considering his unique background, as well as his connections in the regions discussed.
On a personal front however, Nasr shines, breaking the suspense about the ultimate fate of his relationship with religion. Struggling to distance himself from an Islam of dogma to one of reason and compassion, he returns to faith during a trip to Turkey, land of the mystic poet Rumi, where Westernized wine-drinking Turks dine peacefully next to their traditional, hijab-clad countrymen.
In a tender moment, moved by the grandeur of the setting and the reverberating rhythmic chant of the Turkish imam who reminds him of his beloved childhood mosque, Nasr reaffirms his faith under the grand dome of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, or Blue Mosque, in Istanbul, this time as a follower of the mystical Sufi practice.
?My Isl@m? illustrates the explosive power of the Internet among youth across the Muslim world, who through social media and online activism, are changing old social, religious, and political orders. As such, Nasr?s story is remarkable in that it mirrors the personal journeys of millions of youth across the region for whom the Internet has upended traditional notions of Islamic belief and political order, giving way to a Muslim world ?reborn,? via revolutions personal and political.
Husna Haq is a Monitor correspondent.
Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/mHoQYSQHkns/My-Isl-m
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Stonehill College recently named the following Waldo County residents to its dean's list for the Spring 2013 semester.
Swanville resident Kaitlyn W. Schweikert, a member of the class of 2015.
Northport resident Emily R. Wiley, a member of the class ...
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By Richard Valdmanis
BOSTON (Reuters) - Nearly 250 people have applied to receive money from a $51 million charity fund set up for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, the fund's deputy administrator said on Monday.
Twin explosions at the finish line of the world-renowned race on April 15 killed three people and injured 264 others, many of whom lost legs in the blasts.
"We now have 247 applications, and I expect a few more to come in over the next couple of days," said Camille Biros. Applications had to be post-marked June 15 or earlier to be considered.
The One Fund was established by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick shortly after the bombings, and it has so far brought in more than $51 million in donations, according to its website.
The fund is being managed by Kenneth Feinberg, an arbitration attorney who also oversaw compensation for victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado.
Biros said The One Fund had yet to sort through the applications to determine which would be accepted. She said payments will be made from July 1.
The fund will pay victims according to their injuries, with claims for death, multiple amputations and permanent brain damage to receive the biggest checks.
Two ethnic Chechen brothers who lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, were identified by the FBI as suspects in the bombing.
The younger of the two, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is being held at a prison hospital west of Boston. His older brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died in a shootout with police days after the bombing.
Tamerlan had been on a U.S. government database of potential terrorism suspects.
(Editing by Dan Grebler)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nearly-250-apply-boston-bomb-charity-money-210634007.html
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By Dorene Internicola
NEW YORK (Reuters) - For modern, harried lifestyles focused on getting and spending, fitness experts say tai chi, the ancient Chinese slow-moving exercise, can be an ideal way for anyone to stay fit.
A staple in senior citizen centers and a common dawn sighting in public parks, the practice can offer long-term benefits for all age groups.
"In this high-tech world that's all about speed, greed and instant gratification, tai chi is the antidote to bring us back to balanced health," according to Arthur Rosenfeld, a tai chi master and the author of a new book called "Tai Chi ? The Perfect Exercise: Finding Health, Happiness, Balance, and Strength."
"It doesn't mean you can win the marathon or clean and jerk 750 pounds or win a cycle sprint," said the South Florida resident, 56. "It's not about getting there sooner." Tai chi is more about how the body works than how it looks, and is about aging gracefully and "with less drama."
"The last time I looked, there were some 500 studies about the various physical benefits of tai chi, from improving balance and attention span to boosting the immune system to beating back the symptoms of arthritis, asthma and insomnia," said Rosenfeld.
An estimated 2.3 million U.S. adults have done tai chi in the past 12 months, according to a 2007 National Health Interview Survey.
The practice is not perfect. Tai chi "does not supply the cardiovascular component that we'd be looking for in a well-rounded routine," said Jessica Matthews, a San Diego, California-based exercise physiologist. "The exertion level, while challenging, is not going to increase your heart rate."
'GRAND ULTIMATE MOTION'
T'ai chi ch'uan, as it is formally known, derives from a form of Chinese martial arts. Explaining the slow, circular movement of the practice, Rosenfeld said tai chi is a philosophical term that means the harmonious interplay of opposing forces.
When nature encounters a strong force, the way it answers that force to maintain harmony in the world is with a spiral, he said. "Astronomers see galaxies moving in spirals, water goes down the drain in a spiral, tornados form as a spiral. We spiral in tai chi because the most effective way to move fluid through solid is a spiral."
Hawaii-based personal and group-fitness trainer Jordan Forth, who has studied tai chi since 2006, said one translation of tai chi is "grand ultimate motion."
"I recommend it to everybody," said Forth. "It teaches people to move well in multiple planes of motion with a state of awareness not cultivated in everyday fitness. Most people check out on a treadmill or during high-intensity activity."
Forth said tai chi improves mobility, movement and flexibility and can be even more dynamic than yoga, which the 35-year-old has studied since he was a teenager.
"With tai chi you're grounded the entire time," he said. "For me, (it) translates more into functional everyday movement."
Matthews, who is also a spokeswoman for the American Council on Exercise, said because tai chi is slow motion and low impact, many assume it's just for older people or not a viable means of exercise.
Not so, she said: Research studies have found that the practice increased mineral bone density, boosted endurance, strengthened the lower body, and eased depression.
(Editing by Patricia Reaney and Eric Walsh)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tai-chi-getting-more-slowly-gracefully-intact-061515302.html
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BOSTON (AP) ? Is it really only Game 3?
After 10 periods in the first two games of the Stanley Cup finals, the Bruins and Blackhawks are in Boston on Sunday to prepare for Game 3.
The best-of-seven series is tied at a game apiece.
The Bruins evened it up Saturday night on Daniel Paille's goal at 13:48 of the first overtime. That's after the teams played 52:08 over three OTs on Wednesday in the series opener.
Both teams are hoping to rest before getting back on the ice Monday night. Bruins coach Claude Julien says the hometown fans will help, but the team still has to play the game.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/10-periods-time-stanley-cup-game-3-191308508.html
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You might say the week is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workweek, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Weekly Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past seven days -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) ? A bomb tore through a bus of female university students in southwestern Pakistan Saturday, killing 11, officials said. As family and friends gathered at the hospital another blast went off, followed by a flurry of bullets that sent bystanders running for cover.
The violence in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan, came hours after militants destroyed a historic house elsewhere in the province that at one time was used by the country's founder.
No one claimed responsibility for the multiple attacks Saturday that highlighted the violence that has continued to plague the sparsely populated province. Baluch nationalists pushing for more say in the province's future, Taliban militants and violent sectarian groups all have a presence in the region.
At least 19 other students were wounded when the bomb went off near the bus for a women's university, said police officer Mir Zubair Mahmood. Television footage of the bus showed a blackened hulk with twisted pieces of metal and articles of women's clothing strewn about.
The second blast occurred at a hospital where the dead and wounded were taken later Saturday. The police chief and the chief secretary of the province had arrived at the hospital when the blast went off in a corridor of the hospital's emergency room, said Fayaz Sumbal, a senior police officer in Quetta. Sumbal said at least four people were wounded.
The blast was followed by bursts of gunfire but it was not clear whether the firing was the work of militants or security officials. Images on Pakistani television showed people running from the hospital building into a parking lot filled with ambulances. Some people appeared to be taking cover behind the vehicles.
The destruction of the historic house associated with Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who's referred to by Pakistanis as Quaid-e-Azam or "great leader," outraged people across Pakistan. Jinnah lived in the house before his death in 1948, a year after he led Pakistan to independence.
Attackers on motorcycles planted bombs at the 19th century residence in the mountain resort town of Ziarat, which then started a fire, said senior police officer Asghar Ali Yousufzai.
Three bombs exploded, triggering the blaze that destroyed the building, Yousufzai said. The attackers also shot dead a police guard outside the residency, which had been turned into a museum about Jinnah.
Police found six unexploded explosive devices hours later after firefighters extinguished the fire, Yousufzai said.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the attack in a statement and expressed his sorrow over the policeman's death.
The wooden building was constructed in the late 19th century. Pakistan's founder spent his last two months or so there, and the building was serving as a museum with Jinnah's belonging and other historical artifacts on display.
There had been no previous threat to the historical monument, the chief secretary of the province said on television.
"This tragedy happened which is a huge national loss," said Babar Fateh Yaqoo. "The people of Ziarat are protesting over this incident."
Ziarat is about 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Quetta.
Meanwhile, former Pakistan ruler Pervez Musharraf has pleaded not guilty in a case involving his decision to fire senior judges, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, while he was in power. The prosecution says his actions in the case amounted to terrorism.
A lawyer for Musharraf, Ilyas Siddiqi, said the not guilty plea came during a hearing Saturday at the ex-general's house which has served as a jail for the former Pakistani leader. The judge read out the charges against Musharraf who then entered his plea.
It is the latest development in Musharraf's legal troubles since returning to Pakistan in March after living in exile for four years. He took power in a 1999 coup and ruled for nearly a decade before he was forced to step down because of growing discontent with his rule, especially among the legal community because of his decision to dismiss the judges.
He returned to Pakistan in March, intending to stand for elections, but was disqualified. In addition to the judges' case, he faces charges in the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and in the killing of a Baluch nationalist.
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Associated Press writer Zarar Khan in Islamabad contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bomb-pakistani-womens-university-bus-kills-11-110159296.html
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The Boeing 777 is a huge, hulking beast. And when you're trying to churn out 100 of them every year, there's only one way to pull it off: turn to the robots. These giant, spray-painting robot arms can coat one of the bird's mammoth wings in mere minutes.
Compared to old-fashioned manpower, the enormous pair of robotic arms not only works faster and more precisely, but can complete the entire job without ever actually moving the wing. Not having to move the huge sheet of metal from station to station to station during the process cuts out a lot of the hassle that used to be involved.
Now if only someone could come up with some handy robots that can keep Dreamliner batteries from melting down
Source: http://gizmodo.com/boeings-giant-robot-arms-are-spray-painting-prodigies-513361745
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Mary-Claire King at the Seattle International Film Festival premiere of Decoding Annie Parker on June 6, 2013 in Seattle. Photo by Mat Hayward/Getty Images
Mary-Claire King, the geneticist who discovered the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, says she is delighted by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that makes it illegal to patent them. Her work inspired the forthcoming film Decoding Annie Parker, in which she is portrayed by Helen Hunt.
Sara Reardon: You discovered the BRCA genes in the early 1990s. Soon afterward, Myriad Genetics determined and patented the sequences of the genes. At the time, were you surprised by that?
Mary-Claire King: Genes had been patented before; the cystic fibrosis gene was patented. But I don't think anyone?from the U.S. National Institutes of Health or anywhere else?anticipated the level of patent protection Myriad has engaged in.
What was different about Myriad was its insistence that it was the only entity that could do the test and its aggressive efforts to shut down anyone else. That's why in 2009 the American Civil Liberties Union filed the suit that has gone all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. They brought the case on behalf of people who needed tests and were not able to get a second opinion.
SR: On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that genes occurring in nature cannot be patented. What is your reaction to the ruling?
MK: I am delighted. This is a fabulous result for patients, physicians, scientists, and common sense. When I was working on it from 1974 to 1994, it did not cross my mind that a legal case that would end up in the Supreme Court would be the consequence of my work. But it did, and sometimes that's what happens when you start in a new area of science. It is a relief to have a decision after so many years, and I'm so gratified that it was a unanimous decision.
SR: What's next for genetic testing, now that we have this ruling?
MK: Developing multigene panels?one-stop shops for testing for susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancers on many genes?has been a very high priority. The multigene test we developed, called BROCA, has been used for months, but until today we had to mask BRCA1 and BRCA2. The Supreme Court ruling removes the illogical situation of being able to test all genes but having to mask some. Multigene tests can now be made available to people by many firms. In fact, I think they were on the market straight after the ruling.
SR: BRCA genes were also in the news recently when Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy after learning she was a carrier of a harmful BRCA1 mutation. Was that welcome publicity?
MK: It was a wonderful piece she wrote for the New York Times; she's come to understand it very well. I hope Angelina Jolie being so clear about what this involves and the development of next-generation sequencing lead to more women getting sequencing done. Most cancer isn't inherited, but there is a straightforward genetic test; if a woman is concerned, she can find out. I would like to see women in their 30s offered genetic testing more routinely at a time when something can be done about it.
SR: Your discovery is the subject of the new film, Decoding Annie Parker. What is it like to have a movie made about your work?
MK: I had nothing to do with it at all and did not know about it until after it was complete. I found out by accident. One of my grad students came in and said: "You never told me there's a movie about you."
"There is not a movie about me," I replied and didn't even stop what I was doing. She showed me on her laptop, and I thought, "Yeah, sure." But then I checked for myself, and sure enough, there it was.
SR: The film suggests you really struggled in the 1980s to convince people that some cancers have a genetic component. Was that the case?
MK: The main experience of the period was that people completely ignored me. I was a young woman, not a physician, working on my own with modest support from the National Institutes of Health.
There was active opposition from some groups. But there was also terrific support from clinicians who had patients from families with large numbers of women who'd had breast and ovarian cancer. They wanted to know what to do about it. They knew it wasn't because of something the women had done wrong. I had a great deal of support from oncologists and couldn't have done the project without it.
SR: Today, of course, cancer genetics is a booming field. Is that thanks to the BRCA genes?
MK: I think it increased interest enormously. It confirmed the idea of inherited predisposition to cancer. My work showed that one could use the tools of genetic analysis to prove the existence of genes responsible for an inherited form of a major common disease and that you can parse out the inherited portion.
Most breast cancer isn't inherited, but when it is, it's devastating. Today there is the recognition that even if a disease is genetic in most people, the particular mutation that any one affected person carries is likely to be rare.
SR: So each patient may carry a different mutation in a different cancer gene?and we now know of dozens of such genes. How can you look at all of these in detail? It seems a tall order.
MK: The BROCA test uses technology we have developed with next-generation sequencing that identifies all classes of mutations in all known breast and ovarian cancer genes in one tube. It's a single test that's much cheaper to run than commercial testing. And we want to make it available as widely as possible.
SR: What does the test name BROCA stand for?
MK: It is named for the 19th-century French surgeon and pathologist Pierre Paul Broca, who was the first to describe inherited breast cancer in families in a systematic way. Based on his work, we are currently trying to trace the relatives of these families from the 1860s to see if they have BRCA1 or BRCA2.
SR: How has medicine changed since you started working in cancer genetics decades ago?
MK: I think we are now in an entirely different landscape. What has changed the most in the past 35 years is the technology. The questions people have been asking about genetics and ancestry and the relationship of genes to disease have been the same for hundreds of years. What has changed is our capacity to answer them. What we have been doing in the research laboratory all along, we can now move into patient care.
This article originally appeared in New Scientist.
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Managing AdWords campaigns for small businesses offer many challenges besides just optimizing AdWords in the regular sense. Many small businesses have distinct budgetary challenges, their websites are often not optimal and many lack a general understanding of how Google AdWords works.
As an AdWords manager you therefore need to be able to explain more facets than just the basics about AdWords and make yourself understandable to everyone. In White Shark Media we manage small to mid-sized AdWords accounts usually ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 monthly budget.
We evaluate a lot of AdWords campaigns every month and even though there are many different factors, you keep seeing the same mistakes over and over. If most small businesses could avoid these mistakes they would have better chances of reaching success on their own.
I truly believe that you should get your feet wet in a field before you hire external help. The lack of knowledge in the AdWords field is one of the main reasons for many small business owners to say they have been scammed once or more by a so-called AdWords agency.
Here are 6 of the biggest mistakes I see over and over again in small business AdWords accounts.
AdWords campaigns in the mainstream industries can easily be successful with a decent budget. It?s however time-consuming for new advertisers to set up an account properly.
Creating one campaign with just one ad group and including all your keywords herein is a surefire way to waste a lot of money. AdWords is all about relevance. In most industries and local areas you can find advertisers who have been using AdWords for years.
Their campaigns are frequently set up granularly with properly written and tested ad messages for each keyword theme.
If you just put all your locksmith keywords in the same ad group you?ll end up being less relevant than your competitor who will walk away with all the qualified clicks.
You?ll definitely get clicks ? It?s very rare to see AdWords campaigns set up in such a wrong way as to not get clicks (kudos to Google) ? but the clicks will not be qualified and the users will most likely not convert for you.
I often hear from small businesses that when somebody is searching for a key replacement service they?re actually looking for a locksmith. Setting up an ad mentioning that you?re a locksmith might make sense if you?re thinking in the regular banner ad mindset.
However, in AdWords it?s all about being the most relevant choice on the page. Imagine you?re searching for a key replacement service and you see these two ads:
Fast Key Replacement Services
Get Your New Keys Within 15 Minutes.
Call Today to Schedule.
All Locksmith Services
We Offer Everything In Locksmith Services.
Call Today to Schedule.
Searchers will look at the two ads and compare them. By looking at the second ad they will be 95% sure that you do offer key replacement services. However, with the first ad they are ?100% sure that you offer key replacement services and they even get shown a specific benefit from using that company (15 minute turnaround time).
The more ad groups you choose to use when setting up your AdWords campaigns the better message you can send. This will directly relate to how qualified your visitors are and how good your results will get with AdWords.
Being limited by budget is one of the most frequent cases of wrongful bid management that I have come across. It?s also one of the easiest things to fix if you?re a small business.
Having campaigns that have the Limited By Budget status means that your budget limit is being reached on a somewhat daily basis before midnight. When your budget limit is reached your ads will stop being shown until midnight which is when your budget is reset.
Often the Limited By Budget status goes hand in hand with high positions and a relatively small budget limit. Some small business owners wrongfully have the idea that being in the top spots is all that counts. Thinking about this is like thinking about normal advertising where you often pay a fixed fee as you need to ensure that you get the most amount of visibility.
In AdWords it?s different. You shouldn?t really care about visibility when you?re a small business. Sure, visibility becomes a metric when your account has matured, but in the beginning it?s all about the conversions and ROI.
You don?t get any conversions out of visibility. The key metric here are clicks. You want to get as many clicks out of your initial budget as possible. With Limited By Budget campaigns you often see that the campaign stops being shown at mid-day and has an avg. position over 4.
By lowering the bidding by ~30-50% you?ll get a lower position and CTR, but you will also pay less per click. Your budget will not be reached too early in the day and you can get more clicks as a whole:
Limited By Budget:
Not limited by budget:
You might think this is just a theoretical example, but I?ve seen this change (and even bigger ones) happening at least a hundred times.
By only using Broad Match keywords you?ll end up giving Google more money than you actually have to. Many small businesses don?t know that keywords in AdWords have different types.
The standard match type is Broad Match. Broad Match has an expansion option that lets Google show your ads for anything they find remotely relevant.
A keyword like lawn care services in Broad Match can enable your ads to be shown for the following queries:
Keeping to Broad Match Modifier instead of regular Broad Match is a good way to ensure that you?re only paying for the most relevant clicks.
Even though many small businesses set up their AdWords campaigns and forget about optimizing them, then there is the opposite category as well. If you keep making changes in your AdWords campaigns you?ll never get the necessary consistency to achieve statistical significance.
Advertisers having a new promotion every week or making changes on a daily basis is one of the most frequent mistakes I keep seeing. But don?t take this as a suggestion not to optimize your AdWords account at all. Optimizing your account is an important aspect of getting a successful AdWords account, but making changes every day clashes with the fact that you should optimize your AdWords account based on statistics.
Optimizing solely based on the statistics for the day is bad practice that in most cases will make your AdWords account perform worse and worse.
Mistaking the implementation instructions for AdWords Conversion Tracking with the instructions for Google Analytics can lead you to not get any real information out of your AdWords campaigns.
Implementing the Conversion Tracking code on each page will give you nearly 100% conversion rate. It is quite easy to spot that this is wrong.
The problem gets bigger when you implement the code on the actual contact form page or another individual page on the website and you mistake the conversions for real statistics. I?ve disappointed many AdWords advertisers who have come to me, rather proudly, saying that they are pretty successful with AdWords, until they hear me say that they shouldn?t ?really be using their conversion statistics too much.
Writing for the AdWords format is a challenge to say the least. Even I get challenged at times when I think of the perfect ad message that subsequently can?t seem to fit into the AdWords format. On top of that, I?m also required to fit in a Call-To-Action which makes it even harder.
The mistake with the dimmers.net ad is: Missing a period after Selection causes the ad to be hard to read. Adding a period would also increase the ad exposure by putting the first description line in the headline.
The mistake with the teamwavelength.com ad isThe headline and description lines are written like a full sentence. AdWords ads aren?t suited for full sentences. Small messages with a conscious choice of words work best.
Even though many AdWords experts differ in their strategies many others agree on the approaches that are most effective for smaller accounts. Working with AdWords is somewhat simple for the advertisers who take the time to understand how the search engine works and how AdWords plays a role in the online ecosystem.
Getting your feet wet and understanding the basics of AdWords will give you a better chance of finding success with AdWords either by managing your campaigns in-house or through a Third Party AdWords Agency.
Andrew Lolk is the author of the 189-page free AdWords ebook The Proven AdWords Strategy. He's worked in AdWords since 2009 and have co-founded White Shark Media; A Paid Search agency specialized in delivering results for small to mid-sized businesses in the US.
Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/6-reasons-why-small-businesses-often-fail-with-adwords/64012/
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The man who told the world about the U.S. government's gigantic data grab also talks a lot about himself.
Mostly through his own words, a picture of Edward Snowden is emerging: fresh-faced computer whiz, high school dropout, wannabe Green Beret, disillusioned cog in a secret bureaucracy.
He's retained an aura of secrecy despite sitting for several days of interviews with The Guardian, some posted in online video. Snowden combines an earnest, deeply serious demeanor with a flair for the dramatic.
Snowden, 29, fled the U.S. for a Hong Kong hotel last month to go public with top secret documents gathered through his work in Hawaii as a contractor through Booz Allen Hamilton with the National Security Agency, where he worked as a systems analyst. He revealed startlingly voracious spy programs that sweep up millions of Americans' telephone records, emails and Internet data in the hunt for terrorists.
With the United States considering criminal charges against him, Snowden told the South China Morning Post he hoped to stay in the autonomous region of China because and he has faith in "the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate."
He's also talked of seeking asylum from Iceland or Russia. And he suggested the United States might hire Chinese gangs to get him. The adversaries he's made by disclosing secrets are so powerful that "if they want to get you, they'll get you in time," Snowden told The Guardian newspaper of London, which first reported his revelations.
Why would a man "living in Hawaii in paradise and making a ton of money" decide to leave everything behind, he asked. Because he realized that his computer savvy was helping erect an ever-expanding "architecture of oppression" and he believed the people must be told.
From a secret location in Hong Kong, he told the newspaper: "The reality is that I have acted at great personal risk to help the public of the world, regardless of whether that public is American, European, or Asian."
Snowden's leaked documents have had an enormous impact. Some have questioned, however, his descriptions of his power as a Booz Allen contractor and other details of his life.
For example, he said he was earning $200,000 a year. When Booz Allen fired him, they said his salary was $122,000.
"I, sitting at my desk, had the authority to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the president if I had a personal email," Snowden told The Guardian on videotape.
Asked by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, about that comment, NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander said simply that it was false. "I know of no way to do that," Alexander told senators in a hearing Wednesday.
Former NSA and CIA director retired Gen. Mike Hayden called Snowden's claim "absurd legally and technologically." Former NSA Inspector General Joel Brenner also doubts it.
"I do not believe his statement," Brenner said. "And if he tried, I believe he would be discovered, stripped of his clearance, and summarily fired."
Brenner said, however, that Snowden appears to have had extraordinary access to things he should not have and that will be investigated.
Snowden also raised eyebrows by declaring that in his job he "had access to the full roster of everyone working at the NSA, the entire intelligence community and undercover assets all around the world, the locations of every station we have, what their missions are and so forth."
Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who first reported the phone-tracking program and conducted the Snowden interviews, describes him as "very steadfast and resolute about the fact that he did the right thing."
Jonathan Mills, father of Snowden's long-time girlfriend, Lindsay Mills, described him as "very nice. Shy, and reserved."
"He's always had strong convictions of right and wrong, and it kind of makes sense," said Mills, who said he was "shocked" when he heard the news about Snowden.
In her blog, Lindsay Mills, a dancer and art college graduate, writes of a boyfriend she refers to only as "E." On Monday, she wrote that "at the moment all I can feel is alone." She said her hand and been forced, that she was typing on a "tear-streaked keyboard," and that "sometimes life doesn't afford proper goodbyes."
Snowden told the South China newspaper that he hasn't dared contact his girlfriend or family since allowing his identity as the leaker to be revealed Sunday in The Guardian.
His father, now retired from the U.S. Coast Guard and living in Pennsylvania, told ABC News in a brief interview that he was worried about his son and still processing what had happened. Lonnie Snowden said he last saw his son two months ago, over dinner.
Snowden's parents are divorced and his mother, Elizabeth Snowden, declined to talk to reporters as she left her Maryland home Monday morning.
Joyce Kinsey, a neighbor living next to the gray clapboard condominium in a quiet Ellicott City neighborhood, said Snowden's mother, whom she knows as "Wendy," bought the condo more than a dozen years ago.
When he was about 16, Snowden lived in the condo without his family for a couple of years, Kinsey said. His mother would drop by with groceries and a girlfriend visited every weekend. Kinsey recalled seeing Snowden through the blinds, working on a computer "at all times of day and night." She had the impression he was sort of a "computer geek."
Snowden spent part of his childhood in Wilmington, N.C., before his family moved to the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., an area rife with government workers. He attended public school in Anne Arundel County, from elementary school through three semesters at Arundel High School in Gambrills, according to a county school spokesman.
Snowden told the Guardian he didn't finish high school but studied computers at a Maryland community college.
He wanted to be a Green Beret. Snowden served in the Army from June to September in 2004 at Fort Benning, Ga., where he declared his intent to qualify for the Special Forces, said Col. David H. Patterson Jr., an Army spokesman. Snowden didn't complete basic training and was discharged. The Army wouldn't give other details.
Snowden said he tapped his computer skills to get an information technology job at the CIA and rose quickly through the ranks.
Snowden said he left the CIA in 2009 to begin working for a private contractor that assigned him to a functioning NSA facility, stationed on a military base in Japan.
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Associated Press writer Lolita C. Baldor in Washington and Brian Witte in Annapolis, Md., contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nsa-leaker-mysterious-despite-hours-interviews-215540143.html
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FILE - This May 22, 2013 file photo shows actress and recording artist Jennifer Lopez at a news conference announcing Viva Movil by Jennifer Lopez in Las Vegas. Lopez says Latinos in the United States are starting to realize their power in politics and media, and that makes the timing good for her latest undertaking: Lobbying for greater diversity in TV programming. The actress and entertainer spoke Wednesday, June 12, at the Cable Show, a communications convention, ahead of new programming set to launch July 18 on the NUVOtv network. Lopez serves as chief creative officer of the English-language Latino channel. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Invision/AP, file)
FILE - This May 22, 2013 file photo shows actress and recording artist Jennifer Lopez at a news conference announcing Viva Movil by Jennifer Lopez in Las Vegas. Lopez says Latinos in the United States are starting to realize their power in politics and media, and that makes the timing good for her latest undertaking: Lobbying for greater diversity in TV programming. The actress and entertainer spoke Wednesday, June 12, at the Cable Show, a communications convention, ahead of new programming set to launch July 18 on the NUVOtv network. Lopez serves as chief creative officer of the English-language Latino channel. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Invision/AP, file)
Recording artist Jennifer Lopez, Marni Walden, Verizon Wireless Executive Vice President & COO and Marcelo Claure, President, Chairman and CEO of Brightstar Corp. announce Viva Movil by Jennifer Lopez at the Verizon Wireless Press Conference on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Invision/AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Jennifer Lopez says Latinos in the United States are starting to realize their power in politics and media, making the timing good for her latest undertaking: lobbying for greater diversity in TV programming.
The entertainer spoke Wednesday at the Cable Show, a communications convention, ahead of new programming set to launch July 18 on the NUVOtv network. Lopez serves as chief creative officer of the English-language Latino channel.
"It's an extension of who I am as an artist," she said about her new role in an interview with The Associated Press. "As I grow in this business ? I've been in the business close to 20 years now ? that creative spark that you have doesn't go away. It keeps growing almost."
Lopez said that working behind the scenes is just as rewarding as performing, if not more.
"Singing and acting and dancing and performing live, it's always going to be my passion," she said. "But at the end of the day, when you're given the opportunities to be more creative, to create things more from the ground up, to really, really do things like NUVO, which is really for me empowering a community, that means so much to me."
The actress-singer-dancer said these are exciting times across the board for Latinos.
"There's a big revolution going on, it's like a media and cultural revolution of Latinos here in the United States," she said. "We're realizing our power. We're realizing that we matter here. You know, we're not just, you know, the guys working behind the scenes in the kitchens and as a plumber."
Lopez was meeting later Wednesday with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the National Council of La Raza and Sens. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Bob Menendez, D-N.J.
She said businesses are getting on board too because of the tremendous buying power of Latinos, which is why she is also the creative chief officer of the Viva Movil brand for Verizon. The entertainer is opening a chain of 15 cell phone stores with bilingual staffers starting this month to cater to the Hispanic market.
While Lopez, 43, continues to undertake creative ventures, she said she will never stop performing.
"It's a new day when it comes to women," she said.
"The world is realizing that women are not even coming into their own until they're in their 40s, that they have so much to offer. That you can stay in shape, that your life is not over once you have kids and it becomes only about your kids, that to be a great mother, or great parent or great woman in this world you have to be a great individual first, you know what I mean, and that's very empowering and we're all realizing this," she said.
Lopez said many major actresses in Hollywood are in their 40s and in the prime of the careers including Jennifer Aniston, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts and Halle Berry.
"It's a new day for women, it's a new day for Latinos, it's a new day," she said.
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A quick heads-up for those that missed it the first time around -- the official Samsung Galaxy S4 wireless charging kit is now back in stock at ShopAndroid.com. The kit, which is based on the Qi wireless charging standard, includes the official charging pad and charging back for Samsung's latest smartphone. After selling out last week, it's once again available to buy from ShopAndroid for $89.95, which is 10 percent off the list price.
If you're undecided, you can check out our full write-up on the GS4 wireless charging kit, which includes photos, video and a thickness comparison versus the standard back cover.
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JERUSALEM (AP) ? A senior member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party said in an interview broadcast Sunday that the Israeli government will not accept a Palestinian state with the borders favored by the Palestinians and the international community, a new hurdle to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's effort to restart peace talks in his latest visit to the region.
Netanyahu's office rushed to distance itself from the comments by Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon, a rising star in the Likud.
Danon said in comments broadcast on Israel Radio that the government would not agree to a Palestinian state based on Israel's borders before the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians seek an independent state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, areas captured by Israel in 1967.
The Palestinians say final borders between Israel and a future Palestine must be based on the 1967 lines. Israeli hardliners oppose a broad withdrawal from the West Bank on both security and religious grounds.
"We are a nationalist government and not a government that will establish a Palestinian government in 1967 lines," Danon said.
Danon went even further in comments to the Times of Israel news site last week, saying that hawks inside the governing coalition will never allow a Palestinian state to be formed.
The international community, including the U.S., has endorsed the 1967 lines as the basis for border talks. While Netanyahu says he supports Palestinian independence, he has refused to commit to any borders, saying only that all issues of disagreement should be resolved in negotiations.
Officials in Netanyahu's office said that Danon had stated a personal opinion, and his comments did not reflect government opinion.
Speaking to his Cabinet Sunday, Netanyahu said the government must speak in unison if he is to achieve his goal of restarting peace negotiations.
Kerry has been shuttling between the sides in recent months in hopes of finding a formula to restart negotiations. He is expected in the region this week on what would be his fifth visit since becoming Secretary of State early this year.
Netanyahu told the Cabinet that he will discuss the impasse with Kerry. "Together we will try and advance a way to find an opening for negotiations with the Palestinians in order to reach an agreement," he said. "That agreement will be based on a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state and solid security arrangements."
Talks have been stalled since late 2008. The Palestinians have refused to return to the negotiations until Israel ends construction in territory it wants for a future state. Israel says that settlements along with other core issues like security should be resolved through talks and have frequently called for negotiations to resume immediately without preconditions.
Kerry has been searching for a formula that would curtail most settlement construction, provide security guarantees to Israel and economic incentives to the Palestinians. But so far, there have been no signs of progress.
Israel's chief negotiator with the Palestinians, Tzipi Livni, said Sunday that she is working hard together with the U.S to restart talks, despite those within the government that oppose it.
"It is true that within the Likud there are radical elements and within the government there are those that oppose an agreement," Livni told Israel Radio. "The prime minister is the one who will have to decide whether he surrenders to radical elements or will promote his policy that he declared," she said.
Livni said Danon's comments "look bad."
But the top Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said Danon's remarks outline Israel's policy. "I believe that a government who continues to tender settlements and refuses the two state solution will not go for peace," he said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israel-official-no-palestinian-state-67-lines-065515863.html
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Prosecutors would certainly pursue mishandling of intelligence and possibly espionage charges that could result in decades of prison time. But the first US challenge is to get Edward Snowden in custody.
This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, on Sunday, in Hong Kong.
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EnlargeThe person who leaked classified US documents on sweeping surveillance programs to the press has now leaked his own identity. Edward Snowden, a young computer system professional for a National Security Agency contractor, revealed on Sunday that he provided information on two NSA programs to The Guardian and Washington Post newspapers. He said his motive was to expose the extent of US electronic snooping and that he?s clear-eyed about the consequences to come.
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?I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong,? Mr. Snowden told The Guardian in a story published at his request.
Now that he?s gone public, how much trouble is Snowden in? That depends on a number of factors, including how long he can stay in his current location of Hong Kong, and what the US decides to charge him with if he returns home.
He himself told the Post reporter he worked with that his disclosure of the NSA information ?marks my end.? That may be an exaggeration, but the quick answer to the ?how much trouble? question starts with ?quite a bit,? and then possibly slides up the scale to ?tons? and ?almost as much as Bradley Manning.?
At trial in the US, prosecutors would certainly pursue mishandling of intelligence and possibly espionage charges that could result in decades of prison time. Each individual document leaked would be considered a separate charge, national security lawyer Mark Zaid told the Associated Press.
Given the number of documents leaked, the Justice Department could probably threaten Snowden with the equivalent of a life sentence, just to start.
Furthermore, prosecutors could pursue a charge of aiding and abetting the enemy, as they have with Bradley Manning, the Army soldier who passed vast amounts of information to WikiLeaks.
The basis for this charge would be that Snowden?s leaks have provided information to terrorists that will allow them to change their behavior and avoid US surveillance.
?Aiding the enemy? is a capital charge. Prosecutors have indicated that they would not seek a death sentence if Manning is convicted, but would ask for life imprisonment.
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