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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's Islamic extremist leader is threatening to sell the nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls abducted from a school in the remote northeast three weeks ago, in a new videotape received Monday.Abubakar Shekau for the first time also claimed responsibility for the April 15 mass abduction, warning that his group plans to attack more schools and abduct more girls.
"I abducted your girls," said the leader of Boko Haram, which means "Western education is sinful."
He described the girls as "slaves" and said, "By Allah, I will sell them in the marketplace." The hourlong video starts with fighters lifting automatic rifles and shooting in the air as they chant "Allahu akbar!" or "God is great."
It was unclear if the video was made before or after reports emerged last week that some of the girls have been forced to marry their abductors — who paid a nominal bride price of $12 — and that others have been carried into neighboring Cameroon and Chad. Those reports could not be verified.
In the video, Shekau also said the students "will remain slaves with us." That appears a reference to the ancient jihadi custom of enslaving women captured in a holy war, who then can be used for sex.
"They are slaves and I will sell them because I have the market to sell them," he said, speaking in the Hausa language of northern Nigeria.
The video was reviewed by The Associated Press, and both the face and the voice of the leader of Boko Haram were recognizable.
Shekau brushed off warnings that the abductions could be an international crime, saying in English, as if to reach his accusers in the international community: "What do you know about human rights? You're just claiming human rights (abuses), but you don't know what it is."
An intermediary who has said Boko Haram is ready to negotiate ransoms for the girls also said two of the girls have died of snakebite and about 20 are ill. He said Christians among the girls have been forced to convert to Islam. The man, an Islamic scholar, spoke on condition of anonymity because his position is sensitive.
Nigeria's police have said more than 300 girls were abducted. Of that number, 276 remain in captivity
and 53 escaped.
The mass abduction and the military's failure to rescue the girls and young women have ignited national outrage with demonstrations in major cities. Protesters accused President Goodluck Jonathan of insensitivity to the girls' plight.
An organizer of a demonstration said Monday that Jonathan's wife, Patience, ordered the arrests of two protest leaders, accused them of belonging to Boko Haram and expressed doubts there was any kidnapping.
It was unclear what authority Patience Jonathan would have to give such orders, since there is no office of first lady in the Nigerian constitution.
Ayo Adewuyi, spokesman for the first lady, said he was unaware of any arrests. "The first lady did not order the arrest of anybody, and I'm sure of that," he told the AP.
But Saratu Angus Ndirpaya of Chibok town said State Security Service agents drove her and protest leader Naomi Mutah Nyadar to a police station Monday after an all-night meeting at the presidential villa in Abuja, the capital. She said police immediately released her but that Nyadar remains in detention.
By Monday afternoon, police said Nyadar had been returned home. A statement denied she was detained, saying she was "invited … (to) an interactive and fact-finding interview. "
Ndirpaya said Patience Jonathan accused them of fabricating the abductions. "She told so many lies, that we just wanted the government of Nigeria to have a bad name, that we did not want to support her husband's rule," she said in a telephone interview with the AP.
She said other women at the meeting, allies of Patience Jonathan including officials of the government and the ruling party, cheered and chanted "yes, yes," when the first lady accused them of belonging to Boko Haram. "They said we are Boko Haram, and that Mrs. Nyadar is a member of Boko Haram."
In a report on the meeting, Daily Trust newspaper quoted Patience Jonathan as ordering all Nigerian women to stop protesting, and warning that "should anything happen to them during protests, they should blame themselves."
On Sunday night, President Jonathan said his administration was doing everything possible. On Friday he created a presidential committee to go to the affected Borno state to work with the community on a strategy to free the girls.
Associated Press writers Lekan Oyekanmi and Bashir Adigun in Abuja, Nigeria, Divine Ntaryike in Douala, Cameroon and Ibrahim Garba in Kano, Nigeria contributed to this report.
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"Giancarlo Stanton homered off Kershaw the last time they met on Aug. 25, 2012, and is hitting .385 with five home runs in his last six games against the Dodgers," ESPN tells us. Normally I take this to mean "Pitch around Stanton," but I imagine Kershaw will do no such thing.
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SAN JOSE (AP) — Homeowners on the hunt for sparkling solar panels are lured by ads filled with images of pristine landscapes and bright sunshine, and words about the technology's benefits for the environment — and the wallet.
What customers may not know is that there's a dirtier side.
While solar is a far less polluting energy source than coal or natural gas, many panel makers are nevertheless grappling with a hazardous waste problem. Fueled partly by billions in government incentives, the industry is creating millions of solar panels each year and, in the process, millions of pounds of polluted sludge and contaminated water.
To dispose of the material, the companies must transport it by truck or rail far from their own plants to waste facilities hundreds and, in some cases, thousands of miles away.
The fossil fuels used to transport that waste, experts say, is not typically considered in calculating solar's carbon footprint, giving scientists and consumers who use the measurement to gauge a product's impact on global warming the impression that solar is cleaner than it is.
After installing a solar panel, "it would take one to three months of generating electricity to pay off the energy invested in driving those hazardous waste emissions out of state," said Dustin Mulvaney, a San Jose State University environmental studies professor who conducts carbon footprint analyses of solar, biofuel and natural gas production.
The waste from manufacturing has raised concerns within the industry, which fears that the problem, if left unchecked, could undermine solar's green image at a time when companies are facing stiff competition from each other and from low-cost panel manufacturers from China and elsewhere.
"We want to take the lessons learned from electronics and semiconductor industries (about pollution) and get ahead of some of these problems," said John Smirnow, vice president for trade and competitiveness at the nearly 500-member Solar Energy Industries Association.
The increase in solar hazardous waste is directly related to the industry's fast growth over the past five years — even with solar business moving to China rapidly, the U.S. was a net exporter of solar products by $2 billion in 2010, the last year of data available. The nation was even a net exporter to China.
New companies often send hazardous waste out of their plants because they have not yet invested in on-site treatment equipment, which allows them to recycle some waste.
Nowhere is the waste issue more evident than in California, where landmark regulations approved in the 1970s require industrial plants like solar panel makers to report the amount of hazardous materials they produce, and where they send it. California leads the consumer solar market in the U.S. — which doubled overall both in 2010 and 2011.
The Associated Press compiled a list of 41 solar makers in the state, which included the top companies based on market data, and startups. In response to an AP records request, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control provided data that showed 17 of them reported waste, while the remaining did not.
The same level of federal data does not exist.
The state records show the 17 companies, which had 44 manufacturing facilities in California, produced 46.5 million pounds of sludge and contaminated water from 2007 through the first half of 2011. Roughly 97 percent of it was taken to hazardous waste facilities throughout the state, but more than 1.4 million pounds were transported to nine other states: Arkansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Rhode Island, Nevada, Washington, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona.
Several solar energy experts said they have not calculated the industry's total waste and were surprised at what the records showed.
Solyndra, the now-defunct solar company that received $535 million in guaranteed federal loans, reported producing about 12.5 million pounds of hazardous waste, much of it carcinogenic cadmium-contaminated water, which was sent to waste facilities from 2007 through mid-2011.
Before the company went bankrupt, leading to increased scrutiny of the solar industry and political fallout for President Barack Obama's administration, Solyndra said it created 100 megawatts-worth of solar panels, enough to power 100,000 homes.
The records also show several other Silicon Valley solar facilities created millions of pounds of toxic waste without selling a single solar panel, while they were developing their technology or fine-tuning their production.
While much of the waste produced is considered toxic, there was no evidence it has harmed human health.
The vast majority of solar companies that generated hazardous waste in California have not been cited for waste-related pollution violations, although three had minor violations on file.
In many cases, a toxic sludge is created when metals and other toxins are removed from water used in the manufacturing process. If a company doesn't have its own treatment equipment, then it will send contaminated water to be stored at an approved dump.
According to scientists who conduct so-called "life cycle analysis" for solar, the transport of waste is not currently being factored into the carbon footprint score, which measures the amount of greenhouse gases produced when making a product.
Life cycle analysts add up all the global warming pollution that goes into making a certain product — from the mining needed for components to the exhaust from diesel trucks used to transport waste and materials. Not factoring the hazardous waste transport into solar's carbon footprint is an obvious oversight, analysts said.
"The greenhouse gas emissions associated with transporting this waste is not insignificant," Mulvaney said.
Mulvaney noted that shipping, for example, 6.2 million pounds of waste by heavy-duty tractor-trailer from Fremont, Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area, to a site 1,800 miles away could add 5 percent to a particular product's carbon footprint.
Such scores are important because they provide transparency to government and consumers into just how environmentally sustainable specific products are and lay out a choice between one company's technology and another's.
The roughly 20-year life of a solar panel still makes it some of the cleanest energy technology currently available. Producing solar is still significantly cleaner than fossil fuels. Energy derived from natural gas and coal-fired power plants, for example, creates more than 10 times more hazardous waste than the same energy created by a solar panel, according to Mulvaney.
The U.S. solar industry said it is reporting its waste, and sending it to approved storage facilities — thus keeping it out of the nation's air and water. A coal-fired power plant, in contrast, sends mercury, cadmium and other toxins directly into the air, which pollutes water and land around the facility.
"Having this stuff go to ... hazardous waste sites, that's what you want to have happen," said Adam Browning, executive director of the Vote Solar Initiative, a solar advocacy group.
Environmental advocates say the solar industry needs greater transparency, which is getting more complicated as manufacturing moves from the U.S. and Europe to less regulated places such as China and Malaysia.
The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, a watchdog group created in 1982 in response to severe environmental problems associated with the valley's electronics industry, is now trying to keep the solar industry from making similar mistakes through a voluntary waste reporting "scorecard." So far, only 14 of 114 companies contacted have replied. Those 14 were larger firms that comprised 51-percent of the solar market share.
"We find the overall industry response rate to our request for environmental information to be pretty dismal for an industry that is considered 'green,'" the group's executive director, Sheila Davis, said in an email.
While there are no specific industry standards, Smirnow, head of the solar industry association, is spearheading a voluntary program of environmental responsibility. So far, only seven of the group's nearly 81 manufacturers have signed the pledge.
"We want (our program) to be more demanding, but this is a young industry and right now manufacturing companies are focused on survival," he said.


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The power is still out for several thousands, phone service is spotty, and the scope of the devastation is just starting to set in, but for the growing community of UFC athletes who make their home in the area hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy this week, the resilience they've displayed in the Octagon is already starting to show up as they regroup and rebuild.
Thankfully, the fighters and their families are safe and sound, with damage being done only to property that can be replaced. Of course, that's little consolation to those who have lost homes they have worked their lives for while watching the boardwalks and beaches that have produced so many memories washed away in the space of a day.
Middleweight contender Chris Weidman saw much of his Long Island home destroyed Monday, and he weathered the storm himself after getting his wife and two children to safety. Yet by Wednesday, the affable rising star tweeted the following message: "Thx 4 the support! Could've been a lot worse, everything's replaceable there are a lot of people who r worse off. family is safe & healthy" See MMA Fighting video with Weidman post-hurricane
Now staying with his parents, Weidman is doing what most in the area are doing in the midst of the crisis – getting back to work while also helping others through their own losses. And it's times like these where you usually see the best in human nature. Of course there are the lowlifes that decide to go looting or get in fistfights while sitting in endless gas station lines, but for the most part, situations such as this bring out the community spirit when it's needed most.
Particularly devastated by the storm was the New Jersey shore region, with loss of power being the smallest inconvenience compared to the loss of lives, property and the destruction of some of the state's most iconic sites, like the Seaside Heights rollercoaster and the boardwalk. Bricktown's Nick Catone doesn't just live in the region, but he owns a school there, Nick Catone MMA, and the academy is still without power.
But as Catone posted on Facebook Thursday, "My thoughts and prayers are out to those left in bad shape. No power, no heat, no phone is nothing to what many have lost."
The same day, Catone's fellow UFC fighter, middleweight Tom DeBlass, opened up his school – Ocean County BJJ - for all of Catone's students, again showing the camaraderie among the fighters and among neighbors when it's needed most. The next stop for DeBlass is China, as he battles Riki Fukuda on next week's UFC on FUEL TV card.
Out of town teaching seminars in Florida when Sandy hit, former UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra was thankfully safe with his family, and ready to get back to Long Island and his BJJ academies. The man who gave him his black belt, the legendary Renzo Gracie, was his usual positive self, despite having an academy in New York and a home in New Jersey. Thankfully, both emerged relatively unscathed. As he tweeted on Halloween: "at my house only one tree went down, we were lucky ;-)." And the day before?
"Classes resume tomorrow."
Did you expect anything less from fighting New York and New Jersey residents?
Though some of the UFC family lost property and suffered damage due to Hurricane Sandy, everyone is healthy and beginning the rebuilding process. For updates, follow them on Twitter.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- CBS News' Lara Logan is back to work at "60 Minutes" more than six months after being ordered to take a leave of absence for her role in a disputed story on the deadly 2012 raid at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.
CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair said Wednesday that Logan has returned. She had no details on when the correspondent resumed work and what type of stories she is working on. Logan did not immediately return a telephone message for comment.
Her October report on the CBS newsmagazine was quickly criticized and became the subject of an internal CBS Corp. investigation. The story relied on the testimony by Dylan Davies, a security contractor who said he was at the scene of the raid that since then has become a key Republican criticism of the Obama administration. But his story fell apart and it turned out there was no evidence he was there, and CBS issued a correction.
The internal CBS review of the incident concluded Logan and her "60 Minutes" colleagues should have done a better job checking out Davies' story before it went on the air.
The internal review also said that a speech Logan made in urging the U.S. to take action in response to the Benghazi raid represented a conflict of interest for a reporter later doing a story on the incident.
She was ordered to take the leave of absence in late November 2013.
The liberal watchdog Media Matters for America, a sharp critic of the Benghazi report from the beginning, had harsh words for CBS News for bringing Logan back.
"CBS indicated that they were serious about rebuilding its brand and taking accountability," said David Brock, Media Matters founder. "Having Logan back on '60 Minutes' shows the exact opposite."
There was some question whether Logan would return to "60 Minutes," although CBS never deviated from the story that she was on a leave of absence. "60 Minutes" is heading into its summer vacation season and will be dominated by reruns in the summer months, so it's not likely a Logan story will be on the air soon.


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Before a small crowd of downtown residents, business owners and city officials, developer Tony Fraga laid out preliminary plans for a 14-story hotel on Battery and Page Avenues this evening.
Gathering in the downstairs level of Isa's Bistro, the attendees sipped wine and ate hors d'oeuvres while Fraga, John Tierney of Choice Hotels, and Mark Mucci of Charlotte-based Mind's Eye Architecture laid out their proposal. Vice Mayor (and mayoral candidate) Esther Manheimer and Planning Director Judy Daniel were among the officials present.
Fraga's a longtime local developer with extensive properties downtown and throughout the area, including the Westgate Shopping Center in West Asheville and the Haywood Park Hotel. A previous plan to build a 23-story condo tower and a 25-story hotel, along with several smaller structures, was withdrawn in 2008 after it failed to gain government approval due to concerns about its scale and the disruption the construction process would cause. This time he swore that the entire project fits the guidelines of the city's downtown master plan.
"A box would be very simple to do," he said. "This is a building that should be attractive to the community. That's my vision."
The proposed hotel — "my legacy" he called it more than once — is a 100,000 square foot terraced building on the intersection of Battery Park and Page Avenues, currently the former location of Kostas Menswear, a Subway restaurant and a parking lot. The building would have 141 rooms, as well as eight living units (including one for Fraga and his family), conference space, and 145 parking spaces. He also claimed it will bring in about 100 jobs and $28 million into the economy. He couldn't promise no disruption to surrounding businesses, but said he planned to use Westgate's space to help mitigate the effects of staging the construction.
Tierney said that while his company was mostly known for its mid-scale hotels, like Comfort Inn, the proposed Cambria Suites will be a more upscale development.
"We know about Asheville. The senior vice president owns a home here, so it's very near and dear to his heart," Tierney said, adding that the company's founder also owns a home in the area. "It's a project that's gotten a lot of attention internally, and it's one we're very proud of and hope to move forward with."
Some of the audience expressed support for Fraga's project, saying they expected something to go in the space, that it appeared carefully designed and that they appreciated the early notice and call for input.
However, there was a spirited exchange among the assembled condo owners and tenants of the Grove Arcade about who was blocking whose views and sunlight. Several residents of 21 Battery Park worried that the new hotel will hamper their view. When the concern was first raised, by Gary Davis, who operates an office in the building and was assigned to speak for its residents, Fraga noted that the construction of their building blocked the light for many rooms in his hotel, but "that's part of living in downtown." He later added that the design takes steps to mitigate the effect. When the concern came up again, a Grove Arcade resident shot back that 21 Battery Park had blocked his own "iconic view" of downtown. Some of the audience then fell to briefly arguing about whether the concerns of tenants or owners were more important when it came to expecting their views to remain unobstructed.
Richard Shuttleworth, who lives in the Vanderbilt Apartments, attended the event with several other residents, and told Xpress that he had opposed Fraga's previous project, but felt this one has a better design.
"This looks like a good project," he noted. "You need something that adds to the community and that you can make money on. At first blush, this looks like it's done both."
Mucci repeatedly emphasized that the plans are preliminary. Formal designs have yet to be submitted to the city of Asheville. Fraga noted that he hopes to break ground in April or May of next year, and complete the project around Spring 2015.


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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...What do you have a taste for? Today's adventure started with that simple question. The answer came quickly and was as straightforward as the question. It turns out, he wanted something made with chocolate and peanuts. Peanuts were out, but I knew I could make him something that was more easily digestible yet still peanut flavored. Last year, I made a special dessert from a recipe that I had found in Bon Appetit magazine. It was a layered pudding that contained chocolate, peanut butter and whipped cream. I'd love to tell you, we loved that pudding, but, truth be told, it was simply too rich for our palates. The first bite was delicious, but the pudding quickly became cloying and its creaminess left an unpleasant coating on the tongue. Normally, I would have tossed the recipe, but the taste of that first bite was so extraordinary it convinced me that the pudding was worth saving. I did some experimenting and by eliminating the heavy cream I was able to make something we really liked. Now I must tell you there are folks out there who love the richness of the original dessert. For that reason, the recipe that appears below is an exact copy of the one that appeared in the magazine. I used only milk in the pudding layers I made tonight and cut way back on the amount of cream I used to top them. I effectively ditched the richness but kept the flavor of the combination we like so much. If you like puddings, I hope you'll give this dessert a try. Here's the original recipe.
Peanut Butter and Milk Chocolate Pudding...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Bon Appetit Magazine
5 teaspoons cornstarch
1/8 teaspoon salt
1-3/4 cups whole milk
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup creamy (smooth) natural peanut butter (made with only peanuts and salt)*
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons natural unsweetened cocoa powder
Pinch of salt
1-1/2 cups whole milk
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
4 ounces imported milk chocolate, chopped
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon powdered sugar
1) To make peanut butter pudding: Whisk sugar, cornstarch and salt in a large saucepan. Slowly add milk and cream. Place pan over medium heat and whisk until mixture comes to a boil. Continue cooking, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens, about 1 minute. Add peanut butter and boil, whisking often, until mixture thickens again, about 1 to 2 minutes longer. Remove pan from heat. Stir in vanilla extract. Place 1/3 cup pudding in each of six 1-cup dessert glasses. Chill while preparing chocolate pudding.
2) To make chocolate pudding: Whisk sugar, cornstarch, unsweetened cocoa powder and salt in a heavy large saucepan. Gradually whisk in milk and cream. Stir over medium heat until mixture comes to boil. Boil until thick, whisking constantly, about 30 seconds. Add chopped chocolate. Boil until chocolate melts and pudding is thick again, whisking often, 1 to 2 minutes longer. Remove from heat; whisk in vanilla. Cool pudding 5 minutes. Spoon 1/3 cup chocolate pudding over peanut butter layer in each dessert glass. Chill puddings, uncovered, until cold, at least 2 hours. To keep overnight, cover with plastic wrap.
3) To make whipped cream topping: Whisk cream and powdered sugar in medium bowl until soft peaks form. Spoon topping over pudding and serve.Yield: 6 servings.
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Want NSA Attention? Use Encrypted Communications
Bad news has emerged for fans of PGP and other encryption services. The NSA is taking a gloves-off approach when you go this route.
Bad news for fans of anonymizing Tor networks, PGP and other encryption services: If you're attempting to avoid the National Security Agency's digital dragnet, you may be making yourself a target, as well as legally allowing the agency to retain your communications indefinitely -- and even use them to test the latest code-breaking tools.
Those revelations come via leaked documents that detail the operating guidelines for secret NSA surveillance programs authorized by Congress in 2008. Those documents include a one-page memorandum from a U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) judge, saying that the guidelines don't violate Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches.
Another one of the leaked documents, first published Thursday by the Guardian, was signed by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on July 28, 2009 and submitted to FISA. Titled "Procedures used by NSA to minimize data collection from US persons," it details the steps that the agency's analysts are required to follow when collecting and analyzing data intercepted by the agency's surveillance programs.
Subsequently, the The Washington Post published those documents, plus two more, including the judge's secret memorandum.
[ How vulnerable is your enterprise's data? See NSA Dragnet Debacle: What It Means To IT. ]
Based on the documents, the good news is that the NSA guidelines include substantial restrictions on how agency analysts are allowed to review information relating to Americans, unless they first obtain a warrant. In general, the guidelines require strict "minimization" techniques to ensure that analysts don't collect or analyze Americans' communications, and they require analysts to delete any information that's been improperly collected -- albeit with some intelligence and law enforcement exceptions. The NSA also maintains records of Americans' names, telephone numbers and electronic communications addresses, but it uses this list to help ensure it doesn't target any of those people's communications.
"Assuming that the documents are genuine, they are broadly reassuring," said Stewart A. Baker, an attorney at Steptoe & Johnson LLP who recently served as first assistant secretary for policy for the Department of Homeland Security, in a blog post. "There are elaborate sections on making sure that attorney-client communications aren't retained, that inadvertent collections of Americans are destroyed as soon as possible, etc., etc."
When encryption is encountered, however, the gloves can come off, with analysts being allowed to retain "communications that are enciphered or reasonably believed to contain secret meaning" for any period of time. The guidelines allow this retention to occur not just for recovering the source communications but for any cryptanalysis use, suggesting that the NSA could retain encrypted communications to use as target practice for future code-breaking techniques.
Furthermore, as noted by Ars Technica, encryption may mask not only a person's identity, but also their physical location. Since the NSA guidelines say that a person "will not be treated as a United States person" without a positive identification based on name, address, electronic communication addresses or geographic location, encryption users may because classified -- at least temporarily -- as non-U.S. residents by NSA analysts.
In the event of an emergency, meanwhile, NSA analysts are allowed to throw the guidelines out the window. "If NSA determines that it must take action in apparent departure from these minimization procedures to protect against an immediate threat to human life force protection or hostage situations and that it is not feasible to obtain a timely modification of these procedures, NSA may take such action," according to the guidelines. That said, NSA is then required to report its actions to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as well and to the Department of Justice, which is then charged with notifying FISA.
In general, the guidelines say that NSA analysts may retain, for six months, communications that don't contain "foreign intelligence information" but that are "reasonably believed to contain evidence of a crime that has been, is being, or is about to be committed," and they may share that information with the FBI. "There's a lot of leeway to use 'inadvertently' acquired domestic communications," Gregory Nojeim, senior counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology, told The Washington Post.
Any information the NSA turns up on information security vulnerabilities -- such as zero-day exploits -- are also fair game, as the guidelines allow the agency to share the information with the FBI and other government agencies as it sees fit, and to retain those communications indefinitely.
How likely is it that the NSA might stumble upon evidence of a crime or act on it? That's unclear, although the scale of the NSA's surveillance operations is staggering. According to documents published last week by the Guardian, the NSA gleaned 3 billion pieces of intelligence from U.S. communications networks just in March 2013. That follows a Washington Post report in 2010 that said "every day, collection systems at the [NSA] intercept and store 1.7 billion e-mails, phone calls and other types of communications."
To address criticism that the NSA program is overbroad or operating on shaky legal footing, President Obama planned to meet Friday with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), a five-person independent agency that's charged with reviewing how the government balances surveillance requirements with people's civil liberties and right to privacy, reported Reuters. The board has been largely inactive since 2008, which is the year when Congress authorized the most recent secret NSA surveillance programs.
OCLOB chairman David Medine told Reuters that the board plans to hold a public hearing in July to solicit input from legal scholars and civil rights advocates on the NSA's surveillance programs. "Based on what we've learned so far, the board believes further questions are warranted," he said.
At Obama's direction, homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco asked the director of national intelligence Thursday to review information relating to FISA court opinions and see what additional information could be declassified and released to the public.
That initiative "builds on the administration's ongoing effort to declassify a significant amount of information regarding these programs," according to a White House statement. "The president's direction is that as much information as possible be made public while being mindful of the need to protect sources and methods and national security."
But Snowden's leaked documents -- of which there are reported to be at least dozens of interest -- appear to be detailing the previously withheld legal justifications for the NSA's monitoring programs faster.
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This page documents the activities of CDT's Multi-Core Working Group. This group aims to bring together different people from the community to jointly work on developing multi-core debugging for CDT. The group was first proposed at the CDT Summit 2010 and the suggestion was well received.
Although this effort does cover the debugging of target with multiple cores, we use the term Multi-core debugging in a much wider sense. Multi-core debugging is meant to describe the simultaneous debugging of multiple cores, processes, threads, or other objects which are represented in standard debugger views.
Any one interested in helping in this effort is welcome to follow or join the group. Teleconferences are held on a regular basis to discuss progress, issues, features, tasks, etc.
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Minutes up to January 2016 can be found here: Previous minutes of meetings.
All future minutes will be documented on the CDT Call wiki page.
Features of current interest
The following is a list of features have had some effort invested in them but are not ready for release. The effort might have stopped due to lack of resources, but could be easily revived.
- Multi Level Hierarchy in the Debug View
- Grouping of debug view elements
- Hiding of debug view elements
- User-selectable Debug View layouts
- Visualizer View
- A first version of the Multicore Visualizer as well as the Visualizer Framework are part of the Juno release
- Many enhancements are still of interest.
- Synchronized/Grouped Run Control Operations
- User defines a group (cores or processes or threads) which makes up the application, and can perform application-level operations on it
- Global breakpoints
- Enhanced Breakpoint Support
- New Launch UI
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Specialist dealers and collectors are being warned about the illegal sale of the so-called 'Lava Treasure' of ancient Roman gold coins and plates after a number of items were recovered from the open market. INTERPOL and French police are working to recover the ancient coins.
The rare collection, which dates back to 300 AD, is believed to have been found by divers in the gulf of Lava off the coast of Corsica in the late 20th century. It is considered unique maritime cultural heritage and part of French state property, and therefore should not be sold.
To date, some 450 gold coins from the Lava Treasure have been traced and identified after their sale in Europe and in the US, and enquiries by French authorities are continuing.
Details of the coins have been added to INTERPOL's stolen works of art database, which has secure online public access, and specialists from INTERPOL and the French National Police are advising coin dealers and collectors who may be offered part of the Lava Treasure to check this database in order to avoid its illegal purchase and to preserve this historical treasure.
INTERPOL's database on stolen works of art currently contains more than 38,000 records, and in addition to being accessible to all 190 National Central Bureaus, some 2,000 users from 80 countries also have access.
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of the gold coins and plates is asked to contact INTERPOL's National Central Bureau in Paris (Ref.: OCBC/T 32531) and/or the INTERPOL General Secretariat Ref.: 2011/29679).
Source: Interpol [December 16, 2011]


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This dessert was made up of four parts, so I started by making the vanilla ice cream in advance to have one part completed and ready. I used the vanilla ice cream recipe from Eggs by Michel Roux which is nicely rich with six egg yolks and perfumed with seeds from a vanilla pod. Next, I made the puffs according to Ina Garten's recipe in Barefoot in Paris. I like that she suggests pulsing the eggs into the pastry dough in a food processor rather than stirring and stirring by hand. That recipe is also available online. The great thing about choux pastry puffs is that you can refrigerate them or even freeze them, and then just re-warm them for a few minutes in the oven before serving. The tops will re-crisp and the airy insides will be as puffy as when they first came out of the oven. The third part of the dessert was the cranberry caramel sauce which was a simple matter of cooking sugar, water, and corn syrup until amber and then adding cranberries and pure cranberry juice. The berries and juice were stirred into the caramel and the mixture was brought back to a boil until the cranberries had all popped. Off the heat, salt and vanilla were added. After letting the sauce cool a bit, it was pureed in a blender, and then I strained it before letting it completely cool. Last but not least, the pecans were tossed with maple syrup, corn syrup, sugar, salt, and a mix of cumin, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cayenne. The nuts were baked until toasted through and allowed to cool before I chopped them.
The hint of spiciness and bit of salt in the nuts was perfect with the tart and sweet sauce. And, I think plain vanilla ice cream was the way to go here since it allowed the flavors in the toppings to shine. In the end, we were both completely happy with these changes to the traditional profiterole for Thanksgiving dessert, but I don't think I'd get away with messing with the classic eclair.
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Okay, that's a nice head shot there.
Now turn and show us your profile. Yes, yes, that's great!
And the other way. Perfect!
It can take a while to get a name around here. And if you do actually get one, there's no guarantee it'll be a good one. You might get stuck with something spectacularly uncreative, such as 'New Cat' or 'Whitey.' Or something just this side of embarrassing--like 'Snugglebunny.'
The lovely lady you see in these photos has been known as Yellow 21 for over two years, and she feels that this has gone on long enough. She wants a real name. A good name. A name a sheep can hold her head up high and be proud of.
This is where you come in. I have decided to hold a contest to come up with the perfect name for this sheep. And if your entry is chosen as the winner, you will become the 'honorary' owner of your newly named sheep! What does this mean? Well, if you so desire, you will receive (via email) periodic news about your sheep, including what she's been up to lately, how her health is doing, photos if she's willing to pose for them, and, of course, progress reports during her upcoming pregnancy and up-to-the-minute details of the birth--including adorable newborn baby lamb pictures!
Note: Being the winner does not mean that 'your' new sheep gets to come and live with you. No, she stays right here on the farm (and you don't even get to visit her). But, you do get to tell all of your friends that you are the proud owner of a sheep. You simply explain to them that your sheep lives in the country because she is much happier there than she would be in, say, your fifth floor apartment or out on the fire escape or eating up all of the landscaping in your lovely backyard.
So if you are still interested in entering, here's how it works:
1. No purchase necessary! Simply leave your entry submission in the comments section of this post. If you do not have a blog or email through which you can be notified, just check back here to find out if you won.
2. Anyone can enter no matter what age/race/species/country you are in/whatever.
3. You can enter any name you like, except names that begin with the letters A and B. For example, if you entered Alice or Barbara, you would automatically be disqualified. (Yes, there's a good reason for this which I will explain another time.)
4. You are welcome to enter your own name if you so desire (as long as it doesn't start with an A or a B). If you have a masculine name but still want to enter it, just give me a good reason why you feel it would be an appropriate name for this female sheep. If you know that I already have a sheep that shares your name, well, you need to come up with something else.
5. You do not have to give a reason why you entered the name you did, but it would probably help your chances of winning. (Hint: I am a sucker for silly jokes and bad rhymes. Cute also goes over well with me. Who do you think named Snugglebunny?)
6. You are welcome to enter more than one name.
7. And just to make things a little more interesting, here is a way you can increase your chances of winning: read through the other entries and suggest why they should not be chosen as the winning name.
8. All judging will be done by a select, secret panel of totally biased and partial farm inhabitants. I have the last word.
9. The winner must agree to have their name used in conjunction with this contest as well as any future Name That Sheep contests that may or may not occur on this blog.
Now I hope you'll all put on your thinking caps and Name That Sheep!