First look at the new AOL Reader beta, a surprisingly pleasing way to get your RSS fix

Google Reader will come to an end on July 1, one week from now. We're not that short on options to continue receiving our RSS fix, but one that quietly emerged in recent days is AOL Reader. Currently in beta form, and web only, access to the new service is now available. You're told to log in and request an invite, but it seems as though verifying your email address is about all you need to do to get in and take a look. So, we did.

AOL Reader is currently only available on the web, though an iOS application is promised for the future. You can import your current subscriptions from Google Reader, though you'll need to export the data first via Google Takeout (something we'd highly recommend doing anyway before July 1.) Google exports a series of files, but the one you'll need is the one titled as "subscriptions.xml." Should you have any issues importing this to AOL Reader, try changing the extension from .xml to .opml, and you should be good to go.

While functional, Google Reader's web interface always felt somewhat basic, and a little chaotic. AOL Reader takes a similar form factor, but with a much prettier design. It's actually a surprisingly pleasing way to read your RSS feeds. There's a selection of viewing options, including list, card, pane and full views, a dark and light theme to customize the appearance to your own personal tastes and a choice of different font sizes. AOL Reader is much, much easier on the eye than Google Reader.

An interesting touch, perhaps to be appreciated more by the power users, is a bunch of keyboard shortcuts. Pretty much full navigation of AOL Reader can take place without touching the mouse, and to help us get started there's a handy guide as to which keys do what.

We're still only scratching the surface, but AOL Reader is a surprisingly good product. Having come from quite literally nowhere, what we have is a nice looking, perfectly functional, free RSS client. It may be late to the party, especially since the Feedly train continues to roll, but if you're undecided on where to go after Google shuts down Reader, AOL is worth a look. And of course, we still haven't seen the accompanying iOS apps yet. But this is a good start. Go ahead and give it a try, and let us know what you think!

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Snowden not on flight to Cuba, whereabouts unclear

MOSCOW (AP) ? A plane took off from Moscow on Monday headed for Cuba, but the seat booked by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden was empty, and there was no sign of him elsewhere on board. His whereabouts were unknown.

An Aeroflot representative who wouldn't give her name told The Associated Press that Snowden wasn't on flight SU150 to Havana. AP reporters on the flight couldn't see him.

Security around the aircraft was heavy prior to boarding and guards tried to prevent photographers and cameramen from taking pictures of the plane, heightening the speculation that he might have been secretly escorted on board.

The Interfax news agency, which has extensive contacts with Russian security agencies, cited a source as saying that Snowden could have flown out in a different plane unseen by journalists. Others speculated that Russian security agencies might want to keep Snowden in Russia for a more thorough debriefing.

Aeroflot said earlier that Snowden had registered for the flight using his American passport, which the United States recently annulled.

Snowden has not been seen since he arrived in Moscow on Sunday from Hong Kong, where he had been hiding for several weeks to evade U.S. justice. Ecuador is considering Snowden's asylum application.

After spending a night in Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, the former National Security Agency contractor ? and admitted leaker of state secrets ? had been expected to fly to Cuba and Venezuela en route to possible asylum in Ecuador.

Snowden, also a former CIA technician, fled Hong Kong to dodge U.S. efforts to extradite him on espionage charges. Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said his government had received an asylum request, adding Monday that the decision "has to do with freedom of expression and with the security of citizens around the world." The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks also said it would help Snowden.

Ecuador has rejected the United States' previous efforts at cooperation, and has been helping WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange avoid prosecution by allowing him to stay at its embassy in London.

Snowden gave documents to The Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers disclosing U.S. surveillance programs that collect vast amounts of phone records and online data in the name of foreign intelligence, often sweeping up information on American citizens. Officials have the ability to collect phone and Internet information broadly but need a warrant to examine specific cases where they believe terrorism is involved.

Snowden had been in hiding for several weeks in Hong Kong, a former British colony with a high degree of autonomy from mainland China. The United States formally sought Snowden's extradition from Hong Kong to face espionage charges but was rebuffed; Hong Kong officials said the U.S. request did not fully comply with their laws.

The Justice Department rejected that claim, saying its request met all of the requirements of the extradition treaty between the U.S. and Hong Kong. During conversations last week, including a phone call Wednesday between Attorney General Eric Holder and Hong Kong Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen, Hong Kong officials never raised any issues regarding sufficiency of the U.S. request, a Justice representative said.

The United States was in touch through diplomatic and law enforcement channels with countries that Snowden could travel through or to, reminding them that Snowden is wanted on criminal charges and reiterating Washington's position that Snowden should only be permitted to travel back to the U.S., a State Department official said.

U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the case.

Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, said, "Given our intensified cooperation after the Boston marathon bombings and our history of working with Russia on law enforcement matters ? including returning numerous high-level criminals back to Russia at the request of the Russian government ? we expect the Russian government to look at all options available to expel Mr. Snowden back to the U.S. to face justice for the crimes with which he is charged."

Still, the United States is likely to have problems interrupting Snowden's passage. The United States does not have an extradition treaty with Russia, but does with Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador. Even with an extradition agreement though, any country could give Snowden a political exemption.

The likelihood that any of these countries would stop Snowden from traveling on to Ecuador seemed remote. While diplomatic tensions have thawed in recent years, Cuba and the United States are hardly allies after a half-century of distrust.

Another country that could see Snowden pass through, Venezuela, could prove difficult, as well. Former President Hugo Chavez was a sworn enemy of the United States and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, earlier this year called President Barack Obama "grand chief of devils." The two countries do not exchange ambassadors.

It also wasn't clear Snowden was finished disclosing highly classified information.

Snowden has perhaps more than 200 sensitive documents, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on CBS' "Face the Nation."

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Associated Press White House Correspondent Julie Pace and Associated Press writers Philip Elliott, Matthew Lee and Frederic J. Frommer in Washington, Lynn Berry in Moscow, Kevin Chan in Hong Kong and Sylvia Hui in London contributed to this report.

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Watch how Google brought Street View to the Burj Khalifa (video)

Street View's fine for navigation, but we're sure plenty more people use it just for their armchair tourism. Google has now turned its attention to giving thrill-seekers a chance to gaze out from the top of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. Using Trekker backpacks and trolleys, it took the Googlers three days to capture the images from both the viewing gallery on the 124th floor and the window cleaning gantry on the 80th. Curious to experience some of that vertigo for yourself? Video's after the break.

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Google ordered to delete 'Street View' data in Britain

British data watchdog group orders Google to delete personal data on the company's Street View project.?

By Danica Kirka,?Associated Press / June 21, 2013

Information Commissioner's Office gave Google 35 days to kill material captured in the company's Street View project that featured camera-toting vehicles shooting images of the world's streets.

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Britain's data regulator Friday ordered Internet giant?Google?to delete personal data scooped up in its?Street?View?project ? or face a contempt of court action.

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The Information Commissioner's Office served?Google?Inc. with an enforcement notice, giving it 35 days to kill material captured in the project that featured camera-toting vehicles shooting images of the world's?streets.

To make sense of the pictures,?Google?had to be able to place precisely where the properties being photographed were located. Using a computer program, the vehicles taking the images used local Wi-Fi outlets to place the properties, and in doing so, collected snippets of data from the Wi-Fi networks.

The disclosure angered Internet users when it was first revealed in 2010, and Britain was one of several countries that launched inquiries. But it accepted?Google's?explanation that it had destroyed the material.

But last year,?Google?acknowledged that a handful of the discs had been discovered and the regulator promptly re-opened the investigation. US authorities raised concerns about the engineer who created the software.

However, investigators in Britain concluded there wasn't enough evidence on a corporate level to prove thatGoogle?had intended to collect personal data, and stopped short of imposing a penalty. In the United States, it paid a $7 million fine to settle a multistate investigation.

"The early days of?Google?Street?View?should be seen as an example of what can go wrong if technology companies fail to understand how their products are using personal information," Stephen Eckersley, the office's head of enforcement said in a statement.

The data regulator said the breach would have been worse had the data been disseminated.?Google?has insisted it was never examined.

Google?promised to comply with the order.

"We work hard to get privacy right at?Google," the company said in a statement. "But in this case we didn't, which is why we quickly tightened up our systems to address the issue. The project leaders never wanted this data, and didn't use it or even look at it."

The enforcement notice adds to the growing unease in Europe about whether?Google?was taking privacy concerns too lightly. France on Thursday gave the Internet search engine three months to be more upfront about the data it collects from users ? or be fined. Other European data watchdogs are also concerned.

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Taliban offer adds urgency to Idaho POW rally

HAILEY, Idaho (AP) ? Hundreds of activists for missing service members gathered in a small Idaho town Saturday to hear the parents of the only known U.S. prisoner of war speak just days after his Taliban captors announced they want to exchange him for prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay.

Bob and Jani Bergdahl were already on a list of speakers at the "Bring Bowe Back" celebration in Hailey, Idaho, when the Taliban proposed the prisoner swap on Thursday.

Organizer Stefanie O'Neill said the parents of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, captured four years ago June 30, haven't wavered in their pledge to address those who gather, a group that included as many as 400 POW-MIA activists aboard motorcycles riding into town.

Buses also brought POW-MIA activists from as far as Elko, Nev.

Though yellow ribbons on Main Street trees and "Bring Bowe Home" placards in Hailey shop windows are a constant reminder of the 27-year-old Bergdahl's captivity, O'Neill said the Taliban offer has lent an addition element of urgency ? and hope ? to the event.

"We're not a community without Bowe," O'Neill said. "We're doing our best, but we need him back."

Bob Bergdahl plans to ride his son's dirt bike as part of the motorcycle procession that will travel north on Idaho State Highway 75 to Hailey's Hop Porter Park. That's where young four Norway maples have been planted overlooking the children's playground to commemorate each of the four years Bowe Bergdahl been held captive following his June 30, 2009 capture in Afghanistan.

He's believed held somewhere in Pakistan, but the Taliban said they would free him in exchange for five of their most senior operatives at Guantanamo Bay, the American installation on the southeastern tip of Cuba that's housed suspected terrorists following the Sept. 11 attacks.

The militant group's proposition came just days ahead of possible talks between a U.S. delegation and Taliban members in Qatar.

The discussions would be the first U.S.-Taliban talks in nearly 1 1/2 years, and the prospect that they could include discussions over Bergdahl have raised his family's spirits in Hailey, according to Donna Thibedeau-Eddy, a family friend.

The discussions are just the latest good news Bob and Jani Bergdahl have received in recent weeks. On June 6, they announced they had received a letter in Bowe's handwriting, the first since he was taken prisoner, shuttled through the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/taliban-offer-adds-urgency-idaho-pow-rally-081600377.html

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How Many Nuclear Weapons Does the US Have? Don't Ask a Congressman (ABC News)

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Do You Have Digital Photos of Yourself As a Kid?

Who doesn't love baby pictures? It's fun and nostalgic to remember what you were like as a kid. But do you keep your baby pictures stored on your computer or are they squirreled away in a yellowing album in the basement of your parents house?

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Melissa Etheridge Walks Back Angelina Jolie Remark: I Have No Opinion!

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North Carolina governor signs law aimed at restarting executions

By Colleen Jenkins

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - North Carolina's governor, hoping to resume executions in his state, on Wednesday signed the repeal of a law that has allowed death row inmates to seek a reduced sentence if they could prove racial bias affected their punishment.

The Racial Justice Act, the only law of its kind in the United States, had led to four inmates getting their sentences changed to life in prison without parole after taking effect in 2009.

Supporters said the historic measure addressed the state's long record of racial injustice in its capital punishment system, while critics said it caused unnecessary costs and delays after nearly all death-row inmates, including whites, sought relief under the act.

Governor Pat McCrory, a Republican, said repealing the law would remove the "procedural roadblocks" that had kept North Carolina from executing anyone since 2006 despite there being 152 people on death row.

"The state's district attorneys are nearly unanimous in their bipartisan conclusion that the Racial Justice Act created a judicial loophole to avoid the death penalty and not a path to justice," McCrory said.

Republican lawmakers gutted the Racial Justice Act, passed when Democrats controlled the legislature and governor's office, after winning the majority in the state's General Assembly.

The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina criticized the repeal on Wednesday and accused state leaders of ignoring widespread evidence of systemic racial bias.

Statistics show that of the 152 people on death row in North Carolina, 80 are black, 62 are white and the remainder fall into other racial categories in a state where African Americans overall make up around a fifth of the population.

The repeal applies retroactively to cases with pending Racial Justice Act claims, a factor certain to result in additional legal wrangling, one death penalty expert said.

"To me, it's a violation of due process," said Mark Rabil, director of Wake Forest University law school's Innocence and Justice Clinic in Winston-Salem. "I don't really know what the legislature thinks they've done with our money other than buy a lot more litigation."

(Reporting by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and David Brunnstrom)

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The NSA are in your Email! Reading your Mails!

So those pesky Americans are crapping on the civil liberties they wish to protect. This time the NSA ( [url= http://www.nationalsheep.org.uk/] no not that one] ) has been collecting data from internet giants like Facebook, Google and Microsoft and storing it up in a attempt to defeat the terrorists or something.

I don?t really know how to feel because I do believe if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear but it does annoy me that the government can keep tabs on people in this way. It?s like they are treating regular people like criminals.
Is this just the start of the internet becoming better policed and therefore tamer?

I think we can all agree there are things on the net that just shouldn?t be there. In cases where hate speech, sick images or potentially dangerous information are these measures justified?

Has the US gone too far and now values security over freedom?

Shouldn?t these moves at least have been made public knowledge?

Lastly should the whistleblower former NSA computer tamer Eddy Snowden be tried for treason?

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Samsung Premiere 2013 liveblog!

Samsung's got big news for its Galaxy and ATIV ranges, and we've already seen teasers that point towards new laptops, cameras and hybrids. Join us here at 2pm ET -- we'll be liveblogging it all from London!

June 20, 2013 2:00:00 PM EST

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UN reports highest level of refugees since 1994 as Canada tightens policy

Refugee numbers around the world are at their highest level since 1994, the United Nations refugee agency reported Tuesday in a sobering look at global displacement.

More than 45.2 million people either fled their own countries or were internally displaced in 2012, compared to 42.5 million the year before, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said in its annual global trends report.

War remained the dominant reason for displacement ? 55 per cent of all refugees came from five war-affected countries: Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria and Sudan.

?These truly are alarming numbers. They reflect individual suffering on a huge scale and they reflect the difficulties of the international community in preventing conflicts and promoting timely solutions for them,? Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees and head of UNHCR, said in a statement.

The number of refugees actively seeking asylum in other countries is also on the rise.

A total of 893,700 claims were submitted around the world, a three per cent increase from 2011 and the second-highest level of the last decade, the report said.

?The number of individual asylum applications registered with governments or UNHCR in 2012 reflects a continued increasing demand for international protection throughout the year,? the report said.

The new figures come as Canada is in the midst of a shift in refugee policy, changing everything from which refugees it will accept to how their claims are processed.

The Conservatives will narrow resettlement efforts in 2013-2014, focusing on only three to five populations, the immigration department?s planning report shows.

The populations will be chosen in consultation with the UN and other countries, the Citizenship and Immigration department said.

?Targeting specific populations over a few years will allow us to focus our efforts, maximize our resources, and expedite the processing of cases,? spokesman Bill Brown said in an e-mail Tuesday.

?This approach will help Canada improve refugee outcomes as we will be able to better plan for arrivals.?

Though the restrictions will only apply to those refugees resettled by the government, observers have suggested the government has already begun cherry-picking refugees via the various caps and bans in place on sponsorship applications from certain areas.

The government argues the caps are necessary to bring down processing backlogs but at the same time, they are asking private groups to take in more of the refugees it selects.

?Canada?s response risks becoming more politicized, with specific programs increasingly initiated by the minister, without a transparent process of consultation,? the Canadian Council for Refugees wrote in a recent briefing paper on the issue.

?Politicization compromises the human rights and humanitarian basis of the program.?

Which populations will be targeted under the new program haven?t been announced, but the government already has programs for Bhutanese refugees from Nepal and Iraqi and Iranian refugees in Turkey.

Many of the people considered refugees by the UN do not seek resettlement elsewhere, instead living in camps or other temporary locations until they can return home.

Last year, the UNHCR submitted over 74,800 refugees for resettlement, one-fifth less than in 2011, largely due to security constraints and processing backlogs, the report said.

Canada and the United States together take in nine out of every 10 refugees the UN selects for resettlement, though the U.S. takes in far more. Last year they accepted 66,300 and Canada took 9,600.

That?s actually less than Canada had hoped to resettle.

The government had been aiming to accept 13,000 as part of a pledge to increase annual resettlement by 20 per cent.

Much like the UN, it pinned the lower numbers on the closure of visa offices in Damascus because of the ongoing conflict there as well as difficulties with field efforts in Africa.

The ongoing conflict in Syria has produced some 1.6 million refugees on its own, with most in camps in neighbouring countries.

Though Canada has contributed over $100 million in aid to assist Syrian refugees, it is not actively trying to resettle them.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said that the government is, however, continuing to work on speeding-up applications from Syrians in the system.

?We have nearly completed processing all of the family reunification applications for people in Syria who were already in our system,? Kenney said.

In addition to an overall increase in refugees, the UNHCR also reported growth in the number of unaccompanied or separated children making refugee claims of their own.

Of the 21,300 applications filed by those under the age of 18, 280 were made in Canada.

It?s the first time Canadian figures have been captured in the UN?s analysis of child asylum seekers world-wide.

Some children come to Canada via government resettlement or private sponsors, but what to do with those who arrive in Canada illegally has been part of the ongoing debate in the Commons in the last year over changes to refugee policy.

Several dozen children have been part of waves of asylum seekers who have arrived in Canada via ships in the last few years and a new bill has now passed that makes the detention of people who arrive in that fashion mandatory.

Parents are given the option of keeping their children with them or having them placed with foster agencies, despite widespread opposition to the mandatory detention of children.

Refugee advocates are also decrying the effect that changes to refugee health care benefits are having on children refugees.

Last year, the government ended the practice of covering supplemental or extended health care for refugee claimaints except in certain circumstances, arguing that generous benefit programs were a draw for bogus refugee claimaints and those seeking asylum shouldn?t get the same benefits as other Canadians until their claims have been approved.

During national protests against the cuts Monday, one doctor told a story of a child who required an amputation but initially had none of his counselling or equipment covered by the government, because his claim was pending.

The family had to wait until the claim was accepted, said Dr. Lindy Samson, a member of the Canadian Pediatric Society.

?His treating health-care team believes strongly, though, that the delays have had a significant impact on his well-being,? she said.

Source: http://www.citynews.ca/2013/06/19/un-reports-highest-level-of-refugees-since-1994-as-canada-tightens-policy/

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?Carbon neutral isn?t good enough": BT CEO Ian Livingston presents Net Good plan in London

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19 June 2013

LONDON: BT?s Net Good framework was launched in London yesterday, where BT?s CEO Ian Livingston and other experts showcased the new carbon abatement methodology, which has the potential to jump start innovation across the private sector.

Mark Kenber, CEO, The Climate Group, opened the event at the packed RSA in London by framing the ?essential? need to measure impacts beyond companies? own footprints in order to drive down global emissions. Mark praised BT?s Net Good framework?s ?innovative approach? and called for more companies to contribute to ?enabling even more CO2 savings than they cause?.

Ian Livingston, CEO, BT, then presented the Net Good methodology, of helping customers reduce carbon emissions by at least three times the end-to-end carbon impact of BT?s business by 2020. He stated: ?Carbon neutral isn?t good enough. We have to aim for carbon positive?, and said that ?doing good business? and ?being a good business? are complementary elements: ?You can become a good business by putting sustainability at the heart of what you do and being a responsible citizen in the areas you operate?.

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Ian Livingston stressed the role of customers for delivering Net Good results, as they are increasingly looking to do businesses with companies that ?do the right thing? and are a central aspect of the open-source nature of the Net Good framework. He concluded that while there is ?no silver bullet?, he called Net Good an ?ambitious goal that presents real opportunity? for better business, ending on the inspiring: ?We hope to play our part in creating a better future.?

Then Kevin Moss, Program Director Net Good, BT, took to the stage to explain the framework in more depth. He said Net Good will better measure green product portfolios to deliver profits and benefits: ?For each of our products that help customers save carbon, we?ve calculated just how much.? He clarified the three routes that BT will go to grow from its current 1:1 to 3:1 by 2020, including upstream supply chains which represent 64% of BT?s end-to-end emissions. But Kevin iterated that BT can not do the work alone, and collaboration and open sourcing for data is integral to Net Good.

Calling for bold ambition across industries, Kevin said that while CO2 savings surpassing a business footprint is good, interventions must also ?disrupt and drive a cleaner energy system?. He wrapped up by pointing to BT?s Better Future report and the company?s influential leadership, affirming: ?By putting the stake in the ground, we hope others will do the same; try it, build on it? so the shift moves from doing less bad, to more good.?

Private sector innovation

Following the framework launch was a panel moderated by The Climate Group?s CEO, Mark Kenber, who asked guests to discuss the Net Good framework and its wider impacts. Tom Delay, Chief Executive, the Carbon Trust, said that global businesses must be sustainable to engender loyalty among future generations, as their surveys show that "consumers are more loyal to brands with environmental strategies?. While he said that to correlate financial and environmental performance is ?unfair?, it is inherent in many industries. He said: ?All sectors can do the Net Good calculation, but it is about understanding individual impacts of companies and consumption?. He concluded that BT?s Net Good is an ?enormous opportunity? for both the medium and long term, for companies that want to do business in a more transparent way.

Mike Berners-Lee of Small World Consulting?also agreed that?both trust and transparency are key to Net Good, and?while the supply chain analysis that Net Good requires may put people off due to its complexity, it is a practical process that gives ?intelligent steer? to businesses.?

Paul Crewe, Head of Sustainability, Engineering, Energy & Environment, Sainsbury?s, praised Net Good for its ?bold and vitally important first step into the unknown?. He said Sainsbury?s operates in a competitive market yet still aims for the Net Good framework, by running ambitious pilots and quickly rolling-out successes. He said: ?We?d rather shoot for the stars and land on the moon than not shoot at all?, and that while Sainsbury?s is competitive, ?collaboration and sharing are essential?.

BT?s Kevin Moss who was also on the panel, further highlighted BT?s efforts in carbon abatement, including the company?s aim to make 15% of all procurement decisions weighted towards carbon and energy saving. He said much of the program's progress is driven by customers asking about sustainability more, as well as working in an increasingly resource-constrained ?new world?, in which Net Good will help BT thrive. Kevin added that while BT is fortunate by being in the ICT sector where there are straight-forward metrics on both sides as well as big opportunities in smart cities, homes, energy and transport, he added that real impact was in inspiring others. He said: ?we do not expect to make a profit from the Net Good launch, but it will help us with innovation and opportunity - and we want our customers and suppliers to play a part?.

The event ended with a series of break-out sessions lead by representatives from the Carbon Trust, The Climate Group and BT, where engaged stakeholders shared ideas on achieving simple metrics and driving standards that will feed into the open-source nature of Net Good. Niall Dunne, Chief Sustainability Officer, BT,?concluded with: ?Disruptive and simple is good. Let?s get diverse: this is about systematic transformation. Breaking down barriers and collaborating to pull in the same direction: towards net good.?

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Herbal extract boosts fruit fly lifespan by nearly 25 percent

June 18, 2013 ? The herbal extract of a yellow-flowered mountain plant long used for stress relief was found to increase the lifespan of fruit fly populations by an average of 24 percent, according to UC Irvine researchers.

But it's how Rhodiola rosea, also known as golden root, did this that grabbed the attention of study leaders Mahtab Jafari and Sam Schriner. They discovered that Rhodiola works in a manner completely unrelated to dietary restriction and affects different molecular pathways.

This is significant, said Jafari, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, because dietary restriction is considered the most robust method of improving lifespan in laboratory animals, and scientists have been scrambling to identify compounds that can mimic its effects.

"We found that Rhodiola actually increases lifespan on top of that of dietary restriction," Jafari said. "It demonstrates that Rhodiola can act even in individuals who are already long-lived and healthy. This is quite unlike resveratrol, which appears to only act in overfed or unhealthy individuals."

The researchers proved this by putting flies on a calorie-restricted diet. It has been shown that flies live longer when the amount of yeast they consume is decreased. Jafari and Schriner expected that if Rhodiola functioned in the same manner as dietary restriction, it would not work in these flies. But it did. They also tested Rhodiola in flies in which the molecular pathways of dietary restriction had been genetically inactivated. It still worked.

Not only did Rhodiola improve lifespan an average of 24 percent in both sexes and multiple strains of flies, but it also delayed the loss of physical performance in flies as they aged and even extended the lives of old flies. Jafari's group previously had shown that the extract decreased the natural production of reactive oxygen species molecules in the fly mitochondria and protected both flies and cultured human cells against oxidative stress.

Jafari and Schriner, an assistant project scientist in Jafari's laboratory, are not claiming that Rhodiola supplements will enable humans to live longer, but their discovery is enhancing scientific understanding of how supplements believed to promote longevity actually work in the body.

Rhodiola has already shown possible health benefits in humans, such as decreasing fatigue, anxiety and depression; boosting mood, memory and stamina; and preventing altitude sickness. Grown in cold climates at high elevations, the herb has been used for centuries by Scandinavians and Russians to reduce stress. It's also thought to have antioxidant properties.

Jafari's research group is currently exploring the plant's potential to kill cancer cells, improve Alzheimer's disease and help stem cells grow.

Rhodiola is readily available online and in health food stores. Jafari, though, has analyzed several commercial products and found them to not contain sufficient amounts of the reputed active compounds -- such as rosavin and salidroside -- that characterize high-quality products.

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NSA director says plot against Wall Street foiled

From left, Deputy Attorney General James Cole; National Security Agency (NSA) Deputy Director Chris Inglis; NSA Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander; Deputy FBI Director Sean Joyce; and Robert Litt, general counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing regarding NSA surveillance. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

From left, Deputy Attorney General James Cole; National Security Agency (NSA) Deputy Director Chris Inglis; NSA Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander; Deputy FBI Director Sean Joyce; and Robert Litt, general counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing regarding NSA surveillance. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, by National Security Agency (NSA) Gen. Keith B. Alexander during the committee's hearing regarding NSA surveillance. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander approaches the witness table on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, to testify before the House Intelligence Committee hearing regarding NSA surveillance. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence led by lawmakers sympathetic to the spying.

The House Intelligence Committee hearing provided a venue for officials to defend the once-secret programs and did little probing of claims that the collection of people's phone records and Internet usage has disrupted dozens of terrorist plots. Few details were volunteered.

Army Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, said the two recently disclosed programs ? one that gathers U.S. phone records and another that is designed to track the use of U.S.-based Internet servers by foreigners with possible links to terrorism ? are critical. But details about them were not closely held within the secretive agency. Alexander said after the hearing that most of the documents accessed by Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former systems analyst on contract to the NSA, were on a web forum available to many NSA employees. Others were on a site that required a special credential to access. Alexander said investigators are studying how Snowden did that.

He told lawmakers Snowden's leaks have caused "irreversible and significant damage to this nation" and undermined the U.S. relationship with allies.

When Deputy FBI Director Sean Joyce was asked what is next for Snowden, he said, simply, "justice." Snowden fled to Hong Kong and is hiding.

In the days after the leaks, House Intelligence committee Chairman Mike Rogers cited one attack that he said was thwarted by the programs. In the comments of other intelligence officials, that number grew to two, then 10, then dozens. On Tuesday, Alexander said more than 50 attacks were averted because of the surveillance. These included plots against the New York subway system and a Danish newspaper office that had published cartoon depictions of Muhammad.

In a new example, Joyce said the NSA was able to identify an extremist in Yemen who was in touch with Khalid Ouazzani in Kansas City, Mo., enabling authorities to identify co-conspirators and thwart a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange.

Ouazzani pleaded guilty in May 2010 in federal court in Missouri to charges of conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist organization, bank fraud and money laundering. Ouazzani was not charged with the alleged plot against the stock exchange. Joyce said the arrest was made possible by the Internet surveillance program disclosed by Snowden.

Joyce also said a terrorist financier in San Diego was identified and arrested in October 2007 because of a phone record provided by the NSA.

The individual was making phone calls to a known designated terrorist group overseas, Joyce said. He confirmed under questioning that the calls were to Somalia.

Alexander said the Internet program had helped stop 90 percent of the 50-plus plots he cited. He said just over 10 of the plots thwarted had a connection inside the U.S. and most were helped by the review of phone records. Still, little was offered to substantiate claims that the programs have been successful in stopping acts of terrorism that would not have been caught with narrower surveillance. In the New York subway bombing case, President Barack Obama conceded the would-be bomber might have been caught with less sweeping surveillance.

Officials have long had the authority to monitor email accounts linked to terrorists but, before the law changed, needed to get a warrant by showing that the target was a suspected member of a terrorist group. In the disclosed Internet program named PRISM, the government collects vast amounts of online data and email, sometimes sweeping up information on ordinary American citizens. Officials now can collect phone and Internet information broadly but need a warrant to examine specific cases where they believe terrorism is involved.

Committee chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the panel's top Democrat, said the programs were vital to the intelligence community and assailed Snowden's actions as criminal.

"It is at times like these where our enemies within become almost as damaging as our enemies on the outside," Rogers said.

Ruppersberger said the "brazen disclosures" put the United States and its allies at risk.

Committee members were incredulous about the scope of the information that Snowden was able to access and then disclose.

Alexander said Snowden had worked for 12 months in an information technology position at the NSA office in Hawaii under another contract preceding his three-month contract with Booz Allen.

"Egregious, egregious leaks," Joyce said.

But after the hearing, Alexander said almost all of the documents Snowden leaked were on an internal online library.

"They are on web forums that are publicly available in the NSA," he said.

The general counsel for the intelligence community said the NSA cannot target phone conversations between callers inside the U.S. ? even if one of those callers was targeted for surveillance when outside the country.

The director of national intelligence's legal chief, Robert S. Litt, said that if the NSA finds it has accidentally gathered a phone call by a target who had traveled into the U.S. without the agency's knowledge, it has to "purge" that from system. The same goes for an accidental collection of any conversation because of an error.

Litt said those incidents are then reported to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which "pushes back" and asks how it happened, and what the NSA is doing to fix the problem so it doesn't happen again.

Deputy NSA Director Chris Inglis said a limited number of officials at the agency could authorize dissemination of information to the FBI related to a U.S. citizen, and only after determining it was necessary to understand a counterterrorism issue. Information related to an American who is found not to be relevant to a counterterrorism investigation must be destroyed, he added.

Alexander said 10 people were involved in that process, including himself and Inglis.

The hearing came the morning after President Barack Obama vigorously defended the surveillance programs in a lengthy interview, calling them transparent ? even though they are authorized in secret.

Obama said he has named representatives to a privacy and civil liberties oversight board first established in 2004 to help in the debate over just how far government data gathering should be allowed to go. The discussion is complicated by the secrecy surrounding the surveillance court, with hearings held at undisclosed locations and with only government lawyers present. The orders that result are all highly classified.

Snowden on Monday accused members of Congress and administration officials of exaggerating their claims about the success of the data gathering programs, including pointing to the arrest of the would-be New York subway bomber, Najibullah Zazi, in 2009.

In an online interview with The Guardian in which he posted answers to questions, he said Zazi could have been caught with narrower, targeted surveillance programs ? a point Obama conceded in his interview without mentioning Snowden.

"We might have caught him some other way," Obama said. "We might have disrupted it because a New York cop saw he was suspicious. Maybe he turned out to be incompetent and the bomb didn't go off. But, at the margins, we are increasing our chances of preventing a catastrophe like that through these programs."

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G-8 and beyond: The world according to Obama

G8 leaders from left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama attend a working session during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Yves Herman, Pool)

G8 leaders from left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama attend a working session during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Yves Herman, Pool)

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and US President Barack Obama walk during the G8 Summit at Lough Erne near Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Adrian Wyld)

President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Monday, June 17, 2013. Obama and Putin discussed the ongoing conflict in Syria during their bilateral meeting. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

G-8 leaders from left, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister David Cameron, US President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy pose during a group photo opportunity during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The final day of the G-8 summit of wealthy nations is ending with discussions on globe-trotting corporate tax dodgers, a lunch with leaders from Africa, and suspense over whether Russia and Western leaders can avoid diplomatic fireworks over their deadlock on Syria?s civil war. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

G8 leaders from left, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, US President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy attend a working session during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Jewel Samad, Pool)

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) ? Laden with foreign challenges, President Barack Obama is welcoming Iran's election results, taking the temperature of China's new leader and acknowledging that nations routinely spy on each other, all the while navigating difficult terrain with allies and Russia over Syria.

For Obama, who would much rather be influencing domestic policy at this point in his second term, the issues currently defining his presidency center on his international relations and, by extension, how he deals with threats to U.S. security.

In a wide ranging PBS interview with Charlie Rose and in recent days of peripatetic travel, Obama has been in the middle of global developments that illustrate both the extent and the limits of his ability to influence outcomes beyond the U.S. borders.

From his meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping in California a week ago to his participation in the summit of the Group of Eight industrialized economies to Wednesday's visit to Berlin, Obama has been both setting a U.S. imprint as well as reacting to the imprints of others.

The G-8 summit unfolded in the midst of awkward revelations that the British eavesdropping agency GCHQ tapped into the communications of foreign diplomats during the 2009 Group of 20 summit in London, including those of Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev. That report, in the British newspaper The Guardian, came on the heels of reports about the high-tech surveillance methods and record-gathering employed by the National Security Agency in the United States.

While the disclosures added a layer of controversy to the summit, U.S. officials said heads of state at a summit like the G-8 are perfectly aware that such spying goes on.

"Every country in the world, large and small, engages in intelligence gathering," Obama said in the PBS interview, which was taped Sunday before the Guardian revelations. "And that is an occasional source of tension, but it's generally practiced within bounds."

That unsurprising assertion was meant to distinguish between such international spying and the kind of hacking that the U.S. says the Chinese perpetrate against U.S. corporations.

"There is a big difference between China wanting to figure out how can they find out what my talking points are when I'm meeting with the Japanese, which is standard fare, and we try to prevent them from penetrating that, and they try to get that information," he said. "There's a big difference between that and a hacker directly connected with the Chinese government or the Chinese military breaking into Apple's software systems to see if they can obtain the designs for the latest Apple product. That's theft."

It was a remarkably direct accusation coming just a week after Obama met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a desert resort in California.

"We had a very blunt conversation about cybersecurity," Obama said of his talks with Xi.

Obama went further, describing Xi as a leader who "has consolidated his position fairly rapidly inside of China" and who "is younger and more forceful and more robust and more confident, perhaps, than some leaders in the past." In the interview he prodded the Chinese to accept the responsibility that comes with being a major economic power while approving of China's efforts to confront North Korean belligerence.

U.S. officials busy with Syria at the G-8 in Northern Ireland said they were reassured by Iran's election of the relatively moderate cleric Hasan Rowhani as president, not so much because they expect a swift change in policy but because it reflects a desire by the country's people to change course.

"The Iranian people rebuffed the hardliners and the clerics in the election who were counseling no compromise on anything any time anywhere," Obama said on PBS. "Now, Mr. Rowhani, who won the election, I think indicated his interest in shifting how Iran approaches many of these international questions, but I think we understand that under their system the supreme leader will be making a lot of decisions."

At the G-8, Obama has been forced to defend his decision to arm Syrian rebels, creating a direct confrontation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been providing military support to the Bashar Assad regime.

Indeed, the full range of Obama's personal relations with foreign leaders has been on display at the G-8, from his friendly, competitive banter with British Prime Minister David Cameron to the stiff and distant interplay with Putin.

To Obama, Cameron is "David," and he teased him Monday during a race to paint a poster designed by school children. Examining his work, he said of the children, "I'm not as good as these guys, but I'm better than David."

With Putin, there was no chemistry. Obama's national security aide Ben Rhodes, in diplomatic understatement, described Obama's relationship with Putin as "business-like." Where Obama was cheeky with Cameron, he was self-effacing with Putin.

Summing up their two-hour private meeting on Monday, Obama said: "We compared notes on President Putin's expertise in judo and my declining skills in basketball. And we both agreed that as you get older it takes more time to recover."

Putin, through an interpreter, replied, "The president wants to relax me with his statement of age."

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Associated Press writers Cassandra Vinograd and Julie Pace in Northern Ireland contributed to this report.

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Directed in vitro technique may increase insulin resistance among offspring

June 17, 2013 ? A special type of in vitro fertilization, or IVF, may increase the risk for insulin resistance among children conceived in this way, according to a new study from Greece.

The results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

During natural fertilization, as well as other IVF treatments, the egg is exposed to many sperm. In both of these cases, the strongest, healthiest sperm has the best chance of reaching and fertilizing the egg.

In contrast, the type of assisted reproductive technology, or ART, examined in this study involves injecting a single sperm directly into a single egg. Developed in 1992, this IVF technique, called intracytoplasmic sperm injection, or ICSI, provides a new way of treating male infertility by offering men with low sperm count or poor sperm mobility the possibility of conceiving a child.

The problem with this method is that random sperm selection may result in fertilization with unsuitable sperm. This raises the concern that ICSI may place offspring at greater genetic risk for developing disease in the future, although few studies have examined this risk.

"These results support the serious concerns for increased predisposition ART offspring may face for metabolic disorders in adult life, due to factors associated directly or indirectly with the ART methodology per se," said the study's lead author Gkourogianni Alexandra, MD, pediatrics resident at the University of Athens Medical School in Greece. "They support an increased risk for insulin resistance in children conceived by ICSI, even before any standard biochemical abnormalities become evident."

For this study, the investigators used metabolomics, which is the study of chemicals, or metabolites, that the body produces when it processes food. By measuring blood concentrations of these chemicals, investigators were able to assess the risk of developing obesity, insulin resistance, which is a symptom of diabetes, and metabolic syndrome, which comprises several abnormalities that increase the risk of heart disease, diabetes and stroke.

Of 72 metabolites examined, 38 that previous studies linked to obesity, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome were significantly different among ICSI children, compared to those who were not conceived by this method. Additionally, two other substances that researchers use as biomarkers for these conditions differed between the two groups.

Study participants included 10 girls who were conceived by the ICSI method and 10 who were not. All participants were pre-pubertal. Investigators used a highly sensitive test, called gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, to detect molecular differences in participants' blood samples.

The Hellenic Endocrine Society funded the study.

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