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Smoke forces evacuation of White House West Wing
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Reporters and photographers were evacuated briefly from the West Wing of the White House early Saturday because of smoke from an overheated transformer in a mechanical room.
President Barack Obama and his family were not affected by the incident, according to the White House.
U.S. Secret Service spokesman Max Milien said that at about 7 a.m., smoke was seen coming from a mechanical room closet on the first floor.
Journalists and others were evacuated out of "an abundance of caution" and the District of Columbia fire department was called, he said.
People were allowed back into the building about an hour later.
No injuries were reported.
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Saturday, May 11, 2013
Bloomberg bars reporters from client activity
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Financial data and news company Bloomberg LP says it has corrected a "mistake" in its newsgathering policies and cut off its journalists' special access to client log-in activity on the company's ubiquitous trading information terminals after Goldman Sachs complained about the matter last month.
A person familiar with the matter said Friday that Goldman Sachs became concerned about outside access after a Bloomberg reporter, investigating what she thought was the departure of a Goldman employee, told the securities firm that the employee had not logged into a Bloomberg terminal for a number of weeks.
The person was not authorized to speak publicly and gave the information on condition of anonymity.
Separately, the Federal Reserve is looking into whether Bloomberg journalists tracked data about terminal usage by top Fed officials, a spokeswoman said. The agency has contacted Bloomberg to learn more, she said.
On Saturday, CNBC reported that a former Bloomberg employee said he accessed information about terminal usage by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
The Fed spokeswoman wouldn't comment on the CNBC report. A Treasury spokesman couldn't be reached for comment.
In a memo sent to staff Friday, Bloomberg CEO Daniel Doctoroff said the company had "long made limited customer relationship data available to our journalists," but added, "we realize this was a mistake."
After the complaint last month, Bloomberg "immediately" turned off its journalists' special access and limited it to what clients can see themselves, he said.
The dispute was earlier reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Bloomberg News reporters had been able to see when any of the company's 315,000 paying subscribers, mostly stock and bond traders, had last logged into the service. They could also view the types of "functions" individual subscribers had accessed.
For instance, reporters could see if subscribers had been looking at top news stories, or if they had been gathering data on stocks or bonds, but not which stories or bonds and stocks they had looked up, said Ty Trippet, a Bloomberg LP spokesman. He said reporters could also see if subscribers were using "message" or "chat" functions to send messages to each other over the terminals, but not the recipient of the messages or their content.
Reporters were mostly getting contact information for subscribers, like telephone numbers and email addresses, Trippet said.
In his staff memo, Doctoroff said that access did not extend to "trading, portfolio, monitor, blotter or other related systems or our clients' messages."
He said senior executive Steve Ross had been appointed to the new position of client data compliance officer to review Bloomberg's policies.
No reporters have been fired over the matter, Trippet said. He declined to comment on whether any other disciplinary measures have been taken or if the company had plans to do so.
Although Goldman's concerns caused the change, JPMorgan Chase & Co. had also expressed concerns about Bloomberg journalists' access to sensitive data.
A person familiar with the matter at JPMorgan said multiple Bloomberg reporters had used the data to try to break news in the last several years. The person said Bloomberg journalists used their access attempting to find out whether disciplinary action had been taken against Bruno Iksil, a JPMorgan trader nicknamed the "London whale" who was blamed for a $6 billion trading loss last year.
One reporter knew details about the log-in times of multiple traders on a single desk and called daily to ask about potential layoffs, the person said. JPMorgan complained to the reporters about the technique but Bloomberg managers weren't made aware of a formal complaint.
The person was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter and requested anonymity.
Bloomberg's Trippet said he was unaware of complaints from JP Morgan to reporters or editors.
It's not clear exactly how long Bloomberg reporters have been accessing subscriber information.
"Limited customer relationship data has long been available to our journalists," Trippet wrote in an email. The access dates back to the 1990s, when Bloomberg's news operation began. Journalists would join sales representatives on calls to clients, he said, to explain how Bloomberg's news functions work.
Bloomberg journalists are renowned for aggressive techniques in a competitive field. Bloomberg LP, whose main business is selling terminals to clients in the financial industry, employs more than 2,400 journalists.
In November 2010, the news service reported on the earnings of The Walt Disney Co. and NetApp Inc. well before the companies' scheduled releases by guessing the unprotected website addresses of the press releases before they were made public.
The public relations gaffes, which resulted in immediate but fleeting dips in the stock prices of both companies, resulted in the companies taking action to prevent a recurrence.
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AP Business Writer Bernard Condon in New York and AP Economics Writer Christopher Rugaber in Washington contributed to this report.
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Crowds swoon, but Prince Harry is all business
Britain's Prince Harry greets attendees before a reception in the Prince's honor at the Ambassador's residence in Washington, Thursday, May 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Jim Lo Scalzo, Pool)
Britain's Prince Harry greets attendees before a reception in the Prince's honor at the Ambassador's residence in Washington, Thursday, May 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Jim Lo Scalzo, Pool)
British Ambassador Sir Peter Westmacott toasts Britain's Prince Harry at a dinner at the Ambassador's residence in Washington, Thursday, May 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Jim Lo Scalzo, Pool)
Britain's Prince Harry sits down to dinner at the Ambassador's residence in Washington, Thursday, May, 9, 2013, with Teresa Heinz, center left, wife of Secretary of State John Kerry, and the wife of the British Ambassador to the U.S. Lady Westmacott. (AP Photo/Jim Lo Scalzo, Pool)
England's Prince Harry, standing right, with British Ambassador Sir Peter Westmacott, speaks at a dinner at the British Ambassador's residence, Thursday, May 9, 2013 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
England's Prince Harry, points before speaking at a dinner at the British Ambassador's residence, Thursday, May 9, 2013 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The throngs swooned but Prince Harry was having none of it.
The British soldier-prince is spending most of his week in the U.S. honoring the wounded and the dead of war, a salute that began Thursday at a land-mine exhibition in Congress at the side of one of America's most storied wounded warriors, Sen. John McCain. Accorded heart-throb treatment, the prince was all royal business.
As he entered the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building near the Capitol, the prince was greeted by a roar and shouts of "Harry!" from a crowd of about 500, nearly all of them women. They filled a roped-off hallway and stairway with a view of the exhibit, hoisting their cellphones and tablets to get a picture. Harry didn't visibly react except to give what appeared to be a polite wave.
McCain, with a laugh, said he told Harry "I've never seen, in all the years I've been here, such an unbalanced gender crowd."
On Friday, Harry visits Arlington National Cemetery, meets comrades in arms at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and flies to the 2013 Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, Colo., where more than 200 wounded servicemen and women from the U.S. and Britain will compete.
Harry also made a previously unannounced visit to the White House, surprising military mothers and their children at an afternoon tea with Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden's wife, Jill. The prince joined in helping the kids make Mother's Day gifts from tulip and rose bouquets, vegetable chips and edible dough jewelry.
For the prince, the Washington settings were a world away from the Afghanistan war zone where he recently served for 20 weeks as a co-pilot gunner in an Apache attack helicopter. It was just as far removed from his hijinks in a Las Vegas hotel room last summer, when fuzzy photos got out of a naked Harry playing strip billiards.
McCain, R-Ariz., who was shot down over North Vietnam and tortured as a captive, said he told the prince that "he was probably a much better pilot than I was."
As for the prince's reputation for cutting loose on occasion, McCain joked that the British diplomatic reception and dinner later in the evening was sure to be a "wild and raucous affair."
It was a glittering one, at least, hosted by British Ambassador Peter Westmacott for about 30 guests after a reception for 170, many connected with the mine-clearing HALO Trust charity. Harry sat between Teresa Heinz, wife of Secretary of State John Kerry, and the ambassador's wife, Susie, for the dinner.
The prince spoke in support of the trust, a charity his late mother, Princess Diana, had held dear.
"My mother, who believed passionately in this cause, would be proud of my association with HALO," he said. "In her special way, she adopted it as her own. She would join me ? along with all of you, I'm sure ? in praising HALO for the amazing work that it has done over the past quarter-century, and in hoping that one day soon its humanitarian work will be done."
Diana highlighted the trust's work when she was pictured wearing a face mask and protective clothing during a visit to a minefield being cleared by the organization in Angola in 1997. Her son said that at any one time, the group has 7,000 people deployed in the field, "striving to protect people and banish the fear that pervades the lives of millions around the world."
Fiona Willoughby, marketing manager of the trust, said the prince's tour of the trust's exhibit brings attention back to the issue.
"People have forgotten about it, and we think Prince Harry, following in his mother's footsteps, is a worthy cause and will raise the profile of what we are doing," she said.
Earlier on Capitol Hill, Harry quizzed trust officials on mine-detection techniques and photos of amputees, keeping a somber if animated tone despite the excited gaggle held back from the exhibit area.
Harry will also visit parts of New Jersey afflicted by Superstorm Sandy and stop for events in New York City before capping his visit by playing in the Sentebale Polo Cup match in Greenwich, Conn., on Wednesday.
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Associated Press writer Stacy A. Anderson contributed to this report.
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Could Ariel Castro be tried for murder? Case would be unprecedented.
Aggravated murder charges likely will be sought against Ariel Castro, a prosecutor said. Experts say it is unprecedented to sentence someone to death for killing a fetus in a case in which the mother survives.
Ariel Castro appears in Cleveland Municipal court alongside defense attorney Kathleen DeMetz, right, Thursday, in Cleveland.
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Then came the announcement Thursday by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty that his office will likely press additional charges of aggravated murder related to allegations that Mr. Castro beat Michele Knight so severely that she miscarried at least five times.
In Ohio, the charges of aggravated murder would make Castro eligible for the death penalty, which is reserved for the ?most depraved criminals who commit aggravated murder during the course of a kidnapping,? Mr. McGinty told reporters Thursday.
But legal experts say it is unprecedented to send someone to Death Row for killing an unborn child in a case in which the mother survives. For example, Scott Peterson was sentenced to death in 2005 after being found guilty of both the second-degree murder of his unborn son and the first-degree murder of Laci Peterson, his wife.
?Nobody has ever been prosecuted [in] a full-fledged death penalty case based on pregnancy termination all the way through,? says Douglas Berman, a professor of law at Ohio State University in Columbus who is an expert on sentencing law and policy. ?It?s a very hard case to prove and establish.?
The challenge in the Ohio case, experts say, is proving Castro intended to kill the fetuses, or even knew Ms. Knight was pregnant at the time he allegedly beat her.
?It?s going to be very difficult. Without a confession, or circumstantial evidence, it?s going to be very tough,? says Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham School of Law in New York City.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, at least 38 states have fetal homicide laws that impose criminal penalties for crimes against pregnant women, and 23 states, including Ohio, expand the law to cover the earliest stage of pregnancy, such as conception or fertilization.
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Friday, May 10, 2013
Toddler from Corsicana dies after shooting himself with gun he ...
A toddler from Corsicana died Wednesday night after police say he accidentally shot himself in the head with the family?s handgun.
Police Chief Randy Bratton said the boy?s father called 911 about 8:45 p.m. from the family?s home in the 300 block of North 30th Street.
Two-year-old Kinsler Davis was taken to Navarro Regional Hospital and then airlifted to Children?s Medical Center in Dallas, where he was pronounced dead about 11 p.m., police said.
The father told police that his son found the gun in a bedroom and he was in the adjacent walk-in closet when he heard the shot.
Bratton says all the evidence points to an accident but that the case remains under investigation.
?When the investigation is concluded it will be referred to the District Attorney?s Office to review for consideration of criminal charges,? the chief said in a written statement.
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The awkward reunion of Mark Sanford and the GOP
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ow that Mark Sanford has won his old seat in the House by beating Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a South Carolina special election, the GOP should be thrilled, right?
Not so much. It's not that House Republicans would rather deal with a Democrat; it's just that the GOP establishment and Sanford have had a rocky relationship.
In April, the National Republican Congressional Committee cut Sanford's campaign funding under the pretense that Sanford was so politically savvy that he didn't need the NRCC's money (which, it turns out, is true). To most observers, the fact that it happened right after Sanford was accused of trespassing in his ex-wife's home ? the same wife he cheated on with Argentine former TV reporter Maria Belen Chapur?? indicated that the NRCC viewed Sanford as a political liability.?
Sanford's subsequent victory inspired this bit of gloating from Sen. Tom Davis (R-S.C.) on Twitter:
After Sanford's win, the?NRCC released a statement?that was light on compliments for Sanford and heavy on Nancy Pelosi references:
Congratulations to Mark Sanford for winning tonight's special election. These results demonstrate just how devastating the policies of Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi are for House Democrats in 2014. Democrats spent more than $1 million trying to elect a candidate who was backed by the Democrat machine, but at the end of the day, running on the Obama-Pelosi ticket was just too toxic for Elizabeth Colbert Busch. [NRCC]
Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, pointed out on Twitter that their reunion might be a little awkward:
Things might also get uncomfortable when House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) swears Sanford into Congress. According to The Hill, Boehner responded to a question about whether House Republicans would embrace Sanford with "open arms" by avoiding any specific references to Sanford, instead stressing how Congressmen don't get to pick their colleagues:
The voters of the first district of South Carolina will make their decision. Just like any one of us or any of the 435 members of Congress, we don't get to choose who they are. Their electorate gets to decide, so we'll see what the outcome is today. [The Hill]
Aaron Blake at The Washington Post notes that Boehner wasn't the only Republican giving Sanford the Voldemort treatment by refusing to say his name. Watch Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) awkwardly dance around the issue earlier this week:
Sanford, for his part, seems to be taking a gracious approach to rejoining his GOP colleagues, telling CBS This Morning, "Yesterday is yesterday and today is today, and I look forward to working with them."
Source: http://theweek.com/article/index/243885/the-awkward-reunion-of-mark-sanford-and-the-gop
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Football: CU Buffs athletic department suffers financial loss
WESTMINSTER -- A poor season on the gridiron will contribute to a losing year financially for the Colorado athletic department.
CU will show a significant financial loss when the fiscal year ends on June 30.
"We recognize that we'll have a deficit," CU athletic director Mike Bohn said on Tuesday at a media roundtable. "That is a deficit that we will be required to cover long-term within our plan and budgeting process."
It is too early to predict the total deficit because several factors could impact the bottom line, but Bohn said, "We recognize that this is a challenging year for us, for a lot of different reasons."
CU also had a deficit a year ago, but much of that was due to the penalty CU had to pay to leave the Big 12 for the Pac-12.
This year's deficit was not planned, as the football team struggled more than anyone anticipated. With a 1-11 record in football, the Buffs didn't bring in the revenue they normally do.
"We missed our ticket revenue piece on football dramatically," Bohn said. "When we miss our ticket revenue number in football by over $2 million, that creates a significant challenge for us."
Because of the poor performance on the field and, therefore, financially, CU decided to fire head coach Jon Embree. That led to CU needing to come up with more than $2 million to buy out the contracts of Embree and former offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy.
CU then made a heavy financial commitment to new head football coach Mike MacIntyre and his staff. MacIntyre will make about $2 million annual; Embree made roughly $750,000.
While the football program contributed to the deficit, it wasn't the only factor. It didn't help that Pac-12 Enterprises, which has developed and launched Pac-12 Networks and Pac-12 Digital, has not produced any revenue for conference schools.
Bohn said Pac-12 Enterprises had a great year, in terms of producing roughly 750 events and giving the conference more exposure and that it could become profitable in the near future.
"We recognize the long-term vision to have that be a profitable enterprise for the league," he said.
Failure to reach a deal with DirecTV certainly impacted potential revenue for Pac-12 Enterprises. DirecTV is the only major provider that has not agreed to carry the Pac-12 Networks.
"Everyone associated with the Pac-12 and people in this room are frustrated by not having an agreement done with DirecTV," Bohn said. "But it's a top priority for (pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott) and his team with Pac-12 Enterprises."
According to the USA Today's database on college athletics finances, CU's athletic department turned a profit every year from 2006-2011.
"We knew when we made the move from the Big 12 to the Pac-12 that this two-to-three year window was going to be a challenge for us," Bohn said.
Bohn also stressed that the athletic department will use "no state money, no tuition money, no resources of that nature" to cover the deficit.
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Bohn said CU is on pace with where it was a year ago with 75 percent of football season ticket holders renewing their tickets. ... Bohn said "the process is underway" for making enhancements to the contracts of men's basketball coach Tad Boyle and women's basketball coach Linda Lappe. ... Field turf will be installed at Kittredge Field on campus and permanent women's lacrosse markings will be included on that field. The turf will allow the women's lacrosse team, which will play its inaugural season in the spring of 2014, to play in inclement weather. ... Last month, there were reports that the Pac-12 was considering an eight-game conference schedule for football, down from the current nine-game model. Bohn said Tuesday, "That wasn't talked about and I don't believe it's really on the table."
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
Immigration study co-author wrote for ?nationalist? website
Heritage Foundation Analyst Jason Richwine, the co-author of a study claiming the immigration reform bill pending in the Senate would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion, wrote two articles in 2010 for a website founded by Richard Spencer, a self-described "nationalist" who writes frequently about race and against "the abstract notion of human equality."
Richwine's two stories for Spencer's website, AlternativeRight.com,dealt with crime rates among Hispanics in the United States. AlternativeRight.com describes itself as "dedicated to heretical perspectives on society and culture?popular, high, and otherwise?particularly those informed by radical, traditionalist, and nationalist outlooks."
Richwine's articles on AlternativeRight.com were posted within the first few weeks of the site's launch and were the last he wrote for the site.
The website has published several controversial pieces about nationalism and race since Spencer founded it 3 years ago. Spencer is now the chairman of the Montana-based National Policy Institute, an organization that describes itself as a think tank for "White Americans."
Richwine's articles for AlternativeRight.com, "Model Minority," published on March 3, 2010, and "More on Hispanics and Crime," published the next day, push back on an American Conservative essay that argued that some conservatives have over-hyped the crime rate among Hispanics. (Richwine's article was cross-posted on the website of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. where Richwine was previously a fellow.)
"A proper analysis of the data indicates that Hispanics have a substantially higher crime rate than whites," Richwine wrote in the first piece, which he backed up with federal prison data showing the incarceration rates of whites and Hispanics.
Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported on Richwine's 2009 Harvard University dissertation, which examined whether the United States should exclude immigrants with low IQs and argued that "the average IQ of immigrants in the United States is substantially lower than that of the white native population."
The Heritage Foundation Thursday distanced itself from Richwine's dissertation in response to the Washington Post story.
"The Harvard paper is not a work product of The Heritage Foundation. Its findings do not reflect the positions of The Heritage Foundation or the conclusions of our study on the cost of amnesty to U.S. taxpayers, as race and ethnicity are not part of Heritage immigration policy recommendations," Heritage spokesman Mike Gonzales said in a statement.
Emails and phone calls to the Heritage Foundation were not immediately returned Thursday.
Richwine's study on the cost of the immigration bill, co-written with Heritage Senior Research Fellow Robert Rector, was lauded by some who oppose the ongoing effort in Congress to overhaul the nation's immigration system. But it was also criticized by economists on both the left and right.
In an interview Thursday with Yahoo News, Spencer defended Richwine's work and outlined his own philosophy of "nationalism."
Spencer said he does not believe in the "superiority" of whites over other races, but he takes no issue with conducting data-based research about whether certain races, in general, have higher IQs or stronger economies.
"I would, without question, characterize myself and most things I do as nationalism -- and I think that word is misused," Spencer said "People might think of that as simply xenophobia or irrational cheerleading for your country or something. But nationalism is a much more serious thing.
"It's a belief that you are part of an extended family," he said. "You believe that you are part of something bigger than yourself, it's an extended family, and you want to pursue the future health of this extended family. That is nationalism properly defined."
He added: "Race is real. Race has consequences in the real world. Loving your race is healthy and normal. So if that is the definition of racism--which I would think of as nationalism, or you could say racialism--then yes, that is what I believe," he said. "I think white people should love their history and love their ancestors. Operating on some kind of infantile, abstract notion of human equality is actually a very unusual and unhealthy way to view the world."
Spencer pointed out that Richwine's article was one of the first published for the site when it launched three years ago, before some of the publication's more controversial articles were written.
"That was very early on in AltRight and maybe we became a little too out there," Spencer said. "He does more mainstream stuff so whether he supports other things that have been published in AltRight, I don't know the answer to that."
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Commands from the matrix: Cellular environment controls formation and activity of neuronal connections
May 6, 2013 ? Environment moulds behaviour -- and not just that of people in society, but also at the microscopic level. This is because, for their function, neurons are dependent on the cell environment, the so-termed extracellular matrix. Researchers at the Ruhr-Universit?t have found evidence that this complex network of molecules controls the formation and activity of the neuronal connections.
The team led by Dr. Maren Gei?ler und Prof. Andreas Faissner from the Department of Cell Morphology and Molecular Neurobiology reports in the Journal of Neuroscience in collaboration with the team of Dr. Ainhara Aguado, Prof. Christian Wetzel and Prof. Hanns Hatt from the Department of Cell Physiology.
Neurons and astrocytes in culture
In cooperation with Prof. Uwe Rauch from Lund University in Sweden, Bochum's biologists examined cells from the brains of two mouse species: a species with a normal extracellular matrix and a species which lacked four components of the extracellular matrix due to genetic manipulation, namely the molecules tenascin-C, tenascin-R, neurocan and brevican. They took the cells from the hippocampus, a brain structure that is crucial for the long-term memory. The team not only examined neurons but also astrocytes, which are in close contact with the neurons, support their function and secrete molecules for the extracellular matrix.
Formation, stability and activity of the neuronal connections depend on the matrix
The researchers cultivated the neurons and astrocytes together for four weeks with a specially developed culture strategy. Among other things, they observed how many connections, known as synapses, the neurons formed with each other and how stable these were over time. If either the astrocytes or the neurons in the culture dish derived from animals with a reduced extracellular matrix, these synapses proved to be less stable in the medium term, and their number was significantly reduced. Together with the Department of Cell Physiology at the RUB and the University of Regensburg, the team also showed that the neurons with a mutated matrix showed lower spontaneous activity than normal cells. The extracellular matrix thus regulates the formation, stability and activity of the neuronal connections. The researchers also examined a special structure of the extracellular matrix, the so-called perineuronal nets, which the Nobel laureate Camillo Golgi first described more than a century ago. They were significantly reduced in the environment of genetically modified cells.
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Facebook Messenger update adds cute stickers and brings back swipe to delete
Facebook has pushed out an update to their Messenger application for iPhone and iPod Touch that adds some new cuteness and brings back functionality that once was lost.
The latest version of Messenger has the popular -- and sometimes very cute looking -- stickers included, just as they are in the main Facebook application. Facebook does say, though, that the stickers will be available to everyone over the next few weeks. So, if you don't see them just yet, there's no need to panic.
Also included in this update is the re-appearance of the popular, and incredibly useful, swipe-to-delete feature. This is back 'by popular request' and rightly so. Most would question why something such as this would be taken away in the first place.
The update is live now in the App Store, so go grab it and start sending all your friends those adorable little kitty stickers!
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Three months after launch, Landsat 8 appears to be working flawlessly
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A satellite image provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a view from space of the city of Sioux Falls, S.D., as seen from the Landsat 8 satellite on Mar. 30, 2013.
By Dirk Lammers, Associated Press
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. ? A new satellite hovering nearly 450 miles above the Earth appears to working flawlessly as it embarks on a 10-year mission to document the planet's surface, scientists and engineers at the U.S. Geological Survey's Earth Resources Observation and Science Center said Monday.
Landsat 8 is sending more than 400 data-filled images per day back to the EROS center north of Sioux Falls, where they will be archived and made available for free download by scientists or anyone else who's interested.
The center's mission requires images to be publicly available within 48 hours of their capture, those most will be ready within 24 hours, said project scientist Tom Loveland.
The new orbiter has several advantages over its still-functioning predecessor Landsat 7, which captures just 250 images a day. Landsat 8 also boasts two new spectral bands, one to see deeper into oceans, lakes and rivers and another to detect cirrus clouds and correct for atmospheric effects, Loveland said.
The new satellite's infrared band is split into two, allowing for more accurate surface temperature readings, he added.
"It should really make a difference in our ability to map and characterize changes going on in the surface of the Earth," Loveland said.
NASA launched Landsat 8 into space in February. Since then, teams have been running it through a barrage of tests before placing the satellite into orbit 438 miles above the planet's surface.
"The spacecraft has been extremely healthy," said Jim Nelson, ground systems manager. "The instruments have performed really well."
The EROS Center, the main federal repository for satellite images, will officially take over the mission May 30 from NASA.
Since 1972, Landsat satellites have been continuously snapping pictures across the globe as part of a 40-year mission to document the planet.
Landsat 8, which is about the size of UPS truck with a 30-foot-long deployed sheet of solar panels, is stocked with a 10-year supply of fuel. It travels at a speed of 17,000 miles per hour.
Landsat 8 will work in tandem with Landsat 7, launched in 1999, to take pictures of each inch of the planet's surface every eight days. Landsat 7 continues to operate despite a faulty scan line corrector that leaves zigzag gaps in some images.
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Jim Nelson, ground systems manager with the U.S. Geological Survey, shows a model of the Landsat 8 satellite at the USGS EROS Center near Sioux Falls, S.D.
Landsat 5, which dates back to 1984, worked decades past its expected mission end but began failing in November. Landsat 6 never reached orbit after its 1993 launch because of a ruptured manifold.
Nelson said the EROS Center has been preparing for the wave of new data, upgrading its ground station near Sioux Falls as well as partner facilities in Alaska and Norway.
It also overhauled its data processing and storage systems, "so we can get as much data as possible online for the users to get direct access to," Nelson said.
Loveland said there's a huge demand for the images in the scientific community, giving an example of a recent Brazilian Remote Sensing Symposium that drew more than 800 people looking to tap into the data.
"There's a great deal of planning going on from people ready to use the images," Loveland said.
The center used to charge for the images, but for years now, they've been free.
"When you put all this free stuff in universities, innovation happens," Loveland said.
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AllThingsD's Kara Swisher has written an in-depth article about the tug-of-war between Facebook and Twitter for Instagram in Vanity Fair.
In April 2012, many investors and tech companies were interested in Instagram. ?VCs gave Systrom and his co-founder, Mike Krieger, $50 million at a $500 million valuation. Around the same time, Jack Dorsey and Twitter's then-CFO, Ali Rowghani, wanted to buy Instagram. The pair say they made a formal offer to buy it in a ~ $500 million all-stock deal.
Dorsey had worked alongside Systrom a few years earlier at Odeo. Odeo was co-founded by Dorsey and grew to become Twitter; Systrom was Odeo's intern. Dorsey was also an early investor in Instagram and considered himself a mentor for Systrom.
But with the fresh $50 million from investors, Systrom and Krieger weren't interested in selling ? at least not to Twitter.
According to Swisher,?Systrom called Twitter CEO Dick Costolo on April 4 2012 to tell him Instagram had raised $50 million and would remain a private company. He also called Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, who had been an acquaintance of Systrom's since his Stanford days.
To Zuckerberg, Systrom's "no" just meant he had to try harder. Zuckerberg sent Systrom a text and invited him over to discuss options. It was Easter Weekend and over the course of those few days, Zuckerberg and Systrom cut a deal. Zuckerberg doubled Twitter's offer and agreed to buy Instagram for more than $730 million in cash and stock.
While Systrom called many of his investors to get the deal approved and to give them news of the sale early, he never called Dorsey.
Dorsey says he learned of the acquisition during work from one of his employees. The friendship between Dorsey and Systrom hasn't been repaired since.
"I found out about the deal when I got to work and one of my employees told me about it, after reading it online I got a notice later that day since I was an investor,? Dorsey tells Swisher. ?So I was heartbroken, since I did not hear from Kevin at all. We exchanged e-mails once or twice, and I have seen him at parties. But we have not really talked at all since then, and that?s sad.?
Systrom didn't mean to snub Dorsey. He tells Swisher he isn't sure what changed his mind and made him decide to sell to Facebook, just days after turning down Twitter. The "equation," says Systrom, was very different.
"I?m not sure what changed my mind, but [Zuckerberg] presented an entire plan of action, and it went from a $500 million valuation from Sequoia to a $1 billion [one from Facebook],? Systrom says.?"I think everyone thinks that the acquisition was made in a dark room with Trent Reznor music playing. And it turns out that some of the biggest decisions get made relatively quickly, without much fanfare.?
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-was-heartbroken-when-instagram-sold-to-facebook-2013-5
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Friday, May 3, 2013
How to stop notification vibrations on the Samsung Galaxy S4
A simple setting hidden in a not-so-obvious place
Update: To clarify, this is for the international GS4 only. Looks like the US versions don't require any extra steps to enter mute mode.
If you've got an Android 4.2 phone set to vibrate mode, notifications that would normally play a sound alert cause a vibration. On the Nexus 4 that's easily avoided by cranking the volume all the way down to the "mute" level, but on the Samsung Galaxy S4 (international version only, for some reason) the lowest level on the volume bar is 'vibrate,' not 'mute.' So how do you avoid being pestered by vibration alerts? Turns out there's a simple toggle for it, though it's tucked away in a less than obvious place.
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Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/LIEG7onRpXU/story01.htm
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