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A tantra is a divinely revealed body of didactics, explaining what is necessary in the recitation of the worship of God and also identify the specialized initiation and purification ceremonies that are the necessary of Tantric practice.
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Mantra:
It is a sanskrit word that is considered capable of creating transformation.
Mantras spring up in the vedic tradition of india ,becoming an crucial part of the hindu tradition and a habitual practice within budism,sikhism and Jainism.
In the circumstance of the Vedas, the terminal figure mantra refers to the entire portion which curb the texts called rig, yajur or sama, thats, the metrical portion as opposed to the prose brahmana commentary. With the modulation from ritualistic Vedic traditions to mystical and equalitarian Hindu schools of yoga, Vedanta, tantra and bhakti, the orthodox position of the elite nature of mantra knowledge gave way to spiritual interpreting of mantras as a transformation of the human will or desire into a form of action.
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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) ? The judge in the murder trial of George Zimmerman said Saturday that prosecution audio experts who point to Trayvon Martin as screaming on a 911 call moments before he was killed won't be allowed to testify at trial.
Judge Debra Nelson reached her decision after hearing arguments that stretched over several days this month on whether to allow testimony from two prosecution experts. One expert ruled out Zimmerman as the screamer and another said it was Martin. Defense experts argued there was not enough audio to determine who the screams are coming from. Zimmerman's attorneys also argued that the state experts' analysis is flawed.
Nelson ruled that the methods used by the experts aren't reliable. But her ruling doesn't prevent the 911 calls from being played at trial.
The screams are crucial pieces of evidence because they could determine who the aggressor was in the confrontation. Martin's family contends it was the teen screaming, while Zimmerman's father has said it was his son.
Opening statements are set for Monday in the second-degree murder trial for the former neighborhood watch volunteer who says he fired on the unarmed black teenager in self-defense last year. Zimmerman is pleading not guilty.
The elimination of the audio experts will likely shorten the trial by a week. Before the ruling, attorneys had predicted the trial could last two to four weeks after opening statements.
A spokeswoman for prosecutors didn't immediately return an email Saturday.
Audio experts from both sides testified at different times during the hearing, which stretched over three weeks. Voice experts were hired by lawyers and news organizations to analyze the calls, which were made during the confrontation between the two. The experts arrived at mixed conclusions.
In deciding whether to admit the voice-recognition technology used by prosecution audio experts Tom Owen and Alan Reich, Nelson had to determine whether it is too novel or whether it has been accepted by the scientific community at-large.
"There is no evidence to establish that their scientific techniques have been tested and found reliable," the judge said in her ruling.
Owen was hired by the Orlando Sentinel last year to compare a voice sample of Zimmerman with screams for help captured on 911 calls made by neighbors. He said Zimmerman's voice doesn't match the screams. He only compared Zimmerman's voice to the 911 calls because he didn't have a voice sample for Martin at the time.
"The screams don't match at all," Owen testified during the hearing. "That's what tells me the screams aren't George Zimmerman."
Owen also testified that remarks Zimmerman made in a conversation with a police dispatcher aren't a racial slur. He testified Zimmerman said, "These f------ punks."
Reich testified in a report for prosecutors that the screams on the 911 tapes were from Martin, and the defense does not want him to testify at trial.
Reich's analysis also picked up words that other experts couldn't find. They include the words, "This shall be" from Zimmerman and "I'm begging you" from Martin.
Reich's testimony would "confuse issues, mislead the jury," the judge said.
In contrast, a British audio expert testified for the defense that it would be extremely difficult to analyze voices by comparing screaming to a normal voice.
"I've never come across a case in my 13 years where anybody's tried to compare screaming to a normal voice," said audio expert Peter French.
A second audio expert for the defense, George Doddington, also criticized prosecution experts who said Friday that screams and pleas on a 911 recording likely belonged to Martin.
"It's all ridiculous," Doddington said.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/judge-no-audio-testimony-zimmerman-trial-140933201.html
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Web edition: June 21, 2013
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A new instrument onboard the NASA?NOAA Suomi satellite has been capturing exquisitely detailed views of seasonal and environmental shifts in plant cover. Light sensors on the satellite identify vegetation by detecting differences in reflected amounts of visible light, which plants absorb for photosynthesis, and near-infrared light, which plants don?t absorb. Subtle changes in greenness can give advance warning of drought or fire conditions. Meteorologists can also use data on vegetation dynamics to improve weather prediction.
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Things change over time. Famous logos morph from black and white text into ornately embossed colorful graphics
Though Pepsi gets a lot of crap for trying to find a logo that sticks and Coca Cola gets a lot of credit for having the same logo after all these years (other than the New Coke fiasco), both their soda can designs have changed dramatically from its humbly sweet beginnings.
Bold Post culled together all these images of soda cans over the years ranging from a 1948 Pepsi to a 1964 7-Up and more. In the early years, it seemed like the design of the whole can changed a lot more frequently while recent years gave way more to little tweaks and additions.
My personal favorites? The 1971 Coca Cola. The 1978 Pepsi. 1972 7-Up. The 1981 Crush. And the 1985 Dr Pepper. See more soda can design changes here. [Bold Post via Design Taxi]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/how-the-design-of-soda-cans-have-changed-over-time-526550275
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HONG KONG (AP) ? Hong Kong was silent Saturday on whether a former National Security Agency contractor should be extradited to the United States now that he has been charged with espionage, but some legislators said the decision should be up to the Chinese government.
Edward Snowden, believed to be holed up in Hong Kong, has admitted providing information to the news media about two highly classified NSA surveillance programs.
It is not known if the U.S. government has made a formal extradition request to Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong government had no immediate reaction to the charges against Snowden. Police Commissioner, Andy Tsang, when was asked about the development, told reporters only that the case would be dealt with according to the law. A police statement said it was "inappropriate" for the police to comment on the case.
When China regained control of Hong Kong in 1997, the former British colony was granted a high degree of autonomy and granted rights and freedoms not seen on mainland China. However, under the city's mini constitution Beijing is allowed to intervene in matters involving defense and diplomatic affairs.
Outspoken legislator Leung Kwok-hung said Beijing should instruct Hong Kong to protect Snowden from extradition before his case gets dragged through the court system. Leung also urged the people of Hong Kong to "take to the streets to protect Snowden."
Another legislator, Cyd Ho, vice-chairwoman of the pro-democracy Labour Party, said China "should now make its stance clear to the Hong Kong SAR (Special Administrative Region) government" before the case goes before a court.
China has urged Washington to provide explanations following the disclosures of National Security Agency programs which collect millions of telephone records and track foreign Internet activity on U.S. networks, but it has not commented on Snowden's status in Hong Kong.
A formal extradition request, which could drag through appeal courts for years, would pit Beijing against Washington at a time China tries to deflect U.S. accusations that it carries out extensive surveillance on American government and commercial operations.
Snowden's whereabouts have not been publicly known since he checked out of a Hong Kong hotel on June 10. He said in an interview with the South China Morning Post that he hoped to stay in the autonomous region of China because he has faith in "the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate." Tsang said in interview broadcast on local television that he could not comment when asked about a local newspaper report that Snowden was in a police "safe house."
Snowden and his supporters have also spoken of his seeking asylum from Iceland.
A prominent former politician in Hong Kong, Martin Lee, the founding chairman of the Democratic Party, said he doubted whether Beijing would intervene at this stage.
"Beijing would only intervene according to my understanding at the last stage. If the magistrate said there is enough to extradite, then Mr. Snowden can then appeal," he said.
Lee said Beijing could then decide at the end of the appeal process if it wanted Snowden extradited or not.
A one-page criminal complaint unsealed Friday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, said Snowden engaged in unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence information. Both are charges under the Espionage Act. Snowden also is charged with theft of government property. All three crimes carry a maximum 10-year prison penalty.
The complaint will be an integral part of the U.S. government's effort to have Snowden extradited from Hong Kong, a process that could become a prolonged legal battle. Snowden could contest extradition on grounds of political persecution.
Hong Kong lawyer Mark Sutherland said that the filing of a refugee, torture or inhuman punishment claim acts as an automatic bar on any extradition proceedings until those claims can be assessed.
"Some asylum seekers came to Hong Kong 10 years ago and still haven't had their protection claims assessed," Sutherland said.
Organizers of a public protest in support of Snowden last week said Saturday that there were no plans for similar demonstrations this weekend.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hk-silent-far-possible-snowden-extradition-051344237.html
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This blog post originates from the Lindau Nobel Online Community,the interactive forum of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. The 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, dedicated to chemistry, will be held in Lindau, Germany, from 30 June to 5 July 2013. 35 Nobel Laureates will congregate to meet more than 600 young researchers from approximately 80 countries.
Ashutosh (Ash) Jogalekar is part of the official blog team. Please find all of his postings in the Community blog.
This year I again have the great pleasure of blogging from the 2013 Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates held in the scenic city of Lindau in Germany, this time focused on chemistry. I blogged for the meeting in 2009 and had a wholly unique time interacting with Nobel Laureates and about 600 hand-picked students from all around the world. The official purpose of the meeting ? which has been held since 1951 ? is the transfer of knowledge between generations and the event always amply serves the purpose.
As a prelude to the actual meeting which starts on June 30th, I have started writing a few posts on their website which is hosted by Nature. Over the next two weeks I will be cross-posting my pieces on this blog. I look forward to a week full of exciting scientific interactions between young and old blood.
My first post talks the central role of diversity in the science of chemistry.
Chemistry and diversity: Inseparable partners
Scientists come in two flavors, unifiers and diversifiers. Unifiers try to find the common threads underlying disparate phenomena. Diversifiers try to find more disparate phenomena for the unifiers to unify. Occasionally a diversifier may wear a unifier?s hat and consolidate what he knows and sometimes a unifier may take a break from his grand goal and revel in the details, but by and large the demarcation stands.
As the history of science demonstrates, both diversifiers and unifiers are necessary for the creation of new ideas and growth of the scientific enterprise. But there are also certain periods and fields where one or the other type of scientist has been dominant. Physics provides a particularly interesting case where the goal of unification has driven the field for several hundred years. From Aristotle?s dream of seeing the world through the common lens of four ?elements? to modern string theorists? dream of reducing the laws governing the universe to an abstract mathematical object, physics has always been particularly fruitful for unifiers. Yet there have been periods such as the fact-gathering era of the early nineteenth century when diversifiers have reigned.
If physics has been principally driven by unification, chemistry has mainly been a diversifier?s game. For a long time, what was known as ?chemistry? consisted of the accumulation of facts about the nature of substances, including ordinary properties like color, smell and physical state combined with increasing knowledge of the transformation that these substances undergo. For all the scorn that they invoke, the alchemists were great diversifiers, carefully listing the fruits of their feverish labors to turn base metals into gold and creating much of the basic equipment that is a mainstay of today?s chemical laboratories.
The first modern attempt at unification came at the end of the eighteenth century when Antoine Lavoisier classified substances into elements, compounds and mixtures. Lavoisier inaugurated a great age of unification in chemistry. His discoveries were followed about thirty years later by Friedrich W?hler?s watershed synthesis of urea from common inorganic substances, an act that unified inorganic and biological chemistry. The synthesis of urea signaled the beginning of the science of organic chemistry and the beginning of the end for the regressive doctrine of vitalism.?W?hler?s discoveries were followed by the development of the structural theory of chemistry by scientists like Friedrich Kekule, Justig von Liebig, Archibald Couper and Alexander Butlerov which gave concrete shape to what until then had been mere placeholder names. Chemical substances could now be represented on paper as discrete collections of atoms making up molecules. The culmination of chemical unification in the nineteenth century came with Dimitri Mendeleev who put the classification of disparate elements on a firm footing based on atomic weights. Mendeleev also demonstrated how unification could be a potent tool for the prediction of unknown properties.
The twentieth century has been a particularly striking example of how both unification and diversification play key roles in chemistry. The greatest act of chemical unification during this time was the success of Linus Pauling and other scientists in creating a theory of the chemical bond, a development that was directly based on the quantum mechanical revolution in physics. The work of quantum chemists made it possible to come up with common explanations for thousands of disparate chemical facts. Why are certain substances solids while others are liquids? Why do certain compounds dissolve in water while others don?t? What kind of bonds distinguish inorganic compounds from organic ones? What holds the structure of biological molecules together? Hundreds of such questions could be answered using the basic theory of chemical bonding combined with a potent tool ? x-ray crystallography. The theory of bonding provided tantalizing explanations, but it was crystallography that allowed us to confirm the common provenance of molecules and the true nature of the chemical bond. A parallel thread of unification in organic chemistry was led by the American chemist Robert Burns Woodward who, through his spectacular syntheses of complex natural products, demonstrated the unifying role that a few good chemical principles can serve.
Yet we saw that quantum chemistry did not do away with other fields of chemistry any more than quantum physics did away with other fields of physics. Diversifiers were still needed to do experiments. Chemistry is first and foremost an experimental science, and no amount of theorizing can diminish the value of the simple experiment revealing novel phenomena. The equations of quantum chemistry may be explanatory in principle, but in practice they are too complicated to explain or predict the most interesting chemical facts. We still have to experimentally determine the nature of the colors of a flower petal, the operating principle of the scent of ambergris, the drug staving off the cruel march of Alzheimer?s disease, the semiconducting material that would lead to the next breakthrough in electronics and the dye that could revolutionize the practice of solar energy. Theorists will aid all these discoveries but they will principally come from diverse experimenters.
Another important aspect of chemistry is the ability to create diversity through unity. For instance, Woodward may have brought powerful unifying principles to bear on his syntheses, but the sheer diversity of the substances which he synthesized ? ranging from cholesterol to vitamin B12 ? is clear. Even Woodward?s predecessor?W?hler paradoxically initiated a push toward diversity; by demonstrating that biological substances could in fact be potentially made from simple inorganic ones, he opened a window into appreciating the astonishing variety of molecules that evolution has fashioned from a limited sampling of building blocks. This is in fact a recurring theme and here are two more examples: The common molecular features that enable us to probe molecular structure using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy allow us to explore the subtle differences between molecules. In another case, you can use a single kind of reaction such as palladium catalyzed Suzuki cross-coupling to create libraries of diverse molecules. Chemistry is a particularly striking example of a science where diversity and unity piggyback on each other?s successes.
The range of diverse activities in chemistry is also apparent in the number of chemical specialties that have sprouted up in the last few decades. Their practitioners have given them fancy names like chemical biology, neurochemistry, nanochemistry and astrochemistry. There are unifying themes between all of these ? as well as, one suspects, some branding of old wine in new bottles ? but the practitioners of these disciplines consider themselves to be distinct enough to engage separate field of research. Diversity in chemistry is alive and kicking, certainly at the level of departments, conferences and funding.
There is another, deeper sense in which chemistry more than physics is a world of diversity. The equations of quantum mechanics do not help us understand the workings of brain chemistry not only because they are too complicated to solve in real time but because they deal with a different level of abstraction. One of the great philosophical paradigms of the twentieth century has been the discovery of emergent phenomena as a distinctive aspect of physical and biological systems. This paradigm demonstrated how, as we build up from atoms to molecules to cells to people, every level contains its own fundamental laws that cannot be directly mapped on to their underlying platforms. Quantum chemistry is quantum physics, but it?s more than that. And biochemistry is certainly chemistry, but in heralding the transition from nonliving matter to life, it shows itself capable of achieving something more than what simple chemistry can.
Diversity has a dominant role in allowing chemistry to account for emergent phenomena. Diversifiers can provide both the theoretical and experimental wherewithal to navigate the contours of these multiple levels of understanding, but when it comes to actually uncovering the raw facts of emergence, at this point in history experiments are far ahead of theory. At some point we will have a concrete theoretical framework that accounts for the chemical transition between living and nonliving matter for instance, but until then experiments must lead the way.
Chemistry has integrated itself in the working of the world at multiple levels, but at each level it demands separate explanatory frameworks that have lives of their own. One of the enduring challenges for chemists is how to use their knowledge of fundamental chemical principles to capture diversity at various levels of problem solving. Using their tools, diversifiers will illuminate corners of the tantalizing darkness. Unifiers can then find connections between these lonely spots which will reveal the grand edifice
Source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=lindau-2013-chemistry-and-diversity
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OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - The regulatory board overseeing marijuana legalization in Washington State is leaning toward allowing licensed growers to raise the drug outdoors, citing the much higher carbon footprint of indoor and greenhouse cultivation, board members said.
The view, which all three members of the Washington State Liquor Control Board told Reuters they shared, represents a reversal from the draft pot industry rules the body issued last month.
"If they can provide the security parameters that we require for indoor or greenhouse, if they can provide for that outdoors, then it's OK with me," board member Ruthann Kurose said, after a public meeting on Wednesday.
Washington and Colorado became the first U.S. states to legalize recreational pot after approval by voters last November, although the use and sale of marijuana remains illegal under federal law. Some 18 states allow pot for medical use.
The shift on cultivation rules underscores the degree to which the Washington State board is taking public feedback to heart, Chairwoman Sharon Foster said, and comes after the Seattle Times cited a 2012 study published in the journal Energy Policy saying that a kilogram of cannabis grown indoors requires the same amount of energy as 11 cross-country car trips.
"We're all willing to keep learning and changing our minds when enough stuff is put in front of us," Foster said.
The next draft of the pot industry rules is due on July 3. The board will file its official rules in August and plans to start accepting applications for licenses to grow, process and sell marijuana in September. Retail marijuana stores are expected to open in the state next spring.
While marijuana remains illegal under federal law, it is unclear whether the Obama administration will move to block states from implementing their recreational markets.
On Monday, seven Democratic members of Congress from Washington State sent U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder a letter urging the federal government to respect state law and to quickly announce its intention to do so.
"Further delay will slow the potential for economic advancement and could lead to wasted resources," the letter said.
(Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Leslie Adler)
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The Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce has a new leader.
Kristine Simpson of KPMG? ? a company which provides audit, tax, and advisory services ? took over the the role of president at the 82nd annual general meeting held on Tuesday night at the Coast Hotel and Convention Centre.
She replaces outgoing president Angie Quaale.
Simpson was sworn in by Township of Langley mayor Jack Froese, while outgoing Langley City Mayor Peter Fassbender led the rest of the Chamber executive in their oath.
?Lynn (Whitehouse, Chamber executive director) is awesome,? Froese told Simpson. ?She?ll teach you everything you need to know. Just remember to say ?yes.??
Giving her first address as Chamber president, Simpson looked forward to the national Chamber meeting coming up in Kelowna in September, as well as to lobbying the province on transportation funding for the Langleys and strengthening the voice of business in the community.
?I cannot express what big shoes I have to fill,? said Simpson, praising Quaale for her respectful, inclusive and bold leadership, and for the enthusiasm she showed while helping to raise the profile of business in Langley.
Reflecting on her year in office, Quaale, who will remain on the executive as past president, thanked Chamber staff, the rest of the executive and the membership as a whole for their support.
Among the Chamber?s accomplishments she singled out was the ?Your Voice Your Vote? campaign, which aimed to see voter turnout in the May provincial election rise by at least five per cent. It exceeded its goal by a substantial margin in both Langley ridings, Quaale noted.
Source: http://www.bclocalnews.com/business/212237061.html
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TIRANA, Albania (AP) ? Political parties in Albania entered their final day of campaigning for Sunday's general elections, considered a test for the Balkan country to shed its history of troubled campaigns as it seeks closer ties and eventual membership in the European Union.
Conservative Prime Minister Sali Berisha, 68, is seeking a third term and will speak at his Democratic Party's main election rally Friday in the capital Tirana.
He is facing a strong challenge from 48-year-old Socialist Edi Rama, whose campaign has concentrated on the enduring levels of poverty in the country that has 3.3 million registered voters.
Once one of the world's hardest-line Communist countries, Albania joined NATO in 2009 but has failed to gain candidate status from the European Union, which is pressing for broader democratic reforms and an improved election record.
"The parliamentary elections in Albania on 23 June represent a crucial test for the country's democratic institutions and its progress toward the European Union," Catherine Ashton, the EU's high representative for foreign affairs, and Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule said in a recent statement.
The monthlong election contest has been relatively calm, unlike past elections that were frequently marred by violence. However, there have been reports of civil servants and even school children being pressured to attend pro-government rallies.
The country heads to the polls amid an ongoing dispute over the country's election commission that remains dominated by Berisha allies despite the fracturing of his center-right coalition in mid-April. Berisha's failure to resolve the dispute over the Central Election Commission drew sharp criticism from the United States and EU.
The Vienna, Austria-based Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has sent a team of election monitors to Albania.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/albania-heads-polls-peaceful-campaign-085402624.html
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By Fredrik Dahl
VIENNA (Reuters) - Some states still appear to be skeptical about letting nuclear-armed India into an influential body regulating sensitive atomic trade, diplomats said on Thursday, suggesting Indian membership may not be imminent.
The United States, Britain, France are among countries pushing for allowing India - a growing market for such commerce - to join the 48-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), a move that would boost the Asian nation's status as an atomic power.
But others worry about the implications for wider efforts to prevent the spread of atomic bombs if a country that has refused to sign a global anti-nuclear weapons pact were to enter a group which has a key role in countering proliferation of these arms.
If India joined the group, set up in 1975 to ensure that civilian nuclear technology exports are not diverted to make atomic arms, it would be the only member that is outside the 189-nation nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
"There are concerns that still need to be addressed," one diplomat said. Like others, he declined to be identified in view of the confidential discussions in the consensus-based NSG.
A Western diplomat, from a country which like several others has yet to take a clear position on the issue, said: "It is not a done deal. We have to continue the discussions."
They were speaking after the NSG's annual meeting last week, where Britain argued in a paper that India qualifies given the size of its civilian atomic industry and commitment to stopping the spread of military material.
Western powers have taken a strong interest in the nuclear emergence of India - particularly its ambition to expand its capacity in the next 20 years by adding nearly 30 reactors, making it an attractive market for technology exporters.
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Proponents say it is better to have India, expected to become a big nuclear supplier itself, inside than outside the NSG as it would ensure that it adheres to the group's guidelines for sales of nuclear and nuclear-related goods.
"There are good reasons for having it in the club," the Western diplomat said. He added, however, that getting there could be a "slow process".
The diplomats said they did not believe the issue would be decided already at next year's NSG meeting. India is only expected to apply when it is confident it will be let in.
Critics warn it would undermine the credibility of the NSG.
Trying to "shoehorn India's entry" could trigger lobbying on the part of nuclear-armed, non-NPT members Pakistan and Israel to allow them to also join, said Daryl Kimball of the Arms Control Association, a U.S. research and advocacy group.
Washington sealed a civilian nuclear supply deal with India in 2008 that China and others found questionable because Delhi is not part of the NPT. This ended India's nuclear isolation and could mean billions of dollars in business for U.S. firms. Britain is also exploring a nuclear cooperation deal with India.
India - Asia's third-largest economy - would need the support of all NSG members to join the secretive body.
The diplomats declined to comment on which countries remained skeptical. After an informal meeting in March in Vienna, participants said Ireland, the Netherlands and Switzerland seemed to be among those still having doubts.
China is also believed to have reservations, influenced by its ties to its ally Pakistan, India's arch geo-political rival, which has also tested atomic bombs, analysts say. India and Pakistan - which have fought three wars - are both outside the NPT, which would oblige them to scrap nuclear weapons.
Five world powers - the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France - in the NSG have nuclear arsenals but were allowed to keep them under the NPT because they predated the 1970 treaty, although they committed to disarming eventually.
(Editing by Mark Heinrich)
(This story adds dropped word in lede paragraph)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/india-may-wait-join-sensitive-nuclear-export-body-110443599.html
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When you start university or TAFE, it?s often the first time in your life that you have lived away from home and been fully independent.? There are pluses and minuses to this new-found freedom. You are now responsible for your own health and wellbeing.? To be healthy and perform as well as you can in your studies, you need to eat healthy food, get enough sleep and do some exercise.? It?s not difficult to plan, shop and cook your own meals, even if you?re on a tight budget.
It will help if you?re familiar with the main things that make up a healthy diet.? In general, you should aim to:
It may be a little daunting at first to manage your own meals.? You have to find time to shop, know what to buy, prepare the food and do the cooking.? But you will soon get used to it. With some planning, you can eat cheap and healthy meals on a tight budget.? Ways to get organised include:
Stock your food cupboard and fridge with ingredients that are quick to prepare and easy to cook. Suggestions for meals include:
Hints that can help you save money on food include:
Healthy eating is especially important when you are under stress.? When you are rushing to try and meet deadlines, it?s easy to skip meals and forget about healthy eating. But this is when your body needs good nutrition the most.
When you are under stress or you need to concentrate, a healthy diet will help to keep you focused.? You can?t keep up the pace if you only snack on takeaway food or bowls of cereal. Keep up your energy levels with healthy snacks and regular meals.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed seven people at an Iraqi vote counting center on Thursday evening, police said, hours after polls closed in two Sunni Muslim-dominated provinces.
Most Iraqis voted for provincial councils in April but the Shi'ite-led government postponed elections in Anbar and Nineveh, citing security concerns after months of protests by the country's Sunni minority.
The decision to delay voting in those governorates was criticized by the United States, which said it would compound a sense of Sunni marginalization that has fuelled a wave of violent unrest.
More than 1,000 people were killed in militant attacks in Iraq in May, making it the deadliest month since the height of sectarian bloodletting in 2006-07.
The suicide bomber blew himself up at a vote-counting center in the city of Ramadi in Anbar province, killing seven people, four of whom were members of Iraq's electoral commission.
Earlier on Thursday, a roadside bomb hit a bus carrying five electoral officials in the town of Baiji in Nineveh, killing one, police said. In the provincial capital Mosul, a mortar round was fired at a checkpoint near a voting center, wounding two soldiers.
On Wednesday, a suicide bomber embraced and killed a Sunni political leader, also in Nineveh.
"The people of Anbar and Nineveh overcame threats to cast their vote today, and violence failed to disrupt the democratic process," United Nations envoy to Iraq Martin Kobler said in a statement.
The first ballot to be held since U.S. troops left the country will indicate the strength of Iraq's Sunni political groupings before a parliamentary election due in 2014.
"We voted for the sake of our children. We want to get rid of the corrupt people and look forward to the future of our children and city," said 40-year-old Um Mohammed after casting her vote in Mosul.
The three provinces that make up the autonomous Kurdistan region in the north of Iraq hold elections on their own timetable and are scheduled to go to the polls in September.
Separately, the bodies of three men kidnapped on Wednesday were found handcuffed with bullets to the head and chest in the town of Sharqat, 260 km (160 miles) northwest of Baghdad. Two of the men were farmers and the third a policeman.
Sectarian tensions are running high in Iraq. The government has blamed attacks against both Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims on the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq, which has been reinvigorated by the civil war in neighboring Syria.
(Reporting by Ziad al-Sanjary and Raheem Salman; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Andrew Roche)
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Tesla Model S's poor road-trip reputation has been greatly exaggerated.
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The conventional wisdom on the Tesla Model S?the most hyped, decorated, and controversial new car in memory?is that it?s a technological marvel, but prohibitively expensive and ultimately impractical, especially for road trips. For all the accolades (Motor Trend Car of the Year, Automobile Automobile of the Year, the highest rating in Consumer Reports history), the review that sticks most in people?s minds is the one by the New York Times? John M. Broder. You know, the one where the car ran out of batteries on the freeway and had to be towed to a charging station.
Lots of adverse factors conspired to create the Times? road trip from hell, including cold weather, poor planning, and driver error. But the image of a shiny-red Model S strapped to a mechanic?s wrecker was indelible. Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed it led ?hundreds? of buyers to cancel their orders. Even after CNN and others retraced Broder?s route from Washington, D.C. to Boston without incident, the taint lingered, because it seemed to confirm what skeptics had suspected all along: The Tesla hype was too good to be true. An electric car might make for a snazzy toy, but if you want a workhorse to get you from point A to point B, you?d better stick with pistons and gasoline.
But when I took the Model S for a weekend road trip recently, I found I didn?t miss the internal combustion engine one bit. The Tesla wasn?t just the smoothest, fastest, and most technologically advanced car I?ve ever driven. It was among the most comfortable and practical. And it was?counter to everything you?ve heard?ideally suited to a road trip.
The car makes things easy on you before you even get inside. There?s no key to speak of: Just approach the driver?s-side door with the Tesla-shaped key in your pocket, and the car wakes up automatically, its retractable door handles sliding out to greet your hand. Inside there are no knobs or dials, just a massive, 16-inch central touch screen and a smaller driver?s-side display controlled by buttons on the steering wheel. Unlike in most other cars, the touch screen remains fully functional while you?re driving, so you can adjust your route on Google Maps, check out the view from the rear-facing camera, or even browse the Internet while you?re cruising down I-95. Should anyone do such things while driving? Of course not?but a passenger can. Tesla may be risking a lawsuit by allowing this, but it comes in handy on a long drive.
Once you?re in the car, you don?t have to turn it on?just put it in drive and go. Neither do you turn it off?just put it in park and get out. The interior is spacious and minimalist, the fit and finish as sound as you?d expect in a luxury sedan. There are a couple of minor annoyances. The Daimler-made turn-signal stalk is unusually low, practically enforcing a 9-and-3 hand position. The voice-command system doesn?t work particularly well. And the lack of ?creep??the car acts like it?s in neutral rather than in drive when your foot is off the gas?can be unnerving at first if you?re used to an automatic transmission. Tesla has addressed this last complaint by adding an optional ?creep? mode via software update?a testament to the wisdom of controlling a car via software rather than having everything hard-wired.
The ride itself is flawless. My fianc?e and I picked up the Model S at a Tesla Store in Manhattan on a Saturday morning, threw a couple of bags in its cavernous trunk, and headed northeast to a friend?s house in New Haven, Conn.?about 80 miles away. As in my first brief Model S test-drive last year, I was awed by the quality of the handling, the suspension, and the acceleration. If you?ve always driven fossil-fuel-guzzlers, it?s a ghostly feeling the first time you floor it in a Tesla. With no transmission and no engine noise, you?re simply pinned to your seat as the scenery flashes by. My co-pilot reached for a Star Trek analogy: ?It?s like warp drive.?
The car?s virtues aside, it was a typical weekend jaunt, only with more friendly gawkers involved. Teslas are becoming a common sight in San Francisco and Los Angeles, but they?re still a novelty on the East Coast. We smiled and waved as fellow motorists craned their heads and flashed thumbs-up signs. A big tattooed guy in a vintage BMW M5 rolled down his window and actually began applauding as we passed him on I-95. A kid in a backward baseball cap and a Dodge Stratus R/T tried to out-accelerate us. He failed.
Over the course of the weekend?which involved driving to breakfast, driving to dinner, driving to an Ikea, driving to the top of a hill, and driving back to Manhattan, all with the climate-control on and the Internet radio playing?we charged the car exactly once, for a grand total of 20 minutes: just long enough to stretch our legs, use the bathroom, and grab some food at a rest stop in Milford, Conn. We returned the car with some 70 miles of battery power to spare. Not for one moment did we feel a hint of range anxiety.
Here?s the trick: We didn?t set out, as the Times? Broder did (with Tesla?s encouragement), to test the limits of the car?s range. We just set out, like any normal driver, to reach a reasonable destination without any danger of running out of juice. You might say that 160 miles is a short road trip, and I?d agree with you. You might point out that you can go almost anywhere in the United States in an internal-combustion car without having to worry about running out of juice, and I?d agree with you again. That?s not a function of the car itself, though. The Tesla goes almost as far on a charge?upward of 265 miles?as a BMW M5 does on a full tank of gas. The real difference is the vast network of gas stations that sprouted up around the nation in the decades following the introduction of the first commercially viable gas-powered car.
Tesla is just beginning the huge undertaking of dotting the country?s highways with its Supercharger stations, which can replenish a Model S battery in about 45 minutes. Right now it has just eight: two on the East Coast and six in California. Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced last month that there will be 27 by the end of this summer and enough to enable a coast-to-coast Tesla road trip by the end of this year. Meanwhile, he?s aiming to reduce the charging time to more like 25 minutes.
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Kevin, Phil and the gang have been talking apps and app stores all week in Talk Mobile. They're sharing some pretty deep insight into the way apps, and the buying and selling of them, and most important of all -- availability.
Talk Mobile is a great way to see and discuss the general mobile atmosphere, but let's drill down a bit and focus on Android for this one. Google Play has over 700,000 apps. A lot of those apps are live wallpapers, themes, icon packs, and widgets. Those are all important, and we're not discounting them at all, but they're not exactly what we think of when we talk about apps. But even then, chances are Google Play has a whole lot of stand alone programs that will run on our phones and tablets, and our choices are pretty good. But can it ever be good enough?
Have you ever wanted an app to do something and couldn't find a solution in Google Play? Or maybe an app you really want is exclusive on another platform. Here's you chance to be heard. In the sidebar to the right, as well as after the break, you'll find a poll where you can tell everyone if you've been able to score everything you want on Android. Be honest, and be sure to participate.
For the record, I had to vote no. I want an accessory and accompanying app to plug my guitar into the Nexus 10 and use it as an amp. I know why this isn't easy to do, but I still want it badly. Maybe one day.
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Within hours of Vladimir and Lyudmila Putin's surprise divorce announcement after a night at the ballet, Russian wags and satirists were flooding the Web with jokes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (c.) and his wife Lyudmila (r.) speak to journalists after attending the ballet 'La Esmeralda' in the Kremlin Palace in Moscow on Thursday. The pair said they are divorcing after nearly 30 years of marriage, making the announcement on state television after attending a ballet performance at the Kremlin.
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EnlargeIn a classic Soviet-era anecdote, a judge comes out of his courtroom laughing uncontrollably. "What's so funny?" asks a colleague. "I've just heard a hilarious joke!" answers the judge, wiping away tears of laughter. "Well, tell me," insists the colleague. "Are you crazy?" says the judge. "I just sentenced a man to 10 years at hard labor for telling that joke!"
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People in Russia may not face the Gulag for cracking wise anymore, and many believe the quality of political jokes has deteriorated since the totalitarian Soviet state ? the whip that kept satirists on their toes ? expired.
But enough Russians still seem to view the political parade of events as one endless tragicomedy that can only be processed through the medium of humor to keep some semblance of the tradition going.
President Vladimir Putin's carefully-scripted announcement, together with his wife Lyudmila, that they're ending their 30-year marriage, was one of those moments that seemed to bring the amateur satirists swarming out ? nowadays boosted by the electronic megaphones of Twitter, Facebook, and the Russian-language VKontakte.
Within hours of the Putin's TV interview, the jokes and sometimes acerbic one-liners were circulating almost everywhere.
For example: A divorcing couple [clearly invoking the Putins] are asked how they plan to divide the property accumulated during the marriage. "Oh, I don't know," answers the husband. "Probably we'll just draw a line down the Ural Mountains."
The Putins had just come from watching a performance of the ballet Esmeralda (based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame) in the Kremlin Palace theater when they staged their announcement in the form of a "spontaneous" interview with a state TV journalist. A much-repeated joke on Facebook Friday ? which could become a self-fulfilling prophesy ? is that Russian slang for "getting divorced" will in future be "going to see Esmeralda."
Another frequently recurring theme riffs on the way Putin served his constitutionally-permitted two terms as president, then stepped aside for Dmitry Medvedev for one term, before returning last year for an unprecedented but legal third term.
"Now Medvedev will marry Lyudmila, but will divorce her after four years, and then Putin will remarry her," is the essence of one viral tweet.
And following the same line of thought, there is this: "Lyudmila has rejected a third term. That's because she respects the constitution."
Some of the jibes are bitter, reflecting the mood of beleaguered urban intellectuals whose aspirations for a more democratic and open political system have been dashed by the hard conservative turn the Kremlin has taken since Putin returned for his third term last year.
"Lyudmila is lucky. She's the only Russian who's managed to get free from Putin," says one tweet. Another rephrases the ubiquitous opposition slogan "Russia Without Putin!" into "Lyudmila without Putin!"
Many of the jokes swirling around the Internet are simply untranslatable, or rely too heavily on inside Russian references to explain to outsiders. As one of Russia's greatest comics, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, once remarked: "I've already made peace with the fact that humor doesn't cross borders. Humor is not an army."
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June 13, 2013
Today: 1972-1988: Saturday: 1988-1999
1966-to-1972: Pit Passion Began In Johnson Gym
By Richard Stevens - Senior Writer/GoLobos.com
The Pit was a sparking jewel of potential, but like a Las Vegas or Broadway stage, it needed something and someone special. It needed a show stopper.
It needed a team and a coach that The Pit rowdies could latch onto and form dreams that might actually become reality in this sunken arena that brewed a powerful and protective cauldron of love for Lobos.
The Lobos found their man and their coach in "Stormin" Norm Ellenberger, who bubbled with energy and passion for the game and for his Lobos. Ellenberger also had a style that Lobo fans seemed to embrace maybe as a sign of the times or maybe simply because "Stormin' Norman" was such a contrast to the buttoned-down, crew-cut wearing Bob King.
Ellenberger was modern, hip, with it, young, flashy, vital and often controversial in his dress and manners. He wore his collars open and deep to show off his turquoise or gold chains. His hair flowed over his ears. He sported the single-bar moustache, tight pants, deep tan, and leather coats.
He looked more like a Las Vegas lounge act than the coach who would lead the Lobos to the promised land of NCAA ball.
The denizens of The Pit might have had a few doubts about the style of the man, but they loved what he threw out on the court. King's Lobos were more methodical. They often controlled tempo with defense and a winning score in the 50s and 60s was just fine for King.
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Ellenberger talked the talk and his Lobos did the walking - and some running. King produced two 20-game win seasons in his ten years in Johnson Gym and The Pit. Ellenberger, rolling off King's foundation, threw out 20-game win seasons in his first two seasons in The Pit.
In 1972-73, UNM went 21-6 and finished second in the Western Athletic Conference race, a game behind Arizona State. Ellenberger's Lobos won 12 of their final 13 games and UNM returned to the national rankings for the first time in three seasons. That team went to New York City and lost in the National Invitation Tournament 65-63 to Virginia Tech.
The next season the Lobos took a step up by winning the WAC title at 10-4 and finishing 22-7. UNM returned to the NCAA wars winning a first-round game over Idaho State (73-65) and losing 64-61 to San Francisco, which led to a consolation win over Dayton (66-61).
If you notice, those scores weren't exactly reflective of the type of teams Ellenberger wanted to throw out in The Pit. He recognized the value of his home gym and the need to use the Pit's energy to fuel his Lobos' attack. Ellenberger wanted to press and run while not abandoning the fundamental principles of the game.
He also liked what he saw in Las Vegas where a coach named Tark "The Shark" Tarkanian had electrified a city with his UNLV `Runnin' Rebels. Ellenberger was coming off a hiccup season in 1974-75 of 13-13 and 4-10 (WAC). He wanted to change the face of Lobo basketball. So, he did.
The athleticism of the Lobos took a jump up. Ellenberger went the junior college route for some quick fixes and those tactics earned New Mexico the nickname "Transfer Tech." The program was ripe with two-year players. The Lobo fans didn't mind much. They came to see exciting, winning basketball. They got it.
The Lobos of 1975-76 played at a quicker pace behind a starting lineup of Larry Gray, George Berry, Rick Williams, Dale Slaughter and Mike Patterson. They ran to a 16-11 overall mark and went 8-6 in the WAC.
It also was a stormy season for "Stormin Norman." There was a mutiny within the Lobo ranks and on March 1, 1976, six of the black players on the squad quit and said they would not return to UNM if Ellenberger remained as the head man.
That boycott produced one of the more memorable wins in Lobo history. The Don Haskins Miners came to The Pit on March 6 looking to roll a UNM team with a depleted roster. UNM had retained one starter and took to The Pit floor with a starting lineup that combined for a 13.8 scoring average. The Miners were expected to mop up the floor with Lobos. It didn't happen.
The Lobo fell behind by 12 points early, rallied to a 56-49 lead with 3:56 to play and held on for a 59-58 win. The Pit went nuts. Steve Davis and Dan Davis (not related) combined to score 42 points. Earlier that season, UNM played in front of 19,452 in an 80-73 loss to UNLV.
Ellenberger lost some talent off his 1975-76 team, but went back on the JC trail and brought in two of the better Lobos ever: Michael Cooper and Marvin Johnson. This team was raw and at times undisciplined on defense and shot selection, but it was athletic and it could score. The Lobos came out of the gates in 1975-76 to score 121 points and hit 103 in a loss at New Mexico State. These Lobos scored 90 points or more 12 times and ran to a 19-11 mark.
They got better. In 1977-78, the Lobos scored 90 points or more 18 times in their first 21 games and posted a 19-2 mark. They went over 100 points 11 times. The Pit was memorized by this team and its potential especially with The Pit being a host site for teams looking to advance to the NCAA Final Four.
The Lobos ended the regular season at 24-4, went 13-1 in the WAC and ran past No. 9 UNLV 102-98 in Vegas. The Lobos went into the NCAA first round in Tempe, Ariz., only needing a win over no-name Cal State Fullerton to advance to the West Regional in The Pit.
The Lobos were shocked 90-85 by Fullerton and lost The Pit. Arkansas narrowly beat Fullerton in the regional finals and advanced to the Final Four.
The Lobos of 1978-79 did not have Cooper or Johnson (who scored 50 Pit points on March 2, 1978 vs. Colorado State), went 19-10 and fell back into the NIT. Ellenberger got a raise of $2,300 in July of 1979 to form a base salary of $37,300. The Lobo community was excited about the run-and-gun talent that Ellenberger had stockpiled for 1978-79. The team was loaded.
The season and the expectations crumbled when the FBI stormed into The Pit on Nov. 28, 1979 in the first phase of a transcript-rigging scandal known as "Lobogate." It fell apart quickly for Ellenberger. He was fired on Dec. 17 and what remained of the UNM roster was handed over to an assistant, Charlie Harrison. UNM did a quick search and pulled Gary Colson out of semi-retirement, but Harrison did the on-court coaching.
Harrison did a masterful job weaving a patterned offense behind a smooth, left-handed gunner, Kenny Page, who averaged 28 points that season. UNM, severely challenged in depth and inside strength, had to use several walk-ons to get through the season and stumbled to a 6-22 overall mark and 3-11 in league play.
The program was then turned over to Colson, who went 11-15, 14-14 and 14-15 in his attempt to pull this once-proud program out of the ashes of Lobogate. Colson tried to rebuild the right way. He preferred to bring in freshmen and there was a greater emphasis on student-athletes. The building process was slow, but there was a steady rise in the talent level.
In 1983-84, Colson's Lobos rode a soft schedule to 24 wins and pushed into postseason play with an invite to the NIT. UNM turned that season into two more NIT trips with a 19-13 mark in 1984-85 and a 17-14 record in 1985-86.
The Lobos then used the talent of Hunter Greene, Kelvin Scarborough, Charlie Thomas, Rob Loeffel and Rob Robbins to help UNM post seasons of 25-10 (1986-87) and 22-14 (1987-88). In January of 1988, the Lobos upset Lute Olson's undefeated and No. 1 ranked Arizona 61-59 in The Pit. For some, this is still UNM's greatest ever Pit win.
It appeared that Colson's program had turned the corner. He convinced a 7-foot-2 giant from Australia, Luc Longley, to come to Albuquerque and Albuquerque High's Willie Banks had decided to stay in Albuquerque. The Lobos of 1988-89 were loaded and it was expected to be Colson's best team.
He never got to coach it.
You have to give Colson great credit for bringing the UNM program back to its feet, but he was not allowed to turn the corner with his program. Colson had gone to the NIT five consecutive times and even though he had averaged 21.4 wins over that span, UNM did not want to continue under his leadership. Colson had not won a WAC title. The Lobo fans wanted more. They wanted the NCAA.
Colson was fired (by an athletics director who was later fired) and UNM began a search for a coach who could go beyond the NIT. The Lobos got a tease from Indiana's Bobby Knight, who was wading through some stormy times back in Indiana. Knight visited UNM, but turned down the job.
However, Knight did suggest UNM should take a look at a former Knight assistant, who was winning some games over at Southern Methodist in Dallas.
The Dave Bliss era was about to begin.
Editor's Note: Richard Stevens is a former award-winning Sports Columnist and Associate Sports Editor at The Albuquerque Tribune. You can reach him at rstevens50@comcast.net.
SIX PIT STARS FROM 1972 TO 1988
Marvin Johnson (1976-78): Nobody but Cool Hand Luke can eat 50 eggs and only Marvin Johnson (so far) can score 50 points in The Pit. Johnson hit 21 field goals and eight free throws vs. Colorado State on March 2, 1978 - before the 3-point line!
Michael Cooper (1976-78): One of the best all-around Lobos, who could score and play defense at a high level. Went on to NBA fame with the Los Angeles Lakers where he was a top NBA defender. Just ask Larry Bird.
Kenny Page (1979-81): Page might have been the best ever Lobo at using the backboard. A sweet touch. This southpaw led the Lobos in scoring during the "Lobogate" season averaging 28 points per game.
Kelvin Scarborough (1983-87): Is this the quickest Lobo ever? Scarborough was a jet on the court and left UNM No. 1 in steals while also entering the 1,000-Point Club. He once had 21 assists in a game.
Hunter Greene (1983-1988): Greene was all-around good and a smooth scorer. However, he might be best known for blocking Sean Elliott's last-second 3-point attempt that preserved a 61-59 Lobo win over No. 1 Arizona in The Pit.
Phil Smith (1980-84): Some Lobo fans will argue that Smith was UNM's best ever point guard. He played with an ornery edge, was wet-leather tough, and could penetrate any defense.
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A supporter holds a picture of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret information about U.S. surveillance programs, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong Thursday, June 13, 2013. The news of Snowden's whereabouts, revealed by an editor of a local newspaper that interviewed him Wednesday, is the first since he went to ground Monday after checking out of his hotel in this autonomous Chinese territory. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A supporter holds a picture of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret information about U.S. surveillance programs, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong Thursday, June 13, 2013. The news of Snowden's whereabouts, revealed by an editor of a local newspaper that interviewed him Wednesday, is the first since he went to ground Monday after checking out of his hotel in this autonomous Chinese territory. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A supporter holds a picture of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret information about U.S. surveillance programs, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong Thursday, June 13, 2013. The news of Snowden's whereabouts, revealed by an editor of a local newspaper that interviewed him Wednesday, is the first since he went to ground Monday after checking out of his hotel in this autonomous Chinese territory. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Demonstrators hold signs supporting Edward Snowden, who leaked top-secret information about U.S. surveillance programs, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong Thursday, June 13, 2013 as they demand that U.S. government should make public the targeted people and institution in Hong Kong and apologize to those who are targeted. The news of Snowden's whereabouts, revealed by an editor of a local newspaper that interviewed him Wednesday, is the first since he went to ground Monday after checking out of his hotel in this autonomous Chinese territory. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Chow Chung-yan, chief news editor of the South China Morning Post, speaks to the media at the South China Morning Post headquarters in Hong Kong Thursday, June 13, 2013. Edward Snowden, former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, dropped out of sight after checking out of a Hong Kong hotel on Monday. The Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post said it was able to locate and interview him on Wednesday. It provided brief excerpts from the interview on its website. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A staff member of the South China Morning Post walks past screens showing news on Edward Snowden, former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at its headquarters in Hong Kong Thursday, June 13, 2013. Snowden dropped out of sight after checking out of a Hong Kong hotel on Monday. The Hong Kong newspaper said it was able to locate and interview him on Wednesday. It provided brief excerpts from the interview on its website. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
HONG KONG (AP) ? For months, China has tried to turn the tables on the U.S. to counter accusations that it hacks America's computers and networks. Now, former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden may have handed Beijing a weapon in its cyber war of words with Washington.
In an interview with the South China Morning Post newspaper, Snowden claims the U.S. has long been attacking a Hong Kong university that routes all Internet traffic in and out of the semiautonomous Chinese region.
Snowden said the National Security Agency's 61,000 hacking targets around the world include hundreds in Hong Kong and mainland China, the paper reported late Wednesday. The Post, Hong Kong's main English-language newspaper, said Snowden had presented documents to support those claims, but it did not describe the documents and said it could not verify them.
Snowden's comments were his first since the 29-year-old American revealed himself as the source of a major leak of top-secret information on U.S. surveillance programs. He flew to Hong Kong from Hawaii before revealing himself, and the Post said he is staying out of sight amid speculation the U.S. may seek his extradition.
Snowden, who worked for the CIA and later as a contractor for the NSA, has revealed details about U.S. spy programs that sweep up millions of Americans' telephone records, emails and Internet data in the hunt for terrorists. American law enforcement officials are building a case against him but have yet to bring charges.
U.S. officials have disputed some of his claims, particularly his assertion to the Guardian newspaper of Britain that he "had the authority to wiretap anyone." He also said he made $200,000 a year, although contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, where he worked before being fired this week, said his salary was $122,000.
Snowden's allegations about U.S. hacking add a new twist to the long-running battle between Washington and Beijing over cybersecurity.
The U.S. been delivering a steady flow of reports accusing China's government and military of computer-based attacks against America. U.S. officials have said recently that the Chinese seem more open to trying to work with the U.S. to address the problems.
Snowden's allegations follow comments last week from China's Internet security chief, who told state media that Beijing has amassed huge amounts of data on U.S.-based hacking. The official held off on blaming the U.S. government, saying it would be irresponsible and that the better approach is to seek to cooperate in the fight against cyberattacks.
On Thursday, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Hua Chungying said China is a "major victim" of cyberattacks but did not lay blame.
The reaction was stronger online. Air Force Col. Dai Xu, known for the hawkish opinions he voices on his Sina Weibo microblog, wrote: "I have always said, the United States' accusations about Chinese hacking attacks have always been a case of a thief crying for another thief to be caught."
The Post cited Snowden as saying the NSA has been hacking into computers in Hong Kong and mainland China since 2009, citing documents he showed the paper, which it said it could not verify. It didn't provide further details about the documents.
He said that among the targets was the Chinese University of Hong Kong, which hosts the Hong Kong Internet Exchange, the main hub for the city's Internet traffic. Set up in 1995, it allows all data between local servers to be routed locally instead of having to pass through exchanges in other countries, including the United States.
"We hack network backbones ? like huge Internet routers, basically ? that gives us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one," Snowden told the Post.
According to Snowden's documents, other NSA hacking targets included Hong Kong public officials, students and businesspeople, as well as targets on the mainland, though they did not include Chinese military systems, the paper said, without providing further details.
A large number of mainland Chinese businesses, including ones that are state-owned, have offices in Hong Kong, a former British colony that passed back to Chinese control in 1997. The People's Liberation Army has a base in Hong Kong and the Beijing central government and foreign affairs department have offices.
The university is also home to the Satellite Remote Sensing Receiving Station, which captures data and imagery used to monitor the environment and natural disasters in a 2,500-kilometer radius around Hong Kong, an area that includes most of mainland China and Southeast Asia.
Staff at the facilities did not return phone calls.
The school said in a statement that "every effort is made to protect" the exchange, which is monitored around the clock to defend against threats.
"The university has not detected any form of hacking to the network, which has been running normally," it said.
At a meeting in California last week, President Barack Obama pushed Chinese President Xi Jinping to do more to address online theft of U.S. intellectual and other property coming from China. Xi claimed no responsibility for alleged cyberespionage and said China was also a victim.
Virginia-based cybersecurity firm Mandiant published a detailed report in February directly linking a secret Chinese military unit in Shanghai to years of cyberattacks against U.S. companies.
In November 2011, U.S. intelligence officials publicly accused China for the first time of stealing American high-tech data for economic gain.
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