In Manila, Catholics pray for smooth succession

Filipino Benita Canlas prays outside the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in suburban Paranaque, south of Manila, Philippines on Sunday March 3, 2013. Filipinos in Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation on Sunday went to church that awkwardly had no pope for the first time in 600 years and prayed for the smooth rise of a successor to Benedict XVI who can lead an embattled church. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Filipino Benita Canlas prays outside the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in suburban Paranaque, south of Manila, Philippines on Sunday March 3, 2013. Filipinos in Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation on Sunday went to church that awkwardly had no pope for the first time in 600 years and prayed for the smooth rise of a successor to Benedict XVI who can lead an embattled church. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Filipino Catholics pray during a mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in suburban Paranaque, south of Manila, Philippines on Sunday March 3, 2013. Filipinos in Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation on Sunday went to church that awkwardly had no pope for the first time in 600 years and prayed for the smooth rise of a successor to Benedict XVI who can lead an embattled church. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

A Filipino Catholic altar boy stands beside an empty priest' chair during a mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in suburban Paranaque, south of Manila, Philippines on Sunday March 3, 2013. Filipinos in Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation on Sunday went to church that awkwardly had no pope for the first time in 600 years and prayed for the smooth rise of a successor to Benedict XVI who can lead an embattled church. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Filipino Catholic Priest Victorino Cueto, center, sprinkles holy water on devotees during a mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in suburban Paranaque, south of Manila, Philippines on Sunday Mar. 3, 2013. Filipinos in Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation on Sunday went to church that awkwardly had no pope for the first time in 600 years and prayed for the smooth rise of a successor to Benedict XVI who can lead an embattled church. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

A Filipino devotee prays at the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in suburban Paranaque, south of Manila, Philippines on Sunday March 3, 2013. Filipinos in Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation on Sunday went to church that awkwardly had no pope for the first time in 600 years because of Benedict XVI's resignation. They prayed for the smooth rise of a successor who can lead the church. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

MANILA, Philippines (AP) ? Filipinos in Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation attended Mass on Sunday with their church awkwardly having no pope due to Benedict XVI's resignation ? the first in 600 years ? and prayed for the smooth rise of a successor to lead an embattled institution.

Benedict stunned the world when he announced Feb. 11 that he would resign, citing his age and frail health. His resignation, which took effect Thursday, ushered in a period known as "sede vacante," or "vacant see" ? the transition period between papacies when a few Vatican officials take charge of running the church.

All cardinals worldwide have been summoned to the Vatican for a conclave to elect Benedict's successor. The new pope will inherit a church facing a tide of secularism in Europe, as well as clergy sex abuse and corruption scandals that have underscored the need to pick a formidable successor to lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.

Churchgoers and the clergy in the Philippines said they were not worried by the temporary absence of a pope, but nevertheless felt the vacuum.

"There is something missing more or less in spirit," said the Rev. Joel Sulse, who celebrated Mass at the Santuario de San Antonio parish in an upscale residential enclave in Manila's Makati business district. "It's also a challenge. It's like when there is no leader, you really have to stand for your convictions."

Many churchgoers said their faith would endure at all times, expressing confidence that the Catholic church would soon have a new pontiff after a transition with its key doctrines intact.

"We know they will elect a pope, so there will still be a pope," said Ely Santos, who went to Mass with her husband and daughter at Christ the King church in a middle-class community in Manila's suburban Quezon city.

Sulse's parish and other Catholic churches across the Southeast Asian nation offered prayers for a hassle-free Vatican conclave of cardinals to elect a new pope.

Although Sulse noted that a new pontiff from the developing world may have a better grasp of problems afflicting many Catholics, he said Filipinos should pray for any pope who "can be strong yet loving."

"How we wish that, you know, there will be a pope coming from the third or fourth world," he said. Such a pope, he said, would be familiar with the realities in impoverished Catholic nations.

Such yearning for a strong successor to St. Peter's throne echoed from people from all walks of life. At the chandelier-lit church where Sulse said Mass, many traveled in SUVs from nearby exclusive residential enclaves to the air-conditioned parish building with beautifully manicured lawns.

Churchgoer Miguel Ma. Guerrero said the next pontiff should be a dynamic leader who can lead the church in a modern era beset by long-pestering problems such as poverty. Technology could help the church accomplish its mission, he said.

"He must be able to use his efforts and achievements to bring the Christian world to a modern state of which we are now experiencing because of the advent of technology," Guerrero said.

In another Manila church, in the working-class district of Baclaran, Catholics said they yearned for a pope who would be able to lead the younger generation onto the right path. One churchgoer said she wanted somebody like the late Pope John Paul II, who was welcomed by millions when he visited the Philippines in 1995.

"I have been praying for a new pope to be just like Pope John Paul II, who was close to the people and was very humble," said Charlene Bautista, an insurance broker.

For the first time, a Filipino cardinal, Antonio Luis Tagle, has been regarded as among the group of cardinals who have a chance of succeeding Benedict. Although considered a long shot, Tagle's inclusion among the so-called papabile, or papal candidates, has electrified many in the country, where past pontiffs were welcomed by millions like rock stars.

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Associated Press writer Oliver Teves contributed to this report.

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Famed Irish Writer Colm T?ib?n to Speak at Bard College | The ...

Acclaimed Irish writer Colm T?ib?n to speak with Fintan O?Toole, a leading Irish editor, writer, and critic, in the L?sl? Z. Bit? ?60 Auditorium (Room 103) of the Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation on Thursday, March 7, at 5:30 p.m. (photo Steve Pyke)

(ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.) ? Colm T?ib?n, the acclaimed Irish writer and author of numerous award-winning novels, short stories, plays and essays, will speak about his work with Fintan O?Toole, a leading Irish editor, writer, and critic, in the L?sl? Z. Bit? ?60 Auditorium (Room 103) of the Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation at Bard College on Thursday, March 7, 2013, at 5:30 p.m. A reception will follow the lecture. The event is free and open to the public.

Hailed by the New York Times as ?a beautiful and daring work? and by the New York Review of Books as ?subversive and ruthless,? T?ib?n?s critically praised novella The Testament of Mary transforms the Virgin Mary from a holy icon into an emotionally real woman. Originally written as a monologue and performed by Tony Award-winner Marie Mullen in the Dublin Theater Festival in 2011, the novella has been adapted into a full-length Broadway play by the author. The Broadway production of The Testament of Mary stars renowned actress Fiona Shaw and her longtime collaborator, the director Deborah Warner (Medea, 2002) and opens on March 26 at the Walter Kerr Theatre.

T?ib?n?s talk is under the auspieces of Bard?s annual Eugene Meyer Lecture in British History and Literature. This dedicated annual lecture was established in 2011 to commemorate Eugene Meyer (1875?1959), the owner and publisher of the Washington Post, chairman of the Federal Reserve, and first president of the World Bank. The lecture is presented in association with the endowment of the Eugene Meyer Chair in British History and Literature at Bard College. Professor Richard Aldous holds the Eugene Meyer Chair.

Colm T?ib?n was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, in 1955. He studied at University College Dublin and lived in Barcelona between 1975 and 1978. Out of his experience in Barcelona be produced two books, the novel The South (shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus First Fiction Award) and Homage to Barcelona, both published in 1990.

When he returned to Ireland in 1978 he worked as a journalist for In Dublin, Hibernia and The Sunday Tribune, becoming features editor of In Dublin in 1981 and editor of Magill, Ireland?s current affairs magazine, in 1982. He left Magill in 1985 and travelled in Africa and South America. His journalism from the 1980s was collected in The Trial of the Generals (1990). His other work as a journalist and travel writer includes Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border (1987) and The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (1994).

His other novels are: The Heather Blazing (1992, winner of the Encore Award); The Story of the Night (1996, winner of the Ferro-Grumley Prize); The Blackwater Lightship (1999, shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Prize and the Booker Prize and made into a film starring Angela Lansbury); The Master (2004, winner of the Dublin IMPAC Prize; the Prix du Meilleur Livre; the LA Times Novel of the Year; and shortlisted for the Booker Prize); Brooklyn (2009, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year).

His short story collections are Mothers and Sons (2006, winner of the Edge Hill Prize) and The Empty Family (2010, shortlisted for the Frank O?Connor Prize). His play Beauty in a Broken Place was performed at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin in 2004. His other books include: The Modern Library: the 200 Best Novels Since 1950 (with Carmen Callil); Lady Gregory?s Toothbrush (2002); Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar (2002) and All a Novelist Needs: Essays on Henry James (2010).

He has edited The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction. His work has been translated into 30 languages. In 2008, a book of essays on his work Reading Colm T?ib?n, edited by Paul Delaney, was published.

He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Ulster and from University College Dublin. He is a regular contributor to the Dublin Review, New York Review of Books, and London Review of Books. In 2006 he was appointed to the Arts Council in Ireland.

He has twice been Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University and has also been a visiting writer at the Michener Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He also taught at Princeton between 2009 and 2011, and was professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester in the autumn of 2011. He is currently Mellon Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

In 2011 his play Testament, directed by Garry Hynes, was performed in the Dublin Theatre Festival with Marie Mullen in the lead role. Also in 2011, his memoir A Guest at the Feast was published by Penguin UK as a Kindle original. In 2012 his new collection of essays, New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers & Their Families was published.

Fintan O?Toole, the Leonard L. Milberg ?53 Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton for Spring 2012, is one of Ireland?s leading public intellectuals. He has served as a drama critic for The Irish Times, New York Daily News, Sunday Tribune (Dublin), and In Dublin magazine. His books on theater span a wide range of topics, from his biography of Richard Brinsley Sheridan to whatever is now appearing on Irish stages. He is currently assistant editor, columnist and feature writer for The Irish Times. He also contributes to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Granta, The Guardian, The Observer, and other international publications. In 2011, O?Toole was named one of ?Britain?s top 300 intellectuals? by The Observer. He has received the A.T. Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism, the Millennium Social Inclusion Award, and Journalist of the Year in 2010 from TV3 Media Awards.

Eugene Meyer (1875?1959) was an American financier, influential leader in American political and social life, and publisher of the Washington Post from 1933 to 1946. After graduating from Yale University in 1895, he worked at Lazard Freres banking house in New York, and in 1901 bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. By 1917 he had made a personal fortune by focusing on investments in the copper, gold, automobile, and chemical industries. He developed a reputation on Wall Street as a solid manager of investment funds and as an innovator. His firm pioneered the use of a research department?scientific investing?to perform detailed economic analyses of businesses. He had a great sense of public duty, and served at the Versailles Peace Conference, on the Federal Farm Loan Board, at the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and, from 1930, as chairman of the Federal Reserve. In 1933, Meyer left the political world and purchased the Washington Post. He returned to public service during World War II to serve on the National Defense Mediation Board, and after the war planned to spend the rest of his career at the Washington Post. However, in 1946 President Truman asked him to head the World Bank, and Meyer accepted. He held the post for six months, establishing the World Bank, before returning to his work at the Washington Post until his death in 1959.

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How the House Holds the Senate GOP Hostage

Retaking the Senate should be, if not easy, then at least straightforward for Republicans. They need to recruit attractive candidates to run for seats in seven red states held by Democrats?not to mention an open seat in purple Iowa?and make sure the eventual nominees are viable and well funded. Because of the red hue of 2014?s battlegrounds, the party should be able to exploit issues on the national agenda, such as gun control and immigration reform, that stir up culturally conservative voters. The math to achieve the six-seat gain necessary for Senate control (assuming Democrats win the upcoming Massachusetts special election) is hard for the GOP, but its candidates should at least have a fighting chance to solve the equation.

If only it were that simple. To their dismay, Senate Republicans are discovering that their chances of retaking the chamber might rest as much with their House GOP brethren as with their own efforts. Increasingly, it?s the lower chamber that defines the Republican Party brand?particularly during high-stakes fights like the fiscal-cliff and sequester standoffs in which House Republicans play a central role.

This prominence is problematic because the House GOP doesn?t live in the same political universe as the rest of the party; the congressional map, thanks to redistricting and the tendency of Democratic voters to live in tightly packed cities, leans to the right. GOP nominee Mitt Romney, despite drawing millions of fewer votes than President Obama, won 227 of 435 congressional districts, a solid majority. That gives House Republicans room to drive right on their agenda without fear of losing their majority, which is considered safe for 2014.

The fallout, however, can harm GOP candidates?especially Senate Republicans?who don?t run on the same tilted playing field. ?If we did a content analysis [of media coverage], there?s no doubt they define the Republican Party,? said Stan Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, referring to House Republicans. ?It?s where the most conservative posture is taken, which is the most out of line with the country.?

This problem was brought to a head during the House?s budget clashes with Senate Democrats and President Obama. Each fight?including the fiscal-cliff squabble to close the most recent congressional session?seems to ding the party?s popularity, and the current back-and-forth over the 10-year, $1.2 trillion sequester is no different. A February poll by The Wall Street Journal and NBC News found that just 29 percent of adults held a favorable view of the GOP?far less than the 49 percent who rated Obama favorably.

At a time when the GOP should be rebuilding its image after last November?s setback, the party is actually losing popularity. In October 2012, the NBC/WSJ survey found that 36 percent of adults viewed the party favorably, 7 points higher than its standing now. House Republicans aren?t solely responsible for the image problems?Romney?s gaffe-prone candidacy, an at-times abrasive conservative media, and other Republicans all share the blame. (As one GOP pollster told National Journal, the electoral drubbing was a ?team effort.?)

But House Republicans are largely to blame for locking the party into the same debate that proved so harmful during the 2012 elections: arguing for a cuts-only agenda, as they advocate once again for the sequester, while Obama pushes for a more popular mix of reductions and tax increases on the wealthy. On issues such as immigration or gun control, the prospects for which are murky at best in the House, GOP members could similarly buck legislation that is broadly popular with the public.

To say nothing of a possible House decision to reconsider legislation, as it has done with Rep. Paul Ryan?s eponymous budget, that alters an entitlement program such as Medicare. Already, 62 percent of adults think the Republican Party is out of touch with the American people, a mid-February survey from the Pew Research Center found. In the same survey, 52 percent said the party was too extreme. ?The House Republicans are being perceived right now as ideological naysayers,? said Jefrey Pollock, a Democratic strategist who works with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. ?I think this is clearly hurtful when you?re trying to run for Senate.?

Of course, the actions of House Republicans won?t determine the outcome of every Senate race. Senate GOP candidates will still get to pick their agenda, offering a chance for moderation. And the Senate candidates can still argue that Washington?s dysfunction should be blamed on Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Democrats, not on House Republicans. After all, it was Senate Republicans, led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who spearheaded a last-minute fiscal-cliff deal to raise revenue. They might be a minority, but they?re not ineffectual, said John Feehery, a longtime GOP hand on Capitol Hill. ?At a moment of maximum impact, they swoop in and strike a deal that catches House Republicans off balance,? he said. Senate Republicans are similarly working out compromises on immigration and universal background checks for gun purchases.

Senate Republicans will also benefit from an electoral map that, while perhaps not as tilted to the right as the House?s, is favorable. An open-seat race in West Virginia, combined with elections in Alaska, Arkansas, South Dakota, and other red states, means the House GOP agenda might not be a killer. ?I?m not 100 percent convinced there?s quite the same disconnect this election cycle between Senate Republicans? political opportunities and the House Republican points of view,? said GOP consultant Glen Bolger.

Maybe. But it would be nice for Senate Republicans if they won because of their House brethren, not in spite of them.

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Dennis Rodman: NKorea leader wants Obama to call

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series. (AP Photo/VICE Media, Jason Mojica)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series. (AP Photo/VICE Media, Jason Mojica)

In this image released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed by the Korea News Service, former NBA star Dennis Rodman, third right, visits the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang in North Korea Friday, March 1 2013. Ending his unexpected round of basketball diplomacy in North Korea on Friday, ex-NBA star Rodman called leader Kim Jong Un an "awesome guy" and said his father and grandfather were "great leaders." (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS)

In this image released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed by the Korea News Service, former NBA star Dennis Rodman, second right in front row, visits a dolphin aquarium in Pyongyang in North Korea Friday, March 1, 2013. Ending his unexpected round of basketball diplomacy in North Korea on Friday, Rodman called leader Kim Jong Un an "awesome guy" and said his father and grandfather were "great leaders." (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Call me? Maybe?

North Korea's young leader has riled the U.S. with recent nuclear tests, but Kim Jong Un doesn't really want war with the superpower, just a call from President Barack Obama to chat about their shared love of basketball, according to erstwhile diplomat Dennis Rodman, the ex-NBA star just back from an improbable visit to the reclusive communist country.

"He loves basketball. ... I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there" as a way to warm up relations between U.S. and North Korea, Rodman told ABC's "This Week."

"He asked me to give Obama something to say and do one thing. He wants Obama to do one thing, call him," said Rodman, who called the authoritarian leader an "awesome guy" during his trip. The State Department criticized North Korea last week for "wining and dining' Rodman while its own people go hungry.

Rodman also said Kim told him, "I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war."

Yet in January, after the U.N. Security Council voted to condemn the North's successful rocket launch in December and expand penalties against Kim's government, his National Defense Commission said in a statement that "settling accounts with the U.S. needs to be done with force, not with words." The statement also promised "a new phase of the anti-U.S. struggle that has lasted century after century."

North Korea and the U.S. fought on opposite sides of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953. The foes technically remain at war. They never signed a peace treaty and do not have diplomatic relations.

Rodman was the highest-profile American to meet Kim since Kim inherited power from father Kim Jong Il in 2011. He traveled to the secretive state with the Harlem Globetrotters team for a new HBO series produced by New York-based VICE television.

The visit took place amid rising tensions between the countries.

North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test two weeks ago, making clear the provocative act was a warning to the United States to drop what it considers a "hostile" policy toward the North.

Rodman said he was aware of North Korea's human rights record, which the State Department has characterized as one of the worst in the world, but said he wasn't apologizing for Kim.

"He's a good guy to me," Rodman said, adding, that "as a person to person, he's my friend. I don't condone what he does."

Basketball is popular in North Korea, and Thursday's exhibition game with two Americans playing on each time alongside North Koreans ended in a 110-110 tie. Following the game Kim threw an "epic feast" for the group, plying them with food and drinks and making round after round of toasts.

Rodman's trip was the second attention-grabbing American visit this year to North Korea. Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, made a four-day trip in January, but did not meet Kim.

Rodman said he planned to go back to North Korea to "find out more what's really going on."

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Evernote resets passwords after data breach

Jim Finkle , Reuters ? ? ? 12 hrs.

Evernote, a Web-based note-sharing service, said it was resetting the passwords of its 50 million users because hackers managed to breach its computer network and access some user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords.

Evernote spokeswoman Ronda Scott said via email on Saturday that the attack "follows a similar pattern" to other cyber attacks on Internet-based companies in recent weeks, but she did not elaborate.

"In our security investigation, we have found no evidence that any of the content you store in Evernote was accessed, changed or lost," the company said on its website. "We also have no evidence that any payment information for Evernote Premium or Evernote Business customers was accessed."

Scott declined to say how many accounts had been exposed or whether it might be possible for the hackers to unscramble encrypted passwords.

A series of technology companies including Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Twitter have recently disclosed cyber attacks. In the majority of those cases, the companies said that the unknown hackers exploited a bug in Java software and that no user information was compromised.

Twitter is the only major Internet company that has recently reported its user information was exposed to hackers. On Feb. 1, Twitter reset passwords for 250,000 accounts whose encrypted passwords may have been accessed.

Scott said Evernote believed that the hackers did not exploit a bug in Java when they broke into the company's system.

Evernote is a privately held company whose major investors include Meritech Capital, CBC Capital, Sequoia Capital, Morgenthaler Ventures and DOCOMO Capital.

Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.

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What Was The First Video Game Console Called?

Answer: Brown Box

The world?s first video game console system had an entirely uninspiring name?designers simply referred to it as the ?Brown Box?. The Brown Box was developed in 1967 by German engineer Ralph Baer and included control paddles and a light gun.

Baer and associates pitched the system to various electronics companies, eventually securing a contract with Magnavox. The Brown Box would undergo various revisions and improvements before release to the public as the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972.

Despite the public?s interest in video game systems the Odyssey was a poor seller, due in large part to the widespread misconception that it required a Magnavox-brand television to work.

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Tear down this wall -- for condos

BERLIN (AP) ? Construction crews stopped work Friday on removing a small section from one of the few remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall to make way for a condo project after hundreds of protesters blocked their path.

Crews were only able to remove one section from the famous East Side Gallery before about 300 protesters pressed too close for the work to continue. Demonstrators then wheeled in a mock wall section they had set up in front of the gap.

One protester carried a sign asking "does culture no longer have any value?" in bold letters, with "die yuppie scum" written in smaller letters.

The East Side Gallery is the longest remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall and is one of the German capital's most popular tourist attractions, with Nicholas Cage recently mugging for snapshots with his wife Alice Kim during some time off from the Berlin film festival. It was recently restored at a cost of more than ?2 million ($3 million) to the city.

The wall section stood on the eastern side of the elaborate border strip built by communist East Germany and, when the border was closed, carried none of the graffiti that covered the western side of the wall.

It was transformed into an open-air gallery months after East Germany opened its borders on Nov. 9, 1989, and is now covered in colorful murals painted by about 120 artists. They include the famous image of boxy East German Trabant car that appears to burst through the wall; and a fraternal communist kiss between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and his East German counterpart, Erich Honecker.

Despite its popularity, local city district chairman Franz Schulz told Bild newspaper that historical preservation authorities had given a construction firm permission to remove a section to build a road to access a new luxury apartment complex it is building on the nearby banks of the Spree river.

The plan is for an approximately 20-meter (22-yard) stretch of the 1.3 kilometer (3/4 mile) section of wall to be removed and relocated. It's not the first time a section has been removed; a few years ago, a section of wall in front of a new sports and concert arena was taken down.

Crews were only able to remove one approximately 1.5 meter (yard) section on Friday from a mural depicting a stylized version of another Berlin landmark, the Brandenburg Gate, before the protests brought an end to the work.

"It's unbearable to see that the wall here is being so brutally torn down," artist Thierry Noir, whose painted section of the wall is one likely to be removed, told the dpa news agency.

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Ciaran Fahey contributed to this story.

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RSA 2013 Finale: It's Really All About the People | The State of ...

RSAC 2013 has finally come to an end. All in all, if you can look beyond the hype and rampant commercialism that is the trademark of this, the biggest security conference, there is still a lot of value in actually attending the show.

For some, it?s all about the chance to hear the best and brightest expound upon the latest and greatest in tracks that focus on their interests, and the chance to dialogue with peers in breakout sessions. For others, it?s a opportunity to catch up colleagues, reestablish relationships, or discover new people of interest. And for some it?s just a chance to get away from the office and have a really good time with those who can best identify with the challenges they face during the other 51 weeks of the year.

For me, it?s all about the people ? it?s about the chance to put faces to names, and transform those online friendships into flesh and blood relationships. It?s about getting to be in the presence of people who really matter to the industry ? the folks who birthed infosec, built the tools, conceived the techniques, defined the concepts and terminology we use daily. It?s about the chance to potentially witness the unveiling of what may be the next ubiquitous archetype we will all later take for granted.

Sure, there are plenty of things to knock the RSA Conference for, but in the end they are not the things that really matter to our industry, they are just the things that are pretty much standard to any such event in any field. That?s just how big conference and expos are.? We should instead all try to focus on what makes RSA important to the field, whatever that may be as you see fit to define it. For me it?s all of you.

The following are a few brief session recaps from some of the Tripwire crew ? we hope they provide a little insight and give you a good jumping off point to investigate the subject matter further.

The Secret to Effective Cyber Threat Intelligence and Information Sharing (DSP-R31)

This was a mildly attended session, but I was pleased to see about 80 show up. ?STIX is the?Structured Threat Information eXpression?being developed by MITRE with funding from DHS. ?The presentation followed the white paper STIX has up on their site, so reading that would be of benefit if you find this information interesting. ?Here are the highlights:

• Threats are diverse and evolving
• Holistic Threat Intelligence is not a single-player sport ? information sharing is critical
• STIX is a?language?to specify, capture, characterize, and communicate threat information

STIX consists of a lot of different parts, but it?s separable ? you don?t need to use every piece of the language. ?For example, if you?re not as interested in threat actors and attack campaigns, and would rather focus on indicators, incidents and actions, you can do that. ?In fact, smaller enterprises might only care about expressing that subset.

Criminal Education: Lessons from the Criminals and their Methods (KEY-R37)

This was an interesting presentation, but only because it gave some useful statistics, which, we must assume, are up-to-date (see below). ?The main perspective described the ?attack chain? as:?Research, infiltration, discovery, capture, exfiltration. ?It might be academic, but I?d add one step where they?leverage?whatever information has been exfiltrated. ?We were then told that more than 80% of our security spend is spent on blocking at the infiltration stage. ?Well, given the following stats, that might not be the best place to spend:

• 94% of breaches informed by 3rd party
• 416 days average time to detect breach
• 71% ? increase in breach remediation time since 2010
• 84% of breaches occur at the application layer

The Lifecycle of Cybercrime (KEY-R38)

This keynote didn?t sit well with me. ?It?s not the content that bothered me, it?s the content. ?You see, this content was great for, say, five years ago ? it?s all valid. ?But, if people are going to RSA, they probably know all the information that was presented here: Top 9 countries that are attacked, top 9 countries that do the attacking, methods of attack, criminal organizations are businesses, and so on. ?I hope that most people attending this conference would know this already. ?Give us more next time. ?The saving grace was the attack demonstration, which showed the Facebook phish to drop an executable that stole files in less than a second, and the same thing again, but using Java (no love for Java lately).

Mind Over Matter: ?Managing Risk with Psychology Instead of Brute Force (KEY-R39)

Andy Ellis (@csoandy) gave a very good presentation on managing risk with psychology. ?The premise is that?organizations?do not manage risk, but?people?do. ?So, we need to understand that people have goals, aspirations, and responsibilities. ?Consider the following about whether to build a widget: ?The CEO wants to know if it?s going to be profitable, sales wants to know if they?ll be able to make their quota, the CFO wants to know whether this investment is the best one to make, the business owner wants to know if the P/L will be good and market share will be gained. ?The Security guy? ??needs to know if the widget is ?safe.? ?Addressing these questions are psychological issues because risk is a perception that we (humans) have.

Managing Enterprise Risk: Y U NO HAZ METRICS? (GRC-W23)

By far the best session I?ve attended thus far. ?The panel was full of life and discourse, which I certainly appreciate. ?The room was so packed that they were turning people away in favor of holding an encore session later in the day. ?But, that?s not why you?re reading this, so let?s get down to business.

David Mortman (@mortman), Jack Jones (@JonesFAIRiq), @AlexHutton, and Caroline Wong (@CarolineWMWong) were the panelists and John Johnson (from John Deere) was the moderator. ?Some of the best things I heard:

• Our solution to Risk Management can?t be to build a $200 fence around every $5 asset
• Metrics are essential to ensure you?re practicing?effective?Risk Management ? it?s a informing circle where metrics are derived from your risk model, but your risk model is informed by your metrics.
• You can?t simply ?buy? Risk Management ? it takes people using the right tools
• To get the most out of compliance, measure everything and you?ll keep your auditors happy (and be able to defend those ?gray? areas in most control frameworks)
• Don?t present the details to executives ? generalize. ?But, be able to back it up

Finally, the best advice I heard (probably because I?ve done this myself) is this: If you can?t hire a statistician, beg hours from someone who knows the field in the Finance Department!

Will They (EVER) Get Security (PROF-M02)

Jack Jones (of FAIR fame) gave an overview presentation titled, ?Will they ever get security?? The key things I took away from this presentation were as follows. ?Internalize information security?s value proposition, which is to contribute to the minimization of loss (i.e. be party to risk management). ?In recognizing this value proposition, we can speak in business terms to business people ? don?t fear risk management, embrace it. ?If you feel that you can?t quantify, and therefore measure, ?risk? then pick up a copy of Douglas Hubbard?s book, ?How to measure anything? (I?ve read this book ? it?s worth the read). ?Remember that, as an information security professional communicating to the business, you?re job is to help the business make well-informed decisions, and that your quantification of the ?unquantifiable? need not be huge undertakings ? they may take just a couple of hours.

I was blind but now I see? (CISO-T17)

This panel was interesting. ?I thought it was going to be more about communicating up and out based on aggregate data from ?big? sources. ?It wasn?t. ?It was far more technical than I expected, which is not to say that they were in the weeds. ?But, the panel (Carter Lee from Overstock.com, Alex Tosheff from X.commerce, Praveen Money from Data Shield, and Ramin Safai from Jeffries & Co, Inc.) all had excellent things to say about embracing big data as a source of correlation. ?The highlights:

• Big data doesn?t mean go higher and suck it all up, instead it means that you need to get closer to the right data (there?s simply too much of it out there to look at it all, and these guys were talking on the order of 5000-10000 events per second and anywhere from 25GB to nearly 1 PB of data captured ? they didn?t give timeframes).
• Network segmentation is critical ? don?t try to do big data analysis on a flat, unsegmented network, because you?re going to be conflating traffic types and mixing priorities, which will make your job more difficult.
• Threat Intelligence sources can be useful, but only when they?re provided in some actionable form. ?
• Use honeypots to learn how to tune what you?re looking for ? two of the panelists, if I may, had a look on their face that conveyed: ?well, duh??
• Tool integration is critically important ? your analytics engine needs to integrate with?everything?in your enterprise (at least everything from which you?re interested in gathering data).

The most interesting thing I heard, though, was something I did not expect: It takes two minutes to get data out of the enterprise, but 24-hours to respond to that incident on a SIEM-based architecture. ?There are assumptions being made on my part, but I?ve been thinking, based on Verizon data primarily, that the time period between hack and exfiltraiton was greater than two minutes.

Data Analysis and Visualization for Security Professionals (?GRC-T18)

This was an outstanding session presented by two people I respect in the field of Security Metrics ? Jay Jacobs (Verizon) and Bob Rudis (Liberty Mutual). ?I?ll steal the key learning points directly from them:

• Solutions are more from thinking than buying?- use the tools you have at your disposal already and?think?about solving your problem ? allusion is that there?s no silver bullet in the security visualization space.
• Data helps us understand our environment?- this is increasingly important when it comes to the increasing complexity of our infrastructure.
• Data visualization is not a natural skill, it must be learned?- this is where it takes practice and, unfortunately, failure from time to time; don?t be afraid to try new methods to see what works in your organization.
• Be truthful?- this one is near and dear to my heart and cannot be overstated. ?If you value your information security program in any way, then always tell the truth and match the message to your numbers.
• Simple tools can be, data scientist you need not be?- this was (for me anyway) a rather confusing way to say: Tools can be simple enough for you to use and you don?t need to be a data scientist to get the job done.

In addition to the take aways listed above, they provided a litany of excellent resource. ?They recommended reading Stephen Few?s book,?Show Me The Numbers, and a boatload of tools:?After Glow,?MongoDB,?crush-tools,?Color Brewer, the?programming language R. ?Great session and I have more than enough to keep my wandering mind occupied!

Getting to the Board Level: Evolving Security and RM in FSIs (CISO-T19)

This session was informative. ?On the panel were Oswin Deally (Liberty Mutual), John Schramm (Manulife), and Chauncy Holden (Fidelity), and they clearly represented a wide swath of CISO roles from just reporting to the Board to having?four?Boards of Directors. ?Regardless of their time in communicating with the BOD, they all had similar advice:

• Be prepared with concise, meaningful, traceable information
• Understand your information and back it up with data when needed
• If your Board is ?new? to information security, don?t talk down to them
• Hold pre-meetings with peers (i.e. CFO, Legal Counsel, etc. to socialize)

The most interesting thing I found was that the panel indicated that the most common question they?re asked by the BOD is this: How do we compare? ?They want to know how they?re doing against others in their industry/vertical.?

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Managing Enterprise Risk: WHY U HAZ NO METRICS??GRC-W23

[Note: ?Updated 28-Feb to correct an error in attributing "calibrated experts." ?This term was coined by Doug Hubbard, and the name and link below have been corrected.]

Moderator: ?John D. Johnson, John Deere
Alex Hutton, Zions Bank
David Mortman, enStratus
Jack Jones, CXOWare
Caroline Wong, Symantec

This was a panel discussion, and some good discussion ensued. ?Some key takeaways and quotes:

- Jack Jones: ??You can?t manage what you can?t measure, but you can?t measure what you haven?t defined.?
- ?The alternative to risk management is not ?no risk management? ? it?s ?bad risk management??
- ?Governance without metrics is dogma. ?Governance with?metrics is risk management.?
- When you present a metric, your audience will automatically apply a risk model, whether they recognize it or not. ?The moment you begin to envision bad outcomes, worst-case scenarios, etc. you are assessing risk.
- In small organizations, you can use a ?calibrated expert? (i.e. an experienced person) vs. a quantitative approach ? this is something that Doug Hubbard has written extensively about. ?
- Gut feel is always a part of risk management, but that doesn?t mean you can?t enumerate the assumptions behind your gut feel. ?- Find a way to express and test your ?gut feel? with a model, and it can help you frame your assertions in a defensible way.
- ?Risk is not about management ? it is about making informed decisions.?
- Don?t seek a ?mathematically correct? answer ? it isn?t there. Numbers can help you evaluate the relative priority of different risks, but the numbers aren?t inherently precise.
- Alex Hutton advised us to ?Find ways to represent the health of your risk management program ? don?t focus only on its diseases.?
- Jack Jones said, ?If I abdicate my decisions to a compliance framework, I lose my ability to protect my organization.?
- David Mortman countered, ??I don?t mind compliance. It?s easy to measure against and provides a framework for discussion with the exec team.?
- Caroline Wong recommended we ?Start with a conversation about goals, then build metrics that enable you to defend those goals.?

All in all, a strong panel with great insight.

Special Forum on Cybersecurity: New Directions from the White House (FRM-T16)

This was a good discussion of the expected impact of the Executive Order that Pres. Obama signed this month. ?The panel was moderated by Jim Lewis, the Program Director of CSIS; ?panelists (both wearing yellow ties) were former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, and Michael Daniel, Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator. ?

The key take-away was that this order is geared to facilitate / encourage information sharing (threats, etc.), and seeks to help us better prepare all to deal with attacks on critical infrastructure and sensitive elements of our economy. ?One of the challenges is that it makes it easier for the government to share information with private companies, but doesn?t add any significant new tools to help private companies share information in a streamlined fashion. ?There was also discussion about how it will be difficult to get everyone moving in the same direction without some specific guidelines and standards to focus the effort. ?One concerning notion was that we may end up with a kind of ?TSA for the Internet,? which doesn?t sound too appealing.

There was some good discussion about problems with keeping the talent pool flowing when it comes to cyber security and related skills. ?For example, how can we leverage students, or people without the right psychological profiles to thrive in industry? ?They often have skill that can help, but will not be successful if they are forced into a normal corporate mold.

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Improving Your Chances in the Eternal Quest for Security Funding (P2P1-T17)

An engaged group of security leaders, CISOs and Security Architects discussed their experiences is obtaining and maintaining budgets for their teams. Key points from the discussion were:

• Buying products is easy but it?s a challenge to finding qualified and skilled personnel. Get creative in finding candidates: LinkedIn, social media, looking in other areas
• When discussing budget, explicitly state what the business WON?T get in addition to what the business will get
• Focus on complacence is a budgetary dead end. Compliance is you pass and then you?re done. Frame conversation in terms of security and risk
• There?s always an investment pool, if you can find it. But expect to answer ROI questions to get it.

Lead with a long-term roadmap about the direction you want to take the business instead of focusing on specific projects or tools. Use the roadmap as an umbrella over individual initiatives.

Getting to the Board Level: Evolving Security and Risk Managment in FSIs (CISO-T19 )

A panel of three CISOs of large financial service industries discussed their challenges working with the boards of directors. All agreed that it is increasingly important to get in front of the board and that you should not wait to be summoned. They know attitude toward security is changing by increased numbers of emails directly from the CEO and changes in reporting structure from the CIO to the CFO or CRO. Key tips for working successfully with your board of directors included: know the composition of the board; stress security awareness at all levels, including theirs; educate them that closing audit findings isn?t the same as reducing real risk.

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I was blind, but now I see: CISOs discuss visibility with big data security (CISO-T17)

Presenting were:

• Carter Lee of Overstock.com
• Praveen Money of Data Shield
• Ramin Safei of Jeffries & Company
• Alex Tosheff of X.Commerce , an eBay company
• Richard Stiennon of IT Harvest (moderator)

Most of the CISOs are having problems with the complexity of their environments and filtering the most relevant information, especially when talking about big data. They see threat intelligence as a complement to their existing solutions, and see the need to apply more discipline in order to get more reliable sources of information. Carter Lee from Overstock.com mentions that having threat intelligence that you can?t act upon is useless. My take is that you need add the necessary contest to make it more actionable. Praveen Money made a good point, saying that collecting data is easy, since it can be solved with money, but the hard part is the analysis of the data. Alex Tosheff says that not responding to attacks is sometimes advantageous because we can see the attackers in action.

Data Analysis and Visualization for Security Professionals (GRC-T18)

• Jay Jacobs, Verizon Business
• Bob Rudis, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Excellent point that most solutions in data visualization and analysis come from thinking, NOT buying. Many people utilize data to make their point, but some abuse it and use the data to lie or misinterpret the truth. Really good examples were given to showcase bad uses of charts and graphs that misinterpret the data. Several good tools were mentioned to help with data visualization: ColorBrewer, json and mongoDB.

Making Rugged DevOps and Infosec Work (ASEC-T19)

• Josh Corman
• Nick Galbreath
• Gene Kim
• David Mortman
• Dwayne Melancon

I didn?t take many notes, but have some notable quotes and links. Josh Corman ?Complexity is the enemy of stability?. They talked about the wicked Chaos Monkey project from Amazon/Netflix?ht.ly/1SQ9ka?. ?Gene also mentioned a really good way to do secure DevOps processes and how Twitter is using it. The twitter infosec talk is here?http://itrevolution.com/heres-how-the-amazing-twitter-infosec-team-helps-devops/

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PFT: Falcons cut Turner, Robinson, Abraham

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For weeks, stories have been percolating about the problems within the Steelers locker room.

Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger had finally heard enough.

As valuable as any?salary cap space he created, Roethlisberger tried to restore some peace inside his own team.

?For anybody to say there are locker room issues or leadership issues are completely off base,? Roethlisberger told Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. ?I believe that?s the frustration. I believe that it?s frustration of last year, I honestly do.?

What began as anonymous criticizing of linebacker LaMarr Woodley grew until players began talking more and more about the internal strife, with safety Ryan Clark saying there was a ?fracture? in the locker room.

?Obviously, last year was frustrating for all of us, and when you?re frustrated and the season doesn?t go the way you want it to and things don?t go the way you want them to, things are said. I know all too well, after the Dallas game I was frustrated and said some things,? Roethlisberger said. ?The important thing to know is, there are no issues in our locker room. There are no issues with LaMarr. There are no issues on our team.

?The big thing for us is to move forward. Last year was last year, it was 8-8. We?re not happy about it. There are frustrations, but you know what? We?re done with it. We?re moving forward and we?re moving into this year ? with whoever?s here, we?re looking to move forward. And we know Woodley?s going to be here and we know Woodley?s going to be ready to go as we all are going to be.?

Roethlisberger took exception with the idea it was a leadership issue.

?No matter how the season goes, there?s always going to be some kind of issue come up,? he said. ?There?s never perfect harmony in any locker room, never. There?s always going to be some issue at some point in the year, that?s how it works. But the thing is, how do you move on from it? These things should be put in the rear-view mirror and we should be looking forward.

?I?m hoping by doing this to put a stop to it, to say, listen, everybody, as a leader in this locker room, as a guy who has been around here for a long time, I?m hoping that by saying there is no issue and this is fine, that this could be our exclamation point. Let?s move on with this offseason, to training, to getting ready. I don?t think there?s a reason to look back anymore.

?That?s what I?m hoping to just say: Done.?

Of course, saying there are no issues on an 8-8 team with as much chatter as this one has created is one thing. Making it the truth is something entirely different, and will prove to be more of a challenge for Roethlisberger and the Steelers.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/01/falcons-to-cut-dunta-robinson-michael-turner-john-abraham/related/

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House Passes Violence Against Women Act (talking-points-memo)

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National Eating Disorders Awareness (NEDAwareness) Week is coming to an end on March 2, 2013, but two recent surveys demonstrate the ongoing work that is still needed to help prevent and treat eating disorders.

The National Eating Disorders Association recently released the results for the Collegiate Survey Project. The survey found that due to the increasing percent of college students struggling with eating disorders, there is a need for more funding and resources on college campuses for eating disorder services.

The respondents in the survey are ?campus service provider representatives? from 165 colleges and universities.

Survey results did show that educational information, such as websites and pamphlets, are available on many campuses and most campuses have workshops or prevention efforts related to eating disorders at least once or twice a year.

However, there is room for growth. For example, campuses that do have education campaigns for the most part have no evidence of the campaigns? actual success in helping people at risk for or suffering from eating disorders.

In addition, less than half of the universities surveyed offer eating disorder screenings once a year or semester. Only 22.4 percent offer year-round screenings. Screenings can help cut the time students suffer from eating disorders.

There is also a major lack of training and education opportunities for individuals who are in a position to help in eating disorder treatment and prevention, such as dieticians, advisors and fitness instructors.

There are limited resources for athletes at risk for eating disorders as well. For more survey results, view the links in the sources section.

The Renfrew Center Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports eating disorder education, prevention and treatment, also released a survey recently as part of its ?Barefaced & Beautiful, Without & Within? campaign during NEDAwareness Week.

The survey focused on how girls ages 8-18 feel when they wear makeup or go without it. The online survey conducted in December 2012 had 572 U.S. participants.

Source: http://www.empowher.com/mental-health/content/eating-disorder-awareness-continues-new-survey-results

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Parking Search Engine BestParking.com Revamps Its Website And Announces A Free API

BestParking.com today launched a new version of its website aimed at helping people find the best short-term and long-term parking. It's also announcing that it's making its data available to third-party developers through an API. The company offers pricing data for off-street parking in 64 cities and near 80 airports, says founder Ben Sann. The data is collected from parking-lot operators and through on-the-ground surveys (conducted two to four times), and is then improved by corrections from BestParking users. The mobile apps have been downloaded more than 600,000 times and they're used by 120,000 people every month, he said. The website, meanwhile, sees 230,000 unique visitors per month, but it hasn't been redesigned since 2009.

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Is New Construction for You? - Benoit Real Estate Group, LLC

You may have noticed that new homes are going up around town again. Along with the sale pending signs on existing homes builders are building again. A?national index measuring builder sentiment rose in June to its highest level since May 2007. But is buying a new home right for you??Homebuyers trying to decide between new and existing homes have more choices than they have had in the past.

The case for new homes:

New homes come with builder warranties.

New homes allow buyers to select colors and floor plans.

New homes can be easier to insure.

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New homes may have a resale advantage.

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WikiLeaks soldier to take witness stand in own defense

FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The U.S. Army intelligence officer accused of slipping military and diplomatic secrets to WikiLeaks is expected to take the witness stand on Thursday, when he will read aloud from a 35-page statement defending himself in the espionage case.

Private First Class Bradley Manning was set to enter a formal plea to the 22 charges against him at a pre-trial hearing before a U.S. military judge.

In previous hearings, Manning has offered to plead guilty to various lesser charges in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, including the unauthorized possession and willful distribution of information accessed in the Combined Information Data Networks, a military database, for both Iraq and Afghanistan.

He has said he will plead not guilty to the most serious charge of aiding the enemy, which is a violation of the federal Espionage Act, among others.

Manning, who has been jailed for over 1,000 days, could face life imprisonment if convicted of that top charge.

At a pre-trial hearing on Tuesday, military judge Colonel Denise Lind said she would decide on Thursday how much Manning will be able to read aloud from a 35-page statement he has prepared.

Manning's lawyers have also filed a motion to request a trial by judge, leading to speculation that Manning might forego a trial by jury for his court martial, set to begin June 3.

The Office of the Judge Advocate General said on Wednesday it released 84 judicial orders and rulings in response to a Freedom of Information Act filed by several news agencies. To date, documents totaling 30,000 pages have been filed by the parties or issued by the military judge in the case.

Manning, 25, is accused of releasing hundreds of thousands of classified documents, including U.S. diplomatic cables and various military reports.

U.S. government secrets exposed by WikiLeaks beginning in 2010 staggered diplomats across the globe and outraged U.S. officials, who said damage to national security from the leaks endangered U.S. lives.

Lind has denied a request by the defense to dismiss all charges based on violations of Manning's right to a speedy trial.

But under a ruling last month by Lind, Manning would have any eventual sentence reduced by 112 days to compensate for the markedly harsh treatment he received during confinement at Quantico Marine Base. While at Quantico, Manning was placed in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day with guards checking on him every few minutes.

Manning was arrested in Iraq in May 2010 and charged with downloading thousands of intelligence documents, diplomatic cables and combat videos while with the 10th Mountain Division's 2nd Brigade intelligence operation in Iraq and forwarding material to WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has taken refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since June to avoid extradition to Sweden for alleged sex crimes.

(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Dan Grebler)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wikileaks-soldier-witness-stand-own-defense-221906072.html

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White dwarf supernovae are discovered in Virgo Cluster galaxy and in sky area 'anonymous'

Feb. 27, 2013 ? Light from two massive stars that exploded hundreds of millions of years ago recently reached Earth, and each event was identified as a supernova.

A supernova discovered Feb. 6 exploded about 450 million years ago, said Farley Ferrante, a graduate student at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, who made the initial observation.

The exploding star is in a relatively empty portion of the sky labeled "anonymous" in the faint constellation Canes Venatici. Home to a handful of galaxies, Canes Venatici is near the constellation Ursa Major, best known for the Big Dipper.

A second supernova discovered Nov. 20 exploded about 230 million years ago, said Ferrante, who made the initial observation. That exploding star is in one of the many galaxies of the Virgo constellation.

Both supernovae were spotted with the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment's robotic telescope ROTSE3b, which is now operated by SMU graduate students. ROTSE3b is at the McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains of West Texas near Fort Davis.

The supernova that exploded about 450 million years ago is officially designated Supernova 2013X. It occurred when life on Earth consisted of creatures in the seas and oceans and along coastlines. Following naming conventions for supernova, Supernova 2013X was nicknamed "Everest" by Govinda Dhungana, an SMU graduate student who participated in the discovery.

The supernova that exploded about 230 million years ago is officially designated Supernova 2012ha. The light from that explosion has been en route to Earth since the Triassic geologic period, when dinosaurs roamed the planet. "That's fairly recent as these explosions go," Ferrante said. Dhungana gave the nickname "Sherpa" to Supernova 2012ha.

Type 1a supernovae help measure cosmic distances

Everest and Sherpa are two of about 200 supernovae discovered worldwide in a given year. Before telescopes, supernovae observations were rare -- sometimes only several every few centuries, according to the scientists.

"Everest and Sherpa aren't noteworthy for being the youngest, oldest, closest, furthest or biggest supernovae ever observed," Ferrante said. "But both, like other supernovae of their kind, are important because they provide us with information for further science."

Everest and Sherpa are Type 1a supernovae, the result of white dwarf explosions, said Robert Kehoe, physics professor and leader of the SMU astronomy team in the SMU Department of Physics.

The scientists explain that a white dwarf is a dying star that has burned up all its energy. It is about as massive as Earth's sun. It's core is about the size of Earth. The core is dense, however, and one teaspoon of it weighs as much as Mount Everest, Kehoe said.

A white dwarf explodes if fusion restarts by tugging material from a nearby star, according to the scientists. The white dwarf grows to about one and a half times the size of the sun. Unable to support its weight, Kehoe said, collapse is rapid, fusion reignites and the white dwarf explodes. The result is a Type 1a supernova.

"We call these Type 1a supernovae standard candles," Ferrante said. "Since Type 1a supernovae begin from this standard process, their intrinsic brightness is very similar. So they become a device by which scientists can measure cosmic distance. From Earth, we measure the light intensity of the exploded star. As star distances from Earth increase, their brilliance diminishes."

While Sherpa is a standard Type 1a, Everest is peculiar. It exhibits the characteristics of a Type 1a called a 1991T, Ferrante said.

"Everest is the result of two white dwarfs that collide, then merge," he said.

The brightness of Sherpa's explosion was a magnitude 16, which is far dimmer than can be seen with the naked eye. Everest's explosion was even dimmer, a magnitude 18.

For perspective, light travels 5.88 trillion miles in a year. The sun is 93 million miles from Earth, so light from the sun reaches Earth in eight minutes.

Supernovae help in search to understand mysterious dark energy

Like other Type 1a supernovae, Everest and Sherpa provide scientists with a tiny piece to the puzzle of one of the greatest mysteries of the universe: What is dark energy?

Every Type 1a supernova provides astronomers with indirect information about dark energy, which makes up 73 percent of the mass-energy in the universe. It's theorized that dark energy explains the accelerating expansion of our universe at various epochs after the Big Bang.

"Every exploding star observed allows astronomers to more precisely calibrate the increasing speed at which our universe is expanding," Ferrante said. "The older the explosion, the farther away, the closer it was to the Big Bang and the better it helps us understand dark energy."

Hobby-Eberly spectrogram confirms discovery of supernovae

Everest's discovery was confirmed by a spectrogram obtained Feb. 10 with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, also at McDonald Observatory. Everest is located in a host galaxy identified as 2286144 in the Principal Galaxies Catalog.

A spectrogram obtained Nov. 29 with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope confirmed Sherpa's discovery in one of the many galaxies of the Virgo Cluster.

The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams of the International Astronomical Union officially designated the discoveries as Supernova 2013X and Supernova 2012ha.

Ferrante and Dhungana made both discoveries as part of an international collaboration of physicists from nine universities. Everest and Sherpa were discovered with a fully automated, remotely controlled robotic telescope at the University of Texas' McDonald Observatory. The discovery is a first for the SMU collaboration members.

The telescope, ROTSE, constantly scans the skies for any significant changes, such as supernovae, novae and variable stars. Data from the telescope are reviewed daily by Ferrante, Dhungana and other scientists on the team, who search for signs of stellar activity.

Until now, primary responsibility for the management and operation of ROTSE3b was held by the University of Michigan. The SMU team took over that responsibility starting in Fall 2012. The ownership transfer will be completed by summer 2013, said SMU's Kehoe.

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