Gritty wharf at Port of L.A. will become marine research center

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Gritty wharf at Port of L.A. will become marine research center
Plans call for City Dock 1, opened in 1913, to be converted into a nexus of laboratories and classrooms, fish hatcheries and berths for research vessels.On a recent weekday morning, Daniel Pondella strode along a century-old stretch of concrete pylons and shabby warehouses in San Pedro.

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Posted on: Monday, Jun 10, 2013, 8:04am
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ACLU sues over NSA's surveillance program, challenging its constitutionality

If you're already overwhelmed by the sheer amount of activity surrounding the ongoing NSA fallout, we're guessing that now would be an excellent time to go on vacation. Predictably, lawsuits are already being filed against the National Security Agency, the second of which is coming from the American Civil Liberties Union. Essentially, it's challenging the constitutionality of the surveillance program in a New York federal court, deeming the initiative "one of the largest surveillance efforts ever launched by a democratic government."

The suit claims that the program infringes upon (at least) the First Amendment and the Fourth Amendment of the United States constitution. As The Verge points out, the ACLU's prior NSA lawsuit (in 2008) was dismissed in a 5-4 outcome "on the grounds that it did not have legal standing to sue, since there was no way to prove it had been targeted." Given the leaked documents involved now, however, the outcome could be much different this go 'round. Of course, one has to wonder: if all of this leads to the public shutdown of the program, are we capable of trusting the same government that started it to not actually operate it in secret?

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Vietnam police seize 53 king cobras from car

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) ? Vietnamese police say they have seized 53 king cobras from a car in Hanoi and arrested the driver.

Officer Dang Van Hanh said Monday the live snakes were taken to a wildlife rescue center near the capital where they treated before being released into the wild.

King cobras are the world's longest venomous snake, and grow up to 5.5 meters (18) feet.

The meat of the king cobras is considered a delicacy by some in Vietnam, where hunting and trading the snakes is banned. The snakes are also sometimes preserved in traditional medicines.

The snakes, which were kept in green sacks, were seized Friday.

Hanh said the car driver told officers he was paid to transport them. Local media reported he was paid under $50.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/vietnam-police-seize-53-king-cobras-car-102847104.html

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Israel praises Azerbaijan's stand in Iran crisis

JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israel's president on Monday praised Azerbaijan for playing a key role in countering Iran's influence in the Middle East as the Muslim country's foreign minister visited the Jewish state for the first time.

The visit by Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov comes amid rising tensions between Israel and Iran.

Israel believes Iran is quickly approaching the capability to build a nuclear bomb and has threatened to use military force if international diplomacy and sanctions fail to curb Tehran's nuclear program. Iran says its program is for peaceful purposes only.

In talks Monday, President Shimon Peres told Mammadyarov that Israel considers Azerbaijan an important ally. He cited Azerbaijan's "unique geographic location" and praised its government for taking a "clear stand" against war and terrorism.

Mammadyarov said his country, located between Russia and Iran, "is not in an easy neighborhood" and that he sees a "huge opportunity" to expand ties with Israel.

Although neither official said so, Azerbaijan could play an important role in the event of a military operation against Iranian nuclear sites, because it is next to Iran.

Israel's relations with Azerbaijan have grown since its once-strong strategic relationship with nearby Turkey, which also borders Iran, deteriorated.

The visit came as the U.S. defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, was visiting Israel to discuss the Iran situation. The U.S. has vowed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, though it has acknowledged differences with Israel over the timeframe for taking military action.

Hagel told his Israeli counterpart on Monday that the U.S. is committed to preserving and improving the Jewish state's military edge in the Middle East, and would permit Israel to buy various new weapons, including U.S. missiles and advanced radars for its strike aircraft. He said the U.S. would leave it to Israel to decide whether and when it needs to attack Iran.

Azerbaijan, an oil-rich former Soviet nation of 9 million people, has nurtured close relations with the United States and played an active role in Western-led counter-terrorist programs. That foreign policy has placed a strain on its ties with Iran, which hosts a sizable ethnic Azeri community.

Iran has accused Azerbaijan of allowing the Israeli spy agency Mossad to operate on its territory and use its proximity to Iran to target scientists working on Tehran's nuclear program.

Israel says authorities foiled Iranian-sponsored attacks against Israeli targets in Azerbaijan. Azeri officials thwarted plots to explode car bombs near the Israeli Embassy in 2008 and a year before convicted 15 people in connection with an alleged Iran-linked spy network accused of passing intelligence on Western and Israeli activities.

Israel would consider a nuclear-armed Iran to be an existential threat, citing hostile Iranian rhetoric toward the Jewish state, Iran's missile capabilities and its support for violent Middle Eastern militant groups.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israel-praises-azerbaijans-stand-iran-crisis-104002142.html

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Family Says Chinese Grad Student's Dreams Led to Boston - Diverse

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The letter encouraged others who share Lu Lingzi?s dreams and ?want to make the world a better place to continue moving forward.?

BEIJING ? The family of a Chinese graduate student killed in the Boston Marathon bombings said in an open letter that it was her dream to study in the United States and that she fell in love with Boston and its people.

In the statement posted on Boston University?s website, the family of 23-year-old Lu Lingzi expressed its grief, called her ?the joy of our lives? and thanked the school community for its compassion.

?She loved her new friends and her professors at Boston University,? read the letter, which was posted Thursday. ?She wanted to play a role in international business, specializing in applied mathematics. She has been studying very hard toward her goal. Sadly, it was not to be.?

Lu began her graduate program in September, and the letter said it had been ?her dream to come to America to study. While she was here, she fell in love with Boston and its people.? The letter encouraged others who share Lu?s dreams and ?want to make the world a better place to continue moving forward.?

Lu came from a middle-class family with solid Communist Party connections in the northeastern city of Shenyang. Her father is an engineer and her mother an accountant, while Lu?s maternal grandfather was a theorist at an elite party training academy, on whose grounds the family apartment is located, according to neighbors and newspapers in her hometown.

Growing up, Lu earned a reputation for academic excellence. She attended an intensely competitive high school in her home city of 8 million and enrolled at Beijing Institute of Technology after scoring the second-highest score in her class in 2008.

Her parents initially requested privacy and did not want Lu?s name released in the initial hours after their only child was declared dead in last Monday?s bombings, which killed two other people and injured more than 170. They?ve repeated their request for the media to respect their wish for privacy.

China?s official Xinhua News Agency said the parents and two other relatives left Beijing on Friday for Boston.

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Kik Raises $19.5M Series B, Bets On Its Cards Platform Play To Take On WhatsApp And Others

Kik has raised a $19.5M Series B funding round, the company revealed today, led by Foundation Capital and including RRE Ventures, Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. The Waterloo-based messaging app company will be using the funding to help continue to support its growth, and the new injection of cash comes at a crucial point for the company as it sets its sights on broader platform ambitions with the recently-introduced Cards feature.

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On Columbine anniversary, survivor says gun bill fight isn?t over yet

Katie Lyles was a sophomore at Columbine High School when her math class was interrupted by the sound of gunfire on April 20, 1999.

She fled the class, and survived. But by the end of the day, she would find out that her lab partner from science class and one of her teachers were among the 13 people killed by a pair of seniors who went on a shooting rampage that day.

Fourteen years later, Lyles, now an art teacher at an elementary school in the same Colorado community, decided to become an advocate for expanded background checks and other gun safety measures after the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on Dec. 14. In the aftermath of that tragedy, Lyles became alarmed when some gun rights enthusiasts suggested that teachers or volunteers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons into school to prevent the next shooting.

With the help of her teachers' union, the National Education Association, Lyles has lobbied lawmakers and shared her personal experience as a Columbine survivor and teacher to try to get new gun laws passed. She testified in front of the Colorado statehouse for stricter background checks and limits to high-capacity magazines, which eventually passed and were signed into law in March.

But her advocacy on the national level was not so successful. On Wednesday, senators refused to bring a background check bill to a vote, dealing a significant blow to President Barack Obama's stated goal of passing what he calls commonsense gun reforms. The Senate came five votes short of clearing the procedural hurdle that would have allowed lawmakers to actually debate the bill.

The failure came despite a compromise between Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W. Va.) and Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.) that scaled back an earlier Democratic proposal to require background checks for nearly every single gun transaction, including those among friends and relatives. The Manchin-Toomey compromise would have covered just commercial transactions, including online and gun show sales, to ensure people with criminal records can't buy weapons. The National Rifle Association opposed the background check compromise, saying it would not "reduce violent crime or keep our kids safe in their schools."

Lyles said she is disappointed the bill failed, but will continue to fight for the legislation.

"This isn?t the end of the fight, this is the first inning of a nine inning game," Lyles said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/columbine-survivor-gun-bill-failure-not-over-151457085.html

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