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WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Army captain hailed for bravery during combat in Afghanistan in 2009 is adding the Medal of Honor to his list of military decorations.
President Barack Obama will bestow the nation's highest military honor on William D. Swenson on Tuesday. Vice President Joe Biden and first lady Michelle Obama will also attend the ceremony in the East Room of the White House.
The White House says Swenson is being recognized for courageous actions while he was an embedded trainer and mentor with the Afghan National Security Forces in Kunar Province in northeastern Afghanistan on Sept. 8, 2009.
Swenson retired from the military in February 2011. He has a Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal and lives in Seattle.
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File-This Jan. 3, 2013 file photo shows a Google sign at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google wants your permission to use your name, photo and product reviews in ads that it sells to businesses. The Internet search giant is changing its terms of service starting Nov. 11. Your reviews of restaurants, shops and products, as well as songs and other content bought on the Google Play store could show up in ads that are displayed to your friends and connections when they search on Google. You can opt out of sharing. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
File-This Jan. 3, 2013 file photo shows a Google sign at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google wants your permission to use your name, photo and product reviews in ads that it sells to businesses. The Internet search giant is changing its terms of service starting Nov. 11. Your reviews of restaurants, shops and products, as well as songs and other content bought on the Google Play store could show up in ads that are displayed to your friends and connections when they search on Google. You can opt out of sharing. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
Google wants your permission to use your name, photo and product reviews in ads that it sells to businesses.
The Internet search giant is changing its terms of service starting Nov. 11.
Your reviews of restaurants, shops and products, as well as songs and other content bought on the Google Play store could show up in ads that are displayed to your friends, connections and the broader public when they search on Google. The company calls that feature "shared endorsements."
Google laid out an example of how this could happen: "Katya Klinova," her face and five-star review appear underneath an ad for Summertime Spas.
You can opt out of sharing your reviews.
Google said Friday that the name and photo you use in its social network, Google Plus, is the one that would appear in the ad. Google has said the social network has 390 million active users per month.
"We want to give you — and your friends and connections — the most useful information. Recommendations from people you know can really help," the company said in an explanation of the changes.
The Mountain View, Calif., company already had a similar setting for its "+1" button, which it introduced in 2011. It had experimented temporarily with putting "+1" endorsements with users' identities in ads, but it hasn't had them up recently. The company said Friday that the choice a user made about allowing for "+1" endorsements would be the default setting for shared endorsements.
Also, if a user chooses to limit an endorsement to certain circles of friends or contacts, that restriction will be respected in any ads that use the endorsement.
Google's move follows a similar proposal by Facebook. The social network in August said it would show users' faces and names in ads about products they clicked to "like." That proposal was criticized by privacy groups. They asked the Federal Trade Commission to look into the matter, which the agency said it did as part of routine monitoring of privacy practices.
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Jack Dongarra, distinguished professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is being honored for his leadership in high performance computing.
He will receive the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)-Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award on Nov. 19 in Denver at SC13, the International Conference on High Performance Computing.
Dongarra is being recognized for designing and promoting standards for mathematical software used to solve numerical problems common to high-performance computing. His work has led to the development of major software libraries of algorithms and methods that boost performance and portability in high-performance computing environments.
"Jack continues to provide foundational supercomputing research that allows researchers in all corners of the world to push the frontiers of knowledge," said Wayne Davis, dean of the College of Engineering. "It is hard to imagine what would have not been discovered without his work. I cannot think of a more deserving person for this award."
Dongarra is a leader in research on implementing linear algebra algorithms for high-performance computing architecture that has defined the mathematical software field. Many supercomputer vendors have adopted these software packages as the basis of their own numerical libraries.
He also has been instrumental in developing standards for mathematical software package, such as LINPACK and LAPACK, which are widely accepted in computer and computational science for evaluating the performance of supercomputers. In 1993, he formed the internationally known "TOP500" list, which used his LINPACK benchmark to show the 500 most powerful commercially available computer systems. He has co-developed a new benchmark that is being used to rank the latest list of supercomputers, released at the November conference.
"Jack saw the need to keep pace with the evolution in high-performance computing hardware and software in a world that demands higher speeds and performance levels," said Vint Cerf ACM president and one of the "Fathers of the Internet." "His innovations have contributed immensely to the steep growth of high-performance computing and its ability to illuminate a wide range of scientific questions facing our society."
The Kennedy Award cited Dongarra for "influential contributions to mathematical software, performance measurement, and parallel programming, and significant leadership and service within the HPC community."
Established in 2009, the award is named for the late Ken Kennedy, one of Dongarra's mentors, founder of Rice University's computer science program and a world expert on high-performance computing. The award carries a $5,000 honorarium endowed by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture and the Computer Society.
"Having worked closely with Ken for many years I am humbled and very honored to be receiving this award," said Dongarra. "This award is the result of the efforts of many people over the years, and I would like to thank all that have contributed."
Dongarra is the founder and director of the UT Innovative Computing Laboratory, a distinguished research staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and an adjunct professor of computer science at Rice University, and holds the Turing Fellowship at the University of Manchester. He is also director of Tennessee's Center for Information Technology Research.
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ShareContact: Whitney Heins
wheins@utk.edu
865-974-5460
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Jack Dongarra, distinguished professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is being honored for his leadership in high performance computing.
He will receive the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)-Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award on Nov. 19 in Denver at SC13, the International Conference on High Performance Computing.
Dongarra is being recognized for designing and promoting standards for mathematical software used to solve numerical problems common to high-performance computing. His work has led to the development of major software libraries of algorithms and methods that boost performance and portability in high-performance computing environments.
"Jack continues to provide foundational supercomputing research that allows researchers in all corners of the world to push the frontiers of knowledge," said Wayne Davis, dean of the College of Engineering. "It is hard to imagine what would have not been discovered without his work. I cannot think of a more deserving person for this award."
Dongarra is a leader in research on implementing linear algebra algorithms for high-performance computing architecture that has defined the mathematical software field. Many supercomputer vendors have adopted these software packages as the basis of their own numerical libraries.
He also has been instrumental in developing standards for mathematical software package, such as LINPACK and LAPACK, which are widely accepted in computer and computational science for evaluating the performance of supercomputers. In 1993, he formed the internationally known "TOP500" list, which used his LINPACK benchmark to show the 500 most powerful commercially available computer systems. He has co-developed a new benchmark that is being used to rank the latest list of supercomputers, released at the November conference.
"Jack saw the need to keep pace with the evolution in high-performance computing hardware and software in a world that demands higher speeds and performance levels," said Vint Cerf ACM president and one of the "Fathers of the Internet." "His innovations have contributed immensely to the steep growth of high-performance computing and its ability to illuminate a wide range of scientific questions facing our society."
The Kennedy Award cited Dongarra for "influential contributions to mathematical software, performance measurement, and parallel programming, and significant leadership and service within the HPC community."
Established in 2009, the award is named for the late Ken Kennedy, one of Dongarra's mentors, founder of Rice University's computer science program and a world expert on high-performance computing. The award carries a $5,000 honorarium endowed by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture and the Computer Society.
"Having worked closely with Ken for many years I am humbled and very honored to be receiving this award," said Dongarra. "This award is the result of the efforts of many people over the years, and I would like to thank all that have contributed."
Dongarra is the founder and director of the UT Innovative Computing Laboratory, a distinguished research staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and an adjunct professor of computer science at Rice University, and holds the Turing Fellowship at the University of Manchester. He is also director of Tennessee's Center for Information Technology Research.
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PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama seized a North Korean cargo ship it suspects was hiding missile equipment in a shipment of brown sugar from Cuba, after a standoff in which the ship's captain tried to slit his own throat.
The ship was stopped last week as it headed into the Panama Canal and authorities arrested the crew on Monday after finding undeclared missile-shaped objects - a potential violation of U.N. sanctions linked to North Korea's nuclear program.
"We found containers which presumably contain sophisticated missile equipment. That is not allowed. The Panama canal is a canal of peace, not war," Panama's President Ricardo Martinelli told local radio on Tuesday.
Cuba said on Tuesday evening that the ship was loaded at one of its ports with 10,000 tons of sugar and 240 tons of "obsolete defensive weaponry," according to a statement by the Cuban Foreign Ministry.
Cuba said the weapons were being sent back to North Korea for repair and included two anti-aircraft missile batteries, nine disassembled rockets, two MiG-21 fighter jets, and 15 MiG-21 engines, all Soviet-era military weaponry built in the middle of the last century.
In the statement, which was read out on the state TV evening news, Cuba said the weaponry was all required "to maintain our defensive capacity to preserve national sovereignty." It added, "Cuba maintains its commitment to peace including nuclear disarmament and international law."
Cuba has maintained warm relations with North Korea, including military and economic cooperation.
A high-level North Korean military delegation visited Cuba on July 1, according to official Cuban media reports.
A photo posted on Martinelli's Twitter page showed a long, green missile-shaped object with a tapering, conical end inside the ship, which he said was bound for North Korea.
A security expert said pictures showed radar systems for Vietnam-era, Soviet-made surface-to-air missiles.
The U.S. State Department praised Panama's decision to raid the ship, which it said had a history of involvement in drug smuggling, and warned the vessel would be violating United Nations Security Council resolutions by shipping arms.
The United Nations has imposed a raft of sanctions on North Korea, including strict regulations on arms shipments, for flouting measures aimed at curbing its nuclear weapons program.
Panama's security minister, Jose Raul Mulino, said his government had stopped the ship last Wednesday and had so far found two containers of military equipment.
He did not specify whether the cargo contained actual missiles but said the search could last up to a week.
When Panamanian officials began looking inside containers stuffed with over 250,000 100-kg (220-lb) bags of brown sugar, the captain became violent, Mulino said.
The captain, a North Korean citizen like the crew, tried to slit his throat with a knife, a police official said. The man was in hospital in stable condition, the official added, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Ben Rhode, a North Korea security expert at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, suggested the captain's suicide attempt might have been an effort to escape severe punishment by officials in North Korea for failing to carry out his mission.
All 35 members of the crew of the ship, which is called Chong Chon Gang, were arrested after resisting Panamanian orders and are now being questioned at Fort Sherman, a former U.S. Army Base on the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal, the official added.
Mulino, the security minister, said that Panama would consult with the United Nations to determine which agency could charge the crew members for smuggling illegal weapons.
An official at North Korea's U.N. mission said nobody was available to comment on the ship.
ILLICIT CARGO
A U.S. official said the most likely explanation for the cargo was that Cuba was sending missile system parts to North Korea for an upgrade, and sending sugar with them to pay for the work. A security official said Panama had asked U.S. experts to help inspect and identify the weapons.
The weapons seizure drew a stinging response from some U.S. critics of the island's Communist leadership.
U.S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Florida Republican who heads the House subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, called on President Barack Obama's administration to cancel migration talks with Cuba this week.
North Korea is under wide-ranging sanctions enacted by the United Nations, the United States and the European Union, including a U.N. ban on all arms exports, due to its nuclear program.
"Shipments of arms or related materiel to and from (North) Korea would violate Security Council resolutions, three of them as a matter of fact," said U.S. Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo, president of the U.N. Security Council this month.
"Obviously this shipment, if it's confirmed to have what we suspect, would be of interest to the (U.N. North Korea) sanctions committee," she told reporters in New York.
Previous violations of sanctions included North Korean shipments of arms-related material to Syria in November 2010 and rocket fuses for Iran in 2008.
SHIP
The ship, built in 1977, was tracked leaving Port Vostochny, in Russia's far east, on April 12, according to Lloyd's List Intelligence, a maritime intelligence company. It was next registered arriving in Balboa, on the Panama Canal's Pacific side, on May 31, and crossed the waterway the next day heading for Havana.
It then disappeared from the tracking system and reappeared in Manzanillo, Panama, on July 11, according to shipping data obtained by research group IHS Maritime. IHS said there were indications it had changed cargo in the interim.
In 2010, the Chong Chon Gang was stopped by Ukrainian authorities who found small-arms ammunition and narcotics aboard the vessel, according to Hugh Griffiths, an arms trafficking expert at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
A year earlier, the ship had stopped in Tartus, Syria, home to a Russian naval base, Griffiths added.
(Additional reporting by David Alire Garcia, Gabriel Stargardter, Luc Cohen, Paul Eckert, Lucas Iberico-Lozada, Marc Frank and Louis Charbonneau; Writing by Dave Graham and David Adams; Editing by Doina Chiacu, Todd Benson, Peter Henderson, Claudia Parsons and Lisa Shumaker)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/panama-says-finds-weapons-north-korean-ship-coming-002715094.html
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