Iran's Rouhani: Occupation of Palestine is 'wound'

An Iranian cleric holding an anti-Israeli placard chants slogan, while attending an annual pro-Palestinian rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Ahead of his inauguration, Iran?s new president, Hasan Rouhani, on Friday called Israel an ?old wound? that should be removed, while thousands of Iranians marched in support of Muslim claims to the holy city of Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

An Iranian cleric holding an anti-Israeli placard chants slogan, while attending an annual pro-Palestinian rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Ahead of his inauguration, Iran?s new president, Hasan Rouhani, on Friday called Israel an ?old wound? that should be removed, while thousands of Iranians marched in support of Muslim claims to the holy city of Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iranian women attend an annual pro-Palestinian rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Ahead of his inauguration, Iran?s new president, Hasan Rouhani, on Friday called Israel an ?old wound? that should be removed, while thousands of Iranians marched in support of Muslim claims to the holy city of Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

An Iranian man chants slogans as he holds an anti-Israeli placard with a portrait and quotation of Lebanese Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah during an annual pro-Palestinian rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Ahead of his inauguration, Iran?s new president, Hasan Rouhani, on Friday called Israel an ?old wound? that should be removed, while thousands of Iranians marched in support of Muslim claims to the holy city of Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iranians attend an annual pro-Palestinian rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Ahead of his inauguration, Iran?s new president, Hasan Rouhani, on Friday called Israel an ?old wound? that should be removed, while thousands of Iranians marched in support of Muslim claims to the holy city of Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iranians attend an annual pro-Palestinian rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Ahead of his inauguration, Iran?s new president, Hasan Rouhani, on Friday called Israel an ?old wound? that should be removed, while thousands of Iranians marched in support of Muslim claims to the holy city of Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Iran's president-elect called Israel's control of Jerusalem and Palestinian lands a "wound" for the Islamic world in relatively moderate remarks Friday that contrasted with the harsh rhetoric of his predecessor and other Iranian leaders.

Speaking to reporters during an annual pro-Palestinian rally, Hasan Rouhani said: "In our region and under occupation of Palestine and dear Jerusalem, there has been a wound on the body of the Islamic world."

The comments, two days before Rouhani's inauguration, were tame compared with those frequently made by outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling for Israel's destruction. The country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, once called the Jewish state a "cancer" that needed to be cut away.

A semiofficial Iranian news agency initially quoted Rouhani as calling Israel a "wound that should be removed." That prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to retort that "the real face of Rouhani has been exposed earlier than expected."

But the news agency, ISNA, later said it was a misquote, confirmed by state TV footage of Rouhani's comment reviewed by The Associated Press. Netanyahu issued no statement on the corrected version.

Nevertheless, the mishap underscored the challenges facing the incoming president, who was elected in June with pledges to seek a calmer and more balanced outreach to the West.

It is Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guard who control Iranian policies, and the supreme leader has final say in all key matters.

Rouhani will effectively be the international face of Iran and has made no secret of his desire to project a new image of dialogue rather than diatribes. It remains to be seen to what extent he will be able to persuade the ruling clerics and military that interaction with Washington and its allies over Iran's nuclear program could bring dividends such as easing painful sanctions.

Israel has not ruled out a military option against Iran's nuclear facilities, which the West suspects are geared toward making a nuclear weapon. Tehran denies the charge and insists its nuclear program is meant for peaceful purposes only.

The Iranian leadership has long maintained harsh views on Israel, backing anti-Israeli factions such as Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group. But it now appears to recognize that Ahmadinejad's fiery denunciations of Israel and his questioning the extent of the Holocaust needlessly outraged the West and did not advance Iran's national interests.

Rouhani appears to be trying to maneuver in the tight space allotted in Iran's power structure. He is making clear that he stands with Iran's uncompromising positions on Israel but is also backing away from Ahmadinejad's fist-waving approach.

In his remarks Friday, Rouhani also expressed doubts about the possibility of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal as the two sides resumed negotiations in Washington this week following a five-year freeze in Mideast talks.

"Israelis show a compromising face to the world but continue their expansionism in practice," Rouhani said, according to Fars, another semiofficial news agency. "This rally is a reminder that Muslim people will not forget their historical right and they will resist oppression and invasion."

Iran does not recognize Israel and has since the 1979 Islamic Revolution observed the last Friday of the Islamic month of Ramadan as "Al-Quds Day." Tehran says the occasion is meant to express support for Palestinians and emphasize the importance of Jerusalem for Muslims.

Jerusalem's eastern sector houses sensitive Jewish, Christian and Muslim shrines and is sacred to all three religions. Jerusalem is the holiest place in Judaism and the third holiest city in Islam, after the Saudi Arabian cities of Mecca and Medina.

Anti-Israeli rallies were held in cities and towns across Iran on Friday. In the capital, Tehran, tens of thousands took to the streets, chanting "Down with America" and "Death to Israel." Some protesters also burned American and Israeli flags.

Ahmadinejad spoke to the crowds after the rally in Friday prayers at the Tehran University campus. It was his last public speech before his term ends.

"You Zionists planted a wind but you will harvest a storm," the outgoing president said. "A destructive storm is on the way and it will destroy Zionism."

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Associated Press Writer Ian Deitch in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

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Cleveland kidnapping victim: 'I cried every night'

CLEVELAND (AP) ? One of the victims of convicted Cleveland kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro says at his sentencing hearing that she cried every night and that her years in captivity "turned into eternity."

Michelle Knight says she spent 11 years in hell and that Castro's hell is now beginning.

Her appearance is the first time she's been seen publicly since her rescue from the house where she was held captive for 10 years.

The 32-year-old Knight was the first woman abducted by Ariel Castro in 2002 after he lured her into his house with the promise of a puppy for her son.

Castro has pleaded guilty to charges that he repeatedly raped Knight and two other victims, and also forced Knight to miscarry after he impregnated her.

Knight was the only victim to testify. Relatives spoke for the other two victims.

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Fundraising for Brantford's Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre going slow

The city's fundraising campaign for the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre is falling dramatically short of its goals so far.

The campaign kicked off with the hiring of KCI Ketchum Canada in December 2011. The initial work and reports from the fundraising consultants showed the potential to raise between $3 million and $5 million. About $1 million of that amount would support the construction of the Brantford Sports Hall of Recognition, with any remaining funds offsetting the construction costs of the centre's $64-million redevelopment. The campaign was officially launched in June 2012.

While KCI indicated at the time it can take up to two years to cement big-dollar donations, as of the last public announcement at the end of June, the campaign had raised a total of about $700,000. The largest donation to-date has been $200,000 from SC Johnson, targeted for an outdoor play structure.

Many of the other donations that have been made have been tied to specific parts of the centre or equipment within the centre, such as the $25,000 donation by BMO Bank of Montreal for a new timing system and display in the 25-metre pool.

The fundraising consultants were hired at a cost of $25,000 a month for 14 months. The last month KCI was working on this fundraising campaign was April of this year ? with the city having paid a minimum of $350,000 drawn from the pot of money being used to finance the overall reconstruction. The thought at the time was the payments for the professional fundraisers would be taken out of the monies raised for the overall project.

?People so far have been willing to donate for specific projects,? general manager of community services Greg Dworak said this week. ?There is still some money that will be general donations and that will go to payment of KCI's fees.?

Dworak said there are more sponsorship agreements coming to council for approval this fall and the volunteer committee continues to work to solicit donations and work to solidify potential donors who've shown an interest. But as of this week, when amounts dedicated to specific items are discounted, the dollars raised aren't enough to cover KCI's costs.

The campaign's shortfall to-date hasn't impacted the facility itself ? the third large phase of reconstruction that included a new gymnasium, six-lane 25-metre pool, warm-water therapy pool, new change rooms and fitness studios opened over the month of June. The fourth and final phase involves the reconstruction of the change rooms in the old 65-metre pool and should be complete by the spring.

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White House condemns Egyptian military crackdown

A member of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporter of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi walks near a huge poster of Mursi, after late night clashes, at the entrance to their campsite near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, close to Rabaa Adawiya Square, in Nasr city area, east of Cairo July 28, 2013.

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Editorial: Stop threatening game developers ? One Of Swords

This morning a title update went through on Black Ops II on Xbox 360, and I expect this patch will propogate to other platforms soon as well. Here?s what I found on Twitter this morning:?

Okay, so I head off to read the patch notes. Most of it involves some needed tweaks to Buried, but apparently this is the part that has people violently angry:

Multiplayer Game Balancing

• AN-94:? Damage slightly reduced.

• DSR 50:? Rate of fire reduced.

• Ballista:? Rate of fire slightly reduced

That?s an assault rifle and two snipers that have, according to players who hadn?t even tried it yet, been ?messed up.? The negativity that followed is as melodramatic as you might expect.

So are the weapons truly messed up, or balanced? They are clearly altered, but to what degree? Vahn explains:

You know what? They are not.

One of Vahn?s many responsibilities is to keep the game as balanced as possible. Weapons are designed with pros and cons; they perform in specific ways for specific reasons. But if, in the course of millions of hours of gameplay and the data to go with it, weapons are found to be more effective or less effective than they should be to keep that performance balanced, they are adjusted. This has happened with every Call of Duty game that?s come out for the last few years, and it will continue to happen ? a gun?s stats being adjusted should not be a surprise to anybody at this point.

Yet Vahn often gets told he should die in a fire or kill himself or is a horrible person. If anybody thinks for a second that this is okay, it is not. But if the loudest voices in the Call of Duty ?community? act like an angry mob instead, guess how the entire world views Call of Duty? Now consider that these Internet Tough Guy rants and demands are not unique to COD, but exist everywhere, in many gaming communities. This is why the world often does not take gaming seriously; this is why gamers are assumed to be immature, whiny assholes. Because the immature, whiny assholes are louder.

Take a look at Vahn?s Twitter stream today; look at how he has responded to the people who found issues and sent him calm, useful feedback. It?s clear that many gamers understand basic human communication, and it?s doubly clear that developers respond positively and gratefully to this kind of feedback. Maybe Vahn is super patient. Maybe Vahn is super human. Maybe Vahn is heavily sedated. But the fact that he focuses on the useful feedback, puts that intel to good use fixing the problem, and doesn?t irrationally lash out at the immature, whiny assholes is amazing.

Role-play this for a second. When you make a mistake ? because you do, we all do ? or someone finds something wrong with something that you created, whether it be a meal or driving instructions or even a blog post, how would you prefer to find out that there is an issue? Would you like someone to just say ?hey, I noticed this and I think it?s not quite right; are you seeing what I see?? Or would you react better to having someone scream in your face that since your mother didn?t have an abortion, you should commit suicide instead? This is not the way to show a developer that what they do matters to you. Not at all.

If you enjoy your games, have a little respect for the people who make them ? and stop threatening them with bodily harm every time they do their job.

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China quake death toll more than doubles to 54, hundreds hurt

By Megha Rajagopalan

BEIJING (Reuters) - The death toll from a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in China's western Gansu province on Monday more than doubled to 54 people, the municipal government said, with hundreds injured as many homes in affected areas collapsed.

The quake hit Minxian and Zhangxian counties, about 170 km (105 miles) southeast of the provincial capital of Lanzhou, at 7.45 on Monday morning (7.45 p.m. ET Sunday), the official Xinhua news agency said.

It put the number of people seriously injured at 296. Earlier reports by the official Xinhua news agency said 22 people had died.

Eight towns in the remote, mountainous area sustained serious damage in the quake and subsequent flooding and mudslides, state media said.

There were also power outages, while cell phone and Internet coverage was disrupted, residents and state media reported. The Red Cross Society of China said it had sent relief supplies to the affected areas, including jackets and tents.

"Many have been injured by collapsed houses," said a Minxian county doctor surnamed Du. "Many villagers have gone to local hospitals along the roads."

Photos posted on Chinese social media showed roads on the sides of riverbanks that had subsided and farmhouses reduced to piles of red bricks.

About 380 buildings had collapsed and 5,600 sustained damaged in Zhangxian county, the Dingxi municipal government said in a microblog post.

A school building in Minxian county was also damaged, a teacher in the area said, although he said he didn't believe any students were injured because they were away on summer holidays.

Heavy rain is also forecast for the areas hit by the quake, which officials fear would compound the damage by causing more landslides and flooding.

A second 5.6 earthquake struck the same region about 90 minutes after the first, Xinhua said, the most significant of several aftershocks. The United States Geological Survey said the first quake had a magnitude of 5.9.

Gansu abuts Sichuan province, where a 6.6 quake in April killed 164 people and injured more than 6,700, China's worst quake in three years.

That quake hit close to where a devastating 7.9 temblor killed some 70,000 people in May 2008.

Among those killed in the 2008 quake were thousands of children, raising suspicions that the schools that had collapsed on them had been poorly constructed, in part due to corruption.

(Additional reporting by Michael Martina, Ben Blanchard and the Shanghai Newsroom; Editing by Paul Tait)

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Are You Happy or Horny? A Brain Scan Can Tell

What are you feeling?? For the first time, a brain scan might be able to answer that question.

It?s not exactly mind reading, but a new program can identify emotional states? from happiness to sadness, lust to disgust? simply by analyzing brain activity, according to a recent study.

The technique isn?t just a parlor game; since emotional disturbances lie at the center of most psychiatric problems, a reliable way to detect feelings from brain scans could help researchers to better understand what goes wrong in cases of depression, autism, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders and many other conditions, as well as offer new insight into how emotions work.

The brain images represent the first time that scientists can ?find neural signatures of different emotions,? says Karim Kassam, they study?s lead author and assistant professor of social and decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.

The research, which was published in the journal PLoS One, involved 10 method acting students, mainly women, who were part of the the Carnegie Mellon Drama Community at that university in Pittsburgh.? Method acting teaches students to embody the emotions of a character, fully immersing themselves in the experience by relying on personal feelings as a guide, so the scientists were confident that the students asked to display specific emotions would actually be feeling them.

Before having their brains scanned, the actors were asked to write scenarios so they could quickly evoke feelings generated by 18 words designating nine emotions: anger, disgust, fear, lust, happiness, pride, shame, envy and sadness. The actors also wrote a calm scenario that they used as a control when they were instructed not to act out intense feelings.

The volunteers were then placed in a scanner that recorded their brain activity as they saw the emotion-related words, flashed one at a time on a screen. After each appeared, each student had nine seconds to act out the emotion mentally, increasing its intensity over time. Afterward, they rated how deeply they had actually been able to feel the appropriate emotion. Each actor conducted multiple trials of each emotion.

To determine whether the acting differed substantially from actually feeling the emotion, the scientists also flashed 24 images, half of which were disgusting, the rest neutral, across the participants? screens. The actors seemed to be pretty good at their method acting exercise, since their brains registered similar activity when viewing the disgusting images as when they were acting disgusted.

Based on the data collected on a particular actor?s brain activity, the scientists then developed an algorithm for predicting which patterns were related to which feelings. Around 84% of the time, the computer?s first guess as to what emotion was being displayed was correct, showing that individuals have predictable brain signatures for what they are feeling. These exact signatures may not be shared, however, since the program was less successful at predicting one person?s emotions by using data from other people?s scans. (It still performed better than chance, however, getting it right on the first time 71% of the time on average.) ?Everyone feels like they understand anger, sadness or happiness and they think that they can define emotion, but it turns out to be very difficult to define and there?s not even a scientific consensus,? Kassam says.

What distinguished the varying feelings? Four factors emerged from the data. The most important involved whether the emotion was positive or negative. Positive valence made it highly unlikely that the computer would mistake happiness for shame or sadness for pride ? indeed, those were the least likely mistakes it made. Arousal also played a role. ?Sometimes we?re very energetic and sometimes we?re sluggish: anger looks very different from sadness on a dimension like arousal,? Kassam explains. An emotion?s social relevance also separated them ? anger or envy, for instance, generally involves others while disgust is frequently more solitary.

Finally, the researchers say that lust appears to have a brain profile all its own, distinct from other emotions and therefore unlikely to be misread by the computer. ?Lust looks like neither positive nor negative emotions,? Kassam says. The images showed that there were brain regions that were only activated by sexual desire. Why? Lust may stand out because of its critical role in reproduction ? or because it can be either desirable or not, depending on the situation. ?For example, lust may be perfectly pleasant when experienced at home with one?s spouse? but excruciatingly embarrassing and uncomfortable in other settings, especially when directed at inappropriate targets.

MORE:?Scientists Predict Weight Gain and Sexual Activity by Peeking at the Brain

?[The study] basically shows that the differences between the emotions seem to be driven by valence, arousal, and social factors, along with their interesting lust factor,? says Russell Poldrack, professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Austin in Texas, who was not associated with the work. ?There is nothing new about this, but these results are a nice confirmation, given that they didn?t design the study to find those factors but they instead fell out of the data.?

The fact that emotions may have some predictable brain signatures may also offer insight into how these emotions are formulated and, potentially, how they might be altered in cases of disease. ?[These results are] important because it hasn?t been possible yet to move toward brain predictions of what people are feeling,? says Tor Wager, associate professor of neuroscience at the University of Colorado in Boulder, who was not associated with the research.? ?It?s tremendously important for psychiatry because we have had not had markers for emotional processing and it is disturbed in virtually every psychiatric disorder and in some neurological diseases like Parkinson?s.?

MORE:?Brain Scans Can Predict Which Criminals Are Likely to Get Re-Arrested

Emotions are also critical for many basic cognitive functions that we don?t often association with feelings. Some experts argue, for example, that emotions are biological programs for decision making, evolved to guide animals to make the best choices for successful survival and reproduction. They note that even the most apparently ?rational? choice involves emotion because making a ?good? choice requires seeing one option as preferable and preference involves desire. (This may be why depressed people so often have difficulty taking action:? if everything seems equally bleak, making a choice can become impossible.)

More research will be needed before the scans can be used to precisely answer questions like ?How are you feeling?,? but, if the results are confirmed and repeated, it may not be long before your brain gives your emotions away.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/happy-horny-brain-scan-tell-194534579.html

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Wall Street Fundamentals Releases New In-Depth Stock Reports on DNR, FST, MHR and TPLM

On Monday, oil prices spiked to nine-month highs on concerns of growing tensions in the Middle East. In early trading benchmark oil for July delivery spiked to $98.74, its highest this year, on the New York Mercantile Exchange. There have been concerns that the conflict in Syria could spread, disrupting oil supplies in the process. Oil prices have also been buoyed by hopes that the U.S. Federal Reserve will maintain its aggressive stimulus measures. Policy makers will begin a two-day meeting Tuesday. Here is how some oil stocks reacted Monday:

Denbury Resources Inc. (NYSE:DNR - News) shares traded in the range of $18.02 to $18.38 Monday before settling to close at $18.18, an increase of 2.02 percent. The stock appears to be facing some resistance at $18.44 with some support at $18.12. The company reported oil production from tertiary operations was 39,057 barrels per day for the first quarter of 2013, an increase of 17 percent when compared to the year ago quarter. Shares of Denbury Resources have gained approximately 12.2 percent in 2013.

More information on Denbury Resources and access to the free equity report can be found at:
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Forest Oil Corporation (NYSE:FST - News) shares traded in the range of $4.32 to $4.42 Monday before settling to close at $4.37, an increase of 2.10 percent. The stock appears to be facing resistance at the $4.45 and $4.88 levels. The company reported average net sales volumes were 243 MMcfe/d for the first quarter of 2013, a decrease of 28 percent year-over-year. Shares of Forest Oil have fallen approximately 34.7 percent in 2013.

More information on Forest Oil and access to the free equity report can be found at:
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Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. (NYSE:MHR - News) shares traded in the range of $3.76 to $3.90 Monday before settling to close at $3.81, an increase of 1.87 percent. The stock appears to be facing resistance at $4.02 with some support at $3.78. The company reported revenues were $271.0 million for the full year 2012, an increase of 138 percent year-over-year. Shares of Magnum Hunter Resources have fallen approximately 4.5 percent in 2013.

More information on Magnum Hunter Resources and access to the free equity report can be found at:
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Triangle Petroleum Corporation (NYSEMKT:TPLM - News) shares traded in the range of $6.86 to $7.60 Monday before settling to close at $7.41, an increase of 8.18 percent. The stock appears to have some support at the $7.30 and $7.15 levels. The company reported sales volumes increased to 242 Mboe for the first quarter of fiscal 2014, an increase of 284 percent year-over-year. Shares of Triangle Petroleum have gained approximately 23.7 percent in 2013.

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Supreme Court Ruling On Gene Patenting May Be A Boon For Biotech Startups

Buried in the ongoing PRISM debacle, there was actually some hopeful news out of Washington D.C. for startups this week. The Supreme Court ruled this week that naturally occurring genes can’t be patented, which should be a boon for the host of emerging gene testing and patenting companies that are coming out of the Valley. Silicon Valley VCs like Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Felicis Ventures and SV Angel have been making more bets in the space, on the assumption that biology is becoming a space that can be attacked by software. In the case, a company called Myriad Genetics had acquired patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2, two genes that are strongly correlated with breast and ovarian cancer. Because of their patents, the cost of testing for those genes had been pushed higher, sometimes beyond the $3,000 range. That would have made it too expensive for many middle- and low-income women to learn if they were at risk for the cancers. At the same time, other human genes were being scooped up with somewhere north of 20 percent of all human genes being covered by patents, according to the National Society of Genetic Counselors. The leading gene patent holders are unsurprisingly pharmaceutical giants like DuPont and GlaxoSmithKline, that startups would have a financially hard time competing against in courts. The court ruled that human genes can’t be patented, but that synthetic genes can be protected. Now that naturally occurring human genes can’t be patented, expect gene testing companies to benefit broadly with lower-cost products across the board. The costs for full human genome sequencing have already fallen to about $8,000 today from $100 million in 2011. One of the remaining barriers preventing lower-cost testing has been whether consumers would be on the receiving end of high licensing fees to the patent owners of these genes. Patent holders like Myriad could also monopolize the testing market for these genes too, which would have also forced prices higher. One company that I’ve written about, Counsyl, tests prospective parents for any hereditary diseases they might pass onto their children like Tay-Sachs Disease. They’ve gotten such broad adoption in medical clinics across the U.S. that they’re now testing for approximately 2 percent of all births in the country every year. While CEO Ramji Srinivasan didn’t want to comment for this story, you could expect that gene testing companies which don’t currently offer tests linked to

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ADP: Only 135,000 New Private-Sector Jobs in May

Recent tax increases and cutbacks in government spending are contributing factors to sluggish job growth.

Private firms added approximately 135,000 jobs in May, according to estimates released Wednesday from payroll firm ADP. That comes in well below consensus estimates of approximately 171,000, according to Bloomberg.

Private job growth of 135,000 may not even be enough to keep up with population growth and, if the estimate is accurate, would represent a slowdown. In April, the government reported that private firms added 176,000 jobs.

[READ: How Bad is the Long-Term Unemployment Problem?]

Such slow job growth "would be a break from some of the stronger data we've been getting from BLS in recent months," noted Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, which co-produces the report, in a call with reporters Wednesday. He added that the estimate may signal deceleration in job growth, from around 175,000 new jobs per month to average growth closer to 150,000 per month.

Though there's no single "smoking gun" factor responsible for any pullbacks in growth, Zandi said, recent tax increases and cutbacks in government spending, such as the sequestration cuts that went into effect in March, are contributing factors.

[OPINION: Reducing Unemployment Is More Important Than Reducing the Budget Deficit]

ADP's estimate shows that professional and business services posted strong growth in May, adding 42,000 jobs, and that the trade, transportation, and utilities industry added 31,000 jobs. Finance saw a 7,000-job boost, and construction added 5,000. Manufacturing, meanwhile, lost 6,000 jobs.

Still, it may not be time to fear a slowdown. The ADP estimate is released days before each month's jobs report, and is often viewed as a preview of the latest Labor Department jobs estimate. However, recent ADP estimates have come in below government estimates. Acknowledging that tendency to undershoot, Zandi estimated that Friday's total payrolls figure will show 155,000 to 160,000 new jobs in May, which would be roughly on par with April's initial estimate.

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Xbox One: Microsoft won't charge fee for used game licenses, requires online check-in once every 24 hours (update)

Microsoft today unveiled plans to allow used games on its next game console, the Xbox One, ending speculation about fees associated with the process. "Microsoft does not charge a platform fee to retailers, publishers, or consumers for enabling transfer of these games," a Q&A regarding Xbox One licensing fees reads. "We designed Xbox One so game publishers can enable you to trade in your games at participating retailers." There is an exception noted, as the above only applies to Microsoft-published games apparently:

"Third party publishers may opt in or out of supporting game resale and may set up business terms or transfer fees with retailers. Microsoft does not receive any compensation as part of this. In addition, third party publishers can enable you to give games to friends. Loaning or renting games won't be available at launch, but we are exploring the possibilities with our partners."

You'll also be able to give your games to friends, though you must be friends on Xbox Live for more than 30 days and "each game can only be given once." It's unclear if the game can be given away to subsequent people by the receiver.

There's also a piece detailing how the console's always online requirement will work, with a check-in needed once every 24 hours if you're on your home console (you'll only get one hour offline on a friend's console before getting booted). Beyond serving to check whether the game license you're using is official or not, Microsoft says the requirement will, "verify if system, application or game updates are needed and to see if you have acquired new games, or resold, traded in, or given your game to a friend." Sounds to us like a way to get around issues associated with not needing discs post-install to play games on the Xbox One. The piece also notes that, "Games that are designed to take advantage of the cloud may require a connection." There's no word on exceptions for military personnel or people who live in areas without internet -- the minimum suggested speed to maintain a connection is 1.5Mbps.

Finally, there's a piece about privacy which adds some interesting notes about the new, required Kinect. The "Xbox On" wake functionality can be disabled, and Microsoft assures that a variety of privacy settings will be available right from initial setup.

Update: When asked whether the online requirement would allow exceptions for military personnel or consumers in areas without stable internet, Microsoft told us, "The blog posts on Xbox Wire detail everything we can share today. We look forward to sharing more details in the months ahead." Not exactly a comforting answer if you're an Xbox gamer serving overseas.

Filed under: Gaming, HD, Microsoft

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Excessive Facebook use can damage relationships, study suggests

June 6, 2013 ? Facebook and other social networking web sites have revolutionized the way people create and maintain relationships. However, new research shows that Facebook use could actually be damaging to users' romantic relationships. Russell Clayton, a doctoral student in the University of Missouri School of Journalism, found that individuals who use Facebook excessively are far more likely to experience Facebook-related conflict with their romantic partners, which then may cause negative relationship outcomes including emotional and physical cheating, breakup and divorce.

In their study, Clayton, along with Alexander Nagurney, an instructor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, and Jessica R. Smith, a doctoral student at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, surveyed Facebook users ages 18 to 82 years old. Participants were asked to describe how often they used Facebook and how much, if any, conflict arose between their current or former partners as a result of Facebook use. The researchers found that high levels of Facebook use among couples significantly predicted Facebook-related conflict, which then significantly predicted negative relationship outcomes such as cheating, breakup, and divorce.

"Previous research has shown that the more a person in a romantic relationship uses Facebook, the more likely they are to monitor their partner's Facebook activity more stringently, which can lead to feelings of jealousy," Clayton said. "Facebook-induced jealousy may lead to arguments concerning past partners. Also, our study found that excessive Facebook users are more likely to connect or reconnect with other Facebook users, including previous partners, which may lead to emotional and physical cheating."

Clayton says this trend was particularly apparent in newer relationships.

"These findings held only for couples who had been in relationships of three years or less," Clayton said. "This suggests that Facebook may be a threat to relationships that are not fully matured. On the other hand, participants who have been in relationships for longer than three years may not use Facebook as often, or may have more matured relationships, and therefore Facebook use may not be a threat or concern."

In order to prevent such conflict from arising, Clayton recommends couples, especially those who have not been together for very long, to limit their own personal Facebook use.

"Although Facebook is a great way to learn about someone, excessive Facebook use may be damaging to newer romantic relationships," Clayton said. "Cutting back to moderate, healthy levels of Facebook usage could help reduce conflict, particularly for newer couples who are still learning about each other."

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/~3/ltm2IEayPv0/130606140857.htm

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Biden to eulogize Lautenberg at senator's funeral

NEW YORK (AP) ? U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg's nearly three decades in office and the causes he championed will be remembered at a funeral service in New York.

A service was set for 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan.

The liberal Democrat from New Jersey died Monday after suffering complications from viral pneumonia. At 89 he was the oldest member of the Senate and the last of 115 World War II veterans to serve there.

Vice President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey and members of Lautenberg's family were set to deliver eulogies.

A color guard ceremony was also scheduled for Wednesday afternoon at the Frank Lautenberg Rail Station in Secaucus, N.J., where his casket was to be put on an Amtrak train to Washington.

Lautenberg was an ardent defender of Amtrak and worked to secure hundreds of millions of dollars for mass transit projects.

His casket was set to arrive at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday and lie in repose in the Senate chamber, on the Lincoln Catafalque, a bier that was built for the coffin of Abraham Lincoln.

Lautenberg, who served in the Army Signal Corps during World War II, will be buried Friday at Arlington National Cemetery.

A multimillionaire businessman, he was first elected to the Senate in 1982 and went on to serve nearly 30 years there in two stints.

He won his last race in 2008 at age 84, becoming the first New Jersey politician ever elected to five Senate terms. He had announced earlier this year he would not seek another term in 2014.

Early in his political career, he was a driving force behind the laws that banned smoking on most U.S. flights and made 21 the drinking age in all 50 states.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/biden-eulogize-lautenberg-ny-funeral-062316358.html

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The Good Way to Buy Votes

A man rides a Citi Bike near Union Square in New York. Is he "begriming" the neighborhood?

Photo by Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images

New York City?s Bike Share program launched last week to enthusiasm but also complaints, epitomized by Dorothy Rabinowitz?s infamous video rant at the Wall Street Journal against the ?totalitarians? who run the city and are ?begriming? its neighborhoods with ?blazing blue Citibank bikes.? While Rabinowitz has been met with ridicule, her objections raise a serious question: How should a city decide when to implement a public project that people are clamoring both for and against?

New Yorkers live in a democracy, and one possible response is that they elected their mayor and must live with his decisions. But mayors make mistakes, and New Yorkers have no practical way to punish Mayor Michael Bloomberg if they do not like his decisions because he is a lame duck who cannot run for re-election. And even if Bloomberg sought to act in the public good, how would he know how to weight the views of NYC Bike Share fans and foes? Polling might help, but polls don?t aggregate the strength of people?s preferences. They give equal weight to a passionate opponent like Rabinowitz and a person who doesn?t really care.

Many states let the voters decide big questions, like same-sex marriage, through ballot referendums. But this kind of direct democracy is controversial. The problem is that an indifferent majority can outvote a passionate minority. In 2008, when California?s gay marriage ban was on the ballot, many people probably voted for it simply because gay marriage seemed strange, without a strong stake in the outcome. By contrast, the issue is of considerable significance to a minority?the gay couples it affects. If they care a lot, and the majority cares a little, it seems reasonable that minority interests should prevail. But the ordinary one-person, one-vote rule dictates otherwise.

Economists have given a lot of thought to this problem. In writing about what?s called ?mechanism design,? they have invented an array of ingenious procedures for aggregating people?s preferences, taking into account their intensity. The U.S. government has used their proposals to auction off rights to the electromagnetic spectrum for communications, including television broadcasts. Other mechanisms that take into account intensity of preference have been used for matching residents and hospitals, and kidney donors and recipients. Economists like William Vickrey, Alvin Roth, and Lloyd Shapley have received Nobel Prizes in recognition for their work in this field.

The effort to develop a mechanism that would aggregate preferences for public goods like NYC Bike Share has been less successful. The most famous attempt, known as the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism (named after its inventors, including William Vickrey) resembles an auction in which the winners submit bids (for or against a project like Bike Share), and the project is approved if the total in favor exceeds the total against, while any winner whose vote is pivotal to the outcome must make a partial payment to the losers. But the VCG mechanism has never been used because it can be gamed pretty easily (for example, people can avoid being pivotal voters by getting together), wastes money, and is probably too complicated.

Recently, however, an economist at the University of Chicago named Glen Weyl has developed an ingenious new mechanism that is simpler and more robust, and could help a city decide whether to introduce bike sharing. He calls it Quadratic Vote Buying and it works like this.

Consider a group of New Yorkers, Anne, Bruce, and Carla. The city is trying to decide whether to implement a bike sharing program. Under QVB, each person has the right to buy as many votes as he wants at a price equal to the square of the number of votes that he buys:

Number of Votes??????? Price
1????????????????????????????????? $1
2????????????????????????????????? $4
3????????????????????????????????? $9
10??????????????????????????????? $100

The outcome is determined by majority rule, based on this method of vote calculation. If Anne buys eight votes in favor of the program, Bruce buys four votes against, and Carla buys two votes against, then the program is approved by a vote of eight to six. By contrast, with ordinary voting the project would be rejected two to one. Voters vote and pay through a mobile app or website.

And then their payments are distributed?to each other, in equal shares. Anne paid $64, Bruce paid $16, and Carla paid $4, for a total of $84, and now each person receives a third of that total, $28. Anne?s net loss is $36, but she benefits from the bike-sharing program, while Bruce nets $12 and Carla nets $24, buffering their relative levels of disappointment. The redistribution of the money reduces the impact of a loss, in contrast to a winner-take-all system like ordinary voting.

Not everyone is made better off by the program even with redistribution. (Bruce is a little worse off because he received a bit less than he would have paid to block the program.) But over time, as additional votes are held on additional city projects, it is highly likely that everyone gains more than he or she loses. This is again in contrast with ordinary voting, where a minority can be repeatedly outvoted.

Why does QVB work? It forces voters to pay for the impact of their votes on other people, in the same way that a tax forces factories to take into account the effects of pollution on others. In economic terms, the voter chooses a number of votes that equalizes the marginal benefit for her, in terms of her influence on policy, and the marginal cost for those who vote the other way. People who are dying for bike sharing exert more influence than those who are kind of anti?but squaring the cost of voting ensures that they don?t go too far.

The major objection to QVB is that people must pay to vote, and thus wealthy people will influence outcomes more than poor people do. There are several responses.

First, because the price of voting is the square of the number of votes cast, the price goes up extremely quickly. If Donald Trump wants to spend $1 million to oppose the bike-sharing program, he will be able to cast only 1,000 votes?a drop in the bucket relative to the number of New York voters who would be willing to pay a dollar or so to be heard. And although there may be troublesome cases in which rich people align themselves against the poor, the bike-sharing program is not one of them. Mayor Bloomberg could easily outvote the Donald.

Second, keep in mind that the collected funds are returned to New Yorkers. If Trump spends $1 million to outvote cyclers, he?s going to get little of his money back, while all the people who buy only a handful of votes will rake in his money. This will happen whether or not Trump wins. And, for the poorest New Yorkers, the money will be a lot more valuable than whatever modest advantage they would obtain from renting bikes.

Third, the QVB system can be modified to weaken the influence of wealth. A city could cap the number of votes that people may cast, or use chits or coupons rather than votes. Imagine, for example, that New York raises taxes by $100 per person, and then gives people $100 in votes that they can cast in different referendums. People who don?t spend any of their coupons could instead trade them back for cash. Under this system, the advantage of wealth would be minimal.

There are other contexts in which QVB could be valuable. Glen Weyl and I have argued that it could be used for corporate governance?for example, as a way for shareholders to approve or reject a proposed merger. In this context, worries about buying votes should play no role because that already happens, when people buy additional shares. Employers could also use QVB to evaluate demand among employees for amenities like gyms.

New York?s Bike Share program uses 21^st-century technology to make it easy for customers to rent bikes. But it is using the primordial method of the mayoral election to determine its citizens preferences. To be truly forward-thinking, the city should switch to QVB. Along with bikes, it?s the future.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2013/06/new_york_s_bike_share_try_quadratic_vote_buying_to_figure_out_if_people.html

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Never forget a face? Researchers find women have better memory recall than men

June 4, 2013 ? New research from McMaster University suggests women can remember faces better than men, in part because they spend more time studying features without even knowing it, and a technique researchers say can help improve anyone's memories.

The findings help to answer long-standing questions about why some people can remember faces easily while others quickly forget someone they've just met.

"The way we move our eyes across a new individual's face affects our ability to recognize that individual later," explains Jennifer Heisz, a research fellow at the Rotman Institute at Baycrest and newly appointed assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University.

She co-authored the paper with David Shore, psychology professor at McMaster and psychology graduate student Molly Pottruff.

"Our findings provide new insights into the potential mechanisms of episodic memory and the differences between the sexes. We discovered that women look more at new faces than men do, which allows them to create a richer and more superior memory," Heisz says.

Eye tracking technology was used to monitor where study participants looked -- be it eyes, nose or mouth -- while they were shown a series of randomly selected faces on a computer screen. Each face was assigned a name that participants were asked to remember.

One group was tested over the course of one day, another group tested over the course of four days.

"We found that women fixated on the features far more than men, but this strategy operates completely outside of our awareness. Individuals don't usually notice where their eyes fixate, so it's all subconscious."

The implications are exciting, she says, because it means anyone can be taught to scan more and potentially have better memory.

"The results open the possibility that changing our eye movement pattern may lead to better memory," says Shore. "Increased scanning may prove to be a simple strategy to improve face memory in the general population, especially for individuals with memory impairment like older adults."

The complete study, published in the journal Psychological Science, can be found at this link.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/living_well/~3/qZFujkTeHG8/130604113957.htm

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Can mobile gaming kill the consoles? - Talk Mobile | iMore.com

Mobile gaming has entered a new stage of creativity and viability for two main reason: (1) hardware coming of age, allowing for high-intensity graphics and smooth gameplay that meets today?s consumer expectations, and (2) mass adoption of smartphones, making it financially attractive to produce quality gaming titles.

High-end smartphones in 2013 have all but pushed out the major mobile gaming devices such as Sony PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS. Indeed, Sony?s anticipated PSP successor, the PlayStation Vita, has barely cracked ten million in sales since its debut over a year ago. While those platforms are far from dead, their popularity has certainly dwindled as smartphones with advanced hardware have hit the market.

High-end smartphones in 2013 have all but pushed out the major portable gaming devices from Sony and Nintendo.

The rise of smartphones

Starting with the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, smartphone sales have exploded, setting new records every quarter. In its first year of availability, Apple sold just over five million iPhones. Last year, Apple sold just over 138 million. 37.4 million more were sold last quarter alone.

Android activations have likewise exploded since the 2008 release of the HTC Dream. At the 2013 Google I/O conference it was announced that global Android device activations had crossed the 900 million mark.

When the original PDA was merged with the cellphone, creating the smartphone, the question naturally became - why carry two devices when you can just carry one? The same occurred with mobile gaming. Will the same hold true for consoles? While smartphones may not pack the same hardware power as consoles, they can make up for their deficiency in raw processing (and the lack of infinite battery life) through other methods, including becoming a second screen to augment console games, or utilizing onboard sensors to create new genres e.g. location-based social activities such as Android?s Ingress, or the accelerometer/gyroscope-driven gameplay found in modern mobile racing games.

In that sense, we?ve seen gameplay come to smartphones that can?t easily be duplicated on a console. Moreover, while playing a mass-multiplayer/first person shooter may not be practical on a smartphone, games like Modern Combat 4 have established that higth quality, first person shooters are certainly possible on mobile and are, in fact, enjoyable.

Of course, due to the mobile nature of smartphones, and the time constraints social conventions impose on our use of them - i.e. commuting, bathroom breaks, waiting for a friend - the platform naturally lends itself to simple puzzle games like Angry Birds. Likewise, the rise of short, turn-based games like Draw Something has accelerated. These games might not have been seen as profitable enough for consoles, but have become phenomenally popular on the highly portable, always-connected smartphone.

Logically, however, consoles will always be ahead of smartphones. That's because consoles are simply not subjected to the same physical size, battery life, or storage constraints as mobile devices. Later this year, Sony and Microsoft will be releasing the PS4 and Xbox One, their next-generation console hardware. Based on previous product cycles, those platforms should last the next five to ten years, including minor hardware revisions. Future iterations could support advanced body and facial recognition systems, or so-called Ultra HD/4K high definition displays, things which aren't currently practical on a smartphone.

For mobile to win, consoles don't have to lose.

For mobile to win, consoles don't have to lose. They?ll just continue to expand their capabilities. Being able to pick up and play more streamlined experiences that transition between a console and a smartphone is certainly doable today. So is taking a major title game and creating a mobile sub-game that utilizes a smartphone?s sensors (GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, cameras, etc.), social-networks and convenience will allow developers to create new avenues of creativity (and monetization). Ultimately, however, the restrictions of smartphone hardware will, like with all human endeavors, push the creative boundaries of the human imagination.

And that is very exciting.

Mobile is adding something to gaming that wasn't there on PC or console before.

- Anders Jeppsson, Head of Global Gaming Category, BlackBerry

Finally, thanks in part to the rise of the iPhone and Android ecosystems - more than half a billion iOS devices have been sold and almost a billion Android devices are out there - smartphones have become a mass commodity. Such wide adoption by consumers from every financial segment means that mobile is now an enticing market for the big gaming houses. No longer will they be catering to a niche but rather the large and growing mainstream.

That transition, which is expected to accelerate in 2013 through 2016, especially in emerging markets, means we will continue to see large development houses shift their resources to mobile. Combined with more powerful hardware, faster LTE networking, better battery efficiencies, and on-board sensors should result in a renaissance in mobile gaming.

Q:

Is mobile gaming good enough for you?

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Source: http://www.imore.com/talk-mobile/can-mobile-gaming-kill-consoles

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ASUS launches dual-band router with combined 1900Mbit/s speeds

Some of ASUS' big Computex 2013 launches today involved the latest 802.11ac WiFi flavor, and since you'll need to feed them with a router packing the same tech, ASUS has also announced one of those: the RT-AC68U. The company claims it's the first dual-band 802.11ac router with AC1900 data rates up to 1900 Mbit/s, thanks to AiRadar beamforming, which helps bring a stronger connection and 150 percent better range, too (if accurate). You'll also be able to share files between ASUS routers with USB-attached drives thanks to a router-to-router sync mode, negating the need for a switched-on PC or other device. There's no word on pricing or availability, but the previous RT-AC66U flagship ran about $200 or so -- so we'd be surprised if it came in under that figure.

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Keen On? Stephen Wolfram: Confessions Of The Most Quantified Person On The Planet

Stephen Wolfram, the founder and CEO of the software company Wolfram Research, may well be the smartest and most interesting guy in tech. A PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech at the age of twenty, the youngest ever recipient of the MacArthur "genius" fellowship, the inventor of both Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram's life has been dedicated to the capture and organization of all the knowledge in the world.

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Continued wet weather hurts farmers in N. Dakota

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Wet weather across much of North Dakota has continued to prevent farmers and ranchers from making progress planting crops.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its weekly crop report that there were 2.3 days suitable for fieldwork on average last week.

Spring wheat seeding was rated 64 percent complete. This is well behind last year at 100 percent and the 89 percent average.

Spring wheat was 42 percent emerged, behind last year at 99 percent and the average of 73 percent.

Oats seeding was 72 percent complete, behind 100 percent last year and 90 percent on average.

Pasture and range conditions were rated 1 percent very poor, 4 percent poor, 21 percent fair, 57 percent good and 17 excellent.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/continued-wet-weather-hurts-farmers-204142735.html

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