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Friday, August 2, 2013
Speedier scans reveal new distinctions in resting and active brain
[unable to retrieve full-text content]A boost in the speed of brain scans is unveiling new insights into how brain regions work with each other in cooperative groups called networks.
Germany nixes surveillance pact with US, Britain
FILE - The July 8, 2013 file photo shows the former monitoring base of the U.S. intelligence organization National Security Agency (NSA) in Bad Aibling, near Munich, southern Germany, that was closed in 2004. The German government has canceled a Cold War-era surveillance pact with the United States and Britain following concerns about their alleged electronic eavesdropping in Germany. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Friday, Aug, 2, 2013 that ending the agreement was "a necessary and proper consequence of the recent debate about protecting personal privacy." A government official says the move is largely symbolic and has no practical consequences for intelligence cooperation. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
FILE - The July 8, 2013 file photo shows the former monitoring base of the U.S. intelligence organization National Security Agency (NSA) in Bad Aibling, near Munich, southern Germany, that was closed in 2004. The German government has canceled a Cold War-era surveillance pact with the United States and Britain following concerns about their alleged electronic eavesdropping in Germany. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Friday, Aug, 2, 2013 that ending the agreement was "a necessary and proper consequence of the recent debate about protecting personal privacy." A government official says the move is largely symbolic and has no practical consequences for intelligence cooperation. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
BERLIN (AP) ? Germany canceled a Cold War-era surveillance pact with the United States and Britain on Friday in response to revelations by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden about those countries' alleged electronic eavesdropping operations.
Chancellor Angela Merkel had raised the issue of alleged National Security Agency spying with President Barack Obama when he visited Berlin in June. But with weeks to go before national elections, opposition parties had demanded clarity about the extent to which her government knew of the intelligence gathering operations directed at Germany and German citizens.
Government officials have insisted that U.S. and British intelligence were never given permission to break Germany's strict privacy laws. But they conceded that an agreement dating back to the late 1960s gave the U.S., Britain and France the right to request German authorities to conduct surveillance operations within Germany to protect their troops stationed there.
"The cancellation of the administrative agreements, which we have pushed for in recent weeks, is a necessary and proper consequence of the recent debate about protecting personal privacy," Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in a statement.
A German official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the cancellation would have no practical consequences.
He said the move was largely symbolic since the agreement had not been invoked since the end of the Cold War and would have no impact on current intelligence cooperation between Germany and its NATO allies. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to publicly discuss the issue, said Germany was currently in talks with France to cancel its part of the agreement as well.
In March 2011, two U.S. Air Force members were killed and two others wounded when a gunman from Kosovo fired on a military bus at Frankfurt International Airport. The gunman told police he was motivated by anger over the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. embassy in Berlin, Ruth Bennett, confirmed that the agreement had been canceled but declined to comment further on the issue. Officials at the United Kingdom's embassy in Berlin couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
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Thursday, August 1, 2013
Samsung allegedly inflating Galaxy S4 benchmarks, but the company denies the claims
It?s becoming increasingly clear that there?s a gap between synthetic benchmarks and real world usage on mobile devices, a truth particularly evident on the Samsung Galaxy S4. Out of the box performance for the handset left a lot to be desired when it first shipped, although things did improve with subsequent over-the-air updates. Anandtech has discovered why there?s such a large discrepancy, though, with the site claiming that Samsung is artificially boosting benchmark performance.
Here?s the technical explanation: the GPU found in the Exynos 5 edition of the Galaxy S4 is typically clocked?at 480Mhz, even when running extremely demanding mobile games. But when someone runs a specific benchmark on the handset - AnTuTu or Quadrant, for example - the GPU suddenly clocks itself up to 532Mhz. That number doesn?t seem to be attainable in other applications either, and what makes the discovery even more damning is a ?BenchmarkBooster? string buried in code on the phone.
Samsung has already responded to the allegations, saying that the boosted GPU performance is available to any app that needs it ?under normal conditions?. That would include full screen apps such as the camera, browser, and video player, but the company didn?t address the specific code strings that seem to target benchmarking apps.
At the end of the day, how your phone performs in the real world is all that matters. Benchmarking tools can prove to be good comparison tools for different handsets, but do the raw numbers really matter if you?re seeing smooth performance in your day to day usage?
One thing's for sure -?If the allegations are?true, it?s an extremely?deceptive move of Samsung part, especially when its flagship devices typically rank near the top of performance tests.
Source: http://recombu.com/mobile/news/samsung-galaxy-s4-artificial-benchmarks_M19418.html
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Filner Accuser Reluctantly Donated $200 to Help Pay Off Campaign Debt
According to Voice of San Diego, Sharon Bernie-Cloward, one of seven women who have publicly accused Filner of sexual harassment, made the donation as the?head of the San Diego Port Tenants Association. Campaign finance filings released Tuesday revealed Filner had more than $100,000 of campaign debt that was ultimately retired.?
Bernie-Cloward accused Filner of sexually harassing her in 2010 and ??groping her backside? after a campaign event in 2012 that left her fearful.?
?I was left there startled and fearful. In fact, I actually had someone walk me to my car that night,? Bernie-Cloward told KPBS last week.
Bernie-Cloward told Voice of San Diego that she felt compelled to send the donation because it was a part of her job representing business owners along the port tidelands.?
?It was a typical campaign check,? Bernie-Cloward told Voice of San Diego. ?My job is my job, and you?ve got to work with these people.?
She "reiterated that she reported the 2012 incident to the Port Tenants Association board when it happened" and "was reluctant to make her accusations public earlier than she did because the port tenants? PAC backed Filner?s opponent, Carl DeMaio."
?I guarantee you,? Bernie-Cloward said. ?If I came forward at that time, they would have said that I was just coming to get him.?
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BigGovernment/~3/vFInL4OeD2c/story01.htm
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More Changes Planned on Taxation of Property Capital Gains ...
[unable to retrieve full-text content]If the measure in the 2014 Finance Bill follows the same formula as the old scale then there will be 0% relief for the first 2 years of ownership followed by 5% per annum for the next 20 years). President Hollande has indicated ...
Source: http://siddalls.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/more-changes-planned-on-taxation-of-property-capital-gains/
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Announcer-Free TV? Detroit's Baseball Fans Say Yes, Please
Baseball fans often declare their love of the game's rhythm, its quiet pauses and bursts of action. For such people, watching a game on TV can be a struggle, particularly if they're annoyed by the chatter of announcers. Fans in Detroit had another option last night: watching a TV broadcast that included only the natural sounds of the ballpark.
On its "Plus" channel, Fox Sports Detroit offered fans a feed of Tuesday night's game pitting the Tigers against the Washington Nationals, titled "Natural Sounds at Comerica Park." The program's only voices came from the field and the stands.
The broadcast was enhanced by "extra microphones around the park so viewers can hear more of the sounds of baseball ? the bat cracks, ball popping in the mitt, vendors chiming in from the stands and the crowd's reaction to every play on the field," said Fox Sports Detroit's general manager, Greg Hammaren.
As the Awful Announcing site notes, the move was a hit with many viewers, who took to Twitter to call the broadcast "awesome." Others said, "Wish it was like this every game."
The experiment by Fox Sports Detroit follows in the footsteps of the famous NBC broadcast from 1980, when an NFL game between the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins was aired without announcers providing play-by-play commentary or analysis.
And as large and complex events such as the Olympics and soccer's World Cup broaden their online offerings, fans can often find live streaming video of competitions that include only the ambient sounds of the arena.
Fox Sports Detroit will have another announcer-free game at the end of August. But Awful Announcing's Matt Yoder says fans shouldn't expect to see such games on a regular basis.
"There's a reason the play-by-play man has had a job for decades ? game broadcasts usually need a narrative and layer of context to what's happening on the field," Yoder writes. "More importantly, we'd be out of a job."
Still, he adds, "one also wonders if Fox would ever look into the 'natural sounds' feed for the World Series given the, ahem, 'popularity' of Joe Buck and Tim McCarver with many baseball fans."
Source: http://nhpr.org/post/announcer-free-tv-detroits-baseball-fans-say-yes-please
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Paladin Energy: Kayelekera Mine, Malawi-Workplace Fatality
PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA--(Marketwired - July 31, 2013) - Paladin Energy Ltd ("Paladin" or "the Company") (TSX:PDN)(ASX:PDN) announces with considerable regret that the Company has suffered a workplace fatality at its Kayelekera Mine in northern Malawi. A Malawi national employee, Mr. Khwima Phiri, who was employed in the mine's engineering workshop, died yesterday morning (30 July) after being struck in the chest by a light vehicle wheel he was inflating at the time. Relevant authorities were notified and the Malawian Police and the Company have investigated the incident, with the findings and outcomes pending.
The Company has expressed its condolences to Mr. Phiri's next-of-kin. Prior to this tragic accident, Kayelekera Mine had operated for 489 days without a Lost Time Injury.
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Source: http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=1816195&sourceType=3
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