Saturday, July 7, 2012

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Brain Bluffs Humans Differently Than Machines

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The temporal parietal junctions of poker players behaved differently when they were bluffing another human versus bluffing a computer. Cynthia Graber reports.

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You talk to a friend. Then you talk to Siri on the iPhone. Does your brain function differently when interacting with a machine versus another person? According to a recent study, there might be one small brain region dedicated to dealing only with people ? in order to lie to them.

Researchers had 18 subjects play poker against a variety of human and computer opponents. The participants were encouraged to bluff ? they?d get money if their bluffs were successful.

Sometimes they were given a weak hand. The researchers evaluated functional MRI signals of the players? brains. Could they tell by looking at the brain patterns whether the player was about to bluff a human?

They found that most regions of the brain that have been previously identified with social interactions lit up regardless of whether the subject was playing a person or a machine. But one small region ? the temporal parietal junction, or TPJ ? seemed to activate only when participants contemplated bluffing another human being.

The study was published in the journal Science. [R. McKell Carter et al, A Distinct Role of the Temporal-parietal Junction in Predicting Socially Guided Decisions]

Says study author Scott Huettel, ?Social information may cause our brains to play by different rules than non-social information.? At least when it comes to deception.

?Cynthia Graber

[The above text is a transcript of this podcast]

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A Real Estate Agent's Role When Buying Texas Land For Sale ...

Buying real estate property is one of the biggest investments a person can make, and the task can be very overwhelming. But you do not have carry the burden by yourself ? you can delegate this difficult task to your real estate agent. Hire a professional consultant who can find you the Texas land for sale fast, easy and at the best value.

Whenever you hear about Texas, the first connotation that comes to mind is that it?s the land of cowboys and ranches. This is a thing of the past because with major cities like Houston, Austin, Dallas and San Antonio, you can experience the hustle and bustle that is common in any big city of the world. However, despite the technological developments that spread throughout Texas, there remain places that exude solace and country life.

Any person interested in Texas can always find Texas land for sale ? whether the property sought after is intended for residence, investment or vacation get-away. People interested in livestock farming go to Texas to purchase a ranch. To them, there is nothing more enchanting than being with nature and wildlife. For the more sophisticated vacationers, there are beachfront properties that are the perfect getaway during the hot summer months.

The beauty of Texas is spoiled when people investing in Texas land for sale do not end up with the right Texas property. Buying Texas land for sale is just like buying other real estate anywhere in the world.

There are several things you may want when purchasing real estate properties, necessities that can only be supplied if a professional real estate agent is consulted.

When you are determined and decided to find your Texas land for sale, you want to find it fast and immediate. Doing the search alone may take time. True, there is the internet to afford you information however you are only dependent on what you research. There are real estate secrets and undisclosed strategies which agents do not divulge. They only implement these when you hire them. Your agent has massive network so that when the Texas land for sale you are looking for is not in his listings, he can use his network to find the much desired property.

Your agent can give you insights on the future of the property you are eyeing. This expert will know if the property will appreciate or devalue. You may not intend to have it as an investment to be resold. Nevertheless, the aim is for your property to appreciate in value.

The agent knows the current cost or valuation of certain Texas land for sale. If the asking price of the seller is too high, you can be informed by your agent and proper negotiations can be made. Your agent will help you haggle for lower price which will always end up with savings on your part.

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Buying Texas land for sale can be overwhelming. It is big move, so you have to get the right value for your money. But if you do not know the ins and outs of real estate, the hiring of a professional agent is the best thing that can lead to a successful and rewarding Texas land purchase.

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Friday, July 6, 2012

Ratings agencies cut outlook for Barclays

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Man in Afghan uniform wounds 5 US troops at NATO base

KABUL, Afghanistan - A man in an Afghan army uniform opened fire outside a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan, wounding five American soldiers, an Afghan police official said Wednesday.

The number of insider attacks against foreign forces in Afghanistan has increased this year, undermining the trust between allies and efforts to prepare Afghan troops to take over their own security as international combat troops prepare to withdraw.

The U.S.-led coalition confirmed in a statement that a number of its service members were shot and wounded by a man in an Afghan army uniform Tuesday in Wardak province's Sayed Abad district. It said Wednesday that the service members were being treated at a medical facility but did provide details.

The coalition maintains a large base there, but NATO did not say where in the district the attack took place or what happened to the assailant, but said an investigation into the incident was under way.

Wardak provincial police chief Abdul Qayum Bakizoi said the wounded were five U.S. soldiers. He did not have further details.

A witness said Afghan civilians were talking to the soldiers outside their base when a man in an Afghan army uniform opened fire on them with a machine gun.

"The Americans were standing on the other side of us while we were standing with a translator. Suddenly the Afghan soldier aimed his machine gun on them and started shooting," Eman said.

He added that the wounded soldiers were evacuated by helicopter while the others "took us aside in fear of a possible gunbattle." Eman, who gave only one name, said the Afghan who opened fire escaped toward some trees and into a nearby village.

Wardak, located close to Kabul, is considered a Taliban hotbed and has been the scene of heavy fighting over the past year.

On last year's anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, a truck bomb outside the same coalition base wounded 77 American soldiers and killed five Afghan civilians. Sayed Abad is also seven miles (12 kilometers) east of the Tangi Valley, where the Taliban on Aug. 6 shot down a U.S. military helicopter, killing 30 Americans - the deadliest single loss for American forces in the decade-old war.

Tuesday's shooting was the latest likely case of a so-called "green-on-blue" attack in which Afghan soldiers or insurgents disguised in their uniforms turn their weapons on coalition troops.

So far this year 26 coalition troops have been killed in 18 such attacks. That compares with 11 fatal attacks and 20 deaths the previous year. In 2007 and 2008 there were a combined total of four attacks and four deaths.

Officials do not routinely report such attacks where troops are wounded unless asked.

Efforts to drawdown the number of U.S. and other foreign troops in Afghanistan rely on them working closely with their Afghan partners to train and mentor them so that they can take over the security of their country by the end of 2014. But such insider attacks fuel distrust and have triggered increased security protections for foreign troops serving in Afghanistan.

A total of 221 foreign troops have been killed this year, including five in July.

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Thursday, July 5, 2012

Voice of Chuck E. Cheese replaced; actor says he hopes customers ?have seen Christ in me?

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Insight: Florida man sees "cruel" face of U.S. justice

MIAMI (Reuters) - Quartavious Davis is still shocked by what happened to him in federal court two months ago.

"My first offense, and they gave me all this time," said Davis, a pudgy African American with dreadlocks who spoke with Reuters at the Federal Detention Center in Miami. "Might just as well say I'm dead."

Davis was convicted of participating in a string of armed robberies in the Miami area in 2010. His accomplices testified against him, saying he carried a gun during their crimes and discharged it at a dog that chased them after one of their burglaries. But Davis was not convicted of hurting anyone physically, including the dog.

Davis would occupy no place at all in the annals of crime if not for his sentence. Now 20 years old, he was sentenced to 1,941 months - almost 162 years - in prison without the possibility of parole.

On the day of Davis's interview with Reuters, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that life sentences without parole for defendants under the age of 18 constituted "cruel and unusual punishment" even in cases of murder. Unfortunately for Davis, he was 18 at the time of his crimes.

Nonetheless, Davis's attorney will argue that Davis's sentence to die in prison also constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment" on the grounds that Davis is a "first offender," having never before been charged with a crime.

"Just as the Supreme Court recently held that the Constitution bars taking away all discretion from judges in sentencing juveniles to life imprisonment for committing murder," said the attorney, Jacqueline Shapiro, "so also is it cruel and extreme to allow unfettered prosecutorial discretion to force a sentencing judge to impose a life sentence on a teenage first offender convicted of lesser charges."

Davis's unusually long sentence results from a controversial practice known as "stacking," in which each count of an indictment is counted as a separate crime, thus transforming a first-time defendant into a "habitual criminal" subject to multiple sentences and mandatory sentencing guidelines.

"Any law that provides for a mandatory term of imprisonment for a 19-year-old first offender that exceeds a century has got to be unconstitutional," said Michael Zelman, the court-appointed attorney who represented Davis at his trial.

Zelman resigned from Davis's case after filing a notice of appeal. If Davis's new lawyer, Shapiro, has her way, the Supreme Court may ultimately decide the issue. The case will be appealed first to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

Until then, Davis's story will be a prominent case in point for both sides in an increasingly heated debate, pitting those who would protect society from the prospective dangers posed by serial criminals against those who see the United States - whose overcrowded prisons house fully one-quarter of all the prisoners in the world, most of them black - as a bastion of injustice.

ODD MAN OUT

When he was arrested on December 23, 2010, Davis was an unemployed high school dropout living with an aunt in Goulds, Florida, a poor, predominantly black neighborhood south of Miami.

According to expert testimony at his trial, Davis suffers from a learning disability and bipolar disorder.

At the time of his arrest, he told Reuters, he was living on $674 a month in Social Security disability payments and hoping to get back into school to learn a trade.

On February 9 of this year he was convicted of committing seven armed robberies at fast-food restaurants, a Walgreens pharmacy and other commercial establishments in the Miami area from August to October of 2010.

Davis, who still maintains his innocence, was the only one of the six men charged who went to trial. The others cut plea deals that left them with sentences of nine to 22 years in prison.

As the odd man out, Davis was convicted largely on the basis of his accomplices' testimony, court documents show.

Davis, who was not identified as the group's ringleader, claims he was never offered a plea bargain.

Davis's ex-attorney, Zelman, declined to comment on this point, citing attorney-client privilege.

Prosecutors declined to comment on any aspect of this story.

During the prison interview, Davis was advised by Shapiro not to discuss many specifics about his case.

According to the trial transcript, one of Davis's accomplices testified that he fired his weapon on two occasions - at the dog who chased him and 11 days later outside a Wendy's restaurant they had just robbed. He said Davis traded gunshots with a customer at the restaurant as he and three others sped away in their getaway car.

The accounts of Davis's firing his gun were otherwise uncorroborated.

The armed customer outside Wendy's, Dade County Public Schools maintenance worker Antonio Lamont Brooks, was unable to offer positive identification of the man with whom he exchanged gunfire. But he was uninjured and managed to squeeze off enough rounds from his 9mm handgun to leave one of Davis's accomplices with a bullet wound in his left buttock.

TOUGH PROSECUTORS

It is not clear why prosecutors decided to throw the full weight of the law at Davis.

Florida, though, has a history of "very zealous" prosecutions, according to Marc Mauer, executive director of the Washington-based Sentencing Project, which advocates for reform in the criminal-justice system.

For example, Florida leads in the number of juveniles sentenced to life without parole for lesser crimes than murder, sentences the Supreme Court declared to be unconstitutional in 2010. Florida and other states are now trying to determine how to resentence or grant parole to inmates affected by that ruling.

According to a recent study by the Pew Center on the States, Florida was first, among the 35 states reporting, in increases in time served in its prisons from 1990 to 2009.

In one recent, highly controversial Florida sentencing, Marissa Alexander, an African-American woman in Jacksonville with no previous criminal record, was sentenced to 20 years for firing a pistol twice into the air while trying to ward off an attack by her abusive husband. Denied the protection of Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law, the 31-year-old mother of three was convicted of aggravated assault, a felony, and given the mandatory sentence for anyone who fires a gun in commission of the felony.

Davis's sentencing has not generated the same degree of public interest.

"THE INSTALLMENT PLAN"

Davis was convicted of seven counts of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, an offense punishable under the so-called mandatory minimum sentences imposed by Congress since the late 1980s.

Mauer said such sentences have been associated with an 800 percent increase in the federal prison population since 1980.

Davis received seven years for the first of the firearm counts against him and 25 years apiece for each of the six subsequent counts. The law, as written by Congress, requires the sentences to be served consecutively. In prison slang, such sentences are sometimes referred to as "life on the installment plan" or "running wild."

In a report to Congress last October, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which sets guidelines for federal courts, noted that many law enforcement officials, including New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, viewed mandatory minimum penalties as an important "investigative tool" because they provide leverage over suspects and help persuade them to cooperate with the authorities in exchange for lesser charges.

"In addition to their deterrent effect, some policymakers assert that mandatory minimum penalties reduce crime by incapacitating criminals and protecting the public from their potential future offenses," the commission said.

At the same time, it criticized certain aspects of the mandatory minimum laws, observing that the practice of stacking, in particular, can result in "excessively severe and unjust sentences."

Since 2003 the Justice Department has had guidelines in place that discourage prosecutors from stacking in cases where it can lead to excessive sentences.

Yet prosecutors have broad discretion within their jurisdictions to follow their own lights, according to criminal-law experts.

In a statement issued the day after the sentencing, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Wifredo Ferrer hailed Davis's lock-up for life as sending an unmistakable warning to anyone seeking to profit from violent crime.

"We will not allow our community to be overrun by guns and violence," he said.

Although he has no alternative explanation, Davis cannot accept that that is the real reason he will have to die in prison.

"There ain't no justice in the justice system," he said, gazing down at his olive-green prison jumpsuit and beige rubber sandals.

"I ain't going to never accept what happened," he added. "They know what they did isn't right."

(Editing by Lee Aitken, Douglas Royalty, Prudence Crowther and Jim Gaines)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/insight-florida-man-sees-cruel-face-u-justice-050157061.html

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