Monday, August 27, 2012

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Engadget's back to school guide 2012: bags and cases

Welcome to Engadget's back to school guide! The end of summer vacation isn't nearly as much fun as the weeks that come before, but a chance to update your tech tools likely helps to ease the pain. Today, we're helping you keep all your gear organized -- and you can head to the back to school hub to see the rest of the product guides as they're added throughout the month. Be sure to keep checking back -- at the end of the month we'll be giving away a ton of the gear featured in our guides -- and hit up the hub page right here!

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Trying to pack a load of gadgets, peripherals and a laptop into your average book bag usually isn't the most ideal setup -- especially when it's time to grab what you need throughout the day. To solve that dilemma, we've selected more than a handful of sacks and cases that'll keep your gear at hand and organized so that you'll spend less time rummaging for your gizmos and more time exploring your campus. Best of all, you can rest assured knowing many of the selections past the break are goods that we here at Engadget even rely on to get our gear in and out of the various events we attend -- jump past the break to see our picks.

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Friday, August 10, 2012

Raid on Eastside Anaheim gang nets arrests, meth and firearms

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Authorities display a poster showing persons of interest during a news conference in Anaheim, Calif., Friday to announce Operation Halo.

By Sevil Omer, NBC News

A yearlong probe into one of Southern California?s most notorious street gangs netted dozens of arrests, 11 pounds of crystal meth and a cache of weapons, authorities said Friday.

The morning raid in Orange County, dubbed Operation Halo, involved more than 100 federal agents and Anaheim police officers. Their mission: Collar 49 people suspected of trafficking narcotics and firearms, said Christian Hoffman, a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Los Angeles.


?We took criminals and guns off the streets today,? Hoffman told NBC News. ?In addition to that, we also got 11 pounds of methamphetamine, with a street value of well over $1 million. You can say we put a big dent in their drug trade today.?

Of those sought, 33 people were arrested on federal and state charges, while others were already in custody on unrelated charges,?according to investigators. At least 11 people were taken into custody on federal narcotics charges, Hoffman said.

Authorities targeted 54 locations in East Anaheim, which is in Orange County, and?parts of Los Angeles County,?said Sgt. Bob Dunn with the Anaheim police force.

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The firearms recovered during the operation included sawed-off shotguns, assault-style weapons and semi-automatic handguns, investigators said.

The raid follows a summer of gang-related violence and deadly officer-related shootings, including the deaths of?two Latino men suspected of gang activity, according to police.

?There has been tension here over the last few weeks,? Dunn told NBC News. ?But today's arrests have nothing to do with the shootings; it is only happenstance.?

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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Learning: Stressed people use different strategies and brain regions

ScienceDaily (Aug. 8, 2012) ? Stressed and non-stressed people use different brain regions and different strategies when learning. This has been reported by the cognitive psychologists PD Dr. Lars Schwabe and Professor Oliver Wolf from the Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum in the Journal of Neuroscience. Non-stressed individuals applied a deliberate learning strategy, while stressed subjects relied more on their gut feeling. "These results demonstrate for the first time that stress has an influence on which of the different memory systems the brain turns on," said Lars Schwabe.

The experiment: Stress due to ice-water

The data from 59 subjects were included in the study. Half of the participants had to immerse one hand into ice-cold water for three minutes under video surveillance. This stressed the subjects, as hormone assays showed. The other participants had to immerse one of their hands just in warm water. Then both the stressed and non-stressed individuals completed the so-called weather prediction task. The subjects looked at playing cards with different symbols and learned to predict which combinations of cards announced rain and which sunshine. Each combination of cards was associated with a certain probability of good or bad weather. People apply differently complex strategies in order to master the task. During the weather prediction task, the researchers recorded the brain activity with MRI.

Two routes to success

Both stressed and non-stressed subjects learned to predict the weather according to the symbols. Non-stressed participants focused on individual symbols and not on combinations of symbols. They consciously pursued a simple strategy. The MRI data showed that they activated a brain region in the medial temporal lobe -- the hippocampus, which is important for long-term memory. Stressed subjects, on the other hand, applied a more complex strategy. They made ??their decisions based on the combination of symbols. They did this, however, subconsciously, i.e. they were not able to formulate their strategy in words. The result of the brain scans was also accordingly: In the case of the stressed volunteers the so-called striatum in the mid-brain was activated -- a brain region that is responsible for more unconscious learning. "Stress interferes with conscious, purposeful learning, which is dependent upon the hippocampus," concluded Lars Schwabe. "So that makes the brain use other resources. In the case of stress, the striatum controls behaviour -- which saves the learning achievement."

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Romney Ruined a Perfectly Good Moment for Righteous Outrage

Mitt Romney was perfectly set up to spike a ball of righteous outrage at Democrats, but the campaign screwed it up in conservatives' eyes. The pro-Obama super PAC?Priorities USA released an ad that presents this chain of events: Bain Capital takes over GST Steel, GST fires man, man loses health insurance, man's wife gets cancer and is diagnosed too late because she lacks insurance, man's wife dies. National Review's Victor Davis Hanson said Obama's allies had made Romney out to be "a veritable killer who in piratical fashion destroyed a cancer victim's chance of getting medical attention."?Rush Limbaugh called it the "'Romney murdered my wife' ad." The ad has its logic problems (in the five years between when Bain took over GST, Soptic's wife got and lost health care through her own employer), but in political terms, this looked like an easy way to catch the Obama crowd overstating their claims that Romney did horrible things while he was chairman of Bain.

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So, what did the Romney campaign do? Use Romneycare as an alibi.?On Fox News, Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul called the ad was "despicable," but ?then, oddly, suggested that if the man had lived in Massachusetts, maybe his wife would?have made it. "To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney?s health care plan, they would have had health care," Saul said.?RedState's Erick Erickson exploded.

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"Then the Romney campaign?decided to sabotage itself?with a mind numbingly bit of spin that may mark the day the Romney campaign died," Erickson writes. He continues:

Conservatives have put aside their distrust of Romney on this issue in the name of beating Barack Obama. They thought he?and his campaign team?had gotten the message and the hints. Consider the scab picked, the wound opened, and the distrust trickling out again.

Limbaugh is appalled,?telling radio listeners?today:

"This isn?t about health insurance! They?re out there saying that your guy killed this woman! And your answer is, 'Well she?d have had health insurance if she lived in Massachusetts.'"

This story feels like parody in several ways. First, the campaign is saying that you can't tie Romney to the woman's cancer. But, if you do accept the Romney ? Bain ? layoff ? uninsured ? cancer link, then Romney would have saved her with his health reform law.?The Washington Post's Ezra Klein?agrees Romneycare might have saved her.?And conservatives are not flipping out over a new revelation of heresy from Romney, but over his campaign's inability to communicate enough shame over his biggest achievement as governor.

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