SaneBox

SaneBox, an email management assistant, struck me as unusual when I learned that it doesn't offer a free "lite" version of its product; there's only a 14-day free trial for the curious. But then I tried it, and I realized within the first day why many (many) people would be willing to pay for this service (from $6 per month). SaneBox is the first email management program that has actually worked for me.

SaneBox safeguarded my inbox from messages that I don't need to read, but I do need to scan. Put short and sweet, SaneBox gates your email. The app admits entry to emails only from people with whom you've swapped messages before, while pushing into a different folder mail from everyone else.

In my history of testing and tinkering with email productivity assistants, few have felt like solutions I would actually use, even though I liked what they did and thought they did it well. The Mailbox app for iOS, for instance, helps people triage email while on the go, but I found it required too much of my time to use in practice. Smartr Inbox for Gmail added value to my inbox by delivering information about people that I didn't have at my fingertips before, but it wasn't necessarily a tool I felt I needed day in and day out. SaneBox simply makes email simpler, not more complicated, and it's hard to now imagine living without it for business email.

My work relies on unsolicited messages from people I don't know, but I rarely if ever need to see those messages right when they arrive. SaneBox puts all those messages into one folder (or more than one if you start adding on more features from SaneBox's settings). On the other hand, messages from contacts with whom I have a history tend to be of higher importance. I need to read those messages relatively quickly.

Let me fully admit that I'm generally not a fan of filtering messages into another folder because it just creates the need to adopt yet another new habit?the act of checking that new folder?but with SaneBox, the system just works. I know there are emails worth scanning in that new folder, so I will check it when I can. Whether it will work for you largely depends on your current email needs and your personal preferences for how you weed your inbox. But it works very well, in my estimation, and is highly customizable if you purchase the right subscription plan.?

SaneBox's Simple Setup
To use SaneBox, all you have to do is enter your email and email password into the Web interface on the signup page. SaneBox works for Web mail (such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com, etc.) as well as accounts hosted on IMAP and Exchange servers. There's nothing to download or install. The free trial doesn't require a credit card.

A short time after signing up, you'll receive an email explaining what changes SaneBox has made to your email, which amounts to creating a new folder called @SaneLater where it will automatically sort any incoming messages from email addresses to whom you have never written or replied before. All your other mail continues to flow into your inbox like normal.

I set up a SaneBox account with my corporate email, which is hosted through Gmail, but which I typically access using Microsoft Outlook running on my desktop PC. I was up and running with SaneBox in a couple of minutes. The new folder appeared on my local Outlook program, as well as in my Gmail webmail.

The email from SaneBox (and info on the website) explains that you can re-train SaneBox to sort mail differently by simply dragging messages from the @SaneLater folder into the inbox, or vice versa, depending on where you'd like messages from that address to go in the future.

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Tweetbot 1.3 for Mac adds media timeline, support for cover images

Tapbots' Tweetbot for Mac already has a reputation as the desktop Twitter client for media hounds, but a just-posted 1.3 update should make that especially clear. Like its iOS counterpart, the Mac app gains a dedicated media timeline: start a search and you can spotlight only photos and videos. There are a few perks for the vain among us, too. Tweetbot now supports profile cover images, and a redesigned tweet layout shows the counts for those inevitable favorites and retweets. So long as $20 isn't too much to pay for a dedicated social networking tool, 1.3's greater media savviness is waiting at the Mac App Store.

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California's Democratic lawmakers push for tighter gun control

By Sharon Bernstein

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - Democratic lawmakers in California, critical of Congress' failure to pass significant gun control legislation after mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut last year, advanced a package of bills on Wednesday that would tighten a ban on semi-automatic firearms and further regulate ammunition sales.

The bills, which passed the state Senate mostly along party lines, would outlaw all new sales of semi-automatic weapons with removable magazines, ban ammunition clips that can fire more than 10 rounds, and make it illegal for people convicted of drug and alcohol felonies to own a gun for 10 years.

The package of seven bills would also require people who want to buy ammunition in the state to undergo background checks and get a permit.

But top officials in both houses say privately that some of the measures could be removed from the package in the state Assembly to assuage concerns of moderate Democrats before the bills reach the desk of Democratic Governor Jerry Brown.

The bills are the latest in a nationwide effort by Democrats to enact tough gun control laws at the state level, an acknowledgement of the political difficulty that lawmakers at the national level have had in reaching compromise on the issue.

Last month, the U.S. Senate rejected a plan to expand background checks for gun buyers despite a major lobbying campaign by President Barack Obama. States including Connecticut, Colorado, Maryland and New York have passed their own gun control laws in response to the two massacres, while Arkansas, Wyoming and South Dakota loosened gun restrictions.

"The action is with the states," said California Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg. "In the absence of national policy, we feel that we have the responsibility to do something."

California gun laws are already among the toughest in the nation, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The state has banned most assault weapons, requires sales be made by a licensed dealer, including at gun shows, and imposes a 10-day waiting period, among other regulations.

SWING DISTRICTS

But the state Assembly, despite its many liberal members and where Democrats enjoy a supermajority, has moved toward the center on gun issues, with Democrats last year winning seats in districts in suburban and rural areas where voters are more likely to own guns.

"The Assembly Democratic Caucus is more moderate on this issue because it has members from rural and swing districts," said Steven Maviglio, a spokesman for Assembly Speaker John Perez, a Democrat.

Perez himself is a gun owner, Maviglio said.

"It's the same issue the Democrats face nationally," said David Mark, who edits the California-based policy website Politix. "Not all the members represent super-liberal areas."

The Assembly on Wednesday passed its own gun control measure with Perez's support that would ban kits used to convert single-fire guns into semi-automatics. That measure would also increase to five years the length of time mental health patients who threaten violence are banned from owning firearms. Currently, they must wait six months.

But Democratic Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, who authored that bill, said the assembly was less likely to support measures that go beyond closing loopholes in existing laws.

"In the assembly you've got a really large number of new members," Skinner said. "If they represent an area that has high gun-ownership numbers they're nervous about that."

Even in the Senate, four Democrats opposed at least some of the measures in the package.

"Fewer than one percent of the people killed with guns in the U.S. are killed with assault weapons," said Democrat Roderick Wright of Inglewood, who voted against five of the seven bills and abstained on another.

Republican state Senator Jim Nielsen said mental health issues, not guns with large magazines, were behind mass killings.

"These mass murderers have one thing in common," he said. "It's not magazines allowing multiple shots. It's mental health problems."

(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Eric Beech)

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...and astronomy

In the afternoon, I spent about 5 hours in Techmania, our local science center/museum built in some no longer operational construction halls of ?koda Works, a major factory in our city.

Your humble correspondent was partly invited as a (now aged) kid who could have benefited from similar events and who could have an idea what kind of aid may be helpful to the kids. There were high school teachers, primarily from a gymnasium in Cheb (a town in the very Western corner of the Czech Republic) and a sport gymnasium in Pilsen (which has educated many excellent and famous Pilsner soccer, ice-hockey, tennis players, and more).

We were also shown a small model of the fulldome planetarium that will be opened in several months and that will probably be the most modern digital planetarium in Europe, or at least a part of Europe. (Some related YouTube videos.)

Everything is digital over there, one can project almost anything (not just the night sky), and visitors may also wear the 3D glasses. The facility will replace an old mechanical planetarium that old people like me knew at the "Hamburg" buildings ? which nowadays host a court ? when we were kids. Of course, nothing from the mechanical planetarium may be directly imported. Nevertheless, I guess that the new facility has a much greater potential because it can show everything. It's less obvious whether this potential will be correspondingly exploited. Less may sometimes be more. I am somewhat worried that the kids will be so overwhelmed by visually impressive animations that they won't learn much and they won't have enough time to focus on anything and/or fall in love with the subject.

I just sent a mass e-mail to some folks who have worked in the visualization of relativity with the proposal to update their videos for the high-resolution, 3D fulldomes like the Pilsner one ? there may be just dozens of places in the world that use the same technology. It could be fun to see the relativistic rollercoaster or the infalling observer in the black hole from this totally realistic perspective.

(Andrew Hamilton of Colorado immediately replied that in 2006, NASA and NSF funded a fun dome show called Black Hole: the Other Side of Infinity.)

Concerning the discussion about the identification and support for the talented high school students, lots of ideas were presented, echoed, questioned, improved, abandoned.

I would spend hours if I were just enumerating all the aspects in this discussion and my opinions about them ? lack of excitement, the role of applied vs theoretical training, agreement or disagreement between the school curriculum and the activities promoted by physics/math olympiads and science centers, experimental vs theoretical, inclusiveness of the search for the talented students, other nations' having more money, other nations' being more hard-working, how to motivate teachers to do something beyond their elementary duties, how to motivate and reward schools, whether physics olympiads and/or other contests are still "in" or obsolete, and so on, how to make sure that such debates will infuence more than about 5 high school teachers that happened to gather (together with a similar number of the Techmania employees) today ;-), and so on.

Please feel free to offer your ingenious opinions.

When I was returning home, I spent almost one hour with a de facto homeless guy, a construction worker from Carlsbad who is building our new theater (to be opened in 2015), if I believe him, who was left in Pilsen by his drunk colleagues today (or they were high, I forgot). I only gave him a dollar because paying him the full bus ticket to Carlsbad seemed too much for a person I didn't really know. He told me he was released during the 2013 Klaus amnesty. He had been arrested because he had attacked a cop who was spitting on the guy's friend. ;-) If that's true, it's another piece of anecdotal evidence that it's right to support an occasional amnesty. But yes, it's also a reason not to trust such people too much. I gave him a tour of Pilsen of a sort and dragged him through various places such as an information center at the city hall and some booths of charities. Of course, no one would help him, not even 10% of what I did for him, so I am not surprised that he identified me as a sort of the ultimate saint.

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How computers can learn better - R&D Magazine

Reinforcement learning is a technique, common in computer science, in which a computer system learns how best to solve some problem through trial-and-error. Classic applications of reinforcement learning involve problems as diverse as robot navigation, network administration, and automated surveillance.

At the Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence?s annual conference this summer (2013), researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)?s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will present a new reinforcement-learning algorithm that, for a wide range of problems, allows computer systems to find solutions much more efficiently than previous algorithms did.

The paper also represents the first application of a new programming framework that the researchers developed, which makes it much easier to set up and run reinforcement-learning experiments. Alborz Geramifard, a LIDS postdoctoral researcher and first author of the new paper, hopes that the software, dubbed RLPy (for reinforcement learning and Python, the programming language it uses), will allow researchers to more efficiently test new algorithms and compare algorithms? performance on different tasks. It could also be a useful tool for teaching computer-science students about the principles of reinforcement learning.

Geramifard developed RLPy with Robert Klein, a master?s student in MIT?s Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. RLPy and its source code were both released online in April (2013).

Every reinforcement-learning experiment involves what?s called an agent, which in artificial-intelligence research is often a computer system being trained to perform some task. The agent might be a robot learning to navigate its environment, or a software agent learning how to automatically manage a computer network. The agent has reliable information about the current state of some system: The robot might know where it is in a room, while the network administrator might know which computers in the network are operational and which have shut down. But there?s some information the agent is missing?what obstacles the room contains, for instance, or how computational tasks are divided up among the computers.

Finally, the experiment involves a ?reward function,? a quantitative measure of the progress the agent is making on its task. That measure could be positive or negative: The network administrator, for instance, could be rewarded for every failed computer it gets up and running but penalized for every computer that goes down.

The goal of the experiment is for the agent to learn a set of policies that will maximize its reward, given any state of the system. Part of that process is to evaluate each new policy over as many states as possible. But exhaustively canvassing all of the system?s states could be prohibitively time-consuming.

Consider, for instance, the network-administration problem. Suppose that the administrator has observed that in several cases, rebooting just a few computers restored the whole network. Is that a generally applicable solution?

One way to answer that question would be to evaluate every possible failure state of the network. But even for a network of only 20 machines, each of which has only two possible states?working or not?that would mean canvassing a million possibilities.

Faced with such a combinatorial explosion, a standard approach in reinforcement learning is to try to identify a set of system ?features? that approximate a much larger number of states. For instance, it might turn out that when computers 12 and 17 are down, it rarely matters how many other computers have failed: A particular reboot policy will almost always work. The failure of 12 and 17 thus stands in for the failure of 12, 17, and 1; of 12, 17, 1, and 2; of 12, 17, and 2, and so on.

Geramifard?along with Jonathan How, the Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Thomas Walsh, a postdoctoral researcher in How?s laboratory, and Nicholas Roy, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics?developed a new technique for identifying pertinent features in reinforcement-learning tasks. The algorithm first builds a data structure known as a tree?kind of like a family-tree diagram?that represents different combinations of features. In the case of the network problem, the top layer of the tree would be individual machines, the next layer would be combinations of two machines, the third layer would be combinations of three machines, and so on.

The algorithm then begins investigating the tree, determining which combinations of features dictate a policy?s success or failure. The relatively simple key to its efficiency is that when it notices that certain combinations consistently yield the same outcome, it stops exploring them. For instance, if it notices that same policy seems to work whenever machines 12 and 17 have failed, it stops considering combinations that include 12 and 17 and begins looking for others.

Geramifard believes that this approach captures something about how human beings learn to perform new tasks. ?If you teach a small child what a horse is, at first it might think that everything with four legs is a horse,? he says. ?But when you show it a cow, it learns to look for a different feature?say, horns.? In the same way, Geramifard explains, the new algorithm identifies an initial feature on which to base judgments and then looks for complementary features that can refine the initial judgment.

RLPy allowed the researchers to quickly test their new algorithm against a number of others. ?Think of it as like a Lego set,? Geramifard says. ?You can snap one module out and snap another one in its place.?

In particular, RLPy comes with a number of standard modules that represent different machine-learning algorithms; different problems (such as the network-administration problem, some standard control-theory problems that involve balancing pendulums, and some standard surveillance problems); different techniques for modeling the computer system?s environment; and different types of agents.

It also allows anyone familiar with the Python programming language to build new modules. They just have to be able to hook up with existing modules in prescribed ways.

Geramifard and his colleagues found that in computer simulations, their new algorithm evaluated policies more efficiently than its predecessors, arriving at more reliable predictions in one-fifth the time.

RLPy can be used to set up experiments that involve computer simulations, such as those that the MIT researchers evaluated, but it can also be used to set up experiments that collect data from real-world interactions. In one ongoing project, for instance, Geramifard and his colleagues plan to use RLPy to run an experiment involving an autonomous vehicle learning to navigate its environment. In the project?s initial stages, however, he?s using simulations to begin building a battery of reasonably good policies. ?While it?s learning, you don?t want to run it into a wall and wreck your equipment,? he says.

Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Yoga Postures: Yoga Postures to Prevent Hair Loss | Healthy Living ...

For both men and women, hair is their crowning glory and hair loss their worst enemy. Yoga can help you prevent hair loss. Practice these yoga poses regularly to grow back your lost hair.

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There Will Be Wine: Shindigger Drinks Penn Badgley's Chardonnay ...

Alison Price Becker.

Shindigger was sitting next to publicist Miriam Silverberg in the front section of Midtown?s Destino early last week. ?Most people eat to live,? she proclaimed, taking a stab at one of the joint?s prized meatballs, ?but I live to eat!? Owner Anthony Curko scurried by to refill our glass of Piemonte Barbera just then, and we thought: if Ms. Silverberg lives to eat, then we must live to drink!

It all started with the introduction of a premium sparkling French wine cocktail, Pampelonne Ros? Lime, at the Dream Downtown on Monday. One day later, Shindigger was toasting Chardonnay Day with Constellation?s Clos du Bois label at The Frying Pan, where winos played cornhole alongside newlywed actress Katrina Bowden.

One ace, apparently not showing his festive colors that evening, was actor Penn Badgley.

?He?s so skinny,? whispered a nearby Cond? Nast editor. ?I heard that they offered him one of the [Chardonnay-infused] slushies and he said, ?Ew! I would never drink that.??

Unverified rumors aside, Shindigger guzzled two of the delicious Kelvin Slush Truck libations in spite of the purportedly grumpy Mr. Badgley, who sat at a nearby wrought-iron table, looking seriously aloof.

We then made the rounds, sampling the North Coast Chardonnay, Sonoma Reserve Chardonnay and Calcaire Chardonnay. Before long, we couldn?t tell if it was the NC Lightship that was swaying or our own slush-filled body. Either way, it was time to abandon ship!

Next we headed back to the Dream Downtown for Chandon?s celebration of its limited-edition summer bottle and design collaboration with Trina Turk.

?I?m a little warm,? Ms. Turk said of the 80-degree weather. ?I changed my wardrobe plan for the evening by going to the Trina Turk store in Meatpacking. My original plan was not gonna work tonight.?

?What was your favorite drink here?? we asked the designer, who was still a little hot under the collar.

?A sparkling wine cocktail. It was elderflower? Elderberry? Elder-something?it?s that St. Germain,? she said. Ms. Turk also told us that she was gearing up for even more heat over the Memorial Day Weekend.

?I?m going to go to Palm Springs. There?s no humidity!? she said with a toothy grin. ?I?m flying back to L.A. Thursday night.?

In need of a refill, a publicist suddenly pointed us toward one of the evening?s signature poisons, a Chandon Cabana Boy cocktail.

Much obliged.

The party was in full swing, with Hannah Bronfman on the turntables. We approached her.

?How are you coping with this early heat?? we wanted to know.

?There?s not much to do, besides put your hair up and put on some mad lipstick?I dunno,? she said.

?Well, we are drinking chilled beverages,? we told her. ?What would go into your ideal summer drink??

?I?d put in some mint, maybe some basil and a bit of citrus to cut the bite,? she purred.

?Are you going to be up to anything fun for the holiday??

?I?m going out east,? she divulged. ?I?m going to deejay Surf Lodge and Ruschmeyer?s.?

Her chanson du jour?

?Haim!? she exclaimed. ?Their song ?Falling??it?s so good!?

We concluded our weeklong oenophilic escapades at an intimate press dinner at Chelsea?s farm-to-table eatery, Alison Eighteen.

?So you have a new chef?? we questioned restaurateur Alison Price Becker. ?What is exciting for you about that??

?Everything! Her energy, her flavor palate, where she wants to go, what she loves to do,? Ms. Price Becker enthused about executive chef Roxanne Spruance.

We took another swig of our dessert wine, Domaine les Grandes Vignes Coteaux du Layon 2006. It was sublimely rich with an apricot parfum.

?She thinks about food the way I do, so there?s an unbelievable dialogue,? Ms. Price Becker continued. ?Food is fun, and she gets that. We speak the same language.?

Shindigger wondered if we spoke the language as well. We had, after all, relished the restaurant?s choice of Cassis Blanc Clos Saint Magdeleine 2009, which was served with a roasted carrot salad.

?I don?t know if you used a sommelier, but your wine selection has our heart aflutter,? we said, inquiring about a barrel to go.

?I get all my grapes mixed up,? Ms. Price Becker confessed with a wink. ?I nearly flunked chemistry! I can never remember the percentages of the blends.?

What Ms. Price Becker does know is what pairs well with the establishment?s food.

?What I also believe about wine is that, ultimately, if it doesn?t taste good to you, guess what? You don?t have to drink what someone else thinks is good wine. Who cares?? she said.

Changing gears, Shindigger informed Ms. Price Becker that we had arrived a bit late to her tasting because we had come from the Spirit of Helen Keller Gala, where former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had received an award.

?You didn?t! Why didn?t you bring her?? was her excited response.

?What wine would you serve her?? Shindigger wanted to know.

?Oh, interesting,? she began, before taking a pause. ?Hillary, not Bill, right??

?Correct. No Bill.?

?From these wines, I would sell Hillary the Cassis Blanc,? she said.

?Why??

?Because she would get it. Because it?s a wine that has, like, a little bit of a hidden sexuality to it,? she elaborated. ?She?s got a sense of humor. She?s really strong, but with a twist.?

We didn?t dare ask what she?d serve to Bill!

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A new campaign aims to help women living with advanced breast cancer

A new survey of women with advanced breast cancer finds that many of them lack the resources necessary to live with the disease.

Now, a new campaign is launching to provide support for all 150,000 American women living with the cancer.

Elyse Spatz Caplan, from Living beyond Breast Cancer, and Dian Corneliussen-James, from Meta-Vivor Research and Support, joined the FOX43 morning team to talk about the campaign.

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Give Locally grows through gaming, social media

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Andrew "Bo" Young III, son of former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, is carving out his own path for social change courtesy of a mobile app designed to help real families through the purchase of virtual goods.

Young and California lawyer Brad Newman have launched "Giv Galaxy," an iPhone game in which players buy virtual products to help feed villagers and provide them with medicine. A portion of the proceeds from those virtual purchases goes to help families in need.

The player assumes the role of Nuxx, a creature from Planet Zarru who's trying to gain his badge in Planetary Helping. For every $1 spent on goods in the game? it boasts "Play for Fun, Give for Good!" ? 25 cents goes to a pre-screened person in need of food, shelter or health care.

The free app, which launched May 17 on iTunes, has been downloaded in more than 50 countries, Newman said.

The mobile game release coincides with the third anniversary of Give Locally, a social media website run by Newman and Young that pairs donors with recipients who need help in making ends meet. Donors can register an account, search short bios and pictures to select beneficiaries, and give any dollar amount to their desired cause. They also can track their donations.

Give Locally, which has nearly 30,000 registered users and more than 34,000 Facebook fans, will launch a version of "Giv Galaxy" for Android devices this summer. So far, purchases of in-game items on Giv Galaxy have generated several hundred dollars in revenue, Newman said.

"The whole time you're playing the game, you're continually reinforcing the notion that to 'win,' or get points, you need to help the environment around you," Newman said.

Young, the charity's CEO, said Give Locally also has assisted with unforeseen hardships, such as a high school student needing help with graduation fees.

"There are millions of Americans who are hard-working, who do get up every morning like we do and work 40 or 50 hours a week, sometimes more, and are, frankly, frugal in spending," Young said. "But based on their wage and the cost of living in most major cities, they often fall short."

Give Locally launched in May 2010. The charity directly pays bills including rent, medical fees and school tuition, as well as providing in-kind gifts such as gift cards for groceries and gas.

While other websites have also tapped the Internet for donations, Give Locally purposely operates as a business instead of a 501(c)(3) public charity. As a technology company, Newman said, it can meet an unlimited amount of needs, while tax-exempt organizations only have one or two options on how to spend the money, and givers can't designate the recipient.

A staff of about 10 paid volunteers and contractors, which grows during peak season, operates the California-based charity. Give Locally uses 18 cents of each dollar to cover administrative costs, including office rent, salaries and credit-card processing fees.

Newman said that since Give Locally was launched, the needs have become more serious and immediate, crossing geographic, racial and gender lines. For example, he said, a popular category on the website is for single fathers.

"It was bad in 2010," he said. "It's worse now."

Newman chaired and founded Give Locally after he and his son encountered a homeless man on the street, and he wondered what could be a long-term and credible way to give back. The website now receives about 300 requests for help a week. That figure doubles during the holiday season that runs from October into the new year.

The online charity said for every 10,000 applicants that ask for help, about 300 get through the screening process. Since its launch, Give Locally has raised several hundred thousand dollars from about 2,500 donors.

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7 charged in $6B online money laundering case

NEW YORK (AP) ? Calling it perhaps the biggest money laundering scheme in U.S. history, federal prosecutors charged seven people Tuesday with running what amounted to an online, underworld bank that handled $6 billion for drug dealers, child pornographers, identity thieves and other criminals around the globe.

The case was aimed at Liberty Reserve, a currency transfer and payment processing company based in Costa Rica that authorities say allowed customers to move money anonymously from one account to another via the Internet with almost no questions asked.

U.S. officials said the enterprise was staggering in scope: Over roughly seven years, Liberty Reserve processed 55 million illicit transactions worldwide for 1 million users, including 200,000 in the U.S.

The network "became the bank of choice for the criminal underworld," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in announcing the unsealing of an indictment against the defendants, including Liberty Revenue founder Arthur Budovsky, an American who renounced his U.S. citizenship after deciding to set up in Costa Rica.

Liberty Reserve allowed users to open accounts using fictitious names, including "Russian Hacker" and "Hacker Account." An undercover investigator was able to register using the name "Joe Bogus" and the address "123 Fake Main Street" in "Completely Made Up City, New York," and then conduct transactions he recorded as "ATM skimming network" and "for the cocaine."

"The coin of the realm was anonymity," Bharara said. "It was the opposite of a know-your-customer policy."

The network charged a 1 percent fee on transactions through middlemen known as exchangers, who converted real currency into virtual funds and then back into cash.

In the indictment, prosecutors called the network "one of the principal means by which cyber criminals around the world distribute, store and launder proceeds of their illegal activity ... including credit card fraud, identity theft, investment fraud, computer hacking, child pornography and narcotics trafficking."

Bharara said it was possibly "the largest international money laundering case ever brought by the United States."

Budovsky and another defendant, identified as Azzeddine el Amine, were arrested Friday at a Madrid airport while trying to return to Costa Rica, according to a Spanish court official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because court policy forbids him from speaking on the record. They were ordered jailed while they await a hearing on extradition to the U.S.

Two other men, including Liberty Reserve co-founder Vladimir Kats, were arrested last week in New York City. There was no public record of their arraignments on Friday night, and there was no immediate response to phone messages left Tuesday with their attorneys.

Of the three remaining defendants, one was in custody in Costa Rica and the others were at large there.

A notice pasted across Liberty Reserve's website Tuesday morning said the domain "has been seized by the United States Global Illicit Financial Team." Attempts to reach Liberty Reserve by phone and email were unsuccessful.

Budovsky and Kats have previous convictions on state charges related to an unlicensed money transmitting business, according to court papers. After that case, they decided to move their operation to Costa Rica, the papers said.

In an online chat captured by law enforcement, Kats admitted Liberty Reserve was illegal and noted that authorities in the United States knew it was "a money-laundering operation that hackers use."

While authorities described Liberty Reserve as being rife with criminals, the site's ease of use, low fees and irreversible transactions that deterred fraud also attracted legitimate users.

Mitchell Rossetti, whose Houston-based ePayCards.com was one of several mainstream merchants that accepted Liberty Reserve's online-only currency, said his business still had about $28,000 tied up in Liberty Reserve accounts.

"The irony of this is I went to them because of the security," Rossetti said. "All sales were final."

He acknowledged that the currency was being used by scammers but said Liberty Reserve funds were just like any other currency: "The U.S. dollar can be donated to a church or it can pay a prostitute."

Liberty Reserve appears to have played an important role in laundering proceeds from the recent theft of some $45 million from two Middle Eastern banks, according to documents made public by U.S. authorities earlier this month. In that scheme, thieves stole debit card information and then used it to drain cash from thousands of ATMs around the world in a matter of hours.

As part of the Liberty Reserve investigation, authorities raided 14 places in Panama, Switzerland, the U.S., Sweden and Costa Rica. In Costa Rica, investigators recovered five luxury cars, including three Rolls-Royces. Bharara said authorities also seized Liberty's computer servers in Costa Rica and Switzerland.

The businesses that were raided in Costa Rica on Friday as part of the investigation into Liberty Reserve are dedicated to Web hosting services, website development and Internet business consulting.

In Costa Rica, all online businesses are legal and there aren't any laws regulating them, so the country has been attracting entrepreneurs setting up Internet-based companies that do everything from e-commerce to gambling banned in other countries.

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Satter reported from London. Alan Clendenning and Jorge Sainz in Madrid and Javier Cordoba in San Jose, Costa Rica, contributed to this report.

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Paul McCartney leaves guitar pick at Elvis' grave

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One musical icon reached out to another Sunday when former Beatle Paul McCartney visited Graceland and left one of his guitar picks on the grave of the late Elvis Presley.

McCartney was in Memphis to play a concert at FedEx Forum as part of his "Out There" tour. McCartney said that the pick was "so Elvis can play guitar in heaven," the Associated Press reports.

He also tweeted a photo of himself inside the mansion holding one of Presley's personalized guitars.

Although Sunday's visit to Graceland was believed to be the first time McCartney visited the historic home, Presley and The Beatles famously met in Los Angeles in 1965 for just four hours. Both McCartney and Beatle John Lennon often cited Presley as an influence, covering many of his songs. Presley died at Graceland in 1977.

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Scientists cast doubt on Alzheimer's cancer drug study | The Raw Story

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Four separate teams of scientists have said they were unable to replicate a highly publicized study that last year touted a cancer drug?s success against Alzheimer?s disease in mice.

?We wanted to repeat the study to see if we could build on it, and we couldn?t,? said David Borchelt, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Florida, noting that ?it was important to publish the fact.?

?Maybe there should be some caution going forward in regard to patients,? he added.

The high profile 2012 study in the US journal Science found that mice treated with bexarotene became rapidly smarter and the plaque in their brains that was causing Alzheimer?s started to disappear within hours.

The drug was believed to work by boosting levels of a protein, Apolipoprotein E (ApoE), that helps clear amyloid plaque buildup in the brain, a key hallmark of Alzheimer?s disease.

?We were shocked and amazed,? lead author Gary Landreth, a professor in the Department of Neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Ohio, told AFP when the study was published in February 2012.

?Things like this had never, ever been seen before,? he said.

But a key part of science is being able to replicate the findings of any research, and international researchers reported in four separate papers in Science?s May 24 edition that they had failed to do so.

Other researchers who published their attempts were Bart De Strooper, director of the VIB Center for the Biology of Disease in Belgium, and Sangram Sisodia, director of the Center for Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Chicago.

The scientists said their studies showed no effect on the plaque levels in three different populations of lab mice treated with bexarotene.

A fourth group of researchers said they observed mental gains in the mice but could not confirm they were achieved by the mechanism initially reported, said co-author Iliya Lefterov, associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

?While we were able to verify that the mice quickly regained their lost cognitive skills and confirmed the decrease in amyloid beta peptides in the interstitial fluid that surrounds brain cells, we did not find any evidence that the drug cleared the plaques from their brains.?

The findings should also serve as a warning for doctors not to prescribe bexarotene as an off-label treatment for Alzheimer?s, researchers said.

The drug, also known as Targretin, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 1999 for treating a type of skin cancer known as refractory cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

?Anecdotally, we have all heard that physicians are treating their Alzheimer?s patients with bexarotene, a cancer drug with severe side effects,? said Robert Vassar, professor of cell and molecular biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

?This practice should be ended immediately, given the failure of three independent research groups to replicate the plaque-lowering effects of bexarotene.?

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Lesbian love story wins top prize at Cannes

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French actresses Adele Exarchopoulos, right, Lea Seydoux, left, and Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche stand on stage after they received the Palme d'Or award for the movie "La Vie d'Adele" at the Cannes Film Festival.

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An emotional lesbian love story by French director Abdellatif Kechiche won the top prize at the 2013 Cannes festival on Sunday, ending 12 packed days of premieres, celebrity appearances, rain and dramatic jewelry thefts.

"La Vie d'Adele -- Chapitre 1 & 2" ("Blue is the Warmest Color") was chosen from a field of 20 films full of sex, violence and anguish vying for the Palme d'Or, one of the most coveted film awards after the Oscars.

Critics had picked the film as a possible winner at the 66th Cannes festival but queried whether its no-holds-barred lesbian sex scenes would be a deterrent to the jury deciding the awards led by U.S. filmmaker Steven Spielberg.

"I think it will get a lot of play ... I think this film carries a very strong message, a very positive message," Spielberg told a news conference, adding that he was a firm supporter of same-sex marriage.

Kechiche, an actor who made his directorial debut in 2000, was virtually speechless as he went up on stage to receive his award from U.S. actress Uma Thurman before a star-studded audience.

"As you know I always take my time. I always need time to reflect before starting. It is my rhythm, I am sorry," said Kechiche as he was handed the Palme d'Or statuette, flanked by his two lead actresses, Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos.

He dedicated the award to the youth of Tunisia, where he was born, praising their strength in the Arab Spring as those "who wanted only to live, speak and love freely".

The competition was an open field ahead of Sunday's award ceremony. Another forerunner, the quirky comedy "Inside Llewyn Davis" about a struggling New York folk singer by the American Coen brothers, was named as runner-up.

The award for best actor went to American Bruce Dern, 76, from Alexander Payne's film "Nebraska" in which he played an ageing, alcoholic father on a road trip with his son through the depressed midwestern United States to collect a lottery prize.

French actress Berenice Bejo won the best actress award for playing the wife in Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's tense domestic drama "Le Passe" ("The Past").

"I was not expecting this," said an emotional Bejo, in a teal lace dress. Earlier she had signed autographs on the red carpet in blazing sunshine, a contrast to the festival's opening ceremony on May 15 when umbrellas took over in the rain.

The third prize went to Japanese director Kore-Eda Hirokazu's "So@!$%#e Chichi Ni Naru" ("Like Father, Like Son") while the award for best director went to Mexico's Amat Escalante for his brutal look at Mexico's drug war, "Heli."?

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But take what I say with a grain of salt. One look at me, and others think I am out to snatch their stuff. Not the other way around.

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Are you ( personally ) insured? You seem to care more for your equipment than yourself!,,

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How we write for iMore: Our workflows from Mac to iPad to iPhone and back!

Most of what we do here at iMore is write. We put words up onto the internet, and millions of them a year. Managing what we write, however, across Mac, iPad, and iPhone, from idea to draft to final, can often be more complicated than we like, involving different sync solutions and different apps, not to mention our web-based content management system. Each of us has our own workflows, and our own toolkits to accomplish them.

Here's what we're using to write, right now...

Leanna Lofte, app and photography editor

I've had enough painful experiences losing work to learn that I need to write "offline" instead of directly in Drupal 7, the content management framework we use for iMore. My text editor of choice, right now, is iA Writer. It offers a clean, distraction-free environment that makes it easy for me to focus on my work. 90% of my writing is done on my iMac, 5% on my Macbook Air, and the other 5% on my iPhone and iPad. iA Writer uses iCloud to keep everything in sync making it easy to jump between devices. I'm also a fan of Byword, but since it doesn't automatically chose iCloud as the place to save, I've opted to use iA Writer -- there has been too many times I couldn't access something I needed on a device when I wasn't home.

One time, I actually used Siri to dictate an entire article while driving to work. It was a time-sensitive piece that I didn't quite have time to finish before leaving, so I grabbed my Macbook Air, dictated on my way, then hopped onto my laptop to paste and publish in the few minutes I had before class started.

Chris Parsons, editor-at-large

I don't really do any writing on my iOS devices. I do however; rely on Evernote for noting things I may need to remember later on and ideas that I come up with for articles. It all syncs up perfectly so when it comes time to refer to those notes and ideas, they're all on my Mac through the Evernote app or through the web login.

When it comes to getting down to business though, I'm really bad at concentrating and getting the task done some days. So, to help with that I cut my internet off and hop into WriteRoom. It's a pretty basic offering compared to a lot of other apps out there but it works for me, especially with the black theme.

Since it's just a blank, black page, you either write or go insane from boredom.

Peter Cohen, managing editor

I have tried, and failed, to use my iPad for writing ever since I bought it. Maybe if I had an external keyboard it would be different, but trying to write anything longer than a quick e-mail or a tweet using the on-screen keyboard is difficult for me. So I do almost all my writing on my Macs - a Mac Pro, MacBook Pro with Retina Display, or MacBook Air, depending on where I am.

I've written for the Web for almost two decades now, and I've used BBEdit for almost that long. No other text editor comes close for me when it comes to the flexibility and power I'm looking for to edit and transform text. At this point I'm pretty hard-wired to need BBEdit to be productive. I admit that I'm only using a small percentage of BBEdit's capabilities, but it's so finely customized for my workflow, I can't imagine using anything else.

I also appreciate that Bare Bones makes available TextWrangler, a free text editor that uses the same core technology as BBEdit. It makes it easier for folks who don't have the coin to buy BBEdit to use some of the same features. And it's a clever gateway drug to BBEdit, to boot.

Richard Devine, senior editor

If I need to just note down some ideas quickly, the stock Notes app on the iPhone or iPad is the go to choice. It syncs back to my Mac so my thoughts are there when I get back to the computer and start to get down to work.

In terms of the actual writing, I've been a fan of iA Writer for some time now. It's a basic text editor with iCloud sync, so like with Notes, all of my stuff is on all of my devices all of the time. I love the simplicity of iA Writer -- it's just text, no toolbars. I'm also a big fan of the focus mode that will highlight only the sentence you're working on and fading out the rest of your text. Really helps me to concentrate.

From there it's into iMore, add all the Markdown links and off to the Internet!

Ally Kazmucha, how-to editor

I do a good majority of my writing on my iMac. It's very seldom I actually write within an actual content management system such as Wordpress or Drupal. There's just been too much heartache when it comes to saving work and getting errors. It's never fun to lose things.

My weapon of choice is Byword. It uses iCloud to keep your documents in sync across all devices and has apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. While I spend most of my time writing on my iMac, there are times I want to get out of the house or the office and write at Starbucks or another local coffee shop. Instead of lugging around my MacBook Pro, I simply take my iPad and a keyboard case. Then when I get home, I just copy and paste everything where it needs to be and embed images. Since Byword supports markdown, I've already gotten all my links done ahead of time.

While Byword may not be the most powerful solution around, it does all I need it to do and it's a great option for students writing papers, editors, or anyone else that wants the flexibility of writing from multiple devices.

Rene Ritchie, editor-in-chief

I use a combination of tools, depending on what I'm doing and where I'm trying to do it. If I'm driving or otherwise occupied, I use Siri to quickly jot stuff down into Notes. That syncs between iOS and Mac, so at the very least I don't forget about or lose ideas (it's become a natural language clipboard of sorts). When attention isn't an issue, I use Drafts for the same purpose. Drafts lets me type or dictate ideas without having to worry about where it'll eventually end up. As I've said many times before, it's time-shift for text.

When I'm sitting down to write, all proper and formal like, it's almost always in BBEdit on the Mac. I don't even use 1% of its potential, but what I do use is so damn powerful I can pretty much accomplish anything text-based that I can imagine. I write in John Gruber's Markdown, so while the text is plain, it's also formatted and highly portable.

When I have to collaborate with Kevin from CrackBerry or Phil from Android Central, I'll have to use Google Docs. (Daniel from Windows Phone Central claims not to know what that is).

If I have my druthers, however, and I'm out and about without my Mac, I write in Elements, which is pointed at the same Dropbox folder I store my BBEdit work in. That lets me keep working no matter where, or on what device I'm on. If I'm on my iPhone and need to make quick changes on the go, I likewise use Elements.

Elements is just light and easy and killer for Markdown, and BBEdit is a beast. I also make heavy use of Text Expander, both on Mac and on iOS. It removes almost all the repetitiveness from writing and lets me get on with the creative work.

Together, I can get pretty much get done everything that needs doing.

How do you write?

Interestingly, none of us use Microsoft Word. Not even Apple's Pages. We're all using lighter, plainer solutions. Now none of our workflows are perfect. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, advantages and drawbacks. And all of them can likely be improved. So, if you work across a wide range of devices, let me know how you do it, and if you can think of any ways any of us could work better and smarter, let us know in the comments!

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Amanda Bynes: Cops sexually harassed me

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Amanda Bynes heads for home after her May 23 arrest.

Amanda Bynes has taken to Twitter to claim she was "sexually harassed" during her arrest Thursday night in New York.

"I was sexually harassed by one of the cops the night before last which is who then arrested me," she wrote. "He lied and said I threw a bong out the window when I opened the window for fresh air. Hilarious. He slapped my vagina. Sexual harassment. Big deal."

Bynes said she reported the officer, writing, "I then called the cops on him. He handcuffed me, which I resisted, quite unlike any of the reports stated. Then I was sent to a mental hospital. Offensive."

According to The Hollywood Reporter, a New York Police Department spokesperson says Bynes' claim is being investigated by its Internal Affairs Bureau.

Bynes was arrested Thursday night after police were called to her apartment building reportedly because she was smoking marijuana in the lobby. While they were in Bynes' apartment, she reportedly threw a bong out her 36th floor window. The bong was never recovered.

Bynes spent the night in jail and was released without bail being set Friday morning.

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'Arrested Development's' burning questions

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The Bluths are back! They're finally back, quirks and all!

When Fox canceled "Arrested Development," fans were left with many unanswered questions regarding the fate of Michael Bluth and his crazy family. While the cast and crew have been reluctant to dish on details of the new episodes, the man behind Michael, Jason Bateman, recently told USA Today that the new season will not pick up where it left off.

"It's been what, seven years, and time has not been kind to (Michael) or anyone else in the family," Bateman said. "So we're all kind of a little banged up."

Banged up? Oh no! Did Buster (Tony Hale) lose another hand since we last saw him? Although for Buster's sake we hope not, it certainly would open the door for more hook-hand jokes, one of the show's funniest running gags. With the series set to be resurrected on Netflix on May 26, fans are hoping that the new episodes will not only touch on some of the show's recurring jokes,but also provide closure to plot lines that were left unfinished back in 2006.

Viewers were left with many burning questions after watching the last episode, but there are a few in particular we're dying to get answers to from the show's new episodes.

Did George Michael and Maeby make it official?

Although we know it's wrong, we just can't help but want to see George Michael (Michael Cera) and Maeby (Alia Shawkat) get together. Seeing photographic evidence that Maeby did, indeed, spring from his Aunt Lindsay's (Portia di Rossi) loins did nothing to deter George Michael's feelings for Maeby, and the cousins can't seem to keep their mitts off each other.They have relied on each other to deal with their wacky relatives, making us believe that George Michael and Maeby can handle anything together.

Is Tobias ever going to come out?

Tobias? (David Cross) potential homosexuality has been one of the series' biggest running gags, making viewers wonder if, in the seven years that have passed since we last saw him, Tobias has finally realized that he's gay. There's no way that the man who once proudly declared that he "blue" himself -- referring to covering himself in blue body paint for Blue Man Group performances -- is straight.

Can Buster finally establish normal boundaries with his mother?

Is Buster destined to be a "Motherboy" for life? His past attempts to come out from under the overprotective wing of his mom, Lucille (Jessica Walter) have always backfired. Remember when he disobeyed Lucille's orders to stay away from the ocean and ended up losing his hand to a "loose seal?" (Loose seal, Lucille -- see what they did there?!) Judging from this sneak peek clip of the new season, it appears that Buster and Lucille will continue with their creepy, co-dependent relationship.

Will Michael be able to leave his family behind?

When we last saw him, Michael was sailing away from the rest of the Bluths. As someone who has always put his family first, Michael will have a hard time finally washing his hands of the entire dysfunctional clan. However, the thought of spending the rest of his days relaxing on the shores of Cabo San Lucas, never again to be taunted by his family for being a chicken (at least we think that's the type of animal the Bluths are pretending to be when they mock Michael) should be motivation enough for him to stay far away -- at least for a little while.

Can Gob finally get his act together?

From his failed magic tricks, to his bad relationship choices (dating his nephew's ex-girlfriend, for instance), Gob (Will Arnett) can't seem to get anything right. Despite the fact that he's an egotistical jerk most of the time, we can't help but hope that Gob will finally turn his life around and earn the respect of his family. (Who knows, maybe he'll even pull off a magic trick while he's at it!)

Will Tobias be able to bare it all?

Tobias (David Cross) suffers from a rare, psychological disorder that prevents him from being able to get completely naked -- except for that one brave moment in the show's first season. As a ?Never-Nude,? Tobias has to keep his jean shorts on, even while in the shower or in front of his own wife. For the sake of hisfailing marriage, we're hoping that Tobias will finally be able to drop the jorts.

Is this season the show?s final countdown?

Don't bust out the sullen Charlie Brown walk yet, "Arrested Development" fans! There's a chance that this new season won't be the last time we see those batty Bluths. "We would love to do more (seasons), and we have a deal in place that says that there could be," Netflix Content Chief Ted Sarandos recently told The Hollywood Reporter. While we're thankful to get these new episodes, there's still a lot more ground to cover with the Bluth family. Not doing a fifth season (or the long-discussed "Arrested Development" movie) would just be, as the Bluths would say, "a huge mistake."

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/will-tobias-get-naked-arrested-development-questions-we-want-answered-1C9971241

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