Task master: Categorizing rewards improves motivation

May 29, 2013 ? What truly inspires individuals to perform at their very best? When it comes to motivating others and ourselves, it turns out offering rewards in defined categories, even when they are largely meaningless, can heighten motivation. According to recent research co-authored by Scott S. Wiltermuth, assistant professor of management and organization at USC's Marshall School of Business, even if the rewards are the similar -- and the categories arbitrary -- the very act of segmenting rewards motivates people to perform better and longer, even on menial tasks.

Wiltermuth's study, "'l'll Have One of Each': How Separating Rewards into (Meaningless) Categories Increases Motivation," co-authored with Francesca Gino, associate professor of business administration at Harvard University, was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Through the study, Wiltermuth and Gino found that individuals were more motivated by obtaining one reward from one category and an additional reward from a separate category than by choosing two rewards from a pool that included all items from either reward category. As a result, they worked longer when potential rewards for work were separated into categories regardless of the prize value. Categorizing rewards had positive effects on motivation by increasing the degree to which participants felt they would "miss out" if they did not obtain the second reward.

In a series of six related experiments, participants were asked to do mundane tasks for either 10- or 20-minute increments for a set number of rewards. Items from a dollar store were presented as prizes.

In the first experiment, participants were told that if they transcribed copy for 10 minutes they could take home one item, and if they worked for 20 minutes they could take two items. The first group was told they could take two items from either bin, while another group was told they could take one item from one bin and, if they worked longer, a second item from the second bin. The researchers found that while only 10 percent of those who could take items from either bin without conditions transcribed for 20 minutes, 34 percent of the group whose prizes were from segmented categories did so. Thus, mentally separating these perks into bins or categories increased participants' time commitment to the transcription by playing into their desire to minimize the risk of "missing out."

In a later experiment to test the "missing out" theory, the researchers again offered items from two bins, plus an added condition whereby there were four different bins from which to choose. When four bins were present, telling participants that they could select one item from one category and another from a second category did not improve motivation. Participants were not as excited by obtaining the second reward because there were still two more categories or bins that remained inaccessible.

"It was really the desire to eliminate the fear of missing out that led to people work hard when there were two different categories," said Wiltermuth. "If they couldn't eliminate the fear of missing out, which would be the case when they had more categories of items, they didn't work very hard. They were at levels comparable to the single category."

"This also could apply to individual goals in the context of, dieting, for example. Wiltermuth, said, "If I drop five pounds, I might get this type of reward. If I drop another five pounds, I'm going to get another type of reward."

In sum motivation boils down to this says Wiltermuth, "Instead of presenting one big reward, set up a few small rewards. Even if they're not all that different, making people think they are different can get people to devote increased effort in pursuit of those goals." "Creating excitement just simply by categorizing rewards could be a key way to get people to try harder, and devote more time to tasks."

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/eqjrFC2E2SA/130529154652.htm

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Fight resumes against fire that threatened campers

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) ? Air tankers were expected to resume their attack Tuesday on a wildfire that sent thousands of campers fleeing the mountains near Santa Barbara over the holiday weekend.

The 1,200-acre blaze was 10 percent contained, and witnesses said it was moving away from populated areas.

Winds in the area were expected to be 10 to 20 mph.

The fire broke out Monday afternoon in Los Padres National Forest about 15 miles north of Santa Barbara. At its peak it threatened about 50 homes, mainly cabins and vacation rentals.

Authorities also evacuated an estimated 4,000 to 6,000 Memorial Day campers.

The blaze burned a U.S. Forest Service garage and two vehicles, and sent a huge plume of gray and white smoke over the mountains.

The American Red Cross set up an evacuation center at Santa Barbara City College, and another was set up for horses stalled in the area's many stables.

U.S. Forest Service firefighters got help from crews from around the region, along with water drops from two helicopters and four planes, though the aircraft had to be grounded at times because of winds.

To the south, a fire in the wilderness in San Diego County scorched 900 acres of dry brush but was not a threat to homes or buildings.

The blaze southeast of Julian was sparked around midday Sunday and was 43 percent contained Monday night. Fire officials were investigating whether it was set intentionally.

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Get $50 Off an iPhone at Best Buy From Sunday

From Sunday, Best Buy is knocking $50 off the price off the price of iPhones for four weeks.

The deal applies to the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 on two-year contracts with Verizon, AT&T or Sprint. So, if you've been umm-ing and ahh-ing, now might be the time to stump up some cash.

There will also be a series of Memrorial Day offers, too: a Galaxy S3 on AT&T or Sprint will cost $50; an HTC Droid DNA on Verizon $50; and an HTC One X on AT&T will be free. Better than a kick in the face. [All Things D]

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Without Cats, Birds Would Suffer So Would We | Steve Dale's Pet ...

What would happen if all the world?s cats vanished? That?s the question posed by Natalie Wolchover on the Mother Nature Network.? And it?s a particularly relevant question since several ?bird groups? have recently and repeatedly pursued lots of press alleging that innocent wildlife is being exterminated by community cats. The allegation is that songbirds are at risk, many are endangered and may perish as a result of cats. This isn?t only an issue in America.

Earlier this year, a New Zealand environmentalist wanted to actually ban future cat ownership. His idea didn?t get very far, but it received international coverage and is illustrative of anti cat sentiment.

Some one must love cats, at least in America, cats are the most popular pet, outnumbering dogs. There are about 74 million pet cats in America, and about 70 million dogs. In truth, cats are man?s best friends.

I think Wolchover?s scenario is fascinating, What would life be like if at least some ardent ?cat haters? did get their way, and poof ? tomorrow ? all the cats are gone?

Wolchover notes that the rodent population would soar, and right she is. She points out a 1997 study in Great Britain found that the average house cat brought home more than 11 dead animals (including mice, birds, frogs and more) in the course of six months. That meant the nine million cats of Britain were collectively killing close to 200 million critters a year ? not including all those they did not offer up to their owners. A study in New Zealand in 1979 found that, when cats were nearly eradicated from a small island, the local rat population quickly quadrupled. And these are only two of dozens of studies which note that cats do keep vermin numbers in check. And it?s always been this way.

Going back in time, way back to the Dark Ages, cats were originally blamed for the Great Plague. So, cats (associated with witchcraft back then) were killed off. As a result rats further proliferated, rampant illness became worse and transformed to the Great Plague. It was fleas carried by rats that spread the plague. Restoring cat population did more to diminish deaths as a result of the plague than anything else medicine back then attempted.

Fast forward the clock to today ? and talk off-the-record to animal control officials in big cities where budgets for rat abatement have been cut. They?ll tell you that without community cats, rats would be even more numerous. While the Great Plague isn?t likely to reoccur today, rats today do carry disease no different than in the Dark Ages.

Tree House Humane Society in Chicago works with grateful city officials, community leaders and others to eradicate vermin with community cats. The cats are spay/neutered and vaccinated for rabies ? but these colonies are actually big city working cats. The model began thousands of years ago, as cats were first domesticated by simply hanging out where there was grain to keep vermin away. Later barn cats appeared, and still do ?work? their magic around the world. Today in Chicago, Tree House controlled cat colonies keep vermin away from factories or other places otherwise previously rodent-ridden.

Of course, cats do kill birds. However, if there were no cats ? the truth is that many bird species status would change to endangered, or even disappear all together.

It is true that flightless birds and ground nesting birds are especially prone to feline attacks. This is a particular issue in New Zealand, for instance, where so many species are flightless. However, cats or no cats ? the most significant threat to birds are habitat loss and pollution (air pollution, light pollution and water pollution).

If cats vanished, some bird population numbers would actually take a nosedive ? which is the opposite of what you may think at first, or what bird supporters suggest. Rats and other vermin love to eat bird eggs and baby birds. Ground nesting and flightless birds would have no defense against what would then be an out-of-control rodent population.

The bottom line is that cats are an easy target. And as ?anti cat? squawking has flourished in social media, cats as scapegoats has become an unfortunate fundraising tool for bird groups.

Meanwhile, aside from unveiling exploitative misinformation (sometimes disguised as ?science?), bird groups do nothing in the real world to help diminish feral cat numbers, such as participate and support trap, neuter, return (TNR). ?You?d figure if they really wanted to work for cat numbers to decline, they would begin by targeting the few places where cats really are a threat ? such as a cat colony near shorebird populations. And they would then help to relocate these cats.

However, I?ve left out the most significant problem which would result from a theoretical world without cats. No purring.

For many a world without a purr is like a world without the sky or the moon. I?m not referring to your ?crazy cat ladies.? In the U.S. alone, about a third of all households live with at least one cat, and typically several cats. No one forces people to share their lives and their homes with felines ? we do this because it feels good. And in fact, science now confirms that cats are actually healthful.

For senior citizens, in particular (though not exclusively seniors), their cat may be their only nearby family. Of course, it?s not the same as having the grandkids or friends over for a visit ? but it?s something. And the human/animal bond can be remarkably powerful. There?s little question that, for some, caring for another being actually ?keeps them going,? offering a reason to get up in the morning.

It?s challenge for just about anyone is to look at a little kitten, and not smile. For millions of people, cats touch our hearts.

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Technique helps robotic vehicles find their way, help humans

May 14, 2013 ? A Wayne State University researcher understands that the three most important things about real estate also apply to small ground robotic vehicles: location, location, location.

In a paper recently published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Weisong Shi, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science in the College of Engineering, describes his development of a technique called LOBOT that provides accurate, real-time, 3-D positions in both indoor and outdoor environments. The project was supported in part by the Wayne State Career Development Chair award, which gives Shi an opportunity to explore other areas after receiving tenure at WSU.

Scientists believe small ground robotic vehicles have great potential for use in situations that are either uncomfortable or too tedious for humans. For example, a robot may become part of industrial operations, assist senior citizens or serve as a tour guide for an exhibition center. Keeping a robot as small as possible enables it to move through narrow passageways, such as tunnels.

To complete such missions, a robotic vehicle often must obtain accurate localization in real time. But because frequent calibration or management of external facilities is difficult or impossible, a completely integrated self-positioning system is ideal. In addition, that system should work indoors or outdoors without human calibration or management and cost as little as possible.

In the paper titled "LOBOT: Low-Cost, Self-Contained Localization of Small-Sized Ground Robotic Vehicles," Shi and lead author Guoxing Zhan, one of his former graduate students, describe their technique, which combines a GPS receiver, local relative positioning based on a 3-D accelerometer, a magnetic field sensor and several motor rotation sensors.

The researchers noted that IEEE Transactions, the leading journal in the field, prominently featured their paper in its April 2013 issue. They are proud that their work was in progress before President Barack Obama's June 2011 announcement of the National Robotics Initiative, which seeks to accelerate the development and use of robots in the United States that work beside, or cooperatively with, people.

Shi's technique combines elements of common localization schemes for ground robotic vehicles, noting that each of those schemes has limitations. One scheme, using GPS alone, requires a lot of power. Another, radio-based positioning, requires proper calibration, a friendly environment and a set of external devices to generate or receive radio signals.

A third scheme, the use of vision techniques, relies heavily on recognition of objects or shapes and often has restricted spatial and visual requirements. Additionally, those objects and shapes must be captured and loaded into a computer which, like GPS, requires a lot of power.

A fourth scheme, inertial sensors, is part of the LOBOT design. Inertial sensors often are used to detect movement, but unlike radio- or vision-based techniques, operate independently of external environmental features and need no external reference. However, previous methods of maintaining their accuracy have resulted in high cost and calibration difficulty.

LOBOT uses a hybrid approach that localizes robotic vehicles with infrequent GPS use, a 3-D version of the accelerometer used in other inertial sensor systems and several motor rotation sensors -- all installed on the robotic vehicle. All of the components are commercially available, with some costing as little as $20.

"Our goal has been to solve a problem by building a robot that leverages a number of existing technologies that can be used to address the problem of location, which is the key to many possible applications" Shi said. "Because of the increasing number of things robots will be needed to do in the next five to 10 years, it is very important to develop a cheaper, low-powered approach that can address that problem as accurately as possible."

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_technology/~3/fzgMF7S06hk/130514112644.htm

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Girl fights same rare form of cancer father had as a boy

As a child, Lucas Post was cured of a rare type of cancer called Wilms' tumor. Now, 30 years later, Post is watching his 4-year-old daughter, Mia, wage the same battle.

CBS-Minnesota reports that Mia is undergoing a difficult and frightening treatment. But, the girl hopefully will suffer fewer side effects as a result of a study that her father participated in as a child.

Dr. Emily Greengard, who is treating Mia, told CBS-Minnesota that when Lucas Post participated in the trial as a child, doctors learned that they could use a lower dose of radiation and still get the same outcomes. That trial has had a direct effect on Mia's treatment.

Wilms' tumor is a rare childhood cancer that attacks the kidneys, CBS-Minnesota reports. About 500 cases are diagnosed in the United States each year. The American Cancer Society writes that Wilms' tumor is uncommon in children aged 6 and older.

Mia has been cancer-free for 16 weeks, according to CBS-Minnesota. Doctors will continue to monitor her with the hopes that the cancer does not return.

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Aereo Is Coming To Atlanta: June 17 For Pre-Registered Users, June 24 For Everyone Else

Fresh on the heels of announcing new streamlined pricing plans, Aereo is announcing plans to launch its service in Atlanta as part of its move to expand outside of New York and across the country. The service will launch in Atlanta on June 17 for users who pre-register for the service. Then, on June 24, Aereo will open up the service to everyone in the Atlanta area.

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Google Play Music All Access Is a Subscription Like Spotify Only Better

You can now buy a music subscription from Google. Here's everything you need to know about Google's crack at rocketing to the top of the charts. Get ready for Google Play Access.

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Switched On: Three days without Google Glass

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

The television. The PC. The cellphone. We take the things in these sentence fragments for granted today, but they took many years to enter the mainstream. Could Google Glass herald the next great product that we will one day wonder how we lived without? Based on three days of not using the product, you may want to ask someone else.

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Live streaming comes to ABC Player app for iOS

ABC plans to begin live-streaing content from its local stations in the New York and Philadelphia markets this week. What's more, the company is negotiating to enable the service to work with more than 200 affiliates, according to Brian Stetler of the New York Times.

The ABC Player app already provides full-length episodes of ABC's prime-time television shows. ABC secured rights from programming providers to show locally broadcasted content including syndicated shows.

It's a bold step for ABC to differentiate itself from other broadcasters that offer apps for their own programming. Most of the focus of such software has been to provide streaming access to current or in some cases legacy content, but it's been delivered purely on demand. This turns the process on its head by rebroadcasting content from local affiliates instead.

It's also a shot across the bow of Aereo, a new startup that promises to deliver local broadcasting over the Internet; the service has already launched in New York and goes live in Boston this month. Aereo charges subscribers for access, but provides content that's broadcast over the air for free. It's a situation that has landed Aereo in court.

ABC says it'll start with iOS support, but plans to support other phones at tablets in the future.

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Detroit Red Wings finish off Ducks 3-2 in Game 7

Detroit Red Wings left wing Justin Abdelkader celebrates his short handed goal during the first period in Game 7 of their first-round NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series against the Anaheim Ducks in Anaheim, Calif., Sunday, May 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Detroit Red Wings left wing Justin Abdelkader celebrates his short handed goal during the first period in Game 7 of their first-round NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series against the Anaheim Ducks in Anaheim, Calif., Sunday, May 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Detroit Red Wings left wing Justin Abdelkader, left, scores on Anaheim Ducks goalie Jonas Hiller during the first period in Game 7 of their first-round NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series in Anaheim, Calif., Sunday, May 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Detroit Red Wings defenseman Carlo Colaiacovo, left, and Anaheim Ducks center Daniel Winnik collide during the first period in Game 7 of their first-round NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series in Anaheim, Calif., Sunday, May 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Anaheim Ducks right wing Emerson Etem, right, celebrates his goal along with defenseman Bryan Allen during the first period in Game 7 of their first-round NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series against the Detroit Red Wings in Anaheim, Calif., Sunday, May 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Detroit Red Wings right wing Daniel Cleary, second from right, celebrates a goal by center Henrik Zetterberg, right, as Anaheim Ducks, from left, Saku Koivu, Jonas Hiller, Teemu Selanne, and Luca Sbisa look on during the first period in Game 7 of their first-round NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series in Anaheim, Calif., Sunday, May 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) ? The Detroit Red Wings had firm control of Game 7 right up until Henrik Zetterberg accidentally shot the puck over the glass in the waning minutes.

While the captain sat in the box, the Anaheim Ducks scored on the power play to trim Detroit's lead to one goal.

Zetterberg worried he had unleashed another crazy finish in this wild series.

Instead, the Red Wings coolly wrapped things up on the coast and calmly moved on to an even bigger challenge much closer to home.

Zetterberg and Valtteri Filppula each had a goal and an assist, and the Red Wings finished off Anaheim with a 3-2 victory Sunday night.

Justin Abdelkader scored a short-handed goal and Jimmy Howard made 31 saves as the seventh-seeded Red Wings won three of the first-round series' final four games to oust the Ducks, who had the NHL's third-best record in the regular season.

"We did a great job getting off to a good start, and then we protected it there at the end," said Zetterberg, who scored three goals in the series' final two games after getting blanked in the first five. "A lot of us have been in tough situations like this before, so we knew how to play this type of game."

Detroit faces top-seeded Chicago in the second round, and the Red Wings already are relishing the prospect of shorter flights during their final postseason in the Western Conference.

After the clubs played four overtimes in the series' first six games, the Red Wings largely dominated the anti-climactic clincher ? and for the first time in the series, the Wings didn't even need overtime to win.

Sure, things got tense after Francois Beauchemin's power-play goal off Jonathan Ericsson's skate in front of Howard with 3:17 to play, but Anaheim never really got close to a tying goal.

"It just says there's no quit in this dressing room," Howard said. "The belief in here is we can play with anybody."

His penalty notwithstanding, Detroit got a big finish from Zetterberg, their Stanley Cup-winning captain, who scored just 1:49 into Game 7 on a rebound in the slot. Zetterberg finished with seven points in the series' final three games after just one assist in the first four.

"It was not the best move by me, so it was tough to sit in the box," Zetterberg said. "But we still had a one-goal lead, and we've been in these situations so many times before."

After winning a Game 7 on the road for just the third time in their franchise's lengthy history, the Red Wings are in the second round for the sixth time in seven seasons.

Detroit didn't clinch its 22nd straight playoff spot until its final regular-season game, but the Wings beat Anaheim in a seventh game for the second time in five seasons.

The Motor City's team even prevented the first Freeway Faceoff in NHL playoff history. Anaheim would have faced Los Angeles in the second round, the first postseason matchup for Southern California's two teams.

Emerson Etem also scored and Jonas Hiller stopped 29 shots for the Ducks, who couldn't capitalize on home ice and failed in their second chance to close out their first playoff series since 2009. Another slow start doomed Anaheim, which fell behind 2-1 late in the first period on Abdelkader's goal.

"We felt we had a good thing going," Hiller said. "I think everybody thought we were going to go a long way, but it seemed like we didn't find that extra step for the playoffs. Detroit was just a little better than us. It's depressing. It makes you feel sad."

The loss completed an ugly flop for Anaheim, which had the best winning percentage in franchise history while winning just its second Pacific Division title during the lockout-shortened season.

The Ducks' defeat also is a sadly familiar playoff disappointment for coach Bruce Boudreau, who never got the Washington Capitals past the second round after four standout regular seasons with his previous club.

The loss also could be the final NHL game for Teemu Selanne, the 42-year-old franchise scoring leader who flirts with retirement every summer. The Finnish Flash said he'll take his customary several weeks before deciding his future.

"It's very disappointing," Selanne said. "We had two chances to close the series, but couldn't. ... As a group, we have to learn something from this. The playoffs are so much fun. We were looking forward to going forward and enjoying this a whole lot more."

Selanne didn't score a goal in the series' final six games ? but Corey Perry, the Ducks' former 50-goal scorer and NHL MVP, didn't score a goal in the entire series despite 24 shots.

"It's not something you think is going to happen," Perry said. "You get the job done throughout the year, but it just didn't seem to be there in this series."

The clubs alternated victories until the final two games of the series, with the Ducks taking three straight one-game leads before Detroit caught them.

The Wings earned a third trip to California with an overtime win in Game 6 on Friday night ? and they made it count with the Wings' fourth win in six appearances at Honda Center this season.

Anaheim had another packed house on hand for just the second Game 7 in Honda Center's history, but the Red Wings dominated from the start.

Detroit created choking traffic in front of Hiller immediately, and a rebound of Filppula's long shot went straight into the slot for Zetterberg.

The Ducks appeared overmatched early, but Etem ? the 20-year-old Long Beach native ? had all the poise his teammates lacked. Etem attempted to dump the puck into the Detroit zone, but instead collected a deflection and skated in on net, firing a shot over a prone defenseman and past Howard for the third goal of his first NHL playoff series.

Detroit went right back ahead when Abdelkader stole Beauchemin's pass near the blue line during the power play. Abdelkader easily skated away from Sheldon Souray and beat Hiller on a breakaway for his first goal since returning from a two-game suspension.

The Red Wings again took control in the second period, and Filppula put them up 3-1 when he jumped on a loose puck and fired a backhand through Beauchemin's legs for his first goal of the postseason.

NOTES: Anaheim D Toni Lydman missed his fourth straight game since getting hit in the head by Abdelkader, who served a two-game suspension and returned for Game 6. ... The Red Wings scratched C Cory Emmerton for the first time in the series and activated RW Patrick Eaves, who sat out Game 6. D Carlo Colaiacovo stayed in the lineup for the second straight game. ... Anaheim's only previous Game 7 at Honda Center was in 1997, when the Ducks beat Phoenix for the franchise's first playoff series victory. Selanne was in his first full season with the club.

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Arizona jury finds Jodi Arias guilty of first-degree murder

By Tim Gaynor

PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona jury found Jodi Arias guilty on Wednesday of first-degree murder in the death of her ex-boyfriend in a capital trial that riveted America for months with graphic sexual evidence and bizarre testimony.

Arias, who could face the death penalty as her case goes into the penalty phase of the trial on Thursday, has admitted to shooting 30-year-old Travis Alexander, whose body was found in the shower of his Phoenix valley home in June 2008. He had been shot in the face, stabbed 27 times and his throat had been slashed.

Arias, 32, had tried unsuccessfully to convince the jury that she acted in self-defense after Alexander attacked her because she had dropped his camera while taking photos of him in the shower.

She teared up as the jury's decision was read, while a crowd of hundreds erupted into cheers outside the court. Jurors could have convicted Arias of a lesser crime such as second-degree murder or manslaughter, but instead found her guilty of the most serious charge possible.

"Five long years ... of lying, manipulating. Now the citizens of Arizona have spoken," Dave Hall, a friend of Alexander, told reporters as he left the court. He said a death sentence would be appropriate.

"If what she did to Travis does not justify the death penalty in America today, then what do we have one for?"

The trial, which was punctuated by graphic testimony and evidence including a sex tape, captivated a nation enthralled by the story of an attractive and soft-spoken young woman charged with such a brutal crime.

The case, which began in early January and was streamed live on the Internet, drew parallels with the similarly high-profile Florida murder trial of Casey Anthony, another young woman charged with an unthinkable crime. She was ultimately acquitted in 2011 in the death of her toddler daughter, Caylee.

In the Arizona case, jurors heard how the petite, dark-haired Arias met and began dating Alexander, a businessman and motivational speaker, in 2006. During 18 days of often salacious testimony, Arias said she and Alexander continued to have sex despite their break-up from a relationship marked by emotional and physical abuse.

Arias said Alexander had made her feel "like a prostitute" and that he kicked and attempted to choke her, although she admitted never reporting the alleged abuse to the police, seeking medical treatment or documenting it in her journal.

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Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi argued that Arias had snapped in the "sudden heat of passion" in the moments between a final photograph she took showing Alexander alive and taking a shower and a subsequent picture showing him covered in his own blood.

But prosecutor Juan Martinez painted a different picture of Arias, portraying her as manipulative and prone to jealousy in previous relationships, and said she had meticulously planned to kill Alexander.

"Nothing indicates that this is anything less than a slaughter," he told jurors in his summing up on Friday, asking them to return a verdict of felony first-degree murder.

An attorney for Alexander's siblings, Jason Beckstead, said the family was pleased with the verdict and that his law firm planned to file a wrongful death lawsuit against Arias "in the very near future." He would not stipulate damages sought.

At the sentencing trial beginning on Thursday, the prosecution will present evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that aggravating factors exist that call for the death penalty. The defense can also present rebuttal evidence.

Jurors will then determine if the aggravating circumstances were proved to exist beyond a reasonable doubt.

In making his case for premeditated murder, Martinez had accused Arias of bringing the pistol used in the killing, which has not been recovered, with her from California. He said she also rented a car, removed its license plate and bought gasoline cans and fuel to conceal her journey to the Phoenix suburbs to kill Alexander.

Martinez said Arias lied after the killing to deflect any suspicion that she had been involved in his death, leaving a voicemail on Alexander's cellphone, sending irises to his grandmother and telling detectives she was not at the crime scene before changing her story.

The jury, which reached a verdict on its third full day of deliberations, had grilled her on her claims that her mind went blank after she shot Alexander, and wanted to know why she had not called emergency responders - questions she struggled to answer.

The defense called a psychologist who testified that Arias' memory lapses stemmed from post-traumatic stress as a result of Alexander's alleged abuse and the killing itself - claims disputed by prosecutors.

In closing arguments, Martinez told the jury Alexander had sent an instant message weeks before his death saying he was "extremely afraid" of Arias because of her "stalking behavior."

(Reporting by Tim Gaynor; Editing by Cynthia Johnston, David Brunnstrom, Richard Chang and Peter Cooney)

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Minnesota set to be 12th state to allow gay marriage

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ? A pivotal vote Thursday in the Minnesota House positioned that state to become the 12th in the country to allow gay marriages and the first in the Midwest to pass such a law out of its Legislature.

The 75-59 vote was a critical step for the measure, which would allow same-sex weddings beginning this summer. It's a startling shift in the state, where just six months earlier voters turned back an effort to ban them in the Minnesota Constitution.

The state Senate plans to consider the bill Monday and leaders expect it to pass there too. Gov. Mark Dayton has pledged to sign it into law.

"My family knew firsthand that same sex couples pay our taxes, we vote, we serve in the military, we take care of our kids and our elders and we run businesses in Minnesota," said the bill's sponsor, Rep. Karen Clark, a Minneapolis Democrat who is gay. "... Same-sex couples should be treated fairly under the law, including the freedom to marry the person we love."

Hundreds of supporters and opponents gathered outside the House chamber up to and during the debate, chanting and waving signs. They sang "We Shall Overcome" and a John Lennon song in the minutes before the vote.

Four of the House's 61 Republicans voted for the bill, while two of its 73 Democrats voted against it.

Opponents argued the bill would alter a centuries-old conception of marriage and leave those people opposed for religious reasons tarred as bigots.

"We're not. We're not," said Rep. Kelby Woodard, R-Belle Plaine. "These are people with deeply held beliefs, including myself."

Pro-marriage demonstrators filled the hallways outside the House chambers, some dressed in orange T-Shirts and holding signs that read, "I Support The Freedom to Marry." Behind them, opponents held up bright pink signs that simply read, "Vote No."

Among the demonstrators was Grace McBride, 27, a nurse from St. Paul. She said she and her partner felt compelled to be there to watch history unfold. She said she hopes to get married "as soon as I can" if the bill becomes law. The legislation would allow her to do so starting Aug. 1.

"I have thought about my wedding since I was a little girl," she said.

On the other side of the divide, the Rev. Steve Goold of New Hope Church led followers in a morning prayer before they set out to lobby lawmakers. He told them they had the power to change minds, but urged them to be respectful.

"Do not shout and boo. Pray," Goold said. Galina Komar, a recent Ukrainian immigrant who lives in Bloomington, brought her four-year-old daughter and one-year-old son to the Capitol to express her religious concerns.

"I do believe in God, and I believe God already created the perfect way to have a family," Komar said.

But gay marriage supporters also boasted faith leaders in their ranks.

"I've celebrated marriages for same-sex couples, but I've never been able to sign a marriage license for any of them," said the Rev. Jay Carlson, pastor at a Minneapolis Lutheran church. "I look forward to the day when I can."

Eleven other states allow gay marriages ? including Rhode Island and Delaware, which approved laws in the past week. Minnesota would be the first state in the Midwest to pass the measure out of the Legislature.

Iowa allows gay marriages because of a 2009 court ruling. Leaders in Illinois ? the only Midwestern state other than Minnesota with a Democratic-led statehouse ? say that state is close to having the votes to approve a law too.

But most other states surrounding Minnesota have constitutional bans against same-sex weddings, so the change might not spread to the nation's heartland nearly as quickly as it has on the coasts and in New England.

The Minnesota push for gay marriage grew out of last fall's successful campaign to defeat a constitutional amendment that would have banned it. Minnesota became the first state to turn back such an amendment after more than two dozen states had passed one over more than a decade.

The same election put Democrats in full control of state government for the first time in more than two decades, a perfect scenario for gay marriage supporters to swiftly pursue legalization. They tapped the cross-section of citizens, businesses, churches and others who spoke out against the amendment and staged rallies as part of a lobbying effort to build support.

The bill cleared committees in both chambers in March, and with a succession of national polls showing opposition to gay marriage falling away nationally.

"There are kids being raised by grandparents, single parents, two moms or two dads," said Rep. Laurie Halverson, a Democrat from the Twin Cities suburbs. "Some of those folks are my friends. And we talk about the same things as parents. We talk about large piles of laundry, and how much it hurts to step on a Lego. That's what we do, because we're all families."

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Flipboard brings magazine curation to Android, gains web tools

If you're a Flipboard user, you'll recall that the app was recently updated to let you create your own magazines. Unfortunately, this functionality was limited to the iOS version. This changes today, as Flipboard brings magazine curation to Android. Creating a magazine is simple: just tap the plus button visible on each article inside the app or use the bookmarklet when surfing the web. This gives you a personalized way to collect posts, images and videos and share your ideas on Flipboard and beyond.

The new Android version introduces some unique features. You're able to "flip" content into your magazines using the share button built into many Android apps. In addition to the existing social network integration, Flipboard now includes a share button of its own on magazine covers -- this allows you to share magazines via SMS, email or Pinterest. The app also makes it easier to create a new Flipboard account by supporting Facebook's Single Sign-on.

Along with the updated Android version, Flipboard's rolling out a web-based Editor to help users manage magazines. This collection of web tools lets you reorder and delete content, rearrange magazines and check how often others have shared items in your magazines. Finally, the Financial Times is now available on Flipboard -- you'll even be able to read premium content by logging into your Financial Times account right within the app. Take a look at the gallery below and hit the break for the PR.

Gallery: Flipboard magazine curation on Android

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Hope for jab against spider bites

9 May 2013 Last updated at 01:53

A jab that protects against poisonous spider venom may become a reality one day, early research suggests.

Brazilian scientists created a synthetic protein that protected rabbits from the effects of spider poison in experiments.

A new generation of anti-venom vaccines could save thousands of lives a year, researchers report in Vaccine journal.

The spider tested, belonging to the genus Loxosceles, injures almost 7,000 people a year in Brazil alone.

Members of this group of spiders, which are found worldwide, include the reaper or brown spider.

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Their bite causes open sores and can lead to more serious effects such as internal bleeding and kidney failure.

In experiments, researchers used part of the spider toxin to create a synthetic protein designed to raise antibodies against the venom.

"Existing anti-venoms are made of the pure toxins and can be harmful to people who take them," said Dr Carlos Ch?vez-Olortegui, of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil.

"We wanted to develop a new way of protecting people from the effects of these spider bites without having to suffer from side-effects."

Scientists say the research could be the start of a new generation of anti-venom vaccines capable of saving thousands of lives worldwide.

The researchers tested the new protein on rabbits in the laboratory.

They say immunised rabbits were protected from skin damage at the site of venom injection, and from haemorrhaging.

The research is reported in the journal Vaccine.

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Senator says military plagued by sexual assaults

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., left, speaks with Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley, right, as the panel hears from top officials of the Air Force during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Besides funding for next year's Pentagon budget, the Air Force is dealing with controversy over sexual assaults and how the military justice system handles it. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the ranking member, is at rear. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., left, speaks with Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley, right, as the panel hears from top officials of the Air Force during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Besides funding for next year's Pentagon budget, the Air Force is dealing with controversy over sexual assaults and how the military justice system handles it. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the ranking member, is at rear. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, welcomes Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley, right, as the Senate Armed Services Committee hears from top officials of the Air Force during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Besides funding for next year's Pentagon budget, the Air Force is dealing with controversy over sexual assaults and how the military justice system handles it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III arrives as the Senate Armed Services Committee hears from top officials of the Air Force at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Besides funding for next year's Pentagon budget, the Air Force is dealing with controversy over sexual assaults and how the military justice system handles it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The sexual battery arrest of the Air Force officer who led the service's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit underscores how far the Defense Department has to go in addressing the plague of sexual crimes in the military, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Tuesday.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., told a committee hearing that a Pentagon report to be released later Tuesday reportedly estimates that, on average, there are more than 70 sexual assaults involving military personnel every day.

Authorities in Arlington County, Va., said Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski was charged with groping a woman in a northern Virginia parking lot on Sunday. Krusinski was removed from his post in the sexual assault unit after the Air Force learned of his arrest. He started in the post in February

"While under our legal system everyone is innocent until proven guilty, this arrest speaks volumes about the status and effectiveness of (the Defense) department's efforts to address the plague of sexual assaults in the military," Levin said.

The Pentagon report says that the number of sexual assaults reported by members of the military rose from 3,192 to 3,374 in 2012, while the department estimates that as many as 26,000 service members were assaulted, based on anonymous surveys, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the report.

Gen. Mark Welsh, the Air Force's chief of staff, told the committee that he and Air Force Secretary Michael Donley were "appalled" by Krusinki's arrest. Although the case is being adjudicated by the Arlington County police, Welsh said the Air Force has requested jurisdiction.

A police report said that the 41-year-old Krusinski was drunk and grabbed a woman's breast and buttocks. The woman fought him off and called police, the report said.

The Arlington County Sheriff's office said Krusinski was released Sunday on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond. An arraignment is scheduled for Thursday.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has spoken with Donley about the matter and "expressed outrage and disgust over the troubling allegations and emphasized that this matter will be dealt with swiftly and decisively," Pentagon press secretary George Little said in a statement.

Two cases involving decisions by three-star generals to overturn guilty verdicts in sexual assault cases have outraged members of Congress and propelled a bipartisan push to change the military justice system to essentially strip commanding officers of their ability to reverse criminal convictions.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., is holding up the nomination of Air Force Lt. Gen. Susan Helms, tapped to serve as vice commander of the U.S. Space Command, until the Missouri Democrat gets more information about Helms' decision to overturn a jury conviction in a sexual assault case.

Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin, commander of the 3rd Air Force at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, overturned the conviction against Lt. Col. James Wilkerson, a former inspector general at Aviano Air Base in Italy. Wilkerson had been found guilty last Nov. 2 of charges of abusive sexual contact, aggravated sexual assault and three instances of conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman. The incident had involved a civilian employee.

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Syria blames Internet outage on technical problem

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013 file photo, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, left, speaks at a joint news conference as his Jordanian counterpart, Naser Judeh, listens in Amman, Jordan. Salehi wrote in an opinion piece in the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar Wednesday, May 8, that it is up to the Syrian people to choose their political system and president, suggesting Tehran is not wedded to Assad's continued rule. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, File)

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013 file photo, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, left, speaks at a joint news conference as his Jordanian counterpart, Naser Judeh, listens in Amman, Jordan. Salehi wrote in an opinion piece in the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar Wednesday, May 8, that it is up to the Syrian people to choose their political system and president, suggesting Tehran is not wedded to Assad's continued rule. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, File)

BEIRUT (AP) ? A problem with a fiber optics cable was responsible for an Internet outage that cut off civil war-ravaged Syria from the rest of the world for nearly 20 hours, state media said Wednesday.

Internet service stopped abruptly Tuesday evening, prompting speculation that the regime had pulled the plug, possibly as a cover for military action. However, no large-scale military offensives were reported Wednesday and the opposition did not accuse the regime of sabotage.

In the past, the regime halted Internet service in selected areas during government offensives to disrupt communication among rebel fighters. The last nationwide outage, for two days in November, coincided with a major military operation near the capital, Damascus, and its international airport.

A U.S.-based Web watcher said the problem would have to occur somewhere inside Syria for the entire country to be affected, although it was impossible to tell from a distance exactly what happened.

Jim Cowie of Renesys, a company that monitors online traffic, said Syria is serviced by three underwater cables, but a problem in one of those would not be sufficient to cut off Internet nationwide.

Preventing Internet access has become a tool of last resort for governments trying to suppress unrest, particularly during the Arab Spring protests that eventually toppled leaders in four countries.

Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, experienced frequent Internet disruptions during its period of mass protests, while service in Egypt was shut down for almost a week ahead of the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011.

The Internet has also been an important tool in the bloody battle to topple Assad, now in its third year. With the Syrian government restricting foreign media access to the country, anti-regime activists talking on Skype and amateur videos posted online became important sources of information.

In rebel-controlled areas in the north and east of Syria, the regime cut off Internet service early in the uprising, forcing activists to use more expensive satellite phones.

Ahmad al-Khatib, an activist in the Jabal al-Zawiya region in the northwestern province of Idlib, said Internet has been down in his area for more than a year.

"It was normal news for us yesterday. It did not affect us," he said via Skype. "Those who were affected are activists who use 3G and they are mostly activist in regime-controlled areas."

He said that although 3G can be monitored by authorities, activists in Damascus still rely on it since those owning a satellite phone risk being flagged as potential rebel sympathizers.

Also Wednesday, the leader of the radical rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra was wounded by regime shelling in southern Damascus, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Several other fighters were injured in the incident, the Observatory said. The leader was identified by his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammed al-Golani.

Al-Nusra, which has pledged allegiance to the al-Qaida terror network, is one of the dominant forces in the civil war, and its fighters are often found on the front lines.

On the diplomatic front, the international envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, welcomed a new U.S-Russian initiative to end the 26-month-old Syria conflict through negotiations.

A decision to convene an international conference later this month to build on a transition plan for Syria is "the first hopeful news" concerning Syria "in a very long time," Brahimi said Wednesday.

The goal of the plan, set out in Geneva last year, is to bring the Assad regime and opposition representatives together for talks on an interim government. Each side would be allowed to veto candidates it finds unacceptable.

The proposal also calls for an open-ended cease-fire and the formation of a transitional government to run the country until new elections can be held.

Brahimi has repeatedly expressed frustration over the failure to find a political solution in Syria, and has lamented the divisions on the U.N. Security Council that have prevented any international action.

The main opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, said Wednesday it welcomes efforts to reach a political solution, but said any transition must begin with the departure of Assad and officials in his regime. Syrian officials have said that Assad will stay in his post until his seven-year term ends next year and he will run again.

Meanwhile, U.S. officials said the Obama administration is providing $100 million in new Syria aid, but the money is for humanitarian purposes only and not linked to any decision on arming Syrian rebels.

The announcement will be made by Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday in Rome, where his diplomacy includes a meeting with Jordan's foreign minister, the officials said.

The new funds will help support 1.4 million Syrian refugees, including many in U.S. ally Jordan, and hundreds of thousands of other civilians still trapped by the violence inside Syria's border. Total U.S. humanitarian assistance in the two-year war will climb to $510 million.

The U.S. officials weren't authorized to speak publicly on the matter ahead of Kerry's announcement and demanded anonymity.

The Obama administration has said it is considering providing weapons to vetted units in the armed opposition, among other military options, following last week's revelation that U.S. intelligence suggests the Assad regime has used chemical weapons. The U.S. also is looking for ways to halt the violence that has killed more than 70,000 people.

But the U.S. maintains deep reservations about providing direct military assistance, given the growing presence of al-Qaida-linked and other extremists in the rebel ranks.

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Associated Press writer Bradley S. Klapper in Rome contributed reporting.

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Vivo Xplay boasts 5.7-inch 1080p screen, dedicated audio chips and nifty single-hand mode (updated with video)

Another 1080p quad-core Android phone, you say? Well, there's a bit more to it. Launched by BBK spin-off Vivo in Beijing just now, this 5.7-inch Xplay goes one step further than its smaller X1 and X1S cousins by packing one extra audio chip and the OPA2604 operational amplifier from Texas Instruments in order to add extra oomph to Cirrus Logic's CS4398 DAC and CS8422 stereo asynchronous sample-rate converter -- both of which are featured on the X1 series. If you're a DIY audio enthusiast, you might have already tinkered with an OPA2604 while making your own headphone amplifier; so in other words, Vivo is trying to save you the hassle.

Before we dive into the audio performance, let's quickly look at the rest of the phone first. Underneath the 500-nit LTPS display lies a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core SoC (1.7GHz, 2GB RAM and Adreno 320 graphics engine), 16GB or 32GB of built-in storage, 3,400mAh battery and NFC. On the back you'll find a Sony 13-megapixel imager next to a pair of speakers (FLAC playback is supported natively), but flip the phone over and you'll be looking at a surprisingly generous 5-megapixel front-facing camera -- much like the one on Oppo's mid-range Ulike 2. Vivo's somehow managed to pack all of this into a 7.99mm-thick body with a screen bezel of just 2.3mm thick (which bests Pantech's thin-bezeled Vega Iron) and a large viewable-to-total area ratio of 75.11 percent. Alas, for 3G there's only WCDMA 2100, meaning the phone may have to rely more on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 or WiFi in many parts of the world. More after the break.

Update: Hands-on photos added below, followed by a couple of video clips after the break.

Gallery: Vivo Xplay hands-on

Gallery: Vivo Xplay launch event

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