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Monday, August 5, 2013
U.S. seeks tighter control over Apple in e-book case
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Golf: Murphy Leads At Ben Geren Stroke Play
Defending champion Chris Murphy shot a 3-under-par 69 to take a strong lead Saturday in the opening round of the Arkansas State Golf Association?s Ben Geren Stroke Play Championship.
Trey Shaap and Ron Ocker both are in second place after shooting 74. Kyle Thompson shot a 75.
In Senior Division, Ron Richard leads with a 73 and Ken Golden shot 75.
Scott Rhea leads Mid Seniors with a 73 and and John Paul Jamison shot 76. Paul Wood leads Open Division with a 76.
Championship play continues today.
Source: http://swtimes.com/sections/sports/golf-murphy-leads-ben-geren-stroke-play.html
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Microsoft Recruiting Players to Hunt Xbox Trolls
A common complaint of online gaming in its present form is the prevalence of toxic players who make the experience unnecessarily miserable for others with their behavior. Often, such people are found on Xbox Live, and Microsoft Microsoft is rolling out a pair of new initiatives to help hunt down their trolls.
The first is Enforcement United, where Xbox players can sign up to serve justice to players who may be making the community a worse place. The second is Xbox Community Level, a program where players can level up and earn rewards by being a positive member of the Xbox Live collective, like volunteering for Enforcement United.
?We?ve heard your feedback that you want ways to positively shape your Xbox Live experience, and we feel this is a great way for you to get involved,??Xbox Live policy and enforcement director Glenn Kaleta wrote in an Xbox.com blog.
At first, players will only be judging the appropriateness of other players? Gamertags, looking for potentially bad ones that the built in filters didn?t catch. Despite present restrictions, attention-seeking players always seem to find a way to use numbers and wonky letters to spell out offensive identifiers for themselves.
There will be a system of checks and balances in place so players aren?t just arbitrarily punished, though I expect there will be some level of false positives as always tends to happen with ?tribunal? style community judgment systems like this one. That said, I think it?s a good idea and could help, at least to some degree, to make gaming on Xbox Live more livable. Enforcement United is in its beta phase with this Gamertag analysis program, but there?s no reason to think it couldn?t extend to other aspects of someone?s profile or online habits as well.
A community like Xbox Live is simply too big to be policed by Microsoft employees alone, and this is a good way to draw from the positive members of the community to help make the space a better place. Obviously this won?t solve every issue, but I don?t think it can hurt either.
Right now, only Xbox Live Ambassadors are eligible to serve in the Enforcement? United beta. Ambassadors help out with customer service issues players may have on the behalf of Microsoft, and can rank up their new Xbox Community Level by doing so. You can sign up to join here if you like.
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Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/08/03/microsoft-recruiting-players-to-hunt-xbox-trolls/
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
Iran gets new president, vows 'constructive' foreign relations
By Yeganeh Torbati
DUBAI (Reuters) - Hassan Rouhani took office as Iran's president on Saturday promising "constructive interaction with the world" after eight years under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marked by diplomatic confrontation and damaging sanctions.
The politically moderate 64-year-old cleric's resounding victory at June's election raised hopes of a negotiated end to the dispute over Iran's nuclear program and an easing of the sanctions that have hit the OPEC country's oil exports.
That could avert a possible new war in the Middle East. Both the United States and Israel have said all options - including military action - are open to stop Iran getting nuclear arms.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei endorsed Rouhani's election win in a statement read out to political, religious and military grandees assembled at a Tehran religious site.
Khamenei praised the "selection of a worthy individual who has more than three decades of service to the system of the Islamic Republic ... and who from the time of the revolutionary struggle ... has resisted the enemies of the Islamic Revolution."
Symbolizing the handover of power, Khamenei took the presidential mandate from Ahmadinejad and handed the document to Rouhani.
Khamenei then kissed Rouhani on the cheek and the new president kissed the leader on his shoulder, a sign of supplication.
The start of Rouhani's presidency puts an end to the Ahmadinejad era during which Iran grew more isolated and came under wide-ranging United Nations, U.S. and European Union sanctions over its nuclear program.
Rouhani faces enormous challenges, including inflation he put last month at 42 percent, unemployment, and political divisions between conservative, moderate and reformist factions.
"Moderation does not mean deviating from principles and it is not conservatism in the face of change and development. Moderation ... is an active and patient approach in society in order to be distant from the abyss of extremism," Rouhani said in a short speech after becoming president.
"In the international arena we will also take new steps to promote the Iranian nation towards securing national interests and removing sanctions. Although there are many limitations, the future is bright and promising," he said.
"The orientation of the government is Iran's economic salvation, constructive interaction with the world, and a restoration of morality."
Rouhani's first test is persuading parliament to approve his list of proposed ministers, which he is expected to present on Sunday after he takes his oath of office in parliament.
"Rouhani will certainly appoint more competent men and women to key economic ministries and institutions. He will also follow saner economic policies," said Shaul Bakhash, an Iran historian at George Mason University in Virginia.
"But the economic problems are staggering ... Above all, without a serious easing of sanctions, it is difficult to see how Rouhani can get the economy moving again."
CLEAN HANDS
Ahmadinejad defended his time in office, telling state television late on Friday his administration was the least corrupt in history, and blaming sanctions for economic problems.
"We promised to have clean hands; I say with confidence that this government is the cleanest government," Ahmadinejad said, according to the Mehr news agency.
"The enemy has introduced heavy sanctions and the nation has faced problems. We have made our utmost effort but we couldn't resolve all the pressures. This issue has been very difficult for us."
Rouhani has said he will appoint ministers from all political factions, based on their ability, but hardliners have demanded the conservative-dominated parliament reject nominees associated with the "sedition", their term for the months of protests that followed Ahmadinejad's disputed 2009 re-election.
Parliament's confirmation of such candidates would be "a betrayal of the people and the system," Hossein Shariatmadari, editor of the influential hardline daily Kayhan, wrote in an editorial this week.
A source close to Rouhani confirmed to Reuters that he will nominate Mohammad Javad Zarif, a U.S.-educated former ambassador to the United Nations, as his foreign minister.
Another likely pick is Ali Jannati for culture minister, an influential post which oversees domestic and foreign press in Iran and vets cinema, theatre, literature and other arts. Jannati has served as ambassador to Kuwait and his father is Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, a hardline cleric.
During Ahmadinejad's presidency, press freedoms were curtailed, newspapers shut down, and this year about a dozen journalists were arrested in a crackdown on the press.
In an interview with the reformist Bahar newspaper this week, Jannati sought to distance himself from his father's views and indicated he would support more freedom for artists.
"Intellectual matters are not hereditary," Jannati said, according to Bahar. "I am hopeful that given my views on the fields of music, art, and film, the cultural and artistic atmosphere in the country will soften so that artists can breathe more easily."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rouhani-becomes-iranian-president-134434025.html
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Washington Post Co.'s Newspaper Division Posts Another Loss, But Online Revenue Is Up
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The Washington Post's newspaper division posted an operating loss of $49.3 million in the first six months of 2013, the company says in its second-quarter earnings report. In the first six months of 2012, the newspaper division lost $33.2 million.
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Friday, August 2, 2013
"We should win with a wider point difference," Says Mexico coach
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Source: www.fivb.org --- Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, August 1, 2013-Matias Estanislao Va , Coach of Mexico ?We had the bad performance ! We played with the team that is in lower level than us, so we should have won more points and had better performance. In addition, there is something which needs to be improving in our team. We need to improve the concentration of our players .We shouldn?t underestimate the opponent and we should perform our best. ? ...
Source: http://www.fivb.org/viewPressRelease.asp?No=41709&Language=en
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