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'American Idol' Results: Seriously? Another Guy Goes Home?

Burnell Taylor, joined by Janelle Arthur in the bottom two, is the fourth man booted in as many weeks.
By Adam Graham

Burnell Taylor of "American Idol"
Photo: Fox

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Watch The Facebook Phone Event Live Stream Here

Are you ready for a Facebook Phone? Because it's a-comin'. Zuck should take the stage at 10 A.M Pacific this morning, where he'll be showing off the company's "new home on Android". We'll undoubtedly have all kinds of coverage for you throughout the day ? but if you're the kind who likes to camp out and watch an event themselves, you can catch the live video stream of the event right here.

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Keep these Android baseball games in your starting rotation

Believe it or not, the 2013 Major League Baseball season is underway. This is always an exciting time, as we're glad it's back and have yet to feel the grind of the 162 game season. We want to bask in as much baseball as we can right now, and that means it's time to download some new baseball games for your Android device of choice. Below, you will find a list of five standout baseball Android games. Play ball!

Editor?s Note: These games are all free, but they lean heavily on in-app purchases.

While most Android baseball games have a heavy focus on hitting, Flick Baseball is only about pitching. It's just a pitching game, you see, and your pitches are driven by the flick of your finger. I've never found flick-based games to be particularly easy, and it will take some time for you to master the flick pitch and figure out how to take full advantage of all the different ways you can throw the ball. I'm still no good at tossing a curve, but I can get a killer fastball through. As you play, you'll find what works for you, and you'll have a pretty good time with this.

Yes, a part of me is sad that Com2us pushed ?home run? into one word, but this home run derby game is still pretty fun. This one definitely has a competitive focus, so going online is a must. What's most interesting about this game, though, is its mechanics. You use tilt to decide where in the strike zone to swing, and then you tap the screen to let her rip. It's mostly the timing that determines whether you make contact, but hitting a home run requires actual skills. Gotta appreciate games that require actual skill in order to achieve.

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I'm putting this in this spot primarily because of the visual style, which is quite attractive. It's cel-shaded (think Borderlands or Jet Set Radio), and it seems to be one of the better looking efforts I've played on my phone. As for gameplay, it's a one-on-one baseball battle, and batting is actually pretty difficult compared with other Android baseball games. It takes a bit to figure out exactly how to do it, so you'll want to practice by yourself before you go online with this one. It is possible to figure it out, though. I promise.

This effort from Com2us is the only Android baseball game with MLBPA licensing, which means it has real pro players in it. It doesn't have the teams themselves, though, but it has assigned the players to the right cities. That'll have to be good enough. It's also the only game I've played that gives you a real game of baseball to play, and it's actually pretty good at providing that experience. It's not as deep as, say, a home console baseball game, but Com2us did well working within the constraints of the touch screen.

This latest entry in the recurring franchise from Gamevil is more or less a Japanese-style role-playing game in the form of a baseball simulator. Playing the base game without spending money on micro-transactions is a long, grinding experience, but I found myself enthralled in my player's journey through these fictional big leagues. It's two games in one, too, as you can play as either a pitcher or a fielder, and those campaigns are unique. And it's great that when you get tired of one you can just hop on the other.

Source: http://www.androidapps.com/games/articles/13364-keep-these-android-baseball-games-in-your-starting-rotation

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Obama outlines private-public project to study the brain

Making good on a promise first hinted at during his State of the Union speech in February, President Obama on Tuesday unveiled the broad outlines of a scientific initiative aimed at mapping the human brain. The project's ambitious goals include understanding how the brain forms memories and controls human behavior; how it becomes damaged by conditions such as Parkinson's disease and autism; and how it can be repaired when afflicted by Alzheimer's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder and other illnesses.

The BRAIN initiative ? short for Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies ? is modeled after the Human Genome Project, in which the federal government partnered with philanthropies and scientific entrepreneurs to identify and characterize the nearly 25,000 genes that make up human DNA.

"A human brain contains almost 100 billion neurons making trillions of connections," Obama said Tuesday as he outlined the initiative in the East Room of the White House. In the absence of a detailed map of the brain's complex circuitry and operating instructions that could help troubleshoot when the brain's wiring goes awry, scientists often grope in the dark for therapies that can treat Alzheimer's or autism or to reverse the effects of a stroke, Obama said. "So there is this enormous mystery waiting to be unlocked."

The funding available beyond this year for the BRAIN initiative remains unclear. Calling the "three pounds of matter that sits between our ears" a mystery to be unraveled, Obama said his proposed budget of $110 million for fiscal year 2014 would "help get this project off the ground." Private sector partners the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Kavli Foundation have committed $158 million to the project.

Over five years of the Human Genome Project, the federal government invested $3.8 billion in the effort. But federal spending in the initiative's first year was modest: $27.9 million.

In a bid to fend off opposition from budget-cutters on Capitol Hill and cast the initiative as an investment in the U.S. economy, the White House said that every federal dollar expended on the Human Genome Project went on to generate $141 in economic output.

"Ideas are what power our economy," Obama said. "When we invest in the best ideas before anybody else does, our businesses and our workers can make the best products and deliver the best services before anybody else."

If Obama's proposed budget for the project is approved by Congress this year, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the small office within the Pentagon known as DARPA, will disburse about $50 million in grants under the BRAIN initiative next year. The National Institutes of Health will contribute $40 million, and the National Science Foundation $20 million.

Funding in future years will be negotiated yearly.

"Out of this is going to come a foundation of understanding the brain that we have dreamed of all through human history," said Dr. Francis Collins, who was in charge of the government's role in the Human Genome Project and is now director of the National Institutes of Health.

DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar said her agency would focus on the brain trauma research it has pioneered in recent years. That work was spurred by the brain injuries and PTSD that have afflicted thousands of U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The resulting insights and treatments will also benefit civilians whose brains have been injured by strokes, illness, car crashes and falls, she said.

"We're starting to learn more about how memory is encoded in the brain and starting to see how we might restore memory loss after injury," Prabhakar said. "There are broader applications," as researchers extend that research to address disorders of memory, such as Alzheimer's disease, and DARPA would probably invest in such projects, she said.

DARPA, whose early research helped spawn the Internet, will also look to fund brain research that would make prosthetic devices more responsive to human thought, as well as other cognitive research that might inspire new information-processing and computing techniques, Prabhakar said. Both subjects are of keen interest to the military.

The White House will also assign the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues the task of exploring the ethical, legal and societal problems certain to arise as brain science advances.

That panel has already weighed in on the social and ethical implications of drugs and technologies that promise to enhance the cognitive performance of healthy people. As future work unlocks the workings of the brain when a patient appears to be in a vegetative state, those experts will probably wrestle with new definitions of life and death. And as the field of neuroprosthetics makes human thought increasingly discernible to computers, age-old fears about the use of mind-reading technologies are likely to spark investigation.

Despite uncertainty about future funding, the initiative drew jubilant praise from scientists engaged in brain research.

"Where you put a major investment in understanding the most complicated thing we know ? the human brain ? there could be benefits to every aspect of society," said Dr. John C. Mazziotta, a leading neuroscientist who is executive vice dean of UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. Scientists could make new discoveries about aging, education, creativity, psychiatric disorders and social problems such as homelessness, he said.

But such lofty goals will not come cheap, cautioned Larry Swanson, president of the Society for Neuroscience. The initiative will fall short of expectations if federal funds dedicated to the project are the object of yearly political haggling.

Obama on Tuesday offered a nod to such concerns.

"Of course, none of this will be easy," he said. "If it was, we would already know everything there was about how the brain works, and presumably my life would be simpler here. It could explain all kinds of things that go on in Washington."

melissa.healy@latimes.com

Christi Parsons in the Washington bureau contributed to this report.

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Tuesday’s links are ready to be read: Jenna von Oy: Motherhood is a ‘constant adventure’ – Good Morning America The new mom’s guide to baby’s sleep schedule - Parenting.com Family uses sleep consultant to get toddler to bed – ABC Nightline How to stop breastfeeding when mom and baby are both ready – iVillage.com Nia [...]

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Official: Obama to announce brain mapping project

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is proposing a new investment into research to map the human brain in hopes of unlocking some of its mysteries, a senior administration official says.

The president planned to propose a $100 million investment for next year during an announcement at the White House Tuesday morning, the official said.

Obama mentioned the idea in his State of the Union address, comparing the potential to the Human Genome Project that mapped DNA.

"Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy. Every dollar," Obama said in the address to Congress in February. "Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's."

Obama wants the research to involve private institutions as well as government agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation. It will require the development of new technology that can record the electrical activity of more neurons in the brain and a study of the ethical implications of the advancements.

The official spoke on a condition of anonymity because the president had not yet announced the plan. It was first reported by The New York Times.

Associated Press

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