The Difference Between a Geek and a Nerd in One Graph

It's 2013. We should all know that there are clear differences between calling something a nerd and calling someone a geek. This is a fact! Slackpropagation created this nifty graph that shows the dividing line on what defines a geek and what defines a nerd. The easiest way to tell the difference? Geeks are fans of a certain subject, nerds are practitioners of that subject. But fret not, geeks can be nerds and nerds can be geeks too!

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NVIDIA unveils GeForce GTX 760, brings modern Kepler down to $249 (video)

NVIDIA has been gradually lowering the base pricing for its desktop GeForce 700 series, but few outside of the hardcore gamer set would say the $399 GTX 770 was affordable. Enter the GeForce GTX 760: the Kepler-based chipset supports all the visual effects of its faster cousins, but at a more palatable $249 target price. Although it won't rival the 770 in performance, it offers more bang for the buck than the GTX 660 it's built to replace: the GTX 760 carries more processing cores (1,152 versus 960) and more memory bandwidth (192GB/s versus 144GB/s) while maintaining similar clock speeds. It can even punch above its weight class, as it's reportedly up to 12 percent faster than the $299 GTX 660 Ti. Should that balance of price and performance sound especially sweet, you can pick up a GTX 760 board today from the likes of ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte and others. Several PC builders, such as Falcon Northwest, Maingear and Origin PC, are also equipping their machines with the new mid-tier graphics from day one.

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Curbing Drug Abuse And Illicit Trafficking | P.M. NEWS Nigeria

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By Rasak Musbau

June 26 is the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Set aside by the United Nations General Assembly in 1987, this day serves as a reminder of the goals agreed to by member states for creating an international society free of drug abuse. It aims to raise awareness of the major problems that illicit drugs present to society and at the same time, remind youths and adults not to make the mistake of experimenting with drugs.

World Health Organization defines substance abuse as ?the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive substances, including alcohol and illicit drugs?. It is estimated that at least 76.3 million people struggle with alcohol use disorders contributing to 1.8 million deaths per year. The United Nations reported that around 185 million people globally over the age of 15 were consuming drugs by the end of the 20th century.

Drug abuse (addiction) involves compulsively seeking to use a substance, regardless of the potentially negative social, psychological and physical consequences. Certain drugs, such as narcotics and cocaine, are more physically addictive than some other drugs.

One has control over the choice to start using drugs, but once addicted, the pleasurable effect of drugs makes one want to keep using them. There are lots of reasons why people take illegal drugs. Some use drugs to escape their problems while others are bored, curious or just want to feel good. People may be pressured into taking drugs to ?fit in? with a particular crowd or they may take drugs to rebel or get attention.

An addiction is not just measured by how many times a person uses a drug. Some drugs are so addictive that they may only be used once or twice before the user loses control. A person crosses the line between abuse and addiction when he is no longer trying the drug to have fun but because he has come to depend on it.

People can become addicted to illegal drugs as well as drugs prescribed by doctors. When prescription drugs are taken the right way, they are safe and there is usually little chance of addiction. However, prescription drugs can be dangerous if they are abused (for example, taking too much or taking them when they are not needed). Mothers and guardians most often administer drugs on their children? without going to health providers. This is also drug abuse. Some of the most commonly abused prescription drugs are painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs.

The more worrisome drugs being abused in our environment is marijuana, cocaine and alcohol. The drug abusers are mostly youths. This should? be a source of concern to every one of us. While casual use of marijuana exists among the affluent, it is more common among school drop-outs, homeless and unemployed and unemployable that are acutely sensitive to all sorts of criminal behaviours.

The criminal activities of the drug users at their hideouts (which are not hidden anyway) are now becoming too frequent for comfort. There are those who operate like cults, carving out their territories of influence where they intimidate, rape and rob innocent residents at will. Residents of areas such as Abisogun Leigh Street in Ogba,? Queens Drive (formerly Oyinkan Abayomi), Victoria Island, Adura field in Alagbado and ?Kuwait? located inside Gowon Estate in Egbeda know better of their harrowing experience from this group. There was a particular incident I witnessed earlier this year when a whole street had to close its entrance when there was a fight by the omo amugbos where guns were used around 8 O?clock in the morning. Some, including children fell into gutters while scrambling for safety.

Next, are forceful beggars who illegally obtain toll from motorists at alternate roads when there is traffic on the highways. There are also those who operate on the streets that one must obtain ?clearance? from when one buys a new car. If much was not achieved from ?street begging?, some do enter into mosques and churches to go and beg for money. Their tales usually range from their wives being critically ill at the hospitals, challenge to offset house rent or they are in need of money to eat.

It is important to illustrate what drugs such as marijuana do to the body and minds of the users. The smoke of marijuana is toxic. It can lead to serious disorders, including cancer. The negative effects also include confusion, acute panic reactions, anxiety attacks, fear and loss of self-control. Chronic marijuana users may develop a motivational syndrome characterized by passivity, decreased motivation, and preoccupation with taking drugs. Like alcoholic intoxication, marijuana intoxication impairs judgment, comprehension, memory, speech, problem-solving abilities. Of particular worry is the permanence of its ill-effect among people who began smoking in adolescence. Aside the smokers, every one of us, as passive smoker is a potential victim of some of the ill-effects. Yet, there is hardly any area in Nigeria free of this drug problem and the subsequent criminal behaviour of its users.

No doubt, when you give people foothold, they take a strong hold. As such the gory tale of open use of marijuana is an indictment on the part of our security operatives especially the anti-narcotic agency. The federal controlled security agency legalised this illegal drug through their own illegal act of extorting money from traders. Some of them are also criminals in uniform who smoke at same spots where criminal activities are planned and executed by hoodlums. The traditional standards and values that place additional responsibility on holders of public offices in sane society are almost nil here in Nigeria.

The police, in particular, will in the years to come have much more to do if the trend of crime and behaviour that aids drug is not given the attention it deserves now. Plainly put, our anti-drug war is still cosmetic in approach. We will be fooling ourselves if we believe we are tackling the situation by merely sensitizing people at motor parks and running jingles in the media without effectively starting the war from the production and distribution outlets. Treatment of cause should be more important than its symptoms.

In sum, anti-narcotic agencies must step up the clampdown on the production, control of the sale, distribution and use of illicit drugs.? Agencies of government saddled with national orientation and those with responsibility of curbing crimes must be up and doing. In this regard, Lagos State Government?s decision to establish Drug-Free Club and plan to include drug abuse in its school curriculum is seen as right on-spot.

As we celebrate this year?s International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking globally, the lesson for us all to learn is that breaking addiction to drug is the only way to get off the hook. It may not be easy to quit. But the efforts will be rewarded by better health, better relationships with the people in one?s life and a sense of accomplishment that only living drug-free can give. Make health your ?new high? not drugs.

?Musbau wrote from Lagos.

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Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Math

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OK. Maybe E. O. Wilson's comments in his new book, "Letters to a Young Scientist", essentially says you don't want to have to be great at math to have a career in science, but it can't hurt, right? And to be great at math, it pays to start young, and my next guest is a - has a plan for you. Laura Overdeck is the founder of Bedtime Math. Her mission: to make math friendlier in a way by introducing kids to math problems at an early age.

And here's her plan. You get your kids into their PJs. You tuck them in with a math equation on top of their bedtime story. And you can find a simple - a sample of her bedtime math puzzles on our website at sciencefriday.com/bedtimemath. Laura Overdeck is here with us. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.

LAURA OVERDECK: Hi. Thank you.

FLATOW: This is a cute little book. It's a big book. It's nice. You think you can teach math to kids while they're getting their bedtime story?

OVERDECK: Oh, I think absolutely. Where this came from was that my husband and I, we like math, and when our first child was 2, we started rolling in a little math problem with her book at night, just, you know, started with counting the ears and noses on her stuffed animals. It got tougher as she got older. We've rolled in a second child, a third child. And what we found was that, in our house by now, math is like dessert. It's a treat...

FLATOW: Is that right?

OVERDECK: It's a treat the kids want. They actually ask for their math problem at night.

FLATOW: So they didn't say, oh, mommy, you're going to read me a math problem when you first started?

(LAUGHTER)

OVERDECK: Well, no. Well, first of all, we never wrote them down. We always did them off-the-cuff...

FLATOW: Right.

OVERDECK: ...and they were based on what we had talked about at dinner or funny things that had happened that day.

FLATOW: Mm-hmm. And how did you get the idea to write the book? Did you say, I did this so many times, I should just put them all into a book and publish it?

OVERDECK: You know, it was actually that friends started hearing we were doing this and said, well, have you thought about sharing them? So, about a year ago, I rounded up 10 or 12 people in town, and I said, OK, I'm going to mail you, I'm going to email you a math problem every night. Try it with your kids and tell me what happens. And within days, people were telling me that their kids were starting to bug them for the math problem every night.

FLATOW: Mm-hmm. Give me a sample of a math problem. Give us a math problem sample.

OVERDECK: Sure. So, a couple of days ago, we did one on animals that have eight legs. And, you know, how do you walk when you have eight feet without tripping over yourself? So I actually watched a video of a crab walking to see how they do this. There's also a spider video out there. I couldn't bring myself to watch that. That was going to give me nightmares. But I watched the crab one, and there's a pattern.

The four feet on one side go one, three, two, four, and the ones on the other side do the same thing, alternating. So if the pattern is one, five, three, seven, two, six, four eight, and then you do one, five, three again, which leg takes the next step?

FLATOW: There you go.

OVERDECK: And then the bonus was which leg takes the 37th step?

(LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: For smart kids. We're talking with Laura Overdeck on SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR. Her book is "Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse to Stay Up Late." Do you think grown-ups can enjoy it, to learn something when they're reading this to their kids?

OVERDECK: Oh, sure. We actually have a whole crowd of adults who follow our website who do them as a brainteaser.

FLATOW: Mm-hmm. Do the kids fall asleep if they're thinking about a math problem? Does it get them sleepier or keep them awake?

OVERDECK: You know, I'll tell you, I have three really lively children, so if it can calm them down, it can help anybody. That might have been, actually, how we started doing it.

FLATOW: Now, is there any actual evidence that this actually helps kids be better in math once they...

OVERDECK: Well, you know, I'll tell you, there is a recent study showing that when you do learning at night, you retain it better, and this may be why the bedtime story has survived the centuries and been such a beloved institution.

We actually are doing research ourselves. We did a small study last summer with Boys & Girls Clubs in New Jersey where the kids got a fun math problem every day, and we tested them before and after the six weeks. And while most kids slide two or three months in skills over the summer, we found that 72 percent of these kids actually did better...

FLATOW: Wow.

OVERDECK: ...at the end of the summer. So we're now doing a study with the University of Chicago for the next five years to see if we can pin down what's happening.

FLATOW: Are there problems in the book for kids of all ages, as they used to say?

OVERDECK: Yes. What we do is we take topics kids love - like anteaters, snowmobiles, chocolate - and each one opens with a little story and maybe some shocking facts, and then the questions are at different levels of challenge. And what's funny is even adults like to start with the wee ones, counting on their fingers and then work their way up.

FLATOW: Do you find that people say, hey, I've got a great book - a subject for you, you ought to put it in your next book? Here's a great...

OVERDECK: Oh, absolutely. I mean, because, you know, we put out a math problem every day on the website.

FLATOW: Right.

OVERDECK: We need lots of ideas, and subscribers do send them in, which is awesome.

FLATOW: Mm-hmm. Do you have any suggestions for people who want to start this? Is there the right way and the wrong way to introduce it to your kid, or you just sit down in bed and say read from the book?

OVERDECK: You know, I think that reading from the book is one way to do it. What's really great is when parents just weave math into the daily routine, into playtime. And I think that a lot of adults have math anxiety and shy away from doing that. Then kids go off to school, and their first introduction to math is school, which is...

FLATOW: Right.

OVERDECK: ...homework and drilling. If kids can discover math before they have any preconceived notions, they're just going to be on much better footing.

FLATOW: Yeah. And if they have a teacher, maybe, who'll keep encouraging them, right?

OVERDECK: Right.

FLATOW: Kids are natural scientists. They're natural born inquisitors. They like to find out about everything, and we just don't have a way of doing it. Maybe your math book can help do that. Have - do teachers use it at all and think about it?

OVERDECK: We do have teachers using it. They say that they warm up the class with a math problem in the morning. We've heard all kinds of stories. There's a bus driver outside Chicago who actually puts the math problem up on a whiteboard on the bus every morning. And he has a bag of Oriental Trading prizes.

FLATOW: Right.

OVERDECK: And the first kid on the bus to get it gets to pull something out of the bag. So it's really a movement that's spreading.

FLATOW: That's great. Well, good luck to you in the movement and spreading that movement. Thank you for taking time to be with us today.

OVERDECK: Oh, thank you.

FLATOW: Laura Overdeck, illustrated by Jim Paillot, is that...

OVERDECK: Paillot.

FLATOW: Paillot. I'm doing the French version.

OVERDECK: I had to ask him how to say it.

(LAUGHTER)

FLATOW: Laura Overdeck with Jim Paillot illustrations, "Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse To Stay Up Late". It's really cute, nicely drawn, beautiful illustrations in there. Thanks for taking time to be with us today.

OVERDECK: OK. Thank you.

FLATOW: We're going to take a break. And when we come back, were going to Sean Carroll. He's coming with us to talk about the particles - new kind of particle that's discovered, made out of four quarks, something really mysterious, stuff we'd like to talk about on SCIENCE FRIDAY. So stay with us. We'll be right back after this break. I'm Ira Flatow. This is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR.

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Super full moon shines brightly this weekend

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A "supermoon" rises this weekend.

The biggest and brightest full moon of the year graces the sky early Sunday as our celestial neighbor swings closer to Earth than usual.

While the moon will appear 14 percent larger normal, skywatchers won't be able to notice the difference with the naked eye. Still, astronomers say it's worth looking up and appreciating the cosmos.

"It gets people out there looking at the moon, and might make a few more people aware that there's interesting stuff going on in the night sky," Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory said in an email.

Some viewers may think the supermoon looks more dazzling but it's actually an optical illusion. The moon looms larger on the horizon next to trees and buildings.

The moon will come within 222,000 miles of Earth and turn full around 7:30 a.m. EDT, making it the best time to view.

As in any supermoon event, high tides are forecast because of the moon's proximity, but the effect is expected to be small.

Forget about the myths that swirl every time a supermoon appears. There's no link to higher crime or bizarre behavior. Scientists say that's just lunacy.

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How crime films try to keep up with real drama

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The day before Lifetime began filming "Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret," its true crime movie about the Jodi Arias case, the now-convicted murderer shocked everyone by taking the stand at her trial. As Arias regaled the jury and public for 18 days with the minute details of her life and intimate relationship with Travis Alexander, the ex-boyfriend she killed, the movie's writers realized they could no longer end their story as they'd planned -- in a police interrogation room with Arias denying she'd even been at the scene.

As real life played out in a Mesa, Ariz., courtroom, it "was just too dramatic," to gloss over, said Arturo Interian, vice president of original movies for Lifetime Networks and A&E Networks. "To have [prosecutor] Juan Martinez suddenly becoming a hero in the public's eyes. And Jodi, now the villain of villains, going at it with Juan on the stand for multiple days?she was lying; he didn?t believe a word. He's nailing her and confronting her on her contradictions. You could not stop watching that. There's no way we could leave it out."

What to include and exclude in a true crime movie can be tricky business, especially when the case is not over. Legally, writers, producers and executives are bound by some of the facts as they reveal themselves in court but that doesn't mean that a movie has to wait to be made until all is said and done or that writers can't fill in the blanks. It depends on the point of the view the film is taking.

Lifetime's Arias film premieres Saturday at 8 p.m. -- the network began developing the movie 15 months ago, when no one expected the trial to last as long as it did or for the defendant to spend as much time trying to sell her self-defense claims. It put Jace Alexander, who was directing his first true crime movie, in the position of balancing artistic license with a story that was playing out in front of the world and simultaneously impacting real people. Her conviction meant that legally, producers could show her killing Alexander; without it, they would have had to focus on their rocky relationship and leave the conclusions to the audience.

"We are taking moments where no one knows or had access to the private closed-door moments of these people and imagining ourselves what happened," said Alexander who is not related to the victim. ?The minute that happens, we can't be held accountable for what other people think might be the truth. But there were a lot of facts we were privy to and we were faithful to those facts. Although I have nothing but the most respect for these people who have been living through this horrible tragedy, at the same time, we had to construct a narrative that may or may not sit well with them."

It was a first for Alexander but not for a network that built its brand when it seized on a gap left by the broadcast networks when they stopped making made-for-TV movies. Writer Teena Booth, who has written about 30 non-fiction movies, including Lifetime?s second biggest true crime hit, ?Drew Peterson: Untouchable,? says real life can get in the way of telling the story?even when the case is long over.

When she was writing a Lifetime movie that aired in 2008 about the murder of Las Vegas casino magnate Ted Binion, the court overturned the conviction of his girlfriend, Sandra Murphy, sending Booth into frantic re-write mode because she could no longer show Murphy killing Binion. Last year, as she wrote ?Fatal Honeymoon,? about Tina Watson, the newlywed wife who died while diving on her Australian honeymoon, the case against her husband was dismissed, though he had pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Australia.

?Those are real hair pullers,? Booth said. ?You can lose sleep. I am very committed to telling the truth as I understand it and what my research is showing. About 95% of the stories are pretty clear?you?re pretty sure that Jodi Arias did that. With Drew Peterson, I never had a doubt in my mind even though we were making the movie before he was convicted. But something like the Watson case is very ambiguous and there are many passionate conversations along the way with the network, producers and directors. Everyone wants to do the right thing and we also want to make a good movie.?

As a true crime writer, Booth researches her cases and follows a storytelling formula but her job is to dig beyond the facts and address a question that often is left answered in court?why? Trial watchers can surmise, for example, that Arias acted out in a jealous rage or that Peterson felt he owned his wife, but no one will ever know unless the murderers decide to reveal it. When preparing for a script, Booth reads whatever material she can find, but she also travels to where the crime occurred and interviews people who know the major players.

?My job is to understand the emotional content,? she said. ?I want to know who this person was. I feel a huge sense of responsibility toward the people I talk to because they?re sitting there telling me some of the most awful moments of their life, some of the most terrible things that have ever happened to them.?

Booth said she?s relieved not to have been charged with writing the Jodi Arias story because some stories ?are too upsetting too tackle.? When she wrote ?Amish Grace? for Lifetime about the 2006 Amish school shooting in Pennyslvania, Booth said she was on ?an emotional tear? for two months because it involved small children.

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Rob Lowe starred in Lifetime's "Drew Peterson: Untouched," the network's second biggest true crime drama.

?Drew Peterson was a larger-than-life figure,? she said. ?You could keep a certain emotional distance from him because he?s like a clown. But Jodi Arias, there?s something more disturbing about her. She has this really dark side. It gives you a little bit of the creeps.?

At times, the horror of Arias' actions also got to Alexander who knew nothing about the case when he decided to direct his first Lifetime movie. The director opted to show the extreme violent nature of Arias? actions in spite of how difficult they are to even fathom because of what the horror reveals about the woman behind it.

?This man was brutally murdered and he shouldn?t have been and there are some deep emotions because of that,? Alexander said. ?There were 29 stab wounds and a gunshot and I felt it would be dishonest for me to just clip that and move forward. I want to show that it?s not OK. It?s hard for me to watch. I want people to watch this movie but you may need to cover your eyes a little bit.?

Those who followed the trial won?t be surprised by the gruesomeness of the murder, but critics have questioned whether Lifetime should be airing the movie so soon after the trial ended, especially because the sentencing portion has to be redone and the victim?s family will have to live through it again.

?When a story is as exposed in the public as this one, I feel like it?s open for people to interpret an artistic approach to these people because they are now in the public eye,? Alexander said. ?Whether that is fair or not, I?m still wrestling with. And believe me, I feel it. I?m not entirely comfortable with it at all.?

Booth said she?s never received a single complaint; in fact, often the families of the victims thank her for telling their story. ?I?ve never had a family come at me and say that it was horrible and they feel exploited,? she said. ?If that did happen, it would hurt. I would feel terrible.?

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Spears will premiere the 'Smurfs 2' track on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS FM radio show on Monday.
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Wainwright first to 10 wins; Cards edge Mets

By RONALD BLUM

AP Sports Writer

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updated 6:39 p.m. ET June 13, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) - Adam Wainwright used to be a creature of routine leading up to each start.

"Same sleeping shirt the night before," the St. Louis Cardinals ace said. "I couldn't wear blue jeans. I had to wear the color red. Are you kidding me? It was ridiculous. If I didn't have any of that, or worse, if something was thrown off, then instantly I was thinking, `Oh, man, I'm in trouble.' And that's ridiculous. It has nothing to do with getting anyone out. I figured that out somewhere along the line."

With rain falling in the morning and clashing forecasts for the afternoon, Wainwright wasn't sure whether he'd pitch at all Thursday.

Cardinals manager Mike Matheny told him about 80 minutes before start time to get ready, so Wainwright shortened his pregame routine and then pitched seven scoreless innings to become the major leagues' first 10-game winner. In a classic pitching matchup, his 2-1 victory over the New York Mets sent Matt Harvey to his first loss of the season.

"We had two Cy Young candidates going at each other," said Matt Carpenter, who tripled in the go-ahead run in the third and preserved the lead with a sparkling stop at second base in the ninth.

Some forecasts had predicted up to 3 inches of rain.

"Two days ago, they were talking about we were going to need to build an ark," Matheny said. "That's tough on the starting pitcher. As he's walking through here an hour-and-a-half before the game, he's completely out of his routine because he's hearing conflicting stories of what's going to happen with weather. But he got his mind together and got into an abbreviated version of his routine and went out and executed."

After expecting a rain delay, Wainwright did his preparation and warmup - "kind of a ground routine; it's not gymnastics, it's just stretching" - in the clubhouse instead of on the field.

"My whole normal pregame routine was kind of thrown out the window," he said.

Wainwright (10-3) retired his first 11 batters before David Wright's single and allowed four hits, struck out six and walked two - including an intentional pass that caused the Mets to pinch hit for Harvey in the seventh. He tied his career best by winning his fifth straight start, dropped his ERA to 2.18 and got his 1,000th strikeout when Wright was called out on a first-inning curveball.

"It wasn't much fun to be an offensive player today," Wright said.

Known best in New York for freezing Carlos Beltran with a called third strike to end Game 7 of the 2006 NL championship series, Wainwright had been 0-4 with an 8.46 ERA in four starts against the Mets since his only career win against them, in St. Louis on April 18, 2010.

"I had everybody in the world tell me I had never beat the Mets at their stadium, so it was something I wanted to do," Wainwright said.

Trevor Rosenthal pitched the eighth, and Edward Mujica allowed a long home run to Marlon Byrd with one out in the ninth. John Buck doubled and took third as Kirk Nieuwenhuis grounded to Carpenter, who made a diving backhand stop as he fell and threw to first for the out.

"When it was hit, I thought he had a good chance of getting a base hit up the middle." Carpenter said.

Josh Satin fouled off two full-count pitches and swung over a splitter as Mujica remained perfect in 19 save chances.

Harvey (5-1) had given up one run and five hits in seven innings with seven strikeouts and a walk, ending a 14-start unbeaten streak dating to Sept. 12 but lowering his ERA to 2.04.

"He's as good as you're going to face in the big leagues," Carpenter said. "He's got electric stuff. `'

Harvey had no-decisions in eight of his previous nine starts, and the Mets have scored just 18 runs while he's been in the game during his last 10 outings, according to STATS.

"If I go seven zeros, we're still playing the ballgame." Harvey said. "It's an incredible lineup. You really have to be locked in one through nine."

St. Louis went ahead in the third when Pete Kozma hit an opposite-field single to right for the first hit of the game and Carpenter tripled past Byrd, who tried for a sprawling catch in right but allowed the ball to bounce past him.

New York's bullpen gave up a run in the eighth, when Carpenter and Beltran singled off Scott Rice, and Matt Holliday and Allen Craig singled against LaTroy Hawkins.

A day of dazzling defense included Craig's diving stop at first base in the eighth to rob Omar Quintanilla of a hit, two nifty pickups by Daniel Descalso on slow rollers to third in the seventh and a pair of challenging catches by center fielder John Jay. He ran to the warning track for Lucas Duda's two-out drive with a runner on second in the fourth and nabbed a wind-blown drive by Jordany Valdespin leading off the sixth.

"Our guys played a flawless game," Wainwright said.

Next month, Wainwright and Harvey could find themselves in the same clubhouse at Citi Field - on the NL All-Star team.

"That's a long time from now," Wainwright said. "I've got to get a lot of different hitters out before I start worrying about All-Star hitters."

NOTES: St. Louis took two of three in the series and improved the big leagues' best record to 43-23. ... Craig has 49 RBIs. ... Kozma had three of the Cardinals' 10 hits.

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Pa. girl who took on donor rules gets new lungs

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? A 10-year-old girl whose efforts to qualify for an organ donation drew public debate over how organs are allocated was getting a lung transplant Wednesday, her family said.

Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from severe cystic fibrosis, was receiving her new lungs Wednesday at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, a family spokeswoman said.

Her health was deteriorating when a federal judge intervened last week, giving her a chance at the much larger list of organs from adult donors.

It wasn't immediately clear if the girl was getting lungs from an adult or child donor. A hospital spokeswoman, Dana Mortensen, said she had no information to release and would not confirm if Murnaghan was getting a transplant.

Murnaghan's mother, Janet, said in a Facebook post that the family was "overwhelmed with emotions" and thanked all her supporters.

"Today is the start of Sarah's new beginning and new life!" she wrote, adding that the donor's family "has experienced a tremendous loss, may God grant them a peace that surpasses understanding."

A double lung transplant can take six to 12 hours, and Murnaghan's surgery began around noon Wednesday. Surgeons must open up the patient's chest, and complications can include rejection of the new lung and infection.

Murnaghan's family and the family of another cystic fibrosis patient at the same hospital challenged existing transplant policy that made children under 12 wait for pediatric lungs to become available or be offered lungs donated by adults only after adolescents and adults on the waiting list had been considered. They said pediatric lungs are rarely donated.

On June 5, federal Judge Michael Baylson in Philadelphia ruled that Murnaghan of Newtown Square, Pa., and 11-year-old Javier Acosta of New York City should be eligible for adult lungs.

The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network says 31 children under age 11 are on the waiting list for a lung transplant.

The network added Murnaghan to the adult waiting list after Baylson's ruling. Her transplant comes just two days before a hearing was scheduled on the family's request for a broader injunction.

Critics warn there could be a downside to having judges intervene in the organ transplant system's established procedures. Lung transplants are difficult procedures and some say child patients tend to have more trouble with them than adults.

The national organization that manages organ transplants this week resisted making emergency rule changes for children under 12 who are waiting on lungs but created a special appeal and review system to hear such cases.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pa-girl-took-donor-rules-gets-lungs-164524353.html

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17 Incredible Photos From the Dawn of California's Electrical Age

Los Angeles is inextricably bound to the advent of electricity in American cities?it might technically be the city of angels, but it?s really the city of lights. And lucky for us, the transformation of LA from a dark backwater to radiant city of lights was widely documented.

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These Portable Speakers Are Your Go-Outside-It's-Summer Deal of the Day

You're about to spend a couple glorious months outside in the sun, and the easiest way to bring your tunes beyond the reach of a power outlet is a portable Bluetooth speaker. Good thing that both Jawbone Jamboxes just got an across-the-board price cut.

There are a lot of Bluetooth speakers crowding the market, and the venerable Jambox line is now almost three years old, so it would make sense that it's in line for a permanent price cut. Sure, there are other?potentially superior?options, but if you're looking for the "standard," you can't go wrong with the Jambox or its larger brother, the Big Jambox.

Jambox prices fluctuate regularly, but right now the original Jambox is $130?tied for the historical low, and the Big Jambox is $250. If you were to run into Best Buy on your way to the shore, you'd probably pay the MSRP. [Amazon]

Top Deals

? Big Jambox ($250) | Amazon and elsewhere | Originally $300

? Jambox ($130) | Red | Blue | Black | Grey | Amazon | Originally $200, street price $150

Staples has discounted iTunes money. You might even say you get $10 free iTunes dollars when you buy $40 staples.com/iTunes-Gift-Ca?

? dealzmodo (@dealzmodo) June 3, 2013

Need Memory?

Amazon's Gold Box deal today is on a variety of SanDisk memory cards. Don't buy the hype?there isn't a single product thats "60% off," but a lot of really nice memory options are at or close to their lowest historical price. Of note: Sandisk's Ultra MicroSD, named by Wirecutter as their favorite Micro SD card, is $43 for 64GB, which is a great price. Get it if you wanna add some storage space to your Android phone. Also, regular-sized SD cards, SSDs, and flash drives. [Amazon]

Accessories

? 8GB Kingston Flash Drive ($5) | Best Buy via Deals Kinja | Originally $10

? 3-Pack Generic Lightning Cables ($6) | iTechDeals via Deals Kinja

? Logitech K310 ($15) | Originally $25

? WD My Net N900 HD Dual-Band Gigabit Router ($60) | Staples via Deals Kinja | Originally $80

Miscellaneous

? Wall Outlet w/ USB Ports ($17) | Amazon via Deals Kinja | Originally $20

? EVGA GTX 680 Signature ($450) | Newegg via Hard Forum | Originally $500 | MIR on page

? 20% off CVS | CVS via Brand Name Coupons | Use coupon code 20SITEWIDE

Gaming

PC

? Singularity [Steam] ($7) | Amazon via Daily Game Deals

? The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct [Steam] ($40) | Amazon via Dealzon | Normally $50

? Alan Wake + DLC + American Nightmare ($4) | Steam

? Grand Theft Auto Trilogy [Mac] ($10) | Mac Game Store via 9to5Toys

Xbox

? 4 mo Xbox Live + 1500 Points ($15) | Best Buy via Deals Kinja | Originally $20

? Borderlands 2 ($28) | Amazon via Daily Game Deals

? Arkham City GOTY ($15) | Amazon via Ben's Bargains

? GTA IV Complete ($40) | Amazon via Daily Game Deals

? Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 ($40) | Amazon via Daily Game Deals

? Buy 2 Select Games Get 1 Free | Best Buy | Choices include Portal 2 and Dead Island GOTY

PS3

? Borderlands 2 ($28) | Best Buy via Daily Game Deals

? Starhawk ($13) | Amazon via Daily Game Deals

? The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct ($30) | Amazon | Normally $50

Clothing

? Levis 514 Rigid ($20) | Urban Outfitters via Reddit | Originally $60

Dumb TV ? Smart TV

Nah.

Physical Media

? The Complete Star Wars on Blu-ray ($70) | Best Buy via Fatwallet | Originally $130

? Terminator 1+2+3+Salvation [Blu-ray] ($26) | Amazon via Daily DVD Deals

? Amazon has a collection of Criterion Blu-rays at 50% off, which is a rare discount.

Wanna rent a free game from Redbox? Text TOMB to 727272

? dealzmodo (@dealzmodo) June 3, 2013

Digital Media

? FREE Warped Tour '13 15 Song Sampler | Amazon via Deals

Laptops

? 15.6" Cheap Asus Laptop ($280) | Groupon via Dealzon | Originally $400

Desktops

Nope.

Tablets

$20 off any Kindle Fire HD with the code DADSFIRE, which as coupon codes go, is pretty hilarious. [Amazon]

Screens

? 24" LG 1080p Monitor ($135) | Newegg via Tech Deal Digger | Originally $175 | Use coupon code EMCXRTW49

? 55" Samsung LED HDTV ($1000) | Sears via Tech Deal Digger | Originally $1200

Portables

Nope.

Camera

Nikon just announced a bunch of "instant" rebates for June. The rebates are available at a variety of retailers, including B&H Photo and Amazon. Basically, if you buy a qualifying Nikon DLSR, you can get between $100-$300 off some pretty sweet lenses. There's a bunch of Nikon deals to parse, but the least expensive qualifying camera is the venerable D3100?which could mean cheap D3100s on Ebay in the coming weeks. [Amazon via Nikon Rumors]

Bare Drives

? 240GB Sandisk Extreme SSD ($150) | Amazon via Gizmodo | Originally $190

Apps

iOS

? Taptalk ($1) | iTunes via Appshopper | Originally $3

? Star Wars Pinball ($1) | iTunes via Appshopper | Originally $2

? Wake Alarm ($1) | iTunes via Appshopper | Originally $2

? Dexter the Game 2 ($1) | iTunes via Appshopper | Originally $3

iPad Only

? Real Piano HD Pro ($0) | iTunes via Appshopper | Originally $3

? Cut The Rope: Time Travel HD ($2) | iTunes via Appshopper | Originally $3

Android

? Chopper Mike ($1) | Google Play via App-sales | Originally $3

? Pac-Man Championship ($2) | Google Play via App-sales | Originally $4

? Final Fantasy III [Kindle] ($8) | Amazon via apps-aholic | Normally $15

Hobomodo

? Free Pet Safety Kit ($0) | ASCPA via Reddit

Keep up with Kif Leswing on Kinja and Twitter. Check out The Moneysaver for more great tech deals, and deals.kinja.com for even more discounts.

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Iran police detain aides of presidential candidate

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Iranian police have arrested several people campaigning for a reformist candidate in this month's presidential election, an aide said Sunday, as a senior official pledged to impose ideological limitations on the race.

Police picked up several supporters of candidate Hasan Rowhani after he delivered a speech Saturday night, his campaign manager, Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh, told the semiofficial Mehr news agency.

"Some people were detained on the street after leaving the meeting," he said.

The June 14 election is to choose a replacement for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who cannot run for a third term. Authorities have already pared down the list of candidates to eight, disqualifying Ahmadinejad's top aide and a former president who could have galvanized opposition to the harsh clerical system.

That was a clear indication that Iran's rulers did not want an open contest that could end up in a disputed outcome of the type that set off widespread riots when Ahmadinejad was re-elected in 2009.

On Sunday, after the arrests, a top official warned that Rowhani and others would be limited in their election drive.

"Police will confront individuals who have counter-revolutionary behavior" during campaigning, said the Iranian police chief, Gen. Ismail Moghadam, according to the police website. "It is natural that police have carried out their tasks."

An exile-based Iranian opposition website reported that authorities arrested at least seven people who attended Rowhani's campaign appearance.

It said the arrests were made after participants chanted slogans calling for the release of Mir Hossein Mousavi, an opposition leader and candidate in the disputed 2009 election, who has been under house arrest for more than two years.

A council of advisers to influential former reformist President Mohammad Khatami has urged Rowhani to unite with the other major reform-leaning candidate, Mohamed Reza Aref.

A statement on Khatami's personal website expressed hope that the two could form a "united front" to field a single nominee.

Nematzadeh, Rowhani's spokesman, said the two candidates have not met to discuss the possibility.

Aref's star has been rising since his performance in a Friday debate of the eight candidates, restoring some energy to the reform movement after their main candidate, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was disqualified.

Also Sunday, four aides to another candidate, Saeed Jalili, were injured in a road accident. Jalili, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, is considered a front-runner in the campaign. The accident happened on the way to the city of Ghazvin, about 120 kilometers (70 miles) west of Tehran. Jalili was in a different vehicle and was not hurt.

Iran is among the world's leaders in the number of road accidents per capita. More than 20,000 people are killed on the roads there every year.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-police-detain-aides-presidential-candidate-145816006.html

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Syrian rebels need heavy weapons, McCain says

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Syrian rebels battling the forces of President Bashar Assad must receive ammunition and heavy weapons to counter the regime's tanks and aircraft or it will be impossible for them to prevail, Sen. John McCain said days after he quietly slipped into Syria to meet with the opposition.

"They just can't fight tanks with AK-47s," McCain said Friday in a telephone interview.

The Republican lawmaker and 2008 presidential candidate made an unannounced visit to Syria on Monday, traveling across the border near Kilis, Turkey, and spending about two hours meeting with rebel leaders. McCain has been one of the most vocal lawmakers demanding aggressive U.S. military action in the 2-year-old Syrian civil war, calling for establishment of a no-fly zone and arming the rebels.

The Obama administration has been reluctant to provide weapons to the disparate opposition, fearing that they will fall into the wrong hands in a volatile region. McCain said he discussed what types of weapons the rebels need and whether they could ensure their control.

"I'm confident that they could get the weapons into the right hands and there's no doubt that they need some kind of capability to reverse the battlefield situation, which right now is in favor of Assad," McCain said.

McCain, a member of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, was the first U.S. senator to travel to Syria since the civil war began more than two years ago. He said he worked with Deputy Secretary of State William Burns in arranging the trip.

McCain said he spoke with Secretary of State John Kerry "a couple of times. It wasn't that I was hiding it from him; it just didn't seem to come up. I thought Burns was the right guy to go through. They were very important in the trip. We couldn't have done it without their cooperation."

Gen. Salim Idris, chief of the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army, accompanied McCain and they met with 19 battalion commanders.

Citing the photo of McCain's meeting, a Lebanese newspaper has reported that McCain unwittingly crossed paths with two men connected to a rebel group responsible for the kidnapping of 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims in 2012. McCain said one of the men he reportedly met with is dead and no one in his meeting was identified as the other.

"The people I met with and talked to directly were well-vetted. Their names and their duties were outlined to me. They came from all over Syria," he said.

Two years of violence in Syria have killed more than 70,000 people, according to the United Nations. President Barack Obama has demanded that Assad give up power, while Russia has stood by Syria, its closest ally in the Arab world. Russian officials have said they will support anti-aircraft systems to Syria, and Assad suggested on Thursday that he had received the first shipment.

The United States and Russia are trying to get the Syrian government and opposition forces into peace negotiations. Those talks, initially planned for Geneva next month, have been delayed until July at the earliest.

"It's hard to imagine Bashar Assad negotiating his departure when he has the upper hand on the battlefield," McCain said. "I'm all for a conference, but I think that conference should take place when Bashar Assad knows that he is doomed to defeat if he doesn't negotiate."

Last week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to provide weapons to rebels in Syria, as well as military training to vetted rebel groups and sanctions against anyone who sells oil or transfers arms to the Assad regime.

The European Union decided late Monday to lift the arms embargo on the Syrian opposition while maintaining all other sanctions against Assad's regime after June 1, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mccain-syrian-rebels-heavy-weapons-190000613.html

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