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On Friday?s ?Special Report? on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized President Barack Obama?s speech on Wednesday at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

The speech was sparsely attended compared to the speech Obama had made at the same venue back in 2008 during his first presidential election campaign. And as part of the ?All-Star Panel? Friday ?Lightning Round? segment, Krauthammer won the privilege of posing the question to his colleagues on how to define the speech.

?Obama gave a speech in Germany this week,? Krauthammer said. ?Was it a) a stirring defense of the United States and the concept of liberty, like Reagan and Kennedy; b) a mediocre mush of platitudes; c) ?the worst presidential speech on foreign affairs in memory; or d) ?self-indulgent, anachronistic and adolescent??

The Hill?s A.B. Stoddard replied ?b? and National Review?s Rich Lowry replied ?d.?

But Krauthammer said it was both ?c? and ?d? in his answer.

?It doesn?t even reach the level of mush,? he said. ?C is the correct answer ? yes, to be harsh, absolutely ? and d, empty, self-indulgent, anachronistic and adolescent.?

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Ask Engadget: best starter camera for an 11 year old?

We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from Diego, who wants to give his son the gateway drug into photography. If you're looking to ask one of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.

"I'm an amateur photographer, and my 10-year-old son has started to show an interest in what I do on weekends. I've shown him a thing or two on my DSLR and he wants to learn the basics, but I'd prefer it if he didn't do it on my $1,500 rig. His birthday's coming up, and I'd like to get him something that he can use for himself, that lets him customize ISO, white balance, aperture etc. Naturally, I was thinking of just a regular compact camera, but if you can suggest something else that won't break the bank, I'll gladly listen. Thanks!"

So, we turned this question over to one of our photo experts, who suggested that really, if you've got the budget for it, you might as well pick up a very old, very cheap DSLR. For instance, you can pick up an old Canon Rebel XT for around $200, and while it won't be shiny and new, will let them play with features and settings beyond the average compact camera. But what do we know, eh? This is the part of the weekend where we poll our community for their sage wisdom, so have at it, chums.

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Brooke Anderson Expecting Second Child

The Entertainment Tonight correspondent and her husband Jim Walker are expecting their second child in late November, Anderson announced Friday on her website.

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Dakar Fashion Week targets city's working class

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ? Organizers of Dakar Fashion Week have staged a show in a working-class suburb as part of a bid to democratize high fashion.

The show on Friday night attracted thousands of residents, who offered vocal, real-time assessments of the clothes on display while cheering loudly for the more famous models.

Organizer Adama Ndiaye, who launched Dakar Fashion Week 11 years ago, said she hoped the project would further her dream of making high fashion as accessible to the working-class as it is for the wealthy.

The show was part of a six-day event featuring 18 designers, seven from Senegal and others from as far away as Germany and Brazil. Shows were scheduled to be held in three different locations throughout Dakar.

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Robert Duvall stops in on 'Whitey' Bulger trial

BOSTON (AP) ? Academy Award winner Robert Duvall is one of the spectators at the racketeering trial of reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger.

Duvall sat in the back of the Boston courtroom Friday.

The 82-year-old Duvall has had a long TV and film career, including starring roles in "The Godfather" and "The Godfather: Part II." In those mob epics, he played Tom Hagen, a lawyer and adviser to the Corleone family.

He won a best actor Oscar in 1984 for his role in "Tender Mercies."

He has been shooting a movie, "The Judge," in Shelburne, Mass., this month. Duvall plays the title character in the film, which also stars Robert Downey Jr., Billy Bob Thornton and Vincent D'Onofrio.

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Lost Maya city found in Mexican jungle

Scientists have discovered what was once likely a prominent city in the booming Mayan empire.

By Elizabeth Barber,?Contributor / June 21, 2013

A National Institute of Anthropology and History worker shows the remains of a building at the newly discovered ancient Maya city Chactun in Yucatan peninsula.

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Just weeks after a similar find was made in Cambodia, archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Maya city that been hidden for hundreds of years in the Yucatan?s jungle-covered Campeche province, a find that researchers said could tell us more about how the advanced, still mysterious empire presided over its vast lands at its height.

The abandoned city, called Chactun, is one of the largest ever found in Mexico?s Yucatan peninsula, teeming with some 30,000 or 40,000 people during the late Classic period of Maya civilization between 600 and 900 AD, after which year the civilization spun into decline. That would have made it somewhat smaller than Tikal, the fabled Mayan city once home to some 90,000 in what is now Guatemala, Reuters reported.

"It is one of the largest sites in the Central Lowlands, comparable in its extent and the magnitude of its buildings with Becan, Nadzcaan and El Palmar in Campeche," said archaeologist Ivan Sprajc in a statement from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, translated from Spanish by LiveScience.

The city was recently spotted in aerial photographs that had been snapped some 15 years ago by the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity. A team of archeologists then spent about three weeks cutting a 10-mile path into the opaque jungle to reach the site marked on their aerial map.

So far, the archeologists have found in the 54-acre stretch some 15 pyramids, one of which is about 75 feet tall, as well as ball courts that indicate the city was likely a prominent one in the empire. Researchers hope that in studying the features of Chactun they will better understand the relationship between the Mayan empire?s various cities, as well as learn more about the civilization?s stunning decline after centuries of cultural ingenuity and territorial expansion, Reuters said.

The Maya civilization was one of the great civilizations that controlled then pre-Columbian rolling jungles of Central America and whose collapse has become an almost mythologized piece of modern lore. At its peak, the Mayans presided over the entire Yucatan, as well as over Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Scientists believe that a combination of population growth and climate change might have pushed the civilization under.

The discovery of the Mayan city comes just days after an announcement from half-a-world-over that Cambodia's Khmer Empire may have been laid out in a carefully coordinated urban plan, rather than as a loosely organized collection of population centers. That ancient civilization - which left behind the tales of Cambodia's mythical origins recorded on its sky-grazing stone temples - is also thought to have been brought to its knees from a combination of environmental degradation and population growth.

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Women's facial features can determine length of relationship

June 20, 2013 ? Men in relationships prefer women with more feminine faces for a fling.

This is one of the findings of Anthony Little from the University of Stirling and Benedict Jones from the University of Glasgow that will be published in the British Journal of Psychology today, Friday 21 June 2013.

The study investigated whether considering partners for long-term or short-term relationships would affect men's preference for different women's faces.

One of the experiments was conducted online with 393 heterosexual men. From this group 207 stated they had a current partner. Participants were shown 10 paired images of pictures of women and in each pair of composite images one had been further transformed to possess masculine traits and the other feminine traits.

The men were asked to rate which of each pair they found most attractive indicating the most attractive for short term relationships and long term relationships.

The results showed that men in relationships were more likely to find women with feminine faces most attractive when they were looking for a short-term relationship.

Anthony explained: "It's interesting that these findings are comparable to previous research that indicates women's preference for masculine male faces are higher if they were judging for short-term relationships. Our findings point to a similar preference in men. When they already have a partner, men find more feminine women more attractive for short-term relationships.

"There are several possible explanations; perhaps some men are inclined to take a long-term partner whilst still attempting to cheat with other, more feminine, women. Or maybe once a long-term partner is secured, the potential cost of being discovered may increase a man's choosiness regarding short-term partners relative to unpartnered men."

"In another part of the study we also showed that men who think themselves attractive have stronger preferences for femininity than those who think themselves less attractive. Again, this effect appears similar to an effect seen in women, whereby attractive women are choosier in their preferences for men. Across the two studies attractive men were found to be more discriminating in their preferences for a woman's facial femininity."

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A look at the jurors for George Zimmerman's trial

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) ? The six women picked Thursday to serve on the jury in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial come from different backgrounds and they have varying knowledge about the case involving the former neighborhood watch volunteer who claims self-defense in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

Here are some details they shared during two weeks of jury selection. Their names will be released sometime after the trial, which could last two weeks to a month after opening statements on Monday.

Race and ethnicity have played a prominent role in the case. While the court did not release the racial makeup of the jury, the panel appeared to reporters covering jury selection to be made up of five white women and a sixth who may be Hispanic.

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B-51 is retired, not married and doesn't have kids. She has lived in Seminole County for nine years. She has worked in real estate and run a call center where she said she had experience resolving conflicts. When asked if Zimmerman did something wrong by following Martin instead of waiting for police, she said: "Yeah, I guess he did do something wrong."

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B-29 recently moved to central Florida from Chicago. She enjoys watching the "Real Housewives" on television and works as a nurse on an Alzheimer's section of a nursing home. She said she hadn't paid much attention to the shooting. She said she has been arrested, but her case was disposed of. It's not clear why she was arrested or exactly what happened to her case, though she said she was treated fairly. She is married and has several children. A prosecutor described her as "black or Hispanic" during jury selection.

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B-76 is a white woman who has lived in central Florida for 18 years. She manages rental properties with her husband of 30 years. She has two adult children, including one who is an attorney. She is involved with rescuing animals in her free time. During jury selection, she said she had been the victim of a nonviolent crime. "Everyone deserves a fair trial," she said.

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B-37 is a white woman who volunteers rescuing animals. She is married to an attorney and has two adult children. She said she and her husband used to have concealed weapons permits. During the last round of questioning, she said she had an issue with the type of weapons people are allowed to carry. She also thought weapons' training was inadequate for people seeking permits. "It should become harder," she said.

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E-6 is a white woman who is married and has two children. She has worked in financial services and has lived in Seminole County for two years. She is active in her church and involved with her children's school. During jury selection, she said she didn't know the facts of the case well.

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E-40 is a white woman who works as a safety officer and recently moved to Seminole County from Iowa. She describes herself as a football fan. During jury selection, she said she had been the victim of a nonviolent crime.

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Light and nanoprobes detect early signs of infection

June 20, 2013 ? Duke University biomedical engineers and genome researchers have developed a proof-of-principle approach using light to detect infections before patients show symptoms.

The approach was demonstrated in human samples, and researchers are now developing the technique for placement on a chip, which could provide fast, simple and reliable information about a patient. A diagnostic device based on this chip also could be made portable.

The researchers developed a silver-based nanoparticle that homes in on a specific molecular marker that spills into the bloodstream at the first stages of an infection. When light is aimed at the sample, the nanoparticle attached to a molecular marker will reflect a distinct optical fingerprint.

"We have demonstrated for the first time that the use of these nanoprobes can detect specific genetic materials taken from human samples," said Tuan Vo-Dinh, the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke' Pratt School of Engineering and director of The Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics at Duke. He is also a professor of chemistry.

The results of the Duke experiments appear online in the journal Analytica Chimica Acta. Hsin-Neng Wang, a post-doctoral fellow in Vo-Dinh's laboratory, was the first author of the paper.

In this interdisciplinary project, the Vo-Dinh team collaborated closely with scientists at Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) who have developed a method of measuring the host's response to infection through RNA profiling.

The research is supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Projects Agency, the Department of Defense and the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation.

In the Duke experiments, the nanoprobes are used in conjunction with a phenomenon first described in the 1970s known as surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). When light, usually from a laser, is shined on a sample, the target molecule vibrates and scatters back in its own unique light, often referred to as the Raman scatter. However, this Raman response is extremely weak.

"When the target molecule is coupled with a metal nanoparticle or nanostructure, the Raman response is greatly enhanced by the SERS effect -- often by more than a million times," said Vo-Dinh, who has been studying the potential applications of SERS for decades.

"This important proof-of-concept study now paves the way for the development of devices that measure multiple genome-derived markers that will assist with more accurate and rapid diagnosis of infectious disease at the point of care," said Geoffrey Ginsburg, director of genomic medicine at the IGSP, executive director of the Center for Personalized Medicine at Duke Medicine, and a professor of medicine and pathology.

"This would guide care decisions that will lead to more effective treatment and improved outcomes of antimicrobial therapy," Ginsburg said. "Point-of-care diagnostics holds great promise to accelerate precision medicine and, more importantly, help patients in limited-resource settings gain access to molecular testing."

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Microsoft's New 'Xbox One' Can Measure Heart Rate | HealthWorks ...

(Editor's note: Dan Munro writes for Forbes.com under the heading "HealthCare Compass")

To be clear,?Microsoft??made?no official healthcare announcement today. At least none that I?m aware of.?They?did, however,?announce their latest home entertainment console ? the new Xbox One (pictured above) ? and that?does make for some really interesting speculation on the intersection?of home entertainment and?home health.?That intersection hasn?t arrived ? but it?s definitely coming and it?s likely to get here a lot sooner than we realize.

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Microsoft promises the Xbox One will be more than just a game console, but a "living room" with a TV tuner and cable box. Users will be able to switch between watching TV and gaming instantly through the Kinect device.

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The press event was carefully orchestrated on Microsoft?s Redmond campus inside a specially built tent. From that vantage point ? I was able to follow the?live events onstage as?recorded by fellow Forbes Contributor?Matt Hickey(h/t and thanks to Matt!).?Using the?coveritlive.com?service (recorded here)?Matt provided?live text updates throughout the main event.

By all accounts, it was fairly standard stuff ? although the anticipation has been building for months.?The long awaited announcement. The official unveiling of?the new console. Lot?s of demos and descriptions around its sleek new capabilities wrapped inside a whole new hardware box. I?m not?really a gamer, so there was only a few hints of excitement for our home setup:

* A more seamless switch between games and live TV (ah ? much needed)
* Kinect included with every console (ok ? nice touch)
* Built-in Blue Ray Disc player (yup ? finally)
* 500GB Hard Drive (ok)
* 8-core, X86 Processor (ok ? but no specs around GPU?)
* HDMI?- In/Out?(hmm ? 1080P in and out? ok ? this is interesting)
* USB 3.0 ports

In a nutshell, all very interesting ? but all fairly?evolutionary ? not revolutionary. That is until about?the 10:23am mark. Here?s how Matt described it from inside the tent:

10:23:?It?s more sensitive, can read more data points of articulation[referring to the new Kinect camera]

10:23:?The sensor can read your heartbeat

10:23:?IT CAN READ YOUR HEARTBEAT

My?reaction was the same as Matt?s last one ? where he used all caps. Say what??I dug into the data sheet (here):

Redesigned Kinect:?It includes a 1080p, HD camera that captures video at 30 frames per second. All-new, active-infrared capabilities increase precision, allowing it to work in nearly any lighting condition and expanding field of view to accommodate a greater variety of room sizes. Microsoft proprietary Time-of-Flight technology measures the time it takes individual photons to rebound off you to create unprecedented accuracy and precision. The new noise-isolating multimicrophone array filters ambient sound to recognize natural speaking voices even in crowded rooms.

It even looks a little different than the first Kinect:

I quickly connected with Matt to find out more. He tracked to sources at Microsoft and replied with this update:

?They say it?s just the Kinect [measuring heart rate], no controller needed.?

He also referenced a link as a possible source of the technology at work. It?s called Eulerian Video Modification and?from the MIT link (here)?comes this abstract:

Our goal is to reveal temporal variations in videos that are difficult or impossible to see with the naked eye and display them in an indicative manner. Our method, which we call Eulerian Video?Magnification, takes a standard video sequence as input, and applies spatial decomposition, followed by temporal filtering to the frames. The resulting signal is then amplified to reveal hidden information. Using our method, we are able to visualize the flow of blood as it fills the face and also to amplify and reveal small?motions. Our technique can run in real time to show phenomena?occurring at temporal frequencies selected by the user.

The four reference frames used to highlight this technique?look like this:

In other words, the technology to measure heart rate is entirely optical and not based on physical contact with the controller. Later in the day ? Matt confirmed that the technology was developed entirely in-house by Microsoft.

?The Xbox One?s technology is all developed in-house.??Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, Interactive Entertainment Business?(Matt?s interview with Yusuf Mehdi here)

Matt?also captured this image ? which he?shared for use here:

I?ve always been intrigued by the direct connection between home entertainment and home health ? because it?s such a logical intersection for broader elements of patient-centered healthcare. It?s also a much more seamless?experience.

Clinical devices?(and apps) that are exclusive to major healthcare events?are often required for serious medical conditions ? but as we move into the low acuity spectrum,?we quickly arrive at categories of health like?remote diagnostics?(for kids and aging at home), chronic disease management?and physical therapy.?Those are big, exciting opportunities. In that spectrum of healthcare ? standalone/dedicated devices?aren?t likely to be as effective ? and the capabilities of an in-home console like the Xbox are pitch-perfect as a natural extension to other aspects of our home life. Including health data capture and remote sharing.

More importantly, the future for consoles as dedicated gaming devices is limited. That was also part of the landscape of quotes that appeared throughout the day from various sources. This is a great example of one?filed by The Telegraph (here) :

?Gaming is on the rise: More people will play more games for more minutes on more devices than ever before. But ironically even as gaming rises, the Xbox will only continue its growth by moving beyond gaming.Xbox Live Gold members already spend a majority of console time?not with gaming but with video. The opportunity for Microsoft to deepen its customer relationship with this next Xbox is there, as long as it confidently reaches beyond the hardcore gamers Sony is so focused on, making its console more important for everything from gaming to video to shopping to home management.??James McQuivey ? VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research

Again, Microsoft made?NO?healthcare announcements today. Or did they?

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